University Arv hi\· s Federal toxic waste site study started BY MIKE CARROLL Staff Writer concerning toxic waste disposal arise, ble hazardsSan createdLuis byObispo the buried Telegram­ toxic Mazzacano could notTelegram-Tribune, be reached for according to Alfred Fonzi, San Luis chemicals.Tribune comment. A federal investigation by the U.S. Obispo County's emergency services The According to the Coast Guard has been launched into the coordinator. reported Wednesday that Tim Mazzacano suggested the dump site past dumping of toxic wastes in wha_t Steve Hamilton, a pollution in­ Mazzacano, the county's environmental may have to be excavated and taken to was once the university trash dump in vestigator with the Coast Guard said health director, was investigating- the a state-licensed dump site in Casmalia, Poly Canyon. Mustang Daily his agency, in coordination with county possibility of chemical contamination of near Santa Maria. The investigation was touched off by officials, will take soil samples of the Po­ the Poly Canyon environment. Coast Guard and county officialswere a Wednesday article ly Canyon site as soon as he finds out Mazzacano said he would contact the taken to the Poly Canyon dump site that reported toxic materials ac­ the kinds of chemicals buried there. California Solid Waste Management Thursday by Executive Dean for cumulated by the chemistry department The Coast Guard is in charge of clean­ Board before taking action. A Facilities Planning Douglas Gerard. were buried in the Poly Canyon landfill ing up toxic waste sites in accordance _spokesman for the board in Sacramento Fonzi, the county's emergency ser­ area between 1972 and 1976. with the Environmental Protection said the state agency had not yet been vices coordinator, said this was not the On the West Coast, the Coast Guard Agency's regulations, Hamilton said. contacted by Mazzacano but that the first time such toxic waste disposal acts as the investigative arm of _the Meanwhile, state and county agencies board would be in contact with county situations had occurred in the county. federal government when situations are also beginning to investigate possi- officials by today. Please see page 9 M�stang Daily Friday, February 20, 1981 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume 45, No. 64 Affects low GPA students Cal Grant rules change BY ROBIN LEWIS Staff Writer but he could not predict how many will be affected because the decision process Cal Poly students from lower income is left to the state. "We're given a list of families who are receiving aid through students who will receive the money," Cal Grant A may so<>n lose that sup­ said Wolf. The amount of money receiv­ port, financial aid director Lawrence ed depends on the school chosen by the Wolf said Wednesday. recipient. "Essentially," said Wolf, "those in At Cal Poly the grant pays $242 a need with lower GPA's probably are not year, while at private universities it may going to be awarded Cal Grant A's.'' pick up as much as $3,200 of the tuition Last December the California Student and registration costs, according to Aid Commission raised by 20 percent Wolf. the allowable family income level for Cal The hike has been attacked as "an ym Grant A recipients. As a result, elitist rip-off" by Assembl an John students with family incomes of up to Vasconcellos (D-San Jose) because it $39,600 will be eligible for the grant, a will take more grants away from figure up $6,600 from last year. minorities than white students. Because Cal Grant A is awarded by The higher-income award recipients, GPA, explained Wolf, those students according to an analysis done by the with a lower grade average may not Postsecondary Education Commission, receive the aid they need. A student will be 6.5 percent Latino and 3. 7 per­ with a GP A of 3.6 whose parents make cent black. The present overall $38,000 annually will receive aid before breakdown of present Cal Grant A reci- · a student with a 3.4 GP A whose parents pients is 10.5 percent LatinoLos Angelesand 6.5 only make $15,000. percentTimes black. Wolf said there are bet.ween eight and Vasconcellos told the nine hundred Cal Poly students receiv­ recently that "the change is con­ Mustang Dally-Susannah Perl<lna ing financial aid through Cal Grant A, Please see page 9 --SLO council-------, Financial aid officer.Lawrence Wolf-Cal Grant changes may hurt the poor. Circulation top city need BY DA VE BRACKNEY Child rights laws need review Staff Writer is concerned with the problems BY RALPH THOMAS associatedwith it. Staff Writer What does the future hold for San "Hazy skies, unnatural housing, abused. He called this the "stage of Luis Obispo? If city council can­ more cars and pavement are the pro­ child