1979_03 The Daily Collegian March 1979

              Wi March 7.1979
Task force i^cwmendations approved"
Faculty asked to broaden TSA's to reduce budget 1
A draft proposal which, among four
other major recommendations, sug¬
gests that instructors in overstaffed
areas should volunteer to teach basic
core classes outside of their depart¬
ments was approved during Monday's
meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Academic Senate
In an attempt to reduce spending at
CSUF, the Programatic Review of
Undergraduate Programs-a campus
task force to review CSUF program-
mg-saw the "borrowing" and "lend¬
ing" of faculty as a way of avoiding
layoffs, while still maintaining the
current level of education for CSUF
students.
The task force submitted a seven
page "brief" document. The draft from
the six member task force reflects the
accummulation of a five week study
constituting about five drafts and 20
meetings,  according to  Lester  Roth,
chairman of the group.
Five major recommendations were
approved by the Executive Committee
and are now scheduled to go before the
Academic Senate at their next meeting
-that faculty members in overstaffed
areas voluntarily agree to teach in other
departments in which they are capable
and qualified;
-that permanent faculty be encouraged
to voluntarily shift their areas of com¬
petence 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 consistency
with 'good long range planning;*
-that all overlapping of content among
courses in different departments be
eliminated now and avoided in the
future except in cases which clearly
produce educational benefits;
-that CSUF add La Raza studies,
ethnic studies and women's studies to
the list of minimum essential programs
which the Board of Trustees adopted
for the entire CSUC system in 1963
"The borrowing and lending of facul¬
ty might tie the university together as
said Freeman Wright.
Here's whafs happening!
-Amerasia Week: film, Bruce Lee
in "Return of the Dragon," CU
Lounge, 7 30 p.m.
Women's Film Festival: "Nana,
Mom and Me," old Science, room
221,8pm
Because the new proposal did not
use the word "volunteer," executive
committee member Don Leet was con¬
cerned that some faculty would not
understand that the "borrowing" and
"lending' of faculty was voluntary
'It's a two way street," said David
Quadra, member of the task force 'A
faculty member has to be willing (to
teach in another department) and so
does the department."
California State Universities and Col¬
leges (CSUC) budget cuts and a state¬
wide drop in full-time equivalence
(FTE) enrollment forced the university
to form the task force.
Besides assessing the impact that
budget reductions will have at CSUF,
the committee will also reevaluate
course offerings in order to find ways
of reducing the budget.
In order to cut overlapping or dupli¬
cation of content among courses, the
task force recommended that:
1.) Each school or division of the uni¬
versity identify at least two basic
courses for which faculty from other
areas could retrain in order to be pre¬
pared to teach in those areas;
2.) That training programs for each
of the identified courses be established
and that faculty who are to participate
in the training programs receive
assigned time;
3 ) That faculty are encouraged to
participate in the training programs
with the understanding that it will in
no way affect their Teaching Service
Areas, and will enhance their profes¬
sional preparation and university ser¬
vice in terms of tenure, retention
"•"""•Jon and general merit.
Executive    Committee    also
WASHINCTON-HEW Secre¬
tary Joseph Califano told Congress
last month the student loan default
rate was alarmingly high and the
biggest offenders were small col¬
leges and trade schools. Now he
has backed up his testimony with a
thick stack of documents.
The papers from the Office of
Education show that nationwide,
the 841,181 students from 3,251
schools enrolled in the National
Direct Student Loan program have
defaulted on J702.5 million of
loans-a national default rate of
17.3percent.
- The NDSL program is admini¬
stered by colleges and universities,
but 90 percent of each loan is paid
in federal tax dollars.
PASADENA-Leaving Jupiter
and its inner moons behind, Voy¬
ager 1 radioed back the first close-
up pictures of the satellite Callisto
yesterday, showing a battered,
apparently ancient crust unlike
anything seen before.
The photos of Callisto, the last of
Jupiter's four biggest satellites,
added to the mystery as to why the
moon Canymede and now Callisto
show the impact scars of earlier
times while the bright orange
moon lo does not.
