1979_03 The Daily Collegian March 1979

              The Dairy Collegian
Journalism organization takes action
Trustees' policy called 'prior restraint7, unconstitutional
By BRUCE SCOTT tion representing both private and state
Daily Collegian Managing Editor campus publications.
The California Intercollegiate Press
Restrictions on editorial content in Association (CIPA) endorsed a resolu-
student newspapers were ruled uncon- ''on   stating   that   limitations   placed
stitutional last weekend by an organiza- uP°n editorial expression  in   student
Academic Senate takes five
steps to avoid faculty layoffs
By BARBARA DETERS        "*■
Dairy Collegian Staff Reporter
Hoping to avoid layoffs, the Aca¬
demic Senate Monday approved the
five major recommendations of the
CSUF programatic review task force
with only one amendment.
After an hour-and-a-half-long
deliberation, the Senate accepted
Section I of the Programatic Review of
Undergraduate Program's report The
Executive Committee had approved the
five major recommendations of Section
I at its Feb. 26 meeting. The task force
Section I report only needed Academic
Senate approval in order to be imple¬
mented for next year.
California State Universities and
Colleges (CSUC) budget cuts and a
state-wide drop in full-time equiva¬
lence (FTE) enrollment forced the
university to form the task force. It
completed its study in five weeks.
The five major recommendations
approved were:
-That faculty members in over¬
staffed areas voluntarily agree to teach
in other departments in which they are
capable and qualified;
--That permanent faculty be encour¬
aged to voluntarily shift their areas
of competence over a period of time so
that they are capable of teaching in
other areas where the university may
need extra staffing;
—That faculty probationary and
tenure appointments be made in con¬
sistency with 'good long range plan¬
ning';
-That all overlapping of content
among courses in different depart¬
ments be eliminated now and avoided
in the future except  in  cases  which
clearly produce educational benefits,
-That   CSUF   consider    La    Raza
See Page 7
World Encounter
lends assistance
to adventurers
It's not too soon to begin planning
for summer travelling, and next Mon¬
day, March 19, World Encounters,
Inc. will be on campus to lend future
adventurers  some  ideas  and assis-
World Encounters is a non-profit
student study tour organization
operating out of Santa Monica and
they have a 29 day European tour that
begins June 24. Sue Bonnin, a long¬
standing counselor with the organiza¬
tion, will present a slide/information
session on the trip in CU room 312-
314 at 3 pm.
According to Bonnin, who has
travelled extensively throughout
Europe, the tour covers seven coun¬
tries plus a fully-paid one week cruise
of the Creek islands She says that the
tour price includes all transportation,
hotels,   two   meals   a   day,and   all
ous, buses are cool and on time, and,
she says, things are well organized!
Besides that, the tour includes four
units of college credit.
This event is sponsored by the
International Student Counselling
Office on campus.
Here's whafs
happening!
TODAY
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Wednesday, Mar. 14
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Union     program:      "Buffo     the
Clown,*    John    Wright   Theatre,
12pm
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Instructional   improvement   work¬
shop: "Self-Paced Learning,' CU
312, 2 p.m. (Questions, call James
Snider, ext. 2271.)
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Meeting: Budget Committee, SA
32,3:10pm
Or ^Ql
Natural sciences colloquium:  Dr
Arthur F. Novak (Louisiana State
University),  'Radiation  Preserva¬
tion of Foods,'S 162, 4 pm
Women's Film Festival: 'Yudie,'
and "The Quiet Revolution of Mrs
Harris.'EdP 214,8p.m.
the California State
University and Colleges (CSUC) Board
of Trustees constitute "prior restraint"
and conflict with the First Amendment
Since 1961, the Trustees have inter¬
preted a section of Title V of the Cali¬
fornia Administrative Code to mean
that campus publications may not run
unsigned editorials endorsing or oppos
ing political candidates or issues.
Title V, Section 42403 (c) (1), prohibits
funds for political purposes.
The Trustees' interpretation of Title
V did permit student publications to
run political endorsements if they were
identified as being those of the writer
and not of the publication
At their annual weekend conference,
held in Sacramento this year, CIPA
representatives voted on a resolution
proposed by Andrew Aim, former
editor of the Humboldt State University
campus newspaper, The Lumberjack,
which sought legislative redress for the
Trustees' restrictions
The CIPA representatives passed an
amended version, noting members
belief that student press freedom was
protected by the First Amendment of
the Constitution, and therefore no
legislative redress was necessary.
