Volume 9 No. 1 Published at UCSD 17th year of publication September 27th - October 10th 1983 War OnLebanon Escalates Student Photo I.D.'s - A Form As U.S. military intervention in hundreds and certain to increase as the Lebanon escalates unchecked. the U.S. U.S. continues to shell the populated Congress is brandishing the War Powers areas around Beirut and the surrounding Of Social Control ? Act. not to halt or even question the flow Shouf Mountains. of troops. ships and weapons to the With U.S. government rhetoric Twice a week. all year round, the left hand face of the card is in region, but to get in on all the war action. intensifying in a most predictable Atkinson. the Chancellor holds a addition to that coded on the % inch As several Congresspeople have recently pattern. and commercial media pouring meeting of what is affectionately called wide magnetic strip on the back. Also, stated. it's not that they disapprove of out the government line with little or no the "kitchen cabinet." During this past right there on the same magnetic strip. US. involvement. it's just that they want critical analysis. it becomes important to summer, the cooks with names like Dick the computer-except for the few to be part of the decision-making process provide a few basic clarifications. regarding that involvement. and Darling sweated as to how they can students who refused to submit their 1. The Dru7e in Lebanon are use the one and a quarter million dollar Social Security number -will at any A compromise is currently in the Lebanese. despite what the government computer intended for the library time find the coded information that making which would allow U.S. troops and commercial media would have us system. One. two. three weeks before reveals your identity. The I inch hy 1 to remain in Lebanon for up to 18 think with such pronouncements as "the school started, a light bulb painstakingly inch square on the back side of the card months: and as we go to press. the Lebanese vs. the Dru7e." etc. flickers. On page nine of the UCSD divided into I6 tweeny weeny squares battleship U.S.S. New Jersey has joined Guardian. Sept 20. 1983, Chancellor will be covered from winter quarter on the already U.S. warship-crowded 2. The Shouf Mountains are the Atkinson comments, "It is a cost factor, with a non-removable patch "providing waters off Lebanon's coast. homeland of a great number of the we want to increasingly automate a lot of visual certification of enrollment". Four marines have been killed in the Lebanese Drure-they are not "foreign occupying forces." what isdone at the university". Applause Similar to license plate stickers. they will past month and many more wounded. thunders in the room, the kitchen be virtually impossible to peel off. Last Lebanese civilian casualties are in the continued on ~aee13 cabinet goes crazy with delight. A call is but not least, the originator of the made to Graphics and Reproduction problem. the library. has its own little Aid Available For Non-Registrants. Services. "Bryan J. Powell here. what territory. Located in a 2 inches by .. can I do for you?"-the gold lettered. 2 11/ 16th of an inch bar code at the 113 by 3% inches plastic embossed bottom right hand corner. it strongly Solomon I Staggers On picture ID is born. reminds one of supermarkets. A 1% by 1 inch mug-shot dominating As pathetic as it may be, Solomon I is from school administrators across the the right hand face of the card. avowedly The first shoppers to be mug-shot for now. (temporarily at least). law. All nation. conveniently used the summer presents the fact which says, "Hi. I am the photo ID. were the staff members of college students. (yes, both men and months to pass the Solomon UCSD". The Student ID number which UCSD'S bureaucracy.who made little women). receiving federal financial aid amendment. Immediately legal is embossed right beneath the name on continued on page 8 must sign a Statement of Draft opposition to the new law formed. After Registration Compliance. Though this is eight months ofcourt battles.(more time The Law. numerous sources of financial than it took Congress to hastily pass the UC Workers Choose aid are available to those students who law). a federal judge ruled the refuse to sign the offensive compliance amendment unconstitutional. Two statement. and furthermore, there are weeks later. the Supreme Court. in all its Unionization in Elections several forms of financial aid which infinite wisdom. decided to put the cart Despite an aggressive anti-union three principals of the six unions don't require the signing of the before the horse. The Court issued an campaign waged by the University of involved in the campaign. In each of the compliance form (despite what your order having the effect of overturning California. UC workers scored a major 7 occupational units