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Disciplinary Hearings End; Six Charged Students Testify by James G. Soto progress and endangering his whether the charged students have . City Editor health and safety, the students are violated UC regulations. Disciplinary hearings for 10 UC also charged with disobeying or He said he expects to reach a San Diego students charged with ders from UCSD officials - police decision by mid-May. violating University regulations officers and administrators - Did Feel Pressured during UC President Saxon's Nov .. around Saxon during a walk from During th~ final sessions on 25 visit ended Friday night when USD 2622 to the Chancellor's Thursday evening and Friday, six of the charged students took the complex. there was no new major In stand and said they did not Hearing officer Robert formation revealed by the defense. threaten Saxon's safety or impede Lugannani told reporters Friday However, during UC counsel his progress as he walked across morning that transcripts of the Milton Gordon's cross campus. hearings,will be made available to examination of Maia McGhee, she The hearings, which began in attorneys for UC and the students said that at one point, when she had February, were held to ac in one to two weeks. The attorneys linked arms with other students in cumulate evidence for and against will then write briefs outlining front of the Saxon procession, she charges that the students com their cases. felt pressured by the crowd behind mited the violations during a Lugannani will study the briefs her. In a nearly ritual display of cuteness and adorability, a dog demonstration against alleged and testimony and make a Her testimony is the first by any shows, deepset anthropomorphic psychosis. (TT Photo: Central Intelligence Agency ties recommendation to Vice non-UC witness that the crowd Bill Brooks) . withUC. chancellor and Dean of Student may have either been slowed by a In addition to impeding Saxon's Affairs G~orge Murphy as to chain of demonstrators, or that it might have pushed the chain faster UCSD Budget for '77-78- than it was going. Several of the charged students No Guarantees On Additions Support of Farmworkers said they saw shoving or pushing " We only have two equations "I believe in rewarding ex by UCSD administrators. George with three unknowns," said Vice cellence rather than mediocrity," Initiative Urged at Rally Katsiaficas said Third College chancellor of Academic Affairs Saltman answered. Dean Dan Munoz elbowed hUn at Paul Saltman in reference to UC UC San Diego history professor non-UFW list included Gallo, one point during the procession. San Diego academic planning for Richard Romo last week urged Boone's Farm and Thunderbird. McGhee said she saw both Munoz 1977-78. people on Revelle plaza to support and deputy vice-chancellor Rick CalPIRG Ends the farmworkers initiative which Whitehill shoving students. She UCSD has been asked to submit The wines sanctioned by the the 1977-78 budget without knowing would separate funding for the s3id Whitehill charged into the Farm Labor Relations Board from farmworkers union included Bali crowd with his arms raised like a what the budget will be in 1976-77, Nursing Home Hai, Sangrole and Novitiate. said Salbnan in a recent interview . state legislature control. football player. He said UCSD is to assume no Mafioso or CIA type change in 1976-77 budgeted .1 nvestigation The board is under heavy con San Diego State University's Cookie Mahoney, another of the resources - such as the 18.53: 1 troversy because it spent its an MECHA was represented by a charged students, testified that student/faculty ratio and the By Craig Uchida nual budget in less than a year. speaker who told of a referendum Whitehill's charge had a "mental projected 49:1 studentlTA ratio - Opinion Editor Many legislators - Republicans at that school to stop the Daily impact" on the crowd and that his in planning for 1977-78. Thus with "Forty-five recommendations and rural Democrats -- are Aztec, State's newspaper, from behavior was the roughest of any the projected inerease in student and seven conclusions concerning reluctant to fund it further, running Gallo advertisements. individual involved in the walk. enrollment UCSD would receive 32 nursing home care were presented charging that the board favored Katsiaficas said that during new faculty members and 26 more to the San Diego Board of Super -the United Farmworkers Union Saxon's question and answer " Dirty Tactics" TAs, according to Saltman. visors," said Alan Kremen, a UC (UFW) in its first months of session on the gym steps, UCSD More Grants, but Higher Ratios San Diego student and a member existence. police officer Joseph Thornhill These additions to the budget of the California Public Interest The speaker said that because of lifted his wallet. He called Thorn have an estimated value of Research Group (Cal PIRG). November Baliot • "dirty tactics" by Gallo su~ hill a "mafioso or CIA type" of $500,000, said Saltman. There is no After six months of hearings and porters, the referendum was thug.