1987_03 The Daily Collegian March 1987

              —Daily Collegian
^^      California State University. Fresnn   ^sieW
Tuesday, March 17,1987
California State University, Fresno
'Bug' infests Bulldog Diamond
By Dan Waters house
Contributing Writer
A laic Friday nighl car chase / was
punctuated by the fleeing vehicle side-
swiping a fencd, and ended wijh-a footchase
through the Bulldog Lane Village apart¬
ment complex.
Campus Police said two officers saw a
Volkswagen "bug" being driven on the
softball practice field just after 10:30 pjn.
Friday.
"We were in front of the RDF
(Residence Dining Facility) because of the
dance when we observed a vehicle spin¬
ning hookers in the practice field," Officer
David Jensen said.
Jensen said when he attempted to stop
the vehicle, it accelerated off the grass turf
and onto an asphalt sidewalk at the south¬
west comer of the South Gym. The fleeing
VW continued southbound on the lawn just
west of the service road serving the Resi¬
dence Hall Dining building.
The VW's driver apparently lost control
for a moment and swerved into the
chainlink fence along the eait edge of
Bulldog Diamond. The fence wfcs lorn and
one post was bent over by the impact.
Pursuing officers realized that some object
had been hit. One officer thought at first a
light standard had been struck, but a check
by other officers after the chase ended
revealed the fence had been struck.
"The vehicle then drove the wrong way
on Scott Avenue," Jensen said, "across the
spikes. I decided that if he could get across
them   without  blowing  the   tires.  I  could
too. So I continued to pursue."
The car chase ended when the VW turned
off Bulldog Lane in the large parking lot
on the north side of the Bulldog Village
Lane complex, across from Beiden Field
west of Cedar.
"The driver took legbail, but we de¬
tained his passenger at the scene," Officer
Jensen said. ,
Campus Police SgL Larry Foote, who
backed up Jensen during the pursuit, added
"We had several people on foot chasing
him (into the large apartment complex),
but he got away."
The passenger, identified Saturday by a
spokesperson as an 18-year-old Fresno
youth, was held briefly by ^Campus Police
and was released without* Jbeing charged.
The   police   spokesperson   said   the   youth
was questioned about the identity of the
car's driver, but he refused to name any¬
one. Police added that the youth is the son
of the VW's owner, a southwest Fresno
woman.
The car, an older model VW "bug" style
two-door sedan, sustained damage to its
rear bumper and passenger side when ^t
crashed into the fence. The VW was"
impounded by Campus Police and towed
away. ^"\
On Saturday, the police spokesperson
said investigators had the Nname jti a
possible suspect driver and that,they would
be following up on that lead and any
others which might develop. She said the
case is being treated as a hit-and-run. She
declined to release any names since no
charges have been filed. \
GhmUoon/ThtDUfColtgtan
Candidates for Associated Students president Lawrence Tovar (left). Mark Astone arto" Randall Guerra answered
questions during an election forum Monday in the Free Speech Area. A.S. elections begin today with polls open¬
ing at 8 a.m. Elections will continue through Thursday.
Candidates
canvass
By Lisa Kim Bach
Staff Writer
Candidates for the Associated Stud¬
ents presidency were given the chance
to air their views on campus issues
Monday during a forum held in the Free
Speech Area.
Mark Astone of the Reality party,
Randall Guerra of Unity, and Lawrence
Tovar of Students for Responsible Gov¬
ernment, spoke individually of their
goals for office and then each answered
a question drawn from a hat.
In response to the question. Do you
think political parties have gotten 'in
the way of effective student leadership?
Astone said., "No way. fm not locked
into voting any certain way becaate
I'm a member of Reality. I don't think
it has gotten out of hand. Affiliations
with a certain party in no way link you
to a certain procedure." He also added
that issues needed to be considered
individually and not en masse.
Guerra's question was, "What do you
think is the biggest problem on this
campus, and what would you do to
solve it?"
"Too many students have precon¬
ceived ideas about how the A.S. govern¬
ment works. Wc need to reduce apathy
and realize that we share a common
denominator: wc are all students who
share opinions and anxieties." he said.
See FORUM, page 3
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Peace program celebrated with poetic insight
KuipersT Whitney articulate search for global man and woman
By HanitMo or ad
Staff Writer
In celebration of the approval of a
Peace Studies Program by the Academic
Senate, Don Whitney, academic coordina¬
tor of .the University of Washington
Athletic Department, and Judith Kuipcrs,
vice president of Academic Affairs, gave a
combined presentation Monday of poems
and insights dealing with the search for
global men and women.
"We all live today in a world filled with
the shadowy light of vulnerability,"
Kuipcrs said. That is why the search from
global men and women has never been
more critical, particularly in view of this
primary question — How can the present
world, with .its entrenched pattern of
conflict, change to a world where relative
harmony and cooperation in overcoming
conflict can prevail?"
She said world order can be founded
only on an unshakeable consciousness of
the world openness of mankind — "A
spiritual    truth    which    all    the    human
Kuipers, citing H. G. Wells, said,
"Sooner or later mankind must come to
one universal peace and law or be
destroyed by the increasing power of
modern weapons.  —?-* _
According to Kuipers, Wells called for
educational institutions to develop in
human minds a common conception of
human history and human destiny.
"Einstein.". she said, "proposed that wc
teach global and international education;
and that schools give priority to the
development of 'independent thinking and
judgment' in their pupils — not just the
acquisition of knowledge."
According to Kuipcrs. an irony exists
between the fact that satellite technology
allows us to communicate messages and
events around the work! almost instant¬
aneously, but "communication between
men and women and among different cult¬
ures is still this world's most critical
problem.
Most univeristies, according to Kuipers,
deal- with the study of various cultures, but
fail to deal with the meaning of cultural
differences.
"Lack of international literacy,
combined with lack of common language.
is all wrapped in a blanket of inability to
confront and resolve conflict in construc¬
tive ways," she added.
This situation sots the tone for
ineffective, and many times harmful,
communication between men and women
and among the different cultures of the
world," Kuipers said.
Kuipers said one of the most important
things to achieving global citizenship is
to achieve full equality between the sexes
which is, though, a less acknowledged
prerequisite. Denial of such equality would
be promoting unjustice against half the
world's population, Kuipers said.
She went on to say that there are no
grounds upon which such equality can be
justified.        (    '
"In fact, it is only as women"" are
welcomed into the full partnership of all
human endeavors, will the moral and
psychological climate be created in which
global menand women can emerge.
"However, this is. not to deny the
differences between men and women where
we enjoy such as the intimacy of our
sensuality and scxualuv."
People have been mostly exposed to
violence at school such as the glories of
Caesar's wars. Napoleon's war, which
according to Kuipers, is indisputably the
principle reason foiythe decline and fall of
people. * ■
"If SAT scores'' were based on high
schooler's knowledge of violence and war,
we would have a nation of young
geniuses," according to Colman McCarthy,
said Kuipers.
"Emerging from that, how can students
be expected to know about Dorothy Day
and her catholic worker? movement," she
added '*""
Kuipers said teaching people who
believe the force of non-violence and
constructive communication is more
effective, more ethical and more teachable
than the force of weapons, has been
ignored because we rarely offer courses on
conflict resolution.
Peace cannot be taught. Kuipers said.
"All one can do in Peace Studies courses is
help students develop a philosophy of
force."
There are two kinds of force available to
us, Kuipers said, violent and non-violent,
"It's* left to us to determine which kind
to failure has; been *orse and which kind
of force we wint to risk." she said.
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