Freshman Admissions Rate Hits Decade Low Middle Eastern UCSD Admits 38 Percent and UC Irvine Received the Third Most at 40,733
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JUST LOOKIN’ FOR A BUbblE TO FIll ▶ OPINION, PAGE 4 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO www.ucsdguardian.org Thursday, April 9, 2009 The Student Voice Since 1967 Freshman Admissions Rate Hits Decade Low Middle Eastern UCSD admits 38 percent and UC Irvine received the third most at 40,733. Students Seek of applicants, down from Although a record 80,820 students UC FRESHMAN ADMISSIONS applied to at least one of the nine 41.7 percent in 2008. 50,000 100,000 undergraduate UC campuses, the per- Applicants Admits Applicants Admits OwnAdmits Category By Kimberly Cheng centage of in-state admits dropped Associate News Editor from 75.4 percent to 72.5 percent. 40,000 80,000 Applicants Admissions increased at three on UC Apps The lowest percentage of fresh- UC campuses, with Berkeley admit- men in nearly decade received accep- ting 526 more students than last year, 30,000 60,000 Existing application tance letters from the University of Riverside adding 2,558 and Merced California this year. UCSD admission rising by 193. groups Middle Easterners rates fell almost 4 percent from last Nearly all racial groups — includ- 20,000 40,000 with whites, alongside 23 fall. ing blacks, Latinos, Asians and whites According to data released by the — saw a decline in UCSD admis- Asian subcategories. university on Tuesday, of the 41,411 sions, with the exception of American 10,000 20,000 UCSD applicants, only 15,718 were Indians, whose numbers rose from 63 By Heather Houry offered admission — 2,000 fewer than students last year to 65 this year. The Staff Writer were accepted last year. Systemwide, number of white admits took the big- 0 0 UCSD received the second most gest dive, down by 777 students. Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Recent concern over the absence freshmen applications this year. UCSD UC SYSTEMWIDE of a “Middle Eastern” option on the UCLA received the most at 46,104, See ADMISSIONS, page 3 Source: UC Office of the President UC application has led university officials to consider expanding the range of racial categories, an attempt to recognize ethnicities presently grouped as “white.” A.S. Programming Drops $32K on Sun God Security According to UC spokesman Ricardo Vazquez, the university cur- Noticably lighter police rently includes Middle Eastern stu- dents in the “white” category to keep presence to characterize classifications as simple as possible. daytime portion of On the front lines of the campaign to add a “Middle Eastern” option to festival. Security will the UC application are UCLA stu- incresae after nightfall. dent organizations the United Arab Society, the Iranian Student Group, By Reza Farazmand the Armenian Student Association, News Editor the Afghan Student Association and the Syrian Club. “Discretion” will be the word of Yasi Chehroudi, president of ISG the day at next month’s Sun God at UCLA, said admissions statistics Festival, when 45 police officers are not useful when they combine descend upon RIMAC Field armed racial groups. with zip ties, Breathalyzers and “When the university clumps peo- enough probable cause to round up ple, it’s hard to see trends,” Chehroudi the majority of an expected 20,000 said. “It’s detrimental when the attendees. demographics don’t match.” Despite attempts by A.S. The current U.S. Census Bureau Programming to reduce security similarly categorizes people of costs for this year’s festival, a police Middle Eastern descent as white. force as beefed up as last year will Middle Eastern interest groups lob- again patrol campus come May 15, bied for this change in the late 1970s though fewer officers will be present ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN in order to achieve greater immigra- during the festival’s daytime hours. The Sun God Festival drew a crowd of approximately 18,000 in 2008. This year, 45 police officers from UCSD, San Diego State University, UC Irivne and UC tion rights. Security alone will cost students Riverside will patrol RIMAC Field and the surrounding area. Additional security will be provided by Staff Pro guards hired for the event. However, Faisal Attrache, a hefty $32,223.87, approximately 17 President of UCLA’s UAS, said this percent of the festival’s total oper- The presence of Staff Pro guards deejay acts, including top-billed head- performance. categorization is no longer an advan- ating budget. This sum will pri- — those yellow-jacketed rent-a-cops liner Girl Talk. According to Associate Berg, who said he would like to tage. marily pay the overtime salaries of seen patrolling at many campus events Vice President of Programming Garret see a smaller police presence at this “As Arab, we don’t feel