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1 s P N • Campus Comment 6 • Opinion 8 O Lacrosse: WCLL D R E • Feature 11 y • U.3. College Update 12 T Final 4 Bound • Sports 13 S • Classifieds 16 P a ge 13 • Coupons 1A Daily Nexus Volume 69, No. 119 Tuesday, April 25,1989 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 28 Pages Alleged Drunk Driver Faces Murder Charge Daily Nexus in a Monday phone S.B. District Attorney interview that he is pleased the DA found evidence to file the murder Also Files Charges of charge against Bishop because “ he’s a murderer.” Manslaughter, Driving Foraker has endured 12 surgeries and faces two more. He Under the Influence said he expects to remain in the hospital for about five-and-a-half Santa Barbara District Attorney more weeks. Tom Sneddon Jr. announced He also said he is surprising the Monday that he will add a murder doctors with his rapid recovery charge to Douglas Eugene and attributes this to being an Bishop’s existing charges of athlete and a vegetarian. “ I ’m vehicular manslaughter with gross pulling through pretty good,” he negligence and driving while under said. the influence of alcohol. Donations are being collected at Bishop, a 55-year-old Buellton different locations in the county to resident, allegedly veered his car help Wessberg’s family and to into a group of five training cover Foraker’s medical expenses, cyclists on Highway 101 near estimated to reach nearly $1 Gaviota on March 22, kiUing one million. He was not insured at the man and maiming another. Police time of the accident. About $15,000 measured Bishop’s blood-alcohol has been raised so far to help cover level at 0.25, two-and-a-half times Foraker’s medical bills. Fun the state’s legal limit, at the time draising efforts will, continue and of the accident. His preliminary possibly will include a musical hearing is set for May 1. benefit at the Santa Barbara Chip Wessberg, a 35-year-old County Bowl this summer. Santa Barbara resident, was killed Donations can be sent to Friends instantly at the scene while Goleta of Ken Foraker and Chip Wessberg resident Ken Foraker, 24, suffered Trust Fund, P.O. Box 4867, Santa a severed leg and massive internal Barbara, CA 93140. Foraker also injuries. needs people to give blood to his From his room at Santa Barbara account. Cottage Hospital, Foraker told the — Penny Schulte EPA Reports Data on '-P9 "**• H' County Toxics Level TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE — Pop star Debbie Gibson will not attend UCSB next Fall Quarter despite rumors that she had shown interest in becoming a Gaucho. emission rates due to difficulties in Agency Says $450,000 compiling the data, according to Carla Frisk, representative for Assemblyman Jack O’Connell (D- Debbie Gibson UCSB Bound? Only Pounds of Toxics Santa Barbara). “ As drastic as Released Locally in these numbers are, they are low, 1987 is ‘Too High’ we know that,” she said. in Your Dreams; Rumors Dispelled Previous estimates of toxic idol was to hang her hat at the off- emissions have been substantially B y Sco tt Lawrence campus dorm this fall. But when B y Joel Brand lower, according to Frisk, because Staff Writer questioned yesterday, F.T. Staff Writer the methods of gathering and “I don’t think she’d Resident Manager Emilie analyzing data were less accurate. Widespread rumors that singer move that far from Brubaker laughed, saying she New Environmental Protection However, 1987 was the first year Debbie Gibson will attend UCSB knew nothing about the dorm Agency data estimated 1987 toxic the E PA compiled official data of home, ever. She’s too in Fall Quarter 1989 were dashed receiving an application from emissions levels in Santa Barbara this type as a result of the close to her fam ily.” Monday when it was confirmed Gibson. County at 450,000 pounds. Emergency Planning and Com that the teen star does not have Kathy Acquaviva “ I ’ve never heard that before,” The E PA data, which also in munity Right to Know Act of 1986, an academic application on file G ibson publicist she said. “ I really don’t know. dicate that over 22.5 billion pounds according to E PA spokesperson with the university registrar’s Applications come in on a first- of toxics were released in the U.S. Alicia Tenuta. office. come, first-serve basis. And right in 1987, is probably below actual (See CALPIRG, p.4) According to Assistant now, until we have a signed Director of Admissions Clement year on the “ Today Show” to contract, we don’t have any way VOTING LOCATIONS Krause, a Gibson application did become a Gaucho, seems to be of figuring out who’s here and not exist in school computers as just that — hearsay. not. Residents aren’t chosen; we All U CSB undergraduates are eligible to vote in the of last Friday, indicating that the Gibson was unavailable for accept contracts until we’re full. Associated Students election, and graduates are also allowed singer had missed the Nov. 30, comment Monday, currently in I don’t have a clue. I’m sorry.” 