if Down the Mississippi Feature Opinion Comix UCSB Arts & Lectures On the Hunt Sorry Is Not Enough Spin Doctor presents a film, “Down in No matter where you plan After the Chinese,- if you want to set your the Delta" on Sunday, to be this summer, it’s Embassy Bombing, the mind free, take it for a „ May 16, at Campbell not too late to find a job U.S. and NATO need to l l test drive through the Hall. It's $5 for students or internship. Really, make a better apology. Comix page. and $6 for the public. S e e p .4 S e e p . 8 S e e p .9 Fiji’s Islander Promises Fun, Music, Cash for Children’s Service Center B y M e m r y H a m ik R eporter Those who can’t make it to the Fiji Islands this weekend need not travel any farther than Ista Vista to get some tropical flavor. Phi Gamma Delta fraternity (Fiji) will host their eighth annual JASON SCHOCK/ daily nexus Islander theme party Saturday The Gaviota coastline is on Lois Capps' agenda for environmental pre­ night — a fundraiser for the Santa sentation as part of an act that is currently under review. Barbara Cottage Hospital. The house will feature extravagant de­ corations and music from No Use SB Coastal Preservation Bill for a Name, Against the Wall, The Rudies and Sick Shift, according to Fiji President Josh Cudcr. Given Support From Capps “We’re going to transform our volleyball court into an island along with the lagoon and every­ B y S a r a h K e n t S ta ff W riter thing else,” he said. “This year the headlining band will be No Use For a Name, plus we’ll have three other local bands perform.” Local concern for enhanced preservation of the Gaviota Coast is being According to Fiji Islander Chair addressed tins month in the nation’s capitaL Qui Hua, the event is for local phi­ Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) introduced the Ga­ lanthropy, with proceeds donated viota Coast Act on May 5, which, if passed, will authorize a National Park to the Santa Barbara Cottage Service study to determine the feasibility of a national seashore designa­ Hospital. tion. According to Capps’ Press Secretary Lisa Finkel, the legislation re­ sulted from local support for the region’s protection. “After we pay for the DJ, all the “This is something that local environmentalists, ranchers and business- supplies, and the equipment we are people all agree is a good idea,” Finkel said. “Lois testified before the going to donate to SBCH,” he said. board of supervisors about this issue and they unanimously voted to sup­ port her efforts to obtain funding and authorization for a study on ways to Fiji Events Coordinator Phil protect Gaviota.... She’s hopeful that this dream will become a reality.” Maurer added that the fraternity According to 3rd District Supervisor Gail Marshall, funding has al­ tries to keep the money going to A volunteer puts the final touches on a hut for tonight’s Fiji Islan­ ready been secured for the Park Service study. local causes. “We raised about $500 with the der party. Fiji’s volleyball court is being transformed into an is­ “I asked the Board to approve a [Coastal Resources Enhancement Islander last year that we gave to land with a lagoon. Fund] grant,” she said. “We’ve got $25,000 from CREF money and we put it with the $25,000 that the Gaviota Coast Conservancy got.” the Surfrider Foundation,” he said. ren’s Services center will benefit vices to the community,” Kratz All that is needed now is matching financial support from the federal “This year we hope to raise even from the donations by FijL said. “We’re raising money now to government, according to Finkel. The bill is currently under review by the more money, but that all depends “We’re really thrilled that the remodel our labor and delivery House of Representatives Committee on Resources. on how many people come.” fraternity has chosen us. Even area. In the future, we hope to have “This is the first step in a way to preserving the coast,” Finkel said. “We According to Santa Barbara though most students don’t usually a more comprehensive children’s Cottage Hospital Director of De­ worry about taking their kids to the center.” ____________________ See COAST, p.8 velopment Anne Kratz, the Child­ hospital, we provide a lot of ser­ See ISLANDER, p.8 Frank Del Olmo Speaks on Latinos’ Journalistic Roles B y T e d A n d e r s e n amples of the problems that face Southern California’s Staff Writer largest newspaper. He noted that recruiting more His­ panic reporters helped the paper alleviate much of the sporadic “drive-by journalism” that plagued Los A prominent newspaper editor blended with an aii-' Angeles’ Latino community for many years. dience of faculty and students created a recipe for suc­ “A lot of the issues surrounding Latinos — educa­ cess Thursday