Brown Cuts Hit 3rd, 4th Plans Both Colleges' Plans I neluded Hospital Deficits Haunt UC; In Capital Funding Cut by John H. Taylor UC San Diego's Third and Founh College plans may su~fer if Governor Brown's initial 1975-76 budget for t~e Untverslty ?f VCl Med School Threatened Califurnia is accepted Wlchanged by the state leg! lature later chiS by J~mH G. Soto schools. Post also noted that the reimbursement policy. Dymally yefi~al drawings for Third's Academic Unit .II, and. pre1i~in:u: Y Faced with high def icits, the proposed agreement between the also said that California cannot planning for the bui1~ng of Founh, budgeted 10 P~es!dent Hitch possibility of the closure of the University and Orange County afford to close medical schools request at a total of $300,000 , were among the prOjects postl?o~ed Irvine College of Medicine, and was more binding and would run when so many communities are in the capital outlay fund that Brown cut from $1 70 to 14 .6 mtlhon. generally inequitable policies for at least 40 years. The in need 'ilf doctors. between UC and counties (in­ agreement at the University's Officials for the University cluding San Diego) on reim- biggest drain, Sacramento, could have Pointed out that California only graduates 750 doctors a year when it needs 1.750. However, Governor Brown pointed out that it might b a wise policy to allow oth r states to ubsidize alifornia by agreeing to educate doctors in excess of their needs Brown also ca lled for the University to exe rcise "mor prudent judgement in collecting funds for payment". Brown hinted that he may proPOse a general reform of the Medi-Cal system . Regent Norton Simon said he had pointed out the inadvisibility of getting in­ volved in Orange County with a medica l school and that many of UC President Hitch and Governor Brown , who found themselves the problems he emphasized two publically at odds for the first time Fn'day over the 1975- 76 UC years ago have come back to budget. Regent chairman WIlliam French Smith is at n"ght. Lt. Governor Mervyn Dymally haunt the University. Confusing the whole matter of bur ements. the University of b terminated as Post did 'Edifice Complex' California will defend its health recommend by 1978. transferring the medical school at However, Brown. appearing Friday at his -first Regents meeting as CI nces program before the loint C~n't Close Schools Irvine to Davis was the revelation governor and President of the board. said he is " willing to Sit down" Legislative Committee on Health UC President Charles Hitch and that the Sacramento Medical with the UC administration to work over the budget. His remarks. In Sciences Education this week in Lt . Governor and Regent Mervyn Center would have to undergo an response to a statement by Hitch listing the University's complaints acram nto. Dymally expressed opposition extensive renovation program with the budget, had the tone of forcing UC to examine its programs to The University's medical and concern to the proposed due to inadaquate facilities and see if they are economically sound. Brown says the University has an schools. not including the new closure of the Irvine program . At seismic deficiencies. The multi­ "edifice complex - that is, that the more buildings you have, the better one at Irvine. have incurred a the regents meeting on Thursday, million dollar renovation of the education you are providing." He feels the University should examine defecit of $45 million, due Dymally said the University Sacramento Medical Center now its building programs, especially those related to increases In primarily to a large number of should not pick up thecounties throws considerable doubt as to enrollment. unpaid bills, generally regarded costs and urged the legislature to ability of the University to move He added that he thought state bonds should be used for capital as uncollectable because of an correct th,e inequities of the Continued 'on P~ge 7 agreement between the countie ~ ________________________-, improvements in the future, to "make the University answerable to th arid the University. people, to provide better planning b cause you avoid the leglslatlv This agreement has led to the process, and to spread the burden over the peopl who will benetlt University aring for indigent UC Regents Appear to from the building." patient . formerly the concern of Chancellor McElroy. reached Saturday at University Hou e. said he the counties. Originally. the was confident that Brown had held back money that he eventually concept was thought to be sound 'Favor Student Member might propose for the University in certain areas, including Third and beca use it allowed the medica l Fourth. " I think he wants to see how the economy looks