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Thursday UC Santa Barbara — O p i n i o n — S p o r t s Benefit Concert * * K m The R.A.I.N.S. Breast Cancer Wanna figure out how not to Senior Naoya Takemoto led Organization concert is get arrested? Rqad Officer the UCSB golf team to a tonight in the Hub from 9 to Rodriguez’s admonitions on second-place finish in the Sunset: 6:17 p.m. 12. Tickets are $8 presale how to stay out of trouble. Countrywide Home Loan High Tide: 7:51 p.m. and $10 at the door. Intercollegiate Tournament. S e e p .8 Low Tide: 1:58 p.m. Volume 80, No.18 Two Sections, 16 Pagès I.V. Foot Patrol Fends Off Recent Complaints By L eo Spanos Reporter Citizens dissatisfied with law enforcement performance will be able to publicly express themselves during National Stop Police Brutality Day. Friday’s nationwide event began in Los Angeles four years ago, and is being commemorated locally and fn cities across the nation. Associated Students Vice President for Local Affairs Rebecca " Prather said the day’s focus is to raise peoples’ awareness. “It lets the cops know and also educates the general public that police brutality does occur and that it’s intolerable and that it is not a necessary component of what peace officers are supposed to do on their job,” she said. Prather plans to present requests from the community to the IVFP as well as attend a march in Los Angeles. The signed cards ask the IVFP to make complaint forms available throughout the community and provide mandatory sensitivity training to the offi cers, among several other requests. “We’ve collected about 400 to 500 cards signed by students to be delivered to the Foot Patrol in uncontentious terms,” Prather said. “We want to have an uncontentious environment in which we can start communicating the needs of our community.” Increased communication has helped bridge the gap between officers and residents, Foot Patrol Lt. Butch Arnoldi said. “[Relations are] the best they’ve ever been,” he said. “Two times a week an officer will go out to some type of community event to speak with the students and take questions,” he said. JASON SCH O CK / DAILY NEXUS Residents can air their problems by filing a complaint at the Foot Keep Flying High Patrol office or the Sheriff’s Headquarters, according to Arnoldi, This native Cooper's Hawk takes flight from its perch in Anisq' Oyo' Park. Other types of local wildlife but they must be recent, legitimate and may not be submitted anonymously. include threatened species such as the black-tailed jackrabbit and western pond turtle. See story, p.3. ? See COMPLAIN, p.5 Appointments, Shoreline Initiative Authorities Warn Students of DUI Penalties Create Lengthy Leg Council Meeting By Sh a u n M c G radY Reporter By B ren d an Bu h ler THE STATS Reporter Every weekday night from 10 pm to 1 am, one in 13 You’re leaving a party and two drivers is drunk. Between 1 am and of your friends are drunk but 6 am on weekend mornings, one in seven In a five-hour meeting dominated by confusion, flaring tempers want to drive home. You’ve had a drivers is drunk. and tears, the Associated Students Legislative Council nailed down few, but are in a much better a number of internal details. condition than them. W hat do About 1,058,990 were injured in alcohol-related The council approved the By-Laws for the Shoreline Preservation you do? crashes in 1997. That is an average of one Fund, the UC Student Association action agenda and a resolution to Junior environmental studies person injured every 30 seconds. hold 75 percent of their meetings in the ÜCen next quarter. They major Carlos Gonzalez found also appointed three new members to the council. himself in this situation last In 1997 there were two alcohol-related traffic deaths The Shoreline Preservation Fund’s By-Laws brought debate that per hour, 45 per day and 315 per week. That is equiv summer. While playing pool and centered around the makeup of the fund’s executive board. Currently, alent to two jetliners crashing every week. drinking beer at a friend’s house, the board consists of one representative from A.S., EAB and 20-year-old Gonzalez was Surfrider, and two graduate and undergraduate students. 