1978_10 The Daily Collegian October 1978

              The Daily Collegian
Complaints are noted
Chancellor responds to Senate letter
By TOM MAURER
CSUC Chancellor Glenn S Dumke
has responded to the Associated Students letter to his office regarding the
administrative practices at CSUF,
noting the concerns of the students and
the AS Senate
The letter, presented to the Senate at
its regular meeting of Oct. 3, answered
AS President Cordon Riddle' s Sept 13
letter saying in part, "Your personal
concerns, as well as the concerns of
other students about the administrative
practices at California State University
Fresno, and the Associated Students
Senate support of President Baxters
request for a review of his perform-
f the staff were on
us last August.' Dumke said,
e has also reported, in detail, the
dures used by the staff in carrying
most difficult assignment."  he
an interview with Riddle, the AS
lent  said that  members  of  the
Board   of   Trustees   were   con
d that the AS Senate was imply
ing charges regarding Carter  scon,
"I don't think the review team
anything other than what they v
sent here to do,' Riddle said "8
don't think the team made il
clear to the students here of what it
going to do '
Riddle also stated a concern
Trustees expressed about  the  car
:othem
< opies of the Senate letter ser
and several members of the m	
"Their initial reaction was that the
Senate sending carbon copies was an
attempt to exert outside pressure on
the chancellor," Riddle said.
Riddle informed The Daily Collegian
that the review team requested by the
Trustees during the meeting in Long
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SPA wants student on panel
i  CSUC
Board of Trustees meeting in Long
Beach last week, informed the Senate
that the AS letter made a substantial
impact within the chancellor' s office
'According to the chancellor's office
people,' Riddle said, 'that letter was
really heard down there '
The chancellor's letter side-stepped
the claims of the AS Senate that con
fidentiality was breached during the
last review done by the chancellor's
office regarding Baxter's stewardship
"Assistant Executive Vice Chancellor
(Herbert) Carter has told me how helpful you were in setting up a meeting
with   Fresno   students   while   he   and
By TOM MAURER
Although not taking an official position, the CSUC Student Presiderrts
Association has requested of Chan
cellor Clenn S Dumke that a student
be present on the review board of
CSUF President Norman Baxter
In a draft presented to the Associated Student Senate at its regular
meeting of Oct 3, SPA Chairperson
Steve Clazer explained the SPA s
position on   reviews   of  CSUC  presi
'Today, at California State Univer
sity. Fresno, there are significant con-
flirts between the faculty and President
Baxter, which are causing the students
there some problems The SPA does
not traditionally take sides in such bat
ties and we have not done so now,* said
Clazer, who is also the AS president at
San Diego State University
"However, we are very concerned that
the students be included in any review
board which you (Dumke) establish to
investigate this situation,' Clazer continued. 'The student government at
Fresno is attempting to handle this
problem with as much finesse as possible, looking out for the best interests
of the students "
'Without a role in the review, however, it becomes very difficult for the
student leaders to simply watch as
their educational process is disrupted
by this campus fight," Clazer said.
The SPA, representing some 310,000
students statewide, is a lobby for all
CSUC schools both in the chancellor s
office and in Sacramento, said AS President Cordon Riddle in an interview
later
'Steve s letter is simply a draft,'
Riddle said 'The actual letter has not
yet been sent to the chancellor but it is
being put together now | would say it
will basically be the sarniS the draft
they' ve given us " ^P*
Riddle stressed the fact that the SPA
has not taken an official position on the
matter although they have now expressed a concern
The AS Senate, although indicating
its position through its actions already
this year, has not taken an official stand
in the matter either It will, however,
take a clear and official position at its
next regular meeting of Oct 10, following the tabulation of its survey conducted this week
MEChA to organize at retreat tomorrow
By MARGUERITE LUMUEY
'Unity Retreat for a Plan of Action"
will be the theme of the CSUF MEChA
organizational retreat to be held tomorrow at Kearney Park
Registration for the retreat, which is
free and open to everyone, will begin at
9 a m in section four of the park. A
general   assembly   will   be   held   at
10 am  J
--Basically, the general assembly will
give a history of MEChA and how it
evolved," Bobby Gatvan, CSUF
MEChA member explained
The general assembly will feature
a speaker either from the CSUF
MFChA Board or La Raza Studies, according to Calvan
Following the general assembly will
be food, entertainment and a second
speaker from 11 am. to 1 p.m
'It's going to be a social form of a
retreat.' Calvan said
Teatro (a theatre group) will perform
and MEChA is hoping to get a marimba
band to play There will also be a "jam
singing session," according to Calvan
After lunch, from 1 to 3, three workshops will be offered MEChA on cam
pus, MEChA in the community, and
the structure of MEChA
There are a lot of people who don t
know what MEChA is, or what the
opportunities available through the
organization are, Prisdlla Contreras
CSUF MEChA member said  We want
to  bring  that  kind
them, she explained.
