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VOLUME 52, ISSUE 24 MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG CAMPUS PHOTOA TRITON TEASE !"#$%&'()*'*+,-% IS BORN GOES HERE .*/%#0-,12+132)2,4% 567861'-%,7%6*19:% ;*67%<1-,*%34%=>=>% The programs are in an effort to reach net carbon neutrality in 2025. !1##I%J(,>)(#$(+) /0#%*+&/)"11&2+%)0+ UC San Diego Facilities Management and UCSD Information Technology Services have implemented several new programs in an effort to PHOTO BY NAME HERE /GUARDIAN reach the UCSD Zero Waste 2020 goal. In addition to already existing TCAPTIONe UCSD PREVIEWINGGuardian sits programs, these new initiatives include THE ARTICLE PAIRED WITH Dancers perform at Chicano Park Day in Barrio Logan // Photo by Francesca Hummler an installation in the UCSD mobile down with prospective app that notifies users when there is THE PHOTO TEASE. FOR students to discuss what leftover food from campus events, as EXAMPLE IF THE PHOTO A.S. COUNCIL well as the “Bin Buddy”, which strives weighsWERE OF on A their BABY minds YOU to minimize office waste by decreasing WOULDbefore commitingSAY “BABIES to SUCK! out DE#E%#*+1,76%FG9**C*C%F)*9,27+%#(*+C2+8%?2'2,H%I1@*C%J*9*2(,- the size of the trash can. THEY ARE WEAK AND Zero Waste 2020 is a program illustrious campus. !"#$%&'()##*+,-##!"#"$%#$&'(%)*+ designed to create a more sustainable campus, with “at least 90 percent /7<6425D##30H7##F .S. Off-Campus Senator and attempted A.S. to the A.S. Elections Committee, and based on an Features, page 6 diversion of materials from landfill presidential candidate Joseph “Joey” Giltner investigation of the spending report for Tritons United or incineration.” According to I0:7$457###0$!94H*6 spent at least $968 more than the allowed that was written by Giltner, Giltner doctored some of the program, UCSD outlines this Aamount for candidates and took steps to conceal his the receipts he included to deliberately conceal the true ./.0$$1##2345425##670/7 through reducing total municipal 0##3++'##I+J(,##K+'##?-&J()-? spending, according to information the UCSD Guardian amount he spent on at least three listed expenditures solid waste generation, ending the !7!0/##577:/##6;2##/30<7/ has obtained from multiple sources. Giltner never and failed to report at least five other purchases for 2N>)>+)D##3%E(###O sale, procurement or distribution /7<6425D##3%E(###F appeared on the ballot after being deemed ineligible which he was required to by the election code. of Expanded Polystyrene, and by to run and later disqualified, though he appealed these In addition to numerous supposedly donated items, observing greenhouse gas emissions /:088 decisions for the duration of the election period. Giltner alleged that he purchased 115 shirts for $431, from waste management. According to section 4.2 of the election code, slates $98 for a custom Tritons United Snapchat filter, 16 2’ x 2.9##?-%KKL?##K%M+'>-(?28675##0##/3296/##670/7 Since 2008, several UCSD and independent candidates are limited to using $2,300 4’ banners for $156.60, 2,500 stickers for $117.23, and =&-##>?##%##@%?A(-B@%,,C committees have published annual of their own income on the election. The official 2,000 rave cards for $183.83. The Guardian received 0P7#D###3%E(#Q Climate Action Plans that set guidelines ?(G->+)D##3%E(##F number that Giltner listed for total expenditure was the receipts he entered with the Tritons United spending and programs for staff, students, and $1,123.96, with $137.35 coming from donated items, report to prove his purchases for the shirts, banners, and faculty that contribute to reaching net but documentation indicates that Giltner underreported Snapchat filter. carbon neutrality by 2025. his spending and that the actual figure surpasses $3,200. According to Giltner’s receipt for the shirts, although In March 2007, the University of FOREFORECAST- Prior to his current term as a senator and his he indicated that the quantity was 115 on the spending California administration joined the presidential candidacy, Giltner was involved in A.S. report spreadsheet, he paid Big Frog Custom T-Shirts Second Nature’s Carbon Commitment, Council when he first attended UC San Diego from $240.00 for 85 t-shirts and $60 for 15 tanks, without tax. also known as the American College 2013 to 2016. He left the university to “pursue a career However, an employee of Big Frog wrote in an email to and Universities President Climate in corporate America,” but re-entered at the start of A.S. President-Elect Eleanor Grudin, who verified the Commitment, when the former this academic year after attending California State receipt with the company, that the receipt from Giltner University of California President