UC Davis in the News

[Taken from a story posted online at 11:05 A.M. 11/20/09] Police arrested dozens of angry students on the campus of UC Davis late Thursday after they refused to vacate the school's administration building. The arrests at the Mrak Administration building came about four hours after the normal 5 p.m. PT closing time. In response to the protests, university officials said they will convene a meeting Friday between students, the director of student affairs and the school's top budget officials.

According to a recently released annual study on female business executives in California conducted by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, the glass ceiling hasn't exactly shattered in companies across the state. The study found that women hold only 10.6 percent of executive officer or board seats within the state's top 400 publicly traded firms.

About 20 students and a professor are still incarcerated this morning after being arrested for refusing to leave a building on the UC Davis campus in protest of tuition hikes, according to reports by a student activist. The protesters plan to gather at 11 A.M. today on the UC Davis quad to figure out their next step. An hour later, a meeting is scheduled at the Activities and Recreation Center where students can air their grievances and ask questions of campus administrators.

At UC Davis, authorities arrested dozens of students protesting the recently-approved tuition increase after they refused to leave Mrak Hall after it was scheduled to close at 5 p.m. students ordered pizzas, played bongos and were well-behaved during the protests – with the exception of one woman arrested earlier in the day for allegedly shoving an officer. A meeting is scheduled at noon today at the Activities and Recreation Center, where students can air their grievances and ask questions of university administrators.

Police arrested 52 people at UC Davis after hundreds protested a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees on Thursday. Hundreds of angry students protested Thursday inside and outside Mrak Hall at UC Davis. One person held a sign saying "Question UC Leadership." Another read "Don't Deprive Me Of My Education." Students were arrested after refusing to leave the building two hours after it had closed.

Several UC Davis students camped out overnight at a prison facility where protesters who were arrested for refusing to leave Mrak Hall were taken. As many as 20 students remained in custody into the morning.

As the UC Board of Regents votes to approve a new 32 percent fee hike this week, several UC Davis students and teachers say they've already felt the pain of cuts due to state funding reductions. Joan Chandler, a lecturer in the Division of Textiles and Clothing, expresses concern over the future of her department, which has been targeted for closure.

Anger over a controversial student fee hike approved for the University of California system led to protests yesterday on the UC Davis campus that ended with police making more than 50 arrests. Students explained that the basically peaceful protest turned more emotionally charged as the hour hit 5 p.m., when the building officially closed. After 5 p.m., those still inside the building were considered to be trespassing. Police began to make arrests after students refused to leave after another two hours.

At UC Davis, up to 300 protesters paraded through buildings during the morning before beginning a sit-in inside Mark hall, the home of the campus administration. Students marched in protest of the UC Board of Regents recent approval of a 32 percent fee increase. 52 students were arrested later in evening when they refused to vacate the building after it had been closed for two hours.

As the University of California's Board of Regents met Thursday at UCLA and approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees 32 percent by next fall, hundreds of students from campuses across the state demonstrated outside (No UC Davis reference).

The University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent fee increase for students attending the state's premier public schools. The vote came as hundreds of students and union members gathered nearby, waiving signs, pounding drums and chanting. "Our hand has been forced," UC President Mark Yudof said. "When you don't have any money, you don't have any money" (No UC Davis reference).

UC Davis is suing Sacramento County for failing to pay as much as $125 million in medical bills for indigent patients from July 2008 through September 2009. The suit filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court says the budget-strapped county stopped reimbursing the UC Davis Medical Center and shifted the cost of care onto UC Davis.

Trinchero family Estates, a Napa Valley vineyard, has donated $1 million to UC Davis to help establish new facilitates for a program that provides disease-free rootstock to California nurseries. “Their generous gift helps California grape growers maintain access to healthy planting stock, which is essential for a competitive and economically viable industry,” says UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean Neal Van Alfen.

Leptogen Inc., a Davis biotechnology start-up formed nine years ago by Joseph Evans, a biochemist with experience in drug development, and Peter Havel, a UC Davis nutrition researcher at the time, has quietly pulled the plug due to lack of funding.

[Taken from a story posted online at 9:44 AM 11/120/09] UC Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees have barricaded themselves in part of a campus building, hanging a sign that says "2 Percent Hike, 900 layoffs" with the word "Class" crossed out in red. Campus police say they've arrested three of the demonstrators inside. Yesterday, more than 50 students were arrested during protests at UC Davis.

Dozens of students are still behind bars after being hauled off in handcuffs from a protest over fee hikes at UC Davis overnight. Students and some faculty members were protesting the 32 percent fee hike approved by the UC Regents Thursday. The increase will push the cost of an undergraduate education at California's premier public schools to over $10,000 per year by next fall, about triple the cost of a decade ago. When the UC Davis students refused to leave the administration building after its 5 p.m. closing time, police took them to jail. In all, 51 students and one professor were arrested for trespassing.

The Yolo County Sheriff's Department arrested 52 UC Davis students, after they staged a sit-in for over two hours inside the campus's administration building Thursday, in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike. Hundreds more students showed their support outside of Emil Mrak Hall, and the crowd multiplied as students were notified via Facebook, Twitter, text message, and by word-of-mouth.