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Daily Collegian
Volume 106, No. 26
California State University, Fresno
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March 5, 1996
CSUF set to participate in Humanities talks
By Matthew Hart
Senior Staff Writer
The first in $50,000 worth of discussions
will be held tonight at the Fresno Art Mu¬
seum.
The Fresno Conversations on American
Pluralism and Identity are a group of sym¬
posiums conducted by the School of Arts and
Humanities.
The conversations are funded by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Hu¬
manities. Five other schools are also partici¬
pating in the project, but California State Uni¬
versity, Fresno is the only one on the west
coast.
Tonight's symposium is the first of sev¬
eral planned for the semester.
The panel will be discussing multi¬
cultural ism in society and some of the ques¬
tions raised by pluralism.
Vida Samiian, associate dean and leader
of the project, said the goal is to improve the
climate of understanding and to create a com¬
mon ground between different ethnic groups.
Bill Flores, associate dean of the School
of Social Sciences will be a panelist. He said
the scope of the project does not just involve
the panel but is the beginning of a process of
dialogue about rethinking what society is.
"What we want to ask is 'how is it people
become part of this society?'" Flores said.
Samiian said a goal of the program is to
get people to see diversity as a strength in¬
stead of a weakness.
She sees multi-culturalism as a resource
the Central Valley is filled with.
Flores said that we often are not aware of
the over 100 ethnic groups in the Fresno area,
and he hopes the panel will bring attention
to groups we are not often aware are there.
•The panel will be presenting different re¬
search findings to each other.
Floresis currently conducting research on
inter-group relations, where he wants to get
a sense of how groups interact and how con¬
flicts occur.
Flores also said his research focuses on
how different people from different cultures
begin to feel at home in the United States —
what he termed "cultural citizenship.'
The symposium is scheduled for 7
to 9 p.m. at the Fresno Art Museum
and is free of charge.
"It's the sense of being a full member of
society," Flores said.
Other Fresno State members taking part
in the discussion are Jeronima Echeverria,
chairof the department of history, and Lillian
Faderman, professor of English.
■ Jim Tucker, professor of Mass Commu¬
nication and Journalism, will serve as mod¬
erator for the discussion.
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during instruction with the children at CSUF Child Care Center.
Comedy trio
part of free
comedy night
■ Lite Tuesday will take place in the Pit
New club organizes safe
adventures Jqr dare-devils
By Jim Ward
Senior Staff Writer
Jr
RoberTNielsen nearly froze to
death one day on top of Lost Ar¬
row Spire in Yosemite Valley.
The 43-year-old adventurer was
climbing the 400-foot mountain,
along with four other fellow adven¬
turers, and misjudged the time it
would take to scale the mountain.
As the sun set, the climbers got very
nervous.
"As soon as the sun went down,
the temperature dropped thirty de¬
grees," Nielsen said. "The wind
picked up at 50 mph. We had sub¬
zero chill factor. The whole adven¬
ture lasted about 36 hours. We were
fortunate we didn't kill someone."
To prevent others from experi¬
encing the same near-death experi¬
ences, Nielson is founding the new
Adventurer's Club on campus.
Activities the club is plaiRimg
include: cave crawling, kayaking,
parachuting, white water rafting,
hang gliding and bungee jumping.
Nielsen, an engineering major
senior, sees adventuring as man
The first meeting of the
Adventurer's Club will be held
Wed., March 13 at 7 p.m. in
the Cafeteria, room 200.
against nature. Whether it is rock
climbing or cave crawling, adven¬
turing gives people the opportunity
to develop self-esteem and
aggresiveness. •   ,
The image of adventurers as
crazy, dare-devils with no fear
could not be farther from the truth,
Please see CLUB, Page 4.
By Matthew Hart
Senior Staff Writer
Last semester saw several com¬
edy shows scattered throughout the
season. That stuttering schedule has
given rise to Lite Tuesday's.
Lite Tuesday's are free comedy
performances slated for 7:30 p.m.
every other Tuesday in the Pit.
It continues tonight with Sweet
Sensation, an all female comedy
trio.
Laura Bradbury, comedy chair
of the University Student Union,
said she tried to bring a diversity of
comedy performances onto the
campus.
"They're all going to be really
good shows, and they're all going
to be different," Bradbury said.
The comedy show featuring an
all African-American lineup of co¬
medians took place on Feb. 28.
There are five shows left, all
with vastly different themes. There
is an all-women performance night,
a hypnotist, a musical act and an
impressionist night.
The last show of the year is
Comedy Sportz, which is com¬
pletely improvised and has sugges-
tions taken from the audience.
Bradbury said she hopes the dif-
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said her goal is to get Tuesday Lite
to carry on for several semesters.
"Hopefully it will catch on and
continue," Bradbury said.
Hypnotist Chuck Milligan will
appear March 19. Comedy Sportz
will wrap up the season on May 7.
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