Student Government Referendum Date Set by Laura Ricbter Questions on the Balloi StaHWriter Comprehensive questions must have 250 signatures on a petition, a The date for the referendum to short, one-page statement of the choose UCSD's official student issue, the action to be mandated government-originally planned and mechanisms for im­ for late fall or early winter plementation, and a research quarter-has tentatively been' set paper which documents a short for the seventh week of winter paper. The name, address and quarter. telephone number of a person who the Elections Board can contact The UCSD Elections Board is with any questions that might arise still in the process of deliberating UCSD Enrollment Most Popular Majors in regard to the proposal must also over such items as the open be included. referendum hearings, a voters' The guidelines also require that Fall, 1976 Fall, 1975 Undeclared /9/6 pamphiet,and the actual balloting petitions accompanying ballot Undergraduate 8065 7577 Biology /893 and financing of the referendum. A . proposals adhere to the following Graduate /274 /229 Psychology 50/ cost analysis is currently being format: name, ID number, and Health Science 839 792 Chemistry 424 prepared. TOTAL 10, /78 9598 Mathematics 316 signature. Petitions must be in ink The content of the ballot will deal and have the name of the cir­ with governmental models and culator and the dates of circulation (Figures provided by the University of California, University Relations Oepartment.) comprehensive questions. Among on each page. the models that will appear on the All ballot proposals must be , ballot are three that were designed turned in to Sandy Sterling at the by the UCSD Task Force on Student Organizations Office tm Student Governance last sununer. the second floor of the Student , UCSD Enrolln:-ent on the Upswing The guidelines for placing ad­ Center. Proposals will be accepted ditional models on · the ballot through Dec. 2 at • pm. by Marleae Hennaa According to analyst Tom incentive to stay'in school, and the require 250 signatures on a Elections Board meetings are Staff Writer Robinson, the reason for the jmnp retention rate--or amount of petition, a short, one-page open to all students. The next statement on the model's struc­ meeting will be held Monday, in A marked jmnp baa occurred in is not certain, but a few theories continuing students- would drop. exist. One is that the rate of Thb happened for awhile, but now ture, purpose and products, and a the student organizations con­ the amount of students continuing major statement on the model. ference room. at UCSD, reault1ng in an actual fall students staying in school is the rate is up again. enrollment ol8606 undersraduates. connected with ·the economy. The UCSD will have to wait until next According to one UCSD senior higher the unemployment rate, the year to see whether this is a Baha'i Religion Stresses planning analyst, students are just longer students choose to remain in temporary fluctuation or a trend, not leaving as fast as estimates school. said Robinson. If it is a trend, predicted. The result is that UCSD Another ~eory is that Muir and further steps will have to be taken Spiritual Unity of Mankind has 290 more students than the T175 Revelle Colleges have been coming to discover its cause. predicted in this year's budget. down in enrollment, even though As campuses reach or gO' over by Laura Ricbter Baha'u'llah. There is no clergy Third and Fourth colleges have their maximum enrollment plans, StaHWriter connected with the Baha'is, which continued to grow. This allows for greater limits are placed on UCSD's chapter of the Baha'i, a allows members an equal oIr more intimacy and less tension, enrollment. religious organization, will present portunity to participate in and lead Citizen Group according to Robinson, because The expected total un- two films next Wednesday and -discussions. additional help and counseling are dergraduate enrollment, ac­ Thursday at 7: 30 pmin USB 2622. For administrative purposes, the available for students. With a more cording to three-quarter average The Baha'is hope that, through Baha'is maintain an international To Study DNA positive attitude, students tend to estimates by UCSD, was originally the films-"And His Name Shall Be Universal House of Justice, and stay longer. 7500. The three-quarter average is One" and "Step By Step"-students spiritual assemblies are organized It was originally thought that the estimated average of all three will gain an understanding into the on both the local and national Research after the Vietnamese war students quarters, as opposed to the fall- beliefs and practices of the Baha'i levels. Each has nine members, byJeelc.o. would not have the draft as an CooUoued on Page Z Faith. Admission is free. which are elected by the Baha'is Aaoelate New EdItor The Baba'i faith evolved in collectively. Concera OQI; ibe.JMk • ~ ' 4'htf 1Jaba'!S" ate rndhotbeistic munity involYement in ~ Fingerman Sees Caucuses ~~~ia ::Cfa~~~ ~~m~!: and believe in the validity of all binant DNA research and the need forerunner of the religion in 1844. religions . as brought about by for public awareness has prompted The religion was socially unac- manifestations of 'God. Each is the fonnation of a group of con­ seen as appropriate for the time, cerned people at UCSD to look into As Key t0 Wor ka b I e Coop ~e~i~~le :~:::des~::S~~~le~~d surroundings and social con­ risks of the potential and benefits by Alec Nedelman Schneider claimed were dividing thousands of his followers to be ditions. However, they do not the reSearch. Auoclate News Editor the Coop. imprisoned, killed and martyred. accept those institutions en­ Citizens for Safe Research "The notion the Coop is un- In 1863, another follower named compassing other faiths and (CSR) believes that the "decisions workable is absurd," Sl\id Mark Caucus "absoluteynot" Baha'u'Uah pronounced himself credence is ' given only to regarding this controversial Fingerman, Student Cooperative Controllillg Coop the Promised One of the Baha'i Baha'u'llah as the true fulfillment research must take into account Union Appointments and According to Fingerman, from faith. Today, many of his writings of the prophecy of God for all the risk it poses to the com­ Evaluations coordinator in an his perspective as a Coop member constitute the doctrines upon which .continued on Page 3 munity," according to a statement interview last week. the Marxist Caucus is "absolutely the religion is based. released Wednesday. not" controlling or dominating the "Organic Unity" CSR plans to raise the level of Coop. The Caucus by design, The teachings of Baha'u'llah awareness by providing in­ Fingerman said, is "politically the stress the principle of the " organic Erratum fonnation on the potential risks most organized and vocal group in • unity of the human race." He once In our article Wednesday and benefits, wjth an interest in the Coop." wrote " Glory not in this, that you about poet Amiri Baraka's I opening the dialogue on ' the He termed the Caucus as not love your country. Glory rather in appearances at UCSD, we said possible social and ethical -con­ being organized to take control of this, that you love your kind." that Baraka will lecture tonight sequences of recombinant DNA the Coop, but rather as having " de The substance of this theory is at 7: 30 in the Third College work." Members of the group will facto control." Fingennan said its termed by Baha'is to be applicable Lecture Hall 104. This is not establish a central informaUOJl members have been elected Coop existence, whether it be moral, true. Baraka is scheduled to section in one of the UCSD coordinators because "they are ethical, social, or political. lecture on black revolutionary libraries, which will include ar­ better informed on the issues, One example for our present art Saturday night at 7:30 in ticles and other related material on better organized and project the society is seen in the Baba'i aIr TLHI04. recombinant DNA research. attitude that they mean business proach to the problem of pollution. Tonight Baraka will instead Qlleatloas for Panel and have dtfinite goals in mind." They believe that its source is be giving a reading at 7:30 at . In addition, CSR will prepare a Fingerman ,feels that the basically spiritual and when people the educational Cultural Center, list of questions to be submitted to hostility which does exist within learn to live together as one, at 4343 Oceanview Blvd. The the UCSD Biohazards Committee Student Cooperatiue Union the derives from pollution will be eliminated. rest of the information in the concerning the role of the com-- Appointments and Eualuatlons Coop "those mittee as an overseer of Coordinator. Mark Fingerman. people in the Coop who are well- Followers of the Baba'i faith article is correct. infonned and up to date, versus believe that each individual has the The Triton Times regrets this bio~zardoU8 research at UCSD. Fingennan was responding to a those people who are not weU- capacity to pursue an investigation error. Spec181 emphasis will be placed on . Triton Times interview with Coop informed and insist that they be of truth in the teachings of the current UCSD proposals for external affairs coordinator Andy given equal consideration with the research utilizing recombinant Schneider (Oct. 22) in which well-informed people. That's DNA tecmology. Schneider termed the situation in ,A presentation to the Del Mar the Coop "unworkable". where a lot of friction flies. " City CouncU will be made nut Fingennan, a supporter of the One way Fingennan feels in­ Monday in hopes of gaining sUIr Coop since its inception in 1974 dividuals could have a larger voice in the Coop is get involved with POrt for the citizens' group.
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