I.V. Protesters Can't Halt Cutting of Pines
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1 N • UC News Briefs 6 D • Opinion 8 E • Feature 10 X • S ports 11 • Nexus Funnies 14 • You Make the Call 14 • Classifieds 16 Volume 69, No. 64 I.V. Protesters Can’t Halt Cutting of Pines trimmers waiting to do their job, By Penny Schulte said, “ We’re taking the trees down Staff Writer today.” Because the action took place on An Isla Vista woman was a legal holiday, Wallace could not arrested Monday morning when a check county files to see if Grant group of local residents, including has an official zoning permit Third District County Supervisor allowing him to remove the trees. Bill Wallace, tried to prevent a “We’ll have to straighten it out property owner from cutting down tomorrow,” he said. six 75-year-old Torrey Pine trees The Torrey Pines are not on his El Nido Rd. lot. protected by coastal zoning or Kelly Prichard, a tenant on an dinances, according to Wallace, adjoining lot also owned by Joe and therefore Grant could not have Grant, the owner of the tree lot, been legally stopped yesterday was carried away by Isla Vista from cutting the trees down. Foot Patrol officers after she Grant, who intends to build a refused to move from the base of a two-story, 3,000-square-foot house tree, at the top of which a man was on the lot, said the county has positioned to start cutting with a known for some time that - he chainsaw. Grant asked that planned to build on the lot. “ I went Prichard b e . detained, without through the coastal commission MUTSUVA TAKENAOA/DsUy N n « filing charges, until the trees were years ago,” he said, indicating that * levelled. he had received a zoning permit to Gatherers pled with Grant to build a house. Grant said he then wait another day until Wallace proceeded to get his water meter Allegedly Drank Driver Strikes could verify Grant’s claim that he installed and a building permit. holds a valid zoning permit to build But Grant’s tenants, who rent a house where the cluster of pine the adjoining house, were not Goleta Boy on Ward Memorial trees sat until yesterday. But made aware of the planned Grant, alongside two paid tree (See TREES, p.7) A 12-year-old Goleta boy riding a bicycle on Ward Memorial Boulevard (Highway 217) was struck from behind Friday afternoon by an allegedly drunk man driving a truck. The boy, Daniel O'Brien, is reportedly in stable condition at Goleta Valley Community Hospital. 3 O'Brien was riding In the southbound lane of I Highway 217 north of Hollister Avenue when the | truck, driven by Buellton resident Barnet Oakley, | 37, switched lanes and hit O'Brien from behind, 3 throwing the boy from the bike on to the truck S windshield. O'Brien suffered a broken left ankle < and right shoulder while Oakley was not injured, < according to a California Highway Patrol official. | Oakley, whose blood-alcohol level was .12, was S arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving, z Payment of Fines Causing New Bridge Behind Career Services Problems for Huttenbacks Solves Counselor Privacy Problems The $37,000 needed to fund the counseling meetings were in By Peter Puh vel project was gradually saved by the progress, Geer said. court hearing held to correct a Reporter By Maxwell C. Donnelly clerical error in a court order Career Counseling Center by “ The original campus plan Staff Writer regarding penalties the Hut- “ managing internal resources and figured that pedestrians would tenbacks were to pay. At the Dec. Campus pedestrians might have saving money over the years,” walk around the west side of the Former UCSB Chancellor 12 hearing, Judge Canter in guessed that the new wooden Career and Counseling Center building, but people tended toward Robert Huttenback and his wife formed the court that he had bridge and landscaped courtyard Director Carol Geer explained. walking in a straight line, directly Freda have so far paid little of expected the fines to be paid in a adjacent to the rear of the Career “ No general campus funds were past the counseling offices,” Geer the more than $70,000 in fines lump sum, rather than in in and Counseling Services building available.” explained, “ It becomes quite they were charged by Santa stallments. was installed for their con “ It would have been very low on inhibiting and distracting to have Maria Superior Court Judge Zel Santa Monica attorney Dennis venience. Not entirely true. the list of state-funded priorities, people look in the window and Canter, according to county Fischer, who is acting as the The project was initiated and so it shows what you can do if you potentially overhear private probation department officials. Huttenback’s legal counsel in the paid for by the counseling center pinch pennies and have patience counseling meetings,” she said. Dr. Huttenback had been appeal of their felony conviction, primarily to redirect foot traffic and persistence. It has solved a The new development will also making payments of $200 per objected to Canter’s