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D: Hello and welcome to a Spoiled Minds newscast. I’m Dominique Labaki.
F: And I’m Fuad Beshir. On February 1st, five faculty members as well as students assembled at the Bell Tower to discuss the police presence brought onto campus on January 19th during the Regent’s meeting and subsequent protests.
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JC: Good evening, and welcome to a Thirsty Scholars exclusive; I’m Jacqueline Curtis. Today, we’re here with Dr. Crowley to discuss global warming. How are you today?
Dr. C: Fine, Jacqueline; it’s good to be here.
JC: So I want to ask you: what is global warming?
Dr. C: Well, global warming is another term for a bigger concept, which is dealing with global climate change. It refers to the increase in the temperature of the earth that is caused by the greenhouse gases that are building up, primarily carbon dioxide, but also methane and some other things we release from agriculture, like nitrous oxide. But all together, these gasses go into the atmosphere, and they increase [Read more...]
January 27, 2012
Chancellor Timothy White
4108 Hinderaker Hall
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521
Dear Chancellor White:
As graduate students, teaching assistants, alumni and faculty from the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at UC Riverside, we are deeply disappointed by the actions taken by the University last Thursday, January 19.
We participated in the campus-wide action comprised of UC students, faculty, and staff outside of the HUB, while the UC Regents continued their meeting in privacy. This day-long action was indeed an expression of outrage over rising tuition and depreciating quality of education. It was also a celebration of community and solidarity.
We witnessed our students chanting or engaging in discussions about the grim future of UC Riverside; for many of them, this was their first political protest. One of our students, a mother of two, brought her three-year-old daughter. This student lamented forgetting to dress her daughter in her Highlander shirt. She wanted her daughter to bear witness to the fight for her future education.
On February 14, 2012 UC Police arrived at the Occupy UCR encampment to issue a “Notice to
Vacate” asking for the removal of tents and associated camping materials from the campus
before 11:59 pm. The primary reasons for the ordinance involves the Chancellor’s ending of a
“short term” exception of the camps existence as well as claiming that campus lawn areas have
been scheduled for programs and activity within the next days, weeks, and months. This is the
first time that legal codes have been cited. The notice states that failure to vacate could lead to
students’ referral to Student Conduct and criminal charges under California law.
The students of Occupy UCR will be holding a discussion with the administration Wednesday,
February 15th, at the bell tower to address their proposals for dispersal in detail.
Occupy Eviction Notice
- Gabi Vazquez
Weeks of listening to various opinionated students discuss the Occupy UCR movement have only strengthened my conclusion, that protests are ineffective and do not bring about solutions to the issues at hand.
Occupiers are continuously attacking and protesting against the UC Regents, who, without a doubt, have done many a corrupt business deal, but [Read more...]
Reporting from UC Riverside, CA-
Hundreds of protesters from most of the UC sister schools met at UC Riverside on January 19th, 2012 to protest at the first regents’ meeting of the year. The students were well organized and creatively efficient in maintaining peace at the multiple confrontational lines established by police throughout the campus; for instance, such a group strategically appropriated the large, portable barricades placed throughout the campus to create a roadblock at the only exit available for the regents. If a service worker or student approached the newly fashioned gate, the protesters asked them whether education was a privilege or a right; those who answered that it was a [Read more...]
UCR has only been occupied for about a week now and people in the local community have already made judgements about the movement. Some call the occupiers “anarchist” and others call them “irrational.” Students of UCR have even gone on to say that the movement has good intentions but will accomplish nothing.
I decided to meet with the occupiers in person and ask them who they were and why they were occupying UCR. This interview took place the night UCR was first occupied, Jan. 17, in Sproul Hall. Take a look at the video above.
In this article I would like to express some of the opinions I have received against the protests that took place on Jan.19th at UCR.
Dan Griffith ” I concede the words “miscreants” and “hooligans” were uncalled for and have deleted my previous comment as a result. However, I will state for the record that I have very little sympathy for those who taunt the police just for the hell of it. The video that you posted appears to show the students taunting and then battering the officers, who then respond (albeit [Read more...]
On January 19, 2012 UCPD sent out a force of riot police to disband a protest held against the UC Regents plan to increase tuition fees. Protestors were attacked on a variety of occasions by UCPD, this is just one of those incidents. A full report on the happening of January 19th will be published in the following days.
