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UC Merced - 2011 Asian Fest

Nathan Simpson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:43:19 +0000

This year marks the sixth year of the Asian Fest celebration. It is an event hosted annually by the Martial Arts Club at UC Merced and was first introduced during the school’s inaugural year of 2005.

All students and community members are encouraged to attend this free full-day admission event as it is planned with delicious foods, club organizations, local businesses, supportive vendors, children’s games, and traditional Asian culture performances.

There are two parts to the day: the outdoor festivities and the evening Supershow. Supershow tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for 10 year olds and under.

The first 200 UC students get in free. Parking is free. Asian Fest will be held on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 from 11 a.m. to 7p.m. If you are interested and would like more information, please contact the Martial Arts Club at mac@ucmerced.edu. We hope to see you there.

Portrait vs. Landscape Layout

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:07:47 +0000

On the first day of my GASP141 course at UCM, our professor mentioned briefly the debate between lan

M[y]erced and the Printing Fiasco!

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:27:32 +0000

So as discussed here, I recently had another project for my GASP141 class, the M[y]erced exhibition.

MORE GOOD NEWS! :DDDD

dreamingofthepast — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:40:01 +0000

UC MERCED ACCEPTED ME! NOW MY PARENTS WON’T HAVE TO EXTERMINATE MY EXISTENCE!! XD I’m so happy right now, everything is finally looking up! I feel like a completely different person from who I was a few days ago! Nothing can bring me down now; I’m loving life. And, I’m no longer looking forward to that Earthquake, don’t come anytime soon please. <3 I need to go to the grocery store and buy some fruits tomorrow!!!

Proud Grad

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:35:27 +0000

Some time away from the photog. news for a bit (kind of). As many of you know, or have figured out f

Alice

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:46:58 +0000

Yes, yes, yes. The movie is on Showtime right now. And thanks to a friend of mine, I have that Avr

Pictorialism

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:48:24 +0000

For the past few lectures in my Gasp141 course at UC Merced, we’ve been going over the Pictori

M[y]erced

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:23:25 +0000

Hello Mercedians! I am in need of your help and advice! My photography professor has set us with ano

The Website

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:38:30 +0000

Apple for Student Photography by Alex Salado It’s a daunting endeavor for any small business o

ASP-Apple for Student Photography (Alexandria Salado Photography)

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:20:07 +0000

This picture was taken for a project in my History and Practice of Photography course at UC Merced.

"Politics of Victimhood" from Relatos Zapatistas Radio

Rebel 2 — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:31:38 +0000

We just received a radio interview/podcast from Relatos Zapatistas @ Radio Zapatista pirate radio fr

UC Student Faces Serious Charges Still

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:04:17 +0000

from ThoseWhoUseIt:

Peter Howell, the UC Merced undergrad facing a felony count for the Regents’ meeting, had his arraignment today around 10:45 am. Brought out in orange scrubs and cuffs, Howell’s lawyer asked that the felony charge be reduced to a misdemeanor given that the prosecution’s case is so weak and that there is video evidence demonstrating that Howell never touched the weapon. The prosecutor attempted to defend the position that he grabbed Kemper’s baton, but the reasoning was incoherent. Here’s Howell on the scuffle:

“I put my hands on my chest and backpedaled,” Howell said in the interview. “I was trying to get away. (Officer Kemper) shoved through me, and he may have lost control of his baton. You can hear it rattle on the ground in a video. At no point did I strike him on the head, so I believe that statement was false.”

Regardless, the judge refused to engage the debate, pushing it back to the hearing date, now scheduled for February 22 upon the request of the defense. The judge denied him release on OR but reduced the bail from $30,000 to $15,000.

Hands off Peter Howell!

Update: Howell’s lawyer, John Hamasaki, is looking for anyone who witnessed the alleged incident on November 17 at UCSF-Mission Bay. Contact him at john@hamasakilaw.com if you are a witness, or else if you have photos or videos of the alleged incident.

