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Tuesday, February 1,1983 CalifOTuia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 47, No. 64 Financial aid rides the storm of budget cuts ROTC students get Students in need financial aid easily aided by increase by Maria Casas by Mary Hennessy staff Wrilar ^ StaNWrttar Students receiving financial aid under the state Students attempting to receive financial aid may university grant program will benefit from the $44 fee find the qualifications increasingly stringent, but increase. students enrolling in ROTC need only pass minimal re­ According to Larry Wolf, director of financial aid, $4 quirements to become eligible for up to $1,000 a year in out of the $44 increase will be put into a fund to help financial assistance. needy students in the program pay the additional fees. ROTC students must qualify for the Advanced Alx)ut 1,400 students currently participate in the Course to receive aid other than scholarships, accor­ program. Their selection is based on submission of a ding to Major Mike Robinson, enrollment counselor. student aid application for California, proof of a The Advanced Course consists of seven academic calculated need of $400 and California residency. courses in military subjects over a period of two years. This does not include Pell Grant recipients. Some qualifications for the advanced course are; "A good number of people who received Pell Grants Meet certain medical fitness requirements. didn’t use the student aid form for California, said Be emoUed as a full time student with two years of Wolf. “No other financial aid will be available to academic work remaining. students not in the program.” Maintain a 2.0 GPA. According to Wolf, the financial aid office had some Have a SAT score of at least 850, an ACT score of at problems with the grant program because the financial least 70, or a Cadet Evaluation Battery score of at aid process for students had been underway since least 80. January. Have completed the Basic Course, Basic Camp, or The governor's proposed budget for 1983-84 in- have received credit for Basic Courses during previous I eludes a request for funds for a similar program. Its ac­ training or service. Please see page 5 ceptance will not be known until June or July, said Pauling cuts absurditiesWolf. of atomic weapons by Scott Swanson Pauling warned that the stockpiling (buildup of nuclear weapons), I tell you ing him a dupe of the communists. Staff Wrf tar of increasingly complex nuclear as my parting words: forget govern­ Pauling pointed out that if America weapons makes the possibility of ac­ ment channels. There simply is not increases its defense budget, the Rus­ Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus cidentally touching off a nuclear war in­ enough time. sians will have to increase theirs. Pauling told an overflow crowd of 500 creasingly great. “Concentrate on organizing a mass “Sooner or later,” he joked, “the Rus­ people in Cal Poly’s Little Theater “I think it’s probably unlikely that movement such as there has never been sians will be spending all their money on recently that world peace is the most Reagan or (Soviet) Premier Andropov before.” defense and the people will overthrow pressing problem we face today. will press the button,” he said. “It Pauling echoed his friend’s charge, the government. ” * The 82-year-old chemist and peace ac­ would more likely start by accident." telling the audience, “This is the time to tivist described in his speech, "The Path The scientist based a large part of his act. Tomorrow or next year may be too ^ “ I don’t think we need to catch up to Peace,’’ his formula for world peace speech on an article written by a friend late. Everybody has an obligation to with the Russians,” Pauling siad. through “treaties between the 55oviet of his. Harvard chemistry professor help. Participate in demonstrations, “Most students (of nuclear arms) say Union and the United States to stop the George Kistiakowsky. write letters, join organizations. that the Russians are behind us. The development and stockpiling of nuclear The article was published in the “If the world is destroyed, it will be overkill situation is such that there is warheads." but, he added, there may Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Dec. 2, your fault, our fault, for not having done not much meaning in saying that one not be time to wait for treaty ratifica­ 1982, five days before Kistiakowski’s enough,” he said. side is ahead of the other.” tions. death and 20 years to the day after Pauling took some jabs at Reagan and He stated that no dispute between na­ “I believe that the United States and scientists learned to control nuclear fis­ at least one cabinet secretary. He tions justifies nuclear war. He also the Soviet Union should start taking sion. repeated a quotation from the president dismissed as absurd the concept of some unilateral action,” he said. "Mak­ Noting that Kistiakowski had not that proponents of the nuclear freeze are limited nuclear war that Reagan and ing treaties is such a slow process, the been a longtime anti-nuclear proponent, “dupes of the communists”, and drew a "his secretary — what’s his name?” world will be destroyed while we make Pauling quoted the article as saying, laugh from the crowd as he noted that (“Weinberger,” yelled the crowd) have them." “As one who has tried to change this Andropov has proposed a freeze, mak- talked about. “There’s so little rationality in these things,” Pauling said. “You have a hard time coming up with rational arguments Live and let liv e -ju s t don’t infringe after a while. “No one would object to a Western Owen Servatius shares motto European nuclear war. The Soviet and takes it to the classroom Union wouldn’t. The United States Please see page 5 by Kristen Simon The unique way he ap­ proaches a class establishes StaH Writer rapport right