1987_10 The Daily Collegian October 1987

              The Doily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
Bust cast
for King's
birthday
By Tracy Correa
StaffWriter
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Thursday night, a four-member team,
each wearing protective gear and cloth¬
ing, poured two thousand plus degrees
of molten bronze into an investment
mold that will eventually become the
bust of Martin Luther King Jr.
Under the instruction of David Bottini
and Bob Barnes, and through_the work
of artist James Smith, and art student
Larry De Witt, the completed bronze
bust will be placed in the Fresno County
Courthouse square on January 18, the
national holiday celebrating King's
birthday.
The King bust is being funded by the
community, according to Barnes. "They
pay for the project and we provide them
with something like this for the
community," he said.
The Martin Luther King Jr. concept
for a bust was actually derived from
another art class last semester, said
James Smith, the original artist for the
bust.
"It started in Ernest Palomino's
community art class from a small bust,
and got bigger and bigger, and finally
life size," Smith said.
"The completed bust will stand three
feet tall, or three tunes life-size, and will
weigh approximately 250 pounds," said
instructional technician for the project
Bob Barnes.
The sculpture will have gone through
a variety of drastic stages before its
completion.
Artist James Smith collaborated with
Larry DeWitt to make a 40 pound clay
likeness of King. DeWitt then made a
plaster mold from the clay, said Barnes.
"Later, it was translated to wax and
immersed in a liquid containing sand,
plaster and water," said Barnes.
According to Barnes, the pattern is held
inside a cylinder until the liquid hardens I
around the wax pattern. The wax sculp¬
ture is now encased by the mold which
is referred to as the investment.
The investment mold is put into a kiln
for six dayst where the temperature is
slowly elevated from 250  degrees to
1,250 degrees', and then back to 250.
See BUST, page 8
Friday, October 9, 1987
Athletic
funding
up to AS
By Donna Reese
StaffWriter
After three unallocated surplus re¬
quests and five weeks on the agenda, the
CSUF Volleyball Club was granted a
recommendation of $765 by the As¬
sociated Students; Finance and Budget
Committee at Thursday's meeting.
The recommendation by the com¬
mittee was for less than half of the
amount the club asked for on its most
recent funding request form. The club
was seeking $1,635 as compared to the
$1,068 that was first presented to the
committee.
The club's first request brought up the
issue of whether or not the AS should
fund sports club insurance. The club
was asked to delete a $818 insurance re¬
quest from the form until the committee
was able to see how past committee's
funded sports club insurance.
Valerie Valverde, club adviser, was
upset the committee didn't fund the
club's full request.
She felt the committee should have at
least recommended allocating the club
$1,535 for costs that include officials,
publicity, a student assistant to the club
and uniforms. Valverde said that, as
advisor, she felt the club needed afleast
$1,535 to be able to function.
The committee based its recom¬
mendation on the figure that David
Hobbs, club president, felt the or¬
ganization needed to be able to function
as a club.
The committee will recommend, to the
senate that the club be allocated $225 for
league fees, $400 for officials, $100 for
supplies and minor equipment and $40
for publicity.
The committee will also recommend
that the senate allocate $950 to the
Chicano Health Organization to bring
minority scientists Eloy Rodriguez and
Frank Talamantez to campus.
The organization was asking the
committee for $2,000 for the two speak¬
ers and $300 for publicity. Committee
member^ felt the amount was too high.
The organization was granted what the
See FB, page 4
A document for and by white men
First Constitution had little consideration for women or blacks
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By Steve Fountain
StaffWriter
The issues of the Constitution, the
Supreme Court nomination of Robert
Berk, and the. state of the American
criminal justice' system were addressed
at the Satellite College Union last night
by Havard Law Professor Alan
Dershowitz. ^L ~
The renowned civil liberties and
defense attorney, appearing as part of
CSUF'b University Lecture Series, spoke
for over an hour before taking questions
from the near-capacity crowd.
Dershowitz's devoted the majority of
his address to a critical commentary on
the current 200th anniversary
celebration of the Constitution. He
believes our country has four, not just
one, Constitution.      ~\
"We     are     not    celebrating     The
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Constitution." said Dershowitz, "Two
hundred years ago, one of our four
Constitutions was drafted; the first of
our Constitutions and the worst of our
Constitutions. The Constitution that was
drafted 200 years ago is a document of
power, not a document of rights."
Dershowitz said the first Constitution
had little compassion for individuals. He
contended the Constitution was drafted
by white men for white men.
"Women played no role in our
Constitution." said Deshowitz, "Blacks
are three-fifths citizens. The Constitution
ran by a small, ethnically homogenous
group of Anglo-Saxon Americans... But
if that Constitution had survived^alone
for 200 years without the three
amendments that followed, I don't think
we'd be here today celebrating our 200th
birthday." * •
Dershowitz believed the value of the
first Constitution should not be
underestimated. The separation of
powers, the system of checks and
balances, the independent judiciary, and
the system of elected officials were
sound ideas, according to Dershowitz.
". . . But it (the Constitution) lacked
soul. It did lack compassion, " said
Dershowitz. "In fact, it lacked that to
such a degree that many of its framers .
refused to sign on the dotted line until,
and unless, the Bill of Rights was
enacted some five years later."
Dersho\/itz stated his belief that most
Americans hold the perception that the
Bill of Right transferred power from the
government to individuals. Dershowitz
believes the Bill of Rights, which he
terms the second Constitution, simply
moved power from the federal to this
state level in order to ensure the federal
government would not overwhelm the
states.
Until the Civil War, Dershowitz said
the Bill of Rights was a ceremonial
document "read loudly and oratorically
at Fourth of July celebrations, but rarely
invoked in courts or by courts."
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
were a peace treaty of sorts between the
North and South, assording to
Dershowitz. He feels the amendments
made up the third Constitution.
"And quite by accident," said
Dershowitz, "the Bill of Rights was
transformed by the 13th, 14th , and 15th
amendments into living restrictions on
governmental powers."
The fourth Constitution, according to
Dershowitz, came through Supreme
Court decisions handed down by tha
John Marshall court
"There is nothing in tha Constitution,"
See SPEAKER, page 5
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