Vanguard at UC Davis

Now, the UC Board of Regents is discussing raising the UC tuition by another 32 percent beginning in the Winter 2012 if the state passes an all-cuts budget that would increase to $500 million, cuts that were already signed into law.

Previous efforts were opposed by the leaders at UC and CSU and subsequently vetoed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

UC students say Crane has failed to reach out to them in any formal capacity to hear about their concerns and experiences.

Students and civil rights groups have been concerned since the discovery of documents showing hundreds of documents regarding the UC administration’s response to student activism.

According to them, a request for information filed with the University of California, Davis, under the California Public Records Act, has resulted in the release of hundreds of documents regarding the UC administration’s response to student activism.

Chancellor Katehi believes the answer to that question takes the form of subcommittees and guest speakers. As admirable as her efforts to reach a utopia of peaceful cultural and racial integration are, many students just don’t think she’s hitting the nail on the head with this one.

This week, the UC Davis Chancellor has come out with an op-ed talking about all of the efforts they have taken to promote diversity and tolerance.  Unfortunately, most of this is some form of PC symbolistic rhetoric, rather than real action.

Last year at this time, UC Davis announced it would discontinue 4 of 27 intercollegiate sports, and its athletics department would absorb another $400,000 in annual operational cuts as the campus continues to struggle through an unprecedented financial crisis.

The Domes, established in 1972, serve as affordable on-campus housing with rent averaging at only about $250. Some unique amenities offered by this community, which houses 28 students, are; organic gardens, community potlucks, a horseshoe arena, and a greenhouse.

Built in 1972, the historical cooperative living community known as the Domes received a letter from Student Housing on January 24th announcing that not one of its leases would be extended. By August of this year, the Domes will be empty.

The Ramble, the first complex of West Village, is said to open this fall, and although no models are open for public viewing at this time, the main office has been remodeled to look like the interior of the apartments and it has already seen hundreds of interested students.

Originally, the CSU Trustees voted to raise the fall tuition of 2009 by 10 percent demanding all students, including those who already paid, to pay by July 9. However, on July 21 fall tuition was raised another 20 percent.

These were some of the questions raised at the City-UC Davis Student Liaison Commission meeting last week as they discussed an ASUCD noise ordinance reform proposed by the Director of City-County Affairs Dylan Schaefer, a second year Political Science and Economics double major.