Mustang Daily, February 24, 1981
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Un1verzity I: cHi .re!3 FEB 2 5 19 1 Mustang Daily Tuesday, February24, 1981 CaliforniaPolytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 45, No. 65 csuc % White Black Asian Hisp Am Ind Total Poly minority population CalPolySLOHumboldt 92.01 0.7 2.3 2.5 2.3 6,331 Chico 88.4 2.3 2.1 4.0 0.7 11,441 88.3 1.8 4.5 3.2 1.6 14,668 among lowest in system Sonoma 87.5 3.7 2.2 4.4 1.4 4,135 Fullerton 81.4 3.4 3.6 8.8 1.0 16,542 Staff Writer San Diego 77.9 5.1 4.5 8.6 1.9 23,758 BY ROSEANN WENTZ enter fields which are white, Anglo-Saxon Sacramento 74.07 7.0 7.8 5.7 1.7 15,672 oriented. "We are a reflection of �iety,'' he Fresno 72.4 3.9 6.1 12.0 0.9 11,858 The third lowest minority-population said. Cal Poly Pomona 72.3 3.8 5.4 9.8 1.6 12,885 ranking in the California State University Ethinic Studies Coordinator David San yn Northridge 71.6 7.7 7.7 8.5 2.5 21,766 and Colleges System belongs to Cal Poly, chez does not agree with S der's reasons for with 1,629 minority students out of a total Long Beach 67.9 9.5 10.5 8.4 1.1 24,141 Cal Poly's low percentage of minorities. He student population of 14,668. 1.4 7,588 said it is Cal Poly's high grade point average Hayward 65.6 15.1 8.4 5.9 Admissions Officer Dave Snyder at· San Jose 64.5 9.2 11.5 9.6 1.7 20,638 which keeps minorities out of ma· v areas not tributes the low number of non-whites their unwillingness to enter techn,�- •;elds. San Francisco 59.9 10.7 19.1 6.5 0.8 17,794 partially to the historical lack of minorities DominguezUC Hills 40.8 40.2 9.0 7.0 1.0 5,117 entering technicalfields. Sanchez places some of the blame for the "It's the nature of our programs," he said problem on the public schoolsystems. % White Black Asian Hisp Amlnd T.otal in a recent telephone interview. "Until the "Our (minority) students are not prepated Santa Cruz 86.4 2.4 3.4 6.5 0.5 5,504 last three or four years, there wasn't much for university work. There is a definite lack of Santa Barbara 84.8 2.0 4.9 6.2 0.8 12,612 willingness on the part of minorities to enter career counseling for minorities in the public Davis 82.0 2.9 9.2 3.5 0.6 12,606 our type of curricu)um. In the past, schools. We also need to reach the parents San Diego 78.9 4.4 8.3 5.8 0.5 8,462 minorities have mostly entered social ser and tell them to encourage their children vices as opposedto the economicsector." Riverside 75.7 7.1 6.3 9.1 1.0 3,247 yn they can be whatever they want." S der explained the economic sector as . San Francisco 74.4 4.6 16.3 0.0 4.1 3,567 being "That part of the American system Sanchez said minorities have been mostly Irvine 73.0 4.7 9.9 8.0 0.4 7,657 truly in control of the country-money is social sciences and law enforcement because LosAngeles 71.1 5.1 14.2 6.4 0.4 20,167 what talks." the programs are easier for them to enter. Ex-memberBerkeley 71.09 3.5 calls19.3 3.5board 0.5 19,999 of governorsHe added that Cal Poly graduates often 'a dead ship'Please see page 11 Staff Writer the direct constituency of the senate. "The BY ROBIN LEWIS she said, "I might stick around and try to pump unit, Gersten reported. board needs some direct constituency help work things, out." She said the UUBG Included in the estimate for repairs, saic: relationship," she said. It also needs to Gersten, is the cost of bringing the elevato1 The University Board of governors is "a needs to look "at all the realms'' of its ef understand, she added, where the Union up to handicap standard. Because th\; ship dead in the water,'' lacking motivation fectiveness for ways to improve. building is going in the future, what it will consultant he used is also on the state and a constituency, said a·ri;signinggovernor offer students, "and make such decisions "There are a lot of capable people (on the handicap board; Gersten said he anticipates Thursday. accordingly,'' board) who, if they were given something no trouble in approval from the state. Each Stephanie Nelson, who resigned from the worth" hile to do, could,'' she said. time a.public elevator is repaired, explained board and her post as chairwoman of "The (ASI) student senate gets caught Gersten, it must be brought up to handicap Programs Committee, told t.he UUBG it time and time again for not being responsive "When the board finds a purpose, then it standards. should undertake a serious evaluation of its to student needs," said Nelson. At the will work," Nelson said. purpose and those it is serving. "We needto Modifications will include braille markings present, she said, there is no such "system of take a long look at why we come here every around all controls, lowering of the checks and balances" with the UUBG. "They UU director Roy Gersten also told the Thursday afternoon," she said. emergency telephone, an error-ringing device need to know they are being monitored," board he was sending out bidding forms to elson cited re-evaluation of personal and a solid state light ray door opening Nelson explained. elevator repair firms to repair the UU's priorities as the reason forher resignation. elevator and upgrade it to present handicap device. Gersten said outside door controls Despite receiving twice as much money Nelson had no specific suggestions for the specifications. Estimates are between were four inches higher than code, but from the student body as the ASI student improvement of the board and its $23,000 and $25,000 to repair the elevator because they are set in concrete they won't senate, said Nelson later, the UUBG lacks management of the Union. "If I h idea,'' doer controls and fix replace a piston and have to be lowered. Poll reveals lack of ASI facts Staff Writer BY MARY McALISTER Board member Kathy Edis said "we wanted to get the name of the student The newly formed student relations board relations board out to students to know that awakened students to its existence and there is a new board to work with students revealed a lack of student awarness about and the ASI." the ASI in a random poll. The student relations board had been in The six-question survey was conducted by the works for several months, but was of board members during University hour on ficially formed and began operation in Feb. 5 at stategic places around campus, January. It is completely neutral and including the libary, University Union, uninfluenced by the student senate, ac science buildings,and architecture building. cording to Edis, and is currently funded The survey was designed to introduce the through a special fund until permanent student re�ns board to Cal Poly stude11ts funding is established. and to gauge their opinions on certain key SLOissues in th,e, council�SI. Please see page 11 Gr9Mh inspired candidacy Staff Writer 'BY DAVE BRACKNEY Almost everyone agrees that growth will be the biggest issue facing San Luis Obispo voters in the March 3 city election, and for GlennaDeane Dovey, it is also the main reason she is running for city council. A local resident for 16 years, Dovey said she is running in response to recent council decisions she feels are "very pro development" and "in direct conflict of the (city) general plan." Dovey said she first became alarmed about growth here following the 1979 city election. Many of the councils• decisions, Dovey said, were "in direct opposition of the goals set out by the general plan." In addition, Dovey said the council has changed the rules of the general plan to meetits own interests. Mustang D�lly-Oavld Middlecamp Dovey, who has attended many city Robert La celles of SC R_AB sands down the Ulf Plaza mural Thur council meetings smce 1979, said she became sda , getting ready tor a repainting job. disillusioned \vith the council's actions as GlennaDeane Dovey time passed. it Please see page 11 Page2 Mu_stang Dally Tuesday, February24, 1981 Documents' prove' conspiracy Interest rate fall overestimated Newsline N (AP) - President Reagan pressed his tax WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration un· WASHINGTO veiled a trove of captured documents Monday as purported and budget cuts with congressmen and governors Monday as proof that the Soviet Union and other Communist nations his budget director held out-and then backed off-the by conspired last year to send 800 tons of arms and other prediction that interest rates would plummet_ half "within a equipment to insurgents in El Salvador. Haig: U.S. interested in summit very short period." While the flow of arms may have slowed in the past two Management and Budget Director David A. Stockman, weeks, at least 200 tons of those arms were funneled through portraying the package as a sure cure for the economy, told Cuba and Nicaragua to the guerillas for their "failed general WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Alexander M.