MONDAYMONDAY TUESDAYTUESDAY University, East Bay and UC Berkeley. was actually an “estimate/quote.” Robert Carr Dynes signed the H 96 L 72 H 86 L 68 Giltner announced his run for president of A.S. “We never received payment for that invoice,” the H 68 L 58 H 72 L 60 University of California system as a Council on March 16 as part of the slate Tritons United, employee, who also responded to a quote request from signatory participant in the ACUPCC, which he assembled and headed. However, after Giltner the Guardian, wrote to Grudin. a network of colleges and universities filed his candidacy, it was determined that he was A partial photocopy of an invoice and a photocopy who pledge to mitigate climate change ineligible to vie for the position, which he told the of a receipt printed from a cash register at the store that through campus-wide initiatives. Guardian was a result of not meeting the 2.5 minimum were given to the Guardian by former Tritons United WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY THURSDAYTHURSDAY According to the UCSD 2008 GPA requirement. Giltner appealed to have his transfer member Danielle Viviani reveal that the true cost was a HH 75 79 LL 6759 HH 73 79 L L 5966 Climate Action Plan, “The ACUPCC grades included in the calculation to become eligible, total of $1,912.56 for 100 t-shirts and 50 tanks, including includes a number of requirements, which the Judicial Board granted on April 10. tax. including the development of a Climate Despite the favorable ruling from J-Board, the At a unit price of $8.95 per 2’x4’ banner with next-day Action Plan to establish a target date VERBATIM Elections Committee had already disqualified the turnaround, the 16 banners were purchased by Giltner and interim milestones for reaching VERBATIM Tritons United slate and consequently Giltner from from Digital Room, Inc., according to the screenshot climate neutrality. 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FOR The UCSD 2019 Climate Action 7 and were permitted to run as independents. received a copy of the original invoice for Giltner’s EXAMPLE,049:;5-6%8-1%,#5+<$-.,% ‘I DON’T Plan has been updated with UCSD’s According to the election code, candidates are purchase from NextDayFlyers.com, a subsidiary of UNDERSTAND WHY ALLIE strategies for reaching carbon 9=%<$/5:5-$)%=99/%8-/% required to provide records of all campaign expenditure Digital Room, Inc., which states that the unit price was CAN’T ASCRIBE WORDS TO neutrality, which include categories THEIR9.#$*%08,5:%-$$/,)%$>$-% PROPER USAGES.’ such as Green House Gas Inventory, See GILTNER,%page 3 -KELVIN048-;$.,)%9*%:8*%.5*$,%.9% NORONHA” Mitigation Strategies, and Water and - Columnist name here Waste. ?@%<54459-%A*8B5,%0$:8C,$% SAN DIEGO The newly installed notification 340*56#.%:485<$/%5.%:8-%0$%COLUMN TITLE HERE on the UCSD mobile app, which also SECTION, PAGE _ !"#$%?236164%"*)*361,*-%":291+7%516@%$14%AB*6%<**@*+C provides information on shuttles C,$/%01%.#$%8*<1' and dining options, now sends Saturday’s festival marked the Librarians’ ffh year of promoting the Chicano Studies collections at the event. notifications when there is leftover Professor Wael Al-Delaimy community. digital initiatives librarian at the UCSD food from campus events. This is PAGE 8 !1##R%G+@#/&-S(',%)J meant to combat food insecurity at '(%)*+%",&-..%.)"#)& The festival included music from Library, said that the library originally several local bands, as well as dance got involved with the Chicano Park UCSD. The UC San Diego Library performances from groups including Day Celebration five years ago in A.S. Assistant Director of INSIDEINSIDE joined other Chicano activists and the Ballet Folklórico Aztlán de order to promote their newly digitized Administration John Weng brought organizations at the 49th annual California State University, Northridge, Chicano Studies collections. the idea of the notification system to BOOKTEXT ...................................X BUYBACK.............4 Chicano Park Day Celebration and the Danza Azteca / Calpulli “The [UCSD] Library received a the Triton Food Pantry managers after NEW TRITONS..................7 to celebrate the history of the park Mexihca. Speakers representing National Historical Publications & attending a system-wide meeting for OPINION SOMETHING .X on April 20. Under the theme of the Brown Berets and Mujeres en Records Commission grant in 2012 to the Global Food Initiative in Spring FIRSTWEEKEND/FEATURE TATTOOS.............11 .....X “Danzantes, Protectors of Our Resistencia, two local Chicano political digitize the Herman Baca Papers, and 2017. At the meeting, he learned TINDER TYPES..............12 Traditions and Chicano Park, 500 organizations, were also present.