DBOA Radio Series 10

Chapter 10 (0:62:22) takes place January 29 and 30th, 1970.

Contents

• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Pete Coza, Maxine Cass, Greg Sprankling
• Sleep-out, January 29/30
• Rich Underwood recalls the Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Mick Kronman
• Acting Chancellor Russell Buchanan approves Sheriff's forces on campus
• David Gardner meets with student leaders
• Chris Hall Incident
• Bill Allen Demonstrations at UCSB
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Cy Godfrey, Greg Sprankling, Pete Coza, Don French
• Bill Allen: "You people really voted today!"
• Post-riots interviews: local issues organizing
• "Peace Brigade"
• Greg Knell interview

Music

• Byrds: "8 Miles High" (live)
• Youngbloods: "Love One Another"
• Steve Miller Band: "Livin' In The USA"

KCSB-FM History

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DBOA Radio Series 09

Chapter 9 continues in January 1970, in the heat of the Bill Allen demonstrations on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California:

In this episode:

• January 29, 1970
• Bill Allen at the demonstrations in front of the Admin Building: "Woodstock Nation People"
• 7,776 signatures calling for an open hearing into the Bill Allen case
• "Power to the People"
• Oil companies
• Wharf-in
• Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting
• Greg Knell recaps the student side of the Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Santana: "Go out and make it better"
• Off-campus police called in
• January 30, 1970
• KCSB in-field reporting - Maxine Cass and Pete Coza
• Dylan: "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
• Outro
• Iron Butterfly: "Soul Experience"

Additional Music:

• Moody Blues: "Om"
• Iron Butterfly: "In The Time of Our Lives"
• Yardbirds: "Shapes of Things to Come"

DBOA Radio Series 08

Chapter 8 (0:65:10) takes us back to January 1970. Listen with headphones...

(Bill Allen demonstrations infront of "The Ad Building")

In this episode:

• Bill Allen Demonstrations
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting ( Greg Sprankling )
• Geoff Wallace interview: chronology of beginning 1970
• Arrests of Black Activists (Banks and Gardner)
• First annual observance of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969
• "Desiderata" goof
• National vs. Local issues
• Mick Kronman - "Join The Conspiracy"
• Polls, surveys
• Bill Allen: violence towards people vs. things
• Becca Wilson interview

Music featured:

• Fleetwood Mac: "Oh, Well" and "Searching For Madge"
• Jefferson Airplane: "Volunteers"
• Mothers of Invention: "It Can't Happen Here"
• Quicksilver Messenger Service: "Gold and Silver"
• Electric Flag
  

Desiderata:

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.

“William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe”

KCSB Presents S.B. Film Premiere of “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” with Guest Filmmakers Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler, November 19th, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall, UCSB

DBOA Radio Series 07

Chapter 7 (0:55:56) takes place Winter 1969/1970.

Subjects covered:

• Geoff Wallace interview: student activist groups
• Greg Knell interview
• ASIA
• Chicago 8 Trial
• Drug arrests, laws
• Marijuana
• Bill Allen Case
• John Maybury: "B of A: A Piggy Bank"
• 7,776 signatures
• Call for open hearing into the Bill Allen Case
• "... no more bureaucratic tricks"
• KCSB in-field reporting
• Beginning of the Bill Allen Demonstations at UCSB

Notable musical excerpts:

• Firesign Theatre
• Joe Cocker: "With A Little Help From My Friends"
• Beatles: "With A Little Help From My Friends"
• Love: "Signed D.C.

DBOA Radio Series 06

Chapter 6 (0:56:25) of the "Don't Bank on Amerika" radio series takes place in Winter 1969/1970.

