VOLUME 53, ISSUE 18 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG LABOR PHOTOSPORTS: TEASE ?E$"FG#H+1%-# MEN’S VOLLEYBALL GOES HERE IJKK#G&4+20)0# B)2&()#$%&4)20 Sanders has been a vocal proponent of the union’s goals for years. !.##2;A&'K=%#+T=T>=GL; .%#(&$/0($#1'+&$("& The University of California’s largest employment union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 3299, announced their decision to PHOTO BY NAME HERE /GUARDIAN endorse Bernie Sanders for President ahead of California’s CAPTION"...UCSD PREVIEWING was able to Estelle performing at Warren Live 2020 // Photo by Ellie Wang 2020 Democratic Primary on Feb. THEdominate ARTICLE in PAIRED every facet WITH 14. The endorsement comes two ofTHE the PHOTO game TEASE.in the win, FOR weeks before the state’s election day on March 3. EXAMPLEshowing o IFf THEa balanced PHOTO CAMPUS attackWERE onOF oAf BABYense, YOUcrisp In an interview with the Times of San Diego, AFSCME Local WOULDpassing, SAY and “BABIES great team SUCK! !"$'#8)9)9:)20#;<=>)%2#?&&(5)20%2@#+A #B-%1C#D(&.)2 THEY ARE WEAK AND 3299 Executive Vice President chemistry." !"##$%&"##$'(')%&###!"#$%&'!()**'+&$("& Michael Avant explained that the reasoning behind the +38$1/2C##0,H3##ESports, page 16 he Associated Students Office of which focused on a wide range of topics Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and the including the panelists’ personal involvement endorsement was because of +18I23++##0/-1813+ Black Student Union held an event in with student organization during Black Winter the union’s push for collective *+*,--.##/0121/2##$3,+3 Tremembrance of the ten-year anniversary of and how non-black students can be effective bargaining rights. 0%&K)<<&%<##=GL##K=F'A:" “These are the biggest voting !3!,+##2336+##$7/##+0,83+ the Compton Cookout and Black Winter on activists. The panel included director of the issues for our members,” Avant /O;G;&GC##0=D)#P+38$1/2C##0=D)###E Feb. 20. The event, which was attended by LGBT Resource Center Shaun Travers, director approximately 430 students, included panel of the Cross Cultural Center Edwina Welch said. “And while any of the discussions on the impact of Black Winter and Ed.D., Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College major candidates challenging +/218##$J3##J36H3J/H included a focus on the need for constructive Ivan Evans, and associate professor of African Trump would be a significant /4$32##,##+0/5$+##$3,+3 discourse and activism as a means of combating American literature Dennis Childs. 41-M##53N137 improvement, none have walked 9':##;<##=##>=<?):@>=AAB structural and social anti-blackness. “How did I support [activists during Black the talk as reliably and consistently ,Q3C##0,H3#R<)F:;&GC##0=D)##E The Compton Cookout refers to a racially Winter] personally?” Evans asked rhetorically as Senator Bernie Sanders, and stereotypical off-campus party held by a group on the panel. “I came there. I showed up. I that’s why we are enthusiastically of UC San Diego students on Feb. 15, 2010, listened. And I said, ‘you are my leaders,’ to the endorsing him for President.” which was intended to mock Black History students.” The endorsement comes FOREFORECAST- Month. The winter quarter that the party The second panel discussion was composed as no surprise to many who occured became known as Black Winter to of UCSD alumni and current students. The have been following Sanders’ UCSD students and faculty. panelists were education studies graduate campaign platform. He has been The party was followed by a series of racially student James Crawford, Thurgood Marshall a long-time advocate for union motivated events, including the usage of a racial College sophomore Leighla Buckner, Earl membership, industry-wide slur by the satirical college paper The Koala, the Warren College academic advisor Amado collective bargaining, and has MONDAYTUESDAY WEDNESDAYTUESDAY finding of a noose in Geisel Library, and the Berrios, former vice chair of the BSU Victor HH 7396 L 7255 H H75 86 L L 53 68 placement of a Klu Klux Klan hood on the head Brown, former events chair of the BSU and shown support for AFSCME in of the Dr. Seuss statue. current structural engineering graduate student the past. In response, the BSU organized protests Theresa Richards, and Student Promoted Access Sanders spoke in favor of alongside groups such as the Movimiento Center for Education and Service retention UC unions during a strike held Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan. The BSU program advisor Regine Reyes. by AFSCME and University WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY THURSDAYFRIDAY ultimately made a list of 32 demands for a more When asked about the current racial climate Professional and Technical HH 75 79 LL 6757 HH 73 79 L L 5766 inclusive campus including the creation of a at UCSD as compared to 2010, Crawford talked Employees-Communications Black Resource Center and the establishment about the role that resource centers such as the Workers of America 9119 in of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion course Black Resource Center can play in facilitating a March 2019. VERBATIM requirement. greater sense of community. “The University of California VERBATIM The event first began with a land “[UCSD] should not just be [an] ivory tower must be a model employer,” !"