In Memory of Cesar Chavez

■ OPINION/7 ■ FEATURE/8 In Memory of A Very Gay Cesar Chavez Day in D.C. Spoiling the Fun SPORTS/12 Faculty Decides to Retain Speech and Hearing Department Unique Program’s Fate Now Rests in Chancellor’s Hands By Joanna Frazier Executive Committee of the College of Stcff Writer Letters and Science, and the Graduate Council recommended against keeping the program open for a montage of rea Going against two years of advice from sons, the legislature was moved to give the several key academic committees, a di program a shot. vided Faculty Legislature voted Thursday 'Hie faculty body accepted a three-phase to keep UCSB’s long-embattled Speech plan for jumpstarting speech and hearing and Hearing Dept, open to both undergra — which currently has four full-time pro duates and advanced degree scholars. fessors —with an addition from Professor During a two-hour session in a crowded Raymond Sawyer allowing for extensive Geological Sciences room, legislators cast collaboration between key Academic Se a split vote — 22 in favor of a plan to revi nate committees and the department. talize the department and 15 opposed — Students and faculty in the department after three years of going back and forth expressed relief following the decision. over the feasibility of keeping the program “We’re pleased that students are going to afloat. continue to be accepted for enrollment. Chancellor Barbara Uehling, who re You want your friends to go where you commended in 1991 that the program be went for the sound academic back discontinued after an ad-hoc committee ground,” said Merrilyn Gow, a Ph.D can investigation of department misconduct didate in the department charges, has the final say on the legisla Speech and hearing Professor Roger In ture’s decision. UCSB is currently the only gham was also pleased with the decision, RICK BESSEY/Duly N en. university in the state with a department and was positive about the new flexibility Faculty Legislature member Eduardo Orias (left) speaks during Thursday’s legis devoted to the study of speech and hearing in the phased plan with Sawyer’s pathology and therapy. amendment lature meeting that gave new hope to the Speech and Hearing Dept, while Although the Committee on Educa Academic Senate Chair Larry lannaconne looks on. tional Policy and Academic Planning, the See REVIVAL, p.4 Student Outreach Program Builds Esteem, Promotes College I.V. Foot Patrol May Lose By Anita Miralle Spanish Language Program Stiff Writer By Edward Acevedo nis, said she was displeased with Stcff Writer________ the university for not commit Dozens of enthused high ting to fund the program for the school students from San remainder of this year and that Diego’s inner city will be A Spanish-language program the limited funding did notallow spending their weekend at for the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, in her to effectively teach student UCSB to get a taste of college tended to better officers’ ties officers. life. with the Latino community, is “Having one class a week Every year, the group 100 faltering due to dwindling finan wasn’t very helpful. We prog Black Men invites a handful of cial support. ressed slower than we should schools in Southern California The proj ect is the offshoot of a have if we had more time,” she to participate in their High recommendation made by the said. School Outreach Program. I.V. Community Enhancement Donis said if the program gets This year Morse High in San Committee last year. After admi back on its feet she will teach Diego was the only campus to nistering weekly classes to offic again. “Until they become seri make the trip up. ers for four months, the prog ous about it and make a real "The purpose of the program ram’s instructor announced her commitment, it won’t work,” is to instill within these young resignation, and left a program she said. “The only reason I high school students a sense of scraping for money in an even stayed for so long, is because I self-worth and to get the idea of greater bind. care about the community and college in their minds,” said The instructor, UCSB senior Christopher Jamison, corres law and society major Ema Do- See SPANISH, p.5 ponding secretary of 100 Black Men. “In doing that, we may encourage them to attend even this university.” At the beginning of Spring Concern Over Hatians’ Condition Quarter, representatives from the organization visited Sparks Hunger Strike on Campus schools in Los Angeles and San Diego and met with classes centiy surfaced at San Francisco of about 35 young men to foster By Nancy Bernhardi Stiff Writer________ State University, said UCSB discussion on issues such as Amnesty International member Black-on-Black crime and Steve Azcona, who hopes to AIDS, and share their college Hoping to draw attention