“Don’t put it on the back of students; don’t send the
message to the people we seek to serve [that] a
$40,000 education is affordable. We’ve gone too far down this road of
seeking help from students [and] that’s the wrong standard.”
—
UC Regent
“UC Grad Students to Endure Sharp Fee Hikes”
“They effectively told me that because people didn’t like
what I was speaking on that I had to stop. I have never seen in the Constitution
the part about only saying things that people agree with.”
— Jeff Wong
Former UCSD Graduate Student
“Campus Mulls Free Speech Policy Revision”
“Establishing ‘free speech zones,’ as UCSD seeks to do here,
undermines the fundamental conception of the American public university as a
true marketplace of ideas.”
— Samantha Harris
Director of Legal and Public Advocacy for the Foundation for
Individual Rights in Education
“Campus Mulls Free Speech Policy Revision”
“And it’s no wonder why administrators were so clandestine
about the new document — the revision of section 501 of the UCSD Policy and
Procedure Manual transformed a two-page guide to outdoor-space use, which
generally aimed to protect constitutional freedoms while maintaining safety and
functionality, into a 19-page paternalistic manifesto, which prohibits
everything from chalking sidewalks to free gatherings of more than 10 people.”
— Hadley Mendoza
“Smothering Student Voices”
“It was cool to have a presence in the corporate-dominated
consumerism of the
However, I’m more focused on keeping the co-op alive. Spreading too thin was
the reason why it had trouble.”
— Adam Calo
Senior and Food Co-op Employee
“Food Co-op Grapples With Rent Issues, Satellite Closure”
“At the end of the day this is the taxpayers’ money, this is
the students’ money, and the students and taxpayers deserve to know how this
money is being spent.”
— Adam Keigwin
Communications Director for State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San
Francisco/
“New Bill Puts Executive Salary Out in the Open”
“The
continuously facing out-of-control fees in addition to out-of-control housing
costs around campus, which isn’t made any easier with the confusing
financial-aid process. With these issues on a rise, it is even more vital now
that ever that students are heard in the selection process for the next UC
president.”
— Rabia Paracha
Student Advisory Committee, UCSD Rep
“Students Lobby for Input in Search for UC President”
“If their [proposed free speech] policy as it was written
went before a court of law, it would fail.”
— David Blair-Loy
San Diego ACLU Legal Director
“ACLU Bashes Free Speech Policy”
“While I cannot speak to any specific allegations, as a
leader of the Greek community I can say that hazing is not tolerated by our
Greek community and that any allegations are taken seriously.”
— Liz Hill
President, UCSD Panhellenic Council
“National Investigators Probe Fraternity Hazing Allegations”
Dec. 6, 2007
“There were errors in maintaining those [grading] records,
and I take responsibility for that. I’ll take responsibility, but I won’t take
the responsibility of being called dishonest.”
— Doris Alvarez
Ex-Principal of Preuss School
“Preuss Admins Tackle Post-Audit Damage Control”
Jan. 7, 2008
“You don’t take the most punishing step first. Let’s punish
the 1 percent of people causing problems, not the rest of the law-abiding
citizens, enjoying the beaches as they are.”
— Jacob
Pyle
Ban the Ban 3 Organizer
“Petition Deadlocks City Council Ban on
Beach Booze”
Jan. 10, 2008
“Even if none of the 427 grade alterations were deliberate —
a very unlikely scenario, according to the auditors — it doesn’t retroactively
absolve Preuss administrators for allowing these problems to go unnoticed for
many years.”
— Editorial Board
“Preuss Struggles to Make Grade Following Preventable
Scandal”
Jan. 10, 2008
“This budget proposal will have serious impacts on our
ability to deliver on our mission for our students and for the people of
California.”
— Robert C. Dynes
UC President
“Gov. Shorts UC’s Ideal Budget by $400M”
Jan. 14, 2008
“The governor may think that by pushing a stranglehold on
state spending he’s delivering on his no-tax-increase promise to California
citizens, but in reality he’s failed miserably. All he’s really done is
insidiously dump it in the hands of overburdened students so that he can turn a
blind eye and come out looking like the good guy to taxpayers. And for that, he
should be ashamed.”
— Natasha Naraghi
“A Budget With Its Back Against the Wall”
Jan. 14, 2008
“When fees rise, qualified and hard-working students are
blocked from attending the University of California. Already fees have risen
faster than the average income of hardworking Californians.”
— Louise Hendrickson
UC Student Association President
“Gov. Shorts UC’s Ideal Budget by $400M”
Jan. 14, 2008
“I would say other pledges definitely acquiesced to the
brothers’ demands out of fear. Fear of both being reprimanded [or] blackballed
and fear of not being accepted. Basically, they have to trade in their dignity
to have the type of social life they envisioned when they entered college.”
