Mustang Daily, March 7, 1980

' r •. Mustang Daily Friday, Mar. 7, 1980 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 44, No. 72 Council votes to put senior projects Senate boots on microfiche program council BY SUSAN MEE OaUy S U H Wrttaf Beginning fall quarter I960, BY MELISSA HILTON President Jeff I..and said while seniors will pay $4.20 to have OaMy S U H W rtUi the amendment was still under their senior projects put on Student senators eliminated consideration. microfiche. But seniors will only the program council from the “ They themselves want to turn in one xerox and copy of ASI bylaws Wednesday night, abolish it. ' I..and said of the their project instead of the usual but they created a new council program council. two. That was the proposal with the power to veto senate The amendment to create a submitted by the academic actions. , new group with veto power was council on March 3. The chair council's—newly almost eliminated Wednesday. A The proposal has been ap formed—only purpose is to move by Sen. Tom Cregger from proved by President Baker and review student senate action. Its the School of Social Sciences to is to be imlemented. members are chairmen of the leave the chair council out of the Neal Meyers, ASl internal student councils from each bylaws barely failed by a vote of affairs assistant and student school and four representatives 11-12. ‘ representative to the academic from other A S l groups. "Is it necessary to put this council, said students got the much power in the hands of best possible option. The amendments to abolish people who have even less "According to Meyers, his own teh program council adn constituency voting for them pressure against the council kept establish a new council were part than we did?" Cregger asked the the microfiche cost down. of the general revision of ASl senate. "W e didn't lose out at all, " bylaws required every three said Meyer. years. A school council chairman is Due to a lack of space from Other amendments approved elected only by the members of 30,000 hard-bound copies of Wednesday include that student council, inlcuding senior projects, the library requirements that senators the school's senators, said Sen. wanted to microfiche all the old announce potential conflicts of Nancy Bronte from the School of projects along with the new ones. interest, that students appointed Business. The council originally con to the Instructionally Belated "I think this would certainly sidered three possible options: Activities board be subject to be creating more of a conflict of —find additional revenue from senate approval, adn that a interest," Bronte said, because within Cal Poly and microfiche senate representative be added senators would vote for the the projects with this money. to the ASl President's chairmen who might veto sattale — send all senior projects to Executive Cabinet. actions. departments, who would then The defunct program council But Sen. Anne Perry, also screen ones that aren't useful had final authority for from the School of Business, said and keep the essential ones. scheduling all ASl events, school council chairmen are —combine the first two op though the l*rogram Hoard did active, informed students who tions. the actual programming coor would call a meeting and vpte for The academic ouncil ruled out dination. The council also a veto only if the senate did department screening because, directed the student senate to something to make them "really according to Meyers, " they consider any item of business upset." Muatang OaM y-^ull« Archai didn't like the time involved in and direct the ASl president to "To set ourselves up with that screening They also set* a public Tim Scott, an announcer other radio and television veto any senate action. wall around us (without giving a relations gain in kt*eping all for KZOZ radio, pulls for announcers to win the four- In the 1979-80 academic year, council veto power) is just so projects, he said. the finish in the milking cow competition. The the program council requested a incredibly elitist. " Perry said. Meyers cited that alumni often veto of the student senate's vote Under the newly amended come back to Cal Poly and like to contest held Thrusday in country-style en the Unviersity Union Plaza. to give senators free passes to bylaws, the ASl president can see their project on file in the tertainment was sponsored ASl films and concerts. veto senate action and the chair library Scott out-milked seven by Los Lecheros dairy club. But this year the program council can direct the president council has rarely l>e«*n able to to veto. The president of the See page 12 reach a quorum and has ac univesity can al.so reject any complished little. ASl Vice student senate recommendation. Novak: Sports— our Zen? BY TOM KINSOLVINC. great distinction —bringing the prevail. " lieclaimed. 0*My $UH Wm*< skills of prowess to the highest The result of this is that the Almost all Americans are degree capable, " explained three most popular American learning about life through Novak. sports have taken on somewhat of a religious significance, said sports —particularly through Equating the intense fear of Novak, who labeled football, baseball, basketball and football, losing in competitive sports with basketball and baseball as which are "mythic worlds of the fear of death and dying, “ national liturgies. ' great power and beauty, " said a Novak related the episode of a guest lecturer at the Cal Poly college basketball player whose He said loyal fans who root theater yesterday missed shot lost a crucial game wildly, getting sweating palms for his team The player was .so and racing heartbearts. become Comparing football as "an attempt to trap the hunted one, emotionally striken in a post- nearly as involved and the professor of religion and author game interview that he could not players themselves speak. Michael Novak spoke as the Novak called baseball "a game eighth lecturer for the Arts and Novak cited the ecstatic of exquisite solitude and in Humanities series on "Play " He reaction of players and fans timidation, " where playing named his talk, /a Sp<jrts We when the U.S. Hockey team batter involves "conquering all Trust Athletics and the defeated the Soviet team at the fears ' Meaning of Life Olympics last month The American iove of baseball Novak, who also lectures on "You can't describe their stems from the mysticism of such subjects as ethnic con feelings as merely a game," he numbers, which are an integral sciousness, (lod, television and said. part of the game, he said. “It's a the institiTlion of families, called game of exquisite checks and the national infatuation with Novak believes the desire to balance." sports "the American Zen." win a game is similar to the instinct of surmounting the The essential team work in N e w sec tio n to d a y He said Zen may be described brutal aspects of nature, which football shows that it “ exhibits as the performance of a perfect Americans have historically the bureautic fight of life" and act and involves finding har contended with settling in this basketball can be considered A new Mustang Daily section. Fridays. It is an expansion o f the mony between man and nature. nation. something akin to a jazz concert, Review, debuts today. Coor entertainment pages and more. Turn to page five and find out! “ Putting an arrow through the “ We want to wrest from where every player is allowed to dinated by Jim Hendry, the section will appear weekly on center of a target or tracking an nature some victories. Other play with his own flourish and animal in the forest bears a very wise, in the ehd, death vould freedom, said Novak. Opinion—• • P>««2 Mustang Daily Friday, Mar. 7,1900 Jonestown—a perenal threat A large sense of shock and sadness She then laughingly related an spread over me when reading the huge episode in which she and fellow Temple headlines in the San Francisco members performed mantras to YA KNOW, J05T B0NG Examiner recently. physically debilitate my father, with an A1 and Jeannie Mills, two former high- emphasis on destroying his libido. governor o f CALIFORNIA ranking members of the P eoi^ s Other more blatant efforts to get at Temple, had been brutaUy murdered in my father included a picket line, SURE WOULD e e A LOWERING their small Berkeley home. organised by Jones followers, in front of The assassin shot both through the the M ^m in er building, to pressure the head. fM W r 15-year-old Daphene Mills pubUeber to censure my father’s series or MV CXPBCTA170IVS / was sbft ti*ice in the right temple. She of imposes on the People's Temple. died two Ä y s after. ^ * Jhe Examiner editorial board was Tha Mills family are not the first of t a k e i to shelve the remaining exposes the ifeople’s Temple defectors who met (due to the added threat of a libel suit) vident deaths since the Guyana mass end Jones continued his operations of suicide in November, 1978. extortion, Invin-washing and the plan Besides U.S. Representative Leo for a new socialist agricultureal com Ryan and some San Francisco newsmen, munity in Guyana. two former Temple members staying in The Mills family avoided the 1978’ Detroit were killed last summer. tragedy at Jonestown, having defected Prior to their deaths, which the elder thim years ear&er, which was motivated Mill’s prophesied would eventually by the increasingly brutal activities of happen the couple ran the Human Jones.

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