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Revelle Writing Lab Would Bolster Humanities Classes Bookman Identifies 2 in Hearing said it took "more than touching" smiling and talking with students. by Debora Weber and Ran Anbar by Sara Lowen for him to move the students who The only photographs in which Staff Writers Community Editor linked arms. Saxon appeared to be upset were Reacting to a decrease in writing requirements in the Humanities Smiling and Talking those taken as he tried to enter a program, the Revelle College faculty has instituted a two-unit writing and In the last disciplinary hearing Defense attorney Tom Bowden police car on Matthews campus. rhetoric laboratory to be taken with the program's other classes. until April 5, the final witness for showed Bookman a series of Bookman said that Saxon's The proposal, approved recently by a 57 to 11 vote, now faces Academic the University gave his version of photographs taken during Saxon's displeasure was probably caused Senate consideration. The faculty hopes the labs will be in operation by the events that occurred during the by his inability to enter the back the fall. Nov. 25 demonstration at UC San door of the car. Saxon had to be led The plan was proposed to the Revelle faculty by the college's Diego. around the car before he could get curriculum committee. in. The lab would be taken in conjunction with three sequential Humanities Student Center Director Mark Bowden also showed Bookman a courses in a student's frestunan year. The options normally available for Bookman said he knew all but one series of ohotographs of students completion of the Humanities requirement-6-1, 3-3-1, and 3-2-2-would no of the students before the Nov. 25 linking arms in front of the crowd, longer be available. incident but he remembered seeing none of whom were among the ten The one course Fine Arts requirement would remain the same. only two students violating charged. Idea Not FuUUled , University regUlations: Steve The two hour hearing was lightly While the idea behind the Humanities sequence remained intact, it Switala " because of his height" attended, with only three student became obvious to the committee that the goal of the sequence was not and Marc Fannon " because he had spectators. Three of the charged being fulfilled. that look of a loss of control on his students were present, after Since the Humanities program has no central reading list, there are face." . resolving Friday night to boycott often duplicate studies of great works in different Humanities classes. Questioned by UC attorney the hearings. Bowden was the only Also, some works are left off individual reading lists, at the discretion of member of the defense present. ' the professor. TAs are often unaware of the original idea of the program, Milton Gordon about the events that occurred during Saxon's walk Bowden requested that a that of imparting the knowledge of centuries of Western thought to the separate verdict be made for each student in two years, with an emphasis on writing. from USB 2622 to Matthews campus, Bookman said he was student on each of the charges against them: endangering With T A funds getting scarcer and workloads increasing, th amount of pushed down on the bridge and was concerned for his health and Saxon's health and safety, im­ writing in the program has decreased. Often, courses require only one peding his movement and not paper a quarter, and the emphasis is on concepts, not writing and style. safety. Bookman said he was concerned during the incident that following the directions of the In addition, it is becoming obvious to the committee that the high University official. Lugannani schools have not taught acceptable writing skills to many of its the bridge might collapse since it was not build to hold 100 people Student Center Director directed the defense to prepare a graduates. jumping up and down." Mark Bookman (TT Photo: brief on the dismissal of the And if students don't learn to write in the Humanities program, they Tad Sperry) Bookman said that the students charges by March 23 . won't learn to write at all. walk from the bridge to Matthews Writing Program Crucial who linked arms caused the The hearings will reconvene campus, which showed Saxon AprilS at 10 am. The committee felt too much change at one time might cause an congestion on the bridge. He also upheaval that would hurt the program. It was decided to concentrate first 011 writing. The Humanities segment will change little, with two lectures and one Student .rccitation scc~ion ~er week. In addition, there will be the writing Coop Action Center to laboratory. whIch WIl\ be taught by a different teaching assistant. For the first quarter, graduate students from the Department of Center: For I,iterature will teach the writing portion. Thereafter, qualified