Vol. 59 No. 50 University of California, Santa Barbara Tuesday, November 21,1978 Supervisors Set Date for Hearing On Goleta Valley Incorporation By CYNDE TAHSE LAFCO for review and possible revision. Wallace The date for a public hearing on the Goleta Valley stressed that if the board approves the proposal as is, incorporation proposal was set Monday by the Santa it may appear on the March ballot. Barbara Board of Supervisors. This proposal would incorporate the entire Goleta LAFCO, the Local Agency Formation Commission, Valley area, including Isla Vista, into a city. approved it’s version of the Goleta Valley cityhood However, most of the large areas of open land and proposal last week, and sent it on to the Board of agricultural land have been excluded in LAFCO’s Supervisors. Yesterday the supervisors set Dec. 11, proposal. , 7:30 p.m. in the Planning Commission Hearing The Supervisors also allotted an additional $1,000 to Room, as the date for a public hearing to solicit Isla Vista for improvements and decided to put the public opinion on the proposal. issue of whether or not to import state water on the March 6 ballot. If this proposal is approved by the supervisors, it The money awarded to Isla Vista will be used for will then face the voters. However, it must meet the wheelchair ramps construction on curb corners. This filing deadline in order to appear on the March ballot. is part of the park district’s continuing project to aid Unless little or no controversy arises from the handicapped citizens of the community. public hearings the proposal may not meet this The supervisors also approved the wording of the deadline. According to Supervisor Bill Wallace, if measure to be on the March ballot concerning the someone wants to petition either to be incorporated importation of state water. The decision will be left to into the city, or left out of the proposed city’s boun­ the voters whether or not the county will turn to state daries, the proposal will have to be referred back to water. Parapsychologists Seek Public Acceptance o f Their Research By WALT HALLEY years he taught and carried on (Thomas) Kuhn’s term. Since the Society for Psychical research under grants from “I see much more of a Since 1953, the Peace Pilgrim has logged over 25,000 Research was founded in England various foundations. Funding for graduation between one thing and miles in her quest to promote peace in the world. She in 1882, scientific inquiry into parapsychology has never been another. We may be on the verge of recently began a pilgrimage around the United psychical phenomena has' offered by the university. a massive revision of the way we States, which brought her to the Santa Barbara area. proceeded at a slow, but steady Morris is now at U.C. Irvine, see the world, or we may only have rate. where he is offering an in­ to do some rearranging. But there Parapsychologists today have troductory and an advanced class definitely will be modifications.” their own professional group, the in parapsychology, as well as Morris does have some idea of The 'Peace Pilgrim'- Parapsychological Association, doing his own research. Grant what those modifications may deal which was admitted to the money was provided for a lecturer, with, although he insists there is a American Association for the Dr. David Phillips, at UCSB this need to clarify the basic con­ A Long, Hard Road Advancement of Science in 1969. fall quarter, but no money is ceptual terms of psi research That action, notes parap­ projected beyond that and the before progress is made. He also By SANDRA THOMAS sychologist Dr. Robert Morris, was question of whether parap- emphasizes the need for parap­ Peace Pilrim has a grandmotherly aura with her silver hair and more a tribute to the scientific sychology to interact with other pleasant expression. But rather than spending her time tending methods of inquiry advocated by This is the second of a disciplines, like psychology and children in the park she has dedicated 41 years of her life to a quest for the PA than an endorsement of the three part series examining anthropology. peace on earth. findings of psychical research on the emerging science of “ We are studying what appear to She wears a navy blue tunic with pockets all around the bottom in thé part of the AAAS. parapsychology. be new modes of communication which she carries all her worldy possessions: a comb, a folding But the event was a triumph for between an organism and its en­ toothbrush and a ball point pen. a science which is as yet unsure of sychology will continue to be of­ vironment,” Morris explained. On the front of the tunic in white letters it reads “ PEACE itself and its place among the fered at UCSB remains dependent “ It’s an