1995_09 The Daily Collegian September 1995

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Thursday, September 21,1995
News
SCOP provides support for science students
By Sean Balasunderam
Staff Writer
Even in the face of decreasing
university support, the Science Ca¬
reers Opportunity Program (SCOP)
still offers a wide variety of services
which are not duplicated elsewhere
on campus, and in some Cases, not
duplicated throughout the CSU sys¬
tem.
SCOP originally started as the
Health Careers Opportunity Pro¬
gram which focused on identifying
and reaching out to high school and
college students choosing careers in
the health professions. Now, the
program caters to a wide spectrum
of disciplines which include health
science, pre-pharmacy and science
teaching to name a few.
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that direction.
Before Dartmouth College re¬
quired all students to own a com¬
puter, "the faculty voted to 'strongly
recommend' all students to own a
computer ... By 1992. since JH^re
than 90 percent of the students had
followed the recommendation, the
faculty then voted to make it a re¬
quirement," Levine said.
This doesn't mean that the com¬
puter labs at Dartmouth became
empty. v.
"The computer labs are thriving.
Fourth
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value of Fresno State for students."
Welty said. "I anticipated that we
would rank in the top 10, but I didn't
know it would be as high as fourth.
In the past two years, we were
ranked eighth and tenth."
Director of Research for
America's Best Colleges, Robert
Morse, said that this survey has
been published since 1987. The
value ranking, however, has only
been reported for the past three
years.
"The quality of a school *lvas
based on surveys rating faculty, re¬
sources, reputation, entrance re¬
quirements, alumni satisfaction and
more," Morse said.
The number one 'Tbest buy"
school in the West is California
Polytechnic State University, San
Lui*i Obispo which costs $12,824.
Attending CSUF costs $12,206.
The schools were ranked in de;
scending order based on their qual¬
ity-to-price ratio.
Don Romsa, pastor at Lutheran
Campus Ministries, co-coordinates
the SCOP Peer Advisor Program
with John Zamora, California State
University. Fresno's Outstanding
Employee of the Year for 1995.
"The SCOP Peer advisor pro¬
gram provides support and direction
to SCOP students, while providing
leadership training to the peer ad¬
visors," Romsa said;
Trudy Mitchell volunteers as the
SCOP counselor and provides ca¬
reer counseling in areas of health
and science. She also provides aca¬
demic advising, assistance with per¬
sonal statements, and coordinates
the SCOP Volunteer Student Pro¬
gram.
The Volunteer Program places
students in work positions at Fresno
Community Hospital, Holy Cross
Clinic and Kaiser Permanente Hos¬
pital.
Students may also get college
Credit for undergoing this program.
"Most of the students are taking
this course for-^Jniversity credit
through the auspices of Students for
Community Service," Mitchell
said.
"Student activism via student
organizations and special projects
serves to complement the services
offered by SCOP to provide a well-
rounded college experience." said
Joseph Krajekian, a SCOP student
in charge of the SCOP Computer
Resource Center project.
Krajekian and other SCOP stu¬
dents are working on setting up a
computer laboratory that offers a
variety of science and test prepara¬
tory programs. Another project is
the SCOP Student Resource Cen¬
ter project, headed by Katie Fields.
Fields, the local chapter presi¬
dent of the American Medical Stu¬
dents Association, said, "What we
are compiling'is an organized col¬
lection of information from U.S.
graduate and health professional
schools, student research opportu¬
nities, and information on science
teaching."
The SCOP office currently con¬
tains information on these areas, but
this library has become outdated as
the university slowly withdraws its
support of such student resources.
Student volunteers such as Fields
have come forward and worked on
not only maintaining the resources
necessary to assist future profes¬
sionals, but also trying to improve
what is there.
Students don't always like to work
where they live and sometimes eat,
in the residence halls. People like
to get together in groups. (Also],
some people like to work in a place
that is similar to a work environ¬
ment." Levine said.
"[Sonoma State) decided to give
all students a 24-hour assured ac¬
cess' to a computer lab," said Tracy
Terrill, ASI President of Sonoma
State University. "One 'ab is open
24 hours a day, [even on) weekends
and holidays."
Unfortunately, he said that the
24-hour lab. consisting mainly of
Macintoshes, is usually full.
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"We hope to have a computer da¬
tabase listing the information avail¬
able, and a scholarship database as
well,'.' Fields said.
Much of the student activism can
be seen in the student organizations
affiliated with SCOP, such as Pro¬
moting the Advancement of Stu¬
dents in Science (PASS).
"Membership in PASS is not re¬
stricted to SCOP students and is
made up of mainly pre-health and
hard sciences students. I encourag*
students to join and participate.'
said Joseph Ureno, PASS President
PASS organizes the SCOP gen
eral meetings and in the past ha:
brought a variety of speakers to
campus. They have also offered
CPR classes, which they hope to
bring back in the future.
That is why "in orientation,
ownership of a computer isn't re¬
quired, but it is highly recom¬
mended," Terrill said.
This does sound familiar to
some people. "In the early '80s.
calculators were not required, but
they were recommended." Abbott
said. "| Back then], ihey were about
(50-60. Now you can gel them tor
;ibout$l2."
Perhaps in 20 years, an enter¬
ing CSUF student can expect to
purchase a hand-helJ super-com¬
puter as a requirement for entry in
the university
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