CIPA is made up of campus news¬
papers, headquartered at 14 of the 19
CSIC campuses, and several private
and University of California campus
publications
The resolution approved Saturday
stated:
"Whereas the Board of Trustees of
the California State University and
Colleges has interpreted Section 42403
(c) (1) of Title V of the California
Administrative Code to allow limits to
be set on editorial expression in
student newspapers, and
"Whereas this constitutes prior re¬
straint in conflict with the First Amend¬
ment of the United States Constitution,
"Therefore be it resolved that the
California Intercollegiate Press Associ¬
ation firmly believes that editorial
endorsement or opposition to political
candidates or issues by student news¬
papers does not constitute misuse of
public funds, and
"Furthermore be it resolved that the
CIPA firmly believes the First Amend-
CSUF Association: a non-profit
organization making money
If you bank a lot of money for a
period of time, you get high interest
rates and high returns; that is exactly
what the CSUF Association, Inc., does.
Students, although they probably are
not aware of it, have been reaping the
benefits.
The CSUF Association, Inc., is a non¬
profit corporation that manages the
campuses' food services, bookstore
and College Union. The Association is
also the legal and fiscal authority for
athletics at CSUF.
Although the Association is non¬
profit, that doesn't mean it doesn't
make money, says Association General
Manager Earl Bassett The Association
makes money by investing fees paid by
students and profits from its operations
in short term accounts. The money is
then returned to the University via
projects. Since the money is not used to
pay profits to its directors it is granted
a "non-profit' tax status.
The $12 Student Body Center Fee
that appears on student registration
receipts each semester is one of the
sources of capital used by the Associa¬
tion This fee is used to finance the
$2.1 million College Union, a project
the Association helped finance to the
tune of $525,000.
Bassett said that at the beginning of
the semester, students pay their fees
and the money comes in one lump sum
Operating expenses are paid out during
the semester, with the money not being
used invested in a short term certificate
Certificates of deposit are savings
accounts with the amount of money and
length of time invested specified. Short
term notes, 30-120 days, with a mini¬
mum of $10,000 invested can earn any¬
where from 8.5 percent to slightly over
Money made from the food services
and bookstore are also invested in this
manner. The bookstore is another pro¬
ject of the Association At a cost of
$925,000, the bookstore opened in
1970 with a  $500,000 loan from the
Radiation for
preservation of
foods discussed
servation of foods will be discussed
in a School of Natural Sciences
Spring Colloquium at CSUF this
Wednesday March 14
The speaker will be Dr. Arthur F.
Novak, a faculty member at Louisi¬
ana State University who has been
a professor of chemistry, biochem¬
istry, microbiology, pharmacology
and toxicology The program is
scheduled for 4 p m in room 162 of
the old Science Building and is open
to the public free of charge.
According to Novak, the overall
irradiation of foods program was
designed to solve specific problems
including cost, safety, and Food and
Drug Administration, approval.
Another purpose is to look for
experimental evidence that no un¬
acceptable changes in flavor, odor,
appearance, texture or nutritive
properties occur at the necessary
dose level. The program also is
directed toward public education in
the advantages of the process and
exploring the possibility of the tech¬
nique expanding or developing new
markets.
March 14,1*/79
The Daily Collegian
Ceasar Chavez fighting for lettuce strike battle in Huron
Huron-Huron is one of those out-
of-the-way towns that most have heard
about but never visited. It is the typi¬
cal small farm community - a main
street and just a few stores - that has
apparently   changed   very    little   for
There is little to see there and even
less to do, but last week was an excep¬
tion, because March 6, Cesar Estrada
Chavez, head of the United Farmwork¬
ers of America (UFW) led a march
The 52-year-old former field worker
arrived with more than 600 other union
members and supporters to reaffirm
their faith in the current lettuce strike
in California and Arizona. Caravans
of strikers and supporters poured into
the town to see Chavez, and gain
strength from each other to continue
Just two years ago, the UFW's
troubles seemed to be over The Team¬
sters had finally agreed to allow the
UFW to unionize field workers while
the Teamsters would have jurisdic¬
tion over shed and packing workers
On the heels of that agreement and
the signing of more than 100 contracts
with growers, the UFW finally ended
its boycott of lettuce, wine and table
grapes in February, 1978
But in January, troubles for the uni¬
on cropped up again when negotia¬
tions with growers failed to produce
new contracts to cover the workers
Chavez called a strike in the Imperial
Valley against 11 lettuce growers there.
