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EDITORIAL
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Greenpeace vs. dolphin slaughter
By Marshall Paul Smith
The yearly practice of slaughtering thousands of dolphins by Japanese
fishermen on the island of Iki has enraged environmental groups worldwide
A recent witness described the scene:
'Along the shore, they were starting to pile the bodies of the dolphins into
mechanical shredders. It's hard to describe the horror. There were hundreds
of bodies and hundreds more dolphins still alive but trapped in the tiny bay
churning the waters in fear as they heard their companions die at the hands of
fishermen.
'By late afternoon of the first day the sea was a boiling red, dyed that way by
the blood of the dolphins and the shore was piled high with the decomposing
corpses of dolphins waiting their turn to be ground by the shredder.*
Until recently the fishermen and the dolphins shared the sea in peaceful
cooperation. Then the fishing catch began declining, and the fishermen blamed
the dolphins.
No matter that the area was severely over-fished or that heavy discharges of
pollution by industry had destroyed vital breeding grounds or that worldwide
the fish catches were rapidly declining due to over exploitation by roan. The
fishermen of Iki decided that the dolphins were to blame and began to slaughter.
In other parts of Japan, dolphins are killed for food. Environmental groups
an attempting to educate the Japanese public on the necessity to preserve
the ocean's chain of life, but they have met with little success. Witness the fact
that Japan is the main consumer of whale meat.
In the spring of 1900. a member of the U.S. based Greenpeace organization
attemtped to stop the slaughter at Iki island by paddling out onto the bay and
opening fishermen's nets. Before he was arrested and jailed by the Japanese
government, the American had managed to free 250 dolphins. After he was
jailed the massacre continued.
For mankind to continue to slaughter these highly Intelligent, gentle creatures
shows how basically inhumane our species really is. Creenpeace needs your
money and time to stop the killing. There are people out there who will continue
with their wasteful ways until the last fish is pulled gasping and dying from
poisoned sea. We must stop them.
Creenpeace USA
2822 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94109
For Fresno branch of Creenpeace call: 299-1711
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Correction
rules   of   cleanliness   is   simply   inex¬
cusable.
I don't know if hairnets will keep hair
where it belongs, but let's at least try
to meet some basic health standards.
To the Editor:
In the next to last paragraph of my
letter published in the Nov. 3 Collegian,
there is an error that makes the para¬
graph as published unintelligible.
It should read-it semms to that if it is
all that Important to Cod that we all InaCCliraCV
accept the premises of Christianity....*
the underlined was left out of my sen¬
tence • thus rendering the idea I attemp¬
ted to express meaningless. I hope you
can publish a correction.
R.Hass
A concerned parent,
Hanni Scheib
Food lacks taste
To the Editor:
During a visit on the weekend of Oct.
11 and 12 I joined my daughter, who is a
student at CSUF, and several other
students, for Sunday breakfast at the
cafeteria.
Not bad. I thought, until I started cutting
my sausage. There were short black
hairs all over the meat. To say I was
nauseated is putting it mildly.
Perhaps it is hard to make food that is
being mass produced for so many
students tasty and to,look as is somebody
up there cared.  But to lade in the bask
To the Editor:
The article on Singapore printed
Tuesday in the Collegian contained
a historical inaccuracy.
The election held in 1950 was a big
victory for the PAP (People Action
Party) and Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has been
prime minister since then.
On lune 3,1959, the new self-govern¬
ing State of Singapore superseded
the former Crown Colony and on Aug. 9,
1965, was separated from Malaysia and
became the Republic of Singapore.
Simon Pang
Idea exchange
To the Editor
The rash of buying of stock on Wall
Street best exemplifies the coming age'
of the business man. Business in the fu¬
ture will only have to holler competition !
in order to receive government subsidies
and incentives to put America back to
work. /'-
In the auto industry, business com¬
plained that they would not be able to
meet the average fleet miles per gallon
by the set vears. When the public began
to buy foreign cars to offset higher fuel
prices thev quickly met and even passed
fuel reoulrements and say they will con¬
tinue to do so in the future.
