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NEWS
January 28, 1986
Crowding causes tension
By D«nl Or»«n ^———mmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmm — So with only one lection of Socio]
About 30 seniors almost lost their hopes
of graduating this May because a section
of R-TV 163, Radio-Television As Popu¬
lar Culture, was unstaffed until last
Thursday.
"The money was found at the last min¬
ute," said Dr. Bill Monson, instructor of
radio-television and film. "The University
did some reshuffling and reassigning of
professors."
Dr. R. C. Adams, coordinator of the    |5sSTli^cio1
radio-television program, promised that    Jtud(
the department "will protect graduating
seniors as much as possible, allowing them    Music 187 is usually
first priority in the class." hall   lhat  can   sei
Professors and students were frustrated    attempted to enroll
Still, "teachers cant provide for the demand for these
classes. Some students have had a great difficulty
graduating."
—Monson
by a situation which arose because of the spring, they could
increased popularity of two capstone modaled.
courses. Within the capstone cluster Pop¬
ular Culture and Society, students must
complete either Sociology 142 or R-TV
■~ English 174. Most
select Music 187 and R-TV 163.
.ught i,
"The use of a TV limits us to 50 students
per classroom," said Monson.
Dr. Philip Lane, radio-television and
film professor, pointed out that class size
also needs to be kept down because a 10-
pagc paper is required of each student.
This could produce a tremendous work
load for the i
ith only one lection of Sociology
142 available and only three sections of
R-TV 163 staffed, one more section was
desperately needed. Lecturer Michelle
Morgan was reassigned to teach a course
after a new person was hired to take over
Still, "teachers can't provide for the
demand for these classes," said Monson,
"Some students have had a great difficulty
graduating."
Morgan agreed, "We cant keep up with
She stressed that there are other classes
avilable within the cluster, but acknowl¬
edged lhat R-TV and music are more
popular than sociology or English.
"We are working hard to find ways to
address the problem," he said.
Peace group goes Beyond War
ikay. Politicians press
outer space, thinking
tpressed by "Beyond
organization dedi¬
cated to the elimination of all types of
Beyond Waris the brainchild ofagroup
of Stanford professors who established an
anti-war movement in 1982. vowing to
achieve its aim without the use of violence
According to one Beyond War publica¬
tion, "The basic tenets of the movement
arc that war, all war is obsolete and there¬
fore, we must now seek other means to
resolve conflict between nations and people "
Among the group's 8.000 members
across the United States and in six foreign
countries are Dr. Richard Leakey, direc¬
tor of the National Museums of Kenya,
and Dr. Jonas Salk, founder of the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies Astron¬
omer Carl Sagan and Atlanta mayor
Andrew Young are also Beyond War
supporters.
Each year, this group recognizes signif¬
icant achievements that exemplify the
anti-war cause. The Beyond War Award
in 1984 went to the International Physi¬
cians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(IPPNW). a grouo that linked satillite
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for discussing the peace issues. Last year's
award went to members of the Delhi Dec¬
laration Peace Initiative group. The initia¬
tive was an attempt by six countries
(Argentina, India. Tanzania, Sweden ana'—■
Greece) to "...bring the arms race to a halt
and bring world wide response to their
appeals and stress international support,"
according to Beyond War literature. The
Fresno Chapter of Beyond War has been
established since 1983. The Fresno chap¬
ter is separated into four teams. Each
team has a similar function: to educate as
many people as possible about the perils
of arms race escalation.
"Beyond War isn't a group concerned
with slandering Reagan or pushing for
things like 'nuke the nukes...,™ local
chapter leader Gary Gleason said. "We
simply would like to inform people about
the dangers of today's modern elements of
potential war and the problems between
Gleason has been trying to organize a
fifth team of Beyond War for the CSUF
campus because he feels it is a crucial
place to educate students about the future.
The group has already won the support of
many CSUF instructors, including Dr.
Richard Haas (biology) and Dr. Dirk Van
der Elst (anthropology).
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'Women need to learn a lesson from the
men,'said Kilgore. 'Take an attorney for
example. An attorney's biggest battle is
fought in the courtroom, and afterwards
they all go out to lunch."
Kilgore added that women do not have
something in common. 'Women need to
pull together.'
Thewi
of 'high visibility and low visibility. But
NOW's issues havent changed,'
NOW has many plans for the future.
As for politics, said Kilgore, 'Geraldine
Ferraro has paved the way. We have to
take a look at what she has done and keep
at it. She has been a major influence on
Cathy Longpence, CSUF student and
NOW member, is not as hopeful that a
woman will be in a major office soon. 'It
flight, said Ramos, but is
:k into the front page. She
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Fresno States Rofer Parenzee prepares For a February 15
Generosity
records
increase
New York (C PS) — Corporate generos¬
ity to colleges - motivated either by kind¬
ness or a suspicion that tax breaks for
giving may soon dry up - hit record level
last year, the Council for Financial Aid to
Education (CFAE) says.
