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What? __________ © __________ © * ? Me leave 6anta Barbara? DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY. JU N E 6. 1980 PORTAL PAGE2A Editor Karlin J. Lillington UIEÜJS... Writers Lisa Renee Harris If the Presidential election were to be held Cathy Kelly tomorrow with Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan Dennis Herman and John Anderson as the candidates, who Carol Baird would you vote for, and why? Meg McCandless Leslie Byrd Rob Palmer, junior, history: Graphics I would vote for John Anderson, basically because I feel that he’s a real alternative to Kelly Rowe Carter or Kennedy. I like his ideas because Tracy Strub he’s a man who doesn’t feel the need to adopt a “liberal” or “conservative” stand point on a number of issues. In most issues that we face, all the real answers, the best answers, don’t come from a given political spectrum. I like Anderson very much. As for the other two candidates, Carter’s on drugs and Reagan’s a crypto-Nazi. Dave Cannon, sophomore, economics: Anderson because Carter is the most in competent man that could possibly be in the office in history. I think Reagan is too conservative. Even though I don’t think Anderson is the best I think that he’d be the A r u L y e r m a — best of the three. In Isla Vista 956 Embarcadero del Norte M € $ ß By Appointment: 685:1209 NftTUflC (W O €MITH UNTIED WITH SOCNCf or 685-4104 Ken Robertson, sophomore, environmental studies; The reason I would vote for John Anderson is because I think it would be intense to have a president who looks like Andy Warhol. Also, I think it would be very entertaining to have a unique character, as opposed to Carter, who’s always smiling, and Reagan, who’s going to be dead soon. Carter’s policy of LOW GOST having no policy should be changed and Anderson is the-only alternative. FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK LONDON PARIS AMSTERDAM BRUSSELS FRANKFURT MADRID ZURICH and TEL AVIV Connecting Student Rights to destinations in Kathy Johannesson, junior, business-econ: I’d vote for Anderson because I hate the AFRICA, ASIA and AUSTRALIA other two. o o c $ e o also available: • INTERNATIONAL STUDENT I.D. CARD •W ORK ABROAD PROGRAM • RAILPASSES, CAR DEALS, ETC. Kathy Lelevier, junior, political science/- business-econ: FREE STUDENT TRAVEL CATALOG I would vote for Anderson, mainly because Carter is not performing to his capacities. In his foreign policy he just isn’t acting quick enough. In the Iranian crisis if he’d acted A.S. TRAVEL quickly in the beginning when the public was UCen 3135 behind him, he would have been able to do something. If Reagan was elected I think M,W,Th 10-3 Tu,F10-1 that as students we’d be totally screwed. < Please turn to pg. 5A, Col. 1 ) FRIDAY, JUNE6. 1980 DAILY NEXUS PAGE3A Why ¿anta Barbara Grads Wont Go Away By Lisa Renee Harris i i O o, you’re graduating. What are you gonna do? ” A lot compromised. I don’t see myself giving up anything, too, has lived here for a while, and considers it home. .“It’s of people are targets for this annoying question because I don’t know that I could do any better in L.A. or been three years. All my friends and all the people I care right now. For a while, I carried around a revolver and San Francisco.” But at this point she’s not actively pur about are here. L.A. is absolutely better in terms of a fingered it thoughtfully whenever someone asked me. suing a career. “I’m not thinking of these two years as career, but I can’t really see leaving.” Especially if it was someone stepping into a $25-grand-a- ‘Career.’ I’m mainly preparing and gathering knowledge Carl Lane, also a recent graduate, said, “I quite simply year IBM position on July 1. for when I go to grad school.” am more enamored of this town than of any other I’ve But is $25-grand-a-year (or something comparable in Did Santa Barbara greet you with open arms? ever seen.” another field) worth aiming for, even if it means living in Anonymous said, “I don’t think it was welcoming at all. The job and housing situation hasn’t always been this The job and housing markets are real tight. There are wmmsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmsmmm older, established people here and they aren’t giving up “I’m unemployed right now, and their jobs.” “I probably wouldn’t be cleaning According to Kevin I. Riley, a groundsman at one of the out fish