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VOLUME 47, ISSUE 1
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
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UC Regents Announce Scholarship Campaign The UC Board of Regents discussed new fundraising efforts during their meeting last week. BY Mekala Neelakantan
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ment charges against him. On June 20, six months into Filner’s term, Communications Director Irene McCormack Jackson, confronted him about unwanted sexual advances and later filed a lawsuit against Filner as well as the city of San Diego. By August, many local and national pol-
The UC Board of Regents met last week to discuss upcoming environmental and budgetary plans for the UC system, as well as launched a social media fundraising campaign for undergraduate scholarships. The meeting, which took take place Sept. 17 to Sept. 19, marked the first Regents conference of the 2013–14 year and the last before the arrival of UC President Janet Napolitano. The meeting, held at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, began with an open discussion regarding health services, including an introduction of UCSD’s “Project Helix” to support expansion of outpatient care in the UCSD health system, and construction of the Jacobs Medical Center next to the current Thornton Hospital. UCSD Chancellor Khosla, Vice Chancellor for Health and Sciences David Brenner and CEO of the UCSD Health System Paul Viviano were present for the discussion. “We are way underscaled for the outpatient services, particularly to be coordinated with and to support the inpatient Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla,” Brenner said at the meeting. UCSD’s A.S. Council’s Vice President of External Affairs Vanessa Garcia, who was in attendance, spoke during an open forum about holding Southern Californian Regents meetings, citing inaccessibility for students who wish to speak to the Regents. Garcia also addressed the idea of increasing online education in the UC System. “I think that online education can …only help to expand the accessibility of our system,” she said. “The online education system that the UC should produce should be in a way to supplement but not replace the student to teacher or student to TA interactions that we’re having.” The Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings met to discuss infrastructure plans across five campuses, including an approval of $250,000 in preliminary plans to renovate the Blake House in Kensington, Calif. for possible residential use by the UC President. President Yudof and Chairman on Grounds and Buildings Hadi Makarechian discussed amendments to Phase One and Phase
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Gone, But Not Forgotten
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Returning students may notice that Graffiti Hall in Mandeville Center is bare. Signs have been posted, prohibiting “any defacement of University property”, including “any inscription, word, figure, picture or design”. Security cameras were also installed in the newly-painted hall. University administrators could not be contacted as of press time.
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Ring in the School Year University and local officials unveil several major transportation changes that will work to increase safety and cut costs for campus administration. BY aLEKSaNDra KoNSTaNTiNoViC
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Commuters returning to UCSD in the 2013–2014 school year will find several changes to the campus transportation system, including a realigned Cityshuttle route serving Arriba Street and Nobel Drive as well as new traffic lights along Gilman Drive. The new Cityshuttle route resulted from the recent elimination of the Nobel shuttle stop near La Jolla Village Square, as of Sept. 1. UCSD officials first announced plans to eliminate the Arriba and Nobel shuttle stops in January 2012, but widespread student protests, including a Facebook page titled “UCSD Students Against Transportation Changes”, postponed the plans temporarily. A.S. Council President Andy Buselt felt that the summer break was detrimental to student activists who wished to stop the
changes. “The worst thing that happened to students was that we had that delay,” Buselt said. “We lost our momentum.” UCSD Director of Auxiliary Business Services and overseer of Transportation Services Robert Holden, emphasized that the decision was based in part on complaints from La Jolla Village Square businesses. “This [decision] is due to concerns from La Jolla Village Square businesses regarding UC San Diego students and staff misusing mall parking spaces meant for their customers,” Holden stated. “Students can still pick up the shuttle at Nobel and Lebon, or Nobel and Regents.” TPS has experienced a major budget deficit over the past years, raising prices on parking permits and proposing a $1 hourly park-
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Summer 2013 Briefs BY davis liang
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▶ New UC President To Take Office: Janet Napolitano will take office as the 20th president of the University of California at the end of September. Napolitano succeeds former UC president Mark Yudof, and is the first female president in UC system’s 145-year history.
Napolitano, 55, earned her law degree from the University of Virginia, was the former governor of Arizona and served as the Secretary of Homeland Security she resigned to head the University of California. Napolitano stood out as the search committee’s unanimous choice from over 300 candidates. As UC president, Napolitano will oversee 10 campuses
While You Were away and five medical centers. Napolitano will also receive a base salary of $570,000 and a relocation fee of $142,500, 25 percent of her annual base salary. ▶ San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Resigns: San Diego politician and former mayor Bob Filner resigned on Aug. 30 amid 18 sexual harass-
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