1979_03 The Daily Collegian March 1979

              March 2,1979
The Dairy Collegian
The Pally Collegian
'Serious and compeflmg reasons only
President Baxter signs tougher class-drop policy
A policy recently signed by President
Norman Baxter will make it tougher to
drop a class after the fourth week.
Students who used to claim "work
conflict* as an excuse for dropping
classes after the normal add/drop per¬
iod will no longer be able to do so when
the new policy takes effect, which will
probably be next semester
Under the new policy, students will
be able to drop classes only for a
"serious and compelling reason",
which is defined as a "physical or
emotional conditions which makes it
impossible for the student to complete
the course requirements." Work con¬
flict does not fall under "serious and
compelling reasons."
According to Speech Arts piofessor
Vincent Bloom, the new drop policy
was initiated because CSUF is way
ahead of other California State Univer¬
sity and College (CSUC) campuses in
"W"-withdrawal grades. As a result,
CSUF is funded for more courses
taught than are actually completed.
Bloom is the chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee on Standards and Grading,
a subcommittee of the Academic Policy
and Planning (AP&P) Committee,
which was charged with revising the
withdrawal policy.
Bloom said the percentage of "W"
grades at CSUF, 8.75 percent, was
above the CSUC norm of 4.5 percent
The revised policy is expected to bring
CSUF closer to the norm. The impetus
to revise the policy, according to
Bloom, was an executive order from
CSUC Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke
concerning 'serious and compelling
reasons" and the feeling that if CSUF
did not revise the policy, there was a
possibility that the Chancellor's office
Funding for CSUF is based primarily
on the full-time equivalence (FTE)
enrollment as of the fourth week
Drops after the fourth week are not
reflected in the FTE calculations,
hence, CSUF, with a high percentage
of "W" grades, is funded for more stu¬
dent work than is actually completed.
Considering that the CSUC system is
operating under a tight budget Bloom
said, "It's not good business prac¬
tice to allow that type of thing to go
Bloom said that if students were pay¬
ing for the bulk of their education there
would be no problem with students
dropping classes at any point. But since
the state-and ultimately the taxpayers-
support the CSUC system, there has to
be some method of determining
exactly how much money a university
Most universities in the CSUC
system base their budgets on FTE
enrollment as of the fourth week; a
few work on a two-week FTE enroll-
There are alternatives to the fourth
week accounting system and Bloom .
said the committee thought of 'tack¬
's off If.
WEEKEND CALENDAR
Today
Royal Shakespeare Company:  lec¬
ture, Lisa Harrow, "Shakespeare's
Women," no charge, John Wright
Theatre, 1 p.m.
Christian Emphasis Week: lecture,
C.L. Johnson (People's Church),
'Jesus: Just a Man of History?"
CU Lounge, 10 a.m.
Meeting: Fig Garden Rotary, cam¬
pus Rotarians invited, Residence
Dining Facility, 12:15 p.m.
Saturday
Royal Shakespeare Company; acting
workshop, tickets $6 at the box
office (ext. 2216), John Wright
Theatre, 9:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. and
from 1:30to4:00p.m.
Christian Emphasis Week: concert,
'Larry Norman and Randy Stone¬
hill,' Residence Dining Facility,
7:30 and 10 p.m. (Tickets $5 and
$4.50at CU information desk.)
>r. John
Marchall (University of Nevada),
"Religious Faith and the Teaching
Process," fourth in a series spon¬
sored by the Ecumenical Campus
Ministry, University Religious Cen¬
ter, Pax Dei Chapel, 7:30 p.m.
Petitions for candidacy available
Petitions for filing candidacy in the
spring student elections will be avail¬
able next week at the Dean of Student
Affairs office (JAd 297). The campus-
wide election will be- held on April 3,
4, and 5.
All complete petitions must be
turned into the Dean's office by
March 9 for validation by the Assoc¬
iated Student (AS) Election Committee
All candidates will attend a mandatory
meeting with the five-member comm¬
ittee on March 16.
Positions  open   are  AS  President,
Legislative Vice President, and College
Union Vice President.
Also elected 'at large' will be four
AS Senate posts and two seats on the
Colleae Union Board. Representatives
will be culled from each CSUF 'school"
11 to serve in the Senate, as well.
To be eligible to, run for office,
student applicants must be currently
enrolled in at least-seven academic
units at CSUF and earn a minumuim
grade point average of 2.0 this semes¬
ter.
ling' the Chancellor'
of    them     There    were    inaicauuns,
however, that it would be "not terribly
fruitful" to do so. he said
One of the alternatives would be
to have the budget based on the num¬
ber of courses students complete
But with 8.75 percent of the grades
given being *W" grades, that would
only mean less money for the Univer
sity. Bloom said.
Another alternative would be tuition,
s Bloom said, that is not a
popular alternative
Under the new policy, drop requests
will be handled by the dean of the
school or the dean's designee. Pres¬
ently, department chairmen handle
drop requests
Some departments, Bloom said,
review drop requests while others
readily approve them. The new proce¬
dure, he said, should resolve any in¬
consistencies that may occur among
departments.
Recreation Director unveils
newly-installed sauna
CSUF Intramurals and Recreation
Director Pete Conrad officially un¬
locked the door this week to 'some¬
thing a little special' offered by the
Athletic Department to the student
body: a newly-installed, redwood-
finished sauna funded by a S4.147
donation from the campus Alumni
Association.
Located in the locker room of the
Men's Gym, the 12-person sauna,
along with a smaller facility to be
placed soon in the Women's Gym, is a
result of a growing need for such a
facility by coaches, students and wrest¬
ling team members.
