1982_05 The Daily Collegian May 1982

              Opinion.
Page 2—the Daily Collegian—May 7,19*2
Semester ends in fireworks;
conclusion beneficial for all
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To fall back on the words ofa past editor of this newspaper, editors
of college newspapers have always had three trite editorial subjects
The first is that of an opening editorial explaining policy, etc. for
that semester. The second deals with feverish blasting the entire
student body for lack of enthusiasm during student body elections.
The third trite subject is the closing editorial, reviewing the semester in
varying degrees of detail.
As he would have said, it is with the third subject we shall deal with
today.
It was with enthusiasm and anticipation that we began the semester,
shortly afterwards celebrating our 60th anniversary of publishing.
There were several goals that we set for this semester. Firstly, we felt
the need to bring back sports coverage back from 2-3 times weekly to
daily coverage. I believe that we provided the best sports coverage
seen in the past several years.
Secondly, we tried to stress as much next-day coverage as possible.
Though sports and the AS Senate became the prime recipients of such
coverage, we-tried to extend such coverage to noon-time speakers and
other items of interest to students. We believe that this effort served
only to reinforce the status of the Daily Collegian as CSUF's only
daily newspaper.
And though sometimes controversial, we felt the need to expand
comment on items pertinent to students on this campus in our opinion
section.
There wre many memorable moments of coverage for the Collegian
during the past semester, including back-to-back trips to Utah for
NCAA basketball coverage, the Dr. O'Brien case, and the AS budget
hearings, the resulting opinion piece, and the further resulting actions.
The most important action during the semester, I feel, was the
recent attempt to call for the resignation of the Daily Collegian editor.
Not only does this action create a dangerous precedent for any
future editor, but the Associated Student Senate went on to create a
resolution in much the same form that it was demanding a resignation
for.
Recent reports have indicated that the resolution will die a "justifiable death" at Tuesday's meeting.
That would seem tobe beneficiary for all parties concerned. The AS
has made its grievences public and have gotten its point across.
Channels of communication have opened somewhat between the two
parties and differences are starting to be mended.
And while the precedent has been set concerning future editors, the
resolution has yet to receive final approval. To fall short of that would
be a signal to the journalism community on campus that the AS
Senate can stand the pressures of being a public body.
And while the whole process has been somewhat sloppy and tiresome, there was several points well-taken by both sides. Points that
should pave the way to smoother relations without diminishing the
watchdog capacity of the Daily Collegian.
Which is what would benefit the students on this campus above
anything else.
Which gives the conclusion the highest priority.
Wayne Agner
Correction
In the Opinion section of the Daily Collegian, April 22, the
Executive-in-Residence program, EED, CAOS, and the Rodeo Team
were mistakenly included in the list of loser, in the Associated Students budget. These groups, in fact, did not apply for funding, and
therefore should not be considered as "losers" in the AS* budget.
It should be noted that the ground rules set up limiting audience
participated were not the idea of the whole senate, though the ground
rules did not meet any sizeable objection.
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Letters from readers.
May 7, lf-Q-tW Daily CoUegsan-raft 3
Thank you
To the editor
An extraordinary event took place on
:ampus this semester. The students, faculty and administration produced and
presented to the campus four diverse,
informative, provocative and enjoyable
lecture series. This letter is to thank all
those who contributed their time and
efforts toward causing these series to be a
reality. 1 would also like to inform those of
you who experienced our programs that
they will return next year under the title of
the University Lecture Series.
The people responsible for the programs are: in the Arts and Humanities
Forum: Jim Smith, Gail W'asser, Lois
Trostle", Graham Thurgood. June Gin, Ed"
EmmanuEl, Joe Satin, Maggie Etlinger,
and Joe Munoz; the Science and Society
Series: Brandt Kehoe, David Wright and
Dave Frank; the Social Science Series:
Alexander Pronin, Dave Provost, Robert
Mikell, Michele Davis, Julie Rose, Kim
Schnoor, Jim Cypher, Jack Pittand Peter
Klassen; and University: A Campus Dialogue: Pat Thomson, Bob Lundal, Alice
Ezmer, Val Flood, Paul Canales, Mary
l.udwig, and Hal Best. Special thanks are
lo be accorded Eldon Perry, Zella Woods,
Caroline Kohles, and Blake Jones.
To you people I give my gratitude and
Jeff Newman
Limited view
To the editor:
1 have watched and awaited student
response to the charges levied against editor Wayne Agner. With the exception ofa
few qualitatively concerned journalists,
the response has taken off on emotionalism and ignorance of the cjiarges at hand.
The fundamental issues of the A.S. resolution which requested Agner's resignation
were: I) unresponsiveness to students at
large (i.e. failure to print club meeting
announcements); 2) Incompetence (ie failure to report numerous major and world
renouned lecturers such as Maya Angelou
and Theodore Rosak which the Fresr
vfit I
■ 3)
Refusal to print a retraction when legally,
journalistically and ethically warrented in
news reporting (ie coverage of a campus
dialogue using 5th hand false hear-say as
factural,reporting). The final and most
seemingly pervasive issue is Agner's charge
of racism without verification. The Grape
vine Jazz Festival would represent the
ethnicity of the Chicano. Anglo, and
Black groups in the festival's artist content
and attendance. The $9,000 funding of
this project is guaranteed by legal bond of
contract not only lo return the $9,000 but
an additional 6 percent gross return. Now
tell me how a program that unites cultures
in an educational and recreational experience while simultaneously making cash
bucks that could help in keeping YOUR
student fees down be RACIST!
