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CSUF consumer group checks into leases Students for Consumers are currently working on various surveys as well as Investigating tenant-landlord agreements, said Bill Fellers, an assistant direc¬ tor of the organization. Fellers said one survey under¬ taken ls an Investigation of the CSL'F Kennel Bookstore's book buy back prices along with the buy pack policy. Besides the book survey, Fel¬ lers said the organization's regu¬ lar food survey of comparing prices at local supermarkets Is continuing. Armando Khan, or¬ ganizer of the food survey, satd Ms group ls also looking Into chain supermarkets to check for price variances Indifferent parts oi iowii and Investigating prices or low income bracket grocery :-(tilers said Students for Con- sun nrs Is supporting legislation thai would make It mandatory for Individual food Items to be priced Individually, rather than the new system of coding used by some suivrmarkets. Legislation to have all consumer goods priced individually is also supported by trie organization, Fellers said. : he organization's gas survey -.- ond of ln limbo" according to Fellers, because of pending state legislation sponsored by Sen. George Moscone. The Mos. cone proposal would outlaw dis¬ crimination by gas companies ln the selling of gas to Independent and brand dealers, Fellers said. Another member of Students for Consumers ts Investigating tenant-landlord agreements, he satd. "We U He said the organization will survey apartments In the CSUF area and will publish its report for students next fall. FeUers said the organization has also requested more money from the Student Senate. "We're experiencing growing pains, and we would like to ex¬ pand," he said. "I Just feel tt takes a lot more money to run this thing than what we've got Fellers satd anyone with Ideas for the organization can suggest them through the consumer sug¬ gestion boxes on campus. He said anyone Interested in helping the group or having a consumer complaint can come to the Stu¬ dents for Consumers Center. fe MONDAY, rvTARTJH 3^ 1978 LXMX/89 .TjffiMAN CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO 0 ;-,.■:, 10 I In CU 3i HUELGA! — The crimson flags supporters of the UFWs boycott ( rally, attended by between 8,000(i the UFW), was the culmination < United Farm Workers of America fill the air In Modesto as all Gallo products gather to hear Cesa> Chavez speak. Saturday's cording to the Modesto police uepartment) and 20,000 (according to ' a two-pronged, week-long march from Fresno and the Bay Area, world news in brief Collective bargaining and students I KILLS FOUR - our persons were killed and three allf. when a man began shooting a ti-powered rifle at a motel-trailer resort Sunday. A suspect - taken Into custody near the Oregon border. KNIED FOOD STAMPS - according lo a Senate staff study, re than 20 million needy Americans are being denied food stamp hy the restrictive policies of the Department of Agriculture. e 71 -page report by the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human •Is said only 38 per cent of those eligible were getting food stamp iKWAGE DOESN'T SMELL - the U.S. Department of Agriculture s nffered two years of research to prove U.S. sewage doesn't .11 Department officials have developed a method of combating >rs that often accompany sewage ti id States ls sending irvlng people of tftf*^ city, according to a U.S. Ii an NOW ONE-PARTY STATE - Sh; creed Iran a one-part slate Sunday a lip new political organization. The office of the Legislative Advocate for the .California State University and Colleges Student presidents Association (CSUCSPA) said today the first collective bargaining bill to be considered by the legislature has had Its original hearing date changed to Tuesday, March 11, The bill will be heard before the Senate Governmental Organi¬ zation Committee chaired by Sen¬ ator Ralph Dills (D-Gardena). The healing will begin at 2 p.m. In Room 5007 of the State Capi¬ tol Building. CSUCSPA, along With repre¬ sentatives of the University of California Student Lobby (UCSL) and the California Community Colleges Student Government As¬ sociation (CCCSGA), held a Joint press conference announcing they will be approaching the commit-- tee asking that the bill be amend¬ ed to provide for student partici¬ pation In Ihe collective bargaining Scott Plotkln, chairperson of CSUC PA stated: . ■There Is a student community of Interest which must be repre¬ sented at the bargaining table. CSUCSPA argues that this com¬ munity of Interest should be rep¬ resented by student partir.lpa- Scott went on to state the jus¬ tification for student Involvement In the collective bargaining pro- "Conslderatlon should also be given to the fact that universities exist primarily because of -their students and as a result, students have a right lo participation In decision making as .a matter of- rlght and responsibility,'he the t( foret 1. Ills ployment of teachers." > Joy Hay, legislative advocate for CSUCSPA stated: •We have formulated the at¬ tached amendments based on In¬ put from students In all three segments of public hlghereduca- tion In California. This model for student participation will be pre¬ sented to the members of the GovernmenlalOrganlzatlonCom- mlttee when the bill ts heard on March 11. •We have already begun to lobby members of the committee and have received some very fa¬ vorable responses to ouramend- •We are asking that students in the state universities and col¬ leges write to members of the GovernmentalOrganlzarlonCom- mlttee supporting the adoption. Special collections library: a CSUF time machine? By Phyllis Wild -'••; into CSUF's time machine vou can be transported back "al! of the special collections department at the Library Is umr- to assist you. The depart¬ ment is headed by Ronald Ma- A wealth of literature, art, Pos'ers, stamps, pamphlets, fiaps and records awaits you. You iame it and Mahoney will do his ' best to find It. The oldest book In the Library l! on permanent display. It Is "Vita Chrlstl* ("The Life of Chrlsi*) and was printed by monks in a Strassburg monastery Ml years ago In 1474. fl display now and until the •nd or March ls a personal col- [•ctlon of original manuscript •»ves dating from the ?th to the 16th Centuries. Many are Arable and Persian manuscripts. A comprehensive UnitedStates "•mp collection, dating from *M7 to 1956, is on permanent "l< inciudesconfederate stamps J™ »lr mall stamps (costing w *■•"■:*, ji.30 aaeiu.60) which »«'° used whenthaGraf Zeppelin £J«ed the United States," Ma- 'f*a Graf Zeppelin was dismantled by the Nazis for scrap during World War II." Mahoney Is especially proud or the International fair collection which Includes books, postcards, pamphlets, posters and some artifacts like souvenirs. He satd it covers the period from 19S1 to 1940 and Includes Items In many languages. •There were close to 100 fairs during this period,* Mahoney said. 'Many of the fairs were held tn California. No major library has a collection like this. San Francisco has the San Francisco material but no one has a general collection this as far as we know. "We have contacted 'cities wherever an international fair waa held and asked them to search for material. Some fairs are very obscure and ln some cases there ts no known material on a par¬ ticular fair ln this country." Mahoney said the central part of the collection was given to the Library by Don Larsen, profes¬ sor at Fresno City Collage, and that CSUF U c hooey si •We, have been very lucky to get material on these'fairs by contacting dealers rather than waiting until it appears In a cata¬ log,* he said. «We have been able to gat things very Inexpen¬ sively tola way. By the time yew read lt In a catalog it ls gone. I just missed a collection of 500 Items. I called as soon as I got the catalog, but lt was gone." Mahoney said with the bicen¬ tennial coming up more emphasis will be placed on this subject. He satd International fairs were held in' Moscow In the 1870s and 1880s. In 1860 when civil war was brewing In the United States, Mahoney said, the government sent two representa¬ tives and an exhibit halfway around the world toDunedtn.New One book by Gen. A. J. Plea- sonton which Is shelved ln the department, Is bound ln blue and printed tn blue Ink. The United States had a 'blue period* about 1873, Mahoney said, when It was thought blue would enhance plant life and other living things. "People were using tbe color blue to cure Illness and many had bedrooms with blue glass win¬ dows," J»a aald. Other Interesting items housed In Special Collections are: -An English translation of the •little red book* of Mao - 'Quo- tatlons from Chairman MaoTse- -A Ku Klux Wan poster giving the detail* or a Klan wedding to be bald at the Fresno Fair- in 1849 when Professor