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Synapse The UCSF Student Newspaper
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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Spoken Word at UCSF
Volume 57, Number 16
NEWS
UC President Mark Yudof Announces Resignation By Steven Chin Managing Editor
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Photo by Theo Finucane
The first-ever spoken word event was held at UCSF on January 15 in the Multicultural Resource Center as part of a month-long series of events honoring of Martin Luther King Jr. Anna Tran, one of the organizers, performs. Read more about the event on page 3.
SPORTS
49ers Are NFC Champions
Team to face Baltimore Ravens in "Har-bowl" By Hujatullah Bayat Sports Editor
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unday’s game against the Falcons started exactly as every 49ers fan feared it would, with Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan slinging the ball effortlessly, and his two receivers plucking the ball out of thin air. Any happiness that fans felt about their team being in the NFC C h ampi ons h ip game quickly faded with every completion Ryan threw. Before the first quarter had even ended, Falcons receiver Julio Jones was posting career numbers in every receiving category. The score read 17-0, and the Niners had a total of -2 yards in offense. Then, all of a sudden, the Niners started to play. They somehow stopped the bleeding and returned to
the devastating running game that has carried them all season. By half time, the score was 1424, with the Falcons still controlling the pace of the game. One thing the Falcons could not do was maintain the lead and take time off the clock in the second half, due to the lack of a running game. The Niners’ offense played like a team possessed, making it to the red zone five times and scoring four of those times. The Falcons did not score after the first half. Statistics aside, the 49ers dominated the game once they actually showed up, and in an entirely different manner than they did in last week’s game. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw the ball 21 times, but only ran twice this week, showcasing how versatile he really is.
NFC Champions » PAGE 7
niversity of California President Mark G. Yudof announced Friday that he will resign in August to teach law at UC Berkeley. In a prepared statement, Yudof, 68, cited health reasons for stepping down. “The prior 18 months brought a spate of taxing health issues,” he said. “Though these challenges have been largely overcome, I feel it is time to make a change in my professional lifestyle.” During his five-year tenure, he helped navigate the University of California system through numerous challenges, including one of its worst financial crises and a series of large tuition increases. Yudof took the helm of the 234,000-student university as the state was entering a turbulent economic period. Since his arrival, the state has slashed the university’s funding by about $900 million. In the face of severe budget cuts, Yudof won praise for protecting the academic and research mission of California’s higher education system, and boosting financial aid to low- and middleincome families. “We have kept our doors open to all worthy students, regardless of family income levels, embracing the Blue and Gold financial aid program for low- and middle-income students and raising more than $671 million through the Project You Can scholarship program,” said Yudof. With the passage in November of Proposition 30, a tax initiative strongly endorsed by Yudof, financial stability for the UC system appears to be within reach. “Now it appears the storm has been weathered,” he said. “We are not fully in the clear. But we are much closer than we were even a few months ago.” Since Yudof became president, tuition has risen from $7,517 a year for
President Yudof was appointed to his position by the Board of Regents in 2008.
California resident undergraduates in 2007 to $12,192 today, not including room and board. At the same time, reductions in course offerings and cuts in nontenured teaching staff have made it more difficult for undergraduates to complete their degrees on time. Yudof earns an annual base salary of $591,084. At the time of his appointment in 2008, the salary was below the midpoint salary ($606,200) set for this position by the Board of Regents and below the median salary ($644,900) of leaders of similar public and private universities used by the California Postsecondary Education Commission for comparison purposes. He has received no increase since. “I will leave it to others to judge what difference my leadership made, if any, but I will say that I entered each day with a laser focus on preserving this great public treasure, not just in the present day, but for generations of Californians to come. And in the end, what matters most is what still remains: a vibrant public university system, the envy of the world, providing California with the beacon of hope and steady infusion of new thinking that are necessary for any society to flourish,” said Yudof.