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thumb," she continued. "My soi
have talked about going back to
City if I don't get a job by th firs
year "
Kris said that if she had
of school left she probably wouldn't
have been able to finish because fee
increases would have put education out
of her price range.
fhose fee increases were met by an¬
other student, however, and this student
discussed her optimism in affording her
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will give her a Bachelor of Arts degree
and then she plans to continue on to
attain her doctorate.
"Five more years of this — talk about
being poor,"she said. "IVe got so sick to
death of buying specials for 18 years. Ill
be really tickled to get a job that pays
money. This being poor is for heck."
"If I apply to grad school and don't
get accepted I think 111 take a breather
and save up some money so I can start
again." she continued. "I don't want to
do that though. I'm so old now I feel
that I can't stop."
Sybil lives in a small one-bedroom
apartment in Clovis. She receives fed¬
eral grant money (about $1,400 a year)
that is parcelled out to her month-by-
month She also works 20 hours a week
in a sales office ihat pays her S3.85 an
Sometimes the choices are out of the
individual's hands. Finances, or lack
thereof, make the choices for them.
Amy graduated with a Bachleor of
Arts degree from UC Berkeley. Shecon-
tinued on at Berkeley for her master's,
but stopped a quarter term before she
would have finished for reasons of
stress. Now Amy, 45, is attending CSUF
part-time and working part-time as a
secretary.
"I'm earning considerably less than
I'm used to," Amy said. "I'm just scrap¬
ing by. I have some heavy^debts that
need to be paid off. I'm used to scraping
by. though, becau:
for awhile."
Although Amy is only o
short of her master's she's m
shell be able to finish or rea
her degree.
"It's pretty shaky right now," she
said. "I don't apply for financial aid
because I just thought it was hopeless.
Whether I finish or not I'm going to try
to find a related job. I know that there
are jobs if you really look. I think that
people hire people who love what they
do — in this way I feel I have an
advantage."
The situations these women face are
ones that many women returning to
school regularly run into. According to
Alice Powell,
reentry program.
"We've seen a number of people come
in here that are living a hand-to-mouth
existence," she said. "Most especially
jckwitho
t skills, with-
bcncfiting when we gel out. Bui. of
course, if that were any sort of law col¬
lege students would never gel hired.
" There's ways to shave costs." she
said "I always was a good money
handler, but. boy. do I pinch pennies
You just have to make your choices."
tarting and once i have the experience
'm going lo try to get a job in my field."
he said "The filed work is the impor-
ant part The degree is just icing on the
ake. I". lucky because 1 know the work
want to do and I love it. Most people
out financial support — I'm distressed
by the number of women who are by
themselves without any sori of market¬
able skills When you're talking about a
population that has a greater financial
need you're talking about women."
Powell said she tells those who have
an extreme financial need to consider
attending Fresno City College. But the
reentry program tries to help those who
must have university units.
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Tuesday Sept. 27, 1983
The Daily Collegian
Everything the Red Waver needs to know
Earlier this year, Fresnans Michael
Maguire and John Caire began research
for a magazine article on the Red Wave,
CSUF's dedicated athletic following.
After interviewing several people
Maguire and Caire realized that it
would be impossible to accurately por¬
tray the Red Wave within the confines
of a single magazine article. So they
decided on the next best thing.
The fruits of their summer labor,
"The Red Wave Handbook," began
appearing in Fresno stores earlier this
month, and if sales are any indication,
"The Red Wave Handbook" might just
become the best read book in Fresno in
the coming months.
"The book was John's idea," Maguire
said last week. "I think he got the idea
for it from the Preppy Handbook (a
humorous guide to being preppy). One
night he called me up and suggested we
write it. I told him I'd get back to him
after I thought about it.
"I called him back a half hour later
and said lef's do it."
The pair, who are both former Eng¬
lish instructors at CSUF, spent the
summer interviewing people connected
with the Red Wave and gathering pho-
'We're  sort  off the
scribes of the Red
Wave.'
— Maguire
Waiting game
Monday was the last day to drop classes, and the lines at J oval Administration building reflected the
deadline. An estimated 200 students were waiting at 2:30 p.m.
tographs and illustrations to use along
with their text.
"The people we interviewed gave us
ideas for things to include in the book
about the Red Wave," Maguire said.
"And as we talked with more and more
people, it just kind of grew and grew."
