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The Coyote HRONICLE VOLUME 33, ISSUE 2 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO October 15,1998 Inside... * News Less Food for Your Buck Campus Eateries Provide "Bet­ •*^1 V ter Management and Product" By Pieter Nystrom two school years while the mm Chronicle Staff Writer food's cost to the cafe has Features decreased from 35 percent to 28 ^CSUSB wel- Student Howard Gilbert percent. Simply put, students lit proposed an ad hoc Food Service are getting less food than years i' ft ' comes students at and Finance and Contracts prior for the same price. m Committee to review the Student David Jones, assistant Coyote Union's working relationship executive director of the Kickoff....page 3 with the Foundation at the Student Foundation, who spoke on the X. m Union's board meeting held last Cafe's behalf, noted there has Opinior^^,# Thursday. been no price increase at the Gilbert's main concern was cafe for the 1998/1999 school , Editorials that the Coyote Cafe has shown a ....page 4 steady profit increase over the past - See FOOD, page 6 • Student finds playground in the sky, see page 6 Prop 1A Would Fund 800 Plus $9.2 BiUlon for Schools New • $32.4 Million Building at CSUSB This Computers Year Travel Artist's rendering of new Social • $700 Million for K-12 Class Reduction Arrive in CSUSB and Behavioral Sciences Building. Construction Frauline goes to., Student Germany....p^5 By Xavier A. Chavez Statewide, students in higher Executive Editor education number 1.4 million at Labs YOUR VC^ 107 community college students, California Bond Initiative lA Novembei^ 350,000 at 22 CSU campuses, and By Eugenia Porras 166, 000 at 9 UC campuses. Sp6rts would have a visible and immedi­ Election Chronicle Staff Writer ate effect on the CSUSB campus, Higher education would share $2.5 Intermural Football higher education, and local K-12. this very fiscal year, right away." billion of the $9.2 billion bond. A week before many of us set ancynorei..page 7 The initiative is on the Novem­ said CSUSB president, Albert The majority of funds, $6.7 foot on campus, several students ber 3 ballot. Proponents hail the ini­ Karnig at his state of the univer­ billion, would go to K-12 school were feverishly unpacking some tiative as a responsible long term sity speech earlier this quarter. districts across California. How­ of the new 800-plus computers investment that meets critical infra­ Proposition lA will provide ever, San Bernardino County K-12 purchased for CSUSB with fund­ structure needs of spiraling student $32.4 million for the new Social schools will still go wanting. "We ing from the BATS project, which Pawprlnts enrollments and class size reduc­ Sciences Building and $7.2 for estimate our need in the next 10 means Baseline Access, Training ....page 10 tions in K-12 and higher education. telecommunications upgrade. years at $40 million." said Dennis and Support. Opponents criticize the initiative be­ Enrollment is expected to Mobely, communications director Susan Cooper, Director of cause it would obligate the state to break the 14,000 mark this year of the San Bernardino Superinten­ Academic Computing and Media pay approximately $6 billion in in­ at CSUSB. In response, the cam­ dent of Schools. Mobley calls the (ACM), says the project "i de­ Classifieds terest over the next 25 years instead pus plans three new buildings. initiative a "start, not a solution." signed to get rid of obsolete com­ of using pay-as-you-go or local Karnig stated in an interview last . "We are one of the fastest puters and other technologies and ....page 11 funding sources. week, that CSUSB classrooms growing counties in the state." said refresh the technologies to today's "Passage will mean that con­ are literally at full capacity dur­ Mobley. The San Bernardino standards." A committee repre- struction of the Social and Behav­ ing peak periods in the school - See PROP lA, page 2 - ioral Sciences building will begin day. - See COMPUTER, page 2 - Page 2 The Covote Chronicle October 15,1998 % PROPlA continued from page / County Board of Education passed ings. This includes earthquake ret­ tion, Lois Tlnson, president of the a resolution supporting Proposi­ rofits and computer networking. California Teacher's Association, University Hall, room 037 tion IA on October 5. San Bernar­ School districts must provide 20% and Howard Owens, director of the 5500 University Parkway dino County saw its K-I2 enroll­ matching funds for these projects. Congress of California Seniors. In San Bernardino, CA 92407 ment grow from 237,318 students • $700 million would be allo­ their official statement filed with (909) 880-5000, ext. 3940 (newsroom) in 1987 to 357,508 in 1997. Over cated to pay for infrastructure