Elsewhere , H E u c UCR Students to Work with Police RIVERSIDE - Two UCR tudent , Daryl Terrel and Walter Rucker are pursuing the idea that in reased communication between tudent and police will improve police effectivenes . The two tudent recently UC ANDIEGO filled tudent-police liason po ition which were created after the the Sept. 30 prote t. Both tudent feel that UCR Students To Police Chief Hank Ro enfeld has ome good idea for better relation , but that tudents Vote on Three need to be better informed of police action, e pecially Refer enda during potentially delicate situations like prote t . YOnNG: Two other que tions were rejected a the judicial board UCSC Make. Room mandated as special election near For New Research By Elaine Camuso SANTA CRUZ - On Nov. 10, Staff Writer UC Santa Cruz celebrated the Three referenda que tions have been ap­ establishment of a Chicano/ proved by the A . ociated Students for the Jan. Latino Resource Center, the 20-21 pecial election. first ever in Santa Cruz. The Two referenda questions passed the A.S. purpo e of the new facility i to vote during their Dec. 2 meeting and a third was bring faculty and graduate approved last night. The questions ranged from students together to engage in increasing the number of student regents to a Chicano/Latino relation . A survey of campus newspapers to a required lecture series sponsored by the AlDS general education course. center focuses on Gender The text of the first question reuds: "At studies, Border studies and present, a ingle Student Regent i selected Media and Popular culture from among student throughout the UC sys­ studies, all relating to the RIMAC construction begins near the San DIego Supercomputer Center. tem. Do you think student representation to the Latino/Chicano population. A Board of Regents should be from the level of renewed grant has been individual UC campuses rather than un a UC submitted to provide more Lawsuit Aims to Stop RIMAe Fee system-wide basis?" funds for re earch. Currentl y, the student regent is chosen from CAMPUS: Suit changes focus to had just been signed. nine nominees submitted by a UC student Student Asuulted deassessing the $210 fee after Judge Kevin Midlam required the plantiff to committee. The nominees are presented to the At UC Davis po t a $37,500 bond in orderto issue the restrain­ University of California Students Association construction begins ing order after the announcement. The plantiffs (UCSA). which narrows the list to th ree, and DA VIS - A female UCD By Karen Sple&eI were unable to pay the amount and the order was the governor then uppoints the final selt!ction student was reportedly Staff Writer denied. with the approval of the regents. A "yes" vote assaulted on her way home Three UCSD students tiled suit again t the According to the students' attorney, Tad on this question may lead to a fu tu re increu. e in from class on Dec. 2. UCD university to block the construction of the Rec­ Mailander.thesuit will be amended to try deassess student regent representatives from one to nine. Police said the student wa reational, Intramural, Athletic and Event Com­ the RIMAC fee becau e the election was con­ The second question is a survey of student grabbed by an unknown plex (RIMAC) on Dec. 10. The three UCSD ducted illegally. He said the uit will no longer newpaper readership. It states: "[The,1 A.S. and assailant who attempted 10 admini trators named in the uit are Vice Chan­ try to block the construction. its various media want to know how many drag her into near by bushe . cellorforUndergraduateAffairsJo eph Wat on , "The focu of the lawsuit is now to stop people read a specific paper so that we may The woman was able to free A i tant Vice Chancellor for Student Programs collecting fees from the student :' 'aid Mailander. serve the campus better." The council further herself after kicking and and Facilitie Tom Tucker and Director of Stu­ According to Mailander, the total RIMAC amended the question, adding, "The results of elbowing the assailant. dent Government Services Randon Woodard. co t will top $100 million when the co t of these questions shall not be used to determine Though it is unclear whether The controversial $34 million RIMAC facil ­ construction, maintenance, operations and fi­ financial allocations." or not the incident was ity has been in planning since students approved nancing are included. The $210 fee will be in The last question. approved last night. ru.ks wi tne sed, the victim reported its construction and the annual $210 fee in a effect for 27 years. tudents if they would approve of a mandatory that she was certain that other 1990 special election. The vote was conte ted "The student and the plantiff will AJDS/HIV education lecture a~ one of the students were in the