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Overseers Gathering is Scene Grads D~mand Saxon Meeting by Richard Yep have " Staff Writer Saxon offered 15 minutes, Over 350 students, most of them graduate teaching assistants which th GSU sal J wasn't enough picketed the UC San Die~o Board of Overseers meeting Wed nesday asking to speak With UC president-designate Saxon, who Chancellor McElroy explained was in attendance. to the student that Saxon had Chanting "No layoffs" and "Meet our demands," the students only an hour to spend on campus, converged on the Matthews campus Chancellor'S complex after and that It had been agreed that an organizational meeting on the Revelle.plaza at 1 pm. he would spend It with the Overseers. McE Iroy concluded, The march was led by the before the meting began that he " He's not even President yet Graduate Student Union (GSUl. had another appointment and that's being a little presumptous which is asking for more job had to catch a plan immediately on his part, too .. security next year for T As . after the Overseers meeting. Saxon told the students that Spokesmen for the GSU Saxon said, "I do understand they wclJ1ted firm comrUitments requested a chance to meet with the concerns that motivate you," about lob ecurlty, but that the Saxon after the Board of Over and when requested again that University didn't have a budget see'rs adjourned. the representatives of the GSU yet. " I Understand" meet With him, Saxon replied, axon concluded by telling the axon told the spokesmen You 're a king for more than I ~tudents that he " understands their needs" and that the situation wouldn't be changed by Saxon Hits Brown's UC a ten-minute conversatIOn. Saxon and UCSD administrators entered th conference rOom to meet Budget Here Wednesday with the Board of Overseers. by Edward Simons The hastily-c alled press The Board IS a body that links Managing Editor conference convened three hours the University with prominent before axon was scheduled to member of the community meet With Chancellor McElroy "Sa on" and " Meet our UC President.<:fesignate David and the UCSD Board of Over demands, now" were the chants Saxon , making his first ap seers . That meeting was marked heard as the Board of Overseers pearance at UC San Diego since by protest from members of the convened A students he was approved by the Regents Graduate Student Union (see surrounded the building, spokesmen for the GSU entered ITphoto: Denise March 1, said Wednesday that he article this page.) is dissatisfied with Gov. Brown's the meeting and again requested lvfembers of the Graduate Student Union marching to Matthews that Saxon take time to hear their proposed 1975-76 UC budget " in Withdraw the Fund dun'ng the Wednesday afternoon demonstralions. almost everv respect " demands One Hour In diSCUSSing the budget, Saxon M cElroy addressed the cited the rising costs of main stud nts, " A I told you earlier, taining buildings and equipment we have one hour with him as bei ng essential (Sa on), and that IS all the time he plans to b here--not to meet With "The Governor's wrong abcut the tudents and faculty, but with being able to cut the Affirmative the Board of Overseers I must Continued on Page 7 Continued on Page 3 UC Worried Students in Bargaining Funds, Students in Short Supply hy Maura Dolan Editor's Note - This is the is sufficient ott-loading (e penses Sacramento Correspondent second of a four-part series on the picked up by the state) to allow - tudent groups-this week won their long battle to include student arts and lectures at UC San Diego money from the budget to be partiCipatIOn provisions In major collective bargaining legislation. from reporter Hicks, Today's given to the individual college Two collective bargaining bills, by Assemblyman Julian Dixon (0- article covers activities at Third deans. There IS , says Dye, " no Los Angeles) and Sen . George Moscone CD-San Francisco) passed and Fourth Colleges. certainty that thi will happen." out of committees this week with am ndments to permit non-voting by Greg Hicks In addition to more money, student representatives to participate in labor negotiations at Senior Reporter Dye would like to see more Ca lifornia's public colleges. student involvement in the Th UC Student Lobby and the legislative advocates for the state In reviewing the activities of committee The committee university and community college student wrote and submitted the the various programming consi ts of two faculty members amendments. committees at UCSD, two (appointed by the Provost) and Moscone's bill would set up collective bargaining for state school problems emerge with more four students (appointed by Dye) employes Dixon's bill, like the Dills-Berman bill that awaits ap frequency than any others : lack as well as the dean, a sistant proval by the Senate Finance Committee, would permit all