1984_11 The Daily Collegian November 1984

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Editorial
November 5,1984
Basketball lottery
best Senate plan
A final decision on a student basketball distribution plan will be
made at Tuesday's senate meeting.
There are two proposals being considered in regard to the
dispersal of the 1,464 student tickets.
The first proposal would entail a 50/50 distribution. Fifty
percent ofthe tickets would be distributed through lottery, and the
other 50 percent through a campus campout. In this campout, a
radio station would announce the location, and the students would
then rush there to wait for the sales. *
•   The second proposal is to either have 100 percent lottery or 100
percent campout.
Also being considered is providing pairs of tickets to student
senators who volunteer to be line monitors at the all-night"
campout.
The 50/50 proposal is Unfair. The logic behind this proposal is
that the diehard fans who are willing to make sacrifices will do so
by waiting in line all night. This is not true. There are many
basketball fans on campus, but you can't measure their loyalty by
asking them to wait in line all night for tickets. And what about
those "diehard" fans who will be working during campout time? Or
those who will be out of town? Or those who have other
commitments?
Another problem with the 50/50 proposal is the possibility of
danger to students. A student rushing to the campout site is liable
to run red lights or, worse, not notice pedestrians or bicyclists. As
Student Affairs Administrator Chris Pierre pointed out, this could
lead to a lawsuit.
If having a partial campout is' a bad idea, then having a 100
percent campout is worse.
But a 100 percent lottery seems to be the best option. Those
diehard fans would "sacrifice" to register for the lottery. Those who
aren't fans won't go out of their way to register. And all students
would have an equal chance to obtain tickets.
Which brings up the issue of our- student senators receiving
tickets for being line monitors at a campout. This was unfair last
year, and it is just as unfair this year. The senators seem intent on
following in their own bad footsteps. The reasoning behind the
"freebies" is that the senators who desire tickets cannot wait in the
campout line if they have to monitor it. But if the senators wanted
tickets, why did they volunteer to be line monitors in the first place?
They did it because by "volunteering" their services, the senators
are guaranteed tickets. There are many students who would be
happy and willing to be monitors at a campout. Why not give them
the opportunity?
But if logic prevails at the senate meeting, and the 100 percent
lottery proposal is adopted, the senators won't get a chance to
display their greediness.
To express your opinion attend the senate meeting Tuesday at 3
p.m. in College Union room 312.
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*Showdown '84
With record numbers of students registering to vote
across the country, students will have an unprecedented
opport u ii 11 y to shape our nation's course on such Issues
as arms control, foreign policy, the economy, and others on
November 6th, Ejection Day.
As a service to student voters, the National Student Cam¬
paign for Voter Registration offers this guide to the positions
of the Democratic and Republican candidates for President,
'waiter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.
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Restore freedom
Editor
There is a terror among us, charac¬
terized by selfishness, arrogance and para¬
noia. It seeks to promote economic dis¬
parity, repeal the constitution and leg¬
islate morality. Getting the government
off our backs is its self-proclaimed destiny
— survival of the fittest is its legacy.
Fueled by blind patriotism and self-
righteousness it preys on America's youth
with opulence as its opiate. This terror is
immortal. We have seen it before, unfor¬
tunately the old forget and the young cant
remember. It nourished the Hitler youth
and it led us from Eisenhower to Vietnam
in stages which can be described as
apathy, arrogance and aggression.
Its present guest is well established and
we are bordering between the last two
stages. Central America, the middle east
and the Philippines all could be catalysts
to complete the cycle.
This terror has found refuge with the
current administration. The Reagan ad mi ti-
istration publicly denounces crimes
against humanity and secretly partici¬
pates. Go to the polls and restore
freedom!
Charles Alice
Mondale support
Editor
It is difficult to explain the huge per¬
centage separating Reagan and Mondale
on the poltt- After all, Mondale was
second-in-cornitsfjl^ of this nation for
four years, and imrdless of how weak
Carter was as afn-gpBfcnt, the fact remains
that Mondale has aSkanding expertise in
the nuts and bolts governing of this na¬
tion. Moreover, two-facta accentuate
Mondale's fitness for the presidency: first,
his career of almost 25 years in govern¬
ment, including the position as Minnesota
state attorney, the post of U.S. senator
from Minnesota, and vice-president ofthe
U.S., where he took on special, assij-
nments in many fields; as Carter's vice
president, Mondale was forced into di¬
verse political and governmental exper¬
iences that vice-presidents under stronger
presidents would na'ver have encountered.
Summarizing, in Mr. Mondale we hive
a compartively young candidate (56 yean
to 73 years for Reagan) for the presidency
of the U.S. In fact Waltes Mondale is the
best prepared candidate we have had for
many yean moreover, he would give evert
one of us a safer life, something we do not
have under Ronald Reagan. There would
be no comments about bombing Rust*
about Armageddon, and the like, com¬
ments from a president who looks upon
the presidency from an actor's viewpoint,
a very dangerous viewpoint when it reUto
to the safety of 240 million people.
