Campus News

After initially denying that anyone was hit with a Taser during campus protests on March 4, the California Highway Patrol changed its story in response to a California Aggie investigation published yesterday.

Question: Is it legal to pull a fire alarm? And if not, what are the consequences?

In light of recent hate crimes that have swept UC campuses, the UC Office of the President (UCOP) has rolled out a program intended to help employees maintain a healthy work environment. The compliance briefing, titled “UC Ethical Values and Conduct,” was officially introduced online on Mar. 3 through the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services (ECAS), a subdivision of UCOP. The newly revised program will be implemented systemwide, although the individual campuses are allowed some leeway in determining such provisions as whether or not undergraduate student employees will be required to take the survey or what the consequences for non-compliance will be.

A $1.79 million cut to the UC Davis Intercollegiate Athletics Department could result in the removal of between five and nine teams from the 2010-2011 budget. In a Feb. 5 budget-planning letter to the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, Chancellor Linda Katehi wrote that the campus would assign higher reduction targets for intercollegiate athletics (ICA). Rather than tell athletics what cuts to make, Katehi said the department would have the opportunity to find its own solutions. The unfortunate conclusion, said aAthletics dDirector Greg Warzecka, was the department won’t be able to continue funding all 27 of its ICA teams.

Quad-goers who closed their eyes and ignored the wind at their backs may have felt like they were in the library.

A week after student protestors attempted to block a freeway at UC Davis, questions remain about what actually happened in the clash between protestors and police. The group of about 250 students mobilized in support of education funding and access. They advanced through two skirmish lines of police on Old Davis Road before being stopped. The confrontation resulted in a number of minor injuries as police physically beat back protestors who tried to advance past the third and final skirmish line approximately 30 yards from the freeway on-ramp. The question of Taser use

A junior was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for public intoxication. The student was observed walking around on campus one evening quite intoxicated, and was stopped by UC Davis police and Aggie Hosts. She was then taken to a local hospital by ambulance and was released the next day. When the student met with a judicial officer, she claimed that she was simply walking through campus while on her way back from a friend’s birthday party. However, she acknowledged that she violated the university’s Standards of Conduct for Students. The student agreed to the disciplinary sanction of a censure, knowing that repeated violations of university policy would be cause for further disciplinary action. In addition, she agreed to attend ADAPT, the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program.

This fall, UC Davis will continue its innovation in the field of health as it ushers in the inaugural class of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, the first doctoral nursing program in the inland northern California and Central Valley areas.

Recent hate crimes and actions targeting racial, religious and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities at UC Davis and other UC campuses have left the university community wondering what could have motivated these acts of intolerance.

The hard head of the gavel is coming down on gender violence thanks to International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda[cq].

Human rights issues in countries like Darfur and Haiti have captured the attention of many UC Davis students. Soon they may be able to apply that interest inside of the classroom.

Last Thursday, several thousand students, faculty, staff and families rallied on the steps of the capitol building and its neighboring lawns in Sacramento to demand that legislators continue to provide affordable and accessible public education.