from the begin­ Aciademic senate ning. He makes an effort to get Proud to be a part of Cal Po­ students to start thinking seeks faculty ly. management instructor about their self-image. A good Owen Servatius is taking life attitude is important. He The academic senate is seeking facul­ “one day at a time." believes that each pierson is his ty who are interested in serving on the “My motto is to live and let own best friend. board of trustees, the senate chairman I L- {. live,” he stated. "As long as we “No one is looking out for reported Monday. don’t infringe on the liberties of you,” he said. “You have to According to chairman James Sim­ \ others, who’s to say it's make things happen for mons, the position was authorized last wrong?” yourself.” year, and this spring the statewide After many years of work ex­ Servatius noted a lot of pieo- academic senate will choose a represen­ perience, Servatius came to Cal ple feel they are a minority. tative from among nominees chosen by Poly in June of 1947. He was “Well, we are all minorities of the 19 universities in the California originally hired as a one,” he said. “What we make State University system. stenographer for the president of ourselves is our own respon­ The role of the board of trustees is to of the university, and was later sibility.” establish policy in all matters affecting asked if he would like to try He believes in taking life the entire CSU system, Simmons said. teaching. “one day at a time.” Looking Nontinations must be supported by His teaching philosophy is to too far ahead is a disappoint­ the signatures of 50 faculty members, “care about what I teach and ment for most of us. For exam­ he added. those who I am teaching.” Ser­ ple, he expressed his concern “It is hoped that the faculty trustee vatius feels that if students can over Diablo Canyon, noting he will have a strong record of teaching ex­ Mustang Dally — Tom VlakocN laugh ^ with an instructor, has children and grandchildren cellence, scholarly achievement and they’ll want to learn. "I try to in the area. "But one must have governing experience,” Simmons said. Owen Servatius gestures during one of his raise spirits; students can sense For further details, contact the management ciasses. faith in his fellow man.” how you feel about them.” ______Ptoaf »— paq$ S academic senate office at 546-1258. Pa0«2 Mustang OaHy Tuaaday, Fabniaiy 1,19ti^

American Heart winners in each division. the "Sisters of M a r y " who jewelry, silkscraen. s E a !^ Association Pre-registration informa­ ■ will speak about first love glass, ceramics clay and Join with the American tion is available Feb. 1, 2 for Jesus and their daily much more. Stop in the Heart Asaoqiition and the and 3, and Feb. 8, 9 and 10 living for Him. Sisters of Craft Center downstaifs in Creamery for the first an­ from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Poly Notes Mary is a group of the U.U. and check out the nual "Love Run," Satur­ the University Union Lutheran nuns , who Cage. day, Feb. 12. The lOK nui plaza. originated in Geribany Immunizatigp Clinic will begin, at 9 a.m. at the Yoga Club after WW II. The sharing The Health Center is of­ Creamery.^ Registration ' The Yoga Club is holding room in the Crandall Gym ro ly will be held on Thursday. fering an immunization begins at 7:30 a.m. Entry a demonstration and annex. The club will also FeUowship(IVCF) Feb. ‘ 3 in Agriculture clinic every Tuesday from fee is S5. Prizes will be workout tonight from 6 discuss the cross-country Poly Christian Fel­ Erhart, Room 211 at 11 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. All awarded to the top three p.m. to 9 p.m. in the dance ski trip. lowship will be s] a.m. students, faculty and staff are eligible for vaccines: CAHPERD rubella, MMR (measles. CAHPERD S Commoin^ mumps, rubella) and DT Man Triathlon ‘/«mile (diptherìa, tetanus). There REHEHBCR VÀLEM1NE1S rCB.14 swim, 10 mile bike, 5K run is no charge with a health will begin 8 a.m., on Sun­ card; .$3 to $3.50 without day, Feb. 27. The course one. runs through campus, out Siding at Jackson Hole with love linesto frfends sweethearts through l^hlands, and The Cal Poly Sid Club is ends up at canlpus. Swim­ going skiing in Jackson in the MUSTAnO DAILY CLASSIFIED ming ^1^ take place in Cal Hole, Wyoming from Poly Pool. T-shirts will be March 19-26. The trip will awarded to all participants cost $295 by bus and $395 Dave: Several styles with special prizes for top by air. Rus price includes and sizes winners. Pick up entry five nights lodging at the Susan: forms in the Intramural or Jackson Hole Racquet PE offices. Cost is $6 pre­ My h eart Be mine to choose from Club (featuring racquet- registration, $8 the day of ball, walleyball, swimming, is y o u rs Happy Color available Place your ad the race. Valentines Jacuzzi, \aauna, and (a m o n g Want a Foundation job? beautiful rooms), five days Day at the Mustang Dally o th er 0 There is a position open of lift tickets at Jackson Deadline: Thurs. Feb. 10 on the Foundation Board th in g s) Hole, transportation, rioon of Directors. They are in races, parties, and an charge of running the El awards ceremony at the Love Corral Bookstore, the Dan Rm226QRC Building Cowboy Bar. Air package Foundation Food Services, includes all the same plus CO Payable by check only. and several other campus two extra nights lodging o ____ ^ organizations as well. Any and a free half-day lesson interested students should on Sunday (with the contact their school deans possibility of skiing six fuU for more information. days as opposed to five “The Cage” with the bus trip). The Cage, the inexpen­ Meetings are every other sive art supply store Tuesday — look for flyers m located in the Craft Center announcing the location. is now offering bicycle You need to reserve a space brake cables, bail bearings, soon because this trip will patch kits, supplies for fill up fast!!

