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1..- % t f '"'%4=-- ‘i#ii t-'' UllIK student activists listen as Chancellor Mary K. Grant addresses the Student Action Coalition’s concerns for uhdocumented university students. Recent executive order draws action from on-campus activists CHARLIEHEARD w Sports Editor cheard@unca.edu Students representing the Student Action Coalition met with Chancellor Mary K. Grant to deliver their demands for how they would like the school’s administration to respond to President Trump’s Executive Order “Border Se curity and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The Coalition’s representatives said they want UNC Asheville to make vis ible efforts for its undocumented stu dents and to be a leader in North Car olina by publicly declaring it does not support this executive order and will support immigrant students. The members of the Coalition said the school publicly announcing this position could lead other schools in the UNC system to do the same, making the UNC system a precedent nation wide for combatting this executive or der. According to the Coalition’s hand out, “This effort is not only to show our Chancellor Mary K. Grant advocated protecting undocumente6 students. own undocumented students that we stand with them, but to stand in solidar ity with undocumented students across our state. The UNC system must lead our nation’s universities by example in this time of crisis.” IN-STATE TUITION FOR UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS IS BEYOND MY DIRECT CONTROL. BUT IT ISN'T BEYOND MY VOICE TO SAY THIS IS AN IMPORTANT'GROUP OF STUDENTS AND FINANCIAL AID WOULD HELP.” — Mary K. Grant Senior mass communication student Robin Carter was the primary spokes person for the SAC at the meeting. Carter said the group has been in touch with other student groups around the UNC system to jumpstart the move ment for state-wide solidarity against this executive order. “We’ve been in contact with student organizations at 13 other universities across the state,” Carter said. “There are students across the state that don’t feel safe from ICE so we feel strongly that UNCA needs to be a leader in pub licizing our stance against this. I feel as though UNCA has been a leader in this, but we want the administration to con tinue that and to be bold.” Carter said the SAC is an activ ism-based group focused on multiple issues. “The Student Action Coalition is a group of students from various other organizations that try to help each other with their various actions based on ac tivism,” C^er said. “They work on a lot of issues apart from sanctuary, such as divestment.” At the open meeting last Monday, members of the SAC met with Chan cellor Mary Grant for a discussion in an attempt to steer the school’s public CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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