Employees Protest for Recognition of Union

Friday Sports p. 12 This Week in UCSB History p. 4 BBSShmt- V B l Opinion p. 6 Bitten by the The Lost Stars 'Dogs Don't Fling Fido Employees Protest for Recognition of Union ■ Graders Hold ‘Work Faire’ Demonstration education, according to Christ By Colleen Valles ine Allison, a sociology grad stu Staff Writer______ dent and T.A. for three years. “I’m out here today because I Roughly 90 teaching assis want to help undergrads realize tants, graders and other univer our working conditions as T.A.s sity employees demonstrated and graders directly influence outside Davidson Library the education the undergrads Thursday to protest working are getting,” she said. conditions they say hurt under While administrators con graduate education on campus. tacted for comment did not re The employees staged a turn repeated phone calls, grad “Work Faire," where they publ students took advantage of icly graded papers and per Thursday’s demonstration to formed other teaching duties in issue a barrage of complaints ab response to the university’s fai out what they considered unrea lure to recognize the roughly listic expectations for their jobs. 1,200-member Associated Stu High student-teacher ratios dents Employees/United Auto are among the factors hurting LARRY MILLS/Daily Next» Workers union of T.A.s, re TA.s’ abilities to teach effec search assistants, readers, tutors tively, according to Jay Stemmle, Did Anybody Hear It? and acting instructors. an English T.A. and ASE/UAW The lack of recognition pre staff organizer. Student observers p ass by a large portion of a tree that fell in the cam pus forest Thursday cludes members from negotiat “The university is staffing in morn ing near Ellison Hall. ing for better working condi tions and harms undergraduate See PROTEST, p.8 Hearing to Library Expands Interdisciplinary Discuss IV . Ethnic, Gender Land Parcel Studies Collection By Michiko Takeda Development Stiff Writer________________ . By Jeff Brax Stiff Writer Davidson Library formally opened its ethnic and gender studies unit Thursday, becoming Soccer, native grasses and the first UC library to bring a battle for three-fourths of an together the research and re acre will likely determine the sources of the different development plan for Isla disciplines. Vista’s largest open space at a A ribbon-cutting ceremony public hearing Tuesday. and reception officially opened Santa Barbara County has the second-floor library, which issued a revised development includes collections devoted to plan and environmental re Asian-American, black, wo view document for the Ca- men’s, Mexican-American, Na mino Corto open space, an undeveloped 24-acre parcel tive American, and gay and les bian studies. adjacent to I.V. Elementary The new component is the School. Most aspects of the development plan, including first in the UC system to physi cally combine the different dis a 1-acre children’s park, ver ciplines, according to university nal pool restoration and in creased school parking have librarian Joseph Boisse. “This is the only campus in the survived three public hear UC where the ethnic and gender ings without overwhelming studies have been brought opposition. together in this way, in one phys But the placement of two ical location,” he said. soccer fields has divided com Librarians began work last munity members, environ summer to add to the black stu mentalists and county plan dies and Colección Hoque Na- ners. Of the two options on huaque library. Boisse said by the table, the county’s pre September it included the An- ferred choice is Alternative 1, delson Collection of gay, lesbian in which one field would be and bisexual studies as well as located inside school collections devoted to Asian- grounds while the second American, Native American and would straddle the border with the county property. women’s studies. Monetaiy gifts to the library The county’s Draft Nega provided the funds for the col tive Declaration—which will lection expansion, according to be the subject of a 6 p.m. Boisse. public hearing Tuesday at the Source: Santa Barbara County Plaining and Development D ept CHRIS KOCH/Daily Nexus school— states that the fields The new unit has been one of will have inconsequential en- Through these alternatives offered by Santa Barbara County, the location of two playfields can the most active in Davidson Li be arranged to either straddle the border of Camlno Corto open space or He within I. V. Elemen brary, according to black studies See