THIS PAGE AND PREVIOUS PAGE: COURTESY OF RAYA GOLDEN
THE ART OF A
COLLEGE EDUCATION
“The city pays a lot of attention to
what we’re doing ...In a lot of ways
we’re always the poster child.”
In early 2010, the city’s Board
of Supervisors held a hearing
on the university’s myriad code
violations, with supervisors and
outside housing advocates decrying its real estate practices.
“I’ve been here for ten years, and
you’ve been a problem since I’ve
been here,” then-Supervisor Sophie Maxwell told Academy of-
HUFFINGTON
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Illustrator
Raya Golden,
left, is now
employed, but
many of her
friends are not.
ABOVE: One of
her illustrations.
ficials at the meeting, explaining
that the school’s flagrant skirting of city regulations reflected
poorly on both the institution
and the city itself.
In an interview with the San