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KUMEYAAY REMAINS
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Record Number Admitted in 2012
By Javier Armstrong Staff Writer
By Zev Hurwitz Associate News Editor According to the most recent admissions data, 2012 marks the first time in several years that UCSD is not the third most selective UC campus. According to data released last week, UCSD, which ranked third in the UC system in the number of applications received, admitted 22,939 students, or 37.7 percent of the 60,000+ applications for Fall 2012. UCSD had the fourth most selective admission rate, after UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine. UC Irvine overshot UCSD in selectivity for applications from the class of 2016. According to an April 17 statement on the UCI website, the university chose to adhere to a strict admissions guideline which may have led to its increased selectivity. UC Irvine’s average GPA for admitted students matched that of UCSD. “Fewer incoming freshmen were admitted [to UC Irvine] for Fall 2012 than for Fall 2011 — by design, as the campus aligns its student population with state funding targets,” the statement read. The average GPA of students admitted to UCSD was 4.07, a drop from the 4.09 GPA for students admitted for Fall 2011. The average SAT I score was 1991 total and 1330 for math and reading combined. A record number of applicants were accepted to at least one UC campus for the academic year beginning Fall 2012. Of the 126,000 applicants to UC schools, nearly 64 percent, or 80,000 students, received at least one offer of admission. Last year, 72,432 were accepted. “We have the capacity to educate many more students at our campuses,” UC interim Director of Undergraduate Admissions Kate Jeffery said in a April 17 press release. The class of 2016 was the first class exempt from taking SAT II subject tests — the result of a 2009 policy change. According to a statement on the UC Office of the President website, this policy change was enacted to create a more holistic process for determining admissions and to increase diversity. The admissions data released
or one 24-hour period, Sixth College finally had a name. The aptly named “Conan O’Brien College” welcomed the TV star to UCSD in celebration of Sixth College’s tenth anniversary. The event, which hit maximum capacity of nearly 5,000 people, was held at RIMAC Arena on April 20. According to Sixth College Dean of Student Affairs Marciano Perez, tickets for the event sold out around 3:20 p.m. on Friday before the show. Event organizers originally intended for the event to be for students only; however, organizers made tickets available to guests on Thursday after ensuring the maximum participation of Sixth College students and alumni. Sixth College provost Dan Donoghue introduced O’Brien by calling him “the embodiment of Sixth College ideals” and announced that the college will be known as “Conan O’Brien College” every year on April 20. The red-haired comedian ran onto the stage shortly after Donoghue’s introduction. “What the hell do you mean it will only be called Conan O’Brien College for one day?” O’Brien joked. “I was under the impression this would be a permanent name change. Tomorrow it’s the Zac Efron Library.” O’Brien greeted students from all six colleges before introducing himself. He said
Native American tribes are suing the University of California over human remains found at the University House in 1976. The Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee filed the complaint on April 13 with the United States District Court. The lawsuit says that the University of California has refused to repatriate, or return, the 9,000-year-old remains to the Kumeyaay tribe, on whose land the bones were found. According to the Courthouse News Service, UCSD prepared to give back the human remains in January 2012, following the guidelines of a National Park Service regulation. The return was blocked by three University of California professors who had prepared to file a temporary restraining order. UCSD spokesperson Jeff Gattas told the Courthouse News Service that, as of April 17, the university had not seen the lawsuit and had followed the proper UC procedures to work with Kumeyaay remains. The delay has been partly due to the ambiguity over whether the remains are, specifically, Kumeyaay remains. In 2008, a group of UCSD scholars was assigned to determine whether the bones could be affiliated with a tribe. Under the Native American Graves and Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, if the remains are culturally affiliated with the Kumeyaay organization, they must be returned. The working group — which consisted of two anthropologists, an ethnic studies professor and a professor from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography — determined that the skeletal remains were “culturally unidentifiable.” The 2008 report said that the remains, at approximately 9,000 years old, predate the existence of the Kumeyaay in the San Diego region. Then, on May 14, 2010 the National Park Service finalized a regulation on how “culturally unidentifiable” Native American human remains should be treated. The new guideline states that these remains should be repatriated to the tribe whose original lands they were removed from (in this case, the Kumeyaay). Under these provisions, the University of California had pre-
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