SRTV unplugged for alleged pornographic content
A technician at Thornton Hospital shut down the broadcast of Student Run Television on May 16 after receiving complaints from hospital patients and Preuss School officials who viewed “pornographic” materials on the station, according to station programmer Chelsea Welch. This took the station off the air for almost four days.
The station believes an unauthorized intruder, possibly a former SRTV member, entered the studio to broadcast material banned during daytime hours by the station’s charter, Welch said, though there were no signs of forced entry.
Campus police have been alerted of the security breach.
Though the reruns aired during the day on the station included bare breasts, Welch said the station does not know if this was the material responsible for the incident, explaining that “there is no genitalia shown on SRTV.”
Thornton officials gained access to the broadcast equipment because Triton Cable uses the hospital’s facilities, Welch said, though they are not authorized to exercise editorial control.
While the station returned on air in the afternoon of May 19, its signal continues to be censored from Preuss School and hospitals in the UCSD Healthcare system, according to Welch.
Edward Veldin, director of telecommunications for UCSD Healthcare, declined to comment.
UC Student Regent nominated for 2005-06
The UC Board of Regents selection committee nominated Adam R. Rosenthal, a UCLA graduate and UC Davis law school student, as the 2005-06 student regent at its May 20 meeting.
Rosenthal, 25, will be considered for nomination at the full board’s Sept. 22 to Sept. 23 meeting. Rosenthal would become the 31st student regent and serve as Regent-designate for one year, participating in board deliberations, before becoming a full voting member in July 2005.
Rosenthal graduated from UCLA in 2001, earning a degree in history and a minor in Hebrew/Jewish studies. At UCLA, he served as a member of student government, president of Hillel and co-founder of UCLA’s first Arab-Jewish dialogue group.
He also participated in Teach for America, instructing middle school English from Sept. 2001 to June 2003. He holds a state multiple-subject K-8 credential and a single-subject credential for high school history and social sciences.
Jodi Lynette Anderson, a doctoral student in education at UCLA, is currently student-Regent designate and will begin her full term in July.
Sixty-six students from all nine campuses applied for the position. The Regents committee then interviewed three finalists recommended to them by the UC Student Association.
UC Board of Regents selects Gerald L. Parsky as chair
Gerald L. Parsky has been selected to be the new UC Board of Regents chair for the 2004-05 year.
Parsky, 61, is chairman of investment firm Aurora Capital Group, which acquires and builds U.S. firms. He also served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department in charge of international affairs and capital markets from 1974 to 1977.
Parksy was appointed by former Gov. Pete Wilson in 1996. He has served as chair of the Regents’ Investment Committee for four years as well as on the board’s audit, finance and Department of Energy laboratory oversight committees.
The Board of Regents also appointed Regent Richard C. Blum as board vice chair and chair of the finance committee.
UCSD honors ‘exemplary’ employee of the year
Mamie Gonzales, associate director of UCSD’s Human Research Protections Program, received the top honor in the campus’ Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year Program.
David Miller, acting senior vice chancellor of academic affairs, honored Gonzales in a May 18 ceremony at the Faculty Club.
She won praise from the UC Office of the President for her leadership in managing the transcription of thousands of paper documents to a secure Internet file management system.
Gonzales has also chaired the campus Multicultural Women’s Network and served as the president of the Chicano/Latino Staff association for three terms.
At the ceremony, Gonzales received a $2,500 cash award, with nine other honorees accepting $1,500 each. All honorees took home certificates and gifts donated by campus organizations.
