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IFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO f M U S m N G D a i i y MAY 1, 1997 VOLUME LXI, No. 110 THURSDAY Academic Senate salvages * . •‘■-■I credit/no credit grading By Mary Hodley According to the resolution’s rationale, M Daily Staff Writer some credit/ no credit units should be allowed because “students may explore Samuel Aborne, a civil engineering unfamiliar areas of the curriculum or freshman, said he wanted to see 500 stu­ enroll in challenging courses without S#;' dents attend Tuesday’s Academic Senate undue risk to their grade point average.” meeting in support of credit/ no credit Neel “Bubba” Murarka, a computer sci­ grading. ence freshman, asked, “With only one class Instead, about five showed up, but cred­ that you can take credit/ no credit, what it/ no credit grading was salvaged anyway. are you exploring?” And, for the first time at Cal Poly, students The sixteen-unit limit averages one will be allowed to take four units of major four-unit class a year, assuming a student or support classes credit/ no credit. graduates in four years. If Tuesday’s resolution had been voted Aborne and Murarka would have liked down students would have, in the fall 1998, to see more credit/ no credit units allowed. Doily photo by Down Kolmar lost the option of taking any classes credit/ “It’s something. It’s not what we want­ no credit. ed, but it’s something,” Aborne said, Until fall 1998, students can take 45 relieved that the resolution passed. One down, one to go units credit/ no credit, but only general Doug Keesey, who chairs the senate cur­ education classes. riculum committee, said the student voices Voting days for the Cal Poly Plan, that is. if you haven't With the new resolution, 16 units will had a significant effect on the meeting’s be allowed as credit/ no credit during a stu­ outcome, but Murarka disagrees. done so, go vote! Voting is broken down by college: if dent’s entire stay at Cal Poly. Four of those “I’m disappointed that the Academic you're a liberal arts or agriculture major, vote at the ag units can be major or support courses and Senate didn’t weigh the words of the stu­ four can be general education. The remain­ dents more and give the whole debate more bridge. If you're architecture and environmental design, ing eight can be free electives, or all 16 consideration,” he said. business or engineering, vote at Dexter Lawn. If you're could be free electives. The resolution still needs approval by The resolution was passed after ener­ university President Warren Baker, but science and math, vote in the University Union Plaza. getic debate between professors and the Keesey said Baker “usually approves sen­ Now, go take care o' business! students who attended. ate resolutions.” Enrollment to decrease next year The other vote: How much By Sto<«y L JolMstoii plan devised by Euel Kennedy, associate Doily Staff Writer vice president for Enrollment Support pull does ASI have, anyway? Services, was adopted to increase enroll­ By Kriston Hal President Steve McShane. “But the president Cal Poly expects to enroll 25 percent ment in the College of Agriculture and the College of Architecture and D^StaffWriler can have a strong influence depending on who fewer new students next year, because they are and how they operate.” enrollment this year was higher than was Environmental Design. With the possibility of new officers enter­ McShane said most of his power lies in anticipated. “More students have come in science ing the college’s governing body, a student dealing with issues facing students on a day- The target enrollment for fall 1997 is and math, business, and liberal arts than m i^ t wonder the fate of hot issues like the to-day basis, working externally. Board of 16,503 with a total of 3,356 new students, the university had intended,” Dalton said. Cal Poly Plan or the debate over a wet cam­ Directors works internally with ASI as a cor­ down from an actual enrollment of 17,000 “The idea is that cutting back a little bit pus. poration writing resolutions and bills. in fall 1996, which included 4,460 new next year will bring things into balance.” She explained that since Cal Poly is a When the chair of the Board of Directors students. “I have a lot of say in the development of polytechnic university, a substantial and ASI president are elected next week, they “Probably one of the main factors in the Cal Poly Plan — its evolution and how it’s amount of students need to be in technic- will bring new ideas and goals, but it is ques­ having 17,000 students is that we had set up, as well as the alcohol issue,” he said. nally-oriented, applied programs. tionable how much pull officers actiudly have more continuing students than we expect­ If an elected official comes into office and “It’s fine with me that we are shifting in changing the direction of ASI. ed,” said Bonnie Krupp, institutional doesn’t approve of the plans in progress, they the numbers of students between colleges “In all reality, the president is powerless research and planning analyst. to bring the university into conformance under the Board of Directors,” said ASI See PULL page 3 “We have certain ways of predicting with its planned distribution of students how many people are going to be here, but among the various majors,” said Phil people don’t always fit into formulas,” she Bailey, dean of the College of Science and Candidate explained. Mathematics. The decision on how many students to George Gowgani, associate dean for forum today College of Jack O ’Connor Balch admit and how they will be dispersed the College of Agriculture, expressed Charlie Brown among the individual colleges is the prod­ approval for the adjustments. He said Daily StaK Report Business: Melvin Dalyrumple uct of extensive discussion among the they will benefit the college, which lost John Garcia president, the provost, and the Deans’ the enrollment of a total of about 630 stu­ Students will have the chance Brant Houston Council. The office of admissions manages to see ASI candidates up close and dents between 1990 and 1996. Daniel Levy the process, said Director of Admissions personal in a candidate forum “Hopefully if we are allowed more stu­ Kevin Mackenzie James Maraviglia. dents, the resources will come with that,” during University Union activity Heather Rowley “Over the past two or three years, he said, adding that improvements will hour at 11 a.m. today. some shifting in the size of colleges had not come immediately, but gradually over The forum, which was held the Kevin Schimmel occurred inadvertently,” said Linda the next few years. day before ASI elections last year, Steven Schneider Dalton, interim associate provost for The College of Agriculture is not the has been scheduled on a Rajiv Dharnidharka Institutional Planning. Thursday this year to bring out Lorie Villafuerte In response to the shift, a three-year See ENROLL page 5 more students. 2 THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1997 MUSTANG DAILY what? Student volunteers gear up for weekend activities Whether you go to the 15th Annual Wildflowcr Triathlo7is Festival this weekend as a volunteer, guest or athlete one thing is for certain, you are in for one heck of a wild time. speakers. By Kimberly Kaney For their own entertainment Daily Staff Writer throughout the weekend, volun­ <■ • • •'* teers will help construct the rHS-V.' This weekend 800 student stage for the bands in the volunteers will grab their sun­ íL d f l o w e r “Beach City” camping area. screen and sleeping bags and Others will help decorate by ê * head to Lake San Antonio for putting together balloon arch­ ' h the 15th Annual Wildflower ways for the start and finish Triathlons Festival. line. There has been five months All volunteers will be \ of intricate planning by 75 stu­ rewarded for their help in more ■^r dents. ways than one. Local bands Cal Poly volunteers repre­ Itchy McGuirk, Opus and sent 38 diffei'ent campus clubs. Hotwheelz will entertain stu­ They must arrive before 10 p.m. dents on Friday and Saturday Friday and can’t leave until the night. Volunteers will also race ends at 4 p.m. Sunday. receive a T-shirt and two meals “It is a great chance for clubs on Saturday. In addition, each to hang out outside of campus club receives $5 per volunteer and earn a little extra money for the weekend. while doing it,” said business “The money comes from the junior Kristen Sturtz, who is race director as a thank you and volunteering with the field a donation to the club,” said hockey team. Jennifer Ishii, Wildflower public Most student volunteers will Daily file photo by Joe Johnston relation coordinator. work at aid stations along the Volunteers will also be joined Professional and amateur triathletes from all across the country compete in the annual Wildflower Triathlons Festival. race path passing out water and by 400 guests. The first 400 peo­ The Long Course Triathlon is a qualifier for the Ironman World Championships held during October in Kona, Hawaii.