- Marco LiMandrl,- another of guarantee that UCSD will receive investigations, the task force on The farm workers initiative, if it defeated. She charged that the the charged students, said that he as much, he added. nursing home care brought its receives enough signatures from Gallo wine company paid people to may have seen Thornhill shoving According to Saltman, a study by findings to the board last week. registered voters, would be placed leaflet State students with pro people on another occasion. the office of Planning and Analysis The task force, established by on the November ballot for Gallo material which, she said, None of the charged students at UCSD indicates that on a per supervisors last November, heard ratification by California voters. caused an anti-UFW backlash. said they violated UC regulations; capita basis UCSD faculty are testimony from state and local several said UCSD administrators receiving research grants and agencies with regard to patient Romo, one speaker in a rally The rally was preceded by a acted in a provocative manner. contracts on a level twice that of care and ancillary services. supporting he initiative held march aroWld Revelle plaza by 30 Students also said that though any other UC campus. Although Parents and children of patients, Friday at noon, told the assem persons, clapping and chanting they were upset by the answers this figure excludes Scripps employees, facility ad blage of 35 people that UCSD such slogans as "Boycott lettuce, given by Saxon at thelluestion and Institution of Oceanography and ministrators, physicians and MECHA will ' have tables on boycott grapes, boycott the wine answer session, they were n,j,} University Hospital, UCSD still patients also testified. Revelle plaza next week at noon that Gallo makes," and " No more upset to the point of bre . tu outdoes UC Berkeley's general Kremen said the report must where students can sign the scab lettuce at UCSD." regulations. :!r campus factor of three on a per now be approved by the super initiative. capita basis. visors. He hopes implementation of However, said Saltman, UCSD the recommendations would be Reminding his audience that has a significantly higher forthcOming. individuals must be registered However, some of the recom faculty/student and T Alstudent voters to sfgn the measure, Romo mendations could only be in ratio than the UC-wide average. told the students to bring their stituted if existing laws and The' UCSD libraries have also friends with them next week to sign been hit with cutbacks, said regulations are changed. Kremen it. Saltman. is also working with state UCSD libraries receive the legislators in pursuit of these' poorest rate of staffing support of goals. Also at the rally, a list of UFW all the UC schools. And the book Continuea on Page 5 and non-UFW wines was read. The budget has been decreased in spite of a larger faculty and a growing Found in Santa Monica campus, complained Saltman. "I don't know why UCSD is being discriminated against," said Duquette Returns Home Saltman. FIKures show that UCSD brings Joy Duquette, the Revelle sophomore feared dead by police has been in approximately 20 per cent of the found safe. total individual research and According to authorities, thanks to information supplied by UC San grants of the UC system with only Diego students It was possible to trace her to Santa Monica. She had ight to ten per cent of the faculty. taken a train north in February. "We have set high standards for Duquette returned home Thursday by bus. No specific explanation ourselves and have maintained of her disappearance has been offered other than that sh was them," said Saltman. unhappy In achool. Then why should the state She is expected to return to college, but not at UC San Diego. it 35 people ath r d in Revell pi za Friday to h support UCSD as is stl11 able to Her parents are grateful to aU thOle who helped locate her. bring in this much Income? upporting th f rmwork rs Initi tiv. (TT Brooks) ~ Monday, AprillZ, 1"1 Page 3 Page! Monday, April 1%,1"1 An Open Letter to the University Community from the GSU • '.011.' DieS Letters to the Editor \ UC SIlO Diego Emptying Pockets at the Bookstore "Jonathan Saville's Reforms 'Menace Future of Our Education" Each day that passes becomen in a letter written to the GSU, that educational experience of the sections. On the one hand he is, Hwnanities Program are entirely Jalln H. T.ylor MerI< W.,.,ber J ...... G. Soto I'd like to make public my required texts is San Diego operates a monopoly and obviously day of crises for the future of "the free exchange of ideas Is the undergraduates would be most concei v ably, merely a sadly economic.