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Elsewhere T H E u c 5 D Berke.. y Students Boycott Merchant BERKELEY - UC Berkeley students have organized a boycott against a local mer chant, Taek Kim, who is accused of macing an African American student during a vernal argument that escalated into a physical confrontation. UCSANDIEGO THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1993 VOLUME 79, ISSUE 2 The student, Berkeley Junior MruQuette Jones, said that Kim, a Korean-American, used ethnic slurs against him during the argument and that the merchant Students Pay had shown hostility toward African-American customers in the past. The students said that Tribute to the boycott is designed to show that "threats, harassment and all other forms of disrespect will no longer be tolerated." Revelle Junior UCD Faces PaInful tRAGEDY: Emilio Cruz, who died Cuts for '93-'94 in a boating accident March 21, was DA VIS - The UC Davis remembered by family and friends administration announced By Sheryl Wolcott preliminary cuts in the 1993- Senior Staff Writer 1994 budget last month. Decreas ing financial resources When Emilio Cruz was in high school, he and two Simi Valley High School classmates set out may lead to the elimination of to build a model suspension bridge. They started the Women 's Resource Center, with cardboard. Dan McDowell/Guardian a 30 percent cut in the budget of A member of the Sigma Chi fraternity places a white rose on a makeshift altar during the "But cardboard wasn 't enough for him, we the student health center and ceremony yesterday. Two hundred students attended the emotional memorial. had to use wood. Then wood wasn't enough, he cuts in the athletic budget that said we had to use steel," Stephanie Wong told may lead to the elimination of on you and he would not let you be there alone." and teachers, how important they are. six out of 10 intercollegiate the solemn audience that gathered yesterday to One after another, fri ends ofCruz spokeofhis The memorial included tributes by Cruz's pay tribute to Cruz, the Revelle junior who was athletic programs and postpone loyalty and dedication, his zeal for life and his fraternity, Sigma Chi, and the Pi Beta Phi soror killed in a boating accident over spring break. the attempt to upgrade the genuineconcem for others. A crowdof200 stood ity, whose members placed flowers in memory "Emilio drew up blueprints and all these school 's athletic programs to in a semicircle around Stonehenge for the hour of Cruz on an altar while singing the songs of the formulas I didn 't understand," recalled Wong, Division I status. long, late afternoon memorial attended by his fraternity and sorority. who had been Cruz's classmate since junior mother, Marion Cruz, and his longtime girl "Emilio set lots of goals. He wanted to be the high. She and their other partner soon lost interest friend, Christine Leonard. best he could, then rush headlong into something RalnWalhe.~ and went outside. When they returned, Cruz had "He [wasn 't just my only son, he] was my else," his mother said. "I wanted him to stop and UCLA Students constructed a six-foot bridge. favorite son, and 1 was his favorite mother, feel the texture of life .... This is what UCSD LOS ANGELES - With the Cruz, who later earned an A- average as an despite the competition from his friends' moth allowed him to do. Thank you for filling out his abundance of wet weather this AMES major and aspired to earn advanced de ers," Cruz said. life." winter, many students living in grees in engineering, tested the model bridge by Cruz's mother read parts of a letter her son Cruz's mother also thanked the fraternity for UCLA's Sunset Village have standing on it, and it held up. "But that wasn't had written to her last year, in which he expressed creating a scholarship fund in his name, saying been plagued by flooded and enough. He said it had to be able to hold all three his love and admiration. that the pursuit of knowledge was of utmost moldy rooms. Students of us," Wong said. "If it were not for the love you showed, my importance to Cruz. complain that housing authori So, holding hands, the three students stood to son, if it were not forthis letter - and it is not the Donations to the Emilio Cruz Memorial Fund ties ignored their complaints getheron Cruz's bridge, which withstood the test. onlyone- [yourdeath] would be insupportable can be sent care of Steve Batutis, Rancho Santa about the leaks and refused "That bridge symbolizes what Emilio was," for us," she said, urging those in attendence to Fe Thrift & Loan Association, 251 N. El Camino their repeated requests to move Wong said. "He was stable, he would not break take the time to teU friends and relations, coaches Real, Encinitas, CA 92024. to different rooms. University