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The Dairy Collegian Editorial CSUF's administration: Looking for the ivy By BRUCE SCOTT An open letter to new faculty When you graduated from Tea cher's College, Nebraska, you probably thought you were going to wind-up in a prestigious. Eastern school, shrouded in ivy and fes tooned with Latin hieroglyphics You may have noticed that CSU rresno is not that school (even though some of the professors are festooned in ivy) If so, for the sake of your job. don't let on that this isn't Harvard, Duke, Hrown. Columbia University, or another of those boringly pretentious institutions of higher programming You see, the administration doesn't know this isn't Columbia University They're forever mut tenng in committees about raising the academic standards- making it harder for anybody but the affluent sons and daughters of advertising executives and lawyers to get in, and next to impossible for the sons and daughters of merchants and farmers to get out They also have a strange idea of what academic freedom means Here, academic freedom means that you're free to speak your own mind about administrative practices and policies-providing you do it in the privacy of your own bath room Actually, that's an exaggeration You are free to agree with the administration in public Eight years ago. when the cur rent college president, Dr Norman Baxter, was academic vice presi dent under Acting President Karl Falk, it was established what academic freedom and job security meant at Fresno State 15 professors were fired (8 of them minorities), 14 members of the administration were fired, recommended for termination, demoted, or resigned because they could not work with the Falk- Baxter administration, and 14 student leaders had charges filed against them by the administration Of course, that was eight years ago Things have changed a great deal since then Baxter is now president, and Dr Louis Volpp is now vice president for academic affairs Job security means a lot more, now; for proof, talk to the ex-Dean of the School of Busi ness, Dr Lester Roth, or the ex- Dean of the School of Business, Dr William Busicfc, or any one of the ex-members . of the University Board of Promotions And the administration s rap port with the students has also im proved since the Falk-Baxter ad ministration evolved into the Baxter-Volpp one Student govern ment leaders tell us that, although Baxter won't attend their meetings, he will allow them to meet with him, three at a time, in his office During a meeting last year between Baxter and three of the student government leaders, the students said they got into a disagreement with him over their lack of power One asked what they they were in student government for, if not to make decisions. Baxter replied, they said, "to teach you how to behave " Baxter, contacted after the meeting, denied saying any such thing The three student government leaders may have made the story up. because, as we know, a college president doesn't lie Right WHj&ran Dear fcdltor Surely I am not the first to speak or write of this earth-shaking news There must be other men, and possibly a few liberated and relieved women, who know what I know but have held their tongues and pens for reasons of personal safety. Maybe at this very moment someone else Is sitting before a typewriter, pounding out the facts of his discovery, his heart beating wildly as the answer to the Sphinx's riddle is revealed, racing to get his manuscript published before mine. Maybe he and I will go down in history next to Amundsen and Scott, Darwin and Wallace, Armstrong and Aldrin. My momentous announcement is this: I know where Jimmy Hoffa is. I must admit I had an idea days ago but wasn 't sure until I spoke at length with Thomas Noguchi. For awhile there I wasn't sure rf I had stumbled onto Jimmy's presence, or if it might have been Judge Crater or Amelia Earhart or the Holy Crail. But I have learned that the rate of a body's ^Letters to the Editor^ possibilities, leaving only our ex Teamster boss as the logical choice I know where he is but the truth is I have not seen him I have smelled him. though, and the odor of his rotting body permeates the men's rest- Education-Psychology building Exactly where the body is located Exactly where the body is located is a mystery but it must be very near the confines of the restroom, under the floor or behind an air duct or stuffed in a commode, for the odor resides onlv within its four walls. The whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa has long baffled the FBI, Hoffa's family and maybe Frank Fft_simmons. We now know. However there is no need to remove the body. Leave it there, odor and all. No one uses that restroom anymore, It is no longer suitable for even the disposal of body wastes, so it can easily be set aside as the first of several nationwide reminders (to be followed by a permanent floating lifejacket next to the Chappaquiddick bridge and a gold wiretap in Martin Luther King'« coffin) of what happens to anyone who gets a Kennedy mad at him Kip Hostetter Dear editor, The UPC would like to remind all faculty that under Executive Order 240, a faculty member who has a grievance must file a Notice of Grievance with the president by Sept 19. The Sept. 1 notice of resignation by six members of the University Board of Promotions calls all promotion decisions by the Academic Vice-President Into considerable doubt, and establishes grounds for procedural violations In the cases of many faculty who were recently passed over for promotion Any colleague wishing to pursue the possibility of a grievance should immediately contact a UPC representative or call the president of the local chapter, Kenneth Seib, at )&8$pfy VPfj,. Uwi.v.Mtt Just the facts r, Due to late-night polyester leisure suit paste-up madness, we Inadvertantly left off both the by-line and the title of the record review In Friday's Daily Collegian For the record, the name of the album is You're Conns Get It by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The LP was reviewed by Peter Steen, KFSR's Campus radio KFSR struggles for FM status By UNDA MARTY „ the entertainment world, power, . ,,ith and fame are often essential ,l<ling blocks on the road to success i or CSUF radio station KSFR, suc- ,,lul ccmstruction is still on the he station, a 15 year-old campus • ■• .ti,.