Mustang Daily, February 12, 1996

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO ustangFEBRUARY 12, 1996 VOLUME LX, No. 72aily M MONDAY D Committee votes to raise Gutter ball? fee increase another $ 15 By Travis Mooney Daily Staff Writer "All along we've been talking about minimizing the financial impact Yet another fee raise is in on students." Paul Zingg store for students, as the Cal Poly Plan Steering Committee Interim vice president of Academic Affairs agreed Friday to raise the Plan’s cussed. aid, there is now an expectation first-year fee from $120 per year The plan’s fee increase will of provisions for financial aid to $135. not be the only source of finan from the CSU Board of Trustees, The $15 increase would be set cial aid controlled by the univer Baker said. The trustees must aside for financial aid to help of sity, Baker said. approve the plan before any fee fset the cost of the plan for stu Cal Poly has $650,000 in can be put into place. dents receiving financial aid, ac scholarships it awards. Baker cording to President Warren said. He said he plans to call However, getting the approval Baker. upon more scholarship fund-rais of the trustees was not the only The base $120 fee creates ing to further reduce the cost of reason cited for including a sum about $1 million of additional the plan. for financial aid. need for those students. Baker “We have to have, and will “All along we’ve been talking said. have, money from the Centennial about minimizing the financial The $15 increase in the first- Campaign,” Baker said. impact on students,” said Paul year fee for the plan will raise The campaign, which hopes to Zingg, interim vice president of f t approximately $250,000 for raise $125 million by 2001 for Academic Affairs. “All along financial aid, according to Baker. Poly’s centennial, will seek funds we’ve been talking about direct That amount would, in essence, from alumni and corporate con impact on students.” reduce the $135 fee to $45 per tributions. Advancement direc year for students who tors for the campaign will begin The students, who originally demonstrate full financial need, proposed the $120-per-year fee, publicly seeking funds in Sep approved of the increase. Baker said. tember 1997. However, the $15 increase Although the committee “I think we support raising marked for financial aid is a com originally believed a fee for the the fee to avoid strapping stu promise, down from $40 that the plan could be adopted without dents,” said Cristin Brady, ASI committee had previously dis setting money aside for financial president. Women’s Week 1996 kicks off with Agricultural engineering junior Jim Grant, who was bowling with his son Lucas (not pictured), tries for the perfect strike Sunday in the University a ‘Dreams and Reality’ artist’s talk Union / Daily photo by Joe Johnston By Peggy Curtin these ideas and formed an instal Daly Stoff Writer said she believes that as an lation containing four pieces and African-American woman, she Cal Poly’s Women’s Week involving a variety of materials will never have an easy time in started 14 years ago with just including wood, steel and cloth. the art world. A professor in col Chinese heritage month three or four women on campus One of the pieces had already lege actually told her that she discussing women’s issues. been shown in New York, but the would never become an exhibited Now it involves much more, other three had yet to be un artist and professor. with hundreds attending various veiled. “I hate the word racism. I events appeal to all ages lectures, seminars and Professor Crissa Hewitt’s ART hate the word sexism,” Rowe 336 class — exhibition By Susannoh Linwood Luis Obispo. His family owns a workshops, according to Coor said. “But despite my hatred for Doily Stoff Wrifet Chinese imports store on Chorro dinator of Women’s Programs design/museum studies — helped those words, they still exist put up some of the piece under and Palm Streets that used to be and Services Pat Harris. Despite today. And in my mind I don’t Fortune cookies and spring the center of activity during the its title, Women’s Week will be Rowe’s direction. Most artist's think they’ll ever go away.” usually just send their art work rolls helped kick off the opening 1800s when there was a from Feb. 9-24 this year, with One way Rowe has tried to day of Chinese heritage month at Chinatown in San Luis Obispo. the theme, “Women — Artists in and have others install it when counter the influences against they display at the gallery. This the San Luis Obispo Art Center The Lion Dance performed by