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Vol. 64, No. 2 Wednesday, June 29,1963 University of California, Santa Barbara One Section, SP ageT Schmidt To Fill Free Legal Services Alumni Slot on Coming To Campus By VANESSA GRIMM Nexus Editor-In-Chief U.C. Regents For the first time in several years, students w ill be able to obtain free legal services on the UCSB campus. By ROSALYN KAHN A decision finalizing a contract with the Santa Barbara Legal Defense Nexus Staff Writer Center for a two month summer service b e g in n in g July l was signed UCSB’s Alumni Association Monday, Associated Students Vice-President Brian Brandt said. recently selected Douglas E. The center agreed to provide three attorneys and one paralegal Schmidt to serve as a voting secretary to operate the services approximately 15 hours weekly, member of the Board of Regents Brandt said. for a one year term beginning July The new service will temporarily work out of a trailer located near 1. the Student Services Building. Associated Students hopes to eventually Plans to increase student move the legal services into the new Student Services Building awareness on the university’s presently under construction adjacent to its fellow services building. financial situations are high on The legitimacy of the program Schmidt’s priority list of ac­ depends on A.S. establishing the complishments in the upcoming service’s offices in the new year. “The university is in dire building, Brandt said. “ I feel it is Council Lobby financial straits,” Schmidt said. imperative that the legal services He also believes many students be located in that building; they have no conception of the (the students) are paying for the May Alleviate seriousness of the problem. building with reg fees anyway,” be Schmidt said the university has explained. great financial problems, and that The decision in April not to the U.C. Presiden t is the only s ta ff renegotiate a legal services con­ Budgetary Cuts member receiving an adequate tract with the Isla Vista Legal By M UE ALVARADO salary. “The university is Clinic launched a feasibility study Nexus Staff W riter vulnerable and is being hurt,” 1 of creating A.S. monitored ser­ In a show of concern over the Schmidt said. vices on campus. “The problem possibility of cuts in the University Schmidt supports Governor before was we really didn’t have of California budget and the George Deukmejian. ____________ L any control,” Brandt said. “We resulting higher student fees, the expect to save close to $20,000 or (Please turn to pg. 10, col. 1) The Last lob of the day. NEXUS /Tom Truong U.C. Student Lobby and the $25,000.” Student Body Presidents Council “ We want more control over the met last week in Sacramento to cost, and over h a n d lin g the con­ express their concern to the Public Will Vote On Bullock's tract and just in general legislators. * monitoring of the services,” A.S. By JOHN BURSCHINGER and the results of the vote would be difficult to in­ The two groups met last Monday President Mark Schwartz ex­ Nexus Staff Writer terpret, Councilmember Tom Rogers said. _ , with Bob Hands, the program plained. An advisory measure concerning the construction director for the education budget Mayor Sheila Lodge said, “ The question posed by v A.S. expects the majority of the of a Bullock’s department store in downtown Santa in the governor’s office, Caroline the petition was one question with one answer. What chses to involve tenant/landlord Barbara w ill be presented to voters on the November Tesche, associate director of the we want to know is how the people feel about whether problems and chose the center’s ballot. U.C. Student Lobby, said. bid partially for its experience in The motion to place the measure on the ballot was public bonds are proper, or the environmental issues, “ We met with Bob Harris to talk this area, Brandt said. recently approved by the Santa Barbara City Council or the location, or whether we should have any »*«» . _ „ about student concerns and who hopes to have the exact wording completed in redevelopment at all. The questions we wish to Willard Hastings, one «th e j priorities concerning the con attorneys to provide campus legal tw o weeks. propose hopefully w ill give us more information as to ference committee on the budget,” how the public feels.” services, supported Brandt’s view. Tesche said. “I think we are perhaps, in all The “Bullock’s issue” involves the efforts of a Lodge added, “We have planned for downtown Tesche explained that the two humility, the number one firm that group of Santa Barbara ns — Save Our City and Santa Barbara to be the retail core of the south coast. groups then held a press con­ has represented tenants in the Network — to prevent the City of Santa Barbara and A negative vote could affect other