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Students Blast Media Lottery Gives University Little Aid for Lighter Skin Bias Lottery Proceeds o f, tended by approximately 20 Beauty More than just students, mostly ■ African- Over $7 Million Meet Americans, was facilitated by Skin-deep, says Black Black Studies Chair Gerald Home. Only 1.1 Percent of He said that while this issue in the Studies Chair Pointing United States stems from slavery UCSB Funding Needs times, it is still pertinent. out Intra-racial Racism Home also said the matter of discrimination on the basis of color By Troy Feddersen will possibly become more Reporter By Chris Ziegler prominent in international Staff Writer economic affairs as the “baton of California’s first lottery was the capitalist empire passed from introduced in 1985 with the UCSB African-American London to New York to Tokyo. ” rationale that it would be a students denounced intra-racial According to Home, for the first partial remedy for a finan­ racism in a panel discussion time in the last 500 years, a non­ cially strapped state education Monday, directing much of their white nation will be dominant in system. criticism toward the media which the world economy — a Whether or not true relief is in they said perpetuates the belief phenomena which could have long- sight, about 40 cents of every that light-skinned African- range effects on white American dollar purchased for lottery Americans are more attractive society. tickets go directly to education. than, and thus superior to, dark- While intra-racial racism has a And some of that money ends up skinned African Americans. long history in Asia and in India in at UCSB. The discussion, held at the UCSB the form of the caste system, the Fifty percent of total lottery Multi-Cultural Center and at­ (See SKIN, p.12) revenue goes to prize winners, a minimum of 34 percent to education, and a maximum of 16 percent to cover expenses, ac­ $1,000 Award Fosters cording to the California State Lottery Act. Since the lottery was established three years ago, up Ethics in Engineering through the 1988-89 fiscal year, UCSB has accumulated $7.135 Global Peace Program ethically thinking scientists in an million from the California State attempt to encourage un­ Lottery Education Fund, out of a and SERT Join Forces dergraduates to think about their total of $48 million received by work in these terms. the nine UC campuses. to Reward Students The Socially Beneficial In comparison, the California Have California's schools really been winning since the Research and Development Award State University system has lottery began three years ago? Some think it's an w/ Social Conscience is designed to encourage student received $88 million, community unethical way of helping fund the system. projects which have a positive colleges $239 million and kin­ MUTSUYA TAKEN AG A/Daily Naxus societal and/or environmental By Suran Thrift dergarten through high school relevancy, according to SERT feet, not add to state funding Reporter $1.6 billion. behind California’s lottery has president Adam Miller. He said the Lottery money received by the raised two major questions. levels, but simply result in the organization hopes to “increase UC system comprises a very First, how are lottery funds budget’s lowering the amount When critiques of modern the number of socially beneficial small portion of the system’s helping our public schools, and given to schools. He also pointed science are discussed, a common projects,” adding that the nature budget, which is $5.1 billion for are they being allocated for in­ out that it provides less than 3 complaint is that scientists neglect of the award is “so un- the 1988-89 fiscal year, according structional purposes as intended? percent of the education budget. to consider the potential ethical controversial, it can only benefit to UC Public Information Second, is the lottery an ethical State Lottery Commission ramifications of their work. students.” Representative Paul West. way to increase educational Education Director John Schade With ihis in mind, the UCSB SERT, formed two years ago by UCSB’s lottery funds for 1988-89 funds? disagrees. “The lottery has been Scientists and Engineers for UCSB students who saw a need to total $2.229 million, which is only State Superintendent of Public effective in contributing to Responsible Technology promote responsibility in dealing 1.1 percent of UCSB’s total $202 Instruction Bill Honig has said education, and it is here to stay,” organization has developed a with the arms race, created the million budget. the lottery is a “bad bet” for Schade said. merit-based award program for (See SERT, p.12) Since its inception, the idea education, since it could, in ef- (See LOTTERY, p.12) 2 Wednesday, February 15,1989 Headliners Daily Nexus W orld II Nation | | Secretary of State Selling Oliver North’s Lawyers Say Santa Clara County’s Cases Controversial Stock Holdings Cover-up Favored by Reagan of Meningitis Near Record ROME — Secretary of State James A. Baker III an­ WASHINGTON — Oliver North’s lawyers say attempts SAN JOSE — Jail officials contacted recent inmates on nounced Tuesday he will sell his holdings in a New York by President Reagan to get around a congressional ban on Monday after a former prisoner was hospitalized with the bank and all his other publicly traded stock, a move aid to the Nicaraguan contra rebels and then cover up the 16th case of meningitis reported in Santa Clara County this prompted by questions from President Bush’s ethics chief activities are “at the heart of this case.” year. about potential