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Tuition Increases by 10 Percent, May Rise Again Next Year University of California tuition may increase by as much as 16 percent by 2016.
by as much as 16 percent by the next academic year. The UC Board of Regents met Sept. 15 at UC San Francisco to discuss methods of compensating for a projected systemwide budget deficit of $2.5 billion by 2015. Depending on the amount of state funding, students could be paying anywhere from an eight to 16 percent fee increase yearly. According to Executive Vice President of Business Operations Nathan Brostrom and Vice President of Budget and Capital Resources Patrick Lenz, there are three proposed methods for raising revenue. The Regents favors a 50-50
By Rebecca Horwitz Associate News Editor The University of California Board of Regents has raised in-state tuition by 9.6 percent and an additional increase of 16 percent by the 2015-16 school year is now being discussed. University of California tuition could increase
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split in which students would pay an eight percent fee increase, with the state funding the remaining eight percent. A second option has students paying 12 percent of the increase while the state pays four percent. The final scenario would require tuition to increase by 16 percent each year until 2016. “This scenario that we’re looking at is not what we want,” Sherry Lansing, UC Board of Regents Chairman, said in Bloomberg Businessweek. “There’s not a person around this table that wants to increase tuition. We’ve done enough.”
Under the last scenario, undergraduate tuition for California residents would rise to $22,068 from the current $12,192 by the 201516 academic year, if state funding for the UC system does not increase, according to the UC Board of Regents. UC Office of the President Spokesperson Ricardo Vasquez said that the Regents has not made any concrete decisions. “It’s not even a proposal yet,” Vasquez said. “It’s just a discussion. The idea was to create See Tuition, page 3
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Student Dies Due to Heart Complications Professor to work toward establishing scholarship in her memory. By Margaret Yau Managing Editor Cristina Torres, a Warren College senior, died Sunday, Aug. 21 due to medical complications relating to a pre-existing heart condition. She was 23. “[Cristina] was a very lively person — she would brighten up the room,” Torres’ sorority sister Kim Garcia said. Literature professor Jorge Mariscal is hoping to create a CRISTINA Torres scholarship in Torres’ name, to be given each year to a promising Latina undergraduate student. The scholarship is being planned. “[Cristina] was always inquisitive and eager to learn. I know that, given more time, she would have become a fierce defender of the Latino community,” Mariscal said in an email. Torres was pursuing a double major in Spanish literature and political science, with plans of attending law school. She was also the social chair and an active member of the Sigma Pi Alpha sorority. “She was the center of attention, the life of the party,” Marisabel Salinas, Torres’ sorority sister, said. Salinas and a few of her fellow sisters plan on getting Torres’s college degree awarded to her posthumously. Torres’s family held a memorial service for her in Sun Valley on Aug. 25. Her family and sorority members also hope to have a memorial service on campus, but a date has not yet been determined. Torres is survived by her sisters Karina and Fabiola Torres, her mother Irma Torres and her father Gregorio Torres.
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tudent-led demonstrations to reform Chile’s national education system are drawing international media attention for mob violence and subsequent arrests: the BBC reported approximately 900 arrests that were made following a 60,000-strong Aug. 4 protest. Even with such staggering numbers, all 59 University of California Education Abroad Program students studying in Santiago have remained in the program and are actively attending class at this time, according to UCEAP communications representative Emilia Doerr. Despite EAP administration’s warning to avoid protests as a safety precaution, some EAP students have even chosen to participate in alongside local students. Recent protests interfered with Muir College senior Megan Young’s studies at the public university, la Universidad de Chile. Young was required to transfer to the private university Pontificia Universidad Católica — also located in capital city Santiago — for her second semester abroad. Young, one of six UCSD students in Chile, describes her experience as witnessing history in the making.
Although Young resides in an apartment in central Santiago where the protests are largely concentrated, she said she has never felt unsafe. “The protests have never affected me in a negative way, nor have I ever felt like my life was at risk because of the protests,” Young said. “I’ve gone to a few in June and one just this morning.” BIG Chilean students are protesting the PICTURE privatization of education in the form of See more marches, hunger strikes and tomas, a Spanish pictures term that refers to students occupying a from Chile university building so that the administration on PAGE 11. is unable to function as normal, Young said in an email. Tomas are different from sit-ins in that they can last for indeterminate periods of time, sometimes lasting for months until the protesters’ demands are met. The protests — which originated in May — started See PROTEST, page 11
Readers can contact Margaret Yau at m1yau@ ucsd.edu.
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