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SpC?C _ Coil. LD'129.6 C5 0'75 (Archives) OIHON. 37:3 Tatoo U. They're here Sep 11, Hl96 _ Rece;v(~d on: 09-13-96 Tongue bars' and tatoos UFOs are one MEIUAM UBI~AI~Y'''''CSU, CHICO cover the student body student's reality Dimensions 15 Opinion 12 Wednesday, September 11, 1996 California State University, Chico Volume :rT, Issue 3 AttitUdes adapting to constuction on Student cars Warner Street All Day Blues And Brews TRACI MOON Managing Editor singled out Construction warrants com ,plaints. It's part of the package. Parking changes Chico State's parking proce The Warner Street mess has dures were changed as a result of a upset some people, but nobody's confuse students, parking committee study over the picketing. Everyone's learning summer headed by Bob Sneed, to live with the new landscape. 30 cars towed acting vice president for bw;incss Most students are avoiding the and finance. rough walle-ways and opting to KRISTIN CARMICHAEL The parking changes created a detour through campus. Fewer Sta fI Writer designated zone available for fac bicyclists are braving the adven Oetting horne the second day of ulty and staff, only if the want to ture, and you can be sure people school wasn't as easy as Chico pay $34 a month for the special driving cars will find a way to State University student Cindi treatment. This zone requires a ,.. avoid the experience after Wachtel thought it would be. In decal with the letter "R". All other careening through the banks and stead of driving home safely at 7 parking requires a "GH decal, valleys of what's left of the road. p.m., she found herself without a which is general parking. Disabled Warner Street is similar to the car, a $54 towing fee and a $20 persons will use a "0" decal in Bay Area's tight highways these parking citation. addition to having a DMV-issued days - both areas are undergoing "1 live in Oroville and my hus handicapped placard. construction causing unpleasant band works,"Wachtel said. "I h~d Needless to say, Chico State commutes. to call my parents." students have been the most ef But there's always a few Wachtel and 12 otDer students fected by the parking changes. The people who find the positive side had their cars towed Tuesday, Aug. Associated Student government of a disaster. 27, because they were illegally has raised some concerns because Three Bay Area women parked in faculty and staffparking not one member of the parking didn't complain about the spaces. Altogether 27 cars have committee was a student. construction along their route to _been towed since the first week of "This was totally on the Uni- work. They decided to leave classes, s:iid University Police their cars in their garages and Chief Michael Minard. See Parking , page 2 save up the pocket change they might spend on public transpor tation in exchange for a high class daily commute to and from work - via a white stretch New major offered limousine, complete with a 70- channel color TV and chilled champagne on Fridays. A photograph in the San only at Chico State Francisco Chronicle showed the women kicking back in the limo on their 1 hour and 20 minute DON COLLINS Dr. Ramesh Varahamurti, of the drive home last week through Staff Writer department of mechanical engi the new delays. Intelligent toasters, computers neering at Chico State, was re The ride costs each passenger that learn, and cars that fix them sponsible for creating the new pro $150-a-month. Considering gas, selves are no longer distant con gram at Chico State. He said al parking fees, vehicle wear and cepts, but products that students in though most people don't know tear, comfort and personal stress, the new mechatronic engineering what mechatronics is, many are the Pacific Bell employees find program at Chico State University affected by it. their ride well worth the money. Peter A.Genielia/Th~ Orion will design. "Imagine a car that sees a pot hole in the street," Varahamurti Of course this isn't the Bay Above: Mumbo Gumbo's saxophonist wails away Chico State is the first univer said. "It will respond so thaI when Area, and the delays here are at last Sunday's Blues and Brews Festival, held sity in the country to offer a de it hits the pothole, the wheel will only minutes)long. So grab a at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. Mumbo Gumbo gree program in mechatronic en hold up and you won't even notice pedi-ca.b (the driver might even 'joined a bill of nine other top local and out of gineering, said Sara Armstrong, it. And these cars are already here. " provide the champagne on town bands for an all day music