UCSB Will Surrender Records to Grand Jury They Can Accuse and Indict

Men's Soccer Ties USIU In Overtime page 11 UCSB Will Surrender Records to Grand Jury they can accuse and indict ... if find no wrongdoing and go on to The jury “goes back centuries in they find something along the lines other business without com English law and custom. It was University and Foundation Must of mismanagement, they can issue missioning a report, De Caro established to counter the excesses a report.” added. of oligarchs and has passed De Caro can recall only one “Of the hundreds of in through to the present pretty much Provide Information by Oct. 27 indictment handed down by the vestigations undertaken by the intact,” according to information jury in the last five-and-a-half Grand Jury during its one-year supplied by Young. By Steven Elzer At this time, no individuals have years. Unless an indictment is term, wily a handful will lead to “ It is watchdog and om been called before the county’s News Editor made public, investigatory in the release of a report, and in even budsman, the citizens’ window into investigatory body, she said, formation might not surface until fewer cases will the report the nooks and crannies of power although anonymous sources have the Grand Jury’s annual report is recommend action,” states and privilege.... There is virtually Santa Barbara County’s Grand suggested otherwise. released next summer, he said. It literature distributed by the no limit to the scope of activities it Jury has subpoenaed the last six- Because of the secrecy involved is also possible that the jurors may county. (See JURY, p.4) and-a-half years of financial in Grand Jury proceedings, it is records from UC Santa Barbara unknown what is specifically under and the campus fund-raising body investigation. “ No one here has called the UCSB Foundation, been apprised of what their which a systemwide audit in motivation is and we are supplying vestigation targeted earlier this them with all the information summer. they’ve requested,” Weeks said. Confidential subpoenas were Foundation officials declined issued for various financial comment on the subpoenas. documents dating from 1979 to Confidentiality laws prohibit 1986, including records that were Grand Jury Foreman Dodd Young previously withheld during the from commenting on the subject, Foundation audit, the Nexus has he said during an interview last learned. week. The two subpoenas were served If applied literally the university on Sept. 18 and the campus will may have to surrender hundreds of comply in “ good faith’’ with the thousands of documents, a con Grand Jury’s request for in fidential administrative source formation, said Margaret Weeks, explained. UCSB director of public in The Grand Jury had originally formation. UCSB has one month to sought to receive the records later provide the documents. this week, but university attorneys The Foundation subpoena negotiated for a one-month ex demands all documentation tension. supporting expenditures, loan It is possible that results of the agreements, fund transfers and investigation will remain secret any other records and ledgers unless the jury issues an in involving financial transactions. dictment or report, Deputy The second subpoena calls for “all District Attorney Ed De Caro said. financial records of any and all “They have an investigatory and departments at UCSB,” Weeks an accusatory function. If they find said. out they’ve uncovered a crime, Navajo-Hopi Dispute SEAN M. HAFFEY/Naxua State Sen. Gary Hart, D-Santa Barbara, opened up to some of his student constituents Continues Over Big at an elections rally in Storke Plaza Monday. Mountain Relocation UC Officials Support Bond Act; By Elizabeth Giffin outnumber us,” said T.A. Coochyouma, First Mesa Council Bill Promotes Campus Growth Assistant County Editor representative of the Hopi Tribal Council. By Elizabeth Giffin “new buildings guarantee a better education,” explained an essay by Assembly members Nolan A territorial dispute between the The Hopi have lived at Big Assistant County Editor Navajo and Hopi Indians has Mountain, a region within the Joint Frizzelle and Don Sebastiani. sparked bitter controversy over Use Area, since 900 A.D., The fate of this measure in the upcoming election whether a congressionally man Coochyouma said. The Navajo, State Sen. Gary Hart, D-Santa Barbara, stepped will affect how UCSB can deal with overcrowding, dated relocation is a fair solution to whose original homeland is New at UCSB Monday to promote Bond Act 56, a Hart said. The bond act will provide money to ex the disagreement or an act of Mexico, came to Big Mountain in November election measure that would provide $400 pand campus facilities to build more “class space genocide. the late 1500s. million for construction and improvement of UC so that students will have room to take their final “ Hopi legal rights, as far as land “Up until now the government facilities, as well as those at other state institutions. exams,” he said. The bond act is “strongly supported” by campus is concerned, have been has always given the Navajo the Hart also discussed a work-study bill recently recognized. However, that same benefit of the doubt; that was the officials, said Ed Birch, vice chancellor of student signed into law by Gov. George Deukmejian. legal right is severely interfering reason why the courts determined and community affairs. “ It gives us the ability to Sponsored by Hart, the bill provides $1.5 million to with the human rights of these (the Navajo) had squatter’s rights. secure funding for major projects that we will subsidize 50 to 60 percent of qualified students’ Navajo who are being relocated,” They came in, squatted and no one embark upon in the near future,” Birch said. salaries. The bill is intended to enable students to said Percy Deal, president of the removed them,” said Vincent This measure, sponsored by Hart and passed by work at relevant jobs while helping to pay their Hard Rock Chapter of Navajo Monico, public affairs specialist the state Legislature, is the first of its kind to ap college expenses, Hart said. Nation. for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. pear on the state ballot. Funding for maintenance Holmdahl could not be reached at his home, after Public Law 93-531, the Navajo- “(The Navajo) don’t have the and construction of state campus facilities once three attempts, to comment on the work-study law. Hopi Land Settlement Act, was same concept of land (ownership) came from oil royalties, but this is no longer a Proposition 65, in the spotlight recently because of passed by Congress in 1974 to settle as most of us do,” Monico con reliable source due to the drop in oil prices, Hart several notable movie and music personalities’ a 1.8 million-acre land dispute tinued. “The land was and is Hopi said. support, was endorsed by Hart at the noon rally. between the two tribes. The law land ... over the past 100 years the “ The sad part about it is that taxpayers have to go “ We have taken very few measures in this state to mandates that the contended area, Navajo have encroached on it,” he to a bond election (to fund campus construction),” deal directly with the problem of carcinogens in our said county Supervisor DeWayne Holmdahl, a in the Four Corners region of said. “The unfortunate part is that drinking water,” Hart said. Arizona, be evenly divided bet (the Navajo) are being relocated Republican who opposes Hart in the November “This is a bipartisan issue because cancer ween the two tribes. because of the actions of their election. “ I support the bond act, but am more causing chemicals affect Democrats and Indians living on land par ancestors.” supportive of going after oil royalties. Un Republicans alike. Proposition 65 will take a big titioned to the opposing tribe The Navajo have lived on the fortunately, they’re not there,” he said. step forward in cataloging the kinds of chemicals should have been relocated by July disputed land for six to seven Oil royalties dropped from $400 million to $85 contained in our drinking water,” be said. 6. The relocation is continuing generations, Deal said. Deal’s million in recent months, Holmdahl said. Known as the safe drinking water initiative, the despite the unmet deadline. grandmother, who died at the age One argument posed against this measure is the proposition “provides (that) persons doing business “There isn’t any way the Hopi of 95, and mother, who is in her $1 billion it will co6t to pay back the $400 million in shall neither expose individuals to chemicals known could live as neighbors with the early 70s, have never lived bonds, according to arguments listed in the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity wihout first ballot pamphlet. Opponents also question whether Navajo simply because the Navajo (See DISPUTE, p.10) (See HART, p.10) 2 Tuesday, September 30,1986 Daily Nexus B World N a t io n State Daniloff Freed Amid Reagan Makes Last California Wineries Uncertainty Around Minute Offer on \m Threaten to Replace Zakharov's Future S. African Legislation Striking Workers V FRANK FURT, W EST G E R M A N Y — American journalist WASHINGTON — President Reagan, seeking to avert a SAN FRANCISCO — California’s biggest wineries on Nicholas Daniloff flew to the West and freedom Monday, major congressional reversal of his South Africa policy, Monday threatened to permanently replace some 2,200 released in a still secretive U.S.—Soviet agreement that offered Monday to invoke new but limited sanctions against striking workers in a week unless they ignore their own could help shake off a deepening chill in superpower the white-minority government in Pretoria.

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