Saturday, June 21



[Online exclusive] Briefs

Protesters bash Connerly, delay regents meeting SAN FRANCISCO ““ Thursday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting was unexpectedly delayed when approximately 16 student activists, protesting Regent Ward Connerly’s stance on racial consideration, were so boisterous that the regents had to call a recess during the public comment period. Read more...





Community ties are UCLA’s best asset

It was my first regents meeting. Not knowing where to go, I went in through the public entrance. After passing through the metal detector, the UCPD patted me down and I entered the room. There was a velvet rope that separated the University officials from the public. When I tried to cross this velvet rope to join the Board, I was immediately stopped by a UCPD officer, who warned me in a stern tone, “You don’t belong there.” Indeed, thinking about who my “colleagues” were to be ““ they were the social elite, political heavyweights, probably worth more than the GDP of a small country ““ I didn’t belong on the Board. As a middle-to-working class Pilipino suburban “kid,” I knew what I was getting into but didn’t know if I could handle it. I was obsessed with the question, “How can I push an agenda here?” I felt this intense burden to get something done with the time I had. With over 160,000 UC students, and only one on the Board, it would be a disgrace and disservice if this university remained unchanged on my watch. Read more...



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