1977_02 The Daily Collegian February 1977

              Tueaday, February l, i
Financial aids draws complaints   I S!^Hf ^^jeft?.
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office employee*
work overtime CASE contended
that employees who worked
overtime   were   either   paid
He said, "Our potition It that If
before or after hours, It is not
considered overtime...unlets
that overtime It authorized by
tbe personnel office, that Ume is
considered voluntary."
He added, "In the case of the
financial aida office, I don't have
any hard evidence Indicating
that any employees were asked
to work more than their required
40 hours a week."
Heuston, financial aida
director, told The Collegian that
he had never compelled any
clerical employee to work
overtime.
take up to six units of claasea per
without paying any
cceta except for book* and health
tee.
Heutton .aid CASE
representatives claimed ln the
meeting that be had pressured
hi* employee* to drop clasees
after be allowed them to enroll.
"The bottom line to that whole
discussion is that employees are
entitled to that Ume off only at
bualnea* of trying to aaaii
people, you never say I'm tc
busy.' You have to find time fc
students    with    problems
counselor, we have to get this
work done ' I don't tell people, I
aak them I'm telling employees
'don't work overtime "
"These same people who
complained about working
overtime were taking off release
Ume to go to claaa under the
program," he added
The fee waiver progr«m,
Heuston explained, was one of
CASE'S concerns at that
meeUng. It allows CSUF em¬
ployee* to Uke off three hours a
week to attend classes, and to
Besides th* overtime question
and the fee waiver program
CASE also aired four other
complaints at that meetixsj:
Financial aid office employees
are not adequately Informed of
change* in procedure. A* *
result, inconsistent information
la given out.
Several employeea in that
office are performing duties that
are above their job claaalflcatioo
Low morale exists among
employees of that office.
—Heuston does not adequately
support   the   decisions   of   his
CASE recruiter Moreno said
the last complaint waa due to -
what she called "the Indecision of
Heutton," who, she claimed,
would tell his employees to follow
a certain procedure and when a
student approached him, reverse
his previous declaion completely
"He made hla employee* look
like fools," the aaid.
Bell pointed out, however, that
declaion reversal Is necessary in
the appeals process, a system
which be ssya la maintained for
office. "We meet every
discuss problems in the office I
Just don't (think there's) a
communication gap tn this office
I'm constantly handing out
technical and procedural memos
to my itaff io they're Informed of
any changes In procedure and
regulations either through the
meetings or my memos "
But Heuston may have been
I personally -«-
they made it up in leaflets and
distributed it It's innocuous,"
Heuston said.
A copy of the audit, which waa
performed by the office of
management analysli, waa
examined by The Collegian
Friday.
University auditor Paul
Bisonnette allowed the audit to
be read but would not allow any
direct quotaUons from It.
"I can only let you paraphrase
from it because it is an internal
document and it is not covered by
the Public Documents Act. I
can't risk setUng a  precedent
Heuston discussed the audit
with The Collegian and noted that
it showed that the financial aids
office was operating within the
limits of state and federal laws
The audit recommended 11
procedural changes in the
operation ot that office.
policies and procedures
Develop job descriptions
personnel
problems,"      but      Heuston
The financial aids director,
who has been In charge since
July, said he ordered the audit as
a management tool to detect any
problems
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"""Calendar
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 1
-3TT
m!m
,r(V$t
L
12 noon—A Bible Study
meeting will be held in Ed-
Psych room 102, to study
the Book of Hosea.
chapters 1-3.
12:30—1:30 p.m.-The
College Union Program
Committee will meet in CU
308.
1 p.m.-The Phi Mu
Alpha Sinfonia invites any
music majors or minors to
its first meeting in Music
Building 102.
7-8:30 The Intervarsity
Christian Fellowship Club
will meet in Science  161.
7—10 p.m.— The Filipino
Club will meet in CU 308.
7:30 p.m.-The Chinese
Students Club will have a
general meeting in CU 304.
New and old members arc
invited.
WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 2
perform    in   the   College
Union Lounge.
12 noon—Fresno Mayor
Ted Wills will speak in
Industrial Arts room 101 as
the first lecturer in a
spring series sponsored by
the School of Business and
Administrative    Sciences.