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These highs rang­ fact the set (although it was the dancing exhibition ed from the achingly sounded sloppy at times) put on by the Orchesis club beautiful and etheral piece was professionally and en- entitled “Dance Illusions.” entitled “Somewhere in joyably played. Especially The second was a dance 'Time”, to the earthy and noteworthy was the fren­ concert featuring the new- sensual “Body Language”, zied vocals of lead singer- wave band Oingo Boingo. which literaUy seduced the Danny Elfman. His bizarre DANCE ILLUSIONS audience. These numbers, inflections and the and many others, really psychotic tone of his voice Like classical music, the showcased the physical are a primary part of Oingo > art of dancing is saddled abilities and amazing ex-1 Boingo’s sounds. with an unfortunate pressions that these Nope, thé problems stereotype of being dull talented dancers could at­ weren’t with the way the and difficult to appreciate. tain. band j^yed, but with the It’s sad because the ma­ type of mateirial it perform­ jority of the people who OINGO BOINGO/ ed. It’s interesting stuff, believe this stereotype TRANSLATOR mind you, with its blending have usually never seen a of Western African well-performed exhibition. “Ruck may not solve any rhythms and surrealistic “Dance Illusions,” last problems, but it will allownew-wave guitar riffs. But you to dance all over them. weekend’s dance pro- »• after awhile, it all sounds duciton by Gal Poly’s Or­ the same. Each of their chesis Dance Club, was a Pete Townshendnumbers are catchy and show which dispelled such danceable, but they also misguided stereotypes. It The above statement seem to blur all together. perfectly characterizes the Mustang OaNy — Toai VMocll was successful at doing Their most successful this because like most good type of music Oingo Bo­ songs are the ones whkh apP ) “There’S nothing to fear!!!’’ coos OIngo Boingo’s lead singer Danny art, it not only enlightened, ingo plays. It-isn’t too in­ slightly deviate from their So as he and the band belt out one of their patented dance songs to a but also entertained. tellectually stimulating, patented formula. Two receptive Cal Poly crowd. ) « « » “Dance Illusions” work­ but you can sure light up a such, numbers which stand ed because it showcased a dance floor with it. out are the synthesizer- And that’s exactly what (BOTTOM ) Guitarist Steve Bartek and singer Elfm^n croon out another song wide variety of dance sweetened pop song “Little styles. One minute the au­ a Cal Poly audience ^ d last Girls” and the rockabilly much to the delight of an enthusiastic audience. The band played an en­ dience would be viewing a Sunday. Sparked by Oingo flavored “Goodbye Good- joyable two-hour set In the Cal Poly gymnasium last Sunday night. kinetic modern dance Boingo’s unique luand of bye.” number. The next piece musk, punks, new-wavers, Another problem Oingo ^ would feature traditional mods, rockabillies and even Boingo suffers from is a , classical ballet. Moments “normal” people danced fairly statk stage show. later, an exotic ethnic the night away. ^ Elfman, with his maniacal ' dance would be performed. 'Translator started off facial contortions and Because of the enormous the evening of dancing at quirky antics, basically has diversity of styles, “Dance Cal Poly’s gymnasium to carry the entire show. Illusions” was an explosive with an energetic well- With the exception of the tour-de-force of the art of received set. The Northern opening number, the band dance. Each of the 19 California band played a just isn’t too exciting or numbers transported mixture of oldies and songs spectactular to watch. audiences to new adven­ from their recent critically One must remember that % acclaimed LP. “Heartbeats tures and locales. It was an these problems are symp- ambitious and also suc­ and Triggers. . .” ’The tomatk of a relatively cessful production. crowd eagerly lapped up young band. What they 'The program did have its the new-wave tinged rock need is the time to mature faults. In between each of and waited anxiously for and develop their style. the numbers was a 30 to 60 more. But what most poeple H second pause. Though And at a little past nine, were concerned with Sun­ these breiücs were probably that’s precisely what they day night was dancing; and unavoidable due to thé got. In minutes, Oingo Bo­ Oingo Boingo is certainly staging logistics, it still un- ingo had transformed the skillful at getting the au­ NTi- ' fortunately upset the gymnasium dance floor in­ dience to do just that. It momentum generated by to a chaotk replica of a Los wasn’t a fantastic show, each dance. Angeles traffic jam but it sure was a lot of fun. Another flaw of the pro­ V' duction was that a few of the numbers were uninspired. The ultimate Mustang DsRy— Tom Vtskod goal of any art is to inter-

