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UC Davis Townhall Covers Police Practices at UC Campuses

By uptownstudiosFebruary 19, 20124 comments

Written by the UC Davis Dateline Staff

Top UC officials at a UC Davis town hall last Friday on systemwide police practices heard suggestions to disarm campus police units or even disband them altogether. But some who attended the forum raised a question about protester practices: Have they gone too far?

“This has gone on for too long,” said Quyen Le, a second-year biochemistry major. He recalled losing five to 10 minutes of writing time on a fall midterm when chanting and drum-beating demonstrators marched through Wellman Hall.

Chancellor Katehi Survives Non-Binding No-Confidence Vote

By David GreenwaldFebruary 18, 20125 comments

Supporters of the chancellor will point to the final vote on a motion of “non-confidence” in UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi’s leadership. 697 votes were against the motion with 312 votes for the motion – 69 percent support for the embattled but still alive and surviving UC Davis Chancellor.

The vote was non-binding, and no one is sure exactly what effect such a vote, had it succeeded, would have had on the chancellor, even as UC officials were unaware of a successful no-confidence vote at any of its campuses.

Another Delay in the Release of the Pepper Spray Report

By David GreenwaldFebruary 17, 201213 comments

In late January, the Vanguard reported on a letter from former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso sent to UC President Mark Yudof, indicating there will be delays in the original timeline of the report regarding the pepper-spraying incident at Occupy UCD. The delay meant that Justice Reynoso was then “targeting February 21, 2012 for the release of the report of the Task Force.”

The reason for the delay was that the UC Davis police were not cooperating with the investigation, as the former Justice of the California Supreme Court indicated in a letter to President Yudof, saying that although consulting firm Kroll, Inc., has conducted a number of interviews with students and faculty, they have “not had access to subject and non subject officers.”

Strange Theft Remains a Mystery For Both Occupiers and UC Davis Officials

By David GreenwaldFebruary 7, 201251 comments

On January 24, a small group of UC Davis Occupy protesters moved into the vacated Cross Cultural Center building. It was a move that would divide the movement, in part because it was not sanctioned by the Occupy UCD’s General Assembly and in part because the cottage was to be the new home of the Educational Opportunity Program and Guardian Scholars Programs, both of which aid those who might be priced out of a UC education.

In the early morning hours on January 26, the students reported a strange robbery. According to a press release, at about 4:00am, someone entered the occupied former-Cross Cultural Center and took valuable equipment from the main room where occupiers were sleeping.

Student Hit by Non-Lethal Munitions at UCR Protest Speaks to Vanguard

By David GreenwaldJanuary 30, 201217 comments

The events at UC Riverside, like those in many in the Occupy Movement, caught the attention of the public after police fired rubber bullets and paint ball rounds at the crowd as the students chanted “Peaceful Protest.”

Lee Rogers is a graduate student at UCLA, but he drove to UC Riverside for the day of action. He is getting his PhD in political science. He has had some involvement in Occupy UC, but he identified more with the Occupy Los Angeles movement.

Letter From Reynoso Indicates UCD Police Not Cooperating With Investigation

By David GreenwaldJanuary 25, 201213 comments

A letter from former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso sent to UC President Mark Yudof indicates there will be delays in the original timeline. The delay means that Justice Reynoso is now “targeting February 21, 2012 for the release of the report of the Task Force.”

Mr. Reynoso indicates the changes result “primarily from our negotiations with the Federated University Police Officer’s Association (FUPOA) for access to non subject officers.”

Students Denounce Police Violence at UC Riverside

By David GreenwaldJanuary 23, 201232 comments

A group called Occupy Colleges, fashioning themselves after Occupy Wall Street, has issued a statement denouncing what they are calling the “police shooting and beating of students at UC Riverside.”

In a statement they argue that students were “brutally and unnecessarily injured” at a peaceful demonstration at UC Riverside.

Student Protests: Relative Quiet Shattered by New Events and Announcements

By David GreenwaldJanuary 21, 201227 comments

After weeks of quiet, student demonstrations re-emerged in the news. On the local front came the not-unexpected news that the Yolo District Attorney had declined to file charges against the UCD protesters who were pepper sprayed.

For the most part, the district attorney has declined to involve his office in the politics of student protests.

Rubber Bullets at UC Regents Meeting in Riverside Ends Relative Calm of New Year

By David GreenwaldJanuary 20, 201245 comments

Chancellor Katehi Issues Another Message on Pepper-Spraying Incident

A group of students from UC Riverside attempted to storm the UC Regents meeting on Thursday, and were confronted by riot police. Numerous YouTube videos showed that they were fired upon with paint-filled bullets and other projectiles that injured several at the scene.

According to a news report from the local ABC affiliate, the protests were more peaceful than most, with people peacefully protesting inside. However, things started to go downhill after students refused to stay within the time allotted to speak at public comment to the Board of Regents.

