1987_05 The Daily Collegian May 1987

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Dietetics
major wins
scholarship
Student meets
test of nutrition
By Use Kim Bach
Staff Wrier
Tm a perfectionist," said Sharon
Stindt a dietetics major. T can't make my¬
self back off."
Those qualities certainly had something
to do with Stindt winning a $3,000 Na¬
tional Diet Center Scholarship. The schol¬
arship was offered nationally, and Stindt
was chosen as one the 10 winners.
Stindt already has a bachelor's degree in
criminology and has worked, for the Fresno
County Sheriff's Department before injur¬
ies disabled her from her job.
"I found out about it at the very last
minute." said Stindt. "It was the end of
die semester last semester on the very last
class day. I had to Federal Express my
entry to get it there on time."
• Stindt had to write two essays, submit
two letters of recommendation and meet
the grade point average qualification.
Stindt plans to use her scholarship
funds to either purchase a computer or a
Visual Tec.
"Light really bother my eyes," said
Stindt who added that her neurological eye
disorder also cause her to confuse the
words she's reading at times. She has
notetakers for her classes, but the only
time Stindt can do her class assignments
is during die hours that the Disabled
Student Center is open in the library.
Having either piece of equipment at home
would be a help, added Stindt
Adel Nef, the local representative for
Diet Center, said Stindt's entry demonstra¬
ted that she was sincerely interested in
nutrition ahd desired to help other people.
"She really showed an interest in
getting out and educating the public," said
Nef.
The Diet Center has 2£00 offices in the
United States and Canada and has been in
existence for 16 years.
"We stress nutrition and try to help
people get down to their ideal weight and
maintain it" said Nef*
Nef added that Diet Center offered the
* scholarships   in   an  effort   to   educate   the
public about nutrition.
The scholarship was offered across die
nation," said Nef. Tt was really an honor
for Sharon to win."
ICON
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columnists have never been seen in one place
together.
Memo III: If columnists are judged by the
letters they inspire, then Angie tomes up the
winner. She outraged nearly as many as that
Ed M. fellow did, a good many of them
religious folk who quoted the scriptures. There
have probably been enough religious letters
this semester to set a new Collegian record,
ot at least strain the tolerance of readers.   {*
None of those letters,* if memory serves me
correct mentioned Tun and Tammy Bakker.
Neifh-T did the Collegian columnists.
Although the hapless PTL bunch was an easy
target nobody would be able to stomach the
many inevitable letters from fun and Tammy
supporters throwing more quotes at us and
handy reference numbers. There's been enough
of it during the "Some Band" controversy. It's
best to keep that sort of thing to a
minimum...keep it confined to the Free
Speech Area where it belongs.
Rudy Murrieta inspired a few letters, so did
rhe Point/Counterpoint guys. T have no idea"
and The Iconoclast" shot zeroes in that
department Next I will cook up a noxious
brew that will produce moral outrage in the
marketplace of ideas, and all those angry
letters it will inspire can just be printed next
>: This is my
perhaps even
that I am due to
last column for the
my lifetime, because it
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
Ron HXnan/ The Daly CoMegun
Jack Gartner, assistant bookstore and text book manager, waits patiently Thursday afternoon for students to
return books. May 22 is the last day to return books.
graduate. Or at least that is the rumor being
spread by several members of the faculty. I
think I might as well accept the inevitable
and start acting like a bachelor of arts. I have
only finals week in which to salvage any
hope of returning for yet another semester and
shedding $325 for tuition. But I am afraid I
am too far ahead in my classes to sabotage
the dreaded diploma.
Ill miss college. Tve been doing it for
severuyears"; and Pve kind of come to think of
it as my careea, I don't know if I can face not
having to fill out financial aids forms
anymore. And life just worft be the same
without encountering those Free Speech Area
preachers bellowing to buy a ticket to
heaven while a limited number of spaces
remain; those underappreciated folks are
doing a great service for humanity by
confining themselves to an area where they
can easily be avoided.
I had a great time trying to juggle school
and studying with the two jobs I needed to
keep a lavish apartment and nutritious, well-
balanced meals on the spacious dining room
table.
But somehow, with American
determination and grit I made it through,
paying what Secretary Bennett said the
market could bear. Maybe next year, I can
afford a more roomy, luxurious university,
with better mileage and trunk space.
While Tm going through college
withdrawal. 111 hit the job market and start
earning a living. After all. college is sort of
like batting practice for the big game, which
is making mi/ney. This education business is
not lucrative enough.
I should know. My parents are both
teachers, and to make things worse, they are
artists; they never taught me how to use a
computer.
I had a serious talk with my father many
years ago. "Dad," says I, "You'll never go
anywhere with this art business.
Paintbrushes won't put margarine on the
table. The emphasis on creativity and culture
died with the '60s. The market for art is
limited to trendy areas of New York, and the
Wall Street Journal says the stock price is
slipping. Why don't you drive a bread truck
instead?" He didn't take my advice, and now
he teaches at a California community
college. It has brought shame to my family.
I learned a lot in my years of higher
education, almost more than I did from
watching television. The global village is
shrinking, so I need to go out and see it
before it disappears. That's what one of my
instructors told me, or perhaps it was Dan
Rather.
In the bright, gleaming promise of the
future, m follow what the polls say about my
generation., I'll just party my way through
life, with enough brewskics and moral
slackness to keep myself amused, and armed
with my "Just Say No To Drugs" ribbon (plus
prophylactics to keep the sex safe). The
campaign to wear condoms on one's cranium
to keep dangerous ideas out is just beginning,
and you'll want to be there for all the fun.
Peter Melton's column appeared every
Friday in The Daily Collegian.
TUTORS
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is good for giving you an overall, general
idea. And then when you work on specific
problems, the students are good to help
you with those."
When asked if she believes , she could
have made it through the class without the
assistance of the center, Moreno replied
"definitely, not"
The quality of the tutors is generally
judged as quite good by tutees contacted by
The Daily Collegian.
Jennifer Young, who went to the center
for help in, an accounting class, believes
the center has helped her in the course, but
said the center could be improved with .
additional space.
Moreno sees room for improvement in
the center as well. "There should be some
specific areas that we can work in," she
said. "It's just one large room and it's real
crowded. Lots of times there's a lot of
noise, so- if we had sectioned booths or
something for some privacy, it would be
better."
In some departments, students complain
that groups assigned to a single tutor are
too large, although they admit it is an
improvement over rhe anonymity of a
classroom.
But despite the problems, the Tutorial
Center is seen as a sqrnetimes
indispensable asset for the students who
take advantage of the service.
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