bowls if I had my choice of I ’ll have to start looking for a job Goleta schools, “I swear I was on State St. for two weeks soon. I’ll probably try for a high- straight. I’d say, ‘Hi, my name is...’, and before I knew it, jobs, but then again, who can be paying waitress job. ’ ’ I’d be escorted out onto the sidewalk. Businesses here picky?” simply don’t have a turnover. Well, if you’re talking Wendy’s or Jack in the Box, that’s a different story.” El Segundo or Oakland? Quite a few UCSB graduates are So what’s the big attraction? “I’ve been here for the discouraging, but apparently the town’s lure is nothing so charmed by the Santa Barbara area that they stay here past few years, and I didn’t particularly want to start new. Stephen Cloud, a 1969 graduate, now produces regardless of career plans. Others are fortunate enough to over,” said one graduate. “All my friends are here, and I concerts locally. “Ten years ago, there was no problem grab up the few good openings in their fields, and a very have set up contacts here that I don’t have up north. getting jobs. They were nothing substantial, but they were few are successful at carving out a custom-made niche. “The area is really agreeable,” she went on; “I can’t there.” He started working in a record store upon Lou Housel of the Placement Center guessed that most say that it didn’t persuade me.” graduation; “that was when I was a record freak and a of the people that stay after graduation become Kilgore agreed. “The weather, the pace, the way hippie and had two-feet-long hair. Times were different.” waitresses or cooks, or join one of the research cor everything’s pretty centralized — you don’t really need a He said he didn’t have many concerns about applying his porations. “I can’t give you a number for how many car — it’s the Santa Barbara mellow life of ease.” She, history degree, “since I didn’t declare my major until the students do this,” he said. “A figure did second half of my senior year.” Neither did come up a few years ago, but it’s too his post-graduation employment thwart outrageous to quote." Cloud’s career goals. As he explained it, “I Perhaps it’s not so outrageous. Many didn’t have any. Well, I wanted to be a former students have become permanent millionaire and have 5,000 acres, but I residents, both in Isla Vista and Santa wasn’t in a position to do that.” Barbara, and are often blamed for utilizing There are a lot of college graduates living housing traditionally preserved for the here and working in jobs they might be transitory student population. The Chamber overqualified for. One woman noted that, of Commerce statistician, Lynn Carlisle, “most of the waitresses here are really didn’t have any current figures, but said, “I highly educated.” But no one I talked to think many students do decide to stay seemed to feel that the area was the only here.” thing keeping them here. “I’m not exactly In order to stay, they’ve got to get jobs (or overjoyed about my job,” Marien Perez so says The American Way). How feasible is admitted. She is one of those educated that? Carlisle noted that electronics and waitresses. “But I wouldn’t stay here if I electrical engineering are “this town’s absolutely hated it and couldn’t find another specialty,” and that, if you’re interested in one.” these fields, “career opportunities are very good.” Some people also mentioned that while But what if you majored in ergonomics, or Santa Barbara is nice, they can’t English? Lauren Kilgore, an artist realistically stay here and progress in a graduated from the College of Creative career. “I know there are better op Studies, lives in San Roque and said, “I’m portunities somewhere else,” Sultan said. unemployed right now, and I’ll have to start Mountains, valleys, a beautiful coastline and perfect weather “It’s beautiful here, and I don’t think I could looking for a job soon. I’ll probably try for a all combine to lure UCSB grads from careers elsewhere. ever live in Los Angeles. But I think even high-paying waitress job.” Kilgore was a tually I’m going to have to work something waitress in Isla Vista until just recently. out so that I’m here only six months a year, Kenny Sultan got a job teaching guitar lessons one and the other six I’ll spend being serious about music. Not month after graduating and he’s “really happy with it. I that I’m not serious here, but there just aren’t the same lucked out, actually.