1975_10 The Daily Collegian October 1975

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8-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Thursday, October 2, 1975
Students have a friend in Sacramento
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by Bruce Scheidt
Most students do not realize it,
but they have a full-time lobbyist
- with a 925,000 budget - tn
Sacramento seeking to Influence
the politicians In the students'
behalf.
That person la the legislative
advocate, who was bandptcked by
the California State University
and Colleges Student Presidents'
Association, said CSUF Associated Students President David
Price.
The legislative advocate tries
to get bills passed In the state
legislature, sits in on committer
meetings, and keeps a sharp eye
on the Governor In matters of
vital concern to students, according to Price.
The legislative advocate's
Image has grown to such an extent
tn the last few years that he can
exert a great deal of Influence on
the political powers in the state
capital, Price satd.
"He talks personally with the
Governor," Price sala. "Our
(legislative advocate's) prestige
has grown tremendously. Many
groups now come to us to get a
bill passed, or to kill a bill."
The bills that the legislative
advocate attempts to get Introduced In the legislature are actually written by the 17-member
CSUCSPA, which ls composed of
the 17 student body presidents
from the CSUC campuses.
According to Price, the best
and only means available to a
lobbyist is that of friendly persuasion.
•The legislative advocate sits
down with the legislators and
talks to them or their legislative
aides," price noted. "That's
about all he can do. He points
out to them what a certain piece
of legislation will do to the (CSUC)
system and what It will cost.
'Some pieces of legislation do
not cost much. If they cost, he
has to legitimize the costs to
them (legislators) pointing out
the benefits."
Only one bill of nine sponsored
by the CSUCSPA this year has
been signed Into law by Governor
' Brown. Tbe act, AB 2182, introduced by Assemblyman Alan
Sleroty, D-Los Angeles, permits
non-resident students who are
citizens of a foreign country to
pay tuition fees In three Installments Instead of one, which had
been the case prior to passage of
the bill.
Price satd a CSUCSPA-sponsored child day care bill Is now
on Brown's desk awaiting his signature. The bill, AB 229, sponsored by Assemblyman John Vas-
concellos, D-San Jose, would
appropriate $200,000 for the child
day care centers-of the CSUC
campuses.
The CSUCSPA initially requested $3 million for the day
care centers, Price satd, but they
had to scale down the request
when Brown said he would only
approve $200,000. He said Brown
is expected to sign the day care
bill  as  a result of the reduced
v request. Price said he wrote a
letter to Brown personally endorsing the bill.
Tbe legislative.advocate also
rates the voting records of legislators on bills considered by the
CSUCSPA to be vitally Important
to students. Some local legislators tabulated, and the percentages of their "yes" votes dri
matters considered favorable to
the interests of students Include:
Assemblyman Ken Maddy, It-
Fresno—99 per cent;      -
Senator George Zenovich, D-
Fresno—94 per cent;
Assemblyman Ernest Mobley,
R-Fresno— 81 per cent;
Assemblyman Gordon Duffy,
R-Hanford—74 per cent;
Senator Howard Way, R-
Tulare—69 per cent.
The legislative advocate this
year ts Scott Plotkin, a graduate
and past student body president
of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Plotkin works 50 to 60 hours a
week and receives $600 a month,
Pried said. He Is paid from the
' executive budgets from the 17
state college and university campuses.
Price satd students in the state
are assessed 10 cents a semester
to run the legislative advocate's
office in Sacramento. Thts comes
to approximately $25,000, based
on an estimated 250,000 students
In the CSUC system, Price noted.
Price said salaries for a secretary and two Interna are also paid
out of the $25,000.   .
Sauer in Romania: Fuibright
Hayden says US obligated
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people?"
Hayden feels the United States
still has an obligation In Indochina. "We should start to help
In a human way with reconstruction, but more than that," he
added, *we have to have some
human contact wtth those countries*
Hayden, during a question and
answer period, called lor the end
of theCentrallntelligence Agency
(CIA). He said It should either
be reformed or dissolved.
"The people who car* change
the CIA have left It," he said,
"and those who are left have been
condltloni'il In their work.
•I don't think hlg brother can
be reformed, I think we need to
get rid of the CIA," he said.
Hayden has no qualms about
winning the election *I know
we'll bring changes to the system (whether Ire wins or loses),"
he said of hts campaign, "but my
goal is to win. It's conceivable."
•SI, se puede," he told his
listeners.
•It can he ilone," he satd again.
Dr. Keith Sauer, currently
teaching English and linguistics -
at the Bahes-Bolyal University
in Clug, Romania, has received
a Fuibright Scholarship for the
1975-76 academic year.
A member of the CSUF faculty
since 1971, Dr. Sauer received
his bachelor's and master's degrees   from   the   University  of
California, Berkeley and hts
Ph.D. from tbe University of
Washington.
Dr. Sauer also received a Fuibright grant In 1968 and visited
Romania.
He will return to his full-
teaching position as an associate
professor of foreign languages
at CSUF at the end of the year.
