1985_11 The Daily Collegian November 1985

              California State
University.
Fresno
Ihe Daily
Collegian
Tuesday
Nov. 5,1985
FREEZE!
Team captain of Tfceta Chi, Mart Robertson, leads
called Air Pistol Combat. Three CSUF fraternity ti
foothills near Coarsegold to play the came. For more i
tomorrows Daily Collegian.
team to victory In a game
ss fathered Sunday In the
details about the action, see
Lecture explores
Indo-China unrest
One of the contributing factors to cur¬
rent unrest in Indo-China is the historical
antagonism between populous Vietnam
and Thailand and thcirsmaller neighbors.
Cambodia and Laos.
"Both Laos and Cambodia remember
"In 1975, with the initial
enthusiasm of winning the
war, everything seemed
possible."
— Batson
the history," according to Bob Eaton,
former field director of American Friends
Service Committee in Indo-China.
In a noon lecture at the Old Cafeteria
yesterday, Eaton spoke along with his
wife. Wendy Batson, a former co-field
director of A.F.S.C. Indo-China. toa rapt
audience of little more than a dozen, on
events covering the last ten years in Laos.
Cambodia and Vietnam.
Batson and Eaton, who spent the years
between 1981 and 1984 in residence in
Laos, recently published an economic aid
report for the United Nations Develop¬
ment Project in Laos.
"They (Laos and Cambodia) remember
that their cultures and empires have shrunk
at the expense of what they see as expan¬
sions on the part of Vietnam and Thai¬
land," Eaton said. "Today there are more
native Laos-speakers in Thailand than
there are in Laos itself."
Ref'-rring lo Vietnam as a "Sinoized-
Confucian society" with historical lies to
. China, Eaton pointed out that its "whole
history is one of fighting Chinese domi¬
nance. The Lao and the Cambodians have
never had this contact with China, and in
fact their cultural influences have come
from Ihe west, from India."
Eaton also emphasized religious differ¬
ences, noting that the form of Buddhism
practiced in Laos and Cambodia is not the
sort practiced in Vietnam.
Eaton recounted the multiple problems
which have faced both countries in the
wake of the end of the Vietnamese war,
including violent government coups, fam��
ine and population displacement, most
notably attributed to the infamous Khmer
Rouge regime.
Responding to questions regarding
Ml As believed by some to still be in cap¬
tivity in Laos and Cambodia, Eaton ex¬
pressed his reservations.
"There are something like seven cases
where the Pentagon itself says, 'Here,
we're not sure. There has been some evi¬
dence that maybe these guys are alive and
in captivity, but wedon"t know." But that's
seven cases. What you read in the press is
more like 25. Hundred.
"Now the Pentagon has. in fact, cleaned
them off the roles. Il is not known (whether
they are still alive), and will never be
known, because well never be able to
search the crash sites. If you fly ovct Laos,
you begin to realize that Ihe most exhaus¬
tive search in the world will never produce
enough dogtags." said Eaton.
Taking the floor afler her husband,
Balson limited her remarks to post-1975
Vietnam, because of the prolificity of
information available on the war years.
Batson focused on the post-war sense of
disappointment felt by the Vietnamese
government, which had felt lhat "it was on
aroll. It had just defeated the most power¬
ful government in the world," a percep¬
tion that was shared by much ofthe rest of
Sa« INDOCHINA, page 4
Basketball tickets still available
StudenU wishing to buy Bulldog bas¬
ketball season tickets have one more
chance. The last 159 tickets went on sale
yesterday at the Bulldog ticket office and
will be on sale until they are all gone or
until next Tuesday.
After next Tuesday any tickeu still
unsold will be made available to the Bul¬
ldog Foundation members, said Jack
Lengyel, CSUF athletic director.
"I'd rather have studenu buy them,"
said Lengyel.
Making the tickeu available on a first-
come/ first-serve basis was not in the
Associated StudenU Public Affairs Com¬
mittee pUns, but it was an alternative to
having the remaining 159 seau given to
the foundation for distribution.
John Love, AS senator and chairman
of the Public Affairs Committee which
sold the tickeu, said Lenfyel told hime Ihe
159 tickets would be sold to foundation
members. Love rounded up five other AS
represenatives and was able to later per¬
suade Lengyel to allow the AS one more
chance to sell the tickeu to sludenu.
Lengyel agreed to extend the deadline
to next Tuesday for the sale of the Ml-
per-scat season ticket package. Most sea¬
son tickeu are bought in pairs.
On Oct. 26,504 ofthe 1.305 tickets were
sold to student who made a mad dash to
the Joyal Administration building to get
in line to buy the_ 14-game packages.
Monday mornings lottery accounted for
572 more seau of which the lottery winner
will not get the choice of choosing his or
her vantage point. Lottery seating will be
determined by the order which the lottery
tickeu were pulled, said Love.
Thirty-two of the student tickeu were
sold lo the band members who ptay dur¬
ing the games. Six studenu in wheelchairs
purchased 14 of the tickeu lo accomodate
for the person accompanying them and to
allow them more space to maneuver.
Twenty-four tickeu were purchased by
theTine monitors who worked Oct. 26,
said Love.
"Well, at least you all know you are
going to get a ticket," Mid Love to the
audience of 18 watching the lottery in the
Satellite College Union jSsUrday at 10
a.m. "Even if it is in the rafters"
Last year when ilSoft all of the 1,505
season tickeu for studenu were put into a
lottery, 200 of thoae were not purchased
by itudenu. Faculty and staff were even
given the opportunity to buy the student
tickeu. The 200 tickeu were given to
foundation members who now have the
option of purchasing those seats every
year.
o buy, t
i back to the foundation members lo
purchase them on a one-year term. The
remaining number of tickets will not sub¬
tracted from next year's toul season
tickeu, said Lengyel.
"We will just utilize them for one year
only," said Lengyuel.
Love said he made the suggestion to
Lengyel that the remaining tickeu could
be sold on days of the individual games.
The senator thinks the price is too much
for some studenu to want to buy the
whole package.
game
ind he said there is no box office for
CSUF at Selland Arena anyway.
To alleviate the mess of selling season
tickeu for the basketball system. Love
said the Public Affairs Committee is going
to come up with a policy for ticket distri¬
bution which will be used year after year.
"It should have been done a long time
8*a LOTTERY, peae 4
Grad students given voice
by AS association-council
Graduate studenu make up nearly 20
percent of CSUFs population but their
needs are often ignored, said Associated
Studenu Sen. Robert Castorena, gradu¬
ate studies.
He is trying to give graduate studenu
more of a voice by organizing the Gradu¬
ate Studenu Association and Council. Iu
first meeting will be Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in
College Union 308.
"One reason I ran for (AS) office is the
graduate student is really not taken into
consideration," said Qutorenft, who it
studying economics and international
reUtions. "Just tbe whole setup is geared
toward the undergraduate."
The Graduate StudenU Association aad
Council', initial goals, Castorena said,
will be to make people on campus more
aware of graduate studenu, to organi*:
research symposiums and bring speakers
.to QfUUUATC, *•»• 4