CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO V o l u m e 56, No. 16 ★ T h u r s d a y , O c t o b e r 17, 1991 ASI activates plan to help Poly ‘vote wisely’ Three-part plan looks at referendum that would move sports to Division I By Tracy Condron The second aspect to the Staff Writer ______ project is the hiring of a market­ ing consultant. ASI has begun to implement its plan that will look at Cal Michael Parent was chosen as Poly’s proposal to move its ath­ the consultant. He is the as­ letic programs to Division I. sociate dean of the graduate “There are three parts to this School of Business and professor issue,” said ASI Executive Direc­ of marketing at Utah State tor Roger Conway. University. He will be coming to The first part of ASI’s project Cal Poly on Oct. 27. ASPs final to educate students about the report will come out Nov. 1. athletics referendum is construc­ Parent has background ex­ tion of a student task force. perience in marketing NCAA re­ The task force will be funded quirements and is familiar with by Instructional Related Ac­ the recent changes in NCAA, tivities and President Warren Conway said. HANS HESS/Mustang Daily Baker. “He (Parent) will provide ex­ The task force will consist of pert opinion and background San Luis Obispo police officer Peter Hubbard, left, and Police Chief Jim Gardiner, with glasses, met eight students. A committee, that will allow them (the stu­ with residents on Murray Street, including Cuesta student Josh Noonen, regarding recent riots. headed by ASI Marketing Coor­ dents) to make a prudent dinator Bruce Sherman, is cur- decision,” Conway said. The third part of the project Murray Street residents, involves hiring a Certified Public Accountant. “He (Parent) will “The CPA will be looking at all provide expert opinion program costs and making an police meet to quiet riots in-depth analysis on the assump­ and background that By Scott Abbott be stopped to end community un­ said. “It’s a different thing when tions made in the referendum to Staff Writer rest. your peers ask you to do some­ will allow them (the see if they are reasonable,” Con­ While suggestions of citing thing than having to deal with students) to make a way said. For the last two weekends, students responsible for holding the police. After having time to look over prudent decision.” confrontations between students parties, expelling students for “Students need to be able to the referendum, the CPA will and police on Murray Street creating multiple community dis­ talk to each other,” he said. “\bu — Roger Conway share his opinions with the stu­ have meant one thing — near­ turbances, and increased police can’t have responsible parties dent task force. ASI executive director riot situations. But Tuesday patrols on weekends were dis­ unless the people having parties Questions have been raised night, a meeting between the two cussed, Gardiner maintained start exerting some force.” regarding the objectivity of the sides was held under quite dif­ that the ultimate responsibility “MADD (Mothers Against information because Baker, a rently choosing the task force. ferent circumstances. rests on the shoulders of stu­ Drunk Driving) started out as supporter of the referendum, is Some members of the task force In a Murray Street student dents. Gardiner calls this respon­ one angry mother,” Gardiner funding part of the three-part have already been selected based apartment living room, San Luis sibility “peer policing.” said. “This is the same type of plan. on recommendations made by Obispo Police Chief Jim Gardiner Peer policing, he said, invol­ thing in terms of responsibility “He is not going to apply pres­ met with a group of 15 students, ves students confronting people to the community.” department heads and various sure,” Sherman said. “We needed two residents and two Cal Poly holding parties and asking them All sides agreed that Murray other people. the money, and we don’t have Names of the selected task officials. They were trying to to keep parties inside and noise Street now has a reputation for any concerns at all.” solve the recent problem of out- levels tolerable. being a party area and that it force members have not yet been Sherman said ASI feels of-control parties in the area. Gardiner admitted it would would take an effort from the released. strongly that there is a need to “Overall, I believe the group is The two-hour meeting, or­ take “guts” for students to take student community to curb par­ have the student body make edu­ ganized by three Cal Poly stu­ action, but he said it