conflicts of interest. North attorney Brendan Sullivan is attempting to in­ The jail also isolated residents of a minimum-security Baker said the decision went “well beyond” what was troduce evidence about the Reagan administration’s secret barracks at the Elmwood Rehabilitation Center in Milpitas required by law or had been recommended to him by efforts to aid the contras in his defense of North, who is for 24 hours, and the Health Department administered government lawyers. charged withtovering up the Iran-contra antibiotics after the former inmate was Baker’s decision, which a spokesman affair by shredding evidence and lying to taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical said had been reached Saturday but was Congress. Center on Sunday. announced only Tuesday, came as The Justice Department has succeeded It was the most recent case of Senate Foreign Relations Committee in delaying North’s trial until an meningitis — an inflammation of the sources said the panel had asked Baker t à j è agreement or court ruling is obtained on covering of the brain and spinal cord — more than a week ago for additional the extent of classified information that recorded by county health officials since V detailed information about his holdings. can be introduced. the first of the year. The controversy revolves primarily Sullivan said Monday that Reagan and around Baker’s holdings in Chemical New York Corp., other top adminstration officials “participated personally which has lent $4.5 billion to Third World nations. and directly in quid pro quo and other arrangements with Colt Files Suit Challenging As Bush’s chief adviser on foreign policy, Baker is cer­ Central American and other Third World countries as a tain to be confronted by the nagging problem of the in­ means of obtaining military assistance” for the contras debted nations and their staggering loans to Western and after Congress banned U.S. aid. Anti-assault Rifle Ordinance other commercial banks. LOS ANGELES — Colt Industries Inc., saying a new city law banning sales or possession of semi-automatic rifles Energy Department Plans to will cause the firm financial harm and hurt its image, filed Nicaragua Believes Contra a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the ordinance. The weapons company makes the AK-15 semi-automatic Continue Selling Tritium Gas rifle that would be included in the law that began Rebel Movement Is Defeated WASHINGTON — The Energy Department says it will prohibiting sale of such weapons Feb. 7 and possession of COSTA DEL SOL, El Salvador — Nicaragua is making keep selling tritium to private customers despite what it them after Feb. 22. strong democratic commitments because it believes the calls an approaching shortage of the radioactive gas used in “The overnight criminality of owning a Colt product Contra rebel movement is dead, an adviser to the San- manufacturing most U.S. nuclear weapons. tarnishes the impeccable and well-recognized Colt trade dinistas said during a. Central American summit meeting The government has been selling tritium to private name,” Colt attorney Harry G. Melkonian stated. Monday. corporations and research groups, both domestic and “With the Contras’ military defeat and the passing of the foreign, for decades. The practice has come under review Reagan administration, the external military threat to the since the nation’s only maker of the gas was shut down last Proposed Nuclear Plant to Nicaraguan government that impeded democratization is spring. gone,” said Paul Reichler, a U.S. lawyer employed by The Energy Department, in charge of making all U.S. Nicaragua as an adviser and representative. nuclear warheads and their components, has cited the risk De-salt Water Stirs Outrage Reichler spoke as the presidents of Nicaragua, El of a tritium squeeze in urging Congress to approve con­ LOS ANGELES — Environmentalists on Monday blasted Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica worked in struction of two new-generation tritium-producing reactors the suggestion by the Metropolitan Water District that closed session through the first day of a two-day summit. to replace the aging Savannah River reactor complex near nuclear power might be used to de-salt seawater for use in Aiken, S.C. parched southern California. District officials insist such a plant — which would Former Prime Minister Freed produce electricity and use excess heat from the nuclear INS Will Stop Processing reaction to distill fresh water from seawater — is a sensible approach to expected shortages of both water and power in by Abductors After Payment the next century. BRUSSELS, Belgium — Paul Vanden Boeynants, the Amnesty Applicants in Town A $300,000 feasibility study reported to the board of the former prime minister who disappeared from his apart­ HARLINGEN, Texas — The Immigration and six-county water district Monday finds the technology ment garage a month ago, returned safely home Tuesday. Naturalization Service will stop processing amnesty ap­ prohibitively expensive at present. But researchers and Officials indicated his family paid a ransom of about $1 plicants in a building which city officials closed last week water managers expect inevitable increases in population million. because of health and safety violations, an INS official said and in the cost of importing water from the wetter northern Prosecutor Andre Rutten said the 69-year-old politician yesterday. -half of the state could turn the equation around by the end of and businessman was freed in “reasonably good” condition Armed with bolt cutters and a temporary restraining the