Callisto was the last world for
the spacecraft's electronic eyes
until it reaches the ringed planet
Saturn in November next year. It
will examine six satellites there.
WASHINCTON-President Car¬
ter, warning that Americans are
fed up with skyrocketing medical
bills, yesterday sent to Congress
the centerpiece of his anti-inflation
program, a bid to control hospital
Carter ringed by lawmakers
who will push the controversial
legislation, said it 'will be a diffi-
cult fight* in the House and
Senate.
'The patience of the American
people is wearing thin, and rightly
so,'thepresident said. *l will lead
the fight on behalf of the American
The bill, which establishes a
voluntary 9.7 percent ceiling on the
rate of annual hospital cost in-
252* ha5^bitterly attacked
by the hospital industry as unwork-
BANCKOK, Thailand-Vietnam
agreed yesterday to hold peace
talks with China If Peking carries
out its promised withdrawal of
troops immediately, totally and
without condiuons. But Hanoi said
China still was  building up its
approved seven recommendations
addressing policy issues which the task
force considered important and asked
that they be used as a basis for future
university policies The recomrnenda-
See Page 7
Student election
petitions available
Students filing for candidacy in
the April 3, 4, and 5 Associated Stu¬
dents (AS) election started petitioning
Monday to place their names on the
spring ballot.
Petitions are available in the Dean of
Student Affairs office (J Ad 297) and
must be turned in by Friday for valid¬
ation by the AS Election Committee.
Other students filing for candidacy
and the positions they hope to gain are:
David Ditora, AS President; Jeffrey
B Watson, College Union (CU) Vice
President; Janice Peterson, Senator at
Large (Post 1); Alan Kasjsarian, Sen¬
ator at Large (Post 2); Patricia Oliveira
and Linda Levy, Senator at Large (Post
3), Susan Stoffels, Senator at Large
(Post 4); and Ronald Ramiriz, CU Post
2.
Filing to serve as Senators from the
eleven CSUF -Schools' are: Patricia
Oliveira, School of Craduate Studies;
Kristen Eyssell, School of Natural
Sciences; Naomi Coyle, Division of
Health Professions; Linda Ayer and
Mark Scott, School of Professional
Studies; Jerry Hinkle, School of Soc¬
ial Sciences, WD Jr., School of Busi¬
ness; and Tilford Denver, School of
Social Work.
Petitions for the following posts were
not filed Monday; CU Post 1, and the
Schools of Agriculture and Home Eco¬
nomics, Engineering, Humanities, and
Undeclared Majors.
A Vietnamese foreign ministry
statement broadcast by Radio
Hanoi announced Hanoi's condi¬
tional agreement to negotiations
But it warned that if the Chinese
do not pull out, -Vietnam will
mobilize the whole country to
attack.' • r
The same Vietnamese radio
broadcast monitored in Bangkok
charged in a military communique
that China was building up its
invasion force-a buildup also
reported by Western analysts.
The Hanoi statement on peace
talks implied-but did not specifi¬
cally state-that Vietnamese troops
would refrain from attacking the
Chinese as they withdraw from
It was the first official Viet¬
namese reaction to China's
announcement Monday that it had
begun a troop withdrawal from
Vietnam.
TlwfJailyCoBegian
Pinto program gives ex-cons a chance
In Spanish, 'pinto' means 'painted*
or 'marked.* At CSUF, Pinto is the
name of an Educational Opportunity
program (EOP) for convicts who wish
to rid themselves of the mark society
has placed on them.
It's a chance to give convicts access
to college, according to program co¬
ordinator Tony J. Carduque, who says
that prior to the Educational Opportu¬
nity Program which started ten'years
ago, university special admissions was
of no help to low income and minority
'Ten years ago, Special Admissions
was for the sons and daughters of
faculty, special students that didn't
have the grades but who knew some¬
body,* he says. 'Also for illiterate
atheletes.*
The Pinto Program, which started in
1972, seeks to change that, Carduque
says. Of the 2SO students admitted
yearly through the Educational Oppor¬
tunities Program, 15 of these are con¬
victs 'burned out* on going to jail and
are seeking a college education.
