Gardner to Speak on Urban Future

Grass busts ‘•coincidental’-Foot Patrol By MIKE GORDON Frierson admitted that “There may report automatically on all students. This Community dissatisfaction with the have been some question as to our right was by request of the Chancellor.” Foot Patrol and other police agencies to be where we were,” and furthermore But the pair aroused support from surfaced Thursday night as two Patrol acknowledged that there had been no lost onlookers at least once, when Frierson members and County Supervisor Dan child. He used the story because “we agreed that liquor should be available in Grant faced question-and-answer sessions needed to set you at ease” while I.V. at a meeting of Richard Applebaum’s searching for a cocaine dealer in the Earlier, Supervisor Grant declared his Sociology 127 class, billed as an “ Open vicinity, he said. conditional support for I.V. incorporation. “Incorporation should Forum on Isla Vista.” Countering a claim that the Foot An audience of over 100 repeatedly provide a rallying point,” he exhorted Patrol employed informers in I.V., the listeners, “to turn this community around questioned Foot Patrol officers Bob police representatives explained, “We Frierson and Bill Mauras on police and get going.” don’t try to cultivate informers. This is Grant recounted a history of zoning attitudes toward drug use and expanding something narcotics officers do.” Foot Patrol coverage in Isla Vista. and governmental problems in Isla Vista, Frierson added that “we have been beginning in 1927 when the entire area Commenting earlier, Supervisor Grant, needled by other (Sheriffs officers”) asked if he favored the incorporation of was zoned into 25-foot-wide lots for oil because they feel Foot Patrol officers are developers. “The lots are some horror Isla Vista, replied, “If the financial too lenient on dope smokers. He went on answers are favorable, yes.” we’ve had to live with ever since,” said to declare, “There is some animosity the man who has been 3rd (Isla Vista) Speaking for the Foot Patrol, Frierson between the Foot Patrol and officers of responded to the audience’s stream of District Supervisor since 1960, but who the Sheriffs Department.” recently announced he will not run for questions about recent rises in the The Patrol’s recent expansion of number of local marijuana arrests: “It is re-election. coverage into all of I.V. came up several With the help of I.V. Governmental pure coincidence.” times at the meeting. Frierson and Mauras Study head Leo Jacobsen, Grant went on “Each officer has his own priorities, maintained that residents themselves to outline the role of California’s Local what he likes to look for,” declared wanted it. “I have received over 100 Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) Frierson. “To myself, marijuana would be requests to come out of the Loop,” in I.V.’s posable incorporation. a very low priority.” insisted Frierson. A member of the audience at one point “Don’t think that incorporation of voiced a complaint about Foot Patrol At one point, while discussing police your city lets you do anything you officers who, when discovered in his back procedure in arrests, one of the officers want,” warned Grant, citing what photo: Van Cline yard, told him they were looking for a off-handedly noted to the surprise of the Jacobsen later termed the “mysteries and S.B. Supervisor Dan Grant lost child. audience that “the school gets an arrest (Continued on p. 8, col. 4) Presidential candidate Jenness Gardner to speak slams unequal application of laws on urban future „ “Radicalization means people, standing up, thinking, organizing, righting for themselves. We By FRED NIEDERMAN have to build massive movements outside the “In the absence of criticism, every organization ends up being Democratic and Republican parties.” Presidential managed for the benefit of the people who run it.” candidate for the Socialist Workers Party, Linda Speaking on “Citizen Action” John W. Gardner brings three Jenness spoke at Campbell Hall on Friday. She years of experience as Secretary of Health, Education and continually stressed the need for building Welfare under President Johnson, to his lecture tonight at 8 p.m. movements of the people which, because of a in Campbell Hall. common enemy, will serve to undermine the present Gardner has served as director of New York Telephone, Shell governmental structure. Oil, Time Incorporated and American Airlines. He has served as a Jenness spoke of atrocities like the Attica revolt trustee to Educational Testing Service, Systems Development which she said were created and perpetuated by the Corporation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Metropolitan United States government. “The American people Museum of Art. were told vicious lies so that the government could He is also the former president of the Carnegie Corporation justify the attack. These kinds of lies play on the which funded colleges and universities