1996_10 The Daily Collegian October 1996

              Men's cross-country team takes
third at Cal-Poly
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Men's soccer team will face key
WAC match-up on Friday
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Ken Steitz promises clean race for District 4
Steitz will vie for Bob Lung's post
which represents the Fresno State area
Ryan Weber — The Daily Collegian
Fresno City Council candidate Ken Steitz says he is more familiar with District 4 because he was
raised in that area and has attended its schools.
By David Childers
The Daily Collegian
Of all the local political races
that will be decided on Nov. 5. none
has seen rjiore headlines than the
District 4 City Council race.
That is exactly what incumbent
Bob Lung promised months ago,
and just what challenger Ken Steitz
would like to change about the way
District 4 is represented.
"My one campaign promise is
that I won't do anything to
embarass the people of District 4
or the City in general," Steitz said.
"That's Bob Lung's territory. He
resorts to name calling and spread¬
ing lies because he knows that if he
sticks to the issues be will lose."
Lung has gained considerable
notierity in his tenure as District 4
Councilman for his frequent and
well publicized outbursts and his in-
your-face style of politics.
"I want to bring a sense of civil¬
ity back to the District 4 seat," Steitz
said. "You have to be professional,
you have to treat people with re¬
spect and be diplomatic. You can't
look at everything as a confronta¬
tion."
In the March primary Lung fell
short of the required majority to win
his seat back outright. Steitz fin¬
ished less than 40 votes behind
Lung, setting up the showdown in
November.
"My campaign was outspent 2
to 1 [by Lung's], yet we still ended
up just short of winning the pri¬
mary," Steitz said. "Fifty-five per¬
cent of the votes cast were cast
against Bob. It's not as if everyone
really knew who I was in the pri¬
mary. We fed like we have an ex¬
cellent chance to pick up those
votes."
So Steitz walks the many pre¬
cincts of District 4, literature in
Please see STEITZ page 4.
1,000 high school students to attend choir festival
By Stacy Harter
The Daily Collegian
This Friday, Fresno State's choir depart¬
ment will be hosting a festival for high-
school choir students. The Invitational
Choir Festival will consist of 20 high
schools and a total of about 1,000 students.
The festival will begin at 8 a.m.. and
the choir groups will be performing in 20
minute time spans until 5 p.m.
The judging will be done by four adju¬
dicators. Fresno State professors Reg
Defoe and Helene Joseph-Weil along with
two out-of-state adjudicators will judge the
choirs' performances, and then have a work¬
shop with them afterward.
Along with the group performance, there
will also be a Singer of the Year contest for
the high school seniors. A $1,000 scholar¬
ship will be awarded to the winner.
The Fresno State Concert Choir, which is
directed by Gary Unruh, will perform for both
morning and afternoon choirs.
The Fresno Choral Artists will also hold a
concert Friday night at 8 p.m. in the Vocal
Performance Hall. The 24-member group will
perform songs that include The Mass by
1 Frank Martin, the Hymn to St. Cecelia by B..
Britten, and Singet Dem Herrn by .hSrBach.
"It brings a lot of attention to the pro¬
gram. It's a good experience." Unruh said.
Along with the performance, the choir
has projects coming up in the future. On
Nov. 16, a Choir Day will be held at
Fresno State. A thousand students will
sing along with the Fresno State Band at
the Fresno State football game. They will
also tour Oregon in April. At the end of
May.the choir will take a 17 day trip to
travel through France and Israel.
Of the projects the choir is undertak¬
ing, Unruh says. "This is creating quite a
focus on our program. The activities are
interesting to the students here."
E-mail usage up in colleges
By Raul Huerta
Capital Campus News
SACRAMENTO — For some university
students and faculty, it's just a new fad. For
others, it's become a basic tool in education.
Regardless, there's no question that among
students, professors and staff, electronic mail
— better known as e-mail — is growing in
popularity so fast colleges are having a tough
time keeping up with the demand for e-mail
accounts and the amount of electronic mes¬
sage traffic.
At UC Davis, officials say they measure
e-mail traffic in the millions of messages sent
each month. At San Francisco State, well in
excess of 100,000 e-mail messages are sent.
Because of the high demand of e-mail us¬
age, San Francisco State now offers a 24-
hour, 27-computer station computer lab. Us¬
age of the lab slows down only from 2 a.m.
to 5 a.m. but fills up by 7 a.m.. said John
True, executive director of computing ser¬
vices at San Francisco State.
At California State University. Sacra¬
mento, from a total of 23.000 students, pro¬
fessors and staff, 18,000 have active e-mail
accounts — nearly four times what the school
had just two years ago.
David Hill, director of University Com¬
puting and Communications Services at
CSU. Sacramento says approximately 15,000
e-mail messages are transferred most days.
"I think it's an awareness of the Internet
and its resources as well as more people now
use computers and have access to comput¬
ers," Hill said.
Please see E-MAIL page 4.
Fresno State's
bulls win state
honors
By Rosanne Tolosa
The Daily Collegian
Where's the beef?
It was at the California State Expo in Sac¬
ramento on Aug. 18-Sept. 2, and looking
pretty good.
Fresno State's purebred beef cattle unit
showed four champions at the Performance
Bull Show. Professor of animal sciences and
agricultural education. Randy Perry, is the
faculty member in charge of the university's
beef program.
He said that the cattle were judged by vi¬
sual examination, measurements, and perfor¬
mance,    f
The university won the best Angus car¬
cass emphasis performance bull, champion
Angus multi-trait performance bull, cham¬
pion Angus performance bull overall, and
champion and reserve champion Charolais
performance bulls.
After the show at Cal-State Expo, an An¬
gus bull was consigned by the university to
the Tulare County Cattlemen's Association
Bull Sale in Visalia.
The bull was selected as the highest grad¬
ing bull over all breeds and was the highest
selling bull at $2,500. Perry said that at a past
sale, they were able to sell an Angus bull for
$5,000.