SUSPECT: Student leaders ask for flexibility during traumatic time

attacks. Police have questioned the roommates, and that information remains under further investigation.

Asked about the nature of Dominguez’s expulsion, UCD references The Family Educational Rights and Privacy that puts measures in place for all records, including academic grades and health records, directly related to students. “FERPA requires all public universities to obtain explicit, signed consent from the student for most disclosures of identifiable information from his or her educational record. Although parents have special rights under FERPA for K-12 education, the rights previously held by parents and guardians are transferred to the student upon enrollment in a UC Davis academic program. Some information — such as a student’s major, dates of attendance, and degree awarded — is considered public and can be disclosed unless the student has designated themselves ‘all records confidential.’”

In a statement to the

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community, UCD said it continues to partner with law enforcement to provide access to any and all information as part of the investigation. “We are providing support to any students who may have interacted with him. As we learn more and are able to provide updates that do not interfere with the ongoing investigation, we will do so.

“We urge the community not to rush to conclusions or speculate until all facts are known. We are grateful for law enforcement’s quick response and resolution during an extremely difficult period for the city and campus.”

As students worried for their own safety during midterms prior to the arrest, the Associated Students of UCD on Tuesday wrote the Davis Division of the UC Academic Senate and Committees to express frustrations with the UC Davis Academic Senate Executive Council and “their failure to act decisively in response to the recent tragedies in our community.”

Signed by ASUCD President Radhika Gawde,

Carol Lucille Boyer aka “AC” (Auntie Carol), age 87, of Davis, beloved sister, aunt, great-aunt, and friend, passed away peacefully on April 10, 2023, due to congestive heart failure.

Born in Oakland at Merritt Hospital on Dec. 24, 1935, Carol was to be named Lucille after her mother’s best friend. Because she was born on Christmas Eve, however, her parents named her Carol, which was fitting. She was like a Christmas carol — loud, festive and fun; she thrived on celebrating the holidays and enjoyed singing, going to church, baking and gift giving.

Carol was reared with her older sister Margaret and younger brother Dick Jr. in Crockett, where their father Dick Sr. worked as a union warehouseman at C&H Sugar for more than 50 years. Her mother Margaret was a homemaker, community organizer and columnist for the local paper. The senior Boyers were known for their extensive world travels.

With red curly hair, Carol attended Carquinez Elementary and John Swett High School in Crockett. She participated in Campfire and Horizon Girls and attended the group’s summer camps in Lake Tahoe. As a child, Carol and her siblings hiked the wide-open hills around their home with their mother. Carol enjoyed cooking and being in the kitchen, as well as sewing and crafting with her mother. She played the bassoon all four years in the high school band and was active in sports.

In 1957, Carol graduated from UC Davis with a degree in home economics. She taught high school “home ec” for two years in San Jose and two years in Napa before returning to Davis. She taught at Davis High School for a few years, when her principal encouraged her to earn her master’s degree so she could become the school’s academic counselor, which she did. Carol spent the rest of her 45-plus year career at DHS, where she helped many students and made lifelong friends. She loved her job and her Davis community. In 1998, Carol was awarded “Counselor of the Year” for her service to public education in California.

Loved ones describe Carol as smart, outspoken, gener-

Leon Louis Francois Wegge, 89, of Davis, passed away peacefully on Feb. 4, 2023, after a multi-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma (Waldenström’s disease). He was surrounded by his loving family when he passed.

Leon was born in 1933 in Breendonk, Belgium. After attending primary school, junior high and high school in Breendonk and nearby communities, he spent two years at a junior college in Antwerp before transferring in 1953 to the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating in 1958 with several degrees, including one in economics. After military service in the French section of the Belgian army, he spent six months working on economic models at the Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis in the Netherlands.

In 1959, a Fulbright Scholarship provided for the boat trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S., where he went on to study economics at MIT with Professor Robert Solow. In 1962 Leon met Beate, and they married that same year. Leon graduated with a Ph.D. in economics in 1963.

Leon’s first academic position was at the University of New South Wales in Australia. In 1966 he was recruited by the department of economics of UC Davis to develop their new graduate program. What followed were some of his most prolific years, during which he published many academic papers, taught graduate courses in econometrics, international economics and trade theory, and served on various faculty committees on the UC Davis campus.

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Carlos Dominguez was arrested Thursday in connection with three stabbings in Davis, two of them fatal.

Internal Vice President JT Eden, External Affairs Vice President Celene Aridin, and Academic Affairs Chair Megan Chung, the letter states the Academic Senate, the letter that was sent asked that all classes be remote until the perpetrator was caught and shared a survey of the student body that presses for more academic flexibility.

