Davis Encourages Progressive Groups to Unify
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I ■sfr .. N • Headliners 2 WomeiWail to Repeat, D • Weather 2 Who Invented the • UC Briefs 6 E but Earn the Silver • Opinion 8 US ht Bulb? X 10 • Sports at Nationals. ' j íí> ¿y^-‘.¿P age 6c • Funnies 14 : • Classifieds 15 Page 10 ~ | i* Z)û//v Afemy One Section, 16 Pages Voi. 68. No. 141 Monday, May 23,1988______________ University of California, Santa Barbara New Major In Women's Studies Will be Offered By Colette M. Sandstedt Reporter Developed in response to student demand and to help celebrate a diverse society, a women’s studies major has been created and will offer two lower division courses in Fall Quarter 1988. The new courses mark the first time instruction has been offered directly by the women’s studies program, according to Sarah Fenstermaker, chair of the women’s studies department. Previously, different departments A blown transformer briefly lit up the Isla Vista skyline late had offered courses that centered Sunday, causing a power line to fall on the oceanside 6500 around women. block of Del Playa and starting two separate fires. The line Fenstermaker said the landed on a Volkswagen Scirocco, which emitted sparks and program’s faculty is excited about momentarily caught fire. In the photos above, county fire the project’s goals and is “com personnel douse flames at a second fire that started about 150 mitted to try to reflect it in both the feet away from the Scirocco. Campus police reported that personnel and curriculum. We power in I.V. was briefly shut off as electric company per seek to develop interdisciplinary sonnel repaired the damaged transformer. courses that acknowledge and celebrate the diversity that is women.” “The major is a systematic Revolution Necessary to Alter U.S. Society study of the way scholars have looked at women and gender issues,” Fenstermaker said. “But Davis Encourages Progressive Groups to Unify the lower division courses are aimed at the whole campus.” part of this past weekend’s “Eight to 10 years ago it was Democratic party will not move us Women’s Studies 20, “Women in By Chris Scheer Statewide Women’s Conference. inconceivable that Jesse Jackson in the direction we need to move. Western Societies,” will give an Reporter She is currently a professor at San could have won, say, Nevada. How The Democrats have connections overview of women and their roles Francisco State University and an many black voters are there in to the huge corporate monopolies in western societies within a social Although many still consider her American Communist Party Nevada?,” Davis asked the and these connections attach science framework. The course a controversial figure of the 1960s leader. audience. “Wouldn’t it be nice if them” and they are thus incapable will be taught by history Associate civil rights movement, Angela In her address, Davis said she is Jesse Jackson won our state? I’m of radically changing America, Professor Patricia Cohen and Davis remains a political activist encouraged about the future of not saying that if we elected Jesse Davis said. communication studies Lecturer who believes that “ultimately we America. With the success of Jesse our problems would end. But if we To create an alternative, “we Judy Jones. Both plan to em need a revolution in the United Jackson’s presidential campaign, knew we could win California for need to talk about building a new phasize women’s diversity by States.” “I’m really excited about this Jesse ... we could go a hell of a party,” she proposed. This incorporating ideas and in Davis, who achieved in period ... (because) things that distance towards realizing the coalition would encompass the spiration from their respective ternational attention as a defen haven’t been possible before are power we have to change things.” “ever larger numbers of people fields and by scheduling a variety dant in a 1972 court case in which now very possible. For those who However, she also said there are who are realizing that something is of guest lecturers. she was accused of involvement in romanticize the ’60s, well, it was limitations Jackson and the really wrong. Not just a problem The second course to be offered an alleged Black Panther murder, exciting, but I think this is die truly political left face within the here or there that we solve with a is Women’s Studies 50, “Women as spoke before a capacity Campbell exciting historical period,” Davis current structure of the band-aid. People are realizing it is Creators of Culture.” Taking a Hall audience Saturday evening as said. Democratic party. “The (See DAVIS p.7) (See WOMEN, p.5) Michael: Portrait of a Person With AIDS in Santa Barbara This is the first