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Xx_ Friday, May 13,1988 Page 3 ^——-^——- IQpinion Editorship requires fancy footwork JoAnn Baltau I have been wailing all semester to be just an editor (in addition to being a student). It never happened. The semester started with high hopes in January. 1 was an editor and I had a newspaper to run. Unfortunately, the Associated S udenis definition of an editor differed from mine. Being an editor for an AS publication (at least this admmistration's) is like going to the Arthur Murray's School of Dance. The marathon of dancing that an editor has to go through to keep The Daily Collegian funded and running is exhausting. The semester starts with the two-step of fixing last semester's problems. There are 8 a.m. meetings (after of course putting a paper out the night before until 3 am.) for budget and legal details. Except for the loss of sleep, an editor expects this first shuffle. Administrative work is necessary at Limes. Bui then an editor moves onto the Fox Trot of aiiending endless Associated Students senate meetings and various AS committees' meetings. Somewhere, il was forgotten thai all editor has a newspaper to put out as well as playing politics with the senate. Among the other dances, there is the Bunny Hop at the end of the semester. The editor of the Collegian is expected io aitend budget hearings and dance for the AS. Depending on how good the footwork is on the editor's part, the Collegians budget is approved by lhe Finance and Budget Committee. This semester the AS presideni threw in a new twist by ignoring the Finance and Budget Committee's budget proposal. Presideni Mark Astone came up with a budget of his own without the input of his finance committee or the Collegian. His ignorance of the newspaper arv' its staff showed through when he cut key positions from the staff. A newspaper won't gel far without its managing editor or its advertising production manager. Who would assign stories or design ads? The Rlarathon of dancing that an editor must endure lasts the entire semester. Besides the past 16 weeks of tap dancing, 1 have speni the last three weeks walking, talking, living, sleeping, and breathing the Collegian budget. My classes (I am required to be a student to be editor) hrtve gone to what one of my professors referred lo as "academic shit," I wa«- going to pass them but thai was as foolish a hope as being just an editor was. I thought that once the budget was passed 1 could be an editor, just an editor, for three days. Three days, after all, is better than none. But AS President Astone has taken ihai away from me in his serious consideration of vetoing The Daily Collegian budget. Soon, in the AS School of Dance, there are going to be no applicants for the position of editor of the Collegian. There was only one completed application this semester. No one is flexible enough nor has thick enough toe shoes to withstand a semester ai the barre with the Associated Students. And no one gets the chance to be just an editor. HELP Continued from page 1 the program, but she has no volunteers to help with the intense sessions which take up most of the day. She says she needs enough people to volunteer for two hours a day on rotating shifts. Sontag said last year she had four or five CSUF students who volunteered, but they have since graduated and moved away. "Jonathon has been the subject of a lot of thesis and term papers," she says non¬ chalantly. She has tried to obtain volunteers by calling the school, but said she hasn't received very good response and des¬ perately needs more volunteers. Charles Solis, director ol the Children's Neuro Development Center, said Sontag's frustration with traditional treatments is typical of the stories he hears from parents of brain-injured children. "We're sort of a last resort, but we still manage to accomplish changes in our patients," Solis says of the center which has been operating in San Rafael since 1984. "Parents typically go through the tradi¬ tional drug and therapy treatments offered by most hospitals, hoping for a change." Brain damage, Solis says, has tradi¬ tionally been ignored by society at large as well as the medical society. "People ihink nothing can be done,'' he said. He says the symptoms of brain damage are treated through a myriad of therapies; but the actual caase of the symptoms, dhich is the brain, doesn't eel His center, modeled along the lines of a Philadelphia center called The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, attempts to re-ieach the brain how to operate The California center, which treats ap¬ proximately 75 patients, tries to achieve this through intense programs of repeb- live actions, breathing exercises and nu¬ trition. "It's a hell of a lot of work," Solis said. Solis, who has worked with brain-in- jured people for 13 years, says the center doesn't prescribe drugs and strongly dis¬ courages the use of drug treatments for its patients. "Doctors will often put the kids on drugs rather than bring an approach that deals with the problem in a holistic way." He says of using drugs on brain injury victims lhaL "The medical society and society in general are hooked on the quick fix. They're looking for fast answers to complicated problems. It's obvious in our area [dealing with brain injuries] that there are no quick answers." The first visit to the center, which lasts three days, costs $450. The time is used by the center to test the child in six different areas: Vision, hearing and under¬ standing, lactility, mobility, language and manual dexterity. A specific regimen is designed by the center for the family to use with the child daily. The family is to return every four months to test the effectiveness of the regimen. Each return visit, also lasting three days, costs $250. While the center's costs are not as high as most other treatments used for brain¬ damaged children, Sontag, whose only Please see HELP, page 14 Wednesday, June 1 8:00p.m. i n the Satellite College Union Jfem - TICKETS ** * • ••.">%*' At the door $6.00/CSUF students $8.00/General Sponsored by College Union Program Committee TICKETS ^n nrivance. $5 00/CSUF students $7.00/General
Object Description
Title | 1988_05 The Daily Collegian May 1988 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1988 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
