Remembering Queer Asian Activist & Policy Analyst Alain Dang

At my age I often come across obituaries of people I know these days, but the news today circulating on Facebook about the tragic death of Alain Dang really was shocking.

A youngish 37, he reportedly went in the hospital Monday with "flu-like" symptoms - and died just hours later on Tuesday afternoon, 4 February 2014 at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. Unbelievable!

Added: 

Cousin Johnny Phan posts on Facebook: 

Everyone is welcome to come celebrate Alain Dang's life as we are planning a memorial for Alain on Wednesday, February 12 at 5:00 pm. at Oak Hill Funeral Home in San Jose (Chapel of the Oaks). Alain will be buried on Thursday, February 13 at 10:00 am. at Oak Hill Funeral Home (open to all).

In lieu of any flowers or gifts, the family is asking you make an online donation to any of the organizations dear to Alain. Here are three suggestions and let them know the donation is in Alain Dang's memory:

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
API Equality of Northern California 

From the web, I've also found this: 
Memorial "guest book".

His Facebook page contains dozens of tributes from friends, classmates, relatives and activists he impacted across the country. I feel myself honored to have known him from the time he spent as an undergraduate at UC Irvine where he was well known as a student government activist, an anti-Prop 209 campaigner, and for spearheading the successful drive (with the UCI Vietnamese American Coalition) to kick Nike T-shirts off campus.  As he wrote in an autobiographical essay, he learned about Nike products being made in Vietnamese sweatshops from an episode of 48 Hours.  In the boycott Nike campaign, UCI students sent over 1,000 letters to Nike CEO Phil Knight, leading UCI to cancel its apparel contract with Nike.  He was "hyper-involved" in student government as he would tell me in a later interview.  In fact he learned about community involvement as a student in UCI's Social Ecology program.  According to UCI Asian American Studies Chair Jim Lee, who teaches an Asian American Autobiographies class, he (Lee) has used Alain Dang's chapter in that class.

Born 24 June 1976 in San Jose, Alain Đặng Anh Tuấn grew up in a Vietnamese immigrant family - his parents came from Vietnam in the 1960s, which was earlier than most Vietnamese immigrants.  

In 2007, while living in New York, he was lead author on a national study on the lives at the margins of Asian/Pacific queer folk and for that I did an interview with him for my KUCI's Subversity Show, on that report.  You can hear his soft voice in that June 18, 2007 interview, and remember the gentle, soft-spoken, deliberative, and unassuming guy he was.

During the interview he reveals it wasn't till his junior or senior year when he "came out".  As he explained, he was "very independent" and didn't avail himself of the the resources then available in those pre-chatroom days at UCI.  His parents knew him as an activist (but not necessarily as a gay one - they never talked about that) and had embraced that, even encouraging him to run, one day, for office.  "What kind of Asian parents actually encourage their kids to run for office?" he told me then.

Prior to that interview, I drafted this profile of him:

"Alain Dang is a policy analyst with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. His research focuses on the intersections of race, sexual orientation, community building, and public policy. He co-authored Living in the Margins: A National Survey of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait and Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census for the Task Force Policy Institute.

"His autobiographical chapter is featured in Kevin Kumashiro's Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists, published by Harrington Park Press. He and his work have been featured in a variety of media across the country, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle , Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AsianWeek, The Advocate, World Journal, News India Times, Filipino Reporter, Hyphen Magazine and The Western Journal of Black Studies, among others. In addition, he has traveled the country speaking at conferences, colleges and universities. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis & Design from UC Irvine (Social Ecology) and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA."

Since then, of course, he has moved on to greater heights; at his passing he chaired the Roads Commission in Santa Clara, California and served on the Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee of the Santa Clara Valley Authority.

In sadness, I bid Alain farewell -  a decent guy who fought the good fight.  A huge loss.

-- Daniel C. Tsang.

