new SndCcat~r Volume 10, Number 1 Published at UCSD Our 18th year of publication Tues. Oct. 9th - Oct. 22nd 1984 Media Budget UCSD Attacks Freedom of Held Hostage Association Student Groups Required .Law Suit Initiated to Submit Membership Lists Following a three month period c;,,~ no funds-a direct result of Associated A major revision to existing campus Students (AS) President. Marc regulations applying to student Boroditsky's, veto of the Alternative organi~ations is coming under sharp Media budget on June 12th-and criticism from several circles within the suffering serious disruption to their University community. The revision, publication and operation schedules. made by UCSD Administrators overthe UCSD's Alternative Media received AS summer. seeks to severely curtail funding on Wednesday September 26th. Freedom of Association rights of The three month period beginning individuals active on campus by with Boroditsky's veto. marked one of requiring orga11i7ationstoMprovide a list the most bitter periods. in the long and of non-registered] non-University/ increasingly hostile AS-Alternative community members", prohibit these Media relationship. A period higlighted members from holding office or vote by vandalism, lawsuits, new Several hundred people gather at "the hump" to oppose Reaganism. on organizational issues or elections; administrative policies aimed and eliminate the right of groups to specifically towards certain members of choose an "agent" to represent the the Alternative Media. and petty organization. vindictiveness on the part of Boroditsky Hundreds Rally and his supporters on the AS Council. The existence of these regulations first Theb'new" budget passed last week did surfaced when students returning from little. however. to ease the growing summer break were required to comply animosity brought about by to Bust Reagan with the new regulations as a condition to being certified a student organization Boroditsky's actions.. According to new Close to 400 students gathered on "the young Republicans at a pro-Mondale indicator sources in the Administration. and thus becoming eligible to use hump." September 26th. to support the rally.) Reagan youth jeered and waved campus facilities and AS funding. Boroditsky's actions. under the usual Reaganbuster rally sponsored by UCSD banners in support of Reagan-Bush but It is clear the intent of the new prattle of "fiscal fairness," came about Students Against Reaganism (STAR). the overwhelming response was in regulations is to stifle the more active because of mounting pressure from the The common goal of the Reaganbusters support of statements made by speakers organizations on campus. specifically Administration to veto the entire was the defeat of the Reagan addressing !he adverse affects of the the alternative media. Committee for Alternative Media budget so as to avoid administration at the polls on November Reagan administration on U.S. society World Democracy. CISPES. Che Cafk the legal challenge initiated by the 6, 1984. but as the rally intensified this and world affairs. Topics ranged from and other groups-groups who have ACLU on behalf of the California goal seemed to represent what they saw women's rights. civil rights. and Review. as only. a first step in reversing the intervention in the third world. to historically refused to allow the administration to implement its goals (The California Review received rightward trend in US. society, nuclear war and what would happen to and policies unchallenged, and who have Associated Students funding in Spring something the speakers called the Supreme Court if Ronald Reagan refused to view the university as an ivory 1983. but in accordance with the AS "Reaganism." were to be re-elected. tower. closed to the very community that Constitution. outraged students The crowd represented a cross-section Sacha Nelson. a med student and sustains and supports it through taxes. garnered the required signatures to of progressive students on campus, member of STAR and Students for the The University has viewed the challenge the AS funding for the Review. faculty, staff. San Diego community Prevention of Nuclear War initiated the involvement of "non-students" and In a special referendum to decide the members, and a few pro-Reagan youth. avid response of the crowd with a community members in campus student question. students voted resoundingly to The scene was tense before the rally with scathing attack on the "insane" nuclear- organizations as disruptive to their rescind the AS Council's decision and administration officials and campus military policies of the Reagan wishes to maintain a transitory student refused to allow students' funds to be police prepared for disruptions by administration. Nelson asked thecrowd. body along with the lack of continuity allocated to the Review. Students were Reagan youth. (At USC the week before particularly upset with the Review's students had their shirts torn off by continued on page 9 continued on page 7 insensitive comments concerning rape, and argued that the Review has demonstrated its ability to receive funds from