RX: Allocation of funds has been a bone of contention, especially when it comes to the Medical Center.

DEADLINE: Student Regent Jesse Cheng and Vice Chancellor Meredith Michaels speak on funding.

CUTS: A series of open forums for budget-related conversation were held on campus last week.

JUDGE: Despite the budget cuts, UCI’s School of Law has stated their case and succeeded.

CLEAN: Management and cleanliness of the campus remains an overlooked aspect of the budget.

Q&A: Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs weighs in on the budget cuts and their implications.

HISTORY: The New University looks back at when the fee increases began and Regents spoke out.

SPIRIT: How will the new budget affect ASUCI concerts and events? The New U investigates.

SLASHED: The School of the Arts is going to be hit hard by the new budget cuts; what stays and what goes?

A moment from UCI Athletics.

Around UCI by the New University photographers.

The implications of the UC-wide budget cut affect all of us. The effects are seen in the consistently rising tuition rates and the notorious underfunding of various departments throughout different schools. What we don’t always see, though, is what goes on behind the scenes: for teaching assistants on campus, the uncertainties they face are less positions open, less resources available for research, and less opportunities to finish out their Ph.D.s.

News sources reporting on the likely budget cuts to enrollment and certain departments on each campus have maintained the current uncertainty of the effects. But these cuts have already taken a toll on UC Irvine’s quality education in unseen ways.

Every week, a group of undergraduate students cluster around Timothy Wong, a comparative literature graduate student studying at UC Irvine. They go over a lesson plan and make sure they are ready to carry it out and teach low-income juniors at Orange High School.