California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 93407

Cal Poly to sponsor program in Thailand Cal Poly's Pacific Rim Group is

sponsoring a new six-week summer study program in Thailand.

The program, open to college students and interested community members, will be held at Silpakorn University at Bangkok and Nakhon Pathon. It will run from June 26 through Aug. 7.

Those who attend can earn 9 units of credit. Humanities and sociology classes will be taught by Social Sciences Department Chair Harold Kerbo, and Thai culture classes will be taught by various Thai professors.

Arrangements can also be made for independent studies and Thai language classes.

The cost for the summer program is $2,600 and includes tuition,

airfare, lodging in an air-conditioned Western-style hotel, and special tours to sites such as The Grand Palace and Ayuthaya.

Food is not included in the cost, so travelers should anticipate another $200 for meals.

For more information or to sign up, call Kerbo at ext. 2260.

Cal Poly's Pacific Rim Group is open to all members of the campus community. The group provides information about activities around the Pacific Rim and help in obtaining grants and other resources to support faculty and student exchanges, research, workshops, conferences, teaching, and other educational programs relevant to the Pacific Rim.

Four campuses join in Equine Consortium Cal Poly has joined Cal Poly

Pomona, Fresno State, and UC Davis in an Equine Consortium, offering workshops, seminars, academic courses, and a traveling Farrier Workshop.

As part of the joint venture, an equine exercise and physiology course is being offered at the four campuses this quarter via distance learning.

Plans are under way to offer more courses, including equine nutrition and equine reproduction management.

The program was developed by Djinn Ruffner, a clerical assistant in Extended Education. She organized meetings and met with representa­tives from each university. Other Cal Poly members of the consortium are Carol Barnes, Extended University Programs and Services; and Mike Lund and Gene Armstrong, Animal Science.

Other members are Robert Bray, W.C. Kellogg Arabian Center, Cal

Poly Pomona; Jan Roser, Animal Sci­ence, UC Davis; Ann Rodiek, Animal Science, Fresno State; Jim Waldsmith, Equine Center, San Luis Obispo; Tracey O'Driscoii-Packer, Cardiff Stud Farms, Creston; and Mike Savoldi, Arabian Horse Center, Cal Poly Pomona.

ltemorial service set for Johnson

A memorial service for former Crop Science Department Head Corwin Johnson will be held at 2 pm Saturday, March 4, at the Masonic Temple, King David Lodge, 859 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo. "Doc's" friends and colleagues are invited to attend.

Johnson died Jan 3. at his home in Boise, Idaho.

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Academic Senate accepting nominations

Nominations to the Academic Sen­ate are being accepted for the 1995­97 term. Each college will need to elect senators to fill vacant positions. The election will be held winter quar­ter. Nominations must include a signed statement of intent to serve.

Vacancies also exist in the follow­ing areas: • The Academic Senate Research Committee and the University Profes­sional Leave Committee need repre­sentatives from the colleges of Agri­culture, Architecture and Environ­mental Design, Business, and Engi­neering. The Research Committee and the UPLC are elected committees. • The Program Review and Improve­ment Committee needs representatives from the colleges of Architecture and Environmental Design, Engineering, and Science and Mathematics. Mem­bers to the PRAIC are nominated by their college caucus and elected by the Academic Senate Executive Committee. • The Statewide Academic Senate has two vacancies: a one-year posi­tion for 1995-96 and a three-year post for 1995-98.

For nomination forms and more in­formation, call the Academic Senate office at ext. 1258, or stop by the Math & Home Economics Building, Room 143. Nominations are due in the Academic Senate office by 5 pm, Friday, Feb. 24.

Cal Poly Women's Club to attend performance

The Cal Poly Women's Club in­vites members of the faculty and staff to join them at the Lar Lubovitch dance performance at 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the Cal Poly Theatre.

For details, call Imelda Gentile at 549-9249.

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ltiddle East Ensemble to perform tonight

The traditional songs and dances of Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey will be performed by UC Santa Barbara's Midqle East Ensemble in a concert at 8 pm tonight (Feb. 17) in Room 218 in the Davidson Music Building.

Directed by UCSB music professor Scott Marcus, the 25-person ensemble will play all the pieces on traditional instruments.

The highly acclaimed group per­forms regularly for various Middle Eastern communities and university campuses throughout California.

Tickets cost $3 and will be sold at the door. For more information, call the Music Department at ext. 2406.

Beckett's 'Endgame' to play Feb. 23-25

Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett's absurd comedy "Endgame" will be staged at 8 pm Thursday through Sat­urday, Feb. 23-25, in the Theatre.

