In the Classroo by CHERYL Carlwright
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JNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO . THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1986 VOLUME 57, #8 eelng• in the classroo By CHERYL CARlWRIGHT. 5tlJff Writer conservative organization, attacked as a "Big Brother" insult colleges to "c hallenge" professors' Accuracy in Academia to students' intelligence to liberal orientation. Accuracy in A (AlA); purponing ro discern propaganda from fact, an Academia's monthly newspaper. "expose leftist-bia~d teaching" unconstitutional police-state Campus Rtport. accuses many in college classrooms, has evoked infringement of professors' professors of "deceptive outrage from liberal and academic freedom . and an labelling," in course deSCriptions ronservative organlzation~ ahke , unnecessary promotion of right- of citing "inaccurate" or and from the academic wing ideology. "inappropriate" facts and of community. The ideas and (AlA), founded in August 1985 , methods of the group have been encourages students in over 150 Please tum to page 7 Tuesd4y's Spact • Bio experiment stolen • Men's volleyball show they can PAGE 2 Shuttle tmgtdy destroys compete with the best UCSD tmcJring satdJite PAGE 12 • SwimmiDl in Ohio and may dtlay futurr PAGE 12 projtcts. • A Halley's flashback PAGE 3 PAGE 10 • Bloom County Thursday, january 30, 1986 3 ~2~T:hu:rs:day~, ~ja:nu:ary~:JO~,1~98:6~ ______~ __________~~~~V~D~ua ~ NEWS NEWS light-collecting power of the 2.4- meter Space Telescope. At 12 tons, the telescope will be the heaviest payload ever ca rried by Shutde tragedy may a space shuttle. The telescope is expected to expand the volume of space restrict DC projects observable by astronomers by 50 times, with 10 times better . r(,solution. This should increase facilities are desired? (Weight Alternative housing humanity's view into the past of room? Gardens? Patios?) Food on campus system used? [s a group By SEAN WAGSTAFF. Wirt Editor the universe by about 5 billion The Associated Students' R.E. MARGARET years, Baity said. Committee for Alternative and effort/co-op style livmg launch schedule and related preferred? The surveys are BURB[DGE appeared Because of aonospheric effect Cooperative Housing (CACH) projects to be delayed by at least E. Margaret Burbidge, PhD, discusses possible setbacks to UC research. available in the Asso iated D shaken at a press a year. Please rum to page 11 has been working on researching Students offices m the tudem conference Tuesday afternoon as the issue of alternanve housing NASA received no telemetry Center. she and coUeague Bill Baity on campus Currently, they are indication there was any discussed the future of problem aboard the Challenger conducting a survey to determine UCSD tumor research University of California space what students want in this type (NASA's 25th shuttle launce), A team of researchers at the projects, follOWing the thus the cause of the explosion AS press pass questioned of housmg arrangement. The UCSD School of Medicme has catastrophic explOSion of the results of the survey will be used may never be positively developed a technique for space shuttle Challenger earlier idenrified, Baity said. Apparently for several purposes: primarily, to growing human tumors in the that morning. By MATI CRONIN, Opinions Editor determine how much students it was the main liquid laboratory that take on the same Burbidge, urtlversity professor [LL L1FSCHIZ, AS vice Another member of the press exclude a real member o( the would be willing to pay for hydrogen/ oxygen fuel tank that three-dimensional fonn and and director of the UCSD Center exploded. "You couldn't ask for a preSident of financial affairs, said her credentials were not media which already had been alternative housmg; econdly, It genetiC make-up of cancer for Astrophysics and Space more explosive mixture," he said, obtained a pass to Bishop checked . She simply stated the limited as to the number of will be used to determine how growing inSide a patient. SCience (CASS), said there were JDesmond Tutu's name of the newspaper she many students would be "They're the very worst kind of passes they co uld obtain. Culturing tumors in the lab so A plastinaccJ brain was one of the missing organs from BSB. "some teaTS (and) just general speech in the UCSD s0n last represented and received her Lifschiz said, "I don't know, I interested in living in this materials to be involved in an that they resemble malignacies shock" following news of the in accident." Thursday. pass. never thought of it that way." housing, Thirdly, the results will inside the body will allow flight explosion of the shutde, Responding to questions as to Lifschiz claimed