Professional School Fee Hike Approved
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, H • u c 5 D SACRAMENTO - San Bernardino Valley College student Janice Camerena has named UC President Jack Peltason as one of several defendants in an anti-affirma tive action suit filed on March 16. Camerena, a Caucasian, 7 claims she-was asked to leave UC SAN DIEGO MONDAY, APRIL 3,1995 VOLUME 85, ISSUE 1 an English 101 class because she was told it was intended for black students ouly. The suit opposes the community Professional School Fee Hike Approved colleges' Black Bridge Project, designed to help The widely anticipated fee hikes, for medicine, $7,670 for dentistry, Young pointed out that one-third of African Americans succeed in REGENTS: Medical which were endorsed during a re $7,733 for veterinary medicine, the increases will go toward finan college. Peltason has been school costs set to gents committee meeting the previ $9,157 for law and $8,949 for busi cial aid. named in the suit because the jump $2,000 annually ous day, will only affect new stu ness (except at UC Riverside, which "The cost is going up, but the UC President's Office dents entering UC professional pro will charge $7,949). amount of aid is going up," Young administers a similar program By DCKC Alexander grams beginning in the fall of 1995. Speaking at the March 16 meet said. "It will raise fees, but more geared towards Hispanics, the Senior Staff Writer New law and business students will ing, UCLA Chancellor Charles will be put into financ ial aid, so we Puente Project. In a move which will cost new pay an additional $2,000 per year, Young threw his support behind the will be providing a discount." - California Journal professional-school students as while new medical, dental and vet fee hikes. "This is necessary. It's According to UC Provost Walter much as $2,000 per year, the UC erinarian students will pay an addi absolutely essential to maintain the Massey, the Regent's Committee 'Killer Bee.' In Board of Regents approved fee in tional $1,000. Law and medical stu quality of professional schools in on Finance found that the 1994-95 Imperial County creases for the university's schools dents will have to pay an extra $376 volved," Young said. fee increases did not have a nega IMPERIAL COUNTY - of law, business, medicine, dentistry in special degree fees. In an attempt to quell fears that tive impact on the number of appli Africanized honey bees were and veterinarian medicine at its The fee increases will push an the increases will block students cants or students enrolling UC pro- discovered in an Imperial March 17 meeting at UCLA. nual fees for new students to $8,331 from attending professional schools, See FEES, Page 3 County school yard last week, the second such discovery within California's borders in the last six months. Though TIMBER! UCRegents the swarm was destroyed without incident, the bees are Discuss Future considered very dangerous. Two human fatalities in the United States have been Of Aflinnative attributed to the "killer bees" since their escape from a Action Brazilian laboratory in 1957. The swarms have been slowly MEmNG: Nearly 200 migrating north and are beginning to surface in Texas, demonstrators rally in favor Arizona and California. of university programs - UC News Wire By Doua Alexander New Theory Senior Staff Writer Oppo••• Big Facing an estimated 200 protesters, the aa. UC Board of Regents once again tackled the DAVIS - Mathematicians issue of affirmative action, hearing testi have expanded on Einstein's mony on the university's race-attentive poli Big Bang Theory by including cies at its March 16 UCLA meeting. a shock wave in the hypoth Rallying outside the meeting, the pro esis. UC Davis Professor of testors called for the continuation of the Mathematics Blake Temple university'S affirmative-action programs, contributed to the shock wave which are being threatened by legislation theory which throws doubt on aiming to abolish racial and gender prefer the theory that the entire ence. universe expanded from a "I think we need to expose the facts and single point. "If someone not the myths [about affirmative action]," doesn't like the idea that the said UCSD sophomore Gabriella Juarez at universe burst from a single the protest. "I was not admitted because of point, they could use this as a affirmative action. We're scapegoats for model for exploring another Heidi Muzhik/Guardian everything. " scenario," said Temple. A worker fells one of over 250 eucalyptus trees bellil cleared for the upcominc Ubrary Fearing disruptive demonstrations, - UC News Wire Walk. Preliminary construction beean lut week efter hurdlllll Mveral leeal roadblocks. UCLA officials assigned 75 police officers - the campus' entire force, plus 40 officers _I~I-"jl·l=- from six different campuses - to cover the meeting. The