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IN CHUMASH AUDITORIUM ^ S S 5SE»„, k TSgt Gib Linzman at 213/543-0700. 9am-2pm STUDEIir HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL CAL POLY WOMEN’S CLUB M l ALPHA UPSILÖN FRATERNITY m & m m â 9recHwoyoflJe Students•£¡2i2tíf2L--Ji!2tiSLÍ2S2iKL¡i22S. loans have declined, but grants are up From pago 1 recruiting is less than it was last year,” Dimmitt said the amount of money the less time they have to provide for Advanced Course enrollment he said. “I guess it’s the defense con­ available fluctuates. obligates the students to active swvice. tractors that are getting money, not us retirement.” “Right now we’re not making any new Scholarships are also available to ‘“nie program is valuable to just down in the trenchM.” award,” she said. “We overcommitted about every major," Robinson said. Robinson requested $7,446 and receiv­ students, but Robin Loftus, scholarship our mode. We cannot make any new coordinator, said many students are “We don’t push army carews as much ed $4,142 for t ^ year. awards because we overextended our as we emphasize the value of citizen Financial Aid also suffers budgetary discouraged by the application. allocations.” “Many have a tendency to be hasty,” soldiers.” problems. Financial Aid Director Larry Dimmitt added, however, that the ROTC students are also eligible for Wolf estimated that Cal Poly lost $3.5 she said. “The more they pour tlwir Financial Aid Office received additional hearts out the better.” two, three, and four year scholarships. million for the $19.7 million budget last unexpected funds in the fall. year. Loftus said there are 600 Cal Poly Robinson estimated that 30 to 40 ap­ “We got additional money for Pell scholarships available with values from plicants were applying for four scholar­ “PrimarUy, 86-90 percent of that Grant, SEOG, and we reduc^ the loan came out of Guaranteed Student $100 to $3,000. Most list certain criteria ships. Students can also earn approx­ portions,” she said. “We reworked the for majors. They vary regarding the imately $800 and room and board by at­ Loans,” he said. “The Department of percentages in terms of a whole grade point average heeded and how tending Basic Camp over the summer. Education has put limits on their package.” needy the student must be. “My mission is greater this year,” eligibility.” Dimmitt also empasized that there is “It seems like more people are apply­ Robinson said. “We’re trying to fill up Laura Dimmitt, financial aid financial aid available to students who ing this year,” she said. “But then it the reserves, and get them up to counselor, said this and other reduc­ don’t even realize they are eligible. always seems like more. I’m out of ap­ strength. We have to produce more of­ tions make her job more difficult. “Students think their parents make plications right now.” ficers to do that.” “We have to be real careful,” Dimmitt too much money, but there are a lot of Loftus said the scholarship money Robinson said, however, that his said. “We must analyze the need much different criteria, like parents’ age, available has increased, though she budget is limited. more stringently thim in the past. It’s number of dependents and kids in col­ couldn’t specify how much. “My budget for advertising and harder to get aid now than in the past.” lege,” she said. ‘"The older the parents Seientist urges world peaceEncouragement, smiles From page 1 place. wouldn’t. The Western Europeans “Over 200 people were turned away wouldn’t because they wouldn’t be and Chumash wasn’t being used,” com­ are winning philosophy there. plained Betsy Umhofer, a Mothers For “I love this world,” Pauling told the Peace representative and part-time From paga 1 crowd. “It’s full of wonders, although speech instructor at Cal Poly. started here, there were a When asked if the it’s getting less full... Secretary what’s “It’s not as if we’re here to hear a lec­ “I am a great believer in few buildings and that’s it. students today are any dif­ his name?” (whether he meant Watt or ture on how to blow up the campus. ’The encouragement. Too many I’m proud to see how much ferent than the students of Weinberger was unclear.) “Now man’s issue is peace.” people are walking around it has grown over the the past, he replied, intelligence has provided him with a “It’s really nice to have the door slam­ out there with their heads years.” “Every group, every class way to destroy himself. med in your face, especially since the down. Wo shouldn’t get up­ Servatius has addressed that I have known is “I believe we can halt this irrational people are here to hear about peace,” tight about things we can’t over 1,600 different wonderful. What else can rush to self destruction.” Bill Avery remarked. c^nge.” organizations and has you be when you are Pauling received standing ovations But according to ASI secretary 'Trudy Servatius feels that one found Cal Poly is a well- between the ages of 18 and before and after his speech from the au­ Beck, the groups that staged the event of the greatest things in known university. “Most 21 besides swell? Kids are dience, many of whom stood in the door­ did not plan far enough ahead, and had life is to “make people poeple in California love always full of zip. ways and sat in the aisles. just made reservations last week. smile.” There are a lot of this school.” The lack of room for more p>eople Chumash was set up with tables Friday cynics out there, but “they He noted that Cal Poly “The students are my resulted in the turning away of more for Saturday night’s Pops Concert. just wear me down,” he graduates are hard­ customers and their ap­ than 200 persons. Some left quite said. working citizens trying to proval is what really disgruntled, particularly in light of the RoseAnn Wentz, managing editor,“Cal Poly has been my do a good job, no matter counts.” fact that Chumash Auditorium stood find Brian BuUock,staff writer, con­ home for 36 years. When I what their field is. empty during the time the speech took tributed to this article.

