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Commentary: New Chancellor’s Tenure Already Stained with the Fee Hikes of Students

Commentary: New Chancellor’s Tenure Already Stained with the Fee Hikes of Students

By David GreenwaldMay 16, 200921 comments

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Last July across the state, UC service workers went on strike because these workers were being paid what they described as poverty wages.  The worker’s union went as far to produce an internet video that showed the life of one of their workers and the conditions that they lived in as a result of the wages and benefits that the richest and finest higher education system in the world offered to its lowest tiered workers.

We were also facing just the beginning of an economic downturn and students were facing decreasing numbers and a double-digit student fee increase.

Guest Commentary: Vote No to Green Initiative Slush Fund

Guest Commentary: Vote No to Green Initiative Slush Fund

By David GreenwaldFebruary 18, 20096 comments

By Derick Lennox:

Don’t be duped into raising your own student fees.

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is a campus ballot measure that attempts to mislead students into funding a $269,000 special interest slush fund. A history of unfulfilled promises at other UC campuses has proven that for TGIF, “greed” has become the new “green.”

UC Davis College Democrats Win Award and Sponsoring Debra Bowen Event Tonight

UC Davis College Democrats Win Award and Sponsoring Debra Bowen Event Tonight

By David GreenwaldApril 8, 20080 comments

Debra Bowen Event TONIGHT

Dear Vanguard Readers,

The Davis College Democrats would like to present to you California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Speaking Tonight @ 7pm in Wellman 2.

Secretary Bowen has been a strong advocate for open government and clean elections where every vote is counted. Prior to the February 5th Presidential Primary, she de-certified several counties’ voting machines during a top-to-bottom review of the states voting system, in an effort to ensure the existence of a paper trail and require every vote to be counted.

Commentary: Diversity at the UC’s Falling Behind State Levels

Commentary: Diversity at the UC’s Falling Behind State Levels

By David GreenwaldSeptember 22, 200788 comments
It was no surprise earlier this week when the long awaited University of California Diversity Report came out and found that enrollment of minorities and underrepresented students have fallen well behind their statewide representation in the population as a whole.

Overall advances in UC diversity in the 1980s and early 1990s have reversed direction, the report states, and any small gains have been concentrated at a few campuses. Women and non-Asian minorities continue to have particularly low levels of representation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, the report noted.

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.