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Pepper Report Released

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The long-awaited UC-Davis pepper spray report has now been released.  A link below will allow you to open the report (which also contains underlying Kroll report on the incident).  Some police officer names have been blanked out although the “pepper spray cop” is named. Basically, the report suggests an amateur lack of control and decision making of the campus police involving the police chief and chancellor (and others in the chancellor’s office). President Yudof released the statement below:Yudof statement on the release of UC Davis pepper-spray report Date: 2012-04-11 I want to thank Justice Reynoso and members of the Task…

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The Story So Far: Tuition, Ballot Propositions, Hotel, Japanese Garden, Pepper Spray, and More

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Yours truly tried to get a decent recording of the Regents public comment session this morning. Unfortunately, an aging office computer produced such a low quality recording that I will summarize below in writing: Prior to the public comment period, President Yudof said he intended to endorse the governor’s tax initiative and would ask the Regents to do so.  After the comment period, Academic Council chair Bob Anderson noted that faculty members are voting on a memorial to the Regents asking them to endorse ballot propositions that provide funding to the university.  (The memorial does not designate a particular initiative.)…

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President Yudof Responds to Three Pension Questions

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On March 2, President Yudof answered questions in a live-streaming format from UC employees.  You may have received an email referring to an edited version of some questions – including three on pensions – that appeared in UCLA Today.  Because the UCLA Today versions were edited, some nuances on pension issues were lost. Below is the UCLA Today version in regular type and then a comment from yours truly and the actual transcript in italics.  Also, the audio (a video with a fixed picture) is at the bottom of this posting along with various links. Question: What is the impact…

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No smoking at UC by 2014

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The University of California will ban smoking and chewing tobacco on all 10 campuses within two years, President Mark Yudof told campus chancellors this week.  Nearly 600 other campuses nationwide have banned smoking, and many California universities either limit smokers to isolated parts of campus or keep them from lighting up at all. …The university likely would have banned smoking earlier, but smokers vehemently argued against it, said Trish Ratto, a health educator and manager of UC Berkeley’s Health Matters Wellness Program.  The university will implement the ban in stages to help smokers quit gradually rather go cold turkey.  By…

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UC Excerpt from Dec. 14 Legislative Pepper Spray Hearing

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As readers of this blog are aware, an incident in which student demonstrators at UC-Davis sparked concerns and received wide public attention. A joint legislative hearing was held on December 14. Below is an audio of the testimony of UC president Mark Yudof and General Counsel Charles Robinson at the “Legislative Hearing on California University Campus Police Policy.” The excerpts include the formal statements of the two witnesses from UC plus a question and answer session which followed similar testimony by CSU witnesses. The main information to be found in these excerpts is that there is likely to be a…

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Another Hint of Discussions with the State Behind Closed Doors on Multiyear Tuition Increase Deal

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The text below in italics is from UC President Yudof’s Facebook page. As noted in a prior post on this blog, there are hints of a multiyear-tuition-increase/steady-budget-support-from-the-state being discussed behind closed doors with Brown administration officials. See the bold print below. We are extremely disappointed that UC is faced with yet another significant State budget reduction: the $100 million “trigger cut” just announced. This additional cut will exacerbate the fiscal challenges the University faces in the current year and place additional stress on the quality of education provided to UC students. While the $650 million cut to UC enacted by…

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Yet More Pepper: Legislative Hearings Tomorrow

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UC, CSU Officials To Join Experts and Students In Testifying At State Capitol Hearing On Campus Protests Sacramento, CA–University of California system President Mark Yudof and UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi will join other UC and California State University officials, police oversight experts and student representatives in testifying before a Dec. 14 joint legislative hearing looking into UC and CSU system-wide policies and procedures regarding non-violent protests and campus police use-of-force rules. Assemblymember Marty Block (AD-78), chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and Senator Alan Lowenthal (SD-27), chair of the Senate Education Committee, have called the hearing in response…

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President’s Pepper Panel Named

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President names members of task force Date: 2011-12-05 Contact: UC Office of the President Phone: (510) 987-9200 OAKLAND — University of California President Mark G. Yudof today (Monday, Dec. 5) appointed 12 students, faculty, alumni and staff members to serve on a task force formed to investigate the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying incident at the University of California, Davis. As previously announced, the task force will be headed by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, a professor emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law. Most task force members are affiliated with UC Davis and were nominated by relevant campus…

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Many Faculty Send Open Letter to Chancellor Block Concerning “Occupy” Demonstration/Related Developments

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The letter below appears on the blog https://uclafacultyunited.wordpress.com/ in an entry dated Nov. 20. Open Letter to Chancellor Block November 20, 2011 Dear Chancellor Block: In the predawn darkness this past Friday, a large contingent of police arrived on campus to remove a group of students who were peacefully protesting tuition increases, student loan debt, and the collapse of public funding for the University of California. In an act of civil disobedience, 14 students chose to ignore an order to disperse and were arrested. Their crime, formally, was to violate a campus policy against camping. But in reality they were…

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Yudof on Berkeley and Davis Incidents

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Note: See prior blog entries on the “Occupy” incidents at Davis and Berkeley. Links at bottom of this posting. President Yudof responds to campus protest issues Contact: UC Office of the PresidentPhone: (510) 987-9157 University of California President Mark G. Yudof today (Nov. 20) announced the actions he is taking in response to recent campus protest issues: I am appalled by images of University of California students being doused with pepper spray and jabbed with police batons on our campuses. I intend to do everything in my power as president of this university to protect the rights of our students,…