costs the secretary of state, proponents (909) 880-5931 (business office) 120,000 students. Combined with related to class size reduction. called the initiative a "responsible FAX (909) 880-7009 Classroom Reduction, which lim­ plan for better education and a E-Mail: [email protected] its class size to 20 students, San solid investment in our schools and Bernardino County will not have California's future." enough classrooms for its students. Proposition 1A is opposed by Contributing Y/riiers and Staff : Lafayette Baker, Corina K-12 school districts across state assemblyman, Tom YOUR V0| Borsuk, Bryan Campbell, Florence Edwards, Jared Jensen, California have asked the state for McClintock, Lewis K. Uhler, Paulie Kimball, Petra Mueller,Pieter Nystrom, Sarah Paetz, billions in infrastructure funding. November president of the National Tax Limi­ Kristen Phillips, Patrick Pittman, Eugenia Porras, Jessy The secretary of state's office said Election tation Committee, and Edward J. Serrano-Leiva, Jennifer Thierr, Laszlo Vass that K-12 school districts submit­ Costa, CEO of People's Advocate, ted $2.9 billion in funding appli­ • $ 1 billion would be provided Inc. Opponents advocate pay-as- cations for land and new buildings. for school districts that have fund­ you-go and local funding for EXECUTIVE EDITOR School districts also submitted ing needs that result from unusual school construction. In their offi­ Xavier A. Chavez $2.9 billion in funding applications circumstances beyond their con­ cial statement filed with the secre­ MANAGING EDITORS for reconstruction and moderniza­ trol. San Bernardino County tary of state, opponents say the ini­ tion of existing school buildings. schools are a likely candidate for tiative would, "run up record lev­ Miguel Gonzalez & Jennifer Thierry According to the legislative this funding due to unusually high els of debt that guarantee higher DESIGN EDITORS analyst of the Office of the Cali­ population and enrollment growth. taxes and crumbling infrastructure Chert Dixon & Danielle Stewart fornia Secretary of State, the funds This initiative is typical of for many years to come." would be spent over the next four school bond measures because the For additional information on PRODUCTION EDITORS years in specific areas. money must be spent on infrastruc­ this and other initiatives on the No- Dan Farmer & Kimber Holt • $2.9 billion would be allo­ ture. Infrastructure includes earth­ vember ballot contact your COPY EDITOR cated to buy land and construct quake retrofits, technology and county's Registrar of Voters or visit new school buildings. School dis­ communication wiring, renova­ the California Secretary of State's Lori Patterson tricts must provide 50% matching tions, replacement and new con­ website at http://vote98.ss.ca.gov/ PHOTO EDITOR funds to be eligible. struction. VoterGuide/. Carrie Ann Still • $2.1 billion would be allo­ Proposition 1A is endorsed by cated for reconstruction or mod­ Larry McCarthy, the president of ADVERTISING MANAGER ernization of existing school build- the California Taxpayer's Associa­ Crystal Chatham ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE Jason Pendleton COMPUTER, DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Continued from page 1 vacant FACULTY ADVISOR senting all five divisions met for You may be wondering: pot, configure the new computers over a year to discuss choosing where did these new computers go to different user's needs, setting up Robin Larsen vendors and to prioritize what to? addresses for the network and re­ BUSINESS MANAGER needed to be replaced. You can find them in the fol­ packaging the completed comput­ Dan llickennan The majority of the comput­ lowing locations: School of Busi­ ers to be shipped off to their des­ ers purchased are NEC PowerMate ness labs. Computer Science labs. ignated area. Jessy and Pieter have ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 8100 desktops and minitowers Natural Science labs, CVC labs. one comment to make to all those Michelle Wheeler with Pentium II processors at 350 Social & Behavioral Science labs, who are anxiously awaiting their MHz, CD-ROM drives, zip drives, Humanities labs and distance new computers. We're working re­ 15 or 17 monitors and network learning classroom labs. There are ally hard to get them all done, cards to connect them to the cam­ even training classes for students, please be patient.? pus network. faculty and staff through the ACM. With so many new and up­ The Coyote Chronicle {The Chronicle) is published on every Thursday during graded computers on campus, it's the academic session by the [)epaitment of Communication Studies, California Other computers purchased In regard to the old comput­ State University, San Bernardino.