■ 0P1NI0N/7 ■WEEKEND C0NNECTI0N/1A In Support of A Juke Box æt> the Right to Die Full of Cuisine 1 rñt.» L .'M A Must Win? SPORTS/12 I ' " ""............ ................""..............1...... .. Walk for Life TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Hundreds of Hundreds Come for Anti-Rape Rally in Storke Locals to Hit ‘Survivors’ Share Experiences; Ralliers the Road for March Through I.V. AIDS Benefit By Heidi Anspaugh Reporter__________ By Debbie Robiglio Reporter__________ A sparse initial turnout at the seventh-annual Take Back The More than 500 area residents Night rally on Thursday swelled are expected to lace up their best into a multitude of women and walking shoes Saturday and help men calling for an end to sexual kick off the first-ever Heart and violence. Sole AIDS Walk Santa Barbara. Several hundred people con­ verged on Storke Plaza, all The 10-kilometer walk, which sporting orange armbands in a coincides with AIDS Awareness display of support for the move­ Month, is being held to remind ment to stop sexual assault in area residents of the continued UCSB and Isla Vista. threat posed by AIDS and to raise After listening to the testimo­ money for the AIDS Counseling nials of rape survivors and talks and Assistance Program, the from a host of speakers, the wo­ county’s largest AIDS victims men left their male counterparts support program. behind and marched through One of the key goals slated for I.V., symbolically reclaiming the the event is spreading the word night by walking without male that the AIDS death toll is conti­ protection. nuing to rise among heterosexu­ But the walk was marred by at als, AIDS CAP Office Manager least one balcony full of hecklers Lauren Wyeth said. who hurled eggs and insults at “Over the last few years the gay the women. community has taken an active Emotions were strongest dur­ role in protecting itself from ing the personal testimonials AIDS. Now we have a decrease in from over 20 men and women diagnosed cases from this group who had experienced sexual as­ and an increase in diagnosed sault. Loud clapping and cheer­ cases from the heterosexual com­ ing supported the speakers, munity. This, then, points to a many of whom broke out in tears need in education," Wyeth said. during their talks. Standing in dimmed lighting, “Everyone needs to be aware of they related their experiences the dangers of AIDS, not just and how their lives were members of high-risk groups,” changed. said Jay Groth, political director “Some days I feel happy and of UCSB’s Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual well and that I’ve dealt with ev­ Alliance. “It is not something that erything, and then some days I just affects a gay male can’t even imagine facing tomor­ population.” Sharon Boucher row,” said one woman. “It is still a subject that people (above) sings at Said another “My rapist was a are embarrassed to talk about,” Thursday night's close friend that I cared a lot ab­ said Andrew Winzelbeig, coordi­ rally. Sh e wrote out. After it happened I blamed nator and counselor of AIDS Edu­ myself and it took me years to the song for the recognize what it really was — cation and Stress Management for occasion. Students Student Health Services, stressing rape.” (left) listened a s the need for continued educa­ speakers called for Cheri Gurse, coordinator of tional efforts. the Rape Prevention Education self-empowerment Program, hit a similar note dur­ Constituting a majority of the and looked for sol­ walk participants will be UCSB ing her address. “Rape is rape, utions to the prob­ there are not two categories of students, including an expected lems of sexual ab­ 350 members of the UCSB greek rape; real rape and date rape,” use and violence. community, Panhellenic External Vice President Vivian Kwong CHRIS FTT2VDuly Nexus See NIGHT, p.3 said. LGBA, Mortar Board, the Wo­ men’s Center and Student Health Services AIDS Project will be Small Election May Cause Low November Voter Turnout among the other student and uni­ versity organizations involved. By Felicia Megdal Recorder Ken Pettit said at a press trict directors and vote on three One of Fulks’ competitors, Reporter conference that county-wide measures, two of which are however, predicts the opposite. The walkathon is scheduled to voter participation may drop be­ advisory. “People are just downright un­ begin at 9:30 a.m. — rain or shine cause there are not as many issues But GWD candidate Gordon happy with the way things have — at Leadbetter Beach, and will A top county for voters to sink their teeth into. Bulks, an incumbent, believes that been for the past 20 years,” candi­ continue to Shoreline Park and election official Pettit expects only a 20 percent students will make the trip to the date Kenneth Taylor