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I Regional Oral History Office University of California the Bancroft i Regional Oral History Office University of California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California University History Series Stephen A. Arditti Assistant Vice President and Director of the Office of State Governmental Relations: Representing the University in Sacramento, 1969-2007 Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 2008 Copyright © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California ii Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of Northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral History is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is bound with photographs and illustrative materials and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ********************************* All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents of the University of California and Stephen Arditti dated September 5, 2013. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Excerpts up to 1000 words from this interview may be quoted for publication without seeking permission as long as the use is non-commercial and properly cited. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to The Bancroft Library, Head of Public Services, Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000, and should follow instructions available online at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/cite.html It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Stephen Arditti, “Assistant Vice President and Director of the Office of State Governmental Relations: Representing the University in Sacramento, 1969-2007” conducted by Ann Lage in 2008, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2014. iii Stephen Arditti iv Stephen Arditti served the University of California for 40 years. During his time at the Office of State Governmental Relations in Sacramento, Arditti represented UC to the state legislature and the governor. He worked to defend and secure the University’s future during political and social change. In 1995 he was awarded the Marvin D. “Swede” Johnson Award for Excellent in University State Governmental Relations. v Table of Contents – Stephen Arditti Interview History xiii Interview 1, May 23, 2008 Audio File 1 1 Introduction to the Office of State Governmental Relations: Defines overall mission of the legislative office, the core policies it protects and advances; its two categories of activity, budget and legislation; and its two types of effort, direct effort with elected officials and others and indirect effort, through campus- organized volunteer support — How term limits have changed work of the office, shortened time to build relationships, more emphasis on work in the districts — Role of the media in interpreting the university to the public — Proactively analyzing every legislative bill for potential impact on UC, a tremendous undertaking, and examples of seemingly unrelated legislation on neutering animals, with big impact on UC — Getting capital facility bonds on the ballot — Attempt to proscribe confidentiality of academic personnel records, overturned on basis of Article IX, section 9 — Close partnership with Larry Hershman on budget matters — Personal background, Turkish-Sephardic Jewish heritage, father an immigrant — Mother’s mother, raising four daughters as an immigrant widow, in Inglewood, California — Lessons from a hard-working father in retail business in East Los Angeles: the value of tenaciously working with people, “making the sale,” and experience with cultural diversity — Attending Los Angeles High, with a diverse student body — UCLA for undergrad degree in political science and law school, interest in politics, working in student government and the Associated Students — Appointed assistant dean of students at UCLA, dealing with student unrest in late 1960s. Audio File 2 24 Dealing with a dispute between two African American student groups, and two shooting deaths on campus — Other challenging assignments — Thoughts on Chancellors Frank Murphy and the young Chuck Young — Legacy of time at UCLA, a passion for the university — Introduction to Sacramento and job offer from Jay Michael in the university’s Sacramento office, 1969 — Jewish identity — Sacramento during Reagan years, trying to mitigate tremendous hostility toward the university because of student protests — Intense cultivation of personal relationships, and working with moderates to do things that looked like action but which wouldn’t harm the university — A typical night’s work at the Senator Hotel bar, Frank Fat’s, and the Torch Club, and some legislative business accomplished — Jay Michael’s style, Jim Corley, Frank Kidner — A simpler world: effectiveness of Paul Christopulos and his network of university supporters, the power of a few highly influential regents. vi Audio File 3 48 Intimations of illegal influence on the legislature — Difficulties for the university in opposing powerful lobbies — Dealings with the governor’s office under Reagan, Alex Sherriffs — Jay Michael’s responsibility for negotiating the budget and shepherding it through the legislature — The enormous power of the governor in determining the UC budget, and the value of cooperating with the governor’s office; Deukmejian’s support for the university budget as an example — Thoughts on making judgments and being judged as legislative representative — President Hitch, speaking tour to garner support for UC during Reagan administration — President Saxon and Governor Brown, two mavericks — Prop 13, Jerry Brown’s failure in leadership — Saxon’s dismissal of Jay Michael, too aggressive with the legislature — Saxon’s temper, and Vasconcellos’s — Developing a relationship with Vasconcellos over the years, origins of the humanistic psychology library at UC Santa Barbara — President Atkinson’s relationship with Governor Davis and others — Saxon’s appointment of Lowell Paige as the university representative in Sacramento, a less confrontational approach and little knowledge of state government — Reaching your limit, Arditti’s confrontation with John Burton — Michael’s style fit temper of the times — Relations between the Sacramento office and the Office of the President under Saxon. Audio File 4 72 Staff in Budget and Governmental Relations Office working around conflicts between Vice President Chester McCorkle and Jay Michael and then between Tom Jenkins and Lowell Paige — Jenkin’s off-putting style of testifying to the legislature — Jerry Brown’s Department of Finance and other cabinet officers — Brown’s tight budgets, while building budget surpluses — Regents’ infrequent stands on ballot initiative measures, including Propositions 13 and 98 — Saxon’s opposition to post-Prop 13 measure restricting sales tax — Strict rules against using public funds to campaign on ballot measures — Importance of the collective bargaining legislation. Interview 2, July 10, 2008 Audio File 5 84 More on UC during the Jerry Brown administration: slim budgets for UC — Brown’s support for joint state-private industry-university research in micro- electronics, a model for future cooperative research programs — An exchange with Brown on pound animal legislation and thoughts on Brown’s style — Role of state government officials in determining university research budget and initiatives — Collective bargaining for university employees: coming to the decision to negotiate terms rather than continuing outright opposition to collective vii bargaining; contrast with CSU, which did not negotiate, and UC, which maintained a separate bargaining unit for academic employees and excluded academic issues from collective bargaining — Issue of unionizing graduate student researchers and instructors and medical residents, agreement during Atkinson presidency after overwhelming political pressure — Implications of collective bargaining for UC — The state legislature, the third party in collective bargaining with UC employees, involvement of government relations office and budget office along with HR in collective bargaining — Custodial wage battle, 2007: involvement of Regent Blum, John Burton as mediator — Marketplace as standard for wages, constraints in university budget — Correction in treatment of casual employees under Atkinson — Atkinson’s efforts to build bridges with labor, establishment of labor studies institutes, sometimes politically controversial — Involvement of faculty in decision to accept collective bargaining, evolution the Council of UC Faculty, David Feller — Animal research issues over the years: legislative opposition to biological science buildings
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