REPTAR DESCENDS ON GEISEL▶67050657(., UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO www.ucsdguardian.org ;O\YZKH`1\UL The Student Voice Since 1967 /W^¼[8TIV 5,>:;<+,5; -TQUQVI\M[ >,335,:: =+;, *,5;,9:/69; +IT/ZIV\[ 65-<5+: Student Affairs seeks $40 By Yelena Akopian Associate News Editor million in donations; The 2,300 UCSD students who plans to join all student were offered a total of $13 million health and wellness in Cal Grants next year may not be seeing that money anytime soon. services under one roof. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s By Kelly Pleskot newest budget revision attempts ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN Staff Writer to partially solve California’s $24 The university reserves the right to evict students from campus housing at any time. Students are not entitled to a review of their charges. billion budget Construction of the new Student deficit by elim- Wellness Center has been indef- inating over initely postponed due to lack of $800 million *ZMIKPWN+WV\ZIK\ funding for the $40 million project. in funding to Originally scheduled for com- the University pletion by the 2011-12 academic of California, year, the center is meant to con- as well as cut- Evicted Student Proves Innocence With Drug Test solidate the wellness cluster — an ting all new Cal By Reza FarazmandtNews Editor interdisciplinary group of student Grant awards services that includes Counseling and halting Mark G. Yudof wo months after an Earl Chou’s Douglas Hall apartment. and Psychological Services, Student future award UC President Warren College stu- Born received the eviction Health Services, the Sexual Assault increases for grant renewals. dent was evicted from notice from Warren College ▶▶▶ ▶ READR EAD ONO N Resource Center and the Campus T An editorial on the contract According to university spokes- his Galbraith Hall apartment Residential Life on March 16 — Page 4: Recreation Center — into one all- woman Stacie Spector, 7,300 UCSD for an alleged marijuana viola- the Monday of finals week — a encompassing facility. undergraduates — about one third tion, a judicial board hearing this few days after Roake confronted Born and Chou both denied According to Assistant Vice of the UCSD student body — cur- week cleared him of all charges. Born and Chou at Chou’s apart- the accusations, and after the pair Chancellor of Student Wellness rently receives about $51 million in However, administrators have ment. received write-up notices two Karen Calfas, the center hopes to Cal Grants. indicated no plans to reinstate Born was given 30 days to days later, Born met with Warren finance construction with private Under Schwarzenegger’s plan, the student’s residency or issue a vacate his residence. College Assistant Residential donations. these students would be eligible formal apology for the mistake. The two students said they Dean Cesar Figueroa to discuss “Until we have a substantial to continue to receive the grants, At a May 27 hearing before were watching a movie in Chou’s the incident. Figueroa allegedly amount of funding, we can’t even though the maximum award would the Warren College Council room on the evening of March told Born — who, at the time, start construction,” Calfas said. not be increased to compensate for Judicial Board, Warren College 9 when Roake knocked on the was on nonacademic probation “Since the economy is really strug- future UC fee hikes. sophomore Cody Born present- apartment door at around 11:30 for an unrelated alcohol violation gling, that process is not going along Additionally, a public letter ed hair follicle and urine tests p.m. When Chou opened the that had occurred several months at the rate we had anticipated. That released by the California Student Aid confirming that he had not con- door, Roake claimed to detect the earlier — that there was a good will get better.” Commission last Thursday warned sumed any illicit substances on odor of burnt marijuana from chance he would be evicted from Calfas and Vice Chancellor of that Cal Grant offers for next year are the night that Residential Security inside the apartment. his apartment. Student Affairs Penny Rue said that tentative and subject to final approval Officer Michael Roake accused According to Born and Chou’s “At first I thought that it was given the unpredictability of fund- within the 2009-10 state budget. Born and his girlfriend — fellow write-up notices, Roake also said just a misunderstanding,” Born ing, there is no way to set a comple- Warren College sophomore Kathy the two students had bloodshot See GRANTSpage 2 Chou — of smoking marijuana in eyes and flushed faces. See EVICTIONpage 9 See WELLNESSpage 14 <*7YLZPKLU[*OHUJLSSVYZ 5,>;(2,657,54(5:/07 [V;HRL7LYJLU[:HSHY`*\[ from the salaries of about 30 senior About 30 UC executives, administrators, including executive including senior admin., and senior vice presidents, execu- tive vice chancellors and the General will take pay cuts totalling Counsel (which provides legal ser- almost $1 million to help vices to the 10-campus system). “Admittedly, this action does not fill $531 million deficit. have a significant impact on our very By Kimberly Cheng serious budget deficit, given its mag- Associate News Editor nitude and the fact that UC’s senior management group comprises only UC President Mark G. Yudof will a very small fraction of university make a 5 percent reduction to his employees,” Yudof said in the letter. annual salary next month, along with “Given the magnitude of the budget the salaries of all UC chancellors and shortfall, all options need to be con- other top executives, in response to sidered, and unfortunately, it is likely deep systemwide budget reductions. that every member of the UC com- The pay cut, which was announced munity will be affected negatively.” JOSEPH HO/GUARDIAN in an internal letter from Yudof last Students enrolled in the Aesthetics of Chinese Calligraphy, an upper-division Visual Arts course, displayed their work inside Mandeville week, will shave less than $1 million See REGENTSpage 3 Auditorium, at various locations near Sun God Lawn and throughout the Student Center. 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