protest, however, went with Professor's Library Walk Injunction out incident. At the meeting, outgoing UC President Shot Down By California High Court Jack Peltason, who was named as a co- - defendant in a community college reverse CONTROVERSY: 250 trees fall "I'm obviously very disappointed that we didn't discrimination suit the same day, cxtolled get an injunction.'" the principle of diversity and reaffirmed his as construction begins on $2.5 University administrators maintain that they support for university affirmative-action an,d million pathway followed proper procedures throughout the plan minority-outreach programs. ning for Library Walk. "In my judgment... our equal-opportu By Franclaco DeV ..... "Thc court found that ... we had prepared the nity, affirmative-action and diversity pro Senior Staff Writer appropriate documentation as required by state grams have been indispensable, both to our Despite a flurry oflast-minute legal challenges, law," said Assistant Director of Campus Planning educational mission and to our ability to FLUNKY over 250 mature cucalyptus trees wc~e cut down Marilyn Cox. achieve a diversified community of learn last week to make way for the controversial "li The court challengc centered on the possible ing," Peltason said. OPINION: Test-taking brary Walk." Construction of the $2.5 million environmental impact of cuning down thc trees. However, noting the legal and legislative strategies should include pathway is scheduled to be completed in Septem The university did not complete a separate Envi challenges to affirmative action, he con sbortcuts, sucb as abbreviat- ber. ronmental Impact Report (ElR) for the construc ceded the university will be reviewing pro ing and begging. 4 Lawyers for UCSD Physics Professor Jorge tion project, instead relying on a Final Environ grams to determine whether some need modi Hirsch, who petitioned the court to block the mental Impact Statement for the "Long Ringe fication to "ensure fairness." IPORTS: Women's crew cutting of the trees, fought the construction all the Development Plan" completed in 1989. "If some do require changing, we are placed well in last week's way to the California Supreme Court in the final Hirsch's attorney, Tom Penfield, said that li prepared to change them," Pcltason said. San Diego Crew Oassic days before construction began. brary Walk wu not specifically covered in the old However, Peltason credited programs competition. 20 "I feel very strongly that the university did environmental review and that the possible envi such u the 30-year-old Equal Opportunity something wrong here ... ," Hirsch said lut week. See WALK, Peae 2 See DIVIRSITY, PaCe 2 2 NEWS, Monday, April 3, 1995 The UCSD Guardian Monday, April 3, 1995 The UCSD Guardian NEWS 3 issue an injunction following a for WALK: Hirsch mal court hearing on March 22. Lights FEES: plans to continue fight Hinch and his lawyer appealed ETCETERA. • • ContInued froIn .,... 1 r--------------------, the decision, but the Court of Ap Sirens '-'-'-J' fessional schools. I UNCLAIMED I ContInued from .... 1. peal "turned us down in a couple of "We will be reviewing [the plan] ronmental damage had not been in hours," according to Penfield. CALVIN II HOBBES by Bill Watterson every year to see if the increases are vestigated properly. : SCHOLARSHIPSII : A final appeal was made: to the ,...." ...... 11 lot 608. Loss: $14,000. having an adverse effect on enroll In Hirsch's petition to the Cali California Supreme Court on March ment," Musey said. I $135 million in studenl aid "';'ent unclaimed lasl year. I 12:05 ••m.: A resident security "..,., ....... 24 I Why.' Students didn't know where to find I fornia Supreme Court, which was 22; even as crews began to remove officer reported the confiscation of However, U. Gov. Gray Davis, 2:11 p.m.: A student reported I thIS corporate and non-profit money. I filed the morning construction be trees on campus. The appeal was a marijuana bong from Harlan Hall. who sits on the Board of Regents, the theft of a backpack from I My computer data base can work for you. I gan, the justices were asked to "pro denied, although one justice sided 11.:42 ..m.: An 1Syear~ld male Porter's Pub. Loss: $242.95 opposed the fee hikes and expressed I Call for fill details. hibit [the university] from destroy with Hirsch. non-affiliate was detained at lot 2:30 p.m.: Two male non-affilI concern that they will bar students ing 268 mature eucalyptus trees, in Hirsch, who personally paid for 104 for public drunkenness. ates, aged 18 and 19, were or from the university'S professional I SCHOLA.SHI.. LOCAIOU I two groves, ... without first usess ....-" ...... 11 dered off campus for seven days programs. (.,9, •••·1.08 all the legal work, is now serving as 10:36 I.m.: Astudent reported after creating a disturbance at L ! ing the environmental consequences his own attorney.