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TOM HAYDEN
Americans: standoffish?
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Knudsen said the center's major goal Is to help students reach
their educational objective. He
also wants to develop closer 'liaison' with the academic advising
services and a closer working
relationship with the advisers, he
said.
I'm not 100 per cent pleased
with what we're doing. We really
want to Improve our service."
Knudsen said.
As far as helping the students
financially, there Is a special
provision In Title V ofthe Education Code which provides a waiver
of the non-resident fee for 10 per
cent of the foreign students,
Knudsen said. For this to work,
however, the legislature has to
provide money for foreign students. So far they have not.
Eligibility for this money Is based
on "scholarship and need," he
said.
LOWER TUITION
Foreign students want lower
tuition. But *the tuition Issue is
dead unless there Is a swelling
of support on the campus," Knudsen said.
Foreign students have been
trying to get lower tuition for
many years. About five years ago
a suit was filed against the state
Which called for lower tuition for
foreign students.
•That one the students almost
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won," Knudsen satd, liut he added
there are "still some wounds ire-
cause of the suit." It created a
lot of "bad feelings" In theChan-
cellor's Office, he said. For that
reason he feels the suit hurt the
cause.
Since that time there have been
hills sent before the state legislature to make paying for schooling more convenient or less expensive.
INSTALLMENTS
A bill was passed last year
which allows foreign students to
pay tuition In three Installments.
This Is a first step, Knudsen
feels.
A resolution allowing foreign
students to pay regular tuition
after one year, as out of state
students do, was approved last
year by the Student Senate and
the student presidents' association. "I support that approach
of students," Knudsen said, but
the bill never got to the legislature.
Tuition costs a foreign student
about $760 per semester.
1 think foreign students are
feeling the pinch. We don't get
any extra privileges for paying
so much," said Gulafshan "Mini*
Khalll, a student from Pakistan.
Her total expenses are about
12,000 rupees for each semester.
Ten rupees make a dollar. She
said a rupee will buy as much
in Pakistan as a dollar will in
America. It's like paying$12,000,
she said.
All this money has to come
from her parents or someone else
back home because It's hard to
get a job here, she said.
"We cant work off campus,"
she said. If we do we can bede-
portod."
With all the expense why did
she decide to come here?
'A tot of myths back home
make people think It (the US)
Is the place to come," she said.
•What I learned here I would
never have learned there" she
satd about her education In the
US. "Schools are more progressive. We're still learning the old
stuff back home."
There will be no problem getting a Job when she gets back
home she said, though a lot of
students from Pakistan think
they're better off here.
However, she said, "I don't
think most foreign students can
take your kind of life (In the
U.S.)."
Mehbob Alavl, her fiance, said
It ls the pace of life In America
which ls hard to adjust to. 'The
rat race,* he said.
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Study of Soviet papers
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1975
'Seamy side' stressed
by D. C. Mount
The treatment of America In Russian newspapers
.nid periodicals is being studied by a Russian-
reading political science professor at CSUF.
Dr. Alfred Evans won an $8,500 grant from the
United States Information Agency this summer
io make the study. He ls half-way through the
project, and made some observations Tuesday on
now America  Is covered by Soviet publications.
"There ls still a tendency for the Soviet daily
newspapers to play up most of the seamy side of
American society, certainly unemployment, inflation and crime.* he said, adding that the Soviet
press fosters the Impression among the Russian
iwople that these problems are typical of American
society.
The Soviet press places great emphasis on
letente, he said. "The Soviet publications on all
levels depict a massive constellation of forces
within American society hostile to the Soviet Union
and opposed to detente.'
They assume we devote more attention to them
than we really do, and they project a lot of the
features of their system on our own, "which, of
rourse, Is the same mistake' we make about
them," he said. «.
STUDIES THREE PAPERS
Lvans ls studying three Soviet newspapers —
Pravda, Isvestta, and Red Star - and six periodicals. Two distinct periods, from September 1970
through August 1971, and from September 1974
through August 1975, are being studied "to see If
:here Is any change from the first period to the
second. I'm Interested In changes particularly be-
rause of the development of detente from the time
if the Moscow summit meeting tn 1972 between
Mxon and Brezhnev," he said.
To study these periods, Evans collected materials
•ins summer at the University of Wisconsin,
■v.isTiington, D.C. and the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
"The early period was characterized hy the
itreat  suspicion  of the  Nixon  Administration,  a
skepticism and distrust towards It, and a belief
In the Internal decay of American society as evidenced by protests, riots, crime, the crisis of
values and the loss of faith In the American Image.
They interpreted that as a decay in advanced
capitalism,* he said.
■Fond hopes of an economic and political split
between the U.S. and Western Europe" were expressed in newspapers from the early period, he
said, as were "obsessive fears of an alliance
between the U.S. and China, which Is probably
the single most dominant influence on Soviet-
American relations."    ■ ,
READS RUSSIAN
Evans, 3G, took his Bachelor and Masters degrees from (he University or Texas and a Ph.D. In
political science at the University^! Wisconsin,
where he' specialized In Russian politics and
learned to read Russian. He came to CSUF In the
fall of 1971. "•
"1 would say that the Soviet press and periodicals
do pay a substantial amount of attention to the U.S.
