1988_12 The Daily Collegian December 1988

              the Daily Collegian
California State University. Fresno
Monday. December 5,1988
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Mexican
election
discussed
BY GAY TAGLC111
Staff WHtar
Presidential victory was stolen from
the rightful vvinner in the recent Mexican
elections, said a journalist of a national.
bilingual newspaper.
Laura Garcia, of the communist weekly
The People's Tribune, spoke Friday for an
hour before a small group of CSUF stud¬
ents gathered in the Main Cafeteria. The
talk was sponsored by the on-campus
chapter of the Movimento Es Indian til Chi¬
cano de Milan (MEChA).
'Ctiauhiemoc Cardenas should have
won," said Garcia, agreeing with senti¬
ments expressed by Cardenas and his
r««itical party.
Cardenas, the opposition leader of the
Nstrjonal Democratic Front (made up of
left-wing and populist panics), officially
garnered only 31 percent of the vote,
while tbe in-power Institutional Revol¬
utionary Patty (known as PJU.) candid¬
ate, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, received
50.17 percent and amther candidate
received 17 percent.
But these numbers are deceiving, said
the first-hand observer of the elections,
because the election was nddled with vole
fraud. "20 percent of the vote, or six lo
eight milion voles, were disputed," •she
said, and "these eventually went to tbe
PJU. candidaic."
. Il look the P.R.I.-ruled government a
week to declare the winner, something
that, Garcia said, added to the growing ci¬
vil distrust and disillusionment with the
gt>veriiTnenL
Please see ELECTION, page 3
Winter classes to be offered
Session will offer 38 classes in 17 fields
during three week run, starting Jan. 3>
BY JEFF PENNISI
Staff Writer
For students who want to keep pace
with their academic time schedule,
CSUFs Division of Extended Education
is offering a winter session between the
Fall and Spring sernesters.
Thirty-seven classes in 18 fields of
study will be offered during tbe winter
session, which begins Jan. 3 and ends
Jan. 30. Pre-registration runs today
through Friday, but students can still get
into a class by showing up on first day.
Siudenis must pay the $83 per unit fees
by 6 p.m. that first day of class.
Winter session b a short intensive sem¬
ester completely supported by studeni
fees. Tbe foes are 'a lot to some students,
but not lo ate,* aid Winter Session/Sum¬
mer Session Coorthrsttor N2dri Powell
"Not if you compare it to tbe Uni¬
versity of Califomia. which coats S125 a
unit," Powell said
The semester is three weeks long. The
session requires, fifteen contact hours per
unit. For a three-unit class students hire
0
43 contact hours packed into 13 days of
classes.    /
The Winter Session program came into
existence seven yean ago, then called the
Inicr-Session, when tbe university chang¬
ed its academic calendar to allow five
weeks between tbe Fall and Spring sem-
csters, axording lo Powell.
Each year about 600-700 sudenis take
part in the session. Most of them are
foreign students.
"They don'i have a place to go for tbe
holidays so ihey might as well go to
school," said Powell "A lot of tbe
students want to pick up another class to
cut down iheir spring semester load."
The short period of time is good and
bad, according to geography instructor,
Donald Morgan, who has taught during
the winier session almost since ifs begin¬
ning eight years a ago.
"On the positive side of tbe coin you
have a lot of conrimuty with the in¬
tensive study. You just flow tram one
day 10 another,' said Morgan. You have
the foil auention from the students,
according lo Morgan.
"But on tbe negative side of the coin
students don't have the time to digest the
material," l%SHd.
Another negative aspect, according to
Morgan, is the writing assignment re¬
quired by all general education classes.
The short amount of lime makes it harder
to complete the writing requxrerneni
About half of the courses offered during
the winier session are general ethical ion
courses. The rest are upper-division and
icachers oeoeniial ccwrses. .'
Despite these disadvantages, students in
winier session get higher grades, ac¬
cording to both Morgan and Izumi Tan-
iguchi, chairman of the Economics De¬
partment, who also teaches a class during
the winter session.
The reason for this, according to Mor¬
gan, is that students do not have time to
forget the irsarterial. "I find thai there t*e a
few more As and Bs in tbe winier session
than the regular session even though 1 use
the same tests for both," and Morgan.
Students are also paying a larger a-
mount of money, areordmg io Morgan,
so the attendance is better and the grades
are abo better.
It is a good time to take a class said
Please see WfNHK. page4
Looters
get SSU
jumping
BY JEFF PENNISI
AND MARY BOTH ALEXANDER
Staff ft t*ete
The Looters, a band from San Fran¬
cisco, played iheir unique blend of sty¬
les Irom around the world to a small
but enthusiastic crowd Friday night in
CSUFs SateHiie Studeni Union.
Jurnping about to the diverse
mixture of aowids, the crowd pf about
70 danced to the Looters' combination
of ele«nents of reggae, calypso and sal¬
sa, which produced tunes Ihat were
danceable, but packed a aocial mes¬
sage.
Tbe Loons—Mat Callahan. Joe
aiidJimJohnsoo.FTedCirilkiawlAJiB-
grjna G. Stat—kept their stage and
light show simple in keeping with
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