7-9 p.m.-Charles
Maas, M.D. deputy
director for Youth Ser¬
vices at the Fresno County
Department of Health, and
Viola Davis, CSUF
counsellor will speak at
the first  class  session  of
"Holis
lira
Science
Registration is $3j for
eight successive Wed¬
nesdays   or   $5   for    one
7:45
-The    CSUF
Advisory Board v
tn   the   Residence
THURSDAY
FEBRUARYS
Increase  of  activity  fee-
A propo5.il for a 83 charge to
non-students for tbe Cesar
jChaves appearance waa post
/poned until MEChA is consulted
MECh A is paying for IS per cent
of^TircA coat  for  tbe -expected
In other acUon, the board:
Approved a 25 cent increase for
haircut* at the CSUF barber shop
along with a 825 a month rent
increase for the barber starting
fietologist   would   ilo
men   and  $7.50   lor
—Approved a cosmetologist to
work in the barber shop on a two
month trial basis at no expense to
the College Union.
—Appointed David Pinuelas
and Bob Moger to the Sorvio .
and    Facilities    Committee:
Budget Committee, and Sharon
McBride to the Food Services
Advisory Committee
e Atell will be "Toad
Academic Policy and
Planning Committee will
meft in Thomas Ad¬
ministration       Building
financial   aid   application*   ire
Change tbe manner in which
th* office master file is main-
talned. <   -
Consider a comrjuWoriented
program.
Give tbe counselors «d.
i.unistraUve duties.
Allow tbe foundaUon to ad¬
minister all functions with
regard to scholarship gifts.
Heuston ssid most of the
recommended changes were
already being made before the
audit was underway.
Mehas con tends that unlets the
recommended change* are made
"the system of financial aids at
CSUF will continue'to be an¬
tiquated."
Heuston, however, disagreed.
' We are already In the process
of adopting most of those
procedure*. And our current
procedures could not be con¬
sidered anUquated lince we have
a state set of policies and
procedures—the same set that
every other campus in the
system has," he said.
"We might be considered
anUquated in the sense that we
don't have a computer syitem.
We would have that if there
hadn't been a alowdown in
adopting computer systems
throughout the system," he-
added.
Mehas, however, does not
believe that computer systems
and anUquated procedures is the
real issue. "Nothing Is said about
the way employeea are treated in
that office," he said.
A CSUF marketing major, who
experienced "incredible" dlf-
ficulUe* ln being admitted to
CSUF, said tbe administration is
"great at passing tbe buck and
Richard Branson, whose first
application for admission was
reportedly lost In the mall and
who subsequently applied two
more times, taid Norman
Baxter. CSUF president, was
"tbe first to pass tbe buck on my
difficulties."
Broeaon said he sent Baxter a
certified registered letter on Nov.
22.
When he (Bronaon) did not
receive a reply from Baxter after
several weeks, he asked tbe post
office to trace the letter.
"Baxter didn't even have the
courtesy to mail back that little
green card that came with the
b know that he
d it,":
said.
Several days after the post itudent affair* office.
office began tracing the letter, regret it when student,  have
which Bronaon says several of problems  but  we  can't  write
his professor* persuaded him to letter* of apology to them when
write, he received a letter from other    itudent*    may    hav*
Horace Schorllng. execuUve vice problems."
president. Bronaon,   however,   say*   be
Schorllng said in hi. letter that *>esn't w»t letter, cf araotogy.
Baxter bad  designated  bim "I wrote thet letter because I
(Schorllng) to handle Bronaon'* don't want other studenta to go
complaint,   but   said   he   was through what I went through I'd
referring Branson's letter to the like some results. I'd Uke to know
appropriate officials involved— that something haa been done to
Ken   Davles,   director   of   ad- assure that problems like mine
misaions-records and David Bell, don't happen again...
dean of student affairs. „„     _, .            .    .    ...
"I'm sick snd tired, of the
"Tbe  response   I  got  really response  I've  been  getting.   I
pined me off," Bronaon said, receive letter* that pet me on the
"Davles replied but Bell didn't. bead like a dog and »pologlxe,
To me Bell'i lack of response Is but, yet at the same Ume imply'I
just another way of stewing that hope you go away'."
tbey (administrators)  have no Bronaon ssid, however, that be
interest In ttudent problem*," be doe* not plan to just go away,
"id- Even though hi* sdmisaions
Bell objected.  "I thought it problems have been settled he
would be more appropriate if says tbe memories of his "long
Ken Davie* replied.... This Is the uphill fight" will linger
busiest time of the year for the
'fiChe Collegian
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY. FRESNO
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY J. 1877
RICHARD **ONSON IS smiling now but he wasn't .milIng five month*
ogo wb*o h* hod terloot problem* In lb* admlttlon* proc***. (Photo
by Scot! llnnetl)
'Roots' praised', criticized
by Mike Rots tan
The highly successful ABC
television adaptation of Alex
Haley's bestseller "Roots," was
the subject of a panel discussion
seminar Monday at CSUF. The
laminar wa* held before a
standing-room only crowd of
over 800 In tbe Industrial Arts
building.
