LIBRARY ARCHIVES CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STA1 Mustang DailyUNIVERSITY LIBRARY Thursday, Nov. 1,1979 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 44, No. 21 Rape crisis line Some mad expands services at Knack BY LOREN assault victims who are otherwise concert SCHNEIDERMAN unable to find suitable housing. DaHy Statl Write Also, she hopes to get funding to Whai began as simply a rape provide temporary child care t BY TOM FULKES emergency service is now the San, centers and pay for mileage for the DaHy Stan Write Luis Obispo Rape Crisis Center, a volunteers who transport the “Nuke the Knack,” one irate 24-hour help center located at $50 children. student recently screamed before he Foothill Blvd. Raetz said the one thing that spat upon the band’s publicity The Rape Crisis Center provides would greatly assist rape victims is poster in the University Union emergency assistance, counseling, a 24-hour telephone patch-line. Plaza. and housing for sexual assault This patch-line, she said, would At least one member of the ASI victims throughout San Luis allow victims to receive the services Concert Committee said he, too, is Obispo County. of a trained counselor on call. This upset about the Knack concert. Mary Raetz is the director of the phone service would also be Lee Cyr, a member of the center, which employs ten trained available to the Victims Assistance executive board of the ASI Concert volunteer counselors. These Unit of the District Attorney’s Committee, said he does not like counselors also act as record Ofice, as well as to various police the process by which the Knack was keeping assistants. agencies. selected to perform at Cal Poly. The Rape Crisis Center is funded Moving into a permanent office According to Cyr, a decision was by a $17,000 grant of the was a necessity for the Rape Crisis made by the Concert Committee to California Department of Social Center, according to Raetz. have a Ronnie Laws and Kenny Services. Raetz said that this money Raetz said the location at 5S0 Rankin concert. Later, that was goes to pay the center’s rent and the Foothill Hlvd. is not only suitable overturned by the executive board salary of the sole clerical employee for crisis counseling, but it is also in favor of the Knack. Raetz has applied for additional used as a drop-in center for persons Cyr described the scenario funding which would provide who have questions concerning leading to that decision: temporary housing for sexual sexual assault. At a Concert committee meeting on Sept. 28, members voted to look into the possiblity of getting a concert with Laws and Rankin. The Knack At a meeting a week later on Oct. 5, a motion was passed to try to get a Van Morrison concert scheduled. Close to sell-out This was a “ long shot” according to Cyr. As part of the vote it was Approximately 500 tickets “ This is the fastest selling agreed by the entire committee that remain for this Saturday’s concert concert ever at this school up to if the Morrison deal feel through with The Knack. now,” he added. then the Laws and Rankin concert Of the 3.600 tickets available for Echoing that statement is Mike would be a finality. The Morrison the concert, over two-thirds were Evans, ASI ticket sales manager. deal later fell through. sold on Monday, the first day of On Monday, Evans said students At the next meeting a week later, sales. were lined up in frontt; ftf<* the Oct. 12, the executive board, "We sold 2,455 tickets the very University Union Ticket office as chaired by Chris Romak, an­ first day and that’s an un­ early as 7 a.m. to buy concert nounced to the full committee there precedented amount for the fit si tickets Mrs. Mary Raetz, director of the Rape Crisis Center in San was a “ hot” act coming in the day of sales,” said Chris Romak, “ At 9:15 it went all the way Luis Obispo, listens to a question from a reporter during a place of Laws and Rankin. Cyr said Concert Committee chairman. down to Chumash and around to press conference held to explain the center. Raetz and ten the exeuctive board told the full The 900 non-student tickets the drinking fountain,” said Evans other workers at the center give counseling to victims of committee the band coming would be one everyone on the committee made available sold-out at 1:30 of the line that wrapped around the sexual assault and help them find housing. The center is p.m. on Monday, Romak said. top floor of the U.IJ. would like, only they could not tell presently funded by a $17,000 grant from the state Depart­ Off-campus ticket sales were Evans, who has worked in the anyone who the band was because limited to only 25 percent for The U.U. ticket office fot three years, ment of Social Services. Raetz is seeking more funds to of a publicity gimmick by that Knack, said Romack. to give more said The Knack ticket lines “ were expand the center’s services and to reimburse volunteers band. Cal Poly students a chance to some of the longest lines I’ve ever who spend money in helping victims. According to Romak, the reason amend the concert seen at the ticket office. they could not release the band’s name was because the Knack did not want to face adverse publicity in the event they backed out of their Academic Senate opposes general ed proposal commitment. They also had a publicity campaign planned—ten BY MM. MK ONAHEY Poly at Cal Poly.” a resolution supporting the concept second "teasers” on most of the Dally SUM Write The second part is a series of Jim Conway, chairman of the of campus review of all GE courses San Luis Obispo radio stations. Academic Senators at a special seven resolutions dealing with, Academic Senate Budget Com­ to ensure that they fulfill GE-B The advertising spots had a brief meeting Tuesday voted against specific points of the report that the mittee, said the university would objectives. tune by the band and a voice that supporting a recommendation to GE-B Committee singled out as save money by increasing the GE George Lewis of Science and said people would “ get it soon.” increase the number of general most important, the resolutions load because student credit units Mathematics, who said he is in The teaser never mentioned the education units required at C'SUS were adopted by the Academic would shift from a greater con­ favor of the resolution, expressed name of the band. campuses. Senate at the Tuesday meeting, centration in high-cost, technical concern that substance is being During the course of the next The recommendation was part of including the resolution against the areas to lower-cost, general avoided in the work demanded of week tW fyustang Daily acquired a final report by the Chancellor’s increase in required GE units education areas. students. the name of the band through a Task Force on General Education Stine said the reports by ad hoc But Richard Kranzdorf, “ I find I’m teaching at an in­ leak in the executive board. that re evaluated the objectives of committees will give Baker a clear speaking In favor of the resolution, stitution calling itself a university At the next full committee GE. view of both sides of the GE predicted another “ Custer’s last where there is no foreign language meeting, a vote of confidence was The Academic Senate does not questions because many expressed stand on this university campus and requirement and courses in taken on the Knack concert. The have any direct ay in the final disagreement with some of the throughout the CSUC system” if technical writing are he mg sub­ committee passed the motion. outcome of the report, said Bill objectives outline by the Task an increase in GE requirements stituted for composition,” '<fowis Cyr said he did not want to start Stine, chairman of (he Academic Force. were adopted. said. a precedent enabling the executive Senate General Education and Yet Senator-at-Large Joe The Senate also passed a Kranzdorf, who supported an board to make deals with bands Breadth Committee (GE-B) It can Weatherby called the individual resolution supporting the increase in GE units, made a pitch without the consultation of the make recommendations to reports by each school and philosophy that distribution of GE- against passage of the resolution by regular committee. President Warren Baker, who may department “parochial and self- B unit requirements be left to the acknowledging the importance of According to executive board influence the final decision. serving.” Fie predicted they would discretion of each CSUC campus. qualitative and quantitative aspects Chair Romak, ’-‘This is not The GE-B Committee has been have no weight outside of Cal Poly. The Task Force Report of general ecucation. precedent setting. It’s happened studying the report since it was first “ If anything, they will be recommended that 70 of the “ It would have been better if many times before.” released in April, and came up with detrimental to our effort,” said proposed 72 GE units be within five both resolutions could’ve been Romak gave as an example the a two-part package outlining the Weatherby subject areas. Stine criticized that implemented, but the least we can decision last year to have George general views of the Academic The question of whether or not objective as not being in touch with do now is go for the qualitative Benson play in the Cal Poly Gym.