Of demands in the letter, Gawde told the Enterprise she will be asking that the Academic Senate extend the Passed/Not Passed grading option and late drop deadlines until the last day of instruction.

ASUCD would like the Academic Senate also to mandate faculty to retroactively forgive any missed points/assignments due to students skipping class/ missing participation this past week. She said they will be further asking that “faculty exercise leniency as students grapple with the death of our peer at the hands of another student.”

The second victim found in Sycamore Park on Saturday night, Karim Abou Najm, a Davis High School graduate, was only six weeks away from graduating from UC Davis. The university posthumously gave Najm a degree and started a memorial fund in his name to support undergraduates pursuing research.

The third, a 64-year-old unhoused woman, was stabbed multiple times through her tent at L and Second streets and is recovering in the hospital.

“Students deserve time to cope with the events of the past week,” Gawde continued.

“Despite the killer being arrested, it is unreasonable to expect students — many ous, active, helpful, bossy, crafty, social, rambunctious and “a force.” She loved her family and a large circle of friends, including those from DSHS, water aerobics, church and book club.

Carol was an energetic, playful and attentive aunt to her five nieces and nephews, who consider her their second Mom. She thrived on organizing family events and making things special, including vacations, Easter egg hunts, and Christmas Eve (her birthday) visits from Santa. She sent family members and friends elaborate gift packages for each birthday that included their favorite items and her famous “scotcheroo” cookies. One family reunion she organized and sponsored, the family made a t-shirt that said, “Everyone should have an Auntie Carol. We are blessed.”

Nephew David describes AC as “an expert tickler; she would light you up and take you down.” Niece Anne remembers watching out the window for AC’s car to arrive and the fun to begin; the kisses goodnight numbering the child’s age; and her always giving “a pinch to grow and inch.” Anne also fondly recalls AC’s crafting, baking, making candy, and building her a dollhouse with furniture from scratch. She took her five nieces and nephews Christmas shopping individually and to lunch each year to buy gifts for their family.

Carol enjoyed traveling the country and world with friends and family, especially her sister and brother-inlaw. When each of her nieces and nephews turned age 16, AC took them on a trip to wherever they wanted to go in the world! She took Stephen to Ireland, Scotland, Germany and England, where he later moved. She traveled to Japan and Thailand with Peggy and took David to Northern Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. AC toured Greece and the Mediterranean with John and traveled to Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean with Anne. She instilled in all of them a love of travel, learning, and seeing other places and people. Through it all she insisted upon instilling in them the rules of comportment -- manners, proper speech, diligence, finance and risk-taking to name a few.

She was very active in her parish, the Episcopal Church within 24 hours. who are connected to Karim or his friends, roommates of the killer, the killer himself, students involved in the arrest of the killer, etc. — to be in a mental state to focus on their academics. Throughout the week, students have been terrified. Many students have not slept through the night, instead turning to online Police Scanners and Yik Yak trying to keep themselves informed of all developments in the case,” she said.

Calling the decision by the Academic Senate to force students to go to campus during the day instead of mandating virtual instruction “disgraceful,” Gawde highlighted the fact that more than 4,000 students responded to a survey stating that they felt unsafe visiting campus during the day. “The students were right to be afraid. The perpetrator was a student and had access to and knowledge of all of the buildings and facilities all UC Davis students do. The Academic Senate knowingly forced students to choose between their safety and their academic success and should feel ashamed for doing so.”

The letter stated that within one hour, they received responses from over 10% of the student body articulating their “overwhelming desire for virtual instruction alternatives in order to alleviate the anxiety and to mitigate the safety concerns of the student body.”

Eighty-six percent of the nearly 3,500 students surveyed stated they feel unsafe attending classes in person and that limiting virtual instruction “effectively ignores the safety concerns of our entire community and student population.”

In the comment section of the survey, one student stated fear of leaving home. “I haven’t been able to sleep and have nightmares of sirens. I’m having panic attacks walking outside. I have exams and in-person labs, but I don’t feel comfortable attending at all. I’m also crying a lot because I’m so scared.” of St. Martin, which she helped develop from its humble beginnings at a theater in Davis. She was a part of the group that found and purchased the property where the current church was built and stands today. Carol was active at St. Martin’s throughout her adult life; she served on the vestry several times, helped with events, kept the calendar bulletin board updated, and managed the craft fair for years. She even organized the church’s 50-year anniversary celebration.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@davisenter prise.net.

Most of her adult life, Carol lived in Davis and was committed to the town and community. She lived in Atria Covell Gardens in Davis the last five years of her life, where she continued to be active and social.

