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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 190, NO. 67 DAILY TROJAN 2 · News 6 · Opinion 8 · Lifestyle 18 · Classifi eds INDEX 19 · Sudoku 24 · Sports Head women’s tennis coach Richard Gallien is stepping down after 22 years at USC. PAGE 24 By TOMÁS MIER News Editor As a Latino, low-income student growing up in Los Angeles County, George Sanchez merely dreamed of attending college, but in 1977, he embarked on his fi rst airplane ride to Boston — to attend Harvard University. As a fi rst-generation student, Sanchez struggled to carve a path toward and through college. Now a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC, Sanchez uses his own experienc-es as a college student of color to aid students at the University who go through struggles similar to his own. Sanchez parents possessed a grade-school education when they immigrated to the United States from Mexico, which Sanchez said was diffi cult because he lacked the support he needed to create a clear path toward higher education. “Like a lot of fi rst generation students, I didn’t know what to ex-pect,” Sanchez said. “You were re-ally worried about running out of money, [of] being a burden to your own family.” Thirteen percent of USC fresh-man are fi rst-generation students, many of whom face the same chal-lenges Sanchez faced more than 30 years ago at Harvard. Today, Sanchez closely works with the scholars from the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund, who are typical-ly low-income and fi rst-generation. As a mentor for these students, Sanchez worked with the current director of the fund, Christina Yokohama, to build a study abroad program targeted toward fi rst-gen-eration students. “[We] were looking at the same reports, and the reports were that fi rst-generation college students tended to not study abroad in com-parison to other students at USC,” Sanchez said. “It tended to be an is-sue of not feeling comfortable and not knowing why.” Being able to visit a foreign country with other Topping schol-ars provided a pipeline for many of them to study abroad: an education that was previously unavailable for marginalized students who often lacked the knowledge and initiative to travel. For Felipe Hernandez, a ju-nior majoring in civil engineering, | see PROFESSOR, page 4 | SPRING 2017 FINAL ISSUE Giving back to By BRENDA VEGA Staff Writer Kimberly Alvarado and Ana Mercado are two of the 750,000 DREAMers nationwide who are protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the California Dream Act programs for undocumented people. After former President Barack Obama issued the executive order in June 2012, many undocumented immigrants received work permits and felt protected from deportation. While the DREAM Act only applies in California, the term “DREAMers” is used to refer to undocumented people protected under DACA. Now, under the Trump adminis-tration, undocumented students at USC like Alvarado and Mercado fear that they may be deported despite these protections. Although President Donald Trump promised to focus deportation forces on removing criminal immigrants, Manuel Montes, a DREAMer, became the fi rst with DACA status to be de-ported to Mexico. He was spending time with his girlfriend in Calexico, Calif. when immigration authorities asked for his documentation. Other than Montes, there are currently 10 DACA enrollees in custody, accord-ing to United We Dream. For Mercado, a sophomore ma-joring in contemporary Latino and Latin American studies and sociolo-gy, returning to her birthplace Jalisco, Mexico would mean returning to a place she left when she was only three years old. Mercado remembers that when she was younger, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offi cers came to her home. She remembers her mother covering her mouth and telling her to stay quiet. “I remember when they knocked on the door, my mom froze. Everything can go from being OK to not OK in seconds, and I felt that I started to understand that we were different,” Mercado said. “Even though we call ourselves Americans … I am a for-eigner to this country.” DREAMers at USC feel uncertainty, fear deportation DACA enrollees at USC have felt unsafe after a DREAMer was deported under Trump. | see DREAMERS, page 2 | By KITTY GUO Assistant City Editor The general disproval rating of the President has reached a his-torical low with Donald Trump. However, many Trump voters re-main staunchly in support of him and express hope and confi dence in his future leadership. According to a poll conduct-ed from April 12 to 26 by the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics and the Center for Economic and Social Research, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times, President Donald Trump’s core supporters re-main stable and optimistic about his direction in the coming months, despite low ratings in America. The Center for Economic and Social Research surveyed 3,039 adult Americans, 2,584 of whom re-ported that they voted in the 2016 election. The survey results were weighted to match demograph-ic characteristics such as race and gender as well as population distri-bution by location in order to ensure a balance between urban and rural residents. The results showed low approval LA TIMES/DORNSIFE POLL FINDS TRUMP VOTERS OPTIMISTIC | see POLL, page 16 | Tomás Mier | Daily Trojan Trevor Sochocki | Daily Trojan 100 days of President Trump At “President Trump’s First 100 Days Conference” on Wednesday at the Town and Gown, panelists discussed Trump’s impact in the United States and abroad and the future of political parties in the country. Participants in this panel included Christian Grose, Ron Klain, Peter Mancall, Adam Nagourney, Steven Schmidt and Dan Schwerin. his barrio Professor George Sanchez mentors fi rst-generation and local students.
