Details at this time are sketchy, but officials from the UC Davis Police Department are confirming that a crime is being investigated as a hate crime.
According to Campus Crime Alert Bulletin, the incident occurred on Sunday, May 12 at 8:10 p.m. The victim and a witness were walking along Levee Road near Brooks Road when a burgundy Jeep SUV “pulled up alongside of them.”
13th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference at UC Davis on April 13UC Davis, CA – Close to 500 middle and high school students will converge on the UC Davis campus for the 13th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Celebration on Saturday, April 13, 2013 in Freeborn Hall and Wellman Hall.
The conference will include an Arts, Education, Health and Job Fair. For over a decade, this event has provided guidance to youth seeking to pursue higher education and grant information. Dolores Huerta will speak around 12:45pm in Freeborn Hall.
David Snyder, 32, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on Sunday, following his arrest on possessing explosives and materials with the intent to make a destructive device, and possessing firearms on campus, UC Davis announced on Sunday. Bail is set at two million dollars.
Mr. Snyder, a UC Davis junior researcher in a campus chemistry lab, with a two-month appointment that expires on January 31, is being held in connection with a January 17 explosion in an apartment in the Russell Park housing complex on campus. He has been placed on leave, pending investigation.
President Yudof will be Remembered For Doubling Student Tuition – University of California President Mark Yudof, 68, announced on Friday that he would be stepping down from his position effective August 31, 2013. His tenure will be remembered largely for the doubling of student tuition, as the university system struggled to grapple with a lengthy economic crisis.
At the same time, he drew controversy for taking a salary nearly twice that of his predecessor.
On Wednesday, a federal judge gave final approval to the settlement that UC Davis students and recent alumni reached with the university in late September.
Ten months after the November 18, 2011, pepper-spray incident, on September 26, 2012, attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni announced the details of their settlement with the university over a federal class-action lawsuit.
by UC Davis News ServiceThe 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a “boys’ club” with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found.
The Graduate School of Management’s eighth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders — a yearly benchmark for the Golden State’s lack of progress in promoting women business leaders — paints a dismal picture for women in leadership during fiscal year 2011-2012. Some of the best known among these top companies, or the California 400, have no women leaders.
Commentary: Scholarships Are Great, But We Need Systemic Reform, Not Gimmicks and PR Stunts – The headline in the local paper is “Students are priority No.1.”It only gets better from there. On Monday, the UC Davis News service sent out an announcement that they have created a $1 million-plus matching fund to encourage gifts to help UC Davis students.
Senator Yee Reintroduces Executive Pay Limitation Legislation – For much of his first two years as governor, Jerry Brown has largely been silent on matters of UC compensation for top executives, including chancellors.
However, perhaps feeling he owes students for pushing his tax measure over the top, the governor has taken an increasingly vigilant role on UC matters, first pressing the UC Board of Regents following the election not to raise student fees, and now criticizing a pay increase for the new UC Berkeley Chancellor.
Jerry Brown worked hard on Tuesday to postpone a vote on fee increases in the UC system.
The Sacramento Bee reports this morning that the UC Regents, at the request of the governor, have “yanked an item from today’s agenda that called for raising fees at several UC professional schools, including schools of nursing, business, law and medicine.”
The polls were not looking good for Prop 30, as support was dwindling below the supposed magical 50% line, according to polls released just a couple of weeks before the election. But when the Field Poll was released, it seemed that the support for the tax measure was holding.
Despite this, many clung to their belief that Prop 30 was doomed. However, one of the big impacts of this election cycle was an online voting provision that led to a new record amount of voters. In the coming weeks and months, analysts, pundits and political scientists will be pouring over mounds of new data.
Back in November, one of the critical questions was whether Kroll would be granted subpoena power. Andy Fell of the UC Davis News Service told the Vanguard on November 30, 2011: “Both campus and UC will cooperate fully with them and make available to them any documents they need, subject only to legal restrictions such as those governing student records, personnel files etc. As a private contractor, Kroll doesn’t actually have subpoena power. But they are going to get whatever they want.”
On Wednesday, we finally learned the terms of the pepper-spray settlement. I was covering the federal civil rights trial of Luis Gutierréz so I missed the press conference. However, I was quickly able to speak with two attorneys and a protester, and the articles appeared on Thursday and Friday.
I will not mince words about my initial reaction – I actually felt physically ill. They did not get much and we the community did not get much. $1 million spread out turned out to be about $30,000 per student. They got an apology that was rendered useless by the fact that the officers did not admit wrongdoing. Finally, the ACLU gets to help shape policy – which is probably the only real redeeming aspect of this settlement.
In the press conference at the Quad on Wednesday, Ian Lee spoke. He was a first-year student, two months into college, when he got involved in the protest that would ultimately alter his life.
“By now, the pepper-spray incident is almost a bit cliché: students protested, the University sent in riot police, and then the police brutalized us with pepper spray,” he said in his speech Wednesday. “But I urge people interested in this case to think about the pepper-spray incident more complexly. The reason we were protesting was that the University had proposed unfair and unreasonable tuition hikes.”
On Wednesday, the terms of the settlement of the lawsuit filed by students pepper sprayed on the UC Davis Quad, November 18, 2011, was announced. Among other things, the students would receive around one million dollars, amounting to 30 thousand dollars each.
In addition, Chancellor Katehi would be required to write a written apology to each student and the ACLU would play a role in the development of new practices.
UC Davis Agrees to Formally Apologize to Students and Implement ReformsTen months after the November 18, 2011, pepper spray incident, attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni announced the details of their settlement with the university over a federal class-action lawsuit. The announcement comes two weeks after UC Regents approved the agreement and after the agreement was certified in US Federal Court.
For the second time in a month, the Sacramento Bee beat everyone to the punch, publishing what seemed to be internal emails. This time highlights, among other things, documents the university has attempted to keep under wraps, even from Kroll, about the legal authority under which the university acted.
This is not a small matter, for there are questions about the legal authority under which the university acted. Questions that now only grow stronger.
Agreement Expected to Be Publicly Released in Two Weeks – Steve Montiel, the Media Relations Director for the UC Office of the President, told the Vanguard that a federal court is expected to certify the agreement in roughly two weeks. At that time, the details will be released to the public.
Tragedy – A Reminder That We Need More Proactive Attention to Mental Illness – Unfortunately, the sad episode of Linnea Lomax, a 19-year-old UC Davis student, has come to an end, probably in the worst and most excruciating way one could possibly imagine, with her mother finding her body hanging from a tree next to the American River on Friday.
The story hits painfully home for all parents, for I’m sure it’s one of many worst nightmares. That this one might have been prevented only makes it all the worse.
After the Vanguard broke the story about the pepper-spray suit’s settlement on Tuesday, we were taken aback by some of comments, and not just on the Vanguard, that assumed that this suit was just about money.
The comment that surprised me the most was made by Supervisor Matt Rexroad, who said that the protesters “do not deserve a dime” even though he admitted that he had not spoken with or met any of the protesters, nor was it likely that he read the complaint itself.
The Vanguard has learned that a settlement agreement is in place for the pepper spray lawsuit that was filed in late February following the November 18, 2011 incident on the Quad at UC Davis. However, the deal will not be finalized until the UC Regents meet next week and until the federal court certifies the agreement.
