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Volume !1, Number 15 Published at UCSD 19th Year of Publication May 13-26, 1986 GOOD FOR Y0U GOOD FOR AMERICA Once Again Students Vote to Back Media INSIDE Fahlbusclt,A.S. Clique WolfBites Frats Scheme Defeated Big Pan Africanism Angola Theresults of thestudent elections of $1.50(the current funding level), $1.00 A.S.Election Challenged April 28 and 29 are in, with the and $0.00per student,per quarter.Of AlternativeMedia clearly emerging as the 1651votes cast on thispart of the Rock’sGreatest Social Critic one of themajor victors. The results of question,27.9206 (461) voted for the Alternative Media funding increasein fundingto the $2.00 per referendum, which was formulated studentlevel, a pluralityof 41.61r~(687) Anti-CommunismPrimer without the input of the Media and optedfor a continuationof thecurrent placedon theballot despite the iatter’s $1.50per student policy, 17.50(,:~ (289) New Indicator Non-ProfitOrg. strenuousobjections, demonstrated the wantedto reducethe Media’s funding to Student Organizations U.S. Postage overwhelming desire of UCSD’s $1.00 per student,and 12.96cb(214) UC San Diego, B-023 undergraduatesto fund a robustMedia. PAID votedfor the $0.00mark. La Jolla,CA 92093 La Jolla,Calif. The resultsare especiallyremarkable The Media scored a victoryon the Permif No. consideringthe anti-Mediabias of the otherimportant part of the referendum referendum’swording and the fact that as well. This part asked studentshow none of the Media campaignedfor the they thoughtthe AlternativeMedia’s referendumin anv way. funds should be distributed. 1469 studentsresponded to the question, Specifically,students were asked "at "Which method of funding do you which level do you supportfunding?" andgiven the four alternatives of $2.00. continuedon page 3 , continuedfrom pageI ¯ lroupanili=lmn hw I.I). onl~ 2 Furthermore,under Article 6400 ot this perindependent candidate in credit toward, Toure Callsfor AfricanUnity andlimited to. materials Ior banners, paints (Partiallist of signators. Thisstatement is’,tdl UCSD’s undergraduatesto obtain an Letters document,you are responsible lorthe fiscal Fahlbusch soundnessof thestudent government andcop~,ing, asreliel tor the funds wasted on circulatingat press time. If .vou wb, h to add accurate estimate of the Media’s Therefore,demand is hereb.,,made ot you thelirst election wa,, ",impb inadequate inits ) ourname, please clip this out; add ~our nanlc~ readership,it wouldhave commissioned Open Letter to the thatyou reimburse all recorded campaign si/eand unlair becau~.c itdid not allot the makea photocopyand deliver it totheStudent Falls an independentpoll to be conducted candidate~to spend mone~ in thefashion they CooperativeUnion at Room 209. I’(%11 support?"An outrightmajority, 54. Igq scientifically.The underlying question expenditures,asstated above, and make right Kwame Toure, member of the All Toure presentedhis argumentsin a Chancellor the monetarydamage suffered b.~ the deemedmost appropriate to theirunique StudentCenter; and deliver your original (796),indicated that the"Funds are to about why the ’survey’was wanted, AfricanRevolutionary Party, spoke at powerful,logical, and philosophically candidates.Hopefully. youwill agree that such campaigns. directb,tothe Chancellor’s Office.) distributedto each media reflecting need though,remains a mystery.It seems,on San DiegoCity Collegeon the issueof strongmanner. The issueshe touched TO:Chancellor Richard Atkinson repaymentis just, fair and required, l,egal ~A’ercthis simpl.’, it matterol economic and desireas determinedby the Media inusticc, the situalkm would bc quite ~,criou~ New Constitution? one level,to have been a politically Pan-Africanism.Pan-Africanism refers to uponmet with a goodreception, although counselhas advised us thatthis may be Board."This is the way the Media’s motivatedattempt to callinto question FROM:Concerned Organizations and enoughHowe~er. thi~ ~ear. one ot the ,dates, thoseof Africandescent whether on the Tourehimself is somewhatcontroversial. addressedinsmall claims court, in the e~ent l)carChancellor Atkinson, budgets have historically been theright of certainMedia to exist,it Membersof theUniversity Community youdisagree." Student~t’nited through l)i~crsit.x tot continentof Africaor in thediaspora- Educated in philosophy at Howard Strength(SUI)S), is largebcomprised I am writingin regardto thecurrent determined. ignoresthe essanceof the Alternative University,Toure now resides in Guinea. "Weare presenting you a formalletter of disputeover the status of theAssociated theslave trade of Africansthat created As membersof theuniversity communib studcnt~o! Black. (’hicano. andAsian Pacific Media, which is to allow diverse, He wasvery involved in the BlackPower demandfor reimbursement of all campaign blackpopulations in the New Worldand deeplycommitted to democratic ~,alues, wcted ethnicit.