VOLUME 56, #5 A show of solidarity By SEAN Wt\GSTAFF TUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS In their meeting on September of a nature unheard of since 17, the Regents also approved a Sthe early 1970s swept UCSD South Africa-free retirement and the rest of the country last portfolio for faculty and staff. year, calling for an end to the The African National Congress apartheid policies of South Africa. asked that people obselVe a Those policies have been blamed moment of silence in solidarity on widespread rioting and violence with South African political there. prisoners on Friday. Student groups University of California students, have chosen that day to call for last spring, called for full university general strikes in the nation's divestment from companies doing universities. business in that country. But the Last night, both the Associated UC Regents, in June, decided that Students and the Graduate Student divestment was not necessarily Association at UCSD voted to appropriate, and created the suppon a campus-wide, all-day University Advisory Committee on strike. Investor Responsibility (UACIR) instead. Plea~ turn to page 7 • Opinions on apartheid and Also: student protests After 20 years of sovice, SID PAGE 4 • Surfin' Safari Director Dr. William PAGE 13 ~----' Nierenberg steps down. • The job market; Alumni tdI it like it is • Bloom County PAGE 3 PAGE 8 PAGE 2 2 ,Thursday, October 10, 1985 Thursday, October 10, 1985 3 NEWS NEWS Gardner requests UREPean vacations: exotic research in wild locations By GAYLE HEIRSHBERG millions for UCSD Taking one of these HE RAIN POURED DOWN been offered through UREP. nightfall (about 7 pm) The student and herself, who were The 1986-87 Unive rsity of Engineering BUI[dlng Unit [, a steadily on the darkening UREP links inexperienced monkees don't move at night so interested in primates and expeditions is a lot more California operallons budget 128,700 square-foot structure, T forest. The clouds that members of the public with UC the researchers we re safe 10 leave wanted 10 know more about interesting then a regular presented by President David will house instruction a"d co uld be seen through the researe hers who are in need of unattended at that time , RubiO them. vacanon trip," said RubIO , who Gardner and approved by the research facilities for the rapidly treetops loomed menacingly field teams and research funding. said. An average expedition from has been on rwo more UC Regents Committees on growing programs in engineering overhead. Nothing could be Rubio's group studied the "[n the beginning I thou~ht I UREP lasts about two weeks, expeditions since the one to finance , and bUildings and sc iences. During the pa t few heard but the downpour. Activity Interaction behaVIOur of three would be frightened . I thought though RubiO's was a three-week Kenya and plans to take another grounds eptcmber 27 contains years, undergraduate enrollment was minimal in the forest as the types of primates In relation 10 that big animals would come and study. The COSt to go on one of In the near future . "It's definitely funding for a number of projects at UCSD In englneenng has inhabitantS submitted to the ea h other and In reiallon to get me [ also thought that [ was these mps vanes from $500 to worthwhile ." ,it UCSD , J UC<;D spokcsperson srown 25 percent while graduate forces of nature. troops of primates of the same going to get lost. Even though I $1 ,600 (plus airfare) The money Those who are Interested In Big mistake said. enrollment has hmbed 20 type but living in Uganda (which know no one had ever gotten is uscd for food , lodging and a obtaining a free catalogue with Gardner's budget proposes percent A few, however, were borders thc Kakamega forest lost, all the paths looked alike share of the research proJCCt more information about the persistent enough 10 pursue their Ending a co urt $4.5 billion for the UC system, The Graduate -chool of where the researchers stayed). and I was ~o sure I would get itself; the money is tax program and future expeditions trek through the forest despite should wme UREP, University 01 ordeal lasting since his including a request for $194 .1 [ntcrnanonal Relations and "After that experience, I found lost that [ brought a nare with deductible million in new state funds, The Pacific Studies would be ,he first the disagreeable weather One me , In case." According to imon . UREP has Cahforn la, Desk K-Il , Berkeley, woman trudged on, through the that this was the only way 10 go," re-election to office last full Board of RegentS will suc h msmullon In the country [0 "But , on the Fourth of July, grown from three projects in CA 94720. mud . Keeping pace with the said