California Senator Michael Rubio is proposing a constitutional amendment (SCA 22) that would entail a UC systemwide 10 percent cap on nonresident undergraduate enrollment. “Recruiting out-of-state students for the purpose of balancing the UC budget contributes to the perceived privatization of the system and undermines public support for restoring funding,” stated Rubio in the SCA 22 document. Although UC...
UC being sued for withholding officers’ names on Davis task force report
Two California newspapers, the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times, are suing the University of California for failing to release the names of the officers involved in the pepper-spray incident at UC Davis. The two news outlets, who are owned by the McClatchy and Tribune companies, believe that...
The source of a disease that has taken a massive toll on Israel and Southern California’s avocado industry has been identified by a plant pathologist at UC Riverside. Akif Eskalen recently discovered that the prevalence of the disease owed its success to a collaboration between beetles and a new species of fungi—the former serving as the vector of the...
For the first time since 1993, the University of California Board of Regents held a meeting in Sacramento, rather than a specific UC campus. With the threat of further budget cuts and a budget deficit looming, regents hoped to join forces with students on a united front to lobby legislators on UC issues. Four UCR students joined Chancellor White...
Nine arrested at Occupy protest near UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley officers arrested nine protesters for unlawful assembly and for remaining on UC-owned farmland after dispersal orders were given. The protesters had begun their occupation of the land after it was discovered that the property would be turned into a Whole Foods grocery store and senior living center. Protesters argued that...
Last Wednesday’s ASUCR senate meeting resulted in the controversial tabling of a resolution to denounce the defacement of an Israeli flag that occurred on campus last March. Conflict arose due to senators’ varying opinions regarding the appropriateness of including the phrase, “hate crime,” in the resolution. The resolution had been drafted in response to the scrawling of the word...
Gov. Brown's revised budget, which seeks to address the state's $16 billion deficit, will temporarily withhold $38 million from the state's initial $90 million commitment to the UC while boosting K-12 funding by 16 percent. Public education was largely exempt from the numerous cuts enacted in nearly every other government sector, which included a five percent state employee payroll...
The implications of Governor Brown’s revised May budget were the main focus of the UC Board of Regents meeting last week in Sacramento. The regents discussed the prospect of a six percent tuition increase—which is nearly guaranteed given the revised budget’s failure to provide the $125.4 million necessary for a tuition buy-out. Other prominent issues included a discussion of...
The UC Haiti Initiative (UCHI), a program started in response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Caribbean country in 2010, was awarded the 2012 UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership during the UC regents May 16 meeting in Sacramento.
UCHI was specifically recognized for “brokering peer-to-peer projects developed in collaboration with the Universite d'Etat d'Haiti (UEH), the...
On Saturday, May 19, Sweeney Art Gallery opened its doors to a flood of students, faculty and members of the general public. All had come to witness the artwork of UCR’s finest senior artists and celebrate the talent and hard work that went into it. The opening reception, which was organized by the UCR Art Department and Sweeney Art...