1996_09 The Daily Collegian September 1996

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Women's volleyball team wins
four matches in weekend tournament
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Women's soccer .standout Erin Barry
returns to season healthy
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Men's soccer upsets No. 2 UCLA
Paul Martinez — The Daily Collegian
If 8 time to celebrate. Members of the men's soccer team rejoice after Saturday's win over
top rated UCLA. Complete story on page 6.
Report focuses
on controversial
CSUF policies
AHAAC committee is reviewing 1,000 page
report on questionable policies and
scrutinizing finances
By Matthew Hart m
The Daily Collegian
Questions submitted to Presi¬
dent John Welty and the adminis¬
tration regarding controversial cam¬
pus policies and procedures are on
their way to being answered.
Last year, the Academic Senate
formed the Ad Hoc Administrative
Accountability Committee
(AHAAC) to look into issues raised
by anonymous e-mail messages and
the president's open forum in
March.
The committee formulated a list
of questions and forwarded them to
the president, requesting informa¬
tion on everything from financial
records to hiring practices.    \
In response, the CSU
chancellor's office formed a panel
headed by Thomas Ehrlich to help
gather data needed by AHAAC.
Now that the Ehrlich dommis-
sion has released its/report.
AHAAC members are bifsy pick¬
ing through the approximately
1,000 page document.
"A lot of the financial informa¬
tion we will be looking at care¬
fully." said Ida Jones, chair^of
AHAAC.
Jones said that one issue about
which AHAAC had concerns is
where the money from large PG&E
rebates went..
According to the Ehrlich report,
rebates from PG&E were deposited
into Fresno Foundation accounts
even though the checks were made
out to Fresno State.
Jn 1994. an anonymous CSU
budget officer advised that the
money be put into a state account,
where there arc guidelines for ex¬
penditures.
Money in Foundation accounts
has little or no oversight on where
it is soent.
No"other funds were deposited
into the account, but in August
1994. and February and November
1995. over $15,000 was taken out
and used for a staff retreat for the
office of the vice president of ad¬
ministration.
In April 1996 money was also
withdrawn to buy materials for the
Cesar Chavez statue
In a letter to the chancellor. VP
of Administration Ben Quillian said
there was no policy directive for use
of the funds.
However. CSU policy and an
agreement between PG&E and
Fresno State dated Nov. 6, 1989.
specifically states any money re¬
ceived from the rebates should go
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Fresno State receives grant
for Armenian agriculture
By Heather Hartman
The Daily Collegian
Armenia will soon get a boost in its agri¬
cultural industry from Fresno State and the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A $431,703 grant from the USDA to the
university will be used for the Agricultural
Marketing Project in the Republic of Arme¬
nia.
Juan Batista, professor of agricultural eco¬
nomics and researcher in the Center for Ag¬
ricultural Business at Fresno State, will serve
as director of the project.
"The USDA has been in Armenia provid¬
ing government aid since 1992 trying to as¬
sist farmers and growers," Batista said.
"There was success with helping farmers pro¬
duce crops, but now the USDA decided to
help Armenia market and sell their products."
The program is designed to assist the Ar¬
menian Agricultural Academy (AAA) in
launching programs which provide special¬
ized technical assistance to Armenians in the
areas of agricultural marketing, grades and
standards, transportation, packaging, process-
Please see ARM EN I
:NIA^age8.
Rec center nears completion
By Hadi Yazdanpanah   ,
The Dailv Collegian
r *
Alter several construction delay s. the
University Recreation Center opened on-
Saturday.
An "excited Joel Zarr. director of the
University Student Union, announced the
10 a.m. grand opening.
"They are going to walk into this place
and see bright, welcoming, airy colors that
basically say excitement." Zarr said.
Mary Anne Drummond, recreation cen¬
ter coordinator, other employees and main¬
tenance personnel held their breath as they
watched their first customers register for
txmhrig vv Uh the new computers
"All ri^ht. he did i:.' Cud On,
enthusiastically.
The first bowling customers were a
group of students iron: \\(M>iu.ird Park
Church ot Christ. Kat) Holly, a fitth
grader, threw out the firsktwwling ball
and didn't think much oi it \ y,
"Other people ha\e turns too. they do
[the] same as me." said Holly
Major remodeling and renovations
have been made tojthe bowling alley, in¬
cluding new pin-setters, carpets and fur¬
niture.
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