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www.mustan9daily.calp0ly.edu C A I I f 0 R N I A P 0 f Y T I ( IVIRillY, SAN lUIS OBISPO Wild Wild (Big) West: Friday, April 4,2003 Mustangs begin conference play at home this weekend,8 Does the Past Last?: Do people deserve a second chance, 6 . TODAY'S WEATHER Volume LXVIl, Number 102,1916-2003 - o V, High: 58® n i ^1 Low: 42® DAILY n Gilifomia higher Poly group helps education has been hit hard in this round of cuts. Here isa brief evolution of student land mine victims fees. ► Wheelchair Foundation Obispo. Trips, gift certificates and other items will be up for bids. In response to mid-year budget cuts pro Prior to the Dec. 16 increase, holds event to raise posed by Gov. Gray Davis, the California the CSU ’s State University Fee “We have items ranging from I money to send vacations to Palm Springs to bot State University System Board of Trustees was $ 1,428 per academic year for voted Dec. 16 to increase the fees for full undergraduate students. With tles of wine,” said Erin Jackson, wheelchairs to Ethiopia time CSU students on all 23 campuses. the increase, fees are now $1,572 per aca international business senior and Undergraduate student fees were raised by 10 percent demic year— still the lowest fees in the By Katie Schiller team member. and graduate student fees were raised by 15 percent. nation, according to the Chancellor’s MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER California state champion auc Office. The increase works out to $48 per tioneer and Cal Poly alumnus Jim The last increase in the CSU’s State The Cal Poly chapter of the quarter, $4.36 per week or 62 cents per Glines will conduct the live auc University Fee occurred in 1994. The fee W heelchair Foundation will hold day. tion. f then decreased in both 1998 and 1999 when its second Gift of Mobility benefit, The benefit will feature exotic California’s economy was strong. The cur Both the California State “A Taste of the World,” from 4 to 8 hors d’oeuvres to give bidders “a 'J rent CSU fee increase restores fees to just imder the University System Board of p.m. Saturday to send wheelchairs taste of the world.” The recipes for 1997 level, according to a Cal Poly news release. Trustees and the Legislature have to Ethiopian land mine victims. the food will come from countries the authority to change state uni The silent and live auction will On Jan. 10, Gov. Gray Davis released his versity fees at any time. take place at the Monday Club on pitYposed 2003-04 state budget which included * Monterey Street in San Luis see WHEELCHAIR, page 7 VI $326 million in funding reductions for the 23- The governor’s budget prop>osal campus CSU system. The proposed reductions anticipates that the CSU System came in response to California’s current deficit of near Board of Trustees will increase stu ly $35 billion. dent fees in 2003/04 by 25 percent World-renowned string to compensate for the reductions. Such an On tc^ of the $326 million cut, increase would raise undergraduate fees by quartet to perform at Poly the CSU must accept an addition $396, bringing the total anitual CSU fee to / al $78.6 million in unfunded $1,968. mandatory cost increases. Tliese By Jenni Mintz In March 2002, Cal Poly students voted increases include employee salary increas MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER to approve college-based academic fee . .For classical music es, increased health care costs, worker’s increases. Students in the ccilleges of compensation and costs to open new class Perfection: A status frequently lovers, this is the finest Agriculture, Science and Mathematics, attempted, but rarely achieved. rooms, laboratories and offices. there is. These guys are Engineering, Architecture and Environmental However, for the Guarneri String Cal Poly President Warren j. Design and Business now pay $200 per quarter in Quartet, flawlessness is expected superstars in the string Baker said in a news release, “We collep^-based fees. Students in the College of and often reached. quartet world.*' remain committed to do all we can in Liberal Arts now pay $125 per quarter in college- The quartet is recognized interna 9this very difficult budget environ based fees. These funds will not be diverted from tionally for reaching perfection, Alyson McLamore ment to preserve access and maintain the the individual colleges to compensate for state bud- unmatched on the global musical Music department faculty quality of a Cal Poly education, but cuts of get cuts. stage. They will perform at the Cal member t\this magnitude cannot be made without Poly Theatre tonight at 8. -.