Navigating the black student experience at UCLA
Requires: NI Vision Development Module. Writes the image to a file in the selected format. Use the pull-down menu to select an instance of this VI. IMAQ Write BMP File 2. Writes an image to a file in BMP format. Color Palette is used to apply a color palette to an image. Supported Image Types. Color Palette is used to apply.
BY ANDREA HENTHORN | ENTERPRISE CONTENT EDITOR
The Afrikan Student Union has released two sets of demands for UCLA in the last five years, most of which have not been fulfilled by university administrators.
The demands, made in 2015 and 2017, address changes ASU leaders believe administrators should implement at UCLA to improve campus life for black students.
The release of both sets of demands correlated with campus events many students said were hostile to the black community at UCLA.
The most recent list of demands called on UCLA to create a Black Resource Center and a $40 million endowment to address African-American underrepresentation on campus.
The demands were released in 2017, two weeks after a picture circulated on social media of Danny Siegel, the 2016-2017 Undergraduate Students Association Council president, posing with the hand sign of a primarily African-American street gang called the Bloods.
Alicia Frison, the 2016-2017 ASU chairperson, clarified at the time the demands were released that the organization had been preparing the demands throughout the year, but decided to release them in response to repeated racially charged events, not solely because of Siegel’s photo.
UCLA has created neither the resource center nor the $40 million endowment.
In 2015, ASU published a list of demands in an open letter in NOMMO magazine in response to the “Kanye Western”-themed party hosted by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority, in which guests wore baggy clothes and covered their foreheads in charcoal.
ASU leaders demanded UCLA administrators develop annual funding for black student programming and a $30 million endowment to financially support black students.
These demands, similar to those released by ASU in 2017, were not fulfilled by the university.
In both lists of demands, ASU highlighted other universities, such as UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara, that they said served as examples of putting in efforts to improve campus climate for black students.
UC Berkeley’s African American Initiative includes a $20 million endowed scholarship that will first be awarded to a group of African-American students in fall 2018. ASU cited the Berkeley endowment to demonstrate the feasibility of UCLA allocating similar funding.
The 2015-2016 Daily Bruin Editorial Board released an article in October 2015 arguing that UCLA administrators could do more to meet the 2015 ASU list of demands.
The board said some goals, such as the endowment, could not be achieved immediately. However, it added other requests, such as the creation of a student advisory board for Jerry Kang, the vice chancellor of equity, diversity and inclusion, could be met quickly to foster collaboration between students and administrators.
The board also suggested that UCLA Chancellor Gene Block should meet with ASU leadership.
“Reading the list of demands and issuing a written response is one thing; an in-person discussion, in which the administration embraces the stories of black students and does not go on the defensive, is another entirely,” the article said.
However, this meeting did not occur.
The UCLA chapter of ASU was formed in 1966. Measures ASU has taken to support black students include advocating for programs such as the Academic Advancement Program, the Academic Support Program and the Freshman Summer Program, which are designed to help first-generation, minority students. ASU also aided the development of the Center for African American Studies in 1969, now the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
There were 1,623 African-American/black undergraduate students enrolled at UCLA according to UCLA Admissions as of fall 2017, which is about 5 percent of the total undergraduate student population. There were 1,485 African-American undergraduate students at UCLA in May 2017.
'The university must do all it can to make sure that black students, only 4% of the student body, feel welcomed and safe at the university that was built on our backs,' ASU's 2015 statement said.
The Daily Bruin contacted multiple ASU leaders. None were available for comment.
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Finds edges along a path defined in the image.
Supported Image Types
Optimized Mode, when TRUE, enables a faster edge detection algorithm that does not return gradient values. When FALSE, enables a standard edge detection algorithm that returns gradient values. The default is TRUE. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Edge Options specifies the parameters that are used to compute the edge gradient information and detect the edges.
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ROI Descriptor is a descriptor that defines the rectangle, rotated rectangle, annulus, oval, line, broken line, polygon, or freehand region within which edge detection is performed.
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Process determines the type of search. Choose from the following values:
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error in (no error) describes the error status before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node.
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Reverse Direction, when TRUE, reverses the direction that the ROI traverses to find edges. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Image (duplicate) is a reference to the source image. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Edge Information is an array that contains information about each detected edge.
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Calibration Valid indicates if the calibration information associated with the edges found along the search line is valid. If the calibration information is invalid for any pixel that is used for edge detection, the Calibration Valid Boolean is FALSE. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gradient Values is an array that contains the calculated edge strengths along the user-defined search area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.
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Examples
Refer to the following for an example that uses this VI.
- LabVIEWexamplesVisionCaliperEdge Detection.vi