for over a quarter of a prejudices of the American people.” billion dollars in the last 60 years and he has headed Urban Jenness feels the wrong people are in' prison Coalition, formed after the big city riots of 1968. today. “There is no fair and equal application of the Gardner has written four books of his own entitled, “The law in this country. The big murderers in this Recovery of Confidence,” “No Easy Victories,” “Excellence” society, like Nixon, and the big thieves in this and “Self-Renewal.” society, like Rockefeller, are not in prison — they’re Presently, Gardner serves as chairman of Common Cause a running our country for us! It’s the poor, oppressed show Nixon we don’t believe the war is over. We self-styled citizen’s lobby which claimed more than 200,000 paid citizens who rill our prisons. The laws are not made have to stay in the streets until every ship, plane, members after the first year of its existence. and enforced to protect the citizens. They are made bomb and man is brought home, and Vietnam The citizen’s lobby is primarily designed to deal with excessive to protect the property and wealth of the rich.” belongs to the Vietnamese.” corruption which Gardner rinds in public office in our country. Jenness has respect for the Vietnamese who According to Jenness, “The United States “It is not just the citizen who is hurt by the vast, shady game “continue to resist the worst war machine this government stays in power two ways: 1) repression, of political barter and purchase. The nation is hurt when great world has ever known.” She feels that, “we have to and 2) deception, where the government gains decisions are made by venal men, concerned chiefly with private authority by lying to the people. Whenever the gain, the payment of political obligations or the consolidation of government is exposed or challenged, their control personal power. is weakened.” Jenness advocates that people provide “Sound public policy cannot be formulated. Programs cannot this challenge and exposure. be soundly administered. The public process falls apart.” Jenness emphasized repression of women as one In January 1971, Common Cause raised the issue of campaign of the capitalist society’s primary evils. “We have spending in the courts and claims the beginning of a victory been cheated and dehumanized for so long that when granted access to files containing “the whole ugly story of women are now ready to right. That’s what the campaign financing.” feminist movement is all about.” She compared In addition Common Cause campaigned for the Constitutional women’s, liberation to that of the gay liberation amendment granting 18-year-olds the right to vote; with movement and the student, Chicano and Black environmental groups to defeat the SST; to challenge the movements. Congressional seniority system in Congress; for a withdrawal When confronted with the realistic question of date for American troops in Indochina. her chances of winning, Jenness replied, “I run in Gardner, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, dealt elections to expose people to how I feel.” She with problems of the inner city. Of these he states: added, “I’m calling for a constitutional amendment “If we are to get to the root of the problem we shall also have about my age. Thomas Jefferson, Angela Davis and to take vigorous action in education, health and nutrition the Kent State students were all under 35, and programs, the creation of job opportunities, the elimination of they’ve made greater contributions to society than slum conditions and similiar measures.” Dick Nixon and his henchmen ever will. Concerning minorities, Gardner suggests that discrimination “There is no difference between Nixon and (Continued on p. 8, col. 1) S ^v«»\vm v\\\v^xv\v\v\v\v\vxvvvvv\v< photos: Melinda Finn (Continued on p. 8, col. 4) PAGE 2 U CSB DAILY NEXUS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1972 Contests for artistic academics come to UCSB Photography Writing Bibliomania Amateur photographers from their prints exhibited in the UCen Two $100 writing awards are Bibliomania has potential rewards for UCSB students who enter the the UCSB campus and the for two weeks after the contest. being offered to students in any 1972 Edwin Corle Memorial Book Collection Contest, the ninth surrounding community are One of the judges will be college or university in California annual event honoring the late Santa Barbara author and book invited to try their luck at the Robert Ketchen, a UCLA by the editors of Spectrum, the collector. new Recreation Department graduate with a major in Design literary magazine of the Undergraduate and graduate student collectors are eligible to enter and a minor in Photography. Photo Contest. The theme of the University of California at Santa separate contests in which cash prizes are awarded to the three top contest, which is open to Ketchen has since worked as a free Barbara.

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