Straight from Dehart KCSB-AM Goes on Cable As KJUC, Gains More
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1 N • Feature 4 D • Opinion 6 E • Sports 9 x • Nexus Funnies 10 • Classifieds 11 • Coupons 1A • Valentine's Ads 1B Dailv Nexus Volume 69, No. 84 Tuesday, February 14,1989_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ University o f California, Santa Barbara Three Sections, 32 Pages New Site Straight from DeHart Officials is Planned Consider for Physics Freeze on Institute Building By Adam Moss Funds for Building by Staff Writer Engineering II Okayed; The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors agreed to New Addition to be a consider placing a moratorium on “ Showcase” at UCSB Del Playa Drive blufftop con struction at a meeting Monday but rejected an unrelated appeal to By A nd y Lief deny a blufftop property building Reporter permit to landowner Steve Johnson. Thanks to funding approved by Third District Supervisor Bill the UC Regents last month, Nobel Wallace, who proposed the prize-winning physicists will no moratorium for the board’s con ionger be riding Ellison Hall’s sideration, said preservation of notoriously slow elevators to the open bluff space has the support of Institute for Theoretical Physics the “ vast majority” of Isla Vista on the sixth floor. residents. Many of them are Instead, the institute will be concerned about rapid develop moving into a new 24,000-square- ment of blufftop property by foot, $4.9-million building proposed landowners who recently received to be built adjacent to Engineering water meters as a direct result of II on Lagoon Rd. The building will the passage in 1987 of Measure T, include office space for scientists, which granted meters for the support space for computers, construction of a limited number of seminar and conference facilities, single-family homes, he said. and a library. According to Wallace, Measure ITP, which receives funding T water meters intended for single from the federal government’s family homes have instead been National Science Foundation, has used for building student housing been located on the sixth floor of in Isla Vista. “ Most of them are Ellison Hall since it was turning into high-density, eight to established in 1979. It has since 12 student-type residences which become a gathering place for Taking giant steps for the proposed ethnic studies requirement, Carrick DeHart and are impacting again further still the entire Gaucho basketball team wore red ribbons on their warm-up jerseys during leading physicists from around the the traffic problems and the world to study interdisciplinary Monday night's victory over Utah State. The coaching staff, cheerleaders, student density problems, too,” Wallace problems in the field of physics. security. Chancellor Barbara Uehling and about 700 other fans also pinned on ribbons. said. “ I don’t believe there are too This opportunity to work out “Normally I don't get involved in political issues, but in this particular case, it makes many outstanding meters actually so much sense to me," UCSB head coach Jerry Pimm said. richardoRouRKE/DaHyN«xu. (See ITP, p.8) (SeeSUPES, p.5) KCSB-AM Goes on Cable as KJUC, Gains More Listeners By Brandon Bergmark Sellman said he was confident Reporter Cox would give the contract to KCSB. “ In a survey that was done “ W e really take of the local radio stations, KCSB Anyone looking for KCSB-AM the community fared quite well. And so by the may find only static unless he or service broad virtue of the success of KCSB, they she turns to the station’s new home felt that KJUC might enjoy similar at 91.1 FM. And with a new name, casting aspect listenership promotion,” Sellman KJUC-FM, the 28-year-old station very seriously.” said. is the newest Cox Cable subscriber Cory Krell Katie Smith, customer relations station in the Santa Barbara area. K C S B a s s t m anager specialist at Cox, said the company KCSB-AM management decided accepted KJUC in its lineup that the change, effected Jan. 21, because “ there’s a good audience was necessary to increase the size for it and it’s different from any of of its listening audience beyond the our other stations.” Also, Cox gets on-campus residence halls. “ If the community service credit, deejays had (even) one listener, it develops a working relationship was amazing,” said KJUC Dan Goldway and with UCSB students and attracts Associate Manager Christina Christina Zafiris, potential customers. Zafiris. K J U C m anagers in Although no fee has to be paid to The KJUC studio is still located control room. Cox, KCSB has spent $2,300 on under Storke Tower, but a equipment and starting costs to get telephone line now sends tran M U T S U Y A T A K E N AG A/Daily N exu; KJUC on cable stereo. KCSB