Campus News

You get what you give– or in the case of UC,you may get slightly more,with interest. After state budget cuts left no money from bond sales to support important building projects,UC will now rely on interest from a$199.8million loan to fund ongoing construction at eight of the10UC campuses.

Most days,Sam wanders the streets.He has no home or job,and doesn’t attend school.He owns only one set of clothes,which are tattered and torn.Without work he has little money; but what he gets,he squanders.He has difficulty retracing his steps,and is unable to discern one day from the next.But in Sam’s mind,he leads a normal life.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi sent her first email message to students, faculty and staff this afternoon. She outlined the agenda for her first several days on the job – including a trip to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, D.C. – and discussed her goals for the coming months.

Summer school students enjoyed an extra week-and-a-half with their beloved ASUCD Coffee House, as contracting legalities caused a brief delay in construction. The Coffee House began moving to its temporary locations on the east wing of the Memorial Union yesterday; however, construction may not begin for another four to six weeks.

With California’s hard-hitting budget cuts this summer, some are proposing drastic changes for the University of California system. Before UC President Mark Yudof met with the Board of Regents July 16, 23 department chairs from UC San Diego wrote a letter to Yudof suggesting possible methods to aid UC. The most controversial suggestion: shut down UC Merced, Santa Cruz, and Riverside.

Research at the UC Davis School of Medicine will receive a boost in funding, thanks to a large grant provided by the federal government. The $1.6 million grant was awarded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which was signed by President Obama in February and is part of a joint effort with the National Institutes of Health to support university research. The money will fund six different projects at the school, including research studies in prostate cancer, radiation poisoning, traumatic brain injury and viral infections in airway tissues.

For the first time ever,former JapaneseAmerican UC students who were prevented from completing their education because of interment during WWII will be given honorary degrees bythe University of California.A task force was prompted initially by UC San Francisco’s inquiry to honora JapaneseAmerican former student whowas interned in1941.The task force will determine how many other former students were prevented from earning their degreedue to internment.

Chancellor-designate Linda Katehi’s name was not among those accused of participating in a problematic admissions processat the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A report submitted last Thursday by the Illinois Admissions Review Commission identified several administrators,including the chancellor and an assistant provost,of having been involved in the admissions scheme.

WEDNESDAY Wellness Wednesday:Overcome Negative Thinking Noon 314North Hall Wellness Wednesdays are free hour-long workshops designed to enhance the general well-being.This workshop will help students learn to identify and refute negative thinking to aid in reducing stress and remain calm in difficult and stressful situations.Limited to first eight students.

A large portion of California’s crops might be in danger in the near future as a result of global climate change. A recently released study states that the number of chilling hours required for the production of orchards in the Central Valley has decreased 30 percent since 1950. It also states that plants that are dormant in the winter do not grow as well with fewer chilling hours.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signing of the California state budget the morning of July 28 confirmed University of California, Davis a $114 million cut. The grand UCD total is just a fraction of the $1.5 billion the UC must cut systemwide

The University of California’s financial crisis is finally hitting employees where it hurts – the paycheck. Almost all UC employees will take pay cuts between 4 and 10 percent beginning Sept. 1 as part of a furlough plan approved by the Regents last month. The furlough plan requires faculty and staff to take between 7 and 26 unpaid days off per year. The exact pay cut and number of days off will depend on employees’ salary levels.