Tuesday Campus Has History of Bombings I.V. Resident A Burning Memory ■ Recent Scares Harmless, but UCSB Has Been Target of Explosives Wounded in . Twewty-seyei| yeara ago'^ today, div I$la Vista Bank of By Anthony Galloway America w^l^itiifed’tb the f Knife Attack Staff Writer__________ ground by student protest*^ By Davia Gray ers. It behooves ail students Staff Writer______________ While the recent campus bomb scares have to remember the bistoty o f ' passed without incident, UCSB has a history of The victim of a violent assault I. V. acti^spDb^<ap||5 experiencing the damage and loss of life con­ - Usmy_oftMxcpe$^W^iW;. in Isla Vista this weekend is re­ nected with explosive devices. covering while his alleged assail­ The university has been the site of several ant waits in jail for arraignment. bomb scares since the first explosion in 1969 at While partying on Sueno % ft $ id e ... the Faculty Club. Road early Saturday morning, Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Dept. Explo­ I.V. resident Richard Baptista, K hePill ...After? sion Ordinance Disposal Team Detective Lance 31, was stabbed multiple times Craig remembers several past bomb threats and during a fight with an out-of- Thanks to EDA approval, explosions that occurred on campus. town visitor, said Cpl. Mark Vel- “There were a series of bombings on campus lekamp of the Isla Vista Foot contraceptive manufacturers during the Gulf War. One at the ROTC [buil­ can now package birth con­ Patrol. ding], two more at the library, one at [Cheadle “Apparently the victim was in trol pills ffr “morning aftex” Hall] that caused fire damage, then another at some sort of altercation with the use, easing pregnancy fears. [Cheadle Hall] that was in place but not armed,” suspect and another man. A he said. knife was produced and the vic­ See H eadliners p. 2 “A janitor was killed on campus in [1969] be­ tim was cut several times,” he cause of a bomb. A janitor picked up a briefcase, said. it contained gas with an anti-disturbance device, The police officers were re­ Bleeding Heart and it detonated. ... He died two days later.” sponding to a call about a loud The 1969 explosion in the Faculty Club cour­ stereo when they were ap­ ^ L i b e r a l " tyard caused the death of custodian Dover-O. proached by the victim, who was Propaganda: Nexus Ble Photo See BOMB p.9 covered in blood. Baptista was then rushed to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, Vellekamp A skater’s perspective, a said. defense of Tom Beers and Police and re­ “He’s doing pretty well con­ an old-fashioned tirade on scue teams eva­ sidering he has a six- to eight- the N exus. inch laceration on the top of his cuate the UCen head that required 40 stitches,” and prepare to he said. “He has two stab enter the build­ wounds, one to his chest, one to ing to investi­ the stomach, and cuts on his See Opinion p. 6 gate a bomb hands.” scare in the Glendale resident Mark Stan­ bookstore. The ley, 21, was apprehended by Geological threat turned out Santa Barbara County Sheriffs to be a false Dept, officers shortly after he Accolades alarm after offi­ fled from the scene with a friend, Vellekamp said. ¡ j U d S B professor w as cials discovered “We had a description of the awarded d feUow^hip foe his the "bomb" was car broadcast on the police radio really a ball of suidiesSvolving rocks, and they were stopped by the tape. volcanoes, planets and more! Sheriffs Dept, on the 101 free- See News p. 3 See STABBING p.8 PoliceRepprtJ Fund-raising Legislation To Isla Vista Foot Patrol officers Be Supported by Local Rep once again responded lo a v voter education, [which] are un­ variety of events this week­ By Em Wengel Reporter limited,” he said. end, from underage drinking Capps feels that no special- to auto-eroticism. interest group should have an In an attempt to even the po­ undue amount of influence over See N ew s p, 4 litical playing field, Congress­ the ordinary citizen in political man Walter Capps (D-Santa campaigns, Rabinovitz said, ad­ Barbara) is co-sponsoring a bill ding that HR493 should help Want World Peace? that calls for campaign finance take big money out of politics. reform. “People are fed up with cam­ UCSB students can now The 22nd District representa­ paigning. Too much money is apply to spend the summer tive joined 22 other House spon­ being spent, special interest has sors and President Bill Clinton too much influence and political in the Netherlands studying in support of House Resolution scandals are why people want a dispute-resolution methods 493, the Bipartisan Campaign cleaner system,” he said. with foreign diplomats.' Reform Act. The act seeks to eli­ The congressman believes I f See N ews^p. 5 minate foreign campaign contri­ that