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• Police Report 3 Jam • Nexus Funnies 4 W hat's Your Favorite • Opinion 8 • Sports 9 • Classifieds 11 . ■ • Arts&Entertainment 1A BSQe 4<; Pagel A Daily Nexus Volume 69, No. 86 Thursday, February 23,1989 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 20 Pages Current Book Causes National Controversy contacted said they had received Copies Disappear any threats. Whether Khomeini is genuinely from Local Stores; concerned about the heretical aspects of the book or is using it Unavailable at B. instead only as a political tool has been the topic of debate among Dalton, Waldenbooks experts since the controversy began. “The book appeared very conveniently for Khomeini to unite By Jo el Brand Iran. I think he is definitely using it Reporter for his political purposes,” said UCSB Islamic Religion Professor Just as Salman Rushdie’s Juan Campo. “If it had been controversial The Satanic Verses published at a different time, it vanished from bookshelves across probably wouldn’t have had such the country after Iran’s Ayatollah an impact.” Ruhollah Khomeini issued a “Most of the people who are “death sentence” for the author, complaining about the book, I the book has also become very think haven’t read it,” Campo scarce in Santa Barbara said. He added the book is a work bookstores. of fiction with historical un The book, released last fall, sat derpinnings and that Rushdie on the shelf for weeks at the demonstrates a good un Earthling Bookshop in Santa derstanding of the Islamic history Barbara until it received in of the prophet Mohammed. ternational attention through Under Islamic law, a person can Khomeini’s death command and be executed for cursing Moham The box houses a lead and steel Environmental Protection soon become a bestseller. “When med, according to Orange County Radiation Protection shield and some waste papers, Agency, as well as low level the Ayatollah threatened Rushdie’s Islamic Society Director Dr. the remains of UCSB’s nuclear radiation, which is under the life, they sold out within hours,” Muzammil Siddiqi. But, he said, “I Officer Says Nuclear reactor, which was disassembled jurisdiction of the Nuclear said owner Penny Davies. don’t agree that this is the right in 1986 and had its radioactive Regulatory Commission, neither Of the six local bookstores position, that any man can kill Reactor Stripped Of uranium removed from campus, agency can take full respon contacted, none said it had the (Rushdie).” said Frank Gallagher, UCSB sibility for the removal. book in stock. But most said they Although Siddiqi himself called Uranium Core in ’86 Environmental Health and Donated to UCSB in 1975 by the would carry it when additional the book “blasphemous,” he said Safety radiation protection of University of Nevada at Reno, copies became available, which, Iran overreacted to it. If Khomeini ficer. the reactor was used in Nuclear according to Doug Smoot, senior had not issued the death order, “it By Tim M cDaniel While these remains will Engineering 125, an un manager of Santa Barbara Crown would have died by itself,” Siddiqi Staff Writer eventually be taken from cam dergraduate spring quarter Books, could be as soon as the said. “It is a boring book.” pus, the removal has been slowed laboratory course, according to second week of March. He added that he believes a more In the comer of a room in by vague federal regulations, Professor A. Edward Profio, Employees at Santa Barbara reasonable reaction for Khomeini Broida Hall, among wooden Gallagher said. “We’re waiting who was in charge of the lab. Waldenbooks and B. Dalton, whose would have been to call for ladders and equipment that for the federal agencies to get The reactor was a cylinder chains took the book off all their Rushdie’s extradition to stand trial would go unnoticed in any metal their acts together,” he said. eight feet long and eight feet in stores’ shelves out of concern for as a heretic. shop, sits an enormous wooden Gallagher explained that because diameter, he said, and generated their workers, said they were not The book addresses conflicts box with an American flag the shield contains lead, the use only 10 watts of power, about permitted to talk about the book. encountered by Muslims arising hanging off one side. of which is monitored by the (See REACTOR, p.4) None of the employees at the stores (See VERSES, p.4) Fraternity Faces Difficulty Entering Greek Co munity Panhellenic councils three years principles, falls short in the number of local alumni, it should By Ross Chan ago to meet the demand for new [ r r r r r r r r r - r - r r number of AEPi alumni living in not mean that their group is Reporter chapters by inviting qualified Hf S the Santa Barbara area, according unqualified to colonize at UCSB, fraternities and sororities into the to former AEPi President Donald Samson said. In the 1988 La Cumbre yearbook, system. But