areas such as La ference on the steps of the capital past,” he. said. “We know our the City Redevelopment Agency from condemning Cumbre Plaza. It is not a question of rejecting the last Tuesday which received a business.” the property on the comer of State Street .and Vic­ language of the petition, but of asking other questions good deal of news coverage. with other languages.” Additionally, the legal service toria and allowing Bullock’s to build a store and a Vanessa Moore, Associated will provide free consultation and parking tier on the premises. Save Our City, after collecting over 12,000 Students UCSB external vice- representation to students in­ Save Our City spokesperson Penny Davies, who signatures, has decided to sue the City of Santa president and member of SBPC, volved in civil cases. If a case does owns the Earthling Bookshop on the proposed site, Barbara over the refusal of the city clerk to officially explained that after the press go to court however, the student claims the City of Santa Barbara wishes to spend accept petitions. conference an approximately four will be held responsible for the $14.5 million of taxpayers’ money to bring in hour lobbying campaign began, in court costs. Consultation in Bullock’s and spend an additional $9 million of this “ Our strategy right now is to sue. We want our own an attempt to get legislators “to criminal cases is also provided money to build an adjacent five tiered parking wording on the ballot,” Davies explained. move on the side of supporting without fee. com plex. Santa Barbara attorney Ben Bycell is bringing the higher education.” action on behalf of Save Our City. “ Next Friday we “ We (the center) are very exited “ We wanted to make sure there A key ingredient in the council’s action is the will be in court to determine whether the city clerk about this new relationship with were no cuts to the U.C. budget wording of the ballot measure, Davies said. “The can accept and process our petitions. It is important A.S.,” Hastings said. “This gives which would result in higher reg. wording of our petition states,‘Do you favor the ex­ because the city can use our language, something us an opportunity to widen our fees,” Moore said. “ Already in a penditure of public funds, as proposed by the else, or both,” Bycell explained. sphere and to provide greater four year period fees have just Redevelopment Agency, to bring Bullock’s to the services tostudents.” about tripled,” Moore added. area of State and Victoria streets?’ Their (the City The vote w ill be an advisory measure placed on the A contract to provide students Currently, Moore explained, fees Council’s) wording could be just about anything. The ballot by the council. Assistant City Administrator with campus legal services for the for next year are expected to be council could try and confuse the public into thinking Sandra Lizarraga said the city attorney has deter­ coming school year has been $1201, but that figure could in­ they are voting for one thing and not the other.” mined that only a council motion is. appropriate in opened for bid. crease if the governor stands firm The petition left too many questions unanswered this case. on his pledge to keep the budget below $220 million, or if other ways are not found to subsidize higher UCSB Receives education. In the m eeting p rior to the press conference and lobbying campaign Top Recognition the group went over a few bills which (if passed) could help By MARIANNE FAVRO subsidize public higher education, Nexus Staff W riter such as oil severance tax and tax In a recent study of the doctoral programs in the loophole reform bills. United States, UCSB ranked high, achieving ratings “ We are willing to push for any in certain fields better than such well-known in­ bills which would help subsidize stitutions such as Rutgers, the University of Southern higher education,” Moore said, California, Washington State and some of the “ Big adding that the general response to 10” universities, such as Michigan, Purdue and any form of tax increase from Northwestern University. Republicans was negative. “ A few The study, conducted by the American Research said they would support the Council,, which is comprised of four major loophole measure but not the oil educational councils, is the firs t m ajor assessment o f severance.” the quality of graduate programs since a study by the Tesche explained that the lob­ American Council on Education in 1969. bying campaign was targeted UCSB political science professor A.E. Keir Nash, primarily "at key Republican who analyzed the results of the study, said the survey legislators (since many did not consider all the institutions in the United Democrats have supported States, only the top 80 to 120 nationally.

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