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<*M a g a z in e Chocolate! Chocolate! 2A Friday, May 27,1983 IN MY OPINION W h a t ’s th e b e s t w a y to s p e n d a Friday night? Jack Peterson, Santa Bar- bara Resident NEXUS/Greg Harri« That would depend on the Friday night. I like going to a Dodger Focus Editor game in Dodger Stadium. I ’m a fan and it’s easy to get there. In fact, Eve Dutton I’m even going to a Friday night game on June 3. To make it better, you always have a beer or two and a few Dbdger Dogs. The best way is Asst. Focus Editor to have access to season tickets. Greg Harris Jon Youngdahl, Political Chocolate.......................... p. 3 A Science, Senior Hang Gliding.................... p. 4A That question could get me in trouble. I’d have to say the best Thrift Stores.......................... p.4A way is with a group of friends at a party, drinking and dancing. You Young Scholars......................p.5A should use Friday night as a release from the past week’s Job Hunt.................................p. 7A tensions. Just forget about school and everything, and have fun. I Spanish Fun .......................... p. 8A wouldn’t want to go out anywhere, I Cover Photos By like giving parties. Greg Harris Kimberly Miller, Business Economics, Senior Going out with friends and having a really good time. Just knowing that you don’t have school the next day so you can do anything you want. I like to go to a party where all my friends are, drink and shoot the breeze. It’s fun to hang out in Isla Vista and ride your bike around. Ambi Harsha, Dramatic Arts, Graduate Student If there is a volleyball game or basketball game I will be there. Sports is my first love. If friends are there fine, but if they don’t know the sport I’d rather be alone. I would prefer a quiet party to an ^ I.V. party. I enjoy die talking C parties rather than the dancing B ones. Rossana Petrilli, Un declared, Freshman I like spending Fridays with friends, just getting together and talking. Socializing around the dorms, dancing and partying is fun. I also love going to downtown Santa Barbara when I can get a ride. If I went there I would go to a restaurant with music. Daily Nexus Friday, May 27,1983 3A Chocolate Grabs the Sweet Tooth of America By EVE DUTTON Everyone has a favorite candy but no one is as serious about their sweets as the chocolate lover. Just to prove the point, 30,000 chocolate fanatics and 50 exhibitors, gathered in the Los Angeles Convention Center, this month, for “ A Salute to Chocolate! A Consuming Event.” Some chocolatiers may debate who makes the finest quality, but for most self-described chocoholics any chocolate rates a five, on a scale of one-10. “ There’s no such thing as bad chocolate,” said Carol Lindley as she gobbeled down her third chocolate turtle. The first chocolate was introduced to Europe in the 16th Century from South America by the Spanish Explorer Hernando Cortez. At that time it was not a candy but rather a liquid. It was not until Dutch Chemist Coenraad Van Houten filed a patent in 1847 for chocolate powder (cocoa), that the groundwork for a new kind of chocolate was born, a combination of chocolate liquor, cocoa butter and sugar. Twenty seven years later, Daniel Peters introduced milk chocolate to the world when he added concentrated milk to the sweet chocolate. This traditional taste treat has become the most popular among chocolate lovers. Immediately following Peters, Rodolph Lindt developed the exact method to create the smooth texture now found in the finest of chocolates. There are many grades and varieties of cocoa beans, each producing a different chocolate type and taste. Many companies blend together more than nine different beans While Debra Levine, UCSB Bookstore general merchandise manager, thinks, “ It’s to achieve the ultimate taste. Quality control is so exact that numerous chocolatiers insist always been popular. There is just a reawakening now by thé manufacturers, of what that an 8 percent humidity control be maintained during the shipment of beans to the people really like. manufacturing and processing factories. Chocolate scented pencils, pads and erasers; mugs for the “ hardcore chocoholic; and t- The various manufacturers, who in turn supply the finished chocolate to those who shirts proclaiming “ chocolate pervert,” are only a few of the products making Angello’s transform it into truffles and creams, guard their techniques as closely as a chef does his sales “ fantastic.” prize recipe. No one knows who makes the very best product, but all agree it is purely a This year true addicts may even subscribe