Assanis Signs Sanctuary Campus Petition
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Q Q © © u d re v ie w lAST print issue of the semester. CHECK US OUT AT UDREVIEW.COM. T he TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016 VO LU M E 142, ISSUE 13 The University of Delaware’s independent student newspaper since 1882 I udreview.com AssanisA • signs• sanctuary campus petition• • LARISSA KUBITZ women and gender studies & KACEY CORNELY professor who helped create the Senior Reporter and Staff Reporter petition, explained that the idea of a college being a safe location President Dennis Assanis for undocumented students stems signed a statement in support from the Immigration and Customs of undocumented students last policy that considers schools to be week, alongside a growing list “sensitive locations,” along with of 491 college and university some other public institutions presidents nationwide. The letter, such as hospitals. circulated out of Pomona College, The term “sanctuary campus" urges universities to support the gives the university the power Deferred Action for Childhood not to voluntarily reveal the Arrivals Policy (DACA), which took immigration status of its enrolled effect in 2012. students. This policy gives She added that a number undocumented young people, of prominent universities have including students and military announced their stance as veterans, a renewable reprieve sanctuaries, most recently the which allows them to legally live University of Pennsylvania and and work in the United States Swarthmore College. for two years. According to The Other universities that have Chronicle of Higher Education, been established as sanctuary because the policy never became campuses include Portland law, it can be revoked at any University, Reed College and moment. President-elect Donald Wesleyan University. Trump suggests that the removal The motivation behind the of DACA is a “high priority.” faculty members’ push to raise MINJI KONG/THE REVIEW Assanis’ support for Delaware to the same status, President Assanis speaks with attendees at the We Stand With You event on Friday. undocumented students comes Bueno-Hansen said, is simple: during the same week he received “Love. Love of our community, love “These students are going to The DACA policy now offers live in fear of being torn from their a petition advocating for the of our families, love of all us, all of be really frightened and scared,” temporary protection and work families or deported. university to become a sanctuary us who are Latinx,” she said. he said. “It’s going to affect their authorization to more than Bueno-Hansen wants the focus campus (said petition, signed by Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, ability to focus on their education.” 700,000 undocumented students. to remain on the progress being more than 1,000 members of the professor of psychological and Laurenceau chose to get Laurenceau explained that before made with the petition, as well university community, can be brain sciences, also collaborated involved with the petition for DACA students were forced as President Assanis’ gesture (of found on page 7). with fellow UD professors to create many reasons. For one, some of to live in the shadows. These signing the Pomona College letter) The phrase “sanctuary the petition. his former and current students undocumented students lived in in favor of the movement. campus” is a status a college or “The goal of the petition is not are undocumented immigrants. fear of being questioned by police, Assanis could not be reached university can obtain that protects to voice a set of demands, rather He explained that the immigrant’s for something as simple as being for comment on the two petitions. its students who are undocumented to open up a line of conversation, story is what our country was stopped for a traffic violation. The “[Assanis] has stated his immigrants. The idea of a dialogue and collaboration with founded on. officers may ask undocumented willingness and interest to support “sanctuary campus” stemmed the administration, and hopefully “These are very vulnerable students for ID, which they would DACA,” Bueno-Hansen said. “In from “sanctuary cities,” which have with input from the student’s members of our community, not have without DACA. spirit he supports this effort. That existed since the 1980s. In these themselves, we can address what and they cannot stand up for “DACA allows immigrants to needs to be celebrated.” cities, which include Philadelphia needs to be done,” he said. themselves,” Laurenceau said. “So get a license, to be able to work and Baltimore, among others, city Laurenceau expressed that who is going to stand up for them? and to attend school,” Laurenceau officials and police officers do not the threat of removing the DACA I feel like that’s the least I could do said. assist with the deportation efforts policy creates a stressful and to honor the journey my parents Bueno-Hansen also expressed of federal immigration authorities. distracting learning environment went through to give me the concern for undocumented Pascha Bueno-Hansen, a for undocumented students. opportunity to be an American.” students already at Delaware who Shared governance remains issue for Faculty Senate SEASON COOPER things that we found questionable Senior Reporter in May and still [find] questionable now,” Galileo said. Issues of shared governance Continuing further to explain and free speech remained topics how the Board of Trustee’s of contention at the Faculty Senate revisions would reduce faculty’s meeting Monday night. power, Galileo went as far as In May, the Board of Trustees saying how such unapproved voted to make changes to Article changes would make the provost 3, despite the Faculty Senate’s and president “co-dictators” who opposition to such changes. could strip faculty of important Article 3 of the Faculty Senate responsibilities. Bylaws works to provide clarity Physics Professor John Morgan on the roles of facility and higher later defended Galileo’s use of leadership within the university. the word “dictator”: if there was According to the Faculty any inaccuracy in Galileo’s word Senate’s meeting minutes, last choice, Morgan said, it’s that it May’s approval was found not to “was an understatement.” be in compliance with Delaware’s “It is clear that the UD Board of Freedom of Information Act, Trustees re-ratifying their Article 3 which the university’s Office of changes would violate President General Counsel admitted among Assanis’ standing goal to rebuild recent complaints from Delaware trust, which now is virtually legislators to the attorney general. nonexistent here at Delaware,” Upon the discovery that Galileo said. the Board of Trustees intended Other Senate members and to vote on the same version of administrators others present had Article 3, this time in compliance varying opinions, including Vice with the Delaware’s Freedom of Provost for Faculty Affairs Matt Information Act, faculty members Kinservik. Kinservik said that the were less than pleased. Trustees’ changes to Article 3 align On Monday, the Faculty Senate with AAUP values. put to a vote to request that the “It is not a radical change Board of Trustees negotiate “in over power, it is clarification that good faith" with the Faculty Senate brings us into alignment with best if any new changes to Article 3 are practice around these issues,” proposed. Kinservik said of the revisions. In efforts to persuade his Although the Board of colleagues to pass the resolution, Trustees is still scheduled to vote Economics Professor Steve Hastings on the matter at their semi-annual read a letter from Biological meeting next week, other faculty, Sciences Professor Deni Galileo. among them Electrical Engineering In the letter Galileo stressed how Professor Charles Boncelet, still important passing the resolution hope that their voices can be heard. was in respect to faculty power “[The changes will] basically and shared governance with the allow the president and provost to Board of Trustees. bypass what they please,” Boncelet We Stand With You: Students, faculty and staff gathered in a rally “Voting on the resolution said. “Even though the Senate is showing support for minority community members on Friday. provides an opportunity to supposed to be responsible for make our feelings known, and to procedures of academics at the Read more on page 3. respectfully request that the board university.” ALL PHOTOS: MINJI KONG/THE REVIEW slow down and reconsider several CZ) UJ ADVOCATING FOR FOOD BANK SERVES YAGODA RETIRES VICTIMS COMMUNITY Professor Ben Yagoda leaves the Student Olivia Blythe conducts re Delaware Food Bank, a Newark staple for university after 25 years to focus on his I W search for the greater good. 35 years, is open weekly for those in need. own writing. 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