Volume9, No. 14 Publishedat UCSD 17thYear of Publication April17th - April30th 1984
A.S.Stipends Or DiverseMedia? The Role Of AlternativeMedia AlternativeMedia Up For Loaded Communicating Referendum Vote With The The Associated Students Council votedon April4th to placea referendum Outside questionon the ballotthat seeks to seriouslycut the budgetallocated to Any consciousperson is a~are that UCSD’s alternative media. The there are many differentlinguistic proposal, submitted by AS terrainsin San Diego(’ountv. People Commissionerof Communications.Tim speakof differentthings and in diflcrent Pickwelland AS President.Craig Lee, ways dependingon where they arc. At seeksto arbitrarilylimit funding for the \ .toe’sfilling station the linguistic range is alternativemedia to $20,000.The media substantiallydifferent from whatw~u affectedby this proposalinclude The hear around the Student (’enter at BirdcageReview. L’Cha.vim,Sappho UCSD, and a l.a .Iolla dress shop Speaks,Politijournal, Voz Fronteriza, discourseis differentin styleand content new indicator,Peopled Voice and The Overone hundredstudents attended a rallyagainst racist violence on ThursdayApril, froma collectivediscussion at theU(’SI) Koala.Voting on the issuetakes place 12 on the UCSD Gym steps.The event was co-sponsoredby Asian PacificStudent Women’sCenter. April18th & 19th. Alliance,Black Student Union and MECHA. The rallywas calledto protestthe racist When student’s leave the UCSD in a move that caughtmany members violenceon campusand acrossthe nation. campusin searchof jobs.the linguistic of the alternativemedia off guard, changesin theirbehavior will be very Pickwelland Lee bypassedthe usual noticeable.One of the jobsof themedia practicethat sees all legislation going to is to facilitate communication. eitherRules of FinanceCommittee for a Alternativemedia, work at bothends of recommendation.Instead, their bill went AS Elections:A Look this endeavor.While 9~10 of the new direcilyto theCouncil for an immediate indicator,scirculation is on campus. vote thereby sidestepping any 1/10 is circulatedin the community. substantivediscussion in committeeas At Some Candidates Throughthis contact with the "out side". we show the community that the wellas avoidingany possible opposition AS elections take place this despitetheir usual prattle to "keepin studentsare concerned with larger social by membersof the alternativemedia. Wednesday and Thursday. Those touch with students."Looking back on issues,and at the same time prepare Similarly,a resolutionauthored by thispast year, the trend in factshows a electedwill control close to $275,000of countyresidents for a newgeneration of CraigLee calling for a referendumon the studentmonies and determinefunding contemptfor studentopinion and input University graduates with a wide Committe For World Democracy’s for studentorganizations, and other AS on thepart of the AS Council.Early in (CWD)political film series budget found diversity of views. Non-sectarian sponsoredprograms. March,the Councilunanimously voted publicationssuch as the new imli~’ator its way on the AS agendafor Council the conceptof stipendsto nextyear’s Alsoon the ballotthis year will be helpto legitimizethe University to the approval,this proposalhowever was Council,knowing full well that over 80% referendum questions including an wider community:not by replacingold handilydefeated. of thestudents last year voted aginst the amendmentto the AS constitution,a dogmawith new. but by insistingon a Several representativesfrom the proposalto limitfunding for alternative idea. Then more recentlythe Council variousalternative media attended the new’ and wider range of’lingui.stic media,a questionregarding assignment passedseveral referendums, including freedom AS Council meeting to dissuadethe of on-campushousing, and a question the proposalto cut alternativemedia, Council from its intendedactions, seel~ingproficiency in a computer with littleor no debateand without The only way we can master the howeveronly one representativewas languagerequirement for graduation. permittingthe groupsinvolved to make differentlinguistic fields is by plunging given the floor. Ignoring pleas to argumentsagainst it. And on thosefew One significantaspect of thisyear’s in and immersing ourselves in the postponethe vote, or referthe matter to occasionswhen debate does develop, it experience.Many people are doingthis Rules Committee,Tim Pickwelland his electionis theconspicious lack of public lastno morethan a few secondsbefore debate or exposure on any of the today in San l)icgo~ith the hope of cohorts,sensing a quickvictory, forced choas and pandemoniumbreaks out. expandingthe limitsof dialoguein a an immediatevote and the AS Council referendumquestions. This meansthat I.ikewise an amendment to the AS moststudents will see theseimportant particular area z, nd raising the passedthe resolution by a vote8 in favor, constitutionwent on theballot with little questionsfor thefirst time inside the consciousnessol peopletrapped in a 2 opposed and 6 abstaining. The meaningfuldiscussion. The question ghettoof mentalarchitecture inhabited votingbooth. The blame for this does unusuallyhigh numberof abstaintions itselfsimply refers to theamendment as by theguardians of thestatus quo. indicatesa levelof uncertaintyamong not lie with the. studentsfor their "ArticleI, SectionC, subscripte" Notlong ago. French activists sought AS memberson the proposalitself and "apathy"but ratheron the AS Council withoutactually stating it. With no to"liberate’"thelinguistic domain of l.c themethod in whichit arrivedfora vote. who, this year under PresidentCraig backgroundor otherinformation it is Lee, have done good a job in Santd.a prisonlocated in thecenter of understandable why students have The referendumin part reads: "Do misinformingand keepinginformation Paris. Guerrillatheater was put on trouble making informeddecisions. you wish to limit the maximumamount from the generalstudent body. They acrossthe street from the prison building Moreover,the carefreeattitude of our of fundingreceived this year by the havefailed to informstudents or bring so thatit couldbe seenby prisonersfrom AssociatedStudent’s Alternative Print issuesto thefore front for discussion continuedon page9 theircell windows.Repeatedly. actors Mediato $2@000?Yes, limitfunding to wouldrun acrossthe streetdelivering $20,000;No, do not place a limit on lineswithin ear-shot of the prisoners funding.The cleverlywritten question The objectivewas to introducenew seeksto implythat a NO voterepresents San Diego Rohr Industries terms and conceptsinto this penal a blankcheck for the alternative media. institution. But as the informationalphamplet Mfg’s. Cancer in Humans distributedby some members of the Today.in San I)icgo,~e lind that alternativemedia indicates "the truth is, Thegood times in ChulaVista stop at the(’hula Vista plant, and around half of linguisticdomains arc shrinking,lhis each publicationhas a very limited thegates of RohrIndustries. Inc. Inside. them belong to the International ghettoization of language is budget under the scrutinyof an AS workers are becoming aware that Association of Machinists. The accompanied by fiercely guarded Committeeand every expendituremust conditionsare unsafe. While stock capitalistexploitation of laborat Rohr borders where new expressionsand be justified..." holders’earnings rose by over 100% lieshalf burried in a fogof differingpay unfamiliarconcepts are repeatedly between 1972 and 1982. and while scalesranging from the16th grade,at turnedaway. A recentexample of this The pamphletgoes on to stateone of Rohr’svalue rose on the prestigious $6.48an hour.to Istgrade, at $14.47. the underlyingreasons for the frat- "protectionpolicy" by a sell-appointed Fortune500 indexfrom 452th place to Under the new contract,the lowest guardianof the statusquo occurredin dominated AS Council raiding the 420thplace in 1982,with a totalsales of payedworkers received cuts by $1.82an alternativemedia budget: to generate the town of Encinitasat the American overhalf a billiondollars, the families of hourwhile the highest payed were given enoughmoney to pay for theirrecently Quik PrintShop. lhe owner,Mr. Barr,, workerswere burying their dead by the raisesof 45¢an hour.Such "divide and Sklar.refused to print2,000 bulletins [or approvedproposal to pay stipendsto dozens.Over 70 workersin the Chula conquer"tactics by the Companyare incomingAS officers.Using the old the UCSD Groundwork Bookstore Vistaplant have died of cancerin the obviousto everyclass conscious worker. becauseof phrasesin thebulletins such argument of "fiscal fairness" Tim past20 years. Pickwelland his supportersare making Classstruggle at RohrIndustries has as "Capitalismis Orga ni,’ed (’rime." M r. In 1982,the 8,000employees at Rohr onelast attempt to stifleprogressive and taken a grim turn. and the widowsof Sklartold the near indicator that he has criticaljournalism that this campus Industriesgenerated a totalvalue of workerswere the firstto noiticethe beenin businessfor fiveyears and does $565,880.000.On the average,each needs--a brand of journalism that alarmingpattern of deathin the Chula around30 jobsa day.lhis is the second worker produced $70335 in value. Vistaplant. A raretype of cancerwhich continuedon page10 Today,there are about5,000 workers in continuedon pageI0 continuedon page10 2 3 andx, orkc,sol\ortl,’\nleticanm
