<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a503f592-7fff-04e6-05ac-e9ee9d491e1f"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hi grad student physicists and astronomers,<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSew7SwyT3tx_j3BsugxxDMroWikjTdNUwM6cXuuVG__TzRhIg/viewform" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join our union <b>TODAY at 11AM</b> by the Bell Tower to call for full funding at UCR!</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Last year, the UC Office of the President cut our campus budget by 8.12% - the largest campus budget cut in the UC system by far. This comes on top of the long-standing, systematic underfunding of our campus by the UC system, as covered last year by the LA Times.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Every graduate student has experienced the effects in one way or another: overcrowded classes; 70 or more undergrads for one TA; Lack of employment for fifth-year grads; Run-down facilities; Understaffing.</span></p><div><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please come and bring your friends!</font></span></div><br></font></span>Solidarity,<div>Ming-Feng Ho</div><div>Physics and Astronomy, UCR</div><div>Head Steward, TA Union</div><div><a href="http://jibancat.github.io">jibancat.github.io</a><br></div><div><br></div></div>