Fred Tejada

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Third World Coalition

A coalition of four minority groups may decide not to seek a $1 fee assessment for next year because of fears that other sources of funding may be cut if the assessment passes! members of the'group said last night. ,

The group, the Third World Coalition, will meet today with Dean of Student Affairs James Lyons.

Clarifications it receives at the meeting will deter mine whether it seeks the assessment, said' Nancy Takahashi of the COP and the Asian American Students Association.

The office has provided several thousand dollars each year for the Asian American Art Series, Black Liberation Month. Cinco de Mayo and the Stanford Powwow in recent years. The ethnic organizations that sponsor these events comprise the Third World Coalition.

But Jonathan McGee of the Black Students Union said "there is concern in the black community that Dean Lyons will use the assessment as an excuse to cut already existing funding."

If the University budget is tightened, funding for minority groups will be cut first, said Elmer Aragon of MEChA. "They are not going to cut money from the football team," he said.

Fred Tejada of the Asian American Students As sociation also participated.

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