Mustang Daily, April 14, 2003
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www.mustangdaìly.calpoly.edu CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO 1 * Bad Religion, Good Show: Monday, April 14,2003 Veteran punk band displayed timeless¡ energy at Ree Center Friday, 5 Vegas, Baby, Vegas: Visiting the City o f Sin, 4 . ^ TODAY'S WEATHER Volume LXVIl, Number 108, 1916-200 High: 59« Low: 45« OAIIY Poly flies away with project Faculty housing project Biology grad stu up for recertification dent Shawna Stevens and ecol By Susan Malanche ogy and system MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER / atic biology ‘7/ <we get back to the senior Emily The Cal Poly faculty housing pro judge as early as June, we Amaral sit at a ject will return to the California hope to start turning some Monarch Project State University Board of Trustees meeting. after a judge ordered Cal Poly to dirt this year and be ready explain a previous report in more BELOW PHOTO BY for occupancy by August MATT WECHTER/ detail. MUSTANG DAILY 2005.” i The Cal Poly Housing Corporation (CPHC) Board of Bob Ambach Directors met Friday to discuss the managing director of Cal Poly Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Report Housing Corporation (FEIR). Traffic, air quality and wastewater treatment capacity were issue. some of the main issues Judge “My biggest concern will be mak Douglas Hilton ordered to be ing sure the intersection (Highland reviewed last December. Drive and Highway 1) is reconfig If the eSU Board of Trustees ured because jt already operates at a recertifies the report after it meets in substandard level according to Cal early May, the C PH C would return Trans,” Ambach said. to court and could start construction An EIR was originally sent to the as early as this fall. Bob Ambach, eSU Board of Trustees in March ABOVE PHOTO BY ERIC HENDERSON/MUSTANG DAILY managing director of the Cal Poly 2002, but the process was delayed Housing Corp., is confident of the after Neighbors North of Foothill, a By Samantha Weeks terflies and threatens their exis so that anyone who finds a eSU Board of Trustees’ recertifica community organization, filed law MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER tence. monarch can call and help the tion of this two-year construction suit last April. NNOF members said During November, December research. project. they are already concerned about the Cal Poly and the Ventana and February, Cal Poly biologists “We are working to preserve a “If we get back to the judge as current traffic situation and don’t Wilderness Society are reaching tagged 20,000 monarch butterflies. truly amazing insect,” Frey said. early as June, we hope to start turn think the proposed project would out to the public to understand the The tag weighs one-fiftieth to one- Frey has worked with Monarch ing some dirt this year and be ready help. decline of the Monarch butterfly hundredth of the butterfly’s butterflies since 1990 and has for occupancy by August 2005,” “It’s an unfortunate choice of population. weight. wanted to help the butterflies by Ambach said. location and disaster waiting to hap Biological science professor Attached to each butterfly examining their migration and This $16 million proposed project pen,” said NNOF representative Dennis Frey and graduate student being studied is a small white tag overwintering patterns. consists of 72 one, two and three Joan Lynch. “1 think there was a gen Shawna Stevens are studying the that identifies the individual but The biologists ask the public to bedroom apartments for faculty and eral feeling that this was a great idea, Monarch butterflies to better terfly. Monarch Alert wants to be gentle when picking up butter staff located at Highland Drive and but issues of traffic are still a concern understand the parasite, know the location of the butter flies by their wings. A simple T- Highway 1, known as Site H-8. and I question some of the statistics Ophyrocystis elektroscirrha. The flies and if they are alive or dead. shirt lightly dropped on the butter- Although Cal Poly has adequately in the new report.” protozoan parasite has been The tag lists a five-digit identifica reviewed the judge’s concerns found spreading within this group of but tion number and a phone number see MONARCH, page 2 in the report, traffic still remains an see HOUSING, page 2 Speaker: Diversity not just Space systems club launches rocket celebrating differences By Graham Womack MUSTANG DAK.Y STAFF WRITER By Dale Quinn when those disparities place them in The Cal Poly Space Systems Club successful MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER subordinate positions in society. ly laLinched a three-stage cluster rocket, under Cal Poly provost Paul Zingg said sunny skies in a farm field near Bakersfield Diversity consists of understand he attended the presentation for Saturday afterntxin. ing various perspectives and examin both personal and institutional