'We're inviting a lot of other
Chicano student organizations from
CSUF and City College to the retreat,'
Calvan said 'We want to consolidate
all of MEChA' s activities.*
"We've also invited community
organizations,' Contreras added.
A second general assembly to be
held from 3 to 5 will close the days
activities. Again, there will be a guest
speaker (The guest speakers have not
yet been determined.)
The main purpose of the second general assembly will be to incorporate two
new committees into MEChA s structure: a media committee and a special
activities committee
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A media committee would function
as an outreach to the community It
would publish brochures explaining
MECha and its activites, and it would
get news releases out to local papers
Sponsoring dances, shows and other
community oriented programs would
be the job of a special activities committee, according to Contreras We
want to give MEChA visibility in the
community, she said.
A special activities committee could
alleviate the problems of the fund
raising committee by making everyone
more aware of and wilting to sponsor
MEChA. Calvan feels
Calvan is hoping not only to organize
a media committee and a special activities commi-tee tomorrow, but all of
MEChA's existing committees as well.
We want to involve all of the students who attend the retreat some area
or committee of MEChA, Calvan said.
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effective organization, but it needs
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Fun and frolic at Blackbeard's
There's a new business i
built around fun and frolic on a lot of
good green grass Blackbeard's,
opened since the middle of December,
calls itself "a fun place to come,' and
from the looks of things, that's no line.
Located at 4055 N. Chestnut (about
two miles southeast of CSUF], Black-
beard's boasts three major attractions;
three, 18-hoJe miniature golf courses,
and unbeatable game room, and water
slides   that   slither   down   a   30-foot
Text By
CAROLYN VAN SCHAIK
According to She-rill Kasparian,
the secretary at Blackbeard's, the golf
courses are "done cleverly" in different
themes-a Pirate theme, a Fantasy
theme, and a Western theme Each
course is designed with its own miniature buildings, repeating soundtracks,
and lots of water running in and around
the course obstacles. Prices are $1.50
before 6 p.m., $2 after that, and *1 for
With its entrance looking like a
wrecked ship, the game room opens to
a multi-leveled, red-carpeted extravaganza. Over 100 electronic games grace
this room, offering everything from
pinball to starwars to airhockey, plus
all the newest irrventions since those.
There is also a small snack bar to supplement game-shot energy.
Built upon a 30-foot, fully landscaped
i water slides that will
take any bathing suit-dad adventurer
down its S-curves. Three inches of
water under a mat of fiber glass couch
the ride, which ends with an inevitable
splash in a three-foot deep pool. J2.25
an hour allows you as many times down
as you can match climbing upl (That Is
the Fall price, by the way.)
Blackbeard's opens at 8 in the morning, with the golf courses available
then. The water slides open at 11.
Closing time seems pretty much up
to the people-'whenever we can shoo
everyone out,' is how Mr. Terry
Taylor, PR. man for the place, puts it.
Sometimes that means 10:30 p.m., or
on Weekends, even 2:30 In ths morning.
This is the first of many future
"Family Recreational Centers* for
WC Investments, (operators of Blackbeard's). Besides the 'whole-family'
fun, they also provide a Fund Raising
Program which allows non-profit dubs
and organizations to use the golf and
water slide' facilities for fund raising pkrsfrvc R.
events Blackbeard's will donate $1 rn-_-U_ Dy
for each ticket sold for golf or the water
slide.
Blackbeard's is also in the process of MELISSA BARO
putting in a batting cage and another
game room, and plan to have things
done before Christmas.
CSUF students form production company
BY JUDY HOUSt
i ike any television producer break-
,ng into the business, radio-television
^indent Wiley Reeves is excited
Although his TV production won't
■nake him a rich man, Reeves does feel
'he production company he and six
.rher R-TV students have formed will
r-.-r.efit them in their broadcast careers
._■ Laub, Al Malone, Tom
Thomas   Taggert,   and   Jim
veraera. in addition to Reeves.
Ihe production company which was
turmed to satisfy the requirements of
an advanced radio-television class, will
worry about, he and the other
n fact, footing S TOO of
produce a 30 minute musical-variety
show highlighting campus talent
The show wiU be completed Nov. 22
and will probably lie available for cam-      Company  have i
pus viewing. sticks*
Reeves  hopes  to have  the  show rXm
broadcast on channel 18 or perhaps      his a —,  _, __ .
even channel 30 at a later date. The      misceUaneous expenses such as ward-
show will be filmed In black and white      robe and make-up
before a live audience
*l know we can do it,* said Reev
adding that he hopes the show *
serve as an 'example of the caliber of
professionalism in the department.*
Reeves said the production company
is now studying network variety shows
such as 'Dick Clark's Live Wednesday* to determine what makes them
popular in tha public' s eye.
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