Plus Ça Change
Regarding Cat Neushul’s Aug. 25, 2013, Eye on Isla Vista column, “Improvements Needed: UCSB May Be a LEEDer, but I.V. Stays a Trash Breeder”: I emailed the column and my comments to a few former Isla Vistans and received this reply from a late-1970s UCSB graduate:
“I have to admit I admire the campus for its green efforts. Good for them. However dumping ‘externalities’ outside the borders of their audit is typical of bureaucrats. They only measure what they control, not what they may be “responsible for” in a broader (messier) context. It would be a more accurate reflection of the campus ‘footprint’ to include I.V. in their internal environmental impact assessment.”
This analysis is remarkably similar to the assessment found in the UC Regent’s report on what brought on the civil disturbances in Isla Vista in 1970:
