Committee Backs Plan to Purchase Sedgwick

F r i d a y Opinion p. 6 News p. 4 Sports p. 12 UniversiTV Electronic Book Burning? Bring the Noyes Tainted Area Committee Backs Plan Scheduled to to Purchase Sedgwick Be Cleaned, up the administrative ladder to By Davia Gray faculty members, deans, Staff Writer chancellors and eventually to Used as Park the Office of the President and By Nicole MUne Though it has been endorsed the UC Regents, according to Staff Writer by a committee of the Chancellor Henry T. Yang. Academic Senate, the future of “We are going through a the Sedgwick Ranch acquisi consultation administrative Environmental concern and a tion is still uncertain while pre process to come up with a re proposed local park have servationists continue to ex commendation to the Office of prompted three oil companies plore possible funding sources. the President,” he said. “This is and Santa Barbara County to In a meeting Wednesday, the not a campus decision. The de conduct a cooperative cleanup Committee on Educational cision to incorporate a prop of Santa Barbara Shores, a for Policy and Academic Planning erty into the NRS is made by mer oil production site. endorsed the recommenda the Board of Regents.” Purchased by the county in tions of the Academic Senate Although CEPAP supported 1991, the 119-acre parcel lo Sedgwick Committee. Hie re the proposal, it revised the cated between Ellwood Shores port recommends the Univer funding recommendation to and Sandpiper Golf Course was sity assist the Land Trust of clarity and identity possible contaminated through careless Santa Barbara’s efforts to sources of systemwide assis oil procedures during the first purchase 783 acres of Sedg tance, according to Forgie. half of tiie centuiy, according to wick Ranch, according to Wil “There was the concern that Rich Wheeler, county Parks liam Forgie, a CEPAP member the [Academic Senate % Com Dept deputy director. When the and philosophy professor. mittee on Sedgwick Ranchi last of the oil companies in “CEPAP has considered this said that the university should volved — Arco, Sun and Oryx— report and has decided come up with the $800,000 so abandoned the site in the late whether we wanted to endorse that the Land Trust could 1950s, the effects of processing the report, and CEPAP did de purchase it and give it to the were left behind. cide to endorse the report,” University for $1,” he said. “The Parks Dept, spent a lot of Forgie said. “Some people didn’t want it time seeking out the prior own Upon purchase of the land, all to be coming out of UCSB’s ers to see who left the oil,” the Land Trust would sell the pocket, they want it to be UC- Wheeler said. “The lag time be parcel to the University for $1, funded. Since the land would tween demolishment of the last allowing the Nature Reserve belong and benefit the Univer Next* FU» Phot» plant and oil removal will be ar System to take over manage sity systemwide, the funding ound 40 years.” ment of the entire 5,900-acre should be at the systemwide The Academic Senate Committee on Educational Polity and Talks between the county and ranch and preserve the land for level. And it shouldn’t be real the three oil firms began about Academic Planning recommends the UC purchase Sedgwick research and teaching. located, but it should come Ranch, one of Santa Barbara's natural resources. nine months ago, aiming for a Now that the report has been endorsed, it can be sent See RANCH, p.5 See OIL, pJ> T o jjp Faculty Salaries at UCSB Workers Compensation Suit Total salaryy IncludesInm piig base salary plus research grants, summer compensation and adm inisiM ^ offices Settled; Terms Confidential dotted, that all the issues of the By JefT Brax labor code are addressed,” he Staff Writer said. “Hie likelihood of them Weinberg,William H. $174,908.28 Mitra, S a n jit! disapproving it? In all the cases Leal, Leslie G. 172,575.02 Pincns,PhUiig L 150,345 A settlement has apparently I’ve handled, they've never dis been reached in a former UCSB approved one.” Ihlers, Guénter 159,299.95 pcalapino, Douglas J. 147,800.5 Bookstore employee’s workers Bruce, 43, has claimed several compensation claim, but the ex thousand dollars in workers Iokotovfc|PetólJ 158.391.69 i l s h o , Allen 147,655.6 act monetary figure and terms of compensation for both physical the agreement have not been and psychiatric medical bills. Heeger, A l a ||j |j 157,558311 Lange, Fred £ 146,866.6 released. She was injured at her job as Attorneys for the University bookstore technical reference Kroemer, Herbert 154,758.35 Ü aelachvili, Jacob N. 146,866.6 and former employee Eilene manager Jan. 27, 1995, accord Gossard, Arthur 154,100.06 Seborg, Dale L 144,874.6 Bruce reached a settlement ing to a report from Dr. Jacob March 19, the day the case was Bastomski, director of State Langer, lames S. 152.499.70 Crandall, Michael G. 144,491.6 scheduled to be heard before the Street Chiropractic. state Workers Compensation “The patient was pushing a Appeals Board, according to cart full of books when one of Robert Bisho, campus workers the rear wheels snapped off. This Í kocÍSdía ily Nexos compensation manager. caused her to suddenly get “It was in the best interest of pulled forward. She felt immedi UC System Salaries Lower Than Other Institutions both parties to settle and avoid a ate lower-back pain followed trial,” he said. “It’s a tentative within one to two minutes by By Rachel Howard voids in its teaching staff. Hie vard University, Massachusetts settlement at this point It’s not mid-back and neck-area pain,” Reporter__________ disparity is palpable, according Institute of Technology, Stan been approved by all the folks the report states. to engineering Professor Petar ford University, State University that need to be involved in the Five months after the acci Kokotovic. of New York at Buffalo, Univer process. I think it’s a reasonable dent, Bruce was still suffering Battling a dwindling budget, “My salary is lower than a for sity of Illinois at Urbana- settlement.” from headaches, tendinitis and the UC system is struggling to mer student of mine who is 20 Ghampaign, University of Mi The Risk Management divi neck and back pain, it states. stay on par with top faculty and years younger and is at USC,” chigan, University of Viiginia sions of UCSB and the UC Of The incident mirrored a Nov. administrative salaries at com said Kokotovic, UCSB’s fourth- and Yale University, said UC Of fice of the President must ap 18, 1993, accident, in which parable universities around the highest-paid faculty member of fice of the President spokesper prove the settlement, as well as Bruce injured her neck and nation, which it currently trails. 1995. “I am keenly aware that son Terry Colvin. UCOP’s general counsel, ac lower back when another cart Pay cuts and freezes have hurt the university has fallen This figure shows an improve cording to Bisho. He said he ex wheel came off. Because of the the University’s ability to offer behind.” ment from 1993, when salaries pected them to do so before their two injuries, Bruce has visited competitive faculty pay, impair Salaries for 1995 lagged 12 trailed 17 percent due to an April 17 deadline. her family doctor, an acupunc- ing UCSB’s retaining and re percent behind eight standard “They just want to make sure cruiting power as it seeks to fill comparison institutions — Har- See SALARY, p.8 the fs are crossed and the i’s are See BRUCE, p.9 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus Editor in Chief Suzanne Gamer News Editor I J e f f B ra x Officials Probe Crash Debris for Clues Layout/Design Editor I Chris Koch Campus Editor j T im M o llo y DUBROVNIK, Bosnian and a Croat. Zagreb on the trip. said search-and-rescue Asst. Campus Editors ! 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