While the panel and audience
were In general agreement on the
positive effect of tbe mini-eerie*,
one professor expressed
displeasure over the show.
Alroy
tbe Black Studies Department,
aaid tbe serli
I
BESSIE    JONES.   CSUF    resident   folk   orlltt.    parformad
Wednetdoy In iheColleg* Union loung*. (Photo by Scott llnnett)
CU votes non-student
$1 fee for Chavez
cent, or $500, of the $2,000 Chavez
ipeaking contract. Tbe College
Union Is psying for tbe
remaining $1,500.
Committee member Jeff
Apregan voiced concern over
MEChA's request. "I don't think
we should act like puppets with
MEChA pulling the strings," he
said.
Tbe committee alao quesUoned
tbe possible consequences of
making an exception for tbe
Chaves speech.
Gary Bongiovanni,
Programming Committee
director, said thst although the
committee had no set policy for
charging non-CSUF studenta
admission to Union lecturers,
there   wss   a   precedent   of
favorably to a sUtement which
said lhat the series should hsve
been on earlier so young children
could watch it.
Member* of tbe audience and
panel agreed that such race
reUtions programs ihould be
introduced to children In
elementary schools.
Perhaps tne loudest applause
came when Art alargoslsn,
chairman of th* journalism
department, ssid conditions
depicted in tbe Show were not
that  much   different  than  the
Robert MikeU. of the ethnic
studies department, said,
"'Roots' didn't mean a thing,
unlets we integrate some of the
culture and aome of the heritage
In the classroom."
what future effect* the s-rie*
would have on race Ideologies.
James Brouwer, s professor
who specializes In African
history, said some inaccuracies
exist in tbe authenticity ef tbe
series.
"You look at Kuata Hints (a
character in 'Roots') being
captured by whites, and shipped
to America," Brouwer said. "In
reality, they wouldn't have
happened In his time.
insult to tbe people. It'* watered
tbe original intent"
He  aaid  be  alao  «Tnrveted
disappointment that tbe series
each other. Not to tbe sbipmen
first, but to each other. Then they
were sent down t (trsding)
pipeline from tbe Interior, to tbe
coast"
Brouwer praised tbe depicted
coDdiUona in which slaves were
shown chained ln tbe ships.
is a very accurate ac-
tbat respect," Brouwer
1 waa glad that tbe
terms 'loose peck,' and
The College Union
Programming Committee
decided Tueaday to charge non-
CSUF atudenta $1 to hear Cesar
Chaves, the controversial farm,
labor leader, speak in tbe Men's
Gym on Mar. 4.
The committee voted to charge
non-students tbe
request from the MEChA club.
MEChA asked tbe committee to
offer Chaves' speech free to both
studenta and the community.
Rudy Garxa, a MEChA
spokesman, told the committee
that members of MEChA hsd
decided to "hold firmly for no
charge " And, as co-«porjaors of
tbe apt-ch. Gsrxa ssid MEChA'a
opinions should be weighed by
the committee.
MEChA is sponsoring 25 per
"They should bsve blsck
historians, not European ones,"
Thomas said. "That's where you
begin to feel tbe 'roots'."
Dean of tbe School of
Education, William Maxwell,
moderator of tbe
meeting.
He presented questions
to tne panel, who afterwards
answered   questions   from   tbe
Representatives   from   the
Senate reports new vacancies,
Nikssarian appointments due
eyi
nslism, radio-television, an¬
thropology,    blsck    studies,
psychology, and others sat on the
BU ft Reporter
Dr. David Bell, dean of itudent
affairs, urged the Associated
Student (AS) Senate Monday to
"put pressure" on AS President
David Nlkssarian to fill Ave
senate vacancies that now exist
A sixth seat, that of Llanne
Kent, senator-at-iarge, post one,
also msy be vacant, according to
tbe AS ElecUon Code.
A provision ef that code
requires AS officers to complete
at least seven units of credit each
semester while they ar: ln office.
Kent did not meet that
but
Tbe following posts are now
scant: v
for the School of
—Senator for Undeclared
Majors, vacant as of Monday's
•easts meeting.
sistent. I think you're opening
Applause broke through many
times during the seminar. Tbe
audience appeared to agree
submit to the senate Monday hla
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