Mud from Landslides Moved to Goleta Beach, Tested for Safety
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DAILY NEXUS Th URSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2018 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA UCSB Students Still Strained by Gov. Travel Ban One Year Later Evelyn Spence to Iran to visit her parents because Asst. News Editor Iranian visas are “almost always single entry.” Whenever Iranian President Donald Trump’s ini- citizens travel outside of the U.S., tial travel ban will reach its one there is a risk that they will not be year anniversary on Jan. 27 after a issued a return visa. year of emotional uncertainty for “We can’t attend conferences many international students at UC outside the U.S. and this fact has Santa Barbara. delayed the progress of my work The travel ban was first issued considerably,” Rasekh said in an on Jan. 27, 2017 and banned citi- email. “Many times the relevant zens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, conferences in my field have been Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from outside the U.S. and I have had to entering the United States for 90 wait long times for a conference days, as well as indefinitely refus- venue that I can safely travel to.” XINYANG MIAO / DAILY NEXUS ing entry to refugees from Syria. Leila Zonouzi, an Iranian In the past two weeks, mud from the Montecito area is being moved to Goleta Beach in an effort to clean up the devastation. In addition, the The ban is also common- graduate student in the global mud will be used to lessen the impacts of erosion from a heavy storm season last winter. All mud is tested for metals and other contaminants. ly known as the “Muslim ban” studies department, has also been because the majority of citizens affected by the travel ban. Her from six of the banned countries in-laws were unable to attend her are Muslim. wedding because they were still This ban has had lasting con- under “administrative processing” sequences for UCSB students. after almost a year. Mud From Landslides Moved to Electrical engineering gradu- In the days following the initial ate student Maryam Rasekh said ban, federal judges attempted to many students who plan to apply halt the executive order as Trump for jobs for their Ph.D. are unable faced both criticism and praise for Goleta Beach, Tested for Safety to apply to positions outside the his decision. U.S. District Court U.S. because the process includes Judge James Robart blocked the Stephany Rubio coastal water quality and ocean life. permit calls for the disposal of some 300,000 interviews at the institution. ban nationwide in a Feb. 3 deci- News Editor The sediment is made up of mostly sand cubic yards, which is the equivalent of 30,000 If students travel to their inter- sion and a second travel ban was and small rock mixed with debris, said Santa dump truck loads. views, they may not be able to introduced on March 6. Goleta Beach is being used as a sediment Barbara County Parks Department representa- “We’re confident that the vast majority of return to the U.S. The second ban removed Iraq deposit ground for the Montecito mudslide tive Daniel Gira. The debris comes from road- the material is just sand and sediment from “We miss out on so many from the previous list of countries cleanup effort, but contaminated sewage in ways, Montecito creeks and other affected the mountains and creeks,” said Santa Barbara opportunities,” she said in an and banned citizens from Yemen, the transported mud is raising issues for areas in the Montecito mountains. A county Channelkeeper (SBCK) Watershed and email. Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and The Nexus reported in Feb. Iran from entering the U.S. for 2017 that Rasekh’s entry to the 90 days and all refugees for 120 MUDSLIDE p.6 U.S. was initially denied when days. The ban was later blocked Trump’s travel ban was first intro- by a U.S. District Court judge on duced. March 15. While she was later able to While the debate over the ban’s enter the U.S. to attend UCSB, she legality continued, the Supreme Professors Push Through is currently unable to travel back Court allowed a third revision of Disasters in SB County TRAVEL BAN p.6 Tamari Dzotsenidze Some professors living in voluntary evacuation News Editor zones also had to leave their homes just before I just finals week. Many made their exams optional or “ The year 2017 ended with the Thomas Fire changed them to take-home finals. continually ravaging the hills of the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The new year began with fatal TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULTIES have this feeling mudslides that claimed 21 lives, devastated over The mudslides in January also made it difficult 100 homes and forced the closure of U.S. Route for many faculty and staff to get to campus. 101. Writing professor Ilene Miele was forced to that I got off UC Santa Barbara faculty and staff have been drive through Ventura during the Thomas Fire heavily impacted by these events, personally and until she ultimately decided to cancel class for a easy. I just as part of a larger community. Some lost friends day because of the fire’s proximity to Route 101. and others were stranded south of the freeway For the past week, she has been taking the ferry really want to closure, forced to rely on alternate forms of to Santa Barbara, initially relying on a colleague transportation to reach campus. to drive her to campus before learning about a UCSB shuttle service at the Santa Barbara Harbor. make this clear TRAPPED “What caused the most anxiety for me, at first, While many students fled the fires by going was not knowing how I would get there and make that compared back to their hometowns, most faculty and staff it to the first day of class,” Miele said in an email. did not have that option. “The first day they warned us to expect a rocky to what the “I went stir crazy,” said Janet Mizrahi, a ride, but it was a fairly gentle roll … Overall, I was professor in the writing department, in an email. fortunate that we had good weather and the rides people in “I continued to meet my goal of 10,000 steps daily were fairly quick (an hour and a half each way).” by listening to an audiobook while I walked in Morris stayed in Santa Barbara for the first circles in my small house! My dog thought I was week of the quarter due to closed roads and Montecito are nuts!” classes that end too late for her to take a train For Nomi Morris, another professor in the back. going through, writing department who lives in Upper Ojai, the According to Mary Ferris, executive director fire originated near Ojai and blazed through her of Student Health Service, staff at Student Health I went through neighborhood, giving her only a half an hour to also faced exceptional difficulty ensuring coverage gather her belongings. While her own street was with blocked roads and the recent flu outbreaks. nothing. spared, many houses in her neighborhood were Understaffing, combined with increased demand destroyed. stretched the staff thin, resulting in longer hours. She first evacuated her home and came to She said that because of the staff’s commitment Goleta with her family, until the unhealthy air to health, they went to extreme lengths to reach quality pushed them to move further north and campus, with some staff staying overnight in NOMI MORRIS stay with a family friend. Santa Barbara for the week. One pharmacist LILY GARCIA-DALY / DAILY NEXUS PROFESSORS p.5 Students and families weigh the risks of international travel in the wake of President Trump’s travel ban, which includes six countries. 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