1981_03 The Daily Collegian March 1981

              Pag* 4-th. Daily CoaWglan -March J, t
Area housing prices leveling off
corrdornlniums, recently converted
apartnttnt* and mobile home parks,
the report is designed to provide an
informative overview of Fretno-Ctevtt
housing availability and to identify
spedfic jtrength* and weaknesses
within the homing market. ^tmamm
While  the average  price  for  new    available
Housing prion are leveling off .
Fretno-Clovit area, according to the
1900 Annual Housing Report available
through the Center for Business Research and Service at CSUF.
For the first time in many yean,
housing   prices   in   the   Fresno-Clovis
area  Increased let* than th* rat* of            —  —_.   ^..^   ,„   lprw    aVaiiaoic in   isdu wa* aoou
inflation.   Adequate   supplies   of   new    tract home* Increased only 4.6 percent    compared   to   $75,000  just
housing, higher interest rates and other    to $49.60 per square foot, the average
factors resulted in price Increases for     price for a new custom home rose almost
new single-family trad homes of only    13 percent to $52.49 per square foot
4.8 percent In the FresnoOovis area,    during 1960.
This was only one-third of the price        The data reported on pricing and the
increate during 1979 and about one-    number of  unsold  new  home*   indi-
seventh the record Increase of 34 percent    cate   a   slightly   stronger   market   for
In 1978. custom rather than tract home* in I960,
Containing the reiult* of compre- but the sizable detection In the number
hemive field iurveyi conducted during of unsold trad home* »lnce 1979 Indi-
November  1980 covering apartment*,    cate* a future *trengthenlng of the new
'.   and   custom   home*,   new
Workplace ctwmicals topic
of discussion tomorrow
A m*JM discovery by the study was the November 1979 average of $119.per
the doubling of new condominium month,
development* and sate*. New condominium sales continued briskly, but The 1980 Annual Housing Report for
developers finished the year with twice the Fresno-Clovis urban area It directs many unsold units at in 1979 The ted by Tom Doyel, CSUF professor
highest    priced    new    condominium of   finance,    and   graduate   students
-•■-■-•-           about $120,000 Han-Yun Chen and Bruce Helen. The
extensive   field   interviews   and. data
compilation   were   performed    by   22
tinuing at an active pace.  The report
indicate! evidence of significant Partial funding for this seventh
price reductions in conversions as some annual report wat from research grants
projects priced more than $55 per square from 32 businesses intrerested in
foot in 1979 were reduced to a leiser detailed information on the Fresno-
price by 1980. Clovis housing market.
All  43  mobile  home  parks   in   the Copies of the  84-page  report con-
Fresno-Clovis area, representing 5,080 taining 54 charts and  15 graphs are
spaces,   were   surveyed   for   monthly available from the Center for Businet!
rents, number of spaces and vacancies Research    and    Service,        telephone
by age and general location of the park. (209)  487-2352,   CSUF,   93740,   for  a
The average  monthly  rent  per  space contribution   of   $62.50  to   the   CSUF
was $129 for November 1980, which Is Foundation,    which    supports    such
an 8.4 percent increase greater than community business research.
^ discussion of "Chemicals
Workplace' will be featured at the second program in the Science and Society
serlei being conducted at CSUF by the
School of Natural Science*.
The session will be held at noon and
repeated at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
March 4, in the CSUF College Union
Lounge. The program is open to the pub-
1950.
in occupational and environmental
health began in 1957 when his union became involved in a study to determine
the amount of strontium 90 being taken
up by humans as a result of nuclear weapons testing
In 1963 he negotiated the first comprehensive radiation safety collective bar-
Soaps
Continued from front page
eral Hospital. She had a 50-foot antenna
for her TV, but the show was kind of
hard to watch.'
Four other CSUF soap fanatics sat in
the living  room where three of them
'ived  The fourth member in the group
male student, who was quiet for
it part of the discussion.
lie free of charge and parking restriction!    gaining agreement in the industry with
have bee\i relaxed for the evening dii-    Sylvanla-Coming'i   nuclear   fuel   ete-   was
cussion. ment! plant. the f i
Speaking on the topic will be Anthony        judd hold* a B.S degree lo chemistry
 *-■   '• of the Health and    from UCLA and a M.S. degree in public
1 ik- nil rs—1,.1 hee|tn from UC Berkeley. He served in
the U.S. Army Medical Corps and as a
state public health chemist before Joining Standard Oil of California in 1956.
