CAL POLY REPORT California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Vol. 48, No. 4, Oct. 1, 1882 State budget includes The Golden Handshake gives Arts Center funds faculty employees who retire bet­ ween Aug. 15 and Oct. 3 an addi­ After decades of hopes, dreams tional four years of service credit. and dedicated work, a San Luis Staff and administrative employees Obispo Performing Arts Center is must retire between Aug. 27 and now really going to happen: Cal Oct. 31 to be eligible for an addi­ Poly's $14-million share of con­ tional two years of credit. struction funds is included in the two-month-late state budget. Groundbreaking for the $25­ Retirees can volunteer to teach million center is expected next Reversing a previously an­ spring, with an anticipated nounced restriction, legislation has mid-1995 opening. been passed to allow newly retir­ Inclusion of the money in the ing faculty members to teach vol­ untarily after retirement without state budget removed the last ma­ Vic Buccola jor obstacle between planning and losing the extra service credit. reality for the state-of-the-arts Faculty members taking the 1992 Buccola recognized facility, a joint project of Cal Poly, Golden Handshake still may be the city of San Luis Obispo, and paid only if their employment is for 30 years' service the private Foundation for the Per­ necessary to preserve tli.e academic (One in a series of articles recognizing forming Arts Center. The founda­ integrity of a department or pro­ longtime employees) gram; otherwise the extra benefits tion is well on its way to raising Vic Buccola came to Cal Poly as a $7.2 million for construction plus will be forfeited. For more information, call Bar­ vocational instructor in 1962. After $4 million for an endowment to 10 years, he served a stint as direc­ bara Melvin, ext. 6564, or Joyce support programming. The city tor of athletics and is now a profes­ Haratani, ext. 6562. has agreed to provide $4 million. sor in the Physical Education Dept., The center, to be built next to where he teaches such classes as the Cal Poly Theatre, will be the athletic administration, first aid/ largest performing arts facility on CPR, weight training and bowling. the Central Coast. Besides its 1350­ He is the current commissioner of seat main hall, it will include the Western Football Conference. classrooms, a smaller "pavilion" Apparently he played a key role for rehearsals and performances, in bringing the SESLOC branch to and a lobby large enough for campus. Rumor has it his motiva­ special events. Working drawings tion was not entirely altruistic: He should be finished in December. hated to give up his parking space Center supporters are celebrating Staff nominations to go do his banking. not only the artistic delights to due by 5 pm today come but also an anticipated boost for the local economy. Nominations for representatives to serve on the new Staff Council Appointment are due today. They must be received by the Mail Room or An­ Carolyn J. Stefanco, assistant drea Kerns, Student Life and Ac­ professor of history, has been ap­ 'Golden Handshake' tivities, by 5 pm. pointed director of Cal Poly's Ballots to elect division represen­ Women's Studies Program. deadline approaching tatives will be mailed to staff She has been a member of the The window closes Saturday, members Oct. 14 and must be Cal Poly Women's Studies Steer­ Oct. 3, for faculty members to take returned by Oct. 21. ing Committee, coordinating its the "Golden Handshake." Staff For more information call Eileen lunch-time seminars. She was members have until Saturday, Anderson at ext. 2171 or Ellen formerly coordinator of the Oct. 31. Stier, ext. 5525. Women's Studies Program at Duke University. CAL PoLY REPORT Oct. 1, 1882 Pege 2 Assistive devices for Tickets for the recital are $10 Faculty-student team 'Listen for Wings!' and $8 for the public and $6 and work at federal lab $4 for students. For reservations, To assist hearing-impaired and call the Anytime ArtsLine at ext. In a new U.S. Department of visually impaired patrons, Access 1421. Tickets can be bought at the Energy program, Biological Sci­ Theatre Company will provide Theatre Ticket Office between ences Professor Kay Perryman and assistive listening devices and 10 am and 4 pm Monday-Friday. her senior project student Ananda audio description services for its Goldrath this summer conducted performance of ''Listen for research in Albuquerque, N.M., on Wings!" The theater company will cytotoxicity and cell development. be at the Theatre at 8 am, Friday, Fourth World quartet Cal Poly was one of the first Oct. 2. For more information, call universities chosen to participate Sue Dumm or Thorn Rollerson of to play Oct. 13 in this program emphasizing a Access Theatre at 682-8184. The Fourth World quartet will team approach. play a dazzling fusion of Brazilian The two of them worked at the music and contemporary jazz Tues­ Inhalation