Charges on Watson: New Regent YCF's. Tanana Should Be Chicano by James G
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Charges on WatsOn: New Regent YCF's. Tanana Should Be Chicano by James G. Soto cessors to Mrs. Edward Heller and City EcUtor Norton Simon on the UC Board of Dropp~d Regents. Over 200 people are under In addition to the 200 names the Tom Tanana, a vice chainnan of consideration as possible UC committee has submitted, Watson the Young Californians for Regents according to Otis Watson. said that Brown has also received Freedom ~YCF), has been cleared Watson is the Third College student the names of 30 to 40 people that of his questionable activities that who represents the UC student were submitted directly to his deal with violations of University body on the statewide regental office. policies. selection committee. According to Watson, most of the Watson said yesterday that the names submitted were the In a letter from Vice-chancellor regental selection committee at its suggestions of either UC faculty or and Dean of Student Affairs final meeting last week at the UC alumni association. Watson George Murphy, Tanana was Berkeley, has submitted 200 names said the list was composed cleared of his alleged "violation of to Gov. Brown as possible suc- primarily of corporate executives. campus regulations in publishing Confirm or Deny and mailing the Sept. 1975, charter Watson, who has been an ad issue of the Free Californian." Musa Calls vocate of nominating a Chicano to the Regents, submitted the names Murphy had fo~d that the of five Chicanos and one black to newsletter was " published under For End to Brown. Watson would not confirm the auspices of a registered or deny that one of the names on campus organization ... which was the list was that of George Walker registered in timely fashion this Dictatorsh ip Smith, a black member of the San faUquarter. by Nick Vanocur Diego Board of Education. Earlier, StaHWriter the San Diego Union had reported "The mailing of the newspaper that Watson had nominated Smith, was properly approved, processed "Human needs must come before profits," Socialist Workers but Watson said he was not at and sent by the mail supervisor in liberty to divulge his choices. mail services then responsible for Party Senate candidate Omari such matters." Musa told 25 people in the Student "A Chicano has a good chance of getting appointed to the Board," "USCD" cheerleader Adriane Ables at a recent basketball In the fall, Tanana had been said Watson. "The Governor is game. The cheerleading squad w ill keep the sweaters charged with "many questionable aware of the need to have a despite a knitting mix-up. Cheers come from. the heart, activities, including mishandling Chicano sit on the Regents." anyway. (TT photo: Bill Brooks) UCSD chapter resources and at Watson believes that if a Chicano is tempts to sabotage the YAF . not appointed this year, one may organization." He had also been not be appointed for a long time. Stude~t Housing Bill ·Killed accused of arranging a kickback' The UC Student Lobby informed from a speaker brought to campus Watson that Pre bel Stroltz, in Senate Committee using Student Cooperative funds, a Brown's assistant who has been working on the regental selection A bill that would have made Inability to complete a 12 month misuse of YAF funds and forming housing discrimination against lease and excessive numbers of a separate conservative process, is dissatisfied with the extensive publicity that Watson students illegal failed to pass occupants were cited by Gilles as organization that "borrows" from through the state Senate finance examples of ci rcumstances YAF'sname. has been receiving for his efforts to have a Chicano nominated. Watson committee last week. common in student living A1?sembly bill 744, authored by situations that demand special Tanana had been ousted from believes that the student representative has an obligation to Assemblyman Howard Bennan consideration by landlords. YAF by the national executive (D-Los Angeles), which would Lobby co-director Judy board of that organization in make the regental selection process open to insure that the best have amended the Rumford Fair Samuelson, testifying on behalf of September on the basis of these Housing Act to include students, UC students, responded that allegations. Jim Lacy, the nominee is selected. "The governor's office has now was defeated by a 4-4 vote in the students were not seeking special chairman of the California YAF Omari Musa finance committee, with three treatment under the Berman bill. had presented the charges to the been pressured to listen to the Center last Thursday. abstentions. " All we're asking is that if a national board after Gary Kreep Throughout his speech, Musa recommendations of the selection committee," said Watson of the Student lobbyis~ registered landlord demands a 12-month had