1979_09 The Daily Collegian September 1979

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Foreign students flock to Fresno
Daily CsBegiaw Staff
Foreign ttudents are coming to CSUF
like never before
They are coming in larger numbers
and   from   more  countries   than   ever
Matthiesen of
Students Counseling
ttudenti from
attending CSUF thit
Figures are still sketchy et this point
but rt appears that most of dw 240 new
students at CSUF this semester are from
Iran or Taiwan
Most of the  undergraduate foreign
students are engineering, business and      CsMfl
sgi indues  motors while most of the     mete
graduate students sm concentrated in He
the   fields   of   business,   mass   com
munications and engineering
The reasons why foreign students
would travel thousands of miles to attend
an obscure university amidst cotton
fields and grape vineyards are as varied
as the students themselves
'I nonetd to go to California,' Cesar
Isaza of Colombia said, 'and I applied to
a few different schools This wm the first
one that accepted me so here I am '
The bowling alley, pool tables, and
ptnball games were the dsckBng factor
for George Lee, 21, of Hong Kong
'It really impressed me,' the freshman industrial engineering motor said
The thing rs I woutdn t expect that in a
university We don't have that in Hong
Kong   The only thing we have it a
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Enwers Maduabuchr of Nigeria used a
more typical method m mtecting CSUr
*! tost picked up an American catalog
of colleges and packed out about tix
schools in California,' Maduabuchi taid
The senior engineering student taid
California. Bt universities and Mt di-
had a good reputation in Nigeria
"f decided on CSUF, though
he taid he hsd never heard of Fresno
before because CSUF wm one of the first
to accept him
Steve Tai Chang, a 29-year-old urban
planning graduate student from Taiwan,
said he relied on die advice of a friend
'He taid dw culture, dw faculty and
the laboratory equipment is much better
Business seminar scheduled
A seminar on 'Manegement Strategies for Survival end Growth' will be
offeredOct 2 through Nov 13 m pert of
dw Certificate of Business Management
program conducted by California State
University, Fresno snd dw American
Management Associations Extension
Institute
Dr Robert I Kutscher, professor of
management and marketing in the CSUI
School of Business and Administrative
Science!, will conduct the seminar in
seven Tuesday sessions from 4 to 7 p m
in the Ramada Inn Tuition is $155
indudmg all text material
The seminar is designed to provide
sound, practical guidance in solving
critical business problems, particularly
m young firms, when limited personnel.
financing and time must be stretched to
achieve ordered and sensible goals ond
plant
Included among the topics to bt
covered are the special characteristics
and problems of the emerging firm,
relationship of dw firm to the rnorket
piece, planning, administration innovation, organization, maximum um of
human resources, financial monaaje-
ment, limiting costs snd ths family
dominated business
Enrollment will be limited and pre-
registration for the seminar is requested
T>w deadline is Sept 28
For further information, contact the
CSUF Bureau of Business Research and
Service at 487-2352
Dr. Kenneth Seib
Ceremony honors CSUF's 'death'
Dr Kenneth A Seib, author of 'The
Stow Death of Fresno State A California
Campus Under Reagan and Brown,'
will be honored at a champagne reception on Sunday, Septanibor 16 from
1-3 pm st Upstart Crow Bookstore
Dr Seib is Professor of English at
California State University, Fresno, past
Chair of tht Department of English, and
currant president of the United Professors of California rn Fresno He wm
Fullbrrght Professor of American Literature in Norway in 1971 and Germany in
1970-71 In 1968 the University of Pitts
burgh Press published hit book 'James
etudes on MA from Columbia University end s PhD from tht University af
Pittsburgh Professor Seib arrived at
Fresno in 1968, coincident with the
initial events which began dw 'stow
death' of Fresno State
Dr Safe's book it an account of dw
upheaval dwt hm token place in higher
education since the mid-1960s and the
reasons behind the crisis in education
that exists today Fresno State is on meal
source for such a study: dw events hare
during the last decade took piece
throughout the United States Ramperts
Press it dw publisher of this important
book
Proceeds from dw book will benefit
dw Academic Freedom Legal Fund
sponsored by the Fresno Fme College
Foundation and the Unrted Professors of
California The Foundation it a non
prof it corporation
here than other universities such as
Tennessee or Arkansas "
Some people might question why
Ahmed Al-Mihrij, who works for a
Saudi Arabian oil company, pithed
CSUF
'In fact, I didn't I am sponsored by a
company (Aramco) and they decided,'
the freshman civil engineoring major
said
Al-MaVig said that many Arab students lew Fresno because neethor conditions are similar to thorn in the MiddtW
East
Zakartya Qesem, a Jordanian graduate   ttudent   agreed,   saying.    The
weather here is moderate Everyone
Maws it'
Omar, a 20-year-old engineering student from Jordan, said he wm atoo
accepted at schools m Team, Ohio, and
Illinois, but chose CSUF because of the
stones he had heard about CaBfornia
The fact dwt he hsd never heard of
Fresno did not deter him
'The embassy gave nw en address
and it said 'Fresno' m I looked it upon
a map and found it * Omar explains
How does CSUF compare to aM thorn
itorict he  heard  about  California   in
•Not bad,'Omar said, 'realty '
Christmas time tour of
European theatres planned
A theatre tour to England and Greece
over Christmas rs being sponsored by
dw International Programs of California
State University
The tour will visit London and Stret-
ford-on-Avon from Dec 22 to Jan 1 The
cost of $899 will include sir fare on
TWA, theatre tickets, ground transportation,   hotels,   and   breakfast   and
The Greece portion of the tour is being
ottered as an eooVtionaJ supplement snd
is priced at $375 It will be from jsn 2 to
jsn. 10, will be based m Athens, and
includes sir fare, hotel, breakfasts and
dinners, and ground transportation
Participants will depart from either
Sen Francisco or Los Angeles on sche-
Council to vote
on condo fate
The Fresno City Council will hold s
special meeting retarding dw condominium conversion controvarty Normally, they hold meetings in the
chambers of dty hall but
dw conaovarty that hm
this issue snd the numbers of
who have been attending the
they will be holding that part of the hear
ing in dw Wine Room of the Curuontim
duled TWA service Extended return
and early departure dates are available
at no extra coat
Accomodations m London will be at
dw Hotel Windsor, near Hyde Park In
SO adw d-on-Avon, participants will stay
at Walton Hall, a monor house In
Cream, the hotel will be the Hotel
Minos rn the heart of Athens
The tour director it Dr. Tom S. Reck,
professor of English ot Chrco State Una-
versify end co-ordinator of Film Studies
credits are avertable for on
University
additional f<
Included will be visits to The Royal
Ballet, Ths flatiewel Theatre, and dw
Royal Shakespeare Company, m wall m
to dw various seasonal events dwt occur
at Christmas Tht prims quoted sm far
twin-room accomodations
Applications and requests for additional information should be sent to
Iriternational Programs, California State
Umverstty, Chico, CA 95936
The meeting a st 7 p.m Dave Ditora,
student body president, says that if
students aren't there 'we won't stand
a chance against powerful money hungry
developers
He said dwt a car pool will be formed
at 615 to 6 30 in room 306 of the Col lege
Union ond to call 4B7-.2657 if you need a
nde
Them are two city council members
who are inclined to vote on dw tads of
the ttudents, elderly ond handicapped
That Bte in four city council ewmberi
who need to be convinced that tham
condominium conversions am Bad tar
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