New University (newspaper)
| University of California, Irvine | |
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| Type | Weekly student newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
| Managing editors | Juan Gonzalez |
| News editor | Roy Lyle |
| Opinion editor | Caitlin Antonios |
| Sports editor | Marvin Luu |
| Photo editor | Yini Chen |
| Founded | September 23, 1968 |
| Headquarters | University of California, Irvine, C114 Student Center, Irvine, California, United States 92697 |
| Circulation | 8,000 |
| Website | www |
The University of California, Irvine has a number of student activities and traditions.
UCI has separate student governments representing undergraduate and graduate students. The Associated Students of the University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) is the undergraduate student government. ASUCI has executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and is also a member of the United States Student Association. In 2014, ASUCI withdrew from the University of California Student Association.
Many student organizations are funded by ASUCI's Student Programming Funding Board. ASUCI also sponsors annual concerts and festivals, including "Shocktoberfest", "Wayzgoose", and "Reggaefest".
The Associated Graduate Students (AGS) represents graduate students.
Other committees, such as the Student Fee Advisory Committee, provide for shared governance in certain areas of university administration, Many of these, such as the Student Center Board of Advisors, the Bren Events Center Advisory Board, and the Anteater Recreation Center Advisory Board were created to oversee campus entities funded by student-initiated referenda fees.
In March 2015, the legislative branch of ASUCI voted in favor of a resolution that would have banned all flags from a shared inner workroom in the undergraduate student government's offices, the text of which partially stating that "The American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism" and "freedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible, can be interpreted as hate speech". After the student government's president expressed his opposition to the resolution in a public social media post, the resolution became controversial, with criticism and support from students and non-students. The student representatives who voted in favor of the ban experienced intense harassment and received numerous death threats. The university administration called the ban "misguided", stating “The views of a handful of students passing a resolution do not represent the opinions of the nearly 30,000 students on this campus, and have no influence on the policies and practices of the university”, and the executive branch of the student council vetoed the ban. During the controversy, California State Senator Janet Nguyen said that the state constitution could be amended to prohibit the banning of the American flag at taxpayer-funded campuses.
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