An empirical investigation of how corruption leads to the snuffing of innocence, based on historical fact. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

1. HISTORICAL FICTION BY RICHARD ANTHONY BAUM
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93101 COPYRIGHT © 2017
ROBERT BACON
VISITING ADJUNCT PATIENT
CAMARILLO STATE HOSPITAL
CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA
July 4, 2020
Regents’ Attorney
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
Attorney:
Please apprise me of the Regents’ attorney stationed at UCSB in Fall, 1972.
I received a perjured traffic citation from officer badge number 718 on October 17, 1972 at
UCSB while a student but twenty years old.
Innocently, I pled guilty with an explanation before Judge Jesse Lodge in Goleta Municipal
Court.
In discussing the incident with the Santa Barbara County District Attorney in 1997 by
telephone, the district attorney assured me the judge would probably have gone “big deal,”
had I pled my case personally. Following this conversation, I did come to regard the
officer’s choosing to write the license plate as ZB65PU instead of S 41 542 as material to
the officer’s perception.
As a consequence of the citation, I falsified a student financial aid document during my
tenure as a graduate student at UCLA between 1974 and 1980.
Without recalling antecedant circumstances, I had cause to feel guilty in 1980 and checked
into the Neuropsychiatric ward of the UCLA hospital. This effectively ended my career as a
graduate student.
After being removed from my household by Santa Barbara County Mental Health in 1981, I
had cause to live in an apartment on Camino Pescadero in Isla Vista between 1981 and
1984.
In the course of living at this address, I wrote the Regents of the University of California,
Office of the General Counsel, Berkeley, California 94720 regarding what I viewed as

2. unreasonable living conditions of this building being leased concurrently by students at
UCSB. My interest was the students’ welfare.
I received a reply from Mary E. MacDougal, Assistant Counsel, stating the building was not
university property and hence was not their concern.
In the course of teaching at Ventura College with my Master’s degree from UCLA, in 1986 I
had cause to write regents’ attorney Mary E. MacDougal again regarding my dismissal from
Ventura College for using an ethical prescription drug.
At Ventura College in 1986, the Dean’s oral question to me was “Are you on drugs?” I did
not know how to respond verbally. However, I did respond I would be willing to fill out a
health questionaire if that would satisfy her curiosity. Laughing, she said, “That’s not
necessary.” My dismissal ensued.
Regents’ attorney Mary E. MacDougal responded that my suggestion for witholding transfer
credit to a UC campus for my program at Ventura College was not within her office’s
purview. I redirected to the regents’ attorney that my suggestion be routed to the
appropriate office at UC.
Coincidentally, while an extension student in mathematics at UCSB in 1987, a transfer
student from Ventura College related to me that UCSB had witheld credit for a transfer
course in mathematics at Ventura College.
My next exposure to a regents’ attorney came in June, 1998 in Philadelphia in a cafeteria at
the Philadelphia Art Museum. She stated she was a Regents’ attorney at UCLA. As I was
with extended family and UCLA had done me no harm, I kept my mouth shut on the issue
of citation number 1396 at UCSB. This later caused me some grief.
As my aim is to continue study towards my Ph.D. in economics at UCLA and as I’m sure it
served a purpose, I do not intend to sue the Regents of the University of California.
However, I find the practices of the UCSB police department abhorrent. As a senior
professor in mathematics at UCSB introduced his class in 1987, “Welcome to combinatorial
county,” following which he proceeded to explain permutations of license plate numbers
which resulted in my gradually coming to accept my fate.
Incidentally, I continue study of mathematics at UCSB at a leisurely pace.
Robert Bacon
Phi Beta Kappa
Lambda of California
cc: Regents of the University of California
Office of the General Counsel
Berkeley, California 94720