ttARRI%BIrRG. PA.--Ihe train the4 a.m.cahn da~ ol theaccident. No MidnightOil. a politicalnc~ ~a~c introducedthe song "’Short Memory" b,, departsthe centuD-otd station here at 7 oneknow~, just hov, nluch radiation~as b~,udIrom .&ustrailia. made a stunning dedicatingit to Kissingcrand his cronics a.m sharp, bound tar Philadelphia. released,a~, radiationmonitor,, were debut ~r~ .\prilI at S;.I).’,;(:.’s v.hen they’re llyillg in theirlear.lets o~er Ihere’s hot coffee and a comi~ial knockedoH-kihcr b~ the e~cnt. Montc/unl;.lIlall. I help radtcall\ Anatrakcre~ on board,along with lresh i!1Salvador. Inthe v, eek I spenthere-- tlarrisburg is political lyrics, combined~ith pla.’,tng "’(’oriquistadorof Mexicolhc Zulu morningpapers and the low murmurof m) hometown--Ispoke with ma)bc benilitsfor lcllistorgani/atitms ha~c comersation.Slowl), the train pulls past and the Navahol he Belgiansin the dozen peopleabout the accidentand inspiredcritic’s to callthem "AI.stralia’s the gentriliedtownhouses of the once (’ongoShort MemorxThe story ol El aboutthe undamagedunit TMI-I,which (’lash".t-urthcrnlorc, they pla) delapidatedShipoke, skirts the nearly. SalvadorThe silence at Hirasbima the NuclearRegulatory Commision mav silentmills of Steehonand picksup factoriesand anti-~ar rallies throughout l)cstruction of Cambodia Short reactp.atethis 3une.Thc~ includea At.strailia. ¯ speed as it rolls throughthe farm mcmoo,must ha’,,e a shortmemory". As machinist, and installer of air country,south of thecity. Ihcband performed songs ofl it’s first thelights were dimmed. Garrctt with his conditioningequipment, a pre-school lour albums,, ~ith the latest Off to the right,riverward, is a handraised and standingon top of the teacher,a choirdirector, an insurance "10.9.g,7.6,5,4,3.2,1""becoming the first drum podium(sec picture),belted out farmhouse,then a church,with old buses executive,several homemakers. None to bc released111 the t’.S. I heirdiverse thesong "t;.S. Forces". parkedin the yard Beyondthat, bare areanti-nuke acti,.ists, and none of them wintertrees and. througha thickgrey and unique sound v.as demonstrated "lt.S.Forces give tbe mod It’s a wantTM I to operateagain, in ant’ form, throughoutthe concertas elementsof mist,four enormousfunnels. Blinking at anytime. setbacklor ,’,ourcountry Bombs and red lightsmark the looming structures, punk.new wast, art rock,folk rock and trenchesall in rowsBombs and threats I spokewith an oldhigh school friend, pleaseIt’s better to dieon vourfeet than rangedfrom acousticfolk to electric identifiedin the local press as thetallest hard-rockblended together to form a still ask for more Dividedworld the who remembered Three Mile Island to liveon ),,’ourknees". rock. Bassist Peter Gifforedhad a man made objectsbetween Philadelphia distinctive,iconoclastic sound. CIA Who controlsthe issue Will you beforethe plantwent up- an islandof blooming bombastic punch to his and Pittsburgh.They are the cooling The concert opened to the eerie know it when you see it High risk scrubsand small trees where people kept The crowds main focus was on playingwhich carriedthe rhythmRob towers of Three Mile Island nuclear svnthcsizcrmood piece of "’Outside children dogs of war Now market cabinsand went fishing.’Tve beenon Garrett’ssix-and-a-half-foot-tall frame Hirst hit his drums loud, often, powerplant, the focusof the world’s World",v. hich gave the audiencetbe mo~ementscall the shots Business deals theisland lately,’" he said.Business. I and bald head. He moves to the bands creativel)’and energetically. "’Midnight attention March 28. 1979, when we first~iew of leadsinger Pete Garrett. in parkinglots Waiting for the meatof askedhim aboutsecurity. He laughed. raging rockers in a spontaneous, Oil"played enthusiastically, powerfully almostlost Pennsyl,,ania. who was dressed in AfricanClothing tomorrow". "’Reallax,’" he said."You could get in primitiveand ritualisticmanner. His and passionately.Their great melodies with a shawl around his head. The Five)ears after the worstcommercial thereeasy". lhesepolitical songs mesmerized tbe franticstage anticsfeatured berserk complimentedtheir anti-nuke,anti- nuclearaccideni in U.S. history,the hauntingmood was shatteredby the "You know,"he went on. "’1 never audienceand receiveda greatresponse gyrations,intense gestures, and karate imperialistand anti-authoritystance. damagedreactor.core of Unit 2 hasyet to ragingassualt of"Only the Strong".The reallyhave been against nuclear power, from the crowd.The song"Pov, er and sylemovements. One reviewersaid that The 300 peoplein attendancewere as be cleanedup; it’s still glowing after all songis an excellentexample of Midnight andI didn’trealize how serious it was Oil’s freneticrhythms which feature tbe Passion"(which has recievedsome he lurchesaround stage like Nosferatu emotionallydrained after the concert, as theseyears. Inside the plant sit 600,000 untilabout six months ago, when I sawa airplay),with its herky jerky stop and go on acid.During tbe songsGarrett would tbe band itself.This uncompromising gallonsof radioactivewater. The utilit)’ " explosivedrums, powerful bass riffs and PBS documentaryon TMI. Ehat sucker ’Tncase o/emergency, repeat after me." Our father .... beatgot theaudience dancing as wellas yell,groan, snarl, chant, rap, and sing. band gave an inspirationalconcert. that operatesTMI wants to dump the drivingguitars. almostmelted down. And we stilldon’t listening. ¯’The power and tbe Throughout the concert his stage Future concert’s at S.D.S.U.’s licensing exams that employees optimistic.One couldhardly blame her. water into the SusquehannaRiver, know how much radiationwe got.’" The band’s activist rock was passionThe temper of the times The presencecomplemented the urgencyand "’Backdoor",will feature political bands which prm, ides drinkingwater for protestingsafet) ~ iolationsduring clean- l_ast Ma , three countriesnear TMI showcasedthroughout the concertas power and the passionSometimes you energy of the bands tasty times. "MinuteMen" on April 27, and "Agent up ha~,cbeen harrasscd by contractors: t communitiesdownstream and drains Like everyoneI talkedto, my old ~oted,tyro to one,againsta restart But. theirangr)’, fiery songs were performed haveto takethe hardest line’ You take Guitarists Martin Rotse)’ and Jim Orange"on May I1. intothe rich fishing beds of Chesapeake friend is disgustedwith GPU, the that krypton gas ~as accidentall~ the NR(" has so far ignored that vHth powerful intensitx. Garrett what you get )ou get what ~ou Moginiewere superb,as theirsounds --LarryFiske releasedinto the atmospherel)cspitc Bay.Thecost of clean-upis estimatedat consortiumthat runs the plant. On referendumjust as thoroughlyas it has onebillion dollar,g. Authorities ha~,e yet February29. MetropolitianEdison, a someexccuti,.c rcshulllings, most people ox erlookcdthe man’, safety violations at l’mjust one moregrain of sandin this ChicanoPark. With Pete Seeger they to come up ~ith the money. memberutilit)’, plea-bargained with hereaboutsloci that the principal actors -I MI since1979. world,but I want to throwmy weight, will raiseone voicethe fourteenyear responsiblelor the problems ol thelast UpcomingEvents In San Diego