Rubio, "It's very di fferent Scholarships that cover about year, San Diego Mayor conS ider [he request at their next combine profeSSional training from a vacation. The people we since we had no way to celebrate [977 10 26 projects that were troop of monkees overhead; It offered thiS summer Though 30 percent of the cost are meeting in San Francisco, Oct. With knowledge of the languages met on the trip saw us in a [ got my flare out to set off. SlOpping when they did, wditing, more expeditions go OUt dUring available to students and Rodger Hedgecock was 17-18. [terns approved by the and culture of the Pacific Basin , different light. The people there didn't even work ," she said. and then moving on when they According to Rebecca Simon, the summer, a few will be offered professors who meet certain convicted yesterday oj Regents Will be submitted to the an area of Increasing importance treated us differently because we chose 10 do so. In eligibility requirementS. ~ state for consideration, he said. to California and the United were there working rather than public information coordinator the fall and winter felony conspiracy and for UREP, "The program gives Among the key UCSD requests States, the spokesperson said. LUCinda Rubio , an assistant simply taking a tour and twelve cou nts oj Included In the budget is $8.9 The president's budget also admil1lstrator in the U SD observing. The people are people a chance to partici pate in Kicking Back million for equipment to asks for $680,000 for preliminary hterature department was in a meaningful scienllfic work and interested In what you are doing. SIO director to retire perjury. Hedgecock will complete outfitting for planning of a 136,000 square­ group of six that made up the to see things they might not Buying books is like getting a phone installed - it's tOO [ think you get 10 know the be Jorced to leave office Engineering Building Unit [, and foot addition 10 the Central field team of a research people and the country much otherwise see." Search on for a replacement much to pay, but you can't lIVe WIthout It .so you pay. $480,000 for preliminary Library. The proposed project expedition headed by a better." According 10 RubiO , her trip By DIANE RIGDON But a year ago, Ken Appel had paid enough of the upon sentencing. planning and working drawings will proVide cxpansion space for University of California was part of a cumulative stud), of can work past the mandatory bookstore's high prices, and decided to do something about It. Rubio's group stayed In a UCKED BETWEEN the for the proposed Graduate Central Library users; taff and researcher, who, in this case, house of the forestry department. these primates, one that had 10 be magnificent PaCific Ocean retiremem. age for administrators. He called up a pubhsher to tty to get books wholesale. specialized In the study of continuany updated. It was also It was a wooden structure that Tand the craggy La Jolla A university selection committee "T he publisher told me the only way I could get books for l'\ appoints development primates. Rubio, who had never to be part of the UC researcher's hopes to name a new directOr by less was to become a bookstore. So I became a bookstore ." The offered no electricity and no hot chffs is the world-renowned director. done anythi ng like this before, water. The y slept on wooden doclOral dissertation. Scripps Institution of the end of 1985. bookstore IS call1ed KB (kickback) Books was sponsored by the University Dale Parker has been beds with their sleeping bags on Volunteers for these group Oceanography, established In Sixty apphcants have sent It wasn't an easy beginning, but now It' KB's second year at Research Expeditions Program appointed director of tOp . [903. SIO's director for the past their resumes to the selection UCSD , ancl most of their stock was sold in the first week, Appel (U REP) expeditions have ranged from 17 development for the Institute of "It wasn 't a hardship because to 75 in age and have included 20 years , William ierenberg, committee, Most are from the said. KB also opened another store at SDSU thiS fall which was the Amencas, according to Dr. fields of marine biology, "met with a lOt of enthUSiasm ." The tcam helped the all you wanted at the end of a individuals from a variety of will retire June 30, 1986. Joseph Grunwald, preSident of researcher gather information day was any place to rest your occupations. Simon said. UC regulanons require chemistry and geology. Several of After getting a bUSiness license and a costly resale permit, the institute founded to promOte the ca ndidates are European and Appel started work In a fnend's garage They took orders b), on a pallicular group of primates body.