LAFCO Discourages I.V. Cityhood Organized Better Than It Was in the Past

Alternate Sluggers Entertain Political UOP In Values Three-Game Series See Opinion, Page 6 More Sports, Page 10 Organization Of Annual Rugby Tourney To Be m m I f ✓ Implemented By Steven Elzer Assistant Campus Editor Although competition does not begin until Saturday morning, the 20th Annual Santa Barbara Rugby Tournament is being labeled by campus, police and tournament officials as the best-organized edition of the event in its history. Over a year of planning will be tested, as 80 rugby teams from across the United States once again converge at UCSB and Isla Vista for the largest tournament of its kind in the world. In past years, the rugby tour nament has been tarnished with individual acts of malice, which include arson, fights, loud parties and a host of drinking related offenses, Sergeant A1 Phillips of the Isla Vista Foot Patrol said. But this year, players or spectators engaged in these activities will be banished from the tournament and/or reprimanded by coaches of Loud And Clear — Tim Gross, keyboardist for the local band Exit, is seen singing “ The Heat Is On.” The the visiting school. band played a promotional concert for an upcoming March of Dimes fundraising drive. SEAN M TT.rTw..fl , Organizers hope the problems will not occur this year, which could injure the tournament’s chances for future years at UCSB, Phillips said. “This year, it’s LAFCO Discourages I.V. Cityhood organized better than it was in the past. The organizing committee took the time to address all of the By Penny Rosenberg would be necessary immediately following incorporation led the problems.” Reporter LAFCO staff to believe there is a “very real cause for concern.” Tournament Director Dennis “It appears,” the report states, “that Isla Vista’s financial position O’Day, however, does not feel the In their report to the Local Agency Formation Commission, the may be worse in 1985 than it was a decade ago.” event, which is in its I5th year at LAFCO staff has recommended that the proposal for Isla Vista cityhood On behalf of cityhood proponents, Community Affairs Director UCSB, deserves its sometimes be denied. Carmen Lodise said, “we do have sufficient revenues, whether they are lawless reputation. “I think the In a report to the LAFCO members, who decide whether in conventional or not.” The new tax referred to in the EIR is an $18 a year university is just cracking down on corporation will be put before I.V. voters, the staff said they were not utility user tax which will add to the new city’s expected surplus of $3 to sports in general ... we’ve com convinced of the “long-term financial adequacy of the proposed city.” 5 million at the end of 1990, he explained. plied with every university policy The commission consulted both the County’s Environmental Impact “It is our (I.V. cityhood proponents) opinion that Perkins misun that has been put down, but we Report and the university’s analysis to reach their conclusion, LAFCO’s derstands what ‘feasibility’ means,” Lodise said. come under more scrutiny,” he executive officer Robert Perkins said. The university’s administration is “pleased that the LAFCO staff (Please turn to pg.5, col.l) Findings included in the county’s EIR which state that a new tax (Please turn to pg.5, col.l) Reporter Talks On Religious Right By Monica Trasandes else.” he has been good for the Moral he could correct, but why do it at News Editor Donaldson, who has been Majority and they in turn have, this point, he’s gotten this far.” covering the White House for been a benefit to Ronald Reagan. “One of Ronald Reagans’s ABC Chief White House eight years, said he feels former They -give him a cover against greatest strengths is that he correspondent Sam Donaldson, president Jimmy Carter acted people like me who say he never, believes what he says. If he didn’t said he finds the threatening of much more religiously than goes to church.” believe what he says I don’t think God’s vengeance by some groups President Reagan has, although Although Reagan supports the the American people public to support their political cause Carter is generally viewed as the Moral Majority, he will not make would follow him to the degree it “distasteful,” in a talk on the least religious of the two men. it a priority to support their does. But you can sense a phony, religious Right in America before Reagan was never very religious legislation, Donaldson said. “He and Ronald Reagan is not a professor Walter Capps’ Religion until he went into politics, he often epouses the causes the phony. If he gets on T.V. and tells in Politics class on Thursday. said. religious right also feels strongly you you’ve got to build the M.X., When asked about the