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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Tuesday, September 2,1997 Opinion Telephone: (209) 278-5732 Students hit with 'pie-in-the-sky' ASI promises By Manuel Annear I begin by congratulating Director at Large Post No. 7, Leticia Garcia, for standing by her principles and cam¬ paign promises. Instead of caving in to the special-interest group which holds hostage this year's Associated Students, Incorporated Board of Directors, she bravely fought against a tcrribly-biascd budget, seeking a new proposal which would distribute cuts equally across the board, without discrimi¬ nation. Now. let me get to the real sub¬ ject of my column. Today I will point out the differ¬ ence between pie-in-the sky prom¬ ises and real production, between election hype and true commitment. betweenAerei) wanting a job and actually\Ioing it. Yes. the smoke¬ screens have cleared and ASI presi¬ dent Rocio Magana and Adminis¬ trative Vice President Sopheap Vuong-Vang are already showing their true colors. Magana is the elected leader of a corporation which collects and redistributes hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money annually. The ASI is governed by a set of rules, known as the ASI bylaws. . which clearly define how it must be run and conduct business. Last Tuesday's Collegian quoted Magana saying this, "There are so many by-laws being violated right now, I don't think that anybody in this office has time to pay attention to every little one." This is comparable to President Clinton saying, "There are so many constitutional amendments being violated right now, I don't think that anybody in my administration has time to pay attention to every little one." The primary job of the ASI * to know uSe by-laws and uphold them (yes. every little one!); a job Magana is clearly having trouble performing by her own ad¬ mission. Vuong-Vang is having her own troubles. This summer, she resigned her position as AVP, citing complica¬ tions with her pregnancy. Her prob¬ lems kept her from passing her classes last semester and maintain¬ ing the necessary GPAto be eligible to serve on the ASI. Luckily for us, m a gesture of true self-sacrifice for the students of Fresno State, she later rescinded her resignation say¬ ing. "... I had worked so hard and campaigned so long for the position that I had to take it." Funny, her medical problems did not dissuade her from campaigning everyday lor the last four weeks of the semester I surmise, that had she put her ef¬ fort into passing her classes instead of campaigning she wouldn't have had to beg a retroactive withdrawal from only those classes which dropped her grades below the re¬ quired minimum GPA of 2.0 (she didn't withdraw from her other classes!). With her medical problems in mind, Voung-Vang also said in last Tuesday's Collegian. " I can easily find someone more interested than me to fill in on committees. And I can just skip out on things like the (mandatory ASI) retreat." I'm not trying to bash a woman for being pregnant, but just what is she go¬ ing to be doing while someone else who is "more interested" will be sitting on committees that she is required to attend by virtue of the position she holds? By her own admission in the same article she'll be cooling her Please see ANNEAR page 5. SIGNE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS * t* PAY fW-TfME WORK Becomes UiJroFUWR I know Malcolm S. Boyd By Hakim Allen Irrespective of the edito¬ rial printed in The Daily Collegian stating that we. as a staff, didn't know Malcolm Boyd. I know him: I don't profess to have been best friends with him or one of his tight homies. But I knew him.-My first year here we lived in the dorms to¬ gether. We weren't roommates, but wc saw one another in passing and occasionally we would break from the causal "what's up" to stop and shoot the breeze for a moment. What became immediately evi¬ dent from any extended conversa¬ tion with Malcolm was not simply his calm demeanor but his intellec¬ tual drive. He had a deep love for computers and a vision that even I, with all my Law School aggrandiz¬ ing could not in the slightest fash¬ ion deter. Computers were to be his life and our worlds' future. However, what is most excep¬ tional about Malcolm to me, in my perhaps limited acquaintance with him. were his educational achieve¬ ments. Malcolm as an African American operated entirely against the ebbing trend towards academic mediocrity within his demographic. On a campus dominated by athlet-^, ics Malcolm committed himself to academics, time and time again proving that his intellectual moor¬ ings raked high above the majority of his colleagues. What then is to become of this rare intellect. Wc know that an in¬ dividual who has suffered