Theaccident which came within a halt federaljudge, admitting that it had -lhis is the mood of the community howeversmall.on the side of whatI think demand to expand the park "All The fi’,eyears arc still running the show. an hour of meltdov,’nhas long since falsifiedradiation leak rate data lor at fi~e,,ear, after the near disaster: angry, is right,ratherthan selfishly look after Way to the Bay". Los Alacranes departedcenter stage in mostparts of the least four months before the l.ocalanti-nukcrs fecl the same~a~ ~atchlul,wear,,--and persistent, despite my ownfortunes and have to livewith a Mojados,based in San Diego,is coming world.Not so in Pennsylvania.where accident.Since the 1979mishap, ncv.s aboutthe NR(’.At the no-lrillsuptown the maddeningdelays and continuing Tools for Peace bad conscience". out withtheir second album this spring. residentshave’li~,ed with the nuclear reportshave established that several officeat ThreeMile Island Alert, several tension.Central Pcnnsyl~anians marked Los AlacranesMojadoswill open the Theconcert will be heldSat. April 21, ti’me-b6mb of TM I, eversince sirens split plantoperators faked test scores on their activiststold me thexbeliexe the agent.’, this unhapp3 anniversarywitb public concert on Chicano Park Weekend. 8:00p.m. at the CaliforniaTheatre, 4th is dominated b\ bureaucrats--kc\ meetingson the medicalfallout of the in Nicaragua They are balladeersof the border, and C streets,downtown.Tickets are Physiciansfor Social Responsibility and stafters w ha conlc into govcrnnlenlfronl SDSU CulturalArts Board present accident,a speechb\ Ralph Nadcr, immigration,racism and barriolife. availableat the Grass Roots Cultural lhenuclear industr\, then rotate back to pre-dav,n,’,igil in the plant. They have also been involvedin the Centerand at Ticketron.Call 232-5009 theindustrx. "It doesn’t matter who the Under constantattack by the CIA- who are opposedto R, eagan’simmoral war on Nicaraguato providesome sort leadershipwhich createdand improved for any information. commissionersarc," said one actix ist. Meanwhile.the contaminatedplant backedcontras, the peopleof Nicaragua nits on an island that once hosted need and deserveour help.The Reagan of concrete aid to the Nicaraguan Nuclearissues I askedila new president opposed It} campersand fishermen,in the middlcof administrationhas done everythingit people.On May 21, 1984a shipwill be nuclearwar wouldmake a difference. a ri~er ~hcrc general,ions of can to sabotage and destro)’ the leavingSan Franciscofor Nicaragua (tar,,Hart spoke downtown at theslate Penns)lvanianshave navigatedboats Nicaraguaneconomy. As a result,there filledwith critical farm tools,spare capitoljust that da’,. lhe question drew Saturday,April 28, 1984 ,. ~~ and barges,gone swimming, found their aresevere shortages of vitalitems like parts,medicines, and schoolsupplies. 12:30p.m. - 4:OOp,m. sad laughs. Hart had straddled drinkingwater, been baptised. I thought agriculturaltools and equipment, health You can do your part by contributing SanDiego Slate University k" O Harrisburgcrs’questions about TMI aboutall thal as the expresstrain from supplies,and schoolmaterials. thesetypes of itemsor donatingmoney and, besides,there arc always the OpenAir Amphitheater Phillysped past on itscvening return to Theseare the types of itemsneeded by to buy them. bureaucrats. Ilarrisburg.Going bx IMI,I closedmy the Nicaraguans to continue the ThisApril 26, at 6:30p.m. there will be "’I)oyou thinkthe NRCwillauthorizc eyesand pictured an islandof cabinsand impressi,,cgains the) have already made a qoolsfor Peace Polluck to be heldat smalltrees. When I openedthem again, a restartof Unit17’" I asked."l,ooks like in food production,health care, and the Great Hall, St. Paul’sEpiscopal it."came the repl).And then, almost as the lightson the coolingtowers were literacyand education.l-he Reagan Church(5th & Nutmeg)in San Diego. blinkingred. an afterthought,"’unless wc stopit". 1 he administration seems intcnt on The mainspeaker will be BlaseBonpane, LINUS PAULING,PI~D, person who said this did not seem --David Armstrong preventingNicaragua froln becoming a a former regionaldirector for the successfulexample for other Latin Nobel Laureate (Peace and MaryknollFathers in Nicaragua,who hiscomplicity in the murderof 770,000 Americansstruggling for liberation and hasspent many years in thatcountry and Chemistry) continuedfrom page 3 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Serbs and Jews duringWorld War II. justice.Thus. wc ha~crecently witnessed can speak informativelyabout the the U.S. governmentengaged in the TheseNazi murderers and babykillers presentcondition. The event is being Serving NO FIRSTUSE, THE FREEZE,& outrageousand clcarlyillegal mining of sponsoredb) the Friendsof Nicaraguan Letterscont. arenow disseminatinganti-Sovietwitch- Nicaragua’smain ports, damaging ships OtherPaths to WorldPeace huntpropaganda in thiscountry. Their Cultureas wellas OxfamAmerica, the of othercountries and endangeringthe non-profitrelief and development Johnl.oftus, a former investigator for leaders have easy access to the Breakfast livesof theirsailors, agency which is sending the ship to theU.S. State Department, relates in his Republicanhierarchy in Washington. Nicaragua.For more information"call book,Belarus Secret, the storyof 200 1 he questionmust be posed:To what The Tools ior Peace Campaign ADMIRALEUGENE CARROLL (retired). Cenler for Defense Information providesan opportunityfor thoseof us 235-O485. Lunch & The Arms Race Out of Control Belorussianwar criminalswho made extentare the)’ involved in therising tide theirhome in SouthRiver, New,lersey. of anti-Semitismthat has engulfedthe Dinner ¯ PROF. ROGER FISHER, Harvard Law School Someof these"heroes" are: a Naziwho U.S.in thepast several years? What is Can We NegotiateBetter Relations With the Russians? amused himself by throwing small theirassociation with the K K K, theJohn REV: JOSEPHLOWERY, Pres. So ChristianLeadership Conference Jewishchildren in a welland dropping BirchSociety. the AmericanNazi Party, Pete Seeger Returns DAILY SPECIALS (SuccessorIo Dr. MartinLulher King Jr.) hand grenadeson them;an executioner the Moral Majority and the ultra- ALL YOU CAN EAT! Beating Swords with Plowshares at a deathcamp at Koldichevo:and the reactionarywing of the Republican Grass Roots Cultural Center is broughthis musicto themine and mills, Wednesdays 5-7 p.m. LIVE JAZZ $3 00 Nazi,Emanuel ,lasiuk, wbo drew up lists Part)’? presentinga special benefit pertormance labor camps, to the campuses and Apr,I18fh Chili & Spuds JOSEPHJ. BOOKSTEIN,N4D, Vice--President,PSR/San Diego concert halls.todelight and inform of intellectualsto be slaughteredand in --Phil Honor with America’sbest known and most Apri~25th Enchiladas " PostNuclear Human Extinction: The Medical Evidence. Some Policy Implications one nightkilled more than 5000,lews. outspokenfolksinger, Pete Seeger.For audiencesof everycolor and class. MARGARETBURBIDGE, PhD, Center For Astrophysics and Space Sciences The FBI, Departmentof Defense and overforty years, Seeger, the "Father ol A champion,for over forty yearsof NEW ADDITIONS Perspectivesof "an Astronomer theCIA used their undercover talents to Hootenanny"has been singing,picking fightingfor civil rights, the early labor * Wrapped & Ready Bagels 85¢ conceal these Nazi butchersand to the banjo,composing songs and raising Take Out one of our delicious bagels I Peanut Butter ¯ Apple on a Cinnamon DAN~ ANDREWS, Film Star FREEDOM movement, minorities and the pretendthat they were not in theUnited Raisin ¯ Cream Cheese & Tomato ¯ or Cream Cheese & Olive My Country, Right or Wrong hisvoice in supportof peaceand justice. environment.Seeger has been raising his States.Most of them had plush homes FROM He is theauthor of suchwell-known songs clearbaritone voice in supportof his Groaton thosedays your’re in a rushl BIBI BESCH, M.C., Actress, "The Day After" and lucrativejobs at RadioFree Europe RELIGION as "If I had a Hammer","Where Have ideals.Blacklisted, beaten up andspied * Sandwiches by the Inch Tho~JghlsBefore "The Day After’" and RadioLiberty. All The FlowersGone", "Kisses Sweeter upon,hefinally triumphed in a seven Wholesomeroll with lots of fresh ingredients! Information Paekot 45~/inch MarcidaDodson, I+o.~ Angeh,.