1994_04 The Daily Collegian April 1994

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Fresno State's Independent t>aily. -
Monday, April 11,1994
Election for ASI
begins Tuesday    ,.
By Steve Walsh
THECOLLEGIAN
The ballot for the election of
Associated Students, Inc. officers
will include candidates for presi¬
dent, legislative vice president, ad¬
ministrative Vice president and
senators from each school.
Many students expect to vote on
their preference of either a $16 or
$8 mandatory ASI fee, as well.
However, the measure, which has
gained attention similar to the pro¬
posed CSUF to FSU name change,
will not be on Tuesday's ballot due    the measure on the ballot, it would
SCARED [now SEAL "I don't
know what they are trying to hide.
I'd rather have the students decide
their own fate."
The students had not voiced
concern over their "fate" when the
fee reduction was first proposed,
according to SEA presidential can¬
didate Susan Shweiki. "The first
time it went through, it was
Reality's idea." Because of
Reality's proposal, Shweiki said,
"We [SEA] have put a lot of heat on
Reality senators."
Shweiki said that if SEA wanted
to last-minute red tape.
In order for. the fee issue to have
been put on the ballot, it must have
been proposed at an ASI meeting,
and the minutes of that meeting
approved at a later meeting.
The fee change issue was pre¬
sented at the ASI meeting on April
1. The minutes for that meeting
- were expected to be approved the
following week but were not
FSU administration accepts only
a meeting's minutes as its official
documentation, said Gino Borges,
senator of the School of Business.
The ASI secretary failed to com¬
plete the minutes, said Borges, so
they could not be approved on April
7 in time for this week's elections.
. Ryan Ross, Reality candidate
for ASI president, commented on
have been due to students' voiced
opinion.
Ifthe ASI fee is cut from $16 to
$8\ several organizations and pro¬
grams offered to the student body
will be cut, said current ASI Presi¬
dent Stacy Green..
Tommy Monreal, Save Our
School presidential candidate, said,
'It's almost like cutting your throat.
We'll lose part of our education
system ifthe fee is reduced. Instead
of wasti ng so much energy on $8,
we can do something else." The
"something else," said Monreal,
could be a book exchange, an idea
he supports as part of his presiden¬
tial platform.
Elections for the Associated Stu¬
dents, Inc., ran April 12-14.
Ragin' Records
Fuels Generation X
By Jason Owen
THECOLLEGIAN
Paul Cruikshank is a slacker.
He is 27 yearTold and repre¬
sents the epitome of Generation X,
the 'slacker' generation.
Cruikshank has been running bis
own record store, Ragin' Records.,
for the past five-and-a-half years.
His most popular store is in the
Tower District *   -
"I started by selling off*fty punk
rock record collection that I had
been growing for six years," said
Cruikshank. "Punk rock meant a
lot to- me. I actually cared about
what they were saying and now it's
just huge. Every kid is into it now
whoisover 17 so it's kind of losing'
it for me ... I don't know, I can't
explain iL"
Cruikshank is someone who r>
aware and concerned about Gen¬
eration X. ^
'Therearealotofthingslthink
are typical of Generation X," he
said. "For example the stuff that I
love is usually the stuff that I also
hate, like smoking and drinking.
"I dig pop art like Korik and
AndyWarhol.IliketowatchTV.I
love to watch TV. I'll watch any¬
thing. I Watch odd stuff like pro-
bowling. I think I like the idea of
watching TV more than I actually
like TV. I like white trash TV and
white trash culture."
Cruikshank is into books like
Shampoo Planet and Life After God
written by Douglas Coupl and who
tries to define what makes up Gen¬
eration X.
"Coupland says we're the first
generation raised without faith in
God," said Cruikshank. "What
keeps us sane is that if we ever
, travel to Chicago we can always
find a 7-1 lor turn on CNN. That's
what we have faith in.
"Generation X has a new, unde¬
fined culture. It has no heritage but
it has culture. We have Fruit Loops
and CNN. and as long as things are
familiar to us we are OK and this
calms our anxieties."
Cruikshank says that Genera¬
tion X has basically lost all faith in
everything.
"We don't have a lot of faith in
anything," he said. "My standard
answer to life after death is T don't
know' and I'm fine with that an¬
swer. There's nothing we deem
sacred in this generation. People
See GENERATION, page 1
Dance troupe takes flight
By Armee L. Fleher and
MMStt ISfM Rjj
THECOLLEGIAN
Bodies and imagination take
flight in a series of six dance jour¬
neys choreographed by four women
artiste for the April Portable Dance
Troupe productions. ,.
Director Ruth Griffin named tne
producuon'TakingFlight'*because
it describes "the flight of imagina¬
tion that an artist makes and then
the flight of the dancer's body as
the dancer begin s to mover goes
forward into the dance and also the
flight of the audience as they per-
mit themselves to become involved'
and eater into the art, form and
whatever reverie and feelings that
are invoked in the audience."
the first piece, choreographed
by Griffin, is a comedk dance that
pokes fun at dance conventions in¬
cluding vaudeville, ballet and fol¬
lies.
Dancers Yueh-Ping Feng, Janice
Tay, Krissy Reiss, Erin
Wintermeyer and Holly Jones
dance in "Fresh's" reflection of
youthful vitality.
In Re-Member, choreographer
Cheryl Kershaw uses performance
. art and words, dance, video and
soundtrack excerpts from the coun¬
terculture film "A Clockwork Or¬
ange" to explore our both/'s capac¬
ity to remember. Akosue Grant,
CristalHensley, Brian Sereda, Ken
Smith, John Stronks and JaniceTay
dance in Re-Member.
Griffin and BethPierikMcEnery
depict two sisters as they pass
through moods and ages in the third
piece, "Of Night and Light" It is a
duet that "explores the memories
and remembrance of tilings past
See DANCE, page 5
Inside
Opinion: FSU has always
.been unofficial name of
'school 2
IneWe tease: Dog Tags
are watershed memory
fjorn Beach.     3
Sports: Todd rtiech sets
a 1994 world beat mark
in the Javelin. ......6