Mustang Daily, February 27, 1998

(Op i n i o n S l'O K T S Living in Stenner Glen may require you to risk Engineers ore flying high in sports. Read about your life just to get to school. one extraordinary student. Page 4 Page 8 C A L t F O R N Ì A P O 1“ Y T E C H N. I C ' 5 J. A T E- E R S I T Y 'S A N - L U I S: Q 6-1 S P O Mustang Daily FEBRUARY 27, 1998 VOLUME LXIL No. 78 F R-I D'A..Y' Sierra Club endorses Capps, From top left; encourages students to vote Surfrider Raym ond Mackenzie, Club also attacks Bordonaro's record on environmental issues Mayor Allen ly Jaim« lorasi Settle, County Supervisor Peg Club's message to Cal Poly. Settle, the Daily Optmon Editor Pinard, a representative from the “Our primary focus in the Sierra Club's San Luis Bay Surfrider campaign is to alert students to Pat Veesart, Forest green Sierra Club ban Foundation and a representative (Tom Bordonaro’s) bad environ Supervisor ners adorned the IJ.U. Thursday for District II sup^’rvisor Bud mental voting record," Veesart Peg Pinard where members from the envi Laurent. said. “Student-voter turnout isn't and District II Veesart said the Sierra Club really high. If they knew the ronmental group came together representa with local officials to support supports Capps because she’s environmental issues that were tive Sa ra Lois Capps and garner student- pledged to continue her hus out there, they'd get out there Christie visit voter turnout for the special band's environmental legacy. and vote." March 10 congressional election. Walter Capps received a rating Stephen Peterson, a city and ed cam pus Behind the motto “Tom of 100-percent by the I^eague of regional planning masters stu to support Bordonaro: He's Nt) friend to the Con.servation Voters in 1997. dent. volunteered at the Sierra C a p p s and environmr'nt," Pat Veesart, chair According to Veesart. low stu Club information table in an the student dent-voter turnout in last attempt to bring students up to man of the Santa Lucia Chapter vote, / Daily of the Sierra Club, was joined by month's election was the main speed with the two candidates’ .■ V- photo by Joe San L uis Obispo Mayor Allen rea.son for bringing the Sierra See CLUB page 3 Johnston A Le<f<iC4i, (y l Info, get your ASI info ^ » ASI plans to set up a booths giving students the low -dow n on im portant issues ly Audi Jostpk side Thursdays during U.U. Daily Staff Writer hour. The bill, presented by College Members of ASI believe they of Engineering board member may not be doing enough to Kevin Schimmel, came in hopes make .sure stu of improving ASI’s outreach and dents are famil student accessibility on campus. iar with the Currently, unlike several stu issues that dent services and clubs, ASI affect them or Q uick Facts does not have an information with the work table set up during U.U. hour. • If \ s r. I.ill f..r ings of ASI itself. The use of an information an information Hoping to ImmiiH i* im|il>- booth would allow students to change this, the im-nlril. ii anil |co ask questions and address con Board of mill rfferl t all cerns about campus issues with Directors dis I'sm out having to step inside the ASI • Si far. \M cussed the possi Hoaril mrmlirr« office. Schimmel said students bility of setting ha*r la-rn in who do not have any type of con up an inform a fa«or of ihr liill. nection with their ASI college tion booth at representative would have regu Wednesday lar access to campus information ly Iritt Ftktft night's board meeting. The booth Doily Staff Writtr was proposed to be set up out- See ASI page 5 Times have changed at Cal Poly since 1903. For the four women who were a part of its first graduating class in 1906, Culture Fest is coming: the university was a place they went to enhance their skills as home-makers and socialize with whether rain or shine the other four male students. ly AihS Joscpli feature dance performances, forxl tjuite a changi' from today’s Doily Staff Writer and drink, display booths, mu.sic Cal Poly women, who are engi and singing. neers, architect.“ m.nthemati- F^l Niño may cau.se the cancel All of the food and di.splay cians, tractor drivers - you lation of Farmer's Market and booths will be located outside the name it, women are doing it. Mardi Gras, but its power won’t Rec Center while all perfor Women’s history at Cal F’oly hold back Culture F’est. No matter mances will he held indoors. If El takes turns through exclusion, what Saturday’s weather will be, Niño does strike and it rains, all acceptation and equality. On the festive celebration of culture booths will be movtHl indoors. Wednesday afternoon, one will go on, rain or shine. Rosie Faifua, ASI executive woman from Special Collections PSolm courtny ol 1«r««a Iciyior The 2nd annual ASI Culture stafT member, said Culture Fest is and University Archives hosted Fest will he held 12 to 8 p.m. (Top) The 1909 C d Pdy women's Exssketbdl feom wilh cooch Margaret an opportunity for pcyiple of all Saturday in the Rec Center. The See HISTORY poge 5 Chose (Above) C d Pdy students in Domestic Science doss, 1904. celebration, free to the public, will See CULTURE poge 3 ' ,* V'-'' ‘'-I r «■*'**■'■•■7*'i'*’i -sVi ■ ' ■' ■ 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1998 MUSTANG DAILY !' I r r / Phone companies may be overcharging J By Jemnine Averso the reductions are being used to n’t increase the total dollar Assocnled ^tss offer customers 5-cents-per- amount long-distance companies minute calling on Sundays, which pay local companies to amnect .1 i.y WASHINGTON — The debuted in September and is still calls. It ju.st changed the way the nation’s top three long-distance being offered. charges are as.sessed: from a per- NEWS companies appear to be over But Kennard, in his letters, minute basis to a pc'r-Iine basis. charging telephone customers and said there is a “growing body of The line charge was set at a blaming it on new federal fees, the evidence that suggests that the flat fee of $2.75 a month for busi Utilidor slogan contest winner chosen chairman of the Federal nation’s largest long-distance nesses with multiple phone lines, Communications Commission The Utilidor slogan contest has found its winner. Provost Paul companies are raising rates ... 53 cents a month for businesses said Thursday. Zingg came up with “UTILIDOR: Out of Sight, Out of Mind” as even though recent actions of this with one phone line and $1.50 a The chairman. Bill Kennard. the end-of-project slogan. commission have in fact reduced month for homes with more than contends that the new fees were Jo Ann Lloyd of the Communications Office was the runner-up the long-distance companies’ one phone line. with “I^TILIDOR: From Tunnel vision to Hindsight." st'ppiosed to be offset by commis- costs." But long-distance companies Other entries which received honorable mention were sion-orderc*d reductions in other His comments come as the say they are having trouble “lUilidor....NO MORE! You can see the campus core, SPIRITS fees long-distance companies pay. FCC has been investigating a assessing the fees on a per-line ROAR!!" ( submitted by Anne Arnett in Transportation), But it doesn’t appear that the growing number of complaints basis because they can't get accu “Utilidor...Is No More" (by Elberta Kerr, Facility Services and companies have passed along from telephone customers about rate information from local phone Patti Hamer Breckenridge, Environmental Horticulture some $1 billion in reductions to overbilling for new federal fees, companies about the type and Sciences) and “UtiliDONE" (by David Burman). their customers as they pledged. which took effect Jan. 1. number of lines a customer has. Zingg’s winning slogan will be the official motto for the end-of- Kennard said. “They have yet to Those fees, imposed on long Even local phone companies con the project party on April Fool’s Day in the U.U. Plaza. show me that consumers got the distance companies, go to local cede they can’t provide all of the Fifty-six entries were submitted and judged by one person promised savings." he said. phone companies for connecting information to long-distance com from on campus and one from off campus. Each participant will AT&T, MCI and Sprint say long-distance calls. They are also panies. receive a custom button with their slogan on it and each entry they have passed along those ustnl to subsidize local phone ser As a result. MCI, for instance, will appear on the LItilidor Web Site. reductions and disputed vice in rural and other high-cost is charging all residential cus Kennard’s suggestion that they areas. Long-distance companies tomers $1.07 pier line per month. may be overcharging customers. typically pass along the fees to AT&T, which now charges homes Last chance to file for ASI positions The FCC sent letters to the their customers. with multiples lines $1.50 a chiefs of AT&T, MCI and Sprint The new fees came about after month, will bt‘ changing the way it If you want to Ih' an elected student representative, better get a Thursday, demanding that they the FCC revamped phone prices assesses the fees in April.

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