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City Council to decide Tuesday how to fill vacancy By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
UC Davis students have been helping seniors get more computer-savvy at the Davis Senior Center.
Enterprise staff writer Will Arnold will be sworn in as mayor of the city of Davis on Tuesday, while Josh Chapman will take the oath of vice mayor. The first City Council meeting of 2023 will also include a decision on how to fill the council seat being vacated Tuesday by outgoing Mayor Lucas Frerichs, who will be sworn in to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors earlier in the day. The four council members left following Frerichs departure — Arnold, Chapman and Councilmembers Gloria Partida and Bapu Vaitla — will have to decide whether to appoint someone to fill Frerichs’s vacated seat or call for a special election. That election would be for residents of District 3, which encompasses much of central Davis, including downtown. Should the council favor a special election, city staff is recommending approval of a resolution calling for an all-mail ballot election on Tuesday, May 2. During preliminary discussions earlier this year — following Frerichs’s election to the Board of Supervisors in June — council members
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Students help seniors get digital By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer About 18 local seniors got a personalized technology course taught by UC Davis students as part of a first-year seminar this last fall. During her sabbatical, UCD professor of human development Lisa M. Soederberg Miller piloted a first-year course for students to work with low-income older adults on learning how to use a new laptop.
Miller tapped into an “amazing resource” that is the undergraduate population, where students are “motivated, engaged, sensitive, smart,” she said. She taught them how to work with seniors to understand and apply technology to achieve such goals as using YouTube, booking a flight, and organizing photos digitally. While this course isn’t being offered for the winter course, Miller is working towards its return. By documenting her
write-up to “various facing audiences from academics to teaching,” Miller hopes the course will be easier to reproduce. “It doesn’t have to be hard each time. I learned a lot from doing this.” “It is a lot of work to figure out where the academic side is (for the undergrads) and how to parse that out so that students are getting what they pay for, right? They’re paying money to learn about how to work with and design for older
No charges in fatal campus collision By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office won’t pursue criminal charges in connection with the May death of a UC Davis student who collided with a garbage truck while bicycling on campus. Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said Wednesday his office reached the decision on Dec. 19 and met with the family of Trisha “Tris” Nicole Yasay to share that information. Raven declined further comment. Officials at UC Davis, meanwhile, reiterated their condolences to Yasay’s family and say they’ve received the Davis
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adults — and at the same time, they’re helping older adults. It’s a strange combination with a lot of moving parts, and I am responsible for ensuring that they’re learning academically.” Meant to help combat ageism, the class naturally brings students in close contact with older adults resulting in intergenerational connections, which lack in today’s “agesegregated society,” Miller said. “So the idea (of the class) is to
California isn’t ready for Title 42 to come to an end By Wendy Fry CalMatters
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A memorial on campus marks the location where UC Davis student Trisha Yasay was killed after colliding with a garbage truck in May. Police Department’s full report on the May 25 incident, which concludes that “multiple factors” contributed to the deadly collision.
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UCD plans to release the full report to the public at some point, although a specific date for that disclosure
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The Supreme Court’s latest move allows a short-term reprieve to an anticipated increase in asylum seekers trying to cross from Mexico into California and other states, but recent confusion at the border is a preview of what may soon come should a pandemicera measure known as Title 42 be lifted in 2023. The situation, and its use as a political backdrop, has prompted local officials to ask what state resources will be available next year with California facing a potential budget
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shortfall and the possibility that Title 42 will end. Title 42 is a Trump-era immigration policy that has continued under President Joe Biden. It allows border agents to rapidly expel migrants at official ports of entry during public health emergencies. The policy has resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum and has discouraged many others from crossing the border. The policy states that if the U.S. surgeon general determines there is a communicable disease in
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