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Philosophy Grad Student Feared Dead by Sheriff Mary Diane Jonas, a 22-year-old Philosophy called, is believed to have reached Encinitas as gradua.te stU?~nt, ~as been missing from her it . is .thought her dog was spotted outside home In Encinitas since April 17 and is feared Dietrich Drugs on the vening of April 17 dea~1 according to spokesmen from the between 7 and 9 p.m. shemf's department. The dog was later found locked in Ms. Ms. Jonas was last positively identified Jonas' apartment. hitchhi~i~g north from capus, presumably to Her father. described her as 5 feet, one inch her Encinitas home, on the afternoon of April tall, With thick brown hair and dark brown 17. She was believed to be clad in red suede eyes. pants and a light colored top. Investigator Gerardus Cieremans indicated She had an appointment the following day that circumstances surrounding the dis to meet Sam Combs, also a UCSD student appearance have led him to believe that there which she did not keep, nor did she show up is ~ore to the ca~e t han a missing person. for the classes she was scheduled to teach on Cleremans encourages anyone who might April 18. have seen Mary,Diane Jonas later than 6 p.m . .A:ccording to her father, John Jonas, of St. on Tuesday, April 17, to call his office at 236- Clair Shores, Michigan, Diane, as she was 2944. Anyone having seen Mary Diane Jonls. after 6 p.m. Tuesday April 17 is asked to contact Detective Cleremans at 236-2944. Volume ~ , Number 10 University of California, San Diego Friday, May 4, 1973 MECHA Sponsors Cinco de Mayo Festivities, Chavez to Speak MECHA chapters from California State University, San Diego and UCSD will co sponsor Cinco de Mayo activities on the Soccer Field between Revelle and Muir colleges of UCSD beginning 11 a.m., Friday, May 4. The pro~ram, which is free and open to the public, will feature an address by Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers. The day's activities will include other leaders in the Chicano movement music and dancing by stude,nts, ~ariachis performi~g in full costume, dramatic productions by groups from MeXICO City andCSUSD, MeXican and Chicano art exhibits and a dance at 6 p.m. in the Revelle Cafeteria. ' P.ARENTS OF UCSD's Third College students will prepare authentic Mexican food for the celebration, which marks the anniversary of the victory of the Mexican people over invading French troops on Cinco de Mayo. First event of the day will be music and dancing by La Rondalla, Chicano students fro~ CS~SD and the comm~nity, follow~d by Teatro Mestizo, CSUSD theater group, which will demonstrate MeXican and Chicano experiences . Mariachis will perform from 12:30 - 1 :30 p.m., while visitors and students enjoy Mexican food and art ernibits. From 1 :30 - 3:00 p.m. Chicano-movement leaders Cesar Chavez. director of the UFW will speak; Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez, director of Denver, Colorado Crusade fo; Justice will ~iscuss th.e Chicano and Mexican experience; Antonio Rodriguez, Chicano attorney, will expl~1n th~ . East Los Angeles anti-drug program; and, Raul Ruiz, spokes~an for a third political party, La Raza Unida, will discuss Chicano politics. Spec~al guest performance by·Nueva Voz Latinamericana, theatN group from Mexico Revelll Collegl DUI Erlll Mort 10II1II ~Ia cabin In lIIe 1I0uRtaina to POWER - Ind his action was City, w!1I be from 3~5 p.m. The pr??uctions attempt t~ provide inSight into the political appreciated by 26 WOII ... and lIIelr cltlldrlll who apent lIIe w.. kend In the country. educatl.on of MeXican communities, schools and Villages, and depict the Mexican revolution. Final event of the day will be a dance featuring music by the Mello Browns and 37 Women Organize for POWER Chicano Generation from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Hannah Cohill Power, the Political Organization of Women for Educational Reform, was formed this quarter. by unmarrie.d mothers attending Third College, with the aid of Beverly Varga , Stone on Communist Societies the ASSistant Dean of Third College. Greg Hicks The organization, which meets every Tuesday in the recreation room of the Mesa apartments, is focusing its energies on the betterment of the lives of the single mothers In the last of a series of seminars at UCSD I.F. Stone spoke on some aspects of and their children. modern-day Soviet and Communist Chinese societies. Programs which Power are currently