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■ s r p • Mr. Doe 4 o • Opinion 8 R Gaucho Baseball: T ê A Interracial Love • Feature 10 T • Sports 12 It's a Wrap! It Don't Come Easy Oc • Classifieds 15 P a g e 1 2 P a g e 1 0 • Coupons 1A Volume 69, No. 138 Daily Nexus Tuesday, May 23,1989___________ University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 28 Pages Dispute The Bear Dance District Arises on Favors FT Cheer Forming Programs I.V. Board Francisco Torres’ Proposed Six-member Neighbors Claim Its Body to Serve as Link Cheerleading Camps Between Community Violate Ordinance and Foot Patrol Office By Christopher P. Griffen By Daniel H. Jeffers Reporter Staff Writer The cheerleaders’ camps that Perceiving increased tension traditionally occupy Francisco between the Isla Vista Foot Patrol Torres Private Residence. Hall and local residents, the Isla Vista during summer months might Recreation and Park District cease operations this year if the board of directors has proposed the county opts to enforce a 15-year-old formation of a six-member body to ordinance apparently prohibiting provide a link between the com such uses of the facility. munity and police. The ordinance, drafted in 1974, The proposed board, which was recently called to the county’s received unanimous endorsement attention by residents of from the IVRPD directors, would Family Student Housing, located consist of three members ap adjacent to FT on Storke Road. pointed by the UCSB Associated The neighbors complain that the Students and three by the IVRPD. camps create excessive amounts A.S. External Vice President of noise. Ellen Thornton believes it will be Family Student Housing resident fairly easy to garner A.S. support Mike Fitzgerald said he believes for such a board and says she the 1974 ordinance clearly expects the matter to be discussed prohibits activities at FT at Wednesday night’s A.S. disruptive to the neighboring Legislative Council meeting. “ I community, and said he is angry don’t think it will be a problem It that the ordinance has not been will be an ad hoc committee,” she enforced. “ The very ordinance said. that (County Supervisor Bill Thornton added that A.S. Wallace) sponsored for FT has representatives to the board would never been enforced,” he said. “ probably be appointed by myself “ What I would like to get done is to with recommendations. I have a have that ordinance enforced.” good idea who to ask (to sit on the The ordinance states that “ all board).” accessory and incidental uses (of After members are appointed, it F T ) shall be located within the will be up to them to determine the building.” body’s modus operandi. It is However, FT officials deny that “ absolutely the district’s intent the law necessarily prohibits the that the thing be open,” said conducting of cheerleading camps. IVRPD General Manager Glenn The week-long camps, run by the Lazof. “ We specifically didn’t title Bay Area-based United Spirit it anything. The name will be Association, usually occupy FT determined by the appointees.” from June 21 to Aug. 31. Between However, Lazof listed some 11 to 14 high school and college-age Reforming.a bear dance, this Chumash "Dolphin Dancer" entertained spectators on things that the board is not camps use the facility and its the EOP/SAA lawn Friday afternoon as part of the North American Culture authorized to do. For example, it outdoor recreation space over the Awareness Week. will have no authority over police. course of the summer. GENEVIEVE FIELD/Daily Nexus “ We don’t have the power to tell (See MEDIATION, p.ll) (See REVIEW, p.4) Overcrowding in I.V. Reflects Leniency of ’60s Zoning Laws By Daniel H. Jeffers situation. density than any place in the atmosphere that led to the area’s Staff Writer United States west of the riots in 1970 — described the In 1958, when UCSB raised its T H E M A K I N G O F Mississippi River. history of zoning laws in Isla Vista enrollment cap from 2,500 to 10,000 Today’s Isla Vista — with its as a disaster. “ (Population density This article is thé second of a students, many Isla Vista lan crammed apartments, limited problems are) compounded in the five-part series examining the downers suddenly found them I s l a V i s t i parking and lack of sidewalks — is minds of many residents of Isla physical composition of Isla Vista selves in a position to make a lot of □ the result. Vista by past actions of the county, — from its past as an agricultural money. particularly in dealing with zoning community and magnet for oil And the Santa Barbara County T t Zoning Laws Called Disastrous and construction code issues, speculators to its present as what Board of Supervisors found itself in The Trow Commission — in which have allowed this area to ■ many consider a student slum. the position