A huge 150 percent jump in gifts-in-
kind push total corporate contributions to
education to $1.6 billion in 1984. up 15.4
percent from the year before, the council
The council, together with the Confer¬
ence Board, annually surveys the gift-
giving habits of Fortune 500 companies.
For the third consecutive year, they found
education received 38.9 percent of all cor-
An increasing proportion of the gifts
-just over one-fifth - is company pro¬
ducts and other property, explains Unda
Cardillo Platzer of the Conference Board.
Property donations jumped 200 per¬
cent, company products 150 percent and
securities 100 percent.
Computers comprise an increasing
amount of property and product dona¬
tions, Platzer says.
Several yaers ago, Apple computer pio¬
neered the practice of donating computers
to schools and colleges as a way to start
students using their products, and the
company hoped, to keep them buying
Apples after they graduated.
IBM,DEC,Zenithandothercomputer
firms quickly followed suit, especially
Apple, in 1983, convinced Congress
x break for donating
x breaks would van-
< reform proposals
U.S. Senate.
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equipment to educ
being debated in tl
n 1984, c
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:s gave 71 |
donations to col¬
leges and universities, and half of those
donations - or 35 percent of the total -
were earmarked for certain academic
departments on campus.
In I982.>the firms earmarked only 24
percent of their college donations for spe- .
cific departments.
'There's a double purpose to this kind
More freshmen in for money-survey
of giving," the CFAE's
ir Kammer-
Los Angeles (CPS) — College student!
increasingly are interested in money, but
they'll  make  it as  businesspeople, not
computer scientist or engineers, says aspiring
UCLA's 20th annual survey of new col- showing rising interest since the 1970s
lege freshmen. increased to an all-time high of 23.9 per-
The proportion of freshmen planning cent, more than twice the proportion
to major in computer science and pursue recorded in the 1972 survey,
computing careers has dropped by 50 per- For the third straight year, elementary
cent in just two years. Only 4.4 compared and secondary school teaching rose slightly
percent of the Class of 1989 aspire to be to 6.2 percent, altough Astin adds "we still
computer programmers or analysts, com- have a long way to go" before there are
pared lo 6.1 percent last year and 8.8 per- enough teachers "to meet the nation's cur-
cent in 1983. rent and future needs."
Declining-interest in computer careers
parallels dwindling interest in engineer- Astin was surprised to discover slu¬
ing. Ten percent of respondents plan to dent's social attitudes are going to extremes
pursue engineeing careers, down from 12 --    sometimes    in    opposite
percent two years ago. directions.
"Taken together, this decline in student Seventy-three percent of the freshmen
interest in technological careers stands in oppose increased defense spending, up 12
stark contrast to the growing national percent from three years ago, and 73.3
concern for increasing technological percent - four percent more than last year
training in ur schools Ind colleges, " says - say the wealthy should pay larger share
ttesurveysdnector,UClJ\r\otessOT Alexander of taxes than they do now.
Astin.
The decline, however, corresponds with But conservative attitudes are equally
diminishing demands for engineers in the strong. Almost half of all freshmen think
job market. homosexuality should be outlawed, and a
Recent surveys by the College Plcement record low - 21,8 percent - want man-
Council, Michigan State and Northwest- juana legalized.
ernallfound American businesses plan to Bycontrast,aImost53percentof 19771s
hire fewer engineering and computer freshmen favored legalizing marijuana,
science majors this year. . And while the Class of 1989 says the
But Astin says students'declining inter- rich should pay more taxes, members
est in high tech is all the more remarkable" would like to be among them,
considering the emphasis secondary. Seventy-one percent of the freshmen
schools place on computer education, he say "being very well-off financially" is
speculates that as students become more essetial" or "very important."
familiar with computers in high school. About the same number of students
they are "less inclined lo pursue it as a agreed with the statement that "The chief
career and more inclined to view it as a benefit of a college eduction is that it
tool for use in other fields." inreases one's earing power."
Among the 200.000 freshmen surveyed In 1973, only 55.8 percent of freshmen
'Corporations want students
taught with state-of-the-art equipment,
d they're anxious for students to leant
  and teaching drew    agreed with that sentiment, while jjist 39.1   on their own particular equipment, so
e most significant increase in interest,    percent of 1970's freshmen felt being well-   they'll be more inclined to buy it and use it
The proportion of entering students    off financially was important. after college."
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