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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2025
VOL. 73, ISSUE 30
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JACK HU APPOINTED NEW CHANCELLOR OF UCR
In remembrance of Tranquil Calley
TRACKING THE HISTORY OF THE FORMER PROVOST OF UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
THE ACT OF KINDNESS LIVES ON THROUGH THE KALYN SMITHTRANQUIL’SON MEMORIAL FUND
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On May 28, 2025, University of California (UC) President Michael V. Drake, M.D., announced the selection of S. Jack Hu as the next chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (UCR), following approval by the UC Board of Regents. Hu, who will assume the role on July 15, currently serves as Provost and Senior Vice PresiGHQW IRU $FDGHPLF $൵DLUV at the University of Georgia (UGA). Hu brings nearly 40 years of higher education experience, beginning his academic journey as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 1985 and eventually becoming its Vice President for Research. During his tenure at UGA, since 2019, Hu has led major academic initiatives, expanded interdisciplinary faculty hiring and increased research expenditures, which surpassed $620 million in 2024. Under his leadership, the university consistently ranked among the top U.S. institutions for research commercialization. His strategic focus areas included electric mobility,
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precision agriculture, arti¿FLDO LQWHOOLJHQFH $, DQG humanities, resulting in the establishment of several interdisciplinary centers. He also founded the Humanities Council and helped sponsor the Spotlight on the Arts Festival.
During his term as Provost, the University of Georgia (UGA) campus police forcibly arrested 16 protesters, including nine students, during a pro-Palestine encampment on campus which took place on April 29, 2024. Earlier that morning, the university’s
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, along with community members from Athens, GA, set up the encampment on the North Campus Quad near the administration building. Ź SEE JACK HU ON PAGE 6
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Havoc presented a great opportunity to earn a win. This past Friday on May Before the game, the Avia30, 2025, the Los Angeles tors celebrated Women’s Aviators of the Ultimate Fris- Sports Night with the Los bee Association (UFA) host- Angeles Astra of the Premier ed the Houston Havoc at the Ultimate League (PUL), a naChampionship Soccer Sta- tional women’s and non-biGLXP LQ ,UYLQH $IWHU D GLVDS- nary ultimate frisbee league. pointing 2024 season, it has $YDORQ ,JDZD RQH RI WKH been more of the same for the Astra’s captains, shared what Aviators in 2025. They’ve Women’s Sports Night meant VWDUWHG R൵ WKH \HDU ZLWK IRXU to her team, “[Women] didn’t straight losses, but Friday’s have a league [to play in] for home game against the 1-3 D ORQJ WLPH ,W ZDV MXVW WKH UFA. So it’s really special to
have a pro team in Los Angeles, and then to have the support of the Los Angeles Aviators as well. To just increase the visibility and show that women and non-binary folks FDQ SOD\ DW D KLJK OHYHO >,W¶V@ really awesome to be here to celebrate that all together.” Aviators assistant coach Skipper Hammond described how meaningful the night was to her, “Nights like tonight where we’re showcasing women’s ultimate [and] women in sports, is really
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On May 27, 2025, the University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) LGBT Resource Center held a remembrance event in honor of Tranquil Calley, a former UCR student who founded a fund in her son’s name to assist UCR students who lost family support due to their involvement and support of the LGBTQ+ community. Calley, who received her M.A. in 1989, passed away earlier in the month, but was known for her creation of the Kalyn SmithTranquil’son Memorial Fund. Current UCR student, Suraj Ganiger, a second year biology major, was volunteering in hospice with Calley during her last days. He, along with support from the LGBT Resource Center, worked to organize the event to share stories of Calley and her son, as well as write notes and create artwork to be shared with her family. *DQLJHU VWDUWHG R൵ WKH HYHQW VKDULQJ ³, WKLQN VRPHWKLQJ WKDW ,¶YH noticed about humans or people in general, is that we’re not really a kind species. We’re a mean bunch, and we often hurt each other, and we’re so in over our heads and yet so proud of ourselves, so much so that we named being kind, or the act of kindness, µKXPDQLW\¶ DIWHU RXUVHOYHV , WKLQN Tranquil is possibly one of the few people to whom this does not apply WR 6KH¶V ZK\ , EHOLHYH ZH FDQ VSHDN of humanity with a guiltless face.” He recalls her vibrant and stubborn spirit, emphasizing that she is ¿HUFHO\ FRPPLWWHG WR MXVWLFH HVSHcially for those who have been left out or pushed aside from history. *DQLQJHU QRWHV ³&RPPXQLW\ , WKLQN is what Tranquil understood best, not just the word community itself, but the action that is associated with it, the muscle that it takes to build something that lasts for other people. Ź SEE THE MEMORIAL ON PAGE 4
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