'But we don't necessarily fill all of
those 15 slots every year,* Carduque
says. 'We make it real tough to get
into the program.*
Would-be students must first apply
to the EOP office, which isn't so easy
with 'just a pen and paper and no free¬
dom to move around,' Carduque says.
Applications are then evaluated by a
screening committee in the admissions
office. Preliminary decisions on who
shall be allowed to enter CSUF are
made mostly on the basis of the auto¬
biographical statement that the convict
The committee's recommendations
are then reviewed by EOP's director,
Manuel Perez, who may question the
preliminary decision to admit a specific
Perez's decision then goes to the
Admissions Office, which has the final
word on all students entering CSUF.
They also can hold up a person' s effort
to enter CSUF.
Many don't make it. 'But we don't
dose the door to anybody completely,*
Carduque says. "We dose one door
and open another. It may not be right
for them to come here, but we let them
know that there are other educational
opportunities.*
For instance, many community col¬
leges have a Pinto Program where ex-
convicts can prepare for college (such
as Fresno City College), Carduque
says.
At CSUF, ex-convicts are allowed to
attend as part time or full time stu¬
dents, sometimes with the benefit of
financial aid provided by the EOP
office. They enjoy the s. "
must fulfill the s
ments as other Students.
These ex-offenders may be paroled
or in some cases are still on probation
•This one guy was suspected of sell¬
ing drugs, went to jail, convinced the
courts that he was Innocent. Just that
experience qualified him for our pro¬
gram," Carduque says.
Helping Individual* is only half of
what the Pinto Program does, Cardu¬
que says. The other half Is a community
how to avoid robbery, burglary, how to       setting   up   educational   opportunity
be sate in general,'Carduque says. information tables in jails, lecturing
And talk they do; counselors for the       Kiwanas, Elks and the like, and con-
Pinto Program have done over  100       ducting legal workshops for juvenile
See Pag* 7
outreach   and    	
wherein Pinto counselors,vi«« pm w
give lectures to 'anybody interested
in the problems of the criminal justice
'Some of the guys on our program
have done up to 20 years. They're
'"" J - 'ilk about drug addiction.
Newspaper editors to speak
James Bellows, editor of the Lea
Angetea Herald-Examiner, and Phil
Rizenberg, assistant managing
editor of the New York Dally News,
will be featured speakers at the San
Joaquin Valley Spring Professional
Journalists Conference to be held at
CSUF, Friday, March 23.
Rizenberg will speak at the after¬
noon session at 3 p.m. in room 312
of the College Union. Bellows will
speak at the evening program which
begins with dinner at 6 JO at Par-
dini 's Restaurant In Fresno
graphics.' The Daily New* has the
largest dairy circulation of any news¬
paper in the U.S.
Bellows was formerly editor of rhe
New York Herald Tribune and the
Washington Star. He is considered
to be one of the most innovative
editors In the business and will dis¬
cuss his Ideas on directions that
newspapers must take if they are to
survive and flourish.
The deadline for conference reser¬
vations is Monday, March 19. For
more Information, contact the CSUF
Department of Journalism at
ext. 2087
ranmrttyamCamrdanaterlat^ j.Cariiataii
Different views on aging discussed
A discussion of what many people rhe old Science Building, and is
think about the lives of older adults in to the public free of charge
contrast with what actually occurs wirl Kimble said he will discuss
be    presented    tomunow    evening from a Harris poll which cor*
(March 8) at the forum on aging being the opinions of young people
-Myths and Realities of Aging.* the
program begins at 7:30 In room 121 of
Kimble was the first full-time per¬
son hired in Fresno to work with older
adults and has spent the past 12 years
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the field. He has been active as a
Two older adults will participate in        local r
the   discussion   by   relating   their        federal
is active members of the
f. Also, the film *We Have ^^^^^^^^^.^^^^
Come of Age,* which disputes the        on aging, contact the CSUF School Of
view of many that older adults are        Natural Sciences at 487-1136.