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FOR THE WEEK OF TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015
ASUCR: LEGISLATION PASSED TO IMPROVE STUDENT REPRESENTATION AMONG UC REGENTS
What you should expect to see on the 2016 ballot IXIA JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
The Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR) approved appointments to several offices at last Wednesday’s senate meeting. After the appointments, legislation on a key resolution pertaining to student representation on the Board of UC Regents was also
passed, along with bylaw modifications and a presentation regarding an update on the Highlander Empowerment Referendum at Costo Hall. Mark Brown, a third-year engineering student, was appointed chief of staff of the office under president of ASUCR, Ashley Harano. Brown has experience working under the office of the executive vice president as
adjacent neighborhood known as the Back of the Yards or Las Yardas. This area of Chicago was made famous through Upton Sinclair’s seminal 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed the unsanitary practices of the meatpacking industry. The fruition of this new identity politic was also defined by the forced repatriations to Mexico during the Great Depression and the responding political activism and formation of various organizations that roared back in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. Amezcua’s work focused on one such organization called the Mexican Civic Committee (MCC). The ► SEE HISTORY, PAGE 7
► SEE BALLOT, PAGE 7
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ASUCR suggested a new position on the UC board of regents, a student advisor.
SOM CHATURVEDI Contributing Writer
November 2016 marks the next major election and is set to feature new measures and potentially many more to be voted on in the California ballot alone. Some of these possible items include the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes, the overturning of mandatory vaccinations, raising the minimum wage and reduced transgender rights. Current Ballot Items Three referendums already qualifying to be placed on the California 2016 ballot will attempt to overturn the statewide plastic bag ban, incorporate multilingual education programs in public elementary schools and change the way that Medi-Cal is funded. The American Progressive Bag Alliance has led the campaign rivaling the current statewide plastic bag policy. Present legislation restricts large grocery stores and pharmacies from providing single-use plastic bags to customers in order to reduce plastic bag litter and pollution, and instead requires them to charge 10 cents for a recyclable, compostable and reusable bag. Another initiative will focus on allowing access to multilingual education. If passed, most of the “English in Public Schools” initiative of 1998 will be repealed, allowing languages other than English to be used in public educational instruction when teaching “limited proficient students.” Lastly, the third bill to be voted on is the California MediCal Hospital Reimbursement Initiative. Medi-Cal is a program that helps low-income individuals pay for health insurance within California and is another name for the federal Medicaid program. Hospitals are required to pay fees in order to receive Medicaid funding, leading to an estimated $2 billion in additional funding for MediCal. This initiative is aimed at adding language to the California Constitution that would require hospital fee changes to go through voters in order to assure hospital fees that are diverted to Medi-Cal patients.
a first-year fellow and will be aiming toward developing the first-year fellowship program. Additionally, Nick Saldivar was appointed historian under the office of the president. Saldivar is a second-year who has had experience working in the recreation center, and will be assisting Harano in public relations. Pejae Chai was unanimously
elected as the vice chair of finance under Shafi Karim, the vice president of finance. Chai has been involved with the finance committee, GCAP, as well as other financial endeavors. Kevin Tseng was also appointed as Karim’s finance secretary. ► SEE ASUCR, PAGE 5
Professor gives lecture on Chicago’s Mexican-American history JOSEPH AVILA Senior Staff Writer
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On October 8, 2015, Mike Amezcua, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, met with students and faculty in the history department library to discuss his research in a lecture titled “Demolition and Deportation: The Unmaking of a Latina/o Neighborhood in Postwar Chicago.” “I came to this project to try to understand how Latino migration and settlement transformed the racial and spatial landscape of Chicago.” Amezcua said in his opening statements. His lecture drew from his current dissertation tentatively titled “Borderlands
Bungalows: Race, Urbanism and the making of Chicago’s Brown Metropolis.” It focused on the largely neglected and forgotten spatial history and historiography of Mexican settlements in the broader interracial landscape of post-World War II era Chicago leading up to the 1980’s when Latinos secured access to the coveted bungalow belt of Chicago’s suburbs. Amezcua argued that the genesis of Chicago’s Mexican-American identity and political culture was wrought out of the decrepit living and working conditions that Latinos, namely U.S. and foreignborn Mexicans, had to face while working in Chicago’s meatpacking district and living in the
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