Campus News

One solution to unemployment may lie in an easier transfer process for community college students. A report published in August by Sacramento State’s Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy (IHELP) indicates that the transfer process between community colleges and universities must be streamlined.Doing so would help California fill the1million job gap between available jobs and college graduates projected for2025.

Thousands of students and staff stood sweating in the heat at last Thursday’s faculty and student walkout rally,fanning themselves with picket signs and fliers. By noon,when the rally began,temperatures had reached almost95degrees.But that wasn’t the only reason why students and faculty were sweating.

Electric vehicles may become the environmentally friendly future to mass motor transportation. UC Davis‘ Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Research Center and BMW have partnered together to conduct a one-year study to see just how possible this future actually is.

At noon Thursday, thousands of students, staff and faculty filled the east quad to rally support for a system-wide UC walkout; by 1p.m., their numbers and voices had risen and they were marching to Mrak Hall to make their message loud and clear.

“How did you get a green one?” Janna Tolla,director of the Recreation Pool and one of my supervisors,looks incredulously at the color of my vest last week at the UC Davis Fire and Police Department’s safety drill. “Don’t worry,I’m just covering the story,” I said.

One theory behind escaping a recession is that things have to hit the proverbial “rock bottom,” before they can build themselves back up. The same may be true for UC undergraduate student tuition fees. A proposal released earlier this month would raise basic undergraduate fees for California residents to $10,302 by next fall – 44 percent higher than they were in the fall of 2008,according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

Over 100 UC Davis professors will not show up to classes today. The systemwide walkout aims to bring attention to the cuts being made across the nine UC campuses. Many students and staff-members are participating in order to protest the program of furloughs, fee hikes and enrollment cuts that the administration will levy over the next year.

Queer Welcome Today and Friday,11a.m.to1p.m. LGBT Resource Center,University House Annex Come learn about LGBTQI Resources and meet the staff and student leaders on campus! Refreshments will be provided.

Approximately 10 scantily clad students chanted slogans on the Memorial Union Patio this afternoon to raise awareness about rising student fees.

Those on campus this Tuesday and Wednesday need not be alarmed by the sound of explosions or gunshots – this is only a test. “Operation Gallant Eagle,” coordinated by the UC Davis Police and Fire departments will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday; a briefing will occur Tuesday at 3 p.m in the Sciences Lecture Hall.

The following UC Davis faculty are supporting the UC Faculty Walkout, according to a list of names posted at ucfacultywalkout.com. Some of the following faculty members may be professors emeriti or on sabbatical. This list is ordered alphabetically by surname.

Ninety-six percent of UC workers officially have no confidence in their president,Mark Yudof. Approximately10,000employees cast a vote of no confidence last Wednesday,declaring their frustration with Yudof’s leadership and mobilizing efforts for better appropriation of funds in the UC system. In the call for the vote,union leaders point to budget cuts and the recent furlough plan as reasons for criticizing the president,who began his term last March.