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In UCSD Student Addresses Assembly addition to not meeting six of the eight rules mandated in the ROLLBACK: UCSA dent Association (UCSA) fee and face today and in the upcoming year student fees for 1996-97 as well. loan, the ASUC allegedly finance committee vice-chair, spoke is how we can effectively reach According to an informational offered Eshelman Hall, a wants to lower student at the capital in a joint hearing be across partisan lines and ideological handout produced by the UCSA, building on campus which fees to 1990-911evels fore the Assembly Budget Subcom di fferences to renew the state's com the organization would like to see belongs to the UC regents, as mittee on Education Finance and mitment and dedication to afford tudent fees reduced an additional collateral. By Terry Lew the Assembly Higher Education able, quality higher education." 10 percent each year, until they fall - The Daily Californian Associate News Editor Committee. The hearing was in Senator Steve Pearce (R-La to 1990-91 levels - $2,2 19 per SACRAMENTO - ASUCSD tended to provide the committees Mesa) will introduce his legislation year, adjusted annually for inlla ...........IdDevice Campus Organizing Director Greg with an overview of the condition of on March 20. If signed into law by tion. Offen New Hope Field spoke here yesterday in sup higher education in California. Gov. Pete Wilson, UC fees would The handout also claims that up port of upcoming legislation which "The state effectively made drop $463 to $3,336, not including to 15 percent of UC student fees SEATILE, Wash. - Univer would reduce UC, CSU and com higher education inaccessible for campus-specific fees. pays for faculty salaries, in viola sity of Washington researchers munity-college fees by 15 percent thousands of middle-class students Field added that the UCSA hopes tion of the California Master Plan have joined Advanced Technol for the 1997-98 academic year. from all ethnic backgrounds," Field to negotiate an arrangement with for Higher Education. The Master ogy Laboratories in a project to Field, who i also the UC Stu- said in his speech. '''he problem we the legislature which would reduce See SPEECH, Page 3 develop a portable ultrasound device for victims of severe trauma. TIle new hand-held device will allow for earlier diagnosis of life-threatening A DAY OF MOURNING A.S. Debates conditions. It can reveal whether body organs are distorted due to internal bleeding, where blood Referendum, may be pooling and where bone and debris have made penetra tion . Researchers expect the Constitution device to be used in the civilian medical field within the next 10 COUNCIL: Supporter of years. $29.50 activity fee propo al - The Daily of UW gather 3,000 signature Football Pla,er By Esther Yoon Under Investigation Staff Writer PALO ALTO, Calif.-= The A.S. Council reserved at last night 's Stanford placekicker Eric council meeting a place for the $29.50 stu Abrams is currently under dent activity-fee referendum on its upcom investigation by Santa Clara ing spring election ballot. policc after he allegedly asked . According to A.S. Vice President Ad for semi-nude photographs of mini strative Jennifer Nicoll, the authors of two high school football the referendum petitioned 3,000 student sig players. Sources allege that natures, enough to place the iniliati ve on the Abrams, posing as a Stanford ballot without the A.S. Council's approval. recruiter, called the football The proposed $29.50 increase in quar players and asked them to send terly activity fee continued to raise mixed him the photographs so he could reactions within the counci l, which first examine their mu cle tructure. caucused on the initiative one month ago. Abrams, 22, was arre ted Jan. A.S . President Naomi Falk, in response 26 in a sting operation at the to the $29.50 referendum, proposed an alter Stanford Post Office while nale $3.50 A.S . referendum , which failed to allempting to pick up the pass through council. pictur:es. No criminal charges "I don 't think that just because this refer have yet been filed. Memorial: Marshall freshman Erin Vinocor (foreground) and several others hold candles endum gets enough signatures to get on the - The Stanford Daily Wednesday near the Price Center in remembrance of victims of recent bombings in Israel. ballol means it will necessarily pass and get the A.S. additional funding it needs to oper ate next year," Falk said. In other business, members of the Afri UCSD Professor