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sports page 10 opinion page 6 Baseball i / t J Parting Season ilioughts Wrapup Campus Committee to Advise Closure of Arbor Bike Path By Larry Spear Staff Writer The Bike Committee will recommend permanent closure of the Arbor bike path, on the condition that the UCSB administration immediately begin working to improve other problem areas in the campus bicycle path system. The committee arrived at its decision Tuesday after extensively studying the effects permanent closure would have on the rest of the bikeway system. The Physical Planning Committee is expected to approve the Bike Committee’s recommendation at its June 3 meeting. The recommended closure is “ conditioned upon the commitment from the central administration to im­ prove the remaining bikeway both to current and future needs starting with the Storke Tower intersection,” according to the committee’s resolution. GREG Committee member Robert Skripko, a former Actor John Travolta tells a Storke Plaza crowd of about 300 that he came to UCSB to “ talk you out of drinking member of Associated Students Legislative Council, argued that the committee should not recommend and driving.” closure without also suggesting future improvement of the paths. “ If we pass a resolution to close the path, then we must also begin work, in a long term process, on Travolta Warns Students upgrading the system, rather than just doing a piecemeal job,” Skripko said. Based on student surveys he completed Fall Quarter, Skripko said the Storke Tower intersection is the “ least Against Drunken Driving safe part of the system” and requires the most im­ said, because “ students take it over and mediate attention. He suggested the construction of a By Heidi Soitesz do it themselves.” round-about at the congested intersection, such as the News Editor one near Snidecor Hall. “ It’s really tough to see young people If the planning committee accepts the recom­ injured, maimed or killed in traffic mendation, Environmental Health and Safety Director As graduation time draws near, accidents,” he said, explaining that 15-24 Dave Coon anticipates funding from the administration. college and high school students prepare and especially 21 year-olds are the prime “ This committee will put heavy pressure (on ad­ for a new phase of their lives, one that target for alcohol-related accidents. ministrators) if they don’t follow up on this,” said could be cut short by drunk driving. The awareness campaign UCSB is committee Chair John Baumann, director of the Student That was the message of the rally for a participating in is now a forerunner for Health Center. “Sober Graduation” in Storke Plaza similar campaigns nationwide and in Glen Cooper, the lone dissenter in the 5-1 committee yesterday. The event, sponsored by Canada, Campbell said. Because 1 in 3 vote, said he voted against the recommendation because Students Teaching Alcohol/Drug people will be injured in an accident and of strong student opposition to the closure under any Responsibility, A.S. Program Board and 1 in 140 will die, “ we are doing whatever conditions. “ I feel that it is necessary, as a student the California Highway Patrol, drew a we can to bring that number down and representative, to represent their wishes,” Cooper said. crowd of more than 300 students to hear eliminate it,” he said. “ There were positive aspects to the proposal, but I felt speeches geared toward promoting “ I guess I ’m here to talk you out of that I had to represent the larger portion of the accountability, not abstinence, in drinking and driving,” actor John OREO WONG/Naxus students.” graduation celebrations. Travolta said. Travolta is helping Committee member Jeff Chung, an Environmental CHP Public Affairs Officer Tom publicize the Sober Graduation cam­ Travolta tells the crowd ab ou t a Health and Safety technician, cited traffic flow statistics Campbell said the Sober Graduation paign and appeared at two area high sobriety test he took last year in campaign his organization is sponsoring schools before speaking cm campus gathered during the experimental closure of the path Goleta. that favored compliance with the park-and-walk is “ one of the most exciting things” he yesterday. (See BIKE, p.12) has been a part of. It is special, Campbell (See SOBER, p.5) Students Discuss Nicaragua Peace Resolutions B y Tonya Graham "It's getting to the point ... where they're project — the creation of a declaration of negotiation calling for peaceful resolutions with Nicaragua. Assistant Campus Editor going to have to start sending American The Nicaraguan students have been working with four UC delegates to develop the finalized document, but other students The atmosphere was casual at the potluck dinner and beach troops down there. I don't want to have to have also contributed their ideas to the deliberation process. bonfire honoring visiting students from Nicaragua, which was face one of you and have to kill one another." A five-day