Opinion Comix Sports Speak Out! Graduation Alternative Humor Me! Voice your opinion Titans Too Tough - Sometimes mainstream Nexus Cdmix are here for . about the JustCause. - The UCSB softball team your entertainment Ordinance today at isn’t the way to go. Read w as unable to withstand pleasure. They will make 1 10 a.'m. at"the board of about how to receive your, the CSUF attack and lost supervisors meeting on diploma in another way, §| you happyr3guaranteedi three games. 105 E. Anapamu. I f See p.6 \ .} See p,9 See p.12 \ JASON SCHOCK / daily nexus The 2 17 Highway, which ends here a t UCSB's East Gate, will receive two new off-ramps planned to redirect traffic into downtown Goleta. Planned Highway Off-ramps JASON SCHOCK / daily nexus Intended to Revitalize Goleta Members o f Animal Emancipation march across UCSB on Monday In protest o f vivisection on campus - Here, they picket past the Psychology Building while under observation from Campus Police. By Sa r a h G reene town area,” he said. R eporter Chaconas explained that in or­ der to begin construction on the off-ramps, the county must first UCSB Vivisection Policy Protested The county will soon open two purchase the highway from the new entrances to a historic section state. By Sa r a h K e n t that number there’s no anesthesia involved, so we of Goleta in an effort to attract new “The process of transferring the Staff Writer want to publicize this.... W e believe it's a civil tights businesses, residents and visitors. 217 Highway from state to county struggle for beings that can’t speak for themselves, so Santa Barbara County is close to property will take at least one year,” we have to be their voice.” meeting the longstanding goal of he said. “Construction on the exits UCSB administrators and researchers found pro­ To stop this loss of life, AE, an 11 year-old na­ the Old Town Goleta Revitaliza­ will not be complete until testors on their doorsteps Monday, as an interna­ tional organization, has attempted several times over tion Project to build two new exits 2003-2004.” tional effort to raise awareness of animal laboratory the past two years to draw the university away from off Ward Memorial Boulevard, The County Board of Supervi­ testing came to campus. live animal experimentation, according to Oswitch. which leads into the East Gate of sors is hoping that by redirecting As a part of World Wefck for Animals in Labor­ “We have attempted to offer the university alter­ campus. According to 3rd District traffic into the heart of old town, atories, the activist group Animal Emancipation natives— software computer alternatives — to cer­ Executive Assistant Mark Chaco- both locals and visitors will be staged a protest at noon in objection to ongoing tain usages of animals in the classroom,” he said. nas, the off-ramps fit into the pro­ more apt to take advantage of the UCSB research involving vivisection, or animal ex­ “We have filed a complaint with the Dept, of Agri­ ject’s goals by redirecting traffic sendees offered by local merchants, perimentation, from biological to psychological culture about this whole matter. Federal law man­ congestion through Goleta’s com­ Chaconas said. Increased eco­ testing, according to AE President and founder Si­ dates drat they consider alternative methods to live mercial section. nomic activity is one step in the lar­ mon Oswitch. The protest began in front of Cheadle animal use, and we believe that they have not, in “The county is looking for ways ger goal of aesthetic enhancement Hall and proceeded to the Psychology and Biology good faith, considered these alternatives.” to enhance the downtown area for Goleta, he added. buildings, and was part of. an annual effort by the This alleged lack of consideration was the basis mainly between Patterson and “In the meantime there will be group to educate students about the use of animals in for Monday’s protest. Ten members of AE carried Fairview. Hollister is very con­ flood-control work for rainstorms, UCSB research projects. signs and images of vivisection subjects, while Os­ gested at the Fairview overpass, repairing Hollister in the summer, “The most recent documentation we have indi­ witch delivered a letter highlighting an example of and so Goleta is looking for ways to cates that at least 5,000 animals lose their lives here get traffic in and out of the down- See 217, p.3 every year,” Oswitch said. “And for a good chunk of See ANIMALS, p.10 Event Will Rip With Annual 420 Celebration By D a v id D o w n s est happening around marijuana that there’s Staff Writer a whole other side to the plant— as far as in­ dustrial uses for hemp — that goes unno­ ticed,” he said. Today’s “holiday” gives students a chance Snacks will be provided for those with to utilize an herbal remedy for the stress of drug-induced