Campus to Build Biotechnological

—opinion------------------------------------- — inside- First Home A Crucial Moment The Campus Football Game For the Student Comments Movement O n ... page 16 p a g e lO page 15 Campus to Build Biotechnological Seawater Facility to become one of the leading By M ary van Erp centers in the development in this Reporter new interdisciplinary science. “ It was only natural that Construction of a new Marine researchers and students began to Biotechnology Laboratory, which combine the two approaches, using will be used for research in marine the methods of molecular and biology, is expected to begin this cellular biology and biophysics to fall near Goleta Point. ask questions about how marine The laboratory, which is the first organisms and ecosystems work,” of its kind in the world, will house he explained. organized research units presently According to Morse, basic located in overcrowded facilities. questions about marine life will Biology professor Daniel Morse take priority in research at the lab, explained that these units are and the practical applications of working with modern these answers will be secondary. biotechnological methods to an Research on abalone provides a swer current questions in marine good example of this, Morse said. biology. Studies in the mechanics of RICHARO O'ROURKE/Naxtw According to Morse, UCSB was abalone reproduction yielded an an obvious choice to house the new answer that had practical benefits facility because “ UCSB is unique for the aquaculture and the nationwide in having a very strong medical industry. and internationally recognized Raising abalone became more base in biotechnology research, economical as reproduction could teaching apd related strengths in be understood, and it was found molecular and cellular biology and that knowledge of the chemical biophysics.” signals that regulate nerve cell “ It is (also) one of the strongest activity in abalone could be ap A Flash From The Past — institutions in teaching and plied to certain human brain research in marine biology,” disorders, including epilepsy, Celebrating NEON art, the current Morse said. “ These facts and its Morse explained. UCSB Art Museum show blends ad unique location led UCSB early on (See LAB, p. 13) vertising classics with a modern in Administrators Pressed to Find terpretation of chic. The display of American character will continue until Office Space; Solutions Sought Dec. 14. By William Diapanbrock clude additional space for im Editor In Chief pacted areas. “ We’re still catching up with the old problems and not really dealing with the new,” Faced with the unavailability of Jensen explained. “ We’re going to campus office space, ad have a problem in another year.” ministrators are moving academic The crisis over office space has personnel into emergency trailers been aggravated by this quarter’s RICHARD O'ROURKE/Nexus this quarter, possibly for the year record enrollment of 18,250 if a speedy and permanent solution students, forcing the ad is not found. ministration to initiate a larger Solutions may include the number of class sections and to UC Student Association Works purchase of a new off-campus hire new personnel. office building this quarter, or Organization of academic possibly completion of plans to personnal has become a hectic, to Prevent Possible Wage Cuts renovate the Old Gym, explained unsystematic situation. “ They’re Richard Jensen, vice chancellor of all over the place,” Jensen said. “ I By Jonathan W hitchar spent on goal setting; what things we want to con planning and analysis. think we have math TAs in four centrate on this year and how we want to go about it.” Reporter If a building is purchased an different buildings. ’ ’ UCSA is composed of one student representative announcement will be made within Although enrollment is to be from each of the nine UC campuses. The organization the next two months, he said, frozen at this quarter’s level for Working to prevent proposed student wage cuts was formed to give students a voice in changing adding that the Old Gym project the next three years, its impact on from becoming a reality will be the focus of the statewide policies, as well as give them some faces some financial feasibility campus space will continue until University of California Student Association this leverage concerning funding in behalf of UC students questions. “ It doesn’t look good.... new facilities are built. Another year, members decided at their meeting at UC throughout the system. It looks as if it might cost too much area facing enrollment impacts is Riverside earlier this month. In the past, UCSA has obtained substantial gains for what we would get out of it,” the UCen, built in 1966 and ex According to UCSA lobbyist Kirk Knutsen, “ the from negotiations with UC administrators. During Jensen said. The new office may be panded in 1979. “ In some areas we University of California is doing all it can to cut