1971_12 The Daily Collegian December 1971

              THE DAILY COLLEGtAM    Tea—lay. Pi   «i"n   7. 1971
Advantages of the bicycle
■M* ot ridUc fro** bom*. tire after a month of bteydlag.
Say a person Bres Are mile* Cyclists have a special adran-
froes kU Job. To tat io and trot*      tag* at  Fresno Stat* over car
ot* drive to FSC, It sight take
• ot travel. Rldbag a parictuc space.  If one U to be
a giro* day on any orate      bik* to work saves SO mtlei a < foond at aJJ, and then another fire
OM  I*   certain to tea      wmak ot wear aid tear on a ear, minot* walk to any building. That
s bteydtec ttolr wwy* to     eat* watt coats, and keep* many 1* a total of 17 mtnates. A per-
(, Bley-      Uteri of aoaSosa lrydrocarboo* so*   bicycling the s
get  to FSC AXD find a parking
ered. Many of them emit billows
of white exhaust. This means
they're burning oil. If they're
burning oil. they're also giving
off more amounts of carbon monoxide than the lav usually allows, not to mention nitrous oxides and other organic poisoners.
Mis these elements with a small
the ted points of cycling, b
bicycling In Fresno e
to to a health hazard.
s also produce
i the forms of blaring
, booking horns, reved
ss. screeching stops and
type of noise can cause
* Irreparable ear dam-
effect of colse poUutloo Is irrt
ution. prolooged exposure to tl
load noises mentioned above ii
edgy  and jumpy.  A   person b
contend   with   these   man-it
health problems.
Cyclists  do  face traffic I
arts as they peddle through Fi
no. since mere aren't any mi,
path* set "•idolorcycltata^J
hazard t* unavoidable. The mo.
heavily traveled a street^!
greater th* danger tor the pat?
ing cycllM. If a cyclist mustblk,
through Fresno, to«houldus»(t,
most deserted streets DMajS
Someone can take the otesr.
vailon that bicycling Isn't haztr*
dous to health. It can be ratios!
allzed that hazards can be mud
mtzed by plotting bike rout*,
carefully. It can to eondndid
that hazards ar* negligible aad
can be Ignored.
However, In the last 15 year,
In Fresno, the number of ve-
hides and streets ha*Increased.
And as street* and cars hart
Increased, so have the hazards
Attorney General Mitchell discusses
'Justice and the Environment'
creasing, then some day, unless
action is taken Immediately, they will reach a point
clearly dangerous to cyclists and
iade     eorrecU'
Armco Steel Corporation on the HoustonShipChannel
in Texas. In that case the District Court held. In September,
1911, that the Company's toxic
discharges    should   be  stopped
The three United States Attorneys whose districts cover the
New York waterfront are also using the Refuse Act to clean up
the New York Harbor and other
waterways In their areas.
Of special Interest to clUzens
is the provision of the Refuse Act
authorizing payment of half of the
fines Imposed on polluters to persons who provide Information
leading to a conviction. Courts
have authorized such payments in
» of stlU
I law, the Justice
EDPEGGER
JEANS
The
•Pant factory
adopted a second approa<
pollution by asking the <
requested in an Injunction t
that the company
stop discharging I
the tributary or navigable water.
Generally, an attempt Is made
to negotiate a settlement which
specifies treatment faclUttes to
the receiving watera. In
a settlement cannot be reached,
the Court 1* asked to totaUy slop
the dtacharg*.
Sine* th* beginning of 1969,
th* Justice Department ha* filed
more than 300 criminal cue*
■••king On** against polluters.
In addition, we have filed more
than 83 dvjl action* for Injunction*.
Th* first civil Injunction suit
brought under th* Refuse Act to
abate pollution was filed against
th* Florida Power and Light
Company to halt th* dtacharg* of
heated water from 11* power
generating plant* Into BUcayne
Bay.
After th* federal Judge rul*d
that the discharge of thermal
wa*t* is a violation of th* R*f-
use Act, th* utility company
agreed to undertake a $30 mil-
oil companies for failing to install safety devices on wells located In the Gulf of Mexico, which
resulted in the leakage of thousands of barrels of oil off the
coast of Louisiana. The companies paid fines totaling more
than $2,25 mlUlon.
The Department of Justice wlU
continue and Intensify Its efforts
to enforce federal antl-pollutton
laws, but every segment of our
society must share in the responsibility for Improving the
quality of our water and air.
