1984_03 The Daily Collegian March 1984

              March 23, 1984
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•Personals
What an awesome family.
■ ill ill — Alpha Xis are "EX-cued to have you as one
Happy Uii-Aemivertary. tsawtheart! Sunday your De^y Day, coaches. Wilh your ilarrii
marks ibe day ofour 1st. maybe sve could ilsrt oil taknu how can sve lose?
on a different foot this year. Jc ne ce psilttt We love y
ttw-If-U Alpha XI Del
To John t'orlhius (Slpav* Chi): Quote of tbe m
Tbe Xis are lookini forward to firing up Derby        -The problei
Days with your help! So get ready 10 win!
To Prmairoaa SstU 11
ThankitoyogaUforbein
Your Suftrmate (E)
Rot,
Well have lois of fun -Si.
row's formal. It will be an ex
citing night. Be good.
Use,
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Mark "Koodie"
siry the day before and has
a happy day today!
CollMtl
Chipper.
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Violets are blue
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Dr. Thrill-Jam (J.D.) —
Thanks. You're really lerrific, you know. As sve
grow old together. Ill always remember these
days. 1 know wc have many great times ahead to
—Soon to be Mrs. Wonderful
Roy-
goingtobegreat -
—Karen
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aches for  Derby  Days!  We are so
about Derby Week and with you as a
Alpha'Ion,
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Alpha love.
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Monday night -
When you ask
friends for a favor, you know
what they're going to say. So
you tell them you're moving
again and then wait for the
groans to stop. They may not
like the idea, but you know
they're going to be there.
When you're finished, these
people are going to deserve
soiTethiiig special. Tonight,
let it be Lowenbrau.
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person io get a hold of!! The
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is during basketball and on thc
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is oscr (unfortunately), maybe
io get logether sometime.-lt
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wilh our busy schedules, but 1
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Your Short Aaastrer
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CSU. Fresno
MoaHUy March 26,1984
Thc Daily Collegian
CSUF canoe entry under construction
Most students plan to spend the
Vintage Days weekend participating in
competitions such a* the pie eating contest, tug-of-war.and the root beer chugging race. But a small group of engineering students will not be joining in.   .
They will be near CSU-Chico, battling
it out against other colleges and universities, all of which are vying for the title of
the fastest cement canoe.
According to Gary Kiger, engineering
'We've made a better boat, a
better looking boat and
hopefully a winning boat.'
-Kiger
major and one of the 13 students who
designed and built CSUF's entry, the
annua] race is held so students "can apply
knowledge we learn in the classroom to
the actual practice of construction."
This is exactly what the students have
spent an estimated 200 man hours doing
over the last six Saturdays.
Except for some slyrofoam beads to
give il extra boyancy, the canoe is built
with "only those materials that would
normally be used in construction," according to Kiger.
"We've considered which materials will
give us the greatest strength and the fluid
mechanics involved, and we believe we
have a winning canoe," Kiger said.
One thing he said had greatly helped in
the construction was a computer program, which was written last year as a
student's senior project.
Among other things, the program told
them how high to build the sides, Kiger
said.' The program gave the optimum To that board the students nailed a wire mesh, cement, and a 15-foot keel that
dimensions to not allow water in, while basic frame and molded redwood strips will be added'later,
adding the least amount of weight pot- to it, A wire mesh was then added. Cement The sides of the canoe will' only be
sible.                                                       . was applied to the mesh last Saturday. three-eighths of an inch thick, but it must
Kigel said the 22-foot canoe, which is When the canoe was ready to race, hold four-member teams for both the
only three feet at its widest spot, suited Kiger said, the wooden frames will have
out as one board. been removed. All that will remain is the a See Canoe, page S
Bill could deny countless students aid
WASHINGTON, D.C. (College Press
Service) — Student aid experts here are.
scrambling to beat back an obscure bill
that, if passed in a few weeks, could
severely hurt most state student aid pro-
Congress will soon vote on a measure •
that could "deny countless students the
opportunity for a college education" by
"crippling" state student loan programs,
the aid experts coniend.
