Vanguard at UC Davis

Commentary: It’s all a matter of Priorities

Commentary: It’s all a matter of Priorities

By David GreenwaldSeptember 2, 200780 comments
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Truth be told, I’m actually a big college football fan. In fact, I spent much of yesterday watching the first full day of college football. With that said, I also think that most universities place too much of a priority on things such as their football program, stadiums, etc. It is one thing for the big programs with huge endowments to spend millions on it, but for the average school, their sports programs is not a net revenue generator.

In any case, I don’t have a general problem building new facilities and stadiums, however it is interesting when a university has no trouble finding say $31 million to build a new stadium, but cannot find a few million to improve the salaries of some of their employees who are making meager wages at best. That is where I start to have a bit of a problem with our priorities.

UCLA Incident Demonstrates Need for Independent Review and Policy Changes

UCLA Incident Demonstrates Need for Independent Review and Policy Changes

By David GreenwaldAugust 6, 200752 comments
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The recent ruling on last fall’s Tasering of a UCLA student gives us the unusual opportunity to review and scrutinize the police review system in addition to discuss policies on use of force by police departments.

In August of 2006, the fledgling Vanguard, took on a seven-part series of review of the Davis Police Oversight system–evaluating each part and making recommendations for changing it.