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CHE CAFE
Chancellor
Ché Cafe: a UCSD Landmark’s Struggle to Survive
CHANCELLOR FOX ANNOUNCES PLANS TO REITRE Chancellor Marye Anne Fox’s eightyear tenure will come to an end in 2012. Fox plans to return to teaching and spend more time with her family. By John Baldwin Contributing Writer
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San Diego’s popular concert venue and beloved co-op faces closure if its organizers fails to raise $12,000 by March 2012. exacerbated t h e situation. This theft depleted the Ché’s reserve funds and made it difficult for them to make more recent insurance payments. The necessary payments have increased over time, and the university requires this insurance policy to show their condition of operation. Now the insurance payment has risen to $12,000, and since the Ché lost its 501(c)(3) federal non-profit status last November, the payment will rely on private donations. “From a legal standpoint, [losing their non-profit status means that]
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he Ché Café, a UCSD vegan co-op and DIY, all-ages venue founded in 1980 as a safe haven for those interested in radical politics, faces closure. It will be the end if the Ché fails to raise $12,000 to renew its OPINION insurance plan by March Join the 2012. Revolution! “Over the years, it has been [financially] hard Support the for them,” guitarist and cause on co-founder of a Ché PAGE 4. Café Benefit blog Jesse Kranzler said. “There have been a lot of freak-outs like this where they need money or they will close down.” A break-in last year, in which a $5,000 PA system was stolen from the co-op, also
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they won’t get as much official help, but I think the artistic community will come together for them,” Kranzler said. In light of the issues that have arisen, Ché regulars have started the Ché Café Benefit blog on Tumblr to raise the money needed to save the Ché. “[The blog] is more about raising community and awareness,” Kranzler said. However, the blog’s fundraising efforts have See Che, page 3
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CA DR.E.A.M. Act Nears Success By Nicole Chan Associate News Editor California legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to receive public financial aid is nearing approval. If Assembly Bill 131 takes effect, the California public university system would be open to more students and could support system-wide diversity efforts. Director for Civil and Human Rights for the Student Sustainability Collective and Student Affirmative Action Committee (SAAC) A.S. representative Victor Flores-Osorio has been actively involved in lobbying for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act since his freshman year. “SAAC has been working on it for at
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least three years,” Flores-Osorio said. “[Passage of the DREAM Act] will be a win for the progressive community on campus.” The DREAM Act — originally proposed into senate Aug. 1, 2001 by Sen. Orin Hatch, R-Ut, and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Il, — is a twopart legislation that makes illegal immigrants eligible to receive financial aid. The proposed legislation — designed for illegal immigrants who arrived in the country as minors — stipulates that candidates be of “good moral character,” have lived in the country for five years continuously prior to the bill’s enactment, graduate from an American high school and continue onto at least two years of See Dream, page 3
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
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Freshman flocked to Scripps Beach for UCSD’s annual Welcome Week event,“Meet at the Beach” on Saturday Sept. 24 for a day of free lunch and free surf lessons.
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hancellor Marye Anne Fox will end her eightyear tenure as UCSD Chancellor in June 2012. After stepping down, Fox plans to return teaching and researching as a professor of chemistry at UCSD. Fox’s chancellorship is marked by her expansive efforts to improve the infrastructure of the university, as well as her success at enhancing the funding and prestige of UCSD’s academics and research. At the same time, she will be associated with the University of California’s recent and ongoing budget crisis and M arye A nne F ox the corresponding hikes in undergraduate tuition costs, as well as the Compton Cookout, a racially insensitive party thrown by UCSD students that set off a wave of student protests on campus in 2010. Fox has focused on improving the foundation and facilities of UCSD during her tenure, investing $3.5 billion in capital projects over eight years. These projects include the construction of the Student Services Center and the renovation and expansion of Price Center. Fox’s capital projects also included expanding student housing at UCSD to cope with a burgeoning student population that has grown from 25,000 to
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INSIDE Comics.................................... 2 Currents............................... 2 At Wit’s End.......................... 4 Letter to the Editor....... 5 Focus...................................... 6 Classifieds............................ 9 Sports................................... 12