John W. Webster killed Dr. George Park- man at Harvard University. parkroan's body was never round, but Ms teeth were, ac¬ cording to Mahoney. He said It was the first case in American history In which corpus delicti was accepted from partial re¬ mains. Webster's books were sold and ware advertised as "Sale or a Murderer's Library." Ma- ' hooey said ha had found an Item tn a catalog listing a book written by Webster about the Azores. "it was a very scarce book, so we bought it," be said. It turned out to be Webster's own copy. I bought tt from a bookstore In Cambridge. He (Webstar) didn't even get a free copy." Tha Fresno City Directory of 1894 notes that total assets of the People's Savings Baflrat Tu¬ lare an I (now Broadway) wars $100,000. In that year Ambroo Brook farmed at Clark Street and McKenzie Avenue. Gentleman and ladies could swim together at the Fresno Swimming Baths on H Street near Mariposa. A back could be rented at any boor rrom Excelsior Livery and Feed' Stable, the "only brick stable ln Fresno." Meals at a "first class family hotel," Cowan ifouse at Tulare and K (now Van Ness), were to be bad for 25 cants. Also ln 1894, Dr. G. L.Matney on Kern Street advertised that he could "positively cure drunken¬ ness.* His appealing ad read, ■Have you a Mend or relative who ts suffering from the baneful effects of the liquor, opium, mor¬ phine, cocaine or tobacco habit?" Mahoney said tha staff treats the leather binding of the books when they are received and about once a year thereafter. Some ara ihoused there because of their value, tbelr fragility or because they would be bard to replace. Some are first editions. The special collections de¬ partment waa started ln the 1950s when a collection was given to the Library by the family of Roy J. Woodward, a Fresno banker. The on San Joaquin Valley and Cali¬ fornia history. ■One of the stipulations when It waa given to as waa that lt be housed separately and that It be non-circulating," Mahoney said. None ot the books in tha de¬ partment may be circulated, bat arrangements may be made to
Object Description
Title | 1975_03 The Daily Collegian March 1975 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1975 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Description
Title | March 3, 1975 Pg. 1 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1975 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | CSUF consumer group checks into leases Students for Consumers are currently working on various surveys as well as Investigating tenant-landlord agreements, said Bill Fellers, an assistant direc¬ tor of the organization. Fellers said one survey under¬ taken ls an Investigation of the CSL'F Kennel Bookstore's book buy back prices along with the buy pack policy. Besides the book survey, Fel¬ lers said the organization's regu¬ lar food survey of comparing prices at local supermarkets Is continuing. Armando Khan, or¬ ganizer of the food survey, satd Ms group ls also looking Into chain supermarkets to check for price variances Indifferent parts oi iowii and Investigating prices or low income bracket grocery :-(tilers said Students for Con- sun nrs Is supporting legislation thai would make It mandatory for Individual food Items to be priced Individually, rather than the new system of coding used by some suivrmarkets. Legislation to have all consumer goods priced individually is also supported by trie organization, Fellers said. : he organization's gas survey -.- ond of ln limbo" according to Fellers, because of pending state legislation sponsored by Sen. George Moscone. The Mos. cone proposal would outlaw dis¬ crimination by gas companies ln the selling of gas to Independent and brand dealers, Fellers said. Another member of Students for Consumers ts Investigating tenant-landlord agreements, he satd. "We U He said the organization will survey apartments In the CSUF area and will publish its report for students next fall. FeUers said the organization has also requested more money from the Student Senate. "We're experiencing growing pains, and we would like to ex¬ pand," he said. "I Just feel tt takes a lot more money to run this thing than what we've got Fellers satd anyone with Ideas for the organization can suggest them through the consumer sug¬ gestion boxes on campus. He said anyone Interested in helping the group or having a consumer complaint can come to the Stu¬ dents for Consumers Center. fe MONDAY, rvTARTJH 3^ 1978 LXMX/89 .TjffiMAN CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO 0 ;-,.