VOLUME 49, ISSUE 41
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016
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SPORTS
UC REGENTS
LIVING WITH NOMOPHOBIA
Officials Vote to Amend Discrimination Guidelines The Principles Against Intolerance now include a denunciation of anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism. BY Jacky To
GRAPHIC BY ALEYA ZENIERIS
TODAY’S COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH MORE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES THAN EVER BEFORE. THE GUARDIAN INVESTIGATES THE LATEST TRENDS IN SMARTPHONE APPS AT UCSD. FEATURES, PAGE 6
FOOD DELIVERY'S FUTURE
CORPORATE TAKEOVERS OPINION, PAGE 4
TRACK AND FIELD Golubovic breaks record sports, Page 12
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UCSD’s fencing team competed at the 2016 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championship this past weekend. Photo by Megan Lee /UCSD Guardian
UC SYSTEM
UC Berkeley Agrees to Hire Subcontracted Workers By JOSH LEFLER
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C Berkeley announced that it would offer employment to nearly 100 workers contracted to work on the campus through private companies on Mar. 18. The decision came after threats of a “speaker’s boycott” from the University of California’s largest labor union — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299 — over the outsourcing of jobs to companies that underpay their workers. The University of California hires at least 45 different private companies to fill staffing positions across the UC campuses in the areas of custodial work, food services, landscaping, security, parking and more, according to an AFSCME 3299 report. The same report concluded that these workers are paid as little as 53 percent less than workers who are employed directly by the University of California and do not receive the same benefits. The nearly 100 subcontracted workers, who were just recently hired by the university, were described as having “more than 440 years of combined experience working at UC Berkeley,” but were paid below the wage
Associate of an official UC employee, according to Stenhouse. AFSCME 3299 called for a guest speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley in the spring if the administration did not bring these subcontracted workers under UC employment. Leaders, including state senators Carol Liu (D-La Canada Flintridge), Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley), human rights activist Angela Davis and various nonprofit directors cancelled or postponed their speaking arrangements at UC Berkeley to honor the boycott. In addition, the union planned to picket former President Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative Event, which is scheduled to take place at UC Berkeley on April 1. However, AFSCME 3299 called off the boycott and the protest upon UC Berkeley’s announcement that administrators would hire the workers. AFSCME 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger celebrated the UC administration’s decision to hire these workers on a decent wage and with benefits they did not have under their private-contractor companies. “This agreement is an important first step that
See WORKERS, page 3
VERBATIM AS YOU HEAD OFF TO YOUR FIRST JOB INTERVIEW, MAKE SURE TO SAUNTER IN LIKE YOU OWN THE PLACE. COVER YOUR EYES WITH GLAMOROUS, OPAQUE SUNGLASSES AND FLAUNT A DESIGNER PURSE, WHILE WEARING A DISINTERESTED, SMUG EXPRESSION ON YOUR FACE. “
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OPINION, PAGE 4
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UC SYSTEM
Partnership Aims to Increase Transfer Outreach California Community Colleges will spend $2.6 million on programs to support transfer students. BY kriti sarin
senior STAFF WRITER The UC Office of the President announced last Monday that UC campuses will collaborate with California Community Colleges to increase accessibility for students seeking to transfer from their community colleges to a UC campus. CCC allocated a total of $2.6 million to the three-year partnership. According to UCOP’s press release, these funds will be spent on resources ranging from establishing summer bridge programs to hosting training workshops for CCC counselors. UC President Janet Napolitano expressed optimism for the partnership, stating that it would facilitate higher rates of transfer
enrollment in upcoming years. “As the University of California increases enrollment of Californians by 10,000 over the next three years, the outreach made possible by this collaboration, together with Transfer Pathways, will help us expand access for community college students,” Napolitano said in a March 21 press release. CCC Chancellor Brice Harris explained that the program offers support to students who he feels are as prepared for a university education as those who enroll in a university immediately after high school. “This partnership will help diversify and expand the pool of community college students who want to transfer to UC, where we know they will have the same rate of success as students
who enter as freshmen,” Harris said in the press release. UCOP and CCC aim to build upon their Transfer Pathways program, which provides prospective transfer students in the 21 most popular majors with an outline of suggested coursework that would prepare and qualify themselves for a transfer to one of the nine UC campuses. Approximately 30 percent of UC students began their higher education at a community college. The UC system expects this number to increase, since about a third of the 10,000 additional California residents it committed to enroll over the next three years will be transfer students. Kriti Sarin
ksarin@ucsd.edu
The UC Board of Regents voted to amend the University of California’s Statement of Principles Against Intolerance to include a condemnation of anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism at last Wednesday’s Regents meeting. However, the committee declined to condemn antiZionism as a form of discrimination in and of itself. Anti-Zionism — a political ideology that opposes Israel’s right to exist in Palestine — has raised a lot of questions at the UC campuses ever since 521 alumni along with 23 education and Jewish advocacy groups submitted a petition to UC President Janet Napolitano last May. The petition called for the UC system to formally adopt the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which denounces statements about Israel that demonize or delegitimize the nation. UCSD Hillel of San Diego Director David Singer expressed his support for the resolution, calling it a step in the right direction for the UC system at which anti-Semitism has had tangible consequences. He said that it was “no coincidence” that UCSD’s Jewish student population declined by more than 60 percent over the last decade. “Jewish students throughout the UC campuses have, for years, lived in the shadow of incidents of anti-Semitic speech, intimidation, vandalism and even violence,” Singer told the UCSD Guardian. “Yesterday’s condemnation by the Regents is an important step in defining the problem and pledging to ensure that the university is hate-free for all students.” Examples of these incidents include one that occurred in February 2015, when vandals defaced a Jewish fraternity house at UC Davis with a Nazi swastika. More recently, members of UCLA’s student government questioned a student’s ability to remain unbiased because she was Jewish, and they planned to reject her nomination to their judicial board until a faculty advisor intervened. Originally, the amendment stated that “anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California,” implying that anti-Zionism is a form of discrimination. However, some across the UC campuses have raised concerns that this would infringe on See DISCRIMINATION, page 3