Summer Mustang, August 10, 2000
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www.mustangdaily.calpoly.9du CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY. SAN LUIS OBISPO Nouveau show: Art gallery opetis new abstract exhibit,5 summer Cowboy up: Guts and glory at Kiid^State rodeo, 8 High: 80° Thursday, August 10,2000 Low: 54° Foundation’sCrowd rallies for Bush whistle-stop WOW hikes new leader its fees to announced i t ' 0 cover costs : «.• By Patty Green By Jordan Roberts SUMMER MUSTANG STAFF WRITER SUMMER MUSTANG STAFF WRITER ■ Ü With the end ot summer will Cal Poly Foundation has it>clt a t N - come a flood ot students into San new executive director. Æ. --* President Warren Raker recently ' 5 ' Luis Obispo. Cal Poly’s Week ot announced that Frank Mumtord will Welcome (W OW ) will begin Sept. take on the position. The decision to 11, one week appoint Mumh)rd was made in coop before tall quar- ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ eration with Daniel Howard-Greene, ter begins. The ^ WOW fees the hoard ot directors chair tor orientation pro- were $85. Foundarion. gram will be a Mumtord is currently the director » * rime for the stu- ^ Now, students of administration and planning tor dents to become $ 115 or Fi>undation, a position he has held , u familiar, , with $155. since February 1999. Fhs responsibili ties included administration of the campus, accounting;, business and investment local businesses and surrounding services, general administrative over area they will soon call home. sight ot commercial operations and I* The biggest difference between leadership tor KARIN DRIESEN/SUMMER MUSTANG this year’s WOW and the last: the new Foundation cost. ventures. Prior Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting, assis i to this position, tant director for orientation, said Mumtord was she checked the budget and re assistant vice evaluated the program and found president at the that a change in registration tees University ot Cincinnati, was needed. Above, presidential candidate “The registration tee has been where he was in George W. Bush's train pulls into $85 tor five or six years now, and ch.irge ot budget the San Luis Obispo Amtrak station FRANK just this year it increased to $115," planning. early Wednesday evening as MUMFORD: During a crovfds cheer and wave signs. The she said. Foundation s e V e n - y e a r train traveled from Oxnard, and Ott-campus fees are now $155. executive director career at the continued up the Central Coast There were also concerns from University ot with stops throughout. Bush gave parents and students about every Cincinnati, Mumtord provided a brief speech,and local officials one paying the same tee, whether administrative support to the provost such as Assemblyman Abel they’re be signed up to live on cam aKuit the budget, assisted in the reor Maldonado, congressional candi pus or not. ganization ot the department ot ath date Mike Stoker,and county Additionally, there has been an letics’ business division, and oversaw Supervisor Mike Ryan were on increase in the cost of meals. administrative operations related to hand to greet the people. Students still use a meal plan, the construction and operation of a Í Thousands of spectators, including \ » which consists of 15 meals at either new university conference center. a few protestors, filled the parking Since earning his bachelor’s degree in L\ lot and the area around the sta the Lighthouse, VG Cafe or the business administration at Eastern tion. Sandwich Factory. Students will Illinois University in 1976, Mumford Left, Bush waves to greet the continue to receive a week-long has held other management positions eagerly waiting crowd as his train meal plan before they actually start with universities and private sector pulls into the station. the first week of classes. firms. Mumford will take on his new posi KARIN DRIESEN/SUMMER MUSTANG tion Aug. 31. He said his first project see WOW, page 2 will be visiting with students, faculty and staff. "1 will be meeting with ASl leader ship, the college deans, students, fac Poly offers numerous ways to go global ulty and some ot the administrative units to attempt to find out what By Nikki Wilson quarter to an entire year. The possi- expectations people have ot SUMMER MUSTANG STAFF WRITER bilites are wide open, from general '‘Studying abroad is the most fun and educational expe^ Foundation," Mumtord said. education classes to major-specific “Foundation’s stde purpose is to sup rience. I really think its the best^kept college secret.” For some people, travel can be an studies and from classes taught in port Cal Poly’s educational mission. addiction. For students, this doesn’t English to total language-immer Maureen Naylor We do that