Chancellor Uehling Declares Compromise on Sedgwick Land

Chancellor Uehling Declares Compromise on Sedgwick Land

N D • Campus Comment 4 • Opinion 6 E • Sports 5 X • Classifieds 10 • Crossword 11 • Fwiday Magazine IA Daily Nexus Volume 70, No. 109 Friday, April 13,1990 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 16 Pages Chancellor Uehling Declares Compromise on Sedgwick Land By Patrick Whalen a 25 percent interest in the land Thursday to ink the final details of chancellor’s statement reads. wicks stipulated that the land Staff Writer held by the Sedgwick heirs.. the plan, which will be delivered The statement did not say what never be sold, intending for UCSB The chancellor’s announce­ today to the Santa Barbara Super­ part of the land would be set aside to physically expand on the prop­ ment, released in a statement to ior Court in preparation for an for the reserve nor how much mo­ erty’s rolling, oak tree-laden hills. Racing to beat a court deadline, the Daily Nexus Thursday night, April 20 hearing to seal the plan. ney could be raised for an art mu­ In February, however, the univer­ Chancellor Barbara S. Uehling comes amid increased scrutiny of “Our plan will establish one of seum with a sale. It did say that sity was successful in convincing a announced Thursday that a na­ what the university planned to do the largest units in the University monies from a sale, in addition to court to release it from the no-sale tural reserve of3,470 acres will be with the scenic, vegetation-rich reserve system, and ensufe that a supporting a museum, would be clause, thereby paving the way for established on the 5,800-acre Santa Ynez Valley land donated wide variety of vegetation types, used for one-time improvements funds for an art museum, and to Sedgwick Ranch property, while to UCSB in 1967 by the late Fran­ habitats, and watersheds are pre­ and an endowment to fund main­ pay off the five Sedgwick heirs’ 25 the remaining land will be sold to cis and Alice Sedgwick. served intact for scientific study. It tenance and operations of the percent interest. create seed money for a new Uni­ , Administration and UC system- will also fulfill our obligations to reserve. versity Art Museum and to pay off wide officials worked into late the Sedgwick family,” the In their 1967 will, the Sedg- See SEDGWICK, p.12 U.S. Citizens Scramble to File Tedious Taxes or Else Deep doo-doo? "You’re in deep trouble if you don’t file your taxes,” warned In­ ternal Revenue Service spokes­ SCOTT COOKSON/Daily Naxus person Chips Maurer, sounding Striking Greyhound employees face off with a non-union replacement bus driver. the bell Thursday reminding citi­ zens to mail in their returns before they're tardy. Across the nation, Americans Eight SB Bus Drivers Hold Nightly Vigil are scrambling to complete the lengthy and somewhat tedious tax forms by this Monday, or else face In Dispute Over New Company Contract what Maurer said could be some “pretty big penalties (that) start By Larry Speer stopped driving buses, and the and company officials came to a multiplying real quick.” Staff Writer day he stopped “living for Grey­ standoff over a new contract. And, Maurer chuckled, “no­ hound,” as he puts it. It was also When 92 percent of the drivers body needs that kind of grief.” the day he started looking for went on strike, most normal ser­ Gary Nelson has driven Grey­ another job. vice was temporarily halted, re­ Everybody say, “Amen!” hound buses for the last nine Gary is now working in the scheduled or delayed, while pas­ However, all is not lost for and a half years. maintenance department of a sengers were mired in the grid­ those who know they will let He worked the “extra board,” G ol eta industrial firm— a job he lock which quickly engulfed the down the eager, expectant em­ which entails being on call 24 got through the Manpower Tem­ nation’s most traveled bus ployees at the IRS. Maurer said hours a day, seven days a week, porary Agency— though he still network. that form 4868, which can be 365 days a year. For Nelson, goes to the Greyhound terminal The company has begun an picked up at the local office at 401 driving Greyhound buses was on Carrillo in downtown Santa aggressive strike-breaking cam­ E. Carrillo, will allow an exten­ not so much a livelihood as it Barbara almost every night. But paign, hiring more than 3,000 8COTTCOOKSON/Daily Nexu sion for tax forms until August 15. was a way of life. instead of driving a bus, he’s non-union replacement drivers Striking drivers form a Until March 2. That was the now carrying a picket sign. to drive their buses. While many TAX FAX & TIPS day he stopped waiting for the Nelson is one of 6,300 Grey­ areas still suffer from delayed or picket line nightly in front phone call telling him to report hound drivers who walked off of the Santa Barbara About 11 million taxpayers, in- for work. It was the day he the job March 2 after their union See STRIKE, p.5 Greyhound station. See TAXES, p.10 huge aphid build up,” said Jerry Davidson, an entomologist with BUG OFF!!! the Santa Barbara County Agri­ cultural Commissioner’s Office. In feet, in the final weeks of Drought Conditions Invite Influx March last year, Santa Barbara experienced several consecutive days of 90-degree-plus weather Of Harmless Aphids to Campus, and a similar jump in the aphid population occurred, he said. Creating Nuisance for Students OR MMEMMy Nuut “If there’s a huge influx of them then you have to go to cli­ By Ben Sullivan in less than an hour. Well, not re­ according to UCSB biological said. mate” for an explanation, David­ Staff Writer_____ ally. But there sure are a lot of sciences Professor Adrian Wen- “In a certain season of the year son said. them. ner. But, “One of them got in the they produce lots of wingforms They’re aphids, and in recent Xerox machine this morning,” and these take flight under cer­ One such climatic explana­ It’s enough to drive a person days swarms of the buggers have he quipped. tain conditions” to colonize, tion may be Santa Barbara’s on­ buggy. hit Santa Barbara with a Aphids are small, sluggish in­ Wenner said. going drought. Normally, aphids They’re everywhere: in your vengeance. sects that survive by sucking Because of their diet, aphids are susceptible to a type of fun­ eyes, up your nose, down your Though a nuisance to pedest­ fluid out of plants. Wenner said are of some concern to formers gus which feeds on the insects throat, and on your clothes. rians and bicyclists who find that the recent outbreak is made and gardeners whose crops can and keeps their numbers in Their sheer numbers can themselves covered with the in­ up entirely of female insects fell prey to the bugs. However, check. But for the fungus to make the noon sky look like sects, aphids pose no danger to which give birth to live — and the recent infestation has not yet grow, there must be a certain blackest night and a swarm of people or animals, experts pregnant — young. Males ap­ caused alarm in Santa Barbara’s level of water in the air, David­ the small, fly-like creatures can assert. pear in the fell when weather agricultural community. son said, and the drought has pick the flesh off an adult camel ‘They can’t bite and don’t,” conditions become harsher, he ‘This is not unusual to have a limited local humidity. 2 Friday, A ril 13,1990 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus Police Combat Arabs, End ‘StarKist’ Won’t Buy Tuna California Bank Announces Jewish Settlement Protests From Dolphin Killing Nets Commitment to Community JERUSALEM (AP) — Police fired tear gas Thursday to WASHINGTON (AP) — StarKist, the world’s largest LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security Pacific Corp. said end a Christian protest over a Jewish settlement and tuna canner, said Thursday it will no longer buy or sell Thursday it would commit an extra $2.4 billion over the fought Palestinian stone-throwers as foreign tourists visit­ tuna captured along with dolphins, winning strong praise next decade to low-to-moderate income housing, small ing die city for Easter tried to avoid the violence. from environmentalists who have long sought to protect and minority-owned businesses and similar programs. The street battles with young Arabs occurred in Jeru­ dolphins from fishing nets. The plan more than doubles a similar program by San salem’s Old City near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as Environmentalists and lawmakers said they hoped the Francisco-based rival Wells Fargo Bank, which has made thousands of tourists were visiting this Biblical setting for move would save some of the estimated 100,000 dolphins a $1 billion, seven-year commitment to community Easter celebrations. that die annually in the huge drift nets used to catch lending. The protest by Christian clerics focused on a nearby set­ schools of tuna. A coalition of community groups last month asked the tlement of 150 Jews in the Arab Christian quarter. The Jer­ “StarKist will not purchase any tuna caught in associa­ Federal Reserve Board to deny Security Pacific’s purchase usalem magistrate’s court, responding to a lawsuit by the tion with dolphins,” said Anthony J.F. O’Reilly, president of 20 percent of Mitsui Manufacturers Bank on grounds Greek Orthodox Church, ruled late Thursday the settlers of the H.J.

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