In a Reagan administration this will
not be possible. By asking for and receiv¬
ing restrictions on imports there would
have been no need to raise the level of
fuel economy. The American public
would have had to buy the less fuel effi¬
cient at higher prices. Reagan will force
us to subsidize our own economy, and
put our neople back to work but our
gains will be wiped out by paying thru
our teeth for those same American made
products
As for the new conservative movement
now is not the time to turn back to old
ways and traditions. The liberals who
were on the hit list now eliminated from
the Senate causes sadness to me to see
such champions of Black rights gone.
Their renlacements-right wing bible
toting conservatives-will attempt to
take awav all gains won during the last
25 years
Purine this administration Reagan
will have an opportunity to appoint five
justices. Thev almost certainly will be
stronglv conservative. What this country
needs are not the stiff ling ideas of a con¬
servative Congress but the bold ideas
that can change the patterns that have
caused our country' s downfall.
These ideas almost certainly will
appear tn be radical but they must be
proposed and accepted. The only prob-
lem with this is in our political system it
is more important to appear conservative
and be re-elected than to vote the way
that one thinks is best. It takes a rare
man to do what is right and hurt himself
in the process. It takes a much weaker
man to do the opposite. This breed of
man is onite common in the Congress.
-Eric Vincent Williams
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Sulfuric experiment may eliminate fertilizer
By Glenn Haller
A six-vear experiment to release phos¬
phates from the soil to fertilize crops
may soon be a success.
Or. lames Brownell, CSUF professor
of soils, has been working since 1974
with a continuing grant from the Sulphur
Institute to use elemental sulfur or
sulfuric acid to allow phosphates to be¬
come exnosed to plant roots.
The process has worked in test tubes
and greenhouses, but it has not yet
worked in the fields.
The process requires that crops be
planted in a soil that possesses calcium
carbonate (lime), whkh-also contains
phosphates. When sulfur is added, a
chemical   reaction   takes   place   that
creates calcium sulfate and releases the
phosphate.
Phosphate fertilizers are made that
way in chemical factories. The idea of
the experiment is to create this fertilizer
in the soil, thereby eliminating the need
for a factory-made fertilizer.
Brownell says that if the experiment
does work, it could be a boon to veget¬
able growers. Vegetables absorb phos¬
phates more readily than most other
plants.
The farmer can invest In putting
phosphorous into the soil In the form of
phosphate fertilizer, and later he might
be able to harvest that (phosphate) in¬
stead of leaving it in the soil forever,* he
said.
The Sulfur Institute, which is becom¬
ing financially strapped, started the pro-
Free recital to be held
Cellist Nancy Cousins and. pianist
Lynn McConahey will appear in a recital
Sunday, Nov. 16. The recital is spon¬
sored by the Musk Department at CSUF
and will be held at 8 p.m. in the Musk
Building Recital Hall.   There is no ad¬
mission charge.
The CSUF recital will include musk
by Boccherini, Beethoven, Stravinsky,
Richard Strauss, and Cinastera. The
program is being recorded for later
broadcast by KFCF-FM Radio. .	
Computer workshops to
be held in November
Two workshops dealing with comput¬
er systems in accounting and auditing
will be offered during November through
the center for Business Research and
Service at CSUF.
'Accounting Controls for Computer
Systems' will be nek) Tuesday, Nov. 11,
and "Comouter Systems Auditing Proce¬
dures' will be conducted Tuesday, Nov.
18. Both sessions will be held from 8:30
a.m. to 4 io p.m. at the Ramada Inn In
Fresno.
The fee Is *4i0 for one day or J100 for
both programs, including lunch and
materials. Enrollment is limited and
advance registration is required. Each
session meets the State Board of Ac¬
countancy requirements for seven hours
of continuing education credit.