Updated 6, and 10 February 2014; revising date of passing;  also adding his Vietnamese name and date of birth.
Further tributes: NGLTF,  NQAPI

2014 Oscar Nominees: Provocative Political Films

Forget the mainstream films always nominated for Oscars; this year's Oscar nominations includes some notable independent films addressing current political themes.

We're glad to report that Facing Fear, a documentary short on reconciliation between a former gay youth bashed by a neoNazi, directed by Jason Cohen, has been nominated for the 2014 Academy Awards.  Subversity interviewed director Cohen last July.



Another notable documentary short nomination:

Karama Has No Walls, by Sara Ishaq, on the protests in Yemen:



Feature documentary nominees include:

Dirty Wars, by Richard Rowley, co-founder of Big Noise Films, and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill:



And The Square, on the Tahir Square uprising in Egypt that kicked off Arab Spring, by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer:

And for Best Foreign Film, from Cambodia, its first film nominated for the Oscars, a stark look at Cambodia's recent dark history, Rithy Panh's  The Missing Picture:






And from Palestine, a West Bank love story, Hany Abu-Assad's Omar:



This is Palestine's and the director's second nomination.  In 2005 Hany Abu-Assad's searing  Paradise Now, about two friends recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was nominated for Best Foreign Film. 

Also of note is Denmark's portrayal of the devastating impact of false accusations made against a popular schoolteacher, in the Hunt, directed by Thomas Vinterberg.



-- Daniel C. Tsang.

Chinese Moms Talk About Their Queer Offspring in New Documentary

To listen to the KUCI Subversity Online podcast of our interview, recorded earlier today, with director Fan Popo,  click on: . 

Queer activists the world over will find this new documentary about coming out refreshingly different.  Instead of the typical coming out story from a gay or lesbian teenager or adult, Fan Popo's latest film, "Mama Rainbow," focuses rather on mothers of gay males or lesbians - and how they have become advocates for their offspring.

A lesbian and a mother from "Mama Rainbow"

Fan, young (born in 1985) and creative, is a product of Beijing Film Academy.  Working with the local activist group PFLAG China and the Queer Comrades webcast collective, the director has crafted a gender-balanced (in terms of offspring) movie that traipses across urban China in the quest of outspoken moms who have become active in the queer community in support of their children.  One of the more touching scenes is when a mother reveals to her son that in fact, she had already figured it all out months before her son told her, but she dared not ask her son if he is gay. 



In our Subversity Online interview, Fan concedes that the film features rather well-off families and mothers rather than fathers - although he reveals that some fathers (willing to be interviewed) were located after the film project was finished.

Fan at Outfest.  Photo copyright Daniel C. Tsang 2013

Developed from a shorter version posted online on the Queer Comrades video site, Fan suggests in the interview that half a dozen is the appropriate number of mothers to include.  His film may make viewers rethink what "family" means in a fast-modernizing China as well as moderating one's conception of "Tiger Moms".  Funding came from the partner groups, including those partially supported by the Ford Foundation.  The 2012 film is now on the festival circuit against a backdrop of growing efforts to combat homophobia in China.

Fan (right) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose latest film has been shown in China and at film festivals in Bombay, San Francisco (Frameline) and now at Outfest in Los Angeles.  The documentary screens Saturday, 20 July, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the downtown venue, Redcat at Disney Concert Hall, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, 90012.  For the entire festival lineup, see the Outfest LA program guide. See also ticket information. - Daniel C. Tsang.

"Gore Vidal": Speaking Truth to Power

To listen to the KUCI Subversity Online podcast of our interview, recorded yesterday, with director Nicholas Wrathall,  click on: . 

The American literary icon, Gore Vidal, is portrayed magnificently in a new documentary by Australian Nicholas Wrathall, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia," screening this Saturday at Outfest Los Angeles.



Using archival footage as well as later footage he shot in Italy and Los Angeles, Wrathall, a noted documentary filmmaker (he co-directed "Abandoned" - an award-winning film on the consequences of the 1996 immigration law that led to the incarceration of many permanent residents) - manages to trace Vidal as a child of privilege through his first homosexual novel ("The City and the Pillar") to his outspoken criticism of the imperial empire that his country had turned into.   There is a revealing image of Vidal watching the presidential returns in Obama's first race and looking skeptical that Obama would be able to withstand corporate pressure.