He i* the author of 20 paper* and article*, and i* a member of the American without watching toap operas
Chemical Society and -the American
Industrial Health Association
Mazzocchl, di
Safety Department of the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Worken International Union, and Stanley Judd, manager of
health surveillance systems foe Standard
Oil Company of California.
Mazzotxhi, a critic of the safety and
health policies of the petrochemical
industry, hat been an official in the labor
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"When I was 19 a friend of mine
watched Ryan's Hope, so I started too,*
said Alliion Wegner. a 22-year-old
CSUF student. 'I watched it steady for
a month, and then I wat hooked."  , ,»... ™._^
Wegner claimed that she could go the TV room watching them. .. ~_ -
Ithnut •M*trKfa» .„.„—-.. :* the had good way of getting to know people.'
Finally, Von Best displayed hit in-
once every two terest in the popular afternoon pastime.
— •   -L         • • -• watch The Guiding Light when I'm
it began
"I've been watching Ryan's Hope
since it began in the summer in 1975.
Soap operas are so hard to get caught up
on, so I started with one at the begln-
Julie Forman lives in the house with
Sutton and Wegner. She also has a
favorite soap that she doesn' t seem to be
able to stay away f rom.
'General Hospital is the only soap
opera I watch faithfully.' Forman found
that watching soaps wat a good way to
make friends.
"I started watching them when I
first moved into the dorms. I had a lot of
free time and people were always out In
"I only watched i
'This semester I 'm out of class by 11 so
I have plenty of time."
_ Several students made the claim of
not being dependent on tuning into
- thair favorite toap*. Su»ie Sutton didn't
bother to try hiding her addiction.
"I do my homework around it," she
> e> »■»»* e> e) e> e> »»■»
home, and It's on. I don't watch it every
day," said Best. He appeared hesitant
in admitting that he watches a soap
opera. This was a common reaction in
the male viewers of the soaps.
"I don't want people to think...'
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David Armstrong'* American fourn^
War comics: Yesterday's messagB
When I was growing up in dvs fifties,    years, our present-day adversaries are In the old days, American CI* would^
I devoured comic books, all kinds of    seldom depicted directly, haye btw shovenlslaitiiM. tlielr veayTnt*"^
comic books, at-marry*** !ix of them a       Instead,- wartime tale* are  set  in Tehran and freeing *he hoatagts on thtvj
day.                                                         fantastic  parallel  world*, -In   *ndent viery first try.
For a suburban..kid in the demerol    times and, especially, in World War II. Jodav'*  comics  are  more   tubtl*-
calm of the Elsanhower er», comics   Th* enemy of cholc* I* Nazi G*rrn*t*y, CI Constat incorporate* the suggestion ttorttjr. Even to
were a revelation. They provided ad-   evoking a'time when America wat un- of  dedinlng   American   power  as .a natural order of th
venture,    fantasy,    escape-and    in-   questionably Justified in waging war, dramatic device, while still giving the       Black soldiers
structlon  In   prevailing   social   values,    and providing an enemy that everyone story   a   happy   ending—and   setting fighters,   but   rarely  a
didactic morality tales that went down   can hate, without troubling queitioni th* rescue In a war that readers emo- strategists.    Worrtart
easier with a dollop of entertainment.         of conscience intruding on the action. tionalry support. firing machine guns «
Popular comic books of the fifties       Thus when the editors of Cf Combat The same issue includes a curious *margencies (and barely rnuilng their
routinely   celebrated   America'*   tri-   decided to tackle the *tory of th* Ameri- tale of a World War II tank commander hair), but they go back to the ungla-
umphs in war. Paper-and-ink CIs de-   can hostages in Iran in their April 1981 who filet the Southern !tan and bars rnoroui business of packing parachute*
feated  the   Germans,   the   Japanese,    issue, they did so not by depicting the and follows advice from the ghost of a for the men when things return to nor-
the North Korean! and the Red Chinese   !ituation diredry, but by having th* Confederate general. -mat. Normal, In nag** of war comics,.
in four-color splendor that established    Nazis seize American hostages. In a Story called 'Blood and Honor,* Is explicit or implicit support for tha
beyond a doubt for crewcut readers that       That established, the editors advanced German Field Marshall Rommel spares status   quo.   America   It   ahvayt   the
the United States was right—even bles-   the plot in wayt both tlmllar and itri- the life of the American in battle and wronged party. Society's pecking order
sed-iniu battle* with foreign infidel!.      kingly diwimilar to the way the hostage ii later spared by him. Worrying wheth- ;ist»r»tedai>dcorrflrrnedby w» *>««*■
By the  mid-sixties,  the Viet Cong    crisis actually unfolded er he did the right thing by letting the sometimes suffers setbacks,
reolaced earlier foes as the chief villains       Instead of sending a single rescue Nazi go, th* commander is assured by vrins in the end.