munchies, although the after­ two weeks of classes. noon will include much more, Espino said. Those in the pot culture of Isla Vista and “We’re going to try to have free food start­ UCSB will be talcing the day off to honor the ing at around 2. W e’re going to have a drum number420, which has become synonymous circle starting at 4, and at 4:20 we have an with marijuana smoking everywhere. The environmental studies teacher that is going most public of the celebrations will be a to come out and give an earth prayer. The seven-hour event beginning at 2 p.m. in An- bands will start playing at 5,” he said. isq’ Oyo’ Park, featuring live music and guest Isla Vista Foot Patrol Sgt. Mike Harling speakers. According to Hempwise owner A1 said past 4/20 celebrations have been peace­ Espino, the celebration of April 20 will help ful, and he expects no problems from this to raise awareness about the psychoactive year’s activities. herb, as well as uses for its tame counterpart, “Given the makeup of Isla Vista, all of the hemp. events have been well received, and people JASON SCHOCK / daily nexus “We’re really trying to getpeople involved A 9-foot bong adorns the wall o f the I. V. Foot Patrol Office. This gargantuan piece o f para­ for this thing because there’s so much inter­ See FESTIVAL, p.8 phernalia was confiscated by officers at an earlier date. 2 Tuesday, April 20,1999 Daily Nexus My Nexus Editor in Chief to ri Webb Managing Editor Tennille Tracy Layout/Deagn Editor Carolyn Momsroe Training Editor ' Alexis Rlippini Goes Under State Inspection News Editor Tony Biasotti tion and refused to comment structure necessary for the Campus Editor Jill St. John Asst. Campus Editors Ted Andersen, Usa Butterworth on it, said Lockyer spokes­ project County Editor Gretchen Macchiarella person Sandra Michioku. “W e do think essentially Asst. County Editors Curtis Brainard, David Downs A rarely used state law al­ that it’s a political stunt, a. AP Wire Editor Sarah Kent LOS ANGELES (AP) — “We do think that they’re lows the attorney general to thinly veiled attempt to Features Editor Elizabeth Weihane A coalition asked California a worse corporate citizen go to court to dissolve a cor­ pressure us to pull our in­ Opinion Editor Megan Herr to revoke Unocal’s corporate than most other corpora­ poration that ' has acted vestment out of Myanmar,” Asst. Opinion Editor Nathan Woodside Thatcher said. “W e have charter, saying the oil giant tions,” said Robert Benson, against die public interest. Sports Editor Matt Hurst wreaked environmental de­ a Loyola Law School profes­ “We have a three strikes met the highest ethical stan­ Asst. Sports Editor Marvin Gapultos struction, lied to the courts, sor who led the legal effort. dards in all of our business law in this state,” said Jim Artsweek Editors Robert Hanson, Jennifer Raub benefited from forced labor activities, and one of our key Asst. Artsweek Editor Tami Mnoian and worked with murderous Tpe list (¡^strikes [against Unocal] is such goals ... is to improve the Photo Editor Jason Schock foreign governments. J ja k if it was an individual, it would have lives of people wherever we Asst. Photo Editor Tennille Tracy A petition filed Monday ¡ IIP in fall for life long ago. ¿NMk work.” Art Director Kazuhiro Kibuishi asks state Attorney General In Afghanistan, the Tali­ -flL .ffl.rty Copy Editor Renee Heyming Bill Lockyer to seek a court- ban religious militia has Asst. Copy Editors Bryan Pon, Elizabeth Werhane National Lawyers Guild member Copy Readers Erin Coe, Amanda Green, ordered dissolution of the EH been accused of oppressing Devon Harlan, Niilo Steeds,* Segundo-based multina­ women and killing ho­ Guenivere Vinnedge tional. If he accepts the peti­ The attorney general Lafferty, of the local chapter mosexuals. Unocal pulled Chief Night Editor Ashley M aos tion and a judge agrees, a should reject the petition, of the National Lawyers out of the proposed pipeline Night Editors Ted Andersen, Lauren Bensinger, court would appoint trustees said Unocal spokesperson Guild. “The list of strikes [a- project in December, saying z j® Shannon Capanna, Jenny Chung, Sora Chung, Brad Goodwin, and a management team to Mike Thatcher. The same gainst Unocal] is such that, it will not participate until ' Devon Harlan, Cara Jennison, run die firm. petition, which totals more if it was an individual, it Afghanistan has a govern­ i Sarah Kent, Amber Neff The 10 causes of action in m than 120 pages', was rejected would have put it in jail for ment that is recognized by Advertising Representatives Kelly Appleby, Amanda Cameron, the petition include a 1969 last September by then- life long ago.” the United States and the Ciystal Cowan, Laurel House, oil spill in the Santa Barbara Attorney General Dan In Myanmar, human United Nations.