finance reform may also de­ butions, set limits on Political crease the nastiness of some Victory March Action Committee donations, campaigns, Rabinovitz said, ad­ regulate independent expendi­ ding that Capps was the target of The XlbSB baseball team 5“ , tures and soft money, and im­ several negative campaign ads returns borne to play pose voluntary spending limits during his bid for office, the most Westmont College after on federal elections. notable depicting then- The bill proposes a spending candidate Capps next to a pic­ taking two o f three from cap of approximately $600,000 ture of Richard Allen Davis, the Stanford^ for federal campaigns, and a re­ convicted murderer of Polly duction in the amount of allow­ Klaas. See Sports p. 12 , able total PAC contributions to “Less money would make about 25 percent of the cam­ [candidates] less likely to run re­ When I'm 5 5 ... paign’s budget, said Capps ally nasty ads,” he said. spokesperson Jeremy Some sort of reform may be Pah Pour guitarist George Rabinovitz. Harrison, who needed to help bring political ■ r fa ■ “Now [individual] PACs can campaigns more in line with the introduced give up to $6,000, but the bill views of the average voter, said DJAMEL E. RAMOUL/Dafly Nexm Indian music to would cut it down to $1,000. i ' i t á i i campus Governmental Rela­ Flyln’ High The Beatles, L ' ö r J Also it would set limits on soft tions Director Lee Marking. Hoping to inspire a liberation of the imagination, art studio celebrates his money, [including] outside “It costs so much to run for of- groups that spend a lot of money student Devin Curtis bungee jumps over the Eternal Flame in S5th birthday today! on advertisements meant as See REFORM p.8 his silver parachute pants and golden-winged jester shoes. 2 Tuesday, February 25,' 1997 Daily Nexus H eadliners Daily Nexus Editor in Chief Nick Robertson News Editor Michael Ba# Layout/Design Editor Davia Gray Campus Editor Linda Apeles FDA Clears Emergency Contraception Asst. Cam pus Editor Caryn Shapiro, Eugene Tóng County Editor Brian Langston could change that. One brands, when taken within Asst. County Editor Jesse Bellinger small company, New three days of unprotected Features Editor Davia Gray AP Wire Editor [ Chris Koch Jersey-based Gynetics, is sex, are 75 percent effec­ Opinion Editors | Nicole Milne, Marc Valles WASHINGTON (AP) emergency, just as the pills developing a specially tive at preventing Sports Editor Brian Berger — American women who a re routinely sold packaged version of birth pregnancy. Asst. Sports Editors I Steve Large, Yier Shi are raped, whose birth overseas. control that it hopes to sell For every 100 women Artsweek Editor J o lie L a s h Asst. Artsweek Editors Bryce Baer, Jason Saltier control fails or who just Contraceptive manu­ for emergency use next who have unprotected sex Photo Editor Djamel E. Ramout forget in the heat of the facturers so far have re­ year. during the second or third Asst. Photo Editor Bryan Silver Vihoment can use high fused to sell what the gov­ And the FDA’s instruc­ week of their menstrual Illustrations Editor I Ryan Altoon doses of ordinary birth ernment terms emergency tions were purposefully cycle, eight would nor­ Senior Copy Editor ] Bryan Pon Copy Editor I Todd A. Hovanec control pills to prevent mally become pregnant — Copy Readeis I Bobbie Flores, Luis Morales, pregnancy, the govern­ — 6 6 --------------------- but only two would if the I Nancy K. Olivas, Tad Ramspott ment said Monday. women took emergency Senior Staff Writer I Kerri Webb The Food and Drug Ad- The best-kept contraceptive secret is no contraception, explained Managerial Director I Ryan Altoon ministration said six longer a secret. Dr. James Trussell of Prin­ Advertising Manager I Matt Slaloff brands of birth control are ceton University. Account Executives I Bryan Bums, Leslie Grodin, safe and effective 1 Stacy Hedemark, Kara Hunter, David Kessler I Michele Larsen, Virginia Shannon “morning-after pills,” the His research convinced I Eric Vanderwold, Lauren Weinstein first federal acknowledge­ FDA commissioner the FDA that emergency ment of the emergency contraception could pre­ contraception that Euro­ --------- 55 — vent up to 2.3 million un­ P ro d u ctio n I Erin Barta, David Diaz, Stacy Jones, I Bridgitte McDaniel, Luis Morales, pean women have been contraception in the U.S., detailed enough to tell planned pregnancies a ¡Am y Phillips prescribed for years. citing litigation and politi­ family-planning clinics year, 1 million of which “The best-kept con­ cal fears. and private doctors the now end in abortion. traceptive secret is no lon­ So while it is legal for right dose to hand to wo­ Unwanted Serendipity ger a secret,” said FDA doctors to prescribe men today.