1986_11 The Daily Collegian November 1986

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, Monday, Nov. 17, 1986
IDSUF bottoms out in voter turnout numbers
By Tim Hurrianko
Staff Writer
Students at CSU F had the lowest voting
percentages of all precincts in Fresno
County in4he Nov. 4 election, according
to results compiled by the Fresno County
Elections Department.
Precinct 259, which covers the frater¬
nities and sororities, posted the lowest
turnout by registered voters, 20.2 percent,
of any precinct.
The second lowest was Precinct 171,
where Bulldog Lane Village Apartments
are located, with a turnout of 34.6 percent.
Third place was Precinct 150, covering
the dormorities with 36.6 percent.
The average percentage of the other
precincts was in the mid-sixties.
Fresno County.Clerk Galen Larson
feels there are a number of reasons for the
low turnout of the general population as a
whole.
"Whenever the major race isn't close,"
Larson said in reference to the governor's
race, "there is not a lot of excitement
generated which would bring voters out."
To verify registered voters, a card
requesting address corrections is mailed
to help determine-the status of thc voter.
According to Larson. 98 percent of the
cards are thrown away, which leads to
"phantom" voters on the roll. /
"We have about 35.000 phantom voters
who have moved, but show up on our
roll," Larson said.
Xhe law requires that a sample ballot
and official ballot be mailed to each
registered voter.
When the results of registered voters are
tallieerTthe turnout percentage is lower
than the number of actual voters.
,    Anotherreason students fail to vote is
that many are from but of town, which
means they receive an absentee ballot.
Most of these ballots are thrown in the
wastebasket, according to Lawson.
CSUF Political Science Professor Dr.
David H. Provost agrees with Lawson on
one of the reasons for this year's low
turnout. .- —
"When a race at the top of thc ticket is
weak, it takes the- impetus of the voter
away," Provost said.
In addition, students do not want to
take political science classes, according to
Provost.
"Thc fact of the matter is. most students
are not interested in politics," Provost
said. "They are more interested in finance
classes."
As a general rule, college-age adults do
not vote, according to Provost.
"The only exception to that is Berkeley."
Provost said, "which in the past, has had a
high turnout due to the social activity that
takes place there."
Rosa Cardenas. 20. a sophomore recrea¬
tion major who lives in the Bulldog Lane
Village Apartments, is a registered voter
who did not vote this year.
"I'm not registered in the Fresno
district." Cardenas said, "and I didn't
have an absentee ballot."
When she was 18 and living in Stockton,
she voted in the presidential elections but
not the primaries.
"I think it's important to vote if you
know what's going on." Cardenas said,
"but I didn't, so I think an uninformed
voter shouldn't vote."
Research paper ad violates policy oversight
By Glen Faison . ^ Umj, tms yca|. a scctjon m lne handbook
Staff Writer dealing with the Media Council's policies
and procedures has forbidden all campus
publications from accepting advertising
An apparent oversight in the production   f    complete or dralijorms of papers.
of the 1986-87 Associated Students Policy   such as tcrm papcrs andtr.
any Procedures Handbook is allowing
The Daily Collegian to run an advertise-
'rnent for a catalog of research papers,
much to the displeasure of university
officials.
The Media Council is /he overseeing
body for all A.S. publications, and the
policies of the councibare binding.
This year that polycy was inadvertently
omitted from the handbook, allowing the
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advertisement to run against the wishes of
university officials.
Both Dean of Student Affairs William
H. Corcoran and English Department
Chairman Roger D. Cbittick have written
letters to The Daily Collegian asking that
the ad no longer'bc run in the paper.
I he ad states that by calling a Los
Angeles phone number, or by sendingtwo
dollars directly to thc company, a person
will receive a catalog with 16.278 research
papers to choose from and can "save time
and improve your grades."
Chittick.stated in his request that this
type of advertisement encourages cheating,
and papers purchased in this manner are
ofteji submitted in English classes. He said
many of the papcrs are written by graduate
students, and in at least one case by a
CSUF graduate student. He .said these
papcrs ate also difficult to track down
A spokeswoman for Research Assist¬
ance, the company offering the catalog of
research papers advertised in The Daily
Collegian, said there was no way of
knowing how many students at CSUF. or.
at any other college or university through¬
out the country, have ordered the catalog.
"We really don't keep those kinds of
statistics." she said. "It takes us all year
just to find out which papers are running
the ad."
Steve Barsotti. a CSUF student, worked
to revise thc Media Council's policies and
procedures last semester as a member of
the council. He said as of last May. the
advertising policy section had not been
reviewed.
"There's no telling what happened." he
said. "When I left wc hadn't gotten that far
in the revisions. -They may have been
changed during the summer."
Barsotti said by*he end of last semester
he had only completed revisions pertaining
to the composition of the council, and the
council itself had only completed the
selection process, for this fall's editors
when the semester came to a close.
• A.S. Parliamentarian Ron Avedisian
said  he spent two weeks this summer
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poring over the entire handbook looking
for mistakes before final and adoption
publication. He then spent another week
reviewing the handbook with Legislative
Vice President Rebekah Burger.
"Even after all this, some mistakes got
through." he said, adding that to the best
of his knowledge, the advertising section
was not purposely- omitted from the final
eppy.
Burger called the deletion of the
advertising policy a typographical error
She iaid thc policy should be inserted in
thc handbook during the ongoing bylaw
revision process.
"We should make sure Ron or someone
on the revision subcommittee ol the Media
Council knows to include this in the bvlaw
rev isions." she said.
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A Psychology Lecture concerning
"Soviet and U.S. Perspectives on
Human Potential Research" will be
today at noon ip Main Cafeteria
200. Speaking will be Stanley
Krippner of the Saybrook Institute
in San Francisco.
The Chicano-Latino Students
Association will sponsor a panel
discussion on "Education and the
Chicano Experience" today at noon
inCU3!2-3l4.
The CSUF Academic Senate will
hold an open hearing today at 4
Hyp Main Cafeteria 200. The
campiis Community is invited to .
attend the meeting which will deal
with undergraduate academic qual¬
ity and enrollment and demographic
trends.
Tne History Club will meet tonight
at 7 p.rn. In Social Science 207.
'Birth of a. Nation" will be shown
with commentary by Dr. Bjerk.
A Lecture dealing with "San
Joaquin Galley Gardens'* will be
given today by Fresno landscape
architect Robert Boro. For more
information, call 294-2836.
Tbe Campus Crusade for Christ
will meet Tuesday night at 8 p.m. in
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