Toxicology Research In­ day, Oct. 13, at 8 pm in the Theatre stitute as part of a new federal ef­ Massage therapy as part of the Cal Poly Arts World fort to bring together scientists at to begin Oct. 5 Music and Dance Series. federal government laboratories The South American jazz quartet and researchers and students from Recreational Sports' massage is led by vocalist Flora Purim and predominantly undergraduate therapy class will begin Oct. 5, not percussionist Airto Moreira. They institutions. Nov. 5 as stated in a previous edi­ are joined by jazz guitarist Jose Perryman and Goldrath, who tion of the Cal Poly Report. For Neto and Gary Meek on sax and received grants to participate in more information on Fall Quarter keyboards. the program, collaborated with a leisure classes, call Rec Sports at Moreira, perhaps the greatest staff toxicologist at ITRI to study ext. 1366. Latin percussionist of all time, fuses the relationship between airborne Latin rhythms with jazz and rock. toxins, i.e., radon, and cell trans­ Purim, influenced by legendary formation in airways of the lung. jazz vocalists Billie Holiday and Data from the continuing research, Music professors Dinah Washington, breathes mirth ''Differentiation Pattern of Critical set Oct. 9 recital and mysticism into her songs. Cells of the Rat Lung,'' were Tickets are $15 and $13 for the presented by Perryman at a DOE­ Music Department faculty mem­ public and $13 and $11 for stu­ sponsored symposium. ber Frederick Lau will give a flute dents and seniors. All seats are recital at 8 pm Friday, Oct. 9, in reserved. For reservations, call the the Theatre. Anytime ArtsLine at ext. 1421. Fellow faculty member and pian­ The concert is being co­ Nominees sought ist William T. Spiller will accom­ presented by KCBX public radio. for CSU commiHees pany Lau in performing two Lieder American Eagle and American Air­ and the "Arpeggione" Sonata by lines provided the local sponsor­ The CSU Academic Senate is Schubert, Sonata in D major Op. ship that made the concert possible. soliciting nominations to the CAN 94 by Prokofiev, and "Carmen (California Articulation Number Fantasie" by Francois Borne. System) Discipline Course Descrip­ Lau is beginning his second year tions Committees. This year the of teaching at Cal Poly. He has Multicultural contest CAN disciplines are anthropology, performed with a number of or­ economics, geography, geology, chestras and chamber groups, in­ to run until Oct. 9 history, journalism, and sociology. cluding the American Wind Sym­ The Foreign Languages and Committee members meet for phony, the University of lllinois Literatures Department is sponsor­ one day in March to review typical Contemporary Chamber Players, ing the "Multicultural Quincenten­ lower-division course descriptions, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic nial Contest," which asks con­ from which model course descrip­ Orchestra. testants to identify four dates tions are developed and assigned Spiller, also beginning his second related to the year 1492. CAN numbers (e.g., Math 4). CAN year at Cal Poly has won numerous Contest details are posted near numbers aid students in identify­ awards, including the Leo Poldosky the entrance to the department of­ ing equivalent courses on different Prize as the outstanding pianist at fice in FOB 28A. The deadline to campuses. USC and the Outstanding Doc­ enter is Friday, Oct. 9. The winner Names must be submitted to Cal toral Graduate from the USC will receive a copy of Cervantes' Poly's Academic Senate Office School of Music. "Don Quixote de la Mancha." (FOB 25H, ext. 1258) by Oct. 8. CAL PoLY REPORT Oct. Page 3 The Assistive Device Equipment/ An essay by Larry Inchausti, Auxiliary Aid Program provides English, ''Attempting the Impossi­ supplementary funds to defray ble,'' was scheduled for publica­ reasonable costs for equipment tion in the October education issue and auxiliary aid. of America. Business Affairs Max Riedlsperger, History, chaired a workshop, "Ethnic retirement reception Minorities in Europe," at the third A reception honoring staff mem­ Who, What, conference of The International bers retiring from the Business Af­ Where, When Society for the Study of European fairs Division will be held from Ideas at Aalborg University, Den­ 2 to 4 pm Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Phil Doub, Agribusiness, was in mark. His keynote address was Alumni House. The retirees being Longerenong, Australia, for two "Europe of the Regions: New recognized are: Patsy Belveal, months this summer as the first Hope for Ethnic Minorities?" Guadalupe Casillas, Johnie Dix­ Wirnmera Machinery Field Days William Rife, Chemistry, wrote ison, Edward Evon, John Johnson, Visiting Fellow at the Victoria Col­ "Essentials of Chemistry: Extend­ Neile Lincoln, Elmore Litten, John lege of Agriculture and Horticul­ ed Edition," published in July Paulsen, Jerry Roberts, Dolores ture.