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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2023
UC disability services understaffed, students say By Megan Tagami CalMatters
“It is my firm opinion that my client is not mentally competent,” said Dan Hutchinson, Dominguez’s courtappointed public defender. He declined to move forward with the preliminary hearing process prior to a ruling on the
When Cyn Gomez arrived on UC Berkeley’s campus as a second-year student in fall 2022, they realized they’d taken the benefits of online learning for granted. Their depression and anxiety, in addition to their learning disabilities, made the transition to in-person classes difficult. So they turned to the university’s Disabled Students’ Program, seeking accommodations that would excuse some class absences and provide them access to recorded lectures. But it took Gomez almost three weeks to schedule and undergo an intake appointment with a disability specialist. By the time the office had approved Gomez’s accommodations, the first two months of their sophomore year had already gone by. The experience left them discouraged and reluctant to recommend the Disabled Students’ Program to other students dealing with similar challenges. “It’s frustrating to want to direct people that are struggling to a resource that they’re not going to be
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Carlos Reales Dominguez, 21, appears at a pre-conference hearing at Yolo Superior Court on Monday, May 22, 2023, with Dan Hutchinson, deputy public defender. Fred Gladdis/ Enterprise phogo
Mental competency doubts stall murder case By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — A judge suspended court proceedings Monday for the former UC Davis student charged with killing two people and attempting to kill a third, after a defense attorney declared doubts regarding his mental competency.
Carlos Reales Dominguez must now undergo a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he understands the nature of the court process and can assist his lawyer in preparing his defense. The 21-year-old stands accused of fatally stabbing two Davis residents, David Breaux
and Karim Abou Najm, and attempting to kill Kimberlee Guillory, during a five-day span earlier this month. He appeared in Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel McAdam’s courtroom wearing shackles and a “safety smock” intended for jail inmates placed on suicide watch, his hair disheveled.
Book goes from death to Black liberation By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer “Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power” by Sampada Aranke (UC Davis Ph.D. ’13) examines the importance of representations of death to Black freedom. Included are images of posters, photographs, articles, and films that focus on the deaths of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson and show the 1960s and 1970s Black Power era. Aranke is the co-curator of the museum’s current exhibition Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 19651985. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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A short and very focused portrait of this violent time in history, Aranke hopes the book gives a radical archive to the artists and activists that continue to work and centralize visions of Black freedom that are essential to the book. She also hopes the book gives back some of what she was given all these years.”This book was more of a gift given to me by all the figures, historical figures, and living people that shaped it.” Aranke came out of a political organizing tradition focusing on Black revolutionary history and politics. As an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, she worked to build solidarity between students and the service union. During a return visit to Davis, Aranke recently came to the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem
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Museum of Art, where she held a conversation about “Death’s Futurity” with Essence Harden, a curator at California African American Museum in Los Angeles. “It was a homecoming in a lot of ways; it was really exciting. It gave me the chance to present the project in one of its final iterations — at the very place where It started in some ways,” Aranke said. Transforming the book from an academic standpoint to something significantly more refined and
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