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Mustang Daily, April 14, 1997 Campus Opinion Sports Cal Poly's most dedicated student Petition peeves pro-Poly Plan people. The Cal Poly football team has hired a employee was honored new coach. Find out who the lucky Thursday. applicant is. 8 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO usdvng aiiy M APRIL 14, 1997 VOLUME D LXI, No. 98 , M O N D A Y Expert discusses Middle East peace Upcoming Barry Rubin attributes problems to economic student vote development, recognition of existing governmentsworries By Emily Brodley Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan Doily Staff Writer University in Tel Aviv, Israel. His expertise in terrorism led The Middle East is a region of him to appearances on television Committee conflict and turmoil, but according programs such as “Nightline,” By Emily Bradley to speaker Barry Rubin, it is also a “CBS News,” ‘The MacNeil-Lehrer Daily Stoff Writer place of hope. NewsHour” and “Larry King Live.” He has also edited three books lV Optimism flowed during the Tensions are rising for the Cal talk “Conflict and Peacemaking in on terrorism and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Poly Plan Steering Committee as the Middle East” Thursday night, it rounds the final stretch of the presented by an authority on ter­ the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic planning process before the April rorism and the Middle East to 29 and May 1 student votes. more than 45 students and com­ and the Jerusalem Post. Thursday night’s topics focused In its meeting Thursday munity members in the on the long-term issues facing the evening, the committee (composed Performing Arts Center. Middle Ea.st, the dramatic changes of representatives from adminis­ Graphic communication senior uprxKjting over the last five to 10 tration, stafT, faculty and stu­ Phil Sturm is one of the reasons years, the current political situa­ dents) discus.sed results from the Rubin came to speak at Cal Poly. tion and the future of the peace recent random survey distributed He had “met” Rubin over the pnxess. to almost 2,500 students in class, Internet and put him in touch with Joking, he said, ‘There is never at the residence halls and off cam­ the Cal Poly Lyceum, which spon­ a dull moment (in the region).” pus throughout winter quarter. sored the event. He credited problems with eco­ In general, the responses were Doil) r'^'fjto by I)(Jv (J Wcjod Rubin is the deputy director of nomic development, the de.struc- positive for the additional fee Barry Rubin the BESA(Begin-Sadat) Center for tion of Lsrael and the failure of the increases of $48 per quarter for Middle East to see legitimacy in 1997-1998 and $27 per quarter Farrakhan blames Clinton for peace problems the existing governments and bor­ more for 1998-1999. But the com­ ders as the underlying conflicts in mittee showed concern about the By Sonya Ross “The world says he shouldn’t do this,” the Muslim the Middle East. "middle-of-the-road" respondents. Associated Press minister said. “America has influence in Israel but is Yet he has witnessed both glob­ The referendum at the end of not using that influencx? in a constructive way.” al and regional shifts over the last this month will consist of only a WASHINGTON — F*rc‘sident Clinton is hurting Clinton’s policy puts the United States in a posi­ five to 10 years that leave him opti­ "yes" or "no" format to determine the prospects for peace in the Middle East with a pol­ tion that “pays lip service to the Palestinians while mistic about the future of the student favor or disfavor with the icy that too willingly “bows to the dictates of she bows to the dictates of Netanyahu and the strong region. For instance, he believes fee increases. Netanyahu," Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan political Jewish lobby,” Farrakhan said. that Israel is stronger because of The survey conducted last said Sunday. The White House would not comment specifically the mass immigration of Jews quarter was designed with a scale from 1 to 6, from "strongly oppose" Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The lY^ss,” Farrakhan about Farrakhan’s remarks but defended the presi­ from the former Soviet Union. He to "strongly support." The high .said Clinton should have been able to dissuade dent’s strategy in the troubled region as successful. also helieves that the Persian Gulf numbers of "moderately Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, from “The administration’s Middle East policy has War allowed countries in the oppose"!3) and "moderately sup- building homes for Jewish settlers in Palestinian- port"(4) responses concern the held East Jerusalem. See FARRAKHAN page 3 See RUBIN page 2 committee because it is difficult to predict which way these .students