1979_02 The Daily Collegian February 1979

              Inflation declining enrollment cited
College Union faces $20,000 deficit
Editor's note: The following is the
first of a two part series en the state of
the College Union.  The second  will
. Inflation and declining student
enrollment are threatening to disrupt
College Union (CU) student services
and programs, and could leave the CU
budget with a $20,000 deficit by next
fail
Fear of a serious financial crunch has
moved the CU Board to reexamine the
value of many of its student-oriented
activities, which are primarily offered
in the CU building  in the center of
Earl Whitfield, the director of the
College Union, told The Dairy Collegi¬
an, "We've got to cut costs or some-
Major funding for all CU activi
Students taking seven or more units
pay a $12 Student Body Center fee per
semester. Those taking less are
charged $10. The money goes towards
support of the College Union's pro¬
grams and totalled $360,000 during the
1978-79 academic year.
Students also add to the Union's
revenues'by participating in CU recre¬
ational services and entertainment pro¬
grams. But the 1978-79 budget has
been hit hard bv Inflation.
Whitfield said CU expenses have
been keeping pace with or moving
ahead of the inflation rate.
"All our costs are going up at least as
fast as (the rate of) inflation," said
Whitfield.
Furthermore, Whitfield said he ex¬
pects that student fees collected during
the 1979-80 academic year will total
approximately $15,000 less than this
year, due to a decline in CSUF enroll¬
ment. This, he said, coupled with rising
costs, would create a deficit if action is
not taken.
Whitfield noted that in light of rising
costs  the  College  Union  Board  has
three choices: 1) cut back programs;
2) increase revenues from programs;
3) initiate a CU fee increase.
While no major programming cuts
have been made as yet, the College
Union Board, which oversees all CU
activities; has already taken steps to
increase revenues. Effective with the
1978 fall semester student prices for
the CU Friday film series were raised
by 25 cents, to $1. Also, a five
percent sales commission has been
tagged onto most tickets purchased
through the CU box office
In commenting on a proposed plan to
raise CU fees by a total of $6 over the
next six years, Whitfield said he
viewed the increase as a possible solu¬
tion to the CU's financial problems,
but noted that "there is a general reluc¬
tance  to  increase  any   fees   on   the
One person who has expressed such
Brown's budgetcuts block
campus building boom
Money for four out of five CSUF
building protects, including two that
arousetrebnsid    " '"
not included in Gov. Brown's 1979-80
budget for the California State Univer¬
sity and Colleges (CSUC).
Deleted from the CSUC budget re¬
leased last month was $324,000 for
working drawings and construction .of
an underpass near Cedar and San Jose
Avenues. Opponents of the underpass
had argued that it was being built
solely because ot the university's plans
to construct a stadium west of the cam¬
pus . Proponents argued that the under¬
pass was necessary to ensure students
Irving west of CSUF with safe passage
to and from the campus.
Also deleted by the governor was
$322,000 in initial"funding for a combi¬
nation' faculty office and computer cen¬
ter building. William Busick, dean of
the School of Business and Administra¬
tive Science, was. fired by President
Norman A. Baxter because of his vocal
opposition to the building's construc¬
tion. Busick had argued instead for
construction of a new business class
Also eliminated in the governor's
budget were $38,000 for preliminary
work on the relocation of the univer¬
sity's dairy unit and $18,000 to correct
deficiencies 'in the Shipping and Re¬
ceiving Building. •
The only CSUF construction project
to receive funding in Brown's budget
was the Library. The entire $706,000
requested by the CSUC Board of
Trustees for library equipment was in- ,
duded In the governor's budget.
a reluctance is CSUF President Norman
A.Baxter.
Baxter recently directed the CU
Board to approach the Associated Stu¬
dent (AS) Senate for what Whitfield
calls a financial 'bail-out.; Under a
proposal drawn up by the board last
Monday, members hope to acquire
$25,000 from the Senate's unallocated
The plan.has already come under
sharp critical attack by AS President
Cordon Riddle and several student
senators While the problems posed by
inflation and declining enrollment con¬
tinue to mount, the debate' over how
the CU should get itself back into finan¬
cial order grows.
