Mustang Daily, May 15, 1989
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Mustang Daily CaliforniaPolytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Volume 53, No. 120 Monday, May 15,1989 Poly, city seek to prevent second ‘party royal’ By ShiroB Sbemum The party, April 28 at Cedar Creek “ 1 don’t want to see this happen again,” makes to the community,” Gardiner said. 8U(fWrlt*r Village Condominiums, became a rock- Gardiner said. “ And I don’t want to put “ That celebration is not a party per se.” and-bottle-throwing rio t. shortly after the the blame on this event as a Poly Royal Gardiner said the situation was one that The occurrence of a party-turned-riot San Luis Obispo Fire Department arrived event. 1 think there are things we can do the police department has faced before. over Poly Royal weekend will be an at the complex in response to a fire alarm. constructively. “ This time it was related to Poly Royal isolated event in the history of Poly Royal, Between 60 and 70 police officers from ” What we need to do is ask ourselves and it’s a big concern, 1 think, to all of us. if a student/community group can help it. throughout the county were called in to what we can do to prevent this from re “ It’s not good for the city, it’s certainly The Student/Community Liaison Com help clear the party, said Jim Gardiner, occurring,” Gardiner told those at the not good for the studenu, it’s not good for mittee devoted its 90-minute meeting San Luis Obispo police chief. The police meeting, which included representatives the university and it’s not good for my of Thursday to discussion of the party, revised an earlier estimate of 400 paitid- from this year’s and next year’s Poly ficers or anyone that has to respond to it,” mainly focusing on ways to prevent it pants after reviewing a videotape they Royal Board. Gardiner said. from becoming one of the many Poly made during the riot — they believe about “ The true meaning of Poly Royal is to The suggestions for reducing the possi- Royal traditions. 1,000 people participated. celebrate the contribution tIM Od Poly Sae LIAISON, I Panel discusses ‘Roe’ as Court decides issue By Mkhnd J. Levy energies would be most produc Staff WrtMr tive and constructive if you spent and focused on efforts A San Luis Obispo physician towards pregnancy prevention, said the demand for abortion, not towards fighting pregnancy and the need to discuss it, termination. But as long as reflects a failure within the pregnancy prevention is inade American society. quately addressed, the issue of Dr. Minke WinklerPrins was abortion will persist.” one of three guest speakers at a panel discuuion last Thursday, WinklerPrins said that there entitled “ Roe v. Wade: Past, are a number of teenage Present and Future.” The pregnancies in the San Luis disetusion was presented by Cal Obispo community, many occur Poly’s Women’s Programming. ring because of a lack of knowl edge about birth control. “ The fact that there is a de- “ One of the factors that 1 see ^ I would suggest that funaioning in this community is the ‘head-in-the-sand factor,’ ” your energies would be she said. “ We pretend that the most productive and young people, the junior high constructive if you and hi^i school kids, are not sexually active. We hope that if spent and focused on we don’t talk to them about efforts towards pregnancy issues, don’t talk to pregnancy prevention, them about birth control, then nothing will happen. not towards fighting “ Well that’s nonsense. There pregnancy termination,^^are plenty of teenage pregnancies in this community, and we are an — Dr. Minke Winkler Prins affluent enough community that - " that should not be occurring.” mand for pregnancy termination WinklerPrins estimates that reflects a fdlure in our society, a between IS and 20 abortions are performed each week in San Luis profound failure,” said Winkler DalphIna (Mainino Silva, aaoond from loft, and part of hor 1936 La Floata oourt pooo at tho Mlaalon. Prins, who specializes in internal Obispo, and the mode age of medicine. those receiving them is 19. She later added, “ The in About 90 percent of the women cidence of unwanted pregnancy who have abortions in this com 1936 Fiesta queen recalls old parades is nothing short of a national munity, she said, don’t use birth By Lynne Hnsadman parade had many more floats that it does to disgrace. Although unwanted control on a regular basis. In ad 8laN Writer day,” she said. “ There were game booths set up, pregnancy is almost entirely dition, 40 percent of the women and a dance to an orchestra in the old Mission preventable in this day and age, having abortions have had them 7 ^ elphine Silva remembers when William Prep School gym, where the priest’s house is it occurs at a rate in the United before. She said they