said. “I’m then back to the East Beach said Wednes­ turnout in Santa Barbara and pos­ polls to oppose what he sees as afraid it won’t be a big turnout. Pavilion. d a y t h a t sibly more than 30 percent in pro-development rival candidates People are sick of politics. There The walk will be followed by county-wide Goleta. There are approximately who would promote growth by br­ have been no results. They want the live music of local band Raw voter turnout is 160,000 eligible voters in the inging in more water. someone who’ll be in there and Silk, and a nationally observed expected to de­ county, 90 percent of whom will “It will be higher than 30 per­ get some water on line and will get candlelight vigil afterward com­ cline in the upcoming Nov. 5 elec­ be eligible for this election, he cent,” Fulks said. “I think people it done in a reasonable, efficient plete with acoustic guitar and tion due to the small number of said. for the most part want to partici­ manner.” chamber music in die county issues on the ballot. Goleta and Isla Vista residents pate so the water board is not courthouse gardens at 6 p.m. Santa Barbara County Clerk will elect three Goleta Water Dis­ bought” See ELECTION, p.5 2 Friday, October 2 5 ,1991 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus Hard-Line Positions Taken for Peace Talks In a Word... DAMASCUS, Syria (AP)— Arab par­ — U wing in Israel’s histoiy. Israeli Foreign ties to the Middle East peace conference Minister David Levy met with Likud sup­ Local News Briefs reached a united hard-line stand on porters on Thursday, and some backers Thursday, but Palestinian radicals op­ The Arab states want a com­ said the foreign minister would now wage Oil Pipeline Springs Leak posed to the talks seized the Lebanon of­ plete withdrawal an all-out campaign against Shamir for An underground oil pipeline in Lom­ fices of the Palestine Liberation Organi­ leadership of the party. poc sprang a leak Wednesday, releasing zation’s main faction. One of the Arab conference sources in five to 10 barrels of oil into a field near a The dissidents were members of PLO Damascus, speaking on condition of Unocal oil lease site. chair Yasser Arafat’s mainstream fa- anonymous Arab anonymity, said the participants had dif­ “The leak occurred in less than a tah faction. One Lebanese security-force Conference source fered widely on some points, but after 12-inch diameter pipe,” Unocal employee source said the bloodless insurrection in Shamir’s decision they felt their best Darwin Signs said. “It was shut down im­ the Lebanese port of Sidon was tanta­ stand would be “total harmony.” mediately upon detection.” The leak was mount to a coup d’etat against what he The move by Shamir to head up the Is­ -------------------------------------------------~ J J ~ ~ noticed at 2:24 p.m. called Arafat’s policy of succumbing to vanized by Shamir's decision Wednesday raeli delegation will likely spur Arab The Santa Barbara County Fire De­ pressure to attend a peace conference. to supplant his relatively dovish foreign states to upgrade their delegations as well. partment and the Office of Emergency In Damascus, meanwhile, Syria, Egypt, minister and lead Israel’s delegation Management responded to the site, and Jordan, Lebanon and members of the himself. The Syrians had been pressing the clean up was turned over to a private con­ PLO staked out a hard-line position for Israel has repeatedly said it will not dis­ other Arab states who will attend the tractor, according to fire department the talks after Israeli Prime Minister Yitz­ cuss Jerusalem or the settlements, and Is­ peace conference to agree to not sign se­ reports. hak Shamir said he would attend the raeli media reported Thursday that the Is­ parate peace accords with Israel. Signs said that no oil leaked into any peace parley. raeli delegation would now be stacked water area, and added that repairs have The united front ruled out separate with hard-liners. The Arab states want a “complete Is­ been made and the line is back in service. treaties with Israel, demanded a halt to They included confidants of Shamir, raeli withdrawal” from occupied Arab Jewish settlements in the occupied terri­ hard-line legislators from his Likud bloc territories, including Jerusalem, an “im­ Toxics Facility Still Kicking tories, and insisted Israel negotiate on the and possibly a representative of Jewish mediate freeze” on the construction of status of Jerusalem. settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jewish settlements in these territories, In the great tradition of Mark Twain, Saudi Arabia and Morocco backed the Gaza Strip, the reports said. and “realization of the legitimate rights of reports on the demise of the campus toxic decisions by the front-line Arab states.