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CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
'West Side Story'
to play twice Nov. 28
"West Side Story," the musical that
first electrified Broadway nearly 40 years
ago, is coming to the Performing Arts
Center for two shows on Saturday, Nov.
28. But hurry if you want to see it. Only
a few seats remain.
The classic is being brought back by a
new national touring company and will
play at 3 and 8 pm in Harman Hall in the
Cohan Center.
Based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and
Juliet," "West Side Story" is set in New
York 's West Side, where two rival gangs
battle over neighborhood turf. A boy
and a girl from opposing sides and differ
ent races meet and fall in love, but the
romance ends in tragedy.
The music was composed by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
choreography by Jerome Robbins, and
the script by Arthur Laurents.
The production is part of Cal Poly
Arts' Great Performances series. Tickets
cost $30.50 to $48. 0
Ticket information
Tickets to the performances listed
in today's Cal Poly Report are on
sale at the Performing Arts Ticket
Office from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays
and from 10 am to 4 pm Saturdays.
Call 6-ARTS (ext. 6-2787), or to or
der by fax, dial ext. 6-6088.
Information on Cal Poly Arts
events, including audio and video
samples of artists' work, can be
found on the WWW at www.calpoly.
arts.org. 0
••• Women's Studies
(Continued from page 3)
Demonstrated excellence in undergradu
ate teaching is required, and some ad
mini strative experience is preferred.
Candidates should submit a statement
of interest, curriculum vitae, and three
refere nces to Barbara Mori, Search Com
mi ttee Chair, c/o Women's Studies Pro
gram. For more information about the
po ~itio n contact Mori at ext. 6-2729 or
bm ori @calpoly.edu , or call the Women's
Stu dies Program office at ext. 6-1525.
The deadline to apply is Wednesday,
NO\. 18. 0
Johnson, 70
Boyd Johnson, mathematics professor
emeritus, died Oct. 25 in a local hospital.
Johnson taught at the U.S. Air Force
Academy before coming to Cal Poly in
1969. He received Cal Poly ' s Distin
guished Teacher Award in 1987 andre
tired in 1991, after 30 years of teaching.
A 1951 graduate of the U.S. Naval
Academy, he became an officer in the
U.S. Air Force. Johnson earned a
master 's degree in 1956 and, after leav
ing the Air Force, went on to earn a doc
torate in nuclear engineering in 1963 .
He was an accomplished master swim
mer and wrote a novel , "The Search Com
mittee," that was published in 1996. 0
••• 'Cal Foly Pollies'
All Cal Poly employees hired before
June I , 1998, will be sent a Confidential
ity-Security Policy and Statement regard
ing the responsible use of Cal Poly
institutional data.
The policy, approved by the Informa
tion Resources Management Policy and
Planning Committee, is to be kept as a
reference . The attached statement needs
to be signed and returned to Joe Risser,
information security officer, as soon as
possible. It will be placed in the
employee's official personnel and payroll
file in the Human Resources and Em
ployment Equity office.
Employees hired after June I were
given a copy of the policy and signed the
statement when they were hired. 0
(Cominu edfrom page 1)
The "Foly Follies" spoof will skewer
WOW Week, KCPR, the Orchesis Dance
Concert, the fashion scene at Cal Poly,
the notorious campus meter maids, the
controversial merit pay raise system,
grumpy old professors, the Performing
Arts Center, the Health Center, the ad
ministration , even the Foundation.
The script is credited to 58 writers,
including director and Theatre and Dance
Department Chair AI Schnupp and the
play ' s cast members.
"Cal Foly Follies" will play Thursday
through Saturday, Nov. 12-14, and
Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 18-21,
at 8 pm. Buy tickets, at $7 and $8, at the
Performing Arts Ticket Office. 0
••• Chandler Award
(Continu ed from page 1)
Everett Chandler served as Cal Poly's
dean of students from 1951 to 1977.
During his tenure, he was recognized by
the National Association of Student Per
sonnel Administrators for his lifetime
dedication to the betterment of student
services and for the programs developed
at Cal Poly under his leadership.
Arlene Chandler worked in the Student
Life and Activities office from 1960 to 1962,
helping to lay the foundation for the WOW
orientation program, and from 1962 to
1964 served as associate dean for women.
The Chandlers have been generous
supporters of the Kennedy Library, the
Athletics Department, and the Ethnic
Studies Department. 0
ort
Employees to complete
confidentiality form
Student Affairs Report
available online
The Student Affairs Division has
posted its 1997-98 Report to the Campus
Community on the Web at http://
www.calpoly.edu/-saffairs/divisional/
report97 _98.html.
This comprehensive report chronicles
the successes of the division and includes
information on its operations, services to
students, and progress on learning out
comes and assessment. A limited num
ber of the reports are avai Iable for those
without Web access. For a copy, call ext.
6-1521. 0
Afghan war, women
topic of Nov. 9 talk
On Monday, Nov. 9, Maliha Zulfacar,
a lecturer in the Social Sciences Depart
ment, will discuss the effects that 20
years of war have had on the traditional
role of women in Afghan society.
The talk, a Women ' s Studies Lunch
Time Seminar, will be from I 2: I 0 to 1
pm in the Staff Dining Room.
Zulfacar will also address the histori
cal role of centralized government in
Afghan women's li ves, the socia l struc
ture of Afghanistan, and the future of
Afghan women.
For information, contact the Women's
Studies Program at ext. 6-1525. The talk
is open to the campus community. 0
PAGE4
Published by the Communications Office
Engineering breaks ground
for Advanced Tech Lab
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter): Paintings
and drawings by Jerome Witkin. Nov. I
Dee. 6. Daily II am-4 pm; Wednesday,
7-9 pm. Reception 5-7 pm Fliday, Nov. 13.
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, November 4
Music: Richard Green, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Thursday, November 5
Physics Colloquium: Richard Saenz,
Robert Dickerson and Nilgun Sungar,
"Conference on Revitalization of Physics
B.S.," Science E-45, II am.
Music: Cadillac Angels, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Philosophy at Poly: David J. Chalmers
(UC Santa Cruz), "Beliefs About
Experiences," Philips Hall, 4 pm.
Friday, November 6
Speaker: Victor Hanson (Fresno State),
"The Agrarian Roots of Western
Civilization," Philips Hall, 4:30pm.
Men's Soccer: Sacramento State,
Mustang Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Men's Basketball: 5 Star Sport, Mott
Gym, 7 pm. ($)
Sunday, November 8
Speaker: Teresa Taylor (Library), "The
Girls of Cal Poly," Library 409, 2 pm.
Reservations required, ext. 6-2345.
Men's Soccer: UCLA, Mustang
Stadium, 6 pm. ($)
ftonday, November 9
Music: Susan Henry, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Women's Studies Lunch-Time
Seminar: Maliha Zulfacar (Social
Sciences), the Afghan war and its effect
on women, Staff Dining room, 12:10 pm.
Tuesday, November 10
Music: Trio Vanguard, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Open Academic Senate Meeting:
University Advancement and the
Centennial Campaign, UU 220, 3 pm.
Music: Student piano recital, Davidson
Music 218, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, November 11
Veterans' Day: Campus will be closed
except for needed emergency services. 0
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 9 • November 4, 1998
Cal Poly's homegrown comedy troupe will
perform Nov. 12.
Cal Poly to be spoofed in
Theatre and Dance show
Chicago may have the Second City
comedy troupe, New York, Saturday
Night Live, and Ziegfeld his Follies, but
San Luis Obispo is about to have the
"Cal Foly Follies," a comic review of
original songs and sketches scheduled for
seven performances in the Theatre begin
ning Thursday, Nov 12.
The script- "which takes no prison
ers," according to Theatre Manager Peter
Wilt -lampoons everyone from President
Baker and the staff of the Mustang Daily
to the San Luis Obispo City Council.
One sketch runs throughout the pro
duction : a Cal Poly promotional video
supposedly being made by Robin Leach ,
best known for his "Lives of the Rich
and Famous" television series.
(Continu ed on page 4)
Theatre and Dance
has B.A. program
The Theatre and Dance Department
will have a four-year Bachelor of
Science degree program in theatre arts
beginning with transfer students winter
quarter 1999 and first-time freshmen in
fall 1999.
The program will offer such courses
as introduction to theatre, black theatre,
stagecraft, acting, directing, play writing,
children's drama, and stage design.
Initially, the department expects to
adm it approximately 10 students. 0
The College of Engineering broke
ground last week for its Advanced Tech
nology Laboratories (ATL) Building, the
first academic facility at Cal Poly funded
entirely by non-state sources.
The facility will include 17,000
square feet of applied research space
combining architectural elements neces
sary for indu strial experiments - such
things as roll-up doors, enclosed control
rooms, flexible mechanical duct work,
raised floors, an exposed roof frame, and
multiple cranes- with interdisciplinary
lab space, computer workstations, multi
media innovations, and the latest techno
logical equipment.
The six interdisciplinary laboratories
to be housed in the ATL include the
National Science Foundation Advanced
Transportation Laboratory, the Northrop
Grumman Aerospace Systems Labora
tory, the Parsons Earthquake and
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory,
the St. Jude Pacesetter Bioengineering
Laboratory, the Litton Mechatronics
(Continu ed
011
page 2)
Three employees named
Chandler Award winners
Three employees have been honored
for dedicated service to students and
the university.
Selected as the first recipients of the
Student Affairs Division Chandler Award
are Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting, coordinator
of orientation programs for Student Life
and Activities; Rojean Dominguez, coor
dinator of health education programs in
Health Services; and Ellen Polinsky, a
counselor in Career Services.
The award, named in honor of Everett
and Arlene Chandler, replaces the Stu
dent Affairs Outstanding Staff Award.
The award is given in the Chandlers'
name to recognize the couple's long
standing contributions to Cal Poly and
student affairs.
(Continu ed
011
page 4)
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
CAL POLY RE PORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
Retirement reception
today for Krenkel
Educational material
on view at Library
"usic and poetry
focus of two-day event
Facilities master plan
to be revised
Western civilization roots
topic of Nov. 6 talk
Rec Sports to sponsor
'all-nighter'
A retirement reception for lead cus
todian Geraldine "Gerry" Krenke! is
schedu led from 12:30 to 2 pm today
(Nov. 4) in UU 220.
Krenke! has worked for the Housing
and Bus iness Services department for
26 years. 0
Material the State Board of Education
is considering adopting for teaching his
tory and social sciences in kindergarten
thro ugh eighth grade can be seen at the
Kennedy Library.
Forms for comments are in the Learn
ing Resources Display Center in the
Kennedy Library.
Comments on lega l compliance and
educational content must be postmarked
by Wednesday, Nov. I I, to be considered
by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
The State Board of Education will
make its decision in March .
For more information or to make a
group reservation, call coordinator Ellen
Jagger at ext. 6-11 02. 0
A three-part celebration of mus ic and
poetry, with a special emphasis on poet
Emi ly Dickinson, is being planned for
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-1 3.
" I Dwell in
Possib ili ty- A
Celebration of
Words and Mu
sic" is a cross
disciplinary
activity that in
cludes a lecture,
a panel discus
sion, and a conGordon c~u"
cert featuring
·
the music of
composer and ph il anthropist Gordon Getty,
who will talk about his music.
The first event is the lecture by English
professor and Dickinson scholar Angie
Estes. Her talk, "Will the Real Emily
Dickinson Please Stand Up?," is set for
I I: I 0 am Nov. 12 in Fisher Science 286.
On Nov. 13 at 2: I 0 pm , the panel on
"Words inland/on/about Music" will
begin in Davidson M usic Center 2 18.
Joining moderator and music professor
Alyson McLamore wi ll be Getty, music
professors and composers Anton io
Barata, Craig Russell and John Russell ,
and English professors and poets/writers
Angie Estes, Kevin Clark, and Linda
Halisky. The discussion will center on the
relationships between words and music.
To close the two-day celebration, Mu
sic Department faculty members Mary
Rawcliffe, soprano, and Will iam Terrence
Spiller, piano, wi ll perform Getty's "The
White Election," a song cyc le written to
texts by Em il y Dickinson.
Getty wi ll comment on hi s works at
the concert, scheduled at 7:30pm Nov.
13 at Mount Carme l Lutheran Church,
170 I Fredericks St. in San L uis Obispo.
The "White Election" compact disc,
wh ich features a performance by the late
Kaaren Erickson , was released to interna
tiona l acclaim.
The free events are sponsored by the
Music and English departments and the
College of Liberal Arts. For information,
call the M usic Department at ext. 6-2406. 0
Cal Poly is embarking on a three-year
planning process that will result in a new
comprehensive phys ical Master Plan for
the campus.
D uring the summer, the Campus Plan
ning Comm ittee, Cal Poly staff members
and consultants proposed a planning pro
cess that incl udes :
• Full campus and community partici
pation, including the formation of task
forces to deal with specific issues .
• Concurrent development of an Envi
ronmental Impact Report.
• Utilization of all available Cal Poly
resources.
• Criteria driven by academic require
ments and innovations.
March 200I is the target for submit
ting the revised Master Plan to the CSU
Board of Trustees.
The CSU Board of Trustees approved
the current master plan in May 1963.
Subsequent revisions have resulted in a
piecemeal approach to planning new
projects, and a major review is long
overdue, said Facilities Planning infor
mation coordinator Deby Ryan.
Ryan invites the campus community
to participate in the process and help
chart the future of Cal Poly. To get
involved, watch for more information
in a coming administration " Outlook"
as well as updates in the Cal Poly
Report.
A Master Plan home page has been de
veloped and can be accessed via the Cal
Poly Home Page under "What's New" or at
http://www.facsrv.calpoly.edu/fpdb/mp/
index.htm. 0
A classics professor at Fresno State
wi ll speak on "The Agrarian Roots of
Western Civi lization" at 4:30pm Friday,
Nov. 6, in Philips Hall in the Cohan Center.
Victor Davis Hanson's talk is taken
from his book "The Other Greeks."
Hanson is a fift h-generation fami ly
farmer from Se lma. His book "Fie lds
Without Dreams" deals with the de
cline of family farming in the United
States. "Who Ki ll ed Homer," a book he
co-authored, is about the demise of
classical education.
The talk is sponsored by the Provost's
Office and the Mathematics Department. 0
Up All Night with Rec Sports, an event
that involves different activities into the
wee hours, is scheduled from 8 pm to 3 am
Friday, Nov. 13, in the Rec Center.
Students and other members of the
Rec Center are invited to participate in
activities such as a casino, kickboxing,
massage, swing dancing, a basketball
to urnament, bedsheet volleyball, a hyp
notist, a mini-soccer tournament, a raffle,
sumo wrestling, and a biathlon. 0
UC Santa Cruz philosopher
to talk on conscious mind
A philosopher whose book on the
conscious mind is hailed as a break
through in the philosophy of mind will
speak on Thursday, Nov. 5 .
UC Santa Cruz professor David J.
Chalmers will talk on "Beliefs About
Experiences" at 4 pm in Philips Hall in the
Cohan Center.
In his presentation, Chalmers will
look at how beliefs about conscious ex
periences pose a number of philosophical
questions : To what extent is an experi
ence a belief?
"He hopes to explain why, above
and beyond neural processes in the
brain , there is also a sentient self,
something that it is like to be an
experiencer," said Paul Miklowitz,
chair of the Phi losophy Department.
Miklowitz call s Chalmers a philoso
pher of rapidly growing international
fame in the new field of "conscious
ness studies."
"This is not ' new age' spiritualism,"
Mik lowitz said, "but rather involves at
tempts to square the success of physical
science with the facts of first-person sub
jective experience."
Whi le in his tee ns in the '80s,
Chalmers won international mathematics
competitions. He was a Rhodes Scholar
in mathematics at Oxford and earned a
doctorate in phi losophy and cogn itive
science. Next year he p lans to join the
phi losophy faculty of the University of
Arizona, where he wi ll a lso serve as
associate director of the Center for
Consciousness Studies.
The free presentation is part of the
Philosophy at Po ly Speakers Series . For
more information, call the P hilosophy
Department at ext. 6-204 1. 0
Tickets to Holiday Lunch
on sale Nov. 12-13
The Annual Ho liday Luncheon
sponsored by the Administration and
Finance Division will be held on Fri
day, Dec. 4 , from II :30 am to I pm in
Chumash Auditorium.
Tickets are $ 10 and wi II be sold on a
first-come basis from 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-13, in
Adm 114.
Entertainment for the lunch will be
provided by the " Holiday Hams. " 0
••• Tech Lab
(Continued from page I)
Laboratory, and the Keck Engineering
Education Research Laboratory.
The cornerstone of the faci lity is the
Keck Engineering Education Research
Lab, which wi ll house a "classroom of
the future," a dynamic, multimedia-en
hanced space envisioned as a test bed for
both on-site and dista nce learning in an
interactive, hands-on studio environment.
Initial funding for the project came
from a National Science Foundation
grant of $1.79 million that required a
dollar-for-dol lar match. The W.M . Keck
Foundation underwrote the Engineering
Education Lab with a $500,000 grant,
while gifts from ind ustria l partners
tota led $1.71 million.
The b uilding is due to open in
fall 1999. 0
CPR schedule change
Because campus wi ll be c losed on
Veteran 's Day, Nov. II , next week's Cal
Poly Report will be out Thursday, Nov. 12. 0
PAGE 2
Women's Studies seeking
interim director
T he Women's Studies Program is con
ducti ng an internal search for an interim
d irector to serve winter quarter 1999
through the end of spring quarter 2000.
The program offers a minor in
women's studies and has regularly
s ponsored campus speakers through its
Lunch Time Seminar series and other
public forums.
The interim director wi II receive re
lease time.
Eligible app licants mu st be tenured or
tenure-track and hold a doctorate in
women's studies or an appropriate field.
(Conti11ued on page 4)
Bandfest set for Nov. 21
Bandfest ' 98, featuring the Cal Poly
Wind Orchestra and the University Jazz
Bands, is set for 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 21,
in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
The 65-member Wind Orchestra wi ll
open the concert with the " American
Overture" by Joseph Jenkins. The group
wil l also play "Fantasy Tales" by Piet
Swerts, "Irish Tune from County Derry"
("Danny Boy") by Percy Grainger, and
" Dynamica" by Jan Vander Roost.
The two University Jazz Bands will
perform a set of big band arrangements.
The Wind Orchestra will close the con
cert with a musical tribute to veterans with
a salute to D-Day veterans. Selections will
include "Lonely Beach, Normandy, 1944"
by James Barnes, and "Epilogue: Lest
We Forget" by Robert Jager.
The Cal Poly Wind Orchestra uses
just the woodwi nd, brass and percus
sion sections of a traditional orc hestra
-"a symphony of winds whose sound
is powerfu l, bo ld and refreshing," said
William Johnson , music professor and
conductor of the Wind Orchestra and
Jazz Band Two.
Mus ic professor and composer Paul
Rinzler directs the University Jazz
Band One.
Tickets cost $6 to $13. Concertgoers
can save 15 percent by buying tickets to
three or more Wind Orchestra and Uni
versity Jazz Bands season events.
For season ticket and concert detai Is,
call the Music Department at ext. 6-2607.
The concert is sponsored by the
Col lege of Liberal Arts, the Music
Department, and ASI. 0
Women's Studies Potluck
set for Nov. 12
Students and the faculty and staff are
invited to the Women's Studies Fall
Quarter Potluck to be held 6-8 pm Thurs
day, Nov. 12, at the home of Carolyn
Stefanco, director of women 's studies.
To sign up for the potluck and ob
tain directions to Stefanco 's house , ca ll
the Women' s Studies Program office at
ext. 6-1525. 0
Texas scholar to talk
on alcohol, drug use
One of the nation 's leading scholars of
bureaucracy and education po licy will
speak on Friday, Nov. 13, about why
people behave in ways society doesn't nec
essari ly approve of, especially in regard to
the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
The talk by Ken Meier of Texas A&M
is based on his book "The Politics of
Sin," which explains how the govern
ment responds to and makes public
policy on alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
Meier's presentation , titled "A Formal
Model of Perversion," wi ll beg in at 2 pm
in Faculty Offices North, Room 24-B.
The presentation is part of an Applied
Social Research Colloquia series, which
focuses on broad and often methodological
questions in social science research. The
series is designed to be of interest to schol
ars in the social and behavioral sciences.
Series organizers Jeff Gi ll and Phi l
Fetzer of the political science facu lty en
courage anyone interested in presenting a
paper to call or e-mail them . Gi ll can be
reached at ext. 6-2760, Fetzer at 6-6147. 0
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
CAL POLY RE PORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
Retirement reception
today for Krenkel
Educational material
on view at Library
"usic and poetry
focus of two-day event
Facilities master plan
to be revised
Western civilization roots
topic of Nov. 6 talk
Rec Sports to sponsor
'all-nighter'
A retirement reception for lead cus
todian Geraldine "Gerry" Krenke! is
schedu led from 12:30 to 2 pm today
(Nov. 4) in UU 220.
Krenke! has worked for the Housing
and Bus iness Services department for
26 years. 0
Material the State Board of Education
is considering adopting for teaching his
tory and social sciences in kindergarten
thro ugh eighth grade can be seen at the
Kennedy Library.
Forms for comments are in the Learn
ing Resources Display Center in the
Kennedy Library.
Comments on lega l compliance and
educational content must be postmarked
by Wednesday, Nov. I I, to be considered
by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
The State Board of Education will
make its decision in March .
For more information or to make a
group reservation, call coordinator Ellen
Jagger at ext. 6-11 02. 0
A three-part celebration of mus ic and
poetry, with a special emphasis on poet
Emi ly Dickinson, is being planned for
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-1 3.
" I Dwell in
Possib ili ty- A
Celebration of
Words and Mu
sic" is a cross
disciplinary
activity that in
cludes a lecture,
a panel discus
sion, and a conGordon c~u"
cert featuring
·
the music of
composer and ph il anthropist Gordon Getty,
who will talk about his music.
The first event is the lecture by English
professor and Dickinson scholar Angie
Estes. Her talk, "Will the Real Emily
Dickinson Please Stand Up?," is set for
I I: I 0 am Nov. 12 in Fisher Science 286.
On Nov. 13 at 2: I 0 pm , the panel on
"Words inland/on/about Music" will
begin in Davidson M usic Center 2 18.
Joining moderator and music professor
Alyson McLamore wi ll be Getty, music
professors and composers Anton io
Barata, Craig Russell and John Russell ,
and English professors and poets/writers
Angie Estes, Kevin Clark, and Linda
Halisky. The discussion will center on the
relationships between words and music.
To close the two-day celebration, Mu
sic Department faculty members Mary
Rawcliffe, soprano, and Will iam Terrence
Spiller, piano, wi ll perform Getty's "The
White Election," a song cyc le written to
texts by Em il y Dickinson.
Getty wi ll comment on hi s works at
the concert, scheduled at 7:30pm Nov.
13 at Mount Carme l Lutheran Church,
170 I Fredericks St. in San L uis Obispo.
The "White Election" compact disc,
wh ich features a performance by the late
Kaaren Erickson , was released to interna
tiona l acclaim.
The free events are sponsored by the
Music and English departments and the
College of Liberal Arts. For information,
call the M usic Department at ext. 6-2406. 0
Cal Poly is embarking on a three-year
planning process that will result in a new
comprehensive phys ical Master Plan for
the campus.
D uring the summer, the Campus Plan
ning Comm ittee, Cal Poly staff members
and consultants proposed a planning pro
cess that incl udes :
• Full campus and community partici
pation, including the formation of task
forces to deal with specific issues .
• Concurrent development of an Envi
ronmental Impact Report.
• Utilization of all available Cal Poly
resources.
• Criteria driven by academic require
ments and innovations.
March 200I is the target for submit
ting the revised Master Plan to the CSU
Board of Trustees.
The CSU Board of Trustees approved
the current master plan in May 1963.
Subsequent revisions have resulted in a
piecemeal approach to planning new
projects, and a major review is long
overdue, said Facilities Planning infor
mation coordinator Deby Ryan.
Ryan invites the campus community
to participate in the process and help
chart the future of Cal Poly. To get
involved, watch for more information
in a coming administration " Outlook"
as well as updates in the Cal Poly
Report.
A Master Plan home page has been de
veloped and can be accessed via the Cal
Poly Home Page under "What's New" or at
http://www.facsrv.calpoly.edu/fpdb/mp/
index.htm. 0
A classics professor at Fresno State
wi ll speak on "The Agrarian Roots of
Western Civi lization" at 4:30pm Friday,
Nov. 6, in Philips Hall in the Cohan Center.
Victor Davis Hanson's talk is taken
from his book "The Other Greeks."
Hanson is a fift h-generation fami ly
farmer from Se lma. His book "Fie lds
Without Dreams" deals with the de
cline of family farming in the United
States. "Who Ki ll ed Homer," a book he
co-authored, is about the demise of
classical education.
The talk is sponsored by the Provost's
Office and the Mathematics Department. 0
Up All Night with Rec Sports, an event
that involves different activities into the
wee hours, is scheduled from 8 pm to 3 am
Friday, Nov. 13, in the Rec Center.
Students and other members of the
Rec Center are invited to participate in
activities such as a casino, kickboxing,
massage, swing dancing, a basketball
to urnament, bedsheet volleyball, a hyp
notist, a mini-soccer tournament, a raffle,
sumo wrestling, and a biathlon. 0
UC Santa Cruz philosopher
to talk on conscious mind
A philosopher whose book on the
conscious mind is hailed as a break
through in the philosophy of mind will
speak on Thursday, Nov. 5 .
UC Santa Cruz professor David J.
Chalmers will talk on "Beliefs About
Experiences" at 4 pm in Philips Hall in the
Cohan Center.
In his presentation, Chalmers will
look at how beliefs about conscious ex
periences pose a number of philosophical
questions : To what extent is an experi
ence a belief?
"He hopes to explain why, above
and beyond neural processes in the
brain , there is also a sentient self,
something that it is like to be an
experiencer," said Paul Miklowitz,
chair of the Phi losophy Department.
Miklowitz call s Chalmers a philoso
pher of rapidly growing international
fame in the new field of "conscious
ness studies."
"This is not ' new age' spiritualism,"
Mik lowitz said, "but rather involves at
tempts to square the success of physical
science with the facts of first-person sub
jective experience."
Whi le in his tee ns in the '80s,
Chalmers won international mathematics
competitions. He was a Rhodes Scholar
in mathematics at Oxford and earned a
doctorate in phi losophy and cogn itive
science. Next year he p lans to join the
phi losophy faculty of the University of
Arizona, where he wi ll a lso serve as
associate director of the Center for
Consciousness Studies.
The free presentation is part of the
Philosophy at Po ly Speakers Series . For
more information, call the P hilosophy
Department at ext. 6-204 1. 0
Tickets to Holiday Lunch
on sale Nov. 12-13
The Annual Ho liday Luncheon
sponsored by the Administration and
Finance Division will be held on Fri
day, Dec. 4 , from II :30 am to I pm in
Chumash Auditorium.
Tickets are $ 10 and wi II be sold on a
first-come basis from 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-13, in
Adm 114.
Entertainment for the lunch will be
provided by the " Holiday Hams. " 0
••• Tech Lab
(Continued from page I)
Laboratory, and the Keck Engineering
Education Research Laboratory.
The cornerstone of the faci lity is the
Keck Engineering Education Research
Lab, which wi ll house a "classroom of
the future," a dynamic, multimedia-en
hanced space envisioned as a test bed for
both on-site and dista nce learning in an
interactive, hands-on studio environment.
Initial funding for the project came
from a National Science Foundation
grant of $1.79 million that required a
dollar-for-dol lar match. The W.M . Keck
Foundation underwrote the Engineering
Education Lab with a $500,000 grant,
while gifts from ind ustria l partners
tota led $1.71 million.
The b uilding is due to open in
fall 1999. 0
CPR schedule change
Because campus wi ll be c losed on
Veteran 's Day, Nov. II , next week's Cal
Poly Report will be out Thursday, Nov. 12. 0
PAGE 2
Women's Studies seeking
interim director
T he Women's Studies Program is con
ducti ng an internal search for an interim
d irector to serve winter quarter 1999
through the end of spring quarter 2000.
The program offers a minor in
women's studies and has regularly
s ponsored campus speakers through its
Lunch Time Seminar series and other
public forums.
The interim director wi II receive re
lease time.
Eligible app licants mu st be tenured or
tenure-track and hold a doctorate in
women's studies or an appropriate field.
(Conti11ued on page 4)
Bandfest set for Nov. 21
Bandfest ' 98, featuring the Cal Poly
Wind Orchestra and the University Jazz
Bands, is set for 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 21,
in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
The 65-member Wind Orchestra wi ll
open the concert with the " American
Overture" by Joseph Jenkins. The group
wil l also play "Fantasy Tales" by Piet
Swerts, "Irish Tune from County Derry"
("Danny Boy") by Percy Grainger, and
" Dynamica" by Jan Vander Roost.
The two University Jazz Bands will
perform a set of big band arrangements.
The Wind Orchestra will close the con
cert with a musical tribute to veterans with
a salute to D-Day veterans. Selections will
include "Lonely Beach, Normandy, 1944"
by James Barnes, and "Epilogue: Lest
We Forget" by Robert Jager.
The Cal Poly Wind Orchestra uses
just the woodwi nd, brass and percus
sion sections of a traditional orc hestra
-"a symphony of winds whose sound
is powerfu l, bo ld and refreshing," said
William Johnson , music professor and
conductor of the Wind Orchestra and
Jazz Band Two.
Mus ic professor and composer Paul
Rinzler directs the University Jazz
Band One.
Tickets cost $6 to $13. Concertgoers
can save 15 percent by buying tickets to
three or more Wind Orchestra and Uni
versity Jazz Bands season events.
For season ticket and concert detai Is,
call the Music Department at ext. 6-2607.
The concert is sponsored by the
Col lege of Liberal Arts, the Music
Department, and ASI. 0
Women's Studies Potluck
set for Nov. 12
Students and the faculty and staff are
invited to the Women's Studies Fall
Quarter Potluck to be held 6-8 pm Thurs
day, Nov. 12, at the home of Carolyn
Stefanco, director of women 's studies.
To sign up for the potluck and ob
tain directions to Stefanco 's house , ca ll
the Women' s Studies Program office at
ext. 6-1525. 0
Texas scholar to talk
on alcohol, drug use
One of the nation 's leading scholars of
bureaucracy and education po licy will
speak on Friday, Nov. 13, about why
people behave in ways society doesn't nec
essari ly approve of, especially in regard to
the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
The talk by Ken Meier of Texas A&M
is based on his book "The Politics of
Sin," which explains how the govern
ment responds to and makes public
policy on alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
Meier's presentation , titled "A Formal
Model of Perversion," wi ll beg in at 2 pm
in Faculty Offices North, Room 24-B.
The presentation is part of an Applied
Social Research Colloquia series, which
focuses on broad and often methodological
questions in social science research. The
series is designed to be of interest to schol
ars in the social and behavioral sciences.
Series organizers Jeff Gi ll and Phi l
Fetzer of the political science facu lty en
courage anyone interested in presenting a
paper to call or e-mail them . Gi ll can be
reached at ext. 6-2760, Fetzer at 6-6147. 0
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
'West Side Story'
to play twice Nov. 28
"West Side Story," the musical that
first electrified Broadway nearly 40 years
ago, is coming to the Performing Arts
Center for two shows on Saturday, Nov.
28. But hurry if you want to see it. Only
a few seats remain.
The classic is being brought back by a
new national touring company and will
play at 3 and 8 pm in Harman Hall in the
Cohan Center.
Based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and
Juliet," "West Side Story" is set in New
York 's West Side, where two rival gangs
battle over neighborhood turf. A boy
and a girl from opposing sides and differ
ent races meet and fall in love, but the
romance ends in tragedy.
The music was composed by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
choreography by Jerome Robbins, and
the script by Arthur Laurents.
The production is part of Cal Poly
Arts' Great Performances series. Tickets
cost $30.50 to $48. 0
Ticket information
Tickets to the performances listed
in today's Cal Poly Report are on
sale at the Performing Arts Ticket
Office from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays
and from 10 am to 4 pm Saturdays.
Call 6-ARTS (ext. 6-2787), or to or
der by fax, dial ext. 6-6088.
Information on Cal Poly Arts
events, including audio and video
samples of artists' work, can be
found on the WWW at www.calpoly.
arts.org. 0
••• Women's Studies
(Continued from page 3)
Demonstrated excellence in undergradu
ate teaching is required, and some ad
mini strative experience is preferred.
Candidates should submit a statement
of interest, curriculum vitae, and three
refere nces to Barbara Mori, Search Com
mi ttee Chair, c/o Women's Studies Pro
gram. For more information about the
po ~itio n contact Mori at ext. 6-2729 or
bm ori @calpoly.edu , or call the Women's
Stu dies Program office at ext. 6-1525.
The deadline to apply is Wednesday,
NO\. 18. 0
Johnson, 70
Boyd Johnson, mathematics professor
emeritus, died Oct. 25 in a local hospital.
Johnson taught at the U.S. Air Force
Academy before coming to Cal Poly in
1969. He received Cal Poly ' s Distin
guished Teacher Award in 1987 andre
tired in 1991, after 30 years of teaching.
A 1951 graduate of the U.S. Naval
Academy, he became an officer in the
U.S. Air Force. Johnson earned a
master 's degree in 1956 and, after leav
ing the Air Force, went on to earn a doc
torate in nuclear engineering in 1963 .
He was an accomplished master swim
mer and wrote a novel , "The Search Com
mittee," that was published in 1996. 0
••• 'Cal Foly Pollies'
All Cal Poly employees hired before
June I , 1998, will be sent a Confidential
ity-Security Policy and Statement regard
ing the responsible use of Cal Poly
institutional data.
The policy, approved by the Informa
tion Resources Management Policy and
Planning Committee, is to be kept as a
reference . The attached statement needs
to be signed and returned to Joe Risser,
information security officer, as soon as
possible. It will be placed in the
employee's official personnel and payroll
file in the Human Resources and Em
ployment Equity office.
Employees hired after June I were
given a copy of the policy and signed the
statement when they were hired. 0
(Cominu edfrom page 1)
The "Foly Follies" spoof will skewer
WOW Week, KCPR, the Orchesis Dance
Concert, the fashion scene at Cal Poly,
the notorious campus meter maids, the
controversial merit pay raise system,
grumpy old professors, the Performing
Arts Center, the Health Center, the ad
ministration , even the Foundation.
The script is credited to 58 writers,
including director and Theatre and Dance
Department Chair AI Schnupp and the
play ' s cast members.
"Cal Foly Follies" will play Thursday
through Saturday, Nov. 12-14, and
Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 18-21,
at 8 pm. Buy tickets, at $7 and $8, at the
Performing Arts Ticket Office. 0
••• Chandler Award
(Continu ed from page 1)
Everett Chandler served as Cal Poly's
dean of students from 1951 to 1977.
During his tenure, he was recognized by
the National Association of Student Per
sonnel Administrators for his lifetime
dedication to the betterment of student
services and for the programs developed
at Cal Poly under his leadership.
Arlene Chandler worked in the Student
Life and Activities office from 1960 to 1962,
helping to lay the foundation for the WOW
orientation program, and from 1962 to
1964 served as associate dean for women.
The Chandlers have been generous
supporters of the Kennedy Library, the
Athletics Department, and the Ethnic
Studies Department. 0
ort
Employees to complete
confidentiality form
Student Affairs Report
available online
The Student Affairs Division has
posted its 1997-98 Report to the Campus
Community on the Web at http://
www.calpoly.edu/-saffairs/divisional/
report97 _98.html.
This comprehensive report chronicles
the successes of the division and includes
information on its operations, services to
students, and progress on learning out
comes and assessment. A limited num
ber of the reports are avai Iable for those
without Web access. For a copy, call ext.
6-1521. 0
Afghan war, women
topic of Nov. 9 talk
On Monday, Nov. 9, Maliha Zulfacar,
a lecturer in the Social Sciences Depart
ment, will discuss the effects that 20
years of war have had on the traditional
role of women in Afghan society.
The talk, a Women ' s Studies Lunch
Time Seminar, will be from I 2: I 0 to 1
pm in the Staff Dining Room.
Zulfacar will also address the histori
cal role of centralized government in
Afghan women's li ves, the socia l struc
ture of Afghanistan, and the future of
Afghan women.
For information, contact the Women's
Studies Program at ext. 6-1525. The talk
is open to the campus community. 0
PAGE4
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Engineering breaks ground
for Advanced Tech Lab
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter): Paintings
and drawings by Jerome Witkin. Nov. I
Dee. 6. Daily II am-4 pm; Wednesday,
7-9 pm. Reception 5-7 pm Fliday, Nov. 13.
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, November 4
Music: Richard Green, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Thursday, November 5
Physics Colloquium: Richard Saenz,
Robert Dickerson and Nilgun Sungar,
"Conference on Revitalization of Physics
B.S.," Science E-45, II am.
Music: Cadillac Angels, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Philosophy at Poly: David J. Chalmers
(UC Santa Cruz), "Beliefs About
Experiences," Philips Hall, 4 pm.
Friday, November 6
Speaker: Victor Hanson (Fresno State),
"The Agrarian Roots of Western
Civilization," Philips Hall, 4:30pm.
Men's Soccer: Sacramento State,
Mustang Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Men's Basketball: 5 Star Sport, Mott
Gym, 7 pm. ($)
Sunday, November 8
Speaker: Teresa Taylor (Library), "The
Girls of Cal Poly," Library 409, 2 pm.
Reservations required, ext. 6-2345.
Men's Soccer: UCLA, Mustang
Stadium, 6 pm. ($)
ftonday, November 9
Music: Susan Henry, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Women's Studies Lunch-Time
Seminar: Maliha Zulfacar (Social
Sciences), the Afghan war and its effect
on women, Staff Dining room, 12:10 pm.
Tuesday, November 10
Music: Trio Vanguard, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Open Academic Senate Meeting:
University Advancement and the
Centennial Campaign, UU 220, 3 pm.
Music: Student piano recital, Davidson
Music 218, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, November 11
Veterans' Day: Campus will be closed
except for needed emergency services. 0
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 9 • November 4, 1998
Cal Poly's homegrown comedy troupe will
perform Nov. 12.
Cal Poly to be spoofed in
Theatre and Dance show
Chicago may have the Second City
comedy troupe, New York, Saturday
Night Live, and Ziegfeld his Follies, but
San Luis Obispo is about to have the
"Cal Foly Follies," a comic review of
original songs and sketches scheduled for
seven performances in the Theatre begin
ning Thursday, Nov 12.
The script- "which takes no prison
ers," according to Theatre Manager Peter
Wilt -lampoons everyone from President
Baker and the staff of the Mustang Daily
to the San Luis Obispo City Council.
One sketch runs throughout the pro
duction : a Cal Poly promotional video
supposedly being made by Robin Leach ,
best known for his "Lives of the Rich
and Famous" television series.
(Continu ed on page 4)
Theatre and Dance
has B.A. program
The Theatre and Dance Department
will have a four-year Bachelor of
Science degree program in theatre arts
beginning with transfer students winter
quarter 1999 and first-time freshmen in
fall 1999.
The program will offer such courses
as introduction to theatre, black theatre,
stagecraft, acting, directing, play writing,
children's drama, and stage design.
Initially, the department expects to
adm it approximately 10 students. 0
The College of Engineering broke
ground last week for its Advanced Tech
nology Laboratories (ATL) Building, the
first academic facility at Cal Poly funded
entirely by non-state sources.
The facility will include 17,000
square feet of applied research space
combining architectural elements neces
sary for indu strial experiments - such
things as roll-up doors, enclosed control
rooms, flexible mechanical duct work,
raised floors, an exposed roof frame, and
multiple cranes- with interdisciplinary
lab space, computer workstations, multi
media innovations, and the latest techno
logical equipment.
The six interdisciplinary laboratories
to be housed in the ATL include the
National Science Foundation Advanced
Transportation Laboratory, the Northrop
Grumman Aerospace Systems Labora
tory, the Parsons Earthquake and
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory,
the St. Jude Pacesetter Bioengineering
Laboratory, the Litton Mechatronics
(Continu ed
011
page 2)
Three employees named
Chandler Award winners
Three employees have been honored
for dedicated service to students and
the university.
Selected as the first recipients of the
Student Affairs Division Chandler Award
are Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting, coordinator
of orientation programs for Student Life
and Activities; Rojean Dominguez, coor
dinator of health education programs in
Health Services; and Ellen Polinsky, a
counselor in Career Services.
The award, named in honor of Everett
and Arlene Chandler, replaces the Stu
dent Affairs Outstanding Staff Award.
The award is given in the Chandlers'
name to recognize the couple's long
standing contributions to Cal Poly and
student affairs.
(Continu ed
011
page 4)
'West Side Story'
to play twice Nov. 28
"West Side Story," the musical that
first electrified Broadway nearly 40 years
ago, is coming to the Performing Arts
Center for two shows on Saturday, Nov.
28. But hurry if you want to see it. Only
a few seats remain.
The classic is being brought back by a
new national touring company and will
play at 3 and 8 pm in Harman Hall in the
Cohan Center.
Based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and
Juliet," "West Side Story" is set in New
York 's West Side, where two rival gangs
battle over neighborhood turf. A boy
and a girl from opposing sides and differ
ent races meet and fall in love, but the
romance ends in tragedy.
The music was composed by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
choreography by Jerome Robbins, and
the script by Arthur Laurents.
The production is part of Cal Poly
Arts' Great Performances series. Tickets
cost $30.50 to $48. 0
Ticket information
Tickets to the performances listed
in today's Cal Poly Report are on
sale at the Performing Arts Ticket
Office from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays
and from 10 am to 4 pm Saturdays.
Call 6-ARTS (ext. 6-2787), or to or
der by fax, dial ext. 6-6088.
Information on Cal Poly Arts
events, including audio and video
samples of artists' work, can be
found on the WWW at www.calpoly.
arts.org. 0
••• Women's Studies
(Continued from page 3)
Demonstrated excellence in undergradu
ate teaching is required, and some ad
mini strative experience is preferred.
Candidates should submit a statement
of interest, curriculum vitae, and three
refere nces to Barbara Mori, Search Com
mi ttee Chair, c/o Women's Studies Pro
gram. For more information about the
po ~itio n contact Mori at ext. 6-2729 or
bm ori @calpoly.edu , or call the Women's
Stu dies Program office at ext. 6-1525.
The deadline to apply is Wednesday,
NO\. 18. 0
Johnson, 70
Boyd Johnson, mathematics professor
emeritus, died Oct. 25 in a local hospital.
Johnson taught at the U.S. Air Force
Academy before coming to Cal Poly in
1969. He received Cal Poly ' s Distin
guished Teacher Award in 1987 andre
tired in 1991, after 30 years of teaching.
A 1951 graduate of the U.S. Naval
Academy, he became an officer in the
U.S. Air Force. Johnson earned a
master 's degree in 1956 and, after leav
ing the Air Force, went on to earn a doc
torate in nuclear engineering in 1963 .
He was an accomplished master swim
mer and wrote a novel , "The Search Com
mittee," that was published in 1996. 0
••• 'Cal Foly Pollies'
All Cal Poly employees hired before
June I , 1998, will be sent a Confidential
ity-Security Policy and Statement regard
ing the responsible use of Cal Poly
institutional data.
The policy, approved by the Informa
tion Resources Management Policy and
Planning Committee, is to be kept as a
reference . The attached statement needs
to be signed and returned to Joe Risser,
information security officer, as soon as
possible. It will be placed in the
employee's official personnel and payroll
file in the Human Resources and Em
ployment Equity office.
Employees hired after June I were
given a copy of the policy and signed the
statement when they were hired. 0
(Cominu edfrom page 1)
The "Foly Follies" spoof will skewer
WOW Week, KCPR, the Orchesis Dance
Concert, the fashion scene at Cal Poly,
the notorious campus meter maids, the
controversial merit pay raise system,
grumpy old professors, the Performing
Arts Center, the Health Center, the ad
ministration , even the Foundation.
The script is credited to 58 writers,
including director and Theatre and Dance
Department Chair AI Schnupp and the
play ' s cast members.
"Cal Foly Follies" will play Thursday
through Saturday, Nov. 12-14, and
Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 18-21,
at 8 pm. Buy tickets, at $7 and $8, at the
Performing Arts Ticket Office. 0
••• Chandler Award
(Continu ed from page 1)
Everett Chandler served as Cal Poly's
dean of students from 1951 to 1977.
During his tenure, he was recognized by
the National Association of Student Per
sonnel Administrators for his lifetime
dedication to the betterment of student
services and for the programs developed
at Cal Poly under his leadership.
Arlene Chandler worked in the Student
Life and Activities office from 1960 to 1962,
helping to lay the foundation for the WOW
orientation program, and from 1962 to
1964 served as associate dean for women.
The Chandlers have been generous
supporters of the Kennedy Library, the
Athletics Department, and the Ethnic
Studies Department. 0
ort
Employees to complete
confidentiality form
Student Affairs Report
available online
The Student Affairs Division has
posted its 1997-98 Report to the Campus
Community on the Web at http://
www.calpoly.edu/-saffairs/divisional/
report97 _98.html.
This comprehensive report chronicles
the successes of the division and includes
information on its operations, services to
students, and progress on learning out
comes and assessment. A limited num
ber of the reports are avai Iable for those
without Web access. For a copy, call ext.
6-1521. 0
Afghan war, women
topic of Nov. 9 talk
On Monday, Nov. 9, Maliha Zulfacar,
a lecturer in the Social Sciences Depart
ment, will discuss the effects that 20
years of war have had on the traditional
role of women in Afghan society.
The talk, a Women ' s Studies Lunch
Time Seminar, will be from I 2: I 0 to 1
pm in the Staff Dining Room.
Zulfacar will also address the histori
cal role of centralized government in
Afghan women's li ves, the socia l struc
ture of Afghanistan, and the future of
Afghan women.
For information, contact the Women's
Studies Program at ext. 6-1525. The talk
is open to the campus community. 0
PAGE4
Published by the Communications Office
Engineering breaks ground
for Advanced Tech Lab
DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter): Paintings
and drawings by Jerome Witkin. Nov. I
Dee. 6. Daily II am-4 pm; Wednesday,
7-9 pm. Reception 5-7 pm Fliday, Nov. 13.
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, November 4
Music: Richard Green, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Thursday, November 5
Physics Colloquium: Richard Saenz,
Robert Dickerson and Nilgun Sungar,
"Conference on Revitalization of Physics
B.S.," Science E-45, II am.
Music: Cadillac Angels, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Philosophy at Poly: David J. Chalmers
(UC Santa Cruz), "Beliefs About
Experiences," Philips Hall, 4 pm.
Friday, November 6
Speaker: Victor Hanson (Fresno State),
"The Agrarian Roots of Western
Civilization," Philips Hall, 4:30pm.
Men's Soccer: Sacramento State,
Mustang Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Men's Basketball: 5 Star Sport, Mott
Gym, 7 pm. ($)
Sunday, November 8
Speaker: Teresa Taylor (Library), "The
Girls of Cal Poly," Library 409, 2 pm.
Reservations required, ext. 6-2345.
Men's Soccer: UCLA, Mustang
Stadium, 6 pm. ($)
ftonday, November 9
Music: Susan Henry, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Women's Studies Lunch-Time
Seminar: Maliha Zulfacar (Social
Sciences), the Afghan war and its effect
on women, Staff Dining room, 12:10 pm.
Tuesday, November 10
Music: Trio Vanguard, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Open Academic Senate Meeting:
University Advancement and the
Centennial Campaign, UU 220, 3 pm.
Music: Student piano recital, Davidson
Music 218, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, November 11
Veterans' Day: Campus will be closed
except for needed emergency services. 0
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 9 • November 4, 1998
Cal Poly's homegrown comedy troupe will
perform Nov. 12.
Cal Poly to be spoofed in
Theatre and Dance show
Chicago may have the Second City
comedy troupe, New York, Saturday
Night Live, and Ziegfeld his Follies, but
San Luis Obispo is about to have the
"Cal Foly Follies," a comic review of
original songs and sketches scheduled for
seven performances in the Theatre begin
ning Thursday, Nov 12.
The script- "which takes no prison
ers," according to Theatre Manager Peter
Wilt -lampoons everyone from President
Baker and the staff of the Mustang Daily
to the San Luis Obispo City Council.
One sketch runs throughout the pro
duction : a Cal Poly promotional video
supposedly being made by Robin Leach ,
best known for his "Lives of the Rich
and Famous" television series.
(Continu ed on page 4)
Theatre and Dance
has B.A. program
The Theatre and Dance Department
will have a four-year Bachelor of
Science degree program in theatre arts
beginning with transfer students winter
quarter 1999 and first-time freshmen in
fall 1999.
The program will offer such courses
as introduction to theatre, black theatre,
stagecraft, acting, directing, play writing,
children's drama, and stage design.
Initially, the department expects to
adm it approximately 10 students. 0
The College of Engineering broke
ground last week for its Advanced Tech
nology Laboratories (ATL) Building, the
first academic facility at Cal Poly funded
entirely by non-state sources.
The facility will include 17,000
square feet of applied research space
combining architectural elements neces
sary for indu strial experiments - such
things as roll-up doors, enclosed control
rooms, flexible mechanical duct work,
raised floors, an exposed roof frame, and
multiple cranes- with interdisciplinary
lab space, computer workstations, multi
media innovations, and the latest techno
logical equipment.
The six interdisciplinary laboratories
to be housed in the ATL include the
National Science Foundation Advanced
Transportation Laboratory, the Northrop
Grumman Aerospace Systems Labora
tory, the Parsons Earthquake and
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory,
the St. Jude Pacesetter Bioengineering
Laboratory, the Litton Mechatronics
(Continu ed
011
page 2)
Three employees named
Chandler Award winners
Three employees have been honored
for dedicated service to students and
the university.
Selected as the first recipients of the
Student Affairs Division Chandler Award
are Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting, coordinator
of orientation programs for Student Life
and Activities; Rojean Dominguez, coor
dinator of health education programs in
Health Services; and Ellen Polinsky, a
counselor in Career Services.
The award, named in honor of Everett
and Arlene Chandler, replaces the Stu
dent Affairs Outstanding Staff Award.
The award is given in the Chandlers'
name to recognize the couple's long
standing contributions to Cal Poly and
student affairs.
(Continu ed
011
page 4)
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
CAL POLY RE PORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
Retirement reception
today for Krenkel
Educational material
on view at Library
"usic and poetry
focus of two-day event
Facilities master plan
to be revised
Western civilization roots
topic of Nov. 6 talk
Rec Sports to sponsor
'all-nighter'
A retirement reception for lead cus
todian Geraldine "Gerry" Krenke! is
schedu led from 12:30 to 2 pm today
(Nov. 4) in UU 220.
Krenke! has worked for the Housing
and Bus iness Services department for
26 years. 0
Material the State Board of Education
is considering adopting for teaching his
tory and social sciences in kindergarten
thro ugh eighth grade can be seen at the
Kennedy Library.
Forms for comments are in the Learn
ing Resources Display Center in the
Kennedy Library.
Comments on lega l compliance and
educational content must be postmarked
by Wednesday, Nov. I I, to be considered
by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
The State Board of Education will
make its decision in March .
For more information or to make a
group reservation, call coordinator Ellen
Jagger at ext. 6-11 02. 0
A three-part celebration of mus ic and
poetry, with a special emphasis on poet
Emi ly Dickinson, is being planned for
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-1 3.
" I Dwell in
Possib ili ty- A
Celebration of
Words and Mu
sic" is a cross
disciplinary
activity that in
cludes a lecture,
a panel discus
sion, and a conGordon c~u"
cert featuring
·
the music of
composer and ph il anthropist Gordon Getty,
who will talk about his music.
The first event is the lecture by English
professor and Dickinson scholar Angie
Estes. Her talk, "Will the Real Emily
Dickinson Please Stand Up?," is set for
I I: I 0 am Nov. 12 in Fisher Science 286.
On Nov. 13 at 2: I 0 pm , the panel on
"Words inland/on/about Music" will
begin in Davidson M usic Center 2 18.
Joining moderator and music professor
Alyson McLamore wi ll be Getty, music
professors and composers Anton io
Barata, Craig Russell and John Russell ,
and English professors and poets/writers
Angie Estes, Kevin Clark, and Linda
Halisky. The discussion will center on the
relationships between words and music.
To close the two-day celebration, Mu
sic Department faculty members Mary
Rawcliffe, soprano, and Will iam Terrence
Spiller, piano, wi ll perform Getty's "The
White Election," a song cyc le written to
texts by Em il y Dickinson.
Getty wi ll comment on hi s works at
the concert, scheduled at 7:30pm Nov.
13 at Mount Carme l Lutheran Church,
170 I Fredericks St. in San L uis Obispo.
The "White Election" compact disc,
wh ich features a performance by the late
Kaaren Erickson , was released to interna
tiona l acclaim.
The free events are sponsored by the
Music and English departments and the
College of Liberal Arts. For information,
call the M usic Department at ext. 6-2406. 0
Cal Poly is embarking on a three-year
planning process that will result in a new
comprehensive phys ical Master Plan for
the campus.
D uring the summer, the Campus Plan
ning Comm ittee, Cal Poly staff members
and consultants proposed a planning pro
cess that incl udes :
• Full campus and community partici
pation, including the formation of task
forces to deal with specific issues .
• Concurrent development of an Envi
ronmental Impact Report.
• Utilization of all available Cal Poly
resources.
• Criteria driven by academic require
ments and innovations.
March 200I is the target for submit
ting the revised Master Plan to the CSU
Board of Trustees.
The CSU Board of Trustees approved
the current master plan in May 1963.
Subsequent revisions have resulted in a
piecemeal approach to planning new
projects, and a major review is long
overdue, said Facilities Planning infor
mation coordinator Deby Ryan.
Ryan invites the campus community
to participate in the process and help
chart the future of Cal Poly. To get
involved, watch for more information
in a coming administration " Outlook"
as well as updates in the Cal Poly
Report.
A Master Plan home page has been de
veloped and can be accessed via the Cal
Poly Home Page under "What's New" or at
http://www.facsrv.calpoly.edu/fpdb/mp/
index.htm. 0
A classics professor at Fresno State
wi ll speak on "The Agrarian Roots of
Western Civi lization" at 4:30pm Friday,
Nov. 6, in Philips Hall in the Cohan Center.
Victor Davis Hanson's talk is taken
from his book "The Other Greeks."
Hanson is a fift h-generation fami ly
farmer from Se lma. His book "Fie lds
Without Dreams" deals with the de
cline of family farming in the United
States. "Who Ki ll ed Homer," a book he
co-authored, is about the demise of
classical education.
The talk is sponsored by the Provost's
Office and the Mathematics Department. 0
Up All Night with Rec Sports, an event
that involves different activities into the
wee hours, is scheduled from 8 pm to 3 am
Friday, Nov. 13, in the Rec Center.
Students and other members of the
Rec Center are invited to participate in
activities such as a casino, kickboxing,
massage, swing dancing, a basketball
to urnament, bedsheet volleyball, a hyp
notist, a mini-soccer tournament, a raffle,
sumo wrestling, and a biathlon. 0
UC Santa Cruz philosopher
to talk on conscious mind
A philosopher whose book on the
conscious mind is hailed as a break
through in the philosophy of mind will
speak on Thursday, Nov. 5 .
UC Santa Cruz professor David J.
Chalmers will talk on "Beliefs About
Experiences" at 4 pm in Philips Hall in the
Cohan Center.
In his presentation, Chalmers will
look at how beliefs about conscious ex
periences pose a number of philosophical
questions : To what extent is an experi
ence a belief?
"He hopes to explain why, above
and beyond neural processes in the
brain , there is also a sentient self,
something that it is like to be an
experiencer," said Paul Miklowitz,
chair of the Phi losophy Department.
Miklowitz call s Chalmers a philoso
pher of rapidly growing international
fame in the new field of "conscious
ness studies."
"This is not ' new age' spiritualism,"
Mik lowitz said, "but rather involves at
tempts to square the success of physical
science with the facts of first-person sub
jective experience."
Whi le in his tee ns in the '80s,
Chalmers won international mathematics
competitions. He was a Rhodes Scholar
in mathematics at Oxford and earned a
doctorate in phi losophy and cogn itive
science. Next year he p lans to join the
phi losophy faculty of the University of
Arizona, where he wi ll a lso serve as
associate director of the Center for
Consciousness Studies.
The free presentation is part of the
Philosophy at Po ly Speakers Series . For
more information, call the P hilosophy
Department at ext. 6-204 1. 0
Tickets to Holiday Lunch
on sale Nov. 12-13
The Annual Ho liday Luncheon
sponsored by the Administration and
Finance Division will be held on Fri
day, Dec. 4 , from II :30 am to I pm in
Chumash Auditorium.
Tickets are $ 10 and wi II be sold on a
first-come basis from 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-13, in
Adm 114.
Entertainment for the lunch will be
provided by the " Holiday Hams. " 0
••• Tech Lab
(Continued from page I)
Laboratory, and the Keck Engineering
Education Research Laboratory.
The cornerstone of the faci lity is the
Keck Engineering Education Research
Lab, which wi ll house a "classroom of
the future," a dynamic, multimedia-en
hanced space envisioned as a test bed for
both on-site and dista nce learning in an
interactive, hands-on studio environment.
Initial funding for the project came
from a National Science Foundation
grant of $1.79 million that required a
dollar-for-dol lar match. The W.M . Keck
Foundation underwrote the Engineering
Education Lab with a $500,000 grant,
while gifts from ind ustria l partners
tota led $1.71 million.
The b uilding is due to open in
fall 1999. 0
CPR schedule change
Because campus wi ll be c losed on
Veteran 's Day, Nov. II , next week's Cal
Poly Report will be out Thursday, Nov. 12. 0
PAGE 2
Women's Studies seeking
interim director
T he Women's Studies Program is con
ducti ng an internal search for an interim
d irector to serve winter quarter 1999
through the end of spring quarter 2000.
The program offers a minor in
women's studies and has regularly
s ponsored campus speakers through its
Lunch Time Seminar series and other
public forums.
The interim director wi II receive re
lease time.
Eligible app licants mu st be tenured or
tenure-track and hold a doctorate in
women's studies or an appropriate field.
(Conti11ued on page 4)
Bandfest set for Nov. 21
Bandfest ' 98, featuring the Cal Poly
Wind Orchestra and the University Jazz
Bands, is set for 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 21,
in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
The 65-member Wind Orchestra wi ll
open the concert with the " American
Overture" by Joseph Jenkins. The group
wil l also play "Fantasy Tales" by Piet
Swerts, "Irish Tune from County Derry"
("Danny Boy") by Percy Grainger, and
" Dynamica" by Jan Vander Roost.
The two University Jazz Bands will
perform a set of big band arrangements.
The Wind Orchestra will close the con
cert with a musical tribute to veterans with
a salute to D-Day veterans. Selections will
include "Lonely Beach, Normandy, 1944"
by James Barnes, and "Epilogue: Lest
We Forget" by Robert Jager.
The Cal Poly Wind Orchestra uses
just the woodwi nd, brass and percus
sion sections of a traditional orc hestra
-"a symphony of winds whose sound
is powerfu l, bo ld and refreshing," said
William Johnson , music professor and
conductor of the Wind Orchestra and
Jazz Band Two.
Mus ic professor and composer Paul
Rinzler directs the University Jazz
Band One.
Tickets cost $6 to $13. Concertgoers
can save 15 percent by buying tickets to
three or more Wind Orchestra and Uni
versity Jazz Bands season events.
For season ticket and concert detai Is,
call the Music Department at ext. 6-2607.
The concert is sponsored by the
Col lege of Liberal Arts, the Music
Department, and ASI. 0
Women's Studies Potluck
set for Nov. 12
Students and the faculty and staff are
invited to the Women's Studies Fall
Quarter Potluck to be held 6-8 pm Thurs
day, Nov. 12, at the home of Carolyn
Stefanco, director of women 's studies.
To sign up for the potluck and ob
tain directions to Stefanco 's house , ca ll
the Women' s Studies Program office at
ext. 6-1525. 0
Texas scholar to talk
on alcohol, drug use
One of the nation 's leading scholars of
bureaucracy and education po licy will
speak on Friday, Nov. 13, about why
people behave in ways society doesn't nec
essari ly approve of, especially in regard to
the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
The talk by Ken Meier of Texas A&M
is based on his book "The Politics of
Sin," which explains how the govern
ment responds to and makes public
policy on alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
Meier's presentation , titled "A Formal
Model of Perversion," wi ll beg in at 2 pm
in Faculty Offices North, Room 24-B.
The presentation is part of an Applied
Social Research Colloquia series, which
focuses on broad and often methodological
questions in social science research. The
series is designed to be of interest to schol
ars in the social and behavioral sciences.
Series organizers Jeff Gi ll and Phi l
Fetzer of the political science facu lty en
courage anyone interested in presenting a
paper to call or e-mail them . Gi ll can be
reached at ext. 6-2760, Fetzer at 6-6147. 0
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
CAL POLY RE PORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
Retirement reception
today for Krenkel
Educational material
on view at Library
"usic and poetry
focus of two-day event
Facilities master plan
to be revised
Western civilization roots
topic of Nov. 6 talk
Rec Sports to sponsor
'all-nighter'
A retirement reception for lead cus
todian Geraldine "Gerry" Krenke! is
schedu led from 12:30 to 2 pm today
(Nov. 4) in UU 220.
Krenke! has worked for the Housing
and Bus iness Services department for
26 years. 0
Material the State Board of Education
is considering adopting for teaching his
tory and social sciences in kindergarten
thro ugh eighth grade can be seen at the
Kennedy Library.
Forms for comments are in the Learn
ing Resources Display Center in the
Kennedy Library.
Comments on lega l compliance and
educational content must be postmarked
by Wednesday, Nov. I I, to be considered
by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
The State Board of Education will
make its decision in March .
For more information or to make a
group reservation, call coordinator Ellen
Jagger at ext. 6-11 02. 0
A three-part celebration of mus ic and
poetry, with a special emphasis on poet
Emi ly Dickinson, is being planned for
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-1 3.
" I Dwell in
Possib ili ty- A
Celebration of
Words and Mu
sic" is a cross
disciplinary
activity that in
cludes a lecture,
a panel discus
sion, and a conGordon c~u"
cert featuring
·
the music of
composer and ph il anthropist Gordon Getty,
who will talk about his music.
The first event is the lecture by English
professor and Dickinson scholar Angie
Estes. Her talk, "Will the Real Emily
Dickinson Please Stand Up?," is set for
I I: I 0 am Nov. 12 in Fisher Science 286.
On Nov. 13 at 2: I 0 pm , the panel on
"Words inland/on/about Music" will
begin in Davidson M usic Center 2 18.
Joining moderator and music professor
Alyson McLamore wi ll be Getty, music
professors and composers Anton io
Barata, Craig Russell and John Russell ,
and English professors and poets/writers
Angie Estes, Kevin Clark, and Linda
Halisky. The discussion will center on the
relationships between words and music.
To close the two-day celebration, Mu
sic Department faculty members Mary
Rawcliffe, soprano, and Will iam Terrence
Spiller, piano, wi ll perform Getty's "The
White Election," a song cyc le written to
texts by Em il y Dickinson.
Getty wi ll comment on hi s works at
the concert, scheduled at 7:30pm Nov.
13 at Mount Carme l Lutheran Church,
170 I Fredericks St. in San L uis Obispo.
The "White Election" compact disc,
wh ich features a performance by the late
Kaaren Erickson , was released to interna
tiona l acclaim.
The free events are sponsored by the
Music and English departments and the
College of Liberal Arts. For information,
call the M usic Department at ext. 6-2406. 0
Cal Poly is embarking on a three-year
planning process that will result in a new
comprehensive phys ical Master Plan for
the campus.
D uring the summer, the Campus Plan
ning Comm ittee, Cal Poly staff members
and consultants proposed a planning pro
cess that incl udes :
• Full campus and community partici
pation, including the formation of task
forces to deal with specific issues .
• Concurrent development of an Envi
ronmental Impact Report.
• Utilization of all available Cal Poly
resources.
• Criteria driven by academic require
ments and innovations.
March 200I is the target for submit
ting the revised Master Plan to the CSU
Board of Trustees.
The CSU Board of Trustees approved
the current master plan in May 1963.
Subsequent revisions have resulted in a
piecemeal approach to planning new
projects, and a major review is long
overdue, said Facilities Planning infor
mation coordinator Deby Ryan.
Ryan invites the campus community
to participate in the process and help
chart the future of Cal Poly. To get
involved, watch for more information
in a coming administration " Outlook"
as well as updates in the Cal Poly
Report.
A Master Plan home page has been de
veloped and can be accessed via the Cal
Poly Home Page under "What's New" or at
http://www.facsrv.calpoly.edu/fpdb/mp/
index.htm. 0
A classics professor at Fresno State
wi ll speak on "The Agrarian Roots of
Western Civi lization" at 4:30pm Friday,
Nov. 6, in Philips Hall in the Cohan Center.
Victor Davis Hanson's talk is taken
from his book "The Other Greeks."
Hanson is a fift h-generation fami ly
farmer from Se lma. His book "Fie lds
Without Dreams" deals with the de
cline of family farming in the United
States. "Who Ki ll ed Homer," a book he
co-authored, is about the demise of
classical education.
The talk is sponsored by the Provost's
Office and the Mathematics Department. 0
Up All Night with Rec Sports, an event
that involves different activities into the
wee hours, is scheduled from 8 pm to 3 am
Friday, Nov. 13, in the Rec Center.
Students and other members of the
Rec Center are invited to participate in
activities such as a casino, kickboxing,
massage, swing dancing, a basketball
to urnament, bedsheet volleyball, a hyp
notist, a mini-soccer tournament, a raffle,
sumo wrestling, and a biathlon. 0
UC Santa Cruz philosopher
to talk on conscious mind
A philosopher whose book on the
conscious mind is hailed as a break
through in the philosophy of mind will
speak on Thursday, Nov. 5 .
UC Santa Cruz professor David J.
Chalmers will talk on "Beliefs About
Experiences" at 4 pm in Philips Hall in the
Cohan Center.
In his presentation, Chalmers will
look at how beliefs about conscious ex
periences pose a number of philosophical
questions : To what extent is an experi
ence a belief?
"He hopes to explain why, above
and beyond neural processes in the
brain , there is also a sentient self,
something that it is like to be an
experiencer," said Paul Miklowitz,
chair of the Phi losophy Department.
Miklowitz call s Chalmers a philoso
pher of rapidly growing international
fame in the new field of "conscious
ness studies."
"This is not ' new age' spiritualism,"
Mik lowitz said, "but rather involves at
tempts to square the success of physical
science with the facts of first-person sub
jective experience."
Whi le in his tee ns in the '80s,
Chalmers won international mathematics
competitions. He was a Rhodes Scholar
in mathematics at Oxford and earned a
doctorate in phi losophy and cogn itive
science. Next year he p lans to join the
phi losophy faculty of the University of
Arizona, where he wi ll a lso serve as
associate director of the Center for
Consciousness Studies.
The free presentation is part of the
Philosophy at Po ly Speakers Series . For
more information, call the P hilosophy
Department at ext. 6-204 1. 0
Tickets to Holiday Lunch
on sale Nov. 12-13
The Annual Ho liday Luncheon
sponsored by the Administration and
Finance Division will be held on Fri
day, Dec. 4 , from II :30 am to I pm in
Chumash Auditorium.
Tickets are $ 10 and wi II be sold on a
first-come basis from 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-13, in
Adm 114.
Entertainment for the lunch will be
provided by the " Holiday Hams. " 0
••• Tech Lab
(Continued from page I)
Laboratory, and the Keck Engineering
Education Research Laboratory.
The cornerstone of the faci lity is the
Keck Engineering Education Research
Lab, which wi ll house a "classroom of
the future," a dynamic, multimedia-en
hanced space envisioned as a test bed for
both on-site and dista nce learning in an
interactive, hands-on studio environment.
Initial funding for the project came
from a National Science Foundation
grant of $1.79 million that required a
dollar-for-dol lar match. The W.M . Keck
Foundation underwrote the Engineering
Education Lab with a $500,000 grant,
while gifts from ind ustria l partners
tota led $1.71 million.
The b uilding is due to open in
fall 1999. 0
CPR schedule change
Because campus wi ll be c losed on
Veteran 's Day, Nov. II , next week's Cal
Poly Report will be out Thursday, Nov. 12. 0
PAGE 2
Women's Studies seeking
interim director
T he Women's Studies Program is con
ducti ng an internal search for an interim
d irector to serve winter quarter 1999
through the end of spring quarter 2000.
The program offers a minor in
women's studies and has regularly
s ponsored campus speakers through its
Lunch Time Seminar series and other
public forums.
The interim director wi II receive re
lease time.
Eligible app licants mu st be tenured or
tenure-track and hold a doctorate in
women's studies or an appropriate field.
(Conti11ued on page 4)
Bandfest set for Nov. 21
Bandfest ' 98, featuring the Cal Poly
Wind Orchestra and the University Jazz
Bands, is set for 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 21,
in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts
Center's Cohan Center.
The 65-member Wind Orchestra wi ll
open the concert with the " American
Overture" by Joseph Jenkins. The group
wil l also play "Fantasy Tales" by Piet
Swerts, "Irish Tune from County Derry"
("Danny Boy") by Percy Grainger, and
" Dynamica" by Jan Vander Roost.
The two University Jazz Bands will
perform a set of big band arrangements.
The Wind Orchestra will close the con
cert with a musical tribute to veterans with
a salute to D-Day veterans. Selections will
include "Lonely Beach, Normandy, 1944"
by James Barnes, and "Epilogue: Lest
We Forget" by Robert Jager.
The Cal Poly Wind Orchestra uses
just the woodwi nd, brass and percus
sion sections of a traditional orc hestra
-"a symphony of winds whose sound
is powerfu l, bo ld and refreshing," said
William Johnson , music professor and
conductor of the Wind Orchestra and
Jazz Band Two.
Mus ic professor and composer Paul
Rinzler directs the University Jazz
Band One.
Tickets cost $6 to $13. Concertgoers
can save 15 percent by buying tickets to
three or more Wind Orchestra and Uni
versity Jazz Bands season events.
For season ticket and concert detai Is,
call the Music Department at ext. 6-2607.
The concert is sponsored by the
Col lege of Liberal Arts, the Music
Department, and ASI. 0
Women's Studies Potluck
set for Nov. 12
Students and the faculty and staff are
invited to the Women's Studies Fall
Quarter Potluck to be held 6-8 pm Thurs
day, Nov. 12, at the home of Carolyn
Stefanco, director of women 's studies.
To sign up for the potluck and ob
tain directions to Stefanco 's house , ca ll
the Women' s Studies Program office at
ext. 6-1525. 0
Texas scholar to talk
on alcohol, drug use
One of the nation 's leading scholars of
bureaucracy and education po licy will
speak on Friday, Nov. 13, about why
people behave in ways society doesn't nec
essari ly approve of, especially in regard to
the use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
The talk by Ken Meier of Texas A&M
is based on his book "The Politics of
Sin," which explains how the govern
ment responds to and makes public
policy on alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
Meier's presentation , titled "A Formal
Model of Perversion," wi ll beg in at 2 pm
in Faculty Offices North, Room 24-B.
The presentation is part of an Applied
Social Research Colloquia series, which
focuses on broad and often methodological
questions in social science research. The
series is designed to be of interest to schol
ars in the social and behavioral sciences.
Series organizers Jeff Gi ll and Phi l
Fetzer of the political science facu lty en
courage anyone interested in presenting a
paper to call or e-mail them . Gi ll can be
reached at ext. 6-2760, Fetzer at 6-6147. 0
PAGE 3
CAL POLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1998
'West Side Story'
to play twice Nov. 28
"West Side Story," the musical that
first electrified Broadway nearly 40 years
ago, is coming to the Performing Arts
Center for two shows on Saturday, Nov.
28. But hurry if you want to see it. Only
a few seats remain.
The classic is being brought back by a
new national touring company and will
play at 3 and 8 pm in Harman Hall in the
Cohan Center.
Based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and
Juliet," "West Side Story" is set in New
York 's West Side, where two rival gangs
battle over neighborhood turf. A boy
and a girl from opposing sides and differ
ent races meet and fall in love, but the
romance ends in tragedy.
The music was composed by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
choreography by Jerome Robbins, and
the script by Arthur Laurents.
The production is part of Cal Poly
Arts' Great Performances series. Tickets
cost $30.50 to $48. 0
Ticket information
Tickets to the performances listed
in today's Cal Poly Report are on
sale at the Performing Arts Ticket
Office from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays
and from 10 am to 4 pm Saturdays.
Call 6-ARTS (ext. 6-2787), or to or
der by fax, dial ext. 6-6088.
Information on Cal Poly Arts
events, including audio and video
samples of artists' work, can be
found on the WWW at www.calpoly.
arts.org. 0
••• Women's Studies
(Continued from page 3)
Demonstrated excellence in undergradu
ate teaching is required, and some ad
mini strative experience is preferred.
Candidates should submit a statement
of interest, curriculum vitae, and three
refere nces to Barbara Mori, Search Com
mi ttee Chair, c/o Women's Studies Pro
gram. For more information about the
po ~itio n contact Mori at ext. 6-2729 or
bm ori @calpoly.edu , or call the Women's
Stu dies Program office at ext. 6-1525.
The deadline to apply is Wednesday,
NO\. 18. 0
Johnson, 70
Boyd Johnson, mathematics professor
emeritus, died Oct. 25 in a local hospital.
Johnson taught at the U.S. Air Force
Academy before coming to Cal Poly in
1969. He received Cal Poly ' s Distin
guished Teacher Award in 1987 andre
tired in 1991, after 30 years of teaching.
A 1951 graduate of the U.S. Naval
Academy, he became an officer in the
U.S. Air Force. Johnson earned a
master 's degree in 1956 and, after leav
ing the Air Force, went on to earn a doc
torate in nuclear engineering in 1963 .
He was an accomplished master swim
mer and wrote a novel , "The Search Com
mittee," that was published in 1996. 0
••• 'Cal Foly Pollies'
All Cal Poly employees hired before
June I , 1998, will be sent a Confidential
ity-Security Policy and Statement regard
ing the responsible use of Cal Poly
institutional data.
The policy, approved by the Informa
tion Resources Management Policy and
Planning Committee, is to be kept as a
reference . The attached statement needs
to be signed and returned to Joe Risser,
information security officer, as soon as
possible. It will be placed in the
employee's official personnel and payroll
file in the Human Resources and Em
ployment Equity office.
Employees hired after June I were
given a copy of the policy and signed the
statement when they were hired. 0
(Cominu edfrom page 1)
The "Foly Follies" spoof will skewer
WOW Week, KCPR, the Orchesis Dance
Concert, the fashion scene at Cal Poly,
the notorious campus meter maids, the
controversial merit pay raise system,
grumpy old professors, the Performing
Arts Center, the Health Center, the ad
ministration , even the Foundation.
The script is credited to 58 writers,
including director and Theatre and Dance
Department Chair AI Schnupp and the
play ' s cast members.
"Cal Foly Follies" will play Thursday
through Saturday, Nov. 12-14, and
Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 18-21,
at 8 pm. Buy tickets, at $7 and $8, at the
Performing Arts Ticket Office. 0
••• Chandler Award
(Continu ed from page 1)
Everett Chandler served as Cal Poly's
dean of students from 1951 to 1977.
During his tenure, he was recognized by
the National Association of Student Per
sonnel Administrators for his lifetime
dedication to the betterment of student
services and for the programs developed
at Cal Poly under his leadership.
Arlene Chandler worked in the Student
Life and Activities office from 1960 to 1962,
helping to lay the foundation for the WOW
orientation program, and from 1962 to
1964 served as associate dean for women.
The Chandlers have been generous
supporters of the Kennedy Library, the
Athletics Department, and the Ethnic
Studies Department. 0
ort
Employees to complete
confidentiality form
Student Affairs Report
available online
The Student Affairs Division has
posted its 1997-98 Report to the Campus
Community on the Web at http://
www.calpoly.edu/-saffairs/divisional/
report97 _98.html.
This comprehensive report chronicles
the successes of the division and includes
information on its operations, services to
students, and progress on learning out
comes and assessment. A limited num
ber of the reports are avai Iable for those
without Web access. For a copy, call ext.
6-1521. 0
Afghan war, women
topic of Nov. 9 talk
On Monday, Nov. 9, Maliha Zulfacar,
a lecturer in the Social Sciences Depart
ment, will discuss the effects that 20
years of war have had on the traditional
role of women in Afghan society.
The talk, a Women ' s Studies Lunch
Time Seminar, will be from I 2: I 0 to 1
pm in the Staff Dining Room.
Zulfacar will also address the histori
cal role of centralized government in
Afghan women's li ves, the socia l struc
ture of Afghanistan, and the future of
Afghan women.
For information, contact the Women's
Studies Program at ext. 6-1525. The talk
is open to the campus community. 0
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DATELIIIE
Exhibits
University Art Gallery (Dexter): Paintings
and drawings by Jerome Witkin. Nov. I
Dee. 6. Daily II am-4 pm; Wednesday,
7-9 pm. Reception 5-7 pm Fliday, Nov. 13.
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, November 4
Music: Richard Green, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Thursday, November 5
Physics Colloquium: Richard Saenz,
Robert Dickerson and Nilgun Sungar,
"Conference on Revitalization of Physics
B.S.," Science E-45, II am.
Music: Cadillac Angels, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Philosophy at Poly: David J. Chalmers
(UC Santa Cruz), "Beliefs About
Experiences," Philips Hall, 4 pm.
Friday, November 6
Speaker: Victor Hanson (Fresno State),
"The Agrarian Roots of Western
Civilization," Philips Hall, 4:30pm.
Men's Soccer: Sacramento State,
Mustang Stadium, 7 pm. ($)
Men's Basketball: 5 Star Sport, Mott
Gym, 7 pm. ($)
Sunday, November 8
Speaker: Teresa Taylor (Library), "The
Girls of Cal Poly," Library 409, 2 pm.
Reservations required, ext. 6-2345.
Men's Soccer: UCLA, Mustang
Stadium, 6 pm. ($)
ftonday, November 9
Music: Susan Henry, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Women's Studies Lunch-Time
Seminar: Maliha Zulfacar (Social
Sciences), the Afghan war and its effect
on women, Staff Dining room, 12:10 pm.
Tuesday, November 10
Music: Trio Vanguard, BackStage
Pizza, noon.
Open Academic Senate Meeting:
University Advancement and the
Centennial Campaign, UU 220, 3 pm.
Music: Student piano recital, Davidson
Music 218, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, November 11
Veterans' Day: Campus will be closed
except for needed emergency services. 0
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 53, No. 9 • November 4, 1998
Cal Poly's homegrown comedy troupe will
perform Nov. 12.
Cal Poly to be spoofed in
Theatre and Dance show
Chicago may have the Second City
comedy troupe, New York, Saturday
Night Live, and Ziegfeld his Follies, but
San Luis Obispo is about to have the
"Cal Foly Follies," a comic review of
original songs and sketches scheduled for
seven performances in the Theatre begin
ning Thursday, Nov 12.
The script- "which takes no prison
ers," according to Theatre Manager Peter
Wilt -lampoons everyone from President
Baker and the staff of the Mustang Daily
to the San Luis Obispo City Council.
One sketch runs throughout the pro
duction : a Cal Poly promotional video
supposedly being made by Robin Leach ,
best known for his "Lives of the Rich
and Famous" television series.
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Theatre and Dance
has B.A. program
The Theatre and Dance Department
will have a four-year Bachelor of
Science degree program in theatre arts
beginning with transfer students winter
quarter 1999 and first-time freshmen in
fall 1999.
The program will offer such courses
as introduction to theatre, black theatre,
stagecraft, acting, directing, play writing,
children's drama, and stage design.
Initially, the department expects to
adm it approximately 10 students. 0
The College of Engineering broke
ground last week for its Advanced Tech
nology Laboratories (ATL) Building, the
first academic facility at Cal Poly funded
entirely by non-state sources.
The facility will include 17,000
square feet of applied research space
combining architectural elements neces
sary for indu strial experiments - such
things as roll-up doors, enclosed control
rooms, flexible mechanical duct work,
raised floors, an exposed roof frame, and
multiple cranes- with interdisciplinary
lab space, computer workstations, multi
media innovations, and the latest techno
logical equipment.
The six interdisciplinary laboratories
to be housed in the ATL include the
National Science Foundation Advanced
Transportation Laboratory, the Northrop
Grumman Aerospace Systems Labora
tory, the Parsons Earthquake and
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory,
the St. Jude Pacesetter Bioengineering
Laboratory, the Litton Mechatronics
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Three employees named
Chandler Award winners
Three employees have been honored
for dedicated service to students and
the university.
Selected as the first recipients of the
Student Affairs Division Chandler Award
are Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting, coordinator
of orientation programs for Student Life
and Activities; Rojean Dominguez, coor
dinator of health education programs in
Health Services; and Ellen Polinsky, a
counselor in Career Services.
The award, named in honor of Everett
and Arlene Chandler, replaces the Stu
dent Affairs Outstanding Staff Award.
The award is given in the Chandlers'
name to recognize the couple's long
standing contributions to Cal Poly and
student affairs.
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