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UCD names new enrollment vice provost By Caleb Hampton
The Sierra Nevada had only small patches of snow near the Phillips Station meadow, shown shortly before the California Department of Water Resources conducted a snow survey on April 1.
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California has seen lengthy
Malisa Lee, a UC Santa Barbara alumnus with more than 15 years of administrative experience in higher education, was appointed vice provost of enrollment management at UC Davis, the campus’ Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan announced Tuesday. Lee will take up her post Nov. 1 For the past eight LEE years, Lee served as New vice provost for associate vice presienrollment dent at Fresno State. Prior to that, she was assistant vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, where she also served as director of undergraduate admissions. She was selected for the UC Davis position after a national search. UC Davis leaders emphasized Lee’s depth and breadth of experience. “She has had oversight of admissions, recruitment and outreach, as well as overseeing the registrar, financial aid and several other aspects of enrollment management,” Croughan said. “So Malisa already has exceptional experience in enrollment management that will enable her to ably lead this critical campus office at UC Davis.”
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Make it four in a row California drought likely to continue By Rachel Becker CalMatters As California’s 2022 water year ends this week, the parched state is bracing for another dry year — its fourth in a row. So far, in California’s recorded history, six previous droughts have lasted four or more years, two of them in the past 35 years.
Despite some rain in September, weather watchers expect a hot and dry fall, and warn that this winter could bring warm temperatures and belowaverage precipitation. Conditions are shaping up to be a “recipe for drought”: a La Niña climate pattern plus warm temperatures in the Western Tropical Pacific that could mean critical rain and snowstorms
miss California, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and The Nature Conservancy. Swain said California’s fate will depbend on how exactly the storm track shifts, and that seasonal forecasts are inherently uncertain. Even so, “I would still put my money on dry, even in the northern third of the state,” he said. “It’s not a guarantee. But if you were to see 50 winters like this one, most of them would be dry.”
Through August, no other three-year period in California history has been this dry — even during the last historic drought from 2012 through 2016. “Or did the last drought end? Which is the bigger question,” said John Abatzoglou, a professor of climatology at UC Merced. “We’re basically having droughts that are disrupted by wet periods.”
Fortune puts her focus on climate City councilman witnessed homecoming incident
n Editor’s Note: This is the
last in a five-part series profiling the candidates for Davis City Council in the Nov. 8 election. Voters in District 1 (West Davis) will be choosing among Councilman Dan Carson, Bapu Vaitla and Kelsey Fortune, while voters in District 4 (East Davis) will choose either Councilwoman Gloria Partida or Adam Morrill.
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By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Like many young adults in the world today, Kelsey Fortune sees a future made bleak by climate change and lack of urgency among older generations. That’s in large part what prompted her to run for City Council back in 2020
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Kelsey Fortune will run for the Davis City Council’s District 1 in November. and it motivates her today in her campaign to represent District 1 in West Davis on the City Council. “There’s such a lack of
WEATHER Saturday: Sunny and warm. High 88. Low 67.
action when it comes to the climate emergency,” Fortune said. “I want to be a
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Racism reared its ugly hand recently at the Davis Senior High School homecoming parade on Friday, Sept 24. During the lively parade, the Black Student Union float was passing down F Street when an adult worker shouted, “white power” from a service truck. Condemnation immediately fell upon the person shouting the racist remarks until they drove away. Davis City Councilman Josh Chapman, was enjoying the parade in front of his downtown
store, Armadillo Music, at the time of the incident and witnessed the events as they transpired. “It was just clear as day as loud as you can imagine someone yell, ‘white guy power!’ It just floored me, and in my mind I was asking myself, ‘Did I just hear that happen?’ A group of students who were across the street for the whole parade cheering on their friends immediately started yelling at him. A few seconds later, you hear a ‘white power,’” Chapman recalled.
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