1992_05 The Daily Collegian May 1992

              The Daily Collegian
Volume XCVIil
Issue No. 70
CSU, Fresno's Only Independent News Source
Tuesday
May 12,1992
Bryan Chan/The Daily Collegian
Fresno Stale Bat Boy Frank ie Mc Bee hauls in a load of batting equipment prior to the beginning of the next
Inning. See story and more photos on pages'4 and 5.
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ASI
appraise
stricter
bylaws
Staffwriter
Outgoing executives and senators will
make a decision today on proposed changes
in the ASI bylaws that govern various
aspects of student government at CSUF.
Healthand Social Work Senator Shirley
Roth, chairperson of the Legal and Legisla¬
tive (L&L) Committee of the ASI, said ac¬
countability of senators and executives is a
main focus of the proposals.
"Only the legislative vice president has
been accountable for attendance (at .AS!
meetings) in the past," Roth said. The
president and administrative vice presi¬
dent were not required to attend."
The new bylaw would limit all officers
to three absences per semester. *.
"When you are receiving money on
, See ASI page 3
ACLU president to speak on freedom of speech
Michelle Martin
Editor in chief
^ Freedom of speech in America
will be the topic of American Civil
Liberties Union President Nadine
Strossen's lecture tonight at 7:30
in the Satellite Student Union.
The free lecture, presented by
the University Lecture Series, will
conclude the btdbun's guest
speakers.
Strossen, described asanasrute
constitutional scholar with an
interest in the First Amendment,
is the first female president in the
AC^U's 71-year history.
"I think this is the most
important organization in the
country, if not the world," she
said. - "a
To say What-we'rej doing is
controversial is to say the Bill of
Rights is controversial''
Strossen is also a professor of
constitutional law, federal courts
and human rights at New York
. Law School.
She has also Liught at Columbia
and New. York University Law
schools and practiced commercial
litigation in New York.
An advocate of involving
young people in the practice of
protecting civil liberties, Strossen
has helped found a student ACLU
chapter at New York Law School,
and other chapters have formed
where she has spoken.
Strossen said in a New York
Times interview that the ACLU
was established in part to defend
dissenters from ^government
attacks on free expression about
the same time heTgrwarand father
was ridiculed publicly for refusing
to fight in World I.
"I had a strong sense of
individual rights and sticking
one's neck out on behalf
of unpopular causes, even at the
risk of personal ostracism," she
said.
Strossen has said she wants to
explore   ways   of   applying
international human rights laws
to issues such as capital
punishment and gay right?
that are currently before state
courts.
Strossen was elected to head
the 275,000-member ACLU in
January of 1991.
Concert benefits Kettlemen City
Manny Fernandez
Staff writer
A loud BOOM blared
through the speakers every now
and then, as if the apocalypse
was taking place outside the
windows of Club Fred Sunday
night.
BOOM.
A phone was desperately
trying to be connected to the PA
system, but it was not working
out, and the result was an
occasional BOOM that filled the
club. ?
Time hung over the heads of
the people seated near the front of
the stage, waiting fbrthe next band
and waiting for the telephone to
ring.
They Were there for a va riety of
reasons—the rock n' roll
(Grandma Suki, Brothers
Patchwork, Big Butter,
Kn ucklehead and the Miss Alans);
the Earth; Democratic Presidential
Candidate Jerry Brown.
Word spread quickly
throughout Club Fred that Brown
was'about to call from San
Francisco.
"Jerry Brown was supposed to
call here," one patron seated to
the right of the bar said to the
person next to him.
Tteally?" the person said, in
obvious disbelief.
"Yeah, really," the patron
replied.
Brown was scheduled to
address the issue behind the
concert—to raiseawarenessabout
a toxic waste incinerator in
construction just outside of
Kcttleman City.
Faulty telephone connections
prevented Brown from calling,but
the show went on.
According to Gary Langley,
program director for Citizen Action,
a volunteer organization that
helped with Sunday's concert.
Chemical Waste Management is
attempting to buill one of the
nation's larfest toxic waste
incineralorsm the Kettleman Hills
outside of Kettleman City.
It has the capacity to burn
100J000 tons of toxic waste a year
— 5,000 truckloads of toxic
chemicals.
T wenty-four year oki Mike
Caetano, organizer of the
benefit concert, spent hours of
his own time calling friends,
a
See CONCERT page 6
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