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Flickr photo by Colin Robertson This fall, University of California Davis students, faculty and staff will get new photo ID cards emblazoned with the US Bank logo. They can use the cards to check out books from the library and, if they choose, withdraw money at an ATM from a new US Bank checking account. The cards come courtesy of a new partnership forged between the bank and university that provides cash to UC Davis in exchange for new student, faculty and staff accounts. The university stands to gain millions of dollars in cash for student services from US Bank by giving the bank exclusive access to marketing opportunities, free advertising and signage and other perks. Under the 10-year agreement, the more people at the university who sign up for US Bank accounts, the more money UC Davis would get.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/06/4395011/hed-here.html Several dozen UC Davis students are protesting the upcoming court date of the “Bankers’ Dozen,” the 12 students linked to demonstrations in January and February that shuttered an on-campus U.S. Bank branch. About 400 students rallied Thursday afternoon at the university’s Memorial Union to speak out against allegations of conspiracy and blocking access filed against the dozen in late March by Yolo County prosecutors.
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The U.S. Bank occupations taught us a lesson we can’t afford to forget: Direct action works. Protesters who refused to wait for institutional permission won a victory that official campus organizations and representative assemblies can only dream a…
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Occupy UC Davis protesters encircle the tents set up on the Quad that the chancellor asked campus to police remove Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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Chancellor Katehi failed to express in any meaningful way her expectation that the police operation was to be sharply limited so that no use of force would be employed by police officers other than their demand that the tents be taken down.
Fresh off the plane from England, I went to the grocery store for the express purpose of buying conditioner. I had left my half-empty bottle in Stratford-upon-Avon because I’d filled my suitcase to bursting and had two separate nightmares about hauling it up and down the Tube’s liftless stairways. (That the Tube had no lifts was not part of the nightmare; it was just, to borrow a phrase from the Royal Society, whose correspondence I’d been reading, a “matter of fact”.) My friend and host Will walked in just as I was zipping up the last piece of luggage to ask whether the bottle he’d found in the bathroom was mine. I made a virtue of oblivion and said why yes, it was, but I’d decided, very sensibly, to leave it. “They have conditioner in the States,” I said, in that obnoxious way people do when they’re new to England and pretend that “the States” is how they regularly refer to home.
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Student Activism: Police Brutality and Lies at UC Davis
Sunday Update | I’ve collected a lot of the most important info from this liveblog in a new post: Ten Things You Should Know About Friday’s UC Davis Police Violence . Check it out, then scroll down in this post for additional updates. Yesterday afternoon, after UC Davis police dismantled an Occupy encampment on their campus, making several arrests, a group of students sat down. That’s it.
1. The protest at which UC Davis police officers used pepper spray and batons against unresisting demonstrators was an entirely nonviolent one. None of the arrests at UC Davis in the current wave of activism have been for violent offenses. Indeed, as the New York Times reported this morning , the university’s administration has “reported no instances of violence by any protesters.” Not one. 2.
Ten Things You Should Know About Friday’s UC Davis Police Violence « Student Activism
The UC Davis Police Department is proud to serve the UC Davis community as well as our medical center campus located in Sacramento. We are here to assist and provide security for all who attend, work, and visit our campuses. Our approach is to involve students, faculty and staff in our activities and operations. We know we can't do it alone, and we ask our community and visitors to help us create a safe and secure environment.
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Campus Police or University police in the United States and Canada are often sworn police officers employed by a college or university to protect the campus and surrounding areas and the people who live, work, and visit it. Many university police forces employ a combination of police officers, security guards and student workers. University police departments are established to provide a quicker response time to incidents on campus and to offer campus-specific services not necessarily available from local policing organizations.
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