would be ties for a few weeks to discourage going to be balanced,” Sherman cated votes. said. “We are working for the dents who live in an apartment the most effective way to reach a partiers from congregating in the students. We are not working for “We know our mission, and we on Murray Street, was an at­ solution to the party. area. the athletes or the administra­ are going to do it our way,” Sher­ tempt to reach a conclusion “Peer pressure can bring Cherry Newby, whose house tion.” man said. about how the parties could best about a lot of change,” Gardiner See MEETING, page 12 Dean frustrated by bomb-threat disruptions By Scott Abbott which cost $228, offers a $1,000 Safety at approximately 10:30 by the pool,” so that classes could thought out is the tremendous Staff Writer______ reward for information leading to a.m., caused the evacuation of 15 be conducted. liability. the conviction of anyone making classrooms, in addition to faculty Fourteen lectures were con­ “This is not a misdemeanor A bomb threat in the Home a bomb threat and a list of conse­ offices and labs, for more than ducted around the area outside like you’d get for a nuclear power Economics and Math building on quences for the person who com­ two hours while the building was of Mott Gym and eight exams or racial equality protest,” Bailey Friday is not being taken lightly mits this felony. Money to pay searched. were given inside on the gym said. “It’s a felony and it’ll stay by School of Science and Math for the ad came from science and Instead of canceling classes, floor. with you for the rest of your life.” Dean Philip Bailey. math department discretionary Dean of Science and Mathe­ “There was nothing we could Aside from the fact that a Bailey, frustrated by the dis­ funds, money collected for the matics Philip Bailey redirected do about the 11 a.m. classes,” bomb threat is a felony punish­ ruption and cost of classes can­ university through annual students to Mott Gym to attend which were canceled," Bailey able by prison time, the person celed because of the bomb threat, giving. class. said. “But if you don’t do some­ making the threat is liable for placed an ad in Mustang Daily The class disruption caused Armed with a bullhorn and thing, (bomb threats) have got any injury or damage that occurs Wednesday to try to deter future by the Friday bomb threat was makeshift binder-paper signs in you. during an evacuation. bomb threats and possibly catch kept to a minimum thanks to the front of the gym, Bailey “It’s a very frustrating, trou­ Bailey said there are also those responsible for past some tricky logistics work by directed students to various bling thing,” he said. “Sometimes economic costs each time a bomb threats. Bailey. areas such as “on the grass immature people do foolish threat is phoned in. He es- The almost full-page ad, The threat, called into Public under the tree; on the stairs; and things. What they haven’t Scc BOMB THREAT, page 9 Building fees... Arts & Entertainment... Friday weather: The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday Sunny after morning fog Popular local radio station Z-93 changed to approve implementation of public-facility High: 70s-80s Low: 60s its image Monday by moving from a fees for builders wanting to construct Winds n.w. 15 mph units in the county. top-40 to a classic-rock format. 3 ft. seas 5 ft. n.w swells ________ p a g e 3 page 5 Mu sta n g D aily 2 T h u r s d a y , Oc t o b e r 17, 1991 World n Na tio n Two Chinese activists Liquid diet programs Socialite executes escape to overseas must alter advertising ex-husband, his wife news HONG KONG (AP) — Two Chinese ac­ WASHINGTON (AP) — The government SAN DIEGO (AP) — Elisabeth Broderick tivists who were jailed following the June today accused three liquid diet programs of went to her ex-husband’s home to plead for 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy move­ making false and unsubstantiated advertis­ custody of their children but fatally shot him Mortar Board ment have escaped from Communist China, ing claims about their safety and the long­ and his wife after hearing one of them say an activist based in Hong Kong said today. term prospects of keeping off lost pounds. “call the police,” her defense attorney says. seeks academic, Members of an underground pro­ Testimony began today in the one-time La Under an agreement with the Federal Jolla socialite’s second trial on murder active members democracy network spirited out of China 25- Trade Commission, the makers of Optifast, charges in the death of attorney Daniel T.