Public Affairs

There was a budget hearing in Chemistry 194 on March 8, 2011. Although the attendance of students was lower than expected, the students who did attend were involved and interested. Students were given paper to write questions on, and the panel spent most of the meeting answering these. The members of the panel agreed to have another meeting in spring quarter to continue updating students about the status of the budget. The members of the panel included: Bob Powell, Chair of Academic Senate; Kelly Ratliff, Associate Vice Chancellor; Linda Katehi, Chancellor; Ralph Hexter, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor; Fred Wood, Vice Chancellor; Joey Chen, Former ASUCD Controller; and Steven Ybarra, Former Civil Rights Attorney and current Professor.

Whenever I want a giggle, I go to a blog which had initially begun as a critique on the show Project Runway.  It is written by Tom and Lorenzo and was then called Project Rungay.  It was well written and the perfect antidote to the drama of the weekly nonfiction book I read about the powerful oppressing and suppressing the powerless.  It now just bears the name of its writers and can be found here.  Over the years, they've taken on to critiquing many other shows.  One of them is Glee.  What they wrote about yesterday's episode made me cry.  Here is the excerpt which moved me the most: