Mustang Daily, October 5, 2005

1 3 Ä 0 5 Mc: A L I F Oustang K N 1 A I' O L Y T E C H N ! C S T A T E DU aN 1 V E T Y TODAY’S The Art Beat jets to WEATHER Sibling rivalry Paris and rocks out takes on a new High 81 with Franz Ferdinand meaning with Cal Poly football Low IN ARTS & IN SPORTS, 8 46 ENTERTAINMENT, 5 Volume LXIX, Number 22 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 rti II $ t a n g d a i 1 y (in g iii a i 1. c o ni Fundiaisiiig gpal Professors to aid developii^ set at $1 billion nations through agriculture Food science Jennifer Gongaware be affected by the new fees. The professor Hany MUSTANCi IJAIIY expansion of services could not be Khalil talks to supported without the increase, he Raised fees and increased students in a said. fundraising to accommodate higher rural Brazil The accumulation of student fees enrollment were the central issues town about his outweighs the lack of state support presented at the first meeting of the involvement for these additional students, Academic Senate Monday after with a tropical Detweiller said. noon. m fruit co-op. A strategy is also in place to Æ C'al Foly President Warren Baker The Brazilian increase summer quarter enroll has announced an overall fundrais students were ment to 25 percent of the regular ing goal of $1 billion. The presi curious as to academic year enrollment. Another dent’s ortice referred to the olFicial why Khalil was plan to increase graduate enroll close o f C'al Poly’s C'entennial volunteering in ment and graduate programs to C'ampaign and will move to the their region. accommodate them has been next phase im plem ent o f its C O l’RTKSY PHOTO ed. fu ndrais- l l w president's office referred to the “We have ing elfort. official close o f CAll Poly's Centennial one of the “ T h e lowest grad m a I n Cantpaicpi and iidll move to the next Tonya Strickland a channel of pa)fession.il development for educators uate num MUSTANC; DAIIY point IS phase o f its fnndraisinyi effort. involved, but will also be valuable for the students, bers in the Khalil said. Specifically, it will give students exclusive our Living on foa'ign lands, working in underdeveloped C:SU svs- opportunities to learn fmm pmfessors who h.ive been sights are cities and rural ullages, lending a hand thmugh knowl tein,” 1 )etweiller said. overseas, who have seen the pmblems firsthand, taken high,” Senate Provost Robert Detweiller explained the need edge they’ve gained; Professors from Cal Poly and four the time help, and in turn, brought new perspectives Detweiller said. “We have to be for an increase in grants and outside other C^alifornia State Universities will step out o f their back into the classrxKim. ambitious tt> sustain the t.]uality at funding for the graduate program university cl.issrooms aiul potil their a*souaes to aid “We h.ive to think outside our own boundaries,” he c:al Poly.” expansion. He remarked on the 20 agricultural in developing nations. Detweiller spoke extensively percent increase in grant applica In a*cent months, C'al Poly, Cdiico, Fa*sno, Humixildt see International, page 2 about grants, student fees, dona tions this year. The goal is to and Pomona C'SU campuses formed the tions and state assistance in regards increase this number by 20 percent Clonsortium for International to the budget strategy for C'al Poly. every year, Detweiller said. Development (CID) in which members For the current year, Detweiller seek to .illocate their skills to diffeaMit specified a S40 million fundraising Projects on the horizon parts of the world by contracting w'ith goal. Poly C'anyon Village, a $3(M) mil gnvrnm ental and non-givernmental aid “If we rely solely on the state, we lion student housing project, is pmgrams m oaler to meet set objectives will have a second-rate institution,” expected to become operational thanigh those orginizations. jir- I )etweiller said. partly in 2(M)H and 2(M»9. Bella “We a ‘pa*sent a coa* of expertise that A student fee referendum is Montana, a faculty/staff housing is now available as a a*souae to high-pri scheduled for February 2006. project, is expected to become ority initiatives currently underway Students will vote on a SIO increase operational during the 2(M)6-07 aca>ss the globe,” said C'al Poly fix>d sci in quarterly student fees to support school year. ence and nutrition paifessor Flany The Science C'enter, a $1(H> mil clubs, perform ing arts, ASI and the Khalil, w'ho is also the dia*ctor o f the lOURTFSY PHOIX) lion project, was given highest pri expansion of the Rec C'enter and CID. Khalil discusses the quality and safety of dairy products with a ority by Detweiller. He said he University Union