1985_04 The Daily Collegian April 1985

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Editorial
No water, no restroom: Nojustice
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled
last Friday against a proposed federal sanitation standard
that would have required farmers to supply toilets and drink¬
ing water to field workers nationwide. It was a callously *
wrong decision.
The proposed federal standard would have required agricul¬
tural operators with 11 or more employees to provide drink¬
ing water, hand-washing facilities, and a toilet within a quar¬
ter mile for every 20 employees.
In making the decision, OSHA Director Robert A. Row¬
land said: "OSHA's resources are best utilized where OSHA
sends inspectors to chemical plants and/high-hazard locations
where there are frequent and documented threats-to life and
limb."
"Field sanitation — though an important public health
concern — generally does not involve that kind of lethal and
often irreversible occu^fational hazard."
The hell it doesn't. In a public hearing on the proposed
standard, Dr. Eugene Gangarosa, who was hired by OSHA to
review evidence on the standard, said that the rate of disease
and infection among U.S. migrant workers was comparable to
that found in Third World countries.
With many field workers toiling all day in 100-degree
weather, it could very well be lethal to deny them drinking
water and toilet facilities.
When Rowland claims that OSHA is best served by sending
its inspectors to chemical plants and high-hazard locations,
what he really means is that field workers do not warrant
their attention. Instead, OSHA will concentrate on the more
powerful and visible industrial sector. And damned be the
powerless field workers and their health.
Although 13 states have field sanitation standards as strin¬
gent as the OSHA proposal, it would be more beneficial to
have a federal standard that will protect all 500,000 field
workers nationwide.
When Rowland made his decision, he was probably in his
office, where there no doubt is a restroom and drinking water.
Perhaps if Rowland's office was a lettuce field with 100-degree
heat and no drinking water or restroom facilities available, he
might have ruled differently. Instead, he made a callously wrong
decision.
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Letters
Malaysian response
Edit0r ».     A   ■  ,n
In response to the opinion by Azizan
ltassim on March 20.1985,1 would Uke to
clarify my thoughts on the issue of Malays
and Islamic Malays.
Firstly, 1 agree with Azizan on the basis
that there is a little difference between
Malays and "good" Islamic Malays.
Nevertheless, the statement that some
Malays are Muslims and some are non-
Muslims or familiar to the Malays as
"Wafir" is totally irrelevant.
The dilemma of the Malays in Fresno
and Malaysia is the heartache based upon
the conglomerate of passion and vanity.
Every Malay realizes the issue and to
speak on the subject is just like tnggennga
time bomb.
The issue now is too controversial to
reconcile and too sensitive to bring upon
the public. One has no right to say the
others are non-Muslims or "kafir" just
like the others have no right to say that
someone is extremist.
We as educated people, sent by the
government abroad (most Malay students
are under government scholarships) are
here with a purpose: to look at others' way
of life in addition to seeking degrees. Then
we can think, search and find some ways
to help our sons, grandsons and great,
great grandsons in the future, so they
wouldn't blame us for their failures.
The Malays (99 percent are Muslims)
are being overwhelmed by others in every
aspect of their lives. Economics are con¬
trolled by the non-Muslims, as well as
education and many other things. Let us
stop the chaos. Forget who's right and
who's wrong. If it is necessary to tell oth¬
ers about us in the newspaper, let us tell of
the warmth and not the worst, which is
already known. This way we're telling our
hosts more about it. No one is to blame
and no one should be blamed. We are
Muslims and we are Malays. We always
have been and will always be.
Aziz Ibrahim
Congressional Praise
Editor:
I recently had the chance to view some
of the cartoons of your staff cartoonist
Jeff Goertzen. 1 was quite impressed with
his work, as well as the quality of The
Daily Collegian.
The principle of a free press is one of the
tenets of our nation's working democracy.
Your staff members, by learning first¬
hand the responsibilities of the journalism
profession, can only benefit from this
training.
Keep up the good work.
Tony Coelho
—- Member of Congress
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April 17,1985 3
Surveyor finds Alaska with camera
Swatting 27 mosquitos at a time and
toting a .44 magnum revolver to fight off
bears is not the ideal work environment
especially in 100-degree heat and stifling
humidity.
But the "bush" of inner Alaska can be
brutal during summer. Stories abound in
that reeion describing hordes of mosqui¬
tos running caribou until exhaustion
then sucking their blood after they drop.'
The "bush" of Alaska is even now lar¬
gely unexplored, and unexploited. Each
year the Bureau of Land Management,
Alaskan Office, i
s surveying engi¬
neering studenu from CSUF for si	
jobs. Bob Ozbirn went there twice.
Ozbirn expects to graduate this May
with a degree in surveying, and wants to
continue working toward another degree
in his first love, photography, through the
art department. He currently has his pho¬
tographs of Alaskan Indian cemeteries on
display in the President's Art Gallery in
ihe Thomas Administration building.
