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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Volume LXXII, Number 118
Cal Poly student arrested on charges of felony assault mustang daily staff report
A Cal Poly nutrition major was arrested early Saturday morning near Broad and Marsh streets for allegedly assaulting two men. Witnesses identified 23year-old John Bradley Goetz from Alamo as responsible for hitting Anson Shaffer of Morro Bay and Michael Clifford of Los Osos in the head. Both men were knocked unconscious and courteesy photo taken by ambulance to the hospital to be treated for injuries. Goetz was arrested for felony assault and battery and taken to the San Luis Obispo County Jail. His bail is set at $50,000. Police say alcohol appeared to have played a role in the incident.
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College-based student fee increase remains in limbo Cal Poly waits for finalized CSU budget “The chancellor is making every effort to be sensitive to the financial pressures students and their families face during this (hard) ecoCal Poly President Warren Baker’s annomic time,” said Teresa Ruiz, public affairs nouncement last week to delay his approval communications specialist for the Chancelfor an increase of college-based fees (CBFs) lor’s Office. came after a request by the California State “In light of this, Chancellor Reed has University Chancellor’s Office, said Provost asked all campuses to place any possible camRobert Koob. pus-based fees on hold until we have more Students approved the increase in an adviinformation about how the state budget will sory ballot on March 10 and 11 by an overaffect the 2009-10 CSU budget.There are still whelming 78 percent. More than 48 percent uncertainties as to how the federal stimulus of the student body voted after months of depackage will impact the CSU’s 23 campuses, bate and several campus-wide forums that disand it is also unclear as to how the propocussed the need for additional funding in light sitions on the May 19 special election ballot of a $3.5 million university budget deficit. will affect the general fund,” she said. “It was the Chancellor’s advice to the Ruiz added that further information on president that he delay his decision until after how the state budget will affect CSU cam—Robert Koob we gain some clarity about the fiscal future of puses, including Cal Poly, should be available the state of California and until the Board of in the next few months. Cal Poly Provost Trustees have made some decision about the In light of students and faculty questions as state university fees,” Koob said Monday. He to why the Chancellor’s Office did not speak said the decision was likely to occur in July. up sooner if it was not prepared to allow “We have neither been confirmed nor denied a fee by anyone,” the increase, especially given that the state budget was in question he added. “The decision has just been delayed.” months ago, Koob said that it’s “a big mystery.” A spokesperson for Chancellor Charles B. Reed’s office said “I have no clue as to why we went through all of this and were Monday that he decided to wait and see how federal stimulus funds able to make the case and have such a marvelous result — I mean and the upcoming state special election will affect the CSU budget see CBF, page 2 before passing the increase on to students. Matt Fountain mustang daily
I have no clue as to why we went through all of this... then to be told after the fact that the timing was poor.
Big cuts seen for F-22, other big weapon programs Anne Gearan associated press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation should stop pouring billions into futuristic, super-expensive F-22 jet fighters, pull the plug on new presidential helicopters and put the money into systems U.S. soldiers can use against actual foes, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared Monday. Major overhaul plans laid out by the Obama administration’s Pentagon chief would slash several giant weapons programs — and thousands of civilian jobs that go with them. With recession unemployment rising, Congress may balk at many of the cuts in Gates’ proposed $534 billion budget for the coming year. Still, despite all the talk of cuts, the total figure would rise from $513 billion for 2009, and Gates spoke of using money more wisely, not asking for less. Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, said he is gearing Pentagon buying plans to the smaller, lower-tech battlefields the military is facing now and expects in coming years. He also said he hopes lawmakers will resist temptations to save outdated system that keep defense plants humming in their home districts.
The Pentagon, he said, wants to move away from both outdated weapons systems conceived in the Cold War and futuristic programs aimed at super-sophisticated foes. Gates said he would expand spending on equipment that targets insurgents, such as $2 billion more on surveillance and reconnaissance equipment. That would include funding for 50 new Predator drones such as those that have rained down missiles on militants hiding along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. “We must rebalance this department’s programs in order to institutionalize and finance our capabilities to fight the wars we are in today and the scenarios we are most likely to face in the years ahead,” he said. Major programs facing cuts include the F-22 Raptor, the military’s most expensive fighter plane at $140 million apiece. An action movie come to life, sleek, fast and nearly invisible, the Raptor is ill-suited to deterring roadside bombs in Iraq or hunting insurgents who vanish into the Afghan mountains. Gates says the Pentagon won’t continue the F-22 program beyond 187 planes already planned. Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed, the nation’s largest defense contractor, has said alsee Defense, page 2
courtesy boeing co., file associated press In this undated computer-generated drawing provided by the Boeing Co., the Boeing 767 Tanker Transport is shown. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday a new $35 billion aerial refueling tanker competition will restart this summer as planned.