January 28, 1975 Cal Poly Report
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CALIFORNIA POLYT.CHNIC STAT. UNIV.RSI T Y SAN LUIS O •ISP"'O, CALIPOitNIA ea•07 Volu~ 26, Number 22 January 28, 1975 ~ CHICANO FARM ORGANIZE R WILL SPEAK The former director of the United Farm Workers of Santa Maria, Manuel Echeverra, will speak at Cal Poly on Tuesday (Jan. 28). Echeverrli' will speak on "The Progression of the Chicano Movement" at 7:30pm in Chumash Auditorium. Tickets for the event are 75 cents for students and $1.25 for the public. They are on sale at the University Union ticket office. In addition to the speech by Echeverra, two Chicano films will be shown. Nosotros Venceremos includes still photographs and music of the United Farm Workers movement. The second film, Mexico, The Frozen Revolution, is about the Mexican revolution between 1910 and 1914 and the history of Mexico following the revolution. The program at Cal Poly is being sponsored by the Ethnic Programming Board of the Associated Students, Inc., and MEChA, the Chicano student organization. Echeverra was one of 12 children born to a Texas sharecropper. His family moved to Guadalupe when he was five. After dropping out of Arroyo Grande High School at 16, Echeverra worked in the fields for two years and then worked in the packing sheds. He finished high school ten years later. Echeverra has worked as an organizer for San Luis Obispo Community Action Commission, the Western Community Action Training Program, and for the Santa Barbara Community Action Commission. He recently resigned as director of the Santa Maria office of the United Farm Workers. ~LOUGHRAN WILL RETURN .TO FACULTY The process of recruiting and -appointing a new head for the university Art Department has begun. This follows President Robert E. Kennedy's announcement approving the request of Berni ce Loughran to return to full-time teaching in the Art Department. While saying that the request is one he "reluctantly" approved, Dr. Kennedy pr aised Dr. Loughran for having been "very helpful, understanding, and cooperative in our mutual concerns and attempts to improve the quality of the program and personnel of the Art Department." Dr. Loughran's new assignment will begin with the start of the Fall Quarter in Septem ber, 1975. Dr. Loughr an, who joined the university faculty in 1958, for mer ly taught art in elementary school s in California, Connecticut, and New Jersey, and was a member Df the art faculty at Johnson Teachers College (Vermont), University of Connecticut, ad Danbury Teachers College (Connecticut). She holds the Ed.D. degree from Stanford Tiniversity. ~ Cal Poly Report - January 28, 1975 - Page 2 ~ STUDENTS LEAVE FOR NEW ZEALAND YEAR ... Seven agricultural students -from Cal Poly departed Tuesday (Jan. 21) for - ~ * .. New Zealand to become the first participants in a study abroad program in "' agriculture offered by the California State University and Colleges. ~he ' seven, and three from other campuses, will study for one year at ei~~er the Massey University or Lincoln College. The students, who will be enrolled in a full academic load at the New Zealand schools, will receive academic credit at Cal Poly for their work. They will begin their studies on March 1, and will spend one month living with farm fa~ies in New Zealand to familiarize themselves with the agriculture of the nation prior to beginning classes. The 10 California students are participating in a pilot program to deter mine the feasibility of a study abroad program in agriculture. ~ GREEK LUNCHEON AT VISTA GRANDE RESTAURANT An International lunch featuring foods from Greece will be offered at Vista Grande Restaurant on Wednesday (Jan. 29). The Greek luncheon menu consists of: psari . fourno Spetsiotiko (baked fish- Spetsai island), kolokethya me tiri (squash with cheese), biskotta tis kyriakic (Sunday biscuits), koulourakia (sweet butter cookies) and coffee, tea, or milk. The Greek luncheon will be served between 11 am and 2 prn and is priced at $1.95. Special Greek music and decorations will be featured. ~ SPECIAL EVENTS AT EL CORRAL STORE A large selection of engineering and technical books will be on sale for only $1.95 each at the special sale table at El Corral from Tuesday (Jan. 28) through Friday (Feb. 7). Mary Lee Green (Manager, El Corral) also announced that Mr. Mahoney, Sales Manager of Faber-Castell Corp., will be present at El Corral on Tuesday (Jan. 28) between 10 am and 4 pm to display and demonstrate the technical products of the Faber-Castell Corporation. El Corral is pleased to announce that Euell Gibbons (world famous forager of wild, natural foods and herbs and strong exponent ·of their use in field or home kitchen) will be at El Corral bookstore for an autographing session on Friday (Jan. 31) between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm. A special display of all books written by Euell Gibbons will be for sale and light refreshments will be available. Photographs taken by