of regulating the m investigating on behalf of the become a crowded student enclave Finally, the series will examine growth of a small, isolated com University of California the with little concern for the living proposed remedies to this munity already zoned for a higher h L 1 community’s living conditions and (See ZONING, p.ll) 2 Tuesday, May 23, 1989 Headliners Daily Nexus W orld N ation State Chinese Military Leaders Say 2 o f 1,000 College Students U C Davis Black Family Day Students W o n ’t Be Attacked AIDS-positive, Study Finds to Continue Despite Violence BEIJING — More than 100 military leaders said Monday WASHINGTON — The American College Health DAVIS — UC Davis will continue to host an annual Black they will not order their men to confront or suppress the Association said today a study of 19 U.S. campuses found Family Day picnic despite disturbances at the 1989 event on masses of people who have seized control of the capital to that two of every 1,000 students tested was infected with Saturday in which 10 persons were injured and seven demand democratic control. AIDS, a rate below the national average but a figure one arrested. Student leaders on Tuesday considered ending their 10- official said “ should cause real concern.” Mike Miller, commander of UC police department, said day occupation of Tiananmen Square. Officials said the study points up the need for more all seven individuals arrested Saturday have been released Soldiers clashed Monday night with about 2,000 residents aggressive efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly for lack of evidence. 15 miles from the square, but no shooting disease on college campuses. “ We want to increase the enrollment of was reported. Other troops withdrew The study — the nation’s first survey Blacks at UCD, and we want to retain from the streets in southwest Beijing, attempting to determine the prevalence (Black) events on campus,” Tom Dut ending standoffs with local residents who of AIDS among college students — tested ton, UCD vice chancellor for student have surrounded their convoys and the blood of 16,861 students who sought affairs told a news conference Monday. blocked their movement. t í j é medical attention in their campus health But, Dutton said, steps will be taken Students who have guided the centers. before 1990 to avoid a repetition of the tumultuous pro-democracy movement Of those, 30 tested positive for the incidents which disrupted the event the over the past month expressed concern human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, past two years. that many Beijing students were leaving and that half their which amounts to an overall infection rate of 0.2 percent, This year’s picnic was peaceful, with 30,000 to 40,000 numbers were students from outside the city. said the association, which conducted the study with the participants, until a fight broke out about 5 p.m. in the The promise not to attack protesters represented a Federal Centers for Disease Control. central quad area of the campus. The first fight was serious blow to Prime Minister Li Peng and other har Nationwide, researchers believe 1 million to 1.5 million followed by reports of gunshots, and then several other dliners who have tried to quell the immense grass-roots people are infected, a rate of 0.4 percent to 0.6 percent. fights. demonstrations that have paralyzed Beijing. Also Monday, members of the National People’s Most of the injuries were reported to individuals knocked Congress, China’s Legislature, began gathering signatures Alaskan Grand Jury Indicts down by a rush of people fleeing the area of the gunfire, needed to open a special session on the legality of martial although one youth who reportedly was involved in a fight law, sources said, indicating a further erosion of L i’s Valdez Captain for Felony was shot in the right forearm. support. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A grand jury on Monday in dicted the former captain of the Exxon Valdez on three L.A. School Board Member Suspect in Pan Am Explosion felony counts for his role in the nation’s worst oil spill. Joseph Hazelwood was charged with three counts of Ends Silence, Reveals Offer Arrested, Freed, Reports Say second-degree criminal mischief, said District Attorney Dwayne McConneU. If convicted, he could be sentenced to LOS ANGELES — The second week of a teachers' strike HAMBURG, West Germany — A magazine reported up to 15 years in prison and a $150,000 fine. opened Monday, marked by arrests of strikers and a break Monday that a bomb maker for a Palestinian group Hazelwood’s blood alcohol content was illegally high in negotiations to end the dispute that has crippled suspected in the Pan Am flight 103 bombing was freed 15 nearly 11 hours after the accident, the Cost Guard said.