1992_04 The Daily Collegian April 1992

              Volume XCVIII
Issue No. 51
CSU, gresno's Only Independent News Source
Tuesday
April 7,1992
Conference 'demands diversity*
Wanda Russell ,
Staffwriter
While shouting matches erupted
between African American and white
students at Olivet College, Michigan,
Friday, about 120 CSUF students of various
color, race and sexual orientation spent a
day together Friday trying to understand
weir differences.
They were participating in "Demand
Diversity," the 4th annual CSUF race
relations conference.
"We can't resolve our differences until
we know what they are," said Luisa
Custodio, a liberal studies student and co-
chairoftheconferertceplaruiing committee.
"We don't feel comfortable expressing our
misconceptions about other people."
"We're dealing with the most burning
issues on campuses related to diversity,"
said Walter Robinson, assistant director of
the University Student Union and student
activities office and coordinator of the
conference.
Sodetalfy oppressed people are afraid
to speak out, yet if something is offensive,
it should be stopped, said Suzan Shown
Harjo, president and executive director of
the Washington D.C based Morning Star
Foundation, a non-profit organization for
Native American Cultural rights and arts
advocacy.
Harjo, who has developed key Federal
Indian policies in Washington D.C. since
1974 and has conducted more than 350
successful legislative and appropriation
efforts, was the keynote speaker at the
conference.
"It should be the offended class (of
people) that should state the nature of the
offense and the remedy," Fariosaid. "Don't
wait to complain until the problem becomes
worse."
"You can't wait till all the old white
males die. Sometimes you have to answer
See DIVERSITY page 6
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S.T.O.P.P. tired of politics
svaii wrreer
Eliminating stipends for
Associated Students,
Incorporated members, creating
a timeline foT the recall election
process and distributing ASI
money moreequitabry are several
of the goals of the coalition
Students Tired of Pork-Barrel
Politics (S.TOPP.) that is running
in this week's ASI election.
S.T.OPP. also wants to change
the requirements for the.ASI
secretarial position and to modify
the   grade   point    average
requirement for ASI candidates
Larissa Ha wkins, candidate for
senator for the School of Natural
Sciences, said that S.T.OPP. is
notapoliticalparty,butacoa*]tion
of independent candidates.
She said one of the. reasons for
the formation of S.T.OPP. is to
equalize the distribution of ASI
money.
Mark Stroud, candidate for
senator for the School of Social
Sciences on the ticket, said "1 do n't
like the favoritism in the way the
money is distributed. I'd like to
see the funds distributed in a way
that benefits all students and not
specific groups."
Hawkins said that if she
becomes a senator, she hopes to
create joint councils for each school
comprised of representatives of
those schools' clubs.
She said that by letting the
councils distribute the money,
then the ASI's power is
decentralized.
"Personally, I would like to see
the ASI money distributed
according to the number of people
in each school," she said.
The main idea is that we want
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See SiXOPJ". page 4
Kaleidoscope a
diversity party
Kim Wright	
Contributing writer
Kaleidoscope, a 13-member
campus political party which is
running for positions in this
week's ASI elections, said it wants
to create an ASI that works
together and is accountable to
students.      ^
Kaleidoscope has released its
official statement of purpose.
The party's statement said:
"We are the men and women of
California State University, Fresno
who care about the future of ASI...
"Some say that the ASI is a tool
only for the politically savvy.
Others say that the ASI can do
Reality are
'real' students
nothing for students but harm
them by taking their money and
spending it unfairly and unwisely.
"We feel that both groups are
mistaken and to prove it, we, a
people of various different colors,
decided it's time to take the ASI
away from the professional self-
serving student politicians and
give it back to the average
students."
The party also stated its reason
for running: "We are running
because it is our feeling that the
racial, sexual and budgetary
problems that beset us can be
handled in a positive, logical, non-
See KALEIDOSCOPE page 8
Kim Wright	
Contributing writer
Real Students. Real Politics.
This is the slogan of Reality,
cne of th« cam pus political parties
running for several positions in
theASL
Ma rci Demings, a current ASI
senator who is Pinning for ASI
president, bifieves Reality is the
party that can remove what she
considers hard-core politics from
theASI.
"We don't want all these
political gurus—we want
somebody in there that's level¬
headed and can do a good job,"
Demings said.
Reality supports four main
issues.
One of their goals is to end
Food Service's monopoly and
allow ourskie vendors to open on
campus.
"We want to bring outside
vendors on campus to lower food
costs and provide more on-
campus pbs for students, and the
RDH card could be used Hke a
credit card to pay for food at all
me places on campus, like a lot of
other schools are doing," Demings
said.
Another main issue is to create
more accourttability to students
in the ASI.
"We support USU's idea to
start an mtra-club council; there
would be joint monthly meetings
See REALITY page 5