Showing posts with label Daily Californian. Show all posts
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Memories
This memory popped up in my feed today.
This was my first semester at The Daily Californian, when I wrote a weekly column with editors Chantelle and Dohee.
HEW sit-in continues - Disabled vow long fight
Daily Cal Headlines ... April 11, 1977:
"HEW sit-in continues - Disabled vow long fight."
from Day 6 of the nearly month-long sit-in.
highlights:
CeCe Weeks said: "It's the first militant thing we've ever done. There is a new political movement throughout the land. We're going to stay till we're dragged out."
Although HEW Secretary Califano said he would sign the revised regulations, Kitty Conetalks about how those are inadequate and called upon President Carter to sign the original regs immediately as he had promised he would do.
State Director of the Department Of Rehabilitation Ed Roberts (former CIL Director) said "We've got to keep up the pressure."
Demonstrators Mary Jane Owen and then-CIL Deputy Director Judith Heumann had gone on a hunger strike.
Donations were pouring in from "such politically dissimilar groups as the Black Panthers and Safeway stores, McDonald's and the United Farm Workers. 'We couldn't do this without the support from outside," Cone said. 'We're really excited by the community's response.'"
"We're basically happy and strong," Weeks said. "There's more energy here all the time," she said.
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That was indeed a time. The attached photo is a scan from a book of about 100 Daily Cal front pages: "The Daily Californian's Best of Berkeley 1960-1980, publ by the Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company, 1980.
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Daily Cal photo caption:
“The nearly 100 protesting disabled staged a sit-in [to demand the passage of the long-delayed Regulations implementing section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act] at San Francisco’s HEW Office.”
Section 504, the first disability civil rights act, Required nondiscrimination of people with disabilities by end of the end by any entity receiving federal funds.
These Regulations became the model for the Americans with Disabilities Act 13 years later, which prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in virtually all areas of public life.
highlights:
CeCe Weeks said: "It's the first militant thing we've ever done. There is a new political movement throughout the land. We're going to stay till we're dragged out."
Although HEW Secretary Califano said he would sign the revised regulations, Kitty Conetalks about how those are inadequate and called upon President Carter to sign the original regs immediately as he had promised he would do.
State Director of the Department Of Rehabilitation Ed Roberts (former CIL Director) said "We've got to keep up the pressure."
Demonstrators Mary Jane Owen and then-CIL Deputy Director Judith Heumann had gone on a hunger strike.
Donations were pouring in from "such politically dissimilar groups as the Black Panthers and Safeway stores, McDonald's and the United Farm Workers. 'We couldn't do this without the support from outside," Cone said. 'We're really excited by the community's response.'"
"We're basically happy and strong," Weeks said. "There's more energy here all the time," she said.
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That was indeed a time. The attached photo is a scan from a book of about 100 Daily Cal front pages: "The Daily Californian's Best of Berkeley 1960-1980, publ by the Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company, 1980.
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Daily Cal photo caption:
“The nearly 100 protesting disabled staged a sit-in [to demand the passage of the long-delayed Regulations implementing section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act] at San Francisco’s HEW Office.”
Section 504, the first disability civil rights act, Required nondiscrimination of people with disabilities by end of the end by any entity receiving federal funds.
These Regulations became the model for the Americans with Disabilities Act 13 years later, which prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in virtually all areas of public life.
Last Column
My LAST COLUMN for the Daily Cal
Full article: https://www.dailycal.org/2022/05/13/a-golden-bear-song/
I realized what defined my undergrad experience was not only recognizing some of these opportunities but that it was the support and encouragement at Berkeley that gave me the confidence to pursue them.
I never felt impostor syndrome at UC Berkeley. Rather it was whether I, as a disabled student, would even be allowed access to the opportunities college offers. ....
For much of my life, my disability has meant significant gatekeeping of opportunities. Would I be allowed to thrive here?
....
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel,” said Socrates.
Most importantly, my UC Berkeley education kindled the Socratic flame, inspiring me to study what I am passionate about along with new kinds of experiences and knowledge. (Speaking of new experiences, I even got to model for the Cal Student Store. Who would have thought of “Model Hari”?)
“Life is full of change and uncertainty and that’s what makes it a great adventure,” Filippenko said at the lecture.
I am both nervous and excited about what’s ahead. As the Bhagavad Gita explains, change is the only constant in our lives, and one is better off focusing on the action (the sure) and not the results (the unsure). Inaction is not an option.
The Gita also points out that results do not solely depend on my actions. I hope the next stage of my educational journey will be one filled with kindness, compassion, patience and empathy from others and one of personal, endless curiosity and positive action so I can continue to learn and add those pebbles that widen the ripples in the pond of knowledge and change.
Daily Cal covers me
In an about turn, I'm being written about by someone else at the Daily Cal.
Daily Californian: UC Berkeley wins Soros Fellowship to pursue PhD.
Full article: https://www.dailycal.org/2022/04/25/uc-berkeley-senior-hari-srinivasan-wins-soros-fellowship-to-pursue-ph-d/
At Berkeley, Srinivasan has already been conducting undergraduate research in the area of autism as a Haas scholar, according to Haas Scholars program manager and advisor Leah Caroll. Caroll said Srinivasan has looked specifically at how those with autism process emotions differently from non-autistics. In doing so, he has broken down common stereotypes about those with the disability, she added.
“It’s interesting that his scholarship is in itself a form of activism,” Caroll said.
In addition to writing more than 50 articles for The Daily Californian, Srinivasan is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi, leads a DeCal dedicated to educating peers about autism and serves as a national activist for policy reform surrounding disabilities, according to Caroll.
Caroll added that despite his commitments, Srinivasan goes out of his way to help his peers in the Haas Scholars program.
“He’s been extraordinarily generous with his time and expertise,” Caroll said. “He’s taught everyone about different ways of communicating.”
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Blast from the Past - Vagaries of English Phraseology
https://www.dailycal.org/2019/04/07/vagaries-of-english-phraseology-a-personal-essay/?fbclid=IwAR0NVna3qNWZLdQdG6RMm683Qp0ecFik7w3c35I7EZifyCVhAPdGLy4Zj8w
Power
My interview with Prof Dacher Keltner on "Power" for the Daily Cal
https://www.dailycal.org/2021/03/05/dacher-keltner-talks-changing-the-social-dynamics-of-power-powerlessness/
https://www.dailycal.org/2021/03/05/dacher-keltner-talks-changing-the-social-dynamics-of-power-powerlessness/
A work in Progress when it come to the Disability Community
“As a disabled autistic, I have often wondered about the conversations on inclusion, access and civil rights that still seem to be a work in progress when it comes to the disability community.”
-Hari Srinivasan
“This is Our Campus Too”, The Daily Californian
Redefine the Table
“It is the existence of laws like the ADA that ... allows me to not just demand a seat at the table so that individuals like me can be part of the conversations around change, but question if the table itself needs to be redefined.”
-Hari Srinivasan, “Born Into the ADA”
The Daily Californian
The Daily Cal's Disability Impact Special Issue
The Daily Cal came out with A Disability Impact Special (23 articles). A tribute to 30 Years of ADA.
I have been pushing for such an issue for a few months now. I was able to give input on what the front art cover should look like. Its black and white images of the disability rights movement overlaid with the modern face of disability in color; color in more ways that one - different races, different disabilities, visible and invisible disabilities.
Check it out https://www.dailycal.org/section/special/30-years-of-ada-2020/
Other articles in the issue by me are
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/10/23/born-into-the-ada/
This is our Campus too - Disability in Higher Ed
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/10/23/disability-higher-education/
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