Grateful Dead Could Appear Here May 20 Security Problems May Block Concert

Grateful Dead could appear here May 20 Security problems may block concert By Mike Gordon Stills, Nash and Young in late 1969, drew Well the first days are the hardest days 14.000 people, including gate-crashers Don't you worry any more who forced their way in and tore down Cause when life looks like easy street sections of fence. Bowles and Goodspeed There is danger at your door would rather see if a smaller bill in the Think this through widi me 5,000-7,000 audience range can be Let me know your mind smoothly handled first. Whoah what / want to know Is are you kind? OUTSIDE PROMOTER Garcia, Kreutzmann, McKeman, Lesh and Weir: erstwhile troubadors are maybe yes, maybe -Hunter-Garcia, “Unde John's Band" no for May. Much of yesterday's debate, the latest The Grateful Dead have confirmed a in a series of back-end-forth talks May 20 date to perform at UCSB, between A.S. Concerts and the capping nine months of negotiations with Administration, centered over whether A.S. Concerts Committee. would-be Dead promoter Sepp But a problem that has hampered past Donahower of Pacific Presentations has efforts to stage big-name concerts on the expertise and resources necessary to campus — the lack of adequate outdoor handle a concert in the wide-open campus concert facilities — threatens to disrupt fa c ility . plans for the Dead appearance. "At this point we don't believe we're Representatives of the Administration capable of handling a concert with Vol. 53—No. 93 University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, March 8,1973 and A.S. met for an hour and a quarter 20.000 people," warned Perry. yesterday afternoon in an attempt to iron Vice Chancellor Goodspeed's assistant out past problems with outdoor concerts Bill Steinmetz told Curnutt, "I like you at UCSB, but instead ended up defining and I trust you but I can't believe you more problems to be overcome. you promise no crowd disturbances." Still, as campus ombudsman Geoff Rexroth may face end Curnutt in turn said he would try to Wallace remarked after the meeting, 'The bring Donahower to UCSB to confer with clouds aren't too heavy. I think the administrators over concert problems. date'll come off." Donahower's organization recently staged of employment at UCSB Campus officials, including Vice two Rolling Stones dates in Los Angeles Chancellor Stephen Goodspeed, chief of By Anne Sutherland class, in which students perform their police Derry Bowles and facilities (Cont. on p. 2, col. 4) World-reknowned poet Kenneth written work with music, dance or film, coordinator Kati Perry, aren't as Rexroth, a lecturer in UCSB's English' was disallowed after its second year for optimistic. They see a number of Department, may not be rehired for credit for English majors. LATE BULLETIN logistical roadblocks to a Campus another year of teaching. In response to The purpose of the class, says Rexroth, Stadium appearance by the immensely this news, petitions are being circulated "is not to produce Joni Mitchells or popular Bay-area band: Gerrymander by students who do not want to see the Leonard Cohens, but to produce a —Lack of security at Campus Stadium. i '" popular teacher leave. creative community of writers." Ida Vista twill be moved from the 36th 'The stadium right now is not securable Rexroth has been told that his annual ."This bugs certain people,". Rexroth Assembly District to a Kern County district for any type of concert," admits Perry. under the terms of a reapportion merit bill reappointment hinges on tight budget said, "because it's not like a course on —Danger to stadium turf. passed by voice vote yesterday ip the Stats allotments for next year. Besides the M ilton." Administrators at first objected that a Assembly. pending budget question, Rexroth's age Final voting on the bill is scheduled far this stadium-size tarpaulin needed to keep of 67 has been cited by English "STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS" morning on the Senate floor. Department Chairman Frank Gardiner as broken glass off the field would cost over The shift is a result of last-minute Another of Rexroth’s courses, English amendments to the reapportionment bill, reason for not re-hiring the poet. $12,000; A.S. Concerts Chairman Jim 194, a third quarter sequel to Poetry of putting the Isla Vista and campus area votes University rules state that tenured Curnutt says one can be rented in Los Pre-Literate Peoples and Non-European Angeles for $375. into the cistrict of Bakersfield Democrat Ray faculty must retire at age 67, unless they Civilizations, was cancelled after it had Gonzales. —Lack of medical facilities necessary Isla Vista's powerful Democratic bloc was receive a special reappointment from the been set up. The course dealt with "the department chairman, with approval from for a capacity crowd. the object of last year's Congressional district whole international scene of —Parking. If non-students drive in from gerrymander which linked Isla Vista to Kern the Academic Senate, the Chancellor apd contemporary poetry.” Santa Barbara or Los Angeles, which they County via a "Finger" extending north and east the Board of Regents, But Rexroth, in his "Anything to be done about me," says to the Bakersfield area. certainly w ill, several thousand cars will Putting Isla Vista into Gonzales' district fifth year at UCSB, claims this rule does Rexroth, "depends on the students' not apply in his case because he is not a have to be taken care of — hopefully not would effectively create a "safe" district for willingness to have me." Unknown to on the streets of Isla Vista. incumbent W. Don MacGillivray. Democrat member of the tenured staff. Because of Rexroth, students have organized a Gary Hart came within 1000 votes of unseating his unique position as a sort of —Administrative reluctance to attract petition campaign to express their desire 20,000 rock and roll fans to UCSB. The MacGillivray in last November's election. "writer-in-residence," Rexroth has asked that he continue teaching. for a special reappointment. last concert in Campus Stadium, Crosby, REQUESTS IGNORED Rexroth has written several letters to the department requesting information Man holds gun on Del Playa residents concerning his status, but he has received little action. He has requested a meeting By Bob Gettlin the cause of the noise and one of the girls commotion and was able to catch a of English Department faculty so that A young man carrying a gun entered a yelled to warn him that the stranger had a glimpse of the assailant as he was jumping they may decide if they want to request Del Playa duplex early Tuesday morning gun. Immediately, the gunman turned on out of the window. funds to continue Rexroth's position. No but was able to make an escape after the the other man, backed him towards the Later, members of the Foot Patrol and meeting has been called. girls he had been holding at gunpoint bedroom and told him, "it's all over now, Santa Barbara Police force arrived at the Although Rexroth is aware of the managed to rush out of their apartment it's all over now." scene but were able to get little many controversies in the English unharmed. The two women then quickly opened information from the man. His Department, he said in a recent interview It was one in the morning when two the sliding glass door in the apartment, description shows that he is young, that "the question of my reappointement women who were typing in their rushed out, jumped over the hedge and probably in his late twenties, with is not factional." apartment answered a knock at the door ran out into the street screaming for help. shoulder length blondish-brown hair, "Poetry and Song," Rexroth’s and were confronted by an unfamiliar The gunman began to panic and rushed about B'B" and around 135 lbs. contemporary poetry writing class, face asking to use their telephone. After back into the living room to see where attracts hundreds of students, who work Also there is little indication of what allowing the stranger to come in and the two women had gone which gave the closely with the writer Rexroth. The he wanted when he entered' the reassuring him that their large Irish other mart, who was now in the bedroom, apartment and pulled out the weapon. As Wolfhound was harmless, the unidentified the chance to climb out the back window they were being tied up the girls asked gunman pulled out a revolver and ordered with another woman who had been him repeatedly what he wanted and Women’s Day! the two girls to lie on the floor and listening from there. intended to do. When they asked him if proceeded to tape their hands together. At that moment, the gunman realized he wanted money he responded with a Today is International Women's Day, so Because there was another woman and that he was in danger of being caught and terse, "yes." take a woman to lunch! Or vice versa. a man in one of the back bedrooms the quickly climbed out of the same bedroom There will be tables in front of the UCen two victims began to make as much noise window and made an escape in an At the present time there is no further distributing information on the Women's as possible without alarming their captor. unidentified vehicle. The only remaining information on the identity of the Movement and other related topics. Fortuhately, the man in the bedroom person in the apartment was a fourth gunman but the Sheriff's Department is came out to the living room to investigate woman who had been wakened by the handling an investigation of the incident.

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