Talk:UC Davis pepper spray incident

UC Davis Social Science Teach-in

 * November 28
 * "Abolitionism", Ari Kelman, professor of history
 * "Taxation, California politics and civil liberties", Mark Van Horn, director of Student Farm
 * "Anarchist Anthropology: Cultural Anthropolists on Anarchist Politics", Laura Meek and Whitney Larratt-Smith, graduate students, anthropology
 * "How Nonviolence is Racist"
 * "Happiness, Wealth and Community"
 * "Cops Off Campus: Toward a Safer University", Joshua Clover, professor of English
 * "Budget Blues: UC Financial Structure and Privatization"
 * "Tips on Argumentation"
 * "The History of Police Militarization in the US", Charles Shaw


 * November 29
 * "Rising Inequality in the US: The Story of Your Lives", Ann Stevens, professor and chair of economics
 * "Protests and Politics", Eric Rachway, professor of history
 * "Protest Indoors and Out: Why Occupations Matter for Universities", Michael McQuarrie, assistant professor of sociology
 * Talk by Clarence Walker, professor of history
 * "Whose Diversity? Our Diversity! Latinos and the University of California", Loreana Oropeza, associate professor of history
 * "1968 Brazil and 2011 Davis: What can we learn by comparing the past and the present?" Tori Langland, assistant professor of history
 * "The UC student movement meets the OWS movement", Sarah Agusto, graduate student, sociology
 * "The Role of Unions", Nick Perrone, graduate student in history
 * "The Board of Regents, the University and the State Legislature", Louis Warren, professor of American history
 * "Unmaking the University of California", John Hall, professor of sociology
 * "Financing the University: Where Has Tuition Gone?" Rob Feenstra, professor of economics
 * "Three Theories of Power, Three Theories of Stuggle: Marx, Fanon, Foucault", Nathan Brown, professor of English

Investigative task force
On December 5, UC President Mark Yudof announced the names of 12 people heading the task force to investigate the UC Davis pepper spray incident. The task force will be led by professor emeritus Cruz Reynoso of the UC Davis School of Law, a former California Supreme Court Justice. Members include:


 * Patrick Blacklock, Yolo County administrator and immediate past-chair, Cal Aggie Alumni Association.
 * Peter Blando, business services manager, Office of the Vice Provost-Information and Educational Technology, UC Davis, and past chair, UC Davis Staff Assembly (nominated by the UC Davis Staff Assembly).
 * Alan Brownstein, professor, School of Law, UC Davis (nominated by the Academic Senate).
 * Tatiana Bush, undergraduate student and former Associated Students senator (nominated by the Associated Students of UC Davis).
 * Daniel M. Dooley, senior vice president, external relations, UC Office of the President and designated systemwide administrator for whistleblower complaints alumnus, UC Davis.
 * Penny Herbert, manager, Department of Clinical Operations, UC Davis, and staff advisor to the UC Board of Regents.
 * Kathryn Kolesar, chair, UC Davis Graduate Student Association (nominated by the Graduate Student Association).
 * William McKenna, law student, UC Davis (nominated by the Law Students Association).
 * Carolyn Penny, director in International Law Programs and principal and mediator, Common Ground Center for Cooperative Solutions, UC Davis Extension (nominated by the UC Davis Academic Federation).
 * Eric Rauchway, professor, Department of History, UC Davis (nominated by the Academic Senate).
 * Judy Sakaki, vice president, student affairs, UC Office of the President and former vice chancellor for student affairs, UC Davis.
 * Rebecca Sterling, undergraduate student and former Associated Students senator (nominated by the Associated Students of UC Davis).

POV Template
This whole article is written with a tone of indignation and contains bias. I don't know enough about the subject to update it, but someone should. Exercisephys (talk) 23:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that is your personal opinion; sans evidence, there is nothing actionable. As a result, I will remove the tag if you can't provide any other details. I know the subject and I am familiar with the large body of citations supporting it, and I'm willing to remove any glaring POV. Viriditas (talk) 23:39, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

This is a news item not an Encyclopedia topic
You might as well make a page on every incident and activity going on in society and in the news. Maybe if you Wikipedists should spend more time out of your comfortable home and start uniting with protesters and progressive — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎2601:7:8500:982:f48e:acc8:8c97:b614 (talk • contribs) 03:43, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware you were put in charge of defining what is and what is not an encyclopedia topic. Why would anyone here have to do anything other than write about the topic? Put down the bong, please. Viriditas (talk) 03:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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Sacramento Bee revelations
I added a small amount on UCD's hiring of consultants to fix its negative online image, all sourced to the Bee. This is just a placeholder because it is breaking news; hopefully there will be more info coming out. LaMona (talk) 00:14, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

UC Davis Tries That 'One Trick' to Purge Its Reputation for Pepper-Spraying Student Activists
https://reason.com/blog/2016/04/14/uc-davis-tries-that-one-trick-to-purge-i/print

Key quote:

"UC Davis would like to put the matter behind them. But instead they've managed to figure out how to give themselves yet another round of bad publicity. They have spent thousands of dollars trying to game the internet to try to hide the incident or reduce the chance that people looking up information about the college bring up the incident. The Sacramento Bee discovered through records requests that the college paid at least $175,000 to try to improve its online reputation in the wake of the pepper-spraying incident"

We need to keep an eye on this page to make sure that this has not affected the NPOV of the page. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * 'noting that Katehi was involved in and approved hiring three firms for $407,000 to repair her online image, as well as that of UC Davis.' Elvis untot (talk) 23:35, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Doesn't the opening section heavily downplay the complicity of the administration?
With literal paid "public relations" personal editing this page, it makes me uncomfortable how much of the administration's guilt is pushed later down the page. Does anyone else share this worry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:200:9F61:70EC:F59C:638E:5DD6 (talk) 00:12, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Return of Linda Katehi
Linda Katehi has been rehired by UC Davis. Does this fall within the scope of the article, given that she was originally let go due to to this incident? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddivney (talk • contribs) 22:47, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Should this image be added?
https://i.redd.it/td28x7ycw4x31.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:4000:3170:E54D:2EFE:3EAC:4905 (talk) 18:42, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

despite a recommendation that he face disciplinary action
It's not said who recommended that, and no source was given. 2A02:810D:9440:7514:CD99:F0BF:570A:F3 (talk) 10:36, 3 May 2020 (UTC)