Monday Evening 180 Attend ,2nd Grad Union Meeting by Phillip Protter pay and working conditions they distributed to participants, who Special Re p orter had previously thought the were urged to take extras to university would never agree to olicit new members. The Graduate students from almost were already in practice in other completed cards may be sent by every UC San Diego department departments. campus mail to Joe Rogers in met Monday evening to continue psychology. The students were the building of a Graduate Demands requested to put their department and telephone numbers on the Students' Union. They plan to A fter the department reports, meet again next Monday, May 19, backs of the ca rds . there was a lengthy discussion of A motion was made and passed at 7 pm In USB 2622 . the demands that should be The meeting which Included to se nd a letter to the ad­ made. It was agreed that the 180 people, began with in­ ministration containing the exact wording of the demands demands of the union. The letter dividuals describing their should be carefully thought out departments' situation. The will be sent Wednesday . The and voted on at the next meeting. conditions varied widely from 50 administration's response will be However, the gist of the demands reported and discussed at the percent HE ($489 per month, less was : taxe , fees and tui tion, for ni ne union meeting Monday evening. Naked dog bathing in Revelle fountain last week. Uffender months) to 12 percent FTEs such -50 percent TA minimum At the May 19 meeting, refused to reveal name to IT reporters. [Photo : Tad a in the music department. Some monthly employment or its elections will be held for a Sperry] departments had sections of 90 equivalent for every grad student negotiating committee. students, and other departments for the duration of their stay in projected sections of 100 to 150 the program. students for next year. -Academic year-long contracts Reactions to Ship Seizure Offered Some said the departments had to be signed in the spring quarter Intolerable work loads that previ ous to the year of em­ by John H. Taylor concerning that particular Moscow With the Cambodians threatened to get even worse : 12 ployment. section contact hours of teachi ng Editor-in-chief vessel" He cited the ca e of the If diplomatic attempts fail, per w k. Other department -No increase in stude nt/TA battleship Maine in the Mexican­ Pam h said , " you have to ask req ulneu teaching one quarter ratio In any department. No The reported seizure of a US American War, and the Gulf of yourself If 39 seamen and their (regardless of the source of pay, increase in workload or merchant ship by the Cambodian Tonkin encounter in the Viet­ boat - and intangibles such as US and In some cases even without workhours including appropriate Khmer Rouge has prompted namese war when a US ship that honor, prestige and power - are pay) . conditions. Workload would be varied reactions amont some UC had been fired on by orth worth a military confrontation I At least one grad student determined by graduate students San Diego faculty and member Vietnamese gunboats was later don't thil'1k they are " reported this would increase to on a department basis. of student political organizations. discovered to have been Involved He also suggested that Ford fly two quarters taught for next year's -Fee waivers for all graduate The seizure, reported by the in spying and with aiding the to Phnom Penh personally and incoming students . The con­ students, and tuition waivers for White House Monday, occured South Vietnamese navy in raids. retrieve the seamen. He felt the dition ranged wildly : some all out-of-state graduate students. 60 miles off the coast of Cam­ He said if the facts reported by "overwhelming sense of lustness tudents observed that levels of Member hip cards were bodia The ship, the Mayaquez, the White House are determined and rightness of such a move carried 39 crewmen, many of to be correct, the US should would protect the president from whom are from California. negotiate through Peking or Continued on Page 5 President Ford has condemned UCSD Closed Out in the seizure as an "act ot piracy," and threatened the Cambodians with "the most serious con- McElroy to Bat for Student Regent Selection equences" if they refuse to release the vessel. The Mayaquez was reported to Academic Plan Friday -by Ma'lilret Hewey be unarmed. Sta ff Writer The Tr iton Times yesterday by James G. Soto contacted several faculty City Editor • members and students to gather Five tudent Regent applicants,all from southern UC campuses, were