Beckett, called "the pre-eminent playwright of his time" by The New York Times, considered "Endgame" his favorite among his works.

Theatre and dance professor and "Endgame" director Mike Malkin calls the play a "comedy with intel­lectual meat on it." And he is giving it a different reading.

The play is often seen as dark. Malkin has emphasized the slapstick humor of the script. It is set in an abandoned, highly contemporary cir­cus, and the four characters wear clown make-up and clown costumes.

"We pushed it stylistically," Malkin said. "No one has done it like this before."

The cast includes Roberto Quintana, a junior agricultural busi­ness major, who plays the blind, wheelchair-bound and domineering Hamm.

Clov, Hamm's servant and the only one to move on the stage, is played by Santos Sarabia, a freshman biological sciences student.

Hamm's almost-senile mother and father, Nell and Nagg, will be on stage in garbage cans. They will be played by Jennifer Cozza, a sopho­more English major, and Trevor Boelter, a freshman in speech com­munication.

"The characters in 'Endgame' ca­vort, war and philosophize with one another in order to deal with the intri­cacies and absurdities of life," Malkin said. "The play is an evocatively compressed comedy on the human condition.

"But it's good fun," Malkin said. "The mistake is to take it too seriously.

"In 'Endgame,' the entertainment exists on many levels," he said. "Not only is it slapstick and shtick, it is re­flective comedy as well."

Tickets are $6.50 for the public and $5.50 for students, faculty and staff members with Cal Poly I.D. and for senior citizens.

Lar Lubovitch dancers to perform twice

The Lar Lubovitch Dance Com­pany, a modern dance troupe known for its fine choreography and techni­cally excellent dancers, will perform at 8 pm Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 27-28, in the Theatre.

The program - the same for both performances - will include Fan­dango, featuring "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel; Blue Danube, featuring the "Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss; and So On Love, featuring five songs by Cole Porter.

Since establishing the company 26 years ago, Lubovitch has developed a distinctive, original dance language based on his personal choreographic vision. The common threads of Lubovitch's choreography have been passion and an original use of move­ment and space.

Company rehearsal director John Dieger will conduct a pre-concert dis­cussion before each program at 7 pm in Room 218 in the Davidson Music Center.

Tickets for the performances are $20 and $15 for the public and $15 and $10 for students and senior citizens.

Finnish group Varttina to play ltarch 3

Varttina, a nine-member contem­porary folk group from Finland that plays to enthusiastic audiences world­wide, will perform at 8 pm Friday, March 3, in the Theatre.

Varttina combines the spectacular voices of four young women with the instruments of "five of Finland's hot­test roots and rock musicians." They perform contemporary versions of tra­ditional songs as well as some origi­nal compositions.

"With a hint of rockish insistence, Varttina's female vocalists add a strong, sexy spin to freely adapted traditional tunes," Spin magazine said. "Their accompanists deal el­egantly with the music's oddball rhythms, hoedown grooves, and heartbreaking hru-monies."

The Boston Herald compared them to "a band that's half Hungarian, half Irish and fronted by a Valkyrie choir singing rhythmically in Finnish."

They've also been likened to groups as different as the Bulgarian women's choir and the Swedish rock group Abba.

The group is dedicated to discover­ing new, more exciting ways of ar­ranging and performing the music of Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland.

Tickets for the performance are $15 and $13 for the public and $13 and $11 for students and senior citizens.

*~ tateu au ilwited Current faculty and staff members

are welcome to submit comments on any campus issue for publication in the Cal Poly Report's "Campus Forum." The special deadline is 1 pm Monday. Short letters submitted early are best.

Unless stated otherwise, you can buy tickets to the performances listed in today's Cal Poly Report at the Theatre Ticket Office from 10 am to 4 pm weekdays. To reserve seats, call the AnyTime ArtsLine at ext. 1421.

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'Professional ethics, safe technology' topic Feb. 23

"Professional Ethics, Organiza­tional Ethics and Safe Technology" will be the subject of a lecture at 7 pm Thursday, Feb. 23, by Chapman Uni­versity philosophy professor Mike Martin.

Usually managers and engineers are understood to have separate and conflicting sets of responsibilities. The free talk in Room 213 of the Business Building will focus on an in­tegrated approach to ethics that could lead to safer technology.

Martin, a member of the Chapman faculty since 1976, is the author of two books, "Engineering Ethics" and "Everyday Morality: An Introduction to Applied Ethics." He received an IEEE award in 1992 for his work in furthering professionalism in engi­neering.

The talk is part of the College of Liberal Arts Forum on Ethics, Tech­nology and the Professions, a universitywide initiative. For more in­formation, call Diane Michelfelder at ext. 2041.