afternoon, as the media’s portrayal of tion, immigration— are controversial issues,” he said. Southern California’s Latino community boiled to the “Our problem isn’t quality, it’s consistency. After re­ surface. cruiting these new writers in the early ’80s, we finally Los Angeles Times Associate Editor Frank Del began to develop consistent coverage of the Latino Olmo delivered a lecture yesterday at 4 p.m. in Corwin community.” Pavilion, hitting hard on the newspaper's evolution of According to Olmo, this “drive-by journalism” was minority coverage since the early 1980s. Olmo, who the result of the paper’s focus on too many negative won a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for his Times series minority issues. “Southern California’s Latino Community,” was the “I began to see a pattern [in the Times] that worried first speaker in the Ruben Salazar Memorial Lecture me gangs, immigrants, and more gangs. If you’re ABTIN NEIMAN / DAILY NEXUS Series, spearheaded by the Chicana Studies Dept, and going to do a gang story don’t just do a story about un­ In Con/vin Pavilion, Frank Del Olmo led off a lecture series dis­ Arts & Lectures. happy adolescents hanging around a street comer, cussing the changes occurring in journalism concerning the Driving home his desire to see fair and unbiased mi­ coverage o f minority issues. nority coverage in the Times, Olmo gave specific ex­ See LECTURE, p.8 2 Friday, May 1 4 ,1999F Daily Nexus i m111 i , » ™ Daily Nexus Editor in Chief ! Kerri Webb Managing Editor | Tennille Tracy Layout/Design Editor Carolyn Morrisroe Training Editor Alexis Filippini Yeltsin Faces Possible Impeachment News Editor Tony Biasotti Campus Editor Jill S t John Asst. Campus Editors Ted Andersen, Lisa Butterworth impeach Yeltsin. So far, at ties to sleep. County Editor Gretchen Macchiarella least 125 have indicated that Yeltsin was accused of de­ Asst County Editors Curtis Brainaid, David Downs AP Wire Editor t7 T *\ Sarah Kent they oppose impeachment, stroying the Soviet Union to Features Editor j — Bizabeth Weihane MOSCOW (AP) — Presi­ turmoil by firing popular suggesting the vote could be enable NATO to dominate Opinion Editor _ | 7 f Megan Herr Asst. Opinion Editor Nathan Woodside dent Boris Yeltsin faced ac­ Prime Minister Yevgeny close. the world. “It was exactly be­ Sports Editor | \ y Matt Hurst cusations Thursday of carry­ Primakov and his Cabinet And the whole matter cause of the collapse of the Asst Sports Editor | | | | g Mamin Gapultos Artsweek Editors Robert Hanson, Jennifer Raub ing out policies that claimed The shakeup, die third in could be moot if Yeltsin dis­ USSR that NATO was able A sst Artsweek Editor Tami Mnoian the lives of millions of Rus­ little more than a year, gave solves parliament and calls to advance to our borders sians as lawmakers opened Photo Editor Jason Schock and bomb Iraq and Yugosla­ Asst Photo Editor Tennille Tracy impeachment hearings that via,” Filimonov said. Art Director Kazuhiro Kibuishi I| # a s exactly because of the collapse of could test the strength- of Yeltsin was also accused th^SSR/t^at NATO was able to Copy Editor Renee Heyming Russia’s fragile democracy. of ruining the military and Asst. Copy Editors Bryan Pon, Bizabeth Werhane In an atmosphere of anger g a i n e d fe>\Our borders and bomb Iraq causing the deaths of mil­ Copy Readers Erin Coe, Amanda Green, Devon Harlan, Amber Neff, and foreboding, the. lower and Yugoslavia. lions by destroying the Niilo Smeds, Guen Vinnedge house of parliament, the — Vadim Filimonov country’s economy, ruining State Duma, accused Yeltsin the health system and lower­ Chief Night Editor Ashley Timiraos head of impeachment commission Night Editors Ted Andersen, Lauren Bensinger, of destroying the Soviet Un­ ing life expectancy. Shannon Capanna, Jenny Chung, ion, selling out Russia to the Sora Chung, Brad Goodwin, Yeltsin’s Duma envoy, Devon Harlan, Cara Jennison, West, starting war in the added impetus to the hear­ for new elections, as many Alexander Kotenkov, re­ Sarah Kent breakaway province of ings, which had already been observers think he will do. sponded for the president, Advertising Representatives Kelly Appleby, Amanda Cameron, Chechnya, illegally dissol­ scheduled. Among those opposing saying the impeachment Crystal Cowan, laurel House, ving parliament in 1993 and However, it seems less impeachment and urging charges were groundless. He April Schleede Yeltsin to dissolve parlia­ waging genocide against the likely that the upper house of gave a long, often emotional Production Erin Barta, Katy Edwards, Russian nation with policies parliament would vote to re­ ment was flamboyant na­ rebuttal of each of the five Katherine Garcia, Nicole Goldberg, that wrecked the economy.