[The following was posted on by UCSD student Kevin Quirolo on Facebook on February 1, 2012] A new referendum proposing to fund Division 1 sports with student fees will be open to vote between February 27 and March 9th. The referendum will charge students $165 per quarter. This amount is based on the recommendation from an athletics […]
Reclaim UCSD: Booklet on the Budget Cuts
UCSD students associated with Reclaim UCSD have written up a Booklet on the Budget Cuts and have made it broadly available at the following URL: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6eJDAEDSjt-NTRmMGY4MWItM2I4Yy00MGE1LTg4MDktZTczYTJiNjI1Yzcz&hl=en_US
Open Letter to the UC Regents: Police Violence at UC Riverside – With response from President Yudof
Dr. Charles Thorpe, Associate Professer of Sociology at UCSD, posted the following open letter to the UC Regents at change.org to condemn police aggression at last week’s protests at UC Riverside (captured in the youtube video by a UCSD student below). In less than a week, 78 signatures were gathered including 45 members of the […]
UCSD at UCR: Protesting the January 19th UC Regents Meeting
Bright and early on the morning of January 19th, a contingent of 40 student and faculty representatives from UCSD boarded a bus provided by the SDFA and headed out to join the protest against the UC Regents meeting at UC Riverside. Profs. Ivan Evans and Luis Martin-Cabrera were there to represent the SDFA. Students were […]
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, corporate privatizer and union buster, wants UCSF out of the UC system
On January 19th, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann floated a plan to the UC Regents to identify new funding sources for her campus. From the announcement: “UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, proposed to the University of California Regents on Jan. 19 that a small working group be formed to help UCSF explore options to secure its financial future so […]