century. at 10:20 p.m. Monday near the railway station in Toumai, order, INS officials on Monday returned to the former 50 miles southwest of Brussels near the French border. furniture store where the agency processes more than 2,000 Rutten told reporters the abductors were still at large, political asylum applicants weekly. Court is Requested to Order but “it’s not over. The investigation continues on all Officials in this small South Texas town have complained fronts.” that refugees, most of them from Central America, had left The Vanden Boeynants family paid a ransom of “several the building and surrounding area cluttered with litter and Pay for Protesting Teachers tens of millions of francs,” Rutten said. Ten million francs human waste. LOS ANGELES — The union representing teachers who is the equivalent of $255,000. withheld students’ grades in a pay dispute sought a court order Tuesday to prohibit the school district from carrying Former Agriculture Secretary out a threat to withhold the teachers’ pay. Jamaican Prime Minister Is In a lawsuit filed in Superior Court against the Los Angeles Unified School District, United Teachers of Los Critical of Bush’s Decisions Angeles contends that refusing to issue paychecks would Sworn in for a Third Term WASHINGTON — President Bush is jeopardizing the amount to unconstitutional taking of the teachers’ property KINGSTON, Jamaica — Michael Manley was sworn in quality of life in rural America by following the “failed without due process. Monday for the third time as prime minister of Jamaica ideological policies” of his predecessor, says former and said his government is already establishing relations agriculture secretary Bob Bergland. with “our most powerful neighbor,” the United States. “He follows an incredibly popular president — one who “We are an island, but we are not alone,” said Manley, 64, cut taxes, talked frugally but spent freely, and who then Correction who led a socialist government in the 1970s but has claimed placed aU the blame on either Jimmy Carter or the a more moderate image recently. Congress,” Bergland said Monday. In yesterday’s article on the university child care Manley won a five-year term in a landslide victory last “Today’s unconscionable and unnecessary savings and center, Graduate Student Association election committee Thursday over conservative Prime Minister Edward loan crisis, which one way or the other will cost American chair Mike Begay’s name was incorrectly spelled. 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Box 13402, Santa Barbara, CA 93107. High 65, low 39. Sunrise 6:45, sunset 5:42. Usa Secosky, Lowell Sharron Printed by the Goleta Sun. THURSDAY Bryan Vanderwarker High 66, low 37. Those who only see yellow journalism Looks and feels like the real thing have jaundiced eyes. Daily Nexus Wednesday, February 15, 1989 3 National Women’s Group Comes to UCSB to Address Women’s Issues By Heather Davis an organizational meeting Reporter “NOW is an organization for women, for the new chapter Jan. 26 not of women. Anybody who supports in the UCeh, with ap­ proximately 80 percent of A local community any aspect of women’s rights can, and the attendees pledging to chapter of the National is, encouraged to join.” pay dues. Funds collected go Organization for Women is Eve Peek to the national organization, being formed at UCSB with UCSB junior end NOW organizer a fraction of which is hopes of gaining a mem­ returned for use on a chapter bership of both sexes to act newsletter. on political issues that affect Student reaction to the women. courage UCSB faculty, said. presence of the new chapter First established in 1966 in students and staff, as well as “I think NOW is a com­ was generally favorable. the midst of a national local community members, plement to the A.S. Status of Inter-fraternity Council women’s movement, the to participate. Currently, the Women because the President Dave Cleff, who Washington D.C.-based majority of Santa Barbara organization is concerned attended the meeting, said, Academic Credit Available for Students lobbying group is being women involved in NOW are with both campus and “This is the right time for Spring Quarter 1989 formed at UCSB by junior not students, but Peek hopes nationwide issues,” NOW a t UCSB. It’s Eve Peek, whose interest in younger women will also Associated Students Status something that we need to Relationships undertaking the project join. of Women representative arouse social consciousness, stems from participating in Tasha Phillips said. “I can particularly with abortion Stress Management a NOW internship last “NOW is an organization see both of the groups rights right now. Generally I summer. “It’s about time for women, not of women. working together on the believe that many of the Alcohol Awareness the younger generation Anybody who supports any abortion and family funding issues today are not single­ ★ In depth coverage of health-related topics. starts taking an active in­ aspect of women’s rights issues. The more support the gender issues,” Cleff said. ★ Skill Development in Personal Growth and terest,” Peek said. can, and is, encouraged to better.” Freshman Carrie Schmidt Communication join,” Peek said. NOW focuses its energies believes, “Our generation ★ Opportunity to utilize “real-life” skills in social Although a local chapter The new chapter is on a spectrum of women’s understands that men and service settings has been proposed in the registered with the Ac­ issues, including proposals women are pretty much past, the failure to form one tivities Planning Center as a for an equal rights amend­ equal to