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T UESDAY, S EPTEMBER 3, 1991
V OLUME 2, NUMBER 1
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PIONEER/TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1991
A.S. gets loan from Foundation
INSIDE
Tuesday, September 3,1991
Volume 2, Number 1
MILLMAN SHARES VIEWS
A s C SUSM's new Academic Vice
President, Richard Millman has goals on
how the future campus curriculum will
be shaped. Millman speaks candidly in a
question and answer session.
N EWS/PAGE A 6
SAN MARCOS' TRASH WOES
Over the summer, plans for a controversial trash-to-energy plant in the city of
San Marcos were scrapped. But city officials now have to face a growing dilemma; where does it put North County's
garbage.
N EWS/PAGE A 8
EVALUATIONS IMPORTANT
To some, student evaluations amount to
nothing more than a popularity contest
Yet, with the high average age of students
at CSUSM, evaluations become an important consumer tool.
O PINION/PAGE A 15
BUILDING THE PERFECT DINOSAUR
A firm in Irvine, Dinamation International, earns its living by building robotic
dinosaurs. Seen in museums and parks
throughout the country, the animated
beasts stir controversy about the prehistoric world.
E XPLORE/PAGE B 1
LIGHTS... CAMERON... ACTION
James Cameron, director of the summer's
blockbuster T 2 \ is more than your average action director. His treatment of
women brings heroism to something other
thenmen. Wendy Williams reviews ' T2\
A CCENT/PAGE B 9
P AGE A 2
NEWS
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
P AGE A 4
HEALTH NOTES
P AGE A 7
CAMPUS BEAT
CARTOONS
P AGE A 12, B 14
OPINION
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'YOUR VIEWS'
P AGE A 15
EXPLORE
P AGE B 1
ACCENT
P AGE B 9
CALENDAR
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CLASSIFIED
P AGE B 15
K IM COURTNEY/PIONEER
Cal State San Marcos' Associated Students
are starting their first year in the red.
Due to the failure of a key measure in last
semester's student election's, the newly formed
student government began its duties with no
money. To gain capital for its first semester
budget and to qualify for incorporation, the A.S.
turned to the University Foundation for financial assistance.
The Foundation responded with a loan of
$12,920 to the A.S., with a planned repayment
over the next three semesters. The Associated
Students are planning fund-raisers and promoting the passage of ballot measures next semester
to collect fees for loan repayment and Spring
1992 operational fees.
"During the summer, the A.S. Council devised a strategy to find a way to get funds for
operations,'' said A.S. President Jose Chapman.
Lack of funds for the A.S. became apparent
after a measure on the spring ballot enabling
student governmentto collect student fees failed
to be passed.
Even though a measure assessing a $ 15 fee to
students gained narrow support by the voting
population, the fees could not be collected
without the passing of an enabling measure.
A ccording t o C hapman, t he e nabling
measure's failure was due to difficulty in understanding the wording of the measure on the
ballot. He said the language was confusing
enough that students were not entirely sure on
what they were voting.
Wording for the measure came directly from
Title V, a document which sets guidelines on
how student governments in California are to
operate. Some students indicated during the
elections that they were not clear on the purpose
of the measure.
Chapman said the A.S. Council worked
during the summer to clarify and summarize the
wording of the Title V measure so students will
better understand its meaning. The enabling
measure along with the previous measure assessing student fees will be reintroduced to the
students in an October election.
Executive VicePresidentof CSUSM,Richard
Rush, who sits on the Foundation's board, said
helping the A.S. get on its feet was a way for the
Foundation to help support the university
community.
"The Foundation is a non-profit organization
which supports the university by generating,
receiving and administering funds for the university," Rush said.
The Foundation is a self-supporting organization which receives funding through gifts and
donations. Approximately 70 people who have
donated $5,000 are recognized as founders.
Additional monies were garnered from grants
and corporate donations.
Population almost doubles
Student ethnicity low;
faculty diversity high
The more things change, the more they stay
the same.
Even though Cal State San Marcos' student
population recorded a 43 percent increase, it has
grown little in terms of ethnic diversity.
CSUSM's faculty profile, on the other hand,
reflects a degree of ethnic diversity that tops
both nationwide and Cal State system averages.
The student population reached 1,114 as of
August 27 with 730 students qualifying for Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) status. In order to qualify
for FTE status, a student must hold IS units or
more.
Michael Yee, of the Office of Admissions
and Records, says the number of FTE students
falls short of projections.
" We're still under the number of students we
would like," Yee says. The university was hoping
for 750 FTE students. FTE is a determining
factor for state funding.
Women continue to dominate the population
of CSUSM, comprising 61 percent of the total
enrollment. The female enrollment is down
from 74 percent last semester. The avetage age
of students still looms at 29.
" We're looking at reentry women at this age,
rather than the typical college cohort" said Vice
SEE GROWTH/PAGE A12
Gender
Ethnicity
Comparison between CSUSM students,
faculty and national faculty enthnic
breakdowns.
• STUDENT CAUCASI0N: 73%
• FACULTY CAUCASI0N: 59%
• NATIONAL CAUCASI0N: 90%
Eligibility
46%
CONTINUING
STUDENTS
SOURCES: Admissions & Records,
President's Office
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�N ews B riefs
Designers get seal of approval
Graphics Solutions, a full service graphic design and sign planning
firm, has been retained to provide design concepts, working drawings
and bid specs for the "Founders Seal" to be inset in the paving of the
Founders' Plaza at the permanent CSU San Marcos campus.
The bronze and terrazzo seal will include symbolic imagery representing the founding of the university: the initial three colleges, the
school's mission statement and names of the one hundred initial
founders," said Simon Andrews, Graphic Solutions' Principal.
The permanent campus is scheduled to open in 1992.
College of Education offers new course
The College of Education has announced the addition of "Education
471, The Secondary School," this fall as a service to students who want
to get their undergraduate degrees here and enter a Single Subject
Credential Program at San Diego State University.
This course is a required pre-requisite for the SDSU program that is
impacted on their campus. The Director of Teacher Education at SDSU
has confirmed that this new class will be accepted as a substitute for their
course.
This is the only time this course will be offered during the 1991-92
academic year. Next semester, the College will offer another prerequisite course in multicultural education.
Shuttle Service Discontinued
During the 1990 spring semester, Library Services subsidized a van
which shuttled students to the SDSU Love Library up to nine time a
week. Because only 14 students utilized this service andduetoeconomic
reasons, the Library has discontinued the service.
Spanish proficiency added
In January, 1994, Cal State San Marcos will implement a new factor
in admitting students to all credential programs in the College of
Education. At that time and thereafter, the College will ask applicants
to describe their facility in Spanish and it will be a factor in making
admission decisions.
The College of Education will not require that all admitted students
know Spanish, but it will be one of a number of factors taken into
account in the admission process.
Volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed to help with Cal State San Marcos* first
International Festival scheduled for Oct. 27. Those students interested
should contact the Vice President of Student Services Office in Bldg.
125.
The festival was established by a donation from Itoman & Compant
Ltd., which announced a $500,000 endowment to the college for the
establishment of the event. The money will be apportioned out in
$50,000 increments over the next 10 years.
Scholarship information available
Scholarship information for Cal State San Marcos students is maintained in the reception area of the Scholarship and Financial Aid office,
now located in building 800. Students are invited to stop by and research
scholarship opportunities.
As new scholarship information becomes available, notices will be
posted in Pioneer.
Clubs Forming
• Ocean Sports Club: Membership is open to everyone who enjoys
ocean sports and in concerned about preserving the cleanliness of the
oceans. For more information on meeting times, call Roy Latas at 931 0311.
• A Future Teacher/Educators Club is now forming. If you are
interested organizing or participating in this club, please contact Carol
Aguilar, College ofEducation Representative, at the Associated S tudents
Office, Building 135, Room H, or leave a message at 484-0439.
Campus Construction
Work on permanent site continues
after setbacks tightened schedule
LARRY BOISJOLiE/PIONEER
After suffering from a prolonged
contractor's dispute and heavy March
rains, construction of Phase I on Cal
State San Marcos' permanent campus
off Twin Oaks Valley Road may not
be completed by the fall 1992 deadline.
Phase I includes the $14 million
Craven Hall, an academic core consisting of one lecture hall and a laboratory facility and the c ampus'
physical plant, which will house receiving and handling.
"It's too tight to call right now,"
said Albert Amado, vice president of
Physical Planning and Campus Construction. "The project lost three and
a half months with the contractor's
dispute."
In September, construction on the
nearly $50 million project ground to a
halt after grading subcontractor C.W.
Poss claimed that contractor Louetto
Construction Inc. failed to pay them
1.3 million for work already completed at the site.
Louetto was terminated from its
responsibilities at the permanent site
in October and replaced with Lusardi
Construction Company.
Worries that drought-induced water rationing would impede construction at the site were drowned when
heavy rainfall hit San Marcos in
March. The "March Miracle" left the
ground too muddy thereby hindering
progress.
"The ground under Craven Hall
was so saturated, we had vehicles
getting stuck in the mud," Amado
cited. "We lost some time there."
Construction projects typically
experience weather delays, said
Amado, but having lost valuable time
in the contractor's dispute, much of
the construction schedule's buffer
time was lost.
Amado said Lusardi recently
completed its function of preparing
the site, putting the project back on
schedule. "We're pleased with the
quality of work done by Lusardi,"
Amado said.
Already the campus' main drive is
completed with water, reclamation,
electric and gas lines installed. Trees
with activated irrigation systems are
in place and buildings are beginning
to rise and take shape.
Four different contractors are
working concurrently on the project,
adding further complexity to the
building task. Amado said the contractors have been working well to
coordinate their tasks with other contractors.
Foundations for the lecture and lab
buildings are almost complete, said
Amado. Meanwhile, workers are almost finished with theframeworkand
deck systems in the lab building. This
week steel frame construction is set to
begin on Craven Hall and will continue
for six weeks.
The six-story Craven Hall will be
the first "feature building" on the
campus and will house all of the $2
million in computer systems used to
run the first phase of the campus. It
will also serve as the campus library
and house administration.
Craven Hall set construction bidding standards for the new campus
whenBodellConstructionofSaltLake
City, bid $1.4 million below the
buildings budgeted c ost Amado said
at the low-bidding trend should continue throughout the entire construction project.
The university is in the process of
seeking cladding materials and concrete for Craven Hall's stucco finish.
SEE CAMPUS/PAGE A7
Rooms moved to accommodate growth
space compared to the needed space
was reported in February.
While it will take both new and
The result: CSUSM needed more
returning students time to get used to rooms.
where everything is on campus, adIn May, however, SDSUPresident
ministrators say the reorganization of Thomas Day announced harsh class
offices and departments will better reductions due to budgetary restraints.
serve the students.
All but the teacher credential classes
To accommodate over 50 new were cut at the North County campus.
faculty and staff members and about SDSU cuts included over 500 classes
500 new students expected this se- dropped on the main campus, which
mester, Cal State San Marcos spent gave CSUSM an additional 39,000
the month of July moving, expanding sq. f t to work with.
and remodeling the majority of the
"Had that space not been available
offices and classrooms on campus. to use, we would have had to seek
The moves were a result of a year of additional lease space elsewhere,"
planning.
Farris said.
"Our first priority was student acOf of the total aquired space, the
cess to faculty and Student Services," Library encompases 11,000 sq. f t.
said Pat Farris, Director of Support Farris pointed out that the Bookstore,
Services. "We wanted to disrupt the Health Services and Admissions and
students as litde as possible."
Records space was also SDSU's.
Farris served on the Space Planning « "Building 800 is the only building
Task Force, which began meeting last that was totally SDSU," said Ivalee
October. Their review of available Clark, Assistant Director of Support
JONATHAN YOUNG/PIONEER
Services. Clark added that some other
classrooms and facilities were used
by both universities. "Last academic
year, there was a lot of sharing."
Clark said Building 125 had the
most shuffling.
The Scholarship and Financial Aid
offices moved from Building 125 to
Building 800. That move made it
possible for the offices of Student
Affairs to expand.
"All of Business Administration
and the College of Education got
moved around... and portions of Arts
and Sciences, Student Affairs and
Accounting," Clark said.
The reorganization now puts faculty and staff members of the same
Colleges together.
"All of the College of Education,
College of Business Administration
and most of Arts and Science are now
together," said Clark. "They were all
SEE MOVE/PAGE A12
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A.S. Hosts Ice Cream Social
Solution Series
The Associated Students is hosting an Ice Cream
Social on Sept 6 in the Student Union. The Ice Cream
is to be donated by the Nordahl Baskin Robbins.
Contact the A.S. in Building 135, Room H, for more
information.
Join President Bill Stacy in the Student Lounge on
any or all of the "Solution Series" to discuss issues of
importance to the university and to offer creative
solutions to the challenges of building CSUSM. The
dates include:
• Sept. 20 at 3 p.m.
• O ct 10 at noon.
• Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.
• Nov. 18 at 10 a.m.
Coffee will be provided. For more information, call
742-4040.
CSUSM partakes in Mexico celebration
Cal State San Marcos will be participating in the
Second Annual Fiestas Patrias celebration sponsored
by the Amigos Del Valle Escondido.
The celebration is in honor of Mexico's Independence Day and will be held at Kit Carson Park in
Escondido on Sept. 14 from noon to 9 p.m.
CSUSM will have an informational booth at the
festival. Volunteers to assist with answering questions
about the campus and programs available, and handing
out balloons, pencils and bookmarks are needed from
until 5 p.m. Students interested should contact the
Student Affairs Office.
Also in honor of Mexico's Independence, four noontime concerts will be performed the following week in
the Student Lounge:
• Sept. 16 - Los Alacranes perform traditional
Norteño music
• Sept. 17 - Miguel Lopez will play the Vera Cruz
harp
• Sept. 18 -Mosaico - six piece progressive Norteño
ensemble
• Sept. 19 - Es O Es, a 10 piece Latin jazz band
New yearbook out before November
Tukut, CSUSM's yearbook, will be completed the
first week in November, if not before, according to
Barbara Pender, yearbook editor.
Currently, the Tukut staff is looking for a few
students to volunteer in creating the 1991-92yearbook.
Pender said several volunteer positions are open: a
Section Editor and two Photographic Managers. The
Tukut staff is also seeking students to sell advertising
space for the upcoming yearbook to work on a commission basis.
Those interested in applying for one of the positions,
notify the Tukut staff, in writing, of experience,
availability, and position preference. All Information
can be submitted to the Student Affairs Office in
Building 125.
