Mustang Daily, December 5, 1980

Uui ..-ersity DEC lo 1 3v. C ' Archives CraftCenter, El Corralboast arrayof holiday buys BY RALPH THOMAS Staff Writer VVith the realization that Santa won't volved in the buying and selling spirit of goods will continue through today. be handing out free gifts we all must the season. Local craftsmen were invited to come Few of us believe in Santa Claus and decide how to distribute our precious and sell their stuff, giving 20 percent to even fewer in the sack of free goddies he pennies. Trudging through the motions The El Corral Bookstore has been con the Craft Center. Some of the items in supposedly carries about. We've pain of Chrigtmas shopping and keeping that verted into a knick-knack gift clude potpourri filled sachets, pottery, fully surrendered our images of little yulet.idn spirit polished is M easy task. shop-strewn with decorations and clut woodwork, plants and much more. elves building toys and magic reindeer It's a time of celebration overburdened tered with goods. Most of the gifts are pulling a sleigh through the sky. with decisions, decisions and more deci of the sort one might take home to Mom This scaled down version of No, Santa may not be for real. Just sions. and Dad. Christmas shopping is just warm-ups the tinsel clones of him hanging from The Christmas spirit at Cal Poly is not But, the bookstore is not for what most of us will soon face. street posts are all that exist. More than what one would call "bubbling"-but it monopolizing the business Through all of the expenses and blink a week before Thanksgiving gobs of is a little bit early to get all excited. The University Union Craft Center is ing lights-hang in there. decorations are erected-reminding Some groups on campus, however, are holding its own in competition with the Oh, and a very Merry Christmas to most of us to check our balances. getting excited and are extremely in- bookstore. They're sale of hand-made you. stan Daily friday, December 5, 1980 California Polytechnic State Univ�rsity, San Luis Obispo Volume 45, No. 38 & & 119&'"19tt�&�&�W9&��&��&��&�&��&•119! Prof recruiting studied BY CYNTHIA BARAKATT Staff Writer severe in engineering, computer of research facilities, the work science and business fields, the load expected of faculty and the committee will examine the availablity of faculty for outside A series of discussions possibilities for faculty recruit consultation · in their fields. between Cal Poly President War ment in all fields and depart Kersten stressed that the com ren Baker and the chairman of ments of the university. mittee's only purpose is to look the campus academic senate has Kersten said faculty recruit for possible approaches to resulted in the formation of a ment and retention is important recruiting faculty, and will in no committee to study possibilities to both faculty and students. way be involved in negotiations for recruiting and retaining "Problems with recruitment and or bargaining. quality faculty at Cal Poly. retention are among the most F.aculty members of the com · Academic senate chairman serious the university faces," mittee will be Professor Joe Tim Kersten announced the for said Kersten. Weatherby of political science, mation of the committee to the He said that if the university Professor George Lewis, Cal Poly academic senate at its should have to lower its stan mathematics and mechanical meeting Tuesday after a series of dards for hiring faculty, ac engineering Professor Lee discussions on faculty recruit creditation of the university . Osteyee, said Kersten. Accor ment with President Warren could be in jeapordy. This would ding to Hazel Jones, Vice Baker culminated in the plans hurt students because a degree President for Academic Affairs, for the committee. from a nonaccredited university the deans serving on the commit does not hold as much weight as tee will be Dean Coe of the school Kerstern said the committee of a degree✓ from an accredited of Business, Dean Valpey of three faculty members and three university on the job market, he Engineering and Technology and deans has been appointed to deal said. Dean Langworthy of Science and with the problem of attracting Kersten said that although Math. A chairman of the com and retaining qualified faculty salaries are the main problem of mittee has still to be selected, Mustang Dally-Julie Archer from competing business and in attracting faculty, the commit said Kersten. t dustry fields, where salaries are tee will look into the entire work Kersten said he expects the I\ Academic Senate Chairman Tim Kersten higher than faculty salaries. ing environment of Cal Poly committee to meet and begin Although this problem is most faculty including the availability work in January. Finance chairman steps down BY DAVE BRACKNEY Staff Writer be unfairto