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UC Campus Workers to Strike Next Week, Except Apparently Not Anymore
Not quite the same type of protest...

Heads up to all you UC students still in school (suckers). In case you hadn't seen the flyers, your school's health care, dining, custodial, landscape and transportation workers had been planning to go on strike nex... MORE »
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Chancellor Demands to Know Your Students' Orientation
UC’s Vice Chancellor Fred <insert penis joke> Wood, wants to know if his students are bi, gay, hetero, questioning or… other?
Check out the survey questions he can’t stop asking.
Value of Education...or Just the Value of Writing
"After almost four years of court action, the California Supreme Court denied the University of California's appeal in Kashmiri v. Regents of University of California on Wednesday, awarding thousands of students $40 million."

Question: If these thousands of students are each a... MORE »
Latest comment by Pokey T: I get the metaphor with the mating unicorns, but what does the cigarette represent?

UC By The Numbers

UC By The Numbers
Official election results... wild! But not as wild as Sundquist getting down to his skivvies and polar-bearing in the Charles with the Alaska Klub this morning.

Winning Ticket
Matthew Sundquist '09 and Randall Sarafa '09

1450 First Place Votes
205 Second Place Votes
117 Third Place Votes

2nd Place Ticket
Roy T. W... MORE »

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

Wait. No. No such upset happened. The underdog didn't win. The institution did.

For those who really want to know, the Sundquist-Sarafa ticket garnered about 60% of the vote in an election where voter apathy reigned supreme.

Here's to another year of Matt Sundquist going to UC meeting half in the bag.

Who Are These People?

Who Are These People?
Continuing the Glazer-Petersen tradition of hirsute UC prezzies

Wait, so there were other candidates beyond Matt Sundquist for the UC exec ticket? Four tickets total? And one's already dropped out? Huh! Well, then.

Let the non-competition begin!
Can We Be Pretentious Now?
The University of California is one of the best public university systems in the world. But, it won't be for long.

According to Sunday's LA Times, the government funding that characterized the boom of the UC's as a top public system after World War II has gone the way of the inbred Dodo bi... MORE »
Harvard's Kind Of Bootleg
Al Capone, Bugs Moran, Ryan Petersen...

Flying in the face of the administration
, the UC has decided to ignore Dean Pilbeam's demand that the perennially popular party fund be effectively killed.

Three cheers! Now we can drink away our sorrows rather than down UHS-administered Zoloft! Hear that, UChicago? You're still where fun goes to die. PAR-TAY.
UC Davis Gets $1 Million to Stop Women Being Raped; Men Still Vulnerable
UC Davis will receive nearly $1 million over the next three years to improve the UC response, on all 10 campuses, to violence against women. Statistics from an article in The Davis Enterprise (they do statistics now!) indicate that:

“There are more tha... MORE »
Link: http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/10/03...

UC TAs Avoid Strike...?

UC TAs Avoid Strike...?
Did anyone know there was going to be a strike? Oh, you did? You didn’t tell anyone else? Not even The Aggie? Ha, well, joke's on you, because there will be NO strike. That means all classes will go on as scheduled (we have classes?).

For those of you who don’t know, the TAs, who are represented b... MORE »
Link: http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/10/02...
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