Safety reminder: Please do not offer yourself as a witness if you have uncharged conduct from that day (that may also show up in photos or videos). This is not an assumption that anyone does, just a precaution. Also, please don’t discuss any possible evidence or witness testimony you may have in writing, including comments sections on blogs and over listservs. Due to the recent increase in state/university repression, we should actively consider being very careful with information, in order to care for each other and ourselves.

[Editor: On a related note, 19 students/demonstrators involved in the UC Irvine sit-in in February are facing arraignments tomorrow, Dec. 29th at 8am at the Central Court (700 W Civic Center Dr., Santa Ana, Orange County)*. The charged face several misdemeanors each. More here.]

*correction.

UC Merced student charged with felony for UC Regents Meeting Protest

Rebel 2 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:50:38 +0000

(From THOSE WHO USE IT) A couple of days ago we reported that UC Merced student Peter Howell was sub

UC Police Ramp Up Repression

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:40:23 +0000

from reclaimUC:

This just came to us on the email, regarding the UC Merced student who learned the other day that he was facing four misdemeanor charges from the protest at the UC Regents’ meeting in November [Update: the above link discusses a different student facing battery charges from the same protest; the student in the email cited below is facing charges for allegedly attacking UC Irvine cop Jared Kemper. Sorry for the confusion!]:

Tuesday morning Peter learned he was being charged with four misdemeanors arising out of the demonstration at the Regents meeting. Peter only learned that he was being charged after his attorney called the District Attorney’s office to check on the status of his case. Peter was informed that there was a warrant for his arrest issued at the behest of the district attorney’s office. Peter immediately arranged to appear in court in San Francisco at the earliest possible date.

Thinking everything was squared away, Peter spent the night at a friend’s house on Tuesday. Instead three cars full of police officers showed up at his house pounding on the door. His housemate tried to turn them away, but they asked for his ID which they ran to see if it was valid. The police were also looking in the backyard and the windows to see if they could concoct a reason to go inside. Luckily, his housemates knew their rights and told the police to leave, which they finally did after insinuating that the house was lying to them about knowledge of Peter and his whereabouts.

When he got to campus on Wednesday, he went to his professor to tell them what was going on. The professor offered to give him an incomplete, which is helpful but that means he’ll have to re-study for his final over winter break. Peter found out later that police had been at the campus coffee shop looking around at everyone to see if he was there. Police also stationed themselves outside of the classroom where his final exam was to take place, and even went inside and lurked in the projector room during the entire test.

Peter, through his attorney, had himself placed on the court’s calendar immediately after he learned that the district attorney’s office was filing charges against him. Nonetheless, police have continued to hunt for the UC Merced student relentlessly. He now has two incompletes and must make the work up after break. Peter is rightfully outraged at the police’s behavior and is astounded that something like this could happen in a country that says it values free speech and democracy. Also, he is disheartened that a university, his university, would use its police force to unjustifiably intimidate students, going far out of the way to make them feel hunted and watched.

We have learned that the Merced manhunt was orchestrated by the UCSF police, who traveled two hours out of their way in order to attempt to arrest and humiliate Peter in front of his friends, professors and classmates.

This situation is unique in a few ways:

University police conducted a 24-hour manhunt (With UC student funds) for a student who is charged with a few misdemeanors.

These police were from SF and went all the way to Merced to do this.

Police created a situation of intense surveillance of the Merced campus, including a coffee shop that students use and call their own space.

Serious attempts were made to enter his house, including searching for a Plain-View Doctrine reason and questioning the integrity of his housemates.

He does not have a violent record of any kind and is not a flight risk. He has never given the police any reason to believe he would not show up for his court date on Monday.

We should consider some possible reasons that the UC has suddenly decided that its police force is best used to harass students at their homes and during final exams. Is it because they need to justify the unjustifiable act of Officer Jared Kemper of UC Irvine, pulling his gun on a crowd of unarmed protesters? Or have the UC regents and administration finally realized that the public education movement isn’t a phase, and that we’re not going to stop?

Peter deserves commendation for his cool head in this stressful situation and our support on Monday at his courtdate. Please show up, 9am in Department 13 at 850 Bryant Street in San Francisco to support this student who has been the target of oppressive police tactics.

[Update Sunday 12/19, 2:08pm] Just got word of some updates in the case. Most important is that Peter’s arraignment will not be taking place tomorrow (Monday) morning, as previously noted. We’ll post updates as we get them:

He has been informed that he will be charged with a felony count of 148(b) for the removal of an officer’s baton;
The total charges are a felony and three misdemeanors;
He’s arranging to turn himself in;
He won’t be in court tomorrow and his lawyer is working on putting him on calendar soon (hopefully Tuesday).

Saturday, November 27, Arts in the Valley, 8 PM

arthouseflower — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:49:08 +0000

ARTSINVAL1127 Click this link to listen to the November 27th show.

Mitch Horowitz, Author, http://www.mitchhorowitz.com/

Mitch Horowitz is a writer and publisher of many years’ experience with a lifelong interest in man’s search for meaning. He is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin in New York and the author of Occult America (Bantam), which The Washington Post Book World called: “Fascinating…a serious, wide-ranging study of all the magical, mystical, and spiritual movements that have arisen and influenced American history in often-surprising ways.”

A widely known writer and speaker on the history and impact of alternative spirituality, he has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, All Things Considered, Air America Radio, The History Channel, The Montel Williams Show, and Coast to Coast AM. He has written forThe Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Parabola, the Religion News Service, and the popular weblog BoingBoing.

Mitch Horowitz‘s Occult America is the winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award. “This book is a delightfully original tour through American history, as seen through the lives of men and women devoted to all manner of mysticism. Across these pages troop spiritualists, prophets, seers, psychics, numerologists, transcendentalists, theosophists, and historical figures from Mary Todd Lincoln to Marcus Garvey to Henry Wallace. Their stories are part of the deep-seated American tradition of searching for the new—a tradition that Occult America both explains and enriches.” — Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq and All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

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Michael Winder, Playwright, http://writingprogram.ucmerced.edu/resources

UC Merced Lecturer Michael Winder with the Merritt Writing Program will discuss UC Merced students collaboration with Playhouse Merced. On November 13th, Playhouse Merced and UC Merced’s Merritt Writing Program collaborated on A NIGHT OF LOVE AND MUTANTS: NINE ORIGINAL PLAYS WRITTEN BY UC MERCED STUDENTS. Winder discusses this program, and the upcoming 2011 season.

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Gerald Haslam, Author, http://www.geraldhaslam.com

Gerald Haslam is a professor emertius of English at Sonoma State University, whose The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland won several major non-fiction awards in 1993 and whose Workin’ Man Blues won Rolling Stone’s Ralph J. Gleason Award in 2001. His novel, Straight White Male, won the 2000 Western States Book Award for fiction and was named Book of the Year by Foreword magazine. He is a native of Oildale.

In Haslam’s latest novel, Grace Period, journalist Marty Martinez thinks his life can’t get any worse: His beloved son has died of AIDS, his wife has divorced him, his daughter blames him for the disintegration of their family, and a medical examination reveals that he has prostate cancer. Then he meets a divorced doctor named Miranda Mossi and everything takes a turn for the better. The action takes place in two communities: Sacramento, and Merced, CA.

Students Soak Up Summer Vacancies

lgonella — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:17:23 +0000

According to UC Merced, there are approximately 1,450 more students starting this fall semester as compared to last fall semester. UC Merced also indicated that the dorms are filled and there are over 400 additional students on the waiting list. More than likely these students will have to find housing in the community. The overall effect will be absorption of units, thus decreasing the vacancies in the area. As the vacancy factor decreases, rental rates will continue to stabilize and will increase. Investors should definitely take note and continue to invest in both single family and multi-family residences.