1984_02 The Daily Collegian February 1984

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Student turnout may enhance student's rights
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J very election year, the lack of voter turnout seems to be a'
problem. We are always left wondering after an election what the
outcome might have been had more people voted. However, if
those currently working behind the scenes in the UC, CSU and    .
statewide community college systems have their way, students
will be helping to fill the gap left by an empty voter turnout,
thereby helping to change the course of public voting in
California and possibly nationwide.
On January 25, a program was launched by the Campus
Campaign for Voter Participation (CCVP). Its goal: to turn out
500,000 new student, staff and faculty votes throughout
California universities and colleges in time for the June 5 and
November 6 statewide elections. CCVP is a pet project of the
California Council on Student Educational Needs, a "non-profit
corporation whose purpose is to improve the quality of education
in California.** CCVP recognizes the power of the student vote
and plans to put various educational issues in the "forefront" of
elections this year, issues that hit close to home among
California residents.
The CCVP project is gaining strong support throughout the
state. Some of the sponsors include the League of Women
Voters, the UC Student Lobby and the California State Student
Association (CSSA), which represents the CSU system.
The voter participation effort has worked its way to CSUF.
Associated Student President Andrea Hedgley has stated that
she plans to initiate, through cooperation with university
administration, a student voter registration drive this semester
during prearranged class hours. Considering the importance of
the students* voting power and the possibility of influencing
statewide elections, Hedgley's aggressive pursuance of this
particular matter should be highly commended. If organized
properly, the voter registration could be a major coup for the
Hedgley administration in the name of student rights.
Educational issues will definitely play a big role in the
upcoming state and presidential elections and those attending
and working in California's institutions of higher learning need
to be aware that the right to vote is a privelege to be exercised
strongly if the public is to hold elected officials wholly
accountable for their actions while in office. Students should
take full advantage of that right to vote. One student by him or
herself may not be heard, but as a group, students can make it
known that they are ready to take the responsibility for those
they place into government positions.
Now, more than ever before, students have the chance to
make a difference in their futures.
Brian Covert
Editor in Chief
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Feb. 8.1984
Lightning strikes major concern
One of the memorable experience! of
my youth was a dote encounter of the
wrong kind with lightning.
I wat standing in a barn door watching
a thunderstorm when suddenly I found
myself on the floor from which I arose in a
few seconds in a slightly shaken slate but
with no sign of injury. At the same time
the lightning entered the nearby house
blowing some electrical fuses.
Through the yean since, 1 have read
many accounts of unusual lightning events
and they never cease to interest me. It was
not until recently that I read a medical
account that made some sente of my
experience.
In the April 1983 issue of Emergency
Medicine, Dr. Mary Ann Cooper des¬
cribes the various ways in which lightning
affects people. She points out that more
people are killed by lightning than by any
other natural disasters tuch as earth- electrical system including the brain's
quakes, tornadoes or hurricanes. Aimu- which would account in my case for tbe
ally the death toll it from. 100 to 200. In fleeting loss of consciousness between the
1943 there vtte 430 deatht. "      iftrike and my arrival on the floor.
lightning injuries probably affect 1,000-/   Dr. Cooper alto states that you have to
,500 people. The 10 to 20 percent death    be concerned about blunt iiijuries "because
lightning frequently hurls people to the
ground with tremendous force." Perhaps 1
could at leatl have an explanation for my
       memory lapses but, alas, the good doctor
miraculously low considering the fact that    says memory loss, like paralytis, when it
a lightning bolt may carry between 200    occurs it transient.
million and two billion volts. Two things of importance remain to be
What happens it that the lightning shared with you. If you are on tbe tcene
passes over the outside of the body in the where several people have been simul-
same manner that electric current pastes taneously effected by a bolt of lightning
along the outside of a conductor. Another look for the persons who appear dead first
factor is the minute duration of thock, andgivethemyourattention.Cardiacand
however, may thort circuit the body's    respiratory arrett are the killers. Remem-
te resulting from lightning strikes sc
Health
ber the ABCt of your CPR '•— airway,
breathing and circulation — and go to
The last and mott important part of this
account again concerns prevention. How
can you avoid being struck if a storm
First, it it much safer to be indoors than
out. Mott strikes affect people working
outdoors or engaged in outdoor recrea¬
tional activities. If you are in a car stay
there. What saves you is not the rubber of
tbe tires but tbe fact that the lightning
energy it dissipated over the car tu rf ace. If
yens axe in a group dont clutter — the
splash effect can hurt teveral people at
once if they are dote. Lightning picks out
tall objects to if you can't make it to a
•Sec Health, page 5
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