Monday, December 15

USAC resolution encourages UC to reform sexual assault review process

Students are encouraging the university to adopt a more democratic review process for sexual assault cases. The undergraduate student government passed a resolution last Tuesday that recommends the University of California Office of the President make its peer review committee, which intervenes if the university fails to respond adequately to allegations, more diverse. Read more...

Photo: Members of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment protested outside professor Gabriel Piterberg’s class at the beginning of winter quarter, and hope the USAC resolution will change how sexual violence and sexual harassment cases are settled in the future. (Jintak Han/Assistant photo editor)



UC SHIP board looking to add surgery options for transgender students

University of California representatives are working to include certain transgender surgeries in student health insurance coverage. Attendees at the UC Student Health Insurance Plan meeting Tuesday discussed voting to add breast augmentation surgery for male-to-female transgender students to the UC SHIP plan, said David DiTullio, an Executive Oversight Board graduate representative for the Student Health Advisory Committee. Read more...

Photo: The University of California Student Health Insurance Plan, which has an office in the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, may soon include top surgeries for male-to-female transgender students in its plan. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)





Assemblymember proposes tuition freeze for public universities

A state legislator introduced a bill Feb. 9 that would freeze tuition at public universities and colleges in California. Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democratic assemblymember from Orange County, proposed the Student Protection Act, which would leave tuition and school fees at the amount charged on Dec. Read more...



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