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ch an ce A funny thing hap^ned to the Cal Poly Mustangs The winning season is of­ on their way to a first-place showdown with the Cal ficially gone. The .500 year State Bakersfield Roadrunners: they lost. is even out of reach. With Friday night in the Main Gym, the Panthers of its pair of California Col­ Chapman College snapped an eight-game Mustang win legiate Athletic Associa­ streak by out-hustUng, out-rebounding and out- , tion losses over the pressing their hosts, beating them 58-55. The loss was weekend, the Cal Poly the first in league for the Mustangs and dropped them women’s basketball team into a second-place tie with Chapman behind Cal State is assured of finishing the Bakersfield. 1982-83 campaign with a From the beginning, the Panthers asswted losing record. themselves, forcing a turnover the first time Poly got Nothing to write home the ball. Using a full-court 2-2-1 press, they took the about. Poly team out of its game and forced the ball outside Chapman College and by collapsing on the taller Mustang front line. Cal State Dominguez Hills On offense. Chapman shot well from the outside. The were the teams which gave best shdbters'^were Danny Poole (three of five from the the Mustangs the dubious field! and Nigel Wallace (six of nine}, who finished with honor. Saturday evening in ten and 13 points, respectively. Despite being the Carson, Dominguez Hills shortest team in the CCAA, the Panthers used their stuffed Poly. 86-68. Friday leaping ability to dominate the boards in the first half, night Chapman whipped grabbing 19 rebounds to Poly’s ten. As a result, the _the visiting Mustangs 75- Mustangs trailed by three even though they had shot 57. Head coach Marilyn an unbelievable 75 percent in the first half. McNeil and her crew will ’The game was as physical as any the Mustangs have take a break from CCAA played this year. Chapman was the worse for it, action until Feb. 11 and 12 though, as starting forward Leif Hodges sustained a when Poly hosts Dom­ dislocated knee and Tran Sawyer hit the deck twice in inguez Hills and Chapman, falls that would have made Howard Lawson scream in respectively. The delight. Mustangs travel to Goleta ' “They played strong and physical, very physical,’’ Simday night to take on Sawyer said after the game. “I knew from last year it UC Santa Barbara. would be rough and we expected a physical game. I Cal State Dominguez hyperextended my neck. It’ll be a little stiff, but I’ll Hills had four scores in play (tomorrow night) an 3rway.’’ double figures as it raised Hodges’ injury was the second to a key player in a its CCAA record to 3-2. week for Panther mentor Walt Hazzard. Homer Kelly, The Mustangs are 5-15 a 14.9-point-per-game starter, was but with a bone overall, 1-5 in the con­ chip. “We have some injuries,” Hazzard said, “but ference. Janet Harris we’U limp into Bakersfield.” paced the Toros with 27 The key to the win was Chapman’s preM, according points. Chandra Trower, to Hazzard. “With the press, they (Poly) couldn’t get the CCAA’s No. 1 and na­ Now you know what brand of basketball Poly uses, Alex Lambertson laying into their half-court offense. When they set up they tion’s No. 2 scoTM- and one up In the 56-55 win over Cal Sate Dominguez hills. Craig Cleveland and can be deadly.” league’s No. 2 rebounder, Tom Perkins watch It sink. PlaaM a «« page 7 had 23 points and 16 caroms. Kris Frelix popped in 18. Dominguez Hills opened As sun shines, so do Cal Poly Swimmers a 45-32 intermission lead Poly’s men beat Fresno Laubacher won the half a pool behind him. anSports Women’s basketball Men hope to topple FromBakersfield pag« 6 canned 17 of her 25 field at­ From paga 8 amount of shots, 74, but tempts and four-of-four 1:36 to go to give them their first lead of the game. the Toros hit 36 compared from the free throw line for On the'night, Perkins wasn’t his usual self at the to the Mustangs’ 29. Poly, a Chapman school record On Saturday night, the Toros almost proved to be line, where Im normally makes almost 79 pnxent of his 38 points. Leslie Hayes deadly to the Mustangs. In a game vary »iitigT to the which is shooting 39 per­ shots. He hit on only three of eight attempts. He made cent as a team from the had 12 points and 12 re­ one the previous night, the Mustangs won a three­ up for that, though, by scmring 13 points and hauling bounds while Leone Patter­ overtime squeaker, 56-56. field, did nothing either in eight rebounds, both team-high totals, for the game. night to raise that awage. son added 13 points and 11 The two teams were in a dead heat the whole way, Dominguez Hills outreboundsd Poly, 42-29, Kevin The Mtutangs shot 39 per­ boards. Rbonida Faulkner, each scoring 26 points in the first half, 20 in the se­ BurreU nabbing 13 boards and James Shaw getting cent both games. the league’s leader in cond, three in the first overtime and four in the second. eig^t. Poly made up for the rebounds by stealing the Senior Carolyn Crandall assists, helped her cause as The Mustangs trailed Dominguez Hills for over 53 ball six more times than the Toros and forcing four paced Poly with ll-of-21 shehsndedout 11. minutes before Tom Perkins sank a free throw with more turnovers. shooting from the field for 22 points. Terrie Mac­ Crandall led the way for j j y a a m a a a » . Donald added 14 and the losers. She has 18 Michelle Harmeier 11. points on nine-of-21 from Nancy Hosken