1970_05 The Daily Collegian May 1970

              editorial
Heard and hemlock
The Fresno State College Administration contlnuaUy states one of
Its primary Interests ls to Insure quality education on the campus.
However, many actions taken by the administration might lead one
to wonder If they realize what quality education really Is? Such ls
the case with the current controversy over the rehiring of Nathan
Heard of the EngUsh Department.
"Nathan Heard poses a threat to anyone who judges one's education
and knowledge by the number of slips of paper displayed on the
mantle. These people also tend to measure one's ablUty by the number of degrees one has acquired. What they fall to reaUze Is that the
talents and abilities of some people far surpass those designated
by mere degrees. Such is the case with Nathan Heard.
Nathan Heard has no degree saying he is qualified to teach English
because he has sat through four or five years of lectures and regurgitated the texts back to the professors. Instead he has a degree few
men can claim. His abilities are best demonstrated by his competence ln both teaching and literary fields.
In renominating him for rehtrement. members of the English Department stated, "No other faculty member has achieved such stature and we suggest that no other faculty member ln any department
has received such recognition; It ls remarkable that we should have
this one man on the campus and equally so that he is willing to remain. To have him here ls to gain Invaluable experience for our students, for the staff and for the community."
It Is quite obvious by Its actions that this administration does not
comprehend the vital spark of creativity Heard has contributed to
this campus. Unfortunately, other administrations do. In spite of his
"minimal academic qualifications" Heard has been offered positions
at the Columbia School of Journalism, Rutgers University, Ohio
State University and many other truly academic Institutions.
Many other schools are clamoring to expose their communities
at Fresno State pettily ponder over his qualifications. Surely the administration   realizes   that   Fresno  State's  loss   will   be   another
Two views of
'Endgame'	
A gritty experience
By Vonnle Madlgan
CoUegian Staff Writer
It's gray. The earth ls extinguished.   Nature   has  forgotten
them. Things are corpsed. They
are   on earth  and  there  Is  no
Reader's  Theatre  presentation.
•Endgame" may be described
ploUess orplotfull.TerryMiller,
the director, has chosen to leave
the ultimate decision, where It
belongs, withtheaudlence.Miller
has excellently staged a play with
little If no written action. He has
made use of the physical script
ln keeping the Reader's Theatre
art form alive by employing Its
uses when there ls need for props.
With simple creativity, Milter
has taken a heavy absurdist treatise and prepared It for community consumption.
Terry Burns as Hamm caresses the play. Burns, who must
feign blindness and Immovability,
presents a powerful and energetic
Interpretation. He explodes his
Intellectual hodgepodge of egotism. Burns effectively conveyed
a fidgety anxiety, the audience
too began to wonder, "shouldn't
I
Clov
seek to disqualify h
inordinately
appointment should be precluded because of the "unavoidable paucity
of his experience with and knowledge ol pedagogical skill and techniques required as a college professor.*
Thus, like Socrates, Heard's gadflylsm will cause him to drink the
administration's hemlock; but he will not be held responsible for
the corruption of Fresnd's youth.
FresnoState. you'd better change your EVIL WAYS!
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appeared "flat" ln his characterization. Ills lack of vocal variety
and range, along with physical
lack of Inner energy handicapped
his communication of the realist
some pleasing moments, particularly the extermination of the flea
of humanity and the alarm clock
of death.
Roland Meadows as Nagg and
Cheryll Cochrane as Nell were a
delightful "old folks at home.*
Meadows and Miss Cochrane's
sense of timing, both comical and
re poignant. Mea-
vs' pleading for his sugar pap
! horrible bad joke communl-
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Miss   Cochrane's "ah yesterday's" were fantastic ln recreating  the  nostalgia of Tiding on
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"You too can be helped by the Americans"
t at 1
a stiff pi
The absurdity of "Endgame" ls
truly without any boundary.
Hamm worries about English
syntax, while his mother and
father cry because the sand hasn't been changed In their trash-
cans and Clov repetltlously looks
looks out on the blank and sinking
horizon. Hamm predicts the
play's "end* with "one day you'll
shrivel to a little bit of grit ln
the middle of a step." The audience goes home — feeling
stepped on, gritty.
By Ed EmanuEL
FSC Drama Professor
no cure for it!" screamed Hamm
ln Thursday night's opening of
Beckett's "Endgame.*
"Endgame* scene: sometime
during the end. Place: Hamm's
house (somewhere on earth).
Time: anytime, sometime, no
time. What ls the play? What does
It say? What does It do? It's
simply four people waiting . . .
waiting . , . waiting . . .
Terry Miller. Fresno State
College Drama Department director, takes a collection of absurd dialogue, an Impossible plot
(If there ls one) and an absence
of written action and presents a
dramatic piece of strength and
power.   He  successfully  makes
Terry Burns portrays the Irascible. Impossible, sardonic and
pitiful character of Hamm with
tremendous personal energy and
skill. Burns, confined to a chair,
communicates with extremely
beUevable sensitivity.
Roland Meadows and Cheryll
Cochrane portray Nag and Nell
respectively, are confined to ash-
cans. Their ashcan performances
are beautiful. Sensitivity and spe-
goals
their
Dennis Wombacher, although
he had some excellent moments,
lacked the vocal power and energy
to keep up with the other actors.
MlUer has directed a play not
for the average theatergoer. This
ls a communication play: It communicates Ideas, concepts and
answers no questions. It will
make you think. I think.