■:, 10 I In CU 3i HUELGA! — The crimson flags supporters of the UFWs boycott ( rally, attended by between 8,000(i the UFW), was the culmination < United Farm Workers of America fill the air In Modesto as all Gallo products gather to hear Cesa> Chavez speak. Saturday's cording to the Modesto police uepartment) and 20,000 (according to ' a two-pronged, week-long march from Fresno and the Bay Area, world news in brief Collective bargaining and students I KILLS FOUR - our persons were killed and three allf. when a man began shooting a ti-powered rifle at a motel-trailer resort Sunday. A suspect - taken Into custody near the Oregon border. KNIED FOOD STAMPS - according lo a Senate staff study, re than 20 million needy Americans are being denied food stamp hy the restrictive policies of the Department of Agriculture. e 71 -page report by the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human •Is said only 38 per cent of those eligible were getting food stamp iKWAGE DOESN'T SMELL - the U.S. Department of Agriculture s nffered two years of research to prove U.S. sewage doesn't .11 Department officials have developed a method of combating >rs that often accompany sewage ti id States ls sending irvlng people of tftf*^ city, according to a U.S. Ii an NOW ONE-PARTY STATE - Sh; creed Iran a one-part slate Sunday a lip new political organization. The office of the Legislative Advocate for the .California State University and Colleges Student presidents Association (CSUCSPA) said today the first collective bargaining bill to be considered by the legislature has had Its original hearing date changed to Tuesday, March 11, The bill will be heard before the Senate Governmental Organi¬ zation Committee chaired by Sen¬ ator Ralph Dills (D-Gardena). The healing will begin at 2 p.m. In Room 5007 of the State Capi¬ tol Building. CSUCSPA, along With repre¬ sentatives of the University of California Student Lobby (UCSL) and the California Community Colleges Student Government As¬ sociation (CCCSGA), held a Joint press conference announcing they will be approaching the commit-- tee asking that the bill be amend¬ ed to provide for student partici¬ pation In Ihe collective bargaining Scott Plotkln, chairperson of CSUC PA stated: . ■There Is a student community of Interest which must be repre¬ sented at the bargaining table. CSUCSPA argues that this com¬ munity of Interest should be rep¬ resented by student partir.lpa- Scott went on to state the jus¬ tification for student Involvement In the collective bargaining pro- "Conslderatlon should also be given to the fact that universities exist primarily because of -their students and as a result, students have a right lo participation In decision making as .a matter of- rlght and responsibility,'he the t( foret 1. Ills ployment of teachers." > Joy Hay, legislative advocate for CSUCSPA stated: •We have formulated the at¬ tached amendments based on In¬ put from students In all three segments of public hlghereduca- tion In California. This model for student participation will be pre¬ sented to the members of the GovernmenlalOrganlzatlonCom- mlttee when the bill ts heard on March 11. •We have already begun to lobby members of the committee and have received some very fa¬ vorable responses to ouramend- •We are asking that students in the state universities and col¬ leges write to members of the GovernmentalOrganlzarlonCom- mlttee supporting the adoption. Special collections library: a CSUF time machine? By Phyllis Wild -'••; into CSUF's time machine vou can be transported back "al! of the special collections department at the Library Is umr- to assist you. The depart¬ ment is headed by Ronald Ma- A wealth of literature, art, Pos'ers, stamps, pamphlets, fiaps and records awaits you. You iame it and Mahoney will do his ' best to find It. The oldest book In the Library l! on permanent display. It Is "Vita Chrlstl* ("The Life of Chrlsi*) and was printed by monks in a Strassburg monastery Ml years ago In 1474. fl display now and until the •nd or March ls a personal col- [•ctlon of original manuscript •»ves dating from the ?th to the 16th Centuries. Many are Arable and Persian manuscripts. A comprehensive UnitedStates "•mp collection, dating from *M7 to 1956, is on permanent "l< inciudesconfederate stamps J™ »lr mall stamps (costing w *■•"■:*, ji.30 aaeiu.60) which »«'° used whenthaGraf Zeppelin £J«ed the United States," Ma- 'f*a Graf Zeppelin was dismantled by the Nazis for scrap during World War II." Mahoney Is especially proud or the International fair collection which Includes books, postcards, pamphlets, posters and some artifacts like souvenirs. He satd it covers the period from 19S1 to 1940 and Includes Items In many languages. •There were close to 100 fairs during this period,* Mahoney said. 