1987_03 The Daily Collegian March 1987

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=Wednesday, March 25,1987=
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Tha Cottage Untori Program
Cammltlee wi be accepting today
onfy for ooordfoatofs and subcom-
mfttees for the 1987-86 year in
CoJtege Union 306.
OaHaUpaltonwil sponsor a tri-tip
sandwich sale today from 11 a.m.
to 1 pjn. in the Free Speech Area.
Tha Child Cam Task Force will
meet today at 11:10 in San Ramon
2 No. 24.
Tha Associated Graduate Busl-
ness Students wi hold a lunch¬
eon today at 1130 am at the
Tha Faculty/Staff Bible i
will meet today at noon in Old
Science 193.
Tha Budget Committee will
meetteday at 3 p.m. in Main Cafe¬
teria 263.
"Tha Art of Effective Dele¬
gating," the last of a series for the
Leadership Workshop, wi be
presented today at 3 p.m. in Col¬
lege Union 312.
 will meet today at 5
p.m. in New Science 382.
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Please send letters no longer than 250
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University. Fresno, Fresno. CA 93740.
Letters must be signed and include the
author's name, telephone number and
address.
Melikian right
Dear Editor,
Who is Ed Melikian? I think he is
completely correct in his editorial. When
Ed talks about being deemed a racist/bigot
for disagreeing with the Chicano-Latino
Studies Department, it should be known
that I experienced the same thing in a
Women's Studies 10 class. (Being labelled
a sexist/bigot for disagreeing.)
Why   can't  this  school   have   an   Anglo
Studies   10  class?   Why  do   white   males
• have to take Black Studies, La Raza or Wo¬
men's Studies?
I know why! Because those classes are
about society's victims. Once you achieve
victim sums, you become a protected
species in our country. Your feelings are
considered much more important than
anyone else's. Victims approach sacred
status.
On May 8 last year in The Fresno Bee,
there was a story on a Hispanic protest of
there not being enough Hispanic
. professors at CSUF. They are not being
passed over for hiring. CSUF is holding
positions for minorities. But some
Hispanics think that national advertise¬
ments, recruiters searching especially for
minorities and the holding of vacancies is
not enough. They think Hispanic
professors should be paid more than other���professors!
Right. 'I really like that Talk about
reverse discrimination, Tm Hispanic,
therefore, I should be paid more than you.".
About Affirmative Action. I feel the
burden of past injustices should not fall
upon young white males.
To allege that the white male, who also
may. be from a poor, underprivileged
family (like myself), has necessarily
profited from the deprivations and psychic
damage of present-day eescendents of the
enslaved is a claim that borders fantasy.
The young white male is jusl-aSx much
an American citizen as anyone else;*His
hours put in on homework, grades, his
performance on the job and his hopes for
admission, promotion and success are as
worthy as anyone else's. Reverse discrim¬
ination is a glaring evil and ought to be
done away with.    ,
, Anthony Joseph Di Maggio
Senator thanks
DearSditor,
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank all of those students who voted in
this year's A.S. election. In writing this
letter I could not help but remember what
the late Vince Lombardi said many years
ago when he stated that "Any man's finest
hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he
holds dear — is that moment when he has
worked his heart out in good cause and lies
exhausted on the field of battle, -victori¬
ous." Now after two weeks of campaign¬
ing, I am feeling somewhat exhausted, but
fortunately victorious.
I would like to thank some poeple who
were instrumental in helping to keep my
enthusiasm from waning during frustrating
times. My two campaign managers Jaime
P. Rodriguez and Michael A. Lima, contrib¬
uted greatly in developing consistent and
creative political strategy and reaching out
to the students campuswide, often enduring
some long and hue hours in the process.
I want to thank my fellow lurmingmates
on the Students for Responsible Govern¬
ment ticket and the many volunteers who
helped in passing out flyers about the
election.
I want to thank my supervisor at the
library, Mrs. Cousineau, as well as my fel¬
low student assistants for always lending
some encouragement, and some humor. I
want to thank many organizations on this
campus which set aside a few minutes on
their agendas in order so that I could
present my qualifications and my con¬
cerns; you will hear from me soon. I would
like to commend Doug Thomburg of KFSR
for a job well done in presenting the vari¬
ous candidates to the listening public.
Most importantly, those who are respon¬
sible for my being able to write this leuer
are the voters: the ag students, engineer¬
ing students, science students, students in
sororities and fraternities and the students
from my school, of Social Sciences. All
students have freedom of choice, only the
concerned ones exercise it.
