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UC-Irvine Muslim Students Case: Radio Report

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For those interested in the so-called “Irvine 11” Muslim students case, you might be interested in the KPCC Airtalk program of Feb. 7. Below is the text that goes with the podcast. Below that is a link to a podcast of the program. The Orange County District Attorney has charged the so-called “Irvine 11” with conspiring to disrupt a speech by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine last year. In a statement, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas defended the misdemeanor charges against the Muslim students saying “we cannot tolerate a preplanned violation of the law, even if the crime takes…

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UC-Berkeley Plan to Cut Athletics Runs into Hurdle

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Facing Title IX Pressure, Cal May Restore the Teams It Cut Katie Thomas, NY Times, 2-8-11 When the University of California, Berkeley, announced it was eliminating five varsity teams last fall, the decision was sold as a necessary sacrifice by a university reeling from severe cuts in state aid. Four months later, the university finds itself in a dilemma caused by a consequence of that decision that has been largely overlooked in the debate over the cuts. The elimination of two women’s teams — lacrosse and gymnastics — threw the Cal athletic department out of compliance with the federal gender-equity…

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Video of Yudof Testimony on Budget Cut at State Assembly

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UC President Yudof testified at the State Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Educational Finance last Monday. Below are videos of his testimony and questions-and-answers with assembly members. The video is divided into two parts because of time-limits on Facebook. As a previous post noted, he indicated that there would not be another tuition hike in response to the governor’s proposed budget cut for UC. But that was contingent on, among other things, voter passage of the governor’s proposed tax extensions. Also notable was Yudof’s remark that tuition hikes help low-income students because of the recycling of one third of tuition revenue…

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Yudof: No Tuition Hike This Year If Voters Behave

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UC, CSU Avoid Fee Increases Despite Budget Cuts Feb. 7, 2011, CBS Los Angeles SACRAMENTO (AP) — The chancellors of the University of California and California State University systems say they don’t plan to seek student fees increases this year, despite a state budget proposal that calls for deep cuts to higher education. But UC Chancellor Mark Yudof and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed said Monday that promise won’t hold if Californians don’t agree to tax extensions that Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing for the June ballot… Full article at http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/uc-csu-avoid-fee-increases-despite-budget-cuts/# Note: There may be less here than meets the eye….

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Crack Up: Campuses Beginning to Resist UCOP’s Allocation of Budget Cut

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As things get tough, the notion of a unified UC system ultimately controlled from Oakland is beginning to crack. See the item below. UC Berkeley asked to absorb $80M of Brown’s $500M cut (excerpt) Feb. 7, 2011 | Louis Freedberg | California Watch University of California President Mark Yudof has set a target for the Berkeley campus to cut $80,800,000 from its budget for the coming year, as the 10-campus university system struggles to come to terms with a $500 million reduction in funds proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. A cut of that magnitude would constitute 16.2 percent of the…

As We Approach Valentine’s Day, It’s Nice to Know That UC Tuition Promotes Marriage

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Marriages Made in Tuition Heaven: Some UC students have gotten married to snare in-state tuition rates, saving thousands Tess Townsend, Bay Area Citizen, 2-5-11 Most people find friends on Facebook. Others find husbands. A University of California, Berkeley, student from the Midwest felt she couldn’t afford the annual $30,000 in student fees, including $20,000 in out-of-state tuition. She posted that she was looking for a husband on a Facebook page titled “In State Tuition for Out of Staters!” (The woman requested anonymity out of fear of repercussions from the UC.) An out-of-state student whom she didn’t know responded to her…

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UCLA History: Four Westwood scenes from the 1920s to the 1950s

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Four scenes of Westwood. The top photo shows the construction of a Ralphs grocery store near the soon-to-be-opened UCLA campus in the 1920s. Below that is a view alongside the store in the 1940s, possibly taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams. (He took several photos of the building at the time and this one looks similar to others on the web.) The bottom two photos were taken in the same location in the 1950s. Nowadays, the former Ralphs building houses a coffee shop. Question: Why is there no apostrophe in “Ralphs”?Answer: Because the founder was named George Ralphs.

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Neighborhood Group Raises Concerns About Proposed Hotel to Replace Faculty Club While Faculty Welfare Committee Makes Environmental Proposals

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A neighborhood association has raised procedural – and possibly legal – objections to the replacement of the UCLA Faculty Club with a Hotel/Conference Center which at latest word is to have over 280 rooms. Two letters from the association have been obtained by the Emeriti Committee. The first is a short, 2-page letter reproduced below. The second is a 14-page letter with much more detail. Both the short letter – which is hard to reproduce clearly as an image – and the longer one are available as a single pdf file at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4N2Q0ZDRiYzMtZDRhMy00YWRkLTlkNjYtNjkyZWQ1YTVjYzY5&hl=en The “CEQA” review to which both letters…