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100223_ca_h1b.cHeadline: Experts debate benefits and detriments of H1B foreign visaLayercake: Guest worker program claims to seek world’s ‘best and brightest’By KYLE SPORLEDERAggie Staff Writer With American students trending away from math and the sciences, the H1B foreign worker visa program aims to draw international geniuses in these fields to the United States. Though marketed as […]

In a unanimous decision, the Joint Legislative Assembly Committee (JLAC) of the California Legislature approved an audit requesting the examination of University of California financial practices.

Unitrans has welcomed two new members to its family of buses, and they’re a spitting image of their grandparents – the vintage London double decks.

Friends don’t let friends cheat: A senior was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for unauthorized collaboration and cheating on an exam. The student had similar incorrect answers that were almost identical to those of a classmate. When the student met with a judicial officer, she stated that she did not look at the final exam of the student next to her nor did she notice anyone looking at her exam, however she did know the person sitting next to her. Later, the other student admitted to copying the referred student’s final exam. No disciplinary action was taken on this student and the case was dismissed.

In an attempt to get students to think beyond partying and passing classes, UC Davis Dining Services has implemented a program to make students more aware of what they eat.

Yesterday morning at 9:45, approximately 20 students at UC Irvine began a sit-in at the campus’s administrative building, Aldrich Hall. The sit-in resulted in at least 17 students, faculty and staff arrests for unlawful assembly and refusal to disperse, according to a press release from University Communications at UC Irvine. All but five of those arrested were released on the scene.

For over 20 years, ASUCD’s Cal Aggie summer camp has provided support, recreation, and a home away from home for foster children in California. Funded by 50 cents of every UC Davis student’s tuition fee, even with the recent budget cuts, Cal Aggie camp remains at the top of ASUCD’s priority list.

Students wishing to become a part of the Tri-Cooperative Housing program next year face a predicament: The potential closing of the Davis Student Cooperative (DSC) house means there may not be enough room for current applicants.

The ASUCD Housing Day was Jan. 21 this year, and despite over 1,600 students and 40 complexes attending, some would hesitate to call it a complete success.

After an election wrought with hard work and briefly marred by controversy, the student body has chosen its elected officials for the coming year in ASUCD.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Feb. 18 meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Adam Thongsavat, Selisa Romero, Alison Tanner, Ozzy Arce, Osahon Ekhator and Liz Walz are senate victors. Jack Zwald and Previn Witana are presidential winners.