Pressure by Probation Officials Spurs Change for Santa Ynez Youth Ranch
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"The Marriage of Adam and Eve in n Paradise and a few other Marriages" Greek Week presents Wednesday will be the topic of a lecture today at Night at the Fights. Only 25 cents 5 p.m., Art building room 1426. tonight at Rob Gym, 8 to 10 p.m. Vol. 54 - No. 124 University of California at Santa Barbara Pressure by probation officials spurs change for Santa Ynez youth ranch Employees charge manager of ranch with When reporters from the Nexus were taken on a to ur of the ranch a week ago, ♦ profiteering from county funding almost everything seemed to be in good order. With the exception of the main By Roger Keeling a merry-go-round. Nonetheless, the area shower, which was filth y and in bad Charges by past employees that has been used exclusively for some horses condition, all the rooms seemed neat and inordinate profits have possibly been and cattle, which all but tw o of the clean. A ll five surrounding homes were taken from the operating monies of the children have not been allowed to touch. also in good condition. Santa Ynez Ranch School have been Mayuiers denied the charge, saying that However, about tw o weeks ago levelled at,Ron Mayuiers, owner-director the fields had been used. He added that reporter Bob Gettlin of the Santa Barbara of the predominantly county-funded the children were also often taken to a News and Review was not allowed to tour private school. According to both open nearby county park to play as well. most portions of the main ranch; he was and confidential sources, conditions have However, only minutes after this the taken to the "five nearby houses, as well as been such at the school as to raise the shown through the main dining-kitchen unavoidable question: where is the This is the second o f a two-part series on the facility o f the ranch, but was not allowed money going? Santa Ynez Ranch School. to see any o f the classrooms, bedrooms or Mayuiers has been accused by a sanitation facilities o f the ranch. O M ARI MUSA - JFK and J. Edgar number of people of delivering children agreed unanimously that they Mayuiers said this was because Gettlin Hoover "maneuvered a disruption inadequate services, squeezing unpaid had never been allowed into the area. had not made an appointment or given progrim" against radicals. overtime from his employees, and Another major problem area was the photo: Steve Shaffer (Cont. on p. 8, col. 1) hedging on reimbursements to staff general upkeep and sanitation facilities of members for school purchases. Sources the ranch. Again according to Leventhal, have said that the school has not been the children, and others, physical meeting its own advertised standards, and conditions at the school began to improve Socialist speaker blasts often not meeting the minimum only recently after reporters from the standards o f the county. Nexus, the Santa Barbara News and In last Monday's Nexus, the problems Review, and county probation officers state, federai corruption o f a lack o f working funds and pay, poor began making inquires into the situation, By Anne Sutherland activities--"ordinary and run-of-the-mill" food, and the lack of adequate beginning in early April. Omari Musa, Socialist Workers Party are frequently carried on by the programming or regulations were Ron Cronogue, a UCSB graduate who (SWP) candidate for U.S. Congress from government in surveillance o f radicals. discussed, as well as the results these worked at the school for a brief period- Los Angeles' 28th District, struck out at Incidences "hot brought out by the problems have had on staff retainment. noted that the living arrangement for the Watergate, the FBI, John Kennedy, John Sam Ervin Committee" were listed by Other complaints by staff have centered kids and counselors alike was "a small, Mitchel, and Joseph A lioto in a Musa as possible evidence o f "a pattern of around the non-utilization and poor essentially bare room w ith a mattress and noontime talk yesterday at the UCen. deceit" common to government upkeep of various facilities at the school. box springs. I was surprised at first at the Musa spoke instead of scheduled operations in their surveillance of lack of anything else in. the room." He questionable activities. "OFF LIMITS" speaked Dan Styron, the SWP's candidate added that he had heard complaints from Musa cited the deaths of Black A major complaint by both staff and for U.S. Senate. Styron, a leading some o f the kids that they were cold at Panthers Mark Clark and Fred Hampton wards of the ranch was the " o ff lim its" spokesman for the socialist movement for night due to a lack o f blankets. in New York in 1969 as an example of rule concerning five of the seven acres