San Francsico Foghorn

              FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
sta JTonhorn
Vol.108    Issue 22
TheFoghornOnline.com
April 14,2011
NEWS
Senate candidates debate a
week before elections begin;
Pg-2
OPINION
Students share their favorite
sunny-day retreats; pg. 4
SCENE
The "Granny Chic" trend that's
sweeping USF's campus;
Pg-5
SPORTS
Sophomore Haden Hinkle
pitches well for the Dons
against St. Mary's; pg. 7
FOGHORN ONLINE
Second Protest Revisits Upward Bound Issue
Demonstrators urge University leaders to continue sponsorship
VICENTE PATINO
StaffWriter
Over a month after protesters
encircled Welsh field in support of
Upward Bound, dozens of students
and community leaders lined the
sidewalks and lawn in front of the
School of Education last Monday
afternoon. The second demonstration rallied against USF's decision to
no longer host the federally-funded
college preparatory program because
of an acute shortage of campus facilities.
Upward Bound, which traces
back to the administration of Lyndon Johnson, operates nationwide.
The program prepares underprivileged high school youth for a post-
secondary education.
Upward Bound chapters supporting local high-school students are
housed on college campuses, making
use of its host institution's classrooms
and dormitories.
The program has existed at USF
since 1966.
Only a handful of people sat in
the pews of the First AME Zion
Church by 4 o'clock. The church,
situated merely one half-block east
from the university's Ulrich baseball
field, is home to the congregation
led by Rev. Malcolm J Byrd. Byrd is
a key organizer in the movement to
sustain Upward Bound at USF.
Byrd and USF Upward Bound
Director Janice Cook and USF Professor Bernadette Barker-Plummer,
greeted demonstrators while also
reading through a letter released
minutes before from the university's
Associate Vice Provost for Diversity
and Community Engagement Dr.
Mary Wardell.
Wardell's message, distributed
via USFconnect around 3:45 p.m.
that day, listed four conditions that
Upward Bound could retain USF's
sponsorship, which included "direct
oversight of the program by an advisory committee...which will ensure accountability for the program's
management", a requirement that
the "program must be integrated into
the life of the University", and that
"facilities must be located off the USF cam-
pus.
Demonstrators were
optimistic about the
letter, but doubts remained over the ultimate future of Upward
Bound at USF.
Undergraduates
Hennessey Donovan
and Claire Brennan attended the protest.
"I was told about
[Upward Bound] in
class by my American
history professor, and
anyone else I've talked
to about the issue has
been immediately [in
support of] Upward
Bound," Brennan said.
"To be honest
[though], I think Fr.
Privett is going to do
what he wants to do,"
Donovan added, "But
that doesn't mean we
should do something."
Undergraduate student and freshman
Gabriel Vancea works
in the Upward Bound
office as a tutor. He
credits his participation in University of
San Diego's Upward
Bound program for being able to attend USF.
He said the future of
the program was "very
unpredictable," because
of the administration's
inconsistencies.
Dominique Byrd,
Rev. Bryd's wife, felt
strongly about recent
efforts to retain the program at USF.
"I have no idea what is going to
happen," she said. "God's will is going to be done...but we can't let this
discussion happen without doing
anything about it. We want to exhaust all our resources before the decision comes through."
By 4:30 p.m. there were about 100
Sean Culligan/Foghorn
Rev. Malcom Byrd of the First AME
Zion Church (left) and Rev. Amos Brown
of the SF NAACP (above) tallies the
demonstration. Communityprotestots
carry picket signs containing USF ID
pictures of current Upward Bound
Students (below).
demonstrators in the church. After
an opening prayer by Rev. Byrd, the
group left the church in a police-escorted procession to the front of the
School of Education.
The procession was joined by Rev.
Amos Brown, president of the San
Francisco Chapter of the NAACP
and   pastor   of the  Third   Baptist
Church of San Francisco.
During the one-and-a-half-block
walk to the intersections of Tam-
aulipas and Turk, the crowd carried
enlarged prints of individual Upward
PROTEST: Continued on Page 2
KUSF Nominated for People's Choice Award
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Culligan/
Foghorn
From Top
to Bottom:
DJ Cormac
Fawsitt spins
a recotd on
air. Fawsitt
displays
records heard
on KUSF.
CDs are
•stocked in the
KUSF studio.
ROLAND ARGOMANIZ
StaffWriter
Drea Hightower was sitting in a
hotel room in Cuba when a friend
emailed her about the sale of KUSF's
frequency.
Hightower, a USF graduate and
current employee of Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based
organization committed to human
rights and fair trade, said she couldn't
help but feel betrayed by the news.
Upon her arrival back home,
Hightower attended a panel on communication rights and the battle to
save KUSF during last week's Human Rights Film Festival. She took
serious note of the community efforts being made to save the public
airwaves from being sold.
Within days, officials at Save-
KUSF.org received notification
they had been nominated for their
extraordinary efforts in the community. Save KUSF is being recognized as one of the nominees in this
year's1 "People's Choice Award," for
the Global Exchange Ninth Annual
Human Rights Awards Gala on June
1st.
Each year, Global Exchange selects a theme to honor International
and National organizations and individuals for their contributions towards making the world a more just
place.
Given Hightower's connections with Global Exchange, it was
a unique opportunity to recognize
Save KUSF. Hightower said Save-
kusf.org is "demonstrating exactly
what the award is given for - those
who fight for what they believe in on
behalf of the community."
As an alumnus of the university
and having worked for a public ra-
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dio station that was sold in the past,
Hightower expressed a tremendous
amount of disappointment in the
administration for the sale of KUSF,
noting that the university was contradicting its Jesuit principles and
mission of cultivating minds and
hearts to change the world.
She said the effort to save KUSF
is a big deal and those leading the
charge should be celebrated for their
work.
"There are a large amount of efforts to get people to buy local goods,
and by the same token, we should
value and respect the work of KUSF,
which is there to serve the community," Hightower said, "that's what
this university stands for."
Dorothy Kidd, professor of Media Studies, is among those who are
mobilizing to save KUSF.
She found this special award to
be a symbol of praise and recognition for the ongoing efforts of an energized movement and community
anchored by students and faculty at
KUSF.
Kidd keeps a copy of the 1st
Amendment and Article 19 of the
Declaration of Human Rights posted on her office door. The words serve
to remind people of the fundamental
rights granted to citizens to "receive
and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of
frontiers," a message at the core of
save KUSF's mission.
While the outlook for blocking
the sale was grim at the outset, many
have become optimistic regarding
the petition of the sale.
For Kidd, what makes KUSF
unique is the ability to "serve students,   faculty,   special   populations
KUSF: Continued on Page 2
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