Required Applications Parental- Income May Be On Aid SACRAMENTO Univer- charged that students who dents who meet this criteria UC Berkeley. grants. But, he said, "It's a sity ofCalifornia officials,res- have cut the purse strings to are eligible for grant money About 40 percent of under- large enough frequency to do ponding to pressure-fromstu- their well-to-do families are on the basis of their own re- graduatesand80percentofall something about it." dent representatives,arepro- depriving more needy appli- sources.; conceivably, the son graduatesnow declare finan- But A.T.Bruggar, an aide to posing for the first time to ex- cants of grantmoney. of a wealthy banker who has cial independence,university vice president Johnson, told amine family income of fi- Last month the Student Body beeome impoverishedby vir- records show. reporters following last nancially independent stu- Presidents Council told the tue of declaring financial in- In 1974-75, roughly— half of all month's Regentsmeetingthat dents who apply for financial Regents that it "could not dependence from his parents grant dollars— more than$12 independent students from aid grantmoney. abide by a system thati would could receive a need-based million went to self-sup- high-income families gen- According to Richard West, allow or encourage a student grant from UC. porting students. erally do not receive outright university financial aid mana- from a high income back- Many believe such a system— "I think that's atrocious," grants. Instead, they may ger, officials in charge of ground to declare indepen- encourages parents es- said Jeff Hamerling of the UC qualify for loans or work- awarding grants at the nine dence and then apply for peciallythose with— middle and Student Lobby. "The stu- study programs. campuses haveagreedtobase grants, (competing) against high|incomes to opt for dents from high-income fami- Davis and Los Angeles offi- grant grant eligibility on parental students with" more legiti- fewer tax deductions in re- lies are ripping off the cials estimate a large percen- income in most cases. mateneed. turn for the university footing money from students from tage of their financially inde- The proposal, which applies Federal law allows a student the education bill for their fi- poor backgrounds." pendent students now receiv- only to need-based grants, to declare financial indepen- nanciallyemancipated son or Last year 6,479Berkeleystu- ing grants have family in- would not affect eligibility for dence by living away from daughter. dents received $5.6 million in comes which would dis- scholarships (merit-based home for a year and accept- "Poverty is,ina sense,made grant money. More than 65 qualify them from further grants),work-study or loans. ingnomore than$600infamily attractive," said Robert John- percent of these students are grant assistance, should the It is expected to reach Presi- support. Also, the parents son, vice president for univer- self-supporting. grant proposal become uni- dent David Saxon later this may not claim that student as sity relations, after the stu- Dufty said he does not know versity policy. quarter. as income tax deduction. dent presidents' statement how many of these students "It's my guess that any- Student representativeshave Under university rules, stu- was read by Bevan Dufty of from well-to-do families get continued on page 6 New Ui\iivERsiTy / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE VOL. 8/NO. 50/FRIDAY, MAY 7. 1976 Interest Halls Attract Students The softly lit nightclub was PradGr the-ftne arts hall, is Middle Earth Program and crowded withpeoplesittingon one of 12 specialinterest halls Patt Schwab, Assistant Dean all the available furniture, at UCI that are all designedto of Students,are theHead Resi- cushions and carpet space. provide an informal atmos- dents of the four special in- The hum of voices laughing phere to explore ideas, share terest halls in Middle Earth. and talking died down as a interests, and meet faculty. These are: spot lightbeameddown ontoa These halls also createan en- Hobtiton, the humanities piano situated in front of the vironment where information hall, hat hosts dinners for audience. learned in class is applied to authois, films and many dis- The grinning emcee walked the lives of the students. cussions. out onto the spot light shaft Dino diDonato is Head Resi- Misty Mountain, Middle faced the crowd and announ- dent andStudentProgramAd- Earth'sforeignlanguage hall, ced, "Welcome to Prado visor to the Mesa Court spe- conducts several internation- Cafe!" cial interest halls. Inaddition al celebrations throughout the Strains from Elton Johns to Prado, they include Play year, like an annual Mardi "Your Song" drifted up to the Nubes, the outdoors hall,that Gras, Halloween party and a — 20 foot highceiling as the first sponsors trips to mountains, Latino dance, all of which are FIGARO, FIGARO Alexis Walker preparesto delivera act got underway. The aud- deserts, lakes and other highlighted by international song atlast week'sPradoCafe. Thecafe isone- of activities or- ience relaxed and