1986_12 The Daily Collegian December 1986

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Tuesday, December 2,1986
Group assists quake relief
LASC collects
medical supplies
for El Salvador
By Tamara Toller
Staff Writer
Members of the CSU F Latin American
Support Committee loaded medical sup¬
plies enroute to El Salvador via Los
Angeles Nov. 25 to aid victims of the San
Salvador earthquake.
The variety of medical supplies, valued
at approximately S50.000, was driven to
Los Angeles the next morning where it
was loaded onto an airplane with addition¬
al supplies collected bythe Med Air for El
Salvador organization, according to
Margaret Mcl.ane, one ofthe event coor¬
dinators.
Med Aid for El Salvador planned to fly
the planeload of supplies out of Los
Angeles M onday to aid victims of the Oct.
10 earthquake that leveled most of San
Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
Thousands of deaths and injuries occurred
as a result of the quake.
"We expect the help is going to be very
well distributed, because of the channels
we are working through." said Luis Melen-
dez, coordinator of the Fresno effort to
send aid to the earthquake victims.
LASC member Steve Bruhn said actor
Ed Asner is responsible for starting Med
Aid to El Salvador. Other media person¬
alities and well-known activists arc
involved in Med Aid efforts.
. "lo fix the economy of El Salvador
from the earthquake could cost up to $200
million," said Melendez, a native of E\
Salvador.
See AID, page 3
Glenn Moore I The Daily Collegian
Preparing shipments of medical supplies to El Salvador, members of the Latin American Support Committee load supplies
bound for a Los Angeles airport.
Ag institute to get AT&T donation
By Mark Murray
Staff Writer
AT&T will donate a computer tele¬
conferencing system worth up to $750,000
to the California Agricultural Technology
Institute at CSU F sometime in December,
the system's director. Jeff Ennen. said
Monday.
With this system, users will be abje to
hold conferences'via personal computers,
and teachers can conduct classes without
classrooms, according to Ennen.
'He said a scientific paper can be
critiqued by several experts without the
author mailing or personally submitting
it. All the writer must do is type the
material through the Teleconferencing
Communication Net and the experts can
review it at their pleasure.
With TC-Net. meetings may be
conducted more efficiently and cheaply,
because the participants will not have to
travel or readjust their schedules. To have
a computer conference, they need only
input what needs to be said and others can
read it when they have the time.
"The same functions you will find in a
nference you will find in TC-Net. It is
just done by computer," Ennen said.
He said the target date for getting the
new s'y'Jrternon, **«* is Dec. 15, but CATI
. will not officially announce its operation
until next year.; «
When the system becomes operational.
CATI plans to test it on agricultural
educators. Ennen said the instructors are
already trained on the system and will test
its effectiveness.
Ennen said TC-Net -will not replace
CATI's current computer system, ATI-
Net. ATI-Net is an information retrieval
system, while TC-Net is a more interactive
communication-sharing system.
"That's the crux of the system," Ennen
said. "You are sharing information. Most
bulletin-board systems like ATI-Net are
just information retrieval."
Ennen said one problem with a computer
conference is that it might take away the
interpersonal relations people have at an
in-person meeting. "That might be some¬
thing we need to think about," he said.
But, he added, "So much time in a
meeting or class is wasted time; you sit
there and start daydreaming about some¬
thing."
With TC-Net. information can be
absorbed more efficiently because the user
can read if when he wants to.
"This might be something that will
replace central meetings or classes." Ennen
said. "It might just be delegated to a
support function. That is what we are
trying to find out right now."
Though CATI is part of the School of
Agriculture, other departments can use
the system, Ennen said. "If philosophers
want to use it and philosophize over stuff,
they can do it," he said.
When the system is started, there will be
limitations on how many people can use
it. The staff is not large enough to train
everyone who wants to use the system, but
Ennen said he is confident that CATI will
be able to get the personnel needed to
train users.
Teacher ed classes will return
to campus for next semester
By George Kostyrko
Staff Writer
In the wake of protest from faculty
and students, more than 18 sections of
teacher education classes planned to be
taught off campus during the Spring
1987 semester will now be held at
CSUF.  N
Cook-Hamilton School, the off-
campus site located at Clinton and
Palm streets, was chosen to alleviate
the lack of campus space caused by
rising enrollment in the School of
Education, according to Homer M
Johnson, dean ofthe School of Educa¬
tion and Human Development. The
school has grown 30 percent from fall
to fall for the last two years, Johnson
said.
Eight special and teacher education
classes were taught at Cook-Hamilton
school this fall whfr 22eeverely disabled
students used two rooms on the CSU F
campus.
For teacher education student Mary
Jackson, the discovery ofthe off-campus
classes in the Spring 1987 schedule was
upsetting. She began a petition drive to
protest the off-campus course, Collecting
143 signatures.
"It started out to where 1 couldn't
sleep I was so upset." Jackson said.
"So, I decided to do something about it.
I started gathering signatures, and the
more I gathered the more I found out
that some of the students didn't know
what off campus meant."
She delivered a copy of her letter to
Judith Kuipers. vice president of Aca¬
demic Affairs. At'the same time.
Associated Students Senator Randy
Guerra received a copy ofthe letter and
began speaking with Johnson and
Kuipers about their position on the
petition.
According to Johnson, as thc letter
was being delivered, a decision to move
the classes back to campus had already
been made due to pressure from the
faculty.
"For some students and faculty, it
was a problem," Johnson said. "Cook-
Hamilton is a nice place, but we didn't
schedule it right.
"1 think there's a way we can move
off campus so that the students and the
faculty would like it. What we need is
some portables (buildings) on a local
campus. We could then Mock classes
together so that students would not
have to travel back and forth."
To house the returning class sections,
Johnson said a previously unoccupied
room in the Henry Madden Library and
accommodations presently used by
Cook-Hamilton students in the Art/
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