#uc regents

[meownhi]

a study of sather gate

students rallying for the freedom and liberation of palestinians have been demonstrating every day of this past week and i want to celebrate and commend their efforts. uc davis as has officially divested from zionist institutions & berkeley should be next

do your daily click here if you haven’t already :)

https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/thank-you/

[jewishpangolin]

"It’s interesting to me that the only time where we have to do this both sides-y rejection is when the victims are Jewish. When we saw a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last couple of years, there was no immediate pushback that said, now you have to reject these other forms [of hate]. In fact, after George Floyd, when we were talking about Black Lives Matter, there was a clear distinction that if you responded by saying, “All Lives Matter,” that yes, that’s true that all lives matter, but if you were doing it reflexively you are denying the real pattern and problem of what was happening in the African American community."

[vague-humanoid]

But several UCLA faculty members and students have spoken out against the requests for more weapons, saying they were wrongfully used against peaceful protesters last spring. A video posted on the social media platform X showed a UCLA police officer armed with a launcher as a phalanx of officers in riot gear with batons pushed back a crowd of protesters contained in a narrow walkway on June 10.

“They’re shooting bullets! They’re f—ing shooting people!” one protester yelled on the video.

Robin D.G. Kelley, a UCLA professor of American history, spent the night in the hospital with his student who was shot in the chest with a projectile during the June 10 protest. The student, hospitalized for two days, suffered a contusion to the heart and a bruised lung and remains so traumatized that they have postponed law school studies, Kelley said.

The report set for review by regents said UC weapons were primarily used for training during calendar year 2023, the time frame examined. The use of weapons during the spring protests will be reported next year. But Kelley and others said their experience with police during the demonstrations raised myriad questions.

“The obvious burning question is this: Why does UCLA or any university campus need this kind of weaponry?” Kelley said. “Clearly the weapons are not to keep mobs off campus; they are to be used against our students and us.”

[soon-palestine]

[sigelfire]

Diego Luna presenting "Chavez" at the UC Berkeley campus, 2014

All photos © UC Regents

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[beardedmrbean]

A member of the University of California's Board of Regents says the antisemitism levels on university campuses are "absolutely disproportionate" to that of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatred since the Israel-Hamas conflict began generating intense divides last October.

"The antisemitism is absolutely disproportionate. We reject both," John A. Pérez told Politico in an interview published Sunday.

"We reject all forms of hatred. But what we’re not seeing is massive student protests targeting every Muslim-identified student, asking students of Muslim or Arabic background to denounce or renounce something that they have no part in. The numbers and the spikes are vastly different, and the types of incidences are vastly different."

PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTER DERAILS DINNER AT UC BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL DEAN'S HOME, REFUSES TO LEAVE

Adding context to the conversation is an anti-Israel protest that upended a dinner for graduating students at UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky's Oakland, California home last week, the disturbance indicative of the divide generated by sparring in the Middle East.

Malak Afaneh, a Palestinian American law student at the school who serves as co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, approached the dinner in the home's garden and attempted to lecture about the lives lost in Gaza as a result of the conflict.

Afaneh was confronted by Cemerinsky and his wife, Professor Catherine Fisk, who both repeatedly pleaded with her to leave the property.

VIRAL COLUMBIA PROFESSOR WHO CALLED OUT CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM SAYS UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATING HIM IN ‘RETALIATION’

The situation escalated into discussions about First Amendment rights and Afaneh claiming she was assaulted by Fisk. 

Pérez, a former Berkeley student, told POLITICO he believes the students siding with Afaneh "overstepped a line" by disrupting the private event.

"They telegraphed their opposition by calling for a boycott [in advance of the event] — that was fine, that was completely within their rights. But they did it in a horrific way, by employing an antisemitic caricature of Dean Chemerinsky," he said.

Pérez also stated that there have "absolutely" been spikes in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatred on campuses since the Israel-Hamas war began, but the prevalence of activities targeting Jewish students.