she was be used to assist the committee "There are millions of pieces There was no time to researchers to study human which killed aU seven people on in the shuttle," Baity said. "All it why she was sitting in the front asked by the La Jolla. Forum to m preparing and writing a investigate the validity of the tumor growth. board. Burbidge Iamenred "the takes is for something to go row of the press section during credentials at the event, attend the evenr as part of their comprehensive and thorough This advance was made in the Missing parts from med school loss of lives of those very. brave wrong with a few of them ... the address, Lifschiz said, "I Lowenberg said. "There were so staff. Eric Rupley, one of the ne"" proposal to be presented to the laboratory of Robert M. Hoffman, astronauts," one of whom, people had been mentioning the asked the Public Infonnation many people coming (to Tutu's editors of the Forum, was Sitting administration at the end of the Ph.D. , a member of the UCSD to Sharon Christa McAuliffe, was possibility of catastrophe (for Office whether or not I could go speech) from aU over the area. [f next to Lifschiz. When Rupley year. Cancer Center. Hoffman and his By ELLEN CAPRIO be the fiTSt civilian in space. some time). But 1 would go on as a member of the media, and someone coud provide the was asked if this was true, he Presently, two potential sites associates repon the successful HUMAN brain, spinal costing almost S1,500 and) "You have a specimen iliat you Baity said ilie explOSion was a the next shuttle. 1 would jump at there was no problem. I have a necessary identification. then said, "I don't know." have been located for the cord, skull and pelvis months labor, Collins said. can carry around, that can double loss for CASS, whose growth in culture of 75 percent the chance," he said. lot of pull, you know." (s)he got in," said Lowenberg. Rupley was then asked a purpose of alternative housing. of all human tumors tested. Awere stolen from the "My hope is that somebody at handle without the worry of ilie Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) FOS is a device designed to second time if'he had invited The area north of the Institute of Paul Lowenberg, who was in Olher attempts have been display case on the first floor of the end of the semester will smeU, the initation to the e~s or was scheduled to be Iaunced record the radiation spectrum of Questioned as to why she did the AS vice president to the Americas, and the charge of ticket sales for the made to grow tumors in culture, the ~ic Science Building (85B) return it because we were reaDy the skin. You don't have the with the Hubble Space Telescope faint celestial objects which are event at P[O. was unfamiliar with not obtain a ticket in her full represent tiis newspaper. ·Well, I soccer/ playing field on the but the new technique has a the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 21 , counting on this specimen for specimen drying out ... and as in an October shuttle mission. some of the oldest things in the capaCity as a member of the AS don't know, [ don't know what to southwest side of Torrey Pines the AS officer's name. "Any much higher success rate than a UC50 Museum official said. basic neurology this year and it's far as we know, it ·williast The Space Telescope also universe, according to Burbidge. Council, Lifschiz said, "[ thought say; I'll say 'possibly.' That's right, Road, across from Revelle member of the press had to previously reponed. The specimen, to be used in a gone," he said. forever: he added. depends on the data handling of It is the most sophisticated display proper identification to that if I gave up my ticket via the I will say 'possibly,"' he said. College. ·We obtained tumor neurology class next quaner, was Planstination, developed in' Collins, a native of La Jolla, two TDRS (Tracking and Data spectrograph of aU time, she AS, and we were given 20, you The La Jolla Forum is the Also, representatives from the get a media badge (at the door)," specimens from almost 200 lifted from the case between Heidelberg, Germany in 1979, is started as a truck driver at UCD Relay Satellites) satellites, one of said. Roughly the size of a phone he said. Susan Pollick, PIO know, that someone else would newest member of UC50's committee will be doing more 16 ~ars ago. When ilie medical cancer patients in San Oiego, Sunday, Jan. 19 and 8 am an inexpensive means of which was aboard the booth, the $)0 miUion-plus FOS, representative in charge of press go in my place: alternative' media and has not yet research in the areas of preserving specimens (human school was looking for "someone mosdy from Sharp Hospitals and Tuesday, Jan. 21 , Bill Collins, Challenger.