Vidal: a literary icon

Captured on film is  Mikhail Gorbachev, in post-Glasnost days, palling around with Vidal, obvious admirers of each other.  There is also Christopher Hitchens - in a priceless scene - being ignored by Vidal as Hitchens tries to speak to Vidal - who first admired Hitchens but became disgusted with his siding with neocons (as journalist Robert Scheer notes in the film) over the Iraq War.   And of course, there is television footage from that bitchy confrontation with William F. Buckley when the National Review editor called Vidal a "faggot."

 We talk with director Wrathall (left) about why he made his film and his trips with Vidal, on Subversity Online.  We also discuss Vidal's long-term relationship with Howard Austen - and discuss whether this was a sexual relationship or platonic friendship.  The interviewer was Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

The film screens this Saturday at Outfest Los Angeles, DGA1 at 11A.M. For the entire lineup, see the Outfest LA program guide. See also ticket information. - Daniel C. Tsang.

Pansexualist Poet James Broughton Brought to Life on Screen

  To listen to the KUCI Subversity Online podcast of our interview, recorded yesterday at Outfest, with director Stephen Silha,  click on: . 

A pensive James Broughton

A captivating documentary, "Big Joy", screening at Outfest Los Angeles, captures the pansexuality and poetic and cinematic genius of James Broughton, whose involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance predated the period of the Beats.

Stephen Silha at Outfest.  Photo copyright  Daniel C. Tsang 2013

Stephen Silha and his team of directors brings to the screen "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton" and indeed viewers will be able to catch images and sound of Broughton from his marriage to film critic Pauline Kael (who bore him an offspring) to his later entanglements with men and women.  Eric Slade, another co-director, earlier made "Hope Along the Wind,” on the life of gay pioneer Harry Hay.

Subversity Online interviews co-director Stephen Silha, a first-time filmmaker, on the life and impact of the affectionate and fairy-like poet, who continued writing into the end of his life in his eighties.   In his senior years, Broughton is also engaged in a long relationship with another, younger man.  Silha discusses in the interview why he made this film and their use of archival footage, as well as where the Broughton archives are located.



As the Outfest program notes indicate: "His [Broughton's] reverence for unbridled joy through childlike creativity and silliness put him perfectly in tune with the flowering of free-spirited experimentation in the 1960s, of which his film THE BED (1968) is a cultural milestone."

Old and Younger Connect

"Big Joy" screens Monday 15 July at 5 pm at Directors Guild of America, DGA2.

For the entire lineup, see the Outfest LA program guide. See also ticket information. - Daniel C. Tsang.

A Gay Palestinian-Israeli Love Story on Screen

 To listen to the KUCI Subversity Online podcast of our interview, recorded yesterday at Outfest, with director Michael Mayer, click on: .

In the best of times, committed relationships across geographic and political boundaries are daunting and hard to make them lasting. Israel-born director Michael Mayer has made a daring gay love story, "Out in the Dark," involving a Palestinian Birzeit University psych student, Nimr (played by Nicholas Jacob), and attorney Roy (played by noted Israeli actor Michael Aloni).  The film is screening at Outfest Los Angeles 2013.

Michael Aloni (left) and Nicholas Jacob (right) in scene from"Out in the Dark"

Mayer, who also co-wrote the screenplay, tells Subversity Online that the impetus for the film came from his finding out there is a community of gay Palestinians living in Tel Aviv and human rights lawyers helping them. The story is inspired by actual cases.  Mayer suggests that advances in gay rights "never came from the top down" but rather from the struggle of activists.  Gay online groups now serve to link gay and lesbian Palestinians together.  He notes that the security services have for decades been targeting gay Palestinians serve as  potential informants. 



When the state apparatus begins active surveillance of Nimr - who is not out to his family back in Ramallah on the West Bank - his lover Roy, with his underground and above ground connections, helps figure out a way out of this tense situation.

