' .. • a1 Thursday, May 1, 1980 CaliforniaPolytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 44, No. 94 • • • • • arv1s sw1n IS -cu 1n Editor's note: Because of siderable response con­ -,airlg the Howard Jarvis in­ can't read them. $2,000 so you can get in there for poor family who can't afford to year for four years. I rode an in the Poly Royal :61/iew I believe in education, but if $1,200, and I'm not going to pay send its children to college? inter-urban train for 18 miles to -,ion. and calls from readers you pay all your tuition. I, as a anymore. Jarvis: I was (from) a poor college and I paid all my own io missed the original taxpayer, still pay more than Dialy: I've heard that part of family. I worked my way way and I got straight A grades. �cation, we have re-printed you do. I bought the building Proposition 9's appeal is that it through four years of college. I ow, I don't expect guys your 11entires tory. and the ground that put the helps the little guy without much worked an afternoon shift at the age to have that many guts, college there for you. I'm paying money. How does tuition help a Utah Copper Co., 365 days a because you don't have a hell of a Daily Stall Writer lot in the schools these days, but Holl'ardBY ANDREW Jaruis, JOWERSthe blustery I expect you to do something to brusque symbol of tax pay your way because I think fJ1l1I, continues to trample I've paid all I want to pay for re others fear to tiptoe. He kids going to college. I don't co-author of Proposition 13, think you should get a freeride. ii d in June 1978, which Daily: Estimates are that if ed property taxes. Now, he tuition is charged, 100,000 paigns for his latest students will be knocked out of E .iiatit·e, Proposition 9, which the CSUC system. E .,.Jd cut the average Califor­ II I ·s state income tax by 54 Jarvis: I wishthere would be and '/IWlt. Some haue called this an especially a lot from foreign IE nsidered and blind wing of countries. We could cut 100,000 a.ratthe state coffers. Jaruis foreign students-legal and illegal aliens going to school I it a swing for freedom­ I!!! ::i,ncialand political. here-mooching on us and get interuieu· took place at his them the hell out of here. hireBoulevard, Los Angeles All you say doesn't make any impression on me because you're e headquarter of the Tax inferring that if you go to Cal ction Movement. Poly you'll get an education. I don't believe it, because they don't give you one. They give :Wy: \\'hat guarantees can you you a bunch of garbage. nemethat I'll be able to finish education if Proposition 9 Daily: What about, for example, ? I can't afford private minority students, who plan to tion. go to college; who can't afford · : \Vho do you want to pay tuition, and who are already Have you got someone in working to help their families? that you would like to pay Jarvis: Good for them. They your education? You know if have to work too. I think that as 11don't pay it, somebody eLe long as the school system is not me has got to. You want me producing education, that when pay for your tuition- I ain't I pay $50,000 a year in taxes, I to do it. don't get any education for it-I · y: Do you think free get a scam. The school system is tion has served California not an education institution anymore, it's a political Mafia · : \Vhat we have in this for money. The only difference I sy tern is everything but betweenthe school system today tion-that we don't have. and the Mafiais that the schools the chools are in the steal more money than the ness of manufacturing Mafia. nent welfare recipients. I don't like it-I wish we had the biggest drag, the biggest some education; I'd like to pay ndoggle, the biggest for education, but I don't like to ption of public money in blow my money on zero zilch. omia. \\'hy do you say that? Daily: How much does it help · : Because the records your campaign having the e it. Sixty-three percent of support of people like Carol high schools (students) are Hallett (R-Atascadero, and Republican leader in the state tionally illiterate. In order Asembly) and (Lt.Gov.) Mike you to go to college, they Howard Jarvisis shown commenting during a spring break interview. to reduce the books to the Curb? th grade level because you Jarvis: It helps because they're quite respectable people. We have some bright people, both Democrats and Republicans, and that's why Proposition 9 is going ayor reacts to Jarvisquotes . to pass in California about 3-1. Daily: Why does their public­ Dally Co-Editor figure support help you, but BY JOHN KELLER '' ty immediate reaction is After reading "Howard Jarvis which contained quotes from having Gov. Brown against you i that if there is anything we are See Jarvis, page 3 swings his Prop 9 ax ... " for the Jarvis, but never saw the not worry you? llayor Lynn Cooper said he frst time Wednesday afternoon, original story until Wednesday. proud of, it is Cal Poly," Cooper lo dumbfMustangounded byDaily Howard the mayor was shocked to see "I don't endorse the content of said. 