VOLUME 48, ISSUE 19
FINAL: FOURTH
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014
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CAMPUS
Student Organize Demonstration Against Anti-Black Violence Story and photo By Meryl Press
Associate news editor
CAlifornia
Democrats Propose to Halt UC Tuition Increase State Senate Bill SB15, if passed, will increase tuition on out-ofstate students and will end the middle class scholarship
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BY jacky to
Staff Writer
After winning the WWPA Tournament and beating Brown in the play-in game, the Triton water polo squad’s playoff run came to an end with a 15-6 loss to UCLA. The Tritons finished in fourth place. SPORTS, PAGE 12
YEAR IN REVIEW
We take a look back at 2014 features, Page 6
MARCHING ON: Students demonstrate on Friday Dec. 5 as a part of a Black Student Union-led protest anti-black violent incidents in recent weeks.
A NEW LENS
equipping cops with cameras opinion , Page 4
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VERBATIM
This holiday season, I challenge you to be much jollier and kinder than 12-year-old me. Help your grandparents set up a Facebook account, teach them how to take a selfie or even use Skype.
- Lauren Koa
Technically Speaking OPINION, PAGE 4
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he Black Student Union held a demonstration in Price Center on Friday, Dec. 5, to raise awareness about the ongoing anti-black violence that police officers, security guards and vigilantes display toward black individuals. Approximately 70 BSU members, who wore allblack with shirts which read “Black Lives Matter,” participated in the demonstration along with members from other student organizations and individual students as well. They surrounded the lower levels of Price Center — half of the members lay on the ground by Tapioca Express, while the other half lay near the entrance to the tunnel, which provides access to the other side of the food court. The remaining members read names off of a handout which was passed out to the students. The handout was from the Malcolm X Grassroots movement, which contained the names of black individuals whose lives were taken by police officers, security guards and vigilantes from the year 2012 to the present. BSU Chair Jazzalyn Livingston explained that because black students make up less than 2 percent of
the UCSD student population, BSU felt responsible to speak out and mobilize on behalf of the members of the UCSD community that the group feels are disproportionately affected by the gross malfeasance of the American justice system. “It is disheartening and demoralizing as black students to witness our people subject to police brutality, unfair execution of the law and a lack of protection under the law,” Livingston said in a statement to the UCSD Guardian. “The Black Student Union held this demonstration to raise awareness [of] the senseless killings of black people all across the country by the hands of police. We are also very well aware that these are not isolated incidents but a representation of the systematic structures of institutional racism, inequality and racial injustice, which is why it was extremely important for us to unmask the reality of our failed justice system while challenging the UCSD community to take a stance against it.” Once each name was read off the handout, the members stood up and formed two lines near the entrance of the tunnel, directing the attention of anyone who
See BSU, page 3
UC SYSTEM
Undocumented UC Students To Receive Legal Aid UC Office of the President will give over $500,000 to fund the newly developed program BY Andrew Huang
Senior Staff writer Thousands of undocumented students across the UC system may soon receive comprehensive legal services from the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic. UC President Janet Napolitano announced on Nov. 21 that the clinic’s pilot program will be implemented on six campuses which lack formal law schools: UCSD, UC Santa Cruz, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside and UC San Francisco. The new legal services program was created in response to a recommendation by Napolitano’s Advisory Committee on Undocumented Students, whom she appointed soon after becoming
president of the UC system. Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law, is a member of the committee and made several proposals for Napolitano to consider, with the current pilot program eventually winning out. The UC Office of the President will provide over $500,000 to fund the endeavor, led by multiple UC Davis School of Law staff members. According to Leticia Saucedo, Director of Clinical Legal Education, UC Davis’ deep level of expertise in the field, as well as the high number of faculty involved in immigration law, made it well-suited to implement the project. “The immigration clinic at Davis has been around for 30 years, which is one of the longest immigration
clinics in the country,” Saucedo said to the UCSD Guardian. “The pilot involves UC Davis providing legal services to the campuses that don’t have law schools — the idea being that campuses that do have law schools already have some sort of program going on with their own undocumented students.” The pilot program will begin operations in early 2015 and will offer a multitude of similar services to undocumented and assembly bill 540-eligible UC students, although each of the six campuses will have individualized centers. These include legal counseling clinics and informational sessions, processing of Deferred Action for Childhood See IMMIGRATION, page 2
California State Senate Democrats proposed a bill on Dec. 2 that would end a new scholarship for middle-class students in the state’s public universities and to also enact a tuition hike on outof-state students.. In exchange, the bill would keep in-state tuition rates flat for five years and would accept more California residents into the UC system, adding to financial aid and college counseling. According to a Dec. 3 SF Gate report, the bill, titled SB15, would cost between $342 million to $434 million per year through 2018. The elimination of the middleclass scholarship program, which pays up to 40 percent of tuition for undergraduates whose families earn between $80,000 to $150,000 per year, would contribute about $102 million to $285 million towards tuition costs. This year, only about 73,000 students received the middleclass scholarships, averaging less than $1,000 per student, and it is estimated that about half the money available for the program will not be used this year because many students did not know about it, as stated in the SF Gate Report. In order to maintain current resident tuition rates, SB15 would also increase tuition for out-of-state students by 17 percent, or $4,000 per year, to help pay for the bill. The state would contribute an additional $66 million to $156 million a year to cover the rest. Another component of the bill provides financial incentives for low-income students at the UC and California State University systems to graduate in four years. Each eligible student would receive $1,000 to $2,000 a year for completing enough units to fully advance to the next year, stated the SF Gate Report. SB15 would also increase enrollment by 5,000 in-state residents into the UC system and 10,500 in the CSU system. Furthermore, the CSU system estimates that, due to SB15, at least 70,000 middle-class students will be eligible for other financial aid, while the University of California estimates 23,000 students will be eligible. Though it may be several weeks or months before the UC administration takes a stance on the bill, UC President Janet Napolitano is pleased to see movement on the issue of tuition hikes. “I welcome and applaud the Senate Democrats’ interest in See SB15, page 2