Community Briefs

Friday, November 1, 1996 Berkeley grad students vote for three-day strike Members of UC Berkeley’s Association of Graduate Student Employees voted overwhelmingly earlier this week to stage a three-day strike – a move expected to drive graduate student instructors out of their classrooms and onto the picket lines. The fall strike won the support of […]

California voters will decide on minimum wage boost

Friday, November 1, 1996 ELECTIONS: Historically, economical impact on businesses minimalBy John Digrado Daily Bruin Senior Staff Possibly raising the state minimum wage level above and beyond the current $4.75 per hour, California voters will be able to decide next Tuesday to demand that all businesses pay some of their lowest paid employees more, driving […]

Construction delay inflates expenses, decreases

Thursday, October 31, 1996 ASUCLA: Ackerman renovation, loss of revenue sends students’ association back for more loansBy Frances Lee Daily Bruin Contributor Four years and several million dollars ago, the Associated Students of UCLA (ASUCLA) could not have predicted that their renovation of Ackerman Union would bear so heavily on their successors. Confident that they […]

A closer look at prop 212

Thursday, October 31, 1996 By Hannah Miller Daily Bruin Contributor What do Howard Leach, Peter Preuss, and John Davies all have in common? They are Pete Wilson appointees to the Board of Regents. And they also donated a total of $182,318 to his campaign. These eerie coincidences are typical of the reasons that Proposition 212, […]