BASH members have tried several times to obtain a meeting with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. We never got a reply. Now that our platform has been endorsed by the two major undergraduate and graduate student organizations on campus (USAC and GSA), we demand that Chancellor Block reaches to us and to the whole community of students to explain how UCLA plans to reform Title IX. The UC Title IX officer Kathleen Salvaty and Vice-Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Jerry Kang informed us that, by July 1, Gene Block will form a “peer-review committee” that will oversee cases of SVSH that involve accused faculty. This “peer” committee does not seem to help the democratization of Title IX and the process that follows investigations. We need Chancellor Block to illustrate the functions of this committee; how it will guarantee justice to survivors; how it will benefit the community.
Since he never replied our emails, we tried to catch Block’s attention in person, during his speech at the 2017 BruinDay. We are glad that many incoming students and their families listened to us, support our–their–cause, and cannot believe that Piterberg is still on the UC payroll. Will Chancellor Block listen to us now? Will he give the UCLA community the explanations we deserve?
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