1980_10 The Daily Collegian October 1980

              THE DAILY COUEGIAN
Theft
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area.
Davis, the owner of the swords, was
.notified at 9:30 yesterday morning
that two of the seven swords on display
had been stolen.
But It was a reporter, not the campus
police, who was the first to tell Davis.
Chris Reynolds, a reporter for the
CSUF journalism department newspa¬
per. Insight, saw the damaged display
case when he was leaving the Business
building Monday night.
According to Reynolds, Mark Zahner.
a photographer for Insight, reported
the incident to campus police at 1120
pm. which is 35 minutes after the
police say they were first notified.
However, Reynolds said there were no
police at the scene when he first saw the
damaged case.
Reynolds also said that two ashcans
had been used to break the glass, which
conflicts with the police version of only
one can being used
The first mention to Davis that some¬
thing was wrong was when another
instructor told him Tuesday morning
that the display case had been boarded
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Davis went by the case to "see for
himself, but he had an 8 a.m. class
and decided to check on the swords after
class.
He still had not been notified by
campus police that anything was wrong.
It was not until his class ended at 9:30
a.m. that Reynolds told Davis that his
swords were missing.
The campus police did not contact
Davis until mid-morning.
Davis said that the two largest swords,
both about 36 Inches long, were missing
from the display.
One of the swords Davis classified
as a "contemporary," but one of the
swords was originally made in the 17th
Davis said the items were priceless.
"You wouldn't think people would
ever do that." Davis said about the
theft "I hadn't taken those out of
my attic for more than 30 years. It was
just because of the series 'Shogun'
that I thought people would be interes¬
ted In seeing the swords."
Davis was also upset about the
vulnerability of the display case, or for
that matter, anything in the Business
building.
"The entire building is kept open
very late because people are using the
computer terminal, which is housed
there," Davis said. "All the offices
In the building an vulnerable."
Davis also wonders if he might
still have his swords if campus police
patrol had been better.
"It makes you wonder, 'Just what
kind of security an we Ulking about
here?'" he said.
Two bachelor degrees:
Should CSUF permit it?
By Robb Fulcher
The Academic Policy and Planning
Committee has tabled until its next
meeting a proposal to allow second bach¬
elor's degrees at CSUF, but the commit¬
tee was ready to pass the proposal 'in
principle' Just before adjourning.
If passed at Thursday's meeting, the
proposal would go to the floor of the Aca¬
demic Senate.
Jack McDermott, a member of the ad
hoc committee that drew up the propos¬
al, said the other 16 schools in the Cali¬
fornia Stale Universities and Colleges
system allow students to add a second
bachelor's degree to one they already
Richard Arndt, chairman of the Aca¬
demic Petitions Committee, sat in at the
meeting to speak against the second
degree proposal.   .
Arndt's committee is Involved in the
current policy for second degrees. II a
student has a bachelors degree and
wants another, he must petition Vivian
Vidoli, dean of graduate studies. If the
petition is denied, the student can ap¬
peal to Arndt' s committee.
Vidoli has said most such requests are
denied.
Arndt said he was *a lone voice crying
in the wilderness' against the proposal.
Arndt told the committee that stu¬
dents who want second degrees to help
land better Jobs are served just as well
by the current policy of furnishing them
with letters that state they have com¬
pleted the necessary classes to get a
second degree,  if one were regularly
Also sitting in on the meeting was
Joey Cirimele, a CSUF student who has
been fighting school bureaucracies for
two years over the second degree issue.
He is a 1975 graduate of San Francisco
State University with a B.A. in psycho¬
logy, who wants another bachelor's
degree in business.
Cirimele's persistent efforts were
praised by McDermott 'You (Cirimele)
deserve credit for the hours you have
spent going from door to door and com¬
mittee to committee,* McDermott said.
'If you have your way, hundreds of FSU
students, although you may not knov
them, will be in your debt."
Cirimele predicted the committee will
recommend allowing second degrees at
its next meeting.
The policy committee voted unani¬
mously to table the proposal until Thurs¬
day.
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California State University, Fresno
THURSDAY,    October 2,198Q
Baxter, Volpp: Where are they now?