to the monthly Chocolate News or join matter of taste. Burgais’ Society of Chocolate Lovers. In this free club, members are invited to visit Los Chocolate has grabbed the sweet tooth and pocket book of America. Angeles chocolatiers, travel to Europe’s best chocolate manufacturers and indulge “ I ’ve never seen sales like this in the past four years,” exclaimed Wes Nunamaker who themselves on a chocolate cruise to the Caribbean. has been running Cool’s Candy for 43 years, since his grandfather retired. But while chocolate consumption may be rising in the United States, Americans have a According to statistics from The Chocolate Manufacturers Association, increased lot more to eat before catching up to the Swiss. According to Walter Knobel, manager of chocolate sales precede any upturn in the nation’s economy. Albert Uster Imports Inc., a company which silk screens chocolate on chocolate, “ The economy is still recovering but chocolate is one of the little extras that money is Americans eat, on the average, only three and a half pounds of chocolate a year, as still spent on,” said Shirly Stickney, compared to the 22 pounds eaten by the manager of See’s Candy in La Cumbre Swiss. Plaza.” “ People here dpn’t know what chocoholic Exactly why chocolate’s popularity is on really means,” he said, adding that it may the rise is unknown, but it may be due to be due to the quality of the products. recent studies which show that chocolate Many Californians, however, are working isn’t more fattening than any other food, hard to match the competition. that it doesn’t cause acne and may even help “ I can’t get enough. I was born wanting prevent tooth decay by coating the teeth chocolate,” exclaimed Elly Lacy during the with cocoa butter, which inhibits bacteria. convention. But Leonard Angello, exhibitor of “ I think it’s a blood disease....I love Unedible Chocolates at the convention, it,’’said Ron Gousman. believes, “ It’s just another fad.” Recent studies have concluded that chocolate contains the chemical, (Please turn to p. 6A) BOOKS BOOKS ART ART OFF sculpture & ceramic tools, portfolios, T-Squares, drafting '/z OFF USED acrylics, oils, brushes, inks, silk instruments, templates, transfer screen supplies, papers, drawing letters, etc. 'A O F F N EW boards, mat boards, canvas, Certain textbooks we need C^X)~=ctHSI D for summer and fall quarters PEN S PEN S % O FF are not on sale any pen, mechanical pencils, refills, leads, calligraphy pens, markers, hi-liters. Mars, Rapidograph PACKS PACK V* O F F Time to replace that worn out backpack STATIONERY social stationery GREETING CARDS i/2 stock up POSTERS OFF now for good sum m er reading CALCULATORS ^ super discounts on selected model numbers sale applies to stock on hand only-AII sales are final HOURS: 6553 P A R D A LL RD. M-Th 8-6:30 "Your complete off-campus college store" Fri 8-5:30 ISLd V lS T d Sat 9-5:30 BOOKSTOfO 968-3600 4A Friday, May 27,1983 Daily Nexus As part of the 1983 Commencement festivities, the Chancellor will be hosting the Senior Barbecue on Friday, June 10th at 5:30pm Hang Gliders Sail the Skies on the University Center lawn. This informal occasion will provide an opportunity for all graduating seniors, parents, and guests to meet By CATHERINE BOWMAN one another and to chat with University ad Haven’t most of us, at one time or another, wished we could fly? Fro ministrators, deans, and department chairmen. paper airplanes to 747s, gliders to, space shuttle flights, more than oi The traditional "Santa Maria" style Barbecue individual has spent a lifetime pursuing aviation and aerodynamic will be served. Buy your tickets at the UCSB Wilbur and Orville Wright made history by suspending the Kitty Hawk Bookstore before June 3, 1983. flight; Superman made an easy commute to Lois Lane’s balcony ai Jonathan Livingston Seagull, bored with gliding, invented stream consciousness freefall to discover what the art of flying was really about. Within the last few years, hang gliding has emerged as one of the newe thrills — a sport that seems to have been designed for those who had tl InHmkm Campus Mtaisfrv misfortune of being born without wings. Watching a hang glider recently on a clear day in Santa Barbara, 1 had Proclaiming the Gospel remind myself that indeed, this was a mechanical device. True, the glid Celebrating the was much larger and more rigid than the simple construction of the bi Sacrament gliding nearby, but watching the brilliant multi-colored kite and its pil floating effortlessly over the peaks of the Santa Ynez mountains belc Sunday, 9:00 a. m. mammoth white clouds, it seemed almost natural. St.