"We’re not seeing where we’re attacking every Muslim student, because we take issue with what Hamas did on Oct. 7," he told the outlet.

"One can debate the space between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. But one would have to have serious blinders not to recognize that what’s happening on college campuses, UC's included, is a series of activities that are targeting Jewish students because of their identities, making them feel unsafe and apart from the rest of the community in a way that really should have no place in our society and no place on our college campuses."

He additionally tied in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a war waged since early 2022 with no end in sight, noting that even students of Russian heritage are not met with the same vitriol as Jewish students.

[sethshead]

Finally, someone in higher education with progressive values who can recognize antisemitism for what it is and has some sense of perspective about free speech, campus protest, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yes, antisemitic caricatures are still antisemitic, even when the hatred uses Gaza as a cover. Yes, demanding Jews renounce central aspects of our identity and safety in order to be allowed to participate in the very campus debate about Israel is antisemitism. And yes, all-lives-mattering Jews by refusing to condemn antisemitism in its own right, despite Jews being the vastly disproportionate targets of hate speech and violence, is itself antisemitic.

If protestors ever wanted a discussion on how to achieve practical, meaningful goals for justice, for Palestinians, they lost the plot when they, led by their professors, started praising Hamas on October 7, while the terrorists were still committing their campaign of rape and butchery. This was never about Palestine. The protestors urging on more intifada and the creation of more shuhada don’t care about Palestinian lives and more than they care about Jewish lives. This was, from the beginning, nothing more than your regularly scheduled paroxysm of Jew-hate. Ein kal-hadash tahat hashemesh.

[izooks]

Scott Galloway - NO MERCY / NO MALICE

Florida is now one of the most restrictive states in the country for abortion rights: The state’s supreme court reversed its own precedents on April 1 and upheld a ban on abortions after six weeks. Women in Florida, as in many states after the reversal of Roe v. Wade, now face harsh limits on their fundamental rights.

The same day, the court also allowed a proposal enshrining abortion rights in Florida’s constitution to appear on the ballot this November. There is a good chance it will pass, but it will be close — 60% will have to approve the amendment, and last fall, a poll found 62% of voters planned to vote for it. Nationwide, between 60% and 80% of Americans support a woman’s right to choose, depending on how the question is asked. The rest of the world is expanding the right of women to decide when and how they get pregnant and give birth. Yet in many states, a minority of Americans continue to impose their views on the rest of us. I say “us” because while this right is unique to women, it affects all of us. The right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy changed the course of my life, and my mother’s, even though I didn’t understand it at the time.

“D and What?”

On a late summer afternoon, between my junior and senior years of high school, I was in the passenger seat of my mom’s lime-green Opel Manta on the way home from work. Mom had secured me a job in the mailroom of her employer, the Southwestern School of Law, where she managed the secretarial pool, and we carpooled back and forth. Headed west on I-10 (the Santa Monica Freeway), between the La Brea and Fairfax exits, she told me about her plans for later in the week.

“I’m having a procedure called a D&C on Wednesday and won’t be home that night. Are you fine to stay alone?”

I was 16, and only really heard the part of her question suggesting I wasn’t old enough to spend the night solo in our condo. “Yeah, sure.” I didn’t ask what a D&C was, but I had the sense it had something to do with the great unknown, women’s health, and didn’t ask for details. My mom likely wanted to have a meaningful conversation with me, but that didn’t happen. Meaningful dialogue with teenage boys happens … just not when you expect. The question must have found some purchase in my consciousness, as I remember exactly what I was wearing: brown Levi’s corduroys, a Bruce Springsteen concert T-shirt, and top-siders. Not Sperry top-siders, but knockoffs. A pair of real Sperrys cost $32.

