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UCD prof on leave for alleged rape of high-schooler By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
UC Davis placed tenured chemistry professor Ting Guo on paid leave one year ago for allegedly raping and assaulting Jane Doe, a high school student, in 2010, according to a statement released by the university on Friday. The student’s AP chemistry teacher assigned her to job shadow a chemist as part of the UC Davis GUO Young Scholars ProAccusations gram. Guo, 58, was date back to appointed to the UC 2010 Davis faculty in 1999. According to court documents, she emailed several UC Davis professors, and Guo was the first to respond. They met in person on Jan. 10, 2010, and by Feb. 11, 2010, the first alleged assault occurred: a butt spank in his campus office. By Aug. 7, 2010, she wanted to present him with gifts “per cultural customs” for the mentoring opportunity. She offered to carry one of the two bags to his house since they lived
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Pedestrians cross by the bollards on G and Third streets blocking southbound traffic in November. Enterprise file photo
Council mulls options for G Street By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The closure of a portion of G Street to automobile traffic back in the early months of the pandemic was critical to a number of downtown restaurants when indoor dining was prohibited. With a block between Second and Third streets closed off to cars, restaurants were able to serve patrons outdoors using
the newly available travel lanes and parking spaces. But with indoor dining having long since resumed, a number of local retail business owners have been urging the city to reopen that block of G Street to two-way traffic and restore on-street parking. Loss of parking, as well as the general unattractiveness of the space, have been cited as reasons for what they say is a loss of
customers. “It looks horrendous,” Jen Cala Chandler, manager of Sole Desire Shoes at Second and G streets, said in November. “It totally dissuades customers from coming to our beautiful downtown,” she said. “This has affected all of us in a really negative way and it unfortunately continues to. Every day there are customers who say they don’t come downtown, or
UC strike was only Round 1 By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters The largest higher-education strike in U.S. history — courtesy 36,000 disgruntled graduate student workers and 12,000 other academic employees at the University of California — wrapped up Dec. 23, and depending on one’s perspective, it was either a historic win or a colossal letdown. The workers got some of what they wanted, and while the UC system hasn’t said how it’s going to afford it, it’s now on the hook to do so. These deals aren’t evergreen — the graduate student contracts last until 2025 — and negotiations
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on successor deals will likely begin in late 2024. The graduate union members did get multiple raises through 2024 and roughly 50% increases in base pay, plus promises of transit passes, some dependent child healthcare and other benefits. They did not get extra money to afford sky-high California rents. Out-ofstate graduate students still have to pay extra tuition fees, and the child care subsidies are below what they wanted. This has led to dissent in the ranks. About a third of graduate union members voted to oppose the tentative agreement, fueled by an intraunion campaign to sink the
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deal. Members of UAW 2865, the union representing teaching assistants, tutors and instructors, overwhelmingly rejected the deal at three campuses. The rank-and-file of the slightly smaller union of student researchers, UAWSRU, also clobbered the deal at two campuses. At least one history professor who specializes in labor movements says this dynamic of moderate disagreement within a union is healthy and normal. “I would say that it is not unusual to have that high a vote against an agreement,” said Nelson Lichtenstein, professor emeritus at UC
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There is little in the way of unanimity, however, with others appreciating a pedestrianfriendly space downtown.
The City Council itself was divided back in 2021 when two council members — Gloria Partida and Mayor Will Arnold —
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State honors Chávez as distinguished school By Aaron Geerts
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“For a Spanish Immersion school to receive a 2023 California Distinguished Schools Award is a true honor and a testimony to how our school commits to and fulfills our program’s mission, vision and goals,” Chávez Principal Veronica Dunn said. “Since 2018, our staff and parents have made it a priority to focus on students’ socialemotional development and community engagement, in addition to the Spanish Language Acquisition embedded in our academics.
The Davis Joint Unified School District can put another feather in its cap as César Chávez Elementary earned recognition as a 2023 California Distinguished School. A press release by the district on Thursday, Jan. 12, said that the California Distinguished Schools Program recognizes schools for their excellent work in either closing the achievement gap or achieving exceptional student performance. To identify eligibility, measurements were based on the 2022 California
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they don’t come this far downtown any more because the street is closed.”
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