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April 2$, 1996
Jesse Jackson motivates, registers voters
By Robert Bilvado
Staff Writer
Jesse Jackson put a dent in low
voter registration last night in the
North Gym by registering over 60
people at once.
In the beginning of his speech,
he singled out over 60 students
from the audience that were non-
registered voters and those who fell
into the area of receiving financial
aid, scholarships and grants.
He then asked them to step for¬
ward and handed them voter regis¬
tration cards.
"It was a very good lesson," said
Alma Jauregui, liberal studies ma¬
jor senior, who was handed a card
to fill out. She said she has never
been registered in the past and that
she was very impressed with his
speech on voter apathy.
For business finance major An¬
thony Banks, the timing couldn't
have been better.
"I know this is something I have
to do. I don't know why I was lag¬
ging," said Banks, a freshman. "I
believe what he says about one vote
making a difference."
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And* for graduate student Pang
Moua, she never had an opportu¬
nity to register.
"I just became a citizen two
weeks ago," said Moua, a social
work student.
"His speech really, really moti¬
vated me."
She said she currently has no
party affiliation.
Jacksonsaid his goal for the lec¬
ture at California State University,
Fresno was to rally voters to the
polls to protect their interests dur¬
ing the upcoming presidential elec¬
tions.
"People just don't stop in
Fresno. Anybody that comes to
Fresno meant to come here," Jack¬
son said.
Most of Jackson's speech em¬
phasized the need for minorities to
exercise their voting power to cre¬
ate change.
However, there was a hint of
Republican-bashing throughout the
night.
Jackson blasted Governor Pete
Wilson who Jackson said supported
affirmative action as mayor of San
Diego and supported temporary
work visas as senator, but is now
leading the fight against affirmative
action.
Jackson's visit to the Fresno area
came after visits from Bill Clinton,
Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich and Pat
Buchanan within the last six
months.
The Central Valley has played an
important role in past election for
candidates trying to win California.
Nonetheless, most students
looked past Jackson's political be¬
liefs and were able to share the en¬
ergy that he brings to a speech.
"I don't always agree with him.
I think he's pretty much going the
right direction," said Silas
Robertshaw, history major. "I think
his most important message was for
the people to get off their butts and
do something."
Brian Gibson agreed.
"He is such an eager person. He
doesn't single out a race," said
Gibson, a computer science major.
"He gave me goose bumps."
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Fresno City Council member Bob Lung«presents Rev. Jesse
Jackson with the key to the city last night in the north gym.
Senate debates student representation, GE policy
By Matthew Hart
Senior Staff Writer -
The question of student repre¬
sentation on the Executive Commit¬
tee and the expressed mission of
Gemeral Education review domi¬
nated yesterday's Academic Senate
meeting.
Graduate student Alan Hay, who
has been actively involved in Aca¬
demic Senate committees, mo¬
tioned to have a spot for a student
representative created, citing that
San Diego State, has a student on
their Academic Senate Executive
Committee.
Hay proposed that the student be
chosen by the Associated Students,
Inc.
Hay's motion was forwarded to
the Executive Committee, who will
decide whether it shall be put on the
agenda for the senate to vote on.
According to the Academic Sen¬
ate constitution, there is no spot on
the committee for a student rep*re-
sentative, so adding a student rep¬
resentative would require an
amendment from the senate.
The Executive Committee's two
primary purposes are to s^t the
agenda for senate meetings and to
act as a consulting body for the ad¬
ministration.
Also during the meeting, Dr.
Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel moved for
a committee to prepare a mission
statement for the GE proposal that
could be used as a guiding tool
thrqughout deliberations.
Patricia Hennings-Smith from
the art and design department,
voiced her disapproval of the mo¬
tion and its timeliness.
"I understand our need for a mis¬
sion statement, but a mission state¬
ment is a first step, not a last step,"
Hennings-Smith said.
Terry Winant from the philoso¬
phy department said she thought the
GE proposal used as its mission the
guidelines set forth by Executive
Order 595, which gives guidelines
for how GE programs should be
constructed.
"I was under the impression
there was something of a mission
statement, and it was by the State
of California," Winant said.
The motion passed through a
voice vote, with several resounding
nays.
The'status of the recently formed
Special Committee was also
brought up, specifically dealing
with the membership of Beth
Newell, professor from the psychol¬
ogy department.
The Special Committee was
formed to look into issues and ques¬
tions raised by the recent anony¬
mous e-mail letters and President
John Welty's open forum in March.
The Committee membership
was defined as consisting of full-
time faculty members. Newell is
currently working part-time.
The senate voted to make an
exception for Newell
Campus, daily wins three awards in state competition
By Heather Hartman
News Editor       *
Three members of The Daily
Collegian were recent winners in a
journalism competition that draws
competitors from universities all
over the state.
This 47th Annual California In¬
tercollegiate Press Association
(CIPA) took place April 19-21 at
UC Irvine.
There were competitions in
newspaper, magazine, photo-jour¬
nalism, radio and television.
Newspaper entries were judged
separately depending on whether
the paper is published daily or
weekly.
Selections were submitted to the
competition by The Daily Colle¬
gian, which came back with three
winners in the mail-in entry contest.
Paul Martinez, photographer,
won second place for best feature
photograph.""
"I consider myself a sports pho¬
tographer, but none of my sports
photos won," Martinez said. "I
don't think I am strong at features
at all and that is what won. I sent in
five photos and tried to pick the best
of the worst."
Martinez said he can tell if he
has a superior shot because it pops
out at him when he looks at the
negatives.
"Sometimes you know if it is a
good shot when you take the pic¬
ture," he said. "But because of the
way cameras work, if you see it
through the viewfinder, you missed
the shot."
Robert Bilvado, managing edi¬
tor of The Daily Collegian, won
third place for page layout.
"Last semester my job was lay¬
out and my goal was to do the best
layout possible," Bilvado said.
"Being managing editor this se¬
mester limits the time I spend cre¬
ating superlative layouts."
Shannon Wentworth, columnist
and former Collegian Editor, won
third place for best arts review.