Three PERS members elected to office

Three PERS members have been elected to the PERS Board of Admin­istration: Michael Flaherman, an economist with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District; William Dale Crist, professor of economics at CSU Stan­islaus; and Kurato Shimada, land­scape-grounds-custodial supervisor with the Oak Grove School District.

They began their four-year term in January.

'Human subjects' panel to meet Feb. 24

Faculty and staff members are welcome to attend the meeting of the Human Subjects Committee at 2 pm Friday, Feb. 24, in the Agricultural Sciences Building, Room 210.

Committee members, appointed by

Dean of Research and Graduate Pro­grams Susan Opava, will review re­search proposals using human sub­jects to be sure ethical guidelines are followed to protect the subjects.

At the Feb. 24 meeting, the com­mittee will consider a draft statement of campus Policies for the Use of Hu­man Subjects in Research and a draft of guidelines for submissions of hu­man subjects research proposals.

For more information, call Opava at ext. 1508, or psychology and hu­man development professor and com­mittee chair Laura King, ext. 6131.

Los Osos names Bowker Citizen of the Year

Rosemary Bowker, a computing consultant in the Biological Sciences Department, was honored as Citizen of the Year by the Los Osos Chamber of Commerce.

She was recognized for her efforts to preserve the El Moro Elfin Forest. Respected as a member and leader in the community, Bowker has served as president of the Small Wilderness Area Preservation (SWAP) group since 1991. Her efforts helped raise more than $1 million to acquire the Elfin Forest.

Bowker, who decided it would be beneficial for SWAP to join the Chamber of Commerce, is also cred­ited with bringing together businesses and the land preservation project.

Women's Studies sets Winter Quarter Potluck

The Women's Studies Program will hold its Winter Quarter Potluck from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23, at the home of Willi Coleman, professor of ethnic studies.

The potluck is open to all students, faculty, staff and community members interested in women's studies and gender issues.

For directions and more informa­tion, call the Women's Studies pro­gram office at ext. 1525 or stop by Faculty Office Building Room 25-H.

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Harlem Globetrotters to play flarch 14

Start whistling "Sweet Georgia Brown," because the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters are coming to the Recreation Center at 7:30pm Tuesday, March 14.

This is the only local appearance of the 1995 Globetrotters' "Salutes The Family" World Tour.

The original "magicians of basket­ball" combine incredible athleticism and outrageous comedy for a magical showcase of entertainment.

New team mascot Globie will bring smiles to the youngest genera­tion of Harlem Globetrotter fans, and an autograph-signing ceremony after the game allows everyone to meet their favorite stars.

Tickets, priced at $10 for the upper level and $13 for the lower level, are on sale at the ASI Ticket Office in front of the Recreation Center. A $2 discount is offered on the $10 tickets for those over 60 or under 12 and col­lege students with an I.D.

For more information, call the ASI Ticket Office at ext. 5806.

Ride the bus; save big bucks

All faculty members, staff mem­bers and students with a current Cal Poly I.D. can ride the SLO Transit city bus, seven days a week, for free.

Central Coast Area Transit (CCAT) riders can buy a $36 "punch pass" for just $7 .50. The passes, sold at the Rec Center Ticket Office, are avail­able at this price because bus fares are subsidized through campus parking citations. Many of the routes are di­rect to campus and arrive in time for work.

Both city and regional buses have bike racks.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Speaker: "A Conversation with Ozzie

Smith," (St. Louis Cardinals, Cal Poly alum). Business 213, 10 am.

Speaker: Bruce Larkin (UC Santa Cruz) will talk about "The Other Three Nuclear Weapons States: The United King­dom, France, China." Science A-ll , I pm.

Baseball: University of Washington, 7:05 pm. Also Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 18 and 19, at 1:05pm. SLO Stadium. ($)

Music & Dance: The UC Santa Bar­bara Middle East Ensemble will perform. Davidson Music Bldg. 218, 8 pm. ($)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Artist's Reception: Meet Rachel

Burns, the artist currently featured in the UU Galerie exhibit in observance of Black History Month. 2 pm, UU Galerie.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Holiday: Campus closed in obser­

vance of Washington's birthday.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Speaker: Elie Axelroth (Health and

Psychological Services) will discuss "Guiding Our Daughters Through the '90s." Staff Dining Room, noon.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Meeting: Women's Council of the State

University planning meeting. UU 219, noon. Speaker: Gary Dwyer (Landscape

Architecture) will give a slide presenta­tion on Vietnam, "Short Voyage in a Long Land." Business 213, 3 pm.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Career Symposium: Company repre­

sentatives will meet with students and faculty members. Chumash, 9 am. Call ext. 2502 for details.

Forum: "Serving a Diverse Student Population -A Student's Perspective." Erhart Ag Bldg., Room 206. Follow-up presentation set for Thursday, March 9, Staff Dining Room, noon.

Potluck: The Women's Studies Pro­gram Winter Quarter Potluck will be held at the home of Willi Coleman (Ethnic Studies). Call ext. 1525 for details. 6:30pm.

Speaker: Mike Martin (Chapman University) will di scuss "Professional Ethics, Organizational Ethics and Safe Technology." Business 213, 7 pm.

Play: "Endgame," Theatre and Dance Department's winter quarter production. Through Saturday, Feb. 25. Theatre. 8 pm. ($)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Baseball: Fresno State, SLO Stadium,

7 pm. Also Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25-26, at I pm. ($)

Play: "Endgame" (see Feb. 23). $

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Conference: Health Science Careers

Conference, Business 213, 9 am. Track & Field: UC Santa Barbara.

8 am. Track, behind Tennis Courts . Play: "Endgame" (see Feb. 23) . $

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Speaker: Robert Gish (Ethnic Stud­

ies) will talk on "Myth, Ethnicity and the West: A Writer 's Sense of Place." Library 202, 2 pm.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Speaker: Dane Jones (Chemistry)

will discuss "Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention." Science A-ll, I pm.

Dance: Lar Lubovitch Dance Com­pany. Also on Tuesday, Feb. 28. Theatre, 8 pm. ($)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Dance: Lar Lubovitch (see Feb. 27) . $

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 Meeting: Women 's Council of the

State University planning meeting. UU 219, noon.

Baseball: Pepperdine, SLO Stadium, 2:30pm.($)

President's Day food service hours FRIDAY, FEB.17

NORMAL schedule, except BackStage will close at 5pm. Vending Cellar is always open.

SATURDAY, FEB.18 Light House

Breakfast ................. 8:30am- I 0:30am Lunch ..... ....... .. .. ........ ...... ... llam-2pm Dinner .. .......... .. ..... .... ..... 4:30pm-7pm

Campus Store ... .... .. .......... .. .... 10am-5pm

SUNDAY, FEB. 19 Light House

Breakfast ....... .......... 8:30am-! 0:30am Lunch ... .... ... ................. ...... llam-2pm Dinner ..................... ....... 4:30pm-7pm

Vista Grande Restaurant ......... 10am-2pm Campus Store .... .. ... ... ..... ... ...... I Oam-5pm

MONDAY, FEB. 20 Lighthouse

Breakfast ... .. ........... . 8:30am-! 0:30am Lunch ......... ......... .... ........... llam-2pm Dinner ............. ............... 4:30pm-7pm

VGCafe Dinner ............... ... ... ...... 5pm -7:30pm

Campus Store ..... .. ....... .. .. ... . IOam -IOpm

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Position vacancies More information and applications

for the following staff positions are available from the appropriate human resources office. Faxed applications and resumes will not be accepted in lieu of official application.

STATE (Adm. 110, ext. 2236 or job line at ext. 1533). Official application forms must be received by 4 pm of the closing date or be postmarked by the closing date.

CLOSING DATE: March 3, 1995 Library Assistant I, Learning Re­

sources and Curriculum, Kennedy Library (Unit 7), $1253.75-$1486.25/month, tem­porary, .625 time (25 hours/week), 8-1 M­F. through 6/30/95.

FOUIIDAnOII (Foundation Adm. Building, ext. 1533). All Foundation ap­plications must be received (not just postmarked) by 5 pm of the closing date. (No faxes)

CLOSING DATE: Feb. 24, 1995 Accounts Payable Clerk, Foundation

Business Office, $1572-/855/month.

Catering Sales Clerk, Campus Din­ing, $1655-$1954/month.

Assistant Hazmat Technician, Cali­fornia Specialized Training Institute, $8.05-$9. 78/hour.

FACULTY (Adm. 312, ext. 2844)

Candidates interested in positions on the faculty are invited to contact the appropriate dean or department head/ chair. Ranks and salaries for faculty positions are commensurate with quali­fications and experience (and time base where applicable), unless otherwise stated.

CLOSING DATE: May 15, 1995 Lecturer Pool, Agribusiness (part­

time). Establishing a pool for possible part-time teaching assignments fall, win­ter, and/or spring 1995-96 in all areas of agribusiness; e.g., agricultural economics, marketing, finance, policy, international trade, and senior project supervision. Minimum requirement is a master's de­gree in an agribusiness-related discipline.