1983_01 The Daily Collegian January 1983

              Nuclear war in your own backyard
What would you do upon receiving
news that you have but a few hours to
live? Not from a doctor's prognosis, or
your parents getting ahold of your report
card before you did, but from a television
announcement of an impending nuclear
attack from the Soviet Union.
Everyone from the president to the
grocery store owner down the block talks
of the threat of nuclear war. It has become
some grand conclusion forgotten the next
morning.
Let's try a different approach —
namely, what you will do when a local
television channel announces that the
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tangible to talk about. ICBM, M1RV, MX,
Pershing II ("The Peacemaker," accord¬
ing to Reagan), who really can conceive of
the destructive power the U.S. and Soviet
Union control?
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Soviet Union has launched a nuclear
attack on the continental United States?
Remember, how and why it happened
isn't important  What you do is.
Boom!  They're off and a
breaks into "All My Children'
mg the missiles are on their way and the
US, has launched a retaliatory strike.
First choice...call your folks? Fat
chance. Ma Bell will be deluged long
before you reach the Touchtone.
Number two...drive home? (For those
living away from Fresno.) Are you going
to observe the speed limit and stop at stop
signs? I'm not. And what will you if and
when you get there?
A friend suggested opening a beer and
cranking the Sansui.
The Russians aren't all bad...they (like
the U.S.) will be aiming for industrial cen¬
ters and military bases, leaving the ihe
residential areas alone, unless they are
unfortunate enough to get in the way.
Good news for Fresno, known globally
for its raisins.
But wait...let us not forget Castle Air
Force Base, a liesurely 45-minute drive
from here. Who lives in Madera, anyway?
Back to Fresno. With a population of
259,000, one estimate says we are tar¬
geted for two warheads, both of which
by Berke Breathed
make the bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki look like firecrackers. A few
minutes to pack up a lifestyle and head for
the hills.'
Expecting the worst, figure on being
blasted back to the late WOffs and a
strictly agricultural society.
Forget the luxuries like TV, electricity
and fashionable clothes. Any gasoline left
will be rationed for military purposes.
No point in going on —Vou9e,,heidea
There are, of course, dissenting opin¬
ions, especially among experts like Presi¬
dent Reagan and the investigative repor¬
ters from Readers Digest.
Maybe we need more well-meaning but
gullable Americans working for Com¬
munist backed organizations if that Is~
what it will take to make the government
Or we can sit back in our lawn chairs
and placently wait for Ivan to drop one in
our back yards.
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annjhalation anyway, at least III fry with a
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Senate
Paul Canales makes a point about one of the Issues discussed at the Senate meeting Tuesday.
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Debate flarad Tuesday when aenator
Martin Togni asJurfrhat the entire senate,
rather than _mpiy the Finance and Bud¬
get Committee, investigate the propoaed
donation.
Wayne Byrd, a member of the budget
.committee and former aerator said that
Finance and Budget Committee should
research the proposal.
"It's not that the Fmance and Budget
Committee should make the final deci¬
sion,'' Byrd said. "They should do the
investigation. That is their job."
But Michelle Davis, chair, said a
$50,000 donation was too large a sum for
just one arm of the senate to be responsi¬
ble for. "We felt that the senate should be
responsible," she said.
"I think it's totally ridiculous to say it's
too much money when the committee
doles out $300,000 a year," Byrd snapped.
"Fifty-thousand is not too much. Ftfty-
thousand should be child's play for the
Finance and Budget Committee unless
they feel they are not competent enough
to handle it."
In other senate news Tuesday, Daffy
Coflegian editor Julie Appleby requested
an additional $7,000. The money was
requested because advertising revenue
has fallen short of projections and printing
costs have risen, she said.	
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volume up to date. But he also said cases
of revising strictly for profit are prevalant.
Dave Hudson, Professor of History at
CSUF suggested "perhaps a more effi
cient book exchange system could be
adopted, and an attempt could be made
to try and get professors, as much as they
reasonably can, not to change books too
often without good, solid reason."
Hudson said that he tried to help his
students tackle the burden by using a text
that has been used.
"Hopefully all of my students will be
able to purchase used books this year.
Unfortunately, this is only one course."
tie said. "In other classes I've had to bring
in new hardbound books to replace old,
out-of-print paperbacks. It definitely dis¬
rupts thing.
"Highly specialized subjects make it dif¬
ficult to find adequate textbooks. Many
times there are only one or two books,
and if one does not appear satisfactory
you cannot readily turn to a less expen¬
sive book."
Hudson said if the Associated Students
decided to organize their own bookmart,
• "I could certainly understand their pos-
Many students consider the Kennel
Bookstore's buy-back system as the most
frustrating part of the whole ordeal.
"I hear students griping all the time,"
said Rey Agbayani, an employee of the
Kennel Bookstore. "But no more than
should be expected. A student pays a lot
for a book, comes back in a couple weeks
and only gets half price for it, at the most;
the bookstore then marks it up again and
Gartner insists the idea behind the
Kennel's buy-back program is not to
acquire large profits from students, but to
provide some service to them. He said the
bookstore has no control over the price
other than the fact that it could probably
get the prices raised.
"If it (the textbook) is not going I
reused by the professor next sem«
then we don't have a market for the book,
Gartner said. "But in many cases we still
buy them back. If the book is not going to
be reused, then we refer to a wholesale
price which is given by an independent
company. That price is offered to the stu¬
dent, and in turn we are reimbursed by
the wholesales."
Gartner said that to a certain extent,
everyone is a victim of the economy. He
said just as tuition, housing and food are
going up, so are textbooks. Unfortunately
there's no way around it.
"Students tend to notice the price
increase more when buying a book than
they do when going to the grocery store,"
explained Gartner: "I think the reason is
that you go to the. supermarket twice a
week. The prices go up from 59 to 69 to 80
and the gradual inclination isn't so ea_y
detected. But when you buy a textbook,
you come in twice a year and pay $20 for it
one semester, and the next semester it's
up to $22.50," he said. "It realty sticks in
your head because there'sa $2.5£jump
from the last time you- purchased that
book."
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