such se¬ vere fissures to the brain will never be the same. I'm not a doctor, but I know that fissures on the brain sim¬ ply don't heal. His future, his love, h'.s life's drear,a have been denied to him, on a warm summer night by two strangers who hated him. They hated him for what he was and they hated him for what he repre¬ sented, and for some reason with¬ out ever understanding who he was, they felt threatened by him. As if it were their God given birthright to torture 'nigger's*, as he I to them in their eyes. As they not only saw him as. but u'Imi expressed, as they fell ihc sensation of Idling the word tickle the fipsol their lips, they beat him with a lead pipe repeatedly. Still, they could have spit on him. they could have urinated on him or left their semen to dry against his blackNkin. Onl> a few would fully realize the mag nitudc of what has transpired As wc stand here transfixed in the American notion of equality, wc now hold evidence that will not al¬ low us to conclude that we have in anyway achieved this end. We stand here on this campus, the future of a country, a multicultural nation, in a segregated multicultural environ¬ ment. Many of you operate in clans or cliches that are completely xe¬ nophobic. Such a campus polariza¬ tion of cultures has little alternative but to lead to a proportional polar¬ ization on a national level. Understanding the tragedy that we have been faced with regardless of whether one completely sees it Please see ALLEN page 4. Daily Collegian California State University; Fresno •Mat Editor aaCUeT The Daily Collegian u pub- Stalf Writer*: lished five times a week for and Ezra Oancui.faaue Brown. by the students of California State Timothy Bragg. Diana Sponsor. University. 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Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
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Publication Date | 1997 |
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Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
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Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, September 2,1997
Opinion
Telephone: (209) 278-5732
Students hit with
'pie-in-the-sky'
ASI promises
By Manuel Annear
I begin by congratulating
Director at Large Post No.
7, Leticia Garcia, for
standing by her principles and cam¬
paign promises. Instead of caving
in to the special-interest group
which holds hostage this year's
Associated Students, Incorporated
Board of Directors, she bravely
fought against a tcrribly-biascd
budget, seeking a new proposal
which would distribute cuts equally
across the board, without discrimi¬
nation.
Now. let me get to the real sub¬
ject of my column.
Today I will point out the differ¬
ence between pie-in-the sky prom¬
ises and real production, between
election hype and true commitment.
betweenAerei) wanting a job and
actually\Ioing it. Yes. the smoke¬
screens have cleared and ASI presi¬
dent Rocio Magana and Adminis¬
trative Vice President Sopheap
Vuong-Vang are already showing
their true colors.
Magana is the elected leader of
a corporation which collects and
redistributes hundreds of thousands
of dollars of your money annually.
The ASI is governed by a set of
rules, known as the ASI bylaws.
. which clearly define how it must be
run and conduct business.
Last Tuesday's Collegian quoted
Magana saying this, "There are so
many by-laws being violated right
now, I don't think that anybody in
this office has time to pay attention
to every little one."
This is comparable to President
Clinton saying, "There are so many
constitutional amendments being
violated right now, I don't think that
anybody in my administration has
time to pay attention to every little
one." The primary job of the ASI
* to know uSe by-laws and
uphold them (yes. every little one!);
a job Magana is clearly having
trouble performing by her own ad¬
mission.
Vuong-Vang is having her own
troubles.
This summer, she resigned her
position as AVP, citing complica¬
tions with her pregnancy. Her prob¬
lems kept her from passing her
classes last semester and maintain¬
ing the necessary GPAto be eligible
to serve on the ASI. Luckily for us,
m a gesture of true self-sacrifice for
the students of Fresno State, she
later rescinded her resignation say¬
ing. "... I had worked so hard and
campaigned so long for the position
that I had to take it." Funny, her
medical problems did not dissuade
her from campaigning everyday lor
the last four weeks of the semester
I surmise, that had she put her ef¬
fort into passing her classes instead
of campaigning she wouldn't have
had to beg a retroactive withdrawal
from only those classes which
dropped her grades below the re¬
quired minimum GPA of 2.0 (she
didn't withdraw from her other
classes!).
