1983_02 The Daily Collegian February 1983

              2    February 4,1983
Letters
Folk hero?
Dear Editor
Big news! We note from the Collegian's
headKner of Feb. 1 that professor Bob
Fischer has finally succeeded in fulfilling
his grandest ambition — getting himself
committed to a local slammer for stirring
up yet another protest and making a
media splash in the doing. You'd think
he's some kind of folk hero or something.
Good for Bob! You have to admire his
tenacity if not his logic.
The professor's motives are transpar¬
ent enough to yield some interesting
observations For one thing. Bob and his
friends remain ever committed to making
spectacles of themselves over any
attempt whatsoever to stem the tide of
whether it manifests itself in a local
banana republic revolution or the Soviet
Union's own relentless military buildup It
can't go unnoticed that he loves to agon
BLOOM COUNTY
ize in print about "American militarism"
but tends toward selective amnesia about
the fact that, over the last 30 years', the
USSR has out-militarized us by an omi¬
nous margin. And his obvious outrage
about cuts in "domestic spending," most
of which goes to make tens of millions of
Americans at once pitiful dependents as
well as virtual wards of the state, seems
somehow more in tune with Marx than
with the American tradition of personal
freedom and self-sufficiency.
To listen to Bob, you'd think that'Atner-
ica is the bad guy and the Soviets and
their stooges just good ole boys trying to
make the world safe for communism. His¬
tory, fortunately, tells us otherwise. So,
before we give the professor the applause
he covets for his questionable escapades,
we should at least be asking ourselves
whose side he's on.
There may well come a time when we
will once again have to defend this coun
try and, with it, Bob's right to carry on the
way he does. When that day comes, I
certainly don't envy him the ambivalence
of the decision he will be facing. Will he
join forces with the dreaded military
Book bungle
Dear Editor,
I wish to
pertaining to the running of the CSUF
library system. Admittedly, the library
merits much praise for meeting the needs
of its users. Still, there are areas whose
efficiency can be upgraded.
A series of five books, M to VII, had
been checked out for my reference. Sub¬
sequently, they were returned altogether.
Eight days later, a notification for fines on
two of these five books was received. As I
was certain that all five books had been
returned together and before the due
date, I offered to search for the last
stamped date on the books. Alas, no
record is kept by the library and my claim
by Berke Breathed
could not be verified.
The second incident is linked to a series
of books available on record but was miss¬
ing on the shelves. The Circulation and
Reference departments both eru:ouraged
me to use interlibrary loan facility. While
waiting for the book loan to arrive, 1 dis¬
covered that this series of books has been
on loan from the library to both the biol¬
ogy and chemistry departments. The
books were available upon request. Had
the books been more accountable, time
and effort both from CSUF and the insti¬
tution that has the loan materials could
have been put to better use.
Tan M. P. Li
Graduate Student
Biology Dept.
Slaughter
Dear Editor,
Each day, as the sun rises over the
coast of Maine, the wave of slaughter beg¬
ins. By the time it sets over the coast of
California, 15 million warm-blooded, sen-
chickens, pigs, sheep,
calves and cows — will have lost their
lives. This grisly process contii
after day and hour after hour al
half a million animals per
hour. By the end of the year, nearly five
billion animals will have been destroyed
for  the  whimsical  gratification  of our
animals,   slaughter
igs welcome relief from the c<
of crowding, mutilation and deprt-
that is the way of life on today's
"factory farms."Layinghensarecrowded
five or more in a cage the size of a folded
newspaper with a sloping wire floor. Pigs
are raised in battery cages stacked on top
of one another, where they are showered
from  their  neighbors
Sea SLAUGHTER, page 4
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Damage
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did slow down the construction of the
•iew dairy, however.
"A large number of almond trees were
: lown over by the high winds we had last
.<. oek," said Vaughn Poochigian, a Fowler-
.irea farmer. "After the September and
October rains, I had a minimal amount of
Poochigian said that he estimates that
he will lose approximately 30 percent of
•us raisin crop this past year. But, there is
jood news for farmers as February is
i^ing forecast to be a dry month.
Dance
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x.He
-inther signed him up, too,
•msn't stopped yet.
Guest choreographer Authur Widaw-
■ki's more recent dances will be per-
•ormed in the concert this weekend.
Live" is set for 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2
p m on Sunday, in the Fresno Memorial
Auditorium.
Tickets are available at the Fresno
Oanre Repertory Association studio, 233-
^623, and at the Mission Village Gibraltar
Savings and Loan, 225-4990, for $5 each.
Senior Citizen and group rates are
available.
Some of the orange crop was damaged by heavy winds and rain.
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