will lean when faced with a straightforward "yes" or "no" Arbor Day goal to teach conservation to childrenquestion. According to ASI President By OvKtine Spane orative grove. Many of the 20 trees planted Steve McShane, this data indi­ Daily Staff Writer Saturday will serve as memorials to family mem­ cates the next steps the committee bers. There are about 170 trees in the grove. must take to inform students Saturday was a great day to celebrate Arbor Thirteen members of the McBeth family came about the Cal Poly Plan. Day. The sun-warmed soil and blue sky were to plant a redwood tree to honor their father and "If we lump the 3’s and 4’s clear evidence that spring has arrived. Children grandfather, Stewart “Perry” McBeth. They together, the total is more than ate hot dogs and threw dirt clods at each other, chose a redwood because they were originally either the definite ‘yes’s’ and defi­ and proud parents gathered around a display of from the Eureka area where redwood trees are nite ’no's,”’ he said. "The surveys prize-winning drawings and prose. prolific. were positive because they got out Nearly 1(X) people gathered at Laguna Lake Nearby , yellow and purple crocuses sur­ to students and informed that Park for the city’s Arbor Day festival. It is held rounded a Chinese Pistache tree donated to the many more students, but it still each year in cooperation with the city’s elemen­ memory of Jack Wright by his friends at Sierra shows that we need to do a better tary .schools to impress children with the impor­ Vista Regional Medical Center. A stack of pine job of informing them." tance of con.servation. cones stood in front of the bronze plaque bearing As well as soliciting informa­ This year approximately 500 students in his name. tion, the committee will also dis­ grades one through six entered the Arbor Day art During the ceremonies, California tribute one more in-class random and prose contest sponsored by the city. Department of Forestry (CDF) representative, survey, yet this time with the "yes/ Mayor Allen Settle and council members Bill Greg I’isano, pre.sented Settle with a Tree City no" format appearing on the refer­ Roalman and Kathy Smith gave certificiites and USA flag. This is the 16th year San Luis Ohispo Ci«? endum. T-shirts to 92 art and pro.se winners. has been awarded a flag on behalf of CDF and the Tom Spengler, director of the hi C. L. Smith Sch(X)l sixth grader, Catherine Arbor Day Foundation. Poly Plan's Communication Task Hubbard, won .second place for her pencil draw­ F*isano commended the city for being commit­ Force, discus.sed his concern dur­ ing of an oak tree. The whole Hubbard family ted to an opcm space and greenbelt policy. ing the meeting about the impor­ came to .see her drawing, then planted a tree Tl) receive Trt*t* City USA designation, a city tance each survey will hold, past together. must meet .stweral criteria. It must celebrate and future, in the final decision As part of the celebration, residents planted trees they donated to the I.«aguna Lake commem­ See ARBOR page 5 Doily photo by David Wood See VOTE page 6 2 MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1997 MUSTANG DAILY RGENDN UFW launches second year of campaign to organize state’s strawberry workers EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF April 14-19,1997 By Gitolina Ortiz CIO John Sweeney were scheduled strawberry workers also are Assoduted Press to speak. exposed to dangerous pesticides and Dozens of labor unions, political that women in the fields are sub­ WATSONVILLE, Calif. - groups and religious organizations jected to sexual harassment. MONDAY Thousands of United Farm Workers from throughout the United States But growers contend that the NightWrIters presents a lecture on how to sell your articles and manu­ union members and supporters showed their support for the UFW union is misleading the public by scripts to publishers, editors and agents April 14, 7 p.m. in the communi­ prayed, listened to mariachi and with speeches, banners and sheer depicting isolated problems as wide­ ty room of the SLO City/County Library. gospel music and marched Sunday numbers. spread. For more information, call 549-9656. to demand better pay and working Margi Schrank of Fullerton was They say strawberry workers’ condition for California’s strawberry among 300 people who came by bus pay averages $1.11 above TUESDAY pickers. from Orange County. California’s $5-an-hour minimum The deadline to enroll in the Cal Poly Extended Education summer Marchers carried signs and flags ‘We feel everyone should be enti­ wage - and can reach $15 a hour study program in Thailand or China is April 15. For more information, with the red, white and black UT’W tled to a livable wage, which means during the peak season.
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