spiritual Donaldson believes that the about, but if you will notice being or give aid to contras, or cut awakening of America, religious groups Reagan does the smart politician that Ronald student aid, or whatever, you Donaldson said he would not deny support are those which agree Reagan is, he has not extended know he really believes it. a religion the right to lobby for with his policies. “If Jimmy political capital on those causes,” Everybody’s looking for someone their causes, but he thinks that Carter had also been pushing the Donaldson said. Reagan will not to believe, because in our hearts preaching politics at the same programs as the Moral be pushing prayer in school, of hearts we know we don’t know pulpit and saying God takes sides Majority, then he (Carter) would abortion, or a balanced budget anything. Right? We’re all a in political matters is wrong. have been the good Christian. amendment because he really is bunch of dummies, and maybe “That’s the part that concerns Ronald Reagan didn’t do any of more concerned with the the next guy or next woman is me, people who use religion in the those things with the church, but Russians and military strength, smarter and if they say they ABC News Correspondent name of God to march forward in he pushed all the same public, he explained. believe it, then they do. So Sam Donaldson spoke a political sense,” Donaldson social programs that Moral When asked about Reagan’s anyway, I believe he believes the yesterday on campus. said. “I think they can march Majority leaders did, therefore intelligence, Donaldson said, “I stories he tells,” Donaldson said. forward in the political sense, but he is the good Christian. ” think he has a pretty good mind; I When asked about the power of MITCH VICINO/Nuu* under their own name. Leave “He (Ronald Reagan) has been think he has a lazy mind and the Moral Majority and what God out of it, he’s busy someplace a benefit to the Moral Majority, great areas of ignorance which (Please turn to pg.5, col.l) 2 Friday, April 12,1986 Daily Nexus Editor-In-Chief — Robin Stevens Managing Editor — Laurence Iliff Editorials Editor — Marni M cEntee Assistant Editorials Editor — World Steven Peck Copy Editor — Becky Freed Assistant Copy Editor — Soviet Union Pays Tribute To FDR Carolyn Rhodes MOSCOW — The Soviet Union is marking month before the end of the war, Berezhkov VIENNA, Austria — Enver Hoxha of News Editors — Eddie Sanders, Friday’s 40th anniversary of the death of said his “death was an irreparable loss to Albania, who fashioned a tiny fortress of Monica Trasandes Franklin D. Roosevelt with unusual tributes the peace settlement. Many people believe Stalinism in a world he viewed as hostile, Campus Editor — William that evoke nostalgia for the years of Soviet- that if he had lived longer, the military died Thursday at age 76. He ruled for 42 Diepenbrock American alliance. situation in Europe would have shaped up years, longer than any other communist Assistant Campus Editors — The tributes also are critical of current differently.” leader. Steven Elzer, Lisa Mascaro American policy. Berezhkov added: “There is every reason Hoxha died of complications resulting County Editor — Deborah Tass, the official news agency, issued two to believe that the possibility of accords from heart failure that occurred on Nestor long stories Thursday about Roosevelt, who between the USSR and the USA at the time Tuesday, the official Albanian news agency Assistant County Editor — Amy died April 12,1945. was directly linked to the position of prin ATA reported. It said in a medical bulletin Siegel Both stories praised FDR as a “statesman ciple of Roosevelt.” that the Communist Party chief had suf New Writers’ Editor — Heidi of world caliber” and “a convinced The Tass coverage of the anniversary of fered from diabetes since 1948. Drewes champion of cooperation with the Soviet his death was unusual because such tributes A period of mourning was decreed until Sports Editor — Phil Hampton Union.” They put Roosevelt into the context normally are reserved for figures from April 18 and Ramiz Alia, official head of Assistant Sports Editor — Scott of superpower politics 40 years later by state and Hoxha’s likely successor, was Channon Soviet history. contrasting cooperation during his ad designated chairman of the commission to Photography Editor — ministration with the state of U.S.-Soviet Both articles used Roosevelt’s example to arrange the funeral. It will be held Monday Catherine O'Mara criticize his successors, especially the in Skanderbeg Square in the center of Assistant Photography Editor — relations today. Noting that Roosevelt died less than a administration of President Reagan.

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