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DAILY NEXUS THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Body Cam Program Progresses Gio’s Pizza To IVFP is in the process of choosing a body camera for its officers to wear, hoping to have all officers wearing them later this year Close After 34 Years In Business ERIC SWENSON / DAILY NEXUS I.V. staple Giovanni’s Pizza Restaurant will close this Thursday following a lengthy legal battle. Juliet Bachtel Asst. News Editor AUSTIN BERNALES / DAILY NEXUS Giovanni’s Pizza Restaurant, locally known as Gio’s, will be permanently closed on Thursday, Jan. 14 after seven years April. The department has been evaluating the use of body cameras under current owner Matt Metzka’s management. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs over the last year, attempting to determine the most effective cam- Established in 1982, Gio’s was purchased by Metzka in Asst. News Editor era, select an affordable managing program and server for viewing 2009. Metzka will be permanently closing Gio’s this week and storing video and obtain the money to purchase these items. after losing a legal battle to renew his lease for the restaurant. Eight Isla Vista Foot Patrol deputies have been testing body- Police departments across the country have increasingly turned The current lease owners have not disclosed their future plans worn video cameras for about a year, and all 16 may be wearing the to body cameras amid calls for transparency from activists and poli- concerning the property, and Metzka is debating opening cameras in the spring according to Sol Linver, commander of the ticians after a series of highly publicized and controversial deaths another business in Isla Vista. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office. at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island, N.Y. and Metzka said the legal battle was quietly “going on for “I’m hoping by the end of next quarter we’ll have an idea which Baltimore. Linver said this sudden spike in demand forced camera years,” and he wished the situation had worked out differently. [camera to purchase],” Linver said. This would begin the next phase companies to hastily develop and sell cameras, flooding the market “I wish that there was other opportunities to work with the of the body camera pilot program, outfitting all Santa Barbara with subpar products. landlords, but they don’t want me in the building,” Metzka County deputies who are “not routinely in cars” with one of five Now that the initial eagerness of police departments is ebbing, said. potential body camera brands, something Linver hopes to do by CAMERAS p.7 GIO’S p.6 2 Thursday, January 14, 2016 Daily Nexus DAILY NEXUS CALENDAR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Visionary organ player Free Public Lecture Itzhak Perlman, violin Cameron Carpenter Thursday, January 21, Emanuel Ax, piano 8:00pm Tue., Feb. 9, UCSB Lotte Lehmann Thu, Jan 21 at 7:00 p.m. at Concert Hall. 7:00 PM The Granada Theatre The Granada Theatre Sun, Nov 8 IV LIVE presents 4:00 PM YE OLDEN IMPROV Hahn Hall SHOW WITH IMPROVABILTY UCSB’s award-winning improv troupe John Esposito, Professor of Religion and Friday, January 15 at 8 International Affairs and of Islamic Studies Undeniably one of the most beloved violinists at Georgetown University in the world, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar Magic Lantern Films This lecture will address the questions: status rarely afforded a classical musician. Who are Muslims and what do they Recognized for his charm and humanity as presents believe? What do Islam, Judaism and well as his talent, he is a Kennedy Center Christianity share in common? Why does it Honoree treasured by audiences who Double Feature Night! Cameron Carpenter is not your matter? respond not only to his remarkable artistry, TRUMBO at 7pm followed grandmother’s organist. A controversial but also to his irrepressible joy for making fi gure in the music world, Carpenter bucks music. by TRUMBO at 10pm tradition with a varied and virtuosic repertory Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Friday, January 15 that spans across genres, encompassing of Taiwan performing Rice, Wagner, J. S. Bach, pop music and Salman Khan IV Theater, Isla Vista international fi lm scores. His rock star a multimedia work of human Education Reimagined persona – refl ected head to toe by his jet drama and the story of a $4 black mohawk, Swarovski crystal encrusted Sun, Jan 24 suit tails and bejeweled shoes – is second revered land 3:00 PM only to his stunning musicianship. Do not Tue., Feb. 2, at 8:00 p.m. Magic Lantern Films miss this enthralling young artist in his Santa The Granada Theatre Barbara debut as he dazzles audiences on at The Granada Theatre presents the International Touring Organ, an elaborate BRIDGE OF SPIES instrument built to his own design that represents a seismic shift in the organ world, Monday, January 18 at 7 and Carpenter’s “unlikely quest to turn one & 10pm of the world’s most niche instruments into a IV Theater, Isla Vista mainstream sensation” (The Verge). $4 Adam Grant, influential thinker on business and management, discussing his new book, Originals: A nonprofi t educational organization with the mission of providing free, high-quality How Non-Conformists education to “anyone, anywhere” in the world, Khan Academy was founded by Renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min, Move the World, Salman Khan, a former hedge fund analyst “the most important choreographer in Asia” with degrees from MIT and Harvard. Khan Thu., Feb. 4, (Berliner Morgenpost), created the visually is also the author of The One World School stunning Rice in reverence of the land that at 7:30 p.m. at UCSB House, which explores the potential impact has nurtured “Asia’s leading contemporary of the web as a teaching tool. Campbell Hall dance theatre” (The Times, U.K.). The Daily Nexus is published by the Corrections Policy: To call an error Press Council and partially funded to the attention of the editor in chief, DAILY NEXUS through the Associated Students of the provide a written statement detailing www.dailynexus.com University of California, Santa Barbara the correct information. The Daily Nexus on weekdays during the school year. publishes all corrections of errors. 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The gift will come in the form of a combination of high tech study resources including a dedicated 3-D printer. Chancellor Henry T. Yang highlighted the importance of librar- LORENZO BASILIO / DAILY NEXUS VIVIAN BUI / DAILY NEXUS ies on campuses, saying the UCSB Library receives over 1.5 million Duncan Calvert visits a year.