1983_05 The Daily Collegian May 1983

              Daily Collegian
CSU Fresno
Monday
Mays, 1963
CSUF soaks up wet,
wild Vintage Days 83
A sudden, recordsel
Saturday didn't seem to dampen spirits
any, as Vintage Days '83 continued over
the weekend.
The Craftsfolk Faire, located near Shaw
and Maple avenues, marked the opening
of events on Friday and it continued
through Sunday.
The Faire featured a variety of booths
displaying a seemingly endless supply of
hand-crafted merchandise and other
assorted knick-knacks for sale.
The events took on a "Renaissance"
atmosphere: jugglers, barbershop quartets,
a violinist, a mime, and many other per
formers wandered freely through the
crowd, showing their talents for all tosee.
The Faire also featured a multitude of
scheduled acts such as the CSUF Jazz
Bands (both "A" and "B"), and a demon
stration by the Rising Sun School of Kar¬
ate, the Miller Highlife Free Style Frisbee
magician/juggler Tim Torres, and other
musical setsbv New Moon, a iazz/fusion
band, and the Statesmen Big Band.
The Root Beer Chugging and Pie Eat-
ng Contest in The Pit area later on Friday
turned out to be a media event as Jeff
Rydell of radio station KKDJ emceed the
The first round was for "media people"
only, as participants included Gloria
Moraga and Kevin Cox from Channel 30
(being taped live on-the-spot), Tom Mor¬
ton and Larry Rice from Channel 47, Les
Schumann and Simon Jeffries from radio
station KBOS, Peter Napoli and Brian
Jones of KKDJ, and Rene Christian and
Mike P.erce from CSUF radio station
KFSR
Channel 47 took first place honors,
with KFSR in second and KBOS com.ng
The Pit patio area was jam-packed as
the Vintage Days teams themselves later
took to stiff competition. The crowd
roared as participants were timed for
speed in downing cups of root beer and
virtually inhaling banana and chocolate
Near-pandemonium erupted during
one of the competitions, when a member
of the "Slam Grapes" team jumped up
onto the table, thrashed about wildly on
his back, and then leaped onto the judges
table below. The horrified judges scat¬
tered in all directions, as the wild man did
a violent, shaking dance and threw ha pie
plate out into the crowd — all in good fun.
Friday's activities aiso included the
Tug-of-War, Frisbee Golf events - pre¬
ludes to the Roxy Music/Berlin concert
that night m the CSUF Men's Gym.
Events continued in the gym Saturday
morning with the Wrist-Wrestling cham-
jptonattlps, and later with the Cow Chip
Toss in the Intramural Field n: Cedar and
Barstow avenues. The "Cow ChiD" was
actually a giant pine cone, termed by the
'South Amerii
. The
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Meanwhile, back at the Craftsfolk
Faire, the crowds were enjoying the spo¬
radic spurts of sunshine.
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One vendor, Jim Beran of Oakland,
specializing in lithographic and airbrush
paintings, was born in Fresno and went to
Hoover High School before leaving to the
Bay Area many years ago. Beran, 34, said
that the Fresno festive "mentality is still
the same," and added that Fresno is usu¬
ally one of the most favored stops for the
arts and crafts vendors at the Craftsfolk
See VINTAGE, page 5
greeted Roxy Music's lead singer Bryan Ferry
Alumnus returns to boost NASA program
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where he
old a John Wright Thetre audience that
despite cntisism, the space program is
valuable for many reasons
A much decorated Air Force officer
candidate in  1978,  Nagel is eligible for
That
. irogram," he said, is representative of the
things that the space program is trying to
accomplish.
"I believe it's a fantastic program, Nagel
said. I think it's a program that will have a
far-reaching influence on all of us."
Those influences, he said, will be
obvious in several areas, primarily in the
advancement of technology. In fact, that
advancement, Nagel said, is one of the
main reasons man ventured out into
space in the first place.
"We fly in space," he said," to develop
new technology and apply technology
that's already in existance."
According to Nagel, the advancement
of space technology is important on two
levels. At the first, the personal level, man
benefits by an improved standard of Ijyinq
featuring more conveniences. At the
second, the economic level of the country
is better prepared to compete tei
logically with the other nations of the
"The space program," he said, "is a
leader in the development of technology
that we need."
There are (hose, however, who a
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CSUF celebrates Mexican heritage
Week-long festivities began yesterday
n the CSUF Ampitheatre for Semana de
la Raza, with the first Spring Festivial of
Sound. A series of planned celebrations
will lead up to Thursday's Cinco de Mayo,
when people of Mexican descent tradi¬
tionally celebrated the Mexican Army's
victory over France in the battle of May 5,
1862,
Today at 11 a.m. the Cinco de Mayo
activities will officially open with a "Bien-
venida" welcome speech by Ernesto Mar¬
tinez, chairman erf La Raza studies. Dr.
Amado Padilla of UCLA will be speaking
at noon today, followed by a performance
by the Roosevelt High School Marimba
Band and reception by the Chicano
Health Organization, also in the
Ampitheatre.
At 7:30 p.m. tonight Los folkloristas
from Mexico City will give a two hour
'"Zoot Suit" will be shown three times
tomorrow, at 3:30 p.m. in 1A 101 and at 7
and 9 p.m. in the CU Lounge. Admission
is free.
a.m children from Valley schools will per¬
form in the CU Lounge, followed by edu¬
cator and ventriloquist Dr. Nacho
Estrada from San Antonio, Texas.
Wednesday at noon a pane! presenta¬
tion entitred "Chicana Women Today:
Challanges and Opportunities," featuring |
seyeral prominent Valley women frorrn
business, politics, medicine and educa-j
tion professions, followed by a 1
reception by Las AdeBtas.
Wednesday night will focus on family
events, beginning with a 6 p.m. dinner in
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gained through the-space
program could be made just as easily on
the ground at a fraction of the cost. While
Nagel conceded that the space program
isn't cheap, he said it costs less than many
realize. According to Nagel. only It out of
every tax dollar goes to NASA,
But the real reason that the space pro¬
gram is so necessary, h« said, is that it
provides the incentive to do things that
otherwise might never be done. The
motivation which resulted from Ameri¬
ca's goal to get to the moon by 1970, for
instance, allowed technology to be deve¬
loped at a faster rate than was imagined
possible.
"The tangible ingredient is motivation,"
Nagel said. "Some of these things (tech¬
nological advancements) might not have
occured at all if it hadn't been for the
shuttle and Apoflo."
Another reason that space is better
suited for technological advancement
than earth in some instance*, t* that there
"are simply, obviously, same things you