-i is fighting to obtain status . , i<xal FM station. So far its efforts ,... i--en virtually in vain as campus wrt is lacking «.< (ording to KSFR station manager -im Haroian, to gain an FM lis- m»e. the station must prove to the -feral Communications Commission hai >t has financial independence rrruadcast for a minimum of one .,,. But with a budget of a little .vei $2,000 from the Associated .indents, this is impossible in KSFR' s i urrently the station broadcasts by .i"ier current, which is transmitted trough telephone lines rather than •» the air waves. Such a method of ar.smission is obsolete, according to ulty don't k claims. Their knowledge of and partici- patKxi in the station could really benefit the campus, he suggested. With input from the various departments, ' broader cross section of "StoOL _ could find an appeal in KFSR. Tito station should not just be limited ' music, both men suggested.. Steen can visualize programming such as history programs uiejentod by the campus history department or a ti put together by the news program journalism dep. leiy $600 of their budget is needed rental of the telephone lines for •amission. The remaining $1,400 then available for programming -■tore this year's increased income station 'could do virtually no- >k ' explained Steen, since the vious budget was $650 which bare- overed telephone rental «•**•___ In comparison, he explained that KALX-FM. the student sadk> station at University of California at Berkeley, has an operation budget of about MOLflOO for two years. KFSR's present increase will not coyer the costs to re-equip the station with new equipment which both Steens and Haroian feel Is needed. The present equipment is exactly like that displayed in the movie"American Hot Wax' which depicts the beginning of rock and roll, Haroian said. In order to bring the station up to modern operational standards, and get a FM llscense, more financial support is needed. However, the campus administration will not support the endeavor unless the station can garner support from the Associated Students who in turn will not support It unless support is offered by the administration. Both groups suggest that they will give their financial support If the station can get backing from its department, the Radio and Television Department. However, Steen feel! The station could become a progressive st_tion,whi_h he described as an alternative format to the top 40 type stations. And currently, there is - i large hole m the market for pro's in Fresno,'he obser- n fact, at one time, in its quest tor Both Steen and Haroian feel that an identity problem is hinderina their efforts as well as financial problems. The station's struggle for an FM liscense is still an uphill battl and the progressive format is still a dream for the future. After several years of -butting my head up against a brick wall*, Steen said he is beaming discouraged. Haroian reflect ive. The n an FM radio station is just playing rock and roll * rogress- Satellite College Union Committee seeks student participation ,_ _. ,_ formed to suiuy uw> ■->=*» — ea between the New Sd- ihilitv of such a structure Conry Arts Buildings be iffl0'^^ don't have adequate i expanded college union fad|Wes fo-_^thing,' Pinuelas said. "v' , > , „. He said that the CU only has room to .<■ future of that 'lump ol ear* ^ aso peopss and that the gymna- rdmg to David Pinuelas, AS fhJm ,, „_, _rfaquate for concerts or i-ge Union vlcf^presktei*, will be ^-^ rt vtee-pr-skJetit, the hands of the Sattelite i-v-v •- Con.mitteef.SCUC) now being The CU is not an ideal place for films, but it's the only place — a >w "mo Lommitteet>-iA.j now -«•■■ Mm but it's the or 2^j^a?£Z ? JOWnStOWn by Tim Downs Pinuelas said the present facilities PimieUs said that he hoped thai _ event student organizations from do- facility c ing 'the things we'd like to do' The site of what would be the 'satellite college union' is already deslgnat- HAVEASE5flrr,&A5,* THEsemwrtRis ^eOUTTOOBClN. Hr*GE
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Title | 1978_09 The Daily Collegian September 1978 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. : BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Assocated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
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Title | September 11, 1978, Page 4-5 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. : BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Assocated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
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The Dairy Collegian
Editorial
CSUF's administration: Looking for the ivy
By BRUCE SCOTT
An open letter to new faculty
When you graduated from Tea
cher's College, Nebraska, you
probably thought you were going to
wind-up in a prestigious. Eastern
school, shrouded in ivy and fes
tooned with Latin hieroglyphics
You may have noticed that
CSU rresno is not that school
(even though some of the professors are festooned in ivy) If so,
for the sake of your job. don't let
on that this isn't Harvard, Duke,
