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Hayden Hall given new life The renovated 83-year-old hall will hold faculty meetings BY ALEX LOMELI STAFF REPORTER
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Hayden Hall, the newly-renovated building on the northeast side of campus, reaches its final days of completion, according to Director of Facilities and Construction Fred Diamond. The building served students over its eight-decade lifespan as a lecture hall and health center, according to an excerpt from the Online Archive of California. Now, Hayden Hall’s new function will be an official atheneum or library/conference hall for all Citrus faculty, Diamond said. Faculty meetings will continue to take place in various offices around campus, however, the brand new Hayden Hall will serve as a functioning space for meetings to accommodate more faculty conferences. As a result of the extra space, the Citrus College Faculty Association and Academic Senate will now have offices in the hall, Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services Claudette Dain said. Built in 1934 and opening the following year, the 83-year-old hall was scheduled for a rebuilding and modernization with a budget of $4 million as part of the Facilities and Master Plan, a 10-year plan created by a Citrus College committee that laid out new constructions to be done for the campus in order of priority of importance. The sequencing of projects on this plan is based on need and to make sure the least amount of disruption to the campus is achieved, Dain said. After the process of approval between boards, committees and the state of California, Hayden Hall was ready for construction. The hall stands with its original foundation and exterior fully renovated. Aside from the foundation, the building was stripped of everything on the interior and is newly upgraded SEE HAYDEN • PAGE 5
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College supports DACA aspirants Citrus administration responds to President Donald Trump’s plan to end DACA BY MALCOLM CASTELLI NEWS EDITOR
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President Donald Trump’s administration announced Sept. 5 it would end the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act that protects an estimated 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and gives them the right to work in the United States and attain an education at welcoming colleges like Citrus. In a schoolwide email that outlined Citrus College’s steps going forward, Superintendent/President Dr. Geraldine Perri affirmed that the Citrus Community College District remains invested in the success and inclusion of all its students. Wednesday afternoon, Milo Yiannopoulos’ site, the owner of
which is the instigator of the recent University of California, Berkeley protests that caught national attention, was forwarded the email by an anonymous Citrus student. The alt-right website condemned Perri’s email for not supporting possible students who may or may not have been displaced by DACA recipients. Admission to California community colleges requires that a student only have a high school degree or equivalent and may accept any non-resident under the same terms. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the first Latino chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, issued a statement that day dictating strong support for California students affected by what Oakley said is a “heartless and senseless decision”
by the Trump administration. Robert Sammis, head of human resources at Citrus, said the overall response as a college has been “shock and dismay” at the Trump administration’s decision. The announcement Sept. 5 came from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who outlined the administration’s reasoning, declaring the DACA policy unconstitutionally enacted. Sessions said the Department of Homeland Security would begin initiating a wind-down process, forcing Congress to act within a six-month window to institute new policy. New applications will not be accepted. “For all of those (DACA) that are concerned about your status during the 6 month period, you have nothing to worry about - No
action!,” Trump said on Twitter Sept. 7, making clear the indefinite position recipients of DACA find themselves in for the next six months. Jacob Knapp, legal counsel to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor, and Chancellor’s Office of the CCC system, Acting General Counsel, made it clear in a statewide memo that the rescission does not impact a student’s ability to attend school, qualify for exemptions for non-resident tuition fees (AB 540 students), and apply for financial aid in the state of California at this time. Citrus only requires proof of residency, not how it was obtained, so it is unknown exactly how many students at Citrus are a part of the DACA program, several eminent SEE DACA • PAGE 5
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