Campus Opinion Sports If youVe having trouble laniJing that Alright everyone, Lenna Chavidarian The hot Mustang softball team split a great job, we've got a solution. is sick of picking up after all you pair of games against UCSB Thursday. Mustang Daily litterbugs! 2 4 8 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC U.N IVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO ustang aiiy M , D MARCH 7 1997 VOLUME LXI, No. 85 FRIDAY' Cowpies Linking art with technology ASI extends reincarnated, Visiting Stanford professor speaks on combining the two mediumsPoly Plan By Megan Lang 4* fuel campus Doily Stoff Writer argument W “Our lives are dairy project becoming dominated by little men behind deadline By Brian Johnson Ethernet connections,” 3'-' Doily Staff Writer said Larry Friedlander, By Shona Pruitt profes.sor of English Doily Staff Writer Cow manure isn’t waste. Literature and Theater That’s what Cal Poly agriculture at Stanford University. - V . > « The deadline for submitting engineering professor Doug He called the situation pro and con statements regarding Williams is aiming to prove with a “the deceit of technolo­ the Cal Poly Plan was extended at new waste water treatment sys­ gy,” and likened it to the ASI Executive Board Meeting tem. the hoax of the Wizard Wednesday night. Williams, along with students of Oz. The deadline was extended from agriculture engineering, the P’riedlander spoke from March 3 to Tuesday, March Fhivironmental Pi-otection Agency yesterday to about 250 11. and farm and plant operations arepeople in a presenta­ All pro and con statements putting together a new system tion called “When submitted will be considered for that will trap gases generated Worlds Collide: The the pamphlet .scheduled to go out from cow manure and use them to Impressive Emerging to all students no later than help fuel the diary’s energy needs. Cooperation Between Doily photo by Moureen McDowellMarch 30. All statements submit­ The new system will also provide The Arts And Larry Friedlander ted will be available for viewing at more storage space for waste Technology,” sponsored the ASI Executive Office. water and clean it better, us well. by the Provost’s Office. organizing a symposium on Museums and ASI is seeking both pro and The system will begin the way “Twenty years ago I didn’t even like to type on a Technology for the San Francisco Museum of con statements to help inform stu-, it does now. Water will flush out computer,” Friedlander said, explaining that he was Modern Art. dents in their decision to support the cow manure from the dairy the “artsy” type who stayed away from high technol­ Friedlander’s familiarity with the arts is first­ or oppose this fee increase. barn floor and go through a sepa­ ogy. hand and comes from a long history of experience. Statements can be submitted to rator. The water will then sepa­ Since then, he has been involved in numerous He worked in professional theater as an actor ASI. They must not exceed 300 rate from most of the manure projects that link the arts with technology. He has and director, performed with repertory companies, words in length and all con state­ before going into a lagoon. But developed an interactive encyclopedia of 19th-centu­ and taught acting and directing at many academicments must show knowledge of .some manure will also manage to ry art for the Musee d’Qrsay in Paris, formed the institutions in the United States and Europe. petitioner’s goal and objectives. get through the separator and go Interactive Shakespeare Group with professors at “We all are art machines,” Friedlander said, “The referendum must go out into the lagoon. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explaining that we are spatial artists who absorb by April 30,” Harvey Greenwald, To take advantage of this, a develop tools for the study and presentation of and interpret our surroundings. He added that thisacademic senate chair, said. new lagcMm with a cover will he Shakespeare, and was recently been involved in See LINKING page 3 “Thirty days prior to that the built. The lagoon’s lid will trap the pamphlet must be in student’s methane gasses that bubble up hands.” from the decomposing manure. The Cal Poly Plan will be The gas will then be collected and placed on a ballot. Four things be used to power an engine gener­ Revised insurance policy denies will b«' on that ballot, Greenwald ator, supplying electricity to the said - a pro statement, a con state­ diary’s milking machines, refrig­ ment, a non-bias description of eration equipment, as well as to student use of ASI-owned vans facts concerning the plan and