. State and college loan officials nationwide arc working frantically to block the
legislation, now pending in the U.S. House
of Representatives, before it comes to a
The bill, known as H R 4170, has already
virtually eliminated tax-exempt financing
from student loans by placing a cap on the
number of tax-exempt student bonds each
At risk is almost $3 billion worth of
student loans.
States have been issuing such bonds for
a long time, bul the bonds have become
even more important fund-raising tools
since Washington began slashing the'
amounts of money from the sale of the
bonds to loan to students.
As students repa.y the state, the state
pays interest to the citizens who bought
the bonds. Thc citizens dont have to pay
taxes on the interest they earn from the
sute.
The new bill before Congress would
limit the bond selling, and would lump
student aid bonds in tbe same finance
category as tax-exempt industrial revenue
Consequently student loan agencies,
aid officials say, will be forced to compete
wilh private corporations for bond busi-
lichsen, general counsel for the National
Council of Higher Education Loan Programs in Washington-. D.C.
Tax-exempt student aid bonds are also
the cornerstone of the so-called "secondary" student loan market. Special sute
agencies issue tbe bonds to raise money,
which they in turn use to purchase delinquent and unpaid student loans from
^>rimary"lenders, such as banks and savings and loans.
"What the secondary market does is
purchase loans from these primary institutions so they cap make more loans to
•See Loans, page 5
Review
True West' offers something for everyone
Anyone who has a brother or sister
should see "True West"at CSUF's Arena
Theatre.
And anyone who is an only child should
see "True West."
Everyone should see "True West."
Writen by Sao Shepard, tbe plot revolves around two brothers who have not
seen each other for five year*. One is a
successful screen writer, the other, a not-
so-succestful thief!
"True West" uke* place in a kitchen
just like your grandmother*. ?** y*Uow
cabinets line thewalls and thriving, healthy plants give the finishing touch to a "noplace -like-home" khchen. Of course, everything it so clean you could eat off the
But the perfection belies what's going
on in the suburban tract house while Austin and Lees mother is in Alaska.
Austin (Michael Mendonsa), the younger, successful brother, promises to care
for the plants while he finishes a screen-,
play. Lee surprises him by showing up one
night, and that is where the play begins.
Medonsa and Alio Gates Jr. who
plays Lee, are perfect for their pans. At
the sutt, they capture perfectly the wariness of two strangers who just happen to
be related.
Attentive playgoers will remember both
main character* from other Theatre Art*
department production*. But they have
never had the opportunity to be to versa-
M an, "and lately in "The Ice ma ft Cometh."
But he can handle tbe black humor in
"True West" just as well a* he can the
drama and the physical demands.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is
Gates. Last seen on the mainsuge as the
hacky-sack tossing sidekick Biondello in
"Taming of the Shrew," or the jock coach
in "Mighty. Mighty Pioneers," it didn't
seem that he could handle a tough rokhkc
that of Lee.
Oh, but he can!
At once threatening, dangerous and
funny, he has a tremenousry commanding
suge pretence.
The other characters dont matter thai
much. They are well-acted, but you just
sort of wanted them to get off the Mage,
thatwor-'
potential producer who becomes interested in the script Lee proposes. Phelps
adds just the right amount of sleaze to the
part to make it believable.
Lee needs to get his great idea on paper
in dialogue form.
"Just help roe with the characters, all
right?" asked Austin.
Those aren't characters. Those are
illusions of characters. Those are fantasies
of along lost boyhood,"answcrtd Assstin.
Tbe brothers' boyhood is dealt with
partly by the way they aa with each other
as adults, but mainly through bow tbey
relate to their pi
Their father is
j. Hese
alcoholic who are* in the desert. Astasia
has tried to Ma Mat, bat tha father oaly
Saul Kin
* (Tom Pherps) is Austin's