~,lhese students are mainly ot lower Studentsconstitution. I have recicwd Fahlbuschproposal rejected by voters sometimes unpopular, minority Movementin theUnited States during the expendituresrecorded with the Associated copiesof the correspondencebct~ccu elsewhere.Toure appealed to allBlacks to compelledto add our voices of support lot the incomebackground, asis a significantportion 26c~ (382)of the studentsvoted for opinionsto be aired. 1960’s. Although the Pan-African StudentsElections Commission, forourselves ol theirelectoral ,,upport Ire erection ol members of the Student Cooperative fightfor Africansolidarity and unity. andfor all candidates andslates, in regardto abovedemand. Furthermore, we feel the need what in content is the ’Fahlbusch Still,despite the severe limitations on AlthoughToure believes Africa to be the movement can be seen from the economicbarriers to equalpolitical t’nion,Vice-ChancellorWatson, ,lilt] theA.S. election of April8 and9, 1986, and to addour ownmoral appeal to you:In proposal,’i.e., the controversialplan the value of these two parts of the perspectiveof the continent of Africa,it accordancewith powers delegated to youby participationotthese constituencies isnothing Randy Woodard, which have been richestcontinent in theworld, she is held alsothe aborted run-off election ofApril 16, devised by outgoingCommunications referendum,one result was encouraging: weak by issuessuch as religionand is has been extendedto includea global theBoard of Regentsand by thePresident ol newm thiscountr). But it isalso unjust and directedto yourattention as well.lhc 1986.The election was invalidated dueboth to illegal.Itis additionally a ,,iolatton otArticle Commissioner Michael Fahlbusch studentsshowed a tendencyto want to politicallydivided. Africa’s problem is perspectiveof Black unity. The concept of grosselection mismanagement on the part of theUniversity, under Article 61.00, cited mostrecent of theseis a letterof April 21, above,that you set aside the new election of 20.(X)of theabove mentioned document (see withoutany inputfrom the Alternative fundthe Media even if theydid not read poororganization but Toure believes that Pan-Africanism presupposes a theA.S. Elections Commission and to grossly 1986,from Jelger Kalmijn of theS(’I’ to April29 and 30, 1986 and the run-off election under"UC Nondiscrimination Policy"). We Media which set a maximum funding them.The first part read, "Which of the truthand uncompromisingstruggle will commonalitybased on culturalroots and incompetentoversight ofthese elections onthe you,appealing from the ruling of Vice- of May7, 1986,as a grosslyunfair and musthope you will not allow a new’A.S. level of $4,000.00 for any campus followingmedia do you read?(Vote for unifyher people to riseup anddestroy her continuingpolitical circumstances, while pan of A.S.Advisor Randon Woodard and ChancellorWatson on thisquestion. as many as you wish)."The secondpart ViceChancellor of UndergraduateAffairs mismanagedfiasco. The first election. April 8 Councilto take office in thismanner, under newspaper.That plan was adopted by enemies.Pan-Africanism calls for the total acknowledging and encouraging suchconditions. By taking action now, you As an academicadvisor, I supervised in asked,"Which of the followingmedia do JosephWatson. and9. disenfranchisedover10~ of thestudent the A.S. Councilon January22nd and liberationof Africanpeople through examinationsof localdifferences. Toure body-- probablymostly lower income, may save the student body and the FallQuarter 1984 the work of Kenneth has been incorporatedinto the Media you wantto fund?(Vote for as manyas socialjustice. apears to concentrate on the Dr.Watson has publicly confirmed that the administrationuntold hours of administrative Registrar,the ElectionsCommission, and workingstudents who paid their fees toward Davenport.an undergraduatepolitical by-laws. you wish).There were a totalof 3551 commonalities and overlook local appealsprocedures, grievance hearings, and otheradministrators were aware before the theend of thepayment period. The second sciencemajor (who since gradnated but Thethird option on thedistribution oi responsesto the’which do youread’ part differencesof the Black people.One pollsopened on April8 thata substantialelection,April 29 and 30, effectivelythepossibility oflitigation. Moreimportantly, whois currentlyemployed as oneof tn~ but thatnumber increased considerably wondersif the Black strugglecan be itis the right thing for you to do. Mediafunds, which called for a $2,500 Toure included comments about numberof registeredstudents were not disenfranchisedlowerincome candidates. By to 4493 on the ’whichdo you want to allowingadditional