Vol. 58, No. 27 University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, October 20, 1977 \ Regents to Consider Admissions Proposai By LAURA FREDERICKS the basic areas of reading, writing and The Regents of the University of mathematics. California will be holding their ninth- The SBPC will be among those con­ monthly meeting in San Francisco today testing Saxon’s proposal on the grounds and tomorrow. Their schedule is slated to that it will be unfair to minorities and cover a number of controversial issues. other educationally underpriviledged A proposal deferred from the last students. meeting to change undergraduate ad­ Since the proposal will apply only to mission standards by increasing the use of students wife borderline grade point test scores will be considered along with a averages, there is a question about how possible four-year high school English many students would actually be affected requirement by the change. The Regents will be taking up the dif­ ficult issue of UC investments in South African-based companies. Recently these Local Coastal Planning investments have been severely criticized on the grounds that the University of California should not be supporting a Draws Attention From nation which fosters a blatantly racist Systran of government These issues and many others will be I.V. Assistant Planner discussed in committee meetings today By CATHY NIFONG SHANTY TOWN — Workers at the library munch lunch beneath a with the formal executive and regular The possible development of a local crudely made sign, indicating some artists view of the situation. sessions following on Friday. coastal plan is receiving attention from (Photo by Karl Mondon) During each regents meeting the IVCC-MAC Assistant Planner Joe Koff- Student Body President’s Council (SPBC) man. makes its recommendations to the board. Data from the Santa Barbara Codnty This month they will give testimony in General Plan, a description of what the Student Lobby to Present response to possible education fee county should look like, will be compiled reduction, undergraduate admissions and used as a format for the coastal plan. proposal, South African investment Kcffman anticipates the possibility of LNG Symposium Monday questions and other issues of concern to Isla Vista being considered a Sensitive UC students. Coastal Resource Area (SCRA) in the ByKIMKAVANAGH Speaking for the LNG plant will be Fred The admissions question is an especially coastal plan. Such consideration would A Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) sym­ Johns from the Public Utilities Com­ crucial one. Many admission standards allow special implementation to protect posium sponsored by UCSB’s student mission and unnamed representatives have come under close scrutiny recently low and moderate income tenants in Isla lobby will be held Monday, October 24, in from the state Coastal Commission. because erf the Bakke issue. This proposal Vista. the UCen program lounge iro n 11:30 a.m. Rich Lid ), student lobby director, said is, however, the result of UC President, “ Most of the apartment buildings in Isla to 3:00 p.m. that they are also trying to get Com­ David Saxon’s efforts to tighten iq> ad­ Vista have a life expectancy of 10 to 20 As it stands now a LNG plant will soon mander Ides from the Coast Guard to mission standards fra* the University of years,” Koffman reported. The question be built at Point Concepcion, located a bout speak in faVor of LNG. Western LNG California. stands then, what happens when these 30 miles north of Santa Barbara. Terminal Inc. was invited but dedined The Bakke case, which is presently buildings deterioate? Opponents of LNG fe d that if a plant because they were too busy. being deliberated in the Supreme Court, Koffman’s suggestion included must be constructed it should be done Representatives from the County LNG concerns Allen Bakke, a white male ap­ rehabilitation of apartment buildings rather at Oxnard, San Pedro or an offshore Task Force will aid in the discussion as a plicant to the UC Davis medical school without cost hikes, the conversion of point such as Santa Cruz Island. neutral force. who claims he was denied admittance on apartments to condominiums, more Proponents argue that the facility can Those speaking against LNG will be the basis of his skin color. He is charging cooperative housing set-ups, rent control, not be put up near any populated areas in Gerrad Kupuscik of Ventura County the university with “reverse and a realization on the part of the UCSB case of an accident and that an offshore Concerned Citizens Committee; George discrimination.” administration that they must take Isla site would not be working in time to meet Allen, attorney for Hollister Homeowner Saxon describes his concern as Vista into consideration. the 1981 deadline, by which time California Assodation; Tim Brick from CAUSE, a “ academic excellence,” and ispushingfor