enthusias- places throughout the year. food and dancing. ganized year-round by the UCIinterest halls. tically applauded the per- Caballo hall,located inMesa Mirkwood, the recreation Photo by RICK TYLER formers at the end of their Court, is the social ecology hall,recently converted oneof song. center. The personal growth their living rooms into Prado Cafe is a new night- hall, Cumbre, also in Mesa "Hemingwasted's Cafe," club, but itis student-run and Court, conducts a class that where students can meet to- Senate May located in the Prado resi- teaches how to build a learn- gether and enjoy music, Approve dence hall inUCIrvine'sMesa ing community. refreshments, and conversa- Court residence complex. All Also located inMesa Courtis tion. the singers, instrumentalists Sierra, the freshman exper- Residents of Rivendell, the Revised BFeadth Plan and comedians who perform ience hall, whose resident ad- social science hall,wenttoEn- by Amy Jolly & Dave Eastman at Prado Cafe arestudentsliv- visor is Jeanette Eberhart- senada, Mexico over the ing. spring The Academic Senate Committee onEducational Policyhas inginMesa Court who have to break for a social an- developeda proposalwhich,if approvedbytheAcademic Sen- audition in front of Prado's Richard Atcheson, As- thropology field trip. sociate Dean of Students, continued on page 3 ate, will have a definite effect on how you as a student will staff. select your coupses. For this reason we, your student repre- sentatives to the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), would like to get your opinions on theproposedchangesin the AS Election Certification Delayed current 6-3-3 breadth requirement. required by As it stands now, you are to take 6 courses in a Lenard E. Davis alcoholic beveragesat various events. This yourmajor, school, and 3inan- meeting Council, school outside of 3 in another In the of the ASUCI Tues- was a popularmeasure with the council and other. That's pretty much. The new requirement is a little day,May4. 1976 the certifyingof therecently asPresident-elect CreightonMills put it,"It's more structuredand the newcomponentshave brought varied elected ASUCI officers was delayed,pend- goingto get more booze oncampus andthat's irregularities. reactions from academic deans, faculty members and ad- ingan investigationof The what we need." ministrators. Now, we think it's time to get students' reasons weresuspicion of electioneeringby 3) Itwas unanimously voted by the council reactions. Theproposal reads as follows: pollworkers,as well as a failure toclarifyeli- to reject the chancellors plan to spend sev- Requirement: requirements Proposed New Breadth gibility of thecandidates. The eral thousand dollars to add the UCIsports (A) Candidates for the Bachelor's degree are required to issue will be considered on the nextmeeting program tothe PCAAprogram. The council take 48 units outside their major schofl or program. following to by stressed, an inquiry be made some as in the past, that they support in- (B) Candidates must take atleast 24units inone of the two board members. tramural programs instead. Areas below which fall outside the Area containing their Attending ■ meeting . the were members 4) The mostcontroversial issue of the eve- major, andan additional 12units inthesecondof thetwoAreas Allison,Barsh,Breeze,Coleman,Davis,Fau- ning was a proposal to establish co-ophous- which falloutside the Area containing their major. bert,Graham,Hirata.Jones,Lampel,Millis, ing for students on campus. A request was Montes, Parham, Pitta, Rosenweig, Area I Mills. presentedto the Council for 10,000 dollars to Fine Arts. Stone and Tapia. Mr. Gillette was tardy. be taken from the reserve fund and granted, Feinberg,Freund, Humanities Members Alder. andShaf- or loaned on a long term basis, to the co-op. (C) The remaining12units of the breadth requirementmay fer had unexcused absences according to I They maintain that this money is needed to meeting be taken in any of the three Areas above, outside the candi- the ASUCI Secretary. The opened show the business communitysupportfor the date's major school or program,provided that the total num- 11p.m.and closed at 6:22 p.m. they procure at 4: idea as attemp-t to additional berofunitsin anysingleschoolorprogramdoesnotexceed24. Among some of the items of the meeting funding through banks and loaning estab- (D) Candidates multiple major, interdisciplin- (with with a oran were: lishments. The council voted 8-6 5 ab- arymajor inmore than oneof the Areasabove,mustfulfill the .*,. 1) Procedures for appointing adminis- stentions) to defeat the request, but then breadth requirement ofoneof theirmultiple majors, of one 1 so that con- dissent, or trative members are to be set up voted with one from Mr.Montes. to of the schools or programs sponsoring an interdisciplinary fusion and frustration will not be the case put the issue on the ballot. The ballot will This major. Candidatesmust indicate at the timesuchmajorsare among the prospective appointees. hopefully beincludedintheFallregistration declared how they intend to fulfill the breadth requirement.