rea Ab(Hit 25 petiple, including a number of kx:al ing the forces that lead to inequality, sons. middle schcxil students, were on-hand when the rather than realizing and embracing “It’s food for thought," he said of Kxister left ground at 3:30 p.m., ending four differences, a Brown University pro her speech. hours of frantic work by club members to fix elec fessor said to more than 100 students Her ideas about understanding trical problems on one of the nx:kets and debates Friday. that the Kxrster would not launch. multiple perspectives — as opposed Evelyn Hu-Dehart, a Brown histo “We’ve been working on this project in small to recognizing physical and social ry professor and nationally recog steps, and we finally put all the pieces together differences — can be used by the nized expert on multicultural issues, yesterday,” faculty adviser I3eanne l>enirris said. university when it creates policies on was the keynote speaker for Asian n ie club staged its latest launch to gather data the issue, he said. American and Pacific Islander for NASA Langley Hight Research Center in Hu-DeHart’s speech was infused Heritage Month. She spoke to her Virginia, which gave the stiklents a $50,0(X) with historical references and per audience of students, faculty and grant two years ago to construct scale mixJels of sonal stories. staff about what it means to promote rocker boosters and record in-flight data. “Diversity to me means the kind “Thar was the launch we’ve been kxiking for an atmosphere that accepts diver of knowledge we have and the kind two years,” club memlier and fifrh-year aerospace gent viewpoints. of knowledge we have been denied,” graduate student Trevor Ftister said. “Diversity is not just about she said. The launch built upon the club’s last outing, acknowledging differences and cele Those in power write history Jan. 3 at Camp Roberts, where experimental in brating them,” she said. “Diversity is books and they decide what events flight data recording systems operated on one really about identifying, acknowl ANDREW GIBSON/COURTESY OF CAL POLY SPACE SYSTEMS will receive the greatest prominence, rocket. This time, that equipment operated on edging and hopefully doing some Hu-DeHart said. all three rockets that diverged off of the center Aerospace engineering senior Tom Farrell (left), electrical thing about structural inequality.” History is “not comprehensive,” stage while it was airborne, enabling the cluh to engineering freshman Chris LaFlash (top) and aerospace She questioned how a person engineering senior Ben Werle (behind) work on the rocket could accept certain differences see SPEAKER, page 2 see ROCKET, page2 Saturday. 2 Monday, April 14,2003 News Mustang Daily Wilderness Society’s Big Sur and general biology, animal diversi if we would be interested in begin n MONARCH Ornithology Lab coordinator. “The ty and animal structure/function, as ning a Central Coast Monarch but '' I ^ ■ ' continued from page 1 more 1 learn about the Monarch well as working on her thesis. terfly overwintering monitoring butterfly, the more passion I feel for “With the increasing threat of program,” Hamilton said. preserving natural eco-systems.” destruction to both wintering and California State Parks and fly is a good way to capture them. The biologists are researching breeding grounds, it is vitally Recreation Department and the Frey and his “parasite” club will the insects’ habitat, movement and important to understand the popu Central Coast Natural History use the inform ation to learn about 5-Day Forecast impact of the parasite. Marin, lation dynamics of Monarchs in the Association also support Monarch the protozoan parasite and its effect Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Luis west to aid the conservation of this A lert. TUESDAY on the insect. Obispo Counties are participating amazing insect,” Stevens said. More information about the pro High:63°/Low:46° “T h ere’s so much inform ation we in the project. The project is sponsored in large ject can be found with the biologi are striving to gain from studying Stevens is completing her thesis part by Helen Johnson, a Salinas cal science department at 756-2802 WEDNESDAY Monarch butterflies overwintering work on Project Monarch Alert. scientist. or at High: 66°/Low: 47° and migrating in California,” said She teaches labs for undergraduate “Helen Johnson approached www.bio.calpoly.edu/BioSci/Monar Sarah Hamilton, Ventana courses, including general ecology Ventana Wilderness Society to see chs/index. THURSDAY High: 63°/Low: 46° States are rapidly changing, Hu- need a place to live. SPEAKER DeHart said. With information HOUSING “We have a market study based on FRIDAY continued from page 1 from the 1990 and 2000 censuses, continued from page 1 the demographics of faculty that High: 65° / Low: 46°,^ she showed the audience that the show a need to recruit 55 faculty number of non-whites in the coun members for the next five to 10 years she said.