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Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:17 AM

From: Associated Students <adminrec@ucsd.edu>

To: UCSD All Academics and Staff <all-at-ucsd@ucsd.edu>, UCSD All Students <all-students@ucsd.edu>

Subject: Student Run Television (SRTV)

UCSD
CAMPUS NOTICE
University of California, San Diego

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

February 25, 2010

ALL ACADEMICS AND STAFF AT UCSD

ALL STUDENTS AT UCSD

SUBJECT: Student Run Television (SRTV)

On Thursday night, a deeply offensive and hurtful program was aired on

Student Run Television (SRTV), a service of the Associated Students.
The content of this program does not represent the views of the
Associated Students, and was aired by KoalaTV, the television show put
on by the student organization The Koala. We condemn the actions of The
Koala, its program and its content.

The Koala was not properly authorized to display content on SRTV. We

are in the process of determining how the program was aired. In the
meantime, as authorized by the ASUCSD Standing Rules, and in conjunction
with our Associate Vice President of Student Services, I turned off the
station to allow for a review of its Charter. We will only open it
again when we can be sure that such hateful content can never be aired
again on our student funded TV station.

Alongside this initiative, I have frozen all student media organization

funding. The Koala has long since been a controversial publication at
UC San Diego and is primarily funded by our student fees. I do not
believe we should continue funding this organization with our fees.

We must develop effective policies to ensure that our fees do not go to

the support the hateful speech that targets members of our community. I
ask that those media organizations that did nothing wrong and are
unfairly affected to be patient until we can resolve this situation and
develop new funding bylaws for our Association.

To this end, I have charged a campus-wide committee to review the

funding of student media. This committee is open to every member of the
UC San Diego community - faculty, staff, students, and whoever else
feels strongly about this issue. The committee shall meet on Thursday,
at 8:00PM, in the 4th floor Price Center Forum. Feel free to email me
at aspresident@ucsd.edu if you have any questions.

The Associated Students stands in solidarity with those affected by

Thursday night's program, and we remain committed to being the voice for
all UC San Diego students.

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Utsav Gupta
Associated Students President

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