Says College Union Vice President
David Z. Pinuelas, 'The CU. is run¬
ning against all these obstacles.'
Monday: the debate - tee increases
i. AS funding.
Court rules in stadium's favor;     c~
construction could begin in May
Proponents of the new CSUF sta¬
dium are not expecting any more de¬
lays now that the courts have ruled
in favor of the California State Univer¬
sity and Colleges (CSUC) in a years-
long lawsuit over its proposed construc¬
tion, which is now expected to begin as
early as May 1,1979.
the 3rd District Appelete Court in
Sacramento ruled unanimously Wed¬
nesday that the CSUC Board of Trus¬
tees complied with state law when they
approved construction of the stadium
on the west side of CSUF campus,
nearly three years ago.
*We anticipate no further legal ob¬
stacles and are sorry for the lost time
involved in the legal process,* said D.
William Holmes, CSUF executive vice
president, at a press conference Wed¬
nesday.
It is not" know whether the sta¬
dium's opponents will appeal the deci¬
sion to the state Supreme Court.
The suit, filed by the Residents Ad
Hoc Stadium Committee, David Troeh-
ler, Don Cennuso and Ruth Albright in
Fresno Superior Court, was intended to
block construction of the stadium at
Barstow and Cedar avenues.
The stadium's opponents argued
that the environmental impact report
(EIR) filed by CSUF did not conform to
state law and was being used to ration¬
alize its construction. They also
claimed that no other alternatives to
the -Barstow and Cedar avenues loca¬
tion were discussed and that the CSUC
did not consider the rest of the Univer¬
sity's master plan.
The stadium was originally approved
in May 1976 after the EIR was ap¬
proved and two public hearings on the
project were held.
Now that CSUC has won the court
decision, Holmes said that bids for the
stadium's construction would be
sought as early as March 1.
If favorable bids are received, one
would *be accepted almost Immedi-'
artery,' said Holmes, and construction
could start as early as May,!.
There were no months' lost on con¬
struction of the stadium during the law¬
suit because it was pending during the
California winter rainy season. Holmes
He said stadium supporters expect^
the first football game of the 1980 sea¬
son to be played in the new stadium.
He also mentioned the posibility of
CSUF hosting a conference in the sta¬
dium in December 19*0: .
Inflation has added ii.2 million to
the original estimated: cost. of $7.3
million for the construction of a 30,000
seat stadium and field house.
'The architect has us down to $8.6
million with modifications,' said Jim
Miller, of the CSUF public affairs of¬
fice. The modifications are technical
and are not going to substantially
change the stadium itself .*
Writing for the court's three-mem¬
ber panel on the decision, j ustice Hugh
reveal more than a
of all environmental o	
going forward with the project.
The Trostees wens totally solici¬
tous of public opinion and delayed their
decision until a hearing was held at
which all interested persons could voice
their reaction to1 the EIR.'
'Moreover,* he said, *;the second
hearing was held after interested i>er-
sons had been given the opportunity to
state their objections and .point out
what they perceived as deficiencies in
theEIR.
The Trustees did, in fact.; take a
'hard look' at all presented environ¬
mental consequences of the proposed
stadium.* '*.'.*..•
'tor-
report should have considered the Uni¬
versity's masterTplan, which calls for
construction of a field house south of
the stadium ancha p
northeast comer of B
TheOaayCellegiie
Coiner of term 'Black Power7
Stokely Carrhichael talks about socialism, organizing
Stating at one point the 'almighty
people are the only makers of history,*
Black Power advocate Stokely Car-
michael spoke to an audience in a
moderately filled CU lounge Wednes¬
day about a host of topics, including
consciousness and socialism.
Carmichael, best known for his in¬
volvement in the civil rights struggle of
Black Americans in the 60s; gestured
Ireery and frequently shouted into the
microphone, rousing the audience to
laughter and applause' several times
during his speech. When he left two
hours later, the audience gave him a
standing ovation.
Carmichael spoke on many things,
but mainly on the 'evils of the capitalist
system," the need to organize and the
need to be conscious in order to reach
:he end goal of socialism.