I was 16, my mom 46. I loved her because she loved me, completely. But that’s not what this post is about. I also loved the U.S. because it, too, loved us — me and my mom — completely. My mother was a single immigrant raising her son on a secretary’s salary. But this isn’t a sob story. We had good lives. Sure, money was definitely a thing, but we lived in a nice place and took vacations to Niagara Falls and San Francisco, ate at Junior’s Deli every Sunday night, and went some weekends to the beach in Santa Monica, where parking was $2 for the whole day, just behind lifeguard station No. 9.

Our nation welcomed my mother with open arms. Despite her having no education or money, we helped her out in between jobs and loaned her money so she could go to night school and become a stenographer. The state of California loved her son: The vision and generosity of the regents of UCLA and California’s taxpayers gave her unremarkable son (this isn’t a humblebrag, I was seriously unimpressive) a remarkable opportunity. I received a world-class education at little cost: UCLA (my B.A.) and UC Berkeley (an MBA) for a total cost (tuition) of $7,000 for all seven years.

More than just affordable, it was accessible: UCLA had a 76% admissions rate when I applied, and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business accepted me with an undergraduate GPA of (no joke) 2.27. America is about the opportunities it provides the unremarkable, not the manufacture of a superclass of billionaires from the pool of preordained remarkables.

But the ultimate expression of our nation’s empathy and love for a single mother, in my view, was to grant, and protect, her domain over her reproductive system. In the U.S., 59% of women getting abortions are already moms. Twenty-four percent are Catholic, 17% mainline Protestant, 13% evangelical Protestant. Over a third of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.

Men and women create unwanted pregnancies. However, it’s often men’s lack of manhood that’s behind abortions. Half of women seeking an abortion cite the lack of a reliable partner as a reason for their choice. In many cases the partner is abusive. Among all abortion patients, 95% report that abortion was a good choice — they remain relieved several months after the procedure. Violence toward women declines precipitously after an abortion, because they can break ties with their abusers. The leading cause of death for women who are pregnant or have just given birth, by a factor of 2x, is homicide.

Alt Control

What is going on here? In my view, it has nothing to do with “life,” as the most staunch advocates of the “pro-life” movement are the first to advocate for cutting the child tax credit, executing criminals, or putting a pregnant woman in danger when a pregnancy becomes a health risk. Many argue that these folks are not obsessed with life, but birth. This also misses the mark — the same groups do not favor economic policies that would encourage people to have children. This is about control or, more specifically, retaking control and power back from women.

I write a lot about how far young men have fallen in America over the past several decades. Even more striking is the ascent of women, globally, over the same period. Women now outnumber men in tertiary education enrollment worldwide; and the number of women elected to parliamentary positions has doubled since 1990. Women’s wealth is growing faster than overall wealth. A static feature of a modern economy is women outpacing men in education and income growth.

However, this has stirred the ghoul that haunts the world … posing a greater threat to society than any autocrat or virus: extremism. The parabolic progress of women over the past several decades has inspired a gag reflex among the most conservative wings of many religions. The radical wings of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish sects have weaponized politics and blurred the lines between religion and legislation. In America, where there used to be a sharp distinction, as outlined in the Constitution, we’ve witnessed a first: the rollback of citizens’ rights with the overturn of Roe.

The backlash among Christian nationalists has been speedballed by the other great threat: loneliness. Two-thirds of women under the age of 30 have a romantic partner vs. just one-third of men the same age. Men have fewer friends than they once did. Unfortunately, men’s loneliness can turn toxic, as they have weaker social networks and consequent guardrails. Lonely young men are more prone to conspiracy theories, nationalism, and misogynistic content. In sum, they risk becoming shitty citizens. The most striking, and frightening, data re the abortion debate is the group that registers the least support for a women’s right to choose: Gen Z men (age 12 to 27). Do you think this reflects their love for the unborn, or resentment of the living (women) … who they feel shunned by? It’s simple: Radicalized and lonely American men want uppity women to sit down.

