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UC Davis Launching Center to Study ‘Firearm Violence’

On Monday, University of California president, Janet Napolitano, announced that the nation’s first center dedicated to studying gun violence as a health issue, the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center, will launch on the UC Davis campus in Sacramento.

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Bernie Sanders Supporters May Not Vote Hillary in November

DAVIS, California — Fans of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are torn over their loyalty to the Democratic Party and have expressed skepticism as to whether they would be willing to support Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton over the seasoned socialist if she clinches the nomination.

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Pigeons Can Spot Cancer

A surrogate for observers of medical images may have been found by researchers from the University of California, Davis: pigeons.

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Free Speech Fight over Antisemitism on California Campuses

Following a sharp rise in antisemitism across the University of California’s 10 campuses, a group of professors, students, activists and Jewish groups wrangled with a group of UC leaders at a public forum at UCLA on Monday as they sought to make revisions to a proposed policy denouncing intolerance on school grounds.

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More Swastikas at UC Davis

The “anti-religious” messages carved into several parked cars outside an apartment complex on the University of California Davis campus on Saturday turn out to have been swastikas.

Swastikas at UC Davis AEPi (StandWithUs via Facebook)

Anti-Semitism Comes to Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN–Members of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi at Vanderbilt University became the latest target of campus anti-Semitism–discovering swastika’s spray-painted in the elevator of their fraternity house, and another swastika painted on a basement door, according to an e-mail from Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente.

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UCLA Unanimously Passes Antisemitism Resolution

The undergraduate student government at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass a resolution condemning all forms of antisemitism and hatred or hostility geared towards Jewish students on campus.

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Student Court at UC Davis Strikes down Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution

In January, students at UC Davis passed a resolution urging the school to divest from companies doing business in Israel. On Wednesday, UC Davis’s student court declared the resolution to be unconstitutional (i.e. not in accordance with standards outlined in the student court) and ruled against it, following an appeal from the university’s students.

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Human Rights and Jewish groups Demand Investigation of Anti-Semitism at UC Davis

Prompted by recent anti-Semitic incidents at the University of California at Davis, 23 human rights organizations, with a support base in the hundreds of thousands, have demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi conduct a formal investigation into Students for Justice in Palestine and a student senator for their involvement in acts of “hatred and bigotry on campus.”

Swastikas at UC Davis AEPi (StandWithUs via Facebook)

Ebola Infection Suspected at UC-Davis

The University of California Davis Medical Center received a suspected case of Ebola Thursday morning when a patient exhibiting symptoms consistent with the disease was transferred from Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento.

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