in a five-part kitchen window is the only sign patients into victims of reclusion. I just couldn’t function at all. I had series on how local people with that things are less than perfect Michael recalled the time he told a different problem that I didn’t AIDS are confronting the disease. here. LIVING one of his neighbors that he had associate with it,” he said, pausing AIDS. “We were friends. We were and lowering his breath. Michael is 37 and refers to with himself as a PWA, or Person With close. We would do a lot of talking. “Hemorrhoids.” By Doug AreHanes AIDS. He has had AIDS for almost He’d come over once in a while. Michael’s doctor was persistent Friday Magazine Editor a year now. This is his story, but And I made a decision to tell him. in his advice that he get tested for his situation is similar to a good Well, since the time that I told him AIDS. “I never did let them do an In a small mobile home park deal of the area’s PWAs. I haven’t seen him. And he’s gay.” HIV test,” he said. But through a near Carpintería, retirees sit on Michael lives alone with AIDS. AIDS Michael is one of an estimated 35 biopsy doctors determined that astroturfed porches and watch Aside from a slightly thin ap First of Five Parts AIDS patients currently living in Michael had Pneumocystis carinii warily when unfamiliar people pearance, one would not suspect Santa Barbara County. There have pneumonia, an infection that is the enter their alcove of peace and that he has the virus. been 95 cases of AIDS diagnosed top killer of PWAs. Pneumocystis quiet. Few of his friends know. He locally so far. Fifty-four have died. is a microscopic protozoa that lives This is the place Michael calls hasn’t told many neighbors. And Before being diagnosed with the in the air sacs of the lungs. The home. Rocks and palm trees take he hasn’t told his 14-year-old going to die. I get the distinct as-yet incurable disease, Michael protozoa, which are able to live the place of grass in his front yard. daughter yet, though he plans to feeling ... that they’re protecting sold real estate in Santa Barbara. because the immune system is An aging yellow Toyota with a this summer when she comes for a their own feelings by staying His battle with AIDS began id late unable to kill them, exude a sticky camper shell is parked in the visit. away,” he said. 1986, when he noticed he was substance in the air sacs, even carport. “A lot of people don’t want to get A general misunderstanding and rapidly losing weight. tually suffocating the person. A small “For Sale” sign in the close to somebody they feel is fear of the disease has turned some “Finally it got to the point where (SeeAIDS,p.3) 2 Monday, May 23,1988 Headliners Daily Nexus iM World Nation State Hezbollah Pledges to Protect Jimmy Swaggart Delivers Rocket Fuel, 1.6 Million lbs., Hostages Held in S. Beirut 1st Sermon Since Departure Found at Ca. Defense Plant BEIRUT, Lebanon - Rival Moslem militias blasted the BATON ROUGE, La. — Defrocked evangelist Jimmy SACRAMENTO — As much as 1.6 million pounds of am tenements and shacks of south Beirut on Sunday with Swaggart reclaimed his pulpit Sunday with fire-and- monium percholorate, the rocket fuel ingredient blamed in mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Pro-Iranian ex brimstone fervor, telling followers that the sex scandal that the massive explosion in Nevada early this month, are tremists pledged to protect Western hostages held in the led to his three-month exile from preaching was far behind stored at a defense contractor’s plant in Sacramento, it was slums, a newspaper reported. him. reported Sunday. The nation’s leading Shiite Moslem cleric said he would “Once you look up into His (God’s) face, you will never be The chemical is among dozens of hazardous materials work to end the hostage situation. any cleaner than you are right now,” Swaggart said in a stored on Aerojet General’s 8,500-acre site south of Police said six people were killed and sermon lasting more than 45 minutes. “I _ _ ___________ Highway 50. The highly explosive sub 14 wounded in the 17th day of fighting want to serve notice on the whole world. stance is used as an oxidizer for solid between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah and What’s passed has passed. rocket fuel. It has been identified as the the Syrian-backed Amal militias. “I am serving notice on demons and main fuel for the explosion in Henderson, The casualties brought the overall toll devils and hell — the best is yet to come,” Nevada, that killed two people, injured to 266 killed and 873 injured since fighting he shouted to about 5,000 people at his 322 others and left an estimated $100 broke out May 6 for control of the slums, Family Worship Center.