{"id":14022,"date":"2011-11-22T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-22T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T03:24:28","slug":"ucdavis-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/22\/ucdavis-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"UC-Davis In Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Chancellor facing calls for resignation after pepper spray incident<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WmJmmnMkuEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>In case you aren&#8217;t one of the approximately 1.5 million viewers of the Davis pepper spray video, here it is, the video that changed Chancellor Linda Katehi&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The pepper spraying of students was without a doubt overkill for the situation. After all, who would it really have hurt to allow the students to remain on the Quad. Instead, Davis administrators are now dealing with national scrutiny on their police policies, pay levels (officers make twice what those who actually teach), and their level of respect for their customers\/students.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Katehi is desperately trying to cling to her job. &nbsp;After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8775ZmNGFY8\">silent walk of shame caught on video<\/a>, she today addressed the students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Chancellor Linda Katehi took the stage at a rally of students held to protest last week&#8217;s pepper-spraying by police she was apologetic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to apologize,&#8221; said Katehi. &#8220;I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/11\/21\/4071197\/uc-davis-rally-each-speaker-gets.html#ixzz1eOfHyPJk\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you click through to that link you will see something of a live-blog and video of both Katehi&#8217;s apology and of the tents returning to the UC-Davis Quad. One has to imagine that pepper spray is not an option this go-round. &nbsp;Katehi will continue to face increasing scrutiny as she is trying the time-tested &#8220;name a panel&#8221; stalling technique. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Davis panel is supposed to return a report within 30 Days, and then the matter will be handled further. &nbsp;Legislators, including Sen. Ye, have been calling for something more substantial, but no additional word has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The student protesters are calling for a boycott on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Chancellor facing calls for resignation after pepper spray incident<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WmJmmnMkuEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>In case you aren&#8217;t one of the approximately 1.5 million viewers of the Davis pepper spray video, here it is, the video that changed Chancellor Linda Katehi&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The pepper spraying of students was without a doubt overkill for the situation. After all, who would it really have hurt to allow the students to remain on the Quad. Instead, Davis administrators are now dealing with national scrutiny on their police policies, pay levels (officers make twice what those who actually teach), and their level of respect for their customers\/students.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Katehi is desperately trying to cling to her job. &nbsp;After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8775ZmNGFY8\">silent walk of shame caught on video<\/a>, she today addressed the students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Chancellor Linda Katehi took the stage at a rally of students held to protest last week&#8217;s pepper-spraying by police she was apologetic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to apologize,&#8221; said Katehi. &#8220;I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/11\/21\/4071197\/uc-davis-rally-each-speaker-gets.html#ixzz1eOfHyPJk\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you click through to that link you will see something of a live-blog and video of both Katehi&#8217;s apology and of the tents returning to the UC-Davis Quad. One has to imagine that pepper spray is not an option this go-round. &nbsp;Katehi will continue to face increasing scrutiny as she is trying the time-tested &#8220;name a panel&#8221; stalling technique. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Davis panel is supposed to return a report within 30 Days, and then the matter will be handled further. &nbsp;Legislators, including Sen. Ye, have been calling for something more substantial, but no additional word has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The student protesters are calling for a boycott on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1327,1823],"class_list":["post-14022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1327","tag-1823"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}