1981_12 The Daily Collegian December 1981

              Opinion
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Pro-solar opinion expressed by Pizzuti
To the editor:
Hello "besmirched no-flame*
(NWBR) (Nov. 19 issue). Who is 'Dr.
Bruns?" I know of no such professor
here at CSUF. I would like to examine
further—even give credence to
NWBR's letter, however, she told us
that we 'can believe half of what
you see, a quarter of what you hear,
nothing of what you read, and the op¬
posite of what the government tells
you.*
If that is true then she should throw
away her graduate degree, because
the books she studied in school were
sanctioned by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
Which 'quarter' of her letter should
we believe? I think she does have a
lousy attitude, but that is no reason
to avoid trying to understand why she
is so paranoid of the atom.
I wish she would at least give us
some of her non-government sources
for the horror stories at Hanford so
we may believe them and join the no-
energy, no-growth, disarmament
cause. Everyone must espouse some
cause or another, but because not
everyone can be "smart like Bruns'
does that mean we should not try to
know the truth of a hot issue or is
ignorance bliss?
Nuclear energy is not safe, and nei¬
ther is coal, hydro, solar. Anytime en¬
ergy Is produced there is danger.
Let's not assume tootnuch folks, as
NWBR did when she assumed Mr.
Bruns taught here. 'If an agency
knows enough about statistics and ex¬
perimental design, it can plan a study
to prove anything it contends.' Can
this also apply to a self interest group?
Why not apply this reasoning to in¬
terest groups like Ralph Nader's Cri¬
tical Mass, or the All Baloney Alli¬
ance? Are they immune to dishonesty?
Who are we to believe if we are
told men landed on the moon; the
government or the Flat Earth Society?
Incidentally, the FUtEarther's be¬
lieve that the moon landing was 'part
of a great deception by NASA' and
that the "astronauts were hypnotized
into believing they went into space. *
Does NWBR also believe in a con¬
spiracy of this sort on us Americans?
Perhaps we should take care to
avoid any suspicious looking pro-
nuclear students lurking in the dark al¬
leys of CSUF, especially if he is one
mistaken for a professor. I am for solar
energy if you can keep it scaled down
to a comfortable size—a solar plant
that can produce the average output
of a 1,000 megawatts of electricity,
would have solar panels spread out ap¬
proximately SO miles square, and that
is hardly appealing to environmental-
If a coal or nuclear plant were the
size of your pencil top, a solar plant
with panels of equal output would be
the size of this page. But then we do
have tots of room In the Mojave
desert...
Student urges legislature to decrease fee
To the editor:
I want to express my concern at the
J216 per year fee hike proposed for
the California State University and
Colleges System.
For the past 20 years, the CSUC
has1 been providing financially afford¬
able education to California residents.
This commitment by the state of Cali¬
fornia to her citizens (both young peo¬
ple seeking a degree and older peo¬
ple seeking a career change) has been
underlined by our state's pouring of
millions of dollars to build and oper¬
ate 19 major college campuses.
Frankly, California, with her commit¬
ment of time and money, is too com¬
mitted to back out now.
The fees would have a devastating
effect on enrollments at the 19 CSUC
campuses.
Many minority and other low in¬
come students would simply not be
able to foot the bill.
Many middle class students attend
CSUC campuses because they can af¬
ford to attend these schools without
taking out government student loans,
and without accepting money from
their parents. However, if the cost of
attending a CSUC college was finan¬
cially out of bounds, many prospec¬
tive CSUC students would take out
their loans and go elsewhere—to a pri¬
vate school or to a more prestigious
UC campus.
I strongly urge the Legislature to
prevent fee increases of this magni¬
tude that could effectively destroy the
CSUC system.
Cil Fleming
Senior, CSU, Fresno
Season tickets considered a farce
To the editor:
It sure is a shame that the major¬
ity of CSUF students won' t be able to
attend the basketball games this sea¬
son. It's a joke to sell only 700 sea¬
son tickets to the students. The way
they are distributing the tickets is a
Pretty soon the Fresno State basket¬
ball team will be playing in front of
nothing but Bulldog Foundation mem¬
bers and business donors. They are
the people who pay the high prices for
season tickets. As long as they keep
on paying top dollar for their seats,
the students will be left out.
Then to put the icing on the cake.
if you were one of the lucky people to
acquire student season tickets, it en¬
titles you to a seat up in the rafters. I
think it's time for the students to
take a s tand. By next year there might
only be a handful of student tickets.
Afterall, if it weren'tfor the stu¬
dents there wouldn't be a basketball
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Hambrock murder: one year later
Staff Writer
Th* murder of CSUF coed Krista Hambrock one year ago today seems to have
faded from the memories of most CSUF students. Many have relapsed into old
habits in regard to personal safety, with the apparent attitude of 'it will never
happentome.*
The various programs that were enacted because of the still unsolved murder of
the young Mariposa woman are all — with the exception of a campus escort
service — still in effect, but student participation in those programs is almost nil.
'Everyone's gone back to their apathy," said CSUF Police Chief William
Anderson. "We're seriously worried that they (the students) are vulnerable
again. It seems that everyone has forgotten.'
For one thing, Anderson said that he and his officers have noticed an increase
in the number of female students who walkor jog around the university and its
fringe areas alone at night. He said that a few of these people 'have showed a
little bit of resentment* when officers have tried to tell them about the potential
dangers of being atone on campus during the evening.
'They get in this state until a crises rudely awakens them," Anderson said.
'Unfortunately, that's generally the rule. A situation has to happen again.'
It was 10:30 p.m. last year on the evening of Dec. 2 when 20-year-old dorm
resident Krista Hambrock decided to go for a nightly walk on campus, something
she often did.
