1983_02 The Daily Collegian February 1983

              2    February 14,1983
CSUF gets dozen bids for
Satellite CU construction
An apparent low bid of $1,317,600 has
been submitted by the Schaal/Lechner
Corporation of Fresno for the construe
tion of a satellite College Union at CSUF
The 13,200-square-foot single-story
structure will be located between the
Agriculture and New Science Buildings
and south of San Ramon Avenue, on
what is now a portion of Maple Avenue.
Dr Alan Johnson, space and facilities
planning officer for the university, said the
bids will be forwarded to the California
University Chancellor's Office for review
The facility will provide seating for 845
people for films, performances and lec¬
tures. It also will provide an expanded
area for dances. A second construction
phase planned for the future will add
meeting rooms, student offices, a crafts
center, a bicycle fepak shop, general offi¬
ces and food services.
Earl Whitfield, director of the College
Union, said student enrollment at the uni¬
versity has outgrown the facilities availa¬
ble in the present College Union located
at the center of the campus.
Bids for phase one of the project were
submitted by 12 contractors and ranged
up to a high of $1,469,950.
Construction funds are being provided
by student fees and from other non-state
Residence hall rates may increase
Residence hall students can expect and
increase in the 1983 84 room and board
rates, according to John Wetzel, director
of housing at CSUF
any increase at all in board rates, it will be
minimal, but that room rates can be
expected to increase byabout as much as
two hundred dollars
Wetzel said the upcoming budget will
be divided into three basic areas: person
nel costs, system wide expenses, and
operating and equipment expenses.
"By the first or second week in April,
we should have the 1983-84 room rate and
board rate established and have that
information available," he said.
"Of course, as we go through this pro
cess we will provide an opportunity for
the students to look at the numbers that
we're proposing and to have some oppor¬
tunity to discuss that with us," said
Wetzel.
Strings and keys
Cellist Nancy Cousins, a CSUF alumna, gave a recital Saturday night In tne
mualc building recital hall. Assisting her was pianist Timothy Zeriang (rear), a
CSUF graduate.
Condo
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iwo-thirds vote by the council is needed
to approve a conversion-permit
The Planning Commission staff report
said the Vintage Wood apartments are
"physically suitable lor conversion and it
appears that the proposed tenant reloca
tion and asistance plan may adequately
But Haro said, "There was an impact
on siuclent rental housing availability in
the vicinity of Fresno State University."
Conversion of the Vintage Woods to
condominiums, a Planning Commission
staff memorandum said, "would have an
adverse eflect  on  the supply of rental
Of the 3.8000 apartments within the
protection zone around the university.
1.177 of those units have already been
approved for conversion to condomini
urns Developers can begin converting
the units to condominiums at any time.
mpossible to predict
way the council wi
ited  Students President  Pai
i  fought  the Vintage        "The tenant relocation plan for the Vin-
, said he believes the    tage Wood was an attempt to copy the
le conversion permit.      one from the Bullard Gardens," Canales
said.  "But  it wasn't  that helpful to
BLOOM COUNTY
Though Canales has supported some
condominum conversion within the pro
tection — like the Bullard Garden apart
ments where few students rent \inits -
the 66 unit Vintage Wood is too close to
the university and has housed
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Selland
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The university's end of the funding will come largely
from the seat option sales. CSUF will also add a $1 per
game surcharge on tickets. Once the new seats are in,
that will bring in about $150,000 each season, Graham
The option gives the buyer the seat for 10 years. The
buyer must also purchase season tickets. The option
applies only to Bulldog basketball games. Sheila
Woodward, in charge of option selling, said
approximately 1700 of the seats will be chair seats and
1800 will be bench seats.
The price tags on options are $300 for the bench seats
.uid $500 for the chair seats.
OptiomarescrBKfuledtobesc4drjeginrtngFeb. 15 at
the CSfJF athletic ticket office.
Whf}eTSUF wS benefit the most, counc*nan Wila,
Newfarmer and Sanders were quick to point out the city
will benefit greatly, as well. Wffls said rodeos, concerts
and large conventions are more likely to be coaxed to
Selland with the larger seating capacity.
Wills also said job will be created.
"This will put people to work and bring in a tot of
money for the community ."Wills said. "I found out CBS
has 70 people here for (last Saturday's BuUdog-Nevada-
Las Vegas) TV game. Just think how many could be
involved in bigger national^elecasts."
Jobs will also be created in the actual construction
and also to man extrafxonvention center facilities.
"We're very pleased we can contribute to this
program," Graham said. "It will not only benefit out
program, but it will benefit the entire city. That we can
return something to the city is of great value to us."
February 14,1983   S
"We are absolutely correnftted for five years to play
our basketball games at ScBand Arena," Graham said,
"It's hard to say what's going to happen five years down *
the road."
The aggreement has a "buy-out clause" where CSUF
could pull out simply buy putting up the money it stiD is
required to pay in one aum.
'It would take a considerable sum of money in one
chunk to do it," Graham continued. "We don't
anticipate having any chunks of money around for any
purpose."
Selland Arena is 15 years old and the Bulldogs have
played much of their basketball there since it was built.
Selland, named for a former Fresno mayor, is part of a
convention center complex that includes the William
Saroyan Theater and meeting halls.
Smog
Continued from page 1
atmosphere."
One potentially deadly result of such a
nmbination is the formation of colorless
and toxic photochemical oxidants. Local
oxidants, which include ozone and for¬
maldehyde, are labeled the greatest among
the Fresno pollutants.