workshop dealing with peaceful conflict attended by approximately 50 UCSB students Friday night. resolution and looking at pertinent international issues was Earlier in the evening, the group sat on the floor of a — Antonio Ruiz, held at UC Davis last week to serve as a “ training arena” for crowded Isla Vista apartment, passing around pretzels and students to learn more about the negotiation process before plates of ravioli, drinking beers and listening to the varied University of Nicaragua studerv actually beginning work on the peace declaration. These sounds of whatever records found their way to the stereo. workshops were attended by 40 to 50 students each day, in­ The setting provided a time for informal conversations ween the two countries. “ It’s getting to the point ... where cluding a number of participants from Nicaragua and other between the Nicaraguan students and UCSB students who they’re going to have to start sending American troops down countries, Fado said. welcomed the opportunity to meet with the visitors. Con­ there. I don’t want to have to face one of you and have to kill “ A lot of American students have died fighting in another versations ranged from witchcraft and Marxism to divestment one another,” he said through a translator. country for a cause that was not theirs,” Ruiz said, referring to and abortion, but the friendly atmosphere that permeated the Ruiz and the other Nicaraguans are visiting UC campuses as the war in Vietnam. “ The Protocol for Peace should reach all gathering helped to make everyone feel comfortable. Though part of the Protocol for Peace educational exchange program the students so we don’t have to go to war.... We have the right only one of the Nicaraguan students spoke English, several sponsored by the UC Students Association. to live just like you have, and we want to make our own lives,” students translated what the other two said for those who did Protocol for Peace was organized by UC Davis students he said. not understand Spanish. Colette Pozzo and Patty Fado, who were concerned about U.S. According to Ruiz, the U.S. media “ prints lies about what’s A serious undertone surfaced when the Nicaraguan students involvement in Nicaragua. going on and doesn’t print what the (Sandinista) government gave a presentation on what is happening in Nicaragua. An­ The first step of the project began in March when 18 UC does good.” The U.S. media failed to report improvements in tonio Ruiz, president of the School of Medicine at the students and three faculty advisors visited Nicaragua as part health care, education and land redistribution made by the University of Nicaragua, called on the American students to of a fact-finding delegation. The three visiting Nicaraguan Sandinista government, he said. continue their efforts to bring about peaceful relations bet- students came to California as part of the second step of the (See PROTOCOL, p.8 ) ,2 Thursday, May 29,1986 Daily Nexus I Headliners F ro m (far Associated Press World Nation State Soviet News Agency H J H H Weinberger Says California Senate Suggests 1,000 Hurt U.S. Will Ignore m Approves Billon V in Nuclear Accident SALT II Treaty Dollar State Budget MOSCOW — A government new agency indicated Wed­ WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger SACRAMENTO — The state Senate has approved a $37.6- nesday that up to 1,000 people were injured by radiation from said Wednesday the United States definitely will ignore the billion state budget, but the Assembly got bogged down in a the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and that some may have been SALT II accord this fall by proceeding with the arming of B- dispute over anti-abortion amendments. residents of the evacuation zone around the plant. 52 bombers with cruise missiles. Tuesday’s Senate vote was 34-1. It was the first report to suggest so many people were in­ Weinberger, speaking to reporters before he delivered the But the Assembly delayed until yesterday a vote on its jured, and the first to indicate that any of those being treated commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy at $37.5-billion version of the budget. had been outside the plant. Officials previously put the total West Point, also said he did not expect the Soviet Union to The Assembly spent its time on a complicated series of number hospitalized at about 300. cease its violations of the SALT II accord, no matter what the parliamentary maneuvers over anti-abortion amendments Some of the nation’s most popular entertainers plan a United States does. added to the budget Friday. concert Friday night to raise money for a relief fund set up His remarks, while in large part echoing those of President The delay and the anti-abortion dispute could lead to a after the April 26 accident at the Ukrainian nuclear power Reagan on Tuesday, were even stronger in indicating a prolonged stalemate in the two-house conference committee plant.

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