Michael Mayer at Outfest.  Photo copyright Daniel C. Tsang 2013

Both actors, whom Mayer tells Subversity Online are straight, manage to act convincingly as passionate, dashingly handsome, gay lovers even as the state security services lurk in the dark monitoring their politically taboo relationship.

Mayer is to be applauded for making a film where a gay Palestinian is realistically portrayed.  His film points to the contradictions in a state which proclaims its liberalness on gay issues, but ignores its continued repression of the Palestinians oppressed by the Occupation it imposes on them. 

The film screens at Outfest  tonight and next Sunday at the Directors Guild of America -- July 14 at 7:00pm at DGA 1, and July 21, 2:45pm at  DGA 2.

For the entire lineup, see the Outfest LA program guide. See also ticket information. - Daniel C. Tsang.

"Facing Fear" and Forgiveness

To listen to the KUCI Subversity Online podcast of our interview with director Jason Cohen, click on: .

Irvine - One of the hardest things to do in life is to forgive hateful acts, especially perpetrated by someone on yourself.  Documentary filmmaker Jason Cohen's "Facing Fear", featured at this year's Outfest Los Angeles, offers convincing evidence that reconciliation and forgiveness are still options even for a gay-bashing victim and his neoNazi perpetrator.  On Subversity Online, host Daniel C. Tsang talked today with Cohen about his film and they explored the issues of forgiveness and hatred.

Jason Cohen (left) with Matthew Boger at the Museum of Tolerance.

Cohen's powerful short (23-minute) film tells the story of the accidental encounter, 25 years after a vicious beating on the streets of West Hollywood, of Matthew Boger and Tim Zaal, who meet again at the Museum of Tolerance, and the path to reconciliation and indeed trust, among the two.



Boger, who was 13 when beaten badly by Zaal, then 17, and a neoNazi punk rocker prowling the streets to beat up the vulnerable who later regretted his violent past, manage to find a way to understand each other.  From teen hustler surviving on the streets after being kicked out of his home by his religious mom, Boger offers hope to those bullied for being different.   Indeed the film is ultimately about hope for a future for both these men and for humanity in general, that hatred and division can be overcome and opposing sides can eventually reach some reconciliation.

The film is shown at Outfest Los Angeles this coming weekend.  It screens as part of a shorts program on Queerer than Fiction (including one portraying Star Trek's George Takei and his partner Brad) at the Directors Guild of America, Saturday, July 13, 2013  at 11:30am and Sunday  July 14, 2013 at 9:30pm.   For the entire lineup, see the Outfest LA program guide. See also ticket information. - Daniel C. Tsang.

Filmmaker Laura Poitras, whom NSA whistleblower reached out to, on Subversity in 2010

To listen to Laura Poitras on the first half of the 17 May 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: .

Update 1: NY Times on Poitras,

Laura Poitras, the MacArthur Award-winning filmmaker whose video revealed the identity of the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was previously on KUCI's Subversity show talking about her film, The Oath, on the casualties of the war on terrorism.  She also talked on the show about her own experiences with Homeland Security, which has detained her numerous times in her travels through U.S. airports.  She was named a MacArthur fellow in 2012, with an award of $500,000.  She also made My Country, My Country, on Iraq, which was nominated for an Oscar.  Snowden first contacted her in January this year.

Click on a link to our announcement in 2010 of our interview, which took place 17 May 2010, when she preceded our interview with the directors of the Harvest of Loneliness, a documentary on the bracero program.

Video by Poitras on Snowden at the Mira in Hong Kong:



Poitras also wrote some of the stories on Snowden's disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance on Americans and foreigners for the Guardian and the Washington Post.

She is currently in Hong Kong documenting the Snowden case as part of a documentary on whistleblowers.