The strikes have now spread through
out 30 farms in California and Arizona
and may spread even further.
In Huron, 200 UFW members are
striking two local companies. Sun Har¬
vest and Bruce Church Farms, Inc
But the 'number of strikes in the area
could swell when the harvests intensi¬
fy later this month and in April.
The Fretno Bee recently reported
that an average 9,000 acres of head
lettuce is grown annually in Fresno, ac¬
cording to the county agricultural com¬
missioner's office.
Ever since strike negotiations broke
down a few weeks ago, both sides have
taken their case to the public Grower
ad campaigns have been designed to
force Gov. Brown to put pressure on
Chavez to end the walkout, while the
union spokesmen have stressed that
the workers only demand decent
wages
Chavez recently called for a boycott
on Chiquita Bananas in a move to pres¬
sure United Brands, Inc .owner of Chi¬
quiU and Sun Harvest, a huge let¬
tuce grower, to yield to UFW demands
The union president has also charged
that the growers  are not bargaining
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week, however, as strikers and
gathered in front of the Hu-
Community Center, those events
ned a bit out of place
'in good faith ' Growers have denied
that charge, however, and said that the
union has faltered in recent years and
has issued unreasonable demands
Spokesmen for the growers have said
that if the UFW strike continues, or
if the union demands are met, there
will be fewer jobs in the fields, higher
grower costs and higher <
They have also charged Chavez: and
his followers with trespassing, destroy¬
ing crops and equipment and for caus¬
ing most of the violence in the fields.
One man, a UFW worker, has been
killed, more than 30 have been injured
and more than 160 have been arrested
during the strike. Chavez has blamed
the violence on the grower security
men and on 'police riots.'
To curb the violence, a judge in the
Imperial Valley has ruled that no more
than 100 strikers may enter the fields
to picket at a time. Locally, the Fresno
court has disarmed grower security
men and ordered strikers not to throw
rocks at the strike breakers in the
fields.
Growers said that Chavei wants a 40
percent increase in wages immediately.
They have proposed a seven percent
annual increase during a three-year
contract, and this, they contend, is con¬
sistent with President Carter's volun¬
tary seven percent wage increase Itmi-
The union has rejected that proposal
and said that it will accept a seven per¬
cent wage increase when the growers
limit their profits to seven percent. The
Strikers from Fresno, Huron, Kettle-
man City, Mendota, Parlier, Orange
Cove, Sanger and Selma seemed to
have come mainly to rejuvenate their
spirits, and see their leader
As the hundreds lined up for the
march, the spirits of "La Causa"
filled the air arid shouts of encourage¬
ment frequently rang out. "Boycott
Chiquita Banana* signs and red and
black UFW flags were excitedly waved
by the crowd as television crews and
photographers reported the event
Just as the orderly three-mile march
began, Chavez stepped from a car and
joined the column He tried to take a
modest posture but the TV crews and
frantic photographers made obscurity
impossible
Chavez looked fatigued but comfort¬
able among his people. The short dark
man was, as usual, dressed simply in
dark slacks and shoes, and a gray-
checked p«
chose to just watch the event from the
sidelines as the most exciting event of
the day passed by.
The column threaded its way through
the town, past rickety houses, police
check points and lush fields. The line
stretched to some 400 yards until,
nearly two hours later, the marchers
headed back into the center.
There they pressed back into an aud¬
itorium and moved towards the podium
to get a closer look at their leader
When Chavez did move forward to
speak,the applause was deafening
In a high-pitched voice, punctu¬
ated by gestures, Chavez told the
strikers in Spanish that they had to
make sacrifices to gain their "just"
demands. And he told them to be proud
they were farmworkers.
"El trabajo del campesino es el mas
importante del mundo * (The work of
the field worker is the most important
job in the world.)
"Today we earn more money than
before, but we are poorer," said Chav¬
ez in Spanish. Inflation has negated all
progress the union has made, in 15
years of struggle the farmworkers have
only gained 50 cents in real spending
power, he said
Chavez made sure they got the mes¬
sage by always returning to the central
theme: "Esta huelga es la huetga de
mas dinero.' (This is the strike for
higher wages.)
He was calm and quiet throughout
the march, but his marchers were un¬
restrained, shouting slogans and urg¬
ing others to join the line. But many
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