1997_01 The Daily Collegian January 1997

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California State University. Fresno
ASI president vows to fund campus clubs
By Derek Walter
The Daily Collegian
More sparks are bound to fly as the Asso¬
ciated Students, Inc. board of directors gear
up for another semester of business. Many
issues remain unresolved from last semes¬
ter, most notably the budget.
Last semester's final ASI meeting erupted
into a turniture -throwing frenzy after Legis¬
lative Vice-President Eileen Richardson
called a budget passed and supported by the
conservative Reality Party-controlled Board
racist. The melee brought the session to an
.abrupt halt.
The semester ended
without the approval of
any budget. Without
final approval. ASI
money cannot be dis¬
tributed.
"They started that
big mess in the gal¬
lery." said Tommy
Monreal, ASI Presi¬
dent. "I feel they
should be ashamed of what they did."
Former Reality senator and de-facto ma-
Tommy Monreal
jority leader John Rizzotti. who said heTe-
signed last semester due to a death threat, said
the outburst was the result of a frustrating
semester.
"They [Monreal and Richardson) tried to
destroy everything we worked for." he said.
One major issue that still plagues the ASI
is the distribution of an excess $ 132.000. ASI
fees were cut from S16 to $8 per semester1,
but the cuts were not forwarded to the CSU
Board of Trustees in time to be approved for
the 1996-97 year.
Monreal said putting this issue to rest will
be a priority. He said he is hoping a break¬
through will be made by the first meeting.
"I would like to see the money go towards
the clubs that are requesting funding, there's
plenty of money hereto go all the way
around." he said.
Monreal said because no budget was ap¬
proved, the Chicano Youth Conference, an
event traditionally funded by ASI. was forced
to find its own funding.
"I have to talk to them and see what hap¬
pened I went to the conference and it wasn't
financed, and somehow they made it go
Please see ASI page 9.
Welty urges faculty
to become more
involved on campus
By Derek Walter
The Daily Collegian
Staff and faculty members were
welcomed back to another semes¬
ter Wednesday in an assembly at the
Satellite Student Union that fea¬
tured an address by President John
Welty and a presentation by moti¬
vational speaker Linda Boardman.
Welty's address to the assembly
focused on Governor Pete Wilson's
budget, calling it "positive news."
Welty highlighted several portions
of the budget, drawing speclaPat-
tention to the fact that there will be
no fee increase for students.
Welty also challenged the fac¬
ulty and staff to become involved
in the university's "Vision for the
21st Century: A Plan for Excel¬
lence" program, featuring several
task forces of professors research¬
ing university issues.
"All of us have some responsi¬
bility to become involved in the
process." Welty said
Welty said all faculty members
should either join a task force, send
ideas to one or read its regular or
final draft reports..
Welty said Boardman was rec¬
ommended to him by several fac¬
ulty members who heard her speak
during a joint staff training program
with Saint Agnes Hospital. Welty
said she was an excellent choice
because she talks on change and the
rate of xhange. Welty said he felt
change was a very important issue
for staff, faculty and everybody.
Boardman's presentation was
entitled "Stressing Change." She
said the world is in a constant state
of   change.
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also used a
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balloon    to
demonstrate
how people
deal with stress.
.All faculty and staff members
were given balloons when they en¬
tered the theater. She asked every¬
one to blow up their balloons, and
slowly let air out so it made a
squeaking sound. She said that
sound represented how people
"whine" about stress.
She popped another balloon to
represent how people explode when
they encounter stress.
Boardman then used another
balloon to show the ideal way to
deal with stress. She filled it with
air. then released the balloon,
watching it float through the air and
fall to the ground.
She said this was the ideal way
to deal with stress, going with,
where life takes you.
She also urged the audience to
be agents of change, and to be in¬
novative and involved in thinking
of new ideas. She said everyone is
involved in change either by. "de
sign, default or defiance."
She showed the audience a large
caterpillar doll, which she folded
out into a butterfly and told the au¬
dience of faculty and to strive to be
all they were created to be.
Playing in the mud
Ryan Weber — The Daily Collegian
Although last week's showers caused Hooding around campus, they have been a source
of entertainment for some. Fresno State students Chester Neal. David Gee and Kin Jew
enjoy a game of mud football on the soaked fields near the South Gym on Sunday.
Wealthy suburbanites sympathetic to
students charged with infant's murder
By Julie Knipe Brown
and Mark Angeles ' .
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
FRANKLIN LAKES. N J.—
The teen sweethearts charged with
murdering their newborn baby in a
Delaware motel will be heading
back to their New Jersey homes'
Delaware Department of Cor¬
rections spokesman Anthony Fanna
says Amy Grossberg- and Brian
Peterson stayed in Wilmington for
the weekend until an electronic
monitoring system was put in place
The 18-year-old college students
were released from Delaware pris¬
ons last Tuesday on $30,000 bail
each. Conditions of their release
include a curfew, regular meetings
with probation officers and elec¬
tronic monitoring
Farina says the delay in the
Meens' return to their wealthy New
Jersey suburb can be chajked up to
the uniqueness of the situation
He says. "We've never had out
of-state electronic monitoring and
we're dealing with a do/en in-state
and out-of-state parties It's com¬
plicated to coordinate something
like this, and we want to do it cor¬
rectly "
Spread over 10 square miles
awash with lush, wooded hills and
graceful lakes. Grossberg's and
Peterson s hometown is carved with
turn-of-the-century farmhouses and
modern, stained-glass estates.
It's a place populated by the rich
and famous, where the average
house sells for $500,000. and teen¬
agers spend their weekends party¬
ing in Manhattan—not hanging at
the local pizza parlor
There are no street lights or side- '
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