Carol is survived by her sister Margaret Markham, née Boyer; brother Richard “Dick” Boyer Jr; and nieces and nephews Stephen Markham (Clare Piggott), Peggy Callahan, David Markham (Sue Markham), John Markham (Stephanie Riggs) and Anne Davis. She is also survived by her grand-nieces and grand-nephews Robert Callahan (Becca Mason), Kelly Rishe (Dominic Rishe), Charlotte Davis, Wesley Davis, Jane Markham, Eleanor Markham, Maggie Angelillo (Joe Angelillo), Billy Markham, Riggs Markham, Patrick Callahan, Matthew Markham, James Davis, Tamara Davis and Avery Markham.

Services for Carol will be held at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin, 640 Hawthorne Lane in Davis, at 3 p.m. Friday, May 19, with a reception to follow.

Memorial donations are encouraged to Paul’s Place at P.O. Box 72463, Davis CA 95617 or by visiting paulsplacedavis.org.

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 Ms. Rose Marie Garofalo of Davis passed away at the age of 78. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

In their early years in Davis, Leon and Beate regularly hosted Thanksgiving meals at their home with foreign graduate students or visiting professors as guests. He spent sabbatical years in Leuven (Belgium), Bonn (Germany) and Wassenaar (Netherlands), which allowed him to focus on research and expose his children to different European cultures as well as help them strengthen bonds with extended family.

Leon very much enjoyed traveling to other countries for professional conferences. Perhaps the most memorable trip was Leon and Beate’s visit to Taiwan in the year 2000. At the invitation of Paul T. Mu (the founding president of National Dong Hwa University, Hua-Lian, and a former Ph.D. student of Leon’s at UCD), Leon presented his research to the Economics Department at National Dong Hwa University as well as at the Economics Research Institute of Academia Sinica, the highest academic research institution in Taiwan.

Leon retired from UC Davis in 1994 and remained very active with his research and interests. He presented his last conference paper in 2019 in Singapore. Until a few years ago Leon was a regular fixture on the UC Davis tennis courts.

Twice he completed the Dodentocht walk (“March of the Dead”) in Bornem, Belgium, the longest walking race in Europe, which requires participants to walk 100 kilometers

He enjoyed harvesting his organic almonds, listening to the music of van Beethoven and Handel and getting together with friends in a local gourmet club. He was a devout member of the Saint James Catholic Parish for nearly 60 years. He was an enthusiastic bridge player until the end. He was also an avid sports fan of all kinds of sports, but especially of grand slam tennis tournaments and the exploits of Belgian athletes.

Leon had a keen sense of familial history, and long before genealogy became popular, he engaged in rigorous research of the Wegge family tree as well as other family surnames that culminated in a small book on his findings, written in both English and Flemish.

He was a one-of-a-kind individual and will be greatly missed. Leon was predeceased by his parents Petrus and Alberta, his sister Rosa, and his brother Frans. He is survived by his wife Beate; brother Jos Wegge; children Simone (Victor Valdivia), Robert and Elizabeth (Jason Bennett); grandchildren Jane, Leo, Jacqueline and Victor; godson Dr. Leon Andries and many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of his life was held in his hometown of Breendonk, Belgium on April 2. A Memorial Mass will be held on June 9 at St. James Church in Davis with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to the International Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation (https://iwmf.com/ ways-to-give/), or to a local charity like Yolo Cares (Yolo Hospice), https://yolocares.org/.

Rose Marie is survived by her siblings, Vince (Deanna) Garofalo and Betty Lou (Dave) Dais and children, Lorrie Davidson, Mark Blake and Toni Blake. She was the devoted grandmother and great grandmother to several, including Michael Bauer, who was a constant source of comfort, and Katy Nicole, who provided loving companionship and care in Rose’s last years.

Rose Marie was a longtime resident of Davis and former owner of the small business, The Bookkeeper, which led to many professional and personal relationships in the tight-knit Davis community.

Rose Marie was very involved with the group Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, where she met her dearest friend, Sandy Weiss. She delighted in international travel, talking politics, and attending theater.

She was wellknown for her sharp wit and generous heart. She had a full body infectious laugh that filled the room and a gentle spirit that provided comfort to many over the years. She was silly and sharp and once showed up to her own surprise party dressed as a clown, because she was too smart to surprise and too much fun to show up looking pedestrian.

Rose Marie will live on in the many people who were lucky enough to be touched by her humor, heart and generosity.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to one of Rose Marie’s favorite charities, Yolo Crisis Nursery, Davis Meals on Wheels or the Democratic Party.