1994_08 The Daily Collegian August 1994

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Monday, August 29,1994
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At a $22.5 million price tag, the new education building opens its doors to students today. Construction began in May 1993.
Technology at tbiefrpnt
in new education building
By Stephen Walsh
The newest offramp from the
mformationsuperhighway leads
to the nearly completed educa¬
tion building on the northwest
comer of Shaw and Maple av¬
enues.
The 121,000 square foot facil¬
ity is almost fully operational,
only without, some finishing
touches. Among those are'sev-
eral new Macintosh computers
waiting to go online and recon¬
struction of an petting zoo that
b urned down over the summer.
No animals were in residence at
the time of the fire.
Associate Dean of Education,
Bob Monke, said the new buitd-
ing will cost more than
$22,300,000. He said the poor
economy did not hurt the seven-
year projectbecauseitwas funded
through a revenue bond. The
bond allows for approved financ¬
ing to be fixed and used solely for
the purpose of ccHistructing/me
new center. Funding was offi¬
cially granted in July 1991.
"The facility is a grass roots
developmenteffoiV'Monkesaid.
"We need to decide what pro¬
grams to offer and how much
space they will take up."     ,
The education building fea¬
tures six major program centers,
many of which incorporate the-1
latest in informational technol¬
ogy and hands-on learning.
The Education and Human
Development Center (EHD) of¬
fers laboratory one-to-one test¬
ing, toutoring and co uncelling in
a clinical center. The center will
benefit students as its clientele
will be university students, local
residents and local school pupils.
The-Ent^s Learning Develop¬
ment Center, which opens today,
provides daycare for about 100
children of low-income families,
as well as observational lab expe¬
rience for CSUF students.
Monke said such benefits for
both CSUF students and the com¬
munity are high priority for the
program's success.
Two of the lecture rooms in
the Interdisciplinary Instructional
Center house technology for in¬
teractive audio/video transmis¬
sion to remote classrooms and
other educational centers.
The education building even
hosts its own television produc¬
tion studio and soundstage. It is
still under construction; to be
completed in a year. In cojtlabora-
See Education, Page 8
Parking digs deeper into pockets
By David John Chavez
CSU, Fresno's newly installed
electronic meters, intended to be
resistant to vandalism, has
doubled parking rates from 25
to 50 cents an hour, according to
the Office of Parking and Trans¬
portation Services.
/~""I have a real problem believ-
ing that an electronic meter will
scare off a potential thief," said
John Rogers, a CSUF political
science student.
Sophomore ( Joaquin
Espinoza, a history major,
agreed. "It sounds like they (the
administration) are trying to
make students appreciate the ef¬
fort, but everything else seems to
be rising costwise," Espinoza
said.
The meters are just one of
manvduinges the Office of Trans¬
portation Services has instituted.
Parking enforcement will be in
full force today. Parking viola¬
tions will cost $20, a $4 increase
from last semester.
"It'sreally frustrating tocome
to school every semester and find
a new bill to put on
students," said John Bishop, a
junior accounting student.
The increased charge for park
ing citations will generate about
$155,000 more annually.
The Department of Public
Safety will keeping a strict watch
on the number of citations a car
gets. They will no longer tow
cars awa. Instead, they will im¬
mobilize a vehicle that fails to
respond to five or more parking
citations. Previously, indepen¬
dent contractors handled the situ
a tion and were charging up to
$80 for the towing service.
Resurfacing was also done
on a number of parking lots this
summer, including lots A, J, C
and V which underwent major
overhauls.
Budget woes stymie
ASIs plans for year
By David Mirhadi
President John tt WeHy's des¬
ignated overseer of the /
budget process.
The two plans i
from two distinct sources. C
was passed by way of e
AST bylaws state that the b
get must be a
What is normally a routine
process for CSU; Fresno's As¬
sociated Students, Inc. has
han^mtpaquagmireof prob-   tive order from Stacey
lems as students prepare for   the outgoing ASI
4he 199*£95 academic year.
Since the end of the last fis¬
cal year, which ended on June
30, the ASI hashad no budget
for its approximately $1 mil¬
lion mat it generates from a
mandatory $32 yearly student
fee and allocation for the Cam¬
pus Children's Center.
The ASI, rocked by partisan
politics which led to unfinished
meetings, vacancies on various
coonniitteesand Ihercalgrwit Inn
of its legal counsel, was in¬
formed of this discrepancy
when.Dean of Student Affairs
William Corcoran informed
current ASI President Susan
Gonzales-Shweild in a memo
dated July 12^1994.   In it,
Corcoran explained that ***-^^j»v»*tudent input
distinct plans^^for the 94-95<,     Corcoran said that he
budget were subnutted tohnn  ^cau»too*isaI|oWbothbud-
forieview. Corcoran is CSUF '
SeeASI,Page4
proved by the i
boardofc
tots. In his i
Corooranstatedti
of directors of the <
did not vote on the j
Theseoondbudgetplanwas
proposed by Joel Eanes, then
the Senator for the; School of
Social Sciences. Corcoran
stated that "the board of direc¬
tors did not provide adequate
opportunity for those affected
to react to its pro
bylawsstatethatl:
get is pasxed^there nujst
the budget to i
Inside The CJoHegiini
Bulldogs and
Buckeyes battle
for Pigskin title
SeePagt6
Columnist offers
words of wisdom
to new co-eds
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