UC regents become S.F. Art Institute s landlord after paying off its debt
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The famed Diego Rivera mural “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” owned by the San Francisco Art Institute, could be sold or endowed during the school’s financial troubles.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2009
The regents of the University of California have purchased the San Francisco Art Institute’s $19.7 million debt, becoming its landlord and saving the financially faltering school from foreclosure.
The art institute was notified by Boston Private Bank & Trust Co. in July that it was foreclosing on a $19 million loan used to fund construction and operations of the Fort Mason campus because the institute had violated the loan’s terms of agreement.
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“The opinions presented in this Twitter account do not represent UC Merced or the University of California,” wrote Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz in a letter posted to the university’s website Tuesday evening. “They were abhorrent and repugnant to us and to many of our colleagues and neighbors; they were harmful to our university, our students, and our years of work to build an inclusive and welcoming community.
“We have called upon the dean and department chair to work with the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel to conduct an inquiry into potential violations of our standards, the UC Faculty Code of Conduct or other policies of the university, to determine what consequences are appropriate,” the letter stated. It was also signed by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg A. Camfield.
People rally outside the Supreme Court over President Trump’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
(CN) Texas and eight other Republican-controlled states urged a federal judge Tuesday to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, sticking to their claims the Obama administration overstepped its authority in creating the program.
Started in 2012 through a memo from then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, DACA allows certain immigrants brought to the country illegally as children to qualify for protection from deportation and allows them to get federal work permits and driver’s licenses that can be renewed every two years.
Chemerinsky: Looking back at the Supreme Court in 2020
Erwin Chemerinsky. Photo by Jim Block.
Everyone, I am sure, will be glad to bid farewell to 2020 and looks forward to better things in 2021. As the year draws to a close, the COVID-19 pandemic is surging with a catastrophic loss of lives and serious illnesses, but there is the hope of vaccines soon becoming widely available. What were the most important stories about the U.S. Supreme Court during this plague year?
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett
Both for the short-term implications and its long-term consequences, this was clearly the most significant development of 2020 for the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Sept. 18 deprived the court of a passionate liberal voice and a justice who had become a popular icon like no other in American history. The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, just slightly more than a month later on Oct. 26, replaced Ginsburg wi