1969_09 The Daily Collegian September 1969

              3    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Friday, September 19, 1969
In dubious battle?
F.S.C bookstore
'shocks' student
By Lloyd Carter
Okay, so I've come out of registration with a few cerebral lesions and broken arches bat the
worst  is   over. Right? Wrong.
The great bookstore battle of
1969 has commenced and will
probably   continue   for   several
I experienced a skirmish
in lt yesterday and came out
with sheilshock. First of all 1
had to stand in line again (are
these goddam lines ever gonna
end?).
Then I had to show my l.d.
^rd (as If It's a privilege
to go Into that hell) to get inside.
Inside, It's a scene straight
out of bedlam. A thousand pardon me's, excuse me's and get
out of my ways fill theair. Books
ara stacked everywhere. So
are people.
1 struggle towards the political science section and accidentally step on a girl's foot.
She quickly plants a right across
my solar plexus and as 1 gasp
for sir she disappears Into
a barely   metabolizing, mass of
at the angry, milling people
around roe. This Is war, I think.
And the struggle for too few
books Is very fierce and very ln-
In the backroom of the bookstore
has placed all the books In weird
places and It's the students' Job
to find them.
I search for one book for twenty
minutes before someone Informs
me It's, sold out. Great, I think,
I went through all this bullshit
for nothing. Why don't they put
up a 'big Board' Uke they do
at registration, so when a book
is gone a student doesn't waste
time looking tor lt.
1 suddenly think of a dozen other
obvious improvements the bookstore could make (I bet you have
too) but file them In the back of
my brain realizing a good suggestion to a bureaucrat is like
a cross to a werewolf.
Finally, I find one very thin
paperback that costs $3.75. Good
God, I think, now I know why
they perpetuate the draft.
buy these books.
1 get Into the checkout line and
notice the guy behind me has a
handful of knives. (Why In bell
does a bookstore sell knives?)
1 figure he's gone berserk from
tbe pressure and la going to km
a few people. I take a deep
breath and get ready to dlobuthe
smiles at roe and a ray of nope
fills my heart. I might make
It out of that Insanity factory
yet.
BLOW
YOURSELF UP
Two burly fellows lunge for a
last copy of a history text.
They start squaring off to see
who gets lt When a mysterious
hand snakes out and grabs lt.
I laugh.  They swear.
I get near the cash register and
my pulse quickens. The girl
rings up the book and asks,
•Anything ' else?*     "Yeah,"     I
Phi Mu rebuilds--
or attempts to
Friday, September /». 1969    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN _
By Jan Yanehlro
Collegian Staff Writer
In what has proven to be a
successful method In building a
chapter back to where it should
be. Phi Mu Fraternity, one of
six campus sororities, will open
Its doors Sunday after a month
of recolonlzaUon.
Over 400 Invitations have
been sent to Fresno State College- coeds inviting mem to an
Informational-reception type
tea, Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at
the Phi Mu house.
here,* said Miss Tucker.
'All we're really asking Is for
everyone to keep an open mind.*
Reflecting over the success
of recolonlzaUon at theUnlver-
alty of Illinois, Where 90 girls
In Ohio where 75 girls were
pledged,   the chapter here is
'0 girls.
'  said  Miss
that,* said Miss Mary Tucker,
graduate counselor from the
University of Washington In
charge of recolonlzlng the Eta
Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Fra-
Mrs. Russell park Jones, Phi
Mu collegiate director in charge
of 50 western chapters, said,
"AH groups from time to time
encounter problems that prevent them from reflecting the
standards of the PM Mu.*
She continued, *Our hope then
Is to build the chapter back to
the point where lt should be and
the best method we've found to
accomplish this is starting from
scratch and forming a brand
new chapter, hence recolonlza-
AU sorority members before
recolonlzaUon have been put In
alumni status, explained Miss
Tucker. *pht Mu really has no
reputation now,* she added,
and can't be considered a 'bad'
•We need the support of ev-
•We'n
variety of triris.
Tucker, 'leaden
girls who are active and friendly — no stereotyped sorority
gjrls, however.*
Does the fact that none of the
other five sororities on campus
failed to fulfill their chapter
quotas during fall rush discourage Phi Mu at ail?