supplied I)im with the ac stressed that there are two main amazement at the vote. "We were cusations. lease, that he ask the same of Continued on Page 11 Continued on P~ge 4 certain we had the seven votes students and non-students alike," needed," said UCLA lobby she said.. representative Milyn Villareal. Senator Donald Grunsky, whose Legislature Should Fun~ UC Growth-Post The UCLA lobby anRex wrote the district includes UC Santa Cruz, measure. said that students are already a by Chris ~owman dergraduates, Post said "The cent of high school graduates are It was the bill's second hearing in privileged class who do not need implication that qualified un eligible for admission. the Senate committee; the first any more special help in seeking The legislature should fund the dergraduates will be denied However, some believe UC is was at the close of last year's housing. " Not that I don't love enrollment growth of 1,438 UC admission to the university is a dra wing students from below that session in September. At that time kids," he said, " We all do. But undergraduates next year that major change in public policy level in numbers that cannot be it was granted reconsideration we've let them have too much Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. is with which we do not agree." explained by a special ad when the committee lost its already." refusing to support, legislative Gov. Brown omitted funds in missions program for minorities. quorum. In response, Samuelson said that analyst A. Alan Post said last his proposed budget to support Student lobbyists had counted on UC students are far from a week. 1,438 undergraduates and 578 Post urged the California Post the votes of Senators Albert, privileged class: " Over 5,000 In his 1,047 page analysis of the graduates expected to enroll this Secondary Education Com Rodda, Anthony Alquist and students in the UC system alone proposed state budget, Post fall - an action which he says is mission to complete Its study on Walter Stiern to gain the bill's were unable to obtain on-campus recommended a net reduction of intended to force UC to cut back the eligibility of UC students by passage. housing last year." $2.9 million from UC's budget, to eliminate unnecessary the end ofthis year. "I was shocked when Alquist, including deletion of the 50 programs. Brown told UC Post also said that UCLA and who had clearly indicated his Berman's Defense percent increase ($275,000) for President David Saxon that if UC Davis law school's EOP support in letters to students from Berman, in defense of his bill, Educational Opportunity cannot find the money for these programs may be admitting his area, turned around and voted said it would not prohibit the Programs (EOP) requested by students, he will assist. unqualified minority students. He no in committee," Villa real said. landlord's options to set financial the governor. Post recommended no budget said only 25.5 per cent of minority Rodda and Stiern, who voted yes criteria, to limit the number of Post also recommended increase t~ support more graduates at UCLA and 34.2 per on AB 744 during its hearings last otcupants per apartment and to elimination of the $150,000 state graduates because he believes cent at Davis passed the bar on year, abstained. Lobbyists say the esUtblish house rules and leases. subsidy supporting 40 resident university departments could their first try. two senators indicated they would The existing provisions of the stipends at UC San Diego morc carefully manage graduate not support the measure unless it RUr1ford act make the practice of Psychiatric Residency Program. enrolbnent. He recommended that bar was assured passage. di c rimination because of race, He said state monies were no exam records of minority Permitted Discrimination colo; , religion, national origin longer needed since the stipends Unqualified Students Admitted students be reviewed by 'the Doug Gilles, lobbyist for the ance try, ex or marital status in are now fully paid by the federal Throughout his analysis of the Regents to determine the ef realtors who opposed the bill, housmg accomodation unlawful. gove~ent. UC budget, Post expressed fectiveness of special admissions countered Berman's contention 744 w _ Jntl' u by Ber- Post's recommendations for concern that UC )1as thrown Its at these law schools. that students should be treated on man on }<'eb. 6 ot last year. It reductions and increases in the doors open to students who, at . Elsewhere In his analysis, Post an equal basis with other tenants passed the Assembly with a vote of budget will be weighed heavily by another time, would not have asked for a reduction of 500,000 by citing an Attorney General 41-26 and the Senat~ "ornmittee on lawmakers during the upcoming been academically qualified for scholars or half the state money ruling on the Unruh Civil Rights Local Government by 4-1 , ~ith two budget hearings.