Santa Barbara City Council voted Tuesday night to rename Ortega Park in honor of Ruben Salazar. Photo by John Franklin S.B. Council votes to rename city park The name of the old Ortega Park in downtown Santa Barbara was changed to the Ruben Salazar Park Tuesday night by the City Council. This was done in honor of the Chicano newsman killed during civil disturbances last summer when a police tear gas cannister struck him in VOL. 51 - NO. 57 THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1971 UNIVERSITY OF CAUFORNfA, SANTA BARBARA the head in a Los Angeles bar. The Council voted 4-2 in favor of the name change after listening to a large number of speakers supporting the change, including Ernesto Perez, chairman of MECHA at UCSB. This initial proposal was made by members of La Raza after Chief Bowles makes good submitting petitions with 956 signatures following the last Council meeting. The large turnout at the hearing indicated the feelings of a majority of the community in favor of the change, according to Maria Ortega, on his police reform vow spokesman for the Huelga Committee. The speakers opposing the name change felt that the name of Ortega was more relevant to the By MITCH ALLEN officers to cover a wider territory contacts and patronizing city because of its historical implications, she said. DN Staff Writer to protect from burglaries. It also different local establishments. The motion passed by the Council, however, changed the name and When Chief Derry Bowles took allows the officers to get from They have made some arrests, agreed to name a new, unspecified park after the Santa Barbara over the University Police place to place much quicker than recovered lost bicydes and have founder, Captain Ortega. Department this fall, he vowed if they were on foot. so far managed to avoid any Councilmen opposing the change were Dr. Franklin Lowance and that changes would be made. According to Chief Bowles, the hostile confrontations with William Sayre, Mayor Firestone favored the change. Since that time, innovations, old bikes the Foot Patrol is using residents. plans and ideas have been flowing now would probably not pass As well as the walking patrol in in a steady stream from the safety regulations. But the Isla Vista, the Campus Police are Safety and Security Building. department is working on reverting more and more to foot Situation termed critical Chief among these changes has procuring new ones. patrols on campus. At a rate of been the establishment of the Isla two or three times a week now, Vista Foot Patrol in conjunction PATROL SUCCESS the department plans to increase for I.V.'s Switchboard with the Sheriffs Department. As for the Foot Patrol itself, the number of walking patrols on The two man walking patrols Bowles calls it a complete campus. By M. X. DEAN While Switchboard has had have been in Isla Vista since Dec. success. “The officers fed they’re Furthermore, officers are now DN Reporter enough workers to staff the 1. actually contributing to order beginning to eat at the different Indifference and indirection office during its regular hours, it And now a new change has and peace in Isla Vista.” dining commons and the UCen are the two problems threatening still suffers from a lack of been made and the Foot Patrol Other activities the Patrolmen cafeteria during their shift, the existence of Switchboard. “dedicated volunteers.” has become the Bike Patrol. partake in include attending further integrating themselves Brian Craig and Ron Swenson, By this, Craig meant people are The switch was made during IVCC meetings, making weekly into the community that way. interviewed separately by DN, needed to perform the necessary the quarter break to allow the reports of their activities and The ultimate envisioned by focused on different reasons for daily work, such as keeping files Chief Bowles is to have the the current crisis within the updated and initiating and department fully integrated into community service organization. following through on projects, the campus community, Craig cited I.V. apathy as a like fund raising and scheduling induding officers in uniform critical problem. “The speaking engagements. taking classes for credit. To this organizations that function wdl Although basically an end the department has recently are those that are new or those information center, Switchboard hired three undergraduates as full that serve the people in it in a has performed a number of time officers. tangible way, like the Food functions from suicide prevention (Continued on p. 2, col. 1) Co-op.” to drug counseling. Craig emphasized that “Switchboard can do anything anyone wants it to do.” If, of course, the people, Zeitlin speaks tonight in turn, support it. He also touched on the subject ""Visiting'' Professor of Sociology, Maurice Zeitlin, of the University of of re-organization. Many of Wisconsin, will speak on "Chile and American Imperialism" tonight at Switchboard’s functions have 7:30 in the University Religious Conference Building, 777 Camino been duplicated or overlapped by Pescadero in Isla Vista. This talk is one of the weekly radical lectureseries sponsored by the more specialized groups that have Peace and Freedom Club and the New University Conference. Professor been more recently created in Zeitlin spent one and a half years in Chile in 1965-1966, has’ written a I.V. This has “caused us to THE BIKE PATROL has become one of a line of innovations in police book entitled "The Political Radicalism of the Chilean Working Class" and re-define our goals,” Craig stated. is currently working on a book tentatively entitled ‘T he Capitalist Class in reform under Campus Police Chief Derry Bowles. Swenson addressed this subject Chile." Photo by Renata Farber (Continued on p. 2, col. 3) THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1971 PAGE 2 UCSB DAILY NEXUS Campus Police make reforms Newton speech cancelled (Continued from p. 1) equipment and a stretcher. Community relations seems to Officers are now required to pass be uppermost in the department’s a swimming proficiency test in priorities. In conjunction with conjunction with this program. due to 'security problems’ the Housing Office and the Dean The department has also of Students, the police are internally reorganized, adding Reasons for the last minute confirmed that Newton was Connie Matthews, personal working on a program to visit two police lieutenants to the cancellation of Huey Newton’s posing a security problem for the secretary for Huey Newton, was dorms for rap sessions. A staff. Complete reorganization scheduled appearance yesterday campus. Indications were given contacted in Oakland, but five-man advisory board from will take some time, though. still remain unclear, although that several bomb and declined to comment on Associated Students provides a Not that all of these ideas are security problems appear to have assassination threats had been Newton’s cancellation. White, sounding board for grievances without' problems. With the been the major factor. received against Newton over the however, did add that “the Black and ideas. The ride program University budget frozen, funding The Black Studies Department, past week. Studies Department is sorry where students can ride with an for some of these ideas may be which was co-sponsoring the Jim Simon, chairman of A.S. about the cancellation because officer on his patrol, has been in difficult. But there are “many speech along with A.S. Lectures, Lectures Committee further we felt it would have been a operation though starting rather things we can do with existing issued a one sentence statement commented, “It just may be the scholastically enriching slowly. funds,” Bowles states. yesterday morning — “The Black best thing that Huey didn’t experience for the entire student Also of interest are the Finally, and perhaps most vital Panther Party informed the come.” body.” alternate modes of transportation to all of these ideas is the University of California at Santa for the police. Besides foot and reaction of both the officers and Barbara this morning that the concerned parties intended to bicycle, the department is the students. Bowles flatly states, Minister of Defense and Supreme resolve the crisis. working- on replacing squad cars “I have the full support of my Commander Huey Newton would Switchboard The meetings will all be held in department.” He considers them be unable to appear at this the I.V. Community Service with motorcycles. (Continued from p. 1) Already in operation is a police “anxious to get involved” and campus today.” Center, Suite F, tonight at 8, jeep patrolling the beaches. It will attributes many of the new Milton White, chairman of more directly. He explained that Saturday from 1 — 4 p.m., and assist in water rescues and is fully innovations to members of the Black Studies received a there are two basics which are Sunday from 1 — 3 p.m. equipped with first aid University Police. telephone call at his - home now being examined, Written suggestions are preferred He also points out that there Tuesday evening from Panther Switchboard’s purpose and its and should be turned into the have been no incidents this year headquarters in Oakland structure. Switchboard Office in advance. UCSB Merhaba Folk Dance Club cancelling the appearance. Beginning as it did, “we never Presents to mar his record of good relations with the students and When contacted by the stated what we were, just what that the Campus Police have NEXUS the following morning, we did.” Now faced with Counseling speech become “heavily involved in White was unable to elaborate or conflicting groups and a desire to JOHN community activities.” specify why Newton’s speech was expand into new areas, it has Harvey Jackins, originator of cancelled.