have been # V Randolph Hearst used to lend his castle now. Since it was called the Fiesta de las Flores States that is probably the through it once, and still don’t horses, saddled with elaborate Mexican in those days, everything was done with fresh highest in the Western world. use birth control. leather and silver, to ride in the La Fiesta de las flowers. There’s the real tragedy.” Patricia Gomez, a local lawyer, Flores parade to help raise money to restore the “ One of the most popular parts of the parade WinklerPrins, speaking before spoke of the legal issues involved deteriorating Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolsa. was when a local service organization would find about 73 people, many of whom in Roe V. Wade. Gomez said the On this 49th anniversary of La Fiesta, the La the people who weren’t wearing their Fiesta were women, said more effort impact of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Fiesta queen of 1936 has many fond memories costumes and throw them in the hoosecow, should be spent in preventing decision, which made abortion of the days when all there was to San Luis which was a makeshift jail,” said Silva, “lliere pregnancies instead of discussing legal for every woman, may be Obispo was the Mission, and most of the town’s was a Coronation Ball, and we had a Grand the morality of terminating limited by a pending case in the 10,000 residents turned out for one of the big Marshal. For a while, there was even a car them. Supreme Court. The case, gest events of the year. nival.” “ I would suggest that your SceROE, pagei “ When I was growing up, the La Fiesta _________ See FIESTA, page 4______________ Prof says ‘Region’ suffers lack of entity By Ron Espejo 80 on “ A Cultural Revolution in Grande River in southern Texas Even America is a misnomer, staff Writer Latin America.” to the southern-most tip of South Parkinson pointed out, because it While an activity hour band America. was discovered by Americo A professor emeritus from the played outside in the UU Plaza, “ The Indians were named In Vespucci, an Italian explorer. University of London told Cal Parkinson, despite the noise, dians there because the “ We don’t know if the continent Poly students and faculty that took a firm stand on what he Spaniards and Portugese explor had been named before him or Latin America’s name is called the lack of entity in Latin ers named them that, thinking not,” Parkinson said. misleading because the native America, since the Spaniards ar they had landed in India,” Four civilizations in “The people who were conquered by rived there in the early 16th cen Parkinson said. “ The Indians Region” lacked identity Parkin the Spaniards couldn’t speak tury. had no say as to what they were son said. They were the con Tha Cal Poly man’a track team Latin. Parkinson referred to Latin called; I refer to them as Iberians quered Indians, the Iberians placed aecond In the CCAA Fred Parkinson, who has an America as “The Region” since their ancestry is from that born in the region, the Criollo conference meet Saturday. MBA and Ph.D. in history from because the name is a misnomer. area.” Iberia is a region in tribe who were born in the region See SPORTS, page 5. the University of London, spoke “The Region” according to southwest Europe, better known from Portugese or Spanish de- Thursday to an audience of about Parkinson extends from the Rio as Spain and Portugal today. See SPEAKER, page 3 Opinion Monday, May 15, 1989 Mustang Daily April Karys, editor Past Deadline M u s t a n g Alison Skratt, managing editor Tara Giamt>alvo, opinion editor Rob Loranz, sports editor D a il y Donna Taylor, spotlight editor If you must, label me human Nicola Jonas, insight editor The newspaper Shelly Evans, lifestyle editor Dawn Opstad, commentary editor for Cal Poly. Amber Wisdom, photo editor by Nicole Jones Pagfly Yayna, business manager Jacqueline Tasch, faculty adviser Since 1916 “ Oh, Nicole, you’re such a liberal ... “ So, being household cares to the world, are they labeled or a minority, how do you feel about ... ” grouped into idiotic titles? Labels. They follow us wherever we go, are In times when attempted murderers can hold a thrust upon whatever we say or do. People who political office, there is U.S. intervention in places care about human welfare, world peace or saving that there should not be, children are on drugs, and Martinis, steaks andthe ecology, areire “ liberals” , people who want to our lower-educational systems — excuse me — make a lot of money and are against welfare, are of stink, shouldn’t people be trying to unite? la the 1970i, rcwsfcb Idcatiftod ccrtala pcnoaallty train ai course, “ conservatives” and if a woman wants to This may all sound a bit optimistic, but if we • if atfkaat rtok factors la heart dtocaac.