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By USA lAPIN rugged student athlete stood just behind the locked door of the small, poorly lit college dorm A room, staring at posters of scantily-clad women and fast cars, as he waited for his purchase to be cut and weighed on the book-covered desk in from of him. It was late on ajanuary night- Friday, the day . ~ for students to pany and let loose after a long week , of pressure and cramming. ~.~ "' The tall blonde athlete watched as a fellow ~_ ~ , student positioned a steady arm above a \ \ ~finelY calibrated scale and poured * I expensive white powder onto a small ~ \, piece of paper. Forty-five dollars I exchanged hands, and the athlete left as discreetly as he had entered . ." please turn 10 page 7 , \ / , ru 5/ J1 ~ ~ s:: / ~ / ~ I ~ yt.'" . J"I .... , ' ~ \ ' 1(1 ~, ' ~ . Iff f"4 •• 1 f fttf t t .. J Davis lecture UCSD High School Journalism President's CommiSSion and is also Conference will meet this Saturday from Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Have you been sleeping in class again? Are you always late? Does your 11:30 am-I pm in HSS 2305. Guest Council in Washington, DC. He will professor talk a mile a minute or with an undecipherable accent? Well , don't lecturers Jeannette DeWyze from the speak at 4:30 pm March 5 in panic, the AS Lecture Notes service is here to help. Reader, Pamela Moreland from the LA Conference Room IlIA of the "Our main purpose is to help students with their academic studies," assured focused on racism Times and Christopher Canole from the administrative complex. Mark Katz, Lecture Notes manager. "It's a service to help students." UCSD Guardian wiU conduct workshops D If a course is covered by the Lecture Notes service, the entire quarter's notes on news gathering, features writing, are aptly recorded and are available to students on a subscription baSIS. The cost By CHRISTOPHER CANOLE photOjournalism and the business of Fonner PftsideDI of Cosca Rica and IS $9 for lower-division classes and $1O for upper-division classes. A ' Knowledge unfits a child to be a and write because knowledge unfits a publishing. The purpose of the currently preSident of the United subscnption can be boughl any time during the quarter and still includes all ten slave," Angela Davis stressed during her child for slavery. conference is to promote critical Nations University for Peace in Costa weeks of notes. lecture last Sunday in the Mandeville "The first demand of the Blacks to thinking and reading through the study Rica, Dr, Rodrigo Carazo, Will speak at Every Wednesday, the preceding week's notes are ready to be picked up ; Auditorium entitled, "The Status of Third Congress after the Civil War was for and application of journalistic Linder Hall in the First United often times they can be made available earlier if there is an upcoming midterm. World and Oppressed people ," To unify education, Black and white women from techniques. For more mformation, call Methodist Church on March 2. He will Those course that are being cove red this quarter Include: Biology 1, 2, 106, the audience, Davis noted , "Victories in the North played an indispensible role 452-4250. speak at 7:30 pm on the topic of 155; Chemistry 6B, 140B; Economics 1B , l00B; and EE/CS SOB. All classes are the struggle agairtst ractsm In education in the experimental period of the o "Teaching and Practicing Peace." While eligible to be covered, but they must provide enough subscribers to pay for the will bring an extension of rights and Radical Reconstruction, during which in San Diego, Dr. Carazo will meet with costs of the notetaker and printing (around 50 students). The previously liberties for aU." the basis for an educational system was A San Diego Computer Showcase Dr. Herbert York of UC5D, who is the expo will be held April 26-29, at the San mentioned courses were chosen because, "they are the only ones that are Not all in attendance supponed the established. And many of those who Director of UC's institute on Global economically feasible for us to cover," according to Sue Louis, a Lecture Notes activist. A handful of studems cheered came down to the South were Diego Convention and Performing Ans Conflict and Cooperation, and with Dr. Center. The show is geared toward employee. each time Davis mentioned Ronald astonished to see the degree to which Richard Keating, director of the new UC The professor must also give permission for his or her class to be Reagan. She handled them as if they Black people woukl exert themselves to professional, corporate and business Institute of the Americas, to develop ' hell of an accomplishment, to convince "How did the white oppressors users of small computers and word documented. "Some feel it's a good idea: said Katz, "others are indifferent." A were high school cheerleaders making a learn how to read, to learn how to cooperation with the United Natiorts few professors fear that students will skip the lectures and jUst study the notes. disturbance on cue, oblivious to issues write." Davis paused as many in the oppressed white people that just accomplish this? It didn't happen processing systems. National and local University for Peace. overnight, because during radical vendors will exhibit a broad range of The notes are supposed to be a "supplement to the learning process," says of which she spoke. Several times they audience murmured about their own because their skin was white and they had straight hair, they were somehow reconstruCtion Black and white people small computer systems, associated D Louis. "They're not supposed to be for students not going to class, although miscued and Davis said, "I hope the lack of commitment in their studies. some students still use it for that." applause was for what I am about to You have to be taught to hate, superior to Black people. had fought together, and won victories peripherals, software, services and Dr, Harold Agnew, who recently 'Panicularly surpris ing is often times together, and benefited from those supplies. Free "small computer college" The notes are recorded by either students or TAs who have already taken the say." During the period of radical served as Vice-Chairman on President you have the situation when a white victories together. It happened as a seminars will be offered to those Reagan's sciemific panel which class and received an A or B (usually an A). They attend all the lectures, and Davis presented a history of people's reconstructlon the poor whites were some even confer with the professor on the content of the course. suuggle to gain educational and beginning to reap the same educational person looks up 10 a white oppressor result of systematic lynchings that would attending the show. Tickets are $7.50 or proposed the ''Star Wars" plan, will who has one foot on the while person's not only be witnessed in the South, but $5 with discount tickets which are address the World Affairs Council at a "I baSically write what he gives in lecture in a coherent form," said Economics economic equality in the world. She benefits as the Blacks, which created a IB notetaker Adriana Guezada. She went on to say that when it comes to iUustrated her ideas with stories of threat to the defeated white slave neck and the other foot is pressing all over the country. Lynching is the available at participating computer dinner, speaking on "The History of down a little harder on a black person's most horrifying potential of racism. stores. For more information call 457- lectures, students can do one of twO things - either listen carefully to the oppression to provide a background of owners. "During this period it became Nuclear Development," Dr. Agnew was neck, Just because that man up there Thousands of Black people were 5707 . pal1 of a research group which initiated lecture and probably take skimpy notes, or write down everything and try to lessorts from the past. necessary to establish racism in a way understand it later. "I really don't believe you can do both: she confided, "With "The struggle for education among that would guarantee that never again who has his foot on two people's necks lynched to entertain thousands of white D the first nuclear fission chain reaction is white, the white person was taught to people, They watched as the Black in 1942. Dr. Agnew also helped develop me taking nOle s, you don'l have to worry about getting every little line ." Black people has generaUy been would there be an aUiance between UCSD Extension will offer two new Alex Mari, who is both a TA and noteta ker for Biology 2, warned students syt!onymous with the strullde for Black and white people: said Davis. "(t believe he had more in common with people burned to death. Most of the the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos this white oppressor than he had with lynchings were not hangings because courses 10 help meet the needs of where he later directed the laboratory in about skippIng cla s. "( don't think the notes can compare with the lecture." If liberation. From the days or slavery to was necessary to create, in the minds of engineers and scientists who are finding you rely on his notes, he claims "you don't get the same impactof it coming from the present, Black people have fought white people, images and attitudes the Black person who was suffering the burnings lasted longer and prolonged the 70s.