State senator proposes changes to Proposition 13
A state senator introduced an amendment to Proposition 13 Monday, urging the legislature and California voters to alter the measure to allow greater funding to local schools. Read More…
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A voice of reason
UNIVERSITY ISSUES: The Regents should follow Jonathan Stein’s advice and endorse Gov. Brown’s tax plan and make changes to UC protest report.
Not enough voices were heard when the UC Board of Regents met on Wednesday. In discussions of UC protest procedures and Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, Student Regent-designate Jonathan Stein’s voice was one of few offering clarity and reason. The protest report — authored by UC Berkeley School of Law Read More…
UC Student Association opens applications for student advocates to the UC Regents
The UC Student Association is currently looking for potential student advocates to the UC Board of Regents, who would act as student representatives to discuss student priorities at UC Board of Regents meetings. Read More…
Student Regents Hold Prop. 30 and Budget Presentation
Just five days from the election, about 16 students gathered at Barrows Hall Thursday evening to hear a presentation by the UC student regents about the effects of Proposition 30, a ballot measure that could prevent a 20 percent tuition hike in January, on the UC’s budget. At the presentation, Read More…
Vacant UC regents positions await appointment by Gov. Brown
Gov. Jerry Brown has yet to fill three vacant positions on the UC Board of Regents nearly five months after the positions first became vacant, and is currently reviewing an undisclosed number of candidates. Read More…
Surveying a student regent
Given Insight
It’s March 1, and as I ascend the steps of Eshleman Hall, I hear echos from the Day of Action protests rattling in my head. I have an appointment with UC Student Regent-Designate Jonathan Stein, one of the loudest voices in California’s movement to increase public funding to higher education. As Read More…
UC launches Onward California campaign
A massive blue banner looms over Terminal 2’s security checkpoint at the Oakland International Airport. “By the time you reach your destination we’ll probably have a new invention,” it reads. “UC researchers average 4 inventions a day — constantly moving California forward.” “It’s clever,” said Arnold Asuncion, a chemical engineering Read More…
UC Regents to pay $1 million in UC Davis pepper-spray lawsuit
A preliminary settlement filed Wednesday at a federal court in Sacramento stipulated that the UC Regents pay about $1 million to end a lawsuit filed on behalf of students pepper-sprayed by UC Davis police officers last November. Read More…
Voter registration rally held on Sproul Tuesday
A voter registration drive and rally near Sather Gate on Tuesday aimed to publicize California’s new online voter registration system and to register new voters.
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Speechless
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS: The UC Board of Regents’ student representatives were silent during a critical discussion, much to our dismay.
UC Student Regent Alfredo Mireles Jr. has one vote on the UC Board of Regents. As the only voting member enrolled in the UC system, he represents all 220,000 students. But last week, during the regents’ consideration of a plan which could see tuition surpass $22,000, neither Mireles nor Student Read More…