1993_12 The Daily Collegian December 1993

              6—News
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Thursday, Dec 9,1993
Emergency, from page 1
overall command falling under to
the university president, John
Welty.
"Nothing changes in the overall
chainofcommand,"saidKing. "He
[Welty] still says what goes." ■
Each different department
would then be assigned radios
within their group. When a need
arises for a specialized service, the
request is funneled through the EOC
.and the necessary resources are dis¬
patched. People who are normally
painters or gardeners may find
themselves directing traffic or
checking buildings for gas leaks.
"All of this is pre-arranged,"
explained King. "If I pick up the
phone right now and call farm op-'
erations with a request for a tractor,
they have the ability to mobilize
immediately. Every body has an pre-
assigned job to do so that today
they all know what they would have
to do."
If a major disaster were to oc¬
cur, outside help may be days off.
Emergency units from within
Fresno may he tied up indefinitely
responding to calls for help within
the city.
"Our plan is designed around
being self-sufficient for a minimum
of 72 hours;" explained King. "Un¬
less it is a nationwide disaster, out¬
side help would arrive within 24
hours or so from other areas. We
can get along with emergency
power and have enough food to
feed all the emergency workers.
We also have extra blankets in the
dorms and floor space i n the gym.
If the gym is unavailable, who
knows, we may have people sleep¬
ing in the halls of Joyal."
Without outside support, CSUF
emergency teams will have to cany
out tasks that require specialized
training. All ofthe major individu¬
als within key response groups have
gone to training off campus where
they have played out roles in realis¬
tic-training exercises.
After returningtto CSUF, they
pass that training on to members
of their teams. For instance, mem¬
bers of the hazardous materials
response team cany haz-mat cer¬
tifications and are radiation-safety
specialists. In some cases, the
CSUF haz-mat team has been able
to contain and clean up small spills
on campus without the help of the
FresnoFire Department's Haz-Mat
Squad. According to King, there
have been no major spills on cam¬
pus and all incidents i;. '.c past
have only required the closing of a
small area.
: Earlynextyear.anoutsidecon-
sultant will visit CSUF to help re¬
vamp the emergency plan. "This
spring, we will be adding training,
re-certifying people, updating
plans and training new people,"
said King. "With budget cuts, lay¬
offs and re-organization, ourplans
have changed dramatically."
As of yet, there has not been a
full-scale training exercise on cam¬
pus. However, some individual
departments hold practice drills.
"We have 'tabletop' exercises,"
said Paull. "But sometimes we
have drills within the health center
'with niore realistic scenarios, com¬
plete with people acting out the
parts of victims and we break out
all the supplies."
But, for the most part, the emer¬
gency operations plans are acted
out on paper. "We try to go over
different scenarios that may oc-
cux. We like to get together, even
if not formally, occasionally to
keep our information upto date.
After the Parkfield alert, we all got
together to touch base," saidKing
referring to a U.S. Department of
Geological Survey earthquake
warning issued a couple of months
back. ■ *
because no matter what you
plan', you may need one or two
back-ups," King said.
Culture, from page 5
of a stroke ori Aug- 10, 1991.
Site' advocated a free-standing
rjuflding to house: the center
In September 1992, about
300 students marched to the
Chanccllar Paul Hardin's bouse
toc^iia^afre»-standirigbuildi-
ing forfiStcen^f.Jn October,
riundm amotuipced^bij sappori
of a Jnree-iOuichng bmldfng
named lor Stone.
Specifics about the size and
locarJion^df the frr^rfahdjiig
building led to the arrest of 16
students and & Chapel Hill resi¬
dent. Tbearrests occurred when
100 students entered the admin¬
istration building on April 16,
1993 with aKstof demands about
the center. The protesters were
charged with disorderly conduct,
but the charges were later dis-
missed by the district court
judge.
Tbe^fack cultural center is
currently located in a small of¬
fice in the student union, and
offers exchanges of cultural and
| academic knowledge by lecture
series and the Cross Cultural
Communications Institute.
The university plans to ex-
pjnd the center with A Hh^ary,
theater, hall- of famp, art gaBery
muffle and daace studios, media
center and study room. It. wil?
also contain a new lashtute for
Research on the life and. htstory
of blacks in Amelia
pevelopinjsRt officials arc
CurrcatJy k&ea^lysng .©rkpora-.
I^^jgm^iwsahdiorhvidii- ■
ajs that 'slight be mteresifd m
contributing to the center. *c
corcbrigtoMattKupec, assccs
ate vsce chaiiceller of develop¬
ment The university's develop- ;
meat office had to wait until the
project was. approved before
funds could be raised.
Kupec said raising theasu-
mated $7 million for the center
could take years.
"My experience in raising
money for capital projects tells
me that bur success will depend
on Our ability to attract several
large gifts," Kupec said. "We
have to concentrate on obtain¬
ing severaUead gifts of $1 mil¬
lion or mor£ A grassroots effort
won't produce the results we
need fast enough for a project
this size."
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