-some pain. governor will release a revised budget Director of Cal Poly Arts Ralph “We’ve never found the right Hoskins organized the event after kind of occasion where we could SC€ P3gc 2 for M 'B request known as the “May Revise.” The Legislature will four to five years of attempting to afford to pay what they customarily 3 Studont fee I P^^*‘ ^ bill fur the governor to sign. The gov- host the concert. tirn c lin c emor is supposed to approve the budget by July 1, the first see QUARTET, page 7 day of the new fiscal year. U.S. troops roll to edge o f Baghdad If these walls could talk By David Espo more than 15 Iraqi tanks in fighting that went A P S pecial Correspondent on for more than four hours. Mechanical a 1 ^ ■ Two weeks into the war, American comman engineering Army forces launched a nighttime attack on ders reported a string of successes — on the bat senior Sara Saddam International Airport just outside Coleman tlefield and within an Iraqi population initially íY;.: Baghdad on Thursday and fought running bat reticent about embracing invading troops. writes on a wall on the tles with Iraqis along the city’s southern fringes. Kurdish fighters in the north chipped in, when ■T top floor of “A vise is closing on the a top leader suggested they may agree not to rsr>: . • .. ■ the regime,” President Bush seek control of the northern city of Kitkuk. University told cheering Marines state Despite declarations that tough fighting lies Union, on side. ahead, the nation’s top military official indicat which stu Some front-line units ed there may not be an all-out battle for dents' can went on heightened alert Baghdad. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the against the threat of chemi - ■ ..-'-I' . write their Bi IBAD Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested isolating mem Íj»»#' ■ ‘ > ' thoughts on cal weapons, ordered to bers of the old tegime in the capital — cut off wear rubber boots and suits despite tempera the war in from the country — with an “interim adminis Iraq. tures that soared into the 90s. tration” in place to begin work on a postwar There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the government. south, where desperate Iraqis armed with tifles There were battlefield setbacks, as well. An charged tanks in a suicide raid. “We mowed Army soldier investigating a destroyed tank in down” the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy. central Iraq was killed by friendly fire when he Tracer rounds lit the night sky and artillery was mistaken for an Iraqi, the military said. Two boomed near the airport a few miles from the Marines were killed and one injured in the heart of Saddam Hussein’s capital. Army units close-quarters fighting in Kut. The Navy encountered little resistance along the aitport mounted a search for a pilot missing since his road, their convoy passing dead Iraqi soldiers Hornet jet was lost to unknown causes on •?«I and piles of discarded military uniforms. Wednesday. Along the city’s southern edge. Army tanks The toll of American troops dead passed 50, MATTWECHTER/ and Bradley vehicles destroyed more than MUSTANG DAILY ’'ou ’ é seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers and see BAGHDAD, page 2 2 Friday, April 4,2003 News Mustang Daily n Full-time eSU undergraduate a annual fees timeline 1975 1976-77 - Fees are $ 144 1978- Fees79 raised by $2 to $146 5-Day Forecast 1979- Fees 80lowered by $2 to $144 Coming up this week SATURDAY _ |H jgh: 62° / Low: 42°, 1980 1980-81 Fees raised 10 percent to $160 *Day Light Savings Time - Don't forget to set ^ 1981-82 Fees raised by nearly 40 percent to your clocks forward one hour on Sunday. SpNPAY L Highr^/T^;43<» $251.50 ^'United for Freedom' Presentation - Four 1982- 83 - Fees raised by nearly 40 percent to Mon day' experts will present their perspective on the High:69°/Low:46° $410 current situation in the Middle EastThe panel TUESDAY 1983- Fees8 4 - raised by more than 30 percent will take place in the Cal Poly Theatre on April 8 High: 72° / Low : 48° to $610 from 7 to 9 p.m. 'i.'*'' WEDNESDAY 1984- Fees8 5 - lowered by 6 percent to $573 High:77°/Low:48° *Town Meetings - There will be a series of 1987- 88 -Fees raised by 10 percent to $630 town meetings to provide community mem lf{Xbcby% Sun 1988- Fees8 9 -raised by nearly 10 percent to bers and students to speak about the war. On Rises: 5:46 a.my Sets: 6:26 p.nnJ $684 April 8, the forum will take place In UU220 at 1 11 a.m. On April 9, the forum will take place in Today's Mooiv 1989- Fees9 0 - raised by 3 percent to $708 I Philips Hall at 7 p.m.