Stowers, Supinger Win A.S. Offices 23 Percent of Students Voted; V.P
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• Stick People 4 G o lfe rs in Arts: No Clothes • World Perspectives 5 c • O pinion 6 and Pointy Heads • Sp o rts 9 • Classifieds 15 Page 9 PagelA • ArtsöEntertainment 1A D aily N a m Volume 69, No. 125 Thursday, May 4,1989 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 20 Pages Stowers, Supinger Win A.S. Offices 23 Percent of Students Voted; V.P. Race Tight become involved in A.S. through By Chris Ziegler committees, and expressed in Staff Writer terest in working for a candidate in the upcoming California Mike Stowers powered his way gubernatorial election. to the 1989-90 Associated Students Blackshaw was president of presidency over Andi Blackshaw Students for Dukakis in during Tuesday and Wednesday’s California and helped organize run-off election while Amy campaigning at college cam Supinger, in the race for A.S. puses around the state during the external vice president, slipped 1988 presidential race. by George Ramos. She called her campaign for With a total voter turnout of 23 A.S. president a “great ex percent, or 3,444 students, perience’’ and said she learned current Legislative Council Off- much about the campus during campus Representative Stowers the race. claimed 2,017 votes to Ramos was not as conciliatory, Blacks haw’s 1,461. saying, “Thank you to the The contest for the external Nexus,’’ referring to the Daily position was closer, with current Nexus’ endorsement of his op Off-campus Rep. Supinger ponent. He described his initial totaling 1,642 votes to Ramos’ reaction to the announcement of 1,487. The two were separated by his defeat as “shocked,” and said just seven votes in last week’s he will probably be involved in general election. A.S. next year as a committee Upon hearing the election appointee. results during the Leg Council For her part, Supinger said she meeting Wednesday night, is glad the contest between Stowers expressed gratitude to Ramos and herself had been kept friends and supporters and said to posting and distributing flyers he wants to meet with Blackshaw and had not carried over into the soon to discuss incorporating Nexus editorial page, which saw some of her campaign ideas into a brief but heated letter war his presidency. between supporters of Blackshaw Mika Stowers (right) receives a congratulatory handshake from fellow Leg Council Blackshaw said she is still and Stowers just before the run- member Andy Selesnick after winning the 1989 A.S. presidential run-off. considering whether she wants to (See RESULTS, p.4) QENCVKVt M U ) / M y Nm m Town Meeting Today to Focus on Police-Student Relations munity. By Penny Schulte Isla Vista resident who says he has Ombudsman Wallace believes the conditions peculiar to the Isla The meeting, which will take Staff Writer seen more harmonious times. that getting to know each other’s Vista community. place at the University Religious Both the community and the law names is the first step in bridging Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Center at 4:00 p.m., will allow officers agree that an air of the gap between residents and Department Capt. Ed Piceno said In light of recent violent in community members to articulate distrust has developed between the police officals. “ I decided we need that he wants to open up lines of cidents locally that have prompted “the things they like and don’t like two parties that should be to get out and start a relationship communication at the meeting so charges of police brutality, the about (local) law enforcement,” resolved. Some partially attribute with our hands out,” he said. that residents “understand where UCSB Office of the Ombudsman acccyrding to Ombudsman Geof the situation to the recent He said he hopes the problems we’re coming from” and learn has scheduled a town meeting frey Wallace. reassignment of supervising Foot can be resolved with a “mutual “what everyone’s concerns are.” today to discuss the relationship “We need to come back together Patrol Sgt. Jim Drinkwater, gain agenda,” and believes Sgt. Fred Olguin, who took between local law enforcement again,” agreed Santa Barbara known for his diplomatic approach tomorrow’s meeting could help to Drinkwater’s place as Foot Patrol and the student-dominated com County Supervisor Bill Wallace, an to law enforcement. familiarize outside officers with (See FORUM, p.4) Amy Collins Chosen As 1989-90 Nexus Editor probably going to be one of the resources to do longer in By Jay Bennert and the experience and vision to toughest jobs that I’ll ever have,” carry it out," said Arellanes, a vestigative pieces,” she said. “I Staff Writer Collins said. four-year Nexus veteran. want us to strive for more in Press Council’s selection of However, “we didn’t think of it in vestiga tion without sen The UCSB