With her medical problems in
mind, Voung-Vang also said in last
Tuesday's Collegian. " I can easily
find someone more interested than
me to fill in on committees. And I
can just skip out on things like the
(mandatory ASI) retreat." I'm not
trying to bash a woman for being
pregnant, but just what is she go¬
ing to be doing while someone else
who is "more interested" will be
sitting on committees that she is
required to attend by virtue of the
position she holds?
By her own admission in the
same article she'll be cooling her
Please see ANNEAR page 5.
SIGNE
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS *
t* PAY fW-TfME WORK Becomes UiJroFUWR
I know Malcolm S. Boyd
By Hakim Allen
Irrespective of the edito¬
rial printed in The Daily
Collegian stating that we.
as a staff, didn't know Malcolm
Boyd.
I know him:
I don't profess to have been best
friends with him or one of his tight
homies. But I knew him.-My first
year here we lived in the dorms to¬
gether. We weren't roommates, but
wc saw one another in passing and
occasionally we would break from
the causal "what's up" to stop and
shoot the breeze for a moment.
What became immediately evi¬
dent from any extended conversa¬
tion with Malcolm was not simply
his calm demeanor but his intellec¬
tual drive. He had a deep love for
computers and a vision that even I,
with all my Law School aggrandiz¬
ing could not in the slightest fash¬
ion deter. Computers were to be his
life and our worlds' future.
However, what is most excep¬
tional about Malcolm to me, in my
perhaps limited acquaintance with
him. were his educational achieve¬
ments. Malcolm as an African
American operated entirely against
the ebbing trend towards academic
mediocrity within his demographic.
On a campus dominated by athlet-^,
ics Malcolm committed himself to
academics, time and time again
proving that his intellectual moor¬
ings raked high above the majority
of his colleagues.
What then is to become of this
rare intellect. Wc know that an in¬
dividual who has suffered such se¬
vere fissures to the brain will never
be the same. I'm not a doctor, but I
know that fissures on the brain sim¬
ply don't heal. His future, his love,
h'.s life's drear,a have been denied
to him, on a warm summer night
by two strangers who hated him.
They hated him for what he was and
they hated him for what he repre¬
sented, and for some reason with¬
out ever understanding who he was,
they felt threatened by him.
As if it were their God given
birthright to torture 'nigger's*, as he
I to them in their eyes. As
they not only saw him as. but u'Imi
expressed, as they fell ihc sensation
of Idling the word tickle the fipsol
their lips, they beat him with a lead
pipe repeatedly. Still, they could
have spit on him. they could have
urinated on him or left their semen
to dry against his blackNkin. Onl>
a few would fully realize the mag
nitudc of what has transpired
As wc stand here transfixed in
the American notion of equality, wc
now hold evidence that will not al¬
low us to conclude that we have in
anyway achieved this end. We stand
here on this campus, the future of a
country, a multicultural nation, in a
segregated multicultural environ¬
ment. Many of you operate in clans
or cliches that are completely xe¬
nophobic. Such a campus polariza¬
tion of cultures has little alternative
but to lead to a proportional polar¬
ization on a national level.
Understanding the tragedy that
we have been faced with regardless
of whether one completely sees it
Please see ALLEN page 4.
Daily Collegian
California State University; Fresno
•Mat
Editor aaCUeT
The Daily Collegian u pub-
Stalf Writer*: lished five times a week for and
Ezra Oancui.faaue Brown. by the students of California State
Timothy Bragg. Diana Sponsor. University. Fresno
leirCne*i.CherieN Arambd Opinions expra
Smarts Writer.: CdtfiaitB—t
AMiso.Bar.eti, Gary Ohapta, *aaerf*eaalia5©a%r.Co«e-
tCyokoftoahino giaa staff 11k editors reserve the
right to edit fetters for length and
clarity Tobe
cm
faflor
ludyYbnetl
Ryan Weber
David Childers
News:
Sports:
f*UC
<2B9)ZTt-S71Z
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