The weapon of choice among these groups is economic warfare. To deny someone bodily autonomy is analogous to defunding them; they lose power. The Turnaway Study followed 1,000 women who sought abortions (some successfully, some not), compiling over 8,000 interviews over five years. The women in the study who were denied an abortion on average had higher debt and a greater risk of bankruptcy, and they were more likely to be in poverty years after giving birth.

2nd Order

How did you get to where you are now? People tell themselves a story that credits their character and grit for success, while blaming outside forces for their failures. But small twists of fate, errant decisions, and sheer randomness put you in this place, at this moment. I’m in tech because I fell in love with a woman and followed her to the Haas School of Business — I’d initially enrolled at the University of Texas. It’s more likely, graduating in 1992 Austin, I would have ended up in the energy sector or back in banking vs. the clear and present choice of tech in (wait for it) Silicon Valley.

But going further back, if my mom, at 46, hadn’t had access to affordable family planning, our lives would have been changed dramatically. Not only did we lack the funds or connections to figure it out (a rich friend who knew a doctor or the resources to travel far and have the procedure), but we also didn’t have the confidence. Just as I didn’t apply to out-of-state colleges — only rich kids did that. A lower-middle-class household headed by a single parent, neither remarkable, puts both of you on your heels instead of your toes.

If Roe v. Wade hadn’t been the law of the land, things could have been much different for me and my mom. An unwanted child at 46 would have been financially ruinous for our household. There was no maternity leave for secretaries in the eighties. I likely would have done what my father and mother did when their families were in financial distress, and left school to help out. I wouldn’t have enrolled at UCLA. Instead, I would have stayed in the job my father had secured for me after high school, installing shelving at $18/hour — a lot of money for us at the time.

Without my mom having that choice, there would have been no UCLA, no Berkeley grad school, no tech startups, no tens of millions in taxes paid, and … fewer children. I have always been worried about money and did not especially want kids. There’s no way I’d have opted for kids, later in life, if financially strained. We see evidence of this today, as a younger generation is having fewer children because they can’t afford them. My mom’s right to choose not to have a child she couldn’t afford gave me the choice to have children I could. All unbeknownst to me, at 16 years of age.

America is a mix of opportunity and acceptance, each being a force multiplier for the other. The reversal of Roe is about extremists and people who feel shunned trying to recapture control from a group that’s increasingly less suppliant to religion or men. The result is a lack of prosperity and a dangerous regression in the U.S., which used to illuminate a path forward for other nations. The suppression of abortion rights is yet another transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich — no child of a private equity partner is going to lose her right to choose. The economic assault against women, specifically poor women and their families, cripples opportunity and acceptance. It is wrong and un-American.

Life is so rich,

Scott Galloway

[eightyonekilograms]

Dean Preston on the SF BoS now adopting the "she was totally asking for it, going out dressed like that" approach to handling car break-ins

UC Board of Regents rejecting a proposal for student microunits at below market rate in UCLA because of "mental health" concerns, when 6% of UCLA students are homeless

I swear to god California psuedoprogs are going to be my supervillain origin story.

[captain-lovelace]

Was recently reminded of this in my notes, so here’s the two year update Munger Hall, aka the death trap designed by a billionaire who seemed determined to treat students as lab rats rather than people.

An independent review panel found that building Munger Hall would be “unwise” as was previously planned and suggested revisions, including increasing bedroom size, adding windows to every suite (if not every bedroom), and adding kitchens to every 8-person suite, rather than— and I also can’t believe this was initially in the plans— having one kitchen to be shared between 63 students, with no nearby dining hall.

The redesign also removed two stories from the building, making an 11-story form into a 9-story dorm. Maximum capacity has been reduced to 3500.

UCSB is being sued by the city of Goleta and the county of Santa Barbara because in order to pursue Munger Hall they fucked with previously legally binding housing agreements and missed deadlines in the process. Reportedly they scrapped previous housing plans for Munger Hall.

