UCSuDteco Wedaesday, Marcb 9, 1977 -Voting Begins Today on Official Government Ballot Includes Choice of 3 Government Models, 37 Questions for Consideration by Mark Stadler structure and autonomy, and Polls Located Managing EcIltor regental authority; student Polling places, open from 10:00 UCSD students vote today academic freedom; admissions am to 2:00 pm, are located on through Friday on a two-part policies; women's rights; Revelle and Third College plazas, referendum, with the first section student/community services; and the Muir quad, the Bookstore and to detennine the official student university autonomy and social in the area of the Student Center ~ government and the second section responsibility . and Main Gym steps, according to .. 2 consisting of 37 questions for voter­ the Elections Board. The booths ~ consideration. will be attended by members of the The vote on the questions is non­ ~ EAB social organization. binding on UC decisions-makers. Laura Zweckbronner. Priscilla Walker and Connie Jeung·Mills sang to a Students are faced with the The campaigns promoting the campus audience of approximately 125, to open the activities on Inter· choice of three contending models three models have been relatively national Women 's Day, yesterday . in the government vote: The A 25 percent figure has been set, quiet, concentrating mainly on get­ Student Cooperative Union, the. by the Elections Board and ap­ out-the-vote drives. The largest of current unofficial campus proved by Chancellor McElroy, as these drives is sponsored by the governing body; the new minimum . turnout to make Third College Council and has been Referend urn Format Fau lted Associated Students (ASUCSD ), a referendwn results officially valid. active for at least one week. revision of the elected body which If 25 percent-approximately 2000 governed UCSD until 1972; and the undergraduates-do not vote, the The three partisan campaigns By ACLU,Graduate Students Cabinet-Assembly, which com­ Chancellor will have responsibility have also relied heavily on making bines features of its two com­ to interpret the results, acting on The constitutionality, legitimacy, and feasibility of this week's personal contact with students in petitors, with an elected Cabinet recommendations from the seven­ student government referendum is being assailed by a number of donn meetings and about campus. and an open student Assembly. member Elections Board. groups. Publicity has been raised mostly . Within the past week complaints have been leveled at the Elections through posters and leaflets. The Board by such diverse groups as the American Civil Liberties Union campaigns have each been funded (ACLU), the Graduate students Council (GSC), and Epsilon Alpha Seven SectiODS A minimum vote has also been $50 by the Coop to help cover ex­ Beta (EAB). students also are being asked to set for the winning government penses. San Diego's ACLU President John stephens noted his concern over consider a series of 37 questions on model. If no model receives 50 the referendmn, saying, "I'm concerned that seriOllS questions at various current issues pertinent percent of the vote, the board will The referendum has also been possible violations of constitutional due process and equal protection both to UCSD and the University of refer to the second section of Part publicized through a series of provisions have been raised in relation to the referendwn." California. The questions are A, which asks voters to, in effect, debates, open fonuns and issues­ The referenduin was attacked in a different vein by the GSC, which divided into seven sections: rank the three proposals in order of and-answer nights sponsored by stated in a letter to the Chancellor, that "the Elections Board has referenda; student governmental preference. the individual colleges. exceeded its authority, and made a farce out of the upcoming student referendum, by a last minute decision to have graduate students vote on the 'opinion' questions. "Contlnued on Pa e 3 . Feasibility of Paramedic Program Debated in City by Joel C. Don another ballot or whether the council should Associate News Editor not consider paramedic service at· alL Blair Within the coming months, the San said. Diego City Council will decide whether a , Blair stated that . one of the proposals, comprehensive citywide paramedic service sponsored by Hartson's Ambulance Service, can be initiated. a private finn, could lead to difficulties if An effort to establish such a service for the city managers determined that they the city had previously failed when the city, should allow bids for paramedic service in the last electlOn, voted against the from all private companies. paramedic program attached to Proposition The other proposal, initiated by San Diego K, a property tax initiative. Citizens Committee for Paramedics, calls This is the second arUcle concluding a for a city-run program using the existing facilities of the city fire department. The two-part series on paramedic service in San committee believes that the proposal from San Dieguito paramedics Dave Weston [left] and Mike Warner finish up'some paperwork after a Diego. the private ambulance service cannot run Tuesday morning. The paramedic service has been stationed at the Solana Beach Fire Dept. In recent months, however" the Public "adequately" meet the needs ofthe city. for about two years. Services and Safety Conunittee of the Bernard Winter, Vice-chairman of the Winter noted that the user fees could planned maximum response time of five council has heard the argwnents of various committee, insists that Hartson's eventually pay for a majority of the cost of minutes, anywhere in the city, 21 paramedic proposals for paramedic service in the city. Ambulance is asking for "public money to the service, possibly leaving little charge to units would be needed. The committee has asked the City subsidize private enterprise, for a service taxpayers. He insists, however, that "the Spradley noted his disagreement with Manager's Office to study the proposals in that we (the citizen's conunittee) feel they important thing is not only the question of these figures, saying that " we are not order to bring the issue before the full city cannot deliver adequately." Winter further money, but the saving of lives." convinced that 21 units is the appropriate council. stated that "the proposal calls for 20 mobile Winter argued that Hartson's proposal, number." However, he said that lIartson's According to Ray Blair, Deputy City intensive care units, with two paramedics which has a lower initial starting cost, will Ambulance would leave the decision of the Manager, two major proposals are under aboard at .all times." He also noted that rely on user fees as the main source of the type of service up to the city. consideration by the city. Either proposal "they would respond to any emergency or funding. Training by U C life-threatening situation in under five would, in effect, eUminate the city's cun'ent Hartson's Ambulance may not provide If a proposal is ccepted by the city, the minutes." police ambulance service replacing it with complete citywide coverage, favoring areas paramedics will be trained by the paramedic service. The need to get to the victim quickly was of economic affluence, Winter added. University rI. Cllifornia facility (see Blair noted that the paramedic program stressed by Winter. "50 percent rI. the Monday's article,) which has a federal Bob Spradley, Vice-president of Hartson's may nm into fellibility difficulties, saying cardiac deaths occur within the first 15 training grant for aU paramedic training in that "the buic fa whether we minutes, al\Cl a five-minute response time Ambulance, said that their paramedic the San Diego City and County areas. ..-uon service will be "whatever the city elects to should proceecl aDJ fIrtber with the (to any location in the city) is the absolute Andrew Rauscher, Medical Director of have," noting that HartJon's Ambulance paramedic propouJa." It ...- alIo noted minimum," he said. the param"dk t:..i..!.. ;:r~-r..,m:u: ... would take over the cone. pollce am­ that the city maoq.. will inveIUpte the Vlerfeele...... ' Assistant Clinical Profe8lOr of differences in the fInaodal upedI of the A.ccordlnI to Winter, the cost proposal bulance service. Anethesiology at the University Hospital, "We made a proposal the City of San two propouII to ... If eitMr 0 .. can be would be $t.8 miUlon to initiate the service to sees paramedic services as a necessary pt!rt Diego provide paramedic aervice in recommended for IIdaption by the eoaodl. and not more than $1.78 per penon per year to the of our technological advances. c ••• _ city," Spradley said, 'that the OIIerP.......... to maintain the ..-vice after the first two acldin8 "~ paramedic issue as a whole as an Other PNIlbIe reeommendaUCIIII IDelude yean. A ..r fee of between $35 and $50 number of units and their response time will update of the existing emergency health whether a puamed1c propcul IhauId be wou1d be charled on each run to both su~ be determined by the dty. care system," Rauscher said, noting that placed OIl the fIIcallt71 bacIIett wbetblr the IkIIe the CCIIt and act as a deterrent to A recent study by the city fire department "the ambulance hasn't cbanced Iince paramedic ... ....... be pIIeed OIl __ tltbI .~. detennined that in order to bave a pre- c............. • rlI411.111.1rS Weanclay, Mardi I, lin WedDelday, Mareb I, lin IrllfiluiliNOS Paramedics ... '. between the two- paramedic than having a group of " privates" IT Referendum EndoiSements CoaUnued from Page 1 proposals, Rauscher said the in one area and the police and fire Napoleon." / training program favors a city-run departments in another. "If. you Pw1 A -- UNDElGUDUAn 4. Pr~s~nt authority to ratify SeC1l .. 6: ShlHnt Senice. "The only thing that has been paramedic service.