1996_10 The Daily Collegian October 1996

              '
Men's tennis looks toward repeat of last
year's success
 Page 6	
Football team's Torigian has a winning
kick to his game
  Page 7	
Daily Collegian
Volume 107, No. 26
California State University, Fresno
Weather
Sunny
high 82/low 567
October 1. 1996
Academic Senate adjusts pay increase policies
By Matthew Hart
The Daily Collegian
The Academic Senate labored
through modifying the appeals pro¬
cess for performance salary step
increases (PSSI) yesterday.
Numerous motions were
brought up amending the Person¬
nel Committee's document that was
forwarded to the Senate for ap--
proval last week.
After confusion regarding how
to handle individual items on the
motion, six different motions were
brought up. some dealing with the
same subject.
One of these was the decision of
the Personnel Committee to get rid
of school-wide committees in the
PSSI process.
The first motion regarding the
committees was to have them vol¬
untary for the individual schools.
The motion failed, and the next
motion, to eliminate the school
committees, passed 27-17.
This Senate decision leaves
much of the discretion of who gets
increases up to the department and
then the dean, who will forward the
proposals to the administration.
Next, an amendment brought
about by the California Faculty
Association motioned to have de¬
partments rate applicants not by
showing how many steps they
should get but by using a system
of: recommended, highly recom¬
mended, and very highly recom¬
mended, or simply not recom¬
mended.
After carrying several other
items on the document, a contro¬
versial topic was brought up as to
why the Provost might have re¬
jected a person who was recom¬
mended by the lower committees.
"This is really a question of how
much accountability the Senate
would like from the Provost." War¬
ren Kessler, chapter president of
CFA, said.
Others present at the meeting
questioned what would be accom¬
plished by making the Provost tell
why he might have rejected some
applicants.
The motion was carried to have
the Provost give his reasons for re¬
jecting some applicants.
Next, a motion failed to not
make appellants say why they feel
the Provost was wrong.
Finally, the revised document as
t amended was passed, with sighs of
relief from the administration,
which is working under deadlines
to get the process of awarding per¬
formance increases underway.
At the beginning of the meeting,
an item was added and placed at the
beginning of the agenda, only to be
moved to next week's agenda.
The motion was brought about
by a recently discovered directive
given by Provost Alex Gonzalez to
have the current class structure
moved to an A-E format in General
Education for next year's catalog.
. This is in response to a recent
vote by the Senate approving an A-
E structure for GE. However, the
vote was intended to clarify the
Senate's position on A-E and not
move to implement it immediately.
While A-E has been authorized, the
content of it has not. and is currently
under deliberation by the Senate.
The motion to disapprove the
actions reportedly taken by the Pro¬
vost was brought about by John
Shields, senator from the agricul¬
tural economics department.
Please see SENATE page 4.
(
. Ryan Weber — The Daily Collegian
John Sheilds, Agricultural economics department, informs the Academic Senate of a change of
document format at yesterday's meeting.
Career fair focuses on
job market for students
By Ruthie Longley
The Daily Collegian
Tomorrow morning from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. the career development and em¬
ployment services department will sponsor
a career fair on the Student Union balcony.
The fair is a yearly event that is focused
not only on Finding jobs for students, but also
on giving students information about their
careers.
"Students should bring their resumes in
case they find something they are interested
in," said Aleta Wolfe, coordinator of the
event. "This event is also to help students
with information they may need to find. If
someone wants information about the finan¬
cial world. Bank of America and Wells Fargo
will be there with ideas on what is happen¬
ing."
Over 60 state-wide employers and com¬
panies from the armed forces to hardware and
electronic chains, will participate in the event.
Representatives will offec-information on re¬
cruitment and company positions.
Some, like Union Bank of California, of-
Please see FAIR page 4.
Library displays poverty
By Rosanne Tolosa
The Daily Collegian
Poverty will hit the campus during the
month of October.
An exhibit on poverty will be on dis¬
play in the library this whole month.
There will be a series of three panel dis¬
cussions which will be held on Oct. 4,
17, and 24.
Gisele Bousquet of the Center for
Southeast Asian Studies and the anthro¬
pology department is the organizer of the
poverty project. Bousquet said the pur¬
pose of the project is to bring awareness
to the campus on the issue of poverty in
the Valley.
The library exhibit will display facts
and statistics on poverty as well as mod¬
els and pictures showing how poor people
are living.
"It's important for people to see that
poverty is affecting all segments of soci¬
ety." Bousquet said. "It's going to get
worse and it's time for people to realize
that."
The three panel discussions will be
held in the Upstairs Cafe 200 from 6:30-
8:30 p.m. "Multiculturalism and the His¬
tory of Poverty in the San Joaquin Val-
Please see DISPLAY page 4