History club gets started
The History Club, one of CSUSM'sfirstclubs, will
be starting their membership drive the week of Sept. 9.
The Cal State San Marcos Psychology Student
Organization is hosting its first annual "get acquainted" There will be a sing-up table in the student lounge that
social today, Sept. 3. The event is in Building 145, week for student interested in local and national history. There is a $5 fee for dues each semester.
Room 3, at 4 p.m.
Psychology group gathers
Workshops Planned
The Career Placement and Counseling office has
scheduled a variety of workshops and seminars
throughout the semester for students. The upcoming
events are:
• Stress Management: Everyone needs to learn
techniques to control the level of stress so it won't
interfere with academic performance. Workshops on
Sept. 5 at noon, and Sept 13 at 1 p.m.
• Note Taking: Review of Note Taking techniques
to effectively prepare for exams. Seminar on Sept. 6 at
11 a.m. and Sept. 9 at noon.
• Resume Writing: Learn the most current formats,
content and reproduction guidelines. This event is
scheduled on Sept. 10 at 12:30 p.m.
The Career Planning and Placement Office also
offers Resume Critiques as a regular service.
• Job Search Strategies: Know yourself and your
options, then identify and research employers. Traditional and non-traditional techniques to find the employer best suited to your needs. Workshop is on Sept.
16 at noon.
The Career Planning and Placement Office also
provides job and career position listing as a regular
service.
Each event in one hour in length.
For room location, contact the Career Planning and
Placement office in Building 800 next to the Student
Lounge.
Library hours changed
As a result of the input ieceived from Cal State San
Marcos through a survey, the library has increased the
number of hours it is open Mondays through Saturdays.
The new hours are:
• Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
• Friday: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Saturday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
These extended hours are made possible by existing
Library staff rearranging their schedules. Although 80
percent of the surveyed students wanted the Library
open on Sunday, those hours will not be added until
funding is received to cover the additional staff needed.
International Festival dates set
ThefirstCSUSM International Festival has been set
for Oct. 27 in the campus parking are between Building
800 and 820. The all day event will be from 11 a.m
through 5 p.m.
The event is made possible by an endowment by
Itoman and Company, Inc., a Japan-based firm.
RESEARCH INDICATES...
Psychological stress
increases cold risk
Welcome back and I hope you all
had a healthy summer break. The lack
of summer which I frequently bemoaned was probably beneficial to
our skin, but definitely made it seem
like summer never started. However,
I hope it didn't interfere with your
ability to get rejuvenated for another
academic year.
Beginning a new academic year, I
realize, can be very stressful with
school, work and other adjustments
which brings me to write about yet
another effect of stress.
A recent study in New England
Journal ofMedicine supports the debatable contention that emotional
health affects physical health. I for
one think people all too frequently
attribute physical health problems to
stress but this study makes a very
strong case. Specifically the study
provides evidence that psychological
stress is associated with an increased
risk of acquiring the common cold.
With the consent of the participants, the researches gave them nose
drops with five of the 20 common
cold viruses. They then monitored
them for common symptoms. They
also underwent extensivephysical and
psychological testing and questioning
about health habits.
The end result was that people
with high levels of psychological
stress were twice as likely to develop
colds and even with less severe stress
there is still an increase in risk to
HEALTHNOTES
BY D R. J OEL GRINOLDS
develop a cold. Other factors that increase susceptibility such as age, diet,
smoking, exercise, etc. could not explain away that increased risk.
Nobody knows the precise mechanism by which stress changes one's
defenses against infectious diseases
but this study definitely supports the
case that stress alters our immune
response. How one can handle stress
to stay healthy is not exactly known,
but I will write about that in future
columns.
As you know atHealth Services,
we see students for many other reasons
then stress related disorders. We are
going to be available three days a
week this semester and have new staff.
Lisa Estelle is now a mother of a
healthy boy, Sean, and is being a fulltime parent Stop by Health Services
to become acquainted with the new
hours and new staff.
Dr. Joel Grinolds is chief physicial for Cal
State San Marcos.
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Millman shares views on curriculum
LARRY BOISJOLIE/PIONEER
Richard Millman, was chosen in a
nation-wide search to fill the position
of Academic Vice President of Cal
State San Marcos. Millman received
his Ph.D. from Cornell University and
his B.S. in Mathematics from MIT. He
has authored three books on mathematics and has published over 35
articles on mathematical subjects.
As Academic Vice President,
Millman is responsible for all academic
planning and programs at the university.
This year Cal State San Marcos saw the
addition of two new m ajors. W hat's in
store f or the f uture?
We will be offering a wide variety of
majors ranging from the standard ones like
Biology, Chemistry and English to some less
standard ones, perhaps including things like
Criminal Justice. We will explore the eventuality of Engineering.
We are a comprehensive university and
will be in the year 2000, so we will cover all
of the Bachelor's degrees and we will also
have Master's degrees in those areas where it
is justified by demand by local area businesses, by student demand and by intellectual
demand.
RICHARD MILLMAN/ACADEMIC VICE PRESIDENT
Any sign of when more M aster's degree
programs a re to begin?
Within the next five years. We anticipate
having two Master's degrees programs very
soon. One would be in Business and one
would be in Education. The other ones would
come on line within the next five years and
they of course would be subject to
Chancellor's Office approval. They would be
in the sciences, Mathematics and Psychology, Q UESTION A ND A NSWER
some in Social Sciences and English.
Last year some people were heartbroken
that Computer Sciences was rejected as a
As a person trained in Mathematics,
major offering.
how does the writing requirement sit with
There is a concentration in the Mathematyou?
ics option in Computer Science, so people
I love to write. I love to write about
wanting that kind of an education can still
Mathematics primarily. My personal area of
have it It will be as good as a degree as if it
research these days is writing in Mathematics,
were a separate B.S. in Computer Science.
which includes not only how to write in
We will go back, however, to the
Mathematics but writing as a tool to learn
Chancellor's Office and review our request
Mathematics. I 'd be happy to talk with you
for a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. for about four hours on that I 've taught
Do students have any role in molding
courses in it in that area.
the curriculum?
I'm delighted that one of the things that
Absolutely. In fact, two students came to
attracted me to this place is exacdy the 2,500see me with a complaint. They wanted a
word writing requirement in every single
Master's degree in Mathematics. Needless to
course. There is no way to reinforce what
say, since that's my home discipline, I was
you've learned in class better than to write
extremely sympathetic.
about i t There is no way to learn new
It's wonderful to get students making
material you've learned better than to
curricular suggestions. The more students let
organize it in your head and write about it or
us know what they would like, the better we
explain it to somebody else.
can assess what their needs are.
Do you think instructors should use
originality in exercising the r equirement?
There are lots of different ways to get
students to write in class. One is to have free
writing, where students can write whatever
they're thinking about Students can write by
listening to the professor talk in the class then
in the last ten minutes of class the professor
says, 'tell me what I've just told you.' What
the professor will learn from that is enormous.
The professor will learn what the students
have trouble with very spontaneously.
The alternative to that is to let the students
go home and think about what they've just
heard in class and for the next session write a
paragraph or two explaining what they've just
heard. That's another way of really learning
the material in the class that both the students
and the professor learn from.
The idea of writing a 10-page paper is also
an excellent one. Sometimes ideas that have
been around for a long time are excellent.
Innovation is not synonymous with quality.
When you get out in the real world, that's
what you are going to be doing a lot, no
matter what your discipline is.
The multi-draft format that professor have
used, where the paper the student has done is
given back with comments all over it and a
note asking to redo it, is a very effective
learning tool for the students.
Each individual university has its own
reputation f or something. San Diego State
has its football team; MIT has engineering.
How's CSUSM going to find its niche?
We're going to find our niche by the
strength of our faculty and the successes of
our students. We have already achieved a
niche in the quality of our undergraduate
program by looking at the curriculum. We are
in the process, of course, of operationalizing
that.
I don't know of any university that
requires 2,500 words for every course. The
language requirement for all students; the
incredible emphasis on internationalism both
in the general education and in the major; the
emphasis on diversity are all important for
shaping the university.
At this time do you think that CSUSM is
meeting its Mission statement?
Very much so. The Mission statement has
guided us in every way through the curriculum; through recruitment; our faculty and our
staff; and through the computer-literacy
requirement which we are in the process of
operationalizing..
If the p ermanent campus doesn't open
in the fall of 1992, how will the academic
plan be affected?
The affect of whether or not we will be
able to move to the site will be on number of
students we will have not on the majors we
SEE Q&A/PAGEA13
�Boxer Rebellion brings out best of Richard Rush
Picture Dr. Richard Rush, the distinguished
Executive Vice President here, in boxer shorts.
The image brings to mind those strange
dreams you all have where you're going to
school, work or shopping in your underwear.
And there's nothing your dream body can to do
to dress itself. Strangely, however, Dr. Rush
wasn't dreaming.
Over summer break, Cal State San Marcos'
Executive Veep was strolling around campus in
BY J O N A T H A N
YOUNG
his undies (over a pair of pants of course), along
with several other faculty and staff members
strutting their boxers. These people had gone
The first place award for the best pair of
m ad... literally.
shorts went to Toni Brindisi, but my favorite
Boxer Rebellion Day was held July 12 to outfit was Marcia Woolf s. She waltzed around
help balance the confusion and stress of mov- in a cardboard box strapped on her waist by
ing, adding and shifting of university offices. suspenders.
The dress code included slacks and T-shirts to
The office move was organized by Pat Fairis
make employees more comfortable in the and Ivalee Clark of Support Services; the "July
moving, but this day brought out everything Madness Month" was orchestrated by Judy
from stared to stripped to flowered undies.
Taylor of Personnel Services. Other events
CAMPUS BEAT
throughout the month included Favorite T-shirt
Day and the MadhatterUnbirthday Party Picnic.
In review of the previous year'sperformance
of the faculty and staff here, President Bill
Stacy, among other things, recommended that
the college community create more activities
just to have fun (he was wearing pants during his
presentation). If this summer is any indication
of what's ahead, he doesn't have to worry much.
•
In Stacy's address to the faculty, he focused
on the upcoming events and plans for this newly
born university. With approximately 50 new
faculty and additional staff, there are plans to be
made and implemented. But one important point
everyone is missing happened a few years back:
CSUSM's birthday.
Last Saturday, on Sept. 1, CSUSM turned 2years-old. On that date in 1989, then-California
Governor George Deukmejian and Senator Bill
Craven signed SB 365 into law, thus giving life
C AMPUS
•
Among her many duties as campus receptionist and secretary to the university itself,
Barbara Davis gets excited each time she puts
together The Digest This monthly campus
newsletter now has a new look.
Barbara has spent parts of her summer designing, redesigning and perfecting the new
format of The Digest. The front page mast is
now bold yet distinguished, and the design is
easy to read. Good job Barbara.
The September issue should be out this week
but if you can find a copy of last months, there's
a picture of Dr. Rush in his boxers of the front
page.
C a m p u s H istory
Highlights of construction on Cal State San Marcos' permanent campus site on Twin Oaks Valley Road:
C ONTINUED F ROM P AGE A 3
Amado said construction on the
physical plant is also moving along
well. The physical plant facility is
expected to be completed in November. In 60-90 days after the building's
completion, group and equipment
move-in can begin.
While construction continues at
the campus site, the City of San Marcos is working on a project of its own.
A six-lane roadway between the new
college's main entrance and the freeway is now under construction.
Amado said he anticipates the construction to continue until 1993.
Storm drains and an underground
69 kv powerline will run beneath the
road that will be a major artery for the
city's Heart of the City project
The Heart of the City project
consists of 1,600 acres of land including the university that will be
completely controlled in terms of architecture and landscape. The project
will be designed around CSUSM's
Mediterranean style to give the feel of
a university village.
Amado said the campus construction project is bound to run into some
snags, but that he is trying to minimize
problems as they arise.
" We're reacting as quickly as
possible to contractor questions," he
said. "By the time we roll around to
the rainy period, we should be completely out of the ground."
If construction continues past the
fall 1992 scheduled opening date,
Amado said the decision of when to
move on to the site will come from
to this new community.
The bill, signed here on campus, gave the
university its name and established it as the
twentieth CSU school in the state.
Happy Birthday CSUSM. Watch out world,
we're into the terrible twos.
1990
• Fe& 23: Cal State San Marcos President Bill Stacy,
along with the university's founding faculty, held the
groundbreaking ceremonies at the permanent site, starting
Phase I.
• Aug. 26: CSUSM welcomed its first students.
• November: It is reported that construction costs for
Phase I jumped 20 percent due to unexpected amounts of
rocks and DDT on the campus site. Construction on the site
set the construction schedule two months behind.
• Nov. 27: Bids were accepted for Craven Hall, the first
feature building on the campus. Bodell Construction from
Salt Lake City, Utah, won the bids at $14,325,000, $1.4
million under budget. The highest of the 11 bidders still came
$200,000 under the $15.8 million budgeted for the building.
The bidding set a president for future projects.
• October: Construction on the campus grounded to a
halt due to contractual dispute between General Contractor
Louetto Construction and grading subcontractor C.W.Poss.
Poss officials claim that Louetto was delinquent in paying
them $1.3 million for work already completed at the site.
• November: The university terminated Louetto from its
contractual responsibilities due to the contractor dispute.
Lusardi Construction, a San Marcos-based company, was
awarded the interim contract to replace Louetto.
1991
J ONATHAN YOUNG/PIONEER
A construction worker traverses steel beams on the permanent campus' lab building.
CSUSM President Bill Stacy.
In the meantime, the university is
moving forward in seeking funding in
Sacramento for Phase II. The phase
will service 5,000 students.
Amado said the second phase has
already been delayed by at least one
year due to the failure of Proposition
143 on last November's ballot
The Proposition would have added
$10 million in revenues to CSUSM
that would have been used for furniture and the acquisition of books for
the library's core collection.
• Feb. 6: Stacy guided Senator Gary Hart on a tour of the
campus to explain budget problems with future phases of
construction. Although Phase I was already budgeted and
paid for, funds for other phases was to come from the failed
Proposition 143.
• March 4: Construction began on Craven Hall.
• March 5: Construction began on the Academic Core.
• March: Although some considered the rain the "March
Miracle," the excess water caused problem with construction on campus. Weather delays were scheduled in, but all
buffer time had been used with the previous year's contractual disputes.
SOURCE: Pioneer records
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W IT H
Board of Supervisee axes incinerator
while trash piles up in local landfill
Last month, the county Board of Supervisors
dumped San Marcos' plans for a $325 million
trash-to-energy incinerator. With the demise of
the trash plant, North County is scrambling to
find a resting home for its refuse.
The county landfill currently spans 73 acres
in the city of San Marcos and rises 750 feet.
Plans to expand the landfill to 209 acres were
voted on by the San Marcos City Council on
July 14, but without their trash-to-energy plant,
San Marcos may revoke the decision.
San Marcos Mayor Lee Thibadeau says the
landfill expansion was contingent upon the
passing of the incinerator. For now, North County
cities will continue to dump at the landfill. But
even if the landfill expansion is approved again
by the City Council, San Marcos could possibly
revoke land-use permits forcities other than San
Marcos.
" I'm g oing to protect my c ity," cites
Thibadeau.
Since the landfill is expected to reach capacity
by the end of the year, all of North County's
cities will be left without a local place to dump
their refuse, unless the city expands the existing
site.
Thibadeau says that if San Marcos approves
the expansion plan, he wants to limit the landfill's
use to his city and adjacent unincorporated areas
only.
Although the County owns the land, they
cannot run the landfill without special permits
from the city of San Marcos.
"The only way they can legally expand the
landfill is if we allow a permit," Thibadeau says.
"We might not do that." *
However, Escondido Mayor Jerry Harmon
says San Marcos has no legal right to deny use
of the landfill to anyone.
" I think legally they (San Marcos) are not in
the position to do that," Harmon says. "San
Marcos does not have legal authority to operate
the landfill."
Thibadeau claims that with the right permit,
the county can still operate the landfill just for
San Marcos. "The county doesn't have to take
care of every city's trash."
Thibadeau and a majority of the San Marcos
City Council have officially shown support for
the trash-to-energy plant since 1985.
Trash plant history laced with controversy
The incinerator saga began in 1981 when the
county signed an agreement with Herzog Contracting Corp. to operate the San Marcos landfill
and have exclusive rights to develop a trash-toenergy plant at the site.
Since that time rights went to North County
Resource Recovery Associates, a jointly owned
subsidiary of Thernio Electron Corporation and
SCA Services. In 1984, Thermo Electron lost
SCA Services as a partner and worked with
three other partners until 1990.
Opposition to the incinerator began in 1984,
when North County C oncerned C itizens
(NCCC), filed the first of more than a dozen
lawsuits challenging the trash plant. The group,
consisting mostly of residents in the Elfin Forest
area of San Marcos, was concerned over environmental impacts of the p lant
Citizens for Healthful Air in San Marcos
(CHASM) joined the NCCC in opposition to the
project. In 1985 CHASM garnered enough
signatures to put the issue before the v otes in
April of that year. The petition was later thrown
out by a Vista Superior Court judge.
The issue wasfinallybrought to the voters in
September of 1987 by the City Council. The
approval to build the incinerator was granted by
a narrow margin of 229 votes.
After the vote, Carlsbad, Escondido and
Encinitas filed a suit to block the trash plant's
construction. The cities cited economical and
environmental reasons. In 1988, the three cities
filed another suit challenging the trash plant;
five additional suits were filed by other parties
in the same year.
Thibadeau says plant is safe.
According to Thibadeau, the incinerator
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A9
would have fallen within state air pollution
control guidelines.
"There's no environmental issues for the
incinerator, i t's economical," says Thibadeau.
Paul Connett, a chemistry professor at St.
Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., and an
expert in trash-to-energy plants, says that incinerators do pose significant environmental
problems as well as environmental ones. Connett
was brought to the area by the NCCC to help
fight the p roject
"Not only will this thing be a financial nightmare for the citizens of this community for the
next 20 years, but the current environmental
dangers of this incinerator are not being addressed," he says.
Connett says trash incinerators release high
levels of dioxins and mercury into the skies.
One-third of a gram of mercury can contaminate
a lake the size of Lake San Marcos. Connett says
incinerators usually pump out250,000 grams of
the substance per year.
Economical feasibility doubted
Even though disputes rage over the environmental impact ofa trash-to-energy plant, another
argument is ensuing over its economical feasibility.
" I'm opposed to the incinerator primarily
because i t's not the best economical solution,"
says Harmon. ' There's cheaper, less expensive
ways to handle the trash problem."
He says the rising cost of the trash plant
NEWS
T m opposed to the incinerator r R O U B L E S
primarily because it's not the best
economical solution. There's
cheaper, less expensive ways to
handle the trash problem.'
WITH
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SDG&E opts to dissolve contract
In 1983, San Diego Gas and Electric signed
an agreement to buy powerproduced at the trash
p lant
'There's no environmental
issues for the incinerator,
it's economical. This is the
most economical way to
solve the problem.'
LEE THIBADEAU, SAN MARCOS MAYOR
JERRY HARMON, ESCONDIDO MAYOR
would be absorbed by the taxpayers and not
Thermo Electron.
Connett says existing trash plants are economical nightmares for taxpayers. He cites a
case in Warren County, N J., where resident
were promised a $37 per ton tipping fee but
ended up paying $98 per ton.
Cost for the proposed trash plant already has
risen from an originally estimated $100 million
to $325 million.
"This is the most economical way to solve
the problem," Thibadeau says about trash p lant
He says that a potential landfill site off of
Twin Oaks Valley Road just north of Deer
Springs Road would cost taxpayers more money
per year than the trash-to-energy p lant
The 550-acre proposed landfill site would
cost $200 million and be operational for 16.
years, whereas the incinerator, costing $125
million more* would be open for 30 years. In
addition, the incinerator would produce 303
million watts per hour per year of electricity.
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Citing that the agreement would force the
utility to pay $46 million more than it would to
buy power from other sources, SDG&E filed a
request to dissolve the contract
Thermo Electron says that the ensuing rate
hike for electricity consumers in San Diego
County would amount to only $ 1 to $2 annually
per household.
If the contract is dissolved, the county would
have to pay even more money to build the plant.
Another concern facing the county's Supervisors was whether North County cities would
try to starve the incinerator by not bringing their
garbage to San Marcos.
At the time of last month's vote, eight North
County cities indicated they would not use the
trash-to-energy facility because they oppose the
incinerator idea.
In order for the proposed incinerator to operate, it requires 625,000 tons of trash per year.
The county would have been required to provide the necessary amount of trash or pay a
penalty fee to Thermo Electron.
Trash transfer centers planned
In addition to the trash-to-energy plant, a
trash transfer center was planned also at the site.
The transfer center would separate recyclable
garbage from non recyclable trash before the
incineration process. Recyclables would then
be sent to recycling centers.
The county wants seven of the transfer centers to be built throughout the area. Four cities,
Escondido, Carlsbad, San Marcos and Vista
have already said they will accept transfer centers
if they are proven to be economically feasible.
The city of Vista has reviewed the proposal
but have already come across opposition from
residents.
"Anything you want to do is with a lot of
opposition," says Bernie Rappaport, Vista City
Council member. Rappaport said that once the
centers are in place they will not be noticed.
"Once they get it put in, no one notices i t's
there. I t's just the thought that causes all the
havoc," he says.
An article in National Geographic cites that
as much as 67 percent of all solid waste in
landfills i s recyclable. Unfortunately, there is
little current market for recycled products. Surpluses of recycled paper, for instance are overflowing.
"There is no market for recyclables," says
Thibadeau. "The curbside material ends up in
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PIONEER/TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1991
DEANS' HONOR LIST
Victor Rocha, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Bernard Hinton, Dean of the College of
Business, are pleased to announce that the following undergraduate students received Deans' Honors for
their outstanding academic performance in Spring 1991.
The award of Deans' Honors will be noted on each recipient's transcript and a certificate of achievement
presented at the end of the current academic year.
In order to be eligible for the Deans' Honors list, each student must complete 12 or more graded units with
a term grade point average of 3.50 or better.
Our se'eciaTcong^tulations are extended to each recipient of this award.
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Deans' Recognition is awarded annually to those students who achieved a 3.50 grade point
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mixed the year before." Clark said
there are still a few Arts and Science
faculty members not gathered with
their other College colleagues.
With two Colleges staying in
Building 125, one College moved.
"College of Education moved to
Building 135," Clark said.
The Library, Computer Labs, and
the Center for the Study of Books in
Spanish for Children and Adolescents
remain in Building 135.
Along with the College of Education, the Associated Students moved
into Building 135 where the Writing
Center was last semester.
With the Writing Center moved to
a smaller space in the Library, Dr.
Ken Mendoza, professor in the English
Department, expressed concerns over
the loss of the old location. Mendoza
said the Writing Center serviced over
300 students last semester. He said he
was concerned over whether the
smaller space can accommodate so
many students.
"It is unfortunate that we lost such
a valuable multipurpose teaching facility," Mendoza said.
Mendoza recognized the importance of student government and the
need to have its office located in an
accessible place on campus, but said
he will be forced to seek a larger space
that will accommodate more students.
In addition to finding a room for
the student government, the Student
Affairs Office and the A.S. made it
possible for other student groups to
get offices.
"All student organizations have
offices now," Clark said. Besides the
new A.S. office, Tukut, the campus
yearbook, and Pioneer have offices,
W ho w ent w here
Was
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Building 800 (Next to Admissions)
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tells a different story. The percentage
of minority and gender representation among the CSUSM faculty is
CONTINUED FROM PAGE A2
higher in all groupings than both
system-wide and nation-wide comPresident of Student Services Ernest parisons.
W ith a 1 2.96 p ercent A sian
Zomalt, in an interview held last year.
"Many women are trying to complete American population, for instance,
degrees that might have been halted CSUSM is over four points above the
CSU average and almost nine points
by marriage and family."
Even though the female popula- above the nation-wide figures.
Richard Millman, CSUSM's acation i s booming, minorities still
comprise a relatively low percentage demic vice president, says the faculty
of t he p opulation. T he A frican demographics reflect the college's
American population remains low mission for global awareness.
with only 18 students enrolled while
With San Diego State University
the American Indian population re- all but closing its North County
mains at less than 1 percent with eight campus' doors and the axing of over
students enrolled.
500 classes from the main campus,
Although the Hispanic population CSUSM officials expected an onincreased in numbers to 89 and the slaught of SDSU students. The numAsian American population rose to ber of SDSU students that transferred
47, the percentage of total students is to CSUSM reached only 65 this sefar below the university's goal.
mester - f ar below the expected
Yee says the college has retained transfer rate.
an affirmative action coordinator in
The number reflects only a 16.3
an effort to recruit more minority percent increase of SDSU transfer
students to CSUSM.
students. Yee speculates that many
A comparison of CSUSM's faculty students at the southern-most campus
with university faculties across the would rather try to crash classes than
CSU system and the nation, however, commute.
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Expanded Offices
W ord P rocessing S ervices
• Building 800: Admissions & Records, Career Planning, School Relations.
• Building 125: Student Services
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• Building 145: Procurement, Pioneer, Tukut
• Building 135: Associated Students
• Building 800: President-Emeritus
located in Building 145.
With SDSU vacating Building 800,
CSUSM expanded several departments there.
"We had to do some remodeling
for more personnel in Admissions
and Records," Clark said. "We now
have space for Career Planning and
Placement and School Relations."
The Bookstore, Health Services
and the Student Lounge stayed in
Building 800.
One group, however, did get moved
off campus. Due to the lease specifications and other city codes, the science department moved into a new
laboratory facility on San Marcos
Boulevard.
"The science complex has five
faculty offices, two classrooms, a
major instructional lab and a prep
room," Farris said.
"I love i t," said Larry Cohen,
founding faculty in biology. ' The
identity of a scientist is tied to a lab.
This gives us a home where we feel
like faculty."
Cohen doesn't foresee any difficulty in students commuting between
rfwuMyen,
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Off-Campus
the two campuses. "Even if you don't
have a vehicle, you can get there in
half a hour by walking," he said. " It'll
b e interesting to see if people get into
exercise (by walking there)."
According to Farris, half of the
off-site campus is used as a warehouse
for the entire university.
Besides the two classrooms in the
lab facility, on-campus classrooms
are in Building 145 and Building 800.
"Our goal was to have everything
in place and settled in by the time
classes started,'* Clark said, " ...and
there's a lot to get ready just in the
classrooms." She said everything from
desks to batteries in the clocks had to
b e arranged for the 17 classrooms.
To assist with morale on campus
during the move, July was proclaimed
Moving Madness Month. Dress codes
included T-shirts and jeans and several theme days were planned.
"It was good for everyone," Clark
said. "It made people relaxed with
everything that was going on.
"Everyone was very good about
the move. W e appreciate that because
it was a very big ordeal."
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will have.
The number of m ajors being
offered is not necessarily contingent on the number of students
then?
No it's n ot What it is contingent
on is space. A Master's program in
one of the sciences requires a lot of
space because the experimental
nature of the work. History requires
archives, and so on... but none of
those will be affected by whether
we start in the fall of '92 or the
spring of '93.
How has the pace been here
compared to where you a re f rom?
The pace is very nice. Because
it's so exciting and because we're
forging new roads and trying to
think of new ways to do things,
we're all excited to do i t
Is there any academic plans
that you personally would like to
see in the f uture here? W hat do
you look forward to ten years
down the line?
In faculty orientation I said the
thing I don't want to happen is the
way Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
ends, which is 'what a chance
missed.*
There is no end for us, there are
only beginnings, so we can't look at
the end of the novel. At the end of
T d like to see us as having taken
some risks ... I'd like us to get in
7
the mind-set where we're willing
* to take risks and when we achieve,
we achieve greatly and when we don't
achieve we learned something.'
R ICHARD M ILLMAN/ACADEMIC V ICE P RESIDENT
every chapter and the end of every
section what I would like to see is
for us to look back and say, 'what
an opportunity seized.'
I 'd like to see us as having taken
some risks. Some of Hitchcock's
films don't work because, as film
critic Francois Truffaut said, he
took risks that were 'noble failures.'
I 'd like us to get in the mind-set
where we're willing to take risks
and when we achieve, we achieve
greatly and when we don't achieve
we learned something. Still, we
should reward the noble failure.
Is there anything you'd like to
a dd?
There are three more specific
things I 'd like to accomplish. One is
to get an honors program. We have
good students.'We should not only
acknowledge them with honors, but
with a notion of honors in Psychology, honors in Art, honors in Music
and so on. The faculty will be
working on that in the next year or
two.
We need to get unconditional
accreditation. We'll be doing that in
the spring of 1993. We have
accreditation right now, but since
we are so new we couldn't even
apply for unconditional accreditation.
We have some very exciting
opportunities in international
education. We have a faculty
committee looking at that. I would
like to see some students join some
of these committees at work
through the Associated Students. I
hope students will take advantage of
some of the international opportunities in store for them.
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THE
t
come?
Board should approve trash centers
Unless the San Marcos incinerator plant rises
from the ashes like the legendary Phoenix,
something else possibly might Upon approval
by the San Marcos City Council, a 200-foot
mountain of trash will grow from an already
750-foot tall landfill near Elfin Forest.
The garbage pile, known as Mount Trashmore
by nearby residents, will expand horizontally
230 acres, possibly crippling businesses and
blocking the ocean views of those living in the
area.
County officials are concerned that the landfill might contaminate ground water, thus endangering wildlife and public health.
It is a misconception held by many that
biodegradables in landfills eventually break
down. Without direct sunlight, even the most
easily degradable substances remain intact An
article in National Geographic was accompanied by pictures of a 17-year-old hot dog and a
readable newspaper dating back to the 1973.
This is not to say that an incinerator is such
agrandidea either. According to Dr. Paul Connett
in a recent interview with the San Marcos
Courier, incinerator plants cause both environmental and financial nightmares.
Connett, a chemistry professor at St.
Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., says trashto-energy plants release high levels of dioxins
and mercury into the atmosphere. Financially,
Connett cites that the $325 million plant would
STUDENTS WELCOMED ...
^
County businesses should be required to use
recycled paper whenever possible to curtail the
present surplus of recycled paper.
The remaining refuse would then be shipped
off to a landfill project The volume of trash
shipped off to landfills could be reduced by as
much as two-thirds.
Currently, the County Board of Supervisors
is seeking sites for six plants in North County,
but just looking doesn't offer remedies. Each
STAFF
EDITORIAL
North County city must be required to have a
minimum of one trash transfer center.
cost taxpayers bundles for at least 20 years.
For 10 years the Board of Supervisors has
No matter which way you look at the dilemma, San Marcos and North County have a been dragging its constituencies through the
garbage muckand have dredged up no solutions.
definite trash problem.
Obviously, the best way to solve the trash Promises made to local residents that the San
volume problem is through recycling. Unfor- Marcos landfill would stop growing by July
tunately, some people are too lazy or inconsid- have already been buried. The dump continues
erate to s eparate r ecyclables f rom to grow, with the landfill reaching capacity by
nonrecyclables. This is evident by the empty the year's end.
curbside recycling stations throughout the county
There is a distinct possibility that the San
and the short lines at larger recycling centers. Marcos City Council will reject the proposal to
A solution to the problem comes from expand t he landfill, due to scorched egos still
building trash transfer centers. At these clean, hotfromthe destroyed trash plant plans. If such
discreet buildings, recyclables are separated a scenario arises, residents hear Elfin Forest will
from nonrecyclables. Plants could be located in be spared their views and property devaluations.
areas not disturbed by parades of trash trucks.
Unfortunately the trash must find a resting
Small recycling centers could buy the place somewhere. Unless the County gets tough
recyclables from the transfer centers, thereby on recycling, then all of us can expect a range of
boosting their businesses and providing tax- trashy mountains to spring up while we are stfll
payers with revenue to help fund the centers. alive to regret i t
OUR VIEWS
Stacy urges
campus-wide
participation
Thanks for allowing me to write a few
words in thefirstissue of tht Pioneer in this,
its second year of pioneering the student
voice of CSUSM. Welcome to CSUSM. It
really "belongs" to several constituencies
of owners, especially students.
This is the best time of year for me when
the parking lot is full, the bookstore is lively
with students buying books, and the classrooms arefilled.Students are the reason for
"being" CSUSM. This year there are nearly
twice as many of you as in our first year.
Next year there will be nearly three times as
many as crowd our business park campus
this year. But we are still in the early
founding years of the university, and we are
all pioneers who will create the voice and
feel and culture of what it means to be a
CSUSM student The Associated Students organization is
now in place with Jose Chapman at the
helm as President This simple sentence
reflects an enormous amount of work and
commitment from the student body of the
first year. We are all proud of your student
colleagues for building a student governmentfromscratch, and I would urge you to
continue to build and to strengthen this
organization that represents your voice.
This year, we will begin a "Solutions
Series" to ask for the assistance of the
university community in finding creative
solutions to issues of importance to us and
to discuss how CSUSM will be unique
among our 19 sister institutions. Where
should we be going in our plans for additional majors and graduate programs? What
are the issues pertinent to the success of our
Mission?
With class and work schedules competing ^ everybody's time, I know it's difficult
to ask consideration of yet another meeting,
but I hope you willfindtime to visit with me
in the Student Lounge on one of these four
dates: Friday, Sept 20 at 3 p.m., Thursday,
O ct 10 at nooii, Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
or Monday, Nov. 18* at 10 a.m.
This is a long way of saying "Welcome!"
We're glad you're here, joining the partnership that is building California State
University, San Marcos.
BILL STACY/CSUSM PRESIDENT
�Student evaluations important
for gauging consumer reaction
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Copyright © 1991, by PIONEER. All rights reserved.
PIONEER is published every two weeks for the students
at California State University, San Marcos; it is distributed on Tuesdays. It is circulated on the CSUSM
campus as well as Palomar College, MiraCostaCollege,
and San Diego State University North County, National
University, and Watterson College Pacific. PIONEER is
a free publication.
PIONEER is an independent newspaper supported by
the university; however, it is not funded or edited by
CSUSM officials. Any opinion expressed in PIONEER
does not necessarily coincide with the views of California State University officials or staff, or the Associated
Students.
Unsigned editorials reflect the views of PIONEE R. Signed
editorials are the opinion of that writer and do not
necessarily coincide with the views of the PIONEER
editorial staff.
PIONEER reserves the right to not print submitted
letters if the manuscript contains lewd or libelous comments or implications. Letters will not be printed if their
sole purpose is for advertising and not information.
Display advertisement rate is $5 per column inch. Deadline for space reservation is one week before publication
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publication.
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Commerce and members of PIONEER'S staff serve as
the Executive Board for the California Inter-Collegiate
Press Association (CIPA).
A T HOUGHTS
"He that lies with
dogs, rises with
fleas."
GEORGE HERBERT
At the end of last semester I heard tell of
something that has caused my spleen to fester
the entire summer. It's not that I know what a
spleen does or where it is exactly, but I am sure
that it is an internal organ that has something to
do with blood.
It was at that period of the school year when
evaluations were passed out in classes and students were awarded the opportunity to gauge
the instructional abilities of their professors that
my ailment began.
Upon hearing that evaluations from the previous semester were virtually ignored by the
administration, a group of students approached
a dean to inquire about the reasons for the snub.
Among other things, the dean replied that, in
some cases, first-semester evaluations amounted
to little more than a popularity contest and that
students may have been coerced into writing
positive evaluations by instructors eager to return.
The dean also stated (and correctly so) that
the university was not obligated to use the
evaluations for personnel rehiring. It was also
stated by the Academic Senate that the evaluations were not of acceptable quality.
In the case of some top-notch professors,
there was no effort made by the administrative
powers-that-be to discover how competent their
classroom performances were.
ations contend that some instructors were little
more than participants in a popularity contest?
Obviously the mean age of students attendingcampusthefirstsemesterwasnotconsidered.
With an average population of 30-year-olds,
CSUSM students had little interest in juvenile
popularity contests or instructional coercion.
We learned respectfully by our first mentors
and were challenged to perform far beyond our
own expectations. If glowing evaluations were
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
submitted, it was due to our newly found recognition of our abilities.
As a result, several fine instructors were
Sure, the administration had no obligation to
dismissed without even the courtesy of an ad- retain those instructors, but we consumers of a
ministrative "good-bye." In many cases their new educational product feel that our evaluations
resumes were not even reviewed in consideration of that product should be considered. A new
of rehire.
flavor of Doritos, for instance, undergoes intense
The fact that many of those instructors were public scrutiny before it is distributed nationliked by the students only seemed to compound wide.
the problem. When students inquire about a
Using this marketing strategy as a metaphor,
former instructor, a strange kind of logic must let's hope that the infant Associated Students
becomes a consumer group that communicates
form in administrative minds.
—Students like the professor, therefore he/ our need for buyer feedback.
she is popular, meaning he/she is too easy,
In all fairness, most of the newer faculty
which implies that students want afreeride,and members that replaced the older ones have rebecause the instructor is popular he/she controls tained the quality of excellence that the first
the students, which leads to full scale revolt batch had.
among the student population and that equals
I hope that, in consideration of our spleens,
our opinions can at least be considered on their
trouble—
How else can a dean who did not read evalu- performances.
LARRY BOISJOLIE
A.S. President encourages participation
On behalf of the A.S. and A.S. Council, I
extend ahearty hello to this fall'scrop ofCSUSM
students. For those of you returning, I welcome
you all back from your brief respite.
This year promises to be one of transition, to
say the least. As it goes with new organizations,
and the university is no exception, there will be
growing pains at all levels. We the students will
not be immune to the difficulties associated
with such a process.
For many of us, being here at CSl TSM during
its infancy can be both an exciting time as well
as a time of considerable apprehension. As a
result, I wish to instill in all of you to be prepared
for the unexpected. You will be part and parcel
to the changes that our university will experience.
But, you have, through your vigilance and
campus involvement, the ability to assist in the
developmental process of this university and to
deal with the unexpected.
What do I mean by assisting in the developmental process? Well, one specific thought
comes to mind, student government involvement The A.S. is the representative student
organization on campus. Without the sponsorship of the A.S., no campus clubs will be officially recognized, nor can any student-sponsored
campus events take place.
In addition to the A.S., involvement in the
Pioneer and the Yearbook are two noteworthy
leadership organizations. The Pioneer provides
adopted its Constitution and Articles of Incorporation. The student body also voted in its first
A.S. Council. Twelve members representing
the three colleges and the at-large positions took
the first step into the unknown.
The Council wasted no' time in getting down
to business. It met over the summer and has
accomplished quite a few tasks. The A.S. is now
in the process of incorporating. Bylaws are
being drafted. Fund-raising activities are being
PUBLIC
FORUM
actively pursued. The Council is also seeking
the student body with an ideal barometer for donations of equipment Liability insurance is
gauging student/faculty/administration/com- in the negotiating process.
munity relations. The Yearbook provides the
The A.S. was approached by the International
campus with a visual documentary of the cam- Festival Committee to assist in its Oct. 27 fespus' evolution.
tival. As a result, the Council established its own
These three, along with the various newly International Festival committee.
evolving campus clubs, can (and I expect will)
The more students we have involved in the
be instrumental in the potential present and development of our university, the greater the
future student development of this university. . likelihood of students' achieving their objectives,
The descriptions of the aforementioned or- be they academic or otherwise. The ball's in
ganizations only represent an implied capacity your court What you do with it is up to you.
to initiate change. Student commitment and
The present and future character of CSUSM
involvement is the necessary ingredient for these will be shaped in large part by the contributions
organizations to initiate change. On our campus, and commitments, or lack thereof, of you the
change can be a quite challenging endeavor, but students. Make the most of your stay here! I
nonetheless a surmountable one. Initiating wish you the best in your academic careers here
change is a task that the A.S. too has found to be at CSUSM.
quite challenging.
J OSE C HAPMAN/
As some of you may be aware, ourfirstA.S.
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS PRESIDENT
elections were held last April. The student body
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�Dinamation brings life to dinosaur theories
life sanctuary over the summer to see
him.
t's a beautiful spring day in EsconHis name is Big Rex and millions
dido and employees at the San of years ago his arrival would have
Diego Wild Animal Park talk struck terror in the hearts of all living
excitedly about the arrival of their animals. Few would have been eager
to greet his toothy visage.
newest guest.
He is beingflowninto the park by
Finally Big Rex arrives, but due to
helicopter after being transported by his immense size, he isn't sitting next
truck from far away Orange County to the whirly-bird's pilot, rather he
and officials hope that thousands of dangles below the helicopter by steel
curious tourists will flock to the wild- cables.
LARRY BOISJOLIE/PIONEER
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... A ction Page B9
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Big Rex is a dinosaur... or at least
the closest thing to i t
The 30-foot high,6,000-lb. Tyrannosaurus rex, a robotic life-sized
model of the planet's most popular
prehistoric predator, is the crowning
achievement for Dinamation International Corporation.
Since 1982, the Irvine-based company has been in the business of
making prehistoric animals come to
life. The two dozen creatures cur-
rently on display at the San Diego roar under the guidance of a small
Wild Animal Park represent only a computer.
Rather than building cartoonish
small sample of Dinamation's ancient
Flintstone-like dinosaurs, Dinamation
menu.
By using the unlikely blend of sci- strives to construct robots scientifience, art and technology, Dinamation cally accurate enough for museum
recreates long extinct species of ani- display.
mals with startling realism. Each diAlready as many as 30 million
nosaur has a functional robotic skel- spectators have seen the company's
eton encased in a rubber skin. The creations in scores of museums and
dinosaurs crane their necks, gnash
SEE DINOS/PAGE B2
their teeth, flex their claws and even
M ore ' None o f y our C lassified s e c t i o n
b usiness' Page B14 p remieres Page B15
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
educational institutions throughout the
United States and Europe. The exhibits have enjoyed earthshaking
popularity , increasing the attendance
at some museums many times over.
Attendance at the Louisiana Nature and Science Museum, for instance, grew from an average 18,000
visitors to 275,000 during the fivemonth Dinamation exhibit. The
Cleveland Museum ofNatural History
also experienced dramatic attendance
increases during the display's run. It
saw an increased attendance of
287,000 in a four month period.
he Dinamation story began
nearly a decade ago when 47year-old Chris Mays, a pilot
working for TWA, decided that flying commercial airplanes wasn't
mentally taxing enough. Mays quit
the airlines and opted to seek new
opportunities.
"I was bored for a number of years
flying airplanes," Mays says. "I wasn't
using creative energies."
From a neighbor, Mays discovered
robotized dinosaurs on public display
in Japan. He also found that the
company which produced the dinosaurs was putting some of its creatures up for sale.
Mays mentioned the discovery to
neighbor Tom Stifter, who suggested
that he buy the robots for resale in the
United States. Mays followed his
neighbor's advice and Dinamation
was born. The first group of Japanese
dinosaurs cost Mays $500,000.
"We looked for ways to display
the dinosaurs. We thought of displaying them in fairs and malls," Mays
says. "Our last thought was to travel
around and display them in tents."
However, even the best laid plans
of mice and iguanodons run into snags.
Mays found the market for his Japanese-constructed dinosaurs to be slim.
He finally decided on selling the
robots to museums, but budget cuts in
the early 1980s forced them to turn
T
down Mays' products. Museums were
also not convinced that mechanical
dinosaurs would be accepted by the
sceptical public or the scientific
community.
After Mays donated the presence
of a half-sized triceratops to the Los
Angeles Museum of Natural History
to provide background for its annual
dinosaur ball, he hatched the idea of
running joint-venture displays with
museums.
"I knew then and there which direction to go," he says.
By renting dinosaur exhibits to
museums, Mays found a way to launch
a multi-million dollar company while
giving the public a chance to view
representations of the prehistoric p ast
Renting dinosaurs isn't cheap, but
the exhibits turned out to be a major
attraction for museums. The Carnegie
Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh paid more than $150,000 to
Dinamation for a 14-week exhibit
which boosted attendanceby hundreds
of percentage points.
Unfortunately the Japanese dinosaurs lacked scientific accuracy. They
were little more scientifically accurate
than Godzilla.
On urgings from a "friendly museum director," Mays decided that he
would build his own dinosaurs. He
enlisted a panel of advisers which
included some of thé world's top paleontologists to help him design more
scientifically accurate models.
Among the paleontologists were:
Robert Bakker, adjunct curator of
Paleontology at the University of
Colorado in Boulder, George Callison,
professor of Biology at Cal State Long
Beach; Craig Black, the director of
the Los Angeles County Natural
History Museum; and H arley
Armstrong, curator of Paleontology
at the Museum of Western Colorado
in Grand Junction.
By May of 86, May opened a plant
to construct his own dinosaurs.
he process of building the dinosaur fantastic begins with the
board of advisers. The paleontologists discuss whether to add to
or improve existing displays or create
T
Museum explores
previous, current
prehistoric skull
reconstructions
How do scientists know what a
prehistoric man or woman looked like
just by examining a fossil skull or a
few bone fragments? This question is
explored in detail in a new exhibit at
the San Diego Museum of Man called
"FacesonFossils: The Reconstruction
of Human Ancestors" running through
January, 1992.
The exhibition, a collaboration
between artist William Munns of
Altered Images, Inc., and the San
Diego Museum of Man, explains old
and new methods of reconstruction
and how the process has developed
over the years.
Historical studies feature the
Museum's 1915 collection of drawings and sculptures emphasizing how
social prejudices often shaped the
scientific interpretations. Examples
include Piltdown Man (the infamous
anthropological hoax), Neanderthal
Man, and Java Man.
% Explanation of the modern process shows the clay reconstruction of
A Dinamation worker helps sculpt the head of "Big Rex," the company's life-sized robotic a fossil skull in four stages: first as the
bare skull, second with basic muscumodel of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
lature, third with cartilage and skin,
and fourth as a complete depiction of
new exhibits featuringadifferent view tologist Callison.
of the many facets of prehistoric life.
Dinamation*s scientists travel the the head, fully fleshed out but without
One exhibit may be built around world to excavate more fossil infor- hair or pigmentation.
water-dwelling dinosaurs, while an- mation. The team works with other
Artistic preferences are often exother might depict baby dinosaurs. paleontologists and museums to find plored with four interpretations of
Dinamation has even constructed the latest information on the prehis- pigmentation, nasal shape, and hair
exhibits of imaginary animals that toric community.
treatment Museum visitors are enmightexistifevolutionary progression
Each year, from April through couraged to participate by pressing a
were to continue for millions of years October, the company runs public button next to the figure that best
in the future.
expeditions to Colorado's famed Di- meets their perception of how human
After approval from senior-level nosaur Valley, home of some of the ancestors should look. They will be
management, the painstaking process richest fossil deposits in the world. able to see how other visitors have
of gathering fossil information be- There amateur dinosaur enthusiasts voted for each interpretation.
gins.
participate in the excavation: collectThe exhibit will travel throughout
"We work from known fossil ing, preparing and preserving fossils the United States and Canada under
records and rely on the work of others
the sponsorship of the Museum of
SEE PINOS/PAGE B7 Man.
including ourselves," says paleon560 million years ago
Prehistoric Timeline
Through fossils and other paleontological discoveries, the first signs of diverse life can
be traced back almost 600 million years. The evolution of single-celled organisms
through dinosaurs to mammals of today is shown here. Some highlights include:
• 560 million years ago - Soft-bodied creatures are replaced by early vertebrates;
• 420-500 million years ago - Animal life emerges from the oceans.
• 230-360 million years ago - Amphibians evolve into large reptiles, known now a
dinosaurs; the dinosaurs rule the earth for approximately 140 million years.
• 65-230 million years ago - Mammals appear, insect population grows in size and
diversity with the development of the flower.
• 65 million years ago - Man emerges.
S OURCE: National Geographic, WorldBook
i llustration by JONATHAN YOUNG/PIONEER
I Period
Era
500 million years ago
360 million years ago
�Oceanside dig reveals several new species
45-million-year-old primate
uncovered at coastal site
"The City of San Marcos doesn't
enforce the Environmental Quality
raffic delays, ramp closures and Act enough," Demere said. He cited
detours were expected when that further, more in-depth study of
CalTrans started its ten-year the area might yield a great amount of
project of widening California High- fossils.
way 78. What wasn't expected was
Already San Marcos is the home
what they found in May when work- of several archaeological digs that
ing on a section of road in Oceanside: reveal a library of information about
prehistoric fossils.
ancient Indian tribes thatonce lived in
The discovery became the latest of the area.
In the two weeks allotted for the
excavation projects conducted by the
San Diego Natural History Museum Natural History Museum's staff to
excavate the Oceanside site, scienthroughout the county.
These projects have yielded a tists believe they have found the remains of two-dozen new
myriad of fossil remains,
species of now-extinct
providing valuable informaanimals.
tion for the Museum's paleAprimate, standing about
ontologists and others wishthree-feet high, and preing to unravel the mysterdecessors of goats and
ies surrounding species
pigs are among of the
extinction, evolution
fossils found that lived
and paleobiology. .
in the Eocene epoch
Close to 90 percent of
(45 million years ago).
the vertebrate fossil speciVisitors of the Museum can
mens in the Museum's colwatch as paid and volunteer palelection were found at conontologists literally sift through time,
struction sites. The relationship
between developers and scientists has trying to separate the dirt from the
proven to be a significant and legal microscopic fossil fragments. About
one since a 1972 law requires devel- 50,000 pounds of rock and debris
opers to retain paleontologists to work must be sorted, eventually sifting out
alongside bulldozers when grading about a ton of fossils and sediment
Another recent discovery in July
land that has potential for holding
1990 in Rancho Del Rey was a new
fossils.
As a result, the Museum has devel- species of whale.
The skeleton was nearly complete,
oped a valuable working relationship
missing only its lower jaw and pectowith local construction companies.
Tom D emere, c hair of the ral flippers. Museum field associates
museum's department of paleontol- determined it was a juvenile whale,
ogy, says that it is very possible that measuring 17 feet long. The speciSan Marcos could yield a significant men itself weighed close to one ton
amount of fossils due to its geological
SEE FOSSIL/PAGE B6
topography.
Prehistoric San Diego is the focus
of a new temporary exhibition showing through Nov. 3 at the San Diego
Natural History Museum in Balboa
Park.
A vast collection of fossil remains,
representing 76 million years of San
Diego natural history, will take visitors back to a world when dinosaurs
roamed the earth, man didn't exist,
and the area was completely underwater.
The exhibit displays fossils from
five different geologic time periods.
The Cretaceous (76 m illion years ago)
is the oldest time period and includes
the remains of a hadrosaur, nodosaur
and several species of marine invertebrates. These specimens were found
in the Carlsbad area.
The Eocene Epoch (40-50 million
years ago), containing the remains of
tapirs, rhinoceros and primates, represents fossils throughout North
County.
The East Lake region of eastern
Chula Vista is where many of the
specimens of the Oligocene Epoch
(28 million years ago) were found.
These include the remains of camels,
oreodonts, birds and reptiles.
The Pliocene Epoch (2-3 million
years ago) contains the largest number of fossil remains, most of which
were excavated in the Chula Vista
area. Whales walrus, sharks and sea
birds are just some of the specimens
on display.
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is
where species from the Pleistocene
Epoch (900,000-1.3million years ago)
were excavated. They include examples of ice age mammals; mammoth, bear and saber c at
"It is important to note," says Tom
Demere, Museum paleontologist,
"that many of these fossils represent
remains of species new to science.
They received a lot of media attention
when they were first excavated, but
have never been on public display
until now."
Scaffolding, raised walkways and
sunken sandpits create the atmosphere
of a construction/excavation site
300 million years ago
230 million years ago
120 million years ago
65 million years ago
J ONATHAN YOUNG/PIONEER
T
275 million years ago
Paleontologist Richard Cerutti leads children at San Diego's Museum of Natural History on a fossil excavation at its Unearthed exhibit
San Diego unearthed at local exhibit
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TODAY
�bones to hear and feel the differences
in hardness.
Other areas of the exhibit allow
visitors to view preserved marine
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microfossils under a microscope or
where close to 98 percent of the compare the anatomy of various types
Museum'svertebratefossilshavebeen of marine and terrestrial mammals.
"Dinosaur Digs" with Museum
found.
Large, articulated skeletons are paleontologists allows children to
placed in the sand pits in the positions excavate fossils from a sandbox and
similar to those in which they were learn more about the biology of varioriginally found. Other, more deli- ous animals.
"The exhibit is open during norcate fossils are displayed in plexiglass
cases. Each epoch has a mural depict- mal Museum hours. Admission is $5
for adults; $1 for children 6-17; $4 for
ing an ancient landscape.
In addition, each time period in- senors 60 and over, children under 6
cludes hands-on interactive displays, and military in uniform free. The
such as a "Xylobone" where visitors museum is open daily 10 a.m. to 4:30
can tap on both modern and petrified p.m.
'Dinosaurs' lacks factual, educational basis; E X H I B I T
deserves immediate, complete extinction
D EBBIE PUFFY/PIONEER
W
hat were the dinosaurs really
like? How did they really
live? Don't look toward the
new show 'Dinosaurs' for any correct
answers.
According to the new ABC show,
these enormous reptiles seem to represent a mixture of the main characters in the 'Honeymooners' and the
'Flintstones.' This show reeks of erroneous information and character ripoffs.
Earl Sinclair (remember the green
Sinclair dinosaur?) is a domestic
"father dinosaur" that has a personality
and stomach s imilar to Ralph
Kramden's and Fred Flintstone's.
Earl's wife, Frances, stays home and
continually begs him for money, just
like Alice Kramden and Wilma
Flintstone, while Earl's friend, Roy,
is exactly like Ed Norton, tall and
skinny, and always cajoling his best
buddy.
Unlike real dinosaurs, these dinosaurs behave and dress like modern
humans. They live in houses with
modern conveniences, have-jobs, and
their problems parallel human ones.
ReVÎeW
Pushing trees down for a living,
Earl works for a company that develops land for dinosaur housing. Earl,
like most every other worker in
America, cannot seem to meet the
financial demands of the family
In a recent show, Earl reminisces
about life before family, where he
would have eaten his children and not
worried about finances and responsibilities.
Earl decides to go back to his past,
the forest During the program, Earl
leaves his home for the safety of the
forest, where his ancestors lived, but
cannot survive without "cooked"
meals and a soft bed. These strong
reptiles cannot survive in the wilderness; civilization has overcome them.
The final scene leaves us with a
false picture. Earl, with his newlyhatched son, watches cavemen outside his window. The cavemen,
clothed in animal skins, try to roll a
round object (possibly thefirstwheel?)
while the remains of a fire sputters
next to them.
To the viewer, these "beings" are
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not as ci vilized as the dinosaurs. Furthermore, it is prehistorically preposterous to portray dinosaurs and cavemen existing during the same time
period.
Instead of personifying the animals, the program should depictdinosaurs as they really lived. If the networks did that, a chance might exist
that they could actually present an
"educational" show; that would be
something against their grain.
'Dinosaurs' uses clever costuming, developed by the son of the late
Jim Henson, but the plots are inconsistent and sometimes overly corny.
The premiere segment, for instance, was unbearably bad, however,
a show that has Earl looking eagerly
forward to tossing his mother-in-law
into a tar pit is an instant dark-comedy
success.
'Dinosaurs' deserves instant mass
extinction. If the executives at ABC
don't decide to put the show out of its
misery, then maybe we all will get
lucky and a meteor will strike the
programming offices.
Still, i f you want to endure this
prehistoric torture, 'Dinosaurs' airs
8:00 p.m. on Wednesdays on ABC.
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�Snakes, lizards and turtles crawl
throughout local Reptile Haven
than birds, he sold Bird Haven and
opened his reptile emporium.
Kathy, Chris' sister, helps with the
I don't like spiders and snakes
massive undertaking of caring for all
And that ain't what it takes
the animals. Feeding and cleaning
To love me...
cages takes just about all of her day.
Jim Stafford, who made millions Depending on the breed, the reptiles
on those lines after hitting the pop eat everything from crickets to rats.
charts in the 1970s, never visited
According to Kathy, some of the
Reptile Haven in Escondido. All types geckos prefer Gerber baby food, esof people who patronize the tiny pet pecially strained peaches which they
store seem to love those members of "lick up like a dog." Others prefer a
the animal kingdom which are the nummy dinner of mealy worms and
crickets. Alpo dog food mixed with
least likely to attract cuddling.
Glass cases display over 10,000 Butcher's Blend is the favorite of the
specimens of creatures that slither, shop's Nile and Savanna Monitors,
crawl and usually inhabit the darkest which grow to monster proportions.
corners of our nightmares. The shop
"Fifty percent of these animals
boasts the largest collection of critters were born in captivity," explains
such as snakes, spiders, turtles, lizards Chris. He says that he and Kathy
and even gigantic African scorpions breed many of the reptiles in the store
(super tame of course) in Southern itself. Recently a huge python layed a
surprising amount of eggs. Last June
California.
Chris Esop, owner of the unusual another of their female pythons destore, started Bird Haven 10 years livered 78 eggs, each one the size of a
ago. After deciding that lizards and grapefruit
The eggs are taken from the mother
snakes were "more fun and less noisy"
K ATHY SULLIVAN/PIONEER
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ongoing breeding program for mice
and rats to feed the snakes and sell
them to snake owners.
Kathy observes t hat,'Tortoises
like people. They are a very social
animal." From all the varieties, sizes
and shapes that Reptile Haven has in
stock, it is evident that people like
tortoises too.
Chris shows a Nile Monitor to 10year-old Daniel Cordoza and explains
that this animal is the hardest to tame
and the meanest in the store. ' They
scratch, bite, pee and throw up," says
Chris.
This fact doesn't stave off the
reptile-loving Cordoza as he pays $89
for a baby monitor. ' They are very
pretty," he says. In three years the
baby will grow from eight inches in
length to three feet. "Snakes are too
common," the boy cites as a reason
KATHY SULUVAN/PtONEER
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Daniel Cordoza holds a Savanna Monitor at Escond'ido's Reptile Haven.
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Lizards, like this Savanna Monitor, frolic among the scaly beasts at Reptile Haven.
R EPTILE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE B5
for choosing a lizard. Cordoza explains that he specifically wanted a
lizard from a different country.
Chris tries to ensure that everyone
who buys a reptile knows just what
care is needed to keep die pet alive
and healthy. He carries a wide assortment of books and magazines to
helppeople with their animals. Behind
the counter hangs a sign that reads,
"Please read up on care of reptiles
before buying."
Most of Chris* day is spent answering questions. The most common
inquiries seem to be about which
species are friendly to each other and
can share a glass display case.
One set of customers, 10-year old
Anthony and his parents, were look-
ing for a friend for "Horatio," their
young Columbian Rosy Boa. With
Chris and Kathy's help and a lot of
time and discussion, they chose a
gecko.
Prices at Reptile Haven range from
inexpensive, for a common garter
snake, to very expensive, for a large
tortoise. The 100 lb. Spur-Thigh Tortoise tops the price list with a $ 1,500
F OSSIL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE B 3
and had to be removed by skip-loader
from the excavation site.
Sea World of California provided
a temporary working exhibit in the
park where the public could watch
Museum paleontologists remove the
tag, while the smallest species of tortoise in the world, T. Clemlini, are not
cheap at $800 for a pair.
Reptiles and amphibians are the
modern representations ofour planet's
prehistoric p ast Some of the species
(although not related) look like dinosaurs and justtowatch them walk and
move is like watching a miniature
replica of history.
surrounding rock to reveal details of
the skeleton. The preparation work
took approximately three months to
complete.
TTie whale, and fossils found in the
Oceanside site, are now part of "Unearthed," the Museum's temporary
dinosaur exhibit
Also included in the 'Unearthed'
exhibit are fossils dug from Carlsbad
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After roaming the planet for 140 million years, dinosaurs ended their
reign on the planet 65 million years ago. Theories on the sudden
extinction of the many species of animals bring heated debate within the
scientific community.
According to scientists, the species that survive today represent just
one percent of the life forms that have lived on Earth. The history of life
on the planet is punctuated with episodes of mass extinction followed by
periods of wild diversity among those species surviving.
Various theories have been put forth by scientists to explain these
events and multiple factors may contribute to any or all mass extinctions.
All mass-extinction theories point to changes in the Earth's environment
as the direct cause.
Here are some of those theories:
• Meteorites: If a huge meteorite struck the planet, it could cause
high winds, 2,000 degree rock vapor and an enormous cloud of dust
Some of the expected after-affects would include fires, dust-darkened
sky, acid rain and a greenhouse e ffect
If the meteorite was hurled into the ocean, the resulting tsunamis
would cause upwelling of cold, oxygen-poor water. This might account
for the extinction of marine animals.
The meteorite theory is often used to explain the demise of the
dinosaurs. Samples of iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in
meteors, have been taken from three distinct sites-New Zealand, Denmark and Spain-that were enriched with soot, which may indicate that
global fires resulted from the i mpact
• Massive volcanism: Particles ejected into the air during eruptions
would block sunlight« initiating a period of cooling.
This theory is applied to dinosaur extinction by some researchers who
note that the die-off started at least two million years before the end of
the Cretaceous period and may have continued well beyond it.
• Continental drift: As land masses are moved by plate tectonics, the
planet may undergo radical climatic changes.
This may be the best explanation for the disappearance of 96 percent
of all species at the close of the Permian Era-easily the most severe
extinction of all time.
While terrestrial life was just beginning to flourish during the
Permian, tectonic forces joined all of the planet's continents into a single
colossal land mass. This caused a vast reduction in shallow offshore
habitats.
Pangea, as the supercontinent is known, extended from pole to pole,
which would bring about a series of ice ages. Tropical seas would have
chilled and the climate on land would have been dry and frigid.
• Competition: Some mass extinctions appear to have been accelerated by the development or expansion of newer species. This may have
been related to changing sea levels creating or obliterating land bridges
and thus affecting the emigration of animals.
The first great extinctions are generally explained with this theory.
Primordial slime, for example, was unable to tolerate the oxygen
produced by the up-and-coming stromatolites. The stromatolites, in
turn, became the most successful life form on Earth, filling shallow
warm oceans and eventually altering the chemistry of the seas and
atmosphere.
This allowed animals to develop, which fed on the stromatolites and
brought their demise except in the most remote and protected areas.
Competition may also have played a role in the dinosaurs' last stand.
Scientists find evidence that small, primitive mammals feeding in great
numbers on flowering plants may have significantly reduced the food
supply for herbivorous dinosaurs.
The most recent episode of mass extinction can clearly be attributed
to competition. It started about 11,000 years ago and has accelerated
toward the present
Humans as hunters initiated, or at least aggravated the extinction of
saber-toothed cats, mastodons, mammoths, giant sloths, short-faced
bears, dire wolves and other large mammals at the close of the last iceage. Humans as developers continue to accelerate the extinction rate
right up to the present, one of the greatest mass extinctions of all time.
SOURCE: National Geographic
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE B2
under professional guidance.
Unfortunately, fossilized bones
give 110 indication of the texture of a
dinosaur's skin or its color . .. information vital in the creation of a threedimensional robot.
By
o bserving
a nimals,
Dinamation's scientists are able to
add layers of muscle and skin to dinosaur skeletal information. They take
moving x-rays of living animals to
see how bones reflect muscles.
Callison suspects that many prehistoric animals were not of the traditional brown or green hues the public
has grown to accept. He theorizes that
they were brightly colored, using hues
like birds or animals of today.
"We're attempting to show dinosaurs as i nteresting c reatures,"
Callison says. ' There were so many
sizes and shapes of dinosaurs that we
feel they had diversity in color as
weU."
Callison indicates that the large
eyes and optic nerves of many dinosaurs suggests that they were sensitive
to color. They may have used color
for mating purposes or for natural
camouflage.
Since it is currently impossible to
determine which hues the dinosaurs
had, Dinamation's scientists and artists can only guess on their colors.
The sounds which the dinosaurs
emitted are also a matter of speculation for the Dinamation team.
"We will never know what sort of
vocal organs a dinosaur had, but v/e
do know something about the size and
shape of various resonating chambers," Callison says.
For the Tyrannosaurus rex at the
Wild Animal Park, Dinamation used
the vocalizations of birds and other
reptiles related to the long extinct
animal and tried to create a "biologically feasible" voice. The result is a
terrifying low-frequency roar.
ecause of the speculation involved in creating dinosaur
colors and sounds, some museums refuse to display Dinamation
robots.
"The American Museum in New
Y ork i s r eluctant to d isplay
Dinamation exhibits because they
represent colors and patterns that are
unknowable. They prefer to stick to
what is known rather than displaying
a possibly false representation," says
Callison.
He admits there is proper justification to the museum's claim, but
also points out that Dinamation's
speculations are built upon a solid
scientific foundation and not pure
guesswork.
Even though the American Museum won't utilize the colorful robot-
B
Workers at the Dinamation plant load "Big Rex" on a flatbed truck with the help of a forklift. The life-sized robot is currently on display at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
ics, Callison says they do display
paintings which depict dinosaurs in a
more colorful manner than does
Dinamation.
Other prestigious museums feel
similarly to the American Museum.
The Field Museum in Chicago and
the Peabody Museum in New Haven,
Conn, also adhere to the conservative
conventions held by traditional natural history museums.
Museums such as the American
Museum have built their reputations
on the fossilized remains of dinosaurs. A spokesperson for the American Museum says the museum has so
many fossils, there is no room for a
robotic exhibit which hypothesizes
how a dinosaur may have looked.
Yet, the presence of a dinosaur
skeleton does not insure accuracy. A
skeleton of an apatosaurus (previously
known as brontosaurus) on display at
the museum has the skull of a
c amarasaurus.
Scientists noted
the error in the
70s but due to
the instability of
the skeleton, exchanging the skull
has been too difficult an endeavor. F or
years, the museum indicated in no
way that the skull was
incorrect
Dinamation paleontologist Bakker
says the skeletal displays at most
museums are boring and do little in
helping the viewer imagine dinosaurs
dinosaurs.
"When you look at dinosaurs, you
see animals that lived millions of years
ago," says-Callison. 'They excite our
imaginations which is the most important thing they could be doing.
They exercise our curiosity as few
things can."
uring the summer, the Wild
Animal Park's Dinamation
e xhibit worked w ell in
boosting attendance at the park. Joel
Edelstein, public relations production
coordinator at the park, says the display has helped increase the public's
awareness of endangered species today.
LARRY BOISJOLIE/PIONEER
"There is a real, natural link to the
A 40 percent scale robot of an apatosaurus greets visitors at the San Diego Wild Animal
endangered species and the extincPark's 'Wild Woods: From Dino to Rhinos' exhibit
tion of the dinosaurs," says Edelstein.
The exhibit marks the first time a
"Some of the robots are not that
as they really were.
"How can you expect a museum accurate," says Demere, "but if they Dinamation display has been shown
visitor to form a realistic impression are surrounded with educational ma- out of doors, causing the Park and
of any animal, even a horse, from its terials they make a real viable dis- Dinamation officials to be concerned
skeleton alone," Bakker play. They are especially helpful for over the welfare of the robots.
Yet despite occasional breakdown
children"
asks.
According to Callison, Dinamation of the robots, Edelstein says the exSan Diego's Museum
of Natural History has displays give children a form of vis- perience has been a "real adventure"
hosted a Dinamation ceral play. With television and for both parties.
According to Callison some of the
display three times in Nintendo dominating the play-time
the last decade. Accord- of children, they have little time for real adventure lies in the future of
Dinamation. He says the company
ing to Tom Demere, realistic play, says Callison.
c hairperson of the
He says another important aspect has already come a great distance in
museum's department of of Dinamation is its proven ability to the development and accuracy of its
P aleontology, the generate funds for museums and other models, but stresses there is still fardisplays have scientific institutions. These funds are ther to go.
been very used to further study and expand the
"We don't have a Creature that can
popular.
ever-growing pool of scientific take off and start walking around in an
irregular landscape," he says. "We're
Demere says that his museum has knowledge.
Even with the disputes, museum always trying to make strides by conno objections to Dinamation displays
if they are viewed with fossils and curators and scientists seem to agree stantly pushing the edge of the enveon the importance of learning about lope."
educational elements.
D
�PREHISTORIC
Where to see these ancient fossils,
mechanic dinosaurs, visual displays
There are several places in the county where William Munns of Altered Images, Inc. and the
people can get a look at the past creatures and San Diego Museum of Man, explains old and
dinosaurs that roamed in the area. Television new methods of reconstructing prehistoric fossil
also echoes the recent trend of dinosaur mania skulls and how the process has developed over
that is currently sweeping the country.
the years.
The Wild Woods: From Dinos to Rhinos is the Theexhibit willbeon display through January
title of the Wild Animal Park's latest offering, a 1992 and then travel throughout the United
five-month, four-acre exhibit of robotic dino- States and Canada under the sponsorship of the
saurs and p rehistoric mammals b uilt by Museum of Man.
Dinamatin International.
"Faces and Fossils" is open during normal
Two dozen lifelike and animated animals, museum hours. Admission is $3 for adults, $1
from the three-story-high robotic Tyrannosau- for children; military personnel in uniform and
rus rex to the predatory saber-toothed cat, children under 6 years old are admitted free.
populate the Park's Conifer Forest, where they
The Museum is located in the Prado (under
are surrounded by living plants that existed the bell tower) in San Diego's Balboa Park. For
during the Mesozoic Era.
more information, call the Museum at 239The quarter-mile trail through the Wild 2001.
Woods twists and turns through thick foliage,
Rancho La Brea, located in Los Angeles, is
and the growls of ancient animals fills the air. one of the world's most famous fossil sites. ' Tar
Tthe Wild Woods exhibit includes a variety pits" formerly mined for natural asphalt have
of educational graphics and programs that dis- yielded an incredibly rich treasure trove of foscusses the fascinating similarities between sils up to 40,000 years in age.
prehistoric creatures and those which live today.
Here huge mammoths, saber-toothed cats,
They also describe what'sbeing done at facili- packs of wolves and hosts of birds became
ties like the Wild Animal Park to prevent modern trapped and entombed. Sharing their fate were
endangered species from going the way of the many other creatures ranging from tiny insects
dinosaurs.
to giant ground sloths.
Tickets for Wild Woods for non-members is
The idea of locating a museum on this site
included in the admission cost into the Park. was first proposed by Captain G. Allan Hancock
Tickets are $16.50 for adults and $9.50 for who deeded Rancho La Brea to the County of
children. San Diego Zoological Society mem- Los Angeles in 1916.
bers, who can enter the Wild Animal Park free
Today, theextensivecollectionsfromRancho
with membership, need to buy their tickets for La Brea are stored and featured in impressive
Wild Woods separately; they are $1.50.
exhibits in the museum, which opened in 1977
The exhibit is open every day, 9 a.m. to 5 as a satellite of the Natural History Museum of
p.m. For more information on the Wild Woods Los Angeles County.
exhibit, special dinosaur school programs and
For two months each summer, visitors can
behind-the-scenes tours, call 234-6541. For view excavation of Rancho La Brea material
group information and discounts, call747-8702 from Pit 91, one of the richest fossil deposits in
Prehistoric animals from San Diego can also the world.
b e found at the San Diego Natural History
"Chock full of bones" is how one Pit 91
Museum's Unearthed exhibit through Nov. 3. paleontologist described the tar pits.
A vast collection of fossil remains, repreScientists have recovered almost 1.5 million
senting 76 million years of San Diego natural vertebrate and 2.5 million invertebrate fossils
history, takes visitors back to a world when from the deposits. In all, some 140 species and
dinosaurs roamed the earth, man didn't exist, plants and more than 420 species of animals are
and San Diego was completely underwater.
now known from Rancho La Brea.
"It is important to note," adds Tom Demere,
The Page Museum is located in Hancock
Museum Paleontologist, "that many of these Park at 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, 7 miles west
fossils represent remains of species new to of downtown Los Angeles. Hours are 10 a.m. to
science."
5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday; the museum is
"Unearthed" is open during normal museum closed Mondays.
hours. Admission is $5 for adults, $ 1 for children
Admission is $3 for adults, $1.50 for stuand $4 for seniors; military personnel in uniform dents and senior citizens, and 750 for children.
are admitted free.
For more information, call the Page Museum at
The Museum is located at the end of the (213) 936-2230.
Prado in San Diego's Balboa Park. For more
As the parent museum to the La Brea Tar
information, call the Museum at 232-3821.
Pits, the Los Angeles Natural History Museum
The San Diego Museum of Man, also in has a permanent collect of dinosaurs on
Balboa Park, is currently displaying Faces and display.
Fossils: The Reconstruction of Human Ancestors. Dinosaur fossils, including duckbill
The exhibit, a collaboration between artist dinosaurs, camptosaurus and allosaurus
posed as if in battle and one of thefinesttyrannosaurus rex skulls on exhibit anywhere, are
well-represented here.
The Natural History Museum is located at
900 Exposition Boulevard in Exposition Park,
one block east of Vermont Avenue, just off the
Santa Monica Freeway (10). Admission is $5
f or adults, $2.50 for students and senior citizens
and $1 for children. ThefirstTuesday
of each month is free.
Specific information may be
obtainedbycalling(213)7443414 during museum hours.
For 24-hour recorded information, call (231) 744DINO.
For those who like to
travel to the Palm Springs,
the dinosaur statues atCabazon
mark a scenic and educational
stopping point for prehistoricloving travelers.
The small rest stop off Highway
10 in Cabazon feature two larger-thanlife statues of a tyrannosaurus rex and an
apatosaurus (otherwise known as brontosaurus). Inside the statues are museums and
gift shops built to inspire the imaginations of
all who have thought about the prehistoric
world.
Cabazon's dinosaurs took twenty years to
onstruct and were featured in the film 'Pee
W ee's Big Adventure.'
Anza Borrego State Park is the home of a
permanent exhibit of fossils found in thedesert
area. The museum, located within the visitor's
information center, showsfilmsillustrating what
the park looked like millions of years ago.
Many fossils found in the Anza Borrego
desert are now on display at the San Diego
Museum of Natural History in its Unearthed
exhibit.
Wednesday nights on ABC, couch potatoes
can enjoy the sitcom 'Dinosaurs' at 8 p.m. The
half-hour program follows the antics of a family
of dinosaurs ruling a Flintstone-like community.
Even though the program offers little in
terms of scientific validity, it does give young
ones the chance to visualize dinosaur fantasies.
America's all-time favorite anchorperson,
Walter Cronkite, hosts a four-part series on the
Arts and Entertainment network called 'Dinosaur.'
The series, scheduled from Sept. 8 through
Sept. 11 at 8 p.m., explores the dinosauc world
from a scientific point of view.
' Dinosaur' expounds the controversial
theory that dinosaurs were not actually the
forefathers to lizards and snakes but to birds.
The program examines all aspects of dinosauria
from extinction to personality.
�TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1991/PIONEER
Women find heroic
new niche in films
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'T2' hits hard
with effects,
but lacks story
Most male Hollywood directors to battle the mother of all aliens. It's
make films like they have sex; the an unforgettable confrontation I like
man is on top, there is only one climax to call 'Mombo vs. Mama-Godzilla.'
and the woman's role is insignificant.
Weaver's strength of character and
There have been too many times maternal vulnerability landed her an
that I've had to endure mindless Academy Awards nomination for best
bimbos bumbling through a sexist actress—thefirstever for a woman in
script only to make the leading man a sciencefictionrole.
look good for the final scene.
Fish-eye lens view of Mary ElizaOver the decades, Hollywood's beth Mastrantonio.
treatment of women, for the most
In the critically overlooked but vipart, has been deplorable. Female roles sually awesome film 'The Abyss,'
were stereotypically weepy, bitchy, Mastrantonio portrays the quintesgutless, stupid or j ust plain sential career woman in her role as
housewifey. Rarely have we seen Lindsay Brigman.
women as three-dimensional persons
She has developed a revolutionary
on film.
undersea drilling platform that is used
to investigate a downed submarine.
Enter James Cameron.
With his ripe imagination and in- During the investigation, the crew of
novative nonstop style, Cameron has I ytoej)latform, captained by Lindsay's
done for action-adventure films what '•estranged husband Virgil {Ed Harris),
Steven Spielberg has done for family rendezvous with undersea aliens. It's
films. Cameron is at least Spielberg's like a cross between 'The Undersea
equal in creating stunning visual im- World of Jacques Cousteau' and
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
ages.
His movies never seem to end, with
Mastrantonio's Lindsay is fiercely
climactic scenes following climactic independent and resents using her
scenes. Critic Roger Ebert pointed husband'slast name. In one scene she
out that Cameron's movies keep him tells her husband that her drilling
so tense for so long that he leaves his platforrn takes priority over her marpictures feeling physically ill, but I riage.
Arnold Schwarzenegger dons biker clothes in Terminator 2.'
Lindsay is the most intelligent and
always thought Ebert was a wimp
s elf-sacrificing woman of all
anyway.
Yet, Cameron adds a dimension to Cameron's characters. In the film's
his work that has been avoided by most dramatic scene, Lindsay sacrimost other filmmakers. He uses strong, fices her life with the hopes that she
may be later revived in order to save
self-sufficient women.
her husband.
Cut to Sigourney Weaver.
It is no wonder the undersea visitors
In 'Aliens' Weaver rocketed to fame
as Ripley, a space traveler weary from
fighting the unearthly beast in 1979's
hit 'Alien.' In the far better sequel,
Ripley must once again face her alien
foe, only this time she has the help of
the marines.
Unlike the first film, 'Aliens* concentrates more fully on the characters,
particularly Ripley. The script, which
was written by Cameron, tags each
individual with unique personality choose her to make contact with.
Flash to Linda Hamilton.
traits. All the parts are believable and
As Sarah Connor in Cameron's
very human.
Much to my surprise, the female 1984 "hit 'The Terminator' and the
roles in 'Aliens' were the strongest of wildly successful 'T2,' Hamilton has
the bunch. Women aren't treated as shown an aspect of "the weaker sex"
subordinates in this film, rather they that the Israelis have known for
are viewed as vastly superior warriors years—that women are as good in
combat as they are in the kitchen.
than men.
In the movie's final sequences,
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger
sayshe'llbeback, you'dbetter believe
it
He certainly made his promise
come true in the much publicized,
100-million dollar sequel to 'Termi-*
nator.' What 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' may make up for in more'
complicated special effects than its*
predecessor, it certainly loses in itijg
story, however.
Linda Hamilton is back as Sarahjj
Connor. When we left her before, she*
was pregnant and escaping i ntoj
Mexico to try and avoid the oncoming^,
nuclear holocaust. But 12 years later,i
she's incarcerated in a top security»
mental facility and her son John is in
a foster home.
Everything changes when an updated terminator shows up to finally,
do away with John Connor, the man
who will eventually lead the resistance*
against the computer controlled world]
of the future.
Following in this terminator's"
f ootsteps is none other than
Schwarzenegger, this time playing a5
good guy sent by John into the past to
protect himself and his mother from;
this new threat.
Eddie Furlong plays the 12-year-:
old John who has a hard time grasping
all of this when Arnie saves him the
first time from the indestructible new
terminator, made from liquid metal;
who can adapt and change his form to*
fit any situation.
The story follows John, Sarah and
Arnie as they try to alter the course of
future world events and kill off the
new terminator, a T-1000 model
played by Robert Patrick.
The real star of this picture isn't
Arnie, but the special effects. Patrick's
terminator character is defined by the
constantly changing forms he adopts.
But Schwarzenegger needs a worthy opponent or it really isn't an interesting movie, is it? He definitely
has his hands full with this enemy
and, as usual, he plays it very
straightforward.
'Terminator 2 ' will keep you on
the edge of your seat and make you
laugh, but in final analysis, die first
film had a simplicity that no amount
of special effects can improve upon.
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�Dead Again' misses plot pieces
but comes alive with wit, beauty
Has Hollywood finally accepted the karmic teachings
¡of Shirley MacLaine?
I Well, not exacdy. But Brit Kenneth Branagh has taken
his own particular slant on the theory of reincarnation in
Dead Again.'
| Maybe you'll remember Branagh from his critically
^acclaimed 4Henry V' a few years ago. Following in the
¡footsteps of Laurence Olivier, he starred in and directed
ithat picture, establishing himself as a talent of note in this
pcountry.
Branagh again has taken on directing and acting duties
in 'Dead Again' along with wife Emma Thompson in this
tale of a couple whose love survives death and four
decades. Thompson plays a woman who has amnesia and
Branagh is Los Angeles private detective Mike Church,
who has agreed to help find out who she is.
When he puts her picture in the paper, a strange man
named Madson (Dereck Jacobi) appears and hypnotizes
Grace (as Mike has named her), taking her back to 1948.
She recalls in vivid detail the romance of Roman and
Margaret Strauss, also played by Branagh and Thompson.
(These sequences are filmed in black and white).
It turns out that composer Roman was executed for the
murder of his pianist wife Margaret, who was stabbed in
the throat by gold-plated scissors.
At first, Mike is reluctant to believe in the idea of past
lives and karmic accountability, until he talks to a former
psychiatrist, played by Robin Williams.
WENDY WILLIAMS
PIONEER
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The story meanders between
the past and the
present, revealing
more and more
about the people
involved and how
they have all
gathered together
in the present to
relive the events
and make retribution for the past.
Believe it or not, there is a great deal of humor in this
story. It would seem that Branagh has his tongue firmly in
his cheek. While he is telling his story, you can sense a
glimmer of mischievousness behind the scenes. He did,
after all, cast one of the funniest comics of our day in a
small, but crucial role.
Even with this sly humor and a hugely talented cast,
Branagh must still contend with a complicated story that
leaves out a few important pieces to the puzzle.
Despite that, i t's a beautiful film to watch. Black and
white photography is a lost art these days whose glory
Branagh gamely revives here. And despite the holes in the
story, the film is engaging to watch.
Even if Branagh and Hollywood aren't totally sold on
the theory of reincarnation, 'Dead Again' gives us all a Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson dance through a complicated storyline in 'Dead
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All-acoustic Open Mike: Every Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Metaphor Coffee House, Escondido. 489-8890
Barry M anilow: Performs Sept. 12-14 at Symphony Hall. 278TIXS
California Connection Jazz: Performs on Tuesdays at San
Luis Rey Downs and again on Thursdays at the Lawrence Welk
Restaurant, Escondido. 758-3762/749-3253
Candy Skins: Performs with Transvision Vamp at Backdoor,
SDSU campus. 278-TIXS
Chapterhouse: Originally named Incest, this group performs
Sept. 8 ,8 p.m., at the Backdoor, SDSU campus. 278-TIXS
Crowded House: With Richard Thompson performs Sept. 8 at
7:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall. 278-TIXS
Diana Ross: Appearing at the Starlight Bowl Sept. 26 at 8 p.m.
544-STAR
Don Henley: Sept. 7 and 8 at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre,
Laguna Hills. 278-TIXS.
Folk Music Hoot Night: Every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Metaphor Coffee House, Escondido. 489-8890
Incredible H ayseeds: At Winston's, Ocean Beach, Sept. 3.
222-6822
Jazz and Blues Open Jam: Mondays at 8 p.m. at the Metaphor Coffee House, Escondido. 489-8890
John Moore's Bluegrass Etc.: That Pizza Place in Carlsbad
hosts this group at 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of each month; they
perform at the Harbor Light Restaurant, Oceanside, Wednesdays and Sundays each week.
Melissa Manchester: Sings at the Oceanside Pier Bandshell
Sept. 19. 966-4530
Moody Blues: Sept. 6 at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre,
Laguna Hills. 278-TIXS
Open Mike Sessions: Thursday nights at Marine's Del Dios
Country Store, Escondido. 743-3190/743-8471
Ray Charles: Humphrey's hosts two concerts at 7 and 9 p.m.
on Sept. 3 at Shelter Island, San Diego. 278-TIXS/523-1010
Ruby and the Red Hots: Sunday Nights at the Full Moon,
Encinitas. 436-7397
San Diego S ymphony Summer P ops P rogram: "Musical
Pictures" with Murry Sidlin conducting is presented Sept. 4 and
5 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is at the Embarcadero Marina Park,
San Diego. 699-4205
San Diego's Big Band Concert a nd Dance: Starting at 4 p.m.
in the Vineyard Shopping Center, Escondido, every Sunday.
275-3355
Santana: Performs Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Starlight Bowl.
544-STAR
Savery B rothers: 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at the
Pomerado Club, Poway. 748-1135
Street Scene: Michelob presents this two-day special event,
Sept. 6-7 in 12 city blocks in the
Historic Gaslamp Quarter, San
Diego. Highlights to the event
include over 50 bands and food
booths, 25 artist performing
each night, 10 stages of continuous music and 4 beer gardens (must be 21 -years-old). Rock, blues, jazz country, zydeco,
world beat, reggae and Tex/Mex musics will be featured. Tickets
are $16 in advance or $20 at the door; there's a $30 in advance
two-day package. Contact the Street Scene Hotline at 268-9025
for more information. Call TicketMaster, 278-TIXS, for tickets.
Tami T homas' Big B and S wing a nd Dixie/Jazz B and: Performs Wednesdays at Mission Inn, San Marcos. 471-2939
Transvision V amp: The SDSU Associated Students sponsors this Sept. 11 performance at the Backdoor, SDSU campus.
For information, call the Aztec Center Box Office at 594-6947; for
tickets, call 278-TIXS.
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Volcanos erupt at space theatre
D uring t he s ummer, M ount
Penatubo unleashed its anger on the
tiny islands of the Philippines. The
volcano spread ash and debris around
the globe and is suspected of causing
the entire planet to cool by fractions
of adegree. Penatubo is just one of the
many volcanos found in the Pacific
Rim.
Now playing at the Reuben H.
Fleet Space Center, "Ring of Fire" is
a new OMNIMAX film about the
great circle of volcanoes and seismic
activity that rings the Pacific Ocean.
The film opened May 18, the 10-year
anniversary the eruption of another
Pacific Ring volcano, Mount St.
Helens.
"This film not only introduces
audiences to the geographical concept
of the Ring of Fire, it also seeks to
show why and how people live on this
fiery boundary, which circles 30,000
miles around the Pacific Rim," said
Dr. Jeffrey Kirsch, consulting producer for the Space Theater.
To produce "Ring of Fire," a team
of geologists, anthropologists, computer a nimators and f ilmmakers
worked for over seven years to cover
this great boundary of theearth's crust,
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Throughout bothfilmsSarah battles
robotic assassins sent from the future
to change history. The first movie
brought Arnold Schwarzenegger (he
with the body fantastic) as the
unstoppable killing machine sent to
destroy her.
The second adventure has Sarah
teamed up with Schwarzenegger to
thwart the efforts of an especially
nasty terminator (Patrick Harris) to
destroy her son (Edward Furlong).
Looking at the metamorphoses of
Sarah in the two movies we see the
grand adaptability of women. She
transmogrifies from a lowly greasepit
waitress to a terminatress. Sarah actually becomes a better killing machine in the second movie than Arnold
the mezomorph himself.
The social consciousness of Sarah
is the heart and soul of T2.* Driven
by the certainty of global nuclear destruction, she will do anything to preserve the world for her children. She
has become a necessary animal to
stop the grim future of the human
race. Benign beauty has become a
killing beast.
Final credits.
Theater
Breaking the Code: This truestory follows Alan Turing, a British
¡ jjg ¿^Sim^ ¡ l Y ì l i code-breaker, and is performed
by the North Coast Repertory
Theater. It runs through Sept. 14
at the Lomas Santa Fe Plaza,
Solana Beach. Tickets are $12
and $14,481-1055
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E vita:
The
Moonlight
Amphitheatre presents this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based
on the live of Eva Peron through
Sept. 9. Performances are at the
Brengle Terrace Park open-air
theater. Tickets are $6-$12. 724JAMES CAMERON/
DIRECTOR
Cameron has denied in countless
interviews that his films champion
feminism, but we can't ignore their
impact on the women's movement
Over and over again he has demonstrated that women can face insurmountable odds and emerge victorious. L et's hope the success of
Cameron's films helps Hollywood
realize that there's more to women
than running make-up and dishpan
hands.
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Don't cry for Moonlight's 'Evita, it's good
DEBBIE PUFFY/PIONEER
D o n ' t cry for Evita — enjoy it.
Pack a picnic basket or purchase a
bucket of chicken, grab two beach
chairs, include a warm blanket, and
you are ready for a production of
'Evita' at the outdoor Moonlight
Amphitheatre in V ista.
The atmosphere at the Moonlight
is warm, cozy and friendly. While
watching the production, you can
enjoy the stars, both on stage and in
the sky.
'Evita' portrays the life of Eva
Duarte from the age of.fifteen to her
climb up the social ladder (by sleeping with men of higher and higher
positions), to her status as wife of
dictator Juan Peron, tcrher death from
cancer at a ge 3 3.
Alicia Irving performs the role of
Eva, referred to as Evita in the height
of her success. A t t he b eginning o f t he
performance, one wonders whether
she can handle the dancing and the
singing, but Irving proves herself
when she sings "Don't Cry for me
Argentina." Irving masters the older
Evita much better than the younger,
more energetic E va.
CheGueverra,played by Jim Graft,
becomes the narrator and the judge
Alicia Irving is Eva Peron in the Moonlight Amphitheatre's production of 'Evita.' The show runs through Sept. 9.
for "Evita." C he's actions are threatening because of his opposition to the
tyrannical ruling of Peron. However,
he is also the objective bystander who
helps the audience see both the good
of Evita and the evil of Juan Peron.
The most striking, electrifying
scene is when Evita convinces the
unions to support her husband, Peron,
as president The stage, aglow with
torches and voices, contains splashes
of colors and pictures supporting the
unions. The song, " A New Argentina," is a strong militaristic example
of the unions' solidarity and support
of Peron. The scene portrays the
strength and love Evita possesses for
and from her people.
Another scene, much lighter than
the union scene, is with the "high
society people," who strongly disapprove of Evitabeing married to Peron.
They glide on stage in one large, tightly
joined group, all wearing black and
white, singing their displeasure and
dislike for Evita. Their gestures and
faces are hilarious, and, at the end,
they must strip off their clothes and
jewels and mingle with the peasants
of Argentinabecause ofEvita's orders.
The "group" provides the play with
light humor, inviting the audience to
enjoy it.
One great addition to this play is
the still pictures of Evita, Argentina,
and Peron, that are provided on each
side of the stage, intentionally coinciding with each scene in the play.
Evita runs through Sept. 9; all
shows are at 8 p.m. The Moonlight
Amphitheatre is located in Brengle
Terrace Park in Vista.
With only $6 for lawn seats and
$10-$ 12 for the permanent seating,
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Butch Fisco tonight and throughout the week. Upcoming events
include:
• Sept. 10-15 - Denny Johnson,
Lisa Trembly, Steve Hice
• Sept. 17-22 - Fred Freenlee,
Larry Omaha, Tish Ward
Comedy Nite is located at 2216
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Comedy Isle: Upcoming comedians include:
• Sept. 4-8 - Steve McGrew
• Sept. 11-15 - Jonathan Katz
• Sept. 18-22 - Mike Ferrucci
Comedy Isle is located at the
Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego.
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Shows run Sept. 6 ,7,13,14, and
20 at the San Diego Museum of
Contemporary Art, La Jolla. For
tickets call, 278-TIXS; for more
information, call 551-9274, or4542594 the night of the show.
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater: The Space Museum is
showing several films throughout
this month:
• 'Ring of Fire' - powerful portrayal of people and volcanoes of
the Pacific Rim.
• Through the Eye of Hubble' new multi-media planetarium
show.
• 'Blue Planet' - OMNIMAX
space film about Earth and its
imperiled environment.
• 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' - laser
Del Mar Horse Races: Through
show featuring music from two
Sept. 11 at the Del Mar Fair
Pink Floyd Albums.
Grounds. 296-1141/481-1207
• The Doors' - All-new laser
show featuring some of the Doors
greatest hits.
Send Calendar
The Space Center is located in
Balboa Park, San Diego. 238-1233
submissions to:
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where more than three-fourths of the
world's active volcanoes are located.
In August of last year, the "Ring of
Fire" crew started filming geologists
monitoring the activity of Mount S t
Helens. Several weeks later, without
warning, there was an explosion. Ash
and steam shot 25,000 feet into the
sky.
As one geologist commented, "It
could ruin your whole day."
Theclosecalls whilefilming4<Ring
of Fire" were all in a day's work for
the dedicated film crews, but they
resulted in some of the most extraordinary volcano sequences ever filmed.
Spectacular volcanic eruptions
show the process that both enriches
and destroys the lives of those living
there.
Including Mount St. Helens, the
film shows footage of Navidad in
Chile, Sakurajima in Japan and Mount
Merapi in Indonesia.
Varied, scenes of humanity from
around the Ring of Fire show the
many ways the human spirit triumphs
when confronted with imminent catastrophe - from one culture's practice of volcanic worship to a highly
technological society's development
of seismic prediction methods.
"Part of the human condition is to
live constantly poised between life
and death, and there's no more direct
evidence for that than the way these
cultures have adapted to life on the
Rim,'' Kirsch said.
As plumes of ash explode into the
sky, viewers will witness the birth of
a new volcano in southern Chile.
The film takes audiences to the
annual evacuation drill held on the
J apanese volcanic i sland of
Sakurajima, on the anniversary of the
eruption of 1914. This volcano is still
active, menacing the 7,000 people of
Sakurajima with frequent ashfalls and
the danger of more serious eruptions.
Other scenes transport viewers to
the edge of the fiery lava lake in
Hawaii and to Tokyo and San Francisco, where the risk of earthquakes
profoundly impacts life.
Admission is $5,50 for adults, $4
forseniorcitizensand$3 forchildren;
tickets include entrance into all shows
and the Science Center, where more
than 60 hands-on exhibits allow for
exploration of the principles of science.
Thefilmscreens daily and continues through October. For show times
and other information, call the Space
Theater at 238-1168.
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'89 VW Fox GL. 4-dr, 5-spd., AM/
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Antique English Oak Table with
four chairs. 753-6419
DRUM SET $425, value $1000.
Yamaha. 5 drums, 2 cymbals, incl.
all travel cases. 744-7959
SOFAS FOR SALE: One Beige
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$75. Call Cathy, 728-5939.
• Housing
Roommate wanted. New 4 bdrm
home in O'side/Vista. Private
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$167,500. 579-0388 Francine
FOR SALE: 1 Bedroom Condo.
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Balcony, $74,000. Bob, agent,
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ROOMMATE WANTED: Christian female, non-smoker, $250/
mo. $150 deposit. Own bed/bath.
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Rates:
Classified Ads are on a per line, per issue basis. There is a 3 line
minimum for all Classified Advertising.
• Student Rate: $1:00 per line, per issue
• Non-Student Rate: $1:50 per line, per issue.
All Classified Ads must be prepaid.
Special Rates:
• LARGE TYPE: Any type exceeding the normal classified ad size will
be billed at $1:00 per line, per issue. The maximum type height is 1".
This rate is for both student and non-student advertisers.
• LOGOS: Any advertiser may use its logo in a classified ad. Cameraready art must be supplied by the advertiser. Each logo will be billed at
$5 per issue.
Deadlines:
All Classified advertisements must be submitted by the Thursday
before publication.
Pioneer reserves therightto edit, refuse or reject any Classified ad at any time.
Pioneer reserves therightto classify, index or position ads. Liability for errors on
Pioneer's part shall not exceed the cost of the space occupied by the error.
To Place An Ad, CALL
• Employment
ALERT order takers, tele-marketers. FT/PT. No exper. necc.
Will train. Apply at: 225 N. Santa
Fe, Ste 105, San Marcos.
POSITION OPEN at Nat. Univ.
bookstore. Store Supervisor:
Customer Service, Cash Management, Some Accounting Exp.
necc. Karen, 945-3774
GRADUATING SOON? Contact
Career Planning Placement, Bldg.
AVAILABLE: Excellent Commu- 800 next to student lounge about
nity Association. Koi Ponds, Pool, Career Fairs, on-campus recruitSpa. Three Bedroom, 2-1/2 Bath. ment and Workshops. Don't deFamily Room, 1636 sq. ft. Easy lay. Do it today! FIRST CAREER
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Improve Your Grades! by having yourterm papers, theses, and
assignments professionally word Hey CSUSM Students: Get Ready
for a Cool Year ... From Fred
processed!
Susan: Hope Your Ad Goes Well:
36 units and a wake-up.
Jacque Tenge, 727-4141
^ Love Jim
History tutor looking for people Roller Blading: Interested in
to tutor in the EOPS program. joining other CSUSM students in
Contact Patricia in EOPS office. this exciting new sport - after
WORD PROCESSING: Any typed school, during break, week-ends?
assignment, fast turn around, Call Kelly at 944-7727 or Tammie
competitive rates, pick-up & de- at 632-1380
livery. Ashton's Business Man- The Fix Man got hitched!!!!
agement Services, 727-9688
Max, you will neverthwart my evil
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Prose, poetry or art for CSUSM
Literary Journal. Submit to Carol
Bonomo in Pres. Office. Call 941 4233 for more info.
M¥ ¥
HELLO & Welcome back fellow New Cai State San Marcos Baby!
classmates - from the Parker Lauren Nicole Scanlon born
Foundation.
Mother's Day, May 12,1991, 7lbs.,
«^STRESSED OUT? Learn how 9oz. to Patrick and Charis.
to manage your life Thurs., Sept.
5, noon - 1 or Fri., Sept. 13,1-2. Dear Beth: Welcome Back. I
Stress Management Workshop. missed you. I'm looking forward
Contact Career Planning and to spending time with you this
Placement for locations.
semester. God bless you. Love
To All CSUSM Students: Do you Laura.
like to sing? The following is a list To the wife
Wish summer
of sing-a-long locations: Mission wasn't over, but it's gonna be worth
Inn, SM, Starmakers, Sun. 8-12; it when I'm the great American
Valley Fort Rest., Vta, Mon, Tues, author. Can't wait for baby.
Wed, Weekends, 7:30-close. ¥ L.B. V
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and the rest). Here we go again!
WATCH FOR
Are we ready, set, go? Through
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See you in the library. SteffanieT.
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SPIRIT: Volunteers needed to
MEXICO!! Airline Tickets. Baja help with Cal State San Marcos'
reservations. Packages to Puerto first International Cultural Fair,
Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cancun, Cabo, Oct. 27. Leave information at the
more! Callthe experts - Twin Oaks Vice President of Student Services Office in Bldg. 125.
Travel. 744-6580.
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for location.
Volunteer Writers Needed: Join
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^ ^ GET IT IN WRITING. Resume Writing Workshop. Tues,
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HOUSE CLEANER. $10/hour if
experienced. 1 day a week, min.
of 4 hours. El Cajon. 579-0388.
WANTED: Students to sell yearbook advertisements. COMMISSION basis. For applications, see
Linda in Student Affairs office.
• Personals &
Announcements
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TO ALL YOU OBSESSIVE RUNNERS: Anyone interested in group
workouts, unorganized fun runs,
RE-ENTRY WOMEN! If you are watch for info/sign-up sheet that
interested in beginning an evening will be located in the student
support group for re-entry women, lounge on the carpet wall.
please contact Sandy Kuchler,
Welcome Back to my Gang DJ,
Director of Student DevelopmenEP, JK from MP.
tal Ser-vices, 752-4935.
¿a GET A CLUE!! Confused... lost To Len and Joy ¥ Congratulain class already? Note Taking tions and best wishes from all the
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Volume 2, Number 1 of the first student newspaper on the CSUSM campus. The cover story reports that construction may delay the opening of the new campus in Fall 1992.
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Pioneer
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Pioneer
September 3, 1991
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construction
fall 1991