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The Isla Vista Community Council voted Monday night to ignore the recommendations of the Peace Commission and keep up the controversial automobile barrier on Pardall and Camino Pescadero until their master traffic plan is devised in four months. DAILY After a week of discussion with businessmen, the Peace Commisssion recommended to remove the barrier simply because it created so much controversy and was straining a working relationship with I.V. businessmen. VOL. 51 - NO. 25 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28,1970 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Also recommended were drawing up a Ida Vista master traffic plan with the Council, businessmen, County and community working on it, and conducting a traffic control study to be done by January, 1971. The Council, however, voted to reject the recommendations because UCSB, I.Y. plagued by rush of bike thefts; of the barrier stipulation. It was moved to accept the other recommendations and this motion was passed. IVCC also voted to appoint a commission to look into the difficulties businessmen are having in Isla Vista. Profits are down all Parking Semces advises strong lock, chain over town, and 25 businesses have moved out in recent months. entire last school year, according bikes, most in very good FRATERNITIES The UCSB campus and Isla Vista have been plagued by a rash to Dexter Wood, UCSB condition. A final resolution was adopted on the illegally placed fraternities on Department of Parking Services Other findings indicate that Del Play a. of bicycle thefts in the past three weeks. According to the supervisor. most off-campus and dorm bike After discussion with the County Council during the past week, it A survey, conducted by the thefts occur at night, whereas was learned that the fratemities'can legally remain if they take down Department of Parking Services, 152 bicycles have been reported Department of Parking Services most thefts near campus class their letters and have a different mailing address. has revealed that locking one’s rooms occur during class hours. So the Council resolved that although they realize that the stolen between Oct. 1 and Oct. 23. bike is no safeguard against theft. Wood said that a ring of fraternities can legally remain, they condemn the acts of zoning At least 63 per cent of the stolen out-of-town bicycle thieves may manipulation by certain I.V. realtors that could damage even further In comparison, just over 900 bicycles were reported stolen the bicycles this month were locked. be responsible for many of these Isla Vista’s density problem. In most, if not in all of these thefts. To minimize the chance of cases, bolt cutters were used to theft, Wood advises students to snip open bike chains. In one lock their bike to a stationary case, it was found that the bike object, using a strong lock and Hitch Commission reports University chain had been melted through. chain and running it through the The survey also revealed that frame and both wheels if boys’ ten speed bikes are the possible. He also stressed that most susceptible to theft. student involvement is needed in must not ignore I.V. living conditions Seventy-three of the total 152 order that thieves by thwarted in stolen bikes were boys’ ten-speed their attempts. By ELLEN PITCHER improving the quality of life lease,, additional housing on DN Special Reports Director there.” campus, cooperatives similar to (Editor’s note: Second of a 2-part It is recommended that the those at Berkeley and UCLA, and series concerning President University work with the existing the construction of a University Hitch’s Isla Vista Commission Isla Vista organizations and Center on the Storke Campus Report.) County officials “to expand and adjacent to I.V. were cited as formalize the relationship ways to iron, out these conflicts. “If there is one thread running between the County and a T h e Commission through all our deliberations and popularly elected representative recommended that, until recommendations, it is that the body in Isla Vista.” conditions in the Isla Vista area University can no longer ignore, The second recommendation are much improved, the student if «ver it could, the conditions urges that “UCSB both initiate, population remain at its present under which the bulk of its and seek the cooperation of size. They also felt that the ratio students live and spend the others in initiating programs to of graduate students to greater part of their time while at create a more varied community undergraduates should be the University. in Isla Vista.” increased by the addition of “In brief, then, our (Hitch Possibilities of residential professional schools. Commission) Report and colleges and married student housing, along with an increase of The final recommendation Recommendations should be read cultural, academic and asked that “The University-wide as an effort to identify ways in commercial activities are Administration take action to which Isla Vista can be brought provide resources to UCSB to more closely into the life of the suggested as means of achieving this goal. implement the recommendations WHICH ONE of these unsuspecting bicycles will be the next victim??? University, ways in which the of this report.” Photo by Renata Farber quality of life, and not least the “Providing the kinds of intellectual and cultural life, of services needed in an urban area that community can be which has the special problems of HITCH REPORT improved. Isla Vista’s “youth culture’ ” is a “If that can be achieved, Isla job the Commission thinks the Vista may yet become a resource University, along with Santa of the University, and not, as Barbara County officials and I.V. now, chiefly a threat to it — a residents, must perform. Local authorities silent place where students and others Advanced coordinated can live and work in peace with planning of all local police forces Reaction to the Hitch Commission report on Isla essentially a “good report and can be immediately one another and with their was deemed highly necessary in Vista, when there has been a reaction, has been implemented... the recommendations are broad and human and physical case of future violence, as was mostly favorable. realizable.” environment.” “effective command leadership in Government officials have publicly announced He struck a pessimistic note, saying that “reports times of crisis.” their approval. President Hitch, who set up the have usually been used as justifications for The Commission made eight The Commission also urged committee, praised the report as “an excellent piece inactions, not action... I really question whether the specific recommendations so that that “ generalized police of work accomplished under extremely difficult Regents are going to commit their money to I.V. these goals can be made realities; procedures that are directed conditions.” efforts.” they range in scope from projects indiscriminately against the Governor Reagan felt that there were “some He continued that “students and I.V. residents the University should implement community as a whole should be wonderful parts.” Reagan continued that “there has have been taking the initiative in I.V. all along and to ways that Isla Vista can help avoided.” to be more ‘in loco parentis’... parents like to think will continue to do so.” itself. Day-to-aay policing services someone is looking out for their children.” Ray Varley, who has acted as vice chancellor of The first recommendation asks “that take into account the On the local level, there was distinct affairs in Isla Vista, stated that “The that UCSB adopt policies that unique nature of the unwillingness to talk about the report and its recommendations point the University in a direction recognize Isla Vista as “an community” should be brought implications. I believe I have been trying to point it in for a few integral part of the University about by both community The Sheriffs Office refused to comment, saying years.” community” and that “UCSB’s involvement in actual policing it feared that it would be reported unfairly. An The recommendations, he felt “need some vital interests are involved in efforts and by the assistant to Dan Grant, County supervisor for Isla refinement” and the report needed some clearing implementation of the foot Vista, reported that to his knowledge, Grant had up, as it helped to perpetuate some of “the myths patrol on an experimental basis. not read the entire report. of I.V.” He did not elaborate, except to say that he had six pages of such cases. Grant to speak The sixth recommendation Chancellor Cheadle said that his office was suggested that “UCSB negotiate preparing a statement for some time this week. He did not echo Tosdal’s pessimism, saying that Campus Police Chief Derry Bowles also declined “I think the Regents will come through — they have A.S. Lectures Committee with owners and managers of student housing in Isla Vista and comment, saying that he wished to gain “a broader reacted favorably. We’re going to have to define presents the second in a what is our role in I.V. Is it as a parent or a with student residents to background than I now have”. series of lectures on I.V. neighbor? I think it should be the latter,” he today, with a speech by ameliorate the causes of present A.S. President Tom Tosdal talked with the conflicts.” NEXUS about the report, saying “as an I.V. concluded. Supervisor Dan Grant, at The Hitch Commission report was released Such actions as the resident, I think it wasn’t quite strong enough in its 3:00 p.m. in Ellsn. 1910. Friday, Oct. 16. formulation of a “standard” criticism of the police.” However, he felt that it was PAGE 2 U CSB DAILY NEXUS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28,1970 intercepted before the fact “by Dist.

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