Secures Permit for can-American Student Union (AASU) and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de AZIlan Atheist Easter Service on Mount Soledad (MEChA) expressed disappointment with an article published in Monday 's issue of the SECULAR: Soledad Cross will taking advantage of the "first-come, first-serve" Guardian. policy instituted by the city of San Diego, ob Marshall senior and MEChA member be site of Easter Sunday service tained the necessary permit which wi II enable Raoul Amescua, in a public-input forum at hosted by Atheist Coalition the Athei t Coalition of San Diego to hold its last night's meeting, cited the article and service at the foot of the cross in Soledad park quotes attributed to A.S . Commissioner of By Ivan DeIY.nthal on April 7. The city requires that any large Communications Farsam Shadab as "misin News Editor group intending to use a park for an organized formed." Some San Diegans would call the long-stand event obtain a permit. "I wanted to clarify that the graduation ROCKET ing tradition of an Easter sunrise service atop The Mount Soledad Memorial Association has ceremonies discussed in Monday's article Mount Soledad "sacred." This is mainly be received the Easter Sunday permit uncontested [sponsored by AASU and MEChA] are in HIATU.: Wes Anderson's cause the custom is almost twice as old as the since 1952. no way exclusive, but try to include as many new film, Bottle Rocket, 42-year-old Mount Soledad cross, which has "My purpose in applying for the permit was to diverse peoples as possible," Amescua said. features clean-cut crime "7 been the source of much controversy in recent show that parks are open to all people, every day Amescua also reproached Shadab's pub years. of the year, even Easter," Irons said. ''The city lic dissent with the practice of the A.S. OPINION: No career This year, however, the early morning tradi acted very fairly, they granted us the permit as funded graduations sponsored by ethnic stu plans? Here's how to be a tion will come to an end, as it will be atheists and they were required to [by law]." dent organizations. bum and live well 4 not Christians who will be leading a "The Park However, Atheist Coalition Vice President "When members of the A.S. Council Belongs to Everyone" celebration under the old Howard Kreisner said that while he and Irons have have concerns about such issues, they need SPORTS: UCSD men's cross. worked together in recent years questioning the to contact the student organizations involved, volleyball blasts Vassar UCSD political science Professor Peter Irons, See ATHEISTS, Page 3 See A.S., Page 3 University 11 Thunday, March 7, 1996 The UCSD Guardian 2 NEWS The UCSD Guardian Tbursday, MM'ch 7, 1996 NEWS 3 SPEECH: UCSA A.S.: Revised ATHEISTS: three abstentions. says new decision "I' m not con ETCETERA. • • constitution will be UCSD's Irons files fident that this is overturns Smith on spring ballot for park pennit an appropri ate thing for the Continued from peee 1 Continued from pace 1 Continued from p.,. 1 Atheist Coalition Plan states that California's higher withoul making misinformed constitutionality of the cross, the to do," said education systems shall be tuition statements," Amescua said. UCSD professor did not consult Kreisner, who free. "I realize, however, that all members of the group before fill abstained in "Will the state follow the Master councilmembers do not act that ing out the application in its Saturday's vote. Plan and renew quality tuition-free way," he added. name. 'This tends to ob education for thousands oflower- and Shadab defended his state "It would never have [applied sc ure govern middle-income families, orwill it sub ments in the Guardian. forthepermitJ , and I would never mentlreligion is mit to the whims of the corrections "I wasn ' t out to allack certain have suggested it to anyone," sues." lobby, playing offthe fears of Cal ifor groups," Shadab said. "It 's not Kreisner said. "I told [Irons 1 he " I wish the nians?" Field said. "By rolling back that I fell these people are racist at shouldn 't have done thi s withoul members would Estella VllllICOfte/Gulltll/an fees at a rate of 15 percent per year, the heart, it 's just that some of the talking to someone in theorgani hav e voted system can once again be affordable Ihings they do can be construed as zation ." [Irons' motionl httIe for bonds: San Diego School Boards Association and on par with inflation rates." racist." Representative Dee Rich responds to questions from the audience.