Care B Ckers Arrested

21 day ·care - b ckers arrested White 500 watch, students taken to jail in handcuffs . I Day C.re C ••t.r par_t Mill. Gfttb ......c .. w.lcom. Nck party for tile 21 It W M a crowd.d aituation Friday aft.rnoon, a. the 21 .tude.nta _ere led aRated .t.... t. , wIIkh _M ...... laat Frid.y Bight. through crowd into police truck. Guards surround s McElroy's complex l'«' SaD Dieg. The arrest of 21 students day that -he will post campus Firday afternoon ended a police officers throughout the Volume 34, Nuniber 11 MonM" ..., 15, 1171 three-day sit-in in Chancellor Chancellor'S complex to bar McElroy's office protesting the anyone who did not have an refusal of the Advisory appointment from entering the Committee on Student Fee offices. Programs to fund the UCSD Posting officers i n the The tension built Day Care Center. complex is unprecedented in About 100 protestors ha-d UCSD's history, McElroy said. occupied McElroy's office He added that the officers since Wednesday morning, would probably not be required What is was like inside refusing to leave until ad~quate for very long. funding was provided for the A crowd of supporters center. by Eric Jaye vacuum and clean the office. said, would be free to continue gathered outside McElroy's office, growing in size from Staff Writer When a window was accidental the struggle... This story was written by It was getting hot inside the ly broken, a repairman was The county jail was a little about 50 at 3 pm to about 500 at Chancellor's office. called in and jt was lixed. On closer now than it had been the A$sociate News Editor Reed the 5 pm deadline the adminis Alpert. witb information tration bad given the protestor Thursday night, there' was a night belore and some people compiled by bimself. Alan The journalists and photo movie and all during the three weren't quite so sure anymore. to vaca te McElroy's office or be graphers had been sticking About thirty people, those who Russell and Eric Jaye. arrested. The crowd chan~, their heads in the window and days the children could be seen, running through the office and (Please turn to page 12) McElrov announced Satur- (Please turn to page 12 ) bothering the 75 demonstrators enjoying themselves. Some of 'all afternoon. Now, about 3 the kids painted pictures and o ' clock, there were some everything was relaxed. important decisions to make Com m en t a r~ and the group decided to close the windows to shut out the About the police, the opinion press and the noise. But inside, seemed unanimous. "The even with the windows shut, it police were great," said one Day care now on offensive still wasn't that quiet. And it demonstrator. " They did was getting hotter and harder everything they could for us," to think. said another. by Bill Pegler obligations to us. He did not. Special to tbe 'IT He hovered about the other offices while we And then there was Friday I had never been in jail before. I went last Since Wednesday morning waited for him in his, yet he neither met with afternoon. And things weren't Friday as a result of Tex McElroy's uncaring us nor with the Reg Fee Committee. We were when the demonstrators quite so calm any more. attitude, as did 20 others. arrived in Chancellor Mc told that we were trespassing on public property. That is how he dealt with us. That Elroy ' s office to demand About 11 o' clock l"riday Bill Pegler, a sometime-staff writer for tbe fu nding for on-campus day morning, the police had moved is how he listens to us. Triton Times and a Revelle College senior. All of us. care, things had been friendly, in with a little more force and was arrested Friday as a day care protestor. even fun . Food was brought in had set guards at all the doors. Tbese are bis views on day care, the Be it South Africa, tenure, our libraries or and there was a TV set so the Anyone could leave but nobody demonstrators could watch university and arrest. the Day Care Center, the fact is that we are was allowed inside. never listened to. In an educational system themselves on the news. During supposedly designed for student and public the day, people could come and Talk about arrests and who We did not go out of any sense of glory, nor need, why are we never listened to? Where go as long as they arrive back at should go to jail started to fly did we go out of moral obligation. We needed was the faculty ? Where were the • the office by five, when the around. The night before, ithad to make a point. administrators? Where was our Chancellor? doors were closed by the police. been decided that if and when Our campus is known as a " quiet campus" .. the. police moved in , only We peacefully conducted a sit-in waiting and this is no secret. If no opposition is made In the mornings, those who twenty people would stay and for our Chance.lIor to comply with previous had spent the night would get arrested. The rest, it was ~ (Please turn to page 2) rc.. _McElroy·• • ffk . ...t W....... ~ ..nia •. ..0 .....', Mer 11, 1m -_._-_MondQ, ..., 11, .-117• triton times O~inlon Opl~lon In,1hvor of tax credits Commentar~ for private education by CIlarIes A. Vaaik $30,000 for campus media,? Waahmaton, D.C. - Tbe ravages of inflation and spiralling by Dave Ellen forward these opinions and a set of If given the opportunity., would training. education costs, aa every parent in America knows, bave now gone recommenda tions to the new - It's rather diffic ul t to De an beyond tolerable limits. Tbe entire private educational system, you vote to spend 530,000 of student commissioner. money to to pay for campus media. effective commissioner and whicb baa made a tremendous contribution to the diversity and The biggest question facing the effective AS Council member at the eXCluding the Triton Times ? new commissioner is, however, intelligence of our national life, is imperilled by tbe astronomical I doubt it. same time. I put more emphasis on tuition charges many American families, poor as well as afOuent, after a full year of the most the latter, because I (ound It more In that light. it might be expansive media in the school's important and interesting, at one now must pay. beneficial for the new AS Commi s history, are the students happy ? We Wbat can Congress do, botb to relieve the financial burden on sioner of Communications to solicit point for instance, to serve on the a whole lot of opinion before seeking assumed that students wanted to Activity Fee Board than order bard-pressed families, and to ensure that private education pay for papers with Chicano, black. chemica ls for the typesetter. I continues to bear education burdens wbich otherwise would have as much money as I sought and Jewish, radical and conservative would advocate that commis to be passed on to the public school system? I am convinced a received for campus communica leanings. I now tend to think that it sioners be made separate from the tions this year, was an incorrect assum ption , tuition tax credit is essential to assure the survival of our dual It might be beneficial for him to council. system of education - a system which has improved learning in find out exactly what students Some of my other feelings after a both private and publiC'schools. year in the AS are: voted him in to office to do: act as - KSDT has broken a series of an advocate for student media, or promises withihe AS, and should be Coneressman Vanlk represents suburban Cleveland In Conl1'es5. as a trustee of student money? investigated thoroughly before A member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, be bas Dave Eisen was the 1976-77 given more funding . About $9,000 stronlly supported efforts to protect the environment and &0 Executi ve Editor of the Triton was put into the station , and it has develop a comprehensive enerlY program. Ti mes and 1977-78 ASUCSD only been in the last two weeks tllat SlOP ScralChing Around Commissioner of Communications. the station can be heard in the My proposal for a tuition tax credit would provide a $100 credit Revelle, Warren and Muir Dorms for up to 50 percent of tuition expenses in private elementary and Among -the major accomplish (excluding the apartments) . Much. ments of this office in 1977-78 was much more money will have to be Records are too secondary schools. It also would provide a $250 credit for up to 50 the sufficient funding for radio invested in order for more percent of tuition expenses in private colleges. This program, station KSDT to be heard in most of reception. A decision must be made when fully implemented, would provide middle and low-income the dorms, and newspapers new now whether the investigation families with crucial tax relief, and involve only a modest revenue in dicator, Voz Fronteriza. should continue. t expensive to ruinl los,oq of S1.~ billion. L'Chaylm, Politjournal, Helicon - The media must pay some of its competItion is' a unique part of the American system. The and lately, Free Triton and own expenses. Four years of private school system complies with almost all of the standards Tuition tax credits: death knell People's Voice.

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