"I come to get the most conscious 'But do y
students,' Carmichael said.  'A con- think in Ame
sdous student is a man or woman who difficult job,
recognizes their responsibility to hu- difficulty aris
u know to make people
ica today is an extremely
Carmichael said. "The
s from the fact we live in
tent they think they are thinking when
they are not"'
During the 6T	
Today he heads the All-African Peo¬
ple's Revolutionary Party,
i    Socialism, he said, is inevitable.
"It is only when this system (capital¬
ism) is destroyed that humanity will
be set free,'Carmichael said.
"You students then have a great
challenge," he said. "Will you use this
knowledge that cannot -be bought or
' sold for your own benefit or for the
benefit of humanity?"
The fight for humanity is not a two-
year contract, a short sprint,. It's a
lifelong race," h<= said.
Carmichael concluded his talk with
a long question and answer period.
His appearance was sponsored by
the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity as part
of Black History Week.
manity and fulfills this responsibility a capitalist system and this capitalist j
inspiteof the obstacles before them." system,    being    backward,    stupid,
He said he was oh campus to make vicious,   barbaric   and   reactionary,
people thin<<. ' seeks to confuse the people to the ex-
Handcutted no longer:   "
Campus police facilities corrected
By MIKE FITZGERALD
Dairy Collegian Staff Reporter
The old CStJF^olicfe station, which
was so small that rape victims and their
assailants had to be processed in the
same room, has been radically ex¬
panded.
over the job Of Police .Chief one year
and two months, ago,' Chief William
Anderson said he had little trouble con¬
vincing the powers that be to fund an
expanded facility.
'It wasn't too.difficult convincing
the administration to accept our pro¬
posal to enlarge this station," Ander¬
son said. 'It pretty obviously.needed
Speaker to compare Christianity, philosophy
Campus Crusade for Christ will be
holding a 'College Life' meeting Sun¬
day night from 8 to 9:30 In CU 312-
314 ->
Sunday's meeting, wnicfc Is open to
all persons interested, will feature
speaker Bruce Ball, director of the
CSUF chapter of Campus Crusade for
Christ.
Ball will be speaking on a compari¬
son of Christianity to. modem day
philosophy: Ball was a major in phito-
sophyatBakersfield.
The meetings an visitor-oriented,
dealing mostly with outreach and
For instance, Anderson said, the old
reception room was so small that it
could only hold five people.
'Any more people than five had to
stand out in the rain," he said.
Worse yet, said Anderson, there was
College Life meetings ant held
every-Sunday   night   through  the
semester.
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facility: -
'We'd put them in separate offices
but they'd shout down the hall at each
other: 'don't say a word!'or, 'I didn't
say tratl" Anderson laughed. "Now we
can separate them."
The construction, which was mostly
done by CSUF maintenance personnel,
nearly doubled the space inside the
police facility by
d by
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items because the food will be ga¬
thered at one location for a few days
and then sent to the workers.
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until 9 p.m. The ««***£.«» E
Frort-TbenumberJs»9o-52S1.
the CSUF fire department,
which was phased out several years
ago.
Separate offices for t
an Administrative_Sargeam ana a
Crime Prevention officer were added,
as well as a pew locker, room for offi¬
cers, a new booking room and in¬
creased space for evidence. Holding
See*»g«1«
Grads may fife early
Seniors who will be completing their
bachelor's degree this spring and who
will be entering graduate or profession¬
al school next fall may be eligible for
the Phi Kappa Phi.Graduate Fellow-
ship. In the amount of $3,000, the Fel-
lowship is awarded to a limited number
of outstanding students nation-wide to
assist them in their first year of gradu-
atestudy. V: .'
The local chapter of the national
scholastic honor society will screen the
for submission to the
thttofte      standlnt one
formerly       national oorrtpc
Fellowship recipletH* is made by the
^'" ~~hlp  Committee.   The
 '••ii  chaired  by  Dr.
Rot^Shackiett, Preiser erf r^sics.
towsl>lpaswellasappbMtlor»iualit;iili
may be obtained in the Graduate Of¬
fice, TAd 126. Applications and al(
supporting docunients must be sub- .