Brown Favors UC Weapons Pullout
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THE GUARDIAN University of California, San Diego Volume 37, Number 21 Friday, May 18, 1979 Brown Favors UC Weapons Pullout Governor's Statement Surprises Regents 8y Trapper B rne pecial to lhe Guardian SAN FRANCISCO - Governor Jerry Brown surprised the Board of Regents meeting here yesterday by announcing that he is in favor of the University of California severing its ties with the Livermore and Los Alamos, N .M. nuclear weapons development laboratories. - " I think the time ha come to ay that the nationa l interest is not served by thi connection between the Federal Government and the University of Californi a ," Brown said. " 11 should be stated very clearly that the Uni versity should separate itself from weapons development and get on with its own affairs." Brown's comment were in response to the Buchsbaum Committee r port, which Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Dwane Sewell presented to the Regents yesterday. The report recommended that UC maintain and strengthen its ties with the weapons labs. The Buc hsbaum Committee, a task force set up the the DOE to study the relationship between the University and the labs, Duncan Burns and guest dine at the Coffee Hut. reported that recently there has been " inadequate attention being paid by the University to certain needs of the laboratories~" However, itsaid the prospects of UC severing its ties with the labs are " remote and undesirable." Alcohol Sale CalPIRG Investigates Brown, however, said there is " a rising sense of alienation in many qua rters as a result of this weapons business." He predicted that "within a reasonably short time the dissent will become the A Problem at Prices at Bookstore majority and the decision to sever the ties with the labs will be made anyway." . Faculty Olub By Eric Harpel! texts, general information Brown addM that " brea king a relationship is never without By Reed Alpert Senior Staff Writer books and a myriad of popular distress and pain, especially when it involves money." Editor Book publishers, not the fiction novels, are sold at a Brown's announcement was followed quickly by similar The proposed UCSD faculty UCSD bookstore, determine the " 20% to 40% markup on the statements by Regents Gregory Bateson and Stanley club may have trouble serving retail prices of textbooks, a price paid by the bookstore," Scheinbaum, who have always favored such a move, and Yori beer and wine if the California recent CalPIRG study shows. reported the CalPIRG survey. Wada, who has been indecisive on the matter. After the meeting, state Alcohol and Beverage " Unfavorable " student ' 'Different categories of books Brown said th number of votes on the Board for severing ties with Control Board decides that the reaction to the high cost of carry different margins of the labs is increasing. campus cannot have two books at UCSD prompted the profit," Mores confirm , " but UC President David Saxon took a stand in opposition to Brown, separate contractors with CalPIRG study , which the general book sales are non saying that the University, as " a bastion of freedom," has a alcohol licenses, David Ryer, revealed that the bookstore profit. " responsibility to continue to manage the labs. assistant chancellor, said sells their books at a markup on Although the CalPIRG " What has been the outcome after 30 years of UC managing the yesterday. the wholesale price dictated by survey indicated that prices labs? " Saxon asked. " Has the University been ill-served? I submit With the contract for the the publisher. are comparable from one store not. " student pub in Building C According to bookstore to the next, Mores said, Saxon added that " in Korea and Vietnam, we and our opponents currently being negotiated with manager Paul Mores, UCSD " occasionally you will find had the ultimate weapon at hand, and did not use it. That ultimate (PI~ase turn to page 14) proposed contractor Henry book prices are comparable to exceptions in price .. .Inflation Goldy who runs the pub at San prices at off-campus retail is one reason. If we bought a Diego St. the university is outlets. "I think we are book before the price went up, looking into either not serving competitive with the general then our price would be lower beer and wine at the faculty market. Prices will be just than someone who bought the club or the possibility of about the same wherever you book after it went up. A store subcontracting the beer and go. They (the publishing that sells only the popular titles wine concession through Goldy, companies) are as bad or worse will be able to sell those books said Ryer. than oil companies in regards for less than we do. We feel it is There is no state law against to setting prices." more important to carry a wide there being two contractors Textbooks, which are variety of books." with beer and wine