jamboree. vice-provost. for academic af Fridays) or give your bike a fairs. Varahamurti said that the ap plications are limitless. They are cardboard fender and rejoice in Left: A Silver Dollar employee hands a satified Mechatronics is a term coined responsible for everything from a the short adventure along customer her third brew. More concert goers by the Japanese to describe a new smart toaster that learns how to Warner Street. wait for their chance to taste one of over thirty engineering discipline that'evolved make the perfect toast to bombs The construction is just micro, domestic and imported beers from in the 1970s. It was born in an effort that can distinguish civilian sites beginning and the rain will be around the world offered at the festival. to make machines and production here soon. We'll see who more efficient. Mechatronics com .from military targets. complains then. See Blues Be Brews, page 21 bines civil, electrical, computer and ' mechanical engineering. See New Major, page 2 Virtual sandwiches So you're sitting in a campus computer lab and your stomach starts to growl. If you Satellite updates' CSU' distance learning get up and run home for a quick bite, you know you'll DAVE HUME sites around the United States. Chico State leamed Jeff Rice mans never come back. Staff Writer with Dominquez Hills State University at the press the controls of Just connect with Virtual . The California State University system has now conference to demonstrate how the new technology the new ' Waiter at http://waiter.com and made it possible for residents of Ar~ansas, Michigan works. distance. order lunch from the dozens of or anywhere in the country for that matter, to attend' Esteban and Ralph Meuter, dean of the,Center learning menus offered on the web site Chico State University without having to leave their. for Regional and. Continuing Education, repre satellite as most places deliver and there's homes .. sented Chico State. Also participating inthe news Buzz Buzzini no additional charge for ordering University President Manuel Esteban unveiled' conference via satellite were Dominquez HiIlsState overlooks. or delivery,.. the CSU Satellite in a press conference Wednesday president Robert Detweiler,CSU Chancellor Molly Chico State Togo's Eatery is one such on Chico State's campus. Beginning Sept. 25, the Broad and Warren Ashley, director of distance played a key restaurant offering their menu satellite will make it possible for students to partici role in the through the web site Monday pate in CSU classes via television from CSUSj\.l' See Satellite, page 2 development. through Friday and delivers to an area surrounding Chico State. But don't be snenking sand wiches into the food-forbidden ~ood service chews on profit loss computer labs, meet the delivery person at the door. Inside -. Index, LAURA KROGER one Monday. Weather 2 Staff Writer "They're much healthier than the other stuff they Virtual what? Although campus food services posted an exces have here," she said. "They're just good." Ordering food over the The Orion CSU Briefs 5 sive financial loss last fiscal year, Food Services Although the fiscal reports won't be in until early Direc;:tor Kevin Mulcahey is expecting a profitable November, Mulcahey said that business has been I Internet isn't as strange as some , of the things popping up on the Police Blotter , school year. brisk, and he expects there to be a significant raise in information highway these days. 'In order to combat several years' worth of dwin profits from last year. This week an Orion staff Wildcat Stats 11 '. dUng profits, last Fall Mulcahey expanded the menu However, the campus food services, which are owned by A.S., are not a profit organization. They I writer explored the world of on , offerings ori campus, provided a bigger selection of I food and better service in the campus food services. budget to pay their bills and their employees, I, line funerals. Read more about it Opinion 12' t : on page 16. Open caskets ';::So far, he' said, things nre looking up. Mulcahey said. This year, they hope to make a profit . optional. Chico Pulse 12', .' _~"We had a bad year last year, no .doubt about it," of about $600,000, he said. This money will be he said.,"But the result of that has been a better funnelled into ot."'er Associated Students operations Joday's Weather Reach Traci Moon througfle-mail .Entertainment 21 product and better peopl~ serving it." programming e\' .... ~s. Sunny' and cooler at [email protected], by ·i Students seem to be'likitig the new menu offerings "We want to make enough money so that we can -. gi ve the campus back something," he said.