area. because of the narrow margin by which it passed foreseeably have to pay this fee. If they [the general education c1asse . and an allegedly biased brochure circulated by plantiff 1are ucce ful, the university will have While normally the A.S. only fund one Inside the admini tration on RIMAC just prior to the to come up with other funding," Mailander said. general election per year, extra fund~ were vote. The plantiffs as ert that there were everal allocated for elections in 1992-93. However, 15 minute before the Dec. II violations of university procedures and election This special election was mandated by the hearing regarding a temporary restraining order guideline . Section chree of the UCSD Student Judicial Board la t spring, following their dis­ to halt the construction, Watson and Tucker Fee Funded Facility Guideline states that a fee covery of di. crepancies between the sample informed the court that the con truction contract See FACIUTY, Page 6 See REFERENDA, Page 6 Campus Shuttle Bus Hit by Falling Tree During Storm By Franclaco DeVries The front windshield, a side win­ News Editor dow and the electronics and me­ A campus loop shuttle bus was chanics in the front of the bus were struck by a falling tree around 7:30 all damaged. There also appeared to a.m. yesterday morning as it was be structural damage to the bus SAY CHEESE pulling out of its regularly sched­ frame, according to Buono. HIATUS: A new Mandeville uled stop near Peterson Hall. The driver, who was not injured exhibit shows the power of The large section of the tree was by the impact itself, was examined photojournalism . H1 apparently blown down by the gust­ at Student Health and sent home. ing winds and rain. There were no He escaped being hit by the fail­ SPORTS: Whitman College passengers on the shuttle when the ing branch by "a couple of feet," buries Triton women in tree hit and the driver escaped seri­ according to Buono. "[The student hoops Tuesday. 12 ous injury. driver] was lucky; he was just very, According to Transportation Ser­ very lucky," he added. vices' Student Driver Supervisor The driver was not identified. Index Frank Buono, the bu was making a UCSD Police Officer Tom "normal top and pick-up [when a] Morris, who took the report on the good portion of one of the eucalyp­ accident, aid that the huttle re­ tus tree collapsed." ceived a "substantial amount ofdam ­ Photo courtesy of Transportation Services The branch landed "on top of the age." The campus-foop shuttle bus was struck by a failing eucalyptus front portion of the bu.," he aid. See SHUTTLE, Page 3 branch during a 7:30 a.m. stop near Peterson Hall. 2 NEW The UCSD Guardian Thursday, January 7, 1993 Thursda. ,January 7,1993 The UC 0 Guunliun EWS 3 SAAC Co-Chair Resigns Mter Dispute Salk Institute and UCSD ETCETERA... Do you suffer from CAMPUS: Krista Aores " SAAC has to reouild itself," To Cooperate in Biology cites a personality conflict agreed Flore . "They' re now real iz­ ing where the problems are." ASTHMA? CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson with the committee chair Aore said that one of the big­ SCIENCE: Two pre tigious institutions join forces in • Volunteers needed for clinical drug studies By Dan Krauss gest problems with the current • All testing and medications are free effort to aid graduate student research in biology. I'M HO-OMe! Senior Staff Writer SAAC guidelines is that committee • Qualified participants will be paid up to By ErIc Schmidt Salk's prestige will help UCSD Student Affirmative Action leadership roles are not adequately Comminee (SAAC) Co-Chair explained. Senior Staff Writer anract gmduates who otherwi e $500 for participation By Melissa Jacobs would have gone elsewhere. Kri taFloresresignedfromthecom­ " Therearenocleardefinitionsof minee in early ~mber, citing in what capaci ty the chair and the Staff Wflter Scheffler aid. personality differences with Com­ An agreement creating a coop­ Ban Sefton. Salk professor and co-chair function," he said. Call 436-3988 mittee Chair Poncho Guevarra. Guevarru agreed, saying "[The erative teaching and re earch pro­ adjunct UCSD profe sor, said the (ask for Dianna or Janet) re ignation come at a time gram between the U SD Biology agreelllent al 0 offers several ben­ The guidelines] are fairly ambiguous as when SAAC is tackling such prob­ far as the specific roles. We need to Warren W. Ple.kow, M.D. Depanment and the Salk In titute efits to the Salk Institute. In the past, lori Mltcheit/GUBiOilll lems as declining minority enroll­ rethink and reevaluate the focus." Asthma and Allergy Treatment for Biological Sciences was signed because relatively few Salk faculty $Me chair Poncho Guevarra ment while at the same time initiat­ According to Guevarra, SAAC and Research Associates at a Dec.