in lots ot ways. With the necessarily mean being resigned to sion programs. growing emphasis on the university’s journalism and history senior watching the Travel Channel. revi.sed Ma.ster Plan, there will be ser “Cal Poly specifically otters in this program every year. It’s a the city, because then we got to see vice support challenges for In fact, between 12 and 14 per London Study, Thailand Study and quarter-long program offered in things that we maybe wouldn’t Foundation tor the foreseeable cent of all Cal Poly students will Japan Study. These are programs future." have an international education where you go as a Cal Poly student both fall and spring. have gone to on our own but were Howard-Greene said Mumford was experience before graduating, with Cal Poly professors, but you go Sara Henrickson, a journalism important to the London experi appointed after a comprehensive according to Cal Poly’s to a different environment and senior, participated in London ence." national search was conducted, International Education and country, and it’s more hands-on," Study last fall. Henrickson had In addition, the California State including initial campus interviews Programs office. Perkins said. “For example, when originally been to London with her University system otters a wide and public forums involving seven The program assistant and recep you’re studying Shakespeare, you Girl Scout troop and always wanted variety ot programs tor stiulents to candidates. He said Raker selected tionist tor the office, Lee Perkins, go to where he lived and go .see his to go hack. She .said the education Mumtord after careful consideration take part in. The CSU can send .she got in London was valuable. of the recommendations ot a universi said there is a multitude ot pro ays. students almost anywhere — but it ty consultative committee, the advice grams tor Cal Poly students to London Study is Cal Poly’s most “Classes were interesting," she there is a location where the CSU choose from. Programs vary in popular study abroad program. said. “1 especially liked the ones see MUMFORD, page 2 length and content, from a single More than 150 students take part where we took field trips all over see ABROAD, page 2 2 Thursday, August 10,2000 News Summer Mustang Cal Poly El Corral taking reservations to save time grad makes By Keri Christoffels class schedule and a list of Kxiks is “It s a lot of work, but we feel it s a good service for SUMMER MUSTANG STAFF WRITER__________ generated. The btKiks must be pur herbal eggs chased on the Web via credit card or the students/' rXiring the first week of school, through Campus Express. They will be By Sarah Doub students know to expect the hassles available to be picked up on a desig Theresa Kaiser SUMMER MUSTANG STAFF WRITER___________ of crashing classes, finding parking nated day. El Corral marketing manager and locating different buildings. This means no searching for A Cal Poly graduate has invented a Sept. 15-17, the weekend before The service will continue to be However, El Corral Bookstore is books, long lines or “sold out” signs. new type of egg: the incredible, edi classes start. provided based on its success, which making one thing easier: buying Those who use the reservation pro ble, herbal egg. “Other universities have done the entails about one third of the student textbooks. gram also get first crack at the lower- Tony Cobarruhia, who graduated program before, so we decided to do population using the system, Kaiser The textKxik reservation program priced used books, which often sell from Cal Poly in 1959, recently it also,” said Theresa Kaiser, market said. is a free service that allows students to out quickly. The site will take orders patented the process of supplement ing manager for El Corral. “It’s a lot If enough students don’t use the order their Kxiks online and pick beginning Monday through ing a hen’s diet with herbs so that the of work, but we feel it’s a good ser service, it may not be worth the cost them up before schtxil starts. All they Thursday, August 31. Bcxiks can be hen’s eggs have healthy herbs in vice for the students.” to keep it running. need to do is U>gon to the Kxikstore’s picked up by freshmen during the them. The program began last fall and “This is the first year that we’ve Web site, www.elcorralbookstore . first weekend of WOW (Week of Tlie eggs would be flavored slight was used by about 1,600 students. By aggressively marketed to the whole com, and click the textbcxik reserva Welcome), Sept. 9-10. All other ly by the herbs, but the main motiva the end of the year, about 3,000 stu campus, instead of just freshmen,” students can pick up their hooks dents had used the program. Kaiser said. tion to buy the eggs would be for their tion link.