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Aggie Pride March 27, 2012

Posted by davidmwittman in students, university.
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Some UC Davis students have established a fund to provide emergency aid
to their fellow undergraduates, and the SF Chronicle ran a nice story on it.

Physics Department faculty have collectively contributed $2500. Faculty in other departments, are you willing to step up and contribute?

New York Student/Faculty Media Training March 22, 2012

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Hi UC Davis folks,

I was impressed by what faculty and students are offering this Spring at the New School and thought I would share it. :

#searchunderoccupy
Performance, Hackathon, Teach-ins and Workshop

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
New York City

All events are free and open to the public.

Exhibition: March 1 through April 1, 2012
Exhibition hours:
Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Across The New School, there has been a wide spectrum of engagement with the Occupy Wall Street movement. In an open call in November 2011, a group of faculty members invited students to submit work exploring the implications of creating a living archive of OWS and to actively reflect on the university’s relationship to these events. This call resulted in a collaborative effort among faculty and students to organize #searchunderoccupy, an exhibition and a participatory initiatives that explores the implications and ambiguities of Occupy Wall Street as a “living archive”.

Since the exhibition opened on March 1, 2012, members of the New School community have continued to “occupy” the exhibition, organizing programming, performances, and teach-ins, all of which encourage dialogue around art, media, and politics on campus, in OWS, and beyond.

Below is a general schedule of the remaining events that will take place at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at Parsons The New School of Design:

Data Visualization for the 99%! #OccupyData Hackathon
Friday & Saturday, March 23 & 24, 2012, 12:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Unprecedented quantities of media and data have been generated the OWS protests since its emergence. Join Media Studies’ graduate student Christo de Klerk and Assistant Professor Nitin Sawhney and for a two-day collaborative Hackathon to explore, to visualize, and to learn from this living data archive.

Free Speech With A Camera: Teach-In with Deanna Kameil and Deidre Boyle
Friday, March 23, 2012, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
How have activists, artists, and documentarians used the power of a camera to communicate political speech? Director of Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies Deirdre Boyle and Assistant Professor Deanna Kamiel from Media Studies discuss historic and ongoing efforts to record protest.

Remix Workshop
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Space is limited, so please RSVP: coleb681@newschool.edu
Join Ramon Campos, Brianne Cole, Piril Gunduz, and Francois Vaxelaire, graduate students in Media Studies, for a hands-on workshop on remixing culture and collective production. Participants work in teams to remix OWS coverage mined from various sources and create new collaborative vignettes that become part of the #searchunderoccupy archive.

Occupy the Media: Teach-In with Martin Lucas
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
How do we understand the OWS movement through its media? How does the “alternative public sphere” of OWS differ from the media of other global movements? How does a movement that chooses to rethink representative democracy approach representational strategies and tactics? Martin Lucas, Professor of Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College and former Paper Tiger Television Collective member, invites you to bring your practice to and share at this interactive teach-in.

Sponsored by CuratorialDesignResearch Lab, School of Art Media and Technology, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design; Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School for Public Engagement; and Office of the Dean, The New School for Public Engagement. Organized by Brianne Cole, Melanie Crean, Julia Foulkes, Melissa Friedling, Piril Gunduz, Reena Katz, Carin Kuoni, Daniel Kim, Nitin Sawhney, Radhika Subramaniam, and Laura Trager.

End of Quarter Wrap-Up and What to expect March 21, 2012

Posted by Julie Sze in personal.
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Hi All

it’s that time in the quarter to give and grade final exams, and prepare for the spring. In that spirit, and in the spirit of the number-crunching ethos which seems ascendant in university culture under the guise of “accountability,” here’s a summary of this website’s *performance.*

Since our launch at the beginning of the Winter Quarter, we’ve had:

11 Faculty Bloggers from Physics, American Studies, Art History, Technocultural Studies, Writing, Sociology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies

7 Student Bloggers, both graduate and undergraduate

almost 4000 views to date, by far the most popular is http://ucfacultysupportingstudents.org/2012/01/24/how-i-got-involved/

But how do we quantify success? is it the number of volunteer labor hours that everyone has put into writing? to contribute to ongoing debates about university policy and the direction of the university? to inform faculty, students and the public about events and actions (no-confidence vote, public marches?)

I do not know.

but I do know that a good number of faculty on this campus and throughout the UC feel strongly about supporting students in these times of crisis, although we may not agree about what that means.

in the spring: look forward to more faculty taking over particular weeks to pull in more faculty and student voices to contribute to our ongoing learning and debate. For isn’t that what a University is all about?

UCD faculty on Protests March 16, 2012

Posted by Julie Sze in protests, university.
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see this letter signed by almost 30 facultyLetter-Feb_27_Event.3-15-12

if you are on campus, check out this exhibit called “Force: UC Policy” curated by the students in Prof. Min’s class

UC Protest Policy March 13, 2012

Posted by Julie Sze in protests, university.
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Some of you got UC President Yudof’s “Open Letter” last week to the UC Community about open_letter_3-8-12.1

Here are objections to the letter from the CA Scholars for Academic Freedom, CS4AF Press Release-Yudof letter 2012 #5

While back at UCD, the Davis Faculty Association wrote a letter to the Provost and Vice-Chancellor Meyer objecting to the “Demonstration Management” Principles and Policies.

Here is their reply. Plus an administrator’s view

Tenured Radical writes: “Universities, like Wal-Mart, are private property, and university administrations get to decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t.”

What do you think?

UCD Administration to Facts: Drop Dead March 12, 2012

Posted by davidmwittman in protests, university.
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That could be the headline describing the latest communication from Mrak Hall. Provost Hexter and Vice Chancellor Meyer sent an email regarding the management of demonstrations which read, in part: