Erika Martin

May 26, 2014

I.V. Deli Reopens in Aftermath of Tragedy

By Patrick Kulp, Erika Martin

With the blood cleaned from the floor and flowers masking bullet holes in the windows, I.V. Deli Mart returned to business as usual Sunday afternoon, a day and a half after Christopher Michaels-Martinez was murdered insi...

September 16, 2013

Campanile Comparison: How Does Storke Stack Up?

By Erika Martin, Patrick Kulp

It's not the size of the campanile, but how you play the carillon.

April 16, 2012

UC Police Elect to Allow Camps for Campaigners

By Erika Martin

In preparation for next week’s Spring Elections, student government campaigners occupied open grassy space along campus’ main bike thoroughfare, vying for ideal campaign poster placement. Representatives from both th...

April 4, 2012

Students Protest Regents at UCSF

By Erika Martin

Student protesters gathered at UC San Francisco last week to celebrate Spring Break with the UC Board of Regents during its three-day meeting, stalling the assembly’s procedures for roughly 40 minutes. The demonstrator...

March 1, 2012

Model Student Faces Deportation as DREAM Act Remains Pending

By Erika Martin

UCSB student Cindy Reyna, who was taken into custody at the Santa Barbara County Jail last Thursday after being unable to produce American identification at a DUI checkpoint in Goleta, is now being held in an Immigration...

February 9, 2012

State Seeks Loans from Colleges

By Erika Martin

The state of California plans to borrow up to $200 million from the UC system for the operation of its general fund following the discovery of an emergency shortfall in its budget. The funds will not be extracted from th...

January 31, 2012

Survey Shows Decline in State University Funding

By Erika Martin

The latest Grapevine survey — an annual evaluation of the extent of each state’s tax support for higher education — revealed that California’s fiscal backing of its universities shrank 13.5 percent over the past ...

January 20, 2012

Board Boots Crowd from UC Riverside Regents Rendezvous

By Erika Martin

The UC Board of Regents met yesterday at UC Riverside for their second day of meetings intended to furnish a comprehensive method to cope with the university system’s chronic budget crisis. Although the Regents did not...

January 12, 2012

Board of Regents Continues to Disregard Open Meeting Policy

By Erika Martin

During the UC Board of Regents’ latest meeting on Nov. 28, held across four campuses via teleconference, officials cited attempts to spread access to the proceedings but instead denied public open access and violated s...

January 9, 2012

Regents Close Meeting After Students Protest

By Patrick Kulp, Erika Martin

Although most University proceedings were suspended over the course of Winter Break, the UC Board of Regents continued their deliberation concerning the future of the University system in the current fiscal climate in a ...

December 1, 2011

Regents Move to Closed Meeting As Students Express Dissent

By Erika Martin

During a closed meeting on Monday, the UC Board of Regents unanimously approved an 8 percent increase in systemwide spending, awarded pay raises to several UC administrators and voted to request an additional $411 millio...

November 23, 2011

Regulating the Regents: Why it’s Your Job

By Erika Martin

This month at the UC, we have seen students, faculty and staff beat with overhand blows, grabbed by their hair and thrown on the ground. During peaceful protests, batons were driven into their ribcages, pepper spray was ...

November 22, 2011

UC Davis Protests Police Actions

By Erika Martin

An estimated 5,000 students, faculty, alumni and community members gathered at UC Davis yesterday for a rally in response to the campus police’s use of pepper spray on peaceful student protesters last Friday. UC Davis ...

November 21, 2011

Protests Result in Police Violence

By Erika Martin

During a non-violent ‘Occupy’ demonstration at UC Davis on Friday afternoon, Chancellor Linda Katehi called in a retinue of riot police to disperse student activists, resulting in 10 arrests and two hospitalizations....

November 18, 2011

Students Protest UC Failings

By Erika Martin

UC students across the state have answered violence from university police and the administration’s indefinite postponement of this week’s Board of Regents meeting with numerous peaceful demonstrations to demand grea...

November 17, 2011

Cal Community Condemns Violence During Shooting

By Erika Martin, Katherine Friedman

As ‘Occupy’ protesters from across the Bay area gathered at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Tuesday to join a university-wide strike against police violence and privatization, a UC police officer shot and killed an a...