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Full text | THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 190, NO. 67 DAILY TROJAN 2 · News 6 · Opinion 8 · Lifestyle 18 · Classifi eds INDEX 19 · Sudoku 24 · Sports Head women’s tennis coach Richard Gallien is stepping down after 22 years at USC. PAGE 24 By TOMÁS MIER News Editor As a Latino, low-income student growing up in Los Angeles County, George Sanchez merely dreamed of attending college, but in 1977, he embarked on his fi rst airplane ride to Boston — to attend Harvard University. As a fi rst-generation student, Sanchez struggled to carve a path toward and through college. Now a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC, Sanchez uses his own experienc-es as a college student of color to aid students at the University who go through struggles similar to his own. Sanchez parents possessed a grade-school education when they immigrated to the United States from Mexico, which Sanchez said was diffi cult because he lacked the support he needed to create a clear path toward higher education. “Like a lot of fi rst generation students, I didn’t know what to ex-pect,” Sanchez said. “You were re-ally worried about running out of money, [of] being a burden to your own family.” Thirteen percent of USC fresh-man are fi rst-generation students, many of whom face the same chal-lenges Sanchez faced more than 30 years ago at Harvard. Today, Sanchez closely works with the scholars from the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund, who are typical-ly low-income and fi rst-generation. As a mentor for these students, Sanchez worked with the current director of the fund, Christina Yokohama, to build a study abroad program targeted toward fi rst-gen-eration students. “[We] were looking at the same reports, and the reports were that fi rst-generation college students tended to not study abroad in com-parison to other students at USC,” Sanchez said. “It tended to be an is-sue of not feeling comfortable and not knowing why.” Being able to visit a foreign country with other Topping schol-ars provided a pipeline for many of them to study abroad: an education that was previously unavailable for marginalized students who often lacked the knowledge and initiative to travel. For Felipe Hernandez, a ju-nior majoring in civil engineering, | see PROFESSOR, page 4 | SPRING 2017 FINAL ISSUE Giving back to By BRENDA VEGA Staff Writer Kimberly Alvarado and Ana Mercado are two of the 750,000 DREAMers nationwide who are protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the California Dream Act programs for undocumented people. After former President Barack Obama issued the executive order in June 2012, many undocumented immigrants received work permits and felt protected from deportation. While the DREAM Act only applies in California, the term “DREAMers” is used to refer to undocumented people protected under DACA. Now, under the Trump adminis-tration, undocumented students at USC like Alvarado and Mercado fear that they may be deported despite these protections. Although President Donald Trump promised to focus deportation forces on removing criminal immigrants, Manuel Montes, a DREAMer, became the fi rst with DACA status to be de-ported to Mexico. He was spending time with his girlfriend in Calexico, Calif. when immigration authorities asked for his documentation. Other than Montes, there are currently 10 DACA enrollees in custody, accord-ing to United We Dream. For Mercado, a sophomore ma-joring in contemporary Latino and Latin American studies and sociolo-gy, returning to her birthplace Jalisco, Mexico would mean returning to a place she left when she was only three years old. Mercado remembers that when she was younger, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offi cers came to her home. She remembers her mother covering her mouth and telling her to stay quiet. “I remember when they knocked on the door, my mom froze. Everything can go from being OK to not OK in seconds, and I felt that I started to understand that we were different,” Mercado said. “Even though we call ourselves Americans … I am a for-eigner to this country.” DREAMers at USC feel uncertainty, fear deportation DACA enrollees at USC have felt unsafe after a DREAMer was deported under Trump. | see DREAMERS, page 2 | By KITTY GUO Assistant City Editor The general disproval rating of the President has reached a his-torical low with Donald Trump. However, many Trump voters re-main staunchly in support of him and express hope and confi dence in his future leadership. According to a poll conduct-ed from April 12 to 26 by the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics and the Center for Economic and Social Research, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times, President Donald Trump’s core supporters re-main stable and optimistic about his direction in the coming months, despite low ratings in America. The Center for Economic and Social Research surveyed 3,039 adult Americans, 2,584 of whom re-ported that they voted in the 2016 election. The survey results were weighted to match demograph-ic characteristics such as race and gender as well as population distri-bution by location in order to ensure a balance between urban and rural residents. The results showed low approval LA TIMES/DORNSIFE POLL FINDS TRUMP VOTERS OPTIMISTIC | see POLL, page 16 | Tomás Mier | Daily Trojan Trevor Sochocki | Daily Trojan 100 days of President Trump At “President Trump’s First 100 Days Conference” on Wednesday at the Town and Gown, panelists discussed Trump’s impact in the United States and abroad and the future of political parties in the country. Participants in this panel included Christian Grose, Ron Klain, Peter Mancall, Adam Nagourney, Steven Schmidt and Dan Schwerin. his barrio Professor George Sanchez mentors fi rst-generation and local students. |