Backing up its claim, the study cites
an experiment undertaken by the Cali-
lorroa, Air Resources Board in March of
1977 Using existing monitoring stations,
the experiment showed oxidant levels in
the Fresno-Clovis area to range from .07
to 22 parts oxidant per million parts of
air The federal oxidant standard is .12
parts per million.
According to Morgan, however, the
real cause of Fresno's pollution problem
II not the automobile, oil refineries, agri¬
cultural burning or any other single pollu¬
tion source. The real cause, he said, is
something Fresno has no control over —
Surrounded by the Sierra Nevadas,
Tehachapies and the coastal mountain
range, the San Joaquin Valley is all but
■ -ompletely enclosed. According to Mor¬
gan, unlike Los Angeles smog, valley air
pollution can't be just swept out to sea.
"We're in a unique situation here in the
. alley," he said. "We're kind of living in a
bathtub with a lid on it. Whatever is-
jirmed in here stays in here."
The lid Morgan spoke of is what mete-
mlogistscall and inversion, a condition in
vhich a layer of warm air above the valley
naps the cooler air below. A rather corn-
may keep air trapped in the valley for
"The main problem is simply the valley,
which sometimes keeps pollutants trap¬
ped in the valley for weeks," said Dianna
Hendrickson, chairman of "the Air We
Breathe" Committee of the Fresno
Community Council.
It is because of this situation that
Fresno has the potential to be the'rn'ost
polluted city in the country at some point
. in the future.
dioxide, Morgan believes, may result in a
cataclysmic world-wide climate change.
"Carbon dioxide acts as the glass in a
greenhouse, allowing the sun to heat the
earth and then trapping that heat," Mor¬
gan said. "Should the climate become
warmer, snow caps would melt, raising
the sea level and flooding coastal cities."
Despite the fact that scientists have
predicted the problems facing Fresno and
every other large U.S. city for yeirs now,
1 We 're kind of living in a bathtub with a lid on
it. Whatever is formed in here stays in here.'
force has been created to look into the
problem in California and a vehicle
inspection law has been passed here
requiring auto emission checks every two
years, but according to Morgan, such
efforts can only be expected to slow pollu¬
tion, not stop it.
"It's a stand-off," he said. "We're gain¬
ing more ground-because we're putting
more controls on automoblies, but we're
losing ground because there are a lot
more automobiles around."
For now, as rxxrticians look for the best
way to slow the air pollution crisis, Hen¬
drickson said that her committee must
resign itself to letting people know what's
Based soley on its geographical loca¬
tion, Fresno could potentially experience
100 "high pollution" days each year,
according to the study. In contrast, the
Los Angeles area can expect only 50 such
days each year by virtue of its coastal
position.
While the filling of our atmosphere with
pollutants may be of little concern to
some, its eventual repercussions could go
far beyond mere inconvenience.
According to Morgan, acid rain, which
affects the east coast and parts of Europe
primarily, and. acid, fog, a newly disco¬
vered west coast occurrence, are deadly
side-effects of air pollution. What makes
acid rain and acid fog so dangerous, Mor¬
gan said, is that they're made up of
pollutant-saturated water droplets easily
drunk or  inhaled, a legitimate health
Predicted problems, and potentially far
greater ones, include the destruction fo
the ozone layer by pollutants, and the
possible overabundance of carbon diox¬
ide in the atmoshpere. Excess carbon
it's openly been in recent years that
serious efforts have been made to combat
those problems. Hendrickson's "Air We
Breathe Committee, for example, was
formed two years ago only when, during
and extended period of poor air quality, it
was noticed that more patients were
checking into hospitals for respiritory
In addition to giving people tips on how
not to pollute the air, Hendrickson said
that she wants to be able to tell people
ahead of time when one of those 100
potential high-pollution days rolls around.
"We try to give some advance notice,
just like they do in LA," she said. "It
doesn't do much good to know that you
should have stayed indoors and not
jogged yesterday."
But according to Hendrickson, it
appears now that Fresno and more and
more cities and states are working to
somehow curb the growing pollution
problem, or at least make people aware
that it exists.
"Our purpose is to increase public
awareness that there is a pollution prob¬
lem," Hendrickson said, "and I think
they're aware of it now. They know it will
affect their health."
Actually doing something to ease the
problem will be up to the various state
legislatures, Hendrickson said. A task
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Georgie Tapps to teach stage
George Tapps, dance specialist and
featured performer in George M. Cohen's
"I'd Rather Be Right" and star of "There
Comes A Time," "Whatever Happened
to George Tapps," and "As long As I
Live..."will bring his experience to CSUF
to teach a course on style and technique
on stage.
Tapps will teach students how to apply
talent to specific acting-dancing prob
Tapps will create hypothetical stage
problems and teach the stuent how to
handle the problem.
Tapps, whose co-workers have includ¬
ed Bob Hope, George M. Cohan, Walter
Houston, Noel Coward, Milton Berleand
Sammy davis Jr., has had a rich ex-
Described as the most important con¬
tributor to tap-ballet by the New York
Times, Dance Hall of Fame legend Georgie
Tapps will also conduct an advanced
class on Tap Dance in the Arena Theatre.
The class will be a practical learning
experience. Tapps will teach how to use
tap as a dance art form, elevated from its
usual position as simply a novelty form.
Tapps has been dancing for over forty
years and has danced his tap-ballet for
Presidents, Royalty and in the most
important theatre and supper clubs in the
country.
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