The building redesign is still in progress; UC Regents are frustrated with delays, which tells you how much they care about student wellbeing. The redesign has yet to be approved for environmental impact.

Munger is 99 now and if we all hope really hard maybe we can have him dead before he has the satisfaction of seeing ground break for this fucking thing.

UCSB students are still protesting Munger Hall. Most recently, students held a die-in in March of this year, calling for more humane housing solutions.

UCSB still plan on building Munger Hall.

On a personal note: UCSB has been experiencing a housing crisis for years. I graduated in 2022, and when I was last there people were living in hotels and crashing on couches because there was nowhere else for them to go. Many students are facing homelessness now. That is, for obvious reasons, bad. But instead of doing anything workable about the problem, UCSB chose to take a billionaire’s money— which only covers 13% of the costs of building this fucking monstrosity, and make no mistake even with the renovations it is STILL a monstrosity, just a less egregious one— to be entirely beholden to his will on the building’s design. It has mired them in problems for years. It has led to their chief architect quitting, and massive amounts of bad press, and it has gotten them sued twice over and will probably get them sued again once people start actually living there. This building could not more clearly NOT be the answer to UCSB’s problems, and they are going to build it anyways. Press and frustration and anger and change have all died down, and UCSB students don’t want that to happen. The higher-ups are still planning this for students at UCSB, and if it gets implemented there it will be implemented elsewhere.

Students are people. Students, like everyone else, deserve humane housing conditions. Munger Hall is not those conditions.

Hey dunno if anyone who follows me has heard but UC Santa Barbara is planning to build a 4500 student dorm where 94% of the rooms won’t have windows and there are only two exits because a 97 year old billionaire thinks college students aren’t human beings

[dudeshusband]

all i'm saying is this

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.4 (1910-1980)

1917 – The Finnish Senate submits to the Parliament of Finland a proposal for the form of government of the Republic of Finland and issued a communication to Parliament declaring the independence of Finland. 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. 1919 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Polonsky conspiracy is initiated, with an attempt to assassinate the high command of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. 1928 – Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years. 1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940. 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. 1945 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.) 1948 – Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River. 1949 – Sir Duncan George Stewart, governor of the Crown Colony of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed by a member of the Rukun 13. 1950 – Korean War: Jesse L. Brown (the 1st African-American Naval aviator) is killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. 1950 – Korean War: Associated Press photographer Max Desfor photographs hundreds of Korean refugees crossing a downed bridge in the Taedong River: 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea. 1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time. 1964 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. 1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A. 1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. 1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971. 1971 – During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. The incident served as the inspiration for Deep Purple's 1973 song Smoke on the Water. 1974 – Martinair Flight 138 crashes into the Saptha Kanya mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing 191. 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. 1977 – Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100. 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.

[immaculatasknight]

Confronting the academic establishment

[vague-humanoid]

University of California People’s Tribunal for Palestine

Ahead of a meeting of the UC Regents, a People’s Tribunal has been convened to hold them “accountable for their complicity in Israel’s genocide and the ongoing Nakba in Palestine.” Featuring prominent academics, activists, and people’s organizations, the Tribunal promises to “create a living archive of evidence and testimonials that demonstrate UC complicity while centering the voices of the Palestinian people most affected by this ongoing violence.”

[trendingnewsinusa55]

California Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing State Colleges to Hire Illegal Immigrants

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a bill that would have allowed students without legal immigration status to work on public university campuses. The bill, known as AB 2586, was designed to give students at the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and community colleges the chance to work, even if they couldn’t provide proof of federal work authorization. However, Newsom cited concerns about potential legal risks for state employees and the possibility of violating federal laws.

In his veto message on September 22, Newsom expressed his support for expanding educational opportunities but said the bill could create serious legal problems. He pointed out that it could lead to criminal or civil penalties for state employees and suggested that the courts should first rule on the legal arguments behind the bill before it moves forward.

