Latino I.V. Residents Seek Bilingual Police
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Wednesday Volume 78, No. 132 Two Sections, 16 Pages Latino I.V. Residents Nights of Spanish Culture Seek Bilingual Police Tonight and tomorrow in I.V. y isa utterw orth B L B Spanish-speaking residents are not Theater come be a part of R ep o rter satisfied with these processes and ‘Dos Noches de Teatro feel uncomfortable dealing with a Mexicano Contemporaneo.” translator over the phone when re Four plays will be put on For many Spanish-speaking Isla porting a crime. tonight, three tomorrow, all Vista residents, dealing with die “Often times, [the crime] is a presented in Spanish.! I.V . Foot Patrol is often a laborious very traumatic event,” he said. Beginning at 8, admission i$ task, hindered by translation “The phone is very cruel and very general $2/students $1. problems. cold so they don’t deal with it. Despite LV.’s large Spanish- . They see the double standard be speaking population, fewIVFP of tween English-speaking and ficers are bilingual. Officers are Spanish-speaking residents. We INSIDE: provided with two options to help should offer the same services for them to overcome the language X-Flles Fodder all the residents.” barrier and better handle the situa Longtime I.V. resident and tion, according to IVFP Lt. Butch A man in Poland discovers mother of four Rosa Pizano has Amoldi. that the 18-ton steel bridge encountered numerous problems “W e have a system that G T E leading to his riverside when dealing with the IVFP be came up with. It’s not only for SANTA BARBARA SHERIFF'S OPPIŒ cottage was stolen. Also, a cause of language differences. Spanish but for all languages. They little girl ih Norway gets hit “It’s really hard for me to go in do a conference call where [opera Have You Seen This Man? there,” she said in Spanish. “Every by a car and amazingly tors] listen to what the victim has time I go in with a problem they escapes serious injury. All to say and then they translate it to The Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Dept, released a composite say, ‘Come back later.’ I haven’t this crazy stuff and more ... the officer," he said. “W e have sketch Tuesday of the suspect in a sexual assault that occurred in found anyone who speaks Spanish Spanish-speaking correctional of Isla Vista early Saturday morning. The suspect, above, has been de See AP Wire Shorts, p.2 there.” ficers 24 hours at the jail. I f worse scribed as a Hispanic or white male in his early 20s, 5’7” to 5’8”, Amoldi did not deny that com with a medium build. He was wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt, blue comes to worse, we can bring one munication problems have arisen, down here.” jeans and black tennis shoes and driving a red compact car resem but said a translator would always bling a Toyota Corolla. T h e suspect may Sequent the I.V . area and Moo! Baa! Oink! I.V. Teen Center Director Ra may have committed similar offenses in the past. mon Miramontes said that many See LANGUAGE, p.6 If, as Nick Robertson says, “Noon in the Hub looks like a Coalinga cattle drive,* why Women’s Support Group Gives Recognition to Black Men do we obediently return to By A lexis Filippini the “tainted trough* daily? means “to know her is to love her” in Swahili, according to Akanke Vice and Jill St John President Tammarin Spearman. S taff W riters See Opinion, p 4 “The purpose is to show we appreciate the black men and that we understand what they are going through and to bring the community closer together,” she said. Women o f UCSB’s black community performed poems, dances and ■ The evening opened with the black national anthem, and t n r lu d r d per You Can’t Start a skits last night to show their appreciation o f black men as a part o f Black formances by the dance team Skyline, a tribute to Malcolm X , and several Culture Week. Fire Without a poems and songs commemorating black men. Akanke President Azizi Black Men’s Appreciation Night took place Tuesday in the M ulticul Stephens said the event was a success. Spark tural Center with the theme “Essence of Mahogany.” The evening was See CEREMONY, P-5 Former Gaucho standouts organized by members of Akanke, a women’s support group, which Erin Alexander and Erika Kienast are currently pursu Annual Festival Strives To Increase ing hoop dreams with the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. Students’ Knowlege of India, East By Eth an C hildress Bhakti Yoga Club Adviser Sav- S taff W riter vatma Das explained that exper iencing the Festival of India firs thand would help to broaden stu Scents of Inha wall be in the air dents’ horizons. today as the Bhakti Yoga Club’s “Being in a university, we should third annual Festival o f India drifts learn about the universe that we are through Storke Plaza. in. W e shouldn’t just be creating The festival urns to increase the technocrats. We want to expose campus’ cultural awareness by pre people to the beauty and wisdom of senting Indian heritage through the East;” he said. “It’s better to try demonstrations and exhibits, ac to reach people at this point in their cording to Bhakti Yoga Club Pres lives because when they are older ident Parama Liberman. they are more inflexible.” ' “This entire event is basically to The festival will also include ex expose students to the fact that amples o f sacred food and music, there is more out there than just the Das said. Western way of thinking. And it isn’t just about the philosophy, but There will be live devotional also the entire culture. This is ab music called Bhajans. It’s really out showing the Indian cultural beautifid,” he said. T h e re will also past — food, darning, music and be Indian food. I f s true vegetarian things like that,” he said. — that means no meat, fish o r Adam Marsh, the Bhakti Yoga e g g s . Also, there are no onions or Go check out the UCSB ALAN JACOBY / d a il y n exu s Club vice president, said the festi garlic in it. It is sacramental — the Gamelan Ensemble perform Keeping UCSB Beautifui! val will include aspects o f Indian Catholics get bread and wine, we traditional music from religious thought. get an entire meal.” Central and Western Java Seniors Shruti Chandra (right) and Soraya Romero, members of the “For the last few weeks about 12 o f us have been putting together today at noon for free In the Habitat Restoration Club, help pull weeds Tuesday across from Lot The Festival of India wall take 10 on University Road. The pulled weeds were non-native as well as a this presentation o f the Vedic cul Music Building Bowl. place in Storke Plaza today from ture and Vaishnava philosophy,” fire hazard, and the club intends to replace them with native plants * noon until 2 or 3 p.m. he said. 2 Wednesday, May 20Vì9Ì)8 Daily’ NfcxM 1Ü HI Daily Nexus Editor in Chief Marc Valles Managing Editor Ryan Altoon Training Editor Kerri Webb Technical Director Chris Koch Indonesian Leader Set To Resign - Soon Layout/Design Editor Stacy Jones mrr ' .....- ■! »u ■-■j 'T.."W . mi News Editors £Stacy Jones, Jodie Stout rolled out by the dozens just dent demonstrators earlier Campus Editor Zack Musa before midnight Tuesday, tins month, setting off days Asst Campus Editors Jill S t John, Tennille Tracy County Editor Tony Biasotti unloading barbed wire for o f looting and burning in Ja Asst County Editors Alexis Filippini, Gretchen Macchiatila JAKARTA, Indonesia bility in an effort to save the barricades to block off the karta last week. More than AP Wire Editor Alan Traeger Claire Smith (AP) — Student protesters country from destruction,” park and taking up positions 500 people died, most of Features Editor forced their way into die Suharto said in a sometimes on streets around tire site — them looters trapped inside Opinion Editor "Luis Morales h a lls of Parliament and army somber, 15-minute speech apparently intent on keeping stores set afire by the mobs. Asst Opinion Editor Jennifer Raub televised nationally. tanks took up position ar students from the protest Environment Minister Sports Editor Scott Kermesse« ound President Suharto’s H e said his insistence on site when daylight came. Juwono Sudarsono said Su Asst Sports Editors Ben Aikaly, Steve Wendt white-columned palace mil I8*. ' i <# harto hopes to push through Artsweek Editor .Anthony Bogdanovski Tuesday, both sides bracing ThigWecisior omes from my feeling of respon- reform and resign by year's Asst Artsweek Editor "Patrick Reardon for new clashes after In sibility in a fort to save the country from end as head of die world’s Photo Editor Alan Jacoby donesia’s authoritarian ctiora fourth most populous Asst Photo Editor Jeff Clark leader said he will step down nation. Art Director Kazuhiro Kibuishi — but not just yet. Suharto himself did not t "Hang Suharto! Hang Suhar eive a timetable for the re Copy Editor’ f Tad Ramspott Asst. Copy Editors Renee Heyming, Elizabeth Wethane Suharto!” the more than Indonesia president forms, saying elections Copy Readers Erin Coe, Amanda Green, 15,000-strong student con would be held “as soon as Nancy K. Olivas, Emily West tingent chanted from inside possible.” But he stressed Daily Friday Magazine Editor Nick Robertson the echoing, marble- making long-refused re While much of the public that he would follow the trimmed building, unfurling forms before he steps down country's 1945 constitution, Special Supplements/ has turned against him in Weekend Connection Editor John Ward banners demanding reforms should not be interpreted as the face of soaring food and which could mean at least from the roof of Parliament “resistance on my part to fuel prices, Indonesia’s top three to six months before a Chief Night Editor Carolyn Morrisroe Night Editors Shannon Capanna, Vincent Frakes in a protest unlike any other step down.” But Indonesia’s military brass are backing new vote.