She also participated in a Surveillance Teach-in recently:



Here are some of the latest articles on or by Poitras:

Filmmaker Examines US Security Issues
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

How We Broke the NSA Story
Poitras Interview with Salon

The Woman Behind the NSA Scoops
Salon

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
Poitras co-writer, The Guardian

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
Poitras co-writer, Washington Post

Earlier article with later Guardian co-writer:

U.S. Filmmaker Repeatedly Detained at Border
Glenn Greenwald in Salon 8 April 2012

Trailer to The Oath:



Trailer to My Country, My Country

New UCI Provost Hiring Condemned by ASUCI

Howard Gillman, the newly appointed Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Irvine, is coming to UCI from USC (where he was a recent dean) and is immediately facing opposition not just from an activist faculty group who went public with a letter, but also, now, from the UCI student body leadership.

Howard Gillman Will Need to Reach Out to Critics

On 30 May 2013 the ASUCI legislative council overwhelmingly voted to "condemn" the appointment and urged Chancellor Michael V. Drake to reverse himself, something not likely to happen.

The activist student group, ESCAPE (Ethnic Students Coalition Against Prejudicial Education), has issued the following press release:

Associated Students of UC Irvine Condemn the Appointment of Howard Gillman 

May 30, 2013—-In a vote of 12-0-1  the Associated Students of UC Irvine (ASUCI) passed a resolution condemning the appointment of the new Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. 

R48-75 “Condemning the Appointment of Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Howard Gillman” demands that Chancellor Drake retract the appointment of Howard Gillman and redo the selection process of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost with more student voice and representation.  

Howard Gillman, former Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, has been appointed as the new Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

Within the last few weeks, various entities on the UC Irvine Campus expressed grave concern and disappointment of the new appointment, including a coalition of professors, the Irvine Faculty Association (IFA). The IFA released a statement stating that “Dean Gillman’s fairness in handling personnel cases, as well as his relationship with faculty in general and American Studies and Ethnicity faculty in particular, have been called into question by reports from USC.”

According to the author of the resolution Summer Ko, “Given our current campus climate, UCI Administration is handling the situation poorly. As the student voice on campus, we could not allow for such a flawed process to be upheld.”

UC Irvine administration claims the selection committee was diverse and well-represented the student body; however, they fallaciously make these claims as there were only 3 students (1 undergrad, and 2 graduate) out of the 23 members, and the fact that that their diversity stems from the claim that racism was not present as there were “6 members of African descent”- a statement of blatant institutional racism.Thus proving, the process of selection  was inherently flawed.

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Subversities brings readers the complete resolution; the recorded vote below indicates the vote was 12-1-0.

REQUEST FOR ACTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Item Number: 91     Legislation Number (B: Bill, R: Resolution): R48-75
Author:   Summer Ko       Second:  Naaila Mohammad
Synopsis: Condemning the Appointment of Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Howard Gillman
Date of Presentation: May 30, 2013

Whereas, the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) has had an interim Executive Vice Chancellor Provost (EVCP) for the 2012-2013 school year,

Whereas, Howard Gillman, former Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, has been appointed to be the new EVCP of UC Irvine,

Whereas, the Irvine Faculty Association (IFA) released a letter to Chancellor Drake to express their concerns regarding the appointment of Howard Gilman,

Whereas, the letter states that “Searches of broad concern to the campus should be conducted as openly as possible so that faculty from various areas and perspectives can raise issues that may not be evident to the necessarily few colleagues on any search committee”,[1]

Whereas the letter also states that “Dean Gilman’s fairness in handling personnel cases, as well as his relationship with faculty in general and American Studies and Ethnicity faculty in particular, have been called into question by reports from USC,”

Whereas, the letter also states that “...many Humanities chairs as well as many individual faculty who complained of his lack of support for their research and lack of respect,”

Whereas, the letter also states that “Many senior faculty left during his term despite USC’s able financial position, and there is a perception among USC faculty that Dean Gillman’s retention and tenure decisions were uneven, unclear, and partial,”

Whereas, in November, USC Professor Mai’a K. Davis Cross filed a federal discrimination complaint against the University of Southern California for denying her bid for tenure, arguing that the institution had a history of denying tenure to women and members of minority groups in the humanities and social sciences[2],