#$%&'())*+, acknowledgement that UCSD is located on where we keep information locked up and Sanders said. “It must be an PULL$#$-*.%$,/%,&0$, A QUOTE FROM indigenous Kumeyaay land, which was followed we are doing all of these projects to benefit employer that respects its workers, A COLUMN HERE! FOR by a moment of silence. these Fortune 500 companies,” Crawford said. and it must be an employer that EXAMPLE,-..1,2(3,3/%4/%4, ‘I DON’T Current faculty and staff who worked “Instead, we are here to make sure … we are treats its workers with dignity and UNDERSTAND(%5,5(%6/%4,&., WHY ALLIE during Black Winter took part in a panel not the only ones who are benefiting from these it must sit down with its unions CAN’T781$-/6(%,9.*+:, ASCRIBE WORDS TO discussion moderated by junior Jordan Ward, degrees ... It is not just about ourselves, but it is and negotiate in good faith.” THEIR PROPER USAGES.’ One of the core platforms (%5,20(&,;$&&$-, See WINTER,#page 2 -KELVIN NORONHA” pushed by Sanders’ campaign is - Columnist2(*,&.,3<$%5, name here the “Workplace Democracy Plan.” (,2$$=%/40&,(&,COLUMN TITLE HERE GLOBAL The main objective of the plan >?@AB:SECTION, PAGE _ is strengthening the American !"#$%&#'()*+#,)%-./#'(01/%2*)0#32)%.)4#"+2+&%5(260#7%.()&. middle class. The plan calls for Natalie Tran Two Coronavirus patients to this date have been treated at UCSD Health located in Hillcrest. doubling union membership and Warren Live 2020 denying federal contracts that pay PAGE 8 !.#ST'&";GD###-;G Feb. 10, while the second case 19. Based on a statement released poverty wages, outsource jobs ,()**'-&$("& was confirmed on Feb. 13. Both by UCSD Health, after being overseas, or deny good benefits. patients are American evacuees informed the test was negative “There are many reasons INSIDEINSIDE As of Feb. 14, the Centers for from Wuhan, China who were for COVID-19 on Sunday, Feb. 9, for the growing inequality in Disease Control and Prevention previously quarantined at Marine the patient was discharged from our economy, but one of the has confirmed two coronavirus Corps Air Station in Miramar. UCSD Health and returned to LIGHTSTEXT ...................................X & SIRENS...........3 most significant reasons for the OP-ED: ACADEMIA.........5 cases in San Diego. As of Feb. They are currently hospitalized MCAS Miramar for quarantine. disappearing middle class is that OPINION SOMETHING .X 19, one of these patients has at the UCSD medical center in However, on the morning of TO ALL THE BOYS.........9 the rights of workers to join WEEKEND/FEATURE .....X fully recovered and has been Hillcrest for treatment. Monday Feb. 10, the patient was together and bargain for better GUARDIANCROSSWORD/SUDOKU GURL..........10 X discharged from UC San Diego The first patient landed at notified the test was positive wages, benefits, and working WOMEN’S B-BALL........16 Health. MCAS Miramar on Feb. 5 and after further testing, and the conditions have been severely A SOCCER BALL! WOW X The first person in San Diego was tested for coronavirus due to was diagnosed with the virus on suspected symptoms of COVID- See VIRUS,#page 2 See ENDORSEMENT,#page 2 U THE UCSD GUARDIAN | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG 237+ !"#$%&'()&*$%&&+&,)$-#.,/)#0$1*$2$*,'3#-$&4 $5"2*6#.$-#62-01*6$"&7$8%9:$2((-&25"#.$01;#-.1)<= ▶ WINTER, from page 1 about building that community we [create] pro-blackness… how complex concepts,” Palafox said. think that a lot of students got … so to me, the BRC [has been] are we doing pro-black actions, “I hope the event encouraged the key takeaway that they do important for that.” pro-black community, [and] and informed future UCSD have power to enact change.” The event concluded with a pro-black spaces?” activists to create impactful Throughout the rest of Daisy Scott Editor in Chief speech by John Muir College In an email to the UCSD movements, and demand equity February, UCSD will be Ranjani Shankar Provost Wayne Yang which talked Guardian, Associate Vice in a constructive and inclusive celebrating Black History Managing Editor Jacob Sutherland News Co-Editors about the involvement of non- President of EDI Noah Palafox manner.” Month with events such as film Andrew Ha black allies during Black Winter expressed his hopes that the Marshall College sophomore screenings and lectures. Students Geena Younger Opinion Editor and how they can continue to be event could provide insight Isaac Lara told the Guardian that are encouraged to visit the UCSD Jack Dorfman constructive advocates for the and awareness regarding Black he was surprised by the turnout Black History Month website to Sports Editor black community.