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...closer look reveals shabbiness. Isla Vista resembles a hip version of the towns near military bases thrown up to house and often gouge transient servicemen's families. Built like cheap motels, some apartments come with peeling paint and broken plumbing...
...young people pursue mystical religions. Pot smoking is almost universal. I.V. has 50 to 100 heroin addicts; one night last summer, two youngsters sleeping on a nearby beach were hacked to death by unknown marauders. With an atmosphere reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both, I.V. is a powerless political backwater. It long had governmental services...
These days the Isla Vista community is becoming sophisticated about self-government. The students have begun a unique effort to take the enclave's development in hand. Joe Godwin, 27, a bearded, bouncy anthropologist, has organized an Isla Vista Community Service Center. The Bank of America has put up $25,000 for expenses. The center's heart is a clinic run by Dr. David Bearman, 29, a veteran of Haight-Ashbury clinics. He dispenses contraceptives, treats VD and bad drug trips...
Student Turf. One apparent payoff is a new Isla Vista tolerance for the police. Residents cooperated in the search for the recent bank bombers, and two young suspects with no apparent political motive were quickly rounded up. Somewhat belatedly, the university has joined the I.V. reformers, appointing an ombudsman and a full-time I.V. coordinator. The California regents recently voted to spend $600,000 in Isla Vista during the next two years. Planning will consume $50,000. Some of the funds wilt purchase a vacant lot that I.V.ers turned into a park. Nonetheless, Chancellor Vernon Cheadle still seems baffled...
...both university administrators and students everywhere, "doing something" is indeed difficult. Some campuses have avoided the Isla Vista pattern by creating coed dormitories that tend to stem the student exodus. In most places, colleges can neither require students to go back to dorms nor dictate dormitory-type rules for student turf. They can. however, keep in touch with their off-campus students, and lobby for sound local government. "Nobody is seeking a return to the idea of in loco parentis," says Mike Tejeda, 26, a six-year Isla Vista resident who is now a senior. "But the university must realize...