The fuU resources of states
and localities must be brought
to bear on this problem. And, in
a nation where governmental
power Is conferred by the people,
the interest and enthusiasm of
' young people wlU conUnue to be
a primary factor 1
Tuesday. Decembe
, 197/    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN   5
Congress considers environmental bill
Under current legislative and
Judicial policy a private citizen
has little recourse against the
pollutor. A person can sue a
polluter If that person la directly
polluted upon but seldomly 1*
there   this one-to-one clrcum-
What Is usually the case Is that
a polluter Indirectly harma a
clUzen. Indirectly harms him by
spewing poison gas into the atmosphere or dumping wastetntoour
waterway*. Under thl* circumstance a private citizen has no
ground* for legal action against
the polluter tocaus* to Isn't having th* poison air spewed or the
sludge dumped directly on him.
As It n<
not aUowed to bring class action
suits against these rascals lo stop
their destructive operations.
But help may to on the way In
the form of a proposed new law.
Th* National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), sponsored by
Senator* PhlUp Hart (D-Mlch.)
and G*org* McGovern (D-S.D.)
and Rep. Morri* UdaU (D-Ariz.),
and otherwise known a* th* Environmental Claaa Actions BUI,
would guarantee clUzen* the right
to sue corporate and governmental polluters, and to hold governmental agendas accountable for
inadequacies in curbing pollution.
If th* bill 1* passed, It will:
1. Declare that every American has th* right to a
environment   and  th*   responsibility tor protecting it against unreasonable Impairment.
2. Remove technical barriers
servatlonlst lawsuits.
$. Place th* legal burden of
proof on polluters. Thus a polluter  will  have  to prove he 1*
tola.
4. Empower court* to grant
preliminary Injunction* so that
polluters cannot destroy th* ra
tion wishing to contribute
envlronmentaUy oriented
material for pubUcation in
thl* section should address
that material to Steve Soriano, c/o Tb* Dally CoUeglan
office.  Authorship will b*
Write to lawmakers
to protect wilderness
Faculty cuts
Recycling paper
has many benefits
If you are wondering about the
pros of recycling paper, the following piece of lnformatton may
be meant Tor you.
Up to 50 per cent of the trash
In an ordinary home la paper.
When recycled, this paper can
yield a number of useful, necessary products, such as paper-
board (a heavy material used for
tablet backa, folding cartons, rig-
Id boxes, posters, and book cov-
era); paper meat tray*; high
grade napkins; more newspaper-
tissues; towels; filler for disposable furniture pad*.
There are even experiment*
tolng conducted now In which
•hredded newsprint, combined
with blackstrap molasses, Is tolng tested a* livestock feed supplement. Supposedly some grades
of paper have a nutritional value
slmUar to hay and grain.
In addition, recycled cardboard
can be made Into new cardboard
or used as an Ingredient in roofing paper. Or, taking account of
Its power as a soil conditioner
and promoter of seed germination, waste cardboard can to
mulched and mixed with grass
seed and water In order tb start
new lawn*.
found and developed for recycled
paper. It wlU become more
worthwhile to save th* paper.
However, even now, every newspaper, paper bag, orbardboxthat
1* not wantonly discarded la an
Important act of con»«rvat!on.
Just a* paper grows from tree*, '
so also many trees continue to
grow because of salvaged paper.
faculty will be cut because permanent staff members are taking
In such cases, the missing faculty
will not be replaced for the spring
semester.
Dr. Harold Best, dlredor of
institutional research. Is conducting a series of studies to
determine the cause of the drop
in the number of projected full-
He concluded In the first Installment of his study, distributed
change in draft regulations for
male students bad little effect on
the full-time enrollment. The
male-female ratio at FSC was
actually somewhat higher than In
previous years.
(ration procedures, but found that
students who signed "below the
line," that Is, those that were on
the waiting Ust, actually ended up
taking more units than those who
signed only "above the Une.»
The second series of studies
indicates that *Callfornla-wlde
factors,* such as heavy unemployment and changes In minimum credit requirements for
veterans may be more Influential
in the drop I	
than   any   local  considerations.
units as In the past, to malnl
their educational benefits.
Best talked with a limited ni
>f veterans who lm
they   f
tako a
nlnlm
number of units
their entitlement because of the
discouraging job market.
Best's study also emphasized
another of the problems that Is
concerning FSC administrators.
The proportion of lower division
students has been declining for
several  years. It has dropped
Set In the middle of tb* Stat*
of California, Fresno citizens
are In an enviable geographic
position with access to tb* metropolitan centers to the north and
south, the Pacific Ocean to the
west and the Sierra Nevada to the
east. Besides these the list Includes an additional area of great
bealty and natural worth, the land
under our very nose*, the wilderness areas of the San Joaquin
Valley.