to “bring the torch” to Santa Bar experiences with them, said the plight of Haitian refugees, bara by starting a fast here on event coordinator Gianne Ase. members of a campus Amnesty May 5. “Then we bring them up here International chapter are oiga- Students are concerned with and let them see what college nizing a week-long fast, follow the squalor and unsanitary living life is about,” Ase said. “We ing on the heels of a national conditions of the detained — the meet with them and their movement majority of whom are carrying teachers two times afterwards RACHEL WEILL/Daily Nexus Members convened Thursday the Human Immunodeficiency to see what they thought and to High School students from San Diego are visiting UCSB for to gamer support for the fast Virus. Center for Disease Con see what their image of college three days courtesy of 100 Black Men, who brought them here which originated with 25 Yale trol doctors have repeatedly is.” to witness college firsthand. Law School students who, on warned the U.S. Immigration For the next couple of days, March 3, protested the detain and Naturalization Service of approximately 50 teens will at Program office and the Multi and members of the campus ment of 242 Haitians on the U.S. impending public health disas tend class with members of 100 cultural Center. group. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, ters due to the high concentra Black Men, meet with Black fa The bulk of the weekend will Each session will focus on Cuba. tion of HIV patients housed culty and be introduced to the be taken up by a series of work The fasting, which has gained together in infested makeshift Educational Opportunity shops led by various faculty See PROGRAM, p.10 momentum among campuses across the countiy, has most re- See FAST, p.4 2 Friday, April 30,1993 Daily Nexus HEADLINERS MÊÊ^KBÊÊÊKÊÊËÊÊÊM Clinton Set to Unveil National Service Plan for Students WASHINGTON (AP) —Students who perform be made directly to schools. community service could work off $13,000 in college The $13,000 is substantially less than the average tuition, get a modest stipend and qualify for health care “The program will ‘change cost of tuition but equals the average debt among gra and day care benefits under President Clinton’s na duating students. tional service program. America forever and for the Students, age 16 or older, could serve after high According to a White House outline of the program better.’” school and before, during or after they attend a college, obtained by The Associated Press, the plan to be un university or vocational school. veiled today also includes a more controversial compo President Bill Clinton The White House outline also says participants nent to make higher education affordable: a $25 billion “without access to health insurance will receive health federal government takeover of the college loan coverage.” Federal money would pay up to 85% of program. these costs. Clinton said during the campaign that he would like Participants also could get “child care assistance, if to have the IRS collect loan money from students, but Clinton sketched the broad outlines of this program needed,” the document says. Deputy Education Secretary Madeline Kunin said March 1; he scheduled a speech Friday to students at The federal government would pay a portion of the Thursday that the Department of Education will hire the University of New Orleans to promote it now that student’s stipends. The outline says the government private contractors to collect debts for now. draft legislation is ready to send to Congress. would pay no more than 85% of the annual stipend Neither the community service program nor the loan Some 150,000 students would join the National Ser now given to Volunteers in Service to America work overhaul would be fully in place before 1997, but Clin vice Corps by 1997, when the program is fully phased ers. In Washington, that would amount to less than ton promised last month that the program eventually in. Students could work full-time for up to two years, $600 a month, although the figure would vaiy from city will “change America forever and for the better.” earning $6,500 a year in tuiton credits. Payments would to city. Gunmen Peacefully Release After 100 Days, Clinton Teachers Vote for Strike Justices, Their Assistants Receives Mixed Reviews if Pact Is Not Approved SAN JOSE, Costa WASHINGTON LOS ANGELES Rica (AP) —Gunmen (AP) —President Clin (AP) —Teachers in the released 18 Supreme ton hit the 100-day nation’s second-largest Court justices and five mark Thursday with school district went assistants Thursday, mixed reviews but a ahead Thursday with peacefully ending a common theme: uncer plans for a May 7 walk four-day armed stan tainty.

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