1980_12 The Daily Collegian December 1980

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Who was that masked muralist?
By Karen Krleger
It's been nearly two months since Hak
Williams painted a mural on a wall in the
Conley Art building complex, and no
decision has been made as to what to do
with the painting.
*l guess they're trying to keep it as
quiet as possible,* he said, grinning.
Williams had come on campus one
Saturday to use the facilities to paint,
and when he found the classrooms were
locked, painted a mural on a wall. The
mural created a controversy because he
had not secured permission to paint on
school property.
One result of the mural painting was
the creation of an art students' group
called CAOS, the Cultural Arts Organiz¬
ation for Students. The group has now
been officially recoanized bv the univer¬
sity. Last Friday the group had a'small
activity,'a TCI coffee.
'It's lust now sprouting,* Williams
said, 'but we need the support of the
it." Membership in th* i
has reached 37 students.
Williams cam* to the United States in
1970 as a 14 year-old Korean orphan,
speaking no English. He enrolled at Fig
Garden School for one year to learn
grammar.
He then attended Bullerd High
School, painting backdrops for talent
shows.Whilc In ninth grade Williams en¬
rolled in an extension night class at
CSUF for two units of lithography.
'Art was something I always did,*
Williams said, *! was very active in
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sports, wrestling and soccer. I was more
involved with sports than with art."
Williams planned to come to CSUF
and wrestle for coach Dick Francis, but
instead went to Los Angeles, where he
'crammed" some*courses in six weeks.
He then applied to the University of
Southern California and was accepted.
He spent two years at USC, one-and-a-
half as a pre-med major.
"Pre-med just wasn't for me,* he
said. 'Art was natural.' Williams then
was told by Peter Bogner, an art profes¬
sor at the University of Illinois, about
Wichita Falls school in Texas, which he
attended for one year.
'Bogner opened the world of art up for
me,* Williams said.
Williams came back to Fresno in April
of 1979, for several reasons, mainly be¬
cause his adoptive parents were divorc¬
ing. 'I came back to be near my folks, to
be supportive if I could,* he said.
Williams hopes to graduate in May
with' a degree in painting. He Is critical
of the art department in one respect, that
there are no shows of students' work
held each semester.
'They were making it competitive, by
having to pay an entry fee, and to me
that's wrong," he said.
Williams describes his style of paint¬
ing as 'realistic landscape. *
"I do complete studies through land¬
scape forms,* he said. 'The philosophy
involves almost anything. I do a lot of
female forms transferred to landscape,
mother earth and that kind of thing.'
This Is Williams's decision period in
his life, as to where he would Hke to take
his painting talent. *l might go to grad¬
uate school—I'm also thinking of going
to Seoul National University (in the city
of his birth) in Korea."
CSUF art professor Ernest Palomino
has asked Williams to stay in Fresno,
which he Is also considering.
"I hope to see CAOS as a prestigious
organization on campus,* he said. 'Fres¬
no doesn't have too many art-type
things.* g
Williams thinks of art as being a self-
expressionists hobby 'It's something I
want to do when I want to be quiet or
alone,* he said.
Downtown program
A program to be •known as 'Univer¬
sity Downtown* that will feature weekly
noon hour presentations will be started
in January by the CSUF School of Hu¬
manities.
Dr. Joseph Satin, dean of the School,
said the project has been developed by
the School of Humanities Advisory
Board as a means of bringing the
community into closer contact with the
university. Dr. Ralph Victor, chairman
of the Advisory Board, has spearheaded
the effort.
The programs will be held upstairs in
the Rodder's Building on the Fulton
Mall from noon.to 1 p.m. each Thursday
and will include presentations by faculty
members and groups representing all
academic areas of the University.
The Inaugural program to be held
Jan. 22 will feature a prformance by
the President's Quintet. The event will
include a reception and will be hosted
by University President Harold H.
Haak and Fresno Mayor Dan White-
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'Dont you have more identification?
Check cashing dilemma for students
By Pare Curiee
Th* student browsed through the
aisles, grabbing only the necessities
from the drug store. She couldn't afford
any thing more. She plunked her pur¬
chases upon .the counter and winced
as the student wrote a check tor th*
amount and handed it to the cashier.