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Title | May 13, 1988, Page 3 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1988 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | Xx_ Friday, May 13,1988 Page 3 ^——-^——- IQpinion Editorship requires fancy footwork JoAnn Baltau I have been wailing all semester to be just an editor (in addition to being a student). It never happened. The semester started with high hopes in January. 1 was an editor and I had a newspaper to run. Unfortunately, the Associated S udenis definition of an editor differed from mine. Being an editor for an AS publication (at least this admmistration's) is like going to the Arthur Murray's School of Dance. The marathon of dancing that an editor has to go through to keep The Daily Collegian funded and running is exhausting. The semester starts with the two-step of fixing last semester's problems. There are 8 a.m. meetings (after of course putting a paper out the night before until 3 am.) for budget and legal details. Except for the loss of sleep, an editor expects this first shuffle. Administrative work is necessary at Limes. Bui then an editor moves onto the Fox Trot of aiiending endless Associated Students senate meetings and various AS committees' meetings. Somewhere, il was forgotten thai all editor has a newspaper to put out as well as playing politics with the senate. Among the other dances, there is the Bunny Hop at the end of the semester. The editor of the Collegian is expected io aitend budget hearings and dance for the AS. Depending on how good the footwork is on the editor's part, the Collegians budget is approved by lhe Finance and Budget Committee. This semester the AS presideni threw in a new twist by ignoring the Finance and Budget Committee's budget proposal. Presideni Mark Astone came up with a budget of his own without the input of his finance committee or the Collegian. His ignorance of the newspaper arv' its staff showed through when he cut key positions from the staff. A newspaper won't gel far without its managing editor or its advertising production manager. Who would assign stories or design ads? The Rlarathon of dancing that an editor must endure lasts the entire semester. Besides the past 16 weeks of tap dancing, 1 have speni the last three weeks walking, talking, living, sleeping, and breathing the Collegian budget. My classes (I am required to be a student to be editor) hrtve gone to what one of my professors referred lo as "academic shit," I wa«- going to pass them but thai was as foolish a hope as being just an editor was. I thought that once the budget was passed 1 could be an editor, just an editor, for three days. Three days, after all, is better than none. But AS President Astone has taken ihai away from me in his serious consideration of vetoing The Daily Collegian budget. Soon, in the AS School of Dance, there are going to be no applicants for the position of editor of the Collegian. There was only one completed application this semester. No one is flexible enough nor has thick enough toe shoes to withstand a semester ai the barre with the Associated Students. And no one gets the chance to be just an editor. HELP Continued from page 1 the program, but she has no volunteers to help with the intense sessions which take up most of the day. She says she needs enough people to volunteer for two hours a day on rotating shifts. Sontag said last year she had four or five CSUF students who volunteered, but they have since graduated and moved away. "Jonathon has been the subject of a lot of thesis and term papers," she says non¬ chalantly. She has tried to obtain volunteers by calling the school, but said she hasn't received very good response and des¬ perately needs more volunteers. Charles Solis, director ol the Children's Neuro Development Center, said Sontag's frustration with traditional treatments is typical of the stories he hears from parents of brain-injured children. "We're sort of a last resort, but we still manage to accomplish changes in our patients," Solis says of the center which has been operating in San Rafael since 1984. "Parents typically go through the tradi¬ tional drug and therapy treatments offered by most hospitals, hoping for a change." Brain damage, Solis says, has tradi¬ tionally been ignored by society at large as well as the medical society. "People ihink nothing can be done,'' he said. He says the symptoms of brain damage are treated through a myriad of therapies; but the actual caase of the symptoms, dhich is the brain, doesn't eel His center, modeled along the lines of a Philadelphia center called The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, attempts to re-ieach the brain how to operate The California center, which treats ap¬ proximately 75 patients, tries to achieve this through intense programs of repeb- live actions, breathing exercises and nu¬ trition. "It's a hell of a lot of work," Solis said. Solis, who has worked with brain-in- jured people for 13 years, says the center doesn't prescribe drugs and strongly dis¬ courages the use of drug treatments for its patients. "Doctors will often put the kids on drugs rather than bring an approach that deals with the problem in a holistic way." He says of using drugs on brain injury victims lhaL "The medical society and society in general are hooked on the quick fix. They're looking for fast answers to complicated problems. It's obvious in our area [dealing with brain injuries] that there are no quick answers." The first visit to the center, which lasts three days, costs $450. The time is used by the center to test the child in six different areas: Vision, hearing and under¬ standing, lactility, mobility, language and manual dexterity. A specific regimen is designed by the center for the family to use with the child daily. The family is to return every four months to test the effectiveness of the regimen. Each return visit, also lasting three days, costs $250. While the center's costs are not as high as most other treatments used for brain¬ damaged children, Sontag, whose only Please see HELP, page 14 Wednesday, June 1 8:00p.m. i n the Satellite College Union Jfem - TICKETS ** * • ••.">%*' At the door $6.00/CSUF students $8.00/General Sponsored by College Union Program Committee TICKETS ^n nrivance. $5 00/CSUF students $7.00/General |