Mustang Daily, April 25, 1997

Campus Opinion Sports Find out the scoop on the new Get a glimpse of the football Some people might like to dean of the College of season approaching sooner eat meat, but this guy Architecture and Environmental rather than later. thinks meat is sick-o. Design. 3 8 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO Mustang D a iiy APRIL 25 , 1997 VOLUME LXI, No. 106 FRIDAY The tale of the little coffee ehop that couWn’t By Dawn Kalmar Daily Staff Writer •R espite desires of the “other” coffee shop on campus, Cal Poly Foundation wants to keep the student- Drun f-Stop in the shadows of the Architecture building. Few know about f-Stop, which operates there. Late- night wanderers may notice the white Christmas lights that outline the windows of f-Stop Cafe and brighten an fcfr otherwise dark corner. The cafe, a low-ceiling, small cubby-like room re.sem- / " r bles a living room with a stereo, a couch, magazines, / ! V boxes and projects stacked in various corners has all the ^ -tí? ^ / r comforts of home. «• n, / “Last year there was a concern f-Stop would be closed,” said architecture department Director Gilbert Cooke. “It’s really a wonderful opportunity for the kids to sit down and relax.” But letters from Foundation warned the American ♦ ' Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) about campus policy regarding the sale of food. “We allow them to operate under certain restrictions,” r j i , said Alan Cushman, associate director of campus dining. Restrictions involve hours of operation and intent. “The Foundation has exclusive rights to the sale of food on campus,” Cushman .said. ■■ So exclusive that f-Stop was told they couldn’t sell what campus stores sell. » “They .sent us letters last year basically telling us that Doily photo by Down Kolmor we couldn’t sell what was available through them,” said Tina Bauer, AIAS chapter president who is in charge of f- The f-Stop Cafe, located downstairs in the Architecture building, has long served especially to a late-night clientele. Now, the Stop. shop is being pressured by the Foundation. Negotiations with Foundation were not hostile, how permission from the dean and from student services. We Organizations that want to sell food on campus must ever, according to Cooke. “The whole idea was to work asked before we did it.” .sell it either Tuesdays on Dexter Lawn or Thursdays in with the parties involved to keep it operational,” he said. Cushman said too many people ask. Clubs used to .set the University Union. Cushman said they must apply for Cushman said campus dining offered to install vend up booths to sell f(K)d during Poly Royal where they could a permit, buy supplies from Foundation to insure quality, ing machines in the architecture building but the depart make a large enough profit to sustain club activities for and attend a food safety training meeting. ment denied its request. the year in one or two days. Once Poly Royal was discon However, HBSA President Ramiro Perez thinks The conflict is familiar to the Hispanic Business tinued, Cushman had an overwhelming number of clubs Foundation is being too demanding. Students Association (HBSA), which was told it couldn’t asking permission to sell food every day and in every loca “The restrictions placed on us from the Foundation are sell tacos on Thursdays in the business building breeze tion. ridiculous,” he said. way. “We physically couldn’t monitor tho.se locations for “We don’t understand why we can’t (sell there),” .said food and .safety regulations,” Cushman said. Business Council Representative Andrea Soria. “We got See CAFE page 5 Serial rapist may be preyingSome on ASI board frustrated by on college women, othersapproved campus safety resolution By Robyim Tysver that college campu.ses would be the By Dawn Kohnor safety, student health services and judicial affairs. Associated Press pn*ying gnmnds for a .serial rapi.st,” Dody Staff Writer Their report to the university pinpointed areas that said Heidi Hess, 30, who quit her needed attention. OMAHA. Neb. — Four women job as a part-time joumali.st and A smooth-running, quiet ASI Board of Directors' Tamara Eimers, a city and regional planing senior, have been raped and two others business teacher after she was Meeting turned heated Wednesday night, but not until has been involved with efforts to improve campus .safe sexually assaulted on college cam- rapt'd on March 5. the ASI Support of Campus Safety resolution was ty and came before the board to present her concerns. pu.stis in four Midwestern states, Ms. Hess was chatting on the passed unanimously. “The one thing I haven’t seen is any action from the and police .suspect the attacks are Internet alone one night in a com Prior to the vote, discussion was