had nine the field. Hosken con f B A H U S O X n points and 10 rebounds. tributed 14 points and 12 Alison Walker also had 10 rebounds. MacDonald had boards, while Crandall 13 points. Crandall had chipped in with eight. nine rebounds. The Poly night animals Friday night in Orange, Mustangs were outre- No more, I said to myself. This gets sillier as it goes and demand an explanation? Marty Hogan could be in the Mustangs were taken bounded both nights, along. there, warming up for the championship of the world. apart by one athlete which has not happened It was one in the morning last Friday and I was hav­ So I wait. Natasha Donelaon. She too often. ing this recurring dream, the one in which I’m in a gun- Finally the screaming stops in Court 2, and Richard fight with my faj^y. I know, there’s something Freu­ Abono steps out. A junior engineering technology ma­ home—the wrist bent, flicking the sphere airborne dian in that, but I don’t care to pursue it. jor, he says he plays about four times a wedi but has with my finger tips, giving it the crucial amoimt of An3Tway, I’m shooting it out with my famUy. The to reserve a court every day. First-come, first-serve is backspin to guarantee it a safe journey. guns, though, don’t bark, quick and sharp like the an ulcerous life for Poly racquetball players. The moon swishes, touching nothing. Giants of snub-nosed pieces in gangster movies. Nor do the Midnight is the earliest Abono could get. steam spewing from the mechanical engineering bullets go pi-taaang like the villains’ ill-placed shots in "’The courts fiU up so quickly it’s incredible,’’ he building grow, applaud and are swaUowed by the B westerns. say3. “Why don’t you tell than (Poly) to build more night, and sports suddenly seems like an ideal and Instead they make this hollow ka-pooosh sound, the courts?’’ comfortable Ufe. kind of noise the submarine made in the soggy televi­ He tells me Sundays and Mondays are the easiest Then I get tired and go home. sion adventure series, “Voyage to the Bottom of the days to get court space, but even then you have to Seas.’’ work fast. I ’m hitting my targ ets—ka-pooosA, ka- “You go into the (Recreational Sports) office, and as TOFTTILLA FLATS pooosh—about as well as I do a basketball hoop—one soon as reservations open the phone just keeps ringing guess; Suddenly there is a mighty ka-pooosh and I’m and ringing,’’ he says. We talk a little about the wrestl­ presents hit, by whom I don’t know. Of course, there is a ledge ing match that night against Cal State Bakersfield, in my dream—there’s one in every dream—and f reel and he tells me that he and his roommate usually at­ THE 3RD ANNUAL toward it and over. I wake up sweating. tend the matches and top off the night with some rac­ MISS LEGS Only the ka-poooshes don’t go away. They are still quetball. OF AMERICA PAGEANT hollow and strange, but very real. And there are other ’Two courts down a couple of people emerge to take a sounds now, qyick shouts and yelps. I try to ra­ break. David Fink, a second-year architecture student, tionalize the soimds. Owls, maybe? The Southern and his friend Mark Daniels, a two-and-a-half-year (his Pacific freight train screaming its descent from Cuesta term) construction major, had been studying in the Grade? labs and decided to take a break. Fink says they’ll Then I figured it out. In fact, I should have known. return to studying after they stop playing. 1 tell them I’ve been awakened before by this. The watery ka- I ’U return to sleeping. poooshes, the shouts, they all make sense—they're the These two will have to teU Abono how they got this sounds of people playing raquetball. At one in the mor­ time slot without reserving it. ning, no less, ^ ^ ^ t did their mothers teach them? Don Rey, a senior biological science major, has been What kind of people would be doing this kind of thing? working out by himself in a far court and leaves to go 1 want to know. home. I joke t ^ t he’s been keeping me up nights with I get dressed and down a mug of coffee. Outside it is his playing, just to start a conversation. He apologizes cold, but still and clear. There is a ring of haze around for the violation of my health, but I tell him it isn’t the moon, and everything seems washed by one storm that big a deal, that the apology isn't necessary. I still and Iwacing for the next. Just two cars sit in the don’t think he believes me. Health Center parking lot. I wait in the cold for the last court to empty, and OVER $50,000.00 IN The noises are louder and sharper in the cold as I ap­ from the shouts I can more easily imagine someone be­ CASH AND PRIZES proach the courts, and now I can hear the squeak of ing bludgeoned in there, instead of having all that noc­ athletic shoes as well. turnal fun. ■■4 Iht wlMcr « ■ riM l«« ■ Carikhna Cntot tor !«• Four of the courts are filled, light is leaking through I grab the gibbous moon and engineer a fast break ■i «tS M •4vaan to Sw Ntotowl Ftoato the vents and under the doors. Suddenly I am not so on a darkened basketball court. 