1985_02 The Daily Collegian February 1985

              2 The Daily Collegian
Editorial
Decision too fast in
plus-minus grades
The Academic Policy and Planning Committee will likely
decide today whether or not to recommend adoption of a plus-
minus grading system at CSUF. Such a decision, one way or the
other, would be a regrettable mistake.
The weekly newspaper, Insight, urged adoption of the
proposed grading system yesterday in an editorial. The Associ¬
ated Student Senate, meanwhile, voted against plus-minus
yesterday in a non-binding resolution. Both actions were
mistakes.
In arguing the merits both for and against the plus-minus
proposal, these bodies seem to be neglecting those people who
will be most affected by such a system—students and faculty.
Yes, to a certain extent, the Academic Policy and Planning
Committee does represent the faculty. The AS, to a certain
extent, does represent the students. And the Insight, to a certain
extent, does represent learned opinion.
But only to a certain extent.
In matters of such importance, the opinions of students and
faculty should be taken into consideration. In this light, a
decision on the proposed grading system should be postponed
until a student and faculty survey has been completed and
studied. Perhaps the university or the AS could fund such a
survey. But, regardless, decisions should not be reached until the
opinions of both student and faculty are known.
The Academic Policy and Planning Committee will meet
today in the Old Cafeteria, room 203 at 2:15 p.m.
Letters
Too many bucks?
Editor:
1 would like to add some perspective for
your readers regarding "Athletics v. aca¬
demics for scholarships" which appeared
on the front page of the Thursday, Jan. 31
issue of the Daily Collegian.
If your figures are correct, and lamsure
they are, it is frightening to discover,
through the university's distribution of
scholarships, the level of importance it
places on athletics. Consider how $1.5
million in scholarships will be divided this
The 'Dogs share, $850,000 will be divided
among 400 student athletes. Each will
receive an average $2,125. The remaining
$300,000 will be divided among more than
700 student scholars. Each will receive an
average $418. More than 1700 of our most
gifted classmates will apply for this second
group of scholarships.
An even more telling view of these
figures follows. Student athletes make up
36 percent of those who will receive
scholarships, yet they will be awarded 74
percent of the money for scholarships. In
contrast, student scholars make up 64
percent of those receiving scholarships,
but they will be awarded only 26 percent
of the money. It would be unfair to say
that athletes are not students, and therefore
do not deserve scholarships. However,
one does not need a degree in accounting
to see the disparity.
The reasoning is, according to the uni¬
versity, that the Bulldog Foundation funds
athletic scholarships through community
contributions to athletics. This is true.
The Bulldog Foundation is in the top five
collegiate fundraising foundations nation¬
wide. As Jack Lengyel, athletic director,
put it, "don't blame us just because we are
more successful in gathering scholarships."
It's not quite like that. Jack.
Athletics at CSUF is big in the com¬
munity but small on campus. Many stu¬
dents feel removed and left out of athletics.
That is a separate issue, but what is
important is that the Bulldog Foundation
generated more than $2.5 million in com¬
munity donations last year. How did they
do it and where does this money go?
The Bulldog Foundation's carrot on a
stick is seating in Selland Arena. In order
to qualify for a Foundation seat in the
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a full athletic scholarship. This is not a
scholarship, but an amount of money.
According to your article, that is now
$3,627. The Foundation and the Athletic
Department then divide the money into
three areas. They pay all the university's
athletics. They fund 100 percent of all
athletic scholarships. They purchase tickets
for all the Foundation members. Ticket
purchases are now in excess of $1 million
per year. Any remaining funds are not
given to the university at large, but rather
are spent to further athletics. It sounds as
if the Bulldog Foundation is funding
athletics but this is not so. What Lengyel is
not telling your readers is that of the
Athletic Department's $4.5 million budget,
more than $2 million comes from public
money. It is this money, public money,
that runs the department. The Bulldog
Foundation money is spent in the manner
So it is not surprising that the Athletic
Department can spend almost three times
as much money, on half the students, for
athletic scholarships.
With the exposure of the Bulldogs and
the local media's blatant boosterism of
them that the the community support falls
where it does. Our most common images
of athletics come from the media. For
example, Red Wave and Grant's Tomb
were both coined by Fresno Bee writers.
Judith Mastin, director of the Ag. One
Foundation, is right when she says her
organization cannot compete with the
Bulldog Foundation for community
support.  Simply, they lack a suitable
Since the university IS the Bulldog
Foundation (Lengyel himself signs all
Bulldog Foundation checks) it is obvious
that the university's priorities are askew.
This is a powerful statement about what is
important to the university. Let's not
forget that athletics is but a part of the
university's educational matrix. Let's not
forget that education comes first, not
winning sporting events.
Sam Williams
Letters do work!
Editor:
Last fall, a campaign was waged by the
Psychology Department and the Education
Department to have the heating/air con¬
ditioning system updated in the Ed/ Psych
building. Letters were written by concerned
faculty, students and staff members to
various administrators on campus, making
them aware of the intolerable conditions
in the Ed/Psych classrooms and staff
offices. Initially, the usual response was
given of "no funds available" for such a
project. However, after several months of
continued letter-writing (including letters
to Assemblyman Bruce Bronzan) and a
cover story in The Daily Collegian,
$200,000 was earmarked for a complete
revamping of the heating/cooling system
in the Ed/ Psych building.
