1973_12 The Daily Collegian December 1973

              4    THE DAIIY COLLEGIAN
Moi., Dm. 10.1973
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
'Celebration*, a week - long
schedule of planned activities to
celebrate the beginning of Christmas vacation, will start with an
art and crafts sale at 11 a.m.
in the College Union Lounge.
Christmas carolers will sing
throughout the day in thelounge
and a pottery making and fencing
demonstration will also be held.
Champion, a jazz-rock group,
will perform at 8 p.m. in the
College Union Lounge as part of
"Celebration* activities.
The Black Student Union will
meet at noon In CU 308. The
election of officers and the es-
if special committees will take place at the meeting.
The U.S.-Chlna Friendship A;
soclatlon will  meet at 7:30 p.n
of Tokyo,
Senate
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"If students freeze funds and
try to make It stick,* said Henry,
•someone could take them to
court. But It's my Arm conviction there will be plenty of room
to resolve the matter without
goto* to court.*
But student body executive officers maintain that the BOD is
Illegally constituted under Title
Five,  the state education code,
the BOD are Illegal.
In a statement prepared for the
Student Senate, student officers
pointed out that -this board of
directors is composed of four
students and four faculty. Section
43602 of Title Five states, however, that 'the board of directors
of student body associations shall
consist primarily of students .. .'
•It Is our contention that while
the Fresno State College i
elation. Inc. Is a legal enUty, Its
Board  of Directors Is Illegally
gory' which allows the existing
BOD to be made up of four students and four faculty/administrators.
Student officers hope to make
the freeze stick and they hope to'
win the right to renegotiate certain contracts that have already
been approved.
Schmidt and Dave Davenport,
legislative vice-president, told
the senate that since the BOD
Is -Illegally constituted* a freeze
of all mandatory student body fees
wlU prevent payment of $41,700
to Men's Intercollegiate Athletics
WOULD NEWS IN BRIEF
•The men's Intercollegiate athletic budget Is too much out of
our mandatory fee." said Davenport, "and we are guilty of perpetuating this situation.*
In late August, student officers
agreed to a budget proposal that
would give men's athletics 28
per cent of all mandatory s
body   fees   -   thi:
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promised   that   America   would
help the Dutch if the total Arab
oU boycott plunges their country
Into an energy crisis.
Holland was the only Common
iMirket country to give open political support to the United States
and Israel, and Portugal allowed
the air base In the Azores to be
used as a landing point for airlifts to Israel.
Tenant rights
committee meets
The  Fresno-Madera Lawyers
Guild   will conduct a class  on
tenant's   rights Tuesday  at  the
First Christian Church.
The class, the first of athree-
of classes sponsored,
by Ihe People's Law School, will
be   taught   by   members  of the
Fresno Legal Services, private
attorneys, attorneys fror; Call-
*-~bs   Rural  Legal  Asslslanci
tenant organizers.
lie   class   will   cover   right!
privacy,   security   deposits
try's 218,000 service stations
have been closed permanently
this year, largely because of
the Increasing gasoline shortage,
according to estimates of the
American Petroleum Institute.
Both oil industry executives
and service station dealer groups
say the country has been •overbuilt*' In gas stations and may
even   have   twice   as   many as
WATERED GASOLINE
The   U.S.   Postal  Service is
testing a scientist's flndini
cars   can   run efficiently
mixture of gasoline and wat...
A spokesman for the service
said that the mlsture was being
tried In four mall delivery trucks
and that the energy-saving technique apparently worked well In
cars also. Mixtures to be tested
will range from 15 per cent to
30 per cent water, he said.
be asked today to stop fund freeze attempt
Association ls,Crealed." ' the nuiliteis. ilefliitiu: tin- specific      by the HOD ant void. officers  that  "the only way  to
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Collegian coverage of Scott
Reporter summoned in trial;
subpoena declared illegal
ILLEGAL   SUBPOENA-Thi
Col Ion.
,lim*S<
ian reporter Vicki A|
:ott. Clearance must 1
Ittfprc
Irv Eri
k Strom.
*1 t<
>M him I have never 1
tnvulvi
■d  with  Scott or with
I is the Illegal subpoena issued to
plegate regarding the trial of tax rebel
ic obtained from the Justice Department
subpoenaed concerning a story. Photo
Smith then indicated she might
be "required to appear In court*
and he said the U.S. Attorney was
Very  much Interested* in dls-
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B IIOD ai
Administration   officials  dls-
ugrewl.   siiyliiB   a  "itrandfather
■ - Ill Title f, allows CSUF'S
BOD to have a non-student majority. .";>
only way to
BOD illegal would be
to to court, which would jeop-
ize more than It would help.*
Henry wouldn't even' venture
which way the court would
lily decide," Davenport
he said there were
s for both sides.'*
, s:iy
Baxter: 'status quo is. not adequate
urges independent Collegian
o study the structure
of the Collegian, Baxter said he
sees several advantages to the
utf-canipus paper.
•You havo a greater sense of
responsibility If you have to depend on the marketplace Instead
of subsidy," he said In comparing a paper operating as an independent  commercial business
•The community doesn't understand when he (the president)
isn't responsible,* said Baxter.
Describing his situation as
•anomalous,* Baxter said he is
shouldered with •publisher's.responsibilities without publisher's
•The wholejdea is to keep us
(the unlvafslty) out of trouble as
much as possible,* Baxter told
lie. said another advantage to
an off-campus press would be
an Increase in competence of the
staff, resulting from the responsibilities of;operatlng lndepen-.
dently.    -
paper and        The duty of the committee, ssld
ie president     Baxter, is to study the feaslbiUty
Is responsible for actions of the     of restructuring tbe university
Collegian, he said. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 2)
BOD approves amendments
Baxter also said an Independent CoUeglan would promote
greater understanding of the
campus press In the community.
Many people  In the community
relationship   I
The Fresno State College Association Board ot Directors
(BOD) Monday approved i
tlon of the prop
to the Association that were sent '
•> by Student Senate.
The new amendment passed by
eBOD  permits association by-
be changed by three-
quarters   majority   vote of the
BOD.
Association bylaws previously
in effect required amendments be
tbe Student Senate
through its Legal Committee and
then approved by a two-thirds
majority vote of the Student Senate.
The BOD would then have to
approve the amendment by s
three-quarters majority and it
would then go to the student body
for two-thirds approval by all/
students voting In the election.
The board's action will not be
considered by the Student Senate
Legal Committee today. They will
report to the Senate at Its regular