41 percent of the driving age public said they do not approached by two friends who Rep at Large Courtney Ross-Tait said she wished to see a greater know whether or not their state has a different blood had had a few too many and proportion of undergraduates on the board. “It has to be representa alcohol content limit for drivers under the age of 21. were planning to drive home. tive of the student body,” she said. “There’s no way I’d ever want to Carlos determined that they see this passed with more grads than undergrads.” Men are four times more likely than women to drive were too drunk to drive home SPF Board member Craig Revell defended the board’s makeup as after drinking. and offered to drive them it stood. He said, “There’s quite a small population of people on this Source: Mothers Against Drunk Driving instead. Less than two blocks campus who A) have the proper knowledge [of environmental later, Carlos was pulled over issues], and B) have the dedication to show up.” hours in jail,” he said. “When I job in Montecito because I was because his car lacked a front After an hour spent on a series of procedural errors, the By-Laws went to court I found out that I unable to drive to work.” license plate. He was arrested for were ultimately approved 15-2. would not only have my license Driving under the influence driving under the influence. Also approved was UCSA’s 1999/2000 Action Agenda. The items suspended, but because I was of alcohol is a serious problem in “I was given the breathalyzer include bringing back Affirmative Action, hiring hate-crimes offi under 21,1 was unable to receive I.V., and the consequences are test at the scene, and was cers and increasing support for student parents. External Vice a restricted license. I received not always well understood, said brought in to the station where I over $2,000 in fines and CH P officer Todd Johnson. was given a blood test to be used See COUNCIL, p.5 court-ordered class fees, and to in court. I spent the next 18 top it off, I was forced to quit my See DUI, p.6 2 Thursday, October 21,1999 Daily Nexus Daily Nexus Editor in Chief M a tt H urst Police Arrest Gang for Sexual Offenses Managing Editor- Jill S I John Layout/Design Editor Ashley Timiraos * tutes. In some cases, they reputation of the Hmong, Training Editor Tony Biasotti are taken across state lines who fought alongside U.S. News Editor Gretchen Macchiarella for prostitution, police say. troops in Laos, then fled Campus Editor Ted Andersen FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — up in Nevada, North “When these investiga Asst. Campus Editors Jerry Beers, Eric Simons after the Communist County Editors David Downs, Alexis Filippini Twenty-three Hmong Carolina and Minnesota, tions are over, we will have takeover of South Vietnam Asst. County Editor Je ff Lupo men and boys face indict where other large Hmong incarcerated the major in 1975. An estimated AP W ire E ditor Sarah Kent ment on sex abuse charges populations have settled. portion of the Mongolian 250,000 Hmong refugees Features Editor Elizabeth Werhane Opinion Editor — the latest counts stem Police suspect that Boys Society,” said detec Megan H err now live in the United Asst. Opinion Editor Tony Biasotti ming from the 1998 gang members of the tive Jimmy Olson. “But States. Sports Editor Marvin Gapultos rape of three girls and the The suspects in the lat Asst Sports Editor Zack O'Neill operation of a sex-slave est case range in age from" Artsweek Editor Jennifer Raub ten these investigations are over, we will AsstArtsweek Editors Trey Clark, Cristy Turner ring. 14 to 45, and face charges hajjjp incarcerated the major portion of the Photo Editor Jason Schock An 826-count indict including * rape, false Asst. Photo Editor True Bui ment by a Fresno County Mongolian Boys Society. imprisonment, kidnap Art Director Kazuhiro Kibuishi grand jury scheduled to be - Jirrqjty Olson ping, witness intimidation, Copy Editor Amanda Green unsealed today charges the Asst Copy Editors Erin Coe, Elizabeth Werhane d e te c tiv e pimping, pandering and Copy Readers Rebecca Gunnill, Daniel Llamas, defendants with raping lewd and lascivious acts on Amber Neff, Kellie Schneider, girls and forcing them to a child younger than 14. Kelly Stephens prostitute themselves, Mongolian Boys Society, a they are still recruiting, so Tuesday’s arrests mark Chief Night Editor Lauren Bensinger * police said. predominantly Hmong, we don't know when Night Editors Ana Campos, Jonathan Groveman, the third phase of a sweep Matt Hurst, Cara Jennison, All but one of the Fresno-based gang, are they’ll stop.” ing investigation that dates Sarah Kent, Loran Marsan defendants were arrested either kidnapping or lur Shur Vangyi, who acts back 18 months, to the Tuesday. Thirteen of them ing girls between the ages as a liaison between the time when three young Special Supplements Lauren Bensinger were already in custody in- of 11 and 15, raping them city and the Southeast Advertising Representatives Amanda Cameron, Crystal Cowan, Clovis girls were gang- Christina Maybaum, April Schleede connection with previous repeatedly, then forcing Asian community, said the raped at a motel in west rapes.