1986_03 The Daily Collegian March 1986

              The
CSU, Fresno
Collegian
Volume LXIV, No. XXVIII
18,1986
Festivities,
elections
coincide
Same week shared
by special interests
The Schools of Agriculture and Home
Economics will be celebrating National
Agriculture Week March 17-21. The fact
that Ag Week and Associated Students
Elections are being held during the same
week has raised some eyebrows concern¬
ing the influence   it and   Ag Week will
Election Chairman Rudy Rodriguez
said the dates for elections and Ag Week
were "totally coincidental,"and he doesn't
feel it will have any influence on the elec-
"If it had been National i
Week it wouldn't influence voter turnout,"
Rodriguez said. "Student government isn't
, a special interest government."
Since past elections have been held
after the spring recess, elections have
often coincided with ihe Hispanic com-
munity's-Senunade la Raia. Rodriguez ■
doesn't feel that coincidence was signi¬
ficant to ihe elections, either.
n though it (Semana de la Raza)
1 don't belie-
it had
any influence c
Sen. Patrick Broderick. Schools of
Agriculture. HomeEconomicsand Indus¬
trial Technology, said just because there is
going to be an exhibit doesn't mean more
agriculture students than usual will be in
the Free Speech Area during elections.
"I don't think it wil sway the vote,"
Broderick said. "(The) coincidence of Ag
Week wasnt known when elections were
being planned."
Rodriguez said the purpose of the exhibit
is not to persuade agriculture students to
"It's not to draw ag students out there
— they know what's going on," Rodriguez
said. "It's to show other students what ag
students are doing."
AS Presidential Candidate Daniel
Chacon, currently a senator for the School
of Social Sciences, said "undoubtedly
you're going to have people out there in
the Free Speech Area that wouldn't be
there ordinarily."
He said this increase in students could
have an effect on election results if the race
is "pretty close."
"It all depends on how close it will be,"
he said.
Chacon added that he had been think¬
ing about the coincidental dates of the AS
elections and both Semana de la Raza and
National Agriculture Week. He said he
would like to see the AS incorporate
something into the Election Code that
would prohibit AS elections during a
week of special interest rallies. That way.
he said, there would not be any outside
influences on the elections.
Rodriguez said the increase in agricul¬
ture students could be significant "but it
won't sway the vote one way or another. It
will not benefit the ag students."
Rodriguez cited as an example the fact
that there is no official candidate running
for the School of Agriculture. (A story in
yesterdays Dully Collegian said Todd
Ohm will be running for this position. He
SH ELECTIONS, p»»» I
Six Juveniles were taken into custody by campus police Sunday for brandishing water pistols.
ow/T>»Oafr Colas**.
Realistic toys bring youths' arrest
Six juveniles were taken into custody by
campus police Sunday night for pointing
water guns at people near the Free Speech
Area. But no one knew at the time they
were water guns and one person thought
the boys were shooting a pellet gun.
The officers arrived at the scene a min¬
ute after they were called, according to Lt.
Steve King of the campus police. They
found the six boys sitting on the fountain
near the bookstore. A search of the sub¬
jects found two pistol replicas: water guns.
From a short distance,
surprisingly real, King said.
The six were taken to the slationhouse
and their .parents were called. After the
incident was explained to the parents,
they requested the police destroy the
"It wouldn't lake much to destroy these
guns," King remarked, "just step on them."
Even though the guns were plastic, they
were well-detailed.
"Students have actually been sfi
ing this game," King said. He referred to
the heightened tension in such situations,
where the officer often doesn't have time
to double-check if a weapon is real or not.
"It's one thing to be playing around in
your yard." King said, "but if you go into a
public area, officers will be called."
King said the parents were "very con¬
cerned about" these hazards,* so they
requested the weapons be destroyed.
"It's just kids playing games." Kioa.
explained, "but it could have been disas¬
trous. When you see a 12-year-old with
an automatic squirt gun, it's easy to make
Benninga named special editor
According to Dr. Jacques Benninga,
associate professor of education, statistics
show that pregnanacyj drug abuse and
crime involving teens has risen in the past
lOto lSyears. In an effort to combat these
problems, Benninga has been named edi¬
tor of a special issue of the Association for
Childhood Education publication tilled",
"Teaching Values and Ethics."
"The reason why the Association wanted
this to be done is because there's a growing
emphasis in public schools in the U.S. on
moral and ethical teaching," said Ben¬
ninga. "There has always been an empha¬
sis on teaching democratic values in
schools. 1 think the recent trend is a result
of things like Watergate, and parents are
feeling that basic values are not being
The publication, which will be distrib-
membcrs of the "Association for blue-ribbon panel of community people
Childhood Education as well as school and came up with nine values that the
district administrators nationwide, will be school system is supposed to address. The
produced sometime in 1087. value for the month of March is test
Benninga said that Clovis and Fresno worth," said  Benninga.   Other  values
Unified School Districts have implemented include love, freedom, respect, justice,
an ethics and morals program as an under- loyalty and helping others.
lying theme in their overall curriculum:
"Clovis and Fresno Unified created a
SM EDUCATION, pa>ga)t
Workshops help staff
By Batty Oomn ayjaj u^e vocational tests while they
Staff Writer attend six consecutive workshops. The
Selected staffand employees at CS U F final goal will be the development of a
will attend career development work- career plan.
shops to assess their careers, create According to Jim McDonald, per-
short-term goals and develop a plan to sonnet services specialist; CSUF re-
meet those goals. ceived * $4,350 grant from the CSU
The workshops will be offered for Chancellor's Office to gain the pilot
two hours a week starting April 7 and project,
running through May 12. r