Confidentiality Explored by UC Committee

Talking Back to Television: Confidentiality Public Access on Cable TV Explored by Any person in the United States can now show their videotapes or films on television on a newly-created public access cable channel. UC Comm ittee , San Diego's public access station is Mission Cable channel 24, run hy thc Community Video Center. A UC committee has urged that Channel 24's manager, St ve Crouch, and production man~ger, the University continue to use An ne Prutzman, were both communications majors at UC San DlCgo. confidential evaluations in its In addition several UCSD interns are conducting independent studics review process, but recommended for credit ~t the station. Channel 24 is located on Federal Blvd. in that a few changes alJowing in southeast San Diego. dividuals to learn the substance of A recent Federal Communications Commission ruling states that their personal records be made. very community located within a major television market is required The Special Committee on to have at least one cable TV channel made available free to the Personnel R cords submitted that public. The channel must also make available equipment and a ~ tudio report to President Saxon on on a first-come, first-served basis, to any individual or group 10 the Monday. commt:nily. (Another channel goes towards the municipality and a In October, Saxon appointed the third to educators). eight-member committee to The limitations placed upon any production are few: no blatent review UC policies regarding (' ommercial advertising; no political candidates running for office; no employee personnel files. lotterics; and no obscenity or offensive material. Other than that, Much of the impetus for the every tape or film that follows the rules can be put on a public access committee came from Gov , channel. Brown's veto of a bill which would To Promote Access have required full disclosure of the The Community Video Center (CVC ) is a non-profit, tax-exempt. contents of his personnel file to a community group whose goal is to promote access. The evc has public employee. UC officials contracted with Mission Cable to manage the public access channel urged the veto of the bill because of for them. Mission Cable has provided CVC with their own equipment, the alleged serious adverse impact space and office. There are four paid staff whose salaries are it would have in the peer review generated by CVC activities, grants and donations. process in faculty evaluation. Public access TV is not to be confused with local origination TV, UC agreed to work with Brown whic h is represented by cable Channel 2 on Mission Cable, and UHF - and the legislature to develop a Channel 15 at State College in San Diego. They are non-commercial measure incorporating the intent stations run like regular commercial TV stations, with a live of the original bill while still origination studio, film chain, and distribution center. protecting their own interests. In order to maintain the goal of public access, evc is trying to gain The committee's report states Continued on Page 6 that a degree of confidentiality is needed to obtain accurate evaluations of the UC faculty. " Experts in an academic field, 7000 People to Sample Peanut Butter This Week able to provide useful appraisals of . the quality of work of a UC faculty by James G. Soto join Russo in manning three booths Store Brands price does not have to include member, are, we believe, much City Editor around UCSD today through advertising. " less likely to provide these in Friday. From 10 :30 to 2:30 there One of the goals of the ex dispensible critical evaluation if Over 7000 people will sample will be booths in both the Revelle periment is to see how store Welcome News their letters of evaluation are not peanut butter at UC San Diego this and Muir Plaza, and another in brands, which are usually cheaper, kept confidential," the report said. week. front of the bookstore. In the stand in relation to major brands. The survey will be welcome news That is the hope of Jay Russo, an evening volunteers will staff Two brands, Nu Made and Real Chilling Effect assistant professor of Psychology, fo r just about everyone except the stations at the cafeterias. Roast, are store brands. manufacturers of inferior peanut The report continued, "If it were who is conducting the largest Volunteers from the campus The other brands to be tested psychological experiment in the butter, Russo asserted. the policy to make all letters of community will be sought at the are: fresh ground peanuts with no evaluation of an individual history of UCSD. testing stations to sample two additives, Jif, Laura Scudders, Russo, conducting a survey for Russo, who has a PhD in available to that individual, this different brands of peanut butter Peter Pan and Skippy. mathematical psychology and has policy would have a chilling effect his personal research, hopes to and then asked to judge which According to Russo, 7000 taste prove that consumers are not been marketing research con upon persons from whom letters of tastes more like fresh roasted tests required the purchase of sultant to Proctor and Gamble as evaluation are solicited." stupid or ignorant about perceiving peanuts. Russo said that whether approximately $150 wOrth of quality in products. well as publishing a number of The report recommends that or not a brand tastes like fresh peanut butter. articles consumer decision employees be given the op Russo said that peanut butter is a roasted peanuts is the major " Consumer g roups will be making, says that consumers look portunity to learn the substance, good product to test his theory. " It determiner of its quality according pleased that reliable quality in at three product attributes in but not the source of the con has one central attribute: how to Consumer Reports Ma gazine. formation will be available. good does it taste?" making their purchasing decision : fidential evaluations. He hopes to obtain a rating of the Retailers will be pleased because price, size and overall quality. The committee's report stated, Approximately 50 ' volunteer seven brands of peanut butter their own store brands might offer experimenters-many of them "Any employee shall have the based on the preferences of the good quality at a low price. They " If you want to help shoppers opportunity to inspect all non psychology undergraduates-wiIJ volunteers. can do this of course because their make better decisions, the biggest confidential documents in any of improvement can be made in the personnel files of that em Sell Concerned ove r Power of Agency quality, because size and price are ployee, and upon written request, numerical, and must be clearly to receive from an appropriate posted by law. Consumers have authority an oral summary of the FBI Termed'Federal Bureau of Intimidation' reasonable price and size in sub ·tance. in th aggregate of the formation available. Quality, on confidenttal document in the file . by Brian Davis S II , who said that her teaching position in AUllt in, Staff Writer . the other hand, is not numerical, " However the summar shall Texas was terminated last year as a result of FBI Continued on Page 6 Characterizing the FBI as the " Federal Bureau of PI' ssure, spoke to a small gathering of sympathizers ontinued on Pa~ Intimidation," Socialist Worker's Party speaker Thur s da~1 e\'cning in the north conference room of the Eve lyn Sell voiced her concern over the power of the student center. Following her was Greg Akili of the domestic intelligence community in the United US organization. UCSC Chancellor Quits tates. Sell said that he was but one of a large number of kachel'S harassed for involvement in the anti-war movement in the 60s. She claimed tha t sh has b en Over Faculty.Disputes under continuous surveillance since the founding of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Mark N. Chri tens n, who has been under the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP ) in ]948. attack from some members of that campu:;' faculty a a r ult of his Sells said after sh accepted a position in Austin in efforts to reorganize departm nts and coUeg s, ha announced his 1969, numerous inquiri s w re mad into her resignation. background by th loca l chool board, a a result of UC Provost Angus Taylor will take over the chanc 1I0r duti tem an active anti-war stand at Ute chooJ. porarily when Christens n's resignation be me effectiv Jan. 31. The FBI, she says, secretly turne41 over to the The announcem nt was made after Friday' me ting of th Board of school board a list of I ft wing activitie h had Regents In San Francisco. partiCipated in; and she lost her job early in 1970. She Christensen, 45, who has been chancellor at U sin la t prillg, stressed that none of the activities violated the law. wrote in a letter, "The Santa Cruz campus has been in turmoil ov r my Sell was unaware of the FBI involv m nt until a leadership since late last fall. " number of that agency's documents were mad He added, "There are now too many fin peopl being groWid up in public. Including the correspondence between th conflict that centers upon my person. I no longer bell ve that it is in the FBI and school official in Austin. She i now in th best Interest of the campus for me to continue to rve as chancellor." process of addi"l( her name to the joint suit by v ral Evelyn Sen A fonner vice-chancellor at U Berkel y and a professor of g ology SWP members.

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