They devote a lot more space to us than we do to
them," he sa(d.
"A well-educated Soviet reader can make himself
familiar with many of the details of American
political life.
"The point Is, the United Slates Information
Agepcy has never before done any systematic research as to what kind of image the Soviet
citizen gets of Americans from their own government," he added.
I si A HACKS STUDIES
Evans negotiated with the research division of
the USIA for the grant to do the study. The agency
disseminates Information about the U.S. to foreign
countries.
•In research so far I'm still looking at the
1070-71 materials," he said. "I'm scheduled to
complete the research and turn In the report In
January 1976."
He said the report will be available to the general
public next summer.
SILVKH KM-A-n
XATIVt:   KASTKWX U .* .
CSUF trees begin to sprout
a different kind of foliage
Trees at CSUF, which have always boasted branches and
leaves, have begun to sprout a new sort of "foliage:" metal
Identification tags.
Although not an act of nature, the I.D. tags have had an
evolutionary period.
According to George Flcken worth, supervisor of the grounds,
the Idea of identifying the trees was proposed "quite a while
back."
This year, the Idea became a reality after a stencil maetdne
for labeling arrived.
The tag on the tree includes the scientific name, the common
name, and the origin of the tree;
So   far,  only 200 of the trees have been tagged, leaving
alxxit  200  more  to tag. "Where there are lines of the same
kinds of trees we will be tagging only about every tenth one," "
Flckenworth said.
Flckenworth also said there are about 4,000 trees on campus,
with 150-C0 different varieties.
Many of the trees were transplanted from the old Fresno
Slate campus, he added.
"We are working with the Biology and Horticulture departments to try and get more of a variety of trees since the
classes use the trees for learning," Flckenworth said.
by Joe Ipsaro
A steering'committee ha.sla.-en
appointed by CSUF president
Norman Baxter to raise $4 million for the proposed 30,000 seat
stadium. It was announced yesterday.
The committee was appointed
after a draft Environmental Impact Report, released Thursday,*4
showed that the stadium will not
be detrimental to the area It
will be built In.
Hearings must be held before
a final EIR report can be issued.
Hearings will be held after 30
days, according to Baxter.
The stadium, to be built on a
60-acre parcel or land between
Barstow and San Jose avenues,
Is expected to cost $5.5 million.
However, if that amount cannot
be raised, a 20,000 seat stadium
will be built at a cost of $3.9
million, Baxter satd at a news
conference Thursday.
Asked how he expected'to raise
the money, Baxter said that $1.1
million has already been raised
from the sale of Ratcliffe stadium, and that another $4 million
would come from the fund raising
campaign. Funds' wlll.be raised
through donations and the sale or
season tickets through a seat-
option plan.
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^^^J08^.^*":}   ".  En9LSh  m!i?r*   f0U^   «>.»• «»• "*«< tor a Aral class
n^L ™.\"*' m     "* "  Athletic   facility," said Baxter.
The EIR report singled out inade-
Funds sought for stadium
quactes tn the now used Ratcliffe
Stadium.
•The stadium is 5.7 miles from
campus, which prohibits any continuous use by the physical education program. Parking and rest
room facilities are extremely
limited, seating Is Inadequate,
concession facilities, locker
rooms, and the press box are
outdated  and substandard . . ."
In return, tbe report said the
new stadiurr would:
—Meet the. needs or the CSUF
physical education program.
—Accommodate large gatherings for commencements, rallies,
lectures, and concerts lor existing and projected enrollment increases.
-Provide sufficient parking,
convenient rest rooms, comfortable seating, adequate concession space, a suitable press box,
and unhampered entry and exit.
Baxter said be hopes to have
the stadium completed In threw .
years.
Dorm wing votes to secede
Randy Dotta)
-Political controversy in student government has now extended to the CSUF dormitory
area.
Students or first wing west tn
Graves Hall have voted to secede
from the regular hall government following an election controversy.
According to secessionist leaders the wing voted itself out or
regular hall government because
Darrell Fonseca, one or the wing
residents, was, removed from the
office of president by a vote of
the hall council.
Fonseca said he was voted into
the position when he ran unopposed as a write-In candidate.
The council first confirmed his.
right   to   the  office,  but later
voted him out because the Hall
constitution does not address Itself to write-in candidates, according to Fonseca.
Residents or first wing west
claim Fonesca should remain
in office because there has been
"an established tradition of allowing write-In candidates."
"We shall exist as a separate
political body until a favorable
policy regarding write-in candidates is written Into the Graves
Hall Constitution," the Declaration of Secession reads.
Gary Sheridan ls now serving
as acting president, having been
appointed and confirmed by tbe
hall council.
Dormitory hall governments
organize various activities such
as dances and sporting activities.
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