1988 filing deadline and is thus Europe in the middle of her Also, according to UCSB’s to vote on the proposed UCen/RecCen expansion project. ineligible to enroll for fall 1989. “ Electric Youth” tour supporting Housing and Residential Services Polls will be open at the following locations from 10 a.m. to Hearsay that the 18-year-old her second chart-topping album. office, Gibson does not have an 6 p.m.: the bus loop, the front of the UCen, between the prodigy, who graduated from It has been rumored by more application on file for on-campus Arbor and Library, and between Buchanan and Broida Halls. high school last June, had ex than one Francisco Torres residency this fall and would not A current registration sticker is required to vote. pressed a desire earlier in the resident assistant that the teen (See DEBBIE, p.12) VOTE TODAY IN THE A.5; ELECTIONS! 2 Tuesday, April 25,1989 Headliners Daily Nexus World Nation State Prime Minister Takeshita to U .S . W ill Delay Stealth Jet, Los Angeles Teachers Vote Resign After Budget Passes Trim Missile Defense Funds to Authorize Strike in M ay TOKYO — Prime Minister Noburu Takeshita has decided WASHINGTON — The Bush administration plans to LOS ANGELES — Teachers in the nation’s second- to resign as soon as Parliament passes the budget for fiscal move ahead with two kinds of mobile strategic missiles, to largest school district voted to authorize a strike at the end 1989, the mass circulation Mainichi Shimbun newspaper delay the B-2 stealth bomber and to trim missile defense of May, a move announced Monday that could halt final and the Japan Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday. spending, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Sunday. grades and graduations for more than 590,000 students. The reports said Takeshita planned to make the an Cheney, in a televsion interview, also said the ad Of 20,137 teachers who voted, nearly 87 percent approved nouncement after a Cabinet meeting later Tuesday. ministration plans to keep all four World War II vintage the strike deadline against the Los Angeles Unified School Takeshita has chosen to resign because of low support battleships in the fleet despite an explosion last week District, said United Teachers-Los Angeles president ratings in opinion polls due to a widening aboard one of them, the USS Iowa, that Wayne Johnson. political scandal and an unpopular new killed 47 sailors. “ When we walk out May 30th, we mean sales tax, the reports said. Cheney will appear Tuesday before to shut this system down,” Johnson said. Passage of the budget for fiscal 1989, Congress to detail cuts he has proposed “Teachers are angry and I’m angry. which began April 1, has been blocked by to meet a $299.2 billion defense budget Teachers spoke loud and clear with the an opposition boycott of deliberations in agreed upon by President Bush and strike vote.” Parliament, but is expected to come late congressional leaders. An end-of-May strike would jeopardize this month or soon after several national Bush decided to ease spending on the final grades and high school graduations holidays end early in May. Strategic Defense Initiative to $4.6 billion in the 594,000-student school district, The reports said Takeshita, who became prime minister for fiscal year 1990, down from the $5.9 billion proposed by second in size only to New York City. in November 1987, has also decided to cancel a trip to five former President Ronald Reagan. southeast Asian nations. He was scheduled to leave ; Cheney said Bush had accepted his recommendation to Saturday for the nine-day tour. shift the focus of SDI from deployment sometime in the Chico State Student Found Masayoshi Ito, chairman of the party executive council 1990s to research on a more advanced system, known as and an eight-time member of the lower house, has been '‘brilliant pebbles,” consisting of thousands of orbiting Guilty of Murdering Couple cited as a possible successor to Takeshita. sattelites. However, political analysts say poor health may keep Ito, “ SDI is alive and well, but like everything else, it has to AUBURN — A former Chico State University student was 75, from accepting the post. Ito is diabetic. fit in a reduced budget,” Cheney said. found guilty Monday of killing a retired Chico doctor and Bush turned down one of Cheney’s recommendations, to his wife, making him eligible for the death penalty.