services. The consortium will not only serve as food inspector in a marketplace in Kiev, Ukraine in June, 2005 . Detweiller said 5,(HK) students will see Senate, page 2 Officials say California is ready for a disaster Danielle Torricelli major natural disasters are coming to Emergency Services, says it can. This “We don’t deplete our resources to C'hessey said. DAILY TITAN (CAL STATE-FUIURTON) light. As America fights a costly war emergency agency ctwRlinates the a point where we can’t respond” to “ It probably will affect an emer overseas, focus is being bmught an emergency, Chessey gency response because we’re missing FULLERTC')N — It starts with a back to the home front. said. 25 percent of capability somewhere slow, deep rumble. The vibrations More than 25 percent of Even until 6,200 out of 20,000 When local resources and we’re at least 25 percent short of creep nearer and nearer, and the rum C'alifornia’s National Guan.1 is guardsmen deployed overseas, thereach their capacity during handling |an emergency situation] ble erupts into a mar. The gmund overseas, said Capt. Mirtha an emergency, they resort properly,” said Joseph Sherif, a profes state has enough means available to begins to mck and the books start to Villarreal of the C'alifornia to state resources, C'hessey sor of information systems and deci fall off shelves. A minute later, when National Ciuard. With that cope with natural disasters, according said. sion science at C'al State Fullerton. the tremors still h.iven’t ended, one many guardsmen deployed, to the California National Guard. Usually, the National Even with 6,2(K) out of 20,000 thing becomes clear: The “big one” would local and state govern (iiiartl is called in at that guardsmen deployed overseas, the has hit C^alifornia. ments be capable of handling a point. In addition to the state has enough means available to With the recent hurricanes rav major natural disaster like an state’s response to all major disasters Guard, other agencies — such as the cope with natural disasters, acconling aging the Cfulf C'oast, the cracks in earthquake? and emergencies to support local Coast Ctuard and neighboring fire to the C'alifornia National CfUanl. the infrastructure of local, state and Dale Chessey, a representative for g(,vernments departments — help out as well. federal government preparedness for the C'alifornia (»overnor’s Office of see Di.saster, page2 NEWS 2 Wedncsclav, CX'tober 5 ,2( K)5 “We have professors who have Senate What’s in a name? International researched finance and could help Disaster continued from page 1 O ne o f the most disputed issues continued from page I with budgets, or professors who continued from page 1 at Monday’s meeting concerned the hopes to raise SK< million this year. said. study engineering and can build During the l ‘>‘->2 Los Angeles name change of the C'ollege of The library expansion project, I'he Cdl) submitted a proposal to mads,” he said. “The faculty at our riots, the city used 12,000 which will also make room for Agriculture to the College of its first organizational candidate in combined campuses have expertise National (!uard tmops. additional classrooms for the Agriculture, Food and which to contract its expertise in virtually all areas.” “We are manned to react to expansion m enrollment, is in need Environmental Sciences. through the Millennium Cdiallenge Khalil has independently volun state emergencies and have Some deans did not believe the of state support. A C'al Poly tech Corporation.This agency is govern teered with several organizations in a resources in place to have neigh inclusion to be appropriate because nology' park, a SHOO million project, ment-funded and maintains the sen multitude of countries prior to boring states help citizen soldiers,” environmental classes are already will be built using non-state funds. timent to help reduce poverty and developing the (dl). Eric Wallace, Villarreal said. included in other curriculums and Due to enrollment growth and promote economic growth in program coordinator for Catizens The Emergency Management majors. faculty retirements, C'al Poly needs Africa, Eurasia and South America. Network for Foreign Affairs Assistance C'ompact is an agency No decision was made w hether more tenured faculty, Detweiler Steve Gulley, a food science senior (CNFA), a non-partisan, not-for- created for that purpose. said. C'al Poly hired 50 new tenure or not to support Dean of and one of Khalil’s students said that profit organization, said Khalil’s The agency coordinates the track faculty this year.The universi Agriculture Dave Wehner’s request.

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