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Of the estimated three million species of plants and animals in the tropics, only about 600,000 have been recognized and catalogued — and scientists believe that those which go unstudied may well pro­ The other day. whOe getting my daily stores now, but their obnoxious ads are vide man with incalculable resources for food, fuel and medicine. fix of “The Rockford Files”, I was ac­ still on TY. costed by another one of those adver­ The Oinsu knife commercials actually Against this background, t ^ miniscule effort that is being undw- tisements for smne maQ-order gadget. hope to sen their product just because R taken to learn mme about tropical animals and plants is embarrass­ Tliis time it was for the “Amazing Sci- does a better job cutting a tomato than ing. Wm-ldwide, th«« are only an estimated 4,000 scientists engag­ Fi S ( ^ Radio Visor”, which is a solar- a karate chop. ’Iliey have to keep throw­ ed in studies of this kind; the total in the U.S. is a mere 1,500 in­ powered transistor radio and earphone ing in item after item just to nuke you dividuals. And the number of unknown tn^ical organisms — five ^ued on to a tacky, plastic sun vism*. intoested. “How much would 3rou out of six have never been seen by any ¡xrofessional student — The thing is so unattractive that any pay?” they ask after tossing in 10 mix­ amounts to a staggering 2.6 million species, or about twice as many fool c a u ^ t wearing one would be the ing bowls and a cheap wooden spoon. as all species described during the past 225 years. subject of public ridknile. !‘NothingI” I yell back. For those who don’t like the visw but As if this wasn’t enough, we also have Gaining understanding will cost money. Yet in the U.S., the total like the idea of a solar-pow«^ radio to sit th ro u ^ those s p i^ for the latest expenditure fw basic tropical biology was only $20 million in 1979, with earphone, there is also a pair of mail order slbunu, real biggies like Slim and that represented more than half of the total global funding. cheap simglasses with the same type of Whitman, Boxcar Willy, Montana Slim Twenty million dollars sounds like a large sum — until it stands radio attached. The price of both of or 1,000 Great Rock Hits. ’There is no next to a figure like the $125 million Reagan recently approved in these bizarre items is. of course, $19.95. better way to miin a good show than to direct military aid to the repressionist regime of El Evador — an Who buys this junk, and why? There be interrupted by a few five-second bits action having dubious value at best to the benefit of humanity. doesn’t seem to be a rash of students of your favorite polka tunes played by rocking out to su n ^ sses and visors on the Mike Polski harmonica trio. The extremely serious nature of these deficiencies can be campus. But there must be some kind of How many programs will be ruined imderstood only when viewed against the rate of tropical deforesta­ market for such mail order trash or^ before we fight back? The time has come tion. The lowland tropical fcH^sts, which a century ago made up an these companies wouldn’t buy the TV ' for something to be done about these an­ area twice the size of Europe, have been reduced to about half their time. noying little bits of Information, but former extent. Every week, the remaining area is diminished by an It all started with the “V eg a^ tic” nothing will. Maybe Ronco could come area about the size of Delaware. food sheer. You remember, “It sUces. It up with a headset that will plug your Poor people, denied access to arable land, cause about two-thirds dices” and so on. ’That got Ron Popeel ears and cover your eyes whenever a going in the gadget business. A decade mail order spot comes on the TV. of all destruction and alteration of tropical forest. These forest or so later. Poped estimates his Ronco Heck, it might even outsell the solar farmers cut out a section of forest and grow a crop or two before the Industries to have sold over $500 radio visor. soil deteriorates. milUon worth of products, selling junk Another factor is the wholesale exploitation of forests for timber from the “Pocket Fisherman” to the Author Steve Goodwin is a junior by foreign-owned coprporations, the majwity of them based in the “Inside-the-Egg Scrambler”. Ronco has joumaU^m major and Mustang Daily U.S. In Latin America, the relentless effort to produce cheap beef done so well that they even sell in retail staff writer. for the United States and other developed countries is causing the disappearance of vast areas of forest. IitHiically, while more than a quarter of all the forests in Central Letters American countries have been destroyed in the past 20 years to pro­ Angered students duce for the American market, the avo'age consumption of beef in Editor: all of us. For the past years the cost of those countries has declined steadily. repairing the damage has increased. When they learn that tropical forests are rapidly disappearing, As members of the School of Architec­ Some of the destruction can never be many people accept the destruction as warranted, since they believe ture and Environmental Design, we are corrected. We ask not to restrict their it will lead to the implementation of productive forms of agricultjure outraged at the total lack of respect for creativity, but only to change their that will help feed the hungry people of the world — much as the the public property by some of our medium. clearing of the forest in Eurc^ and North America made possible fellow students. For some time now, we The most recent attempt at “creativi­ have witnessed the vandalism and ty” has been the spilling of paint down the wide spread of productive agricultural systems in these regions the east stairwell of the Architecture over the centuries. So members of