smissions from the studio to Kerr stations carried by Cox-FM, which cable hook-up. The subscription Because a Federal Com raised the money through fun Hall, where Cox Cable facilities can be received on a home stereo rate for Cox cable stereo is about munications Commission FM draisers and listener donations, are located. From there, a signal is with hook-up, and joins the com $4 per month. license costs upward of $1.5 according to Zafiris. sent to Cox headquarters in Santa pany of other popular cable “ A definite result of being with million, KCSB-AM management Station management believes Barbara, where it is placed on the stations such as KROQ of Cox Cable is that it will extend the petitioned Cox Cable for a spot on the change is already paying off in subscription service. Pasadena, which is difficult to pick listening audience,” KCSB Chief the subscription stereo lineup, an expanded audience. “ I know the KJUC becomes one of the 31 up in Santa Barbara without a Engineer Steve Sellman explained. Zafiris said. (See KJUC, p.8) Tuesday, February 14,1989 2 Headliners Daily Nexus World Nation State Baker Opens Talk on Nuclear Bush Opens Campaign for Escaped Convict Believed to Strategy with West Germany Federal Budget on Monday Have Robbed Chicago Store BONN, West Germany — Secretary of State James A. WASHINGTON — President Bush opened a campaign for SANTA ANA — An escaped convict who has made a Baker III on Sunday opened critical talks with West Ger his “ sensible ideas” federal budget Monday in New career out of jewel heists and kept a picture of himself man leaders who have balked at a NATO plan to upgrade Hampshire, the state that revived his flagging campaign posing in front of the FB I’s “ most wanted” posters may short-range nuclear missiles in Europe. for the presidency one year earlier. have committed another holdup, authorities said. Baker flew in from London after sessions with British Although Bush’s fiscal 1990 budget is under attack among Michael Tifylor, 35, is the target of a nationwide manhunt leaders and immediately met with Foreign Minister Hans- congressional Democrats for lacking specifics on spending since escaping from the Orange County Jail here in Dietrich Genscher, a strong advocate of reducing nuclear cuts, Bush gave no hint in his speech to the Business and November. tensions in Europe. Industry Association of New Hampshire Authorities say Taylor has stolen as Baker, on an eight-day trip to visit the that the plan might be in trouble. much as $2 million in jewels from 15 U.S. NATO allies, told reporters “ Sensible ideas work,” the president Southern California jewelers since 1987. during the flight he was not worried told a Manchester, N.H., audience of He favors three-piece suits as a robbery about West German Chancellor Helmut about 1,200 people. “ We can do the job uniform and full-sized American cars for Kohl’s statement last week that the ■ H without taxes,” added Bush, who has his getaway vehicle. Lance missiles now deployed are repeatedly promised to fight any new He and an accomplice are believed to adequate until 1995. taxes. have stolen about $450,000 in jewels from a store in his native Chicago last week. Violence Erupts over Banned New Test May Help Predict Actor’s Mother Says Drugs Novel Blasphemous to Islam Contributed to His Problems ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Moslem fundamentalists Problem Drinking in Teens around the world demand that Salman Rushdie’s novel LOS ANGELES — Actor Todd Bridges is “a sick kid” “ The Satanic Verses” be banned as blasphemy against NEW YORK — A questionnaire assessing beliefs about victimized by drug addiction, according to the mother of Islam, and this weekend the campaign turn^I violent. alcohol can identify young adolescents at risk for later the star of “ Diff’rent Strokes,” who is jailed on attempted At least five people were killed and more than 80 injured problem drinking, according to a study that one expert calls murder charges. Sunday when police fired on a mob trying to storm the U.S. an exciting development in fighting alcohol abuse. “ It’s hard to believe it’s come to this,” said Betty Information Center in Islamabad. The protesters When tested with 637 junior-high school students, the 90- Bridges, adding that family problems and early celebrity demanded the book be banned in the United States. item questionnaire was an impressively strong predictor of status have hurt her 23-year-old son. Fundamentalists say the book does not recognize Islam problem drinking a year later, alcohol experts said. Bridges was charged with shooting a man in a house as the one true religion and ridicules the most precious Students who believed alcohol could help them think or known as a drug hangout.