Mustang Daily, April 5, 1999

Do more, be more Baseball breaks Softball sweep Take up some extracurricular Mu5tan^5improve to 14- Mustangs grab three wins ' activities before it's too late y 15 with two more wins from U CSB in Big West play Opinion, page 4 Sports, back page Sports, back page Monday High 60‘ Low 48° M ustan g Daily April 5,1999 .CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC ST ATE UNIVE RSITY SAN., LUI Sv O B I S P.-O MTV brings *r.\: \ J ■4. Sugar Ray to • # Ree Center By Alexis Garbeff Mustang Daily “it is not a repeat of the same sponsors so it*s not \ U Get ready tor ,tn invasion. Cîl Poly will host a second MT\' (împie like seeing the same Invasion Tour on Thursday and will tmme again/* feature headliners Suj 4ar Ray, special i i miest Ortjy and the MTV vill.itie. Suyar R.iy, who has enjoyed miC' — Diana Cozzi cess with its recently released No. 1 event coordinator modern rock sint^les “Every Morning" an improvemc'nt over the l.^st one ’ll . ,ind “Fly,” is scheduled to perform .it the C'al Poly Rec C'enter. CIryy is becau.se different cotnp.mies .ire spon planned to open for Suyar Ray, best soring it. known for its top-10 modern ukT “It IS not a repeat of the same spon single, “Blue Monday." sors so it’s not like seeing; the same The Siijjar Ray/LTrtjy concert is an tnovie attain,” tÀizzi said. enhanced version of the one that According to ASl. Protir.im IVtard 1 .iccomp.inied MTV’s Third Eye Blind it is not easy to biHik a coticert that Colin MeVty/Mustang Daily concert last fall. pleases the entire catnpus. HIGH WIRE ACT: San Luis Obispo firefighters first secured, then removed the Hotel Wineman sign above the The village will feature a free day “1 would have liked to have seen Copeland's Sports building High winds damaged trees, leaving about 3,900 PG&E customers without power. time interactive festival. Included in Suuar Ray before this recent album,” the festival are new music kiosks, saiil speech communication senior which enable students to check out Kenny Stevenson. “Bc'fore they were the latest videos, a disc jiKkey tent a hard core band, now they siny airy Weather downs power lines where students are able to use the little pt>p tunes.” turntables, “House of Style” minute Recreation sophomore Mariah and aK>ut 400 in Santa Maria. makeovers and a tent featuring infor Taylor enjoyed fall quarter’s tmir and Traffic surges when police shut down According» to Franks, the areas mation on M TV’s yearlonj; anti-vio is excited to attend a^jain. Higuera for emergency removal of sign surroundinu San Luis Obisj-K) sus- lence campaign. In addition, recoril- “1 went down last time and 1 had a rained the most damage. int: artist I>avid Garza will perform f»reat time at the MTV villaj;e," By Jessica Hagans withiHit power,” said Jonathan “Hardest hit was Cambria, by f.ir. during the festival. Taylor said. “There was a lot of people Mustang Daily Franks, Pacific Gas and Electric They have st) many trees and a lot “I am ver>- excited fi»r the village,” there and it was like a bij; stK'ial Co. spokesman. of those trees fell on power lines and said Diana Cozzi, AssiKiated event. I am al.so LHiking: forward to Mighty windi< caused i-Hiwcr inii- IXirinj» that worst part of the caused power outaj»es,” Franks said. Students Inc. events oxirdinator. “I KoinK to Sutjar Ray. 1 think they are a a>»cs and tallinj» debris all over San wind on Saturday, approximately There was no major damage on like the new take on the villatje, espe OHil band.” Luis Obispo (aiunty on Saturday. 1,600 f)eople in San Luis Obispo the Cal Poly campus, according to cially with the live performer at the KCPR Music Director Marcia “At the worst ot it we probably were without power. That number village and ‘House of Style’ Dallazen said, “ASl Protjram Board bad 8,000 to 10,000 customers was L'ÔO in C'ambria and (^tyucos see WEATHER, page 3 makeovers.” Cozzi also feels this village will be see MTV, page 3 Inspection aims to improve bus stop lighting, safety By Jessica Hagans s.ifety evalii.itum to assist C'al Poly and the “I sujiêsted th.it maybe what we’d want Mustang Daily c ity m tn.ikint: the bus stops s.ifer. to do IS to t:o out ,md look .It the bits stops," “Out in the citv we’ll identify loc.itiotts to C'.impbell s.ucl. Cirowiiu: concerns about safety on the tiiove (bus stops), or locatiotis where trees ,\SI Bo.ird of Directors member C'.irrie Cal Poly campus and in S.in Luis yibisjio mitjht be cut back,” ('eppi s.ud. L.iorie s.iid she iôt involved in the project have triyêred aiK'ther response from cam ( eppi’s Cliticerned .ibout the safety of bus because .1 number of people h.ive SAFE RIDE: pus (groups iiiJ the Ci'mtnunity. stops m San Luis C)bispo. .ipproacheJ her with safety cotuerns iti Campus offi .Metnbeis of .Associ,ited Students Inc., “We will look .It things like; Is their bus recetit months. She thmks a safety evalua cials are touring (îl Poly Public S.ifety .ind SLt^ Transit stop s.ife in the are.is they’re beinj: dropped tion IS a jôihI icIcm because it extetids into SLO Transit bus Service will be ex.iminint; campus .md city off.’’’ tVppi >;iicl. the comtmmity. stops tonight to busstops Monday ni^ht to etisure they are The idea for .i bus stop safety evahi;ition “Call Poly can only do what they can oti check theirsafe- well-lighted ,ind safe. c;ime up at a safety meetinn held at Cal catnpus to create a safe etnironment. Off ty, including M.itt CA'ppi, of tail Poly P.irkin^: and Poly, .iccordint: to C'ittdy C'am|ibell, pro- how well they (àimmuter Services, helped to organize the liratns administrator at Public Safety. see BUS, page 2 are lighted. www.mustangdaily.calpoly.edu 2 Monday, April 5,1999 News Mustang Daily Prof awarded for cultural communication study Inner-city students don’t communicate the same as middle-class, research says By April Charlton to 1998, where she taught day and Mustang Daily night classes. She decided to study cross-cultural The newest professor in C'al Poly’s communication because she has teaeliei educatit)!! program has won always had an interest in linguistics an award tor research she conducted and “kid language.’’ in cross'cuitural aunmiinication. “1 was engaged in it myself, as a Roberta Herter just started reach- white teacher in an African- ini’ classes at C'al Poly’s University American school, tor my entire Center tor Teacher Kducation in the career,” she said. tall. Herter didn’t win tor her teach- Herter’s research included studying in>i skilR alone, but because ot her students from the University ot research on the complexities ot lan- Michigan at Ann .Arbor and working miajê in learnini’. with the students from the high She received a letter in januarv from the American Hducational school. All the students from the uni Re>earch A.vsociation st.itin^’ she had versity were Euro-American. The stu wt)ii the 19dd Division K Research dents took a theater class together .Award tor Exemplary Research in and Herter studied their interaction, Traittiny and Teacher Hducatii>n. with each other. "{'0C''innina) was stunnintt,” Herter The high school students would 'aid. “1 was \ ery fjratitied. You (.ion’t often isolate themselves, and the col win prizes teachiniz." lege students would sit on top ot the ■ Herter .said she doesn’t know how desks when speaking to the group. many other people she was compet Dawn Kalmar/Mustang Daily She said they often used questiims to ing with tor the award. She was nom FRUIT OF HER LABOR: UCTE professor Roberta Herter received recognition from the American Educational silence the high school students, the inated by UCTE Director Susan Research Association for studying the differences in the way cultures communicate. way a teacher sometimes uses ques Roper, who couldn’t be reached tor “We assume because someone isn’t there because of isolation." Cal Poly students and Paulding tions to silence his or her class. comment. comes from a middle class environ She said it’s important that a siKi- Middle School students, as well as a Herter said it was evident the uni Herter conducted her research ment they know how to act ... and ety has cross-cultural communication project where she is interviewing over a 12-year period in Detroit, versity students didn’t know how to it’s not always true,” she said. “We in its educational systems. people who are making the transition Mich. She was an English teacher at “represent themselves in an urban don’t have enough opportunities for “Our idea of schtxils is that we’ll from labor work to knowledge work. Henry Ford High School from 1979 environment.” cross-cultural communication move people around in a mobile stKi- According to Herter, she has been urban schcxils and communities are ety and that’s just not happening.” working on the second project for 10 cut off.” years and is looking to see if people’s Herter thinks research is important Correction policy Herter said students, especially the high school educations prepared to the teaching profession and con Mustang Daily publishes corrections on its own and in its own voice most disadvantaged, are damaged by a them for the choices they m.ake later tinues in her research endeavors at as soon as we are told about a mistake by anyone — our staff, lack of cross-cultural communication in life.

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