working on include getting bus transportation to Although he did not denounce the revolutions in Russia and China which ushered in Inexpensive shopping areas in Clairemont on weekends, the opening of a small grocery communist regimes, Stone criticized the present-day situations in both China and the st<;>r.e at the Mesa apartments which will stock such essentials as milk, eggs and bread, a U.S.S:R. CrISIS center where mothers could leave their children temporarily in case of emergency The central criti~ism which Stone voiced was the repressive nature nature of the or for.o.ther reasons, getting government aid to on-campus facilities for child care and governments of the two countries. He denounced the actions of the Soviet Union organizing some recreational activities for the Mesa apartments inhabitants. which have, he said, crushed the hope of those (like the Czechs) who sought the Eac~ woman contributes to the support system of the group and her goals include the establishment of "socialism with a human face". establishment of lines of communication with women in similar situations in other There is, Stone sa id, a general fear of id as and discussion in the Soviet Union; there is schools ~nd with child care centers in the area. The group hopes also to show the also a fear of the great writers in the country, who are being sent to asylum and labor co mm~n l ty what such women can offer society and what their special needs are. Their camps. motto IS th.e Israeli "To educate a woman means the education of a family." In the Soviet Union a dictatorship of the proletariat has, Stone said , been replaced by Women In Power come from a variety of ethinic backgrounds and have a variety of the dictatorship of one man . In his view, thi rule is hostile to the freedom of the career goals. They range in age from twenty ot the late forties. Their average GPA is 3.2 members of Sovi t society. ' an~ these are several women who have a GPA of 4.0 even though many were special Stone stated that suspicion of the masse and fear of spontaneity "runs very, very action students. (which means they were admitted to the University despite the fact that deep in the Communist movement." The view which predominates in P king, they.were under-prepared having not taken certain high school courses.) according to Ston ,is that th masses and party members " mu t be guided". It i clo er '!'hlrty-seven women at Third College fall into this category of being single with to Platonism than to Marxism, Stone said, in its view that the "rrasse should be herded children. All together there are one hundr d and twenty-two children of pre-school by their guardians". age and one hundred and eleven children of elementary cshool age living at the Mesa The voi e of the people, in Stone's view, is not desired or received by leaders in the apartm nts. Sovi t and Chinese governments. (One man in th audience, who stat d that he lived in ~ccording to Beverly Varga, a singles branch which will be Cross-campus, is now Russia from 1931-1939, said that issues were di cus ed, re olution vot d on, and b ~lng formed and will meet once a month with the current Power group. This group d mo ra y was really present in the SOlliet Union). ton pointed to th la k of a free Will focus on the problems confronting the single woman including sexuality, th press (a vehi Ie for the expres ion of th peopl 's vi 3i ;11 do U IIIV11 cillO -julia. In woman and the health center, self-confidence, hitchhiking,and other transportation voice of the people is ne ded, Stone said, in order to "correct abu s in time". problems. like the Power group they will listen to guest speakers on a variety of On point which Stone mad was that th examination of th Ru ian and Chine e relevant topics. r volution wa valuabl in light of the totalitarian bia of om p ople in the Unit d ,?ver the April 27 to 29 weekend twenty-six women and their children went up to Stat s. Julian with Beverly Varga and her secretary for a weekend of nature. Ernie Mort, the point of view of dial ctical mat riali m, th r pr s iv R velie College Dean, donated the use of his cabin and Mrs. Varga and her cretary ovi t gov rnment i contradi tory. It i an "index of tonat d the first dinner meal, the tents, and transportation. The trip wa such a succes sa id, wh n "r vi ion is a dirty word" among tho e who t at the children made a sign saying "Ernie Mort, we love you." Thi ign wa post d arly Monday morning outside the Revelle Provost Office.