Campus News

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.

Students may come to class to no professor on the 24th, as many faculty have decided on a plan that will send a clear message to regents and California legislators. A list of 16 University of California professors appeared at the bottom of a letter sent to faculty, asking those faculty members to join them in protesting the general condition of public education funding and the UC regents’ alleged abuse of shared governance.

UC officials announced in August that professors would not take instructional days off as part of the system-wide furlough program. Instead, faculty will take unpaid days off on days they are not scheduled to give lectures, lead classes or workshops, have office hours or have other scheduled interaction with students.

Jeffery Maurer, a Wildlife Biologist at Yosemite National Park, died Sunday after falling from a climbing route on the eastern edge of the park. Maurer, an avid rock climber, fell 50 feet from the Third Pillar, a difficult and technical climbing route on Mount Dana, park officials said.