In Mayor June choo ls to use county hospitals before deciding what he's going to do with the money." A repre n­ for clinical purposes . However. tative from UCSD will meet with the governor and his staff before the according to a report by budget is finalized, the Chancellor said, but it is not known who the legislative analyst A. Alan Post. representative will be . " I'm a member of the (UC) Budget Task Force. this policy has worked against the Continued on Page 7 University because counties reimburse UC only at the current Medi-Ca l rate: a rate far below CALPIRG Plans Mayor, the actual costs of providing medical service to the counties' Indigents . City Council Profiles Most at Sac Med Th largest number of un­ • An extensive eva luation of the press, interest group advocates. collectab l e bills written off San Diego City Cou ncilpersons academicians, commun ity completely by the University was and Mayor was launched this leaders and the officeholders repo rted at the Sacramento week by the California Public themselves. Medical Center of the UC Davis Interest Research Group Medical School. Over $3 million (CALP IRG ). CALPIRG researchers. has been written off there; in San headed by project co-ordinator The project will attempt to Diego. the figure is $520,000. UC Student body Presidents' Council head Larry Mtles with Judy Aboud, will prepare and tocus constituent attention on According to Chancellor M cE lroy. Regent WiUiam M. Roth. publi sh reports of their findings . local officeholder, according to there is st ill $7 million in out­ Aboud. "Tho e officials eXisting Although refusing to submit to iI sense vote, the Board of Regents I nvestigators will profile the on the local level are most standing debts to University Friday indiuted thilt ~ miljority of its membership would probilbly political backgrounds, voting Hospital. favor the ilddition of a student Regent. records, campaign fund ources. u ceptible to citizen re pon e." The Post report recommended The indiution came after Governor Brown Silid he thought the and political philo ophi s of the he aid. "With th capacit for that the University not approve a Regents should approve or disilpprove by vote the principle of a officeholder . real Citizen acce • local governm ntal in titution provide ~ Imi lar plan with Orange County student Regent, a possibility opened up by the November paSSilge for it Irvine Medical School and of Proposition 4 and one that Brown supported. an op n forum for airing thal the entire Hea lth Science problem • and can arrang If· Program at Irvine be scrapp d, Groundwork regulating and decentralized dnd its tudents and faculty be Regent DeWitt Higgs, chairman of the special committee on solutIOns' ' for imprOVing the moved to the Davis complex. Post Reorganization, opposed the vote, because he felt his committee quality of lif for the om· urged the closure of th Irvin "has to lay the groundwork for the procedure" for selecting the munity " fa cilities b cause the University student, and that the principle could not be separated from the has little apital outlay invested procedure. will be publi hed Continued on Page 4 In Irvine compared to other 10 mid ummer Volume 24, Number 7 UC anDtego Monda , January 20, 1975 L.ff.rs by PauleHe C. Francis r commended to the Third College Council for Student representatives are being sent from the approval; Alive and Well Third College Council to the Muir, Revelle and 2. The name should repr sent a concept which Arabian Oil Fourth College counci ls. Otis Watson, one of the represents Third College's committment to social emesaries of the Third College Cou. cil, told the It was remarkably clear, so issues and the education of minority students; Triton Times, " This is the first time any college has clear that I could see through the 3. The name of an individual should be chosen sent student representatives to another council." based upon his or her's accomplishm nts, The Editor's January 17th musings are okay, but as such are worth no hedges outside the window the more than the facts they reflect. Permit me to report that the Arabian topS of the San Gabriels, a sight considered relatively rare i", oil that we burn and waste, as Editor Smith observes) is 2.5% to 4% of A feature devoted exclusively our oil con~umption, depending on whose figures you prefer. Pasadena, and that one feels to announcements and events Therefore, priCes and our criminal inflation must be otherwise at­ lucky to experience. Two girls The Third Reporter concerning Third College. tributed. rode by outside, speaking to each other, and I could for a second H. C. STEINMETZ hear them so clearly that I supposed that the window was The objectives of the exchange are toprovide 4.