This wave worth ride

With populations on the rise worldwide and sweeping plans being formed to control this, little attention is being given to another worldwide concern: resource depletion.

Oil, and its refined version of gasoline, will inevitably become scarce. On a planet staggering under the weight of more energy-users, finding a viable alternative energy source should be at the top of the priority list.

Cal State Long Beach engineering students are producing a solar powered three-wheeled vehicle, the Solar Wave.

If the car is completed by February 1995, it can attempt to qualify for the American Tour de Sol, a race for only solar powered cars in May. This would distinguish make CSULB the first West Coast college to compete in this event.

So far, this university is not paying enough attention to this project. An entrance to future technology is not being as much forgotten as it is being ignored. CSULB should make the Solar Wave, and other alternativeenergy projects, university center-pieces.

The project needs approximately $300,000 to complete the Solar Wave and, to date, only half that has been raised.

We feel the university should not ignore this project financially and should take on full-sponsorship proudly.