— Anonymous Former Sigma Nu Pledge
“Claims of Frat Hazing Spark Several Investigations”
Jan. 17, 2008
“When we protested, we were told these orders [to change
students’ grades] came from the top. This was not a secretive, surreptitious
process. Everyone knew what I was doing. I was shocked this was so casual.”
— Julianne Singer
Former Preuss School Registrar’s Office Assistant
“Two Camps Dispute Preuss Audit’s Validity”
Jan. 22, 2008
“I guess the daily hassles of ever-increasing tuition
expenses, cramped and costly housing, outrageous textbook prices, overcrowded
buses, downright shitty parking and a total rejection of student input just
weren’t enough. Now UCSD’s staff is going out of its way to give students a big
fat fuck-you when they’re at their weakest.”
— Hadley Mendoza
“Flu Season Is Playtime for Secretaries, Nurses”
Jan. 28, 2008
“The Food Co-op should have been granted full rent abatement
immediately, not after a year of struggle that forced its members to visit the
A.S. Council.”
— Editorial Board
“Yearlong Rent Battle Reveals Shady University Practices”
Feb. 7, 2008
“I don’t want to be screamed at while I’m eating lunch and
be told I’m going to hell.”
— Arian Mashhood
University Centers Advisory Board Member
“Price Center at Heart of Speech Debate”
Feb. 7, 2008
“The RSOs’ purpose is to ensure student safety. I think that
the problem is that a lot of students feel that RSOs have overstepped their
boundaries and have taken on more of a parental role.”
— Marco Murillo
A.S. President
“RSO Report Stagnant After One Year”
Feb. 7, 2008
“The bottom line is that students need to keep a watchful
eye on not only administrators but also other students — if we don’t protect
our rights, no one else will.”
— Hadley Mendoza
“To Protect Freedom, Students Must Read Fine Print”
Feb. 11, 2008
“It’s not the function of A.S. Enterprises to waste student
funds on resources people clearly don’t use and it’s not the responsibility of
22,000 undergrads to finance an unpopular coffee shop.”
— Alex Ahmed
“Stale A.S. Enterprise Wastes Time and Money”
Feb. 19, 2008
“To call their behavior shady would be an understatement.
Not only do I feel cheated out of the spirit of the contract, but every UCSD
undergraduate TA should as well.”
— Jonathan Kommemi
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant and Revelle College Senior
“Undergrad TA Contract: Teaching the Wrong Lesson?”
Feb. 21, 2008
“It’s a shame campus officials have become so accustomed to
sucking money away from students that they don’t even realize they’re doing it
anymore.”
— Editorial Board
“Shady UCSD ‘Tradition’ Shafts Hardworking TAs”
Feb. 21, 2008
“I think [the administration’s] position from the beginning
was that they didn’t see the point in asking students’ opinion … They basically
said, ‘Look, we’ve already decided what’s going in the building, so this isn’t
an issue we want student input on.’”
— Dana Dahlstrom
Former ARSFAB Student Rep
“RIMAC Annex Center of Funding Debate”
March 13, 2008
“Looking at this year’s upcoming A.S. elections, one message
seems to stand out above all the others: Despite their best efforts,
councilmembers are adept at creatively thwarting themselves.”
— Editorial Board
“Size, Scope of Student Voice! Slate Dilutes Races”
March 13, 2008
“There is no question that the festival will need increased
funding in the future. Even if the event doesn’t change at all next year, costs
will increase, and we’re already beyond our current budget.”
— Garrett Berg
Sun God Festival Director
“Rue Banks on Students to Pay for Larger Festival”
April 10, 2008
“It is shameful to see administrators on the sidelines in
such a heavy student-interest issue; it is plain insulting that they are one of
the few noncontributing parties in the new festival.”
— Editorial Board
“Sun God Saga to Stretch the Students’ Dollar”
April 10, 2008
“I feel that there has been an atmosphere of hostility. In
fact, I was told that my suggestions were quote ‘horseshit.’ This is extremely
unprofessional to me.”
— Lynn Ta
Dimensions of Culture Lecturer
“Much Ado About D.O.C.”
April 17, 2008
“My view is that with tuition and fees, the closer to zero
the better.”
— Mark G. Yudof
Incoming UC President
May 1, 2008
“This is a public institution in a free country, and if
someone is bothering you with their Library Walk demonstration at lunchtime you
should handle the situation like an adult.”
— Hadley Mendoza
“Don’t Tread on Us Tritons”
May 12, 2008
“Mad props to the Speedo-ed heroes who wouldn’t take ‘no Sun
God booths’ for an answer, stopping at nothing to engineer a giant blue-tarp
slip-and-slide.”
— Hadley Mendoza
“Sun God MVPs: Speedo Champs, Gorillas and Legends”
May 19, 2008
“No one wants to
strike, but the question is, how long can we wait? The university knows exactly
what we need but they are not even coming close.”
— Lakesha Harrison
AFSCME Local 3299 President
“Health, Service Workers Brace for Mass Walkout”
