Mustang Daily, October 5, 1979

General education

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BY K A E G R A H A M Dally Stall Wrttat A round o f applause echoed through the A g Patio in response to Cal P oly President Warren Baker’ s announcement that he was not in favor o f increasing the number of general education credit hours.

the importance o f the School o f Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.

Baker said that he was more interested in improving the quality o f the general education courses and encouraging students to take advantage o f what is available at the university.

Student invovlement was ad­ vocated by Baker as he continually encouraged students to take part in activities and become "constructive critics.”

Also, Baker felt since Cal P o ly is a unique institution: “ W e should have control o f our own destinies.” Addressing a crowd o f about 250 people Thursday, Baker stressed

“ The school (Cal P o ly) was founded on agriculture. It (the School o f Agriculture) needs to be nurtured and enhanced.”

A united front o f students, faculty and administration that would make known Cal P oly's needs and let the outside world see that we know where w e’ re going is needed, said Baker.

The question o f alcohol being permitted at off-campus activities by Cal Poly organizations was addressed by Baker. The president said he did not like rules that kept students from using their own judgement off-campus because students are young adults. The outside world will not shelter them as Cal Poly does, according to Baker. Baker said discussions he has had from students indicate alcohol oncampus is not the “ most burning” issue at Cal Poly.

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Proposed general ed changes may add to required courses BY JILL HENDRICKSON DaHf sun WrtUr N ew gen eral e d u c a t io n requirements proposed for the California State University and Colleges could mean an increase in non-major courses students have to take. I f accepted by the Board o f Trustees, the recommendations would also create stricter guidelines limiting the types o f classes qualifying as general education. According to Dr. Michael Wenzl, communicative arts and humanities representative to the Cal Poly committee reviewing the new proposals, student demands for “ relevant” courses in the 1960s led to the re-evaluation o f educational objectives in the late 1970s. In the sixties, he said, students told faculty what was important. "S o m e would ask, ‘ H ow can you stand up there and talk about P lu to’s Symposium when people are dying in Vietnam ?’ ” In response to student demands. Wenzl said universities began offerin g a wide variety o f unrelated courses and general education became too general. "W h a t ’s more important, things that are recent, or things that endure?” Wenzl said, referring to current educational philosophy.

This has been a topic o f hot debate in recent years from Harvard to Cal Poly. A report from the state-wide Task Force on General Education indicates that letting students pick and chose their courses has not solved the problem. The report stated fragmented general education stems from the “ largely unrestricted availability o f hundreds o f courses which are certified fo r general education.” Course combinations are deter­ mined by “ such factors as con­ venience and accidents of scheduling.” Essentially, the 28-point report calls for an increase from 60 to 72 quarter units o f general education. It stated that at least 12 must be taken as uper division courses at the campus granting the degree. Wenzl said he supports the recom mendat ions. “ W e have a real over-emphasis on m ajors,” he said. "T h e question is should students spend all their time studying to get an entry level jo b ? Or should they study something they w on't get a chance to fo r the rest o f their lives?” This is one o f the arguments b e tw e e n a c a d e m ic a lly and technically-oriented schools. Dr. W illiam Stine, o f the mechanical engineering depart­ ment, is chairman o f the Academic Senate General Education-Breadth Committee at Cal Poly.

He agreed general education ought to be revamped. But he objected to the proposed ways o f doing it. “ From an engineering point o f view, our students would have to take additional units,” he said. In the engineering department some introductory support courses are accepted as general education requirements. Under the proposed restrictions those units would not qualify. The problem o f whether ad­ ditional general educational units would be added to curriculums or subracted from major course requirements remains unanswered, Stine said. Either way, he said he opposes raising general edcuation requirements. “ I don’ t think an adequate jo b is being done in general education,” he explained. But “ the way to fix it isn't to increase the amount o f time doing a bad job . That philosophy isn’ t lo g ica l." Cal P o ly ’ s response to the task force recommendations is due N ov. IS. Reactions from the IS other campuses in the C S U C system will be considered before the Board o f Trustees makes a final decision. “ Even if they’ re not accepted it will spark a lot o f useful debate,” Wenzl said. “ It can’t* hurt to reconsider what w e’ re doin g.”

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Sailing team loses charter BY JEANN INE FRANUSICH Da»r Sun water The ASI student senate threw the sailing team and their codes overboard at its Wednesday night meeting The senate voted to void the sailing team's codes and put the team under direct supervision o f the Poly Corinthians— the sailing dub Problems with the sailing team arose when team members checked out a state bus in June under the pretense that they were going to compete in a Santa Barbara regatta. H ow ever, there was no regatta in Santa Barbara that weekend. But there was a rock concert. Members o f the team painted the bus and drove it to the concert The bus was returned with traces o f paint still on it, concert ticket stubs

on the floor and evidence that there had been liquor aboard, said ASI Vice President Jeff Land Land said (he senate has had other problems with the team in past years He said the team has a debt in the ASI budget “ that has been out­ standing and overdue fo r some tim e.” In addition, the team tried to sell a boat last year that was ASI property. Land said this was illegal. In M ay, the senate set a date to take inventory o f all the sailing team's equipment, which ASI owns, but team members failed to show up. The team “ ignored an order to show up and have an inventory taken o f A S I property,” Land said. Bill Wiedemann, captain o f the sailing team, said members would like to be able to use the money they were allocated last year.

“ Th ey— the ASI — destroyed account, "W iedem ann said.

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Wiedemann said the club has to pay dues to the Pacific Coast In te rc o lle g ia te Y ach t R a cin g Association. , “ W e will still attempt to sail with the program (P C I Y R A ), ” he said. In other action: 0 — The senate voted to keep the Cal P oly yearbook, and to approve a contract with new yearbook company. H e r ff Jones, after an editor and an advisor are chosen. — The Ecology Action Club was granted S I40 fo r wooden boxes for the “ Recycle the D aily” project. —A $839 budget ex­ tension was approved for W O W to cover the increase o f flight costs to New York fo r a national con­ vention. ,... ..........

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A longer stay C a l P o ly now costs $78 a quarter. M a jo rs such as engineering o r ar­ chitecture cover a fiv e year program . A state-wide Task Force on G eneral E ducation fa vo rs the addition o f 12 additional general education requirements and the lim iting o f the selection o f classes. A ll these are interrelated in a controversy to restrict and hand-guide students— the real taxpayers o f the C a lifo rn ia State U niversity and C olleges System. Presently 60 general education requirements are needed to graduate. A m o n g these, varying numbers o f units must be taken in natural science, social sciences, humanities, basic subjects (m athem atics and English) and physical education. But that is where the current regulations end and where the recom m endations begin. T h e Task Force recom mends all m ajors to com plete at least 12 units upper division general education courses. A ls o , general education— as proposed by the com m ittee— w ill have less leew ay as to what students can choose. O n e C al P o ly teacher said the university has an over-emphasis on m ajors. This logic begs tw o questions— w hy are w e called a polytechnic university and w hy doesn’ t the current education system w ork? A s a technical school, our priority should be tow ard lab- and m ajororiented education. A s a university, a w ell-rounded graduate is man­ datory. But it w ou ld be a crim e against the goals o f the university to delete 12 units fro m m a jor classes. E qu ally unjustifiable w ou ld be the additional burden to students— they w ou ld have to either stay in college longer, an additional expense, o r take m ore units per quarter. W e agree with President Baker’ s speech on Thursday to have no in­ crease in the requirements. W hat needs to be d one instead is a gross re-evaluation o f how and why certain courses o ffe re d in general education. Sixty units is enough to make college students proficient and, as Baker earlier said, well-rounded individuals.

Letters------Engineering speaks out Editor: ,,, Perhaps some o f the “ insignificant events which occur in the School o Engineering and Technology (in particular the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department) are not as interesting as grape juice com petition or feedmill boiler problems, but why is there almost no mention o f the afrementioned school or department in the Mustang Daily f The “ minor” events to which 1 refer, and which are apparently not worthy o f coverage in the Mustang are: (1) A New assistant dean o f the school. (2) A new EE/EL department head, which by the way did receive coverage in the local Telegram-Tribune. (3 ) The donation o f some expensive laboratory equipment through the Poly Phase Club to the Senior Project Lab (the presentation o f which the Mustang was invited to cover, but no reporter ever materialized.) And I am sure there are newsworthy items in other schoos and departments which similarly are never reported. N o offense intended, but I am pne student who is disappointed in the M ustang’s lack o f at­ tention to the School o f Engineering, and the overemphasis to the point o f boredom o f certain other schools at this University. Louis E. Behrens

Knqwledge is power Editor: Vour editorial o f Tuesday, October 2, titled “ Blown A w a y” was laced with inaccuracies and omissions and demon­ strated a lack o f research by your editorial staff on the subject. In addition, I feel you sorely miss the whole point that The Progressive is trying to bring across to the American public. T o recap briefly, The Progressive, which is a monthly magazine and not a newspaper as you indicated, attempted to publish an article by free-lance writer Howard Morland on the principles behind the hydrogen bomb. According to The Progressive, "M orland* suppressed article explains the huge, im­ mensely sophisticated, and enormously expensive industrial complex required to produce thermonuclear weapons. It details the role o f some o f Am erica’ s largest cor­ porations in that complex, and the hundreds o f billions o f taxpayer dollars that have been invested in it.”. Jt is not a “ how-to” article as you’ve indicated. Without The Progressive’s knowledge or permission, a copy o f M o r land’s eighteenpage s n id e was passed to a professor at M IT , who later passed the manuscript to the Department o f Energy. There the a n k le was found to be objectionable On Monday, March 26, 1979, Federal Judge Robert W . Warren did what no federal judge had ever done before in the 203-year history o f the United States: He issued an in ju n ction banning The Progressive from printing or distributing the an ide.

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The dedsion by the government to drop that prior restraint order came after a small newspaper— the M adison Press C o n ­ nection— published another similar a n id e about the hydrogen bomb on Sunday September 19. Realizing the futility o f continuing the injunction, the government dropped all attempts at suppressing the information. Neither The Progressive nor the Daily C alifornian violated the law in any way as your editorial suggested. Both acted in a responsible, wise, and legal manner. The Progressive, a magazine which has gone on record countless times against the arms race, has no interest in aiding the proliferation o f atom k weapons. The in­ form ation contained in the Morland article

was obtained soley from public sources. None o f the contained information was secret in any way, and I think it would be sake to assume that this information is available right here at the C al Poly library. Secrecy o f inform ation is a myth. The free flow o f inform ation is critical to our survival as a free republic. T h e first amendment cannot b f selectively applied to what the government deems safe fo r us to see, as a well-inform ed public must have access to all inform ation necessary to make intelligent policy decisions. The issue at stake here concerns the right o f the public to obtain inform ation vital to determining a public policy.

•~f ' i-■ i t : Government decision-making has too Iona been left to the few " w h o know,” thus engendering such debacles as the Bay o f Pigs and Vietnam, to name only a few. Knowledge is indeed power, and a m onopoly on knowledge equates with nothing less than a m onopoly o f power. Richard Papel

‘Second Thoughts’ Editor: There have been enough letters in response to the guest editorial “ Second Thoughts" in the September 20-21 Mustang to illustrate that Scott Craven’ s “ thoughts” are shared by very few on this campus. M y purpose in writing therefore is not to. engage in another rebuttal o f the article, but to question the editorial policy o f a newspaper that permits such irresponsible journalism. I f the charges by Craven had been made about a specific person, he would have been subject to a libel suit. He is perhaps fortunate that there is no such thing as class action libel. Unfortunately, the Craven editorial is not an isolated example o f the M u sta n g’s use o f undocumented slander and innuendo to support the assertion that virtually the entire faculty is g u ilty of slo th , incom peten ce and professional irresponsibility. Last year's coeditor with Craven, T on y Tranfa, vilified the faculty in the widely circulated Poly Royal Edition with the same kind o f article that Craven used to “ w ek o m e” this year’ s new students to Cal P oly. Craven used four illustrations o f poor instruction, three of w hkh were personal value judgments and one that was borrowed from -Tranfa’s Poly Royal arrive, to indict an entire faculty of over one thousand full and part-time profamors. It was a supreme iroay to find a letter from three su ffe rs o f the same Mustang Daily that u w fit to print Craven's diatribe, charging the Telegram Tribune with deliberately slanted, emotional and inaccurate journalism , la a sense however. I find this demand for impartial and accurate reporting from Mustang Daily assistant editors and writers refreshing, since I hope it signals the advent o f a more responsible journalism at the Mustang Itself. Can we ask anything more from Mustang writers who criticize the Telegram-Tribune for being "u n fa ir to students” than that they in return desist from being unfair to faculty? Professors must conform to high stan­ dards o f professional ethics and respon­ sibility. I f they do not. it is the responsibility o f both students and faculty to use well established and effective procedures to m odify the unacccpubie behavior. It is the function o f the A cad em k Senate to make recommendations fo r insuring excellence through the university personnel and in­ struction policies. W e are continually in volved in our committees with studies to im prove the quality o f university experience Students are appointed to these committees as well as to the Academ ic Senate itself to share in the governance o f the university. No body o f human beings is perfect, but to argue, as docs Craven, that the faculty is almost perfectly imperfect, is to raise serious questions about the m otives o f the author. Respectfully, M ax E. Riedlsperger Professor o f History Chair, Academic Senate

Parking regulations are a snare to the unaware Even though she’d been backing into C al Poly parking spaces for years, M adolyn N ix found a slip on her windshield warning her not to do it again under penalty o f fine— and the Journalism Department secretary was not happy about the surprise. “ I was really mad about that.” she said. “ D on’t they have anything better to do than give out those things? N ix is not alone in her curiosity over why the new rule was suddenly O fficers Lana Fleming, Carlos Ramirez and Glenda Souza of the traffic patrol give out the warnings'. Fleming, a seven-year veteran o f the campus police force, ex­ plained why the new regulation was put into effect. “ Starting this fall, parking permits are to be displayed on the right rear corner o f the back bumper, so if people back into parking spaces, we can’t see whether they have permit or not.” Fleming said.

Permits were transferred from the right corner o f the windshield to the back bumper because they are more visible to officers motoring through parking lots, Fleming explained. PatroUag hours are saved when officers do not have to patrol the areas on foot, she said. M any recipien ts o f the warning have compla ined they did not actually back into the space, but polled into it from a facing slot, before the lot got crowded. But said Fleming, that doesn’t make any difference. A ll cars must have their rear bumpers facing the aisle, even if the permit is the type that dangles from the windshield, inside the car. Faculty and staff members with two cars often have this type o f permit for their second auto. Fleming explained officers are more efficient when they can see every rear bumper from the aisle. Only when the bumper does not have a permit do officers have to get out o f their cars to see i f a

Warmline helps parents under stress BY SE A N N A BROW DER o—r sue warn i

When the children are screaming, the house is a mess and there seems to be no excape, parents can call “ Warmline” for help. On the other end o f the telephone will be a sym­ pathetic volunteer ready to listen because they are parents and have been in the same situation. Warmline is a service o f the Family Service Center, a non-profit organization. It began as a senior project by Jane Walter^ a child development major. She based Warmline on a similar program in Orange County. The project began in June o f

1978. Walter explained War­ mline is not crisis in­ tervention, but a sounding board to prevent the crisis from happening. “ I want people to know that there is a helping hand out there,’ ’ said Walter. Walter is very pleased with the way the program is run. “ It is set up the way I planned it in my senior project, she said.' It’ s nice to see my project being used and serving a need o f the community.” Jane is still involved with the Family Service Center. She is currently on the board o f directors. Warmline is just one part o f the Family Service Center. The center’ s main emphasis is on

counseling— both m arital and personal. The staff consists o f 30 counselors county-wide. Family Service Center is funded by the City o f San Luis O bispo, county revenue sh arin g and p rivate donations. It has been in existence for eleven years.

C al Poly students have interned a l the Fam ily Service Center. According to Linda Gruettner, the in­ tern sh ips have been rew arding fo r both the students the center; “ W e would like to see more program s like W ar­ mline started through our o ffice,” said M s. Gruettner.

students and staff parking in handicapped zones redeve a $10 citation. “ Some students get 33-40 tickets a quarter,” Fleming said. “ They have to really work at it though. I f they continue to get tickets, they get a warning that their car will be towed if they don’t pay the fines.” Fleming pointed out that it would be more economical for parking violators to purchase a SI2-pcr-quarter permit. Other little known parking regulations iuftnA i the hours that p w i * requirements are in effect— 7 a.m . to t p.m . M on.-Fri. for lots C -t aad H - I T and 7 a.m . to 6 p.m . for another zoom. A ll other rules and regulations are en­ forced 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Students, faculty and staff concerned with keeping perking costs down can pick up a “ Parking Rules” handbook at the cashier’s window in the University Union or at the campus police offices on the North Perimeter next to the fire station.

permit is hanging inside. The new permit actually has a dual purpose, she said. It discourages theft. W hen permits were stuck to the inside windshield, she said thieves are enticed to break into the car. Fleming says the new permit it rttrigned to crack or shatter if someone tries to peel it o ff, making it worthless to would-be permit nabbers. The officer said another common problem violation is students parking in spaces reserved fo r faculty and staff. “ A lot o f students are o f the notion that with a “ C ” permit, they can park in any “ C ” slot.” she said. “ But some o f the spaces have been reserved, and such slots are posted, with either a sign or brown curb paint. Penalty fo r parking in the wrong zone and for backing into a slot is S2. The fine fo r not having a permit is S3. Able-bodied

CSUC budget: *838,700,636 The California State University and Colleges was allocated 1838,700,636 by the Legislature fo r the 1979-80 fiscal year. This reflects a compromise with the budget proposal from G ov. Edmund Brown Jr. which was $ 124,420,414 lower. Moot o f the total i>t>

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Help Wanted Cal Poly Mustangs, Jan Klrchof and Doug Morrow do a traditional Russian Cossack dance In front of UC Davis placskicker, Rod Holmquist and quarterback John Lucido In last week’s game

against the Aggies. The dance was good, and so was the kick. The Mustangs play Fresno State at Mustang Stadium Saturday night at 7:30. The Bulldogs lost to Washington State last weekend.

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