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The Dally Collegian
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professor Sherrin Massie. Mary called
Foushee after finding additional inform¬
ation in a Fresno Bee article. "I described
Lydia's condition, that she was apraxic
[unable to speak]." Foushee agreed to
allow Lydia into the clinic, and she's been
there since spring 1988. .
Though Mary said that Lydia makes
continual progress, it's slow in coming.
Periodically, Mary said she finds herself
depressed, bui il never lasts for long.
Strangers have come up lo her and Lydia.
' and told Mary how touched ihey were by
her younger daughter. Coincidenially,
those encounters with strangers have
come al the lower points in her life.
Mary said she attributes her strength to
her belief in God. Eleven days after Lyd¬
ia's accident, the doctors told Mary and
her husband ihat Lydia was probably
going to die. They look her off ibe medi¬
cation that day, and Mary and Jim were
told they might be getting a phone call
that evening from lhe Ronald McDonald
House ihey were staying at, telling ihem
thai Lydia was dying.
liTihc morning, Mary said she awoke
and realized ihat there had been no phone
call. "We bad said the night before, 'She's
in God's hands now.' There is no doubt in
my mind it was a miracle." she said. "We
had good reason to have confidence in the
doctors who said she wouldn't make iL
This musl be the best thing for her." she'
said.
Lydia will continue with the twice-
weekly sessions al CSUF, "until she
doesn't have io," Mary said. For now, she
keeps a guarded hope that one day the
sessions and Lydia's determination will
bring-her out of a world of silence.
CLUB
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Collegiate Fencing Society.
Although these sports receive no
funding from the athletic budget, each is
entitled lo funds supplied by Ihe Assoc¬
iated Students, Inc., based on budget re¬
quests proposed to lhe ASI each year.
But, in order to receive this type of fund¬
ing, these organizations must first be rec¬
ognized by the Student Programs Office
as an official club.
' As clubs like the Collegiate Fencing
Society have found out, just being recog¬
nized by the programs office doesn't
necessarily mean financial security. Ac¬
cording to president Angela Hesser, her
club has received no funding from the
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ASI, even though the club is now recog¬
nized as being official,by lhc campus.
Fcftunately, since the 15-inember club
operates on such an informal manner and
only meets once or twice a week, Hesser
says the club really doesnt rieed that
much financially in order to survive.
"What it is, is that our activities don't
really require a lot of-maney." she says.
"So, we don't'have to generate a lot of
money, and basically what we need We
put in ourselves."
The Bulldog Bowling Oub encounters
a slightly different situation. According lo
president Chris Preble, the 13-member
club is much more formal than the fenc¬
ing club, competing in the Northern Calif¬
ornia Intercollegiate Masters League for
most of the school year. It is in this
league that the club faces such opponents
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Donnell
Alexander
Way up high where the siudenis get
governed, there's a riot going on.
It's Students for Responsible
Govemmenl versus lhc rest of lhe
Associated Students Senate. Second floor
of lhe universily union. Again.
You've got io think lhe ofl-criticizcd
SRG party docs wield some power when
they can make Scou Vick, an angelic
presence, albeit one with a large
propensity for misreading the studeni
consciousness, appear to be a mean-
spirited descendem of Richard Milhousc
himself.
• Mow for a recap of the week's events.
The San Jose Slate Universily ASI is
in a bind with the Chancellor's Office
over the use of funds for its lawyers.
Scou thought il might be a good idea to
help ihem out. Quietly, that is.
So a closed session was called for al
last week's senate meeting allowing the
allocation of aitomey funds to be
discussed. A few senators were puzzled
over what exactly was to happen at the
session, but attended anyway. Among lhc
dumbfounded were Senators Jim Ireland,
Frank Aviles, Billy J. Lerch and Kim
Brown, all of whom are aligned with
SRG.
Tuesday, another closed session was'
called and this time Ireland and Avi|cs
refused lo attend. And here's where things
get exciting.
While wailing outside lhc meeting.
Ireland and Aviles came inio contact wiih
a Collegian reporter and Ireland prompily
spilled the beans about what was going
on inside. Seeing what was occurring,
administrative assistant Bill While alerted
Vick lo ihe heresy going on beyond the
door.
Scott Vick was livid. He talked about
ethics, expressed his disgust—mostly by
saying in really loud tones that he was
disgusted—and said he would seek
Ireland's ouster. Everyone was tense. And
surely, some were impressed.
Later thai day, Scott relented, saying he
spoke in anger when he made those
statements. He added thai he'd reconsider
trying lo gel Ireland fired.
Well, now ii appears Scou can knock
off a liute early or maybe go catch a
movie because he doesn't have to worry
about going.easy on Ire land.
Yesterday Ireland told me, among other
things, thai if he doesn't gel a public
apology from Vick, both in the Senate
and in the pages of litis newspaper, he's
resigning from his post.
"If he's going to berate me in front oP-
ihe Senate and then not follow through. I
want an apology. If I don't get that, then
I'll give him what be wants. I'll resign."
"He's been puiiing things like this
since day one. The "Students Can"
raUy...Tnis is the worst: Closing the
senate to the public."
Scou Vick and Jim Ireland go back a
long way. Two years ago they ran against
each other for a sludent vice president
post Vick won.'
There's no love tost between the iwo.
In fact, il kind of seems like ihey hate
each other.
Vick, ai Tuesday's meeting: Tm
aghast, disgusted and disgraced by his
behavior."
Ireland, yesterday, comparing the ASI
president lo a disease: "Maybe there's a
career in the student presidency."
According to Ireland, cronyism
dominates student senate operations
because eight of lhe 12 senators belong to
ihe conservative Reality Party. He says
this single-minded vision brings dubious
results.
"There are certain issues thai should be
discussed in closed-door sessions, like
personnel, thai could damage them from   f~i
employment or whatever," he said. "But/
Ihis? Hiding il from the chancellor!"
(There exists a sentiment that Ann
Reynolds, the CSU chancellor, would get
aitiiy with lhc '.. St :r AS if her office   *
ever discovered ihat the CSUF AS is
acting in league wiih SJS.-Exactly why
her office—wiih its multitude of million-
dollar concerns—would even care about
such relatively pcrmy-anie student
politicking has yet lo be seriously
discussed.
Also al issue here are probable
violations of, the Brown Act and open
mccliing laws, but that's all water under
lhc bridge. And wc don'i want to appear
l:till I -.Il. do WC?)
This ultimately is a students issue.
Should CSUFs sludeni govemmenl
mancvuer behind closed doors to helpTSOt  '
a fellow student body?
Ireland says Vick's plan, which ai firsP^'
was to cosl CSUF S500 but was upped lo
S 1,000 Tuesday, might not even work.
"(The moneyl was not even Tor any
sort or filing. Ii was jusl a research
thing," he said. "There's no guarantee that
spending ihis money for lhe lawyer would
do anything. »
1 wanted ah open debate instead of Ihis
Scou Vick Clique-
Ireland, who complains that SRG
scnaiors are kepi off the most powerful
committees (read: Finance and Budget),
says he's been thrusi inio this siluaiion.
ihat he broke the senate silence out of a
sense of duly.
This was no grand plan," he said.
"This to me jusl seemed, for lack of a
belter word, to be a cover-up."
Whatever this is, intTa-campus crony
cover-up or just a weasel narcing on
suideni-body Don-Quixotes, there will be
a laser-light show at the next senate
meeting. I know Tm going.
Donnell Alexander's column appears    -
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