CORTO, p.5 tary School grounds. See LIBRARY, p 3 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus EdAor in Chien Suzanne Gamer News Editor] J e ff Brax Layout/AP Wire EdAor] Chris Koch Split House Passes Minimum Wage Bill Campus Editorl Tim M olloy Asst. Campus EdAorsI Michiko Takeda, Rachel Howard WASHINGTON (AP) election. “That is the way “The people who cook (R-Pa.). County EdAorl Michael Ball Asst. County EdAorl Dan Nazzareta — In a striking triumph for to honor our values of our meads and sweep our The vote was a rare Features EdAorn Colleen Valles President Clinton and the work, family, opportunity floors and work in our triumph for Democrats, Opinions EdAorsI Matt Nelson, Nick Robertson Democrats, the House ap and responsibility,” Clin child care centers in this who lost their House ma Sports EdAorsI Curtis Kaiser, Alex Nugent, Brian proved election-year legis ton said. countiy deserve a raise,” jority in the 1994 elections Berger, Michael CadiHi The legislation provides and showed uncommon Artsweek EdAor* Noah Blumberg lation Thursday to raise said Rep. Robert Andrews Asst. Artsweek EdAor A Eric Steuer the minimum wage by 90 for a 50-cent-an-hour in (D-N.J.). unity this spring in pursu Photo EdAorl Erin Derby cents an hour. crease in the current “If you want Mom off ing the minimum wage in Asst. Photo EdAor | Dan Thbodeau The 281-144 vote came $4.25-an-hour minimum welfare, make the job crease. For his part, Clin Illustrations EdAor] Ryan AAoon Senior Copy Reader | James Lissner after a sharply divided wage, effective July 1. A worth going to,” added ton threatened a veto of Copy Readers | Ruel Gaviola, Bryan Pon, Marc Valles House rejected a proposal second, 40-cent increase Democratic Rep. Pat Wil the bill on Wednesday if by Republican leaders to would take effect a year la liams of Montana. Republicans succeeded in Account Executives I Bryan Bums, Pia Chatterjee, exempt millions of work attaching their proposed JennAer Egan, Stacy Hedemark, ers from federal wage and exemptions for firms with Michelle Larsen, Ginny Shannon, The people who cook our me Matt Slatoff overtime laws. annual incomes of M “The House worked its als and sweep our floors and $500,000 or less. Production n Kyra GoldsmAh, Bridgitte McDaniel will and America will get a work in our child care centers raise,” exulted Rep. Jack ij j j j in this country deserve a raise. Majority Leader Dick Quinn of New York, the Armey of Texas, a former most outspoken in a group H i economics professor, said We Got the Bleat! of moderate Republicans Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) he believed with “eveiy who defied their leaders in fiberof my being” thatrais- supporting the increase. ing the wage floor would House approval of the ter. The bill also includes a But many Republicans boomerang against the measure sets the stage for series of small-business tax said raising the minimum disadvantaged young Senate action after law breaks that Republicans wage would cost jobs, par workers who need jobs the makers return from next crafted to offset the impact ticularly for disadvantaged most. That effect is such a Editorial Policy: week’s Memorial Day of the higher wage on workers who tend to hold basic principle of econom break. employers. low-paying positions. ics, he said, that Joseph E. All letters to the editor and columns submitted for publication be Clinton, on a visit to In debate that spilled “There’s a hate passion Stiglitz, a top economics come property on being turned in. Milwaukee, challenged over two days in a deeply from the [Democrats] in adviser to the president, Letters to the editor and columns must be lim ited to two pages, Senate Majority Leader polarized House, Demo relationship to business had included it in a tex typed double-spaced (3,000 characters), and include the author’s Bob Dole to bring the issue crats and moderate Repu and a tremendous hate tbook. “If a college fresh name and phone number. to a Senate vote before he blicans said a minimum passion in relationship to man doesn’t grasp this, leaves office next month to wage increase was simple small businesses,” said he’s not likely to pass the focus on the presidential fairness. Rep. William Goodling course,” said Armey. Corrections Policy: To call an error to the attention of the EdAor At Chief, provide awritten statement detailing the correct information. The Daily Nexus publishes aA corrections of Commission Changes Auto Coverage Regulations errors. 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