conservative foundations across the nation. The Review subsequently threatened legal action against the Clinic Violence on the Rise university and with the help of the ACLU applied great pressure on the On September 20th. the Planned The Rev. Dorman Owens. who refers almost every Saturday this summer to university administration to guarantee Parenthood office in Atlanta was the to his followers in the Bible Missionary purge San Diego of sin. Health care funding for the 84-85 academic year.) target of arson. making it the second Fellowship as "soldiers" has been clinics wen the major target of their Faced with the ACLU lawsuit. the b~mbingin as many weeks against arrested twice for his harassment of crusade. Owens. who claims. "patriotism Administration saw fit to intervene in health clinics in the Georgia state clients at local clinics. Owens. leading his and christianity are one in the same." AS funding to delegate student money to capitol. Since the 1973 Roe v Wade flock to do battle against "queers, also lead marches through Hillcrest the Review . choosing to ignore the Supreme Court decision legalizing cultists, witches. ,murderers and charging gays with. "crimes ...p unishable actual merits of Review wants. abortion. there have been forty attacks commies." was a familiar scene this past by death." according to our source who requested against health care clinics that provide summer. His group, from the continued on page 7 to remain anonymous. Boroditsky. who abortions as one of their services. hinterlands of Santec. made a mecca ran on an election platform Twenty of these attacks have occurred unsympathetic to progressive media, since January of 1984. The rise in clinic was only too eager to do the violence has been partly attributed to administration's bidding-going to the fundamentalist groups who believe they extent of fabricating reasons for his veto have a mandate from god to deny a to disguise the administration's and his woman's right to choose abortion, true intentions. A frequent site of local fundamentalist The "new" budget passed last week protest. Birth Control Institute on El represented the final step in the plan to Cajon Rlvd. was 'firebombed on fund the Calijiornia Review and was fully September 13th. There is still no lead on consistent with the information we the persons responsible for this attack received from our administrative source: despite a f 5,000 reward for information despite elaborate reasons, excuses and leading to the arrest and conviction of numerous rationales put forward by those responsible. Womancare. a San Roroditsky for his veto. the primary Diego feminist health center has received purpose was to hold up and disrupt all bornh threats and hasalso been the scene the other AS-funded media, so that the of vicious protests by right-wing anti- California Review could be included in a abortion groups that include the Rihle comprehensive Alternative Media Missionary Fellowship and the budget, And despite Boroditsky's and Independent Baptist Church. Pickets at administration's denials, to most Womancare have harassed clients. jvelled observers their tactic was no secret. even at workers and trespassed on clinic Dorman Owens (left) leads fundamentalists in anti-gay march in Hillcrest. continued on page 4 ProPcrtY. Collective Notes communities, And then there is The G'CSD Guardian-which d,.fends administration, and strives to present a non-critical viewpoint. while Eros, Thanatos, And criticism ofthose in power. The UCSD Guardian. contrary to popular Funkv La Jolla civil detense committee5 and have direct illusion. is not the "official" campus newspaper. UCSD no longer has an By Rambling Rosie lines of communication with the the Excremental Visions "official* campus newspaper. Originally, the distinction belonged to the government. The level of responsibility Indicntor(our name in the 1960's). but our progressive editorial policy annoyed It's been a long hot summer of fun and volunteered her services to walk into the Nicaraguan felt by community members is the administration so much that they gave the "official" title 10 a right-wing repression at USCD while you were Alternative Media typesetting room to astonishing. The New Indicator Collective meets each Tuesday Night to discuss the alternative paper, The Triton Times(now UCSD Guardian). After hundreds of bourgeois crimes of repression. omission. suppression on the UCSD campus gone... Some tips. I'm still checking into sabotage the machine. Hardly suprising Update Other than this there are numerous thousands of dollars of student registration fees were pumped into capitalizing so you'll have to wait till the next time. this ...not the first time the Dirt! organizations representing just about and in the S.D. communi:y at large. We see our task as one of exposing tyranny independent" in 1976. It still is. and The Triton Times. the paper decided to "go For others, of course, their time has Guardian has been involved in every possible interest group (of decent and exploitation and of supporting the victims ofcapitalism when they decide to , there also is the California Review.