The men's facility is open for the
use of the University community Mon¬
day through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to
9:45 p.m. and from 10:00 am to
5:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays
Conrad said he was "pleased* with
the quick completion of the sauna
project, which was started in Decem¬
ber.
the J4,147 project, but the Senate told
Conrad that while it favored the con¬
struction of the saunas, it wanted the
director to seek funds from other
campus organizations.
Conrad was successful in late Janu¬
ary, when the Alumni Association
voted to fund the project. Construction
of the men's facility began soon after.
Under the leadership ot CSUF
graduate Alex Lobkoski, the Alumni
Association provides scholarship
assistance, supports numerous stu¬
dent activities, and makes financial
donations to such campus projects as
the new dry-heated saunas
The Viking Sauna Company and the
campus maintenance department com¬
pleted the sauna in time for use by
athletes involved with the Pacific
Coast Athletic Association wrestling
tournament on February 23.
While Conrad said he feels the in¬
stallation of the saunas has been a
"worthwhile project" and hopes that
the new facilities will enjoy consider¬
able student use, he cautioned that
both saunas must be protected from
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CSUF's John Wright Theatre
currently has "The Country Wife"
on stage and tickets are on sale.
A 17th century comedy by William
Wyncherly, the show is scheduled
to run through March 10. Perform¬
ances begin at 8:15 p.m.
Tickets are available in the
theatre box office for $3, $2, and $1
Call ext. 2216 for details between
12:30 and 4:30 daily.
Attention, not detention: Big
Brothers/Big Sisters orientation
meetings are held every Monday
evening from 7 to 10 p.m. Call
286-5737 for the location and re-
member-a child is waiting.
Muscular Dystrophy and CSUF's
SAE fraternity are sponsoring a
Dance Marathon next Saturday from
noon to midnight. Between pledge
sheets and the $2.50 per couple
charge, the aim is $2,000 and no¬
body doubts it can be done.
Open to anyone in high school and
older, the. marathon will offer
prizes for the most dollars pledged
as well as for various dance con¬
tests.
Starting now, SAE has a booth in
the free speech area where pledge
sheets and answers to all questions
are there for the taking. If that
doesn't do it, call Bill Loreru: at
226-9508.
Caduceus - a campus organiza¬
tion for pre-med, pre-c*>tornetry,
and other pre-health professions -
is having an open meeting next
Tuesday, March 6, in CU roor
at 5 p.m.
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The physical education depart¬
ment will give its master of arts
qualifying and screening examina¬
tions Wednesday, March 28, in
CW room 144, 7 to 10 p.m. For more
information, call ext. 2644.
CSUF biologist seeks alternatives to malaria pesticides
The people of Africa and the rest of
the world are much better off thanks to
Dr. Richard Haas, an icthyologist and
professor of biology at CSUF.
Haas, on sabbatical leave this school
year, recently returned from the
Eastern Africa country of Somalia and
the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian
Peninsula where he spent nearly four
months on assignment for the United
Nations World Health Organization
(UNWHO).
Haas' assignment with UNWHO
was to examine the biology of African
fresh water fish that could be useful
in the fight against malaria.
Haas explained that scientists, now
concerned with the increasing dangers
of current pesticide use, have been
looking for an alternative to malaria
control through fish that will eat
malaria-causing mosquito larvae.
-The fish I looked at have very good
potential as mosquito control agents,"
Haas said. "(They are) very tolerant
to a wide variety of conditions "
Haas said that in some areas of
Africa, malaria, which thrives in1
contaminated water, is one of the most
serious diseases and that the larvae-
eating fish will be spread to areas
where they don' t already exist.
He said that malaria is easy to con¬
trol because water is rare in those areas
and therefore the disease, like the
human population, is localized.
In Oman, where the fish have been
introduced into the narrow rain catch¬
ments and streams, there has already
been a 'significant decrease" in
malaria, according to Haas.
He said that the fish studied in
Somalia, from the genus Talapia,
loosely resemble bass and can be
eaten. Thus the larvae-eating fish serve
e than one purpose.
"(This is an) added bonus because it
adds protein to the diet of the people
and is inexpensive," Haas said.
| It also enhances reproduction in the
fish, he said, because the bigger fish
get eaten and 'that leaves room for the
younger ones' to mature. The whole
process, in turn, cuts down on the
amount of the maieria-carrying mos¬
quito larvae.
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that were previously unknown.
Uhlman, where there is very little
water and only four of five species of
fresh water fish, Haas discovered a
new specie of which he has only, one
specimen.
Haas will now spend the rest of the
semester on campus describing the
specimens and then comparing them to
known species to find similarities and
dissimilarities
He likened the process to studying
what it is about zebras and horses that
make them alike and different.
Haas has tho, distinction of being
one of only a few field biologists who
have been »o Somalia.
not on the regular tourist stops,* he
said.
It was an 'exhibition into virgin
territory,* he said.
'I was in villages where the people
hadn't seen (a white man).
'Every one was touching (me) and
pulling on (my) clothes and wondering
why (I was) so pale.
'They are very friendly people It
was a very pleasant experience,' he
After his field studies were com¬
plete, Haas stopped off in Alexandria,
Egypt, at WHO'S Eastern  Mediter¬
ranean Regional Office where he gave a
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Dr. Richard Haas
In the course of his work for WHO,
Haas also made a couple of discoveries
In Somalia, he collected at least five
of six species of particular kinds of fish
VACANCIES ON FACULTY STU¬
DENT COMMITTEES-'A number
of Faculty-Student committees' still
have vacancies for the Spring]
ster. They are Automatic Data
Processing (1); Alumni Association
(1); Campus Budget Committee (1);
Faculty Affirmative Action
Instructional Development
Registration Committee (2); Student
Services Fee Advisory Committee
(2); and Teacher Education Commit¬
tee (1 student already admitted to
the School of Education credential
program).
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