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20,000 bottles of student-made wine could enter market State Senator Bill Dodd (D-Napa) introduced legislation that would amend existing laws to allow UC Davis to sell wine produced by viticulture students. A similar bill, Senate Bill 683, passed in 2016, aimed to grant licenses to university-associated nonprofit mutual benefit corporations to allow for the sale […]

UC files unfair labor practices claim with state against union, UAW Local 2965 files counterclaim against UC Fifty-four graduate students at UC Santa Cruz who are part of the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) movement were notified on Feb. 28 that they will either not receive Spring Quarter appointments or that they will be dismissed […]

Pending investigations underway, call for culture shift from CSI, OSFL Since November 2019, three Greek organizations on the UC Davis campus lost their recognition with the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life (OSFL) and their Registered Student Organization status after incidents involving hazing — a record number since 2005. Sigma Mu Delta, Delta Sigma Pi and […]

Crystal Juarez sworn in as interim senator ASUCD Vice President Shreya Deshpande called the Feb. 13 ASUCD Senate meeting to order at 7:08 p.m. The meeting began with presentations from Student Health and Wellness and the Club Finance Council.  During elected officer reports, each senator focused on spreading the word about the upcoming elections, which […]

Clinics to serve UC Davis faculty, staff Construction on a new UC Davis Health clinic, which will serve as an extension of the UC Davis Health clinic located on West Covell Blvd. in Davis, will commence in April of 2020, according to the UC Davis website. This clinic will be built on the corner of […]

Confirmations for controller, committee positions The Feb. 6 ASUCD Senate meeting was called to order at 7:13 p.m. by Senator Shondreya Landrum. President Justin Hurst, Vice President Shreya Deshpande, Senator Lylah Schmedel, Business and Finance Chair Filip Stamenkovic and Gender and Sexuality Chair Elena DeNecochea were absent.  After Senator Khalil Malik was elected interim Senate […]

UCPath doesn’t work with one person’s bank, another faced missing pay for weeks Over the past two weeks, The California Aggie sat down with ASUCD President Justin Hurst, Vice President Shreya Deshpande and Senator Anna Estrada to discuss the ongoing effects of UCPath, the UC-wide payroll system implemented at UC Davis in October 2019. The […]

The grading strike, a “wildcat” action, marks escalation in UC Davis cost of living adjustment (COLA) movement After the UC Davis cost of living adjustment (COLA) movement general assembly on Feb. 25, graduate students in the COLA movement decided to withhold grades for Winter Quarter.  The announcement makes UC Davis’ COLA movement the third to […]

Davis branch of Cost Of Living Adjustment movement comes to a head with Feb. 21 March on Mrak Hall The UC Davis students marching for a Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) — higher wages to keep up with rising housing costs — came face-to-face with UC Regents last Friday, Feb. 21.  According to doctoral student […]

Lecturers say contract negotiations are about more than just raises — also about working conditions, student learning The contract that covers over 6,000 UC lecturers represented by the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) ended on Jan. 31. With the no-strike clause that is contained in their expired contract no longer applicable, lecturers, librarians and […]

First federally funded gun-violence research initiative in 20 years The UC Firearm Violence Research Center (UCFC), located at UC Davis, recently launched a new round of funding for firearm violence research. This is the first round of funding to study firearm violence approved by the U.S. Congress in over two decades. Proposals for grants must […]

SR #8 demands UC further compensate student workers affected by UCPath Senate Resolution #8, which condemned the university’s flawed rollout of the UCPath payroll system, was adopted by the ASUCD Senate on Jan. 21. The implementation of UCPath was widely seen as a failure by undergraduate students and led to a walkout of student employees […]