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Uncertainty
ends; Senate
OKs budget
by Bob Cuddy
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Following a summer of turmoil, and some-
tiroes acrimony, the Associated Students Senate -
Wednesday decided how to spend the $300,000
they will collect in mandatory student body fee*
this year, and the $15,900 they bad left from
last year.
The four and one-half hour meeting yesterday
was the fourth senate budget session since
July 12. The budget now goes to AS President
David Price, then to CSUF President Norman
Baxter, who already has refused to approve one
senate budget this summer.
The budget Includes full or partial funding,
for marching band, theatre, The Daily Collegian,
student officers' salaries,' tutorial services,
child care, the pep squad, College Union programming, and other activities at CSUF. Until
Baxter signs and sends the budget on to the
Chancellor of the State University and Colleges
system for approval, the local groups will be
operating without funds.
During the summer, representatives of the
various budgeted areas accused the executive
officers of secrecy and "watergattsh" actions,
while the latter accused some budgeted area
representatives of harassment and "verbal and
physical abuse."
In fact, the latter charge, contained in a series
of letters to Baxter from AS Legislative Vice-
President Susan Good, College Union Vice-
President David Nlkssarian, proxy Student Senator Jim Ham, and Price, played a direct role
• in Baxter's rejection of a budget approved by
the senate July 29.
While the budget continued to change, several
people affected by it rode a financial roller
coaster; first they had jobs, then they didn't,
then they did. Editors of the literary magazine
'Backwash* found themselves at one point with
no funds, .without ever being notified by the
senate.
The hrst senate meeting was held July 12.
The senate, newly elected and meeting for the
first time, by and large approved budget recommendations made by Price, last year's president Steve Moe, Good and Gene Gibson, who
was elected AS legislative vice-president last,
spring, but resigned.
When word of the cuts leaked out to affected
groups, none of which bad been contacted, those
which were cut protested. One, the Educational
Opportunity program Summer Institute, was
almost in session, and a special senate meeting
had to be held July 19 to reinstate their more
'han $10,000.
CHAOTIC
On July 29 the senate.met again in a chaotic
session which began at 7:30 p.m. and ended at
2:54   a.m.   During   that   meeting   the senate,
listening   to   representatives of the budgeted
areas  for the first time, upped the budget by
#$ 15,000.  Much of the jump went to "special
weeks" and other areas supported by minority
students. The Dairy Collegian also got a boost.
The  amount     wiped out the immediate reserve, and w:ut heavily-into the "roll forward*
monies left over from last year. Price, Good
and Nlkssarian found it "fiscally irresponsible."
Nonetheless,  Price approved it and sent it to
Baxter, over Good and Nikssarian's objections.
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1975
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Blacks return to volatile Taft
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by Richard Peatorlch
1 don't want to be protected 24 hours a day, I
vant to walk the streets as a free man." With
.hose words, Taft Junior College football player
<elth Mitchell explained why he was back in the
strife-torn California town.
It was last May when Mitchell and the 12
other black athletes attending the tiny college were
escorted out of town by police for their own
safety. It had all started over a rumor that a white
coed had become pregnant by one of the black students, according to Taft police reports. A beer
bottle was thrown at one of the blacks while he
was in a drive-In, hut It was only a hint of what
was to follow. ***«^
Several nights later a fight broke out when several carloads of whites attacked three blacks. One
of the blacks was carrying a shotgun, which went
off when he hit an attacker with it. The black was
arrested and later released. The rest of the blacks
at Taft College wore gathered up and sent home.
Mitchell says he never knew what was happening
until the police came.
•They took us down to the station and told us
that they were going to send us home,*^ he said.
Police cars drove them the 40 miles north to
Bakersfleld. "They said they were going to have
'helicopters go with us, but'we never saw them,"
said Mitchell.
On his return to Miami, Mitchell was contacted
by school officials who told him he could either
take the grades he had in class when he left or
take a' final In those he wanted to. In the meantime, he decided to return to Taft. .
INVESTIGATIONS
'The news of this got down to Miami and was in
the papers there. I was glad to see that the people
were.getting the word on this," Mitchell said. "A
lot of people are looking Into this and there's a lot
of Investigations going on. I'm glad to see someone
i&jdoing something about the situation."
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Taft College's Keith Mitchell: -1 want to be able
to walk the streets as a free man." (Photo by
Barry Wong)
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Maybe "Your Mama Don't Dance and
Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll," but if
you like to boogie to electrifying rock or
just lay back and dig on good listening
music, then fie at the Loggins and Messina
show at the Fresno State Amphitheater
this Saturday afternoon.
The popular duo of 'Your Mama Don't
Dance* fame will perform their special
and distinctive style of*foot-stomping,
hard-driving rock and roll beginning at
4 p.m. Gates will open at 3 p.m. f
Billed as a pleasant afternoon of
•Danctn' on the Grass/ the show will be
kicked off by the San Francisco band
Pablo Cruise.
Gary Bongiovannl, College Union pro*
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gram director who put the show together,
said he expects "a real fine performance.
I'm confident the show will sell out or
come close."
"Planning for this show began last
spring," he said. The College Union
Program Committee decided they wanted
to do shows outside. Groups were kicked
around. We wanted a group of the caliber
of the Beach Boys, Loggins and Messina,
pt somebody ofUiat stature.
"After deciding on some names, you
call up their agents and bcfgin negotiating.
You have to negotiate the money, the date,
the time and everything. It took three
weeks before we got a confirmed commitment   for   Loggins   and   Messina.  They
finally agreed to $15,000. The Beach
Boys wanted $25,000."
Bongiovannl, somewhat bitter about
losing money on last spring's Tower of
Power concert at the Pete Beiden baseball field where hundreds of people
watched free by peeping through silts in
the fence, warned that 10,000 feet offence
win be erected around the amphitheater
and barricades erected at strategic locations to keep away free viewing.
Advance tickets are $4 for CSUF students and $5 for general admission. On
the day of the show they go up to $5.50.
Tickets are on sale- at the College Union
Information desk, Tower Records, Sun
Stereo and J and C House of Records-
East gate.
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