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California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 54, No. 13 • December 1, 1999

Published by Public Affa1rs

($)-Admission charged

Most Cal Poly parking fees, with the

Exhibits
ASI Fine Arts Club 221 (formerly
UU Galerie): "A Journey of the
Warrior Spirit," through Dec. I 0.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m-9 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.
University Art Gallery(Dexter
Building): "Enduring Spirit,"
photographs by Phil Borges, through
Dec. 5. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. daily;

calpoly edu/-communlc/CPR/report.htm

Individuals can pick up
own paycheck Dec. 31

tlost parking fees
to rise in January

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exception of evening quarterly and me­

Because campus will be closed to
observe the New Year's Day holiday on

tered hourly rates, are scheduled to rise

December's payday (Dec. 31), arrange­

Jan. I.

ments have been made to have the Cashier's

The first price hike in more than 10
years will include a 25-cent increase for
daily permits- from $1.50 to $1.75­
and a $2 hike for event parking - from

Office open 3-4 p.m. so employees can
pick up their checks.
During that time, checks will be
released directly to the individual
employee. Checks not picked up Dec. 31

$2 to $4.
The metered hourly rate will be kept at

can be picked up by department repre­
sentatives as a batch on Jan. 3.

Wednesday, 7-9 p.m.

the current level; it reflects the rate in the

Wednesday, December 1

city of San Luis Obispo for similar park­

If lines at the cashiers' windows

ing. The event parking rate includes a $3

(Adm. 131-E) are too long Jan. 3, repre­

by local artists and students. Also Dec.

parking fee plus a $1 surcharge to be

sentatives can go to Adm. 129 for help

2, Craft Center, 9 a.m.

returned to event sponsors.

from an Accounts Payable staff member.

Winter Craft Fair: Handmade crafts

Lunch at the Movies: "The Business
of Paradigms: How Perceptions Limit
Our Ability to Solve Problems and
Find New Solutions," Veranda
Cafe, noon.

Thursday, December Z
Winter Craft Fair: Handmade crafts
by local artists and students. Craft
Center, 9 a.m.
Music: Student recital, Davidson

Rate

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Physics Colloquium: Peter
Zimmerman(U.S. State Department),
"Physics of Ballistic Missile Defense,"
Science E-45, 11 a.m.

Current

Jan.l
$1.00

Hourly metered

$1.00

Daily

$1.50

$1.75

Weekly

$3.60

$4.20

$12.00

$14.00

Monthly
Quarterly
Annual

$36.00

$42.00

$144.00

$168.00

Evening (quarterly)
$18.00

Music Building 218, 11 a.m.
What Else We Do: KeviR lark
ms of
(English), "
l'
Their Own.'

For more information, call Payroll

Here's the new fee schedule:

$14.00

Motorcycle (quarterly)
$9.00

$10.50
$4.00

$2.00
Event
For more information, call the Park­
ing and Commuter Services office at
ext. 6-6654. 0

Friday, December J
Last day of classes

One more fall CPR;
new deadline for winter
The final fall quarter Cal Poly Report

Music: Cal Poly Chamber Orchestra

will be out Dec. 8. Please submit items for

Fall Concert, Cal Poly Theatre,

that issue by 10 a.m. Dec. 2.

8 p.m.($)

Saturday, December 4
Men's Basketball: CSU Northridge,
Mott Gym, 7 p.m.($)
Music: Cal Poly Choirs' "A Christmas
Celebration," Harman Hall, 8 p.m.
Also Sunday, Dec. 5. ($)

Sunday, December 5
Music: Cal Poly Choirs' "A Christmas
Celebration," Harman Hall, 3 p.m.($)

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Charles J. Hanks, 78
Charles J. Hanks, retired Mathematics
Department head, died Nov. 20, at his
home in San Luis Obispo.
Hanks was appointed to the mathemat­
ics faculty in 1954 and served as head of
the department from 1972 to 1983, as
acting dean of the College of Science and
Mathematics from 1975 to 1976, and as
golf coach from 1956 to 1968.
Shippensburg College in Pennsylvania,

ics), "Eigenvalues of Random
Matrices Over Finite Fields," Math

OBITUARY

He earned a bachelor's degree from

Speaker: Kent Morrison(Mathemat­

and Science 226, 4:10p.m.

Services at ext. 6-2605. 0

The Cal Poly Report is not published
during quarter break.
When publication resumes winter
quarter, articles will be due to Public

where he was honored as a distinguished
alumnus in 1976. He earned a master's
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1949, and a doctorate from the University
of Arkansas in 1954.
Hanks also had a distinguished career
in the Coast Guard Reserve, serving as
commanding officer of a sub- chaser in
the Atlantic for one year and as com­
manding officer of a supply ship in the

Affairs by 10 a.m. the Wednesday before

South Pacific for two years during

you'd like them to appear.

World War II. In the Coast Guard Re­

Items can be e-mailed to polynews@

polymail, faxed to ext. 6-6533, or mailed
to Public Affairs in Heron Hall.
For more information, call Public Affairs
at ext. 6-1511. 0

serve he served a five-year tour as a rear
admiral. 0

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DPTC hires alumna
as ingredient specialist
The dairy products technology

Huffing and puffing
won't take his wall down
Building with straw has come a long

Tickets to the annual Service Awards

program has tapped alumna Carolyn

way since the Big Bad Wolf blew down

Luncheon, set for Feb. 22 in Chumash

Podgurski to serve as its dairy ingredient

the First Little Pig's house.

Auditorium, will go on sale Jan. 18 for $9.

applications specialist.
In her role, she will conduct applied

Richard Schmidt, a lecturer in the
Architecture Department, has built a 7­

The lunch recognizes state, Foundation,
and ASI employees with 10, 15, 20, 25,

research with nonfat dry milk and other

foot-high landscape wall made of straw

30, 35, 40 and 45 years of service. A list

dairy-based ingredients and work on co­

bales and designed to mute traffic noise at

of awardees and ticket sellers and informa­

operative ventures with the food manufac­

his home on Broad Street. It was the first

tion on reserving tables will be included in

turing industry on projects designed to

straw construction project to receive a

an early January Cal Poly Report.

facilitate the use of milk and milk prod­

permit from the city of San Luis Obispo.

ucts in food. D

Straw bales are made from the waste
produced during grain harvest. The left­

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Service Awards lunch
tickets on sale Jan. 18

flonarch butterfly expert
to speak Dec. 7
Lincoln Brower, research professor of
biology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia
and distinguished professor emeritus of
zoology at the University of Florida, will
present "Monarch Butterfly Migration and
Overwintering in North America: A Mul­
tiple Endangered Biological
Phenomenon," at 11 a.m. Tuesday (Dec.
7) in Fisher Science 286.
Brower has published more than 200
scientific papers on the biology and con­
servation of monarch butterflies. He has
served as president for the Society for the
Study of Evolution, the Lepidopterists'
Society and the International Society of

sheperd's pie (beef and vegetarian,)

packed into bales that make thick, well­

garden salad, coleslaw, ambrosia, French

insulated walls.
Schmidt chose straw bales for his

and the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
Foundation to develop a comprehensive

project because of their value in reducing
building material.
"Sustainable design attempts to reduce
the impact of the construction on resource
supplies and the environment," Schmidt
said. "The wall was designed to be as
sustainable as possible."
The wall's base and foundation are
built of broken concrete sidewalk, which
otherwise would have gone to a dump.
"Using waste concrete avoided the
high environmental and energy impacts
of having to create new concrete for the
job," Schmidt said. D

CSU Student Research
Competition set flay 5-&
The CSU Student Research Competi­
tion, to be held May 5-6, 2000, is open to

known overwintering sites in Mexico.

all undergraduate and graduate students.

Professor Dennis Frey of the Biological
Sciences Department at ext. 6-2802. D

Teachers are invited to encourage
or master's theses into research compe­
For more information, visit the Web at:

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Co'ntinued from page 1
"onday, December &
Final exam period. Through Friday,
Dec. 10.
Tuesday. December 7
Speaker: Lincoln Brower (Sweet Briar
College), "Monarch Butterfly Migration

http://www.calpoly.edu/-rgplsrc or call
the Research and Graduate Programs Of­
fice, ext. 6-1508. D

Eligible employees can donate sick
leave and vacation credit to help her
remain in full-pay status during an ex­
tended absence.
Those interested in donating leave may
request the Catastrophic Leave Donation
form from solicitation coordinator Carol
or by e-mail.
CSEA employees (Units 2, 5, 7 and 9)
may donate up to 32 hours total; all other
state employees may donate up to 16
hours total sick leave and/or vacation
credits per fiscal year in increments of one
hour or more. D

College of Ag to honor
four at reception
Four College of Agriculture employees
will be honored at a farewell reception
2-3:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in Room 210 in the
The campus community is invited to

Ticket information
Tickets to performances at the Per­
forming Arts Center can be purchased at
the PAC Ticket Office 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Multiple Endangered Biological Phenom­

weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.

Music: Keb' Mo', Harman Hall,
8 p.m.($) 0

in Fiscal Services, has qualified for per­
sonal catastrophic leave.

Agricultural Sciences Building.

and Overwintering in North America: A
enon," Fisher Science 286, II a.m.

Rita Zamora, an account technician

students to turn their senior projects
tition entries.

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Solicitation of
sick leave, vacation

Johnston in Fiscal Services at ext. 6-5405

model to protect all the monarch butterfly's
For more information on the talk, call

green beans with slivered almonds, rolls,
apple pie, coffee and iced tea. D

noise and because they are a "sustainable"

He is currently collaborating with the
York, the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico

We've Had!" The menu will include

over rice, wheat, oat and barley straw is

Chemical Ecology.
Wildlife Conservation Society of New

The luncheon's theme is "Celebrating
the 20'h Century - Oh, W hat a Time

Call ext. 6-2787, or fax your order to
ext. 6-6088. D

join in the celebration being given for
Diana Frey, Audun "Oiey" Pettersen,
Jo Ann Wheatley and Rich Villa.
Frey has worked in Animal Sciences
since 1969; Pettersen, Food Science and
Nutrition, 1973; W heatley, Crop Science,
1977; Villa, Feedmill, 1991. D

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