Ray Allen (Engineering Technology and Environmental Engineering) will be on display in the El Corral Mini Art Gallery from Monday (Jan. 27) through Friday (Feb. 7) . ~ JANUARY SALARY WARRANTS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THURSDAY January salary warrants for faculty and staff of the university will be available at 4 pm on Thursday (Jan. 30), the last day of the pay period. Warrants batched by de partment may be picked up at the Cashier's Office, Adm. 131-E, and those picked up on an individual basis may be picked up in the Business Affairs Division Office, Adm. l it after that time. ~ Cal Poly Report - January 28, 1975 - Page 3 The man who maintains his home town is a "suburb of Pluto" will speak at Cal Poly on Monday (Feb. 3) at 8 pm. Doug Kenny editor-in-chief of National Lampoon magazine, will speak oil "Teen-Age Commies (rom Outer Space." The speech, sponsored by the Speakers Forum of Cal ·Poly's Associated Students, Inc., will take place in Chumash Auditorium. Tickets, priced at 50 cents per person, are being sold at the University Union ticket office. Kenny, who is actually from Chagrin Falls, a suburb of Cleveland, is rated as a "master" in chess and holds a Green Cord in the fighting art of Yubiwaza. He supported himself as a student at Harvard University on his pinball machine winnings. He graduated summa cum laude for his now-published thesis on Plautine comedies. .Kenny and his co-editor, Henry Beard, gained literary prominence for their parodies of Time and Life magazines and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings for Harvard Lampoon; the undergraduate humor magazine at Harvard. After being ousted from his Harvard ROTC unit for "conduct reflecting unfavorably upon the United States Armed Forces," Kenny spent a year traveling. In the Midwest, he used a guise of an English lord, peddling a lecture on "The Country Homes of Devonshire" to ladies' clubs. National Lampoon, which has been described as a magazine of ""Vulgar and pointless satire," has a certified ·readership of 1. 8 million and is reportedly the second most popular magazine on American college campuses. The magazine was twice banned in Chicago and twice subpoenaed by U.S. postal authorities. HAMLET LEAVES ELSINORE FOR POLY l'robably the best-known play in the history of English dramatic literature will be performed by the New Shakespeare Company when Hamlet, Prince of Denmark comes to Cal Poly on Thursday (Jan. 30). The famed classic tragedy by William Shakespeare will begin at 8 pm in Chumash Auditorium. Tickets for the performance, priced at $2 for students and $3 for. all others, will go on sale on Monday (Jan. 27) at the ticket office of the University Union (open from 10 am to 2 pm on weekdays). The New Shakespeare Company began in Palo Alto eight years ago under the leadership of Margrit Roma, who believes that if the actors "donate their life blood, their stomach, their living presence to it,· then Shakespeare has a good chance to veach the audience." The company often performs out of doors when the weather is good. Miss Roma believes "the freedom of the outdoors often corresponds to the freedom of Shakespeare's ideas and his thinking." Sponsor of the campus presentation is the Fine Arts Committee of the A.S.I. ~ ARCHITECTURE ClASSROOM BUILDING FINALLY BEGINS Construction on the Architecture Classroom Building project is expected to commence this week. The construction will involve the staff parking areas to the east and west of the Business Administration and Education building as well as the staff lot directly north of California Boulevard. Additional staff spaces have been incorpo rated in lower lot S-10 (the lot south of Food Processing) on Campus Way (east of Food Processing) and on the west side of College Avenue. Staff and faculty ·are urged to use th~se areas when the construction site is fenced off. ,.. ~ Cal Poly Re port - J anuary 28, 1975 - Page 4 ~ WINTER QUARTER RADIO SCHEDULE FOR KCPR 1 For the information of all Cal Poly staff and faculty, the KCPR Winter Quarter radio schedule is presented herewith. KCPR t r ansmi t s at 91.3 MHz FM, with 2000 watts power. Agri· Tape • Agriculture News & Market Trends. Presidential Heview • Weekly Taped Program with Dr; In the Public Interes t • Political O pinions by Noted Robert l<ennedy, President ofCal Poly (Stude nts W rite-In Columni.;ts Questir)ns) C o ns umerTime • Consumer News Wilson Rile!i Report • Weekly Reportfrom Dr. Wilson Riles, Pa cific concC'rt • Fine Arts (Classical Music) State Superintendent ofSchools. News • Niltional, Local, Campus, Weather, Sports Open Channel • ASI President Scott Plotkin and Vice City Council • Broadcasts of the City Council Meetings Live President Mike Hurtado discuss issues affecting1he Cal and Direct from City Hall (1st and 3rd Mondays of the PolyStudent (Call-In Program) month) Concert Canadien • Interviews and Performances by Here's to Your I fealth • Health Newsand Discussions of Cilnadian Artists.