Vol. 2 No. 6 February24 - ----.: eTIll= ,,.,,..,i StudentGoverdment n-ew l n__M.rc.,.diCO-loU°S’nO’e,,o.r ReferendumInsert Reportfrom TA’s H umanltles-wrmng’eje II’IT eje Program: Ongoing StruggleFor QualityEducation ! "Perhat~.~the set~timent.~ contained in the ./o/Iowingpages are not .rot + .~U//h’ient!r./ashionahleto procure them general.law)r: a long habit of not ,’tdnkinga thingwrong gives it a .mper./hialappeearance ~f beingright, and i¯ raAe.~~ul+.~ide.~.at firstTime a makes .formidablemore converts outcry thanin d£lenserea.~on, o[ custom.But the tumuhsoon humaaRlesand focus on tilewi’tthl~ or A ~ a longand violent abuse +~/l)ower is genera/Itthe means o/calling the right o./it preservethe dual nature of theprogram tttque.stion...." tn a muelareduced form. We pro~sedthe +el -- l~m PaiHe, CommonSense followingrecommendations to eontlnuethe ’ dualprogram in theonly way that seemed Theteaching Ass/stants in the Human/- As fl wasorlg/nally designed, thts dual leas/hie--with a 1/3across the board re- ties-WritingProgram axe confronted w/th course,worth 6 unitswith the Individual duetionof theTA’s workload: a workoverload that threatens to compro- TA handlingboth humanities d/scussions I) Papersare to be reducedto 6 (3 short raiseour ownimportant graduate work, andwrittnginstrucUon, calledfor3manda- andone long with 2 rewritten).If peer e- orour desire to teacheffectively, orboth, valuationIs to be used,papers axe to be Beforetlds academic year the Revelle torylectures, two Z hoursect/on mest/ngs of12 studentsapiece, an hourstaff meet- reducedto 5. HumanitiesProgram operated withacom- tng and 2 officehours a week,not to 2) Thevolume of readingis to be reduced positionadjunct, Literature 10, both 4 by 1/3,recognizing spee/al problems w/th unitcourses designed to aidstudents wRh mentionthe time needed to readand cor- i rect9 papers(5 orig/nals+ 4 revts/ons)and theindividual courses, sothat the volume of writingpapers. Each course had seperate a finalexam for the quarter for each TA. readingis equitlblefor all TA’s. l’iceChance~l<,, PaulNaltman ~idTA’s with substantial workloads. The In itselfthis amounted to 18-20hours of Continuedon PageSevet~ : TheAdministration’sbutcheringofthe Lit- ,, eratureDepartment, in whicha number workeach week, and this didn’t allow for ot coursesIncluding Literature 10 were the time required by TA’s to prepaxeforTA’s To LoseJobs, Undergrads To Lose Classes cut,should be famfllarenough that it sections,to read the assigned texts, or to readinse¢ondaxy, prei~ratorysourees. neednot be retoldhere. What is In- We werebeing made responsible to the + portantis thatthe Humanities-WrRlng Latest UCSD Funding Slashes programhas Rs originsas muchin this writingstaff for teaching writing skills, to theprofessors for teaching human/ties, tmassacreas it doesin thegrant from the to thestudents /or qual/tatively Integra- Theadmintstration is planning another Whatwill the students’res~nse be? NationalEndowment for the Human/tiesttngthe humanlUes and writing aspects of assaultupon the quality of twdergraduateIn thepast undergraduates andgraduates andexamples of similarprograms else.-" thecourse, yet we wereconstrained, not edueat/onand graduate life. Faced with haveorganized tofight these attacks upon where.The RevelleHumanRies-Writing simplyby a contractHmRing the work- itsperennial budget ’crisis’, the adm/n/so theireducations and Uvllhoods.last Programattempts to fusetwo courses loadto 20 hoursa week,but by ourown trationthreatens to actuallyDECREASE Springundergraduates united in theCom.. then,not only to struggletoward some thenumber of TeachingAssistants (from mitteeto Defendthe Humanities, held a creativesynthesis, but to econom/ze,and pressingneeds as graduatestudents. The reservationsto this dual program cud not thepresent 356 to a projected350) des.. teach-inand confronted VC PaulSaltman to sidestepanger generated from theaxing gahtfull expression until the TA orientao pitenext year’s considerable increase in overthe issuesof courseeHmtnat/ons of theLiterature Department. The sere- tionmeetings atthe beginning offall cFaar- blenceof a compositioncourse is main- undergraduateenrollment (over 500 ad- andTA reductions.The Graduate Student terthis year. dRionalstudents). Union(afffl/ated with AFSCME Interna- tained,aad the bulk of theTA’s are LR- t/onal) succeeded in imtting enough pres.. eraturegraduate students, yet the fusion Confrontedwith thts serious conflict, Everyone,from first year students of theHuma~Ues and_wrflh3g courses I~s we hadthree alternatives tn order not to tothe state wide tiC adm/aistrstorsp rocolp- sureon theadministration to secure sup- + be overworked:Ignore the wr/t/ag aspect n~s thatsomething is verywrong here portfor TA’s until this coming Spring. generatedits own problems that affect all andfocus on thehumanRles, ignore the theTA’s in R. rightnow. Undergraduates find theft However,next year’s enrollment Increase classesmore and more crowded, their In- withouta proportional Increase In the num- structorslessandlemsaccessfl)le, thetr ber ofTA’swfllwipeouttheminhnalgains coursesbeing eliminated entirely or the achievedby boththe Committee to Defend Energy CorporationsWithhold enrollmentcurtailed. Even the admin/s- theHumanlt/es and the GSU. trationhas had to admitthat the student: 66 99 TA ratioon thiscampus is one of the and Undergraduate++met in Revelle Gas As Crisis Looms worst-- ff notthe worst-- In thewhole f’ormalLounge to discus.