1973_09 The Daily Collegian September 1973

              Swanson is named
to replace Haak
KURT SCHMIDT
| Baxter and Schmidt welcome
students for, fall semester1
3r's Note: With the coming of the 1973-74 school year, President Norman Baxter and Associated
nt Body President Kurt Schmidt extend their welcome to returning students and those coming to
for the first time.)
By Dr. Norman A. Baxter
K Special Welcome to the New Students . . .
I am happy to have this opportunity to welcome
you to California State University, Fresno.
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By Kurt Schmidt
Fellow Students,
Once again September Is upon us, as we ready
ourselves to achieve another semester or higher
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1973-   ■ .
OLCEGIAN
CALIFORNIA      STATE      UNIVERSITY,      FRESNO
epresident for academic affairs to re- .
place Dr. Harold H. Haak who
has been named chief executive
officer for the University of
Colorado, Denver.
Swanson, a marketing, professor In the CSUF School of
Business, was named to the post
by President Norman A. Baxter.
An administrative appointments
committee has been ordered to
find a permanent replacement
for Haak's position.
Haak Joined the CSUF administration in 1971 after leaving his
position as dean of professional
studies at California state University. San Diego. While at San.
Diego, Haak was amemberorthe
Task Force on Instructional Administration and a consultant to
the Chancellor's Committee on
Delegation of Authority.
Haak will assume his new duties Sept. 1 at the 5.000 student
campus In .Denver.
Swanson has been teaching at
CSUF since 1968 after leaving a
teaching assignment at New York
University. Swanson has also
taught at the State University of
Iowa and Csu, San Diego.
Swanson has also been vice-
president and director of research for the Curtis Publishing
Company; a reporter and head
copy editor for the San Diego
Union and a reporter for the Long
Beach Independent and Press-
Administrative spokesmen also
announced the appointment of
James W. Whitehead as assistant
executive vice president at CSUF.
Whitehead will replace Dr. Harry
Jones, who retired Aug. 31.
Whitehead has been a professor of social work at CSUF since
1970. Prior to his teaching assignment  at Fresno, Whitehead
social work at Rutgers Unlver-
fessor of history at CSUF, has
of the Armenian Studies Program. A faculty member at CSUF
since 1969, Dr. Nalbandlan win
direct an interdisciplinary program which Includes more than
20 courses offered by eight de-
Dr. Nalbandlan la the author
Of the book, 'The Armenian Revolutionary Movement," and In
1969-70 was appointed as a research associate In the Near
Eastern Center at theUnlverslty
of California at Los Angeles.
i Other appointments taking
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Honors program
offers 12 courses
This semester the Honors Program la offering twelve courses
designed to serve the'superior*
undergraduate  student  by  en-
A student need not be registered within the Honors Program
to  take any of these  courses.
honors may be applied to the
major granted by a department
affiliated with the program, or
Grade   point   average,   while
generally significant, is not the
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Car-less environment a possibility in Yosemite Volleys future
1 tie free of cars, but for
other alternatives to the
al undertaking will be uti-
to keep traffic flowing
iihly In the valley.
Semite National Park Supt.
I Lynn Thompson says a transportation study which, among other
'hmgs, will look Into the feasibility of phasing all Individual visitor transportation out of the>
valley will be presented sometime this winter.   ,
A master plan for the park will
ilso be up for approval. Eventual
removal of all Individual trans-
| portatlon Is Included In the plan.
Talk of the change has been
I brought about in recent years due
'o the Increase In traffic and sub-
I sequently, air  pollution In the
valley.
Environmentalists have voiced
concern that the natural aur-
I foundings of the park would be
I Permanently damaged by the in -
"easing number of visitors to
| the park.
Thompson said the number of
■ people visiting the park In recent
[years has stabilized around 2.1
l'° 2.4 million per year. While
'ccommodations have been suf-
iclent to support that number of
visitors he said traffic conges-
"~ had became Intolerable.
I   T°   combat   the   problem,
Thompson said the main road
{through the valley was converted
1 a one-way-only road, there-
doubling  its capacity. The
road encircles the valley. •>-
lowing motorists access to «U
Points of the valley without hav-
'"( to leave the park.
'  shuttle-bus system, able to
carry visitors to points In the
valley now Inaccessible by car,
has also eased the traffic crush.
Thompson says the bus system
has worked 'beyond anybody's
belief* and that It may hold the
answer to future questions about
alternatives to the present transportation setup In the valley.
Pollution levels In the park had
been rising until the one-way
' road plan and the shuttle-bus
system were Instituted. Thompson said recent figures show air
pollution levels significantly re-
He said one of ine main prob-
— *-clng propomante c* "■-
-'--proposal to A
ernalive to Individual vehicle use In the valley.
The shuttle-bus system seems
like a good Idea once one has
entered the park hot the question of how one (eta to the park
remains to be solved.
One  proposal would have the
valley parking stations.
The Yosemite Guide, the park's
house organ of news and park
activities, weekly front pages this
Invitation for motorists to leave
their cars and ride the bus:
•There's a great new experience ahead for you In Yosemite
Valley. Since the expansion of
the free shuttle-bus system, the
enlargement of parking areas.
Valley visitors are rinding a
great new car-free environment.
■Shuttle buses stop near each
of the hotels, campgrounds,
lodges, stores, parking areas
and places of particular Interest.
And there are five convenlfntly
located and marked [parking
areas.. This rearrangement of
parking and the increase In shuttle-bus service give much more
space Tor people.
•If you are staying at
the hotels, lodges or
grounds, parking is rij
door. And, right on the I
bus route.
•So join the 'earless'
ment . . . park your c
ride the bus ... then w
a  closer  look at the i
western boundary-at El Portal
and take toe buses to any point
desired Inside the park.
In theory, the proposal Is a
good one. Its only deficiency, a
glaring one which plagues plans
of most any persuasion, Is that
it win .cost much money to lm-
Tbompson said the availability
of fundi to build the "staging
area' for motorists to leave
their cars will determine the
ultimate feasibility of the pro-
UntU the report li
t delivered
urse of action U decided upon, Thompson
■aid use of the shrttlebusss will
be encouraged allowing motorists to leave their car* parked
at  campgrounds and other ln-
CAR ALTERNATIVE   The Yosemite Valley Shuttlebua provides an al
problems one faces while in Yosemite Valley. The shuttlebua, part of a general plan which may eventually
ban cart from the valley, travels to points In the valley rx    '"