~ l’ime,~ Than Wine", "UnionMaid? and "Turn, year court battleresulting from the TickelsPrices: $3.00 8eneral; $2.00 SIDSU sludenls staffwriter, disclosed (2-8-84) that Turn,]urn". He has over eight)albums McCarthywitch hunt of the 1950’s. TicketsAvailable through all TICKETRONOutlets & UCSD BoxOffice Send$1.00 to ENTERTAINMNENT AndrijaArtukmic. one of the highest to hiscredit and has appeared recently in His courage and integrity have Phone:565-9947 & The SDSUAztec Center Box Office:265-6947 AmericanAtheists April27th Born Cross-Eyed. Dance ’o themoSIC of Corotett,I[)ec~d rankingNazi war criminals, has been in thefilms "Wasn’t that a Time"with the provided an example for countless P. O. Box2117 a 9 p.m. $2.00 REGISTER& VOTEIN 1984 thiscountry 32 yearsand is stillplaying Weavers and "Hard lravelin". people,proving that one voice at truth Austin.TX 79768-2117 documentaryabout Wood) (}uthrie. April 28th Spring Costume Partyl Food & Bee¢ $3.00 ACADEMIC CREDIT--One unil SDSU Exlended Sludies 26S-5821 hide-and-seekwith I!.S. authorities. can be heardspeaking out againstgreed Artukovicis wantedin Yugoslaviatar Since the 1930’s.Pete Seegerhas and lies.Seeger has said,"Well. I know 6 7 /Venceremos! .John Hoagland On CentralA i JohnHoagland, San Dieganphotojournalis! and formerUCSD student, was killedby a U.S.-suppliedweapon while covering the revolution in El Salvadorone month ago. He is butone of tensof thousandsof victimsof theU.S. government’s brutal military campaignto maintainits controlover Central America at any cost.A campaignnot supportedby themajority of theU.S. people, but funded by taxdollars over which we havelittle control. JohnHoagland felt at homewith the peoples of CentralAmerica. And in thespirit of theirstruggle for a lifefree from poverty, hunger, torture and oppression we present reproductionsof some of JohnHoagland’~ work. iVenceremos!
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Young Guerrillero. Guerrillera.Nicaragua, prior to 1979.
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t . Guerrillerocomforts person mourning loss of a loved one. El Salvador. This is the only photoin our collectionwith a lille.Hoagland called it "Muchacho." Guerrillero.Nicaragua, prior to 1979. Nicaragua,prior to 1979. 9 8 continuedfrom page I addressreal issues of substance.In this n.J.: You have iearnedthat the UC govern,communication and trustmust year’selection such a slateis Students Regentshave increased fees. What steps, improve. Kulture AS Elections... Progressingtowards Unity through if any, wouldyou take to respondto Boroditsky’soutstanding trait is his Diversity(S.P.U.D.). On theother hand "representatives"has made students that? self-contradiction.’[his seems to be a increasinglydisenfranchised with the candidatesand/or slates resorting to Pilon:Again, the first step is to inform natural consequenceof his primary Let me alone! Life has now struckme in all my death. campaigns based simply on name- Otll from a surrealist.l-reudian. AS. And this year’s Council has thestudents of thisaction, and perhaps concern:self service. For example,in Ourplanet recognition,who campiagnon throwing SergeiYes+nin’in a xerse letter: fur~eins or an.~ otherreactionary exacerbatedthat situation. calla specialopen session of theAS for response to the question on the tohe cut. is pootl3equipped Bcrgsonian moreparties and use "fiscal fairness" as a lotdelight, method. ~c certain[.’,cannot base our discussionof thisproblem exclusively. alternativemedia budgetsBoroditsky I li,,em thick#~moke. "’|!ncore!’" CraigLee’s Council has donea lotto guiseto attackgroups doing important opinionsona simpletalk v, ill]an artist in Afterthis, perhaps organizing a visible says,"l abstainedon thisissue in AS. And¢he.shatte~ng blast ol things imitatorscoo m delight¯ One must reinforcethe long-heldfeeling among work,who refuseto addressthe crucial snatch otderto ascertainthe importance of his and cohesive protest combining Since[ wasn’tprivy to allthe sides to l hattorture me becauseI do not O~er~.ou the generalcampus who see the AS as issueslacing students, do notmerit your understand. almosta squad gladness ~ork. ,Xccotding to these various essentially--withsome exceptions--a individualsand organizationsfrom sucha complicatedissue I feltit was lromthe da’.s that are support. wrong to vote uninformed." After Wherethis century’ is h)adingus. committedbase jinks. spritualistmethods, the artist is powerlessbody (with regard to the UCSD and all other UC campuses.In Inthis life A Look at the Candidates orderto do this,we mustform a union, admittinghis lackof knowledgeon the SergeiYessenin’s. final act of suicide Wh.~increase instmcti’,cor. to expressoursel,,es in administration)which enablescertain it’snot diflicult to die as it were,and become a politicalforce in issue he then turns around and on 27th December, 1925 bv hanging the number more orthodoxterms, intuttixe.His studentsto embellishtheir resumes while A S presidentialcandidates Adrienne ol,,uicides? Io makelife orderto preserveand further our rights. ignorantlyclaims, "AIot of thisis waste ha~ingfirst cut his wristsin a hotel tsmore dilficult bxfar ’aork floras out ol him naturall.~. apprenticingat petty bureaucratic tasks. Pilon and Mark Boroditskyresponded Better unconsciously,subconsciously. If asked to newindicator questions recently. The n.i.:Are you in lavorof stipendsfor andinefficiency." room left a note in~olood: to increase ol The entireAS structureis organized Viktor Shklo~,skx writes hisopinion of art andof hiso~nart,he other AS presedentialhopefuls, Dan AS offcers,and why, or why not? Another contradiction is more (ioodbye,my triend,gt)odh~e, theoutput of ink! so as to appear "legitimate" and Ma~ako~skx’s suicide: "He killed willprobably rcpl.x in banalities,with Lubeck.Jar’ Richards,David Tollner obviouslyself serving.He stated,"1 goodh~ e. It’sgrie~ pus "responsible"to the administration. This Pilon:No. It is ridiculousfor the AS, himselfwith’the same rexol~er that had everything,quite often, contrary to what and GeorgeVoloshin. were not reached support the referendum question Youare in m’,heart, as e~idence. andmisplaced is significant--theywork to appear which is talking about cutting the beenfilmed in themovie .~ot I+,r .U+mel in timeh;’ ourstaff to allowprepared concerning(cutting) the alternative Ourpreordained disse,.eranee to be mysterypropagators. he makesand does¯A genius,according legitimateor responsiblenot to students alternativemedia and the CWD film [-orever now Born. to this.belics and contradicts himself, or responses..forwhich we apologize. media budget.Because it allowsthe Predictsreunion ~.~,and b x. but to administrators.Thus the AS seriesbudgets in half,in the name of ~ourtongue ’+’[herewas just one bulletin the almostalwayscndsupgoingastrayinhis studentsan opportunityto voicetheir (ioodbyc;no handshaketo endure¯ works on little things within the From Pilon’s and Boroditsky’s fiscalresponsibility, to discuss awarding by teeth’slocked tight. conversations.To rel~ on these,like a opinionsand decidethe fate of their Let’shave no sadness-furru~edbro~. cylinderof there~ol~er, frameworkof "acceptableactivity." answers emerge two contrasting itselfstipends. O thepeople fundamentalistcritic, turns out to be.for funds."Yet when the studentsvoiced there’snothing nev, in dyingnow "Therehad been no friendattentative Activitysuch as fightingfee hikes, characters. Pilon, the S.P.U.D n.i.:The federal governmenthas Thoughliving is no newer. thelanguage-creators. thatreason, a mistake.But not if we start theiropinion on thefate of theirfunds in enoughto removethat bullet, to follow affirmativeaction, UC investmentin candidate,appears to be consistent, announcedthat non-registrants will be a sonorous out from the method of historical a referendum last year that To annul Yessenin’s death poem, apprentice-debauchee the poetor telephonehim." SouthAfrica, admission policies are for cohesiveand concerned with a varietyof ineligiblefor financial aid. How would materialism,so dearto Mayakovskyand overwhelmingly opposed paying VladimirMayakovsky affirmed life. hasdied. The Ma’akovskv Case essa.