The UC Board of Regents reactions to the seizure. Sanford convenes tomorrow and Friday to ~elected at the last UC Los Angeles nominating commission meeting. Lakoff, political science dispose of routine University The candidates are Alan Katz, Ron Sutrin, and Steven Wade of UCLA, department chairman, said he felt Carol Mock of UC Santa Barbara and Margaret Ryan of UC Irvine. business. the US is "doing the right thing" The meeting, to be held this According to Ron Bee, UC San Diego representative on the selection in pursuing diplomatic solutions. month in San Francisco, will committee, 51 applications from the five southern UC campuses were consider among UC San Diego later narrowed down to 15. Bee's job was to help select the 15 by Lakoff noted he was "troubled business this campus' academic weeding through the applica~ons " looking for how they were an­ by the confusion over whether plan The plan , which details the ~wered " the ship was in international present tate of UCS O's academic waters or not. " It is reported that life and outlines plans and l:3ee ~aid that although many applicants Ii ted what relevant ex­ the Vayaquez was seized eight pro pects for the future, will be perience they had . many did not discuss specifically which university miles from a rock island that is discus ed during the Regents I~ ue!> they were concerned with. claimed by both the Cambodians consulation Friday morning with Interviews and South Vietnamese govern­ Pre ident Hitch . Chancellor ments . McElroy will make the presen­ rhe 15 were reduced to 5 by process of Interviewing. Among the l!> Lakoff ugge ted the US un­ tatIOn of the academiC plan to the WIlliam McEivoy Interviewed wa UCSD Muir ophomore Alex Annala, who advocated dertake an investigati'on "before Regent the malntenan e of the academic ex ellence of the UC ystem and doing anything ras h," addi ng that Kar n Steentofte, the UCSD 01 a Modern Language In tltute In keeping down tuition . he was .puzzled the US Navy tud nt Cooperative external Tehran . II co t would be paid allowed the ship to venture into affalr~ tatewlde r presentative, for by the oil-rich Iranian The live applicant from outhern California will be ombined with Cambodian waters after a aid lh urrent financial plight of governm nt, while UCLA would lour from Northern Californla--three will be ~ele ted by the UC Student Panamanian ShiP, en route to the m dlcal hool may b prOVide manpower from Its Ilody PreSident's CounCIl. By June, a final student representative will Thai land, wa topped a weak ago discu ed a well lingui tl department be ~elected to it on the Board of Regent . Th m mber' term will by Khm r Rouge force on the Tomorrow, the Rent The " Report of the Pre Ident' begin luly 1 I land That hip wa allowed to Committee on ducational Polic Ta k Force on Chicano and the l3ee lei t there ought to be more incentive or campen ation for tho e leave . will on Ider a recommendation Univ r Ity of California" WIll b who apply for student Regent becau e of the time-consuming nature of "What do we have a Navy for? to tabli h th Center for Iberian pre nt d at tomorrow~ m tlng the lob He said that a possible fee waiver or som other -form of Ihere should be better sur­ and Latin merican tudle The ta k force, e tablished four payment would draw more 01 a vanety of applicants instead of the law­ veillance of what goe on In tho (CILA ) on the U D ampu as years <'go ha prepared a report Oriented types who tended to appl\, water ," he said . an offi lal Organized Re earch docurrentmg the tatu of Lakoff said that if the u e of Chlcan.) In lne Unlver It Th diplomatiC channel I Inef­ Hispanic Studies report ugge t that the fectual , " then it I a very eriou IL urrently coordlnat an Unlv r •t e k to attract more matter, and we may have to IntC'rd"cipllnary "pproach In hi ano tudents and mak a <.omt mplate military a tlon , und rgraduclte and graduate h rt (,Or repugnant as that may be " ~ernlndr~ In HI panic ~tudl Th A,,~oclate Profe or of HI tor l nler I~ oord Inatlng gm nt aid that an Ethnl Mlchdel Parrish, wha..e plait 01 th> hi entennlal elebratlon 111 r port, whICh will I~ 20th entury Amen an hi tory, the d 11 Dlf'go red oppo<,ed th u of force "und r rh(, Committee on lclu<.atlonal ,lOy llrcum~tilnce ' Polil will .11.,0 con Icier a II., "lid he would demdnd c1 I '<.ol11lllPndcltlon that would lull inqUiry by (ongres\ - \In e I l·~tdbl" h ,111 d 'r empnt bptw n don t b Ileve the e l'CUtl f' I o~ "n~ele, and th Iranian con hranch I~ the most rehablt, ~ourc (> ~OVl'rnnwnt for th d \ lopm('nt Pasetwo Triton Tim•• Wednesday.