AEPi is not among the ( g r e e k Marks. The accepted fraternities “At other schools, if a fraternity photos under the heading three new fraternities and one included Delta Upsilon, which was can prove that they will be a “Greeks” take up 59 pages, with sorority that have been approved established in 1987, Pi Kappa benefit to the community, then group shots of 13 sororities and 12 by the expansion committee since ! PO W ER Alpha, which colonized last winter, there’s no reason to keep them off fraternities. its formation. and Beta Theta Pi, which held its (the IFC),” Marks added. “Rules However there are other According to IFC officers, the I Second in a Series first rush event in January. need to accommodate with the “unofficial” greeks at UCSB. fraternity failed to meet the L AEPi members contend that the situation.” Several academic and special criteria for acceptance. Former expansionary guidelines make it By colonizing without an in interest greek organizations, IFC President Dave Cleff ex fraternities come uninvited.” difficult for a Jewish fraternity to vitation, AEPi and the IFC were which do not participate in the plained that AEPi was rejected AEPi also failed to stack up colonize at UCSB because Santa immediately placed at odds with Interfraternity or Panhellenic partly because the expansion alongside the three accepted Barbara does not have a large each other, Samson said. As a greek governance councils, are committee prohibits the ac fraternities in other criteria Jewish population, meaning result, Samson claims sororities listed under the “club” category of ceptance of a “crashing national established by the expansionary consequently that there are few have been warned not to associate the yearbook rather than “Greek.” fraternity,” one which is known committee, Cleff said. In con alumni of AEPi who live in the with the newly formed fraternity One of these, however, is a full- nationally for colonizing at sidering fraternities, the com area. or face stiff penalties. For fledged fraternity chapter with its campuses without being invited by mittee checks the age of the Current AEPi President David example, he explained one sorority own house, that has unsuccessfully either the university or its national fraternity, its financial Samson believes there should be a asked members of every fraternity been trying to join the “official” operating interfraternity council. backing and the number of the provision added to the application except AEPi to participate in its greek community for more than At UCSB, AEPi did in fact chapter’s alumni living in the process providing for walk-on • Big Brothers program. two years. recruit members and occupy a Santa Barbara area. AEPi, and fraternities and those which don’t Cleff said official sanctions Established on Feb. 9, 1987, house without first gaining ac four other fraternities that were meet all of the conditions concerning AEPi were never Alpha Epsilon Pi attempted to ride ceptance by the expansion com rejected, did not meet any number prescribed by the expansionary made. “A sorority can solicit to a wave of greek expansion by mittee. According to Cleff, if AEPi of these guidelines, Cleff said. committee. If AEPi does not anyone they want. If they choose applying for consideration by the were admitted into the IFC, “It The expansion committee measure up on paper in com not to solicit AEPi, then that’s Greek Expansion Committee, would establish a bad precedent — reportedly found that AEPi, which parison to some other fraternities their right,” he said. which was created by the IFC and (UCSB) may have several more has a charter based on Jewish in terms of financial backing and (See AEPI, p.5) 2 Thursday, February 23,1989 ^ 1 [ e a d l i n e i rs Daily Nexus World 11 Nation 11 State Salvadoran Rebels Attack State Not Responsible For Chapman, McFerrin Take Major Military Installation Protection of Abused Child Top Honors at Grammys SAN SALVADOR — Leftist rebels attacked the country’s WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, ruling against a LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, a most important army base and an engineer detachment child who suffered brain damage from repeated beatings shy newcomer to the recording industry, won three Tuesday killing eight people and wounding 17. by his father, said Wednesday states generally may not be Grammy awards Wednesday night for her debut LP, and The attacks came as representatives of El Salvador’s sued even if they negligently fail to shield people from song stylist Bobby McFerrin won best pop male vocal major political parties met in Mexico with top commanders abuse by others. performance for the hit single, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” of the rebel army to discuss a modified insurgent electoral The 6-3 decision said public officials have no con Chapman won the female pop vocal award for her No.