~ was th mostpart ignored. student issues. On the other hand, you respondto that,and why? his communistfriends. Marx does not stipendsto AS officers,Boroditsky TOSERGEI YESSENIN And,as condolences. ~rittenby Cesar Vallejo,a Peruxian Boroditsky,of theAS Expressslate, has conceivelife except as a greatscientific Of courseall of thisis notinevitable. Pilon:Again, we shouldrespond with choseto ignorethem. "! supportstipends poeticjunk they gave, IndianPoet, during one of hisvisits to narrowlydefined, self-serving and Youha~,e passed. unrehashedhangovers experiment where nothing is Individualswith a strong sense of frequentlycontradictory positions on the appropriate dissemination of forAS officers."Of coursehe does;as a as theysay. the SovietUnion. He-rites: fromfunerals of thepast.Blunted unconsciousor blind,but is reflexive, direction,with political consciousness, issues. informativeand organized student returningAS officer,Boroditsky would intoworlds elsewhere¯ "’Ata gatheringof Bolshevikwriters in ¯ rhymes conscious, technical. The artist, are oftencapable of buckingthe tide. protest.What it comesdown to is the standto personallygain by opposingthe Emptiness... areshoved in Leningrad,Kolvalsieff was telling me: TheAS hasmade it consistentlydifficult n.J.:What do yousee as therole of the denial of educationon the basis of voiceof thestudents. It’s obvibus that his "" accordingto Marx,in orderfor his work Fly, to exorcise " - Mayakovskyis not,as is thought forprogressive groups to securefunding. AS at UCSDin respectto socialissues? political/moralphilosophy and gender; cuttingyour way into starry to function dialectically, with stanceon thealternative media budget is yourgrave in foreigncountries, the greatest Soviet Howdo yousee yourself fitting into that andthat seems strangely out of placein a dubiety. repercussionon History,must proceed Thisis notdue merely to vindictiveness coloredby whathe personallystands to isthat poet,nor anything like it. Mayakovsky is and petty power plays. Rather,such role? "’democratic"society. gain,since the funds takenfrom the No advances, howa poet witha rigorousscientific method and in no more than a theatricalperson who organizationsas the alternativemedia Pilon:First there is theobligation for alternativemedia would be used to pay no pubsfor you there. ishonored at thelast’? fulltlnderstanding of his means. Hence, n.J.:What is your positionon the speaksin hyperbole.Ahead of himthere and other programs on campus hae disseminationof information: providing Sobriety¯ A monumentfor you thereis no betterexegete of thepoet’s referendumquestion to limitfunding for hissalary. are Pasternak,Biedny, Sayanofand accessible,comprehensive and reliable No.Yessenin hasn’tyet been cast work than the poet himself.What he reachedstates where they are making alternativemedia? Similarly,when questionedabout many others.., available to the UCSD community sourcesof news aboutsubjects such as this whereis it, thinksand says about his work is, or Pilon:I am stronglyopposed to the socialissues Boroditsky declares, "As far "1 know Mayakovsky’swork, and I valuableresources--resources that changesand proposalsin affirmative is notderidingly, bronzereverberant ought to be. more on-targetthan any referendumfor several reasons. It is an as being’socially cognizant’ the AS couldn’t have agreed more with affectlarge numbersof students.And action,corporate boycotts in effectat in my throat or granitegrand?- outsideopinion¯ Mayakovsky then, in arbitrarymeasure and does not state councilitself does not have the power, buthere. already, Kolvasieff.And when, some days later in other campuses,what the UC Regents notlaughter thestatements that he madeto me, con- thiscan be comparitivelyexpensive. It is where the excessfunds will go. The abilityor responsibilityof dictating the butsorrow racks¯ by memory’sbars Moscow, I spoke with the author of are up to, new rulings on sexual veyedbetter than any criticthe meaning difficultfor someonewho lacksa sense alternativemedia is a valuablesource of students’political views¯" As a white I see dedications ’150,000,000,"our conversationsealed harrassment,etc. This would require an of hiswork and what it reallyamounts to. of direction,who is concernedchiefly information and opinion on this malehe hasno tolerancefor issues such yourcut-open hand and memoirs forever Kolvasieff’s ~erdict. improvementin the networkingwith "Mayakovskywas speakingto me ina with the efficientadministration of campus,and as I have statedbefore, as affirmativeaction because they do not maddeningly. of rubbishstand. Mayakovskyis not, in fact, the best other UC campusesand. also, being visiblypained, bitter tone. Contrary to his/her bureaucracy and "fiscal informingstudents is highon my listof benefit him. However, when he swings Your name Sovietpoet¯ He is onlythe mostwidely more accessibleand visibleon this intohandkerchiefs they’re snivelling. whatall his critics sa.~, Mayakovsky was fairness,"to look at a programthat priorities.The AS hasbeen notoriously personallyis threatened by issuessuch as a )ourown bones published.If Pasternak,Kazin, Gastev, campus. likea sack. yourwords suffering,deep down. an acute moral entailsa significantamount of fundsand noncommunicativewith the membersof thedraft, all of a suddenthe AS hasthe Sayanof and Viesimienskywere read Stopit, by Sobinovare slobberingly lisped crises.The revolutionhad comein the evaluateit on the basisof the service My own role would include doing thealternative media over issues such as abilityand an obligationto act(to save ¯ more, then the name Mayakovskywould chuckit! there--- midstof his youth,when his spiritual offeredto the universitycommunity. morepublic speaking, improving office these.Instead of creatingan atmospherehishide). "1 willtake an activerole to Isn’tit reallyabsurd? and theywind up losemuch of its reverberationaround moldwas already cast and evenset. The Such evaluationswould constitute a hours,and utilizing the AS Bulletinin assurethat dealingwith the Solomon . in ~hichbudgetary problems and other Allowingcheeks " undera deadbirch-tree, quivering: theworld¯ effortto do an abruptabout-face, and be major break from the bureaucratic theGuardian and the alternativemedia. Amendmentis one of the StudentBody "Nota word,O my friend, "But why should my conversation concernscan be worked out through to flush completelyamenably to the new life, regime,and it can be expected(to Communicationis the key to effective PresidentsCouncil’s primary conce[ns. I withdeathly hue? not¯¯ a wh-i-s-p-e-r, with Mayakovskybe the definite dialogueand mutual compromise,an broke his back and made him lose his partialdegree) if studentsseek out those government. atmosphereof distrustand conflict has willalso insurethat Fred Gains,our You ¯ Eh, key to his work?To what extentcan a centerof gravity,leaving him out of a candidates who are attempting to whocould do suchthings to quitea differenttune I’d switch conversationdefine the spirit and, what beenperpetuated. In order to effectivelystudentregent, is awareof my viewson joint,like Yessenin and Sobol. Such has thisissue. SBPC and the student regent, ¯ withwords. andjust tell is more,the aesthetic value of an artist? been the lot of his generation.It has in coordinationwith the UC Lobbyare thatno oneelse thatLeonid Lohengrinich! Theanswer, in thiscase, depends on the continuedon pageI ! "’SelectedBlasphemy" appears as an When the child has reachedmanhood, on earth I’drise up there methodof criticalthinking. If we start themost powerful tools available to the coulddo. a thunderingscandalist: irregularcolumn in the new indicator. he is thoroughlysaturated with the belief studentsat thegovernmental level." Why ¯ ’1won’t allow Readers are asked to submit their thathe is chosenby theLord himself to On other issues,Boroditsky would ltorwhat? poemsto be favoritediatribe for publication. Each defendhis country against the attackor liketo seean increasein thenumber of Perplexityappals. mangledby mutts! articlemust be no longerthan 800 words. invasionof anyforeigner. It is forthat Criticsmutter: I’ddeafen them studentsactive in AS projectsunder his Send submissionsto the New Indicator purposethat we are clamoringfor a leadership.He proposesa "student "Tffemain fault we find with a Collective,UCSD B-023,La Jolla CA greaterarmy and nav~,more battleships asa result doublebarrelled whistle. involvement week" and an AS 92093. of toomuch beer and