1980_11 The Daily Collegian November 1980

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Wise Words From Faculty
Upward Bound
Welcomes Crane
By Anna C. Wong
CSUF is pleased to welcome a new
addition to their staff.
Rinalda Crane, an alumni of CSUF,
was recently named to the position of
Assistant Director/Counselor of Upward
Bound.
According to Crane, Upward Bound is
a program which is designed to aid low-
income high school students with high
potential.
M»nv minority students, says
Crane, get discouraged because witn-
out an athletic or academic scholarship,
it is virtually Impossible to enter col¬
lege.
Crane also adds that the Upward
Bound Program will be working exclu¬
sively with 65 students chosen from
schools such as Fresno, Roosevelt, Edi¬
son, Sanaer. Parlier and Madera high
schools. These students are selected
through a screening process in conjunc¬
tion with school administrators and
teachers
Under the program, students are
given motivation, assertiveness training
and tutoring assistance.
The Dosition of Assistant Director/
Counselor called for someone who can
work with low income people from differ-,
ent ethnic backgrounds.
Crane felt she was qualified due to her
diversified employment record. She has
worked as a public relations person with
Cirl Scouts, a career development direc¬
tor for YWCA and a youth coordinator
forEOC I
By
Carolyn Simmons
and
Betty Horng
Dr. R.S. Mikell, Ethnic Studies Program
Coordinator-The sacrifices you make
today toward achieving academic reali
ties earn hugh dividends (monetary
spiritual and wholesomeness) as one
journeys through life. Therefore, from
this day forward, let each of us allow our
academic light to shine as a symbol of
accomplishment and also as an inspira
tion to those around us.
Dr. Imeh Uyoe, Ethnic Studies Program-
We must realize that the world is not a
garden of roses. We must work harder
than ever, especially towards the unity of
the Black people all over the world, for
united we stand, divided we fall.
I. James W. Whitehead, Graduate
School of Social Work-Considering past
and current forces which serve to shape
the character of life for Black Americans,
high educational attainment is a funda¬
mental imperative for the total eradica¬
tion of impediments which block the path
to full equality, dignity and freedom.
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Just try it andiee what you attained*
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Cedar and Shields - Fresno
Dean Richard D. Ford, School of Social
Work-Ouotes a saying by Dag
Hammarskjold, "Never, for the sake of
peace and quiet, deny your own experi-
|eflaor_conyjctk)nsv*__
Lecturer Anita R. White-Set goals for
yourself and don't give up because of
setbacks. You've got to keep on plug-
ing. Youcandoitl
Privileges
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- uirector of the College Union Services of I
the Facilities Committee, to put the PAUl
on probation. The PAU will be allowed to
hold three more dances in the CU lounge
this year but they can only have one
more this semester. The decision was
based on the negligence of the PAU and
a bowlina alley staff person who was
responsible for unlocking the doors in
' the first niace.
'If the doors had remained locked like
they were originally, the chairs would
not have been put there; it was negli¬
gence on both parts,'said Andersen.
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Commentary
A FEW THOUGHTS ON FASHION, SHEEP, AND HUMAN BEINGS
IN THE INTERESTS OF REASON
By Stephen K. Lubega
Fashion, in my opinion, is completely testimony for the age-old wisdom that we
human beings u* really sheep! (If this revelation is a little unsettling for some
within our flock—take heart,.there is strength in numbers.) It is in the fashion
world. I think, that we are most want to 'obey without question*, each leading the
others with nary a backward glance.
But. take time out from the maddening flock for a moment, if you will, and try to
ponder on our gullibility for fashion. Firstly, why this fixation on exotic sounding
names—Pierre Cardin, Sassoon, Vanderbilt—that we will fall all over each other
for the orivilege of paying an arm and a leg for them? And isn't a white shirt a
white shift, or is it a white, white shirt when tt' s Van Hussein? Beats me!
Someone suggested to me what may be a plausible explanation for our mass
gullibility- fashion gives us identity! (Yes, even to Y'all Black sheep who may
otherwise feel easily identifiable.) How does fashion give us identity? It's a
manner much akin to that expressed by a new breed of existentialists who pro¬
claim: *l watch T.V., therefore, I am." To extrapolate—*l am into fashion, there¬
fore, I am *
All this may sound too philosophical. (Even for White sheep, for they too are
humble and lowly creatures.) Fashion, one might say, serves as a reference point,
being a twrt of those numerous and curiously important nothings, which make up
our social timbre. Fashion puts people where they belong, or perhaps more impor¬
tantly, ex its them out of where they don't. Need I remind any of you of that doubt¬
fully pleasurable experience of showing up in jeans and windbreaker, to a gather¬
ing of classic English worsteds?
Fashion too, allows us to emulate those we admire—or envy—a fact which
suggests feelings of self-inadequacy. Yes, I believe that there is, among us, a per¬
sistent and enduring need to look to others for cues on how to behave. (Forgive me
for stating the obvious; this is wholly within the nature of sheep.) Our perceptions
of others as being more competent, more proper, and more right, is what makes
the fashion world go round. And where do all those 'bright* fashion creators get
their ideas? Heaven knows; probably from some competent, right, and proper
person who doesn't even know which way is up.
Now I didn' t mean to break any tender hearts, for fashion does have Its place.
Why, now the grandfathers can sell all their 1900 ties and trousers to 'new wave*
teenagers! And fashion does help us belong: I wouldn't want to be caught alive
wearing a sheepish grin and the same kinds of dothgs. Ronald Reagan wears.
Photo by Betty Horroj
Photo by Betty Horng
Simone, elegant in her traditional wedding dress.
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