hostlv aeneral that.  'War Isn't        War   It   a   juttifiabte-e
''i^Sri
replaced earlier foe* as the chief villains        instewu « »^.u...» „ „....« ._.
m war comlci. Yellow-skinned fanatics team, as did real-life Pentagon planners, the ghostly general that, "War isn't
m black ptjamai—their machineguns the comic book commander! dispatch only killing—it's repaying an ad of
spitting   'Buddal    Buddal'-the   VC two unit*. When the first strike fore* honor. *
attacked American  homeboys on  the is discovered and destroyed by Luftwaffe Thii
frontiers ^democracy. planet, the story showt Hitter " *■ •— •
War Is a Justifiable-even honorable-way of settling scores. Despite
their more cautious story lines  and
cl-ivs,
seldom read comic book*  nowa-   gloating over the tragedy.
, but curiosity recently prompted       News reports blare that  'Surprise
take a look at the current crop. *-~" *-as.i»
___^^^H^^ajjuB^BB_ar,*their  more  cautious  itory
Thi* story, with its morality tale told    nods  to  racial  and  sexual  equality,
' '    '     ~" -  -'—*—,J!— -"     war comics convey yesterday's messages to today's kids.
.,  _ defender of a sUveholding oligarchy, could have been lifted verbatim
mission
rescue   hostages   fallsl*
However,   'unknown t
.ind other popular books turned up some
interesting   changes—and   an   under-      i.^v....,  _  _._   _
lying continuity— in warcomics. jeering at America's humiliation,* the
Even a casual reading of war comics narrative reads, a second mission  is
shows  that  'the Vietnam   syndrome" "landing at a remote site in the Aus-
has   invaded   their   pages.   Reflecting triatt^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
American   reluctance   to   engage   in succe
foreign adventures during the Carter hostage!.
Rabbi to speak on Jesus in
Jeunsh tradition, tlieology
ing at a remote site in in* nut- "Jesus in Jewish Tradition and Theol- 1 p.m. on March 7. The rabbi's visit I*
Alps." This effort is a ccereptete ogy* will be the *ubj«d of a lecture to be tportsored by the Jewish OveArtauqua
«   springing all  the  American   given by Rabbi Joseph Melamed .of    Society.
Temple Beth Israel, Fresqo, at CSUF at        Rabbi   Melamed  it   a  graduate   of
— .».     Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Hewat
■       HetxewJUrrtari College-
we degree of Matter of Hebrew Letters
white in attendance H* subsequently
earned the Doctorof Hebrew LetttSrjv
'ilegreedtjvat institution. -"'
Prior to assuming :hc tpiritual lead**
-ship 3 Temple Beth Itrael, the rabbt
served the J ewish ccwimunity of Panama,
Ctty, Panama, for
atj; director dfjhe' Adult Educa-
.tion Department of B'nat Brith for
Central America; and * charter member
of the Cultural Institute, Panama-Israel.
In W77, he wa! t^Jgdptent of the
Human Rights Award of th* Republic of
Jim Powell of Fre*no *»*^^J^ae\1Jo&
Card Convention, whkh was hrfd in the *a***ot1**m
Pick a card, any card
HanUstweekend. rtetnanHai
. Rabbi Melamed I* th* co-author of A
- Century of Jewish UfaJn Panama at well
at «r edition of a Sp*t»i»tt-Hebrew pray-'
erbook, LilxodeOraciones.
Rabbi Melamed Is twrnwitty the Hlltel
Director *t CSUF *nd a member of the
AcSrnydubof Fresno. He it an active
lecturer for dvlc organlzatlont and
church group*.
Rabbi Melamed also appear* on cottage campuses as a cucst lecturer under
"dTtSptotVof th* J*wtsh qwutouqua
SodityJCSts th* •dMatk^promof
dtolUonal r*4«*o*or T«pte
B.uU.s.hoods «»**L$*g*&f **
,mrwns^coSi^
the endowment of courses and te<bjr*s
on J urJatca at unlvafslttes throughout th*
United States and Canada.