the Finance Commit general education classes, and to tee and the Senate for me not to allow at least nine elective units ASI Finance Committee Chair be available," Mann said. in every major. man Roger Mann announced However, Mann said his suc The senate also passed a Wednesday he is resigning from cessor, Pete Schuster, will be measure that will allow a limited his post at the end of this more than capable of handling number of senior citizens to take quarter. Mann made the an the job. Mann said he will spend classes here ·without having to nouncement at the ASI senate's the remaining days of the pay regular ASI fees. weekly meeting and saiJ he is ap quarter familiarizing s·chuster pointing senior business major with his new job and "educating Finally, the senate voted t� Pete Schuster as his succesor. him" postpone making a decision on Mann. a senior biochemistry In addition to learning of the future of General Revenue major, is applying to dental Mann's resignation, the senate Sharing until next quarter. school for next year and said he passed Resolution 81-03, which Under GRS, students voting in will be unable to dedicate responds to the CSUC ASI elections are allowed to ear enough time to the Finance Chancellor's mandate for Cal Po mark one dollar of their ASI fee Committee winter quarter or to ly to add 12 units of gev,eral to the campus organization of formulating next year's ASI education courses to graduation their choice. The postponement budget. requirements. The · resolution will allow the senate further time "I should be accessible to asks Cal Poly's schools to con to consider revisions in the pro budgetary hearings, and it would sider requiring ''non-traditional'' gram. From where will the cuts come? Tom Gilmartin will lead the ship drive. ASI asks low GED impact Poly guns for title shot BY MARY KIRWAN Staff Writer and Colleges trustees now re tion calling for the Baker ad BY VERN AHRENDES quire freshmen entering the ministration to insure that no SportsEditor CSUC system beginning in Fall Poly department head acts to in the line Saturday afternoon at ASI student senators Wednes f 981 12 more units of general crease· the total number of units 1:30 as they lock horns with day recommended to university education courses than is re needed for graduation beyond a West Coast rival Santa Clara The third time around may president Warren Baker that his quired by system administrators specified limit and to make sure prove to be the lucky one for to decide one of the represen administration act to prevent all Poly programs include a tatives NCAA Division Na now. The Trustees adopted the the Cal Poly Mustang football avoidable and disruptive cur new requirement last May. minimum of nine free elective team. tionsl Championship game. riculum changes resulting from a units, which is already a part of The Mustangs, put theirr na new general education require ASI senators Wednesday campus policy. tional championship hope Please see page 10 ment. night voted_ 19-2 (with two California State University abstentions) approving a resolu- Please see page 4 Page2 Mustang Dally Friday, December 5, 1980 Four suffocate in coal mine Poles might request Soviet aid Newsline WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A member of the Polish PIITSBURG (AP) - Four teen-age cousins suffocated Central Committee raised for the first time today to while exploril)g in a long-abandoned coal mine before a possibility of a Polish request for Soviet assistance in the birthday party for one of them when they �ere overcome Polish crisis. by carbon dioxide trapped by a freakish change of officials said Thu sda . Josef Klasa, head of the Central Committee depart temperature, � }'. 26 die in New York hotel fire who declined to 1dent1fy the youths until ment for relations with the media, said at a news con Officials �ere notified, said the bodies would not be ference that the Polish leadership would ask for Soviet relatives to the surface through a catacomb of caves assistance if authority "slipped into the hands of anti brought socialist elements." He said a call for assistance would be before mid-afternoon. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - An electrical fire flash and 19 were fm.1 d in a ca made only if" socialism became endangered." The four, aged 16, 17, 18 � ve off ed through the conference rooms of a suburban inn the Nortonville Mine, near the Black Diamond Mines "I think such endangering would occur only when Thursday, killing 25 people and injuring 40. Authorities Regional Preserve, about 5 miles east of San Francisco in authority would slip from the hands of democracy into said the area where the fire spread was not equipped with what used to be the state's largest coal mining region.

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