SIO Given $4.75 Million; If Approved, the UCSA 'S Proposal Would Transfer Following an A&M Game
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·:t 1(:J:wJ:1 =t ,1. , H u c s D UnIversity Doctor C....... wtthFtald • MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Dr. John Najarian, known for his work on the drug ALG - used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients - could face fines of close to $4 million and a 96-year prison sentence if found guilty on 21 counts of defrauding the UCSANDIEGO THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1996 VOLUME 87, ISSUE 4 government, embezzling from the University of Minnesota and evading taxes. Najarian, who was a UM surgeon and DISTINGUISHED SERVICE UCSA Proposal researcher, stepped down as the university's head of surgery in 1993. According to .Would ·Change the charges, Najarian violated the FDA's policies on drug Student.Regent studies by misrepresenting production and sales figures of ALG and failing to report Process adverse effects of the drug, which included patient deaths, to the FDA. TAcnes: Group may submit one - The Minnesota Daily name to regents next year in protest Technicians Sue over lack of control over selection Over Asthma By Anand Patel GLASGOW, Scotland - Staff Writer Former tec hnicians at the In an effort to improve student represe nt ati on on University of Glasgow won a the UC Board of Regents, the University of Californi a large, out-of-court settlement Student Association (UCSA) last week submilled to recently, after claiming that the board a proposal to change the Rege l}t Procedures they had contracted asthma for Selecting a Student Regent. while working with mi ce, rats, The proposal would confer to the UCS A Board of guinea pi g and rabbi·ts in Directors control over selection procedures and th e university research labs. The fin al selecti on of the student represe nt ati ve. It is sched techni cians claimed th at uled to be di scussed attooay's rege nts' meeting. unsat isfactory working Currently, UCSA directors interview and select conditions and insufficient three finali sts from the nine se mifinali sts. The fin al protective clothing caused its' names are then se nt to a commillee of the full them to contract the respira Board of Regents, which makes the final dec ision. tory problem. The three finali sts submilled by the UCSA this year - The Glasgow Guardian are UC Berkeley law student Jess Bravin, UCLA law Chuck Nguyen/Guardian student Leo Trujillo-Cox and UCLA undergraduate AAM'. Mascot Thanks: Nick Aguilar, director of UCSD Student Policy and Judicial Affairs, hris Schemers. Suffen Seizure presents Rabbi Jay Miller with a certificate of appreciation for his 18 years of The Special Committee for Selection of the Stu COLLEGE STATION, Texas service to the UCSD and San Diego Jewish community dent Regent, consisting of Regents William Bagley, - Texas A&M 's canine Meredith Khachi gian, John Davies and Judith Levin, mascot , Reveille VI , is current Student Regent Ed Gomez and UCSA Chair reported to be in good Kri s Kohler, will meet today to se lect the 1996-97 condition after suffering a student regent. seri es of epileptic seizures SIO Given $4.75 Million; If approved, the UCSA 's proposal would transfer following an A&M game. the selecti on of the students' repre entative from the According to Vice President regents to the students- the same way the faculty and for Student Affairs Malon alumni currently choo e their represent atives. New Building Planned "We beli eve it will pass ... because fac ulty and Sutherland, students s!omped balloons foll owing a recent alumni can already choose their own represe ntati ves," victory, creating a noi se level GRANT: Scripps officials Oceani c and Atmos pheri c Research Facility UCSA Executive Director Kimi Lee said . that Sutherland described as say the money will help build (OAR). It will be located north of Nierenberg In a lelLer to the IJ CSA, A.S. Pres ident Nao mi Falk Hall on the Scripps campus. said students are capable of choosing a representati ve "extremely loud, even to laboratory/office complex human ears." Reveillo began Construction will begin during the fall of "who will amply and adequately represe nt them." shaking after the game and 1996, and is scheduled to be completed by "Most regents are businessmen and do not know was taken to the A&M College By Laura Lamb the end of 1997. much about academia," she said . of Veterinary Medicine. Guardian Reporter "The new facility will.. lay the ground Falk added that many past student regent would - Tire Daily Texan UCSD scientists and graduate students at work for an integrated global observation not have been chosen if students had made the final the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) system with international dimensions," SIO decision. wi II oon have ample space for theirresearch Director Edward Frieman said. "The regents tend to choose people who are