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Protesters: ‘No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.’ Students call for more resources to go to undocumented students
Two student activist groups demonstrated at San Diego State on Monday, both advocating for the university to provide undocumented students with more resources. “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” chanted members and supporters of the SDSU chapter of Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán as they marched to the steps of Manchester Hall. The March 5 deadline for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program came and went, but Congress’s failure to replace the program left many anxious and worried. This prompted some students at SDSU to protest while urging university officials to turn their school into a sanctuary campus and create a new resource center
for undocumented students. Child development senior Ana Hernandez spoke during the rally, voicing her concerns over what she said is lack of leadership from university officials on issues affecting undocumented students. “We’re here, we’re lacking and we’re suffering,” Hernandez said after the rally. “Am I not important? Am I not part of the student body?” Hernandez’s frustrations stem partly because other universities,
by Jasmine Bermudez ASST. NEWS EDITOR
like CSU Fullerton and CSU Los Angeles, have full resource centers while SDSU only has an “area” with a staff of one. “We see other schools that have their (undocumented resource) center and they’re so wellestablished,” Hernandez said. Sociology senior Sandy Ayala expressed concern over the possibility of Immigration and
A physical altercation with a security guard in the Malcolm A. Love Library on Feb. 27 ended with a woman being put into what some students said was a chokehold. According to a statement from San Diego State spokesperson Cory Marshall, the woman was in an unauthorized area when she slapped a guard’s phone and struck his face with an open palm. Raquel Herriott, a university police spokesperson, said the woman, Channell Williams, is not an SDSU student. Marshall said the security guard then attempted to restrain the woman until police arrived. Finance senior Krystal Nzeadibe said she is wary of Marshall’s statement because it is unclear what happened before the incident. “I think it’s interesting for us to know (about) the situation as a whole, not just starting at certain points,” she said. “That makes me very skeptical of how our university is telling the story.” Management information systems sophomore Adrian Garate works at the 24/7 Study Area in the library. He said he and the security guard frequently complain to each other about Williams because she loiters there often.
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SEE CHOKEHOLD, PAGE 2
Photos by Weicheng Han
Two separate groups of protesters gathered at San Diego State on March 5 to call for more resources for undocumented students.
by David Santillan SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Video of woman put in ‘chokehold’ by library security goes viral
‘Black Lives Matter’ panelists discuss racism by Pabel Lopez STAFF WRITER
A panel of San Diego State professors gathered to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement at Montezuma Hall in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union on Feb. 29. Although the event mainly focused on the movement, the panelists also covered the treatment — both past and present — of black men in American society. It’s the third year in a row such a panel has been held at SDSU. The panelists this year included professors Frank
Harris III, Luke Wood, Paul Minifee, Luke Winslow. Professor Antwanisha AlameenShavers mediated the event, and Interdisciplinary senior Shane James also took part in the panel. They talked about various problems related to racism and shared personal stories on a number of subjects. Some of the topics covered included the treatment of minorities by police, systemic racism in education, a new movement of films focusing on the experience of being black in the US and relations between black men and white women. The organizers said though the
Black Lives Matter movement is centered on the treatment of one group, it’s open to all who are willing to help. “The movement is focused on all black people, but the majority of the examples that are seen in the media are of black men,” said Wood, who teaches the “Black Minds Matter” class at SDSU. “Cases like those of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and here in San Diego with the case of Alfred Olango.” Trayvon Martin in Florida, Michael Brown in Missouri and Tami Rice in Ohio all died at the hands of white police officers. The officer who shot Olango
was Hispanic. Joquel Vásquez, an SDSU student, was at the event and said he enjoyed it very much. “I love it because it allows for a dialogue in which multiple people and
SEE BLACK LIVES MATTER, PAGE 2 Photo by Alex Vasquez
Luke Wood, professor of the “Black Minds Matter” course at SDSU, speaks the Black LIves Matter panel on Feb. 28.