Press Council Collins marks the first time since terms of overturning the staff vote. sationalism.” overrode Daily Nexus staff opinion 1981 that the council did not follow We thought in terms of picking the Collins said a major goal of hers Tuesday night and selected junior the advisory Nexus staff recom best candidate, who just happened is to ensure the Nexus’ retaining its Amy Collins as 1989-90 Nexus mendation. Nexus Managing not to get the staff vote in a close status as the top-ranked daily editor in chief. Editor Doug Arellanes, a junior election,” said Press Council Chair college newspaper in the state, as Collins, currently the Nexus’ creative studies literature major, Brian Azar. judged recently by the California campus editor, has worked at the received 20 staff endorsement As EIC, Collins intends to add Intercollegiate Press Association. paper for two years and will be the votes over Collins’ 16 in balloting several components to next year’s Her immediate objectives include first female editor in chief since Monday night. County Editor paper, including a new science forming next year’s editorial staff Robin Stevens in 1984. Adam Moss, a junior, received five desk and a monthly special section and familiarizing herself with “I’m excited, a little bit sur votes. which will contain comprehensive budgeting procedures and a prised, and anxious to get started. “Obviously, I’m disappointed I investigative articles. “We’ve had computer system upgrade Am y CoWna I’m looking forward to what’s thought I had the tightest proposal a lot of problems allocating our (See COLLINS, p.4) 2 Wednesday, May 31989 Headliners Daily Nexus W orld Nation State Chinese Protests Continue North Judge Imposes 9-5 Day Report Says Lottery Policy as Students Rood Streets On Jury; Won’t Rush Verdict Shortchanges CA Schools BEIJING — With a burst of firecrackers and the bang of WASHINGTON — The judge in the Oliver North trial said SACRAMENTO — A state watchdog panel criticized the a gong, thousands of Chinese students marched for Wednesday he has imposed a 9-to-5 workday on the jury but state lottery Wednesday for a policy it says shortchanged democracy today on the 70th anniversary of the first won’t push harder for a verdict in the deliberations which schools between $13.8 million and $34.6 million in little over student movement in China. continued inconclusively for the 11th day. a year. Students at Beijing University, China’s most prestigious “I see no reason why I should intervene with the jury at The Commission on California State Government college, poured out of the campus gate at 8:30 a.m. all,” U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gessel told lawyers for Organization and Economy, better known as the Little Ten minutes later at nearby People’s University, several North and the government — both of whom had raised Hoover Commission, said ambiguity in the statute allowed thousand students rolled out onto the ~ questions about the lengthy the lottery to divert some small un streets, carrying dozens of red and white deliberations. claimed prizes back into jackpots instead banners calling for a free press and “There is nothing the court can do to of giving the money to education. democratic reforms. One man wore a red say that people must deliberate,” he A six-page commission report backs up headband that read: “Mom, I’m not said. “I have no reason to think they allegations by state controller Gray wrong.” aren’t deliberating; they are human Davis, who released an audit last month The marchers were cheered on by beings and they are going to set their own showing $5.9 million in unclaimed $5 V thousands of people along the way. pace.” Lotto 6-49 prizes was channeled back into The students said Tuesday they would He said he told U.S. martials, who scratch-off ticket prizes instead of march unless the government recognized their independent transport the jurors from the hotel where they are allocated to schools. student organization. On Wednesday, the government sequestered, “to get them in by nine and take them home by The Little Hoover Commission said another $13.8 million refused. five.” to $34.6 million was diverted back in unclaimed scratch-off More than 40 universities were expected to join in the The nine women and three men on the North jury ticket prizes from the time the games started in November march to Tiananmen Square, China’s symbolic seat of generally have worked on the case five or six hours each 1985 through December 1986. power, student leaders said. weekday and a half-day on Saturday. Lottery officials have said there’s nothing illegal about Since April 15, when the current demonstrations began, the practice, but they froze the disputed funds until they students have successfully marched to the square on five Grand Jury is Investigating receive an opinion from the attorney general.