housing officials disagree, saying that they offered the students alternative housing and A.S. Candidates Final Co-op Agreement reimbursement for damage to personal possessions caused by Kick Off Spring the rain. Still Proves Elusive Campaigns By Karen Cheng eral Counsel Gary Morrison, who Associate News Editor counseled Vice Chancellor of Un Inside ELECTION: Three The Associated Students, dergraduateAffairsJoseph Watson Graduate Student Association to disestablish the University Cen students in the running (GSA), the co-ops and the univer ter Board CUCB). for the presidency sity administration still have yet to According to Burke, Morrison come to an agreement over the has been unresponsive to changes By Elaine Camuso original Memorandum of Under suggested by the co-ops and has Staff Writer candidates, decide the tone and di standingthatwassignedonJan.31. tried to make major revisions to The spring Associated Students rection of this election," he said. According to Groundwork parts of the memorandum to which general election campaign officially "The worst campaign is the one Books co-op member Chloe Burke, the parties have already agreed. began this Monday when the can that tries to smear another candi there are four different drafts of the "The AS. and the GSA are just didates met with Elections Man date. That's not the way to win." Memorandum of Understanding puppets of the regents. They don't ager Beth Gesson and the elections Presidential candidates include being circulated currently among get their authority from the stu committee to overview the elec Revelle Senior Senator and Col the parties: the original draft, a draft dents - at least that is what tion bylaws and campaigning pro lege Council Vice Chair D.A with proposed AS. changes, one Morrison claims. We could run into cedures. Bartolotta, Third College Council with proposed co-op changes, and more problems with [Morrison]," DIGABLE After a trying year during which . Chair James Hill and A.S. Vice the administration's version. she said . HIATUS: A hot new rap act students saw the co-ops teeter on President Administrative Randolph Both the AS. and representa AS. President Mike Holmes combines jazz and hip-hop in the brink of eviction, the Univer Siwabessy. tives from the co-ops say there are said that while the co-ops may think a fresh new way. It! sity Center Board (UCB) be Bartolotta is running indepen still key issues to be addressed be the AS. and the GSA are puppets disestablished and fees rise by more dent of any slate and said he plans fore any agreement can be com of the regents, they are working SPORTS: Tennis sliced than $1 ,000, the election is ex to run on a "Jeny Brown [-type] pleted. toward autonomy. past Williams College on pected to focus on how such prob shoestring budget." Burke cited the five-year space "[The AS. and the GSA] are Monday afternoon. • lems can be effectively addressed. Bartolotta said that he views agreements that do not include guar campus units. I don't think we're Elections will be held April 5-7 saving the co-ops, limiting fee in anteed renewal options, liability in puppets, because we're fighting on at the Price Center and in front of creases and developing a cohesive surance and the co-ops' non-profit different issues than the university. Index the Main Gym. plan for A.S. autonomy that ac status as the main issues to be ad We are not completely autonomous After a brief introduction by counts for the interests of the entire dressed. from the university, even though UCSD BRIEFS ........................ 2 Gesson, current A.S. President student body as the major issues Also at issue is the we arc working on it," he said A.S. MEETING NOTES ............ 2 Mike Holmes offered his advice to that the next AS. president will administration's replacement of An 8IIleIldment concerning p0s OPINION .............................. 4 the candidates. face. UniversityGencral Counsel Joanna session of assets if • co-op dis OIATUS .. ........................... 01 "'t is my opinion that you, as See A.S., Page 3 Beam with University DeputyGcn- See COOPS, Page 3 CLASSIFIEDS ........................ 5 SPORTS ............................... 8 Thlll'sday, Aprill, 1993 The UCSD Guardian NEWS 3 2 NEWS The UCSD CuardWa Thunday. April 1. 1993 Candidates infl uence policy. A. S.: "]' d like to get students to under Recycle Program Adds 25 Campus Bins Meel School To Conduct begin their campaigns stand that if we can unite, we are ETCETERA. • • more likely to succeed," he said. ENVIRONMENT: ContInued from page 1 Si wabessy is running on the "Stu Co-op helps UCSD Women's Health Stu_ Bartolotta also cited a lack of dent Action Now" slate. which in CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson communication between the A.S.