AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORKPLACE BARREL ~ OPINION, PAGE 4 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO www.ucsdguardian.org THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2006 The Student Voice Since 1967 Undergrad Life, Culture Pub Lease Uncertain as Year Ends Focus of Group Suggestions Lack of on -campus housing, central IMPROVING STUDENT UFE facilities main causes lhe COINIIItIee recommendid: of student complaints, • The UIe of the virtual Underpaduate Research committee finds. Center to Involve students In research By Charles Nguyen NEWS EDITOR • The revival of A.S.-spon­ A ca mpus committee - charged sored T.G. ewents to create regular student-orlented by Chancellor Marye Anne Fox with programs evaluating the shortfalls of under­ graduate life - released its first com­ • The development of a prehensive report, which included Campus V111a8e ma ny fa r-reaching goals that admin­ istrators hope will improve the stu ­ • bents and ceremonies at dent experience. the beginninB and end of Members of the Undergraduate coIlese careers Student Experience and Satisfaction Subcommittee, including adminis­ trators, students and faculty, cat­ sive projects that Vice Chancellor egorized their recommendations of Student Affairs loseph w. Watson ARASH into nine "principles," and dis­ said symbolize the university's dif­ Employee Beau Cornell may lose his job if the university decides to lease the Porter's Pub space to a different business next year. cussed possible improvements to ficult mission of shaping campus campus life. The group began its culture. Advisory Board, which controls the basis for students," he stated. work earlier this year, based on "It is certainly the most impor­ Porter's Pub plans leases of central university spaces, Porter's Manager Tim Mills said a report released last year by a tant and complex task because it to submit proposal will request an inquiry into other that the univer ity is aiming to trans­ larger U.S.E.S. committee. Group most actively engages all campus options whenever a University form the pub's environment. members stated that many students constituencies - faculty, students, to keep its space as Centers lease expires, UCAB "I think they want to turn [the found campus life and culture drab staff, alumni and retirees - in ways the university courts Director Gary R. Ratcliff stated in Student Center] into Price Center and "legalistic." that promote both the feeling and an e-mail. Although Porter's Pub junior; make it more corporate:' "UCSD is lackluster," the U.S.E.S. reality of being fully appreciated other businesses. itself could be gone after next year, Mills said. report stated. "The sense of com­ and contributing members of the By Woodrow C. Covington Ratcliff said that UCAB wants to Ratcliff, 'however, was adamant munity is weak; the campus . lacks UCSD community," said Watson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER preserve the pub's "funky noninsti­ that the ambience of the pub - spirit, the campus climate is cold who is charged with carrying out tutional atmosphere." and the sale of alcohol - would be and nonwelcoming; and the campus many of the committee's recom­ University Centers will accept The space, which includes a included in the new lease. does not have a commonly shared mendations. proposals from local pubs and stage, will still be rented to a bu si ­ Rob Porter, a UCSD graduate set of traditions and rituals." A glaring problem with under­ nightclubs to lease the space ness that will book shows with and owner of the pub that bears In its proposals, the subcommit­ graduate life, the committee found, currently occupied by Porter's bands and DIs, Ratcliff stated. his name, said that Ratcliff had tee focused on defining a culture for was the lack of student housing. Pub when its lease expires this Researching other poss ibilities given him the impression that the UCSD. Some suggestions involved Finding avenues for students to November. for the space is a "common" prac­ lease would be made exclusively short -term goals such as decoration live oncampus would be the "most Though the pub will submit a tice for the board, according to available to Porter's Pub. Porter contests during Triton Spirit week. effective action UCSD can take to proposal to renew its lease, the uni­ Ratcliff. added that he has not had contact However, the bulk of the recom­ versity is exploring other options. "Their goal is to have more mendations involved comprehen- [REPORT, page 7] The University Centers activities on campus on a regular ( PUB, page 