Both nrograms are structured for
accountants, auditors, systems design¬
ers and others responsible for the design
and management of computer based
systems.
The accounting session will deal with
system development, segregation of
functions access to systems, data and
physical security. The auditing section
will Include a presentation of examples
of typical tests of compliance In elec¬
tronic data processing controls.
Conducting the workshops will be J.
Thomas Amos, an independent data pro¬
cessing consultant who has Included
Price Waterhouse and Control Data Cor¬
poration among his clients; Eric Juline,
senior audit manager with Price Water-
house and Company; and Dave Lewis, a��consuttine manager with the firm.
For further information, contact the
CSUF Center for Business Research and
Service at 487-2352.
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ject in 1974 with a 12,500 grant. The
grant Is now 1750 a year.
But Brownell says that this is enough
to set un a field study in a Dos Palos
lettuce field, where he hopes to gain
positive results.
The process has been tested on cotton
and granes. but neither of these plants
are larae users of phosphates as nutri¬
ents; and the test results were dlsap-
pointina
If the experiments are successful in
the letti.ee fields, however, It will not
mean the end of the project.
'First we get it to work in the fields,'
Brownell said. "Then we find out when it
works in the fields. This research could
goonandon."
Auditions scheduled
University Theatre of CSUF will be
holding auditions for the spring semes¬
ter productions on Nov. 18,19 and 20.
All students are invited to audition, no
previous acting experience Is necessary,
and university credit is available for
everyone cast in productions.
The muskal Cowardly Custard, based
on the life of Noel Coward, has roles for
twelve nerformers. Auditions will be
held in the Speech Arts Building Room
153, from 5 until 7 p.m. on Nov. 18, 19
and 20.
An audition pianist will be provided.
All performers are requested to bring
the sheet musk for their audition num¬
ber. Cow.rdy Custard will run April 23-
25 and Anrll 28 through May*—	
Auditions for Bertott Brecht's par¬
able, The Good Woman of Setruan will
be held from 7:30 to 930 p.m. Nov. 18,
19 and 70. in the director's office, SA
138, in the Speech Arts Building.
Numerous roles are available for men
and women of all ages. The Goad
Woman of Setzuan will run March 5-7
and 10-14 1981.
The Child Drama Center will hold
auditions for the two touring produc¬
tions, Nl.htingale and Remus Tales from ,
4 to 7 o.m. on Nov. 18,19 and 20 in the
Lab School Room 101.
Night in uie has roles for four perform¬
ers and one singer. Ramus Tales has
roles for five performers and one music¬
ian.
The touring productions require that
everyone in the cast keep each Tuesday
and Thursday free all day for perform¬
ances. All cast people on touring shows
will receive nine units of university
credit.
For more Information, contact the
theatre box office at 487-2216.
PEOPLE WITH IDEAS
FOR IMPROVING OUR UNIVERSITY
CONTACT
Val Flood
Senator-At -Urge 229-9141 or 487-2657
Dave Leathers
Senator-At-Large 225-6808 or 487-2657
Linda Peterson
Senator-At-Large 2294570or 487-2657
Mark Steel
Senator-At-Large 226-4584 or 487-2657
Martha Davis
Undeclared Majors 431-9021 or 487-2657
DaveBamett
School of Engineering 291-0172or 487-2657
Charlie Burt
School of Business 431-2714 or487-2657
Jim Cahill
School of Social Science 296-3444 or 487-2657
Charlie Castellanl
School of Agriculture
and Home Economics 226-9516 or 487-2657
Norman Charley
School of Social Work 487-2657
Daniel Ho
School of Graduate Studies 4314618or 487-2657
Debbie Morgan
School of Professional Studies 222-8631 or 4*7-2657
Jane Morris
Division of Hearth Prof ess ion s 487-2657
Jeff Newman
School of Natural Sciences 22S-4643 or 487-2657
Carol Romero
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School of Humanities 227-2867 or 487-2657