Just this year there have been rent hikes is expected to run out of natural gas. Los Angeles consumer group, and Dubin an increase in the use of test scores for of 30 percent to 100 percent according to According to Corey Dubin, student lobby representing the Environmental Defense applicants. Saxon’s view, according to his Koffman. He also estimated that about local coordinator and coordinator of the Network. cover letter on the proposal is that “ The 4S.S percent of Isla Vista earns less than symposium, “ Governor Brown is trying to Leib stressed that students do not have university is concerned that those students $4,000 a year, and calculates that over 25 dose a deal with the Canadians which will to be present fra* the entire discussion. “ It who are admitted to the university have percent of the poverty income is used for prolong the date (California will need gas) will be an open forum running con­ adequate academic preparation... so that shelter. until 1990.” tinuously from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Any they can successfully complete their Koffman feels that present policies and - This would allow the possibility of an question you have will be answered at the university work.” guidelines for building in the county have offshore siting. (Please turn to p. 14, col. 3) Saxon expressed special concern with (Please turn to p. 14, col. 1) U.S. to Affect International Whaling Regulations By WILLIAM KREBS stricter management plan for the whales. By Monday, October 24, the U.S. will With an adequate management plan, it is decide whether to stop the last legal Bowhead Whales Future whaling by Americans, the killing of possible that the hunting ban could be Bowhead whales by Alaskan Eskimos. The lifted next June Part of the regulation problem lies in the futureof international whaling regulations To be Decided Monday attitude of the NMFS. The report by the will be affected by action the U.S. takes. whales forbidden to commercial whalers. In 1976, 86 Eskimo, Indian and Aleut NMFS on its enforcement of the Marine H ie Bowhead whale inhabits only Arctic In the case of the Bowhead, Eskimos, crews joined in the whale hunt compared Mammal Protection Act of 1972 states that waters and is sometimes called the Arctic Aleuts and some Siberian tribes were to 25 crews in 1971. its management goal for the Bowhead whale. Its original range extended to both permitted to hunt for food and to preserve The number of whales killed by the whale is “optimum sustainable coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. their native culture. Eskimos has risen along with the number population.” It defines this as “ the The whale was prized by whalers for its Traditionally, Eskimos hunted whales of hunters. Between 1946 and 1970, native number of animals resulting in the oil and baleen, which was used to make from small boats with harpoons. With the hunters killed an average of ten whales maximum productivity of the population. ” corset stays. By the end of the nineteenth advent of modern technology, Eskimo each year. In 1973, the total was 37 whales. According to the 1977 NMFS report, century, the Bowhead population had been hunting changed. The Eskimos now kill Three years later, native hunters, killed there are four major Bowhead decimated. Present estimates of the whales with explosive harpoons and and recovered48 whales, and are believed populations, three in the Pacific area and world’s Bowhead population place it. bombs fired from guns. to have killed and lost 37. one in the Eastern Atlantic. The NMFS between 800 and 3,000 animals, about two The Eskimo hunts were restrained in For toe last several years, the In­ describes the three Pacific populations as to three percent of the nineteenth century earlier years by the cost of hunting gear. A ternational Whaling Commission (IW C) population. increasing, although their information new bomb gun, for example, costs close to has put pressure on the U.S. to reduce the dates from 1971. The report attributes Since 1946, commercial hunting of the $400. With the new wealth from oil and the number of Alaskan whale hunters. Some discrepancies in the number of whales Bowhead has been prohibited by in­ Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the observers blame the Bowhead ban on the killed to variations in hunting conditions. ternational agreement However, the 1946 Eskimos have been able to purchase more failure of the U.S. National Marine The Bowhead controversy is more than treaty permitted “aborigines” to hunt equipment. Fisheries Services (NMFS) to devise a (Please tarn to p. 14, coL 4) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1977 PAGE 2 DAILY NEXUS A Musical - Arts Festival ------------- UCAIUNBRS^- 'i SAN DIEGO POLICE CHIEF William Kolender has warned the Ku Klux Klan not to patrol the U.S.- Arts Entertainment Carnival Mexican border to help stop the illegal entry of aliens.