'Many of the fairs were held tn California. No major library has a collection like this. San Francisco has the San Francisco material but no one has a general collection this as far as we know. "We have contacted 'cities wherever an international fair waa held and asked them to search for material. Some fairs are very obscure and ln some cases there ts no known material on a par¬ ticular fair ln this country." Mahoney said the central part of the collection was given to the Library by Don Larsen, profes¬ sor at Fresno City Collage, and that CSUF U c hooey si •We, have been very lucky to get material on these'fairs by contacting dealers rather than waiting until it appears In a cata¬ log,* he said. «We have been able to gat things very Inexpen¬ sively tola way. By the time yew read lt In a catalog it ls gone. I just missed a collection of 500 Items. I called as soon as I got the catalog, but lt was gone." Mahoney said with the bicen¬ tennial coming up more emphasis will be placed on this subject. He satd International fairs were held in' Moscow In the 1870s and 1880s. In 1860 when civil war was brewing In the United States, Mahoney said, the government sent two representa¬ tives and an exhibit halfway around the world toDunedtn.New One book by Gen. A. J. Plea- sonton which Is shelved ln the department, Is bound ln blue and printed tn blue Ink. The United States had a 'blue period* about 1873, Mahoney said, when It was thought blue would enhance plant life and other living things. "People were using tbe color blue to cure Illness and many had bedrooms with blue glass win¬ dows," J»a aald. Other Interesting items housed In Special Collections are: -An English translation of the •little red book* of Mao - 'Quo- tatlons from Chairman MaoTse- -A Ku Klux Wan poster giving the detail* or a Klan wedding to be bald at the Fresno Fair- in 1849 when Professor John W. Webster killed Dr. George Park- man at Harvard University. parkroan's body was never round, but Ms teeth were, ac¬ cording to Mahoney. He said It was the first case in American history In which corpus delicti was accepted from partial re¬ mains. Webster's books were sold and ware advertised as "Sale or a Murderer's Library." Ma- ' hooey said ha had found an Item tn a catalog listing a book written by Webster about the Azores. "it was a very scarce book, so we bought it," be said. It turned out to be Webster's own copy. I bought tt from a bookstore In Cambridge. He (Webstar) didn't even get a free copy." Tha Fresno City Directory of 1894 notes that total assets of the People's Savings Baflrat Tu¬ lare an I (now Broadway) wars $100,000. In that year Ambroo Brook farmed at Clark Street and McKenzie Avenue. Gentleman and ladies could swim together at the Fresno Swimming Baths on H Street near Mariposa. A back could be rented at any boor rrom Excelsior Livery and Feed' Stable, the "only brick stable ln Fresno." Meals at a "first class family hotel," Cowan ifouse at Tulare and K (now Van Ness), were to be bad for 25 cants. Also ln 1894, Dr. G. L.Matney on Kern Street advertised that he could "positively cure drunken¬ ness.* His appealing ad read, ■Have you a Mend or relative who ts suffering from the baneful effects of the liquor, opium, mor¬ phine, cocaine or tobacco habit?" Mahoney said tha staff treats the leather binding of the books when they are received and about once a year thereafter. Some ara ihoused there because of their value, tbelr fragility or because they would be bard to replace. Some are first editions. The special collections de¬ partment waa started ln the 1950s when a collection was given to the Library by the family of Roy J. Woodward, a Fresno banker. The on San Joaquin Valley and Cali¬ fornia history. ■One of the stipulations when It waa given to as waa that lt be housed separately and that It be non-circulating," Mahoney said. None ot the books in tha de¬ partment may be circulated, bat arrangements may be made to |