San Francisco Foghorn

              FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
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Vol. Ill, Issue 4
THURSDAY, September 26, 2013
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OPINION
Pranav Mandavia reacts to
the social media outrage
at the background of Miss
America 2013
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SPORTS
Club president Luis
Cervantes brings his
A-game to VarCity, USF's
hip-hop dance crew.
Page 8
Dana Leon spent two
months interning with Gen
eracion, an organization
in Lima, Peru that gives
children a home and an
opportunity. Read more!
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Dream, Without a
Passport
Jose Vargas,
Undocumented
Citizen and
Pulitzer Prize
Journalist,
to Speak
on Campus
Tomorrow,
Sept. 27
ALLISON FAZIO
StaffWriter
Jose Antonio Vargas won a Pulitzer Prize for "Breaking News Reporting," appeared on air with The
Colbert Report, and profiled Mark
Zuckerberg for an article in The
New Yorker — but the biggest thing
he has done was in 2011 when he
came out as an undocumented citizen, i
Vargas, a journalist, filmmaker,
and founder of Define American, a
campaign for immigration reform,
will be visiting campus tomorrow,
September 27, as the keynote speak
er at USF's Th ird Annual Critical
Diversity Studies Fall Forum.
This year's forum is titled "Dreaming On," and it recalls Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s famous dream —
the dream for a nation where "all
men are created equal" — to better
contextualize the struggles of justice and inequality that still exist in
America today. Vargas, who moved
to the U.S. from the Philippines as
a 12-year-old boy in 1993, is not a
documented citizen, and received national attention for disclosing so in
a personal essay that was published
by New York Times Magazine in
June 2011. His essay "My Life as an
Undocumented Immigrant" revealed
the realities of undocumented life: no
driver's license, no social security, no
rights.
Drawing from his own personal
history, Vargas will speak to USF
students about the importance of immigration reform and his campaign,
"Define American," which seeks to
elevate the immigration discourse
and inspire action in all citizens. "It's
important that our allies, the American citizens who help undocumented
Continued on page 3
-.ourtesy of
Media Studies Professor Teresa Moore is so excited to see her friend Jose Antonio Vargas
speak at USF this Friday, that she let us use this 10-year-old photo of the pair — lookin'
good! Here, Moore and Leslie Guevara (right) celebrate with Vargas (center) on his gradua-
tion from San Francisco State University. ,	
University Members
Respond to Foghorn Crime
Report
ALLISON FAZIO
StaffWriter
Last week, the Foghorn reported
that students were not notified by
official University email of a crime
that occurred on campus. This
week, the problem still remains for
some students.
Director of the Department of
Public Safety Daniel Lawson stated that the oversight is currently
being investigated. "It may have
something to do with spam filters,"
he said.
Lawson said the director of e-
communications advised Public
Safety that an email regarding the
robbery on Anza St. was sent out
to all undergraduate and graduate
students on September 13 at 2:01
p.m.
A student survey the Foghorn
conducted for last week's article,
however, indicated that only four
out of 37 student participants received an email from the Public
Safety Bulletin. Typically, all members of the university are notified
about on-campus crimes via their
USF Dons email accounts, in accordance with the Clery Act 20
U,S.C. § 1092(f) — a federal act
which, according to its provisions,
"requires colleges and universities
across the United States to disclose
information about crime on and
around their campuses."
"[The director of e-communica-
tions] is currently researching why
so many students did not receive
the notice," said Lawson. He later
added: "This is good that the issue
came up. We will need to solve this
problem."
According to a more recent Foghorn survey (see page 3) a majority of students have not received an
email notification to this day. Still,
23 out of 41 survey responders indicated that they were aware of the
on-campus crime at the time ofthe
survey. Of those 23, more than half
indicated the Foghorn as their primary source for the information;
nine responses indicated "friends,"
while one indicated the public
safety email.
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Law School
Professors Explore
Constitutionality of
NSA Surveillance
Program
RITA MCNEIL
StaffWriter
In celebration of Constitution Day, Professors at USF's Law
School held a lecture Sept. 17 to
hone in on the primary constitutional rights relevant to the National
Security Agency (NSA) Surveillance program.
Last January, Edward Snowden,
previously an NSA employee, exposed the surveillance program by
way of Laura Poitras, a freelance
journalist and filmmaker, according
to the New York Times. He leaked
thousands of confidential government documents to Poitras following his initial contact with her via
encrypted emails, the New York
Times reports.
Snowden uncovered two main
ways the NSA is conducting surveillance in the United States: acquisition of a meta database (information
about information) and acquisition
of information about any telephone
calls that was made or received in
the United States, according to Susan Freiwald_a_. professor at USF
Law School.
Professors Daivd Greene, and
Robert Elias joined Freiwald in
discussing whether or not this new
program is justified by the constitution. They came to the consensus
that what the NSA is doing is likely
unconstitutional.
Students and faculty alike find
the NSA Surveillance Program to
be unjust. Taylor Jackson, senior religious studies major weighs in on
the issue: "Personally, I agree with
Snowden. I think the American
people have basic civil liberties that
were violated."
Freiwald says, "The NSA is supposed to be engaged in fighting terrorism and naming surveillance of
people abroad." She thinks they are
justified in gathering information to
prevent terrorism, but she expressed
concern that the NSA is gathering
so much domestic information.
Freiwald explained the NSA is
surveilling a number of communications content such as email, so-
What's the
USF's Cofltt
Garden?
cial networking, video, chat, photos,
and any other stored information.
Freiwald spoke to the issue of surveillance in terms of the 4th amendment, which says that "no person
shall be subject to unreasonable
search or seizure by the government."
This translates into the NSA context because by having access to this
information, they are intruding in on
our privacy, according to Freiwald.
She thinks "they really should only
do this if they have good reason to
believe that you are involved in criminal activity."
David Greene, who teaches classes
on the 1st Amendment, says that the
government's position on the issue
is "they aren't really doing anything
wrong by collecting the information." The only case in which Greene
thinks this type of surveillance is justified is "when they're trying to foil
terrorist plots [because] it's good to
be able to notice patterns of communication."
Since the NSA has access to information about social media interactions, they have the ability to track
anonymous posts, such as ones on
the USF Confessions Facebook page.
"It's not like there's anything on the
USF Confessions page that would be
valuable to the U.S. government, but
just the fact that they can access anyone's personal information or private
posts without their consent is outrageous," said Hadi Sherazi, junior Kinesiology major.
Including his career as a professor, Greene works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a
non-profit organization "working to
protect fundamental civil liberties,
including privacy and freedom of expression," according to the organization's home page.
Greene and his colleagues at EFF
have filed a lawsuit against the NSA
on behalf of numerous organizations
such as the First Unitarian Church
of Los Angeles, Green Peace, and '
multiple gun rights organizations.
Greene states, "Disclosing or removing protection of anonymity can
chill the practice of first amendment
laws."
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