a the pumps that are u.sed to flush financial impact analysis. the manure from the barn floor. By StevM FoirchM The Fee Advisory Committee Williams said two thirds of the Daily Staff Writer has jurisdiction over all fees, dairy’s energy needs would be met Greenwald said. The Cal Poly with the new system. He estimat­ A recent ruling made by the executive Plan Steering Committee is ju.st a ed it would save alxnit $1,000 a staff of ASI is making it impossible for stu­ subcommittee with only one fee to month. dent groups to rent out a van for weekend decide. If the Fee Advisory Agribusine.ss professor Phillip getaways and field trips. Committee says no, then it won’t r T i Doub said another advantage ASI Facility Operations Coordinator happem, Greenwald .said. with the new system would lie Phil Philbin said student groups may no Members of ASI were con­ that the water would undergo fur­ longer rent ASI vans, and any student ofTi- cerned with getting students’ ther treatment and become clean­ cers that do drive a van must have their input. ASI Vice Chair Shane er before being used to irrigate the names submitted to an insurance agent for McGowan said, “Voicing student university’s crops. As it is now, clearance. interest and student opinion and there are three lagoons. Any solids Previously, students could rent out any getting that input from students that get into the first, sink to the of ASTs vans. It owns five vans, a truck, and is important.” bottom and break down there. The a bus. The vans were rented out on a prior­ Greenwald told ASI that at top water is then pumped into ity basis to student groups for 31 to 43 cents Tue.sday’s Fee Advi.sory Meeting another lagoon, and sometimes per mile, depending on the size of the vehi­ “we kind of hit a wall. No one felt the process continues to a third. cle. A class B driver’s license, with a pas­ comfortable as an advocate for the senger endorsement, was required for any By pumping the top water from ftSll Cal Poly Plan.” one lagoon to the next, and letting vans that carried 12 or more people. Without the support of the Fee the .solids settle each time, the ASI Executive Director Soncia Lilley Advi.sory Committee, ASI mem­ water becomes cleaner and clean­ said the van rental program was going well bers were concerned about the Cal er. Hence, the new lagoon will pro­ and the moratorium is strictly a result of a Poly Plan’s future. vide yet another chance for the review of insurance coverage. Doily photo by Kelli« Kofhonen “It scares me that the (Fee water to become cleaner. “If students had been abusing it, and if Advisory) Committee can’t find an Another advantage will be the there were other issues, perhaps they could OFF LIMITS: ASI vans are no longer available for student clubs. advocate for the Cal Poly Plan. See POOP pKjge 5 See VANS page 2 See ASI page 6 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997 MUSTANG DAILY Taking the work out Fire on the mountain of looking for a job By Heidi Laurenzano Poly for on-site interviews. » Daily Staff Writer “I come here every Wednesday,” Nguyen said. “I 'is If your experience with the Cal learned this from my old friends \i1 T f r » Poly bureaucracy has been frus­ who graduated. My instructors % trating, discard those memories told me to check it out, too.” at the mention of Career Services. He said using the on-site inter­ Career Services is on campus view opportunity is a better way to help students, whether they’re to go than sending out your graduating seniors or students resume to random companies. who would like a summer job in “If you file your resume and their major. Many programs and interview here, you have a 70 to *• ''0 ' . i workshops await student use, 80 percent chance of getting a W H? * job,” Nguyen said. including on-site interviewing. iS?'' Located in the building across On top of that, he said the con­ ¥■ 4#* the street from Mustang Stadium, venience is second to none. ¡r*. the center has a row of small “When the interview takes rooms, each containing a desk place here, you can arrange a and two chairs facing each other. time and day,” he explained. “But In each room one could see the when it’s just you and the compa­ back of a well-dressed person, try­ ny and you have to cancel the ing very hard to be the best they interview, there goes your could be; a student interviewing chance.” for a job. Opposite the student sat Last year, Nguyen got two job a .semi well-dressed person, blazer offers. The companies wanted him removed, looking slightly weary: a to quit school and go to work with California Conservation prospective employer on the road, them.