Many of the photos were shot during
his first experience in the outback of
Alaska during the summer of 1982. While
cutting lines through the thick Alaskan
underbrush to stake out boundaries for
Indian land allotments, Ozbirn came
across a subject that sparked his interest.
The lonely, worn cemeteries of forgot¬
ten Indians were what Ozbirn said he was
looking for — a part of Alaska that hadn't
been photographed before. The Russian-
style crosses and tombstones he came
across were worn from weatherand choked
wit h weeds. Black and white film accented
the cracks and texture of the aged grave
Ozbirn's photographs tell just part of
CSUF surveying and photograminetry student Bob Ozblm photographed native
tbe typical landscapes.
the experiences he has had by working
two consecutive summers in Alask. He
said he was flown in and out of each day's
survey area by helicopter, and wore a pis¬
tol in a shoulder holster to protect himself
from bears. Flying insects were a constant
nuisance, and he described "deer flies"
that could bite through clothes and draw
blood.
"1 remember one time me and a friend
named Leon were having a contest to see
who could kill the most mosquitos with
one swat. I think I got 27," he said.
State enrollment up,
CSUF's is opposite
Staff Writer
While freshmen ad mission applications
arc up 11J. percent in the California Sute
University system, CSUF will be at a
decline for the upcoming fall semester.
According to CSU Chancellor W. Ann
Reynolds. 69.811 freshmen applications
CSUFToday
Club Mac, a new group for owners of
'he Apple Macintosh computer, is being
organized on campus. If you have any ideas
come to College Union room 308 at 8 p.m.
Faculty/ Staff Bible Study: Book of
James Old Science room 193 at noon.
"Disarmament and Conflict Resolution
m the Modern World" is the subject of a
teure by Dudley Weeks, director of the
P«c» Studies Program at Chapman Col-
*ge The lecture is presented by the CSUF
renee studies Committee and the Vice
Resident for Academic Affairs. Weeks
"H talk in the Main Cafeteria room 200 at
""on. He will meet with tbe Peace Studies
"-ommittee to discuss a Peace Studies
^rncuium in College Union room 310 at
were submitted to the 19 campuses as of
April 1. The current figure exceeds 1984"s
toul of 69,330 for both fall and spring. At
this time last year, freshmen applicanu
numbered 59,624.
However. CSUF's freshmen applica¬
tions declined from last year's figure,
2,648 to the current 2,605 for fall "85.
"I dont know why the freshmen appli¬
cations are down this year," said CSUF
Admission Officer Carroll Cotten. "But
there has been a tendancy for things to run
in cycles. Maybe next year, [freshmen]
applications will be up."
Including tbe freshmen figure), the
admission applications for the fall "85 at
CSU will be at a 10.8 percent increase.
Reynolds said that the level of CSU appli¬
cations ii at the highest since the new
record keeping system was instituted in
1983.
Most CSU campuses will continue to "
' accept admission applications in all cate¬
gories — lower and upper division sUnd-
ings, and post-baccalaureate students.
He said he spent his first summer in
Alaska exclusively in tbe "bush." After 12
weeks of isolation, the return to civilua- "
tion came as a shock. But the pay was
good; he said he came back with $5,100.
"1 just felt free. It was kind of a small
culture shock coming out of the bush.
That's what they mean when they say the
bush makes you old'," Ozbim said.
His first summer in Alaska was spent at
Yukon Flau, near a village called Fort
Yukon which is eight to 12 mUes from the
Arctic Circle. He said he didnt know what
to expect when he left, but was surprised
by the climate when he got there.
"When we got up there it was like going
to the South in the summertime. It broke
100 degrees on July 4th." Ozbirn said.
But it wasnt the heat, or the humidity,
or tbe lonely isolation of the Alaska
"bush"that deterred him from continuing
his summer j obs in the north. He said it was
working for the government that made the
difference.
"I didnt get along well with the bureau¬
cracy of the government, but I had a job if
I wanted to ukeit back. I didnt get along
well with all the forms and the red Upe "
be explained.
Ozbirn married and had a son three and
a half years ago. In the years since, he's
pursued his education and raised a family.
One room of their house has been turned
into a study area and photography dark¬
room. He develops his prints at home
from the large negatives used in his medium
format Mamiya camera.
He said he didnt particularly like his
work in Alaska, which comprised survey¬
ing 160-acre plou of land for the Indians
as part of the V.S. government's "repay¬
ment" pUn after purchasing Alasia from
thc Sovieu. Ozbirn said most Indians in
that region didnt appreciate the effort
because of cultural differences.
"Some of the Indians were hostile to us,
because of what we were doing. They're
not as territorial as we are," said Ozbirn.
"That was kind of a hard thing for me,
too. Being a surveyor I Uke to create lines'
and boundaries, that soi
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