licenses on ordered by campus professors, Mores also offered an campus, a spokesman- for the are marked up" approximately explanation as to why the ABC said, but he added that he 20% from the wholesale cost," bookstore price may occa didn't know if the ABC would said Mores. The twenty percent sionally be higher than the grant two licenses. markup corresponds to the suggested retail price . The sPokesman said there is recommended retail price. " Either they didn't give us any no set criteria to determine if a General books, which include discount on the retail price or (Please tum page 10) problem-oriented academic the discount was too small to '0 cover the costs of carrying the book. " According to CalPIRG, gifts and fad items are marked up a.......~"' .... The' Ballet's Coming most, as much as 100 percent. Said Mores, "Items that are a By Jill Louise Bazeley contracted May 8 to install the gamble for us to buy ('pet Dean Takes Year Off Con'rtbutlnl Edilor professional ballet company rocks' for example) will be Warren College Dean Gary Frost will be on leave during the The San Diego Ballet in a residential program here. marked up the most. 1979-80 academic year. Company will become a Under the terms of the " We have to make a large Frost will be teaching a course in Organizational resident of UCSD for six agreement, the San Diego profit on fad items. If it turns Development and Leadership in a new doctoral program at the months, beginning January Ballet will present five ballets out that we're stuck with them, University of San Diego. 1980, according to an at UCSD between January then we might as well throw Frost will also serve as a consultant to the American agreement signed by repre and June 1980. In return for them in the trash." Management Association. He will be workine with senior level sentatives of the two the use of the Mandeville The CalPIRG study indicated executives from major companies around the world on the institutions earlier this Auditorium, Mattin and that the net profit has been problems and techniques of effective management. month. school director Lynn Hodg steady since the opening of the In addition, Frost will be designing and implementing an on Keith Martin, San Diego kinson will teach drama and bookstore, with an exception in going training program for middle and upper management as Ballet artistic director, and dance courses durina the 19~ the academic year 1976-1977, Director of Corporate Management Development for the Cubic Michael Addison, UCSD 10 school year. when the net profit was over 5% Corporation of San Diego. c1rama department chAirman. (Please turn to page 13) (Pleue '11m to page 4) Julie Gordon will serve as the Acting Dean next year. Fri., May 18, 1979 The Guardian Fri., May 18, 1979 The Guardian page 3 Oeinion NEWS BRIEFS From the Associated Press editorial II. II ilflr Naming Third Is IINT'L I I NAT'L _ -----'I 1 STATE Not That Tough Palestinian Plan Okayed Nuke Study Gets Way Gasoline on the Way TEL AVIV. Israel (AP) - A Cabinet committee MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) - The presidential LOS ANGELES (AP) - While gas lines grew yesterday a pproved a 22-point plan for Palestinian commission investigating the Three Mile Island longer and tempers shorter - sparking a shooting in Each try at finding a permanent name for Third College autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. nuclear reactor accident abruptly canceled its which three persons were wounded - the Air has been erratic and ill-considered, and we believe that the A State Radio broadcast said the committee voted hearings yesterday, a nd its chairman said members Resources Board voted ye terday to make more gas latest attempt is the weakest of all. unanimously to prevent an independent state in the might resign if they couldn't hear testimony under availa ble to California motorists. Last spring, about a third of the college voted to establish occupied areas a nd uphold Israel's intention to oath or subpoena witnesses. And Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. chose the name "Third" as the permanent name of the college, reassert its claim to both area after five years. But hours after th e commis ion balked at yesterday to ignore a similar move by his Republican In a point-by- point vote during a seven-hour " roadblocks" stemming from a di pute between the lieutenant governor, Mike Curb, who had signed an but a campus committee that recommends to the Senate Judiciary Committee and th e Justice chancellor whether names of campus facilities should be meeting, the 11 ministers endorsed Begin's executive order in Brown's absence, telling oil WJ, Department, the Senate una nimously a pproved a companies to boost the lead level in gasoline and approved turned it down, arguing that the na me " Third" conception of Palestinian self-rule promised by the \ resolution giving the commission what it wanted.