payment away from their offices because major problem for us,” she said. benefit users and employees of the month to the probation depart1 schedule, claiming that a lump passersby sometimes unin The need for some sort of Multi-Cultural Center and ment with the understanding that payment would create “ undue tentionally disrupted counseling pathway across the slough, which Educational Opportunity Program beginning Jan. 1, he would make hardship” for his clients. sessions in progress. is a natural drainage area, has cluster, which are in its proximity. monthly payments of at least “There’s a big difference bet The bridge and courtyard were been a major concern of the em Although the project was paid $1,000 for the duration of his five- ween paying a $60,000 lump sum completed on Dec. 21 after three ployees of the Career Counseling for by the counseling crater, year probation period, according and paying installments,” months of work, including sub Center ever since the building was organizers nonetheless had to to Chief Probation Officer Susan Fischer said. stantial clearing and grading of the constructed in 1984. Pedestrians adhere to campus physical Giofriddo. “ The judge has indicated his land, construction of the 30-foot coming from the parking lots near planning guidelines. After funding However, a wrench was thrown position, that the fine be paid all wooden bridge, fencing, paving Rob Gym previously had to cut for the project was raised, the and electrical work, according to across the marsh to get to the Facilities Management Depart into the works last month at a (See HUTTENBACK, p.6) John Whightman of Facilities center of campus, walking past ment contracted and designed the Management. open windows where private (See BRIDGE, p.7) 2 Tuesday, January 17,1989 Headliners Daily Nexus World Nation State Libyan Chemical Plant Can Bush Works on His Inaugural Californians Mark Dr. King’s Make Deadly Poisonous Gas Speech; Party Plans Advance Birthday with L .A . Protests BONN, West Germany — Finance Minister Gerhard WASHINGTON — President-elect Bush began his BEVERLY HILLS — About 1,000 demonstrators, led by a Stoltenberg says the government now believes that a inauguration week by paying tribute Monday to Rev. group of high school students, marched on the South Libyan chemical factory is capable of producing poison Martin Luther King, Jr. and working on his inaugural ad African consulate Monday in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day gas, according to a report published Monday. dress as those organizing the swearing-in ceremony protest of that country’s system of racial segregation. At a news conference Monday, Stoltenberg again revised anxiously made lists, juggled seating arrangements and After a boisterous but peaceful walk of about a mile, the official recollection of when Bonn first learned of possible monitored weather reports. protestors met members of a group of 27 students who had West German involvement in the factory. He also said a While federal workers enjoyed a day off, behind-the- camped out all weekend, blocking the entrance to the government company may have scenes activity for the inauguration o f .---------------------, consulate in an opulent office building unknowingly helped in the factory’s the nation’s 41st president went on at a flanked by fancy restaurants. construction. furious pace. The students and their supporters said A German magazine, meanwhile, said House Democrats arranged a they hoped to rally Americans around a U.S. company provided a computer for “ Majority Party Party” at a hotel the anti-apartheid cause — and perhaps the Libyan plant. ballroom Thursday night, the same time force consular officials to look for a new West German officials had maintained the GOP has scheduled a televised, star- office. for three weeks that they had seen no studded inaugural gala. In other news, thousands of people in proof of U.S. assertions that the plant in “ We had to give the Democrats San Francisco marching behind a banner Rabta, Libya, is intended for the production of chemical something to do,” said Howard Schloss, a spokesman for reading “ Living the Dream” paraded down Market Street weapons or that West German firms helped supply it. Libya the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on Monday, also in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s says the plant is a pharmaceutical factory. which strengthened its grip on the House in November. birthday. “ Hopefully, in four years we’ll be having the gala!” British Government Tightens Reagan Wanted Regan Out Black Policeman Shoved by Measures at London Airport White in Secret ‘Sting’ Film LONDON — The government on Monday tightened Before He Left White House LONG BEACH — a Black policeman apparently shoved security procedures for airport workers after two jour WASHINGTON — President Reagan wanted former through a plate glass window by a white officer during a nalists posing as cleaners exposed major lapses at Lon Chief of Staff Donald T.