Motion.” her is by making good use of her on Saturday. the Cal Poly Chinese Students “We decided to spread it out time, however, students got time and keeping her expecta first-hand exf>erience with the The SLO Art Center at Mis Association (CSA) highlighted more so that all the events could tions high. sion Plaza hosted a series of the afternoon of events. The up be accessible to everyone,” Har artist, and saw how she wanted “Time does not matter,” Rowe it to be put together. events to enlighten the com beat music of the drums set a ris said. said. “How you spend your time munity about Chinese art and lively atmosphere. Two dancing This year’s Women’s Week “I felt like we were part of it,” does matter. You can spend your said liberal studies senior culture. lions w’ere the center of attention started off with a bit of “Dreams time and make a difference. You The Chinese heritage exhibi as they moved wildly and, at and Reality,” courtesy of artist Carolyn Smith. “We were up on can spend your time and not ladders and getting dirty. We got tion includes paintings, sculp times, peacefully. Sandra Rowe. make a difference. tures and Chinese photography, Rowe, an internationally-ex to find out how she works. She’s Each brightly-colored paper a marvelous woman.” “The worst thing to do is said Brenda Walter of the art mache lion head and colorful hibited artist, unveiled her lower (your) expectations and let center. newest piece in the University When Rowe began her career fabric tail was led by two dan Art Gallery and gave an artist’s as an artist 34 years ago, she someone else dictate what you “It also includes China’s art cers. The dancers wore black or talk to about 60 people in the started painting babies, animals, do.” work and a lot on the history,” yellow pants with white stripes Dexter Building Friday. trees and flowers. Rowe said she was honored to she said. to emulate the lions legs. “I thought that what I saw — be asked to kick off Women’s The exhibition is free and “The lion dance is to fight off “The premise for this talk is open to the public from Feb. 10 evil spirits and bring good luck,” the notion of commitment to like people’s faces — was the Week, but usually refuses to dis thing to paint,” Rowe said. play artwork just for certain to March 10 as a tribute to early said aeronautical engineering idea, commitment to your Chinese immigrants who settled sophomore James Lee. “It is per dream,” Rowe said. Soon she began to realize that events. there was more to art than just “When people normally ask in San Luis Obispo County and formed for certain occasions; it It was Rowe’s commitment to to the culture they brought. can be requested for people to a dream, one that actually woke what she saw, she said. me to do an exhibition for Black “I went to Fresno and found History Month or Women’s Week, The events catered to the in play. her up three years ago, and in terests of the young and older “The tail (of the lion) can vary spired her latest work, she said. out that those things (babies and I am very careful about my ac animals), were things, but there ceptance because I’ve found in alike. The morning began at 11 with a particular school or team.“ “This dream was so vivid that were other ways of being able to the past that they did not curate a.m. with Chinese storytelling, Lee said the group of’ 12 stu I got up and wrote about it on my express yourself. Everything the exhibition with the same followed by the kids’ activity dents from Cal Poly’s CSA prac computer,” Rowe said. around us is what art should be amount of curatorial energy and with Chinese paper-cutting. ticed the dance for four weeks Rowe, an associate professor about.” expertise as they did other (ex At 1 p.m., Howard Louis before performing it. of art at Cal Poly, Pomona, took Despite her success, Rowe hibits).” Rowe said. spoke of Chinese history in San See HERITAGE page 3 2 MONDAY, BRUARY 12, 1996 MUSTANG DAILY Storms crudest in rural Oregon By Martha Irvine Associated Press 'This is when you find out what good neighbors you have." Monday BIRKENFELD, Ore. — Stranded for days by bloated LaRayne Woodward rivers and washed-out roads, Oregon resident 20 days lefi in Winter quarter rural Northwesterners are find TODAY'S WEATHER; mostly sunny ing their self-reliance tested by had to be shot after getting day afternoon. TOMORROW'S WEATHER: partially cloudy the region’s worst flooding in chilled to the bone or breaking In Washington, preliminary Today's high/low: 6 0 s / 40s Tomorrow's hi^/low: 7 0 s / 50s decades.

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