1995_09 The Daily Collegian September 1995

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Monday, September 25,1995
Opinion
Managing/Opinion Editor: Celeste Cox
*   Telephone: (209) 278-5732
Letters to the editor
Dear Readers,
On Thursday, Sept. 21, Editor-in-Chief Christine Malamanig
wrote a commentary asking for input from readers. The response
was great. Please keep those letters coming, so we can continue
to improve our service to you, the reader. Thank You.
Lack of papers in high traffic areas
Dear Editor,
I attend classes On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:45 a.m. till 9 p.m.
During my course of travel around the campus, there are never any papers in
any of the areas that I have classes.
There used to be a rack in the middle of San Ramon 6, but it is gone. You
need to place one in the middle of the Social Science building and McKee
Fisk-there is a lot of foot traffic in these areas, and the nearest one is on the
opposite sides of the buildings. You just need to get more coverage.
Try moving your low-volume stands to higher foot traffic areas. If I have
to go out of my way very far to pick up a paper and be late to class, I will
forget the paper and get to class.
Also, there is not much to read in the paper except sports (which takes up
three pages of an eight-page paper.) Then there is the advertising that takes
up about two to three pages. Like today's paper: It only has six articles in it
if you count the editorial.
It almost isn't worth the bother.
I am saying this because I like to read the paper I really do, but if there
i::n't anything in it, why bother?
•     Try profiling different extraordinary students who attend CSUF daily. Try
more polls, and please try to use the older students too.
Direct more articles to the interest of re-entry students. Find out how many
of them are here. Last semester, when you had the Clambake issues, I fig¬
ured it was a party that all the dorm people had after classes on Friday. It
really was never explained untilf this semester
Remember, there are a lot of people who attend CSUF only on Tuesdays
and Thursdays, so they aren't going to get a paper on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
An3 above all, DON'T SELL MICHAEL EAGLES ANY MORE AD
SPACE!
THANKS!
Stephanie Annette Dias
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Let Tarkanian coach in peace
Dear Editor,
Forty-eight days left until the first game of the basketball season. Af¬
ter only having won two seasons out of the last 10, it will be wonderful to
have our basketball team winning. Even if we don't win, it won't matter
because the excitement of the game will be back.
The NCAA has spent 19 years* trying to find something to pin on Mr.
Tarkanian (Gentlemen's Quarterly, January 1993). The most they were
able to do was to get him to leave his job in Las Vegas. I think that we
should get over Tarkanian"s bad reputation and start talking about the
great things he's done.
According to Gene Wojdechowski (LA Times, April 6, 1995),
Tarkanian is the winningest coach by percentage in NCAA history (.837).
He has brought excitement to Fresno. The money that has come to Fresno
due to Tarkanian should justify having him here.
According to the Fresno Bee (April 6, 1995), Mr. Tarkanian's salary
approaches $100,000 a year. The projected income from basketball is
thought to reach up to $1 million. I think a $900,000 return on our invest¬
ment is a pretty good deal.
When I called the Bulldog Foundation, I asked about getting season
tickets. I talked to "Stacey," who said the season tickets were sold out for
this year. I found out the only people who could get game tickets now are
the staff and students at CSUF. I am sure to see a packed house at the
exhibition game on Nov. 8, 1995.
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Sincerely yours,
Andrea Lyman
Title IX sucks funds for new softball stadium
Dear Editor,
Title IX was used to create gender equity at Cali¬
fornia State University. Fresno (CSUF). and give
equal opportunity to women's athletics, specifically
the new women's softball stadium now undfir con¬
struction.
What has. happened is that the athletic programs,
such as baseball, must relinquish some of their rev¬
enue for this expenditure, regardless of where pub¬
lic support and public interest lie.
I feel you can legislate opportunity, but you can¬
not legislate sports fans' interest.
According to the Fresno Bee (May 8, 1995).
the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil
Rights would not expand funds toward any new
athletic construction or improve existing facilities
before the Title IX corrective-action plan. This in¬
cludes the new women's softball stadium.
Associate Athletic Director Diane Milutinovich
stated that the stadium fund drive had only been
able to raise $1.2 million of the $3.27 million
needed (Fresno Bee, May 7, 1995).
To help with this lack of fund raising, CSUF's base¬
ball coach, Bob Bennett, exclaimed that baseball rev¬
enue is being used to help finance the school's new sta¬
dium (Fresno Bee, May 7, 1995). In fact, $1 million of
Beiden Field Stadium's seat option revenue is being
channeled, to the new softball stadium.
The people who bought seat options were led to be¬
lieve they were supporting and improving baseball and
Beiden Field. Therefore, the transfer of this money is
no less than consumer fraud!
Is it fair for one sport to give up its revenue because
it happens to be profitable due to its fans' support and
interest? I believe it would be wonderful to have the
softball stadium; however, stadiums should be built
through ticket sales and donations.
As you drive by. CSUF and gaze at the new con¬
struction, make note of the last-minute changes in the
design of a near-invisible conveyor transferring money
across the street from Beiden Field to the new women's
softball stadium as directed by Title LX, not those who
bought seat options.
Sue Nigg
International student gives vote of confidence
Dear Editor,
I am an international gradu¬
ate student doing a second de¬
gree in advertising at Fresno
State.
What touched me in last
Thursday's issue is your emo¬
tional appeal to the readers.
I like your newspaper and
wonder with you why students
don't pick it up.
It is very interesting for me
to read "The Daily Collegian"
because with its help, I try to learn
more about this country, its people
and problems worrying Fresno
State students.
I also read "Clambake" and "In¬
sight," but I find "Collegian" more
informative and more interesting.
I am from Russia, and in my
country, to read a newspaper is a
characteristic of a well-educated
and open-minded person.
You can meet a man reading a
newspaper in the street, in the bus
or subway probably more often than
a man with a Coke here.
I don't know how people feel
about it in Fresno State; maybe they
learn university news from other
sources.
But I personally believe that
nothing compares to getting news
from the newspaper.
I really appreciate your efforts
to enlarge the number of "The Daily
Collegian" readers and I believe
you will succeed in it.
Milena Issenina
Affirmative action unfair
Dear Editor,
With several hundred protest¬
ers outside, and after 12 hours
of debate, the University Board
of Regents voted 14 to 10 to
overturn the affirmative action
admissions policy in place at the
nine-campus UC system.
Starting in fall 1997, incoming
students are to be accepted and en¬
rolled based on academic merit, not
on race, sex, religion, color or na¬
tional origin.
A New York Times article writ-
Please see EQUALITY, page 5
COMING SOON
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