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Perez speaks
on minority
obstacles
By Patrick Bettencourt
StaffWriter
l>. Theresa Perez, chair of Curriculum,
Teaching and Educational Technology and
CSUF faculty member since 1971. has
struggled lo gel lo the lop and now that she
is there, she is sharing her experiences with
others. *
On Sept 17 Perez was a guest speaker at
the fifmaiinualCential California Women's
Conference in Fresno. Two weeks later,
Perez spoke at the About Kids and Families
Conference, sponsored by Valley Children's
Hospital in Fresno.
At the Women's Conference, Perez was
one of a three woman panel speaking about
their own experiences in a session called
"Minority Women in Leadership Roles."
The other two speakers were Chinh Chau,
Project Director ot Refugee Services for the
Fresno Economic Opportunities Commis¬
sion and J uanita Stevenson, a reporter for
Channel 30 news. Perez spoke about the
difficulties encountered as a minority
woman trying to overcome obstacles in a
traditional field. Her audience was approxi¬
mately 150 ininority women who are trying
to advance in their job experiences.       /
According toPerez, CSUFhasonly three
department chair positions filled by women
sand has no female minority deans.
'There are relatively few minority
women in leadership roles," Perez said.
Perez pointed out two of the problems
that women face in the university: little
access to information for new faculty and
little mentoring.
"As chair, I'm in a position to make sure
that incoming professors have adequate
support," Perez said. "Infonnation is im¬
portant for new faculty. {You work with
what you have and if you don't have a lot,
you don't give a lot"
Now after 21 years of employment at
CSUF, Dr. Perez can give a lot
I've learned the ropes; the issues of
access. It's a whole learning process,"
Perez said.
"I don't mind taking on issues. I'm very
vocal and I pick my isrucs carefully," Perez
said. "As a minority woman, it is twice as
hard to be accepted. You always face these
issues of acceptance."
According to Perez, when she joined the
School of Education in 1980, she was only
PLEASESEE PEREZ, PAGE 5 *
By Patrick .Bettencourt        -   ,
Staff Writer A
Twenty—five, twenty—five, twenty—
five, do I hear thirty? Yes! Thirty, thirty,
thirty...
The auctioneer's voice will ring out today
as over 30 bicycles are sold in the Free
speech Area. The annual auction, now in
approximately its 10th year, will start at
boon. The bikes being sold have all been
impounded by the CSUF University Police
Department and are now being sold to raise
money for die Becky Honda Scholarship
fund for disabled students.
According to Stan Todd, coordinator of
academic services for disabled students,
every year lost and found articles, and in
this case, confiscated bicycles, are turned
over to Disabled Student Services. Dis¬
abled Student Services, in turn, sells the
items to raise money. According to Todd,
turning confiscated and lost and found item,
over to student services is something that is
done on all CSU campuses. The program
was begun by Chancel lor Barry Munitz.
According to police dispatcher Anita
Mendez, bikes are kept in a storage area for
up to six months before they are turned over
to student services.
"Bikes found on campus that are locked
to .something that they are not supposed to
be locked to, like a stairwell, or if they are
blocking a handicapped ramp will be taken
by the police," Mendez said. "If your bike
was picked up we may or may not cite you,
it depends on why the bike was picked up.
If it was turned in to lost and found, there is
no problem."
Sgt Rick Snow, police officer in charge
of impounded bicycles, was unavailable for
comment
According to Todd, $500 to .$600 is
usually raised from various sales held by
student services.
"The bikes sell for anywhere between
Please see BIKES, page 4
Jeffrey
Commisso, a
Bruce
Herschenschn
(toft) and Mary
Helen Ortega
get up close
and personal
in the Free
Speech Area
after the
Barbara Boxer
rally Friday.
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Students divided over Proposition 161
By Suzanne Andrews
StaffWriter     •
; Students at CSUF are divided not only
on how they stand on Proposition 161, but
on whether or not they win even discuss it.
.   In an informal pelf of 25 students, only
13 would comment on their views of Prop.
161, and of those 13, four would only re¬
spond anonymously.
Ofthe 13 students who commented, seven
students said they would vote for Prop. 161,
while six said they would vote against it
Prop. 161 is the Physician Assisted Death,
Terminal Condition Initiative Statute.
According to the official summary pre¬
pared by the Attorney General, Prop. 161
authorizes mentally competent adults to
request in writing "aid in dying" m the event
that terminal condition is diagnosed, and it
establishes rules for executing, witnessing
and revoking the request
If properly requested, the proposition
authorizes physicians to terminate life in
"painless, humane and dignified manner"
and provides immunity from civil or crimi¬
nal liability for participating health care
professionals and facilities.
It allows physicians, health care profes¬
sionals and privately owned hospitals to
refuse assistance in dying if religiously,
morally or ethically opposed.
Plop. 161 prevents requesting or receiv¬
ing aulhorized assistance from being classi¬
fied as suicide.
Finally, it prohibits the existence or non¬
existence of a written request from affect¬
ing insurance policies.
The full text of tbe proposition is con¬
tained in the California Ballot Pamphlet
Trustees professor for the political sci¬
ence department and CSUF President
Emeritus Harold Haak suggested embar-
Please see PROP 161, page 6