Campus News

The UC Davis School of Medicine (SOM) and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing have been asked to reduce their budget by approximately $6 million this year in response to a campus wide shortfall of over $113 million for the 2009-10 year.

For the 2009-2010 school year, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) has taken a 5.2 percent cut in funding, a $3.8 million decrease from an approximately $70 million budget. To compensate for this loss, the college plans to cut three departments, collapse faculty positions and reorganize departments.

In 2009, UC Davis' College of Biological Sciences (CBS) dealt with its share of the recent cuts, having planned out $490,000 worth of reductions by August. Since then, the required cuts have been raised to roughly $770,000 for the College. It anticipates making over one million dollars in cuts.

With a total base budget of $12.3 million dollars, the College of Engineering will have approximately $1.67 million in permanent reductions, or 14 percent.

The Graduate School of Management (GSM) is finding that it is having to cut back on certain operations and expenses for the current academic year.

ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Oct. 15 meeting location, the Memorial Union's Mee Room.

Q: Why is the bike cop allowed to ride his bike in the Quad and we're not?

Amid state cuts to college budgets, the University of California is seeking additional revenue from the federal government.

Students hoping to attend the once-renowned "biggest bonfire on the West Coast," will have to find a different way to warm up for the big homecoming game on Saturday.

Run for ASUCD senate

Back to School Weekend

Starting out as a farm school, intent on producing better quality butter for the town then known as "Davisville" and utilizing the quad for hay production, UC Davis has clearly grown into a more comprehensive university in the last 100 years.

Amin Abaza, the Egyptian Prime Minister of Agriculture, visited campus Monday after a tour of Sacramento Valley's agricultural operations on Sunday.

Using unauthorized materials during an exam

For those who wonder what it would be like to grow your own eggplant and eat it too, the Experimental College (EC) Garden invites you to come see for yourself.