The Regents have been following a conflict avoidance
strategy on the issue of "social" divestment of university funds. In the case of fossil fuel divestment, they
followed the time-honored delaying strategy of forming a committee to study the
issue. Only one problem: Such committees
eventually have to report something or decide something. At
the upcoming July Regents meeting, there will likely be at least be student
demands for info on the committee's progress.
On anti-Israel divestment, the Regents sought "balance" by previously appointing a student Regent who was for such divestment and then appointing, as her successor, a student who was opposed. That strategy, too, may unravel. From the Daily Bruin:
UCSA investigates allegations about student regent-designate Avi Oved
On Saturday, the University of California Student
Association called for an emergency meeting in the upcoming days to discuss
whether Avi Oved, a student regent-designate nominee for the UC Board of
Regents, submitted incomplete campaign finance reports when he ran for a UCLA
undergraduate student government position in 2013. In a UCSA Board of Directors meeting
Saturday, Amal Ali, last year’s president of Students for Justice in Palestine
at UC Riverside claimed Oved and other members of the Bruins United slate sent
an email in 2013 thanking Adam Milstein, a prominent supporter of pro-Israel
organizations, for donating to the slate. Ali alleged that Oved did not report
the donation in his campaign finance reports for the election... (Oved) was
nominated by a committee of UC regents in May to serve as the nonvoting student
regent-designate for 2014-2015 and as the student regent for 2015-2016. The UC
Board of Regents is set to confirm Oved’s nomination during its July meeting at
UC San Francisco...
Full story at
http://dailybruin.com/2014/06/29/ucsa-investigates-allegations-about-student-regent-designate-avi-oved/
Some background from earlier postings:
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