at the past decade, participated in the Another ex-staff member o f the ranch. police agent activity that was responsible the main ranch. Berkeley Free Spech Movement in 1964 Bob Garcia, said that the living for the shooting. and was an organizer of the Berkeley At the ranch, the two acres of land arrangements were inadequate, w ith, at Vietnam Day Committee, the first tacing the frontage road-and containing one point, up to five kids sleeping in a Musa questioned the role o f the FBI in anti-war teach-in 1965. The 33-year-old all the buildings of the ranch-were the room. He mentioned that it seemed that efforts to control the Black movement, candidate is on the National Committee only areas the student-residents were Mayuiers "wasn't involved with the kids' suggesting the possibility that political of the SWP. allowed to play in, according to William well-bing." assassinations are included in that Leventhal, an ex-staff member who Several sources, including Leventhal Young Socialists for Rodriquez program that the government runs by sponsored the noon forum in which Musa prepared a written report on the ranch and tw o or three o f the kids related an "secrecy, deceit, and violence." urged support for all socialist candidates. fo r Juvenile Court Referee Yale D. incident in which seven children and Coggan. This was verified by a number of another ex-staff member. Bill Drennen, WATERGATE REVELATIONS NON-PARTISAN METHODS children at the school, as well as several lived for several months in the two-room John Kennedy got together with J. other confidential sources. "pool-house," one of the five surrounding Musa focused his remarks on his view Edgar Hoover, claimed Musa, and The five acres immediately behind this houses in the nearby area affiliated with of the current political situation in "maneuvered a disruption program" area is the site of several playing fields, the school. During this period, sources relation to the "Watergate revelations." directed against radicals. "This same including a baseball diamond, as well as say, the pool-house was w ithout adequate While the American people are appalled liberal who was supposed to be a friend playground equipment such as swings and sanitation facilities. at the idea that the Republicans bugged o f the Blacks," Musa stated, "increased the Democrats, he said, these surveillance on citizens, with his brother Bobby running the show as Attorney General." vary on Snyder's ÉOP "The major thing that Watergate has shown," said ’ Musa," is that secrecy, deceit and violence are methods used on a non-partisan basis." proposal; some call it 'phase-out' Of John Mitchell, who was Attorney General during the Kent State murders in By Toney Herndon Herrera is "one thatwill not save money but w ill cost m ore."’ 1970, Musa called him "a crook and a Plans to restructure the EOP program on campus have "N o one person can m onitor and handle all the problems of murderer. He should be responsible." produced a variety of reactions, varying from full approval on minorities on campus," he said. "Originally, the program was "These are the kind of people who are the one hand to total opposition on the other. established in. a package deal in 1969. The removal of one running the government, and more and The actions by members of the Administration, primarily segment o f the package w ill hamper the effectiveness o f all the Chancellor Cheadle and Vice Chancellor Snyder, have been said others." more people are beginning to see this," he proposed. to bring into serious question the Administration's actual Games also made reference to the commitment at UCSB to concern for the affairs o f minorities on campus, according to Affirmative Action. ALIOTO the tw o ousted m inority administrators, James Games and "If the Administration were truly committed to Affirmative Musa decried the tactics of San Ralph Herrera. A ction," he said, "They would strive to strengthen all positions Francisco Mayor Joseph A lioto in the "Unless this move is stopped," said Herrera, "the phasing out of minorities in the decision-making process, rather than search for the Zebra killer. Alioto o f all m inority programs may result. Just when problems in the eliminating them ." EOP program were beginning to be ironed out, the Associate tO P Director Paul Mossett commented, "Placing "launched a widespread dragnet" to pick Administration restructures the program. In a sense, they have minority programs under a Vice Chancellor who, although up his campaign for governor and to changed horses in the middle o f the stream." sensitive to student needs, but who already has an overload of "carry on a general offensive against the According to James Games, "This move to restructure was work, will do nothing but kill the effectiveness of EOP.