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The Farewell Issue UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE NEW UNIVERSITY Volume 50, Issue 31 www.newuniversity.org /thenewuniversity @NewUniversity @NewUniversity Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Letter from Letter from the 2017-2018 the 2018-2019 Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief By Megan Cole By Caitlin Antonios Staff Writer Staff Writer Next year, the New University As the New University’s time is in for some changes — more in print comes to a close, it’s than it’s seen in its entire 50-year difficult not to become nostalgic. history. The paper is going all- This transition to an all-digital digital, adding new positions to its publication is bittersweet. But its editorial board, and transitioning sweetness is felt when we look to become a daily publication. ahead to the exciting future in It’s sure to be a challenging year, store. Becoming an all-digital but that’s to be expected. Nothing publication allows us to become about being a student journalist a daily publication as well, no — especially now — is easy or longer constrained by the weekly calm or predictable. But that’s demands of print. This will be the part of what makes it so much fun. first time in the New University’s To be a student journalist history that we publish daily in 2018 is to weather a and we’re ready to take on the constant stream of doubts and challenge. contradictions, to plunge into Our primary goal going uncertainty and still forge a path forward is to serve students. ahead, even as all traditional This publication is made by points of reference disappear. In students, for students and just my four short years at the provides a unique platform for New U, I’ve seen the news industry student voices to be heard. We transform dramatically, at UCI and live in crazy times. Information is across the world. The changes at thrown at us in every direction, our own campus paper are part of every second of the day. As a large-scale pattern in media, as student journalists who live in new channels of communication the community they report on, emerge online while traditional we are in the perfect position media giants struggle to stay to become students’ number one relevant. As student journalists source for information on UCI. coming into the field just as it Now more than ever, breaks with all precedent, it’s journalism is at the forefront daunting to think of our role in of global discussion, whether redefining the industry — but it’s it’s accusations of “fake news” also a privilege to have a hand in or providing answers when our shaping the way stories will be justice system fails. There is a told in this brand-new world. desire to be a part of a bigger This is a turbulent time for conversation and the New journalism, but the sheer talent University is determined to lend and dedication of our incoming its voice and, more importantly, New U editors, writers and highlight the students’ voices. reporters gives me faith that the There is nowhere better to gain New U will take these changes experience in reporting, writing, in stride and become a better editing, and time management publication than it’s ever been. To then the New University. Anyone my successor as editor-in-chief, who is interested in being a part Caitlin Antonios, and managing of the next phase of our paper editor Ashley Duong, I wish you is welcome to join! It’ll be an all the best, and look forward to exciting and fulfilling journey. watching you do amazing things Thank you to the students for as you push the New U into this keeping the New University in uncharted terrain. To the rest of print for over 50 years. We are the incoming writers, editors and honored to have a small part in staff, you all give me hope. Keep UCI history. We know the next 50 doing what you do, and never years on your screens will be just forget that it’s worth it. END OF AN ERA The 2017-2018 New Univeristy Editorial Board on their last Sunday production day. as wonderful. New University News Highlights By Ashley Duong Staff Writer staff writer and news editor I didn’t have much information.” resulted in Cheng’s resignation resignation. who covered and reported on Vatz also said about the from his position. the incident, wrote in her piece experience, “This was one of Staff writers Traci Lee and “Impounding May Lead In the New University’s tenure that the shooting occurred as a those times I remember where Gregory Yee reported that Cheng to 3rd Election” — ASUCI in print, the news section has result of “an apparent domestic reporting daily news was “was arrested for sexual battery, Impounding Newspapers: covered breaking stories that dispute” between UCI alumnae exciting but I also felt like I was according to the Irvine Police In 1985, the New University have changed the course of Rebecca Edwina Benedict and somewhere I did not belong. I Department’s adult arrest roster followed ASUCI election results, campus culture and history. then-UCI physics graduate remembered feeling really upset for the month of November. The reporting on investigations that From protests to scandals, the student Brian Benedict, and sad for that family and I victim, a UCLA graduate student came following allegations that New University staff has been “possibly involving the custody didn’t want to really dig for who has asked to be named as voter registration cards were there for it all. The following are of their 4-year-old son.” answers — I didn’t want to be “Laya,” reported the attack to found to be stolen. several of our most prominent On reporting the story, Vatz invasive.” the police a few weeks after the Following the turbulent and groundbreaking pieces: recently said, “This was a really incident.” election cycle, the New early morning. I think my editor “Student Regent Under Their piece continued to University’s Tom McQueeney “School Shooting Shakes (at the time David Lumb) called Investigation” — UC Student detail that, “In a series of emails reported that the “Associated UCI” — UCI’s first fatal school me sometime that felt really early Regent Sexual Assault Case: over the course of October, Student council voted… to shooting: (in my mind it was at 6:30 a.m. In 2011, the New University which were disclosed to the New impound all copies of La Voz While the campus has had but it was probably closer to 8 broke a story on former Student University and also given to the Mestiza,” and ultimately all its fair share of active shooter a.m.) and asked me if I wanted to Regent representative and UCI police and to Student Conduct, copies of the New University to alerts throughout the years, in go report this. Initially, we were student, Jesse Cheng, who was Cheng repeatedly apologized to “ease collection” since La Voz September 2009, UCI was rocked unsure whether it was an active under investigation for sexual Laya for sexually assaulting her.” Mestiza was distributed as an by its first shooting on campus shooter situation. I remember misconduct on campus; media Their reporting detailed the insert of the paper. that resulted in a fatality. I was a little nervous to head attention and public pressure in entirety of the investigation Stephanie Vatz, a former into graduate housing because response to the piece ultimately as well as Cheng’s eventual SEE HIGHLIGHTS, PAGE 2 NEWS June 5, 2018 The New University 2 HIGHLIGHTS | from cover Liberties Union to look into the “One Campus Divisible: UCI possibility of filing suit against Torn Over US Flag” — The Flag This came as a result of the ASUCI for impounding his Incident: La Voz Mestiza having published newspaper.” Following ASUCI’s passage of endorsements, following an ASUCI’s decision to impound R50-70, a resolution that called already contested election the papers included throwing for the removal of all flags in the that included the results of the papers into car trunks of various Student Government’s office area, first being voided. McQueeney councilmembers. Their actions UCI was thrust into the limelight reported that “Gaspar Copado, the lead to protests on campus, of national conversation, with editor-in-chief of La Voz Mestiza, decrying ASUCI’s supposed public backlash from those said he asked the American Civil infringement on free press. who saw ASUCI’s actions as unpatriotic. The New University’s Phuc Pham traced the incident back to the formation of the resolution and chronicled what came after, reporting on the legislation’s ASUCI Photographer Daniel Garlock's front page picture of ASUCI passage, the largely negative members confiscating copies of the New University (May 21, 1985). response from the public and the death threats student representatives who voted in publish apology letters. Pham released an apology.” favor of the resolution’s passage wrote in his piece, “According to received as a result. Representative Rico, the apology ........................................................... Pham wrote, “Derogatory statement released by her, as comments, many of which were well as representatives Tsai and These stories, along with the racialized, as well as threats of Fatahi, late Sunday night was many others the New University physical violence have made their pressed upon them by campus news section has covered, have way into the inboxes of the six officials. informed the UCI community and representatives who voted in Sidney said that in a served as a platform for breaking favor of the legislation.” meeting with Student Affairs, campus news.

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