'I'm sorry, Ma'am, but don't you have
any more identification than a driver's
license, a Wards card and a student
IDT'the cashier asked.
Dejected, the student left the store,
she must wait until the banks open on
Monday to get the cash for her pur¬
chases.
Sound familiar? CSUF student
Michele Watson said she recently had
trouble cashing a check at five local
stores. She needed money a few week¬
ends ago and first tried th* student
bookstore. The bookstore does not give
cash for checks on weekends, but ft will
through th* week with Just a student
identification card.
When asked about tightening poli¬
cies, a bookstore employee said they feel
that the incidence of chock returns,
and bad checks has probably increased
because 'our list is getting longer and
longer." The bookstore keeps a list of
bad check writers, which employees
refer to each time a student writes a
check.
Watson also tried Longs Drug Store
where she was told she would have to
have a Longs' card for even the amount
of purchase. This confused her because
she had cashed checks there before.
A spokesman for Longs said the store
has never cashed checks for money,
only the amount of purchase.
Watson also triad Safeway, which
Insisted on a Gold Card, its version of
a check cashing card. Alpha Beta was
tried next by Watson where she was told
she needed a Security Service Card or
she could not writ* a check of any kind.
Th* list goes on and on for stores and
businesses which are getting tighter and
more leery of check wielding customers
that 'writ* and run*, as Wain/ Jeant
of Bank of American on Hemdon Ave-
nueputit.
Jeant said on* contributing factor in
the students' problems of writing checks
and having them accepted is the new
•Initlaline-checking system. Under this
system, she said, the bank issues a Bank
Card after 16 months of th* user's
verification that he or she can keep a
mInlmum balance and have no bounced
checks. "This makes it very difficult for
students,' said Jeant, because th* stu-
oents must tint -quality."
Trie Inrtiallne plan began this summer
and though Jeant cannot give exact
tgures she did say, "There are very few
students under the plan as corr»pared
to th* original College Plan which
was discontinued.'
Bill Owens, the manager of Crocker
Bank of Fresno's main office, claims the
bank has a taw more returned or
"bounced" checks but because the bank
is small it screens fts applicants and tries
to guard against those that would be
risky.
Owens   said   the   'slight   Increase",,
may be partially due to the tight money
supply although he attributes some of
that to th* Christmas season also.
He said ft seems people writ* consider¬
ably more checks that they cannot
back up during the heavy shopping
season.
Owens added that students have ft
easy because of the student account
which costs only $12 for the entire year
of checking. There is no over-draft
protection, however, with this plan,
and the student cannot get a Master
Charge card any longer.
A   Security   Pacific   National   Bank
Area stores tighten up
on check cashing
spokesman stated the bank had a 25
percent increase in bad checks In the last
few months. Loretta Pico of Security
Pacific National Bank, said, "We do
offer a guarantee card, but ft Is very
difficult for a student to gat on*.'
Pico said th* bank that issues guaran¬
tee cards takes a loss on an account
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that onh/ has $20 In H and the user
writes 200 $100 checks. For that rea¬
son, there is a crack-down. In all cases,
it seems a bank guarantee card Is the
only ticket.
Tom Robinson, manager of the Thrif-
tv Drug Store on First and Bollard
Streets said, "Chainwide, the incidence
of bad checks has Increased tremen¬
dously.* It is the goal of every store to
minimize bad checks because that is
where the individual store takes a loss,
he said.
He died on* reason that Thrifty
Drug doss not take checks for 'cast)
only*. It Is because cash Is a commodity
that Is hard to confiscate. If a customer
writes a bad check for a hair dryer,
ideally, th* item can be returned when
the check bounces.
Robinson stresses that his store has
emphasized the likllhood of more bad
checks due to the coming Christmas
l*> son and th* falling economy and has
been on the alert for Insufficient Identi¬
fication.
Because students and check writers
who have gone before us have wanted to
'float facts* as one spokesman said,
we all suffer the conseouences. Users
must be aware that checks are processed
more quickry now than a year ago.
Check writing is getting tougher.
The reasons are varied, but the bottom
line is that banks and businesses no
longer want to take the risks and pay the
debts Just for the conveniences of their
customers. As for Watson, she has re¬
signed herself to banking at the begin¬
ning of the week and withdrawing just
enough cash to gat her through the re¬
mainder.
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