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ExceptionaL , equipment The science depart­ ment Tuesday made It possible for disabled students to enroll in any science course offered at CSUN by welcoming two new aid additions for the disabled to its equip­ ment stable. Aimee Beucherie, sophomore in com­ municative disorders, pulls teeth on a blind visual aid jawbone (left). •^] Dan Duran, student assistant at the CSUN Handicapped Affaics Office, finds leg room beneath one of two new movesfble lab stations (right). (Sundial photos by Todd Page.) vol. 25 no. 20 californta state university northridge, California simdial friday, October 3,1980 UPC calls for Chancellor Dumke's resignation By DAVID FOY We find his posture on these issues relationship with the faculty," legislature and governor to review periodic basis. Demanding a insulting." Bland said. Dumke's job performance. review of Dumke alone wiU be In a move reflecting faculty Dumke was not available for "He is not a strong enough The rhetoric used against counterproductive, she said. dissatisfaction with the pcapaeeA comment on the charges, but an spokesman for the university Dumke is indicative not only of tbe "He (ICessler) should have asked plan tor review of tenured teachers aide said "Mr. Dumke is not system with the board cX. trustees UPC's dislike of him, but also of the trustees about the nutter and salary matters, the United responsible to Kessler.'' in terms of budgetary support for the UPC's desire to be seen as an befwe he attacked Dumke in print Professors of California called last Kessler wait on tp say, in the system," Bland added. ^ outspoken advocate ol the faculty. for aU the newspapers to pick it. week for the resignation oi Glenn reference to Dune's ability to "He has been poUtlcaUy weak in With the coming of collective up," McEdwards said. S. Dumke, chancellor of the keep his job as chancellor through getting the system what it needs. bargaining for the CSUC system, "The trustees are not going to do California State University and three goverm^, that "He is a He won't tell the trustees the harsh the UPC wiU be involved in an it just because tbe UPC demands Colleges system. poUtical chameleon, a man who truth of the needs of higher election against the-Cootfpeaa of it. They'U probably say 'We're not Statewide UPC President going to be n-dered by you.' Mr. Warren Kessler accused Dumke, 'He /uw heen politically weak in getting the system what it needs. Kessler's actions hurt the chances who has been chanceUor since He wonU tell the trustees the harsh truth of the neevos of higher ot ever getting administrators 1962, of being "hostile towards the reviewed." faculty," particularly in view of edttcation.* The proper thing to do, McEd­ his advocating a change in the -Bland wards said is to bring the question salary structure without of adminstrator review before a previously consulting any faculty would cheerfully destroy tenure, education." Faculty Associations this spring meeting of the trustees. organizations. sacrifice faculty incomes, and Bland accused Dumke of for the right to rqiresent CSUC "I don't think they approached it Kessler also attacked Dumke's introduce tuition to hang on his "ingratiating" himself with the faculty. the best way," she said, referring support of a plan to review tbe state mansion and lucrative salary tnistees. Both sides agree that whichever to the press release Kessler made performance of-tenured faculty, (over $81,000 annually)." "He's a pretty good poltician," side loses the representation vote his charges in. "The very pubUc saying "He (Dumke) has CSUN UPC President Warren Bland said. "A lot of the trustees wiU protwbly whither away, since approach and the strong language repeatedly suggested in public that Bland also attacked Dumke appointed by Reagan see eye-to- it wiU have no real power. in the letter is premature. there are enough negligent and Wednesday. eye with him on a lot of things, and CSUN CFA President Mary incompetent faculty in the system "I think Dumke has been a drag that hurts the system.'' McEdwards did not agree that "I see nothing wrong with the that wholesale evaluation on the (CSUC) system ever since I Kessler said no formal action Dumke should be fired now, but idea at Dumke being reviewed, requirements and merit pay came here 12 years ago. Dumke wiU be initiated against IXunke, said she would like to see all ad­ because he wants to review us," schemes are necessary remedies. has always created an adversary but the UPC wiU be lobbying the ministrators reviewed on a McEdwards added. Preliminary studies begin Sales tax proposition for LA - valley rail system could fund rail system By TERRY L. CLAWSON Iwsic fare on RTD buses from By TERRY L. CLAWSON of the system is $2 billion. 65 cents to 50 cents. The basic So far, Los Angeles has received $12 miUion from Proposition A on the Nov. 4 fare was raised by the RTD in Preliminafy engineering studies for the Wilshire Washington. This was the first instaUment ot $45 twUot in Los Angeles County is June. corridor subway prc^josal are now underway, Julie miUion that UMTA has promised to Los Angeles as its an attempt to raise money for The other 75 percent would go Sgarzi, director of research for Mayor Tom Bradley, share of the preliminary engineering costs. Los fixed-rail transportation to Los Angeles, to fund raU said Tuesday. The studies are being conducted by Angeles' $240,000 share wUl come from RTD funds, systems, like the Wilshire 'transit systems. If the WUshire Southern California Rapid Transit District staff Sgarzi said. corridor subway project. subway plan is approved, Los members, with help from outside consultants, Sgarzi County Supervisor Baxter Ward is one of t^e Although money raised by the said. Wilshire subway's critics. prqxwition is not specificaUy It will be a long time, however, before CSUN "The project is a myth because there is no earmarked for the Wilshire -^*- students commuting from the downtown Los Angeles guaranteed funding. If the federal govemment baoks subway, that project is by far and HoUywood areas wiU benefit from the subway. out, then what do you have? Nothing," Jerry the closest to becoming jk_ Los Angeles could have an operational subway Leonard, Ward's chief deputy, said in explaining reality of any fixed-rail project system by 1992, "but only if things go very, very Ward's stand on the subway. under consideration in Los snnoothly," said Rick Richmond, an official of the Loa Theodore C. Lutz, head of UMTA, said earlier this Angeles. Angeles bounty Transportation Committee. year that, "there's no absolute guarantee" of ad- Proposition A, if passed, wiU The Wilshire corridor subway is a proposed aU- diti(Mial federal money for the project. raise the sales tax in Los underground rail system that would start at Union Ward also disputes the RTD's total construction Angeles County from the Angeles' share of the con- Station in downtown Loe Angeles, wind through cost estimate of $2 billion. That figure was arrived at current 6 percent to 6.5 percent. structiMi costs would be about HoUywood and end in the San Fernando VaUey near by figuring inflation for the next 10 years at 8 percent, The money raised, ap­ $400 million. the intersectiop of Burbank Poulevard and the Ward said. proximately $225 miUion per Proposition A will need a two- HoUywood Freeway. When the RTD raised the basic bus fare from 50 year, will go for mass tran­ thirds approval vote on Nov. 4. , The preliminary engineering studies are expected cents to 65 cents in June, they relied on a predicted sportation in Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has said to take about two years to ctmiplete. Then, if the inflation rate at 15 percent. Ward claimed. County. that he believes the measure federal government decides to fund the |n-oject, it Sgarzi, however, insists that the $2 billion The money will be divided, has no chance of passing this would ti^#about 10 years to build. estimate is accurate. with 25 percent going to the year. He wiU vote for it, but he Los Angeles is to pay 20 percent of the costs of the "We have worked with UMTA on this project every Rapid Transit District for the wiU not campaign publicly for subway, with the Urban Mass Transit Administration specific purpose of lowering the its passage, he said. paying the rest. The RTD's estimate (rf the total cost Please turn to page 7 2 the daily sundial friday, October 3,1980 Computer use growth SMARTSET to be colloquium topic ...rut SuffB. FATHER... The proliferation of computers in computer engineering and homes and on desktops wiU be the management," Issacson said. subject of a colloquium at CSUN. 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