wine," Theycan stick’em and ammunition,it is for thatpurpose orientationfor freshmentowards that So to say, wherethe monkey that Americahas withina short time end.He wouldalso like to see heavier if youhad sv, apped stuckhis nuts!" spentfour hundred million dollars. Just promotionof the AS and its programs. bohemianism, Andso disperse think of it four hundredmillion He is a staunch proponent of the suchtalentless filth, forclass, dollarstaken from the produceof the administration’sproposed "University there’dhaw been no bust-up, blowingaway people... Center,"especially from his perspective class’dhave influenced jacket-sails yourthinking. engendereddarkness. We Americansclaim to be a peace- as managerof AssortedVinyl (an AS co- Butdoes class so that lovingpeople. We hate bloodshed;we op).Still, these positions, like his others, quenchitvt hirst helterskelter areopposed to violence.Yet we go into tendto be limitedto sphere’sof personal withkvass? runsKogan and his ilk. spasmsof joy over the possibilityof concernand self benefit. Cl~tsg,too mutilatingoncomers projectingdynamite bombs from flying is no foolwhen ii comesto drinking withthe spears machinesupon helpless citizens¯ We are They’dhave attached to you of hismoustaches. ready to hang, electrocute,or lynch ¯ ~omeone Theranks of rubbish anyone,who, from economicnecessity, government.Further, the youthof the meanwhile PATRIOTISM: A Menace fromO~ Gtlard willrisk his own life in theattempt upon countryis appealedto in glaringposters an¢tthe~nain accent haven’tgrown much thinner. to jointhe armyand the navy."A fine ° Life thatof someindustrial magnate. Yet our wouldhave b~~n- To Liberty heartsswell with pride at the thought chanceto see the world!"cries the on content: mustbe changed governmentalhuckster. Thus innocent tobegin with. that America is becoming the most a hur~lredlines - " youngboys are morallyshanghaied into a day Andhaving changed it -- Indeed, conceit,arrogance, and powerfulnation on earth,and that it will thenone can sing it. patriotism,and the militaryMoloch you¯dhave w~ten Emma Goldmanwas born in Russiain egotismare the essentials of patriotism.eventuallyplant her iron foot on the Thesedays necksof allother nations¯ stridesconquering through the Nation. hard, ¯ , 1869 and immigrated to the United Let me illustrate.Patriotism assumes as tedious. aredifficult thatour globe is dividedinto little spots’, What we need is a propaganda of forthe pen. t Stateswhen she was seventeen.Br the Suchis thelogic of patriotism..¯ andIo’ng-~inded each one surroundedby an iron gate. educationfor the soldier: anti-patriotic Buttell me, time she was deportedin 1919 she had The spiritof militarismhas already as Doronin’sattempts. Thosewho have hadthe fortuneof being literaturethat will enlighten him as to the youcrooks and cripples wheezy, made a name.lorherself as the "Most permeatedall walks of life,Indeed, I am Before realhorrors of histrade, and that will whatgreat ones ever chose- DangerousWoman in the World. " A born on some particularspot, consider convincedthat militarism is growinga I’dhave created themselvesbetter, nobler, grander, more awakenhis consciousnessto his true ¯ " suchhonsensical stink, where staunchanarchist she fought for causes greaterdanger here than anywhere else¯ relationto the man to whoselabor he t’ ,~I’d have choktd and when? ranging.from .free speechto women~ intelligentthan the living beings becauseof the many bribescapitalism owes his very existence.When we have my veryow~ breath. a path emam’ipation.In the selectionbelow she inhabiting any other spot. It is. alreadytrodden smooth holds out to those whom it wishesto Betterfar discussesthe armsrace of her timeand therefore,the duty of everyoneliving on underminedthe patrioticlie, we shall andeasy? destroy¯ todie of dlrink. connectspatriotism with militarism. thatchosen spot to fight,kill, and die in have cleared~he path for that great thanbe boredto death! ¯ The word-- ,.":: the attemptto imposehis superiority structurewherein all nationalities shall is theC-in-C ¯ +,. The beginninghas alreadybeen made Neitherthe noose uponall the others. be united into a universal notthe penlltnife there of humanpowers. in theschools. Evidently the governmentbrotherhood, a truly FREE Forwardmarch: r,’ willreveal ,. Patriotismis a superstitionartificially The inhabitantsof the other spots holdsto theJesuitical conception, "Give SOCIETY. Thattime may whistle by thetrue cause created and maintained through a reasonin a likemanner, of course,with me thechild’s mind, and ! willmold the ofthis loss, asrockets flare. theresult that, from early infancy, the man.¯¯ Childrenare trainedin militar~ So thatthe wind network of lies and falsehoods:a But,* superstitionthat robs man of his self- mindof thechild is poisonedwith blood- tactics,the glory of militaryachievments maybe,if therehad been shallcarry to thepast of ours respectand dignity,and increaseshis curdlingstories about the Germans,the extolledin the curriculum,and the inkin theAngleterre, 0 n ¯ r B ¯ n H -- ca~opo,qo~,N] .qo~oanlkqenbu,e~ French,the Italians,Russians. etc. youthfulminds pervertedto suit the there’dhhvelbeen no reason onlythe ruffling ofthe hair. arroganceand conceit. 10 11 continuedfrom page I stud,,pro.iect it reportedlycontracted 41tha Dr. Petersat USC. Workersfeel Union InvestigatesCancer at Rohr-- meetink,at theuni+,n trail. 591t Park H’at thatRohr is paling l)r. Peters to cometo Your Help Needed tit(’htda fi~ta, ~,n Saturdal m+[rning, RohrCancer on, the banalconclusion that thereis too .t4arch24 at I(L’O0a.m, l)oct,,t~ tram muchcancer at RohrIndustries, Inc. For 77t(’.tlachini,~t,~ I nion t.s nou’ £ ’CSI)uill he pre.settt tit the ttwctittg to attacksthe esophagushas strikensix colh’ctthe information. Fou can report u, okersin six\rears. ]he probability ot theu, orkersat Rohr,this is toolittle investigatingreport~ o/ a rarelorm [~/l ill/ilrtltaliOtloil Iottr~t’//iott a ( t)-~or~t’r this happening, according to one substanceand too late!It willbe just canceratttotlg .lhtittlenatlc~’ Dt’partntetit or a /OrDl(’r em/ih,I’UU I OH ~IIt’H’, specialist,is aboutI in 1,000,000,000,another abstract bourgeois stud’, emph~ree,~.So tar. u’e know at five However.~te a/readt /tax’(, IlltortHaliotl and preliminar)studies point to the withoutmeaning and not satistactoryto l,eoph’m thatth’partment lt ho havedied the sentientneeds of the menand~omen art .~otttepeople Sha/~’r. (’art’o/. worksite as theorigin of thiscancer. Moments of tram (an(ert?/ the e so/~hagu~.7hi~ whose‘’cry It~es are on theline. Instead cattceris ~, rarethat the odd.~ of thi~ I:lower~.Bouh, s. tlah’.(Tal,per..h,ne~. ]he InternationalAssociation ot of waitingfor theirboss’ research team Class Strugglein ha/qwningl) l chanceare two ilta/+illion. Potra%t arid Hem- ~o tttc~c< a~’~do Machinistsgot involvedthen a rank thqtreed t,~ t,t’ reported..Ill rep,~rt, t~tll It)conclude their "’secret" stud)’, workers .%’o O/’?U I(’/ ktlOIVs what catiAud r/IU andfile member saw the class action suit at Rohr have organized their own San Diego County cattct’r,t~ttt it t~ verrlikelr that it ua.~ twI~cpl ~ on/hh’ntialatul tour IIdDIU ?lU<’d by the five widowsfrom Rohr reported investigation.The)’ are soliciting causedh v .~omet/titt,l~at ~ or~. m,t/~’ recorded. in a San Diego newspaper. After information from the workers and 77ti~meelin.~ l~the" first slep lit/indin~ speakingwith the President of hislocal, /he followingpoem b) l)xlanI boreasis takentram Ralph Moss’ hook, Ihe ll’e are uorking uith a team o/ formerworkers, directly. They, have I/1¢" (’allAt’O/ I]1("~(’(alll’Ut’~. !/ Io14 /lavt" he contactedthe several parties involved (+ancerSrndrome. Accompan)ing this poem is a humanistcall for resistance V,(’(’iali.~t.~tolind the (au.w attd t+, ~(’(’ t/ begun examining the material "’]hefacts are stark,"reported one tllll’ ruh’vt, l?ll itl/i~rmatiottit i~ ~l~’ta~l and arrangeda meeting.The company’s rateof esophaguscancer was sufficient againstcapitalist aggression in San Diego(’ount~. ]his call was issuedb~ otht’remphJ ree~ are al,~o twing a/letted. conditionsin whichthey are obligedto worker."They are undeniableto the l’he/ir.~t step in thi~ .