that ‘white’ campus police officers from UCSD, — will increase due in part to the Berg, the extra guards were necessi- year’s festival at a public Sun God is representative of us,” Attrache said. San Diego State, UC Irvine and UC addition of the dance tent, a massive tated by a decision to allow attendees Riverside. enclosure that will host a number of to dance on stage during the Girl Talk See SUN GOD, page 2 See RACE, page 2 COUNCIL GRANTS STUDENT ORGS INCREASED START-UP FUNDS By Connie Shieh funds for travel individuals appointed specifically to organization funding process at other A.S. Finance Office and the organiza- Senior Staff Writer expenses. The oversee these funding requests. UC campuses to improve the pro- tions seeking funds, in that neither change also The proposed advisory commit- cedure currently used by ASUCSD, party will have to worry about spe- With only a few weeks left in eliminates quar- tee would meet once a week during which requires organizations to sub- cific quarterly deadlines. office, Vice President of Finance and terly program- the academic year to consider each mit funding requests for the follow- “Right now, 90 percent of requests Resources Naasir Lakhani submitted ming reqests funding request, and would then rec- ing quarter by week five of the previ- are done by my position and the AVP legislation to the A.S. Council last and implements ommend an allocation to the A.S. ous quarter. Student Orgs position,” Lakhani said. night that changed the process by a rolling request Council. “The system is clearly broken,” “The finance committee only looks which student organizations receive process with This has been a yearlong proj- Lakhani said. “Although our system is at the most miniscule things, which funding. no limits on ect for Lakhani, a graduating senior. supposedly objective, it is still biased I think is wrong. The bigger requests Naasir Lakhani Approved unanimously by the the ammount A.S. VP of Finance Peter Benesch, current associate vice toward orgs that understand the sys- need to have more eyes on them. This council, the plan will increase basic of funding that and Resources president of athletic relations and tem. The orgs that know [the process] model allows student orgs to show operational funding for student orga- may be granted. candidate for Lakhani’s position in know which boxes to fill out and get the merits of their event.” nizations from a maximum of $20 to The council will discuss the sec- 2009-10, worked alongside Lakhani the most funding.” a maximum of $400 while eliminat- ond half of the legislation, which in making the revisions. Both Lakhani and Benesch agree Readers can contact Connie Shieh at ing the option to request separate seeks to establish a committee of Lakhani observed the student- that the changes will benefit both the [email protected]. HIATUS Surrealism SPORTS The Bats INSIDE ONLINE WEATHER Sunny-Side Up ................2 Poll: How do you feel about this in the City Come Alive New Business ..................3 year’s Sun God Festival lineup? 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PAGE 12 H 59 L 49 H 66 L 51 2 NEWS THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009 SUNNY-SIDE UP BY PHILIP RHIE Matthew McArdle Editor in Chief Hadley Mendoza Managing Editors Nicole Teixeira Simone Wilson Smruti Aravind Copy Editors Allie Cuerdo Reza Farazmand News Editor Jesse Alm Associate News Editors Yelena Akopian Kimberly Cheng Alyssa Bereznak Opinion Editor Trevor Cox Associate Opinion Editor Janani Sridharan Sports Editor Neil Joshi Associate Sports Editor David Harvey Focus Editor Reduced Force to Patrol During Similar Campaign Added 23 Joanna Cardenas Associate Focus Editors Stephanie Tsank Sonia Minden Hiatus Editor Daytime Sun God Activities New Racial Categories in 2007 Allie Cuerdo Associate Hiatus Editors Edwin Gonzalez ▶ SUN GOD, from page 1 for a reduction in the total cost of ▶ RACE, from page 1 “It is disappointing that the UC Erik Jepsen Photo Editor planning forum during Fall Quarter, security, though these savings were “No one really thinks of us as white.” system, especially considering its Emily Ku Design Editor was partially able to achieve this offset by a lack of grant funding for The UC application currently prestige, does not have a ‘Middle Christina Aushana Art Editor goal by ensuring that fewer officers the police department. While last includes 28 ethnicity options, 23 of Eastern’ option,” said Hameen Oriqat, Patrick Stammerjohn Web Designer would be present on and around year UCSD police were able to cover which were added in 2007 as part of member of the UCSD Muslim Page Layout festival grounds during the earlier approximately $40,000 of this total the Asian Pacific Coalition’s “Count Student Association and Students for Regina Ip, Emily Ku, Monique Lam, Sonia Minden, hours of the festival.