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SAN DIEGO — Outraged students and faculty at UC San Diego are demanding accountability and the resignation of the school’s chancellor after police arrested 64 protesters at a pro-Palestine solidarity encampment on May 6 at the university’s campus. Officers from UCSD Police, California Highway Patrol and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department declared the encampment an unlawful assembly at about 5:45 a.m. on Monday and began dismantling the site along the school’s library walk five days after the demonstration KHOSLA first began. A university spokesman confirmed Tuesday that 64 individuals were arrested that morning at the encampment and charged with unlawful assembly. Forty of these individuals were students, all of whom received an interim suspension, and the other 24 were reported to be unaffiliated with the campus, or their affiliation status was unknown, per the university. However, a UCSD professor confirmed to the student newspaper, The Triton, on Tuesday that they and one other professor had been among those arrested. UCSD community members now demand accountability from Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, who released a statement Sunday calling the protest an “illegal encampment’’ and saying that the tents on Library Walk pose “an unacceptable safety and security hazard on campus.’’ “The violation of law and campus policy represented by this encampment, however, is not a peaceful protest. It has become dangerous,’’ Khosla said, adding that the tents were possibly a fire hazard. The university’s Ethnic Studies Department released a statement Monday calling for Khosla’s resignation, stating that the encampTURN TO UCSD ON 21
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The acclaimed Del Mar National Horse Show celebrated its landmark 75th year at its new home at the Del RANCHO Mar Horsepark along El CaminoSFNEWS Real, welcoming back lifelong riders from across California for hunting, jumping and dressage after a four-year hiatus. Story on 15.
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Lauren Whitlock of Estancia Farms warms up during the 75th Del Mar National Horse Show. Photo by High Desert Sport Photos
O’side Pier reopens after fire State legislators request funding to assist repairs By Samantha Nelson
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OCEANSIDE — A bipartisan group of state legislators representing San Diego County has requested emergency state funding to help restore fire-damaged portions of the Oceanside Pier, which reopened today after a portion of the structure erupted in flames last week. A combination of seven state senators and assembly members signed a letter dated April 30 addressed to the governor that described the cultural significance of Oceanside Pier for the city and North County as a whole and why his support is necessary. The letter – signed by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encini-
THE CHARRED frame of the former Ruby’s Diner after a fire erupted on the western end of Oceanside Pier. The blaze destroyed the building and a nearby food kiosk, but firefighters were able to save roughly 95% of the pier. Photo by Rich Cruse
tas), Assemblymember Laurie Davies (R-Laguna Niguel), state Sen. Steve Padilla (D-Chula Vista), state Sen. Brian Jones (R-Santee), Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego), Assemblymember Tasha Boerner (D-Encinitas) and Assemblymember Brian Maienschein (D-San Diego) – states how “devastated” they
are to see the “landmark of our coastal identity and maritime heritage in Southern California” damaged by fire. The blaze that sparked around the northwestern portion of the former Ruby’s Diner building on the afternoon of April 25 continued to burn for about four days, eventually reducing the building and
the adjacent Brine Box walk-up seafood restaurant to near rubble. The fire also damaged the pier’s western h a m merhe a d- sh ap e d end, but Oceanside Fire Department officials said firefighting efforts saved 90% to 95% of the overall 1,950-foot-long pier. “As the damage is TURN TO PIER ON 16