~tu+l~ ts t+,,eather It?tporlatll l]ltll loll allt’tld l/t~’ Diuuling physician,I)r. Brady Hartman, reported indicationof unsafeworking conditions. workingclass intellectuals associated with the InternationalAssociation of work each day. workers:the onh’ reasonthey are not OIt ,~)alllrdal 77t~, in/inmati+mI ou Jlav(" to the assembledworkers at Rohr that WhenMs. Moll)’ Cove, the ph)’sician for Machinistsand AerospaceWorkers m/ormaliott a~olll cattcer¢-a+~(’~ alltolt,~ Recently,the unionauthorized a flyer NIOSH, expressed concern that undeniableto the companyis thatthey emploree.~al Rohr7o t~egiltu ilh,u ~’ ttla~ /tu]p wlvc I/IC lives¢,/ ClllrPItt attd therewas nothingto worryabout,but he --n.i.trahajo [ttlttt’ecmpIocees. I/ iot~ are tmat,h’ Io which was distributedto workersat managementhad not warnedworkers in havesomething to loose."This, in fact,is are Inl’t’.~li,l,~(2llNgCall(’(’r ( a.~e% atria/It; could give no h,gitimatereason why allUtld,cO;llatl the IltllOtl hal/itt pUl"~Otl workersat Rohr shouldnot worryabout Rohr: "UnionInvestigates Cam’er ,4 t the maintenancedepartment .when this the essence of the capital labor emldorec,~t~/to workvd in Btdhtmg29 or Rohr--Your th’lpNeeded. " (see page relationship:The autobiography of class (Writtenin 1946 to the poet’sfather dying of cancer.) ~,;"/~1 phone at 422-5386. theirhealth. The unionhas foundthat patternof cancerbegan to appearsix tnProces.~tng in Iltu past 211 |’uar~. I1) A meetingwas calledfor Saturday years ago, Binghamtook her asideand consciousworkers is thehistory of us all. around 16,000 workers at Rohr have I/ VOlt ttal’t’ itl[Orttt¢ltiotleJt)Olll altl morningat IAM Hall in Chula Vista, btganlecturing her. (Written in 1984 by a labor union diedin thepast 15 years.What did they We in, the San Diego communitywould Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night kindo( canceramong these cntl,h,tec~, and workersbegan taking an inventory It is commonknowledge at Rohr that activistin San DiegoCounty.) die from7 When the union asked for by Dylan Thomas WC ar[" a,~itl~, Iolt to ~ olttc Ioa ,V,etial of theircollective state of health.The Ed ("thosepoor peoplearen’t really do wellto listento thesebrothers and company’records, they were given a sisters,as thedrama at RohrIndustries, stack of death certificateswith the resultswere alarmingenough that the hungry")Meese was Vice-presidentof NationalInstitute of Safetyand Health Inc.unfolds. We willlearn much about Do not go gentleinto that good night, workersnames blankedout. RohrIndustries ", Inc.in 1975,and that was calledin and an inspectionof the this influentialCompany contact in our communityand about the powerful Old age shouldburn and rave at close of day; The Companyagain exhibitedits had plantwas conducted.Rohr’s Industrial WashingtonD.C. threatens to stiffleany peoplewho rule over our livesin the Rage, rage againstthe dying of the light. faithwhen it refusedto supply’the union Realtions manager, Ken Bingham, name of capitalism and for higher federalinvestigation of health hazards at Thoughw:ise men at their end know’ dark is right, with informationabout the $100,000 refusedto acknowledgethat the high privateprofits. Rohr. Becausetheir words have forked no lightningthey continuedfrom page I Do not go gentleinto that good night. Soon,students at UCSDwill decide if suchconstraints on linguisticfreedom Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Linguistic... Their frail deeds might have dancedin a green bay, should be instituted on the UCSI) Nicaraguan Workers’ Rage,rage againstthe dyingof the light. timehe hasrefused to handlea client’s campus.If the alternativemedia budget requestbecause he disagreedwith the is cut,so willgo thecollecti‘’e dialogue, Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, viewsexpressed in the materialto be and with it will go many’ of the Peace Initiative And learn,too late,they grievedit on its way, printed. expressionsnow circulatingwhich Do not go gentleinto that good night. challengethe legitamacyof capitalism In Januaryof thisyear the progressive America. can be prevented from Graxc men, near death, who see w’ith blindingsight Anotherexample of heavilyguarded and the pragmatics of labor tradeunion organizations of Nicaragua touchingoff a thermo-nuclearwar, linguistichegemony occurred a few exploitation. put out the call for an INTER- whichis as greata dangerthan e~er in Blind eyes could blaze like meteorsand be gay, months ago at the Dept. of Motor ~ Rage.rage againstthe dying of the light. Hopefully, students will show NATIONAl. MEETING OF TRADE thisperiod. Vehicles.in Oceanside,where an office UNIONS FOR PEACE to be held in manager,Mr. RobertG. Deans,refused sufficientimagination to vote against the A number of labor leaders and And you, my father,there on the sad height, Managua,April 24-27. ¯o o to allow the n.i. to be distributed alternativemedia budgetcut and not activistsfrom California are planning on (’urse,bless, me now with your fiercetears, I pray. "becausehe reada copy and disagreed wait for the old addageto come true: Thiscall comes at a criticaltime when attendingthis April conference and are I)o not go gentleinto that good night. withthe views expressed." Again. in the "You nevermiss the watertil the well the Reaganadministration is escalating stronglyencouraging others to do the Rage,rage againstthe dying of the light. North County Employment Develop- runsdry." itsmilitary attacks on Nicaraguaand on same.Interested observers are welcome. theliberation forces in El Salvadorand ment Dept., the manager,Ms. ,lean continuedfrom page 8 "’In the caseof Mayako~skywe have therest of CentralAmerica. Step by step Futurework brigades are stillunder Fritchtel,refused to allow the new These constraintson linguistic discussionpending evaluation of thelast to distinguish,right off, between his lilt freedom are becomingmore and more theU.S. government is layingthe stage indicatorto be distributedbecause, brigades.A stronglikelihood exists the andhis work. Since his suicide, his life "employeesare not permittedto openly apparentbecause they are a necessary fora full-scaleinvasion of El Salvador has been rounded off as one of the and Nicaragua. Project Brigadeswill be formed in $$$$$$$$$$$$ express a politicalopinion during preconditionfor the socialcontrol over smallernumbers throughout the year to greatest and clearest individual exploitedand aliented labor. As they state in their call, the Kulturecont. workinghours." helpout with specific tasks in Nicaragua expressionsof the collectiveact. Nicaraguanshope that through such suchas buildinga schoolor community sut+fered,smack in themiddle at + each Doubtlesshis suicidewas no morethan formsas this internationalconference FinancialAid Deadline continuedfrom page I center,painting a hospital, etC. individualaorta, the psychological oneof the thousandsof criticalmoments Alternative Media is Important On trade unionistsfrom aroundthe world consequencesol social revolution. alongone long, moral Way-of-the-Cross Campus can "worktogether to imposedialogues Technical Brigades to send AlternativeMedia professionalsin the areas of healthcare, Situatedbetween the pre-revolutionarytraveled by the writerhimself, uprooted 1984-85: Educational media, such as the andnegotiation as a meansof solvingthe and post-revolutionarygenerations, the by Historyand by a powerfulwill to alternativemedia at UCSDis inherently local and internationalconflicts." energy,and agricultural production are generationof Mayakovsky,Yessenin, understand,and live to the utmost,the Attack... a progressiveforce, by avoidingmere Throughthe effortsof workersof the alsoin formation.Contact the National and Sobol has seen itselfliterally’ new socialrelations. ]’his internal world,local conflicts, such as in Central Networkfor furtherinformation. duplicationof commercialmedia, it can crucifiedbetween the twofaces of that strugglebetween the past whichholds overcomecommecial media’s serious up evenas everypoint of supportis in MAY 1, 1984 greatevent. Within this same generation, challengesthe status qua, asks troubling limitations.Some of the inequitiesin the Calvary’has beengreater for those the meantime,lost and the present questionsand raises criticisms. societysuch as racism,sexism, and the whomthe revolutioncaught by surprise. which demandsa genuine,thunderous entirerange of arbitrarydiscrimination This is a reminderto all who the disinheritedof everyrew)lutionary adaptationwas in Mayakovsky’long. As noted in the informational againstvarious groups in societyare all traditionor imitation.The tragedyof blood),and dreadful.Deep down,the want to be consideredfor financialaid pamphlet,the amount of money saved toofamiliar to us.However inequities of personalpsychological transmutation tenacious and irreducible petty by students amounts to nothing. A accessto vitalinformation, the so-called for 1984-85.The deadlineto complele has been brutal; and only the bourgeoissensibility’ survived with all its $2@000cut from the alternativemedia "informationgaps" of communications unconcernedones wearingrevolutionary fundamental values in play, and budgetwill not directlygo to students, theoryare perhaps less familiar to most yourfinancial aid file to be considered masks,and the intensiveones posing as outwardly would he engage on his ratherit willfind it’s way into financing us, but theyhave a profoundeffect on Bolsheviks.have managedto escapeit. willful,self-driven struggle to throttle for aid for all threequarters of 1984-85 the estimated$12,000 yearly cost for our everydaylives. One aspectof the The moresensitive and openheartedthe theprofound essence of pasthistory in stipends.In addition,having squandered denialof accessto vitalinformation is order to replaceit with the equally is May 1, 1984.It is yourresponsibility nearly$7,000 in studentmoney on AS the degreeto which differentsocial individual as he absorbs social happenings,the deeperthe personal profound essence of the new. ]he Calendars--boxesof which sit unsoldin groups are prevented from graftingof thisonto that was impossible. to know the required documents and the AS offices--theAS is now looking communicating to one another. upheaval he feels from political convulsion,and the more exacerbated In vainhe exchanged,on the day after submitthem by this deadline.If your for wasy to replenishits unallocated Education media have a primary therevolution, his futurist waistcoat for reserves.As for the claimthat the AS responsibilityto contendwith this the pathos of his intimatepersonal revisionof History.The final judgment the workshirtof the Bolshevikpoet. In file is completedafter/May 1, you will budgetis outof controland a fincicial particularlevel of inequity.This is vainhe went,from then on, declaiming crisisis settingin, one only need look to especiallytrue in so faras theuniversity has been,then, terrible: and suicide, literalor moral,turned out to be fated, Sovietverses through the streetsand be consideredfor winter and spring the AS Mandated Reserve which now is purportedto be an institutionof social squares,in factories,on farms, in logging inevitable,as thesole solution to the standsat a healthy$46,150.00. enlightenment. quarterfinancial aid only. Depending tragedy.For the others, on thecontrary, camps,labor unions, tha barracksof the Red Army... In vain he became the i i ! i for the insensitive,the unconcerned on the availabilityof funds,late Pindarof theproletarian epic. 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S.1938, the so-called President."Make your papersix pages if necessaryto win the damages.Adds long,’"the historian was told, "and write Buckmiller:"There’s no jobI’ve heard of FoodSafety Modernization Act of 1983, would add new means by which In 1971six black police officers from it in Reader’sDigest style." whererape is incidentalto any typeof potentiallyharmful substances would Columbus, Georgia, removed the workingcondition." --New York Times, 4/12/84 enterand remainin our nation’sfood American flag emblem from their Big Mama Rag supply.For all its"modernization,"not a uniforms to protest discriminatory singleprovision of thisbill. introduced hiringand promotionof blacks,police by Senator Orrin B. Hatch (R-UT), bruitalitytoward black citizensof Cleaning Up wouldadd to theprotection ofthe public Columbus,and other outrages.When health, complaintsto their superiorswere Must Have unproductive,the officerspicketed Femininity Besideschanging the definitionof policeheadquarters. F.inally they were "safe" in the existinglaw to allow dischargedfor removingtheir flag additiveswhich have a "negligible"risk Ever sincethe toxic shocksyndrome Been Some emblems.In May,1983, the officers won of harm to the population(with no scare,competition and advertisinghave thesuit they brought against Columbus. takenoff in thetampon and sanitary pad definitionwithin the bill of what The case is now in districtcourt to Thing They constitutesa "negligible" risk), the bill industries.From 1980 to 1982, ad determineremedies. 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As one industry analyst raisingtheir ~,oices over a mealin a into food from packaging.Concerned Amerikan said,"Thesemarketers have decidedto restaurantwhen they were told by a man readersare urged to takeaction against teach women that they aren’tclean." at a next-doortable: ",lust because I’m this thinly-veiledweakening of our Since the analyst was a woman, one offduty. don’t think I can’tstill nick currentfood additive laws. might have expectedher to slam the industryfor its attitude. But her business you.’" -information from the Center for schooltraining must have gottenthe Some moments later,six uniformed Sciencein thePublic Interest reprinted betterof her sex-heronly conclusion police s~armedinto the restaurant, from Sciencefor the People was, "The marketcould be enormousif arrestedall tout men and took themto CIA Opium theyare successful." the policestation at HollowayNorth l.oqdon. --dollars& Sense ()heof themen. Barry Carliell. left the Trade? stationsoon aRcrwardscovered with BenefitsOf blood.His righte~e was hangingout of itssocket, lhe cvc was later removed at Apartheid-- The admissionis latein coming.The MoorfieldsEve ttospital. US Drug EnforcementAgency is finally ltis three companions,Peter I.ee, If You’re acknowledgingthat the Afghanrebels The Big WilliamPeter I.ce, William Merle and are financingtheir war in part with I,eonardMaloney, who is a teetotaller, proceedsfrom the sale of opium.Some v, erebanged up in thecells, lhey were White! of thisopium later reaches the United Spender charged with being drunk and Statesin the formof heroin.According disorderly,bailed and released. to David Melocik, the Drug The apartheidregime of SouthAfrica Enforcement Agency congressional They appeared at Highbury willgo aheadwith the forced removal of liaison,"250 to 300 tonsof opiumwere MR. BIG HEART Reagan recently MagistratesCourt on Thursday.June 2. about 300 black familiesfrom their produced in Afghanistanin 1982," said he would donateall the residual lhe prosecutionoffered no evidence. homes. The Mogopa Villageand plots enoughto convertinto 25 to 30 tonsof incomefrom his old filmsto charity. lhc clerk of the court asked the havebeen owned for the past70 yearsby heroin.The Drug EnforcementAgency This,says he, would be an exampleof magistratesto "bind these people over to thesefamilies. Now the laws of apartheid estimatesthat four to 4½ tonsof heroin what privatecitze~s and companiescan keepthe peace". have designatedthis area to be white are smuggledinto the US annually.In a do to helpthe needy in this,the richest ]he magistratesrefused. [he three’ zone. rare moment of candor for an nationin theworld, and make up forhis men left the courtwithout a stain on ]he peopleof this villagewill be administrationofficial, Melocik even brutalcuts in socialservices that are theircharacter. moved to an area some 65 miles away. concludedthat "Americaninterests in "savingAmerica from big government." Policecanstable Brian Renton has Schoolsand otherfacilities in Mogopa Afghanistan are somewhat contra- Well, one reporterfor the Chicago beensuspended on fullpay, and is outon have already been demolished. An dictory because the administration Tribune thought he’d look into old bailpending a chargeof greviousbodily estimated3.5 millionBlacks have been wantsto fightdrug trafficking but also Reagan’sgenerosity, and discovered that harmon Mr. BarryCarliell. relocatedagainst their will since the early wouldlike to see theAfghans drive out Ronnie’stotal residuals in 1982came to theSoviets." --Daily Mirror-reprintedfrom the 60"s. themagnificient sum of $30. SouthernLibertarian Mt~enger Big Mama Rag -- Counterspy PEOPLE’S WORLD