7 I UCSD Minority Faculty Lags Behind Systemwide Figures STUDENT AID BREAKDOWN OF FULL·TlME UC FACULTY HEADS TO CHOPPING i ~~---------------- BLOCK i ~~---------------­ State phases out bill provisions that would have I ~~--------------- increased award amounts. By jadyn Snow STAFF WRITER A bill that would have provided more than By Charles Nguyen tions from a task force commissioned by UC $122 million in aid to California undergradu­ NEWS EDITOR President Robert C. Dynes last fall to investigate ates was stripped in the state Assembly, and ways to improve diversity in faculty ranks. The now offers less than $2 million to students. While the ethnic diversity of faculty has been group - composed of professors and adminis­ In its original form, the legislation, spon­ limited systemwide. the makeup of professors at trators from all UC campuses - described its sored by Assemblyman Hector De la Torre UCSD is even less varied, according to numbers goal as vital to improving campus life. (D- outh Gate), would have altered the cur­ released by the University of California Office of At UCSD, full-time faculty have been mostly ARASH KE SHMIRIANIGU~RD/~N rent Cal Grant program by widening the scope the President. Anthropology profrsgz DavKI Jordan is one of many faculty members The figures were coupled with recommenda- [ FACULTY, page 3] that are white, the domillllllt ethnicity of prr!P.ssors in the UC system. 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Charles=='- NI..,.. __.... • FACULTY, from page 1 debated 2006-07 executive budget, Ultimately, some senators ques­ ."...McArdIe -..._... which will decide the amount of _tioned whether or not it was fair to white for the past decade. In 2005 • funding for all A.s. -related programs take money away from certain events almost 80 percent of full -time profes­ MIdden 0pI0I000 ... next year. to give it to others. sors were white. While the levels of ~c.mp ...... o,woo fAr The budget approval. which lived "Please don't cut one tradition ethnic-minority professors have con­ I!..t .......... _ up to its reputation as the longest event for another tradition event just sistently jumped each year for those Dono/toIIIIntJer -....,.... fAr meeting of the year, reinforced vis­ because one thinks they're better than years. the task force still described the CIIIIIIIt/'le __ ible splits among councilmembers the other; Marshall Junior Senator situation as critical. who favored fol­ Kyle Samia The figures are not much better ~.,... , lowing precedent said . systemwide, where almost 79 percent ...HIboun ...---....... Many of full-time faculty is white. CURRENTS ------ and those who sena­ Chil'-CIId< -......... -. sought to set their New tors questioned Task force members are also pre­ &8Ie .... own standards. the necessity of paring to overhaul faculty hiring Billy""'"s ..... _ Ten Ceremonies on June 2 for excellence in teach­ Among the most Business the A.S. pan­ practices, because "the next decade of in g. AleundorVorond -........ _ contested items on Matt L'Heureux cake breakfast increased faculty retirements presents Will Honor Grads Honored fa c ulty members Andrew N...,.. 000Ip_ the budget was the [email protected] pioneered by a one-time opportunity of higher fac­ in clude psyc hology professor ulty turnover:' Riley 501.>'''-I'o>rc< AII_ UCSO Cultural President Harry Speakers rangi ng from an ABC james Kulik, vi sua l arts professor Celebration, formerly the Thurgood Khanna, and attempted to move Minority faculty were hired at a news national security correspon­ Grant Kester, structura l engineer­ Marshall College Cultural funding elsewhere. rate of almost 10 percent of applicants dent to a fo rmer state senato r to a ing professor Joe l P. Conte, math­ - ~- Celebration. "I think we should look at our­ during the 1990s, the task force found , director of the Nati ona l In stitutes emati cs professor John Eggers, -- Supporters argued that the $4,000 selves and scrutinize how much we but the level dropped significantly with of H.ealth will be present a t 10 linguistics professor Eri c Bakovic, proposed allocation would be insuf­ are spending before we scrutinize how the passage of Proposition 209, which graduation ceremo nies at UCSD urban studies professor Keith ficient to run the event as planned. much our student orgs are spend­ barred the use of race as a factor in between June 3 a nd Jun e 19, Pezzol i and literature professor Beginning with a plea from event ing," Commissioner of Athletics Karl hiring practices. Since 2000, however. wh ich are expected to attract as John Granger.