employees were college financial aid counselor may tell the federal judge's decision. and keeping victory last summer in UC systemwide given the choice between one of these vou). the Solomon amendment in place until csllective bargaining elections held to unions and "No Representation." The Background the full court could decide the-case in the Spring of 1984. Apparently. using some give workers the choice of union elections were conducted by mail-in In February of 1982 Congressman sort of backwards logic, the Court representation. The elections covered ballots over the period May 23 to June Gerald Solomon introduced a resolution thought it was better to keep the law in 44.335 non-teaching employees in the 10 16. in the U.S. House requiring individuals effect. and then decide whether that was UC campuses broken down into 7 AFSCME Wins Big receiving federal financial aid to prove occupational units. The victory capped a a good or bad decision to make. than to AFSCME easily beat "No their compliance with Selective Service five-year battle by UC workers for the rule on the constitutionality of the law Representation" in the Service Unit law in order to receive federal funds. right to choose a union to act as their and work from that ruling - a process (covering custodians. food service and With school out and student opposition representatives. In 1978. massive laundry workers) and Patient Care diffused. Congress. ignoring opposition contlnued on page 13 pressure from the labor movement Technical Unit (covering physical forced the state legislature to enact the therapists. lab technicians, licensed New Indicator Higher Education Employer-Employee Nan-Profit Org. voacational nurses, patient escorts and Student Orgenizations Relations Act giving UC workers the U.S. Postage health delivery workers) by margins of 3 UC Sen Diego, 8-023 right to choose a union. Since that time PAID to I and 2 to I respectively. In the La Jolla. CA 92093 La Jolln. Celit. the UC administration has fought a Clerical and Allied Services Unit r Permit No. 256 hitter and expensive campaign to AFSCME scored a important victory. prevent unioni7ation. AFSCME lost narrowly to "No The American Federation of State Representation" in the Patient Care County and Municipal Emploves Professional IJnit (dietitians, (AFSCME). the American Federation pharmacists) and Technicu! Unit of 'Teachers (AFT). and the California Nurses Associatjon (CNA) were the continued on pate 14 alternative journals- like' this one-all Star is a reflection of this relationship - -- between the University and the such gains have been achieved through community. collective political struggle, not thourgh administrative generosity or humanism. Funky La Jolla "But it goes further than this. The These gains can only be defended and Welcome Back North Star has resisted and willcontinue sustained through collective political At new indicator press time, mountains. Her rambunctious style will Rambling Rosie, our rovingcolumnist is to resist the notion that the University is struggle. Otherwise, the administration appear-. in these .Daees - next issue.~ - - .. -In .- the- - .- an ivory tower whose role is related to will erode them slowly, or will demolish winding down her tour of the ~imalavan meantime keep those tips coming... With this issue the new indicator Although for seventeen years we have begins its seventeenth year of ivory tower evaluations and solutions to them abruptly. in accordance with the played a major role in getting the problems that surround us. The level of resistance they enounter. publication-years that have taken us information out on what's going on here through the Vietnam War. through the North Star intends to make the At the present time many dedicated (ranging. for example, last year from the University. both as a community and as continuing war on education being Registration Fee controversy to the individuals and groups are doing Disarmarment Actions Planned fought here at UCSD. through struggles an institution, recogni7e and accept its principled action. work and study. both promotioin of UC-CIA professor responsibility to the area." against war research, war recruiting. Attiyeh to corruption in University in the University and in the community Against Euromissiles UC-CIA collaboration. the draft and a Research practices-all stories we One thing our collective could add to at large. One task at hand is for such this today is a comment on what this number of other issues. 7 hrough these broke). much more remains to be done. people to communicate their efforts to On Monday October 24. San Diegans both sides. seventeen years we've published under 5 Expanded coverage of the Academic community really is. UCSD is largely tax people at large in an effort to prevent will "Refuse the Cruise" by participating names.