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worked for Coors for 10 years before
being hired by the AFL-CIO. He criticized Coors for using lie detector tests
on their employees.. Sidder said that
some of the questions he had been asked
included who he had had sex with, what
kind of sex, and whether he was a homo-
They didn't stop there,' Sickler
said. They asked about his political and
religious background and whether he
had ever don* anything to embarrass
Coors, hesaid.
The animosity (over the tests) that
sank in everyone's guts,* Sidder said,
'was the root cause of the boycott. *
Sickler blasted the political connections of both Coors and owners William
and Joseph Coors. He accused Coors of
sending John Birch Society literature
home with workers.
'He (William Coors) shoved all that
damn crap down our throat,' Sidder
said. Sidder said that his background
when he came to Coors was anti-union.
"I was forced out of necessity to go to
the union,-he said.
Sickler accused Coors of 'busting*
the Brewery Workers' Local 366 at
Coors In 1957 and turning it into an
essentially powerless union.
Sickler dosed his first presentation
with an attack on opponents of the
boycott and pleaded for support of the
"These are civil rights issues and
human dignity issues,'he said.
Coors Community Affairs Representative John Meadows responded to
Sickler by passing out a 37-page binder
containing news coverage of the Coors
issues along with information (rom the
brewery in Golden, Colo.
Meadows said that a number of organizations and universities that had
supported the boycott that began in 1977
had retracted the support of the boycott
They   included:   The   American   C.I
Forum, a Chicano
National Coundl of La Raza; and the
Houston Human Rights League, a gay
rights group. Meadows told the senators
that Stanford University; University of
Colorado, Boulder; California State
University, San Jose; University of California, Davis and University of California,
Irvine had each dropped their boycotts
stands against Coors.
Meadows said that while there may
have been certain problems at Coors in
the past, workers now are well-treated
and well paid. He challenged Sidder's
claims that Coors mis treated workers by
saying that Sickler had not worked for
Coors since 1976.
Meadows said that Coors would be
happy to allow four members of the
senate come tb the brewery in Colorado
at Coors expense to ask randomly
selected workers how they were treated
by the company.
Proxy senator Ugo Egbuzlen asked
Meadows whether Coors had been
guilty of some of the charges made by
unions and minorities.
•Yes, we've made mistakes in the
past,' Meadows Aid. "We've deaned
up our act' since then.
Meadows was asked by Senator
Melmda Lehman if Coors had ever
conducted the lie detector tests on Its
employees. The Coors Co. has never
administered the polygraph,' Meadows
'For Christ' s sake,' Sickler shot back,
'the lie detector sat right next to the
personnel department.'
Sickler also attacked the record of
Coors in the evironmental arena by
taking a swing at Interior Secretary
James Watt.
'James Watt is a Coors guy,' Sickler
said. He added that the Coors brothers
had started the Mountain States Legal
Foundation. The Foundation is an anti-
environmentalist group law firm that
Watt headed before coming to the
Interior Department.
Sickler was asked what effect he felt
the boycott had had on Coors.
'We're   hurting   them   and   we're
group;    hurting them with the truth,' Sickler
Coors local distributor Ed Donaghy
then rose from the sudience to rip
Sidder for criticizing Coors.
*l am flabbergasted that you would
make these statements,' Donaghy
said. Donaghy then went on to blast the
boycott,
who work with his firm would be
President pro tempore Helen Chen,
asked Donaghy if he a question.
Donanghy continued. This led Senator
Wayne Byrd to remark:
'Goodness, we' II to call security.'
'He's crazy as hell,' Sidder said of
Donaghy.
Coors representative Michelle Mason
then rose and asked the senators what of
value CSUF would receive in the A.S.
supported the boycott.
FV___ mind,'Byrd replied.
The audience questioning was punctuated by frequent interruptions by other
audience members. At times the repre-
... his final statement, Meadows
pleaded with the senators to 'deal in
facts. Don't deal In rhetoric*
When Sidder's turn came up he continued to drill in his point on the boycott
and its importance.
There are moral issues involved
here,' Sickler said. 'You can't bullshit
the people,'he said.
Members of tbe A.S. are: Helen
Chen, president pro tempore; Paul
Canales, legislative vice president;
Martha Davis, administrative vice president; Wayne Byrd, at-large, post 1;
Norman Charley, School of Sodal Work;
Michele Davis, at-large, post 4; Andrea
Hedgley, Engineering; Chris Kaufman,
at-large, post 3; Melihda Lehman,
Sodal Sciences; Olivio Luck), Health
Professions; Udoma Julius Obi, Professional Studies; Tom Slocum, Business; David Torres, at-large, post 2;
Monica Willenborg, Agriculture and
Home Economics; and David J. Wright,
Natural Sciences.
All were present or had proxies
except Canales, who was ill.
Russell to speak today
about some other small but very important developments that have occurred in
recent years.
The CSUF chemistry professor recently attended a passive solar energy
conference in Portland, Oregon. He has
been a member of the CSUF faculty
since 1963.
PSA meeting set
The Political Sdence Assodation ot
CSUF will meet Monday from 7.30-
9:30 p.m. in the Art-Home Economics
lounge. Featured at the meeting will be
former U.S. Ambassador Phil Sanchez,
who has an extensive background in
U.S. politics.
The meeting is open to all students.
DT. Kenneth Russell, a professor of
chemistry at CSUF, will speak at the
University Downtown Thursday on recent developments in solar energy. The
free one-hour program will be held at
noon in the Wine Press Room of the Del
Webb Building.
Russell said he would show a slide
presentation about solar energy and its,
many practical uses. In addition, he will
present general information about solar
energy use and talk about some new
One area that has great promise, according to Russell, is the recent development of 'solar cells' for producing electricity on a commercial scale. He said
this is one of the big 'hot' Items in the
industry today.  Russell  will  also talk
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The Student Health Center can
provide services to students that they
probably could not otherwise afford.
Services offered at the Health Center
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Shannon Conner, a senior radio-
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Gene Mayer, a senior, says that he has
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About the center, Vandrick says it has
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