The bill would have prevented schools from denying students on-campus jobs simply because they couldn’t prove they were authorized to work under federal law, except in cases where federal law explicitly required proof, like for federal work-study programs. Currently, international students can take on non-work-study jobs, and students in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are allowed to work if they have valid work permits.

DACA, which was created by the Obama administration, protects certain undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. as children from deportation and provides them with renewable work permits. However, since 2017, new DACA applications have been halted, leaving many students without access to these benefits.

Assemblymember David Alvarez, who introduced AB 2586, emphasized that around 45,000 students in California cannot get on-campus jobs due to their immigration status. He called Newsom’s veto a major disappointment and argued that students who are legally allowed to attend public colleges should also be able to work to support their education.

Newsom’s concerns were echoed by the UC Board of Regents, which had already decided earlier this year not to hire students without valid work permits. The board feared that violating federal law could jeopardize university grants, contracts, and the students’ own legal standing. The hiring plan was initially proposed as part of the "Opportunity for All" movement, which argued that a 1986 federal law banning the hiring of undocumented workers should not apply to state entities like UC.

Although some legal scholars supported this theory, the UC administration disagreed. UC President Michael Drake stated that after consulting with legal experts, the university concluded that hiring students without proper work permits was not a legal option. Drake mentioned that UC had considered seeking declaratory relief, a legal process where a court would give a definitive ruling on the issue. In his veto, Newsom encouraged UC to explore this option to clarify the law before making any further moves.

This veto marks the second time this month that Newsom has blocked a bill aimed at expanding benefits to undocumented immigrants. Earlier, he rejected a proposal to provide state-funded home-buying assistance to undocumented taxpayers.

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[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

Five University of California campuses to get more military equipment

by: Rhea Caoile

Posted: Sep 23, 2024 / 12:11 PM PDT

Updated: Sep 23, 2024 / 12:11 PM PDT

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The University of California board of regents Thursday approved the purchases of additional military equipment after receiving requests from five campuses.

Each year, the board of regents approves the funding, acquisition and use of military equipment by UC police departments in compliance with Assembly Bill 481 which passed in 2021.

These new requests followed after an eventful spring, when many campuses — including UCSD, UC Riverside and UCLA, among others — saw encampments and protests in response to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Inventory that fell under the protection of the statute included breaching rounds used to gain access to locked doors in the case of an emergency, which were used by police during a building takeover during the spring encampments, according to the board.

Accepted inventory also included a bomb robot used by UC Berkeley, distraction devices, a portable speaker called a “long range acoustic device,” and other tools including kinetic energy, pepper spray and tear gas.

According to the board, “all these tools are meant to provide officers with the ability to de-escalate or overcome self-destructive, dangerous or combative individuals without having to resort to deadly force.”

The equipment under the statute is meant to provide UCPD with “less lethal alternatives” to standard-issue firearms, the board said.

Additionally, the board said it recognizes that “the mere possession of any equipment does not warrant its use for every incident.”

The 2024 annual report presented to the board by UCPD revealed there were no complaints related to the use of military equipment nor violation with the policy.

Each year, the board also requires a report on how the specified equipment was used plus any complaints or violations of the use policy, cost, quantities and requests for additional equipment.

In the time period of the annual report, UC Davis was the only one out of the 10 UC campuses where university police did not use any military equipment.

Meanwhile, UC San Diego police used 330 40mm eXact iMpact munitions for annual training, according to the report.

The five campuses requesting new equipment were UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco and UC Merced.

Four campuses — UCB, UCLA, UCSC and UCSF — requested more drones. Currently, UCB has 4, UCLA and UCSF have 3, and UCSC has 2, according to the UCPD’s report.

Other requests include a kinetic breaching tool and a second hazardous devices robot for UCB, as well as launchers and more munitions for UCLA and UCM.

UCSD did not request any new military equipment for the upcoming fiscal year.