In a tough financial climate, the administrative body has made a budgetary decision that considers students’ demands — cutting from the top. This cut, while painful (especially considering that executive vice chancellor of student affairs Felicia McGinty was one of the few administrators of color), shows that the administration is willing to look internally to front some of the burden.

Faculty, students, and the UC Santa Cruz administration make up the newly formed Demonstration Advisory Group (DAG), whose purpose is to gather information from students and other interested parties to more clearly inform the UC on how to enact regulatory policy with regard to demonstrations.

After serving five years during a notably difficult fiscal period, Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC) and Campus Provost David Kliger has announced that he will step down from his post in June.