And this is the territory which
Is threatened more and more each
day, not by subdivisions, bulldozer, and concrete necessarily, but by our lack of Initiative
in   safeguarding  It   from   sub-
motlvatlon, these bill* will stay trial poUuters In check and 111*
where they are, In the labyrinth Industrial polluters themselves,
of the House Interior Commltt**.! They are a strong, well-financed
To help provide some of thl* fore* and u Rap. Udall ha*
motivation, writ* to your con- stated. It will take "a load public
gressman, referring explicitly to demand" if we are to turn back
th* above bills, sine* politicians th* opposition,
often need to to persuaded. Th* What 1* needed is for citizens
best form of persuasion la In our to writ* ttolr senators and rep-
numbers, te. our votes. If th* resentatives urging them to back
above bills and others Introduced the bill. Th* National Environ-
for the cam* purpose do not pass, mental Policy Act la a desper-
the only thing we have to lose 1* ately needed piece of legislation;
50,000 acres of unpaved, under- It must to passed. Th* quality of
developed, untamed earth. our culture depends upon It
body  In  1968   t
stall.
>f the si
cording to Best, take heavier
loads than upper division and
graduate students. As the ratio of
lower division students drops, so
does   the  number  of full-time
Unless the enrollment or the
average number of student units
considerably, the ln-
ire that budget cuts and
faculty reductions could become
Increasingly serious.
Best Is not convinced that maximum growth Is Ihe right path for
FSC to follow. "I'm not sure,*he
said, "that by getting more students we are giving a better quality education.*
The coUege Is planning a
stepped-up recruitment c
before thl
Representatives, H.R. 4270 and
H.R. 6857, Introduced hy California congressmen, Representatives Wald'le and Hanna, which
seek to preserve 50,000 acres of
"de facto" wilderness In the San
Joaquin. Until Individuals and
groups   provide   the   necessary
JggSgJgBl
LET'S GET
ACQUAINTED!
n°
Li'LBifOFTfALY
that, «FSC      know
can offer them good
scheduling     and    good    course
work,' said Bast
•What we ar* going to show Is
erage   California State CoUege
THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE CCUFA CHAPTER AND
THE CALIFORNIA HIGHER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, in cooperation with the National Education Association, presents its first Annual Conference on
Higher Education for public, private, two year and four year colleges and universities.
THE PLACE:
Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
THE TOPIC:
COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATIONS: Is this the a
patlon In higher education?
ir to the problem* of faculty partici-
classes he wants, and, as a show
of faith, we will let them regls-
~ st,* he added.
WOLF BITES
Continued from Page 2)
The   French   Connection*,   in
which he play* a rol*.   H* has
applied  for retirement after 15
ihere'i a matter to settle: flr*t
tie's charged with failure to rum
hi drugs, and ottor Item*, which
A 470,000 FEDERAL-STATE
STUDY has concluded that lOper
cent of the annual Income of th*
254.000 residents of Brooklyn'*
major Black ghetto go** directly
into the pocket* of tb* Mafia via
drugs an<i gambllng-a matter of
55« million.
Il  waa  estimated  that heroin
In eight yeara-whlch coincidental^ Is th* same rat* as the increase tn property crime*-and
th* number of addict* increased
from 1,800 to 6,100.
The report said th* average
addict must raise $8,400 a year
for drugs, which Is $3,000 more
than the area'* median Income.
BIG MONEY can to made Into
organized (erlro*, even for tho**
who Ju*t writ* »bout It
Form*r N*w York Time* reporter Gay Tale«e*« new took,
•Honor Thy Father", ha* already
grossed about $2 mllUontnhardcover, ha* been sold for another
half million In US paperback
right* (th* movies are still to
bid).
THE PROGRAM:
SESSION I Current Attitude* of California"* Faculties
SESSION II Negotiations Experience* In Other States
SESSION III A Look at Various Model* for Faculty Representation
SESSION IV Implications for the Future
FEATURING:
BENJAMIN AARON, Professor of Law, and Director, Institute of Industrial Relation*,
University of California, Lo* Angeles, Head ofthe Academic Senate, UCLA Division.
JOSEPH GARBARINO, Professor of Business Administration and Director, Institute
of   Business   and Economic  Research,   University of California,  Berkeley. Special
Consultant to Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
MYRON LIEBERMAN, Director, Office of Program Development and Administration,
Division of Teacher Education, .City University of New York. Author and authority on
contract negotiation* In higher education.
JOHN   SHERWIG,   Professor of History,   New Pultz State College, New York. Past
Statewide Chairman, Faculty Senate, State University of New York.
DONALD   WOLLETT,   Professor  of  Law,   University Of California,   Davis, author,
mediator, specialist in labor law.
THE SCHEDULE:
Thursday         Registration 2:00-7:00
Deo. 9               Reception - 5:00-7:00
Banquet 7:00-9:00
REGISTRATION FEE $30 (include, tx