Think carefully, fellow-Voters, can at
re-elect tin individual mainly because at
like him personally—because hwnakeii
good appearance and regardless of W
atrocious record to aUbuttlwsmlitary i*
the wealthy? And do we want to turn IW
nation into a military bully - as RR-
would have it — or do we want to folio*
Walter Mondale and return the U.S. in»;
a nation concerned with civil rights, eo*.
sumer protection and educational refor*
Do we want a land of dignity or indigtuW
Robert L. P»r»c«.
November 5, 1984
News
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Underdog vs. incumbent
Farrington battles Bronzan for seat
Staff Writer
A well-financed Lfcmocrafic incumbent
and a RepublicatVwrite-in candidate who
has never run for office will face-off in
Tuesday's election for the 31st Assembly
Although both candidates expressed
confidence in .being elected. Republican
D<m Farrington appears'to be the under-
dog He must oust Assemblyman Bruce
Bronzan, who two years ago spent
SJDO.OOO getting elected.
Hronzan, 37, has spent $40,000 on this
year's campaign and said Farrington has
not proved to be "very strong" opposition.
Farrington said his campaign budget is
$80,000.
Farrington, 54, who has launched the
only successful Republican write-in cam¬
paign in the state, decided to run against
Bronzan, he said, because Bronzan was
unopposed.
[It] was so that we could get repre¬
sentation back to this district," said Far¬
rington, a building contractor.
Farrington is backed by members ofthe
conservative Christian community. He
calls for a "return to traditional values."
The Republican has charged Bronzan
with ignoring the views ofthe community.
" I his is a conservative community," he
said "Wewant to first return representa¬
tion to the district, then start doing things
on the basis that it's a fatm community."
Farrington said that Bronzan's absence
from the Agriculture Committee meeting
45 percent ofthe time is an indication of
his disregard for farmers. He also said that
the California Farm Bureau gave him a
"poor" 150 percent rating.
Bronzan, however, said that his   _
accomplishment in the past two years is
the passage of a pesticide bill he wrote that
was applauded by farmers.'
The bill overturned a superior court rul¬
ing that said it was OK for local govern¬
ments to make pesticide legislation that
differed from the state's regulations.
Bronzan's bill closed loopholes in the state.
legislation so that total control was given
back to the state.
The bill was important to farmers,
Bronzan said, because having more than
one set of pesticide laws to deal with was
confusing.
Farrington has also opposed Bronzan's
support of a homosexual rights bill.
Despite the uproar from the conserva¬
tive Christian community which was one
of the factors that lead to Farrington's
campaign, Bronzan said the bill really
would not have had much impact.
"Even the proponents made more of it,
I think, than it was worth," Bronzan said.
"Some people were just really set off by it.
"But 1 havent changed by mind. I
believe in the human rights issue."
The opposition to the bill is "only one
section of one section," Bronzan said.
Still another criticism of Bronzan from
Farrington is what the Republican says is
an allegiance to controversial Speaker of
the House Willie Brown forged by cam¬
paign contributions from Brown to Bron¬
zan two years ago.
"Willie Brown dumped $156,000 into
Bronzan's campaign two years ago," Far¬
rington said.
Bronzan proceeded to vote the same as
Brown 98 percent ofthe time, Farrington
biggest        Bronzan called Farrington's charge       Bronzan was named chairman o{ tbe
 '-   " :" " Assembly Select Committee on Mental
Health. Working to improve mental health
care will be one of his main projects if he is
re-elected, Bronzan said.
He said another goal is to re-introduce
into the Senate a bill he wrote that would
change the way the Public Utility Com¬
mission raises rates. The bill died the first
time around in the Senate, where Bronzan
"The truth of the matter is the parties
get involved. I never received a penny
from Willie Brown. The money I got was
from the Democratic Legislative fund,
which Willie Brown has a lot of influence
over. But it doesn't mean you are under
their control."
"IVe disagreed with Willie on really
important issues."
said PUC lobbyists are very powerful.
Costa, Kennedy fight
for legislative position
A better education at a fair price is the
promise being made to CSU F students by
both candidates for California's 30th As¬
sembly District, but neither man believes
his opponent will make good on his word
if elected.
Democratic incumbent Jim Costa says
that because he has served in the legisla¬
ture for six years, "I know the process."
He believes the insights he has gained in
the past will help him make life better for
students and all residents in his district.
Costa's Republican challenger, Gordon
Kennedy, disagrees.
According to Kennedy, Costa's leader¬
ship over the past six-years has been weak.
Kennedy said he would create "greater
leadership [for the district] than we have
had in the past." He said if he is elected
more funds will be given to schools,
including the 19 campuses in the CSU
Though both men agree that educa¬
tional funding needs some sort of boost,
they are both opposed to Proposition 37,
the lottery initiative. According to its sup¬
porters. Prop. 37 would, funnel more
money into California's educational
system.
Proposition 37, is not the way to solve
the state's problems with funding educa¬
tion, both men said in separate phone
interviews last week.
Kennedy said the lottery would end up
being a "substitute not a supplement" for
educational funding. He believes that the
amount of money raised in the lottery for
educatioh would simply be deducted from
the educational budget by the legislature
since "there is nothing in the proposition
that says funding couldnt be withdrawn."
•See Election, pa|e 5
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