limited. At the administration or ASI,” she said. She encouraged ASI to take action and not just give the work of the .same person: a man puter lab at the University of beginning of the meeting Rachel Raymond, represen their voting support to the plan. who likes to spit on his victims, Nebraska at Omaha, a campus tative from the College of Liberal Arts, expressed her where she had worked and studied “(Sexual assault) is an issue, it is a problem, I don’t question them about their sex lives frustrations with the resolution she was instrumental for 10 years without fear. She heard think there’s any question about that. The question is and ask them to pray for him. in developing. The attacks took place in rapid fooLsteps behind her. A man in will anything be done about it?” she said. “As a student I feel this resolution is useless. So far February and March, on campu.ses a ski mask grabbed her, threw her Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez nothing is being done but talk,” Raymond said. 10 minutes to six hours apart. to the floor and raped her. disagreed with this criticism after the vote. She cited her role as both a member of the board The rapes have led .schools to Ms. Hess — who decided to “There’s a tremendous list of recommendations. and chapter president for the National Organization step up security and have unnerved spt'ak publicly because “people need Many, many, many of those have been acted upon, for Women (NOW) as the source of her frustrations. .students and faculty members with to know it happc'ns to people we have been instituted and have been already imple The resolution was the result of work done by a the idea that a rapist is targeting know” — said her attacker talked mented,” he .said. ta.sk force establisned after last year’s Take Back the women working alone in computer through the whole ordeal. During discussion of the resolution Raymond made Night program where concerns were raised about cri labs and music rcx)ms. sis response. The force included members of campus See ASI page 7 “It is a terrifying thought to me See WOMEN page 7 2 FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1997 MUSTANG DAILY Close call Daily Staff Report 'Fwo Cal Poly students in a Chevrolet Blazer col lided with a 12-ton city bus Wednesday evening that forced the truck into a nearby yard where the vehicle severed a telephone pole at Tassajara Drive and Foothill Boulevard. The students, .social sci ence junior Mindi Bridges and business senior Sean McCool suffered minor injuries and were released from Sierra Vista Medical Center hours after the acci dent. The bus driver and two passengers were released at the scene. Jason Gillespie, manag er of SLO Transit said that the bus suffered damages, *#*^**^ but wouldn’t comment fur ther on the extent of the damage. The San Luis Obispo V v! Police Department report '•.A*.;»' t/' r > had not been filed at press 'it time. Æ- • wTdr*Daily photo by David Wood Vote nears on chemical weapons Prosecution portrays ban; Trent Lott predicts approval McVeigh as hate-filled By David Espo “It is a close call,” he added is unverifiable and would open Associated Press later. the United States to danger from The Mississippi Republican nations such as Libya, North man with a twisted plot W ASHINGTON — A treaty to announced his decision moments Korea and Iraq that refuse to sign ban chemical weapons gained after administration allies pre the agreement. “The truth of the By Michael Fleeman the streets of Amt rica.” vailed, 71-29, in eliminating a impressive strength in the Senate matter is it won’t do a thing in the Associated Press But in equally forceful terms, on Thursday as Majority Leader provision that would have barred world to help the situation. It’s McVeigh attorney Stephen -Jones American ratification until Iran, Trent Lott said he would hack the not a comprehensive ban,” he DENVER — Seething with declared in his opening state Iraq, Syria and other so-called accord and supporters prevailed said. rage against his own government, ment: “My client is innocent.” rogue states had acceded to the easily on an initial test vote. The treaty would ban the use, Timothy McVeigh blew up the He accused the government of pact. The White House labeled With a final roll call .set for development, production or stock Oklahoma (’ity federal building trying to elevate McVeigh’s politi the provision a “killer amend evening, Lott cited a string of piling of all chemical warfare in a twisted plot to spark a second cal beliefs — which Jones said ment.” changes agreed to by the White agents and require the destruc American revolution, a prosecutor many share — into a motive for Moments later, Lott predicted mass murder.

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