Calif. university backs chancellor's leadership

Come on Yahoo do an honest story for once. My Daughter goes to UC Davis. She was at the protest. The occupiers were not even there. The protest was over the massive cost raises to go to that school.

Her golden parachute is about to open up.

In a similar vote, faculty at UC Davis voted to raise their salaries by %117 and
reduce their teaching load to 2 credits per semester. Academia is a Left-wing
narcissisitic parasitic growth destroying the health of American society.

I grew up in Davis and lived their for most of the last 40 years. The city ideology is pretend liberalism. They're all in favor of a good protest, a Democrat lawn sign and they all have the hybrid Lexus but when a real threat to their income or sense of stability shows up, the town closes ranks and protects those in authority. Davis is ALL about image so it's no surprise they chose to shield their chancellor from her own poor leadership. City institutions never have to acknowledge mistakes in Davis, that would upset the order of things.
I moved away. I go back once a year to visit my folks, and I get the hell out as soon as I can.

Read it. Know it. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Or the Right of the People to Peaceably Assemble. Try to understand.

Our love for anything but none American really shows, they have to choose a Greek born Chancellor because American born is no good at all. Anything American is just repugnant..

Just another example of the stupidity of out of touch with reality college faculties. The Chancellor should be commended for getting rid of the Occupiers (look at the havoc and mess they have reeked elsewhere).

since the faculty still supports her, she must have enough communist tendencies to keep her job, she just made a mistake and she will be sent to a re-education camp so she can study the little red book of government employee behavior. yes, she is a state employee, just like the rest of the commies working for the state and being paid by private sector workers with micro salaries, and major taxes.

OWS is a fad. Soon the disaffected rich white kids will move on to the next cause du jour...

If a Republican mayor had been at the bottom of this incident, an overwhelming number of these idiots would have voted No Confidence. This is purely political in that they will stand up for one of their own even when it is against their own standard. I for one say, gas all the Occupy azzholes. When the cops tell you to move, move or suffer the consequences.

As for the cost of higher education. Look to the Leftist elites. They run our universities, they enjoy ridiculous salaries and perks and they openly distain the inconvenience of the students. They think the Universities are their for their needs. And you know what? They are right. The Democratic Party solely owns the legislative process in CA. It is they who have bankrupted the state with spending on every imaginable entitlement program, perks for themselves and onerous regulation that has effectively killed growth in the private sector and destroyed our tax base.

We can afford higher education in CA, if it was a priority above that of deliberately enrolling permanent welfare populations of Democratic voters. Look what Obama has done. Promise everything to every dispirit group and demonize the very people that pay nearly all the taxes. Perfect! If you want to live in Greece

I left CA and it cost them more then $10,000 per year in tax revenue. Thousands do the same every year to get away from the insanity of the State Gubmint. There is only one ending, and it isn't pretty. Enjoy your bankruptsy, your unemployment, your illegal problem...and don't forget to who to blame for all of them Gimme a D, gimme an E, gimme a M Well ,you get it, or maybe you don't!

The last two lines of the article say it all....Veterinary professor, down to earth; Philosophy professor, lost in space.

Universities are so 'insular'. They all operate like little individual fiefdoms. In Utah the universities tried to ban the carrying of guns on campus property. The state came back and said that it would be illegal to ban guns on campus because state law says they can be carried everywhere. I feel safer in a roomful of guntoters than I do in church!

The U left out the students, not sure what is their mission ? not to teach the students to care about social issues ??

group of peaceful Occupy protesters?????? Count on AP to hold fast to the party line agenda

Pepper spray is a lot more gentle than how I would deal with people blocking me from classes that I had payed thousands of dollars for. It's always clear on college campuses who is paying for their own education and who is there on their parents'/my tax dime.

I do not hire occupiers, tattoos and earings on men

what is sad is that people think that as long as you are doing what you consider no harm just illegal activity then their actions have no consequences. You were ordered to move and you did not,. you were given notice to move and you did not. You knew that pepper spray could happen if you did not move and you chose to stay. The police were encircled at one point what do you expect?
There are right ways of doing peaceful protests and stupid ones. The so called peaceful students encircled some police officers and they caused the reaction. The police do NOT have to wait until the are attacked to defend themselves the populace is supposed to obey lawful instructions

A cop-out!~

Please remember that Katehi, in a written letter delivered to the police department the morning of the incident, ordered the police to remove the protesters from the area and the police were following their university-approved use of force manual in using pepper spray. Looks like the administration is closing ranks.

Further to my earlier comment, the Chancellor's excuse is lame; it is like the General defending himself against an avoidable loss in battle by saying that the Sergeants and Lietenants did not do their jobs. The reason he is General is because it was believed he could lead other men to do their jobs properly. Given what must have been the obvious attention to this issue, the Chancellor shouild have been on the scene herself or had one of her most trusted deputies there to make sure that campus police followed her instructions. A no confidence motion does not automatically mean that she should lose her job; but it would have been a justifiable warning shot.