An hour later, Hambrock — with a single stab wound in her chest — was found
bleeding to death outside the entrance of a nearby pizza parlor. By midnight,
Hambrock was dead. Her murderer has never been found.
In the days following the murder, university officials enacted a number of pro¬
grams to beef up campus security, the most significant of which was the improve¬
ment of campus lighting. Vehicular and foot police patrols were increased during
the evening, and a campus escort service was also planned.
In addition to these programs, the dorm escort service — which had been in
existence since 1979 — was revitalized, and a temporary hot-line was set up in
the dean of student affairs off ice.
'The most significant activity which occurred was the speeding-up and im¬
proving of the lighting on the campus,* said William Corcoran, dean of student
1 affairs. The program, in fact, had already been started by the university, but the
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Horticulture unit keeps growing
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Staff
The Ornamental Horticulture Unit
on the corner of Chestnut and Barstow is
a growing place, despite the. hard
economic times.
Probably one of the farthest CSUF
units' from the center of campus, the
greenhouses and lathhouses continue
to serve a variety of functions for stu¬
dents in the Plant Science Depart-
Besides the many classroom projects
in plant propagation and floraculture,
the unit has a state nursery license, that
allows the unit to have some direct in-
Both students and faculty have pa¬
tronized the nursery during the past
year since the unit started selling
plants.
'We had tots of left-over materials
from class projects, like cuttings,"
technician Howie Lee said.
Students learn how to start new plants
out of pieces of older plants: a leaf, a
stem. And there are creative methods of
making variations in a single plant, by
grafting a tender branch or bud from
one plant onto another. These asexually
propagated plants tend to multiply after
awhile, Lee said.
Some of the class projects, such as
the pine trees, are being donated as
Arbor Day trees to each school in the
Fresno Unified School District.
The unit is an educational opportunity
for students. "We get a lot of practical
experience here * student Mary McCol¬
lam said. She is one of several students
paid to help take care of the many tasks
at the unit.
The greenhouses, warm and humid
on a cold day, have various technical
requirements. Some simply require the
regular watering of plants. Others,
where cuttings are slowly developing
their own roots, have an automatic mist¬
ing system.
Temperatures have to be maintained
between 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit,
according to Lee. That is particularly
difficult in summer when outside tem¬
peratures soar into the 100s. Most of
the   greenhouses   are   equipped   with
The unit is a show place for new hor¬
ticultural ideas. Besides the observa¬
tions of nursery shoppers, the unit
holds an open house every spring.
One  show  piece  is   a   groundcover
The unit used to have a turf display,
but it was too much trouble to main¬
tain, McCollam said.
One field is currently covered with
brilliant chrysanthemums and a small
garden spot is soon to burst with the
colors of just about every camelia spe¬
cies and variety known.
Lee will soon be working on a small
landscape design'to show students and
faculty what they can do in limited
areas. 'It'll be my Saturday and Sunday
By early spring the unit will be bril¬
liant with bulb flowers: iris, daffodils
as well as sweet peas and other pro¬
jects of floraculture students.
Some of the many plants get a little
closer to the center of campus, thanks
to the Ornamental Horticulture Club's
monthly plant sales. Held on the first
Tuesday of every month, the proceeds
go to the Agriculture Foundation-, which
funds the whole school of agriculture.
The unit's own operating budget- is
PLANTS
Comedy
begins
tomorrow
-University Theatre at CSUF will
present Shakespeare's *Twelfth Night,*
a fanciful comedy about the madness
of love, Dec. 3-5 and 6-12, at 8:15 p.m.
■ in the John Wright Theatre. The roman¬
tic comedy will be directed by Terry
Miller and centers around a kaleido- *
scopic whirl of romance, wit, farce
and intrigue. Special discounts will be
made available to groups over 25. A
pre-sbow discussion by the director
will also be offered.
According to Miller, "Shakespeare
has created some of literature's fun¬
niest characters in this play. Sir Toby
Belch and Sir Andrew Augucheek are
a pair of marvelous clowns. Sir Toby is
a drunk, a glutton, and a con man, and
Andrew is the classic wimp in love.
'Love is at the center of the ac¬
tion of 'Twelfth Night," he said. 'The
characters, like most of us, fall in love
with a fantasy and then are shocked to
discover the real person underneath."  .
Mill*/ also noted that the comedy
themes-'are familiar. 'Look at Mal-
volio,' Miller said. 'He's a hypocrite
who pretends to be above the sins of
lust, pride and greed. He has a secret
dream that his mistress, Olivia, toves
him. Because of that dream, he is
easily tricked by his enemies.'
Matvolio is conned by Toby and
friends into declaring his love for
Olivia while"dressed outlandishly and
smiling like an idiot. The melancholy
Olivia thinks that he has lost his mind
and has him locked up. Miller feels
that "Malvolio is so pompous' and
ridiculous that the audience should
enjoy his downfall."
Count Orsino is also in love with an
idea of Olivia. Olivia herself fares no
better, falling in love with "Cesario,*
who is really Viola in disguise.
The director sees Sebastian and Viols-
as English characters ship-wrecked
upon the shores of a passionate Mediter¬
ranean land where people fall in and out
of love with great force.
Miller notes, 'It's as important as
the comedy is—it's love that makes
"Twelfth Night" such a charming and
a moving play. And these people fall
in love like we. do—without knowing
what is happening to them. Part of ma¬
turing, I think, is finding out whom
you have fallen in love with."
Sally Monson, a junior, has been
cast as Viola; David Hamp, a sopho¬
more, will be her brother. Sebastian.
Jacqueline Antaramian, a sophomore,
-vill be Olivia, and Daryl Simonian, a
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