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UC dismisses professor for alleged sexual assault By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
a May special election, the decision was left to the remaining three: Mayor Will Arnold and council members Gloria Partida and Bapu Vaitla. Before them on Tuesday were four options brought forward by city staff: n Option 1 — Reopening G Street to two-way traffic, as it
The Board of Regents of the University of California dismissed chemistry professor Ting Guo from the faculty of UC Davis, UC Davis News and Media Relations announced on Thursday. According to a GUO press release, under university policy, the On leave since 2021 regents decided at the request of UCD Chancellor Gary May and on the recommendation of UC President Michael Drake. “We are grateful that the Regents agreed with our recommendation to terminate the employment of Dr. Guo effectively immediately,” May said in the press release. “Sexual misconduct is not tolerated at UC Davis. We encourage people to report abuse and seek support.” According to UC Davis, an investigation by the Title IX office found that Guo had sexually assaulted a high-school student who had worked
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Customers enjoy coffee on the closed-off block of G Street on Wednesday morning. Enterprise photo
Downtown block stays closed to vehicles By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted in favor of keeping a block of G Street downtown closed to automobile traffic. That block, between Second and Third streets, has been closed to vehicle traffic since early in the pandemic when
restaurants and shops were forced to close to indoor business. The city had quickly set up a temporary use permit process for those downtown businesses that wanted to use outdoor space, including sidewalks and the street, to serve customers outside, and closing G Street to traffic enabled them to do so. More than 2½ years later, the block remains closed to vehicle
traffic, and on Tuesday evening, the City Council voted to keep it that way, albeit with improvements to aesthetics and functionality. With Councilman Josh Chapman recused from the discussion and vote because he owns a business — Armadillo Music — within 500 feet of G Street, and with former Mayor Lucas Frerichs’s council seat vacant until
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By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer UC Davis freshman Colin McCarthy is making waves online with his extreme weather updates under the Twitter handle, @US_Stormwatch. Having started his account in 2017 at age 13, McCarthy, aiming to study atmospheric science, now boasts 79,000 followers since the last rains. Essentially self-taught from studying meteorology greats Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel to Daniel Swain of the Weather West blog, McCarthy looks forward to major study courses. On Saturday, Jan. 14, he tweeted, “a violent storm
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Nothing but blue skies? UC Davis student Colin McCarthy is making waves with his extreme weather updates on Twitter. just tore through Davis with extremely heavy downpours and high winds. My closest weather station recorded 0.43 inches of rain in 5 minutes!”
WEATHER Saturday: Frost, patchy fog. FOG High 60. Low 44.
His daily Twitter routine depends on whatever the weather is up to. “If there’s not a lot going on, I may
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Longtime NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg — who began covering the Supreme Court for NPR in the mid-1970s, and continues to do so today — will speak at Mondavi Center on the UC Davis campus on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Totenberg covered many famous Supreme Court decisions in the decades before today’s university undergrads were born. In the 1970s, Totenberg covered Supreme Court decisions relating to several men
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convicted in the Watergate scandal. In the 1980s, she covered President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice. In the 199os, she covered the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas, who had been nominated as a Supreme Court justice by President George H.W. Bush — Totenberg’s coverage included the explosive testimony of law professor Anita Hill, alleging that Thomas had committed sexual harassment in the workplace. Totenberg continued to
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