VOLUME 51, ISSUE 3
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2017
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CALIFORNIA
Gov. Brown Signs Bill Protecting UC Immigrants The bill offers a sense of security for immigrant students, faculty, and workers across the UC, CSU, and community college systems. BY ARMONIE MENDEZ
EDITORIAL ASSISTant ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID JUAREZ
This week, crack down on the job search, or, if you’re in the mood to see what the stars say, check out the first installment of our horoscope column, and explore cultural identity with Tales of a Philippine Life. LIFESTYLE, PAGE 8
PUERTO RICO
Measuring Lives in money OPINION, Page 4
WOMEN'S SOCCER Tritons Win in 2OT sports, Page 16
FORECAST
MONDAY H 85 L 65
TUESDAY H 83 L 63
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY H 80 L 63
H 76 L 64
VERBATIM “For those in the United States who do not have the fortune of getting a living donor, a long and uncertain future of dialysis and deteriorating health often lies ahead. The organ shortage we have is self-inflicted, and thus solvable.”
SUZANNE GOLSHANARA ECONOMIZE IT: OPINION, PAGE 4
INSIDE IN BRIEF ........................ .2 PUERTO RICO...................4 ATYPICAL ACADEMIC....... 6 CROSSWORD ................ 14 MEN’S WATER POLO ..... 15
A UCSD worker participates in a demonstration by American Federation for State, County and Municipal Employees. Photo by Mihir Desai // UCSD Guardian
CAMPUS
Alt-Right Group Hangs Controversial Banners By kevin pichinte staff writer
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dentity Evropa, a white supremacist “altright” group, hung two controversial banners from the roof of Price Center last week. This is not the first time the group has posted signs, stickers, or vandalized property on campus, and while students bring this to the attention of faculty and UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, the group continues to post on school property. The two banners hung from the roof of the Price Center and Bookstore on Oct. 2. One of the signs read, “No Amnesty! End DACA!” and the other read, “Carry on, Citizen, THERE IS NO BANNER HERE.” Both banners violated UCSD’s campus posting policies and were removed once they were seen by campus faculty. In a statement forwarded to the UCSD Guardian by NBC 7, Interim Senior Director of Strategic Communications Laura Margoni announced that the university is looking into the banners. “The incident is currently under investigation,” Margoni said. “These actions are hurtful to many and counter to UC San Diego’s values and Principles of Community. We encourage students, faculty, and staff to report incidents such as these so that they can be immediately investigated by the appropriate campus authorities.” However, a graduate student, who wishes to remain anonymous due to past harassment, told the Guardian he has reached out to the police,
Interim Director of the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination Carol Rogers, and Khosla, but not much has been done. “Almost a year ago, in September of 2016, I contacted the OPHD regarding racist vandalism that had occurred across campus. A white supremacist group, Identity Evropa, had put racist and fascist stickers on light poles, walls, announcement boards, etc., in a circuit stretching from Warren Lecture Hall up to the Sun God statue,” the student said in an email to Khosla. “The group involved in the UCSD vandalism, Identity Evropa, and its leader Nathan Damigo were intimately involved in organizing the terrorism in Charlottesville,” the student continued. “When you had an actual opportunity to make the smallest effort to tackle fascist organizing on campus, your administration did nothing, despite evidence of a crime, despite the history of right-wing intimidation on this campus, and despite the danger that fascist and white supremacist groups pose to our faculty, staff and students.” However, as the student kept on bringing up this issue, the response from Rogers was “the first amendment protects some speech that we may find offensive.” In response to the Price Center postings, UCSD and UC Santa Barbara Alumni decided to take matters into their own hands by walking around campus with a sign saying “Eat S---
See IDENTITY EVROPA, page 3
CAMPUS
UCSD Pays Transfer Students to Move Off Campus HDH hopes to resolve overcrowding issues and move other transfer students into the Village. BY KEVIN PICHINTE
STAFF WRITER UC San Diego is offering money to students who wish to cancel their housing contract and move offcampus in an attempt to remedy a massive gap in on-campus housing availability and the number of transfer students who planned to live on-campus. UCSD accepted too many transfer students for the 2017–2018
academic year, causing hundreds of transfer students to live in offcampus housing that was meant to be demolished while the university resolves the issue. The University sent out an email Sunday informing students who wish to cancel their housing contracts of an opportunity UCSD is offering: a one-time incentive of up to $4,500 dollars if accepted by Oct. 20 and moved out by Oct. 27, or $4,000 if canceled after Oct. 20.
“Dear Student, with more students needing housing than available space on campus, we are offering to ‘buy’ space from students currently living with us on campus this school year,” according to Housing Dining Hospitality. “We’re writing to offer you a very special one-time incentive package of $4,000 or $4,500.” If students take the money, it See TRANSFER HOUSING, page 3
Governor Jerry Brown signed earlier this month a bill that would protect the interest and rights of immigrant students seeking to attain higher education. The legislation not only applies to students attending University of California schools, but also California State Institutions as well as community colleges. The legislation passed regards the actions that are to be taken by the designated California institution in the case that an immigration officer were to step on campus to execute a “federal immigration order”. “...advise all students, faculty, and staff to notify the office of the chancellor or president, or his or her designee, as soon as possible, if he or she is advised that an immigration officer, as defined, is expected to enter, or has entered, the campus to execute a federal immigration order,” stated the bill on the California legislature website. While the legislation is mainly geared towards immigrant students, it also protects the interests of UC San Diego staff and faculty. “The bill would add to the Donahoe Higher Education Act provisions that would require the Trustees of the California State University, the governing boards of community college districts, and independent institutions of higher education that are qualifying institutions for purposes of the Cal Grant Program, and would request the regents, to the fullest extent consistent with state and federal law, to: refrain from disclosing personal information concerning students, faculty, and staff, except under specified circumstances,” stated the bill. In the case that a student, faculty, or staff member has already been detained by an officer, it is the duty of the institution to then reach out to that person’s emergency contact to notify them of their detainment as a result of them federal immigration order. If under the circumstances that an undocumented student is detained or deported or in any other matter that prevents them from attending their appropriate university or institution, then their attending college would make reasonable efforts to aid and support them so that they may later return. “...the college or university shall make all reasonable efforts to assist the student in retaining any eligibility for financial aid, fellowship stipends, exemption from See IMMIGRATION, page 3