Building talking about this right now. I was there yesterday and it was crazy. A few cops grabbed me, you know, and i dont take that lightly at all, you know. But i had to get out of there. But i just want to say a lot of things have to change. One of my classmates actually could not graduate this semester because one of her classes was discontinued in the middle of the semester not the middle, but well, while they were into the semester the class was canceled so she will not be able to graduate this semester. This is all because of this super trustee, as you call him or stupid trustee. [laughter] but id just like to say, man, its a good thing that were trying to restore the democracy and the transparency at the university because the university has given me a second chance, you know. So, i think its a lot of people like me who would like the opportunity but thank you. [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] thank you. Next speaker. Ive never felt so hot and so coiled ~ col
Undocumented status. It is very, very difficult for this community to go to school. I find it ridiculous that the administration is not holding up the values of this city. Theyre basically saying, yes he, you can come to this city and we allow you to work, but in this [speaker not understood] youre not allowed to be educated. This administration has to get rid of [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Thank you. [cheering and applauding] thank you. Thank you, lalo, for your leadership. Next speaker. Hello, my name is carlos reyes. I am currently a student at the mission center. I am an immigrant and [speaker not understood]. About the values of Lifelong Learning education and it what a program that helped single mothers. And theyre turning people like myself because and i told them a lot of friends when i start going to school, it wasnt because i enrolled in bad things. I just leave it at that. But because i had to go to work. And when i came back to school, i was really irritated [speak
I am a fulltime student taking 16 units working full time with two jobs. I am a [speaker not understood] and yesterday what happened was that we occupied the building and they forced the payment policy on us so we forced our way into the building. Thats our school because [speaker not understood]. So, as a testimonial from one of my [speaker not understood], she was affected by the payment policy and i would quickly quote her. She said, i didnt qualify for Financial Aid i figured i would just be able to swing two classes at least. But when they changed the payment policy it was making it impossible for me to pay for my classes and i was one month from oh, my god. I wish they didnt do that because the people like me working paycheck to paycheck, it is way too much. And you have to understand that the people that were there all night, even the people sleeping outside, we are in support of each other and you cant do this to us. We are experienced at working hard. You cant treat us like cr