welfare." didate Ronald Bearce has his way, it blems we have to pl1m to avoid," In ancient Rome children had few The next stage Houlgate discussed could include a three-block Bearce explained. "Wf'. need to pro­ rights. They could be equated with was the most recent concerning "child pedestrian mall downtown, 10 new ci­ vide more housing for people and slaves-under complete control of the liberties." He referred to significant ty bus lines and low profile dwellings more space for businesses and still oldest male in the family. Then, the United States Supreme Court decisions built on hillsides. prot�t the quality of life we all enjoy family head could abuse, torture or even that gave children the right to due pro­ Bearce, 26, believes a future of con­ here. cess of the law, the right of free expres­ tinued growth is inevitable in SLO, kill a child. Transportation problems, Bearce Times have changed, laws now pro­ sion and the right to purchase con­ but it doesn't have to be bad if it is feels, are the main drawbacks to tect children. But, according to a traceptives. One case, however, denied well planned. A native of the Central population growth, but are areas he philosophy instructor here, the rights children the "right to purchase sexually Coast, Bearce said he is not worried plans to tackle if elected in the March and liberties of children are in need of explicit magazines." about future population growth, but 3 city election. "Smog, street lights, further consideration. Houlgate then presented two oppos· more parking lots and safety pro­ Dr. Laurence Houlgate, associate ing theories concerning children's blems are all related to philosophy professor, focused on rights-the "equal rights" theory and transportation,·· Bearce said, "but children's rights in his Arts and the "limited child rights theory." we can make growth less of an issue Humanities lecture Thursday. Houlgatt: He said the equal rights theory was by solving these transportation pro­ authored the book "The Child and the recently revived after being "dormant blems.·· State." for some time." He attributed much of Bearce considers himself an "We demanded the best when we forc­ this revival to philosopher Howard authority on local transportation ed Congress, the state legislatures and Cohen, who believes children have the problems, having just completed a the courts in recent years to review laws right to make their own decisions. three-year, 33-page study that that discriminated on the basis of race Cohen believas that even when children outlines a transportation plan for and sex. We should demand no less don't have the capacity to make rational SLO. Bearce conducted the study when we consider discrimination on the decisions they can "borrow" that with the help of The Transportation basis of youth," said Houlgate in his capacity from adults. Project, local committee of about 12 conclusion. "I don't share his optimism," said citizens which he heads. He lead into the issue by giviag a brief Houlgate. The study. Bearce said, suggests a history of children ·s rights. He told He said although a child might be able number of ways to solve problems in what the conditions might have been in to borrow an adult's expertise, the child transit. the past-from ancient Rome, though could not share the "understanding." The paper, "shows about a dozen the early American times to the present. Under the "limited child rights different ways of getting around A time period Houlgate emphasized t._heory· · Houlgate said children would besides the six-passenger car:· said was the early part of the 20th century have the basic rights but not any liberty Bearce. Included in the study are when "'dramatic and unprecedented"" rights. plans for increased use of bicycles, changes took place. For the first time in ··1 think there is a more plausible. ap­ mopeds, motorcycles, trains and history children were given the right to proach to children ·s rights,. com­ Please see page 9 an education, and the right to not be mented Houlgate. Page2 Mustang Dally Friday, February 20, 1981 Postal rate increase. approved Junta denies U.S. military aid WASHING TON (AP) - The Postal Rate Commis­ SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Leftist sion approved on Thursday a 3-cent increase for the leaders charged Thursday that 100_ U.S. military ad­ Newsline visers are masterminding a counter·msurgency plan to firstclass mail and added another two cents to the price of a dime postcard. The increases could take effect as "cut off the head of the leftist and intellectual sectors in early as next month. El Salvador." The Salvadoran junta and U.S. Embassy The new 18-cent stamp still will be two cents short of sources denied the accusation.