// Dear UCSD Professors//

Dear UCSD faculty,

Can you please follow suit?

The political apathy on this campus and the impersonal learning at UCSD is hurting me personally. A lot. Financially and emotionally.

section from a letter from a professor at Davis [link]

How I got involved       January 24, 2012
David Wittman (UC Davis Physics)

It was the “fact sheet” that radicalized me.

I have never been politically active in my life.  Although I have
opinions on political issues, I have always found immersing myself in my own work far more rewarding than joining the political fray.  Of course, when I saw the videos of campus police pepper-spraying students on the quad on November 18 I was disturbed, but I would have been content to sign a few petitions and vote in any faculty votes on the matter.

I did sign the letter, written by other physics faculty, calling on
the chancellor to step down.  This was not a knee-jerk reaction to the video; I understood that it would take time to properly assess
culpability for the events of that day.  Rather, I called for her
resignation because her leadership in the aftermath of the
pepper-spraying was so awful, and because it was clear that she needed to be sent a very strong message to take a more pro-student stance.

After reading and observing as much as I have of the construction and contracts behind Price Center and unnecessary renovations that led to the shut down of our noncorporate, non-privatized study spaces (libraries that are essentially run by student employees and personable security guards who aren’t affiliated with the administration or even friends with anyone on administration and straight up lack RESPECT for them as individuals), help us terrible social learners in “hard” sciences or terrible self-learners in “soft” social sciences out.

Don’t you see how little Chancellor Fox gives a shit about UCSD students?

It’s been over a year since the Compton Cookout, and instead of directly addressing it, she spent funds on aggrandizing Founders’ Day celebrations. When she wasn’t even a founder of the university. She had her PR rep stick her face next to the flyers that try to make UCSD seem culturally empathetic, advertising the dining hall’s special menus/events for Black History Month.

But does she, someone who is so far removed from us socioeconomically and culturally, truly care?

Hell.

No.

It’s all politics and institutional.

With The Utmost Respect and Love of all that is Platonic,

Anna