Whereabouts
not known
By Matt Alger
No one in Fresno apparently knows
the whereabouts of Infamous former
CSUF President Norman A. Baxter,
whose controverial administration was
embroiled in bitter conflict with students
and faculty.
CSUF President Harold H. Haak and
staff, the CSUF public information office
and the California State University and
Colleges System administration office
could provide no information about the
location of Baxter. Eugene E. Zumwaft,
professor of English and former Baxter
adversary, and Louis D. Volpp, formerly
Baxter's vice president of academic af¬
fairs and now professor of marketing and
management, also said they knew noth¬
ing of Baxter's whereabouts
Zumwalt and Volpp refused to talk
Volpp resigned from his administra¬
tive position last fall, reportedly at
Baxter's urging. A faculty poll in Sept¬
ember 1978 showed that, of those who
responded, 463, or 77 .8 percent, consid¬
ered Baxter's performance unacceptable
and 478,
sap,
* Nearly 78 percent of the faculty
responded to the poll.
Shirley Armbruster, a Fresno Bee re¬
porter, has contacted Baxter's old acqua¬
intances and neighbors and also has
been unable to locate him.
Baxter received a vote of 'no confi¬
dence'in December 1978 from the Asso¬
ciated Student Senate, which was con-
tan tfy at odds with him.
Volpp enjoys
independence
by Steve Schmidt
It's been over a year since Dr. Louis
Volpp, a former dean and CSUF admini¬
strator, became a full-time teacher in the
School of Business.
A former Dean of the School of Busi¬
ness at prestigious Columbia University
in New York and more-recently a contro¬
versial figure in the embattled admini¬
stration of former CSUF President
Norman Baxter, Volpp is back teaching
'what I like to teach.*
A management and marketing profes¬
sor, Volpp is enjoying a new-found 'kind
of Independence that faculty members
have.*
Volpp declined to comment on his role
a* Vice President for Academic Affairs
during the Baxter years.
English professor Ken Seib, who was
one of the most vocal critics of the Baxter
administration, would only offer the
remark last week that, 'I'm pleased
he's back in the classroom. He's prob¬
ably an excellent teacher, but he's prob¬
ably one of the worst administrators
DR.LCAilSVOU>PANDNOfiMANABAXTER
Volpp h now >fulKtnrsibuilrstaMlmtTi»ctDr
'Volpp is a very Intelligent man. He has
so much to offer and he takes teaching
very seriously.*
Students also seem to like Volpp. One
said he enjoyed Volpp because, 'Ha
doesn't put you to sleep. Sometimes he
tells jokes.'
'He's vary intarsited In what he
teaches and has a good interaction with
students,' said another of Volpp's stu-
Interaction with students is a vital part
by Baxter were the firing of William A.
BuzJck as dean of the school of business
and Zumwalt as chairman of the English
CSUC Chancellor's office was ordered to On one occasion, he provoted the wrath
send an acting vice president In charge of the students by conning tha senate
of affairs to CSUF. Robert O. Bess arriv- into giving htm authority over money       .        ,    , ,
ed last fall to fill the position. they wished to use to expand the child   *° **<«"*.»» »»*'. *We ought to do
According to AS President Luis Sepul- See Baxter, page 12 See Volpp, Page 12
— of tha school of
ter's opponents, Zumwalt was	
a letter of dismissal by an administrator
accompanied by plain clothes campus
policemen In December 1970. The Eng¬
lish Department office was bolted shut,
file cabinets padlocked and guards
placed outside.
Spurred by complaints and wide¬
spread unrest at CSUF, the CSUC trus¬
tees ordered a formal fact finding review
of Baxter's administration. He was re-
i appointed president on July 14,
1970, he said he hoped his administra¬
tion would become known as 'the admin-
Swords recovered
ward Drive-in on the north side of
meet with students and faculty.
-We didn't really have any kind of
communication and when we did It was
really unproductive,* said Sepulveda.
Baxter would 'pass the buck* to one of
his  =-*-
The two authentic Japanese samurai
Sepulveda.
Baxter was constantly in disagreement
with the AS Senate over budget matters.
Davis, accompanied by campus In-
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