public of money and lack of student dean and administrative employes, including UC faculty, to bargain collectively for salarie5, interest. • assistant. working :,ours and working conditions. Both problems have hampered But. the nature of the com Profound Impact the work of the Third College mittee allow for a maximum of UC Student Lobbyist Beth Labson told the Assembly Committee Activities Committee, according tudent input. It has the nature of on Public Employees and Retirement that collective bargaining at to Raymond Dye, dean of Third "an informal cooperative venture, Third Dean Raymond Dye the Univer ity woulQ have a " profound impact on students ." College. This is not to say that the in that anybody can be involved "W ' rE' not just being paronoid," Labson said. "The scope of committee has not sponsored in It," according to Dye An A Smattering of Everything bargaining (under the legislation) I left so wide that anything Interesting and successful interested student can erve on relating to cla ss size, student fees , faculty contact hours and programs But it is an obviou fact the committee, which is run more In D e' View, It I al 0 the evaluation of tea hing would be subject to negotiation." that no organization can go or Ie s by consensu . function of the Campus Program he aid that faculty in a New York state university took a lower beyond the framework Imposed Dye would like to ee an Im Board to pon or activities that pay In rea e In return for the administration's promise to abolish on It by the degree of money and provement on the present fulfi II the general purpo e of teacher valuation program dUring a collective bargaining ession personal energy available to it. ituation, where onl "a handful 'expanding th cultural con In which no tudent was present The money available to the of student ar dOing everything " SCIOU ne of the entire campus At John Hopkins University, sh said, faculty r duced th ir offic activities committe comes from There is a need, he ay , to conlmunlty ' The CPB hould not hours to two a week during labor negotiation that didn't include a the pool of money the University omehow convince and p r uade over-empha Ile any particular student representative to prote t. collects a a p rcentage for students to g t Involved area of programming but the Martin Morgenstern, the state organizer for the California State allowing companie to put WI th mOr energy and mone 'program hould be \\<ell ml ed, f:mploye As ociatlon, which encompa e faculty as well as oth r vending machine on campus avai lab Ie, there ar a number of hu I n a mattering of state employes, aid the student amendment wa "lust a way of The money I dllo ate9 on a program which Dye would likE' everything keeping students from partiCipating fully In n gotlations" had-count ba i Thus Th Ird to e Implem nt d One I " Ince they can't vote," he aid, " thE'Y won't have ~ny final say on ,Colleg , with an ' enrollm nt of current event emlnar "One 1 hI.' second m.lJor ourc of contract provi Ions and that's the way it should be " about 825, gets only a mall thing about U 0 ,' he aY , I fund, tor a tlviti at Third I the Worried Enough portIOn of the money that It I~ a hlghl clence-orlented $6 h IU Ing t Th deCi Ion to evertheles , UC faculty and th UniverSity administration are campu~ ' so that p ople are not allo atf> thl~ mone\ recelv th worned >nough about the tudent amendment to try to amend Ine"pensive Idea "aWdre of what' gOing on In the dlr~ct mput of tud nts liVing In 's tudents out of the bill Although nelth r has yet taken any such world ' There hould, h think the d :)rm\ tudent mPet \\- ith action, both have warned that they w re preparing for It. A cording to Dye, 'all the be utilization of the r .ource of their re Idence hall repr n- Prot s~or AleXlf> Maradudan, Academl oun II Chairman, ,aid dedns arE' hurting for mone ." Up oth r college. In th an Diego tatlv who In turn m et \\-Ith th that ~tud('nts who participate In collective bargaining at the to now, h ay, th dctlvltle area (e g , gu st sp aker ) RA Tt, R Un lver~lty of Colorado gE'nE'rall Sid With the managem nt, but program at Third ha dep nd d Dve w ulQ also liKe to e mor th Third ,aid that wa not the rea on for the faculty' oppo Itlon largely on ··creatlv Idea that traditional thing, (like spnn yolanda Ire Ino Group ' WE' would be negotiating faculty alane and working ondltlon o t little or no monE' '' (for carnl al) and more program tudents Cdn al 0 ,peak to the eluTing a bargaining e slon," h aid, "and that wouldn t affect example th On tag at Third pomor d b thnic and cultural RE' Ident 0 .an th rmcke it th y educational POliCY and wouldn t r qUir tudent participation ' program, poetr r adlng and groups, uch d ultural fair But want to U\ hou 109 f f> m "'l1ey Unlver"ty legl latlve advocat t v Ardlttl aid tud nt ,hould dan e exhibition) There I a th ~e p pnt<.