Analysis: Cruz Reynoso Takes Control of Investigation and Release of Information

By David GreenwaldJanuary 8, 20126 comments

According to a letter from former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, the report from the independent investigation led by former LA Police Chief William Bratton, and his private company Kroll, will be completed in early January, but the task force will withhold the results from the public and only release them after they have completed their review.

In a letter from Justice Reynoso to President Yudoff, outlining a December 13 meeting, the former justice writes, “We established ground rules, procedures, and a schedule that put us on track to release a report by late January or early February.”

The Burning Question for the New Year: What Will Come of the Pepper Spray Investigation

By David GreenwaldJanuary 3, 201211 comments

I note another Op-Ed, written this time by entomology professors Walter Leal and James Carey. Their central argument that the faculty should speak for themselves and that we ought to “abide by the vote of the majority regardless of the outcome” is fine, though it comes across really as too much inside baseball, embodying some internal battle for the university.

But it does lead somewhat tangentially to an assessment of what it would take at this point to force Linda Katehi to resign. Let me back up for a second, because there is an important point and lesson in all of this – in matters like this, the first few days are critical to the survival of the leader.

Occupy Battle Heads to the Courtroom

By David GreenwaldDecember 24, 20114 comments

One of the lesser-known features of the Occupy movement is that attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild have embedded themselves with protesters as observers for the next stage of the fight.

And so, while most of the major encampments have been dispersed by authorities, the battle will live on as a flurry of lawsuits, in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly, and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities.

Should Chancellor Katehi Still Resign?

By David GreenwaldDecember 21, 201199 comments

It has now been over a month since the initial pepper-spraying incident that caught the attention of the region, the state, the nation and even the world. In the aftermath of that event, the Vanguard joined many others in calling for the chancellor to resign.

The reason we argued that the chancellor should resign is that (A) we believe the police acted wrongly on that day in November in violation of the university’s and UC’s use of force protocol and also, according to case law, we believe they acted in violation of the 4^th Amendment, (B) the chancellor was too busy attending to other matters to address a critical precursor to the pepper-spraying event, and (C) in the aftermath of pepper spraying, the chancellor appeared to have first backed police action and then slowly changed her view – eventually both taking responsibility and shirking from it.

Vanguard Analysis of Pepper Spray Video

By David GreenwaldDecember 20, 201169 comments

A few weeks ago, a version of the pepper spraying was posted on YouTube by “UCDCollegeRepublican” which purports to show a different vantage point of the incident than what was previously aired. I was a bit skeptical about this purportedly new video, because I had watched the full 25 to 30 minute version on AggieTV.

Some who have watched this video claim that it has changed their mind. So, the Vanguard has watched this clip repeatedly to see what, if anything, can be gleaned by watching it.

Commentary: UCD Complaining About 8500 in Occupy Costs? Really? That’s it?

By David GreenwaldDecember 19, 201128 comments

I could not believe when I saw the release from UC Davis: “Occupy’s aftermath: 8,500 for cleanup and repair,” my thought was, really? That is what you are going to complain about?

More remarkable still was that the Davis Enterprise ran it as their headline story: “Occupy camp costs UC Davis $8,500 in cleanup, repairs.”

Commentary: Everyone Says the Right Thing, But No One Knows What to Do

By David GreenwaldDecember 16, 201117 comments

One of the key moments of the actual hearings on Wednesday came when Assemblymember Marty Block asked perhaps the most critical question of Chancellor Linda Katehi – what would you have done differently that day?

Hindsight, while 20-20, is also revealing about what people believe is right and what people believe is wrong.

Confrontation Between Katehi and Pepper-Sprayed Student Steals Show At Capitol

By David GreenwaldDecember 15, 201150 comments

Wednesday featured a 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, called the meeting.

Attorney General Punts UC Davis Pepper Spraying Investigation Back to Yolo County

By David GreenwaldDecember 15, 201114 comments

Apparently the Attorney General did not want the political hot potato of the pepper spray investigation, either. In a press release from the office of District Attorney Jeff Reisig, he announced that on December 9, 2011, the California Attorney General’s Office declined a request to investigate the events surrounding police officers’ use of pepper spray against protesters on the campus of the University of California at Davis last month.

Both the District Attorney and the Sheriff had requested the Attorney General’s assistance, based on the significant and statewide issues involved, as well as other factors.

Democratic Mayors Lead the Way on Cracking Down on Occupy Movement

By David GreenwaldDecember 9, 201143 comments

On Wednesday, with little fanfare or controversy, Occupy Davis left Central Park, having decided on Monday that there were other ways to more effectively protest.

“I think we’ve made a significant statement with the time we’ve been here already,” Skyler Blakeslee told the Davis Enterprise on Wednesday. “Also, it’s cold and it’s wintry and it may be a good time to hibernate.”

Yudof Names Remainder of Reynoso’s Task Force

By David GreenwaldDecember 6, 20115 comments

On Monday, UC President Mark Yudof appointed 12 members of the task force that will be headed up by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, a professor emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law.

As previously advertised, most of the task force members are affiliated with UC Davis and were nominated by relevant campus organizations.

Written by the UC Davis Dateline Staff

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