Besides suggestions from the people
they interviewed, Maguire and Caire
had some basic ideas of their own they
wanted to include in the book — histor¬
ical perspective on the Red Wave phe¬
nomenon, Red Wave fashion and the
Red Wave social scene.
Once everything was compiled and
ready to go, Maguire and Caire decided
to publish the book themselves, and
hired a local printer to handle the actual
printing. The binding was done out of
town (no one in Fresno could handle the
binding) and the first printing of 5,000
copies was finally ready for the book¬
shelves earlier this month.
Currently, the book is sold at the
Kennel Bookstore, Long's Drugs stores
and Valley Sports. In the coming weeks,
it will also be sold at Oottschalks, B.
; Dalton bookstore, Macy's, Weinstock's
and Gordick's Books, as well as at con¬
cession stands at Bulldog football
games.
"There's definitely not a national
market for the book," Caire said. "And
we certainly don't expect to get rich. But
it was something fun to do, and there is
a place for this book in Fresno."
Although Maguire and Caire didn't
consider themselves Red Wavers when
they began writing "The Red Wave
Handbook," they do now.
"We're sort of the scribes of the Red
Wave," Maguire laughed.
Besides appealing to the older Red
• Sm Wave, Pa** 4
Immigration bill: A help or a hindrance?
ByCarol H«ldi»aj
It may harm the very people it claims
to help.
Last Thursday was declared a day of
•■protest statewide to oppose it.
It — the Simpson-Mazzoli Immigra¬
tion Reform and Control Act of 1983
—has been called the most comprchen-
I sive overhaul of immigration law in
30 years.
Currently in the House of Represen¬
tatives, the bill would grant amnesty to
millions of undocumented workers, those
who have entered the country illegally
or violated the terms of their visas. It
would also establish penalties for
employers who knowingly hire them.
While on the surface the bill may
appear a godsend to undocumented
workers, Lily Martinez, organizer of the
Simpson-Mazzoli Ad-Hoc Committee,
said that workers, their families and
Chicanos would actually be harmed by
adoption of the bill.
"The bill is harmful to Chicanos and
undocumented workers. It breaks up
families and targets one segment of
-society,' pointing the finger at the
undocumented worker as if he was the
one to blame tot the unemployment
problem."
Martinez, a CSUF senior economics
major, said that the committee was
organized because she and others felt
the problem was not dealt with and that
something should be done to protest the
bill and help the undocumented worker.
The.committee has taken a two-tier
approach:
• First, it wants to convince people in
the community to oppose the bill.
• Second, it wants to educate
undocumented workers about the bill
and to later establish an assistance
center for them.
"Right now we want to educate peo¬
ple about Simpson-Mazzoli and try to
stop it. But in the long run, whether it
passes or not, we would like to set up a
center where the undocumented worker
can go for help with his papers, legal
and medical care and help with food
and clothing."
Martinez said that the committee has
focused its opposition on four main
issues: Amnesty, Legalization; employer
sanctions: and the temporary worker
program.
First, the amnesty clause would grant
permanent resident ali :n status to those
living in the U.S. since 1977 and tem¬
porary resident alien status to those liv¬
ing here since 1980, leading toward
citizenship.
Martinez said, however, that it is a
common misconception that the
undocumented worker would automat¬
ically be a U.S. citizen.
"To qualify, the worker must provide
proof that he was actually living here.
This it very difficult, as the worker was
here illegally — he was hiding — so he
hag. no social security card, driver's
license, welfare appfcation, etcetera, to prove
that he has been here since 1977. Also
there are restictions on how often and
how long he visited Mexico during that
time, which is even more difficult to
Second, the bill provides legal status
for the worker — if he qualifies. How¬
ever, even if he qualifies, he will be
ineligible for all social benefits, except
emergency medical care, for three to six
years. Martinez said that the time and
expense to register are another
proWcm. Tobecome a citizen, the worker
must pay $ 100 per person and register in
Washington D.C. Today many El Sal-
vadoran refugees have registered but
few have been accepted."
Third, the committee, at well at farm
and business interests, oppose the
penalizing of employers who hire
undocumented workers.
According to Martinez, California
has established taws which penalize
employers for hiring undocumented
workers, but they are not strictly
enforced. The Simpson-Mazzoli bill would
likely increase enforcement of this and
other laws.
"It (the penalties) arent really enforced