Hrown. Columbia University, or
another of those boringly pretentious institutions of higher programming
You see, the administration
doesn't know this isn't Columbia
University They're forever mut
tenng in committees about raising
the academic standards- making it
harder for anybody but the affluent
sons and daughters of advertising
executives and lawyers to get in,
and next to impossible for the sons
and daughters of merchants and
farmers to get out
They also have a strange idea of
what academic freedom means
Here, academic freedom means
that you're free to speak your own
mind about administrative practices and policies-providing you do
it in the privacy of your own bath
room Actually, that's an exaggeration You are free to agree with the
administration in public
Eight years ago. when the cur
rent college president, Dr Norman
Baxter, was academic vice presi
dent under Acting President Karl
Falk, it was established what academic freedom and job security
meant at Fresno State
15 professors were fired (8 of
them minorities), 14 members of
the administration were fired, recommended for termination,
demoted, or resigned because they
could not work with the Falk-
Baxter administration, and 14 student leaders had charges filed
against them by the administration
Of course, that was eight years
ago Things have changed a great
deal since then Baxter is now
president, and Dr Louis Volpp is
now vice president for academic affairs Job security means a lot
more, now; for proof, talk to the
ex-Dean of the School of Busi
ness, Dr Lester Roth, or the ex-
Dean of the School of Business, Dr
William Busicfc, or any one of the
ex-members . of the University
Board of Promotions
And the administration s rap
port with the students has also im
proved since the Falk-Baxter ad
ministration evolved into the
Baxter-Volpp one Student govern
ment leaders tell us that, although
Baxter won't attend their meetings,
he will allow them to meet with
him, three at a time, in his office
During a meeting last year between Baxter and three of the student government leaders, the
students said they got into a disagreement with him over their lack
of power One asked what they
they were in student government for, if not to make decisions.
Baxter replied, they said, "to
teach you how to behave " Baxter,
contacted after the meeting, denied
saying any such thing The three
student government leaders may
have made the story up. because,
as we know, a college president
doesn't lie Right
WHj&ran
Dear fcdltor
Surely I am not the first to speak
or write of this earth-shaking news
There must be other men, and
possibly a few liberated and relieved
women, who know what I know but
have held their tongues and pens for
reasons of personal safety. Maybe
at this very moment someone else Is
sitting before a typewriter, pounding
out the facts of his discovery, his
heart beating wildly as the answer
to the Sphinx's riddle is revealed,
racing to get his manuscript published
before mine. Maybe he and I will go
down in history next to Amundsen
and Scott, Darwin and Wallace,
Armstrong and Aldrin. My momentous announcement is this:
I know where Jimmy Hoffa is.
I must admit I had an idea days ago
but wasn 't sure until I spoke at length
with Thomas Noguchi. For awhile
there I wasn't sure rf I had stumbled
onto Jimmy's presence, or if it might
have been Judge Crater or Amelia
Earhart or the Holy Crail. But I have
learned that the rate of a body's
^Letters to the Editor^
possibilities, leaving only our ex
Teamster boss as the logical choice
I know where he is but the truth is
I have not seen him I have smelled
him. though, and the odor of his rotting body permeates the men's rest-
Education-Psychology building
Exactly where the body is located
Exactly where the body is located
is a mystery but it must be very near
the confines of the restroom, under
the floor or behind an air duct or
stuffed in a commode, for the odor
resides onlv within its four walls.
The whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa
has long baffled the FBI, Hoffa's
family and maybe Frank Fft_simmons.
We now know. However there is no
need to remove the body. Leave it
there, odor and all. No one uses that
restroom anymore, It is no longer
suitable for even the disposal of
body wastes, so it can easily be set
aside as the first of several nationwide reminders (to be followed by
a permanent floating lifejacket next
to the Chappaquiddick bridge and a
gold wiretap in Martin Luther King'«
coffin) of what happens to anyone
who gets a Kennedy mad at him
Kip Hostetter
Dear editor,
The UPC would like to remind all
faculty that under Executive Order
240, a faculty member who has a
grievance must file a Notice of
Grievance with the president by Sept
19. The Sept. 1 notice of resignation by six members of the University Board of Promotions calls all
promotion decisions by the Academic
Vice-President Into considerable
doubt, and establishes grounds for
procedural violations In the cases
of many faculty who were recently
passed over for promotion
Any colleague wishing to pursue
the possibility of a grievance should
immediately contact a UPC representative or call the president of the
local chapter, Kenneth Seib, at
)&8$pfy VPfj,. Uwi.v.Mtt
Just the facts r,
Due to late-night polyester leisure
suit paste-up madness, we Inadvertantly left off both the by-line and the
title of the record review In Friday's
Daily Collegian
For the record, the name of the
album is You're Conns Get It by
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The LP was reviewed by Peter Steen,
KFSR's
Campus radio KFSR struggles for FM status
By UNDA MARTY
„ the entertainment world, power,
. ,,ith and fame are often essential
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