Whereas, Ms.Cross and her lawyer have contended that her tenure case included procedural violations by a former dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences—for example, that he, under the authority of the provost, made “cold calls” to scholars outside Cross’s field,[3]

Whereas, the committee said it had found "clear and persuasive" evidence that the "cold calls" the former dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences made to scholars to seek their views of Ms. Cross's work were procedurally defective and "materially inhibited" the tenure-review process,[4]

Whereas, she also filed a complaint in November with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, citing data she collected with a colleague in the political-science department,

Whereas, the data shows that 92 percent of white men who were considered for tenure from 1998 to 2012 in the university's social-sciences and humanities departments were awarded it,

Whereas, that compares with 55 percent of women and professors from minority groups who worked in the same departments during that period, according to documents filed with the EEOC,[5]

Whereas, the previous EVCP, Michael Gottfredson, threatened Ethnic Studies (Chican@/Latin@ Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies) in a needs attention memo released just last year, [6]

Whereas, the “Needs Attention” exercise threatened to affect the academic reputation of UC Irvine, becoming citable as evidence of administrative complicity in an inhospitable culture for minority students and faculty, [7]

Whereas, given recent blatantly racist incidents,  and the campus climate, the need for the growth of Ethnic Studies is important more than ever,

Whereas, there has been no transparency, as there has been no public discussion regarding the selection of UCI’s new EVCP,

Whereas, UC Irvine’s values are as follows - respect, intellectual curiosity, integrity, commitment, empathy, appreciation, and fun, [8]

Whereas, Chancellor Drake states on his website, “It is my goal to infuse our values into the core of everything we do at the University of California, Irvine. These values – respect, intellectual curiosity, integrity, commitment, empathy, appreciation and fun – foster the creative process, build stronger bonds between people and inspire a shared sense of purpose. It is my hope that as dedicated members of the UC Irvine community, we will continue to live by these values and promote the highest standards of excellence in all that we do,” [9]

Whereas the appointment of Howard Gillman to be EVCP of UC Irvine does not reflect “the creative process, build stronger bonds between people and inspire a shared sense of purpose,”

Let it be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council condemns the appointment of Howard Gillman as the EVCP of UC Irvine, as his actions do not reflect the University’s values of respect, intellectual curiosity, integrity, commitment, empathy, appreciation, and fun,

Let it further be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council urges Chancellor Drake to revoke his appointment of Howard Gillman as EVCP and immediately begins a new search committee that is transparent and includes more than two students,

Let it further be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council urges Chancellor Drake to hold an open and public  town hall to publicly address the concerns shared by undergraduates, graduates, and faculty,

Let it further be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council condemns Chancellor Drake for hosting a bow-tying workshop on May 9th  instead of increasing awareness beyond a campus-wide email,

Let it further be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council create an ad-hoc committee to be named “Transparency and Accountability of Administration Committee” that will consist of all members of ASUCI Legislative Council,

Let it finally be resolved that this committee will continue to the 2013-2014 year and will advocate the University administration to be transparent and that their actions rightfully reflect the interests of the students of UC Irvine and the values of UC Irvine.

[1] http://ucifa.org/2013/05/13/ifa-board-letter-to-chancellor-drake-concerning-appointment-of-new-evc/

[2] http://chronicle.com/article/Tenure-Decisions-at-Southern/135754/

[3] http://chronicle.com/article/Tenure-Decisions-at-Southern/135754/

[4] http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Southern-Calif-Urged-to/136493/

[5] http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Southern-Calif-Urged-to/136493/

[6] http://ucleaks.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/documentzero.pdf

[7] http://ucifa.org/2013/05/13/ifa-board-letter-to-chancellor-drake-concerning-appointment-of-new-evc/

[8] http://www.chancellor.uci.edu/values/

[9] http://www.chancellor.uci.edu/values/

Referred to:     Committee on:
Vote Required:     FINAL VOTE: Passed YEA: 12 NAY: 1  ABS: 0