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The Daily Collegian
News—5
Student Fee Committee blasts trustees
Task forces programs
recommendations not   *
followed, Highsmith says
By Robert Williamson
Staffwriter
Student fee hikes and formalities of pro¬
gram recommendations to President John
Welty were the topics of discussion at
Monday's Academic Senate meeting.
James Highsmith, professor of business
and a representative of the Student Fee Task
Force Committee, spoke about the recent
CSU fee hike passed by the CSU Board of
Trustees, reassuring those present that it had
not been implemented in any of the ways
that the committee had recommended.
He said the committee had, among other
things, recommended that the fees be raised
gradually and fairly, along with financial,
aid reform, geared to help those who will
suddenly find themselves unable to afford
the fees.
It also recommended that the Trustees not
implementa"(lifferentialfeeraise"forgradu-
ate students (which would mean a higher fee
hike for grads than for undergrads) — all of
which the Trustees did contrary to their sumption is that it will be used for academic
recommendations. programs.
The SFTFisan advisory committee made The remainder of the meeting was virtu-
up of faculty, who are appointed by the CSU ally taken up w i trune voting procedures and
Chancellor's office.               s—•        n. other formalities of the Senate's upcoming
Professor of Home Economics William *" ProgranTAppraisal recommendations to
Fasse questioned the soundness of a sugges- Welty.
tion brought up in a recent CSU Chancellor's
office memo relating to the fee hike.
The memorandum suggested that restric¬
tions be lifted on how student-fee money be
used.
Fasse said he thought it was "bad policy"
These sets of recommendations, along
with ones from the various school deans.
Provost and Vice President of Academic
Affairs Alex Gonzalez and the Academic
Program Appraisal Committee, will help
Welty to come to a final decision as to which
tc have money floating around like that,    programs will stay and which will go in
"with no strings attached," even if the asr    upcoming years.
New law increases seat belt use, CHP reports
Allowing officers to
stop suspects lowers
number of violators
By Claire Anselmo
. Staffwriter
Only three months in existence,
■California's new seat belt law is
already thought to have increased
' belt usage, and is predicted to raise
the survival rate in potentially fatal
motor vehicle accidents.
Although the law expires in 1996,
California Highway Patrol repre¬
sentatives are confident that the
law will be continued, possibly
becoming a permanent statute.
"Because it's only March, we
have very little data, but compli¬
ance has increased," said Steve
Kohler, public information officer
with the CHP Headquarters. "Over¬
all, we've written fewer citations
for seat belts this year than we had
in 1992 at this point" '
In Fresno alone, highway patrol
officers have noticed a decrease in
violations so far this year, said
Laurie Johnson, public affairs of¬
ficer with the Fresno Division CHP
office.
"We're stopping more drunk
drivers for violating the law, but
that's pretty routine in .Fresno,"
Johnson said. "Just this morning I
went out, and there was no one on
the roads without a seat belt. I
think everybody is aware of the
law and the reasons for it."
An amendment to the original *
1986 Private Passenger Motor
Vehicle Safety Act, the nev/law
allows police and highway patrol
officers to stop and cite motorists
for nbt wearing seat belts, from
Jan. 1,1993 to Jan. 1,1996, when
the California legislature will re¬
evaluate the law.
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twas the last committee of this na¬
ture.
"The charge was much nar-
'■' rower," Zelezny said. "We looked
at publicity efforts of the univer¬
sity off campus."
Zelezny said he felt satisfied with
what the Academic Awareness
Committee accomplished, consid¬
ering it had a smaller budget and
smaller scope of issues.
Zelezny said the new committee
is responsible for coming up with a
more comprehensive and all-en¬
compassing plan.
. Zelezny said that for him it was
important to make sure there is
sufficient personnel and budget to
implement a plan.
"That" s more important than any
one one issue that goes in the plan,"
Zelezny said.
Hemink said the eight commit¬
tee members are preparing for this
week's meeting.
"Every member is looking at the
top two or three issues that they
think need to be looked at," Hemink
said.
The committee will decide the
issues to address and then how to
approach them.
"There may be surveys in-
volved^" Hemink said. "The
committee's still in the planning
stage."    t
The committee, which has until
May 1994 to respond to Welty, is
made up of members of the com¬
munity as well as faculty and staff.
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The amendment was proposed
by Assembly Speaker Willie,
Brown (D-San Francisco) and
signed by Gov. Pete Wilson in
July. \
Originally, law enforcement of¬
ficers could cite unbelted motor¬
ists only if they had been stopped
for another suspected violation.
Under the act, a first offense is
punishable by£$20 fine, and sub¬
sequent infractions carry a $50 finev.
The law applies to drivers and
passengers of automobiles made
after 1967 and trucks made after
1973. Before those dates, the re¬
spective vehicles were not required
to have seat belts.
No alternate law exists for older
vehicles, and Kohler said the ve¬
hicles are low in priority because
they are diminishing.
"Also, we have other ways of
informing those motorists of safety
devices they can use through edu¬
cational pamphlets and brochures
we have," he said. "We don't need
to pull them over."
With the amendment, California
becomes the first state to "upgrade"
its seat belt law from secondary
?t-
enforcement measures to primary
enforcement; one of 10 states in
the nation with primary enforce¬
ment; and only the second state,
with Oregon, that has primary en¬
forcement of a law applicable to all
seats in the vehicle, not merely
front seats.
In total, 42 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico and the ter¬
ritories in the United States had
some form of seat belt law, as Of
December 1992.
"The Legislature can continue
this law beyond 1996 with a vote,"
Kohler said. JThe figures from last
year alone are persuasive data in
convincing any legislator."
Last year, Kohler said, CHP re¬
ports showed that 1,888 motorists
were killed in fatal accidents, and
1,326 of those victims were not
wearing seat belts.       •»
"Furthermore," Kohler said, "in
the investigating officer's opinions,
871 of those 1,888 victims would
have been alive with a seat belt.
That's about 46 percent."
With secondary enforcement still
See Seat. Belts, page 9
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