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Baxter-Volpp faculty survey results returning
8,1978
By BARBARA ANDERSON
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Faculty members have already
begun to respond to an evaluation survey ofPresident Norman Baxter and
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Louis Volpp, according to Dr William
York, chairman of the Academic Sen
ate
The survey results should be available to Baxter, Volpp, the press and
the public by next Wednesday. York
said
1 he survey asks permanent faculty
members to respond to these tsvo
statements
1 In terms of the best interests of
the University I view the administra
live performance of President Baxter
as acceptable or unacceptable
2 In terms of the best interests ot
the University, I view the administra
tive performance of Vice President
Volpp as acceptable or unacceptable
The Academic Senate was reouest
ed to conduct the survey by the Aca
demic Assembly after the assembly
overwhelmingly voted for an evalua-
of the two following President Bax
ter's firing of William Bu-ick as the
dean of  the  school  of  business  and
administrative sciences
The Burick firing, however, is not
the sole reason for the administrative
evaluation according to some faculty
members
' It goes far beyond Buzick s
firing,' journalism professor Dayle
Molen said
Lack ot communication between
faculty and administration, the cir
cumstances surrounding the dismissal of Chester Cole as chairman of the
geography department several years
ago arid the refusal by Baxtei lo
appoint Lester Roth as the dean of the
school of education influenced the
decision to request an evaluation
Molen said
Cole returned from a sabbatical
leave this year and was reappointed as
chairman of the geography department by the geography faculty Roth
is on a sabbatical leave and Baxter has
named Carl Stu—:man as the perman
ent dean of the school of education
Personality weakness and lack of
good personal lodgement are the two
main reasons that Ken Seib, chairman of the English department and
local United Professors of California
president, feels that dri evaluation was
initiated hy the faculty
"There is a serious problem of moc
ale and confidence m administrative
leadership on this campus and the
referendum from the school of busi
ness could prove a useful means ot
discovering how deep and extensive
the problem is," Seib said
Seib continued to say that th- sui
vey will probably show that the ma|oc
ity of the faculty do not have conti
dence in Baxter and Volpp and thai
the action was not taken by a group ol
troublen takers
But other faculty members do not
necessarily see the survey as a repr^s
entation of mass disapproval
'I don't think that it ( the survey I
indicates what the results ot the sur
vey will be,' a member of the depart
ment of foreiRn languages who did
not wish tn be identified, said
"It s |ust an expression ot opinion
in any case ' he added
If the results of the survey do shiTW
that the maionty ot faculty are not
pleased with Baxter s and Volpp s
performance s, its effe<l on the uni
versity is unclear
|  i
' I ve not been instructed to do anything other than to publish the survey in the minutes of the Executive
( ommittee of the Academic Senate, '
York explained
Whether the assembly will request
the executive committee to write the
chancellor for Baxter's and Volpp's
removal it the survey results are neg-
at.ve unknown
And even if the chancellor was requested to dismiss the two, it teems
unlikely that he would do so simply
from the results of the survey
After all, York said, Chancellor
Men Dumke was himself the subject
of several votes of no confidence by
the state Academic Senate and he has
not resigned or been remove^
At this point most faculty members who were asked to comment to
the Daily Collegian about the survey
would only say that an evaluation of
an administration is always a healthy
thing
Very lew professors were willing to
wage conjectures about the survey's
outcome That question weill be answered on Sept  13, they said
Book Review:
Tragedy, surprise make 'Riverboat' sequel
By RICHARD BOOROOJ IAN
One of the books most anxiously
awaited by science fiction readers
has been the concluding novel of
Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld
series Now. the third book of the
series. The Dark Design, has finally appeared after a five year wait
Unfortunately, we must still wait for
the series   conclusion
According to Farmer in his introduction to The Dark Design, the
concluding novel of the series, when
written, turned out to be some 400.000
words long, far too long to fit in one
volume Therefore, there will be a
fourth book, which will definitely con
elude the series and which will be
comprised of the second half of the
original novel. The Dark Deisign be
ing the first half
The Riverworld series, for those not
acquainted with it, deals with a mysterious world covered by one huge
winding river Reborn in the valley
surrounding the River is every single
person who ever lived on Earth between the years of 2,000,000 BC
and 2,008 AD
Most of these people are happy
to settle down to lives of warring and
revelry; but one, Richard Francis
Burton, the explorer and translator
of The Arabian Nights' who lived in
our world during the 19th century,
becomes obsessed with trying to find
the secret of Riverworld
In the first book, Te Veer Scattered
Bodies CO , which won the 1972 Hugo
Award for best science fiction novel of
the year. Burton quests for this secret
he is aided by one known only as the
Mysterious StrStSftr, who turns out to
be a renegade Ethical, as the beings
who created RJvenvorlo are called.
The second book. The Fabulous Riverboat introduces Samuel demons to
Riverworld Clemens, who independently has the same obsession as Burton, begins construction of a huge
riverboat, which he intends to use to
find  the  source  of  the River.  Once
there, he hopes to learn something of
the secret of the Ethicals
Throughout the book-and here lies
its greatest appeal-Clemens must deal
with such interesting characters as
Cyrano de Bergerac, Odysseus, Herr-
man Goring, King John Lackland of
England, and a huge Neanderthal
named Joe Miller.