'arvis and the remarks he made what he heardTelegram-Tribune about the story what he is saying and especially People who live in the co_m· the in was actually true. The mayor the method he used," said munity identify themselve� with Insidetoday �erence to CalPoly and the city said he read a Cooper. "As far as him the in· the university, Cooper said. To (San Luis Obispo. editorial appearing Monday dividual, his credibility is at best take potshots at the qu�ty of Bert Lance Proposition 9 marginal. education riles the commurutr. acquitted "I wonder if he was drunk or Carol Hallett, 29th district Seepage 3 !! off his rocker,'' Cooper said. representative in the state15 mbly, denounced Ja�s, b�t the majority of Californian's Jarvis made statements which asse receive a cost-of-living raise will Proposition 9-the bill he 10 Resevoir opens � vote on June 3 say "yes" to were completely wrong, ac· not not be pushed into a higher tax sponsoring. again :•uposition 9, these restrictto ions bracket. cording to Cooper. No controller . Hallett has a lot of support See page 5 Sacramento's ability to raise -the sales tax would exists in San Luis Obispo as be frozen this county, Cooper said. enue will be added the at its present 6 percent level. Jarvis said, and the assesor is teco nstitution: -the state business inventory employed by the county and not "I don't think her credibilityis Prof wins race­ -personal income taxes in the tax would be eliminated. the city. affected, but certainly Prop. 9 almost he said. willcut be an average of 54 A two-thirds majority of all Comments about the city, the is," See page 7 t. to eligible California voters is Mayor said, are no big deal. But ·•I will not make any -11ersonal income truces would needed to cut an amendment references to Cal Poly as garbage statement on 9 now because I fnlly indexed the rate of once it has been added to the education are "way off base," don't think it is appropriate for tion, so that those who constitution. Coopersaid. me to say," said Cooper· e e Page2 Daily Thursday, May 1, 1980 1n1on ______________Mustang -----.. l'M NUTS FOR JARVIS Trust me, trust me yes, i'd like to go nuts for Jarvis ... •. i prefer to contribute towards the elimi nation of Howard Jarvis is his ownMustang worst Daily.enemy. With enough line, TAXES .•• □ CAL STATE COLLEGES • ••D he'll surely noose himself-and that's just what happened in LIBERAL PINKOS .••□ GOVERNMENT ••• D the Poly Royal edition of Interviewed by staff writer Andrew Jowers in the tax - - -- -- -- - --- -- - -� critic's Los Angeles office, Jarvis took off his mask. What's @t%�9 underneath has caused floods of response from media J�Rv1s foi,iriciANs! throughout the state. The self-proclaimed tax-cutter usually needs your concealed from the public by abrupt sayings, ambiguous talk help if and smooth press agents, exposed a cynical chip on his Prop. 9 is shoulder: to p ass -Resentment of Cal Poly and the California school system in general. -Disdain for San Luis Obispo City and County. -Disregard for most politicians and doubt for all they say. There were other equally ruinous remarks, too many to VOTE paraphrase here. What such rancor illustrates is a man willing to go to any extreme for attention, any length to YEZ)( proclaim his "truths," any means for passage of his "baby" - - Proposition 9. We have reprinted the entire Jarvis interveiw, as orginally published in the April 25-26 Poly Royal edition. Read it, realize this is the Frawls same man who asks our trust.By Mark Lawler SUt;M A �oFOt,IN,D C4EE.THl\NKS ... STATEMatr HowAW.' Letters Thanks for Jarvis 1'111 ASI Program Board. ASI Events brought the Tony WiUiarns Editors: during Kaleidoscope, Kate \Volf nd I would like to take this opportunity Peter Alsop two weeks ago and � to sincerely thank you for providing us sponsored Holly ear threeweeks qo.