Model Community' Long Years of Student Unrest, with All of This

New resident dean at Muir Works for harmony in dorms Kathy K/uzelc The crisis center, located in Muir apartment number K-2, is Cleo Malone bemoans the fact that " universities are often already open. The staff has gone through rigorous training more concerned with learning how to make a living rather than under Malone, who has had much previous experience as a learning how to live." So, the new Muir Resident Dean drug counseloor. Soon, the center will have four phones attempts to help students face up to the problems inherent in available to serve students; three outside lines and one campus community living. He sees his role as that of a buffer between line. the students and the administration. Along with Muir Dean of Students Jim Beckley, Malone plans Malone's long-range goal for Muir college is simply for its to open a coffee house in the Muir commons within a couple of residents to live together in harmony. He feels college dorms weeks. A student director, Harvey Hoff, has been selected to are a microcosm of any residential community, so this arrange for poetry readings and folk Singers to perform apparently simple goal takes on more profound implications. nightly . The lack of communication between Blacks and whites was a "The important thing is to get the coffee house running," problem at Muir last year, Malone believes. Neither group was said Malone. "As various needs arise, they will be dealt with ." able to sit down and confront the other with what was on their One snag he has encountered with his proposal is the minds. Consequently, there was much frustration which possibility of a conflict between the food services and the Manifested itself in petty accusations and complaints. coffee house. To avoid this, the coffee house will only serve hot He goes on to state that this lack of communication is not and cold drinks, leaving students with the option of going CIeoMaloDe only found between Blacks and whites, but between roommates upstairs to the cafeteria for more substantial food . and suitemates as well . In addition to his experiences with drug counselling, Malone .. I get people coming up here all the time telling me they has been a state-wide director for the state of Ohio . He was Blacks have to have a special document, the Civil Rights act, can't get along with their roommate. My reaction is, 'bull shit'. also a member of the Southern Christian Leadership to give them their due ?" he said. " Why can't we get our rights If they can't even try to get along with their roommate or Conference under Dr. Martin Luther King . He no longer on the same piece of paper as everyone else, the Constitu tion of Suitemates, what are they going to do with the bitch that lives believes non-violence is the answer , but neither does he the United States of America ?" down the hall from them a couple of years from now? " he said. advocate rampant destruction. Malone invites anyone who has housing troubles, or who just Malone's more immediate goals for Muir college include "I believe that we as Black Americans shouldn't have to wants to rap, to come up to th 11th floor of Tioga or into his plans for a student-operated coffee house and a crisis center. fight for the rights that should be ours naturally ... Why do the office in the Muir apartments to see him . triton ti Volume 14, Number 4 University of California , San Diego ~d,=, Tblueiff)' October ,1971 City OK's 'Model Community' Long years of student unrest, With all of this. the engineering college (La Jolla insistence of the University, it questions. First. the Uni versity i dea of a un ive r SIty it is said, irreparably damaged University has no complaints. citizens would have opposed still isn 't what the University wanted incorporation of community. the political clout of the But the happy outcome was not anything that sou nded even wanted. language requiring a certain The developers argued that University of California. But in an accident. Owners of the remotely like 10-20,000 Under Chancellors William proportion of low-priced havjng made large capital San Diego, at least. this doesn 't undeveloped land behind students l. and the city McGill and Herbert York , student housing, whereas outlay in the land . the are seem to be true. Over the campus had originally wanted council's promise could have these lapses did not occur. developing interests , entitled to build the kind of summer the city council and to build a regional shopping turned out to be a mere When the city announced its apparently hoping to build communil necessary to insure city planning ' commission center on the model of Fashion formality. But as UCSD 's intention to revise an earlier more expensive and thus more a reasonable return on their approved without significant and Mission Valley . and a projected size increased to master plan in Feb. 1969, an ad profitable housing, preferred investment. change a master development complement of housing tracts. Tl.500 in the early sixties, San hoc committee was that language be left weak or As of last spring, the plan for the underdeveloped After that proposal was Diego also increased its immediately formed on vague. Second, the University University was not wholly land just east of campus that defeated. the owners still commitment. The University campus. It produced a wanted the proposed township confident that its influence gives the UniverSity, in effect. wanted to build a community and the city came to an preliminary report that to grow at about the same pace would prevail. With the exactly what it asked for . What that would cater to a wealthier informal agreement whereby became the base for the first as the campus, whil e economy slow and the S;.r is more, the city has done this clientele than the University the city wouldn 't approve any draft of the new master plan'. developers wanted freedom to Diego naval base culling back , in the face of stiff opposition affords - in other words, they development that UCSD didn't Later, after off-campus build as fast as plans and it was felt that the city would from the building interests that wanted another Westwood. feel it could live with. interests changed some of the financing could be brought not do anything to discourage own the land. UCSD. on the other hand. In practice, this has meant original working. the ad hoc together. developers from proceeding as " If we are able to translate wanted a community more that potential developers have committee, under the fast as financing could be just 10 per cent of this plan into along the lines of Cambridge negotiated directly with the c ha irmanship of Vice The University regarded both secured. reality." said one planner. (adjacent to Harvard University for its approval Chancellor of Business . and issues, and particularly the But the University won on " we'll have a model university Universitv I. A University- before taking their proposals to Finance Herman Johnson . second, as critical. " Let's face both major points in hearings communitv." . oriented community with low the planning commission. suggested 150 specific changes. it," explained Vice Chancellor before the Plann i ng This optimism seems well cost cultural. commercial. and But in the first important almost all of which were of Student Affairs George Commission and the city founded at this point. housing units at the center. and proposal for developing land incorporated into a redraft. Murphy, " if developers build council. "Portion of low-cost Subsidized student apartments. the more exclusive housing on east of campus. the University But until the master plan was up a community overnight. student housing" became "a diverse small shops and the fringes. didn 't pay close attention. The given final approval by the city they're not going to plan on significant portion of student "speakeasies." and an Despite the fact that land result was a plan that "would council on Sept. 23. the letting it stand empty until the housing : " and the language interlacing system of bikeways owners stand to realize have been a disaster." outcome was always in doubt. University expands enough to restricting growth rate was left are dominant features of the distinctly lower profits on a according to one UCSD official. Controversy between fill it. " Instead, he said. unchanged . projected 90 .000 resiclent university community than and although it has since been developers and the University developers would tend to build "universitv communitv." they would on a regional amended considerably at the focu sed mainly on two in ' ways incompatible with the Please turn to,page 3 The central and distinctive shopping center of a Westwood element of the new township is type community. the the concept of the town core. a University. so far. has won out. "We 're 36 years behind" compact area where "activity The kev to this success s hould be varied and seems to iie in two points : 1I concentrated. pedestrian the commitment of an oriented. and continuouslv enlightened city government to Stewart reflects on Muir College, 1971 alive." To insure this. the plan helping UCSD achieve Chuck Chomp/in unavoidable function of one direction. The professor quickly and radically alter its provides for numerous low-cost distinction : and 21 the " Muir College was designed indoctrination." Of these. was then to face them while he educational programs without commercial and entertainment diligence of the UCS£)' as an institution of higher Stewart labled his priorities as delivered his lecture.

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