1994_05 The Daily Collegian May 1994

              THE COLLEGIAN
Vol. 102, No. ^ft Jffi
Fresno State's Independent Daily
Thursday, May 5,1994
More students
means need for
another bond
By Adrianne Go
THE COLLEGIAN f.
California's higher education
system will gam $900 million for
structural improvements and tech¬
nological upgrades if voters pass
Proposition 1C, the Higher Educa¬
tion Facili-   - *
ties Bond Act
on June 7.
The
state's public
higher edu¬
cation sys¬
tems, the
University of
California,
the Califor-
niaSiateUni-
' versity, Cali¬
fornia Com¬
munity Col¬
leges, the
Hastings
College of
the Law and
the California Maritime Academy
would all receive funding from the
bond.
""If you look at the potential for
student growth in the next 10 to 15
years, there will be a need for addi¬
tional campus facilities throughout
the system," said Lynn Hemink,
executive assistant to FSU Presi¬
dent John Welty.
According to Califomians for
Higher Education, the prime lob¬
bying force behind Prop 1C, com¬
munity colleges and state universi¬
ties can expect 800,000 additional
students over the next 10 years.
Hemink said this is one of the
few times
where the
three higher
education
systems
have col¬
laborated on
a joint
project To¬
gether, the
three sys¬
tems serve
1.9 million
students.
All 20
universities
in the CSU
system,
would re¬
ceive project funding from Prop
1C. The bond will allow for such
projects as: building upgrades to
current earthquake standards, reno¬
vations of libraries and expansion
of science facilities.
See BOND, page 7
"If you look at the
potential for student
growth in the next
10 to IS years, there
will be a need for
additional campus
facilities throughout
the system."
—Lynn Hemink	
FSU begins road to
Title IX compliance
By Douglas Stolhand
THECOLLEGIAN
Title DC, the federal law
which prohibits the discrimina¬
tion on the basis of sexin schools
receiving federal funds, has af¬
fected most schools in the coun¬
try. FSU is no exception.
In fact, FSU has committed
11 of a possible 13 violations of
Tide IX, according to federal
officials. The violations were
found in April 1992 by the U.S.
Department of Education's Of¬
fice of Civil Rights, and FSU
administration has been trying
to address the* problem ever
since.
The OCR filed a 38-page re¬
port on FSU, claiming thai the
university failed to provide equal
competitive opportunities for
male and female athletes.
The report also claimed that
. FSU fell below the national Di¬
vision I women's participation
average of 31 percent
FSU violated the following
areas according to the OCR:
• Accommodation of student
interests, abilities.
•Provision of equipment and
supplies.
• Scheduling of games and
practice times.
•Travel par diem allowances.
• Opportunity to receive aca¬
demic tutoring and assignment
and compensation of tutors.
• Provision of locker rooms,
practice and competitive facili¬
ties.
• Provision of medical and
training facilities and services.
• Provision of housing and
dining facilities and services.
• Publicity      *
• Support services
• Recrement of student ath¬
letes
In its defense, FSU re-
sponded to the report by claim-
See TITLE DC, page 8
Planting the seeds
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Joe Ortiz, President of FSU's Ornamental Horticulture Club, sells a variety of plants from
household to outdoor, and will be holding another sale Saturday at the FSU nursery.
Kesey will fly over Fresno
By Jaaon Owen
THECOLLEGIAN
Ken Kesey, who associated with
The Grateful Dead, invented "elec¬
tric Kool-aid", and brought to¬
gether Hell's Angels and hippies,
will be speaking and performing
at The New American Poetry
Festival" Friday at 7:00 p.m. at
the Memorial Auditorium.
The event is a benefit being
presented by the Centre Bellas
Artes along with the help of Tom
Vasquez. The festival is being
hailed as the "premier literary
event" in the Central Valley and
will feature not only Kesey but
many local poets such as Philip
Levine, Dixie Salazar, Chuck
Moulton and Omar Salinas.
The Centre Bellas Artes is an
organization that supports Latino
artists and gives them a platform
on which to show their work.
"The Centre Bellas Artes is an
art center in west Fresno that helps
out artists," Vasquez said, "prima¬
rily the Latino youth artists, by
showing their paintings, giving
poetry readings and music events.
It gives them an opportunity, or at
least an option to young kids from
Geological author anything but dry
By SukhInder Jaaj
THE COLLEGIAN
Marc Reisner, controversial au¬
thor of "Cadillac Desert" and
"Overlapped Oasis," who is widely
regarded as the most honest voice
on the true cost of development in
the arid West, presented a lecture
on "waterin the West" on Tuesday
in the Upstairs Cafeteria.
Co-sponsored by the Fresno
Geological Society, the Univer¬
sity Lecture Series, the CSUF Stu¬
dent Geology Club, the School of
Natural Sciences and the Geology
Department, this event became an
opportunity for the university and
the community to form close ties
and benefit from each others
knowledge and experiences.
The topic "Water for the arid
West - Closing the Era of Dam
Building," is of great importance
to the San Joaquin Valley and in¬
cidentally, to the citizens of our
nation, said Dr. Bob Merrill, chair¬
man of the geology department.
The relentless quest for water
in the West and the politics associ¬
ated with it is a history that few
had access to or cared to know
about until the "Cadillac Dessert"
appeared in bookstores and librar¬
ies in 1986.
Last year, when the FSU placed
this book on its reading list, there
may well have been particular in-
terests in the valley that regarded
such an event as being controver¬
sial.
"If knowing your history is con¬
troversial, then so be it," Merrill
said. To be educated is to know
the culture of which you are a part,
and all of us are a part of the
history of the growth in the West
and the search for water to fuel
that growth."
Nathan Stoopes, president of
the Fresno Geological Society, in
his introduction speech made it
clear as to why Reisner, who had a
See Reisner, page 3
Inside
Opinion: Stupid people
should be restricted from
using the phone .2
Tobacco: Health educa¬
tors worry about rising
use otsnutL 3
Sports: Questioning .
coverage of Bennett
milestone 6
other matters."
There will be entertainment
throughout the evening. The Eddie
Gale Jazz Ensemble and Johnny
Gi-Tar Guiterrez will be playing.
The Eddie Gale Jazz Ensemble
released an album in 1993 called
"A Minute With Miles" and was
critically acclaimed by the New
York Village Voice as one of the
best jazz albums ofthe year. There
wti| be art exhibits presented by
Conrad M. Jimenez, Ramiro
Martinez, Vicente Aello and oth-
See Keaey, page 12
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