interdisciplinary area-for PILG RIM .” On the back it says,“ 25,000 MILES ON FOOT FOR traditional disciplines. Contact had upon funding. ( Please turn to p.8, col. 1) PEACE.” Her blouse, slacks and canvas-topped children’s sneakers been made and parapsychology To date, the results of what are all blue, the symbolic color for peace. was no longer out in the cold~not parapsychologists call “psi” “ I took the name of Peace Pilgrim when I started my first entirely, at least. Parap­ research, the search for an pilgrimage Jan. 1,1953,” she said. Peace Pilgrim has been her name sychologists know they have a long unknown hypothetical element Iranian Students to for almost 26 years now, with the emphasis on peace rather than road ahead of them, and that it underlying all psychical herself. may be rocky. phenomena, have been modest. Rally Against U.S. She recently began her seventh pilgrimage around the United At UCSB course material in Data is compiled, results are States. She said she was born in the U.S.A. and has never been out of it parapsychology has been offered analyzed and new avenues of except to visit her “ neighbors” Canada and Mexico. She walks from since 1972 under the now defunct exploration discussed. Psi Support of Shah (Please turn to p.8, col.l > Tutorial Program. In 1974 Morris researchers feel that psi has been was hired and for the next four clearly shown to exist, but those The Persian Student Group will taught in the traditional sciences sponsor a rally to discuss the remain unconvinced. American government’s in­ If the experiment is dealing with volvement in Iran today at noon in Hetherington Lectures on Current the transmission of information Storke Plaza. outside the known senses, it is Iranian students wish to make called extrasensory perception. If the American people aware of the Industrialization of Iranian State it deals with non-physical influence presence of' a reported 50,000 By DAVE KIRBY has the potential and opportunity rugged Iran with her widely over an event (mind over matter) m ilitary. advisors who work in A comparison of the current to become the industrial nation the dispersed population centers. it is called psychokinesis. Ex­ conjunction with the shah’s Iranian situation to that of Great Shah desires but will not do so * Increased air traffic will un­ perimental designs yield government. It is hoped that if the Britain on the eve of the industrial because of his policies. He doubtedly help to ease this probabilistic results-that is, data American people become aware of revolution was presented in a suggests that “ much disaster problem but at the present there is analyzed on the basis of a purely the situation in Iran then they will lecture yesterday by Norris could be avoided if (people) would are alot of problems in the aviation chance score, and statistics are pressure the U.S. government to Hetherington, who recently look at history.” system of the country. heavily employed. get out of Iran. completed an extensive visit to Because of her vast oil supplies, Turning to communications, But the Held has no Newton or Demonstrations on the current Iran. Iran has the money to bring about Hetherington compared the royal Einstein, and the big experimental situation in Iran have been Hetherington’s theory was that industrialization. However, her oil mail of England to the Iranian breakthrough hasn’t taken place. sponsored by the Persian Student although the events taking place in is not expected to last until the end mail which is slow. Of the 35 Will psi research ever produce Group for the past two weeks. A Iran today are similar to that of old of the century. “ The opportunity is million citizens only one million what Willis Hannon of the Stan­ spokesman for the group said England, the steps taken by the brief and alot of money has have phones. “ This is the most ford Research called “ the Second earlier that demonstrations had government to relieve social, already been squandered in at­ serious obstacle to in­ Copernican Revolution?” Not for a been going on at other universities economic and political pressures tempts to industrialize,” said dustrialization,” he said. while, said Morris. across the country in response to are not. Hetherington. Britain's education system at the “ We maintain what I like to refer recent events in Iran. Today Iran is in turmoil. Public In comparing old England to time was closely linked with to as ‘enlightened uncertainty,’” Spokesmen for the group feel dissatisfaction with the Shah and Iran, Hetherington pointed out science and technology. According Morris explained. “ We don’t know that Iran could become the next his military supported regime is several aspects that were to Hetherington, this type of what is going on.