This episode contains the following:

• Becca Wilson interview on the nature of Isla Vista
• Greg Knell interview on chronology
• The Smith Survey
• The Goleta Sloughway
• Kunstler speech excerpt from campus stadium, 2/24/1970
• Fall 1969 chronology
• Greg Knell interview on the Bill Allen issue
• "Bank of America: A Second Check"
• Opposition to the Bank of America
• Tim Owens documentary excerpt

Musical excerpts:

• Jefferson Airplane: Eskimo Blue Day
• Quicksilver Messenger Service: What About Me?
• Beach Boys: Student Demonstration Time
• Mothers of Invention: American Way
• Jethro Tull: A New Day Yesterday

DBOA Radio Series 05

Chapter 5 of the "Don't Bank on Amerika" radio series (0:61:42), originally produced in the 1980s, takes place in the Fall of 1969, before the Bill Allen demonstrations and the later riots.

Contents include:

• Becca Wilson interview excerpt
• The local effect of the Vietnam War
• The Smith Survey
• Richard Nixon
• The Vietnam Moratorium
• ROTC on campus
• UCSB background history
• UCSB student body composition
• UCSB student action groups
• Vernon Cheadle's financial conflicts of interest
• The Goleta Sloughway
• Field Nigger vs. House Nigger
• Buffalo Springfield music to end

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"A Citizen's History"

Carmen wrote in:

"It's almost perfect, except the Free Press was three years, not two, and the book is not available in full at www.islavistahistory.com

AND, whatever does she mean: "the growing rift between students and community members"? We talked nothing of anything like that.

Not bad for the Nexus, I guess.

C.

Local Publicizes New Book
Over 150 Pictures Included in New Isla Vista History

By Alex Llerena

Published Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Issue 21 / Volume 90


Author and former Isla Vista resident Carmen Lodise hosted a book signing in Goleta last Friday to promote his new publication: Isla Vista: A Citizen’s History.

The 200-page book includes over 150 pictures and first-hand accounts of significant events in our vibrant college town. Lodise used a collection of articles written during his time in Isla Vista as a foundation for the book, which was first published last year.

Lodise said he chose to write a book chronicling the history of I.V. because of his appreciation for the infamous local community.

“People remember the burning of the bank, but it’s what happened after that was so important,” Lodise said. “Students and townies came together to make living in I.V. a better place.”

Lodise moved to Isla Vista in 1972 to work as an assistant to a cultural anthropologist, and quickly became involved in the local community. In 1987 he started his own newspaper, called the Isla Vista Free Press, which ran for two years.

“I couldn’t compete with the Nexus,” Lodise said, commenting on the short life-span of the paper.

In 2002, Lodise took several of his articles from the newspaper and published them online. He decided to expand his online work into a book in 2008 after noticing the site had received over 1.6 million hits.

Although Lodise’s book recounts the “dark ages” of Isla Vista — including charges of corruption, greedy landlords and the growing rift between students and community officials — the author said he has high hopes for the future of the community.

Lodise also advocated for Isla Vista to become its own city, noting several potential advantages.

“I.V. is a liberated territory,” Lodise said. “It’s a hell of a great little town. … If I.V. could have control over the community including police, transportation and the quality of housing, through becoming a city, then it would be a great place to live.”

Besides running a local newspaper, Lodise said he also took part in the establishment of the park district, worked to establish funding for the medical clinic, sat on the I.V. community council and helped start the annual joint rolling contest.

The book, priced at $17.50, is available at the UCSB Bookstore, the Isla Vista Bookstore, the Isla Vista Food Co-op and Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara. The book, in its original form, is still available online at www.islavistahistory.com.

DBOA Radio Series 04

Chapter Four of the radio series begins Fall 1969:

DBOA Radio Series - Chapter 4 (0:56:15)

Subjects covered:

-- The United Front
-- Isla Vista, Summer 1969
-- Associated Students radical slate
-- Bill Allen case begins
-- Local drug use and availability
-- The "First" Isla Vista Riot, August 14, 1969
-- El Gaucho, October 2, 1969 covers most all issues of the period
-- Goleta "Sloughway"
-- Dick Flacks "controversy"
-- Angela Davis firing

Lou Reed's "Heroin" closes the chapter.