Campus News

Amidst the goal of a Zero Waste campus by2020,UC Davis struggles to keep up with its previous success in RecycleMania.After a little over one month of Earth-friendly competition,UC Davis has fallen from last year’s final standing of eighth place and is currently ranked174out of294universities in the competition division.

This year’s selection for the2009-2010Campus Community Book Project takes readers across the globe as author Eric Weiner shares a humorous and insightful look intoThe Geography of Bliss:One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.

Nearly200faculty members across the country have signed on in support of an academic boycott of Israel. The United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel(USCACBI) was founded in response to a call from the Palestinian Civil Society to join the Boycott,Divestment and Sanction Movement against Israel.

Forgery A student was referred to SJA for submitting a fraudulent quiz for grading.After the quizzes had been graded and returned,the student forged a quiz,filled in the answers,forged grading marksand gave the quiz to the professor as evidence that it had been missed in the grading process.

There is more to websites likeFacebook,MySpace and Twitter than pictures and wall posts.A UC Davis employee will explore social networking sites as a means to raise money for the campus.

Starting spring quarter, students may see new information on syllabi that could provide them with excusable absences for mental health reasons. Outgoing ASUCD Vice President Molly Fluet has been working with the Health and Education Program (HEP) to encourage professors of all departments to add Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) information on syllabi in order to raise mental health awareness.

What started off as a hopeful project to get a venue for bands to play in downtown Davis has now been put on hold after the first choice location fell through. ASUCD Senator Justin Patrizio,in collaboration with KDVS,has been trying to get the ball rolling on an ASUCD Downtown Venue – a project that would give a location to the local underground music scene with ticket prices for students as low as$1-$4.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at6:10p.m.Times listed are according to the clock at theFeb.26meeting location,the Memorial Union’s Mee Room.

Some called last Thursday’s ASUCD senate meeting “heated and offensive.” Some called it “beautiful.” Almost all,however,just wanted to voice their concerns regarding the winter2009elections. “This has nothing to do with ASUCD slates [such as LEAD or ACT],” said Momo Newbon,Ethnic and Cultural Affairs commission chair and formersenatorial candidate. “It has everything to do with an unfair election.“

UCD is currently in the process of grappling with a $5 million mid-year budget deficit that has come about as the result of a decrease of approximately $65 million in state funding to the UC system. “UC is currently 11,000 students over our state funded enrollment target at a cost of $121.8 million to the campuses,” said Patrick Lenz, UC’s vice president for budget said in an interview with the UC newsroom.

Despite state budget cuts,UC Davis School of Law is still rolling in money – from a private donor.The Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation gifted$1million to fund a new moot courtroom at King Hall last week.

Newly elected ASUCD senators might have to wait longer than they expected before beginning a term they believed would start tonight.