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Volume 108, No. 6
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September^ 1997
Boyd's condition weakens
By David Childers
The Daily Collegian
Fresno State student Malcolm S.
Boyd's condition slipped to critical
and unstable as of late Monday
night, said a hospital official from
the intensive care unit at University
Medical Center.
Boyd was beaten with a lead
pipe across the street from the
Fresno State campus on Shaw Av¬
enue on August 23.
He had been listed as critical but
stable since he was admitted to the
intensive care unit following sur¬
gery on his brain.
The Fresno Police Department
announced at a press conference on
Friday that they had identified three
suspects in the beating of Boyd.
Two had been arrested, but police
were still lacking sufficient evi¬
dence to bring charges against ei¬
ther individual. A third suspect was
still the subject of a Fresno Police
Department search as of late Mon¬
day night.
The first of six campus blood
drives for Boyd by the Central Cali¬
fornia Blood Center will be held on
Wednesday between 8 a.m. and 4
p.m. Students can donate blood in
the Free Speech Area near the Uni¬
versity Student Union between
those hours.
Any blood collected during the
blood drive can be designated for
Boyd, saving the family hundreds
of dollars in blood costs. Those
who donate on campus must have
a social security number, be in good
general health, weigh at least ll(K
pounds and be at least 17 years of*
age.
Donors will receive a special
blood drive t-shirt and a coupon
good for one pint of ice cream at
apy participating Baskin Robbins
Ice Cream outlet.
"Wc arc totally dependent on the
support of the Central Valley's
blood donors to ensure that the
blood supply is plentiful," said
Gaye Leonard, director of commu¬
nity relations and development for
the Central California Blood Cen¬
ter. "We appreciate that people arc
willing to take an hour out of their
busy day to come in and donate."
How to help
1 Blood drive - 8 a.m. to
p.m.   Wednesday in the
ree Speech area near the
niversity Student Union.
1 Donations - Malcolm S.
;
oyd Assistance  Fund,
resno State Foundation,
alifomia Slate University,
resno, 5244 N. Jackson,
IS No. 45, Fresno, CA.
3740 or call 278-4036.
Hungry for football
Members of the "Dogpound" joined 33,114 fans at Bull¬
dog Stadium Saturday to cheer on Pat Hill's first victory
as Fresno State's head football coach. The Bulldogs beat
the Portland State Vikings of the Division I-AABig Sky Conference
by a score of 35-7.
The crowd was the smallest since late 1995 and the smallest home
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opener since 1990. The low attendance, however, might have been
affected by the Labor Day holiday weekend and the little-known
opponent.
The Bulldogs will be back in action this Saturday at 6 p.m.
against the Baylor Bears, who were blown out by the University of
Miami in their opener on Saturday.
Complete story on page 6.
ASI
hopes
to pass
budget
By David Childers
The Daily Collegian
' Following last Tuesday's scuffle
over the 1997-98 budget, the Asso¬
ciated Students. Inc., will conduct
round two today at 3:45 in Rooms
312-314 of the Student Union.
As of press time it was unclear
whether or not University President
John Welty had s^ncd the budget.
It was also unclear whether or not
ASI Advisor Frankie Moore had
endorsed the budget.
What was made painfully clear
after the first meeting was that
many, if not a majority, of ASI sena¬
tors were unhappy about the man¬
ner in which the ASI Executives -
Please see ASI page 4.
Future teachers will look to cyberspace for answers
By Tim Bragg
The Daily Collegian
An overwhelming wave of new teachers
entering California elementary and high
school classrooms is forcing the California
State University Institute to come up with
some creative ways of educating them.
Fresno Stale and the CSU system are col¬
laborating with publisher Simon A Schuster
to create a distance learning program to help
new teachers with emergency credentials
work toward their full credential. Three
Fresno State professors are helping the uni¬
versity to create materials for the new sys-
The new program will allow credential
students to use the Internet to access class
assignments on the World Wide Web and
communicate with their instructors via e-
mail. Students will watch video taped ex¬
amples of instruction techniques and will
produce videos of themselves demonstrating
the techniques for evaluation.
Teachers in California are required to have
a teaching credential in addition to their
bachelor's degree to prove they have knowl¬
edge of teaching methods that will make them
effective in1 the classroom. These methods
include the instruction of reading, the
mainstreaming of students with disabilities
and Cross Cultural Language and Develop¬
ment, or CLAD.
Instructors who leach with emergency cre¬
dentials must have a bachelor's degree in the
discipline of instruction they teach in, r
credential in Liberal Studies if they are te
ing multi-subject classes. Most have co.
pleted some credential classes and had an
Please see TEACHERS page 5.