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The Daily Collegian
Volume XCVIII
Issue No. 4
CSU, Fresno's Only Independent News Source
Thursday
January 30,1992
Don't try this at home
Bryan Chan/DaKy (
Dave Yancey welds pipes together for part of the air conditioning
system being Installed In the addition to Music Department.
Older student numbers
Increase nationally
(CPS)-Caryl Ann Minor''i amusement is
obvious as she recalls a run-in she had
years earlier, at the age of 50, in freshman
English with a "cute young man" about 19
years old.
"He was the nicest, most sincere young
man,'' the 55-year-old graduate student
says, "and he came up to me after class and
said, 'Would you mind me asking wha t
you are doing here?'
"I said that this is something I always
wanted to do. You think you kids are the
only ones who -an do what you want to
dor
With millions of people like Caryl Ann
Minor going back to school, that question is
slowlyfadingfromhigher education. Oder
students fa reruriwg tQ thecja-^wpj to ,
unprecedented numbers
According to 1989 Census Bureau
information, 3.3 million college students
were age 30 or older -double the number 15
years ago. In 1989, one of every five women
in college was 35 or older.
Now, the National Center for Education
Statistics reports tha 143 percent of all college
students are 25 or older, up from 39 percent
in 1961. Estimates for 1992 expect the
enrollment of students 25 or older to bypass
the 7 million mark.
One researcher at the NCES offered an
interpretation of the flood. "One of the
things that happens, the economy slows
and people will return to school."
Others agree. _/
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Local bands to rock
USU in competition
Bv Manny Fernandez
Staff writer
In the late afternoon at the Bucket,
huddling over beers, walking in the music
shops and record stores around Fresno and
mingling in the smoky clubs late at night
the question often arises—just who is the
best local band in Fresno?
Six of Fresno's best bands will compete
on this Friday in the first Dodge-MTV
Campus Bash to determine the best of the
batch.
The concert, held at the Satellite Student
Union, will feature the Shroud, Train of
Thought, Black Fry, the Neanderthals, The
FatHeadMinnows, and The Miss Alans.
Each band will perform a 30 minute set,
starting at 5 p.m.
The Bash, presented by USU
Productions, is part of a national search to
determine the best college rock n' roll band
in the country.
But all this talk of competing to be
crowned the best college band in Fresno is
somewhat meaningless to the bands
involved. Having fun is their first priority.
"You want to win," said Jay Fung, bassist
Biology department   e
makes degree changes
By Manny Fernandez
Staff writer
The Academic Policy and Planning
Committee has recently approved a
proposal to change the biology
department's bachelor's degree to a
bachelor of science degree and to eliminate
the department's microbiology degree.
The biology department previously
offered students a bachelor's degree in
biology (with six options) and a bachelor of
science degree in microbiology. Thecurrent
revision drops the department's bachelor's
degree and its microbiology bachelor of
sciences degree and replaces both with one
biology bachelor of science degree. The
new revisions in curriculu m are to be put
into effect in the fall of'92.
According to a memorandum released
to the Academic Deans from J. Leonard
Salazar, Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs, the biology department
has actually been offering a biology bachelor
of science degree all along.
"All criteria for the bachelor of science
degree are satisfied in our current degree
structure," the Oct 9,1991 memorandum
stated.   "We have just been oiling it a
bachelor's degree. Our proposed revisions
will actually push our degree structure even
farther toward the bachelor of science
designation."
"If woirc requiring a bachelor of science
degree's requirements of our students, it is
only appropriate for them to receive a
degree with that designation," it stated.
James M. Smith, Chairman of the AP&P,
said that the Committee took into
consideration all students who would be
affected by the revision.
"We looked at how it would affect other
parts of the university, also," hesaid. "And
we thought it was more organized than
before."
Ronald Evans, chair of the biology
department, said that letters were recently
ma il ed to all biology majors.
"We sent out over 700 letters to the
majors explaining the changes," he said.
The revision also calls for the reduction
of the bachelor's degree's six options to
four new options. The four newoptions are
general and organismic biology, cellular
and molecular b iology, physiology, and
ecology and environmental biology.
According to the memorandum, the
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for The Miss Alans, "but there's enough
good bands in the competition to make it a
really good show. We're hoping it's just
fun."
That feeling is echoed by Kim Jackson,
lead singer and guitarist for The
FatHeadMinnows.
"We're hoping to just go out there and
kick out a few tunes," he said. "And have
some fun." **■
Boris, keyboardist and trumpeter for
Black Fry, said, "I think we're going to play
it by ear. Just pretty much get up on stage
and start jamming."
The concert, which is free to all CSUF
students and $3 to the general public, will
be judged by four music industry
professionals. John Kapitan, representing
Big Rock Productions, Julie Logan, DJ and
Promotions Director at KKDJ, Diona
Devincenzi, from the Bass Ticket Company,
and Felix Contreas, a local musician, have
been selected as judges.
The winner of Friday's concert will be
judged against other bands from the
western region. Four bands from this group
of winners will be selected to participate in
See BANDS, page 4
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