Climbers for Saturday were: Scot Jamison, George Pfeiffer, Minor White, Graham Breakwell, Bob Meador, and Jack Wickel.
Back at camp we joined by Mary Ellen Dittemore and Jack McGee, on their first DPS trip, and just in time for Happy Hour.
Sunday we climbed Smith by the regular route with a considerable amount of time spent on top taking-in the view. Then we were off to get a early start for the drive home.
| SITE FOR NEW UC
CAMPUS CHOSEN The Governor's Task Farce on the Future of the UC System has issued a preliminary report proposing a site for the tenth UC campus. The chair of the task force, former regent Ronald Reagan, has informed the governor that the campus should be located In northern San Bernadino County. The academic facilities would be built on the site of abandoned borax mines in Trona. Student and faculty housing would be built on undeveloped federal land north of the new campus, in Inyo County. Plans call for a campus supporting 30,000 students and 12,000 faculty and staff. Parking facilities for up to 250 cars would be built on the campus. To alleviate parking problems, students and faculty would commute to the UC Trona campus on a 20-mule-team shuttle. The task force cited the region's distance from the other nine campus as the major advantage of the Trona site. The task force noted that the existing nine campuses have had difficulty recruiting students from the largely uninhabited desert region. The task force also cited the climate as a major asset in recruiting faculty and students. The Death Valley area boasts of 361 days of sunshine and less than four Inches of rain per year. State and federal land surrounding the new campus would be deeded to the Trona Company, which would be responsible for developing industrial and commercial projects near the campus. The Trona Company would be encouraged to transform the desert terrain to lush, tropical vegetation by granting the company unlimited rights to the water in Lake Tahoe. The Trona Company would also be responsible for extending the runway at the Trona airport to accommodate jet service. Economic forecasts indicate the airport could be serving 5.7 million passengers a year when the campus is fully developed in 1997. However, noise restrictions will limit the airport's actual capacity to one daily Lear Jet flight to Palm Springs, to accommodate faculty who need access to golf courses. Finally, the Trona Company would be responsible for building the Trona Coliseum, a 60,000 seat stadium, which would open at the start of the 1991 football season. Al Davis, owner of the Los Angeles Raiders, has agreed to move his team to Trona after the 1990 season. The Trona Company will pay Davis a $350 million fee to cover the costs Davis incurred terminating his commitments to move the team to Irwindale, Sacramento and Oakland. Officials from the Denver Broncos had made preliminary plans to play all 1990 games in Trona, but later decided they would rather play where no one would see them. |