•Not at all,* saldMrs. Jones,
who believes the problem stems
from a lack of understanding on
the pari of rushees and their
parents on Greek life.
•This lack of understanding
begins with the bad publicity
that seems to constantly surround tbe Greeks,* said Mrs.
Jones. The good that Greeks
do never seems to make headlines.
•Many people don't realize
that fraternities have gone from
Hell Week to Help Week and that
many Greeks have active roles
In campus activities."
But Mrs. Jones does contend
that many things In the Greek
system need to be updated,
especially such things she
terms as 'busy work."
Tbe trivial business matters
and assignments of a sorority
do not Interest the young coed
today,' said Mrs. Jones, she
believes the young women today are very much concerned
with world conditions and campus events.
'This Is the aware generation,' added Miss Tucker,' and
at dinner conversations you And
more girls talking about political events, lectures In class or
campus activities rather than
boys or Ann Landers.'
Dealing with the more 'aware
women* Phi Mu baa revamped
their program to Include one
business meeting a •month and
three cultural meetings where
speakers from the campus and
community will be Invited to
speak on everything from self-
defense  to  fashion  to campus
The notion that the Greeks
are dying ls>a popular but unfounded belief, felt Miss Tucker. 'We've added 25 new chapters across the nation in the
last four years — a chapter at
Humboldt Stale College being
one of tbe newest additions.*
The two women together with
Mrs. Harry Henry, national collegiate vice president of Phi
Mu, wlU be interviewing girls
throughout the coming week.
■Wo're sure there are many
girls we haven't reached,' said
Mrs. Jones, •but this Is only
because we didn't have their
She added that an open invitation Is extended to any Interested girl to attend ihe Sunday
tea or set up an appointment
for an Interview. More Information may be obtained by calling 222-0802.
Chancellor Dumke lauds new conduct rules
Those little booklets students
were given at the end of registration contained the policies
and codes of student discipline
passed by the Board of Trustees
during May and July.
The uniform disciplinary
policy relating to conduct on
college campuses has been distributed to all enrollees in the
18 state college campuses, according to Glenn S. Dumke, California state college chancellor.
The   statements    Include ex-
policy approved In Ihe past academic year, and portions of
Title 5 of the California Administrative Code adopted by trustees at meetings'in May and July.
•Standards  of conduct always
tation at each of our state colleges In previous years,* Dumke
uniform policy relating to conduct
on our campuses and specific
grounds for disciplinary action
are    being   distributed to each
rustees      student     registering  t
s fall.*
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The board policy lists categories of conduct that are to
be 'considered cause for prompt
and diligent corrective action
on the part of appropriate offlc-
These categories Include
cheating, physical abuse, unauthorized entry, obscene behavior, sale or possession ofdan-
gerous drugs and obstruction or
disruption   of   the     educational
Tbey may serve as grounds
for expulsion, suspension, probation or  lesser
pending on  the individual cam-
Dumke said the manner of distribution of the conduct statements will vary among the campuses. Some colleges will incorporate the material in student handbooks and others will
mall them to each student.
Publications
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the minority publications of the
paper. Editor Gerald p. Merrell
requested the shew of faith after
receiving word that State College
Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke was
asking for a 'tighter and more
stringent control of college publications.' The trustees have'
voiced concern over F.S.C.'a decision to allow minority students
to publish their own newspaper
on alternating Mondays.
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thing new on this campus,* Merrell said, "and I would like this
board to pass a resolution reaffirming Its strong support of the
minority publications and of a
free and Independent publication.'
In a related show of support.
Dr. Carr and Dr. Harold Kan-
were appointed Interim advisors
to campus publications in the advent of an official appointment of
an advisor by Ness. Merrell,
Eggert, Mike Cole, aditor__ol_
Backwash, and other members of
the board were asked to submit
names of candidates next week
for the appointment of a permanent advisor.
Dance group meeting
Orchesls, Fresno State College's modem dance group, will
hold Its first meeting of the year
it Monday at 5 p.m. in Room
IM of the Women's