~information on Thiscrisis could he thegreatest OC system.Our admtllLstl~ors’ plallllt~l thelatest cuthacks and to 6~rmulate thingthat ever happened, especiallr (/ responseto theseproblems will serve to ,~trategies./orcounterracting ttwm.The tlwrhave to shut+?if gas to some ,-,,,-71 aggravaterather than alleviate an alrea.dy New Indicatorwill report these Intolerablesituation, deyelgl,mentsinourne.rtis,~ue. hou.ses../brcingthemtodrainwater _~.;~9, ,,,,,oil/ O[the+,,,,,,, i)htmhing,,,e ..,,,.,attd evacuate, ..,..,o,,. ff would hare to quit arguingand come UCSD Bike Coop FeelsWeight of up withan energypolicy. executive,quoted in the WallStreet Journal,I/3I. ~ .k/~. Rumorsthat the "natural" gas crisis of ,~~) TheSan Diego City Counci has recently wave+in the " ,:commumt~,+. Even thiswinter was a manipulationby the oil - beforethe City Council made its decision, the andeaergy companies to Increaseprofits passeda proposal that asks the Regents ofthe maysoon be InvestigatedbyaCongresslo= Universityto terminate UCSD’s Bike Co-op ViceChancellor of Student Affairs, George asa bicycleretailer. Thisaction, aswell as the M urphyrequested theBike Co-op to sell only tlalcommittee. According to reportsby k~,~~ JackAnderson, some corporations andtn- ~ Universityadmini~ration’s pastand future to students.Although the action was later d/vidualshave conspired toprevent dlstrl- ~ rcponse,raises a hos of questions which arc of overriddenby Chancellor McEIroy in a move butionof suppltesto consumers.CBgNews vitalinterest tothe University community, to "’waitand we",the readiness of the reportedon ThursdayFebruary 17, that First,what are the publicissues Univer.~itytO force "cOml~rotni.se~s’" in an wellsalong the Gulf Coast have been pro- surroundingclosure of the Bike(’o-op? atmosphereof artificially created options is 4ueingwell below capacity, lafaet, eloseto l~obertG. Dunlop,former president Althougha group of localbicycle dealers have noteworthy. onetrillion cubic feet of gas has beenheld of SunO11 Company, wrote In1975 what eaa beencomplaining for years that the Co-op lhird,what arc the long-term cffcct~ ofa up.This represents elo~ to 6%ofthetotalbe calledthe basle summary plan of tile restrainingt)nivcrsity policy on Co-ops? naturalgas production in the O.S.. energycorporations. "Lookingat the short engagesin"unfair competition", theirchargcs In thesamebroadeast, Texasgas produ, termfirst," he said,"the top priority Is ha~cconsistently been based on false Surelythe other co-ops. ~uch as the Print (’o- cersclaimed access to sufficientamounts terminationof petroleum price controls." information.Forexample, they have claimed op,the UC’Si) Book Co-op, and (iroundwork of naturalgas. ThlsforeedthestateofOlalo He continued,"ItIs significantthat even thatthe Co-op hss the advantage of chca~ Booksarc nog open to administrative to crawlto these gas producers. Ohio, the aasln~of controlson pricesI, 1973quick-laborby payingbelow minimum wage when straightjacketmgwhenever the local business hardesthit state durIng the "crlsls," nee- ly resulb~!I, an Ul~WingIn potroleum exo in factthey pay above minimum wage. lhey communitybecomes greedy for student (ledthefuelaadtheguprodueerswere~fllo plorttlom"These Ideas were also el- alsoencouraged a highly distorted picture of dollars.]-his also alfects more than just c~- lingto harl~ll~but oo thorown terms, pressedby JollnK. MclK~of Tess.toe thereal volume of businessdone by theCo- ops.For example, ~tprecludes anypossibihty Theexistence of &dequate qusllUU.es of who~ld~ "all domestic l:)rlce controls, op,inflating their gross income by severalthatthe University Regents’ Bookstore would naturalgas ~ slll[l~RedIn a mFii~rlollm¢lllellhave been In et~ton natul~lI~ timesthe real figure. Their refusal toseek out chooseto use its surplus capital for discounts clarifiedad tn tI~WALL8TRIg~.T JOLrl~ since19541 and on crudeoil and petroleum factsis remarkable. Evenmore interesting is ratherthan its present policy of physical mTIn- nild,.,l~,~ry, dur/nll the hell~t of productssince 1971, should be removedas qulcld7as lX~isthle.TllhiwlllKdmulatedo-theirsolution: