april 21, 1999 cal poly report

CAL POLY REPORT APRIL 21 1999

New department head for Food Science Nutrition

Roger Clemens scientific adviser in Nestle USAs Nutrition Division in Glenshydale has been appointed department head of the Food Science and Nutrition Departshyment effective July 1-June 2001 D

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ftonday April Zamp Music Dusan Bogdanovic guitar

lecture demonstration Davidson Music Center 216 noon

Music Guy Budd BackStage Pizza noon

Tuesday April Z7 Music Latin Jazz Combo BackStage

Pizza noon Dance Tap Dogs Harman Hall PAC

8 pm Also Wednesday April 28 ($)

Wednesday April Zl Music Jim Holder BackStage

Pizza noon Dance Tap Dogs Harman Hall

PAC 8 pm Thursday April Z9 Physics Colloquium Bill Colston

(Livermore National Laboratory) Optical Tomography Science E-45 11 am

Friday April JO Music Russ Cummings (student) senior

piano recital Mt Carmel Lutheran Church San Luis Obispo 730pm

Saturday ftay 1 Track and Field Cal Poly Middle

School Invitational Cal Poly Track 9 am

Softball UOP Softball Field noon and 2 pm

Music Stewart Uyeda (student) piano recital Davidson Music Center 218 3 pm

Music Student piano recital Davidson Music Center 218 7 pm

Sunday ftay Z Softball UOP Softball Field 1 pm Play The Jungle Book Cohan Center

3 pm ($)

Friday ftay 7 Baseball UOP SLO Stadium 7 pm ($)

Thursday ftay 6 Physics Colloquium Lowell Boone

(UC Santa Cruz) Cosmic Gamma Rays Science E-45 11 am D

Stookey Ellen Terry Stookey home economshy

ics professor emerita died April 7 in Selma Ore

Stookey joined the home economics faculty in 1961 teaching child developshyment From 1966 to her retirement in 1978 she was the home economics teacher educator responsible for the largshyest home economics education program in California

Before her appointment at Cal Poly Stookey worked for the California State Department of Education as a regional supervisor of home economics She was instrumental in establi shing Cal Poly s home economics program D

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Gifts build weight room for Athletics

Donations of cash and services helped build a new $150000 weight room for Intercollegiate Athletics

Coaches players and officials believe the new equipment and the 3400-squareshyfoot space completely remodeled from an unused locker area will help Cal Polys 500 intercollegiate athletes better compete in Division I

More than $50000 worth of construcshytion work was donated by area contracshytors Chamblin-Landes Construction of Paso Robles donated its services to lead the project

Other major in-kind donors were All Pro Drywall of Paso Robles and Thoma Electric Pro-Coatings San Luis Mechanishycal and Yungman Construction all of San Luis Obispo

Other firms donating their services or materials included the Floor Connection and Hanson Discount Floor Coverings of Arroyo Grande El Camino Building Supply of Atascadero and the Muff Co Pacific Home Do-It Center and Isolite Corp all of San Luis Obispo

The San Luis Obispo Downtown Censhytre made a cash donation of $35000 and Copelands Enterprises Inc of San Luis Obispo provided the facilitys nearly $100000 worth of weights benches and training equipment at a discount

Cal Poly alumnus RJ ONeill of San Juan Capistrano donated $25000 toward the project

For information call Chuck Sleeper associate athletic director at ext 6-7194 D

Information competence workshop still has space

A few openings are still open for this summers faculty Information Compeshytence Workshop from 9 am to 3 pm July 27-30

The workshop will pair participants with other faculty members and librarshyians to integrate information competence within their course work

Compensation will be provided for participants

Call Paul Adalian at ext 6-5767 for information and an application D

Free access offered to RAND California Web site

Cal Poly along with all other CSU campuses has free access to a RAND Corp information service through the end of June

The RAND California Web site is at httpcarandorg It is a service of the Santa Monica-based RAND Corp a public policy research organization and the nations largest think tank

RAND California features a collection of statistics an on-line library of research publications bulletins on both state and federal policy developments and a monthly report on Californias economy RAND California also makes available an extensive database on California and its cities and counties ranging from the economy to crime rates to school test scores

The database also includes an on-line calendar of workshops seminars and other discussions on California public policy issues D

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The Cal Poly Report is published by the Communications Office every Wednesday during the academic year

Items submitted by 10 am Thursshyday appear in the following Wednesshydays edition

For information call ext 6-1511 or e-mail articles suggestions and questions to polynewspolymail calpolyedu You may fax items to ext 6-6533 D

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DATELIIIE Exhibits University Art Gallery (Dexter Buildshy

ing) Annual Juried Student Exhibishytion through May 7 Daily 11 am to 4 pm Wednesday 7-9 pm

Kennedy Library A Virtual Tour 1883 San Luis Obispo County through June Also a display on Cal Poly faculty authors through April

UU Galerie Whoops student art exhibition through June 11 MondayshyFriday 10 am-4 pm Saturday and Sunday noon to 4 pm

Thursday April ZZ Computer Science Colloquium Cay

Horstmann (Preview Systems Inc) Using Java to Teach Programming The Good the Bad and the Ugly Erhart Ag 126 11 am

Mathematics Colloquium Robert Brown (Mathematics) Calculus Topology and the Discovery of Interior Fixed Points Mathematics and Science Building Room 226

Physics Colloquium Gayle Cook (Physics) Use of Maple in Physics 202 Science E-45 11 am

Fun Run Survival of the Footest 5K fun run-walk Rec Center Plaza 6 pm ($)

Friday April Z3 Baseball Long Beach State SLO

Stadium 7 pm ($)

Saturday April Z4 Talk Tours Plant Sale Leaning Pine

Arboretum plant sale tours 8 am Bobby Gendron (Butterfly Encounshyters) How to Create Butterfly Gardens 10 am amp 2 pm Environshymental Horticultural Science Unit

Baseball Long Beach State SLO Stadium 1 pm ($)

Music Music Department Faculty Recital Theatre 8 pm ($)

Sunday April ZS Baseball Long Beach State SLO

Stadium 1 pm ($) Music Rosemary Kosaka (student)

piano recital Davidson Music Center 218 2 pm

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Cal Poly programmers place sixth in world

A team of three Cal Poly students last week finished sixth in an international computer programming contest that beshygan with almost 1500 teams from unishyversities on six continents

Physics major Ray Lee and computer science students Vania Maldonado and Bob Mathews were the second-highest scoring US team in the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery The event was held in Eindhoven the Netherlands

The Cal Poly team solving five of the six problems posed in the five-hour conshytest finished just behind Duke Univershysity the top US school and just ahead of UC Berkeley and Harvard

The collegiate programming worlds top four teams were from the University of Waterloo Ontario Canada Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Germany the St Petersburg Institute of Fine Meshychanics and Optics Russia and the Unishyversity of Bucharest Romania

Each team worked together on one computer racing other teams to solve the problems in the shortest time with the fewshyest mistakes Penalty points given for errors and delays broke ties among teams


Cal Poly ROTC cadet earns top honor

A Cal Poly ROTC cadet cited for hi s leadership and scholastic ability was selected to receive the George C Marshall ROTC award given annually to the top cadets in the nation

Scott Leach a speech communication senior will receive the award this month at a national security seminar to which all awardees were invited

Leach demonstrated his superior leadshyership abi lity recently at the ROTC Adshyvanced Camp at Fort Lewis Wash where he outscored 3000 other cadets


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Nominations sought for diversity award

Nominations are being sought for the 1999 Presidents Diversity Award which recognizes campus units that have exhibshyited commitment to multiculturalism and a diverse campus climate in all areas including student recruitment and emshyployment as well as employee relations and academic programs

The winning unit will have $1000 added to its budget

If we want to live up to our ideals we need to recognize and reward programs that increase diversity said President Baker who established the award in 1997 following recommendations by the campus Equal Opportunity Advisory Council

Diversity enhances the quality of life and education for all members of the Cal


Nominations sought for student leader award

The faculty staff and students are encouraged to nominate student leaders for the 1998-99 Jeffrey W Land Outshystanding Service Award created to recshyognize leadership and service to Cal Poly and the community

Jeff Land a 1980 College of Business graduate and former ASI leader and his wife Carla established the endowment in 1986

The 1998-99 award of $900 will be announced at the annual ASI end-of-theshyyear banquet

Eligible students must bull Have a cumulative Cal Poly GPA of

25 and no record of academic probation bull Have completed at least 45 units of

course work at Cal Poly bull Have the equivalent of at least one

academic year of course work sti ll to complete at Cal Poly and the intent to continue community service

bull Function with distinction in one or more Cal Poly student leadership posishytions in for example ASI college



Guiarist Bogdanovic to give free demo lecture

One of the worlds leading guitarists and composers Dusan Bogdanovic of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music will give a free lecture and guitar demonstrashytion from noon to 2 pm Monday April 26 in Room 216 of the Davidson Music Center

Bogdanovics exploration of musical languages is reflected in his unique style a synthesis of classical jazz and ethnic music

A native of Yugoslavia he completed his studies in guitar orchestration and composition at the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland and received the only first prize at the International Competishytion of Geneva in 1975

He was nominated professor at the Geneva Conservatory while still in his early 20s and later taught at the Belgrade Academy and USC

The presentation is made possible by funds from the Cal Poly Plan and is also sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Music Department

For more information call ext 6-2406 or visit the Music Departments Web page at httpwwwcalpolyedu-mu D

Graduate equity program has funds for students

Applications are being accepted for the Graduate Equity Fellowship and Mentor Program designed to encourage underrepresented students with bachelors degrees to pursue and comshyplete graduate studies

Selected students can receive up to $4500 per academic year depending on financial need Eligible students must be enrolled in a master s degree program or have been accepted to a masters degree program at Cal Poly Those accepted must

bull Carry a minimum of eight graduateshylevel units per quarter and maintain at least a 30 grade point average

bull Qualify as California residents bull Demonstrate a minimum financial

need of$1000 The Graduate Equity Fellowship and

Mentor Program is funded by the CSU and Cal Poly and is administered by the Graduate Programs office in collaborashytion with the Financial Aid office The deadline to apply is Friday May 14

For more information call Becky Powell at ext 6-2328 D

Survey Week is ay 3-7 Faculty staff and students How do

you get to campus Watch for details in the April 28 Cal Poly Report D

Cal Poly Arts to present The Jungle Book

Its a jungle out there And its goshying to be a jungle inside too when Theatre Works presents Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book at 3 pm Sunday May 2 in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Centers Cohan Center

The Jungle Book a Cal Poly Arts Family Event is the classic tale of an abandoned baby raised in the jungle by animals

TheatreWorks musical production is set in a present-day urban jungle and uses the sounds and characters of the street to tell the story about people s dual need to belong and to remain an individual

In this performance the man-cub Mowgli is raised in the city and encoun-

ters the Jungle Lords a gang of tigers who teach him the shell game how to spray-paint graffiti and how to start fires The production carries a strong anti-violence message

The musical score includes rap pop rock and gospel The costumes reflect some strange fashion trends the turtles wear green helmets khakis and yellow vests and mittens the bear wears a furshylined coat and the evil tiger dresses like a hip cat flaunting his Jungle Lords gang jacket

Aileen Jacobson writing for Newsday called the musical A knockout An original and inventive treat for adults and kids

Tickets to The Jungle Book cost $850 to $12 D

Ticket information Tickets to the performances listed

in todays 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 order by fax dial ext 6-6088

Information on Cal Poly Arts events can be found on the WWW at wwwcalpoly artsorg D

Student poetry contest to end ay 10

The Academy of American Poets is holding its annual contest and the comshypetition at Cal Poly is sponsored by the English Department

Faculty and staff members are urged to let their student poets know about this competition

Details to remember bull Poets should put their name - no

pseudonyms- on all pages bull No more than five poems can be

submitted and the total number of lines should not exceed 300

bull The deadline for entries is Monday May 10

An off-campus judge will select the winners

For more information e-mail Kevin Clark at kclarkcalpolyedu or call him at ext 6-2506 D

bullbullbull Diversity (Continued from page 1)

Poly community and enriches the soshycial and professional climate both on and off campus said Baker quoting from the Strategic Plan

The Staff Council Cultural Awareness Committee received the Presidents Diversity Award in 1997 and 1998

Nominations for the President s Diversity Award are due Friday May 14 A nomination form and instructions are found on page 3 in this Cal Poly Report

(Editors Note An article in next weeks Cal Poly Report will address recent Academic Senate actions regardshying diversity matters)

bull bullbull Student award (Continued from page 1)

councils the Interhall Council or Student Community Services

bull Demonstrate outstanding service as evidenced by peer faculty or staff recogshynition and community response

For an application call Polly Harrigan at ext 6-152 L Applications are due Frishyday May 21 D

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Ag Students prepare for visit by Danish students

Cal Poly agriculture students will learn how agricultural practices in the United States differ from those in Denshymark when 36 Danish college students visit the campus today and tomorrow (April21-22)

The Danish students and two teachshyers are traveling to Cal Poly from Dalum Agricultural College a small school in the city of Odense in the heart of Denmark

Their visit is part of a I 0-day educashytional trip that will also take them to Las Vegas the Grand Canyon and the San Joaquin Valley where they will visit a number of large farming operations

The Danish delegation has agreed to be our program on Thursday April22 and teach us all about agriculture in Denshymark said Joe Sabol director of outreach services for the Agricultural Education and Communication Department

The visit arranged by student and Ag Ambassador Amy DeRose and Sabol will include visits to local vegshyetable growers vineyards and orshychards as well as dairy pork and beef livestock operations

The Ag Ambassadors is a group of approximately 50 students in the College of Agriculture who help promote the universitys agricultural programs to high schools and community colleges D

bullbullbull Programmers (Continued from page 1)

that solved the same number of problems Last fall the Cal Poly team finished

second in a regional competition to make it into the world finals Sixty-two reshygional winning teams and runners-up competed in Eindhoven

Kathleen Luce an operating systems analyst in Information Technology Sershyvices volunteered to coach the team because of her own experience As a Cal Poly student in 1994 she was on Cal Poly s only other programming team to make it to the finals

Other California schools in the finals were Harvey Mudd College which placed 28th and Stanford an honorable mention

Anyone interested can download the contest problems from the Association for Computing Machinery Web site at wwwacmorg Click on Student Proshygramming Contest D

Liz Posalski reception planned for today

The campus community is invited to a reception for Liz Posalski administrative secretary in the provosts office from 230 to 430pm today (April 21) in the Veranda Cafe

Posalski who began at Cal Poly in 1989 in Telephone Administration is leaving the university to travel and reloshycate to the Bay Area D

Leaning Pine Arboretum plant sale tour set

Butterfly gardens and how to create them will be explained during two talks on Saturday April 24 at the third annual Leaning Pine Arboretum plant sale and garden tour at the Environmental Hortishycultural Science Unit

Bobby Gendron of Butterfly Encounshyters will talk about the care and culture of plants that attract butterflies at 10 am and 2 pm

The plant sale will feature a wide variety of California natives and unique Mediterranean plants suitable for garshydens on the Central Coast

A tour of the arboretum will begin at 8 am and lectures and tours of the Environmental Horticultural Science Unit will be from 8 am to 3 pm

For details call ext 6-2888 or 549-7902 D

Learn to locate funding sources on line

The Grants Development Office will hold a hands-on training session on Wednesday April 28 for faculty and administrative staff members to learn how to locate funding sources electronishycally through the Web-based database service SPIN (Sponsored Programs Inshyformation Network)

SPIN and its e-mail notification sershyvice SMARTS are available free to the faculty and staff at httpwwwinfoedorg (select Access InfOffice)

The class limited to 15 people will be from 315 to 415pm in Chase Hall Room 104

To reserve space call Grants Develshyopment at ext 6-2982 or e-mail jostryecalpolyedu D

In the dark on where to park

This regular column is intended to keep drivers advised ofanticishypated lot closures and changes in parking availability For more inforshymation call Parking and Commuter Services at ext 6-6141

bull Wednesday April 21 5 to 9 pm 120 parking spaces in the C-1 and Cshy2 lots have been reserved by Univershysity Advancement

bull Friday April 23 7 am to 5 pm 150 parking spaces in the H-14lot at the top of Via Carta have been reshyserved for the Counselors Confershyence sponsored by Academic Affairs

bull Friday April30 8 am to 5 pm 30 parking spaces in the C-2 parking lot will be reserved for an Ambassashydors for Higher Education event hosted by the Presidents Office D

bullbullbull ROTC cadet (Continued from page 1)

from around the country The competishytion is the final evaluation of leadership potential for cadets in an ROTC program

His first-place win together with his 30 GPA earned him the position of batshytalion commander the highest ranking cadet at Cal Poly

Leach has more than 10 years of milishytary experience In 1988 at the age of 18 he enlisted in the Army He was on acshytive duty for six years as a military poshyliceman serving in combat in Panama and the Persian Gulf

He separated from active duty in 1995 enrolled in college and joined the California National Guard He currently serves in the ROTC program at Cal Poly and in the 649th Military Police Comshypany based at Camp San Luis Obispo where he is a platoon leader

After graduation in June Leach plans to join the US Armys Finance Corps in Colorado D

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Nomination for Presidents Diversity Award

As noted in the article on the front page of this edition of the Cal Poly Report the Presidents Diversity Award is designed to recognize campus units that have exhibited commitment to the value of cultural diversity Campus units are encouraged to participate For more information please see the article on page 1

Nomination criteria In order to be considered for the Dishy

versity Award a campus unit must have exhibited commitment to the value of cultural diversity in one or more of the following ways

bull Recruitment or retention efforts

bull Improvement of student or emshyployee understanding of the value of a culturally diverse climate

bull University or community service in support of diversity or multiculturalism

bull Scholarly contributions in the area of multiculturalism or diversity

bull Advocacy of diversity

All of the above areas must support and be consistent with the mission of Cal Poly as an institution of higher education

A campus unit is broadly defined as any recognized campus entity such as

l) a university department or program 2) an auxiliary department or program or 3) a campus recognized group club or council

Nomination procedures Any faculty member staff member

student or campus unit may nominate an eligible campus unit (see above definishytion) for the Diversity Award Nominashytions are made by completing the form below The completed nomination form must be submitted to

William Bailey Chair Diversity Award Selection Committee co Disability Resource Center

Deadline for nominations

Nominated campus units name

Nominated units contact person (name and department)

Commitment to diversity category (check one or more)

0 recruitmentretention 0 climate

0 scholarly contributions 0 universitycommunity service

0 advocacy

On the back of this sheet describe how the nominated campus unit

has shown commitment to cultural diversity in the area(s) indicated

above (Please attach up to two additional pages if necessary)

Nominators name amp department

Signature ____________________________________________

Date

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