Students petition against Cal Poly involvement with Saudi Arabia
3.13.2008 | 0 Comments
As campus-wide concern about the yet-to-be finalized and controversial contract between Cal Poly’s College of Engineering and Jubail University College (JUC) in Saudi Arabia mounts, students are taking action to ensure their voice on the matter gets heard.
A petition requesting for an open forum between Cal Poly students, the Academic Senate and university administrators was circulated in the University Union this week, and presented at the Associated Student Inc. Board of Directors meeting later in the day.
The petition, which circulated for six hours, gathered 120 signatures in support of such a forum, according to Christina Chiappe, Cal Poly College Republicans president and one of the organizers of the petition.