theMustang Daily Editorial senseless destruction of our school. These acts include the permanent scar­ Building. We can only hope that the Board believed, but research has proved the premise false. ring of walls, floors, brickwork and cost of correcting this and other acts of The reasons are varied, but it boils down to a misuse of lands. In decks by the spray painting of projects vandalism will be carried by the in­ Brazil, for example, the government plans to alleviate the nation’s against these unprotected areas. Last dividuals responsible, and not by those acute energy shortage by planting sugar for the production of year a more flagrant attack was the of us outraged by them. As future pro­ alcohol, taking away approximately one sixth of all the currently destruction of Engineering West’s F- fessionals, we find this situation a sad Lab, in a perverted attempt at creativi­ state when some students’ only creative productive agricultural land — in a country where one third of the outlet is destruction. population is already malnourished. ty. While the rest of Cal Poly was preparing for Poly Royal, someone felt One of the most unsuitable purposes for which the tropical forests the need to deface the Architecture Concerned students, are cut down is beef production. The practice has proved ecological­ Building stairwell with red paint. Jim S. MenTman ly unstable throughout Latin America — the fertility of the ranch In a time of budget cutting and fee in­ Lorenzo A. Leon Guerrero soil declines after about 20 years and (»x)fitable cattle production is creases, these acts help no one and hurt Tom E. Rakestraw no longer possible. The land is left barren, and its topsoil erodes into streaiflh and lakes, causing further ecological damage. KCPR’s purpose? Past that, the loss of biological divo-sity in the tropics as a result Editor: songs and parts of songs, such as the of deforestation will have serious consequences, not only for the Pretenders’ “Tattooed Love Boys” in countries involved, but for the entire human race. Every species is Amid all the flak from the pro and con which Chrissie Hynde curses “I shot my genetically unique. We caimot study an extinct species, we caimot KCPR factions concerning the types of mouth off and you showed me what that use it, and we cemnot develop it into something useful. music the station plays, there has sur­ hole was for,” the Journalism depart­ Wliat happens in the tropics affects the entire world. For example, faced an issue that is of greater impor­ ment has certainly succeeded. They tance: that is, censorship and the piu*- have portarayed the “real life” radio ,the shortages of many kinds of commodities, which developed coun­ pose of the station. station perfectly. tries formerly obtained from the tropics at very low prices, are If what I have been told by KCPR Many of us believe that »a college already contributing to worldwide inflation and hence instability, deejays and management is true, the career should be enhanced by the and will do so increasingly in the future. As a matter of self-interest station was originally set up to serve as freedom to explore the artistic and national security, all developed countries should begin to con­ a lab situation for journalism students possibilities that are so often forsaken tribute substantially to the development of sustainable productive to learn the intricacies (read: hands-on by the cost conscious “real world”. agriculture in the tropics, as well as to the study of the un­ education) of the radio industry. In view of the restriction of the types and uses Sincerely, documented millions of tropical animals and plants. of music and the outright censorship of Bradley Dyruff The United States must adequately fund programs to learn more about tropical ecosystem s, and about how to ap(>ly this knowledge for human benefit as directly as possible, as urged in a recent issue Mustang Daily ofNatural History. To do this, steps must be taken to increase the Editorial Board number of scientists competent to deal with such problems. Pvbhther Journalism Department Robin Lewis,Editor , Room 22«, Graphics BuUdia« Agencies such as the National Science Foundation and in­ RotcAnn Wentz, Managirtg Editor Csl Poly tergovernmental efforts such as the United Nations Man and the Nancy Lewis, Astt. Managing Editor San Luis Obispo, CA Biospere Program, which have proven ability to conduct studies in Judy Lutz, Astt. Managing Editor •34S7 environmental biology, must be granted greatly-increased funds for tropical research. In its foreign aid programs, the U.S. must pay L. Joann Seremet, General Manager Printed on campus by University Graphic Systems more attention to the importance of building up the research Beck! Nuanez, Advertising Manager Robert Dunn, Genera! Manager capabilities of the tropical countries themselves. Shawn Tnm e^ Sports Editor Lynne Coalan, Publishing Manager The countries of the world, developed and undevel<^>ed, can pro­ Gayle McCallum, Copy Editor sper and exist in peace only in a relatively stable world. It is urgent Lisa Winter, Copy Editor Pete Boothby, Astt, Mgr., Typesetting Operations that one of the opportunities to achieve this stability, througdi the Tom Vbkocil, Photo Editor *Vince Fesunoff,if»(. Mgr., Web Operations Keith Chandler, Asst. Mgr., Newspaper P^uction study of ever-dinWshing tropical forests, be seized upon before it is Mike Dawson and Joe Boyle, Circulation too late.