I -would like to close with some per¬
sonal reflections. During my three years at
this university, I have always heard of our
students' political apathy, but only as a
candidate    for    student   office   does    one
experience it first hand. It behooves me to
reason why approximately 14,000 students
do not exhibit any interest in their univer¬
sity or the whereabouts of their hard-
earned money. I realize most of us are here
to sit, receive a degree and leave. But I
assure you, your future employers are go¬
ing to look past the degree and classify
you. As Goethe put it, as a hammer or an
anvil. Are you a mover, a contributor or
arc you a taker — dead weight? Are you
interested in using your knowledge and
experience to the fullest extent or are you
interested in mediocrity and comfort? I
believe politics to be exciting because it
is meant to be competitive. I am com¬
petitive, like most people who have ever
lived on this planet. I am interested in
this university and its students being
known as being competitive. Not compe¬
titive when..., not competitive if..., but
competitive period. In the last analysis, it
is the number of participants which draws
the most competition and the most
competitive people. Wc can, in turn,
encourage progress rather than discourage
responsible government. I look forward to
serving the students with vigor in the
coming months.
Most sincerely yours,
Anthony J. Sotelo
A.S. Senator-elect
At-Large, Post 2
'P' is for pitchfork
Dear Editor,
Because you have been so kind to me, I
thought I would'send you another letter.
See, I think of myself as sort of a foreign
correspondent.
Today. I am sending you a letter I think
we can all leam from.
Today, I send you the letter :
"P."
"P" is for pitchfork. The pitchfork goes
"doing" and the sinner screams "ouch!"
And that's the way it should be.
Yours eternally.
The Devil and Bill Pierce
Votes appreciated
Dear Editor,
A note of thanks to the 1.341
suppoiters.
I thank you for your support in the
recent senate elections.
I will represent you and all CSUF
students to the best of my ability.
Thank you,
Eddie Chin
Senator Elect
Parties detrimental
Dear Editor,
In response to the editorial in Friday's
Daily Collegian regarding the need for
political parties, or their ability to address
student concerns on a more effective level,
I must say, absolutely and positively
"NO."  Had I  believed  that  they  serve  a
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better purpose or vehicle to best provide
the associated students with a more
responsive, responsible, accountable or
sensitive student government, I would
have run as a candidate on one of the
slates instead of campaigning
independendy.
Partisan politics on campus are totally
detrimental to the associated students of
this campus and serve no purpose other
than exacerbate what was so aptly coined
in the editorial as an "us against them
attitude." The distrust and hostility that
exists among student government
activists, associated with the different
slates usually based entirely on
personality conflicts alone, is bad enough
without adding fuel to the fire.
Each of us has'been endowed by our fore
fathers certain unalienable rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As
individuals, each of us is free to seek
actualization pf these rights subject to our
own unique' and individual interpretations
— provided they stay within the spirit of
the law, do not exploit or repress others
from doing the same and lastly, with no
open-rnindedness and moral conscience
remembering (above all that they are in
fact, our own personal attitudes, opinions
and perceptions and that we have no right
to expect others to sec things in exactly
the same light as we do.
Partisan politics take away the
opportunity to let each candidate
personally express just exactly what these
feelings and attitudes toward a free
democratic society • are. With this
knowledge available. Others could choose
and evaluate the candidates whe' will best
represent these values similar to their own
personal viewpoints, as one would expect
the candidate to lead and work for student
government as he believes to compromise
your own principles and privileges to vote
by walking into the polling area with a
piece of paper telling you according to
someone else's dictates how or for whom
to vote, without caring enough to research
the facts or candidates yourself, is a shame
and it knocks the very soul of the
privilege that was gained by so many of
our ancestors' lives. How can you expect
?ny government to be responsive,
sensitive and accountable to your needs if
you do not even care enough to find out if
the person you're voting for will best
represent your interest while in office. We
get the government we deserve.
In closing. I wish to congratulate
President-elect Mark Astone and the rest of
the victors in the elections for Associated
Student Body government. I pledge my
support and will be glad to share my
experience or be of any assistance to help
you all in the best job possible. As a firm
believer of doing the necessary footwork,
but leaving the results up to God, I wish
to thank everyone who did vote, for
whatever reason, but especially for those
who chose to exercise their privilege of
voting, by supporting me.
Again thank you,
Randall F. Guerra
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