SAN LUIS OBISPO M U S T a N G D a I I Y OCTOBER 29,1993 VOLUME Lvill, No
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CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO M u s t a n g D a i i y OCTOBER 29,1993 VOLUME LVIll, No. 27 FRIDAY SoCal fires calm; massive damage Associoted Press disasters in five counties and bicycle. Hundreds of people Cool onshore breezes signaled LAGUNA BEACH — Blow federal agencies organized help SoyTHERN CflLIFORHIH FiBES abandoned their cars to make an end to the blustery Santa Ana torch winds that shoved wildfires for 25,000 displaced residents. the trip. TRAVEL: Road closure condition that spawned winds through 580 homes and 113,000 Police hunted the arsonists “It’s like a war zone,” John gusts of over 50 mph, low I numbers; updated Dre map acres relented Thursday, helping responsible for some of the fires McMurray said as he used a humidity and 90-degree heat on • COVERAGE: Synopsis of one firefighters beat down flames as and patrolled neighborhoods to shovel to poke through debris Wednesday. residents salvaged sooty posses prevent looting. I fire’s trail; a celebrity’s loss that was once his home. “It’s just Firefighters on Thursday con sions and mourned lost dreams. Some of the fires raged out of total devastation. This whole tained more than half of the Cool sea breezes replaced the control. Others were partially • FIREFIGHTERS: Crews battling neighborhood is burnt.” 10,000-acre Laguna fire, 40 miles desert winds that transformed contained, but few threatened back the Southland’s fires are “We haven’t been able to sal southeast of Los Angeles. 13 Pacific Coast blazes from Ven more residences. encountering arduous, difficult vage anything,” he said. Police said the cause was tura County to the Mexican bor A procession of fire refugees I and dangerous jobs Valerie Colenian dabbed tears arson. der into firestorms. A growing walked through the smoke along with a towel as she watched “Explain to me how in the army of firefighters seized the a coastal highway into Laguna homes. smoke rise from the remnants of name of God anybody with chance to steadily encircle the Beach, the posh coastal resort Authorities blocked the Pacific the apartment she lost Wednes decent impulses would do this,” fires. half-gutted by a wall of flame Coast Highway, allowing resi day. See page 3 President Clinton declared that destroyed more than 300 dents to return only on foot or “I have nothing,” she said. FIRES, mi r 4 > S ' Bike lanes: ♦s \ » / Marsh St. yes, Chorro St. no ‘ Bike committee to be commissioned By Tracy Bront Colvin tempt to formulate an over ond Silos Lyons all strategy towards bicycle Doily Staff transportation, but ardent bicycle advocates aren’t w Although still debating quite ready to call it set over whether this is the tled. Due to heavy com .4- beginning or the end of ’ .ii, ' bicycle improvements in promises, the new project San Luis Obispo, members doesn’t quite live up to the of the City Council un ambitious, all encompass animously approved a radi ing bicycle master plan cally modified version of that advocates hoped would the Bicycle Transportation make San Luis Obispo one Plan in a special session of the most biker-friendly Wednesday night. cities in the country. \ The council approved “It was a step forward, the installation of new bike but it was a smaller step lanes on one side of Marsh forward than I had hoped,” Street; affirmed earlier council member Bill Roal- At Cal Poly's Sheep Unit on Wednesday, Rob Rutherford holds a lamb as members of the Huasna Valley 4-H Club of Arroyo plans to install bike lanes man said Thursday. “If the Grande take a look / Daily photo by Can LaZansky on Johnson Avenue from council had adopted the French Hospital to staff recommendations, I Monterey Street; decided think we would have had a not to install bike lanes on really nifty bikeway. And Chorro Street north of we’ll get there eventually, A woolly development downtown, and postponed it just might take a little voting on proposed bike longer.” Clinton’s repeal of subsidy will impact Poly’s Sheep Unit lanes on Morro and Osos With the portions of the streets. plan that actually were The move could put two-thirds of wool producers out adopted, 102 curbside park By Amy J. Miller The Bicycle Transporta of business, according to Rob Rutherford, Cal Poly ing slots for cars will be Daily Staff Writer tion Plan has been in the professor and supervisor of the school’s sheep unit. eliminated across the city. 