Troubled State of UC Lecturers
UC lecturer and American Federation of Teachers local chapter president Mike Rotkin said the UC system is a corporation. “They began looking for cheaper and more flexible employees,” Rotkin said. “The UC will deny it, but over half the teaching at UCs is done by…
Mending the Military’s Protocol on Sexual Assault
After 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military were reported to have occurred during 2012, a 37 percent increase from 2010, the Secretary of Defense decided to examine the systems in place for handling sexual assault cases. UC Hastings Academic Dean and Provost Elizabeth Hillman spoke about these issues on Nov. 6 as a part of the UC Social Justice Speaker Series.
Transformation Through Prose
Transforming the traditional canon proves no easy feat, but the creative writing program’s Living Writers Series does not shy away from the task. On Oct. 9, memoirist Ariel Gore kicked off the series. “Transformations” will serve as a cohesive theme among the authors speaking throughout…