Are you paying attention Mr. Hatfield.
In reference to your letter, I do eat the
most nutritious bread with bulk and fiber
I can buy which is wheat—health and content, first before color. Precisely is the
learning experience I hope was derived by
you Mr. Hatfield and others who may be
sharing your limited and. narrow viewpoint. i implore you to lake advantage of
this experience and grow from it.
Michele Davis
A.S. Senator
Straight facts
To the editor:
It's getting so you can't even enjoy the
facts of life anymore. The way the problem between the AS Senate and the Editor
of the Collegian has been and is being
covered by this campus' media is a case in
point. Allow me to explain.
I charged Wayne Agner with failure to
live up to the standards of the Journalist's
Code of Ethics in his administration and
editorial policies, which is a broad indictment of the way the Collegian has been
run this semester. I also charged him with
a specific incident of what I believed to be
libel after the infamous budget OPINION
written by the Editor.
Almost everyone involved in the matter, from the Editor to the Media Council
to the Senate has managed to ignore the
first charge totally. The Media Council
tabled the complaint against Wayne after
minimal discussion on the libel charge
only. While the opinion of some of the
Council members was that there was no
libel, the Council did not make any ruling
and thus took no official position whatso-
:ver. Dr. Schyler Reharf, the Journalism
Department's representative to the Media
Council, said that he felt the Media Council should just give the complaint back to
Ihe Senate and let them do what they
wanted. This was a disservice to Wayne,
the Senate, and the students and directly
violates both the letter and intent of the
Media Council Policy and Procedures,
which they are specifically required to
follow. It is certain that the Senate would
have accepted the ruling of the Council if
they had bothered to do their job
properly.
At the Senate meeting Tuesday, I pointed out that Wayne should be disciplined
only on the basis of his overall performance, not on the basis of his OPINION
about the budget. This has been cleverly
overlooked by the Collegian and Insight
in their reports. The "journalists" on campus have chosen to emphasize the weakest
part of rhc complaint rather than deal
with the whole thing. Could it be that the
papers on campus would rather not have
the students thinking about the entire
issue? I have heard so many complaints
about the Daily Collerlan (his semester
that my head is spinning. But instead of
letting it all hang out and reporting the
whole story, the campus press has played
up the libel charge as an attempt to
squelch their freedom of speech, a ploy
intended to reverse the situation and make
it look like Wayne has never goofed and
the Senate has never been right.
If you want to see what real news
coverage of something like this looks like,
check out the front page of Section F of
Thursday's Fresno Bee (May 6th). The
article is impartial, unslanted. and makes
no personal interpretation of the Media
Councils failure to act on the complaint.
The Collegian's coverage of the issue has
been the opposite of that.
The way it turns out, the Senate did not
actually adopt the resolution asking for
Wayne's resignation. What the Senate did
do was to recommend that the resolution
be adopted, this recommendation comes
from the Legal and Legislative Committee, which is what the Senate wasactingas
at the time (the Senate had moved into
'committee as a whole/ which is a way for
the Senate to deal with items that have not
been returned from committees yet). The
Senate never adopted the resolution when
the regular session was returned to. Therefore, the resolution as it now stands is the
property of the Senate to act on at the last
meeting of the semester.
The resolution, as I stated in the Fresno
Bee article, will probably die a 'justifiable
death.* I say justifiable because, whatever
you think of the complaint and the Senate
resolution, it had a positive effect on the
relationship of the Senate to Wayne
Agner. He has finally sat down with
Senators to work with them instead of
operating on reactions of an emotional
nature. He has admitted that he has made
mistakes now and then, and the Senators
have admitted that they nave, too.
I hope that the students will think about
what I have said. I dont blame certain
letterwriters for their opinions if they are
based on the Collegian and Instgsrf reports. I do challenge those who know the
facts about the complaint and the Media
Council hearing to stop lying, because
some of them are lying outright. Their
"pet projects* and favoritism are showing.
Tit for Tat, huh?
David J. Wright
Job rally
To the editor
i wouM like to iaforra sufJents and staff
about a rally that 1 am helping to organize
at Stanford University. The event is called
•Hooverville '32 — Reaganville -82" and
it is sched uled for Saturday, at 11 a.m. lis
theme is 'Mobilize for Jobs, Not for
War." The location is the foot of Hoover
-Tower, which is a part of the Hoover
Institute. This location is especially appropriate because the Hoover Institute is
a principal source of many of Reagan's
conservative policies.
During the Depression, Americans who
lost jobs and homes set up makeshift
"Hoovervilles." These cardboard shanty-
towns demonstrated the inadequacy of
federal response to human needs. Hooverville '32 — Reaganville "82 draws a direct
connection between the neglect of that era
and the neglect of the current admini- *
stration.
The May 8 event is supported by and
will be attended by labor, church, student,
minority, community and women's
groups. There will be speakers on topics of
concern to all of these groups. Topics
include Jobs, Social Services. Central
America and Nuclear Weapons. Speakers
include Rev. Cecil Williams of Glyde
Memorial Church, Charlotte Susskind of
the Gray Panthers. Dave McFadden of
the Mid-Peninsula Conversion Project
and UAW representatives from the closed
Fremont auto plant. Entertainment will
be provided by feminist singer Holly Near,
the San Francisco Mime Troupe and folk
guitarist Kate Wolf. There will be a kick-
off rally Friday night at 6 p.m. The
K ic k of f will include a soup kitchen, political music and a Hooverville shantytown.
I urge people to come to both the
Friday and Saturday events. Both days
will provide opportunities to talk with
others who are unhappy with the Reagan
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