My thanks to the fine reporting by Julie
Penn of the Collegian and to the many
people who took the time to write their
letters. With a little persistence and a lot of
hard work, sometimes campaigns can be
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Concert series
The Fresno Music Club will be holding
its third concert in a series of four on
Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. at the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum of Art, History
and Science.
The program will include a song cycle,
"Evening Songs," Opus 31, featuring
vocalist Anton Dvorak; Two arias from
"La Boheme"by Puccini: Si, Mi Chiamano
Mimi, and Donde Lieta, sung by soprano
Mary Habib and accompanied by Sandra
Moomjian on the piano. The"First Sonata
in A Minor"will feature Robert Schuman
who will be accompanied by Maxine
Madden, violinist and Nancy Wamhof,
piano.
Completing the program will be a
number of selections sung by the Vocal
Arts Ensemble under the direction of
Shirley Enns. All of the works presented
in t his part of the program are by American
composers. Featured will be: Spring
Cantata, by Vincent Persichctti, based on
four poems by e e cummings; Come In, by-
Randall Thompson, words by Robert
Frost; Health and Caution and He's Gone
Away, by William Schuman, arranged by
Edward Jurey; Wondrous Love, arranged
by Alice Parker; and Anthem from the
symphony, America, by Ernest Bloch.
The concert is open to the public and is
free except for the price of admission to
the museum. Museum members are free.
The cost of entrance is $1.50 for adults, $1
CSUF Today
"Developing Your Financial Estate" is
the next topic of discussion in the learn-at-
lunch series today at noon in the Main
Cafeteria room 202.
Larry Short, candidate for dean. School
of Business and Administrative Sciences,
will make a presentation in an open
meeting for interested faculty and staff in
College Union 312 at 2:10 p.m.
The Academic Policy & Planning Com¬
mittee meets today in the Main Cafeteria
room 203 at 2:15 p.m.'
News
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Graduate awards
Five hundred new Graduate Fellow¬
ships will be awarded this year by the Cali¬
fornia Student Aid Commission and the
competition for them Js^kecn. The dead-
Briefs
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line is February 11. Applicants should be
able to demonstrate financial need; they
will then compete for the awards on the
basis of their undergraduate grades, grad¬
uate school test scores, and consideration
of disadvantaged backgrounds.
These Fellowships will pay tuition/fees
up to $5,830 at an independent college or
university and will average $289 at a Cali¬
fornia State University, $952 at the Uni¬
versity of California.
State Fellows are selected in nine differ¬
ent professional and academic areas: allied
health professions, arts and humanities,
business administration, dentistry, educa¬
tion, law, medicine, science and tbe science
professions and social sciences.
Students who have already received a
professional or graduate degree, or who
have completed graduate or professional
work beyond the first year, are not eligible
to compete.
Foreign study
A travel study course on "The China
Connection: Media and tbe People" will
be offered June 18 through July 7 through
the Division of Extended Education at
California State University, Fresno.
Dr. Randy Rfeechelle. a professor of
communication studies at California State
College, Stanislaus, will lead tbe tour
assisted by Tim Reiterman, a reporter for
the San Francisco Examiner.
Tbe three-unit course is designed to
expose students to rapidly developing
intercultural influence in public attitudes,
mass media and education in the People's
Republic of China.
Personal exchanges with students and
teachers in educational institutions and
visits to publication and telecommunica¬
tion facilities will be included in the tour.
Stops are scheduled in Hong Kong,
Beijing, Nanjing, Wuxi, Shangai and
Hangzhou.
Dr.' Ruechelle said the Peoples Repub¬
lic of China represents the worlds oldest
civilization and a newly emerging contact
with tbe western world. Tbe focus will be
on communication among cultures of the
ancient and the emerging modem Chinese
Casadesus
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assistant for a class Casadesus was teaching
in Salzburg, Austria.
"I just wanted to go and listen to'her
play," said Irwin, who has authored a
piano book of her own, "She is a very fine
pianist and a marvelous teacher. I had
never studied with a French pianist and I
was very interested in her approach."    ~
Casadesus was born in France and grew
up studying under the best teachers and
composers. She debuted as_a soloist with
major orchestras in Paris and other
European cities.
But acclaim really came after her
marriage to Robert Casadesus, a well-
known pianist and composer. The pair
toured the world, performing duets and
later with tbe addition of son Jean, trios
with major international orchestras. With
their success came the label, "the first
family of the piano."
Along with her teaching at the
Fontainebleau School and the Ravel
Academy, she frequently judges inter¬
national piano competitions.
One of those competitions is the Robert
Casadesus Competition for Pianists held
annually at the Cleveland Institute of
Music. The competition draws the finest
young pianists in the world.
Casadesus has recently appeared with
the Julliard and Guameri quartets and
French violinist Zino Francescatti. She
also recently recorded works of her late
husband for CBS Masterworks.