'Cal Poly students aspiring to venture into the world midst of formation since “It could cost California $800 million dollars in com The total cost is es of shepherding may have reason to worry these days. 1985, when the Bicycle merce,” Rutherford said. “The economic impact in timated at $2.2 million, Congress recently voted to eliminate the wool sub Facilities Plan was California could be devastating.” with 60 percent of the fund sidy which for nearly 40 years has supported American adopted. wool producers. See SHEEP, page 5 ing coming from federal The new plan is an at See BIKE LANES, page 2 Bakersfield students campaign for acts of kindness INSIDE TODAY'S MUSTANG D Associoted Piess__________ _____ __________ sell for $1. A bank and a union paid to into, waving to a motorist who ap BAKERSFIELD — “Random acts of have them printed. Proceeds go to the peared frantically late for an appoint senseless kindness” are breaking out Braille Center of Kem County. ment. Then, Fredericksen parked in all over since a college professor Wall asked his students to do some the only other available space about a turned frustration into a class assign thing out of the ordinary to help some half-mile away. ment. one who wasn’t expecting it, then Todd Madison, 19, encountered a Chuck Wall, human relations in write about it. homeless father and son at a con structor at Bakersfield College, was Shane Gautreaux, 20, bought 30 venience store and bought them the listening to television when the phrase blankets at the Salvation Army and sodas and chips they wanted. l á ü “another random act of senseless brought them to homeless people who A law enforcement association ■ Ml m.: violence” got stuck in his mind like a gather under a bridge. plans to put the stickers on all 113 I L i bad melody. “After people hear that, they think, Kern County Sheriffs patrol cars. Inspiration stuck. The result was ‘God, that didn’t take a lot of time, it The “senseless kindness” idea has an essay assignment and a bumper didn’t take a lot of money, and if more been broadcast from pulpits, school SPDRISI sticker: “Today, I will commit one ran people did something like that, just district offices and professional as Cal Poly Mustangs wide receiver Joe Wade dom act of senseless KINDNESS... think what a nicer place the world sociations in Bakersfield, a city of battles tlirough fatlier’s tragic accident; plays the Will you?” would be,’” Gautreaux said. about 200,000 people about 90 miles Hundreds of people in Bakersfield Jessica Fredericksen, 41, pulled out east of San Luis Obispo. game of his dreams against Sacramento State have bought stickers that his students of a parking space she had just pulled 2 FRIDAY, O a O B E R 29,1993 MUSTANG DAI! Y OCT. 1 voted no! to install bike lanes on Chorro FRIDAY 29 Pi 27 school days remaining in fall quarter. TODAY'S WEATHER: Su nny (so bright you'll have to wear shades) MONTEREY ST. HIGUERA STREET Expected high/low: 84 / 48 Thursday's high/low: 80 / 45 FRIDAY • Native American Student Organization an and craft sale, 10 a m. MARSH ST. to 2 p.m. — U.U. Plaza Postponed voting on proposed • Women's soccer at home against Cal State San Bernardino, lanes on Morro and Osos streets 4:30 p.m. — tickets: 756-5806 • Men's soccer at home against Cal State San Bernardino, 7 p.m. tickets: 756-5806 WEEKEND N0W Uk« lanes approved by the • Paintings by Art and Design Professor Robert Reynolds and Son Lois Obispo City Covncil poetry by local writer Glenna Luschei exhibited in Cal Poly’s ................. ......... ...-- y University Union Galerie — Saturday • 12th Annual Great Pumpkin Run — Saturday / 781-7305 MUSTANG DAILY GRAPHIC • 11th Annual Halloween Hoopla in Mission Plaza, 2 to 5 p.m. — Saturday BIKE LANES: Marsh Street proposal is approved; Chorro Street lane nixed • Sierra Club Singles 5-mile hike to Cerro Alto — Saturday From page 1 info: 466-7655 side of Broad Street. The affected area runs from Marsh • Oktoberfest 4-mile Fun Run, Baywood Park— Sunday grants don’t come through. In any case, the city will foot Street to High Street. In public meetings on the issue. Broad Street residents info: 528-0775 the other 40 percent of the bill. One of the more controversial items the council debated expressed little concern over the loss of parking, but the called for a bike lane on Marsh Street. council decided to further probe their opinions before UPCOMING The council eventually reached a compromise, cutting deciding to slash parking. • Sheriff s Office annual Christmas Bicycle program — donate vehicle traffic lane widths from 12 feet to just over 9 feet The council also decided to further review staff recom bicycles, Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. / 781-4576 and adding a bike lane on one side. They saved all parking mendations on the implementation of bike lanes on Morro • Women's Studies Lunchtime Seminar, "Has Anti-Feminism along the busy one-way street.