graduates Study SBPC Question from any department will give the instruction. The laboratory will center on clear, expository writing on subjects The Duration by Ken Stipanov to any student, is to present its relcvant to the current quarter of Humanities lectures. Students will The student center will remain Staff Writer findings to the Coop and make write a minimum of 1500 words per quarter. open 24 hours a day for UC San .The Student Cooperative avoided proposals on which the Coop is to Diego's exam week. a major battle over the withdrawal act. One necessity of this plan is developing a certain level of proficiency From Monday through Saturday of UC San Diego's representation The Coop had been scheduled to among the faculty and teaching assistants in the subject. A. summer morning, according to EDNA's on the Student Body Presidents make a concrete decision on with­ course was developed and held in the summer of 1975 in which the year Steve Switala, rooms in the center Council (SBPC) Monday night by drawing fr om the SBPC at the was " preplanned." People involved met every day in a trial course, will be set aside {or studying, pool, setting up an action center to study meeting. planning and preparing themselves to teach such courses. The program, ping-pong and cards. Free refresh­ the question. No timetable was advanced for funded on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities was ments will also be available, he The action center is charged with the completion of the action cen­ considered a success by the committee. ' said. the broad role of examining the ter's study. F~nding for the proposed change is to come from monies currently The service is ~ponsored by SBPC, UCSD's involvement on Propaganda Collective Quizzed a~a llable for the Literature/E~glish 10 courses. Literature/English 10 EDNA, Psychological Counseling statewide committees, UC student The Coop also discussed the ~ Ill no longer be offered according to Avrum Stroll, faculty advisor to the and Services, Page lIMuir government in general and responsibilities and actions of the Vice-chancellor of academic affairs. The committee also hopes that Finance Committee, the Third alternatives to the present student Propaganda Collective action another grant will ?e forthcoming from the NEH, hopefully a major College Activities Committee and government structure. center. development grant 10 the range of $300,000-500,000. This pilot program, EAB fraternity. The action center, which is open Mark Rapaport questioned whcn completed and running smoothly, is hoped to be used as an example whether the collective had been publicizing the activities of the Cantinued on Page 5 Coop as it should. Researcher Collective members replied that they were publicizing meetings, Grobstein To Hire Officer ·Dies After but that they were over-extended because most of the members were involved in other action centers as To Promote UCSD Image Operation well. Paul Caldwell, the San BRG Inve tlgated by Vera M. I. Todorov uc No Football Team Blamed Diego researcher who was in­ The Coop briefly discussed the Staff Writer Grobstein blamed the campus' jured In a hangliding accident Student Registration Fee Com­ Although UC San Diego is well relative newness and lack of a last week at Torrey Pines park, mittee investigation of the known in the academic com­ football team for its paucity of died last Sunday night from BudgeVResource Group (BRG). munity, the campus is not well national exposure. complications resulting from a Bob Simon, cochalnnan of the known in the " national mind" Although national publicity has committee, said the conunittee is according to Vice-chancellor second operation to repair his ~f been given to uam, notably as a ruptured aorta. looking into how the BRG had University Relations Clifford result of the Nov. 25 demonstration Grobstein. Before Caldwell died he used allocated mon this year and was against the CIA and the discovery trying to ather opinions on the To remedy this deficiency about 50 pints of blood. of an general anti-allergen by Friends close to the Caldwell subject. Grobstein plans to hire a senlo; faculty member Robert Ham­ public relations person, with ex­ family say it will be impossible BRG member Monty Reed burger, Grobstein feels the campus for relatives and friends to st"ongly u gested that Simon and perience in the national press has not received enough national corps. This new information offIcer completely refund the blood bank Vi ~ e-chancellor for Student Affairs exposure. for what was u d and donations Gf.Orge Murphy-who is the other will fill a post vacant since Cy Grobeteln said the new in­ Greaves retired last year. from the UCSD community are co<:hairman of th registration f formation officer must have needed to repay the deficit.

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