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CAL POLY REPORT. OCTOBER 21 , 1998
Student Affairs
Rip Taylor to star in
'A Funny Thing Happened' says 'Thanks'
Veteran actor Rip Taylor has been
named to the lead role in "A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo
rum," scheduled to play in the Perform
ing Arts Center's Cohan Center on
Sunday and Monday, Jan . 24-25.
Taylor replaces Jo Anne Worley of
"Laugh-In" as the eternally exasperated
slave Psuedolu s in thi s revival of the
Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
Taylor's persona as an insane, con
fetti-tossing, crying comedian became
well known in the '60s and '70s on the
Ed Sullivan Show. D
Policy on animal research,
human subjects, fraud
The university has established policies
and procedures for protecting people and
animals involved in research projects and
for dealing with scientific fraud.
The Human Subjects Committee re
views all projects involving human sub
jects, including senior projects, thesis
work, and faculty research. Research
proposals should be sent to either Steve
Davis, committee chair, Physical Educa
tion and Kinesiology (Mott Physical
Education Building, Room 363, ext. 62754), or the Research and Graduate Pro
grams office in Building 38, Room 155
(formerly the Math and Home Econom
ics Building, now the Math and Science
Building), ext. 6-1508, for referral to the
committee. Guidelines for preparing the
proposals can be obtained from either
office.
The In stitutional Animal Care and
Use Committee reviews all current or
proposed projects or activities in which
animals are used in teaching or research.
For guidelines and forms, call or visit the
Research and Graduate Programs office.
Send proposals involving the use of ani
mals to the committee via Research and
Graduate Program s.
Copies of "Policies and Procedures
for the Handling of Allegations of Scien
tific Fraud and Serious Mi sconduct" are
available from Research and Graduate
Programs, Grants Development, and
Foundation Sponsored Program s, all in
the Math and Science Building. Or call
ext. 6- 1508 or e-mail cbrooksh@cal
poly.edu. D
The Student Affairs Division thanks
the following departments for partici
pating in the recent Mark S. Reuling
Volleyball Cha ll enge: Athletics, ASI
Recreational Sports, Career Services,
Economics, Health and Psychological
Services, Housing and Residential Life,
Ombud Services and Educational Eq
uity Programs, the Vice Pre si dent for
Student Affairs office, Student
Life, Student Academic Services,
and the University Center for Teacher
Education.
Thi s first-time event was a success
with more than $900 donated to an en
dowment that will fund mental health
and depression education and preven
tion programs through Health and Psy
chological Services.
For more information about the en
dowment or the tournament, call Polly
Harrigan at ext. 6-6553. D
. Iearn1ng
. ,
•••' serviCe(Continued from page 1)
guides and concept papers, including
the new General Education criteria and
the CSU "Cornerstones" document.
The Class and Community Connec
tions program provides faculty mem
bers with these incentives :
• Funds of up to $1,000 each that
can be paid directly to four faculty
members or transferred to their respec
tive department accounts;
• Funds for two faculty members to
travel to di scipline- specific confer
ences;
• Help from student mentors for 10
hours a week to handle the logistic s of
involving students in the off-campus
community;
• Funds to bring to campus facu lty
experts in service-learning within their
respective di sc iplines; and
• Assistance in locating appropriate
community-learning experiences.
Interested teachers can call the
program's faculty liaison , Dianne
Long, at ext. 6-5717 or 6-2984. D
ort
Cal Poly students
hit the streets
Cal Poly students helped spruce up
local non-profit organizations and ser
vice agencies recently during the 6th an
nual "Into the Streets" event sponsored
by Student Community Services.
Into the Streets is designed to intro
duce students to community service and
chall enge them to volunteer regularly.
More than 75 students were expected
to clean up such organizations as Head
Start; the AIDS Support Network; the
Transition/ Mental Health Association's
(TM HA) Growing Grounds, LA Group,
and Cri sis House; Rancho de Los
Animales; the Homeless Shelter; and the
Prado Day Center. D
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter
Building): "Craftmakers '98 ,"
through Oct. 24. Dail y II am-4 pm;
Wednesday, 7-9 pm.
UU Galerie: "Peter Meller: Andante
Allegro Rubato," through Dec. 6.
Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm;
Wednesday until 7 pm; Saturday,
Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
Wednesday, October 21
Position vacancies
Vacancy information and applications
for the following positions are available
from the appropriate Human Resources
office. Vacancy information can also be ac
cessed from the Cal Poly home page on the
World Wide Web (address: www.
calpoly.edu; click on ''General Information").
FOUIIDATIOII (Foundation Adm. Building,
job line at ext. 6-7107). All foundation ap
plications must be received (not just post
marked) by 5 pm of the closing date.
(No faxes.)
Engineering Programmer/Analyst,
Aeronautical Engineering ($3,457 $6,447/mo). Serves as a project engineer
of a research team responsible for plan
ning, organizing, and conducting flight
control technology programs for rotary
winged aircraft. Primary responsibilities
include conceiving, designing, and
implementing significant technical im
provement to the CONDUIT (Control
Designer's Unified Interface) system.
Work wi ll be performed at NASA Ames
Research Center in the Flight Control
and Pilot Interface Branch of the Army/
NASA Rotorcraft Division. Require
ments: Master 's degree in aeronautical
engineering and a minimum of one year
of recent experience in rotorcraft controls
design using CONSOLE and CONDUIT
in a C++ environment. Knowledge of
Gifcorcode, UNIX and Matlab. Must be
able to clearly communicate both orally
and in writing the results of the test stud
ies. Must be able to work evenings and
weekends as required. Closing date: Nov.
6. D
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Music: Trio Voronezh, Cal Poly
Theatre, 8 pm. ($)
Thursday, October 22
Physics colloquium: Nilgun Sungar,
"Biophysics of Neurons," Science E
45 , 11 am.
Friday, October 23
Homecoming: Through Sunday, Oct.
25. Call Alumni Relations at ext. 6ALUM (6-2586).
Groundbreaking: Sports Complex,
on site, II am.
Women's Soccer: UOP, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: UC Berkeley, Mustang
Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Music: Anne Murray, Cohan Center,
8 pm. ($)
Saturday, October 24
Homecoming Football: Western New
Mexico, Mustang Stadium, l pm. ($)
Sunday, October 25
Women's Soccer: Cal State Long
Beach, Mustang Stadium, 1 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: Stanford, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm ($)
nonday, October 26
Workshop: International Travel
Safety, UU 220, 2 pm.
Thursday, October 29
Physics colloquium: Gayle Cook,
"Neutrino Mass and the Cosmos,"
Science E-45 , ll am.
Speaker: Wayne Montgomery
(Library), "Academic Libraries in
Thai land and Vietnam: Making
Friends and Touring," Staff Dining
room, noon .
Speaker: Ian McHarg, "Designing
Environments for the Next Millen
nium," Theatre, 4:30pm.
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 7 • October 21 , 1998
Published by the Communications Office
'Info literacy' standards
topic of teleconference
Incentives offered for
'service-learning' program
A teleconference celebrating new na
tional guidelines and the first "informa
tion literacy" standards for the K-12
learner is planned for Monday, Nov. 2.
School library media specialists, teach
ers, and student teachers are invited to the
free, live, interactive presentation from
9 am to noon at the Kennedy Library.
After the program, a no-host lunch will
be served at Vista Grande. Library Dean
Hiram L. Davis will speak on the growing
role of universities in K-12 education.
The teleconference, "Building Part
nerships for Learning," will cover such
topics as:
• The process leading to the new
guidelines and standards;
• The implications for school library
media programs and specialists; and
• Long-term plans for implementation.
Other areas of discu ss ion will include:
• The evolv ing rol e of the school
library media specialist;
Faculty members interested in incor
porating community-based experiences
into new or revised General Education
courses are eligible to receive funds and
other assistance to help develop and
implement the courses.
Class and Community Connections,
a Cal Poly Pl an program, seeks to ad
vance this "service-learning" teaching
pedagogy, which promotes both intel
lectual and civic engagement by link
ing the work students do in the
classroo m to real-world problems and
needs without compromising academic
rigor or discipline-specific objectives .
Community-based experiences have
been encouraged in several curriculum
(Continued on page 2)
Graduate Student Council
seeks representatives
The newly formed Graduate Student
Council seeks student representatives
from each department that offers a gradu
ate degree. The council will provide
campuswide advocacy on policies affect
ing graduate students, faci li tate network
ing for collaborative interdisciplinary
research, distribute announcements about
campus services, provide training for
teaching assistants, host a web site, di s
tribute a news letter, and sponsor work
shops.
Department chairs and graduate co
ordinators are encouraged to nominate
or recruit graduate students for the
council. Some departments might al
ready have elected representatives in
place. For more information or to make
nomination s, contact English grad stu
dent E li zabeth Brunner at ebrunner@
calpoly.edu or 547-1288. D
(Continued on page 4)
'Demonstration orchard'
begun with donation
The Central Coast chapter of the Cali
fornia Rare Fruit Growers Association is
donating $1,500 to the Crop Science De
partment to help establish a "demonstra
tion orchard" on campus.
Crop Science Department Head Paul
Fountain and professor Robert McNeil
accepted the donation at a recent cer
emony at which the first tree was
planted. The tree is called a Dapple
Dandy Pluot, a cross between an apricot
and a plum tree.
"Rare and unusual fruit trees and
vines will be bought or donated to dem
onstrate growth habits, flowering and
fruiting patterns and provide sample
fruits for students and members of the
Rare Fruit Growers Association," said
Joe Sabol, director of outreach services
for the College of Agriculture.
Long-range plans for the orchard are
to develop a collection of rare and inter
esting fruit trees, both deciduous and
sub-tropical , Sabol said.
The site is on the south side of High
land Drive near Stenner Creek. For more
information, call Sabol at ext. 6-7225 . D
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
Deadlines announced for
fee waiver program
lan ltcHarg to speak
on environments Oct. 29
Employees are reminded of the
following winter quarter 1999 fee
waiver deadlines:
Oct. 22 - CAPTURE registration be
gins for staff (see "Priority & Graduate
Students" category in class schedule)
Nov. 20 -Last day to pay fees to
avoid $25 late fee
Jan. 19 - Last day to submit Fee
Waiver forms (HREE Form 133) to
Human Resources and Employment
Equity office.
Employees enrolled fall quarter will
be mailed a Form 133; those not cur
rently enrolled should e-mail or call Joan
Lund at ext. 6-6563. D
Ian McHarg, renowned author, envi
ronmental planner and landscape archi
tect credited with "ushering the gentle
science of ecology out of oblivion and
into mainstream thought," wi ll speak at
Cal Poly Oct. 29 and 30.
McHarg will talk on "Designing Envi
ronments for the Next Millennium" from
4:30 to 5:30pm on Thursday, Oct. 29, in
the Theatre and will hold a forum to dis
cuss environmental issues at 2 pm on Fri
day, Oct. 30, in the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design Gallery.
McHarg, a University of Pennsylva
nia professor emeritus, will discuss his
recent and current work in various parts
of the world.
In addition to the landmark book "De
sign With Nature" and the autobiographi
cal "A Quest for Life," he has written
numerous publications on the relationship
between man and his environment. D
Immunizations offered
at health, wellness fair
Immunizations and information on
health care will be offered at the next
health and wellness fair from II am to
I pm Wednesday, Oct. 28, in UU 220.
Participants will be able to get shots
for the flu ($1 0), pneumonia ($25), and
tetanus (free) during "Get a Shot of Good
Health," an event sponsored by the Em
ployee Assistance Program.
Specialists from a number of commu
nity health care organizations will be
handing out information. They include
Cal Poly's Health Education, the San
Luis Obispo County Health Department,
El Corral, Med Stop, the Arthritis Founda
tion, the American Heart Association, the
AIDS Support Network, Mission Medical ,
and Central Coast Primary Care.
Door prizes will be given away.
Watch for more information in a flier
to be mailed to departments. D
Hti}L.', kMJ- ~- ~ ~
The Cal Poly Report is published
by the Communications Office every
Wednesday during the academic year.
Items submitted by 10 am Thurs
day appear in the following
Wednesday's edition.
For information, call ext. 6-1511,
or e-mail articles, suggestions, and
questions to polynews@polymail.
You may fax items to ext. 6-6533. D
Open enrollment period
drawing to close
Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day to
submit health and dental insurance
open enrollment changes. It is also the
deadline to elect or discontinue partici
pation in FlexCash, the Dependent
Care Program and the Tax Advantage
Premium Plan (TAPP).
All Open Enrollment Worksheets must
be received in the Human Resources and
Employment Equity office, Adm. 110, by
Oct. 30. Open enrollment changes and en
rollments will be effective Jan. 1, 1999.
The next open enrollment period will
be held September 1999, with transac
tions to be effective January 2000. D
••• 'Info literacy'
Focus on grad schools
Approximately 50 representatives are
expected to participate in Graduate and
Professional School Day, planned from
10 am to 1 pm on Friday, Nov. 6, in
Chumash Auditorium.
Representatives are coming from
CSU campuses at Chico, Hayward, and
San Bernardino; UCs at Berkeley, Davis,
Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and
Santa Barbara; and from Stanford, Cal
Tech, University of the Pacific, USC,
Antioch School of Professional Psychol
ogy, U.S. Navy Medical Programs, Santa
Clara, Lorna Linda University, and
Loyola Law School.
The event is sponsored by Career Ser
vices, with support from the College of
Science and Mathematics Student Council.
The program is open to all majors. A
complete li st of universities attending is
available on the Career Services Web
site at www.careerservices.calpoly.edu,
under Special Events.
For details, call ext. 6-2501. D
Send items by Nov. 9
for spring Credit Report
Monday, Nov. 9, is the deadline to sub
mit items for the fall quarter edition of The
Credit Report, the newsletter of faculty
and staff professional accomplishments.
When submitting news, please keep
in mind that items should be about sig
nificant accomplishments clearly related
-and in most cases that means directly
related- to a faculty member 's teaching
or a staff member's job at Cal Poly.
Mail items (typed and double-spaced,
please) to JoAnn Lloyd, Communica
tions Office, Heron Hall ; fax them to ext.
6-6533; or e-mail to polynews@poly
mail. Please be sure to inc lude a phone
number in case we have questions.
For information, call ext. 6-15 1L. D
(Continued from page 1)
• The media specialist's role as cata
lyst for applying media and technology
to facilitate learning;
• Books and reading ; and
• Information technologies and prob
lem solving.
A question-and-answer period will
end the program .
Reservations are required for both the
teleconference and the lunch . Call Mary
Lou Brady in the Library at ext. 6-2273
by Friday, Oct. 23, to reserve space. D
Construction updates
available for meetings
Campus committees that would like
construction project updates at meetings
can contact Deby Ryan at ext. 6-6806 or
e-mail her at dryan@calpo ly.edu.
Whether for a regular agenda item or
an occasional appearance, she is avail
able to attend meetings day and night. D
PAGE 2
PolyPhonics, jazz groups
to perform Nov. 1
Pulitzer Prize winner
to read Oct. 30
NRit professor finds
'nature' needs managing
PolyPhonics, Cal Poly's 30-voice
chamber ensemble, will give its annual
fall concert at 3 pm Sunday, Nov. I, in
the Pavilion of the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz and the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo are also scheduled to appear.
Conducted by music professor Thomas
Davies, the program will include Italian
madrigals by Caimo and Gesualdo; "Fu
neral Ikos" by contemporary English com
poser John Avener; Z. Randall Stroope's
setting of James Agee's poem "Sure on
This Shining Night," and Gioacchino
Rossini's portrayal of canal life in Venice,
"I Gondolieri."
Music professor Susan Azaret Davies
will accompany PolyPhonics.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz will perform "Ba
roque Samba" by Darmon Meader, "When
I Fall in Love" by Victor Young, and "Agua
de Beber" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The co ncert will also include so lo
performances by top vocal students and
se lection s by members of the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo, directed by music profes
sor Paul Rinzler.
Tickets for the concert are $6.50 and
$8.40 and can be bought at the Performing
Arts Ticket Office from 10 am to 6 pm
weekdays and from I 0 am to 4 pm Satur
days . To order by phone, call 6-ARTS (62787); to order by fax, dial 6-6088.
The concert is sponsored by Cal
Poly's Music Department, College of
Liberal Arts, and the Instructionally
Related Activities program. D
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of "Independence Day," will
give the first fa ll quarter reading in Cal
Poly's WriterSpeak series at 7 pm Fri
day, Oct. 30, in Room 213 of the Busi
ness Bui lding.
Ford has pub lished several books of
fiction, including "Sportswriter,"
"Rock Springs," and his latest collec
tion of stories, "Women with Men. "
He made literary history in 1996 by
winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Pen-Faulkner Award for " Independence
Day." The book- not related to the
science-fiction motion picture of the
sa me name - is a novel about a di
vorced ex-sportswriter who, "over
one Fourth of July weekend, is called
into sudden , bewildering engagement
with life. "
Th e New York Times hails Ford as
"one of the most compelling and elo
quent storyte ll e rs of his generation. "
After the reading , "Women with
Me n" and other Ford book s will be on
sa le at El Corral Bookstore.
The reading is sponsored by Cal
Poly Arts, the College of Liberal Arts
and the English Department.
For more information, call Adam
Hill of the English Department at
ext. 6-1622. D
In a yearlong study, natural resources
management professor Doug Piirto found
that to have "natural" forests in the
Sierra Nevada, the answer, ironically, is
that we must continue to manage them.
Ancient Sierra forests were much
more open than they are now, he says,
dotted with young sequoia and other sap
lings, because they burned a lot more
often than they have for the past 70 or
I 00 years. Man has controlled fires for
so long that suddenly taking our hands
off could bring catastrophe.
"To get back to nature, if that's what
we want to do, we have to manage,"
says Piirto.
In collaboration with the U.S. Forest
Service, Piirto has just completed a study
of giant seq uoia ecology. He says hi s
findings app ly to mixed evergreen forests
throughout much of the Sierra Nevada.
Piirto sees the next essential step as
developing a better, less-contentious pro
cess to learn how " nat ural " the public
wants the forest to be. D
ltartial arts demo, clinic
Former world champion martial arts
master Jerry Bell will lead a demon
stration and clinic on Friday and Satur
day, Nov. 13-14, on various forms of
martial arts .
Bell and seven other masters will
demonstrate nine forms of martial arts in
the "Night of the Masters" beginning at
6 pm Friday in the Recreation Center.
Presented by AS I, the event is open to
all ages. Doors open at 5:30pm. Tickets
are $5 to $7; children 5 and under are free.
On Saturday, Bell will work one-on
one with participants in a four-hour
clinic. The clinic, beginning at 8 am in
the Rec Center, costs $20.
To order tickets call ext. 6-5806 or
buy them at the AS I/ Athletics Ticket
Office at the Rec Center. D
'ltustang ltain Street'
planned Oct. 24, Nov. 21
Mustang Main Street, an event spon
sored by ASI and Athletics to encour
age the community and students to take
part in traditional pre-game activities
will be open from 11 am to 12:50 pm
Saturday, Oct. 24, before the Home
coming footba ll game, and again before
the Nov. 21 game.
The event will be on the lawn north
of Mustang Stadium.
Mustang Main Street will include
c lub booths se lling food, beverages and
various Cal Poly collectibles.
"AS I and Athletics have worked ex
tremely hard," said Dan Geis, AST Presi
dent, "to put together a positive and
controlled environment where clubs can
celebrate their best and all students can
become a Booster for a Day." D
Statistics offers consulting
The Statistics Department provides a
consulting service to help with research
design and data analysis in a variety of
disciplines. The service is intended to
support faculty and staff projects and re
search, as we!J as help students with se
nior project and graduate research.
Robert Smidt, the main consultant fall
quarter, can help in the design and analy
sis of research projects. He can also lead
seminars and tutorials on requested top
ics and advise on computer packages
available at Cal Poly. If a special area
concerning statistical inference is of in
terest to a group or department, contact
Smidt to arrange lectures on that subject.
Smidt's office is in Room Ill in Fac
ulty Offices East. He can be reached at
ext. 6-200 I, via e-mail at rsmidt@cal
poly.edu or fax to 6-2700.
Walk-in consulting hours:
Monday, 8:40-9:30 am; Tuesday,
I 0: LO-ll am; and Thursday, 10: I 0-noon .
Office hours for students:
Tuesday, I 0:10-11 am; Wednesday
and Friday, 8:40-9:30 am; Thursday,
9:10-IOam.
Appointments can be scheduled by
calling during walk-in consulting hours
or during office hours for students. D
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CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
Deadlines announced for
fee waiver program
lan ltcHarg to speak
on environments Oct. 29
Employees are reminded of the
following winter quarter 1999 fee
waiver deadlines:
Oct. 22 - CAPTURE registration be
gins for staff (see "Priority & Graduate
Students" category in class schedule)
Nov. 20 -Last day to pay fees to
avoid $25 late fee
Jan. 19 - Last day to submit Fee
Waiver forms (HREE Form 133) to
Human Resources and Employment
Equity office.
Employees enrolled fall quarter will
be mailed a Form 133; those not cur
rently enrolled should e-mail or call Joan
Lund at ext. 6-6563. D
Ian McHarg, renowned author, envi
ronmental planner and landscape archi
tect credited with "ushering the gentle
science of ecology out of oblivion and
into mainstream thought," wi ll speak at
Cal Poly Oct. 29 and 30.
McHarg will talk on "Designing Envi
ronments for the Next Millennium" from
4:30 to 5:30pm on Thursday, Oct. 29, in
the Theatre and will hold a forum to dis
cuss environmental issues at 2 pm on Fri
day, Oct. 30, in the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design Gallery.
McHarg, a University of Pennsylva
nia professor emeritus, will discuss his
recent and current work in various parts
of the world.
In addition to the landmark book "De
sign With Nature" and the autobiographi
cal "A Quest for Life," he has written
numerous publications on the relationship
between man and his environment. D
Immunizations offered
at health, wellness fair
Immunizations and information on
health care will be offered at the next
health and wellness fair from II am to
I pm Wednesday, Oct. 28, in UU 220.
Participants will be able to get shots
for the flu ($1 0), pneumonia ($25), and
tetanus (free) during "Get a Shot of Good
Health," an event sponsored by the Em
ployee Assistance Program.
Specialists from a number of commu
nity health care organizations will be
handing out information. They include
Cal Poly's Health Education, the San
Luis Obispo County Health Department,
El Corral, Med Stop, the Arthritis Founda
tion, the American Heart Association, the
AIDS Support Network, Mission Medical ,
and Central Coast Primary Care.
Door prizes will be given away.
Watch for more information in a flier
to be mailed to departments. D
Hti}L.', kMJ- ~- ~ ~
The Cal Poly Report is published
by the Communications Office every
Wednesday during the academic year.
Items submitted by 10 am Thurs
day appear in the following
Wednesday's edition.
For information, call ext. 6-1511,
or e-mail articles, suggestions, and
questions to polynews@polymail.
You may fax items to ext. 6-6533. D
Open enrollment period
drawing to close
Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day to
submit health and dental insurance
open enrollment changes. It is also the
deadline to elect or discontinue partici
pation in FlexCash, the Dependent
Care Program and the Tax Advantage
Premium Plan (TAPP).
All Open Enrollment Worksheets must
be received in the Human Resources and
Employment Equity office, Adm. 110, by
Oct. 30. Open enrollment changes and en
rollments will be effective Jan. 1, 1999.
The next open enrollment period will
be held September 1999, with transac
tions to be effective January 2000. D
••• 'Info literacy'
Focus on grad schools
Approximately 50 representatives are
expected to participate in Graduate and
Professional School Day, planned from
10 am to 1 pm on Friday, Nov. 6, in
Chumash Auditorium.
Representatives are coming from
CSU campuses at Chico, Hayward, and
San Bernardino; UCs at Berkeley, Davis,
Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and
Santa Barbara; and from Stanford, Cal
Tech, University of the Pacific, USC,
Antioch School of Professional Psychol
ogy, U.S. Navy Medical Programs, Santa
Clara, Lorna Linda University, and
Loyola Law School.
The event is sponsored by Career Ser
vices, with support from the College of
Science and Mathematics Student Council.
The program is open to all majors. A
complete li st of universities attending is
available on the Career Services Web
site at www.careerservices.calpoly.edu,
under Special Events.
For details, call ext. 6-2501. D
Send items by Nov. 9
for spring Credit Report
Monday, Nov. 9, is the deadline to sub
mit items for the fall quarter edition of The
Credit Report, the newsletter of faculty
and staff professional accomplishments.
When submitting news, please keep
in mind that items should be about sig
nificant accomplishments clearly related
-and in most cases that means directly
related- to a faculty member 's teaching
or a staff member's job at Cal Poly.
Mail items (typed and double-spaced,
please) to JoAnn Lloyd, Communica
tions Office, Heron Hall ; fax them to ext.
6-6533; or e-mail to polynews@poly
mail. Please be sure to inc lude a phone
number in case we have questions.
For information, call ext. 6-15 1L. D
(Continued from page 1)
• The media specialist's role as cata
lyst for applying media and technology
to facilitate learning;
• Books and reading ; and
• Information technologies and prob
lem solving.
A question-and-answer period will
end the program .
Reservations are required for both the
teleconference and the lunch . Call Mary
Lou Brady in the Library at ext. 6-2273
by Friday, Oct. 23, to reserve space. D
Construction updates
available for meetings
Campus committees that would like
construction project updates at meetings
can contact Deby Ryan at ext. 6-6806 or
e-mail her at dryan@calpo ly.edu.
Whether for a regular agenda item or
an occasional appearance, she is avail
able to attend meetings day and night. D
PAGE 2
PolyPhonics, jazz groups
to perform Nov. 1
Pulitzer Prize winner
to read Oct. 30
NRit professor finds
'nature' needs managing
PolyPhonics, Cal Poly's 30-voice
chamber ensemble, will give its annual
fall concert at 3 pm Sunday, Nov. I, in
the Pavilion of the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz and the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo are also scheduled to appear.
Conducted by music professor Thomas
Davies, the program will include Italian
madrigals by Caimo and Gesualdo; "Fu
neral Ikos" by contemporary English com
poser John Avener; Z. Randall Stroope's
setting of James Agee's poem "Sure on
This Shining Night," and Gioacchino
Rossini's portrayal of canal life in Venice,
"I Gondolieri."
Music professor Susan Azaret Davies
will accompany PolyPhonics.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz will perform "Ba
roque Samba" by Darmon Meader, "When
I Fall in Love" by Victor Young, and "Agua
de Beber" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The co ncert will also include so lo
performances by top vocal students and
se lection s by members of the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo, directed by music profes
sor Paul Rinzler.
Tickets for the concert are $6.50 and
$8.40 and can be bought at the Performing
Arts Ticket Office from 10 am to 6 pm
weekdays and from I 0 am to 4 pm Satur
days . To order by phone, call 6-ARTS (6
2787); to order by fax, dial 6-6088.
The concert is sponsored by Cal
Poly's Music Department, College of
Liberal Arts, and the Instructionally
Related Activities program. D
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of "Independence Day," will
give the first fa ll quarter reading in Cal
Poly's WriterSpeak series at 7 pm Fri
day, Oct. 30, in Room 213 of the Busi
ness Bui lding.
Ford has pub lished several books of
fiction, including "Sportswriter,"
"Rock Springs," and his latest collec
tion of stories, "Women with Men. "
He made literary history in 1996 by
winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Pen-Faulkner Award for " Independence
Day." The book- not related to the
science-fiction motion picture of the
sa me name - is a novel about a di
vorced ex-sportswriter who, "over
one Fourth of July weekend, is called
into sudden , bewildering engagement
with life. "
Th e New York Times hails Ford as
"one of the most compelling and elo
quent storyte ll e rs of his generation. "
After the reading , "Women with
Me n" and other Ford book s will be on
sa le at El Corral Bookstore.
The reading is sponsored by Cal
Poly Arts, the College of Liberal Arts
and the English Department.
For more information, call Adam
Hill of the English Department at
ext. 6-1622. D
In a yearlong study, natural resources
management professor Doug Piirto found
that to have "natural" forests in the
Sierra Nevada, the answer, ironically, is
that we must continue to manage them.
Ancient Sierra forests were much
more open than they are now, he says,
dotted with young sequoia and other sap
lings, because they burned a lot more
often than they have for the past 70 or
I00 years. Man has controlled fires for
so long that suddenly taking our hands
off could bring catastrophe.
"To get back to nature, if that's what
we want to do, we have to manage,"
says Piirto.
In collaboration with the U.S. Forest
Service, Piirto has just completed a study
of giant seq uoia ecology. He says hi s
findings app ly to mixed evergreen forests
throughout much of the Sierra Nevada.
Piirto sees the next essential step as
developing a better, less-contentious pro
cess to learn how " nat ural " the public
wants the forest to be. D
ltartial arts demo, clinic
Former world champion martial arts
master Jerry Bell will lead a demon
stration and clinic on Friday and Satur
day, Nov. 13-14, on various forms of
martial arts .
Bell and seven other masters will
demonstrate nine forms of martial arts in
the "Night of the Masters" beginning at
6 pm Friday in the Recreation Center.
Presented by AS I, the event is open to
all ages. Doors open at 5:30pm. Tickets
are $5 to $7; children 5 and under are free.
On Saturday, Bell will work one-on
one with participants in a four-hour
clinic. The clinic, beginning at 8 am in
the Rec Center, costs $20.
To order tickets call ext. 6-5806 or
buy them at the AS I/ Athletics Ticket
Office at the Rec Center. D
'ltustang ltain Street'
planned Oct. 24, Nov. 21
Mustang Main Street, an event spon
sored by ASI and Athletics to encour
age the community and students to take
part in traditional pre-game activities
will be open from 11 am to 12:50 pm
Saturday, Oct. 24, before the Home
coming footba ll game, and again before
the Nov. 21 game.
The event will be on the lawn north
of Mustang Stadium.
Mustang Main Street will include
c lub booths se lling food, beverages and
various Cal Poly collectibles.
"AS I and Athletics have worked ex
tremely hard," said Dan Geis, AST Presi
dent, "to put together a positive and
controlled environment where clubs can
celebrate their best and all students can
become a Booster for a Day." D
Statistics offers consulting
The Statistics Department provides a
consulting service to help with research
design and data analysis in a variety of
disciplines. The service is intended to
support faculty and staff projects and re
search, as we!J as help students with se
nior project and graduate research.
Robert Smidt, the main consultant fall
quarter, can help in the design and analy
sis of research projects. He can also lead
seminars and tutorials on requested top
ics and advise on computer packages
available at Cal Poly. If a special area
concerning statistical inference is of in
terest to a group or department, contact
Smidt to arrange lectures on that subject.
Smidt's office is in Room Ill in Fac
ulty Offices East. He can be reached at
ext. 6-200 I, via e-mail at rsmidt@cal
poly.edu or fax to 6-2700.
Walk-in consulting hours:
Monday, 8:40-9:30 am; Tuesday,
I0: LO-ll am; and Thursday, 10: I 0-noon .
Office hours for students:
Tuesday, I 0:10-11 am; Wednesday
and Friday, 8:40-9:30 am; Thursday,
9:10-IOam.
Appointments can be scheduled by
calling during walk-in consulting hours
or during office hours for students. D
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT. OCTOBER 21 , 1998
Student Affairs
Rip Taylor to star in
'A Funny Thing Happened' says 'Thanks'
Veteran actor Rip Taylor has been
named to the lead role in "A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo
rum," scheduled to play in the Perform
ing Arts Center's Cohan Center on
Sunday and Monday, Jan . 24-25.
Taylor replaces Jo Anne Worley of
"Laugh-In" as the eternally exasperated
slave Psuedolu s in thi s revival of the
Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
Taylor's persona as an insane, con
fetti-tossing, crying comedian became
well known in the '60s and '70s on the
Ed Sullivan Show. D
Policy on animal research,
human subjects, fraud
The university has established policies
and procedures for protecting people and
animals involved in research projects and
for dealing with scientific fraud.
The Human Subjects Committee re
views all projects involving human sub
jects, including senior projects, thesis
work, and faculty research. Research
proposals should be sent to either Steve
Davis, committee chair, Physical Educa
tion and Kinesiology (Mott Physical
Education Building, Room 363, ext. 6
2754), or the Research and Graduate Pro
grams office in Building 38, Room 155
(formerly the Math and Home Econom
ics Building, now the Math and Science
Building), ext. 6-1508, for referral to the
committee. Guidelines for preparing the
proposals can be obtained from either
office.
The In stitutional Animal Care and
Use Committee reviews all current or
proposed projects or activities in which
animals are used in teaching or research.
For guidelines and forms, call or visit the
Research and Graduate Programs office.
Send proposals involving the use of ani
mals to the committee via Research and
Graduate Program s.
Copies of "Policies and Procedures
for the Handling of Allegations of Scien
tific Fraud and Serious Mi sconduct" are
available from Research and Graduate
Programs, Grants Development, and
Foundation Sponsored Program s, all in
the Math and Science Building. Or call
ext. 6- 1508 or e-mail cbrooksh@cal
poly.edu. D
The Student Affairs Division thanks
the following departments for partici
pating in the recent Mark S. Reuling
Volleyball Cha ll enge: Athletics, ASI
Recreational Sports, Career Services,
Economics, Health and Psychological
Services, Housing and Residential Life,
Ombud Services and Educational Eq
uity Programs, the Vice Pre si dent for
Student Affairs office, Student
Life, Student Academic Services,
and the University Center for Teacher
Education.
Thi s first-time event was a success
with more than $900 donated to an en
dowment that will fund mental health
and depression education and preven
tion programs through Health and Psy
chological Services.
For more information about the en
dowment or the tournament, call Polly
Harrigan at ext. 6-6553. D
. Iearn1ng
. ,
•••' serviCe(Continued from page 1)
guides and concept papers, including
the new General Education criteria and
the CSU "Cornerstones" document.
The Class and Community Connec
tions program provides faculty mem
bers with these incentives :
• Funds of up to $1,000 each that
can be paid directly to four faculty
members or transferred to their respec
tive department accounts;
• Funds for two faculty members to
travel to di scipline- specific confer
ences;
• Help from student mentors for 10
hours a week to handle the logistic s of
involving students in the off-campus
community;
• Funds to bring to campus facu lty
experts in service-learning within their
respective di sc iplines; and
• Assistance in locating appropriate
community-learning experiences.
Interested teachers can call the
program's faculty liaison , Dianne
Long, at ext. 6-5717 or 6-2984. D
ort
Cal Poly students
hit the streets
Cal Poly students helped spruce up
local non-profit organizations and ser
vice agencies recently during the 6th an
nual "Into the Streets" event sponsored
by Student Community Services.
Into the Streets is designed to intro
duce students to community service and
chall enge them to volunteer regularly.
More than 75 students were expected
to clean up such organizations as Head
Start; the AIDS Support Network; the
Transition/ Mental Health Association's
(TM HA) Growing Grounds, LA Group,
and Cri sis House; Rancho de Los
Animales; the Homeless Shelter; and the
Prado Day Center. D
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter
Building): "Craftmakers '98 ,"
through Oct. 24. Dail y II am-4 pm;
Wednesday, 7-9 pm.
UU Galerie: "Peter Meller: Andante
Allegro Rubato," through Dec. 6.
Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm;
Wednesday until 7 pm; Saturday,
Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
Wednesday, October 21
Position vacancies
Vacancy information and applications
for the following positions are available
from the appropriate Human Resources
office. Vacancy information can also be ac
cessed from the Cal Poly home page on the
World Wide Web (address: www.
calpoly.edu; click on ''General Information").
FOUIIDATIOII (Foundation Adm. Building,
job line at ext. 6-7107). All foundation ap
plications must be received (not just post
marked) by 5 pm of the closing date.
(No faxes.)
Engineering Programmer/Analyst,
Aeronautical Engineering ($3,457
$6,447/mo). Serves as a project engineer
of a research team responsible for plan
ning, organizing, and conducting flight
control technology programs for rotary
winged aircraft. Primary responsibilities
include conceiving, designing, and
implementing significant technical im
provement to the CONDUIT (Control
Designer's Unified Interface) system.
Work wi ll be performed at NASA Ames
Research Center in the Flight Control
and Pilot Interface Branch of the Army/
NASA Rotorcraft Division. Require
ments: Master 's degree in aeronautical
engineering and a minimum of one year
of recent experience in rotorcraft controls
design using CONSOLE and CONDUIT
in a C++ environment. Knowledge of
Gifcorcode, UNIX and Matlab. Must be
able to clearly communicate both orally
and in writing the results of the test stud
ies. Must be able to work evenings and
weekends as required. Closing date: Nov.
6. D
PAGE 4
Music: Trio Voronezh, Cal Poly
Theatre, 8 pm. ($)
Thursday, October 22
Physics colloquium: Nilgun Sungar,
"Biophysics of Neurons," Science E45 , 11 am.
Friday, October 23
Homecoming: Through Sunday, Oct.
25. Call Alumni Relations at ext. 6ALUM (6-2586).
Groundbreaking: Sports Complex,
on site, II am.
Women's Soccer: UOP, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: UC Berkeley, Mustang
Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Music: Anne Murray, Cohan Center,
8 pm. ($)
Saturday, October 24
Homecoming Football: Western New
Mexico, Mustang Stadium, l pm. ($)
Sunday, October 25
Women's Soccer: Cal State Long
Beach, Mustang Stadium, 1 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: Stanford, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm ($)
nonday, October 26
Workshop: International Travel
Safety, UU 220, 2 pm.
Thursday, October 29
Physics colloquium: Gayle Cook,
"Neutrino Mass and the Cosmos,"
Science E-45 , ll am.
Speaker: Wayne Montgomery
(Library), "Academic Libraries in
Thai land and Vietnam: Making
Friends and Touring," Staff Dining
room, noon .
Speaker: Ian McHarg, "Designing
Environments for the Next Millen
nium," Theatre, 4:30pm.
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 7 • October 21 , 1998
Published by the Communications Office
'Info literacy' standards
topic of teleconference
Incentives offered for
'service-learning' program
A teleconference celebrating new na
tional guidelines and the first "informa
tion literacy" standards for the K-12
learner is planned for Monday, Nov. 2.
School library media specialists, teach
ers, and student teachers are invited to the
free, live, interactive presentation from
9 am to noon at the Kennedy Library.
After the program, a no-host lunch will
be served at Vista Grande. Library Dean
Hiram L. Davis will speak on the growing
role of universities in K-12 education.
The teleconference, "Building Part
nerships for Learning," will cover such
topics as:
• The process leading to the new
guidelines and standards;
• The implications for school library
media programs and specialists; and
• Long-term plans for implementation.
Other areas of discu ss ion will include:
• The evolv ing rol e of the school
library media specialist;
Faculty members interested in incor
porating community-based experiences
into new or revised General Education
courses are eligible to receive funds and
other assistance to help develop and
implement the courses.
Class and Community Connections,
a Cal Poly Pl an program, seeks to ad
vance this "service-learning" teaching
pedagogy, which promotes both intel
lectual and civic engagement by link
ing the work students do in the
classroo m to real-world problems and
needs without compromising academic
rigor or discipline-specific objectives .
Community-based experiences have
been encouraged in several curriculum
(Continued on page 2)
Graduate Student Council
seeks representatives
The newly formed Graduate Student
Council seeks student representatives
from each department that offers a gradu
ate degree. The council will provide
campuswide advocacy on policies affect
ing graduate students, faci li tate network
ing for collaborative interdisciplinary
research, distribute announcements about
campus services, provide training for
teaching assistants, host a web site, di s
tribute a news letter, and sponsor work
shops.
Department chairs and graduate co
ordinators are encouraged to nominate
or recruit graduate students for the
council. Some departments might al
ready have elected representatives in
place. For more information or to make
nomination s, contact English grad stu
dent E li zabeth Brunner at ebrunner@
calpoly.edu or 547-1288. D
(Continued on page 4)
'Demonstration orchard'
begun with donation
The Central Coast chapter of the Cali
fornia Rare Fruit Growers Association is
donating $1,500 to the Crop Science De
partment to help establish a "demonstra
tion orchard" on campus.
Crop Science Department Head Paul
Fountain and professor Robert McNeil
accepted the donation at a recent cer
emony at which the first tree was
planted. The tree is called a Dapple
Dandy Pluot, a cross between an apricot
and a plum tree.
"Rare and unusual fruit trees and
vines will be bought or donated to dem
onstrate growth habits, flowering and
fruiting patterns and provide sample
fruits for students and members of the
Rare Fruit Growers Association," said
Joe Sabol, director of outreach services
for the College of Agriculture.
Long-range plans for the orchard are
to develop a collection of rare and inter
esting fruit trees, both deciduous and
sub-tropical , Sabol said.
The site is on the south side of High
land Drive near Stenner Creek. For more
information, call Sabol at ext. 6-7225 . D
Student Affairs
Rip Taylor to star in
'A Funny Thing Happened' says 'Thanks'
Veteran actor Rip Taylor has been
named to the lead role in "A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo
rum," scheduled to play in the Perform
ing Arts Center's Cohan Center on
Sunday and Monday, Jan . 24-25.
Taylor replaces Jo Anne Worley of
"Laugh-In" as the eternally exasperated
slave Psuedolu s in thi s revival of the
Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
Taylor's persona as an insane, con
fetti-tossing, crying comedian became
well known in the '60s and '70s on the
Ed Sullivan Show. D
Policy on animal research,
human subjects, fraud
The university has established policies
and procedures for protecting people and
animals involved in research projects and
for dealing with scientific fraud.
The Human Subjects Committee re
views all projects involving human sub
jects, including senior projects, thesis
work, and faculty research. Research
proposals should be sent to either Steve
Davis, committee chair, Physical Educa
tion and Kinesiology (Mott Physical
Education Building, Room 363, ext. 62754), or the Research and Graduate Pro
grams office in Building 38, Room 155
(formerly the Math and Home Econom
ics Building, now the Math and Science
Building), ext. 6-1508, for referral to the
committee. Guidelines for preparing the
proposals can be obtained from either
office.
The In stitutional Animal Care and
Use Committee reviews all current or
proposed projects or activities in which
animals are used in teaching or research.
For guidelines and forms, call or visit the
Research and Graduate Programs office.
Send proposals involving the use of ani
mals to the committee via Research and
Graduate Program s.
Copies of "Policies and Procedures
for the Handling of Allegations of Scien
tific Fraud and Serious Mi sconduct" are
available from Research and Graduate
Programs, Grants Development, and
Foundation Sponsored Program s, all in
the Math and Science Building. Or call
ext. 6- 1508 or e-mail cbrooksh@cal
poly.edu. D
The Student Affairs Division thanks
the following departments for partici
pating in the recent Mark S. Reuling
Volleyball Cha ll enge: Athletics, ASI
Recreational Sports, Career Services,
Economics, Health and Psychological
Services, Housing and Residential Life,
Ombud Services and Educational Eq
uity Programs, the Vice Pre si dent for
Student Affairs office, Student
Life, Student Academic Services,
and the University Center for Teacher
Education.
Thi s first-time event was a success
with more than $900 donated to an en
dowment that will fund mental health
and depression education and preven
tion programs through Health and Psy
chological Services.
For more information about the en
dowment or the tournament, call Polly
Harrigan at ext. 6-6553. D
. Iearn1ng
. ,
•••' serviCe(Continued from page 1)
guides and concept papers, including
the new General Education criteria and
the CSU "Cornerstones" document.
The Class and Community Connec
tions program provides faculty mem
bers with these incentives :
• Funds of up to $1,000 each that
can be paid directly to four faculty
members or transferred to their respec
tive department accounts;
• Funds for two faculty members to
travel to di scipline- specific confer
ences;
• Help from student mentors for 10
hours a week to handle the logistic s of
involving students in the off-campus
community;
• Funds to bring to campus facu lty
experts in service-learning within their
respective di sc iplines; and
• Assistance in locating appropriate
community-learning experiences.
Interested teachers can call the
program's faculty liaison , Dianne
Long, at ext. 6-5717 or 6-2984. D
ort
Cal Poly students
hit the streets
Cal Poly students helped spruce up
local non-profit organizations and ser
vice agencies recently during the 6th an
nual "Into the Streets" event sponsored
by Student Community Services.
Into the Streets is designed to intro
duce students to community service and
chall enge them to volunteer regularly.
More than 75 students were expected
to clean up such organizations as Head
Start; the AIDS Support Network; the
Transition/ Mental Health Association's
(TM HA) Growing Grounds, LA Group,
and Cri sis House; Rancho de Los
Animales; the Homeless Shelter; and the
Prado Day Center. D
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter
Building): "Craftmakers '98 ,"
through Oct. 24. Dail y II am-4 pm;
Wednesday, 7-9 pm.
UU Galerie: "Peter Meller: Andante
Allegro Rubato," through Dec. 6.
Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm;
Wednesday until 7 pm; Saturday,
Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
Wednesday, October 21
Position vacancies
Vacancy information and applications
for the following positions are available
from the appropriate Human Resources
office. Vacancy information can also be ac
cessed from the Cal Poly home page on the
World Wide Web (address: www.
calpoly.edu; click on ''General Information").
FOUIIDATIOII (Foundation Adm. Building,
job line at ext. 6-7107). All foundation ap
plications must be received (not just post
marked) by 5 pm of the closing date.
(No faxes.)
Engineering Programmer/Analyst,
Aeronautical Engineering ($3,457 $6,447/mo). Serves as a project engineer
of a research team responsible for plan
ning, organizing, and conducting flight
control technology programs for rotary
winged aircraft. Primary responsibilities
include conceiving, designing, and
implementing significant technical im
provement to the CONDUIT (Control
Designer's Unified Interface) system.
Work wi ll be performed at NASA Ames
Research Center in the Flight Control
and Pilot Interface Branch of the Army/
NASA Rotorcraft Division. Require
ments: Master 's degree in aeronautical
engineering and a minimum of one year
of recent experience in rotorcraft controls
design using CONSOLE and CONDUIT
in a C++ environment. Knowledge of
Gifcorcode, UNIX and Matlab. Must be
able to clearly communicate both orally
and in writing the results of the test stud
ies. Must be able to work evenings and
weekends as required. Closing date: Nov.
6. D
PAGE 4
Music: Trio Voronezh, Cal Poly
Theatre, 8 pm. ($)
Thursday, October 22
Physics colloquium: Nilgun Sungar,
"Biophysics of Neurons," Science E
45 , 11 am.
Friday, October 23
Homecoming: Through Sunday, Oct.
25. Call Alumni Relations at ext. 6ALUM (6-2586).
Groundbreaking: Sports Complex,
on site, II am.
Women's Soccer: UOP, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: UC Berkeley, Mustang
Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Music: Anne Murray, Cohan Center,
8 pm. ($)
Saturday, October 24
Homecoming Football: Western New
Mexico, Mustang Stadium, l pm. ($)
Sunday, October 25
Women's Soccer: Cal State Long
Beach, Mustang Stadium, 1 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: Stanford, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm ($)
nonday, October 26
Workshop: International Travel
Safety, UU 220, 2 pm.
Thursday, October 29
Physics colloquium: Gayle Cook,
"Neutrino Mass and the Cosmos,"
Science E-45 , ll am.
Speaker: Wayne Montgomery
(Library), "Academic Libraries in
Thai land and Vietnam: Making
Friends and Touring," Staff Dining
room, noon .
Speaker: Ian McHarg, "Designing
Environments for the Next Millen
nium," Theatre, 4:30pm.
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 7 • October 21 , 1998
Published by the Communications Office
'Info literacy' standards
topic of teleconference
Incentives offered for
'service-learning' program
A teleconference celebrating new na
tional guidelines and the first "informa
tion literacy" standards for the K-12
learner is planned for Monday, Nov. 2.
School library media specialists, teach
ers, and student teachers are invited to the
free, live, interactive presentation from
9 am to noon at the Kennedy Library.
After the program, a no-host lunch will
be served at Vista Grande. Library Dean
Hiram L. Davis will speak on the growing
role of universities in K-12 education.
The teleconference, "Building Part
nerships for Learning," will cover such
topics as:
• The process leading to the new
guidelines and standards;
• The implications for school library
media programs and specialists; and
• Long-term plans for implementation.
Other areas of discu ss ion will include:
• The evolv ing rol e of the school
library media specialist;
Faculty members interested in incor
porating community-based experiences
into new or revised General Education
courses are eligible to receive funds and
other assistance to help develop and
implement the courses.
Class and Community Connections,
a Cal Poly Pl an program, seeks to ad
vance this "service-learning" teaching
pedagogy, which promotes both intel
lectual and civic engagement by link
ing the work students do in the
classroo m to real-world problems and
needs without compromising academic
rigor or discipline-specific objectives .
Community-based experiences have
been encouraged in several curriculum
(Continued on page 2)
Graduate Student Council
seeks representatives
The newly formed Graduate Student
Council seeks student representatives
from each department that offers a gradu
ate degree. The council will provide
campuswide advocacy on policies affect
ing graduate students, faci li tate network
ing for collaborative interdisciplinary
research, distribute announcements about
campus services, provide training for
teaching assistants, host a web site, di s
tribute a news letter, and sponsor work
shops.
Department chairs and graduate co
ordinators are encouraged to nominate
or recruit graduate students for the
council. Some departments might al
ready have elected representatives in
place. For more information or to make
nomination s, contact English grad stu
dent E li zabeth Brunner at ebrunner@
calpoly.edu or 547-1288. D
(Continued on page 4)
'Demonstration orchard'
begun with donation
The Central Coast chapter of the Cali
fornia Rare Fruit Growers Association is
donating $1,500 to the Crop Science De
partment to help establish a "demonstra
tion orchard" on campus.
Crop Science Department Head Paul
Fountain and professor Robert McNeil
accepted the donation at a recent cer
emony at which the first tree was
planted. The tree is called a Dapple
Dandy Pluot, a cross between an apricot
and a plum tree.
"Rare and unusual fruit trees and
vines will be bought or donated to dem
onstrate growth habits, flowering and
fruiting patterns and provide sample
fruits for students and members of the
Rare Fruit Growers Association," said
Joe Sabol, director of outreach services
for the College of Agriculture.
Long-range plans for the orchard are
to develop a collection of rare and inter
esting fruit trees, both deciduous and
sub-tropical , Sabol said.
The site is on the south side of High
land Drive near Stenner Creek. For more
information, call Sabol at ext. 6-7225 . D
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
Deadlines announced for
fee waiver program
lan ltcHarg to speak
on environments Oct. 29
Employees are reminded of the
following winter quarter 1999 fee
waiver deadlines:
Oct. 22 - CAPTURE registration be
gins for staff (see "Priority & Graduate
Students" category in class schedule)
Nov. 20 -Last day to pay fees to
avoid $25 late fee
Jan. 19 - Last day to submit Fee
Waiver forms (HREE Form 133) to
Human Resources and Employment
Equity office.
Employees enrolled fall quarter will
be mailed a Form 133; those not cur
rently enrolled should e-mail or call Joan
Lund at ext. 6-6563. D
Ian McHarg, renowned author, envi
ronmental planner and landscape archi
tect credited with "ushering the gentle
science of ecology out of oblivion and
into mainstream thought," wi ll speak at
Cal Poly Oct. 29 and 30.
McHarg will talk on "Designing Envi
ronments for the Next Millennium" from
4:30 to 5:30pm on Thursday, Oct. 29, in
the Theatre and will hold a forum to dis
cuss environmental issues at 2 pm on Fri
day, Oct. 30, in the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design Gallery.
McHarg, a University of Pennsylva
nia professor emeritus, will discuss his
recent and current work in various parts
of the world.
In addition to the landmark book "De
sign With Nature" and the autobiographi
cal "A Quest for Life," he has written
numerous publications on the relationship
between man and his environment. D
Immunizations offered
at health, wellness fair
Immunizations and information on
health care will be offered at the next
health and wellness fair from II am to
I pm Wednesday, Oct. 28, in UU 220.
Participants will be able to get shots
for the flu ($1 0), pneumonia ($25), and
tetanus (free) during "Get a Shot of Good
Health," an event sponsored by the Em
ployee Assistance Program.
Specialists from a number of commu
nity health care organizations will be
handing out information. They include
Cal Poly's Health Education, the San
Luis Obispo County Health Department,
El Corral, Med Stop, the Arthritis Founda
tion, the American Heart Association, the
AIDS Support Network, Mission Medical ,
and Central Coast Primary Care.
Door prizes will be given away.
Watch for more information in a flier
to be mailed to departments. D
Hti}L.', kMJ- ~- ~ ~
The Cal Poly Report is published
by the Communications Office every
Wednesday during the academic year.
Items submitted by 10 am Thurs
day appear in the following
Wednesday's edition.
For information, call ext. 6-1511,
or e-mail articles, suggestions, and
questions to polynews@polymail.
You may fax items to ext. 6-6533. D
Open enrollment period
drawing to close
Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day to
submit health and dental insurance
open enrollment changes. It is also the
deadline to elect or discontinue partici
pation in FlexCash, the Dependent
Care Program and the Tax Advantage
Premium Plan (TAPP).
All Open Enrollment Worksheets must
be received in the Human Resources and
Employment Equity office, Adm. 110, by
Oct. 30. Open enrollment changes and en
rollments will be effective Jan. 1, 1999.
The next open enrollment period will
be held September 1999, with transac
tions to be effective January 2000. D
••• 'Info literacy'
Focus on grad schools
Approximately 50 representatives are
expected to participate in Graduate and
Professional School Day, planned from
10 am to 1 pm on Friday, Nov. 6, in
Chumash Auditorium.
Representatives are coming from
CSU campuses at Chico, Hayward, and
San Bernardino; UCs at Berkeley, Davis,
Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and
Santa Barbara; and from Stanford, Cal
Tech, University of the Pacific, USC,
Antioch School of Professional Psychol
ogy, U.S. Navy Medical Programs, Santa
Clara, Lorna Linda University, and
Loyola Law School.
The event is sponsored by Career Ser
vices, with support from the College of
Science and Mathematics Student Council.
The program is open to all majors. A
complete li st of universities attending is
available on the Career Services Web
site at www.careerservices.calpoly.edu,
under Special Events.
For details, call ext. 6-2501. D
Send items by Nov. 9
for spring Credit Report
Monday, Nov. 9, is the deadline to sub
mit items for the fall quarter edition of The
Credit Report, the newsletter of faculty
and staff professional accomplishments.
When submitting news, please keep
in mind that items should be about sig
nificant accomplishments clearly related
-and in most cases that means directly
related- to a faculty member 's teaching
or a staff member's job at Cal Poly.
Mail items (typed and double-spaced,
please) to JoAnn Lloyd, Communica
tions Office, Heron Hall ; fax them to ext.
6-6533; or e-mail to polynews@poly
mail. Please be sure to inc lude a phone
number in case we have questions.
For information, call ext. 6-15 1L. D
(Continued from page 1)
• The media specialist's role as cata
lyst for applying media and technology
to facilitate learning;
• Books and reading ; and
• Information technologies and prob
lem solving.
A question-and-answer period will
end the program .
Reservations are required for both the
teleconference and the lunch . Call Mary
Lou Brady in the Library at ext. 6-2273
by Friday, Oct. 23, to reserve space. D
Construction updates
available for meetings
Campus committees that would like
construction project updates at meetings
can contact Deby Ryan at ext. 6-6806 or
e-mail her at dryan@calpo ly.edu.
Whether for a regular agenda item or
an occasional appearance, she is avail
able to attend meetings day and night. D
PAGE 2
PolyPhonics, jazz groups
to perform Nov. 1
Pulitzer Prize winner
to read Oct. 30
NRit professor finds
'nature' needs managing
PolyPhonics, Cal Poly's 30-voice
chamber ensemble, will give its annual
fall concert at 3 pm Sunday, Nov. I, in
the Pavilion of the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz and the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo are also scheduled to appear.
Conducted by music professor Thomas
Davies, the program will include Italian
madrigals by Caimo and Gesualdo; "Fu
neral Ikos" by contemporary English com
poser John Avener; Z. Randall Stroope's
setting of James Agee's poem "Sure on
This Shining Night," and Gioacchino
Rossini's portrayal of canal life in Venice,
"I Gondolieri."
Music professor Susan Azaret Davies
will accompany PolyPhonics.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz will perform "Ba
roque Samba" by Darmon Meader, "When
I Fall in Love" by Victor Young, and "Agua
de Beber" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The co ncert will also include so lo
performances by top vocal students and
se lection s by members of the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo, directed by music profes
sor Paul Rinzler.
Tickets for the concert are $6.50 and
$8.40 and can be bought at the Performing
Arts Ticket Office from 10 am to 6 pm
weekdays and from I 0 am to 4 pm Satur
days . To order by phone, call 6-ARTS (62787); to order by fax, dial 6-6088.
The concert is sponsored by Cal
Poly's Music Department, College of
Liberal Arts, and the Instructionally
Related Activities program. D
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of "Independence Day," will
give the first fa ll quarter reading in Cal
Poly's WriterSpeak series at 7 pm Fri
day, Oct. 30, in Room 213 of the Busi
ness Bui lding.
Ford has pub lished several books of
fiction, including "Sportswriter,"
"Rock Springs," and his latest collec
tion of stories, "Women with Men. "
He made literary history in 1996 by
winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Pen-Faulkner Award for " Independence
Day." The book- not related to the
science-fiction motion picture of the
sa me name - is a novel about a di
vorced ex-sportswriter who, "over
one Fourth of July weekend, is called
into sudden , bewildering engagement
with life. "
Th e New York Times hails Ford as
"one of the most compelling and elo
quent storyte ll e rs of his generation. "
After the reading , "Women with
Me n" and other Ford book s will be on
sa le at El Corral Bookstore.
The reading is sponsored by Cal
Poly Arts, the College of Liberal Arts
and the English Department.
For more information, call Adam
Hill of the English Department at
ext. 6-1622. D
In a yearlong study, natural resources
management professor Doug Piirto found
that to have "natural" forests in the
Sierra Nevada, the answer, ironically, is
that we must continue to manage them.
Ancient Sierra forests were much
more open than they are now, he says,
dotted with young sequoia and other sap
lings, because they burned a lot more
often than they have for the past 70 or
I 00 years. Man has controlled fires for
so long that suddenly taking our hands
off could bring catastrophe.
"To get back to nature, if that's what
we want to do, we have to manage,"
says Piirto.
In collaboration with the U.S. Forest
Service, Piirto has just completed a study
of giant seq uoia ecology. He says hi s
findings app ly to mixed evergreen forests
throughout much of the Sierra Nevada.
Piirto sees the next essential step as
developing a better, less-contentious pro
cess to learn how " nat ural " the public
wants the forest to be. D
ltartial arts demo, clinic
Former world champion martial arts
master Jerry Bell will lead a demon
stration and clinic on Friday and Satur
day, Nov. 13-14, on various forms of
martial arts .
Bell and seven other masters will
demonstrate nine forms of martial arts in
the "Night of the Masters" beginning at
6 pm Friday in the Recreation Center.
Presented by AS I, the event is open to
all ages. Doors open at 5:30pm. Tickets
are $5 to $7; children 5 and under are free.
On Saturday, Bell will work one-on
one with participants in a four-hour
clinic. The clinic, beginning at 8 am in
the Rec Center, costs $20.
To order tickets call ext. 6-5806 or
buy them at the AS I/ Athletics Ticket
Office at the Rec Center. D
'ltustang ltain Street'
planned Oct. 24, Nov. 21
Mustang Main Street, an event spon
sored by ASI and Athletics to encour
age the community and students to take
part in traditional pre-game activities
will be open from 11 am to 12:50 pm
Saturday, Oct. 24, before the Home
coming footba ll game, and again before
the Nov. 21 game.
The event will be on the lawn north
of Mustang Stadium.
Mustang Main Street will include
c lub booths se lling food, beverages and
various Cal Poly collectibles.
"AS I and Athletics have worked ex
tremely hard," said Dan Geis, AST Presi
dent, "to put together a positive and
controlled environment where clubs can
celebrate their best and all students can
become a Booster for a Day." D
Statistics offers consulting
The Statistics Department provides a
consulting service to help with research
design and data analysis in a variety of
disciplines. The service is intended to
support faculty and staff projects and re
search, as we!J as help students with se
nior project and graduate research.
Robert Smidt, the main consultant fall
quarter, can help in the design and analy
sis of research projects. He can also lead
seminars and tutorials on requested top
ics and advise on computer packages
available at Cal Poly. If a special area
concerning statistical inference is of in
terest to a group or department, contact
Smidt to arrange lectures on that subject.
Smidt's office is in Room Ill in Fac
ulty Offices East. He can be reached at
ext. 6-200 I, via e-mail at rsmidt@cal
poly.edu or fax to 6-2700.
Walk-in consulting hours:
Monday, 8:40-9:30 am; Tuesday,
I 0: LO-ll am; and Thursday, 10: I 0-noon .
Office hours for students:
Tuesday, I 0:10-11 am; Wednesday
and Friday, 8:40-9:30 am; Thursday,
9:10-IOam.
Appointments can be scheduled by
calling during walk-in consulting hours
or during office hours for students. D
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
CAL POLY REPORT, OCTOBER 21, 1998
Deadlines announced for
fee waiver program
lan ltcHarg to speak
on environments Oct. 29
Employees are reminded of the
following winter quarter 1999 fee
waiver deadlines:
Oct. 22 - CAPTURE registration be
gins for staff (see "Priority & Graduate
Students" category in class schedule)
Nov. 20 -Last day to pay fees to
avoid $25 late fee
Jan. 19 - Last day to submit Fee
Waiver forms (HREE Form 133) to
Human Resources and Employment
Equity office.
Employees enrolled fall quarter will
be mailed a Form 133; those not cur
rently enrolled should e-mail or call Joan
Lund at ext. 6-6563. D
Ian McHarg, renowned author, envi
ronmental planner and landscape archi
tect credited with "ushering the gentle
science of ecology out of oblivion and
into mainstream thought," wi ll speak at
Cal Poly Oct. 29 and 30.
McHarg will talk on "Designing Envi
ronments for the Next Millennium" from
4:30 to 5:30pm on Thursday, Oct. 29, in
the Theatre and will hold a forum to dis
cuss environmental issues at 2 pm on Fri
day, Oct. 30, in the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design Gallery.
McHarg, a University of Pennsylva
nia professor emeritus, will discuss his
recent and current work in various parts
of the world.
In addition to the landmark book "De
sign With Nature" and the autobiographi
cal "A Quest for Life," he has written
numerous publications on the relationship
between man and his environment. D
Immunizations offered
at health, wellness fair
Immunizations and information on
health care will be offered at the next
health and wellness fair from II am to
I pm Wednesday, Oct. 28, in UU 220.
Participants will be able to get shots
for the flu ($1 0), pneumonia ($25), and
tetanus (free) during "Get a Shot of Good
Health," an event sponsored by the Em
ployee Assistance Program.
Specialists from a number of commu
nity health care organizations will be
handing out information. They include
Cal Poly's Health Education, the San
Luis Obispo County Health Department,
El Corral, Med Stop, the Arthritis Founda
tion, the American Heart Association, the
AIDS Support Network, Mission Medical ,
and Central Coast Primary Care.
Door prizes will be given away.
Watch for more information in a flier
to be mailed to departments. D
Hti}L.', kMJ- ~- ~ ~
The Cal Poly Report is published
by the Communications Office every
Wednesday during the academic year.
Items submitted by 10 am Thurs
day appear in the following
Wednesday's edition.
For information, call ext. 6-1511,
or e-mail articles, suggestions, and
questions to polynews@polymail.
You may fax items to ext. 6-6533. D
Open enrollment period
drawing to close
Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day to
submit health and dental insurance
open enrollment changes. It is also the
deadline to elect or discontinue partici
pation in FlexCash, the Dependent
Care Program and the Tax Advantage
Premium Plan (TAPP).
All Open Enrollment Worksheets must
be received in the Human Resources and
Employment Equity office, Adm. 110, by
Oct. 30. Open enrollment changes and en
rollments will be effective Jan. 1, 1999.
The next open enrollment period will
be held September 1999, with transac
tions to be effective January 2000. D
••• 'Info literacy'
Focus on grad schools
Approximately 50 representatives are
expected to participate in Graduate and
Professional School Day, planned from
10 am to 1 pm on Friday, Nov. 6, in
Chumash Auditorium.
Representatives are coming from
CSU campuses at Chico, Hayward, and
San Bernardino; UCs at Berkeley, Davis,
Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and
Santa Barbara; and from Stanford, Cal
Tech, University of the Pacific, USC,
Antioch School of Professional Psychol
ogy, U.S. Navy Medical Programs, Santa
Clara, Lorna Linda University, and
Loyola Law School.
The event is sponsored by Career Ser
vices, with support from the College of
Science and Mathematics Student Council.
The program is open to all majors. A
complete li st of universities attending is
available on the Career Services Web
site at www.careerservices.calpoly.edu,
under Special Events.
For details, call ext. 6-2501. D
Send items by Nov. 9
for spring Credit Report
Monday, Nov. 9, is the deadline to sub
mit items for the fall quarter edition of The
Credit Report, the newsletter of faculty
and staff professional accomplishments.
When submitting news, please keep
in mind that items should be about sig
nificant accomplishments clearly related
-and in most cases that means directly
related- to a faculty member 's teaching
or a staff member's job at Cal Poly.
Mail items (typed and double-spaced,
please) to JoAnn Lloyd, Communica
tions Office, Heron Hall ; fax them to ext.
6-6533; or e-mail to polynews@poly
mail. Please be sure to inc lude a phone
number in case we have questions.
For information, call ext. 6-15 1L. D
(Continued from page 1)
• The media specialist's role as cata
lyst for applying media and technology
to facilitate learning;
• Books and reading ; and
• Information technologies and prob
lem solving.
A question-and-answer period will
end the program .
Reservations are required for both the
teleconference and the lunch . Call Mary
Lou Brady in the Library at ext. 6-2273
by Friday, Oct. 23, to reserve space. D
Construction updates
available for meetings
Campus committees that would like
construction project updates at meetings
can contact Deby Ryan at ext. 6-6806 or
e-mail her at dryan@calpo ly.edu.
Whether for a regular agenda item or
an occasional appearance, she is avail
able to attend meetings day and night. D
PAGE 2
PolyPhonics, jazz groups
to perform Nov. 1
Pulitzer Prize winner
to read Oct. 30
NRit professor finds
'nature' needs managing
PolyPhonics, Cal Poly's 30-voice
chamber ensemble, will give its annual
fall concert at 3 pm Sunday, Nov. I, in
the Pavilion of the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz and the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo are also scheduled to appear.
Conducted by music professor Thomas
Davies, the program will include Italian
madrigals by Caimo and Gesualdo; "Fu
neral Ikos" by contemporary English com
poser John Avener; Z. Randall Stroope's
setting of James Agee's poem "Sure on
This Shining Night," and Gioacchino
Rossini's portrayal of canal life in Venice,
"I Gondolieri."
Music professor Susan Azaret Davies
will accompany PolyPhonics.
Cal Poly Vocal Jazz will perform "Ba
roque Samba" by Darmon Meader, "When
I Fall in Love" by Victor Young, and "Agua
de Beber" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The co ncert will also include so lo
performances by top vocal students and
se lection s by members of the Cal Poly
Jazz Combo, directed by music profes
sor Paul Rinzler.
Tickets for the concert are $6.50 and
$8.40 and can be bought at the Performing
Arts Ticket Office from 10 am to 6 pm
weekdays and from I 0 am to 4 pm Satur
days . To order by phone, call 6-ARTS (6
2787); to order by fax, dial 6-6088.
The concert is sponsored by Cal
Poly's Music Department, College of
Liberal Arts, and the Instructionally
Related Activities program. D
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of "Independence Day," will
give the first fa ll quarter reading in Cal
Poly's WriterSpeak series at 7 pm Fri
day, Oct. 30, in Room 213 of the Busi
ness Bui lding.
Ford has pub lished several books of
fiction, including "Sportswriter,"
"Rock Springs," and his latest collec
tion of stories, "Women with Men. "
He made literary history in 1996 by
winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Pen-Faulkner Award for " Independence
Day." The book- not related to the
science-fiction motion picture of the
sa me name - is a novel about a di
vorced ex-sportswriter who, "over
one Fourth of July weekend, is called
into sudden , bewildering engagement
with life. "
Th e New York Times hails Ford as
"one of the most compelling and elo
quent storyte ll e rs of his generation. "
After the reading , "Women with
Me n" and other Ford book s will be on
sa le at El Corral Bookstore.
The reading is sponsored by Cal
Poly Arts, the College of Liberal Arts
and the English Department.
For more information, call Adam
Hill of the English Department at
ext. 6-1622. D
In a yearlong study, natural resources
management professor Doug Piirto found
that to have "natural" forests in the
Sierra Nevada, the answer, ironically, is
that we must continue to manage them.
Ancient Sierra forests were much
more open than they are now, he says,
dotted with young sequoia and other sap
lings, because they burned a lot more
often than they have for the past 70 or
I00 years. Man has controlled fires for
so long that suddenly taking our hands
off could bring catastrophe.
"To get back to nature, if that's what
we want to do, we have to manage,"
says Piirto.
In collaboration with the U.S. Forest
Service, Piirto has just completed a study
of giant seq uoia ecology. He says hi s
findings app ly to mixed evergreen forests
throughout much of the Sierra Nevada.
Piirto sees the next essential step as
developing a better, less-contentious pro
cess to learn how " nat ural " the public
wants the forest to be. D
ltartial arts demo, clinic
Former world champion martial arts
master Jerry Bell will lead a demon
stration and clinic on Friday and Satur
day, Nov. 13-14, on various forms of
martial arts .
Bell and seven other masters will
demonstrate nine forms of martial arts in
the "Night of the Masters" beginning at
6 pm Friday in the Recreation Center.
Presented by AS I, the event is open to
all ages. Doors open at 5:30pm. Tickets
are $5 to $7; children 5 and under are free.
On Saturday, Bell will work one-on
one with participants in a four-hour
clinic. The clinic, beginning at 8 am in
the Rec Center, costs $20.
To order tickets call ext. 6-5806 or
buy them at the AS I/ Athletics Ticket
Office at the Rec Center. D
'ltustang ltain Street'
planned Oct. 24, Nov. 21
Mustang Main Street, an event spon
sored by ASI and Athletics to encour
age the community and students to take
part in traditional pre-game activities
will be open from 11 am to 12:50 pm
Saturday, Oct. 24, before the Home
coming footba ll game, and again before
the Nov. 21 game.
The event will be on the lawn north
of Mustang Stadium.
Mustang Main Street will include
c lub booths se lling food, beverages and
various Cal Poly collectibles.
"AS I and Athletics have worked ex
tremely hard," said Dan Geis, AST Presi
dent, "to put together a positive and
controlled environment where clubs can
celebrate their best and all students can
become a Booster for a Day." D
Statistics offers consulting
The Statistics Department provides a
consulting service to help with research
design and data analysis in a variety of
disciplines. The service is intended to
support faculty and staff projects and re
search, as we!J as help students with se
nior project and graduate research.
Robert Smidt, the main consultant fall
quarter, can help in the design and analy
sis of research projects. He can also lead
seminars and tutorials on requested top
ics and advise on computer packages
available at Cal Poly. If a special area
concerning statistical inference is of in
terest to a group or department, contact
Smidt to arrange lectures on that subject.
Smidt's office is in Room Ill in Fac
ulty Offices East. He can be reached at
ext. 6-200 I, via e-mail at rsmidt@cal
poly.edu or fax to 6-2700.
Walk-in consulting hours:
Monday, 8:40-9:30 am; Tuesday,
I0: LO-ll am; and Thursday, 10: I 0-noon .
Office hours for students:
Tuesday, I 0:10-11 am; Wednesday
and Friday, 8:40-9:30 am; Thursday,
9:10-IOam.
Appointments can be scheduled by
calling during walk-in consulting hours
or during office hours for students. D
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT. OCTOBER 21 , 1998
Student Affairs
Rip Taylor to star in
'A Funny Thing Happened' says 'Thanks'
Veteran actor Rip Taylor has been
named to the lead role in "A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo
rum," scheduled to play in the Perform
ing Arts Center's Cohan Center on
Sunday and Monday, Jan . 24-25.
Taylor replaces Jo Anne Worley of
"Laugh-In" as the eternally exasperated
slave Psuedolu s in thi s revival of the
Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
Taylor's persona as an insane, con
fetti-tossing, crying comedian became
well known in the '60s and '70s on the
Ed Sullivan Show. D
Policy on animal research,
human subjects, fraud
The university has established policies
and procedures for protecting people and
animals involved in research projects and
for dealing with scientific fraud.
The Human Subjects Committee re
views all projects involving human sub
jects, including senior projects, thesis
work, and faculty research. Research
proposals should be sent to either Steve
Davis, committee chair, Physical Educa
tion and Kinesiology (Mott Physical
Education Building, Room 363, ext. 6
2754), or the Research and Graduate Pro
grams office in Building 38, Room 155
(formerly the Math and Home Econom
ics Building, now the Math and Science
Building), ext. 6-1508, for referral to the
committee. Guidelines for preparing the
proposals can be obtained from either
office.
The In stitutional Animal Care and
Use Committee reviews all current or
proposed projects or activities in which
animals are used in teaching or research.
For guidelines and forms, call or visit the
Research and Graduate Programs office.
Send proposals involving the use of ani
mals to the committee via Research and
Graduate Program s.
Copies of "Policies and Procedures
for the Handling of Allegations of Scien
tific Fraud and Serious Mi sconduct" are
available from Research and Graduate
Programs, Grants Development, and
Foundation Sponsored Program s, all in
the Math and Science Building. Or call
ext. 6- 1508 or e-mail cbrooksh@cal
poly.edu. D
The Student Affairs Division thanks
the following departments for partici
pating in the recent Mark S. Reuling
Volleyball Cha ll enge: Athletics, ASI
Recreational Sports, Career Services,
Economics, Health and Psychological
Services, Housing and Residential Life,
Ombud Services and Educational Eq
uity Programs, the Vice Pre si dent for
Student Affairs office, Student
Life, Student Academic Services,
and the University Center for Teacher
Education.
Thi s first-time event was a success
with more than $900 donated to an en
dowment that will fund mental health
and depression education and preven
tion programs through Health and Psy
chological Services.
For more information about the en
dowment or the tournament, call Polly
Harrigan at ext. 6-6553. D
. Iearn1ng
. ,
•••' serviCe(Continued from page 1)
guides and concept papers, including
the new General Education criteria and
the CSU "Cornerstones" document.
The Class and Community Connec
tions program provides faculty mem
bers with these incentives :
• Funds of up to $1,000 each that
can be paid directly to four faculty
members or transferred to their respec
tive department accounts;
• Funds for two faculty members to
travel to di scipline- specific confer
ences;
• Help from student mentors for 10
hours a week to handle the logistic s of
involving students in the off-campus
community;
• Funds to bring to campus facu lty
experts in service-learning within their
respective di sc iplines; and
• Assistance in locating appropriate
community-learning experiences.
Interested teachers can call the
program's faculty liaison , Dianne
Long, at ext. 6-5717 or 6-2984. D
ort
Cal Poly students
hit the streets
Cal Poly students helped spruce up
local non-profit organizations and ser
vice agencies recently during the 6th an
nual "Into the Streets" event sponsored
by Student Community Services.
Into the Streets is designed to intro
duce students to community service and
chall enge them to volunteer regularly.
More than 75 students were expected
to clean up such organizations as Head
Start; the AIDS Support Network; the
Transition/ Mental Health Association's
(TM HA) Growing Grounds, LA Group,
and Cri sis House; Rancho de Los
Animales; the Homeless Shelter; and the
Prado Day Center. D
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter
Building): "Craftmakers '98 ,"
through Oct. 24. Dail y II am-4 pm;
Wednesday, 7-9 pm.
UU Galerie: "Peter Meller: Andante
Allegro Rubato," through Dec. 6.
Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm;
Wednesday until 7 pm; Saturday,
Sunday, noon to 4 pm.
Wednesday, October 21
Position vacancies
Vacancy information and applications
for the following positions are available
from the appropriate Human Resources
office. Vacancy information can also be ac
cessed from the Cal Poly home page on the
World Wide Web (address: www.
calpoly.edu; click on ''General Information").
FOUIIDATIOII (Foundation Adm. Building,
job line at ext. 6-7107). All foundation ap
plications must be received (not just post
marked) by 5 pm of the closing date.
(No faxes.)
Engineering Programmer/Analyst,
Aeronautical Engineering ($3,457
$6,447/mo). Serves as a project engineer
of a research team responsible for plan
ning, organizing, and conducting flight
control technology programs for rotary
winged aircraft. Primary responsibilities
include conceiving, designing, and
implementing significant technical im
provement to the CONDUIT (Control
Designer's Unified Interface) system.
Work wi ll be performed at NASA Ames
Research Center in the Flight Control
and Pilot Interface Branch of the Army/
NASA Rotorcraft Division. Require
ments: Master 's degree in aeronautical
engineering and a minimum of one year
of recent experience in rotorcraft controls
design using CONSOLE and CONDUIT
in a C++ environment. Knowledge of
Gifcorcode, UNIX and Matlab. Must be
able to clearly communicate both orally
and in writing the results of the test stud
ies. Must be able to work evenings and
weekends as required. Closing date: Nov.
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Music: Trio Voronezh, Cal Poly
Theatre, 8 pm. ($)
Thursday, October 22
Physics colloquium: Nilgun Sungar,
"Biophysics of Neurons," Science E45 , 11 am.
Friday, October 23
Homecoming: Through Sunday, Oct.
25. Call Alumni Relations at ext. 6ALUM (6-2586).
Groundbreaking: Sports Complex,
on site, II am.
Women's Soccer: UOP, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: UC Berkeley, Mustang
Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Music: Anne Murray, Cohan Center,
8 pm. ($)
Saturday, October 24
Homecoming Football: Western New
Mexico, Mustang Stadium, l pm. ($)
Sunday, October 25
Women's Soccer: Cal State Long
Beach, Mustang Stadium, 1 pm. ($)
Men's Soccer: Stanford, Mustang
Stadium, 5 pm ($)
nonday, October 26
Workshop: International Travel
Safety, UU 220, 2 pm.
Thursday, October 29
Physics colloquium: Gayle Cook,
"Neutrino Mass and the Cosmos,"
Science E-45 , ll am.
Speaker: Wayne Montgomery
(Library), "Academic Libraries in
Thai land and Vietnam: Making
Friends and Touring," Staff Dining
room, noon .
Speaker: Ian McHarg, "Designing
Environments for the Next Millen
nium," Theatre, 4:30pm.
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 7 • October 21 , 1998
Published by the Communications Office
'Info literacy' standards
topic of teleconference
Incentives offered for
'service-learning' program
A teleconference celebrating new na
tional guidelines and the first "informa
tion literacy" standards for the K-12
learner is planned for Monday, Nov. 2.
School library media specialists, teach
ers, and student teachers are invited to the
free, live, interactive presentation from
9 am to noon at the Kennedy Library.
After the program, a no-host lunch will
be served at Vista Grande. Library Dean
Hiram L. Davis will speak on the growing
role of universities in K-12 education.
The teleconference, "Building Part
nerships for Learning," will cover such
topics as:
• The process leading to the new
guidelines and standards;
• The implications for school library
media programs and specialists; and
• Long-term plans for implementation.
Other areas of discu ss ion will include:
• The evolv ing rol e of the school
library media specialist;
Faculty members interested in incor
porating community-based experiences
into new or revised General Education
courses are eligible to receive funds and
other assistance to help develop and
implement the courses.
Class and Community Connections,
a Cal Poly Pl an program, seeks to ad
vance this "service-learning" teaching
pedagogy, which promotes both intel
lectual and civic engagement by link
ing the work students do in the
classroo m to real-world problems and
needs without compromising academic
rigor or discipline-specific objectives .
Community-based experiences have
been encouraged in several curriculum
(Continued on page 2)
Graduate Student Council
seeks representatives
The newly formed Graduate Student
Council seeks student representatives
from each department that offers a gradu
ate degree. The council will provide
campuswide advocacy on policies affect
ing graduate students, faci li tate network
ing for collaborative interdisciplinary
research, distribute announcements about
campus services, provide training for
teaching assistants, host a web site, di s
tribute a news letter, and sponsor work
shops.
Department chairs and graduate co
ordinators are encouraged to nominate
or recruit graduate students for the
council. Some departments might al
ready have elected representatives in
place. For more information or to make
nomination s, contact English grad stu
dent E li zabeth Brunner at ebrunner@
calpoly.edu or 547-1288. D
(Continued on page 4)
'Demonstration orchard'
begun with donation
The Central Coast chapter of the Cali
fornia Rare Fruit Growers Association is
donating $1,500 to the Crop Science De
partment to help establish a "demonstra
tion orchard" on campus.
Crop Science Department Head Paul
Fountain and professor Robert McNeil
accepted the donation at a recent cer
emony at which the first tree was
planted. The tree is called a Dapple
Dandy Pluot, a cross between an apricot
and a plum tree.
"Rare and unusual fruit trees and
vines will be bought or donated to dem
onstrate growth habits, flowering and
fruiting patterns and provide sample
fruits for students and members of the
Rare Fruit Growers Association," said
Joe Sabol, director of outreach services
for the College of Agriculture.
Long-range plans for the orchard are
to develop a collection of rare and inter
esting fruit trees, both deciduous and
sub-tropical , Sabol said.
The site is on the south side of High
land Drive near Stenner Creek. For more
information, call Sabol at ext. 6-7225 . D
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