not la w projects, after a new, 26,600-square-footlabo Research at the new facility will focus on students, very conservative, not well -spoken and not ratory and office complex is completed. global issues, including the environment and well -known - people who are the least hassle," she SIO will use a recent $4.75 million grant changing atmospheric conditions, as well as said. from the W. M . Keck Foundation to con the development of new instruments. UCSA board members have considered submitting struct the $8 million complex, known as the See SCRIPPS, Page 3 See REGENT, P;)ge 8 Atkinson Starts First Post-Affirmative-Action Outreach Plan MINORmES: ueop telia as a means of achieving di versity in the UC system. bolsters programs with To accomplish the goals set out Below is an ethnic breakdown of the percentage of additional $2 million in the plan, Atkinson established an California public high school graduates that were accepted WARHOL outreach task force. The task force into the UC system for the 1994-95 school year. HIATUS: Mary Woronov By Suketu v....... v will try to augment current programs speaks of sex, drugs and the Staff Writer designed to expand awareness of Asian White In accordance with his pledge the VC's educational opportunities Velvet Underground HI last summer to increase student to all Californians. diversity in the UC system, UC "PREP is designed to provide all Filipino Black OPINION: Americans President Richard C. Atkinson of California's students with the should remember the real unveiled the President' s Plan to tools they need to realize full educa Native Latino Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 Raise Educational Participation tional potential and to succeed in AmerIc .. (PREP) last Thursday - a pro post-secondary education," SPORTS: UCSD women's gram which will explore alterna Atkinson said. basketball slaughters the tives to race-based admissions eri- ·See OUTREACH, Page 8 Hawks, 19-39 II 2 NEWS The UCSD Ouudiu Thursday. January HI. 1'196 Thursday, January 18. 1996 The UCSD Guardian NEWS 3 SCRIPPS: Los Angeles-based firm Barton UCSD Students Go A.S. Allocates $1,584 For Election Myers Associates, Inc., with as ETCETERA. • • Grant will pay for a sistance from Research Facilities COUNCIL: Falk "We've never ever before funded election," she said. "However ... if new building Design of San Diego. Abroad En Masse threatens veto of elections out of any other fund be we present the constitution concur Another Scripps construction yond the student activity fee," she rently with regular elections, a newly Continued from Pac. 1 project is a $3 million laboratory SERVICES: International Center supports EAP, yesterday's vote said. voted constitution will be silting The complex will house 15 re and classroom-space addition to OAP and visiting foreign students and scholars The rewritten constitution - co around for a year." search and instrumentation labo Nierenberg Hall. The project is By Esther Yoon authored by A.S, Vice-President Nicoll added that a special elec ratories in three interconnected funded by both the UC and the Staff Writer in April or May to selected students Administrative Jennifer Nicoll. tion will give voters time to accus buildings. Scientists will be able state of California. Staff Writer studying abroad in 1996-97. The A.S_ Council voted last night Vice-President Finance Edmondo tom themselves to the new constitu to recreate oceanic and Arctic con Each project has undergone Last year. 521 UCSD students However. financial concerns are to approve 51.584 in funding for a Robinson and Student Advocate tion. "By presenting the constitu ditions in an environmental test repeated analysis and design work packed their suitcases and left the not the only obstacles students must special election to vote on a new Souley Diallo-shifts the structure tion separately ... there is insurance chamber, as well as experiment over the last two years while await university. But these students were overcome to become eligible for A.S. constitution. of the A.S. Council to a "checks and thai the voters will take the time to with high- and low-pressure cham ing funding. not disgruntled dropouts. As par one of the two study-abroad pro However, A.S. President Naomi balances" system with legislative, read it and familiarize themselves bers. Additional funding for the OAR ticipants in study-abroad programs. grams. EAP applicants must be jun Falk said various council members' judicial and executive branches. with the issues," she said. The laboratories, adjacent to facility will come from the David they were actually ambassadors of iors by the time of departure, en discontent may result in her veto of Marshall Junior Senator Cory However, A.S. Commissioner of office spaces for scientists, engi and Lucille Packard Foundation UCSD. dorsed by 1he the Feb. 6 election. Ewing supported the new Programming Kevin Moo said the neers, graduate students and sup and the O.