This volume lacks the action of the
first book, but the character Interaction
and the trials that Clemens must over
come to complete his riverboar make
the book a joy to read
The Dark Design differs from the
first two books in that it does not tol
low any one character throughout
Instead, it concentrates on several
different attempts to find the source of
the River, using everything from sail
boars to dirigibles
It is an interesting book, full of sus
pense and intrigue, and it manages in
its 403 pages to disprove almost every
conclusion you may have drawn from
the previous books
Some characters from the first book
turn out to be undercover Ethical a
gents, or counter-agents, and each at
tempt to reach the Dark Tower
(the Ethicals headquarters), is
marked by tragedy and surprises
I finally gave up trying to out-guess
Farmer after he showed he could top
even my wildest speculations, and
when the ending-one of the biggest
shockers In the book-rolled around, I
was past being surprised by anything.
However, The Dark Design has
some weaknesses. It is far too long and
has far too much dialogue and background. I found myself impatiently
skimming whole pages at times, looking for more action or revelations
Further, some of the characters introduced by Farmer into this book are
hard to sympathize with
Jill Cubirra, a major protagonist, is
a fanatic women's liberatJonlst who is
so paranoid about men and their intentions towards her that I found it
hard to imagine her functioning in any
society
Peter Frigate, another important
character, spends more time contemplating his past sexual hangups than
worrying about finding the Dark Tower
Burton and Clemens have only minor
roles in the book Burton does not
appear at all after page 151, despite
having stumbled onto one of the most
important clues in the entire series,
while Clemens does not appear until
page 271. when his quest is already obsolete in view of some of the goings-
on in previous pages
And yet, these problems can be overlooked If you're like me, you'll be
so wrapped-up in trying to figure out
the secret of the Dark Tower at all of
these flaws will be distractions only.
Farmer could have made the reading
easier, but he manages to get you to
the end wanting more.
In addition, it should be kept in mind
that this book is really the first half of
a much longer novel, and many of
these flaws may be explained in the
second half.
The Riverworld series is definitely
one to look into if you have not a* yet
If you have read and enjoyed the first
two volumes, you will probably want
to read The Dart Design also. It may
have its faults, but ft Is also SO interesting in its own way that after having
read it you will probably join me in
waiting anxiously for the fourth book
in the series to explain Just what the
hell is going on in Riverworld.
The Dark Design is a Berkley Medallion book and sells for $2 25.
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Hot Spots
By MIKE FTTZGtKAlTJ
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Smuggler's
Now that the old Scylla/Charybdis
doorman is gone, the Smuggler's,
a finely appointed two-tiered bar and
disco is a more inviting place.
Smugs has a well chosen music
selection, sizeable tables, particularly upstairs, and the most eager-to-
dance crowd around
The dance floor is small but inviting
and on busy nights the crowd overflows into the lounge
Fun place.
Holiday Inn
Beneath the grim vigil of those
warbirds, our Air National Gaurd,
boogies the Holiday Inn, safe from
communism.
Although the Inn is away out there
by the airport, it's worth traveling to
because the live bands that the place
features supply a wilder, "shake it
loose" dancing- that uninhibited
vertical foreplay that seems healthy
after a week of Norman Baxter's and
Louis Volpp's polyester madness.
'We're not going to go disco,*
says the Inn's management. lo
me, all discos are the same. Bw
individual musicianship is an art form.
Right on I
500 Club
The 500 Club is hot- under the
collar
Upon learning that we drank for
journalism, the manager became
hostile and demanded that we write a
positive review or nothing I "And
I want to approve it before you run It
in that
'You don't understand, do you?*
he asked repeatedly as we responded
to his preposterous demand to 'approve* the review by backing cautiously out the door, half expecting
him to thwack a hardhat on his head
and charge at us with a hackhammer
Too bad. Good cheap beer there
Perhaps the place could be
approached by the open-minded as a
kind of proving ground for the first
amendment.
Reuben's '
Disco gwang getchyou no matter
where you goes I    Imagine Reuben's
that posh Brook's Brothers of a bar
sporting disco and excreting the Bee
Gees.
Yet .t is so Low overhead and high
intake is seducing one stolid Fresno
night spot after another to go disco
and     Reuben's     is     a     seducee.
The relaxed elegance of the bar
remains intact, though. Reuben's
has grade AA service and a broad age
spectrum enjoys It. They even have
a 7-foot screen on which to watch
football      on      Monday      nights.
It lack Angus
The Black Angus is one of the
hottest live band spots in town for
the college crowd, and you don'Vit
have to take Mr. Transit's 32 window
coupe to get there. It's right across
the street
You may get a little self-conscious
on the silver, mirror-bordered, dance
floor, but if it's as crowded as usual,
you'll never know which one of those
writhing reflections you  are.
A popular attraction is it's own
worst enemy sometimes. The waiting
lines to get into the Angus are often
attrocious But that in itself should
tell you   something.
Marie
Callendar's
If you think you're flunking out
you might try crossing the street to
Marie Callendar's and attempt to
your teacher in the act of arranging a
tryst with a grad student But if you
have no need for blackmail you might
wet* to inspect the place for its
curious ambience, which might be
summed up as "ostentatious books
and antiques".
- The seating is the best point here.
In the lounge are comfortable couches
and armchairs, as well as wooden
booths by the windows.
Hack Yard
It's got a live band, Jeans are cool
and the bartenders are friendly
The place effortlessly achieves some
of the rustic antiquity Marie's shoots
for, but without any of the aesthetic
overkill
Hthe "ClovlsUber Alles'VSOOaub
strain of bar is not your cup of tea,
try the Back Yard.
Oovis can be cool
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A happy patron enjoys a drink at TheBackyard. (Photo by Melissa Baro)
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from college or the onset of sanity,
Bruce Scott's sophomorlc "Advice"
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