Warren election officials receive 19 grievances
Earl Warren College election officials received a total of 19 grievances that accused various candidates of misconduct, including 12 on the last day of the general election, Warren Elections Manager Charlene Cheng said.
The majority of the complaints accused candidates of improper campaigning techniques and materials, though most, including the 12 submitted on April 7, were withdrawn or settled informally. No candidates were disqualified, Cheng said.
Because the Warren VOICE and United slates received endorsement from the campuswide Students First! and Unity slates, respectively, Cheng said she believes the college election attracted an unusual amount of outside attention and grievances aimed at undercutting the two slates involved in the A.S. elections.
Withdrawn candidate wins most votes in Revelle race
Despite receiving 40 votes less than his opponent, Unity candidate Nicholas Hein will become Revelle College’s next sophomore senator. Hein’s opponent, Students First! candidate Anshu R. Abhat, officially withdrew her candidacy in the first days of voting, too late for election officials to remove her name from the ballot, according to A.S. Elections Manager Tom Chapman.
Though she was no longer a candidate, Abhat received 42 percent of the total votes, 7 percent more then Hein, who still won as the result of the Abhat’s decision to pull out of the election.
‘The Last Days of Pompeii’ on display beginning April 17
Conceptual artist Eleanor Antin will exhibit a series of 12 large-scale color photographs titled “The Last Days of Pompeii” at the UCSD University Art Gallery from April 17 to June 12.
A reception for Antin, who is a UCSD emeritus faculty member, will be held on April 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. She will also lead a walk-through of the exhibition at 5:30 p.m. Reservations for the walk-through are required and can be made by calling (858) 534-2107.
Antin’s photos were shot in San Diego, including UCSD, where she transformed the landscape into replicas of Pompeii with help from UCSD faculty and students in the visual arts department.
The imagined scenes of Pompeii depict gladiators fighting to the death, the writer Petronious celebrating his suicide with an orgy and aristocrats reveling in piles of golden coins, among other depictions. All the photos are linked by a woman in white who watches from the periphery.
Antin is renowned for her work with storytelling and history and for her use of feminist themes.
This exhibition marks the first time Antin displays her work in her hometown since 1997.
Congresswoman to discuss higher education at UCSD
Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-Calif.) will be on campus on April 12 to meet students and talk about issues in higher education. The informal forum, sponsored by Associated Students, will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Deutz Conference Room of the Institute of the Americas.
A similar event featuring Democratic State Sen. Dede Alpert will take place on April 23, also at 4:30 p.m. in the Deutz Conference Room. Alpert currently serves on the Subcommittee for Higher Education and is chair of the Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education.
The events are open to all UCSD affiliates.
UC regents to consider UCSD chancellorship
The UC Board of Regents will hold a meeting by teleconference call on April 12 for the purpose of considering the appointment of Marye Anne Fox as the new chancellor of UCSD.
The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. with a closed session for personnel matters to be followed by an open session that will include the opportunity for public comment.
While members of the public will not be able to dial into the conference directly, they may go to a number of locations around the state, including Conference Room 111A of University Center.
The audio of the open session of the meeting will also be broadcast live over the Internet at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents.
A video broadcast of a press conference with UC President Robert C. Dynes introducing Fox, slated for 4 p.m., will be available at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu.