the 1985-86 school year, UCSA added $950,000 in ad located in Goleta. are expanding hours, in more wages back to minumum wage.” In response, UCSA ditional funds for student services to this year’s The gym was originally areas we’re overstaffing,” UCen has set up a task force to deal exclusively with wage budget, forestalled student wage cuts, sponsored a scheduled for conversion to office Director Alan Kirby said. cut proposals. bill (SB 195) to limit student fee increases to gradual space last winter, but estimates of Areas of the center were also UCSA was “ leaked a draft of the proposed wage levels, and lobbied to ensure that student fees will not about $1.5 million for the renovated over the summer to cuts and responded by entering into discussions with increase in 1986-87, saving UC students about $100 renovation have halted ad allow better access to services, administrators for approximately six months,” each. ministrative action. and the management may con Knutsen said. When these discussions proved inef Several organizational changes have also taken UCSB also expects completion of struct another patio eating area to fective, UCSA “ went to the state legislature and place. The number of vice presidents has increased Engineering II in Winter Quarter, offset food service congestion. introduced legislation calling for a study on the from one to four, and the group has become focused which should transfer personnel Although UCSB officials are not impact of wage cuts on students. ” on fewer issues than in the past. Among those issues out of Broida Hall and the Arts including passage of a proposed In response to this action, administrators agreed to is “ support for Senator Cranston’s bill to postpone Building. These areas will be filled student fee referendum for con a moratorium on wage cuts until early 1987 in ex relocation (of the Navajo) on Big Mountain by existing programs, leaving struction of a new sports center in change for the withdrawal of the legislation, Knutsen (Arizona),” Weed said. problems with new space needs their plans, both Kirby and Jensen explained. Jamie Acton, another UCSB student who attended unsolved, Jensen said. said that if it passed in October, According to Associated Students External Vice the meeting, said the UCSA “ works closely with the A new biological seawater lab is problems with space may be President Sharlene Weed, UCSB representative to lobby annex of each campus. They have a legislative planned as well, but will not in- eased. UCSA, “much of the (September) meeting was also (See UCSA, p.18) 2 Friday, September 26,1966 Daily Nexus -------------------------- I— — ■------------ n m Headliners from the Associated Press World Nation State Israeli Planes Bomb House Okays Largest Overcrowding Forces Lebanon in Search of Single Spending Bill Santa Barbara Judge m V PLO Guerrilla Base for Federal Agencies to Release Prisoners SIDON, LEBANON — Israeli warplanes Thursday WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly ap SANTA BARBARA — Prisoners nearing the end of their rocketed a site believed to be a Palestinian guerrilla base, proved $562 billion in spending authority for federal sentences may be released three days early in an effort to police said. One person was reported killed and two agencies in the new budget year, the largest sum ever ease crowding at the main Santa Barbara County jail, a wounded in the second Israeli air attack in Lebanon in three crammed into a single money bill. judge ruled. days. The measure was passed 201-200 and sent to the Senate Superior Court Judge William Gordon on Wednesday In Tel Aviv, the Israeli military command said the target despite the threat of a veto by President Reagan. Virtually ruled that the Sheriff’s Department should begin giving was a base belonging to the Fatah guerrilla faction headed every facet of government spending for the new fiscal year early releases to prisoners. Gordon’s order was a follow-up by Yasser Arafat, chair of the Palestine Liberation starting Oct. 1 was wrapped into a single giant package. on a directive he issued last November. Organization. “ We put all our eggs in this one basket,” said Rep. Trent Most prisoners in the jail are either awaiting trial or Lebanese police said the Israeli planes rocketed Lott of Mississippi, the House Republican whip. He called it serving sentences of up to one year. More serious offenders Ashrafieh Hill east of Sidcm’s Mieh Mieh refugee camp, and the “ Bloated Omnibus Money Bill — or BOMB for short, serve their time in state prisons. confirmed that a Fatah base was believed located there. which is just what’s going to happen to it when it gets to the The issue of jail overcrowding arose after inmates filed a Police said six Israeli planes swooped out of the sky over White House.” series of lawsuits against the Sheriff’s Deparmtent, similar the Mediterranean west of Sidon at 11:20 a.m.

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