Peace meeting
A group of 50 persons met ln
Fresno recently to discuss our
country's present Involvement ln
Vietnam and Southeast Asia. They
talked over a wide variety of
ideas to help people not Just be
concerned about the tragedy of
war, but to try and do something.
These possible Ideas Included
telephone tax refusal and the use
of newspaper ads. Informative
literature, public lectures, all
aimed   to   Inform   and activate
With the explosively dangerous
recent development regarding
Cambodia, this group will hold
another meeting this Monday,
May 4, 7:30 p.m. at St. John's
Hall, Mariposa and *R* Streets,
cordial welcome ls extended
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Budget proposals are
returned to boards
By Vonnle Madlgan
CoUegian Staff Writer
The Budget Committee of the
Board of Directors of Associated
Students returned proposed budgets for 1970-71 to their respective Student Senate Boards yes-
The committee ln a two-hour
meeUng requested to the six
boards cuts between 5-15 per
cent. Each board will be given
the responsibility to cleaver their
respective budgets. The revised
budgets then wlU be brought before the committee foropen hearings.
The Importance of this action
ls the setting of priorities. Bob
Braltman, committee chairman,
stated, 'The format the budget
takes will decide the association's priorities. What Is most
Important and how much?*
Braltman said he felt cost-
budget analysis ls thwarted by
considering line items. "We have
tried to encourage the Innovative movement away from budget
lmputs. I am sorry we didn't
start earUer with requests ln
relation to overall goals," Bralt-
Next year's proposed budget ls
$38,000 over the present. Estimated student body card fees for
next year are $272,110; the costs
are $320,057 as recommended by
the specific boards. This constitutes an approximate $48,000
difference which can only be
made up with commercial profits.
Fresno State along with Chlco
State are unique ln the fact that
they can plug in commercial profits for association deficits.
Fresno State's commercial interests Ue ln the Bookstore, food
services, vending machines and
business investments. The cog ln
using these funds ls the further
retardation of future projects,
such as the sateiute college un-
Braitman   reported,   "The
less :
•  the  f
PutUng off new
projects as the coUege union,
only intensifies future lack of
capital Improvement."
Considerations the committee
must keep ln mind include the
overhead and rising Insurance
costs of the new Bookstore, the
break-even business of foodser-
depreclatlon of the old
ments and Student Senate costs.
Boards to devise budget cuts
are Student Senate, Board of Directors, athletics, pubUcatlons,
College Union and performing
arts. A complete budget proposal
ls to be submitted to the Student
Senate by May 20. Final approval
of the ASB budget Is made by the
president of the college.
Hearing and Speech
Center aids Fresnans
By Jenny Bailey
Collegian Staff Writer
Helping children and adults
with communicative disorders,
Including speech, language and
hearing problems, ls the aim of
the Fresno State CoUege Hearing
and Speech Center.
The center, sponsored by the
Communicative Disorders area
of the FSC Speech Arts Department, ls designed to provide two
services to the college and the
Fresno community.
First, the center trains students to become speech, language
and hearing speclaUsts and secondly, provides services to the
Fresno community through Its
children and adult referrals, who
have speech, hearing and language problems, from the medical profession.
The center, which operates 12
months a year, also accepts children and adults to Ihe center from
referrals from the Crippled Children's Agency, vocational rehabilitation, California State Welfare, Medl-Cal recipients, par-
_.   11 Interested lndlvldu-
ents and a
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als.
The training progr
senior students, maj
Communicative Dlso
chance to complete their training
at the center ln either Speech
Pathology, Audlology or Education of the Deaf.
Students must acquire 255 clinical hours of practice, helping the
Once they have acquired the 255
hours of experience they become
certified by the state of California
ln their field. Once completing
their master's degree they receive national certification from
the American Speech and Hearing ■
AssoclaUon.
The center has been ln operation for over 15 years, but was
expanded to Us current level of
services two years ago.
Steven Wadsworth, director of
the Language, Hearing and Speech
CUnlc, stated that the center will
accept "any child or adult who has
any type of communicative disorder Including speech, language or
hearing problems.*
Forty coUege students will take
summer school course work
through FSC using the camp site
and working with the children
as on a college campus.
Anyone who ls Interested ln
the camp program or knows an
Individual with a communicative
disorder should contact the
Speech Arts Department for further Information.
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State's professional business fraternity tomorrow night at the organization's spring initiation banquet.
From the left they are: Marilyn Keithly, Patti Holcomb, Dolores Henk and Patti Wynn. Featured speakers
at the event incl ude Assemblyman George Zenovich and Dr. C. E. El ias, Jr. dean of the School of Business.
Music department will present Bach oratorio
•St. Matthew Passion," an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach,
will be presented Sunday ln the
Fresno Convention Center Theater. Produced by the Fresno State
College Department of Music, the
program will utilize 500 voices,
two orchestras and six soloists.
The passion narrates the
events surrounding the condemnation and cruclflctlon of Jesus
Christ through word  and song.
The length of the oratorio has
caused Sunday's performance to
be split Into two segments, the
first beginning at 4 p.m. and the
second at 8 o'clock. A buffet dinner will be served during intermission ln the Convention Center
Banquet Hall.
Admission to the performance
has been set at $2.50 general
and $1 for students, with dinner
tickets costing an additional $4.
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