1988_01 The Daily Collegian January 1988

              «
The Daily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
Friday, January 29,1988
Framed
Carpenter LaVon Cooper frames a window In the new mosque, Wednesday
Wm aaataaaaWa* ft*agaal
Senate
seats
vacated
By Steve Fountain
Staff Writer
Associated Students President Mark
Astooe is considering appointing Sean
Ford to the same senate seat that Ford
was forced lo vacate last week.
Ford is one of four members from last
semester's AS Senate that either resigned
or were removed from office due lo
academic problems.
Social Science Sen. Patsy Foley and
Agricultural Sen. Jessica Chrisman
resigned earlier [his year, citing the need
for more study time.
Senators-al-targe Ford and Eddie Chin
were removed for failing to meet AS
academic standards.
AS bylaws require senators to
maintain a 2.0 GPA and complete a
minimum of seven units during their
semesters in office.
Please see SENATE, page 5
Budget cuts force AFROTC exit
By Lois Henry
Staff Writer
Cutting back on government spending, especially the
defense budget, may seem like a good idea to some, but
not lo Jose Alvarado, senior enlisted adviser in the Air
Force ROTC at California State University, Fresno.
Alvarado is a sophomore whose lifetime dream is to
have a career in the Air Force, starling here at CSUF,
but after recent budget cuts he has two choices—go to a
new school and start over or get out of AFROTC.
Budget cuts forced the closure of 30 AFROTC pro-1
grams nationally, two in California, one at UC Berkeley and (he other here at CSUF.
Alvarado said he was "basically stunned" when news
of the impending closure was delivered to him and the
other cadets Thursday morning by Ll Col. Shaun Sullivan, chairman of the Aerospace Studies department
lhat oversees the Air Force ROTC program.
a news release from the Air Force citing which
programs would be cut, factors considered in the decision were listed as: annual officer production, academic quality of officer candidates, cost per commis-
sioned officer and Ihe size and share of the undergraduate
market at the host school.
Captain Nancy A. Homung, assistant professor of
Aerospace Study, said Col. Sullivan, who was unavailable for comment, attended an ROTC regional
conference in October where the closure of programs
was "discussed in a general way." At the conference no
schools were specified for closure and according to
Homung, Sullivan had no idea CSUF would be
targaed. She also added the decision could be jeversed
through congressional intervention.
The decision to close AFROTC still allows for
juniors and seniors to complete their studies and receive
a commission in the '88-"8Q school year, after lhat the
AFROTC will be eliminated from this campus.
Hardest hit by the news are sorpfaomores and
freshmen, like Alvarado, who will be given the option
of transferring to another campus with an AFROTC program, or tit sen rolling from the program "without prejudice," according lo the news release from the Air
Force.
Underclassmen with scholarships for the program
will be given the option to transfer to another school
with AFROTC, where the scholarship will be horiored,
or disenroll from the program and the scholarship rescinded.
The program will be phased out for freshmen and
sophomores starting m the fall semester.
Alvarado said the news had left him "really
undecided" and that his "whole life had just been cul"
Homung said the program, which has been on
Please see ROTC, page 4
UC campus proposal has
cities spinning wheels
By DonneO Alexander
Staff Writer
Representatives from areas competing
for the slate's still unproposed 10th
University of California campus admit
lhat proceedings are too premature for serious discussion of a site to occur.
Heads of three' community groups,
including a former CSUF business depart-
menl dean and chairman of one local pro-
UC group, said they have yet to begin
written communication with the school
system in their quest for a UC campus in
their towns.
"I think there are a lot of false starts
here," said Rick Jensen, head of the
Citizens for a UC Campus in Madera
Committee. "Until ihey figure out what
they want to do, you don't want to be
Spinning your wheels.
Among the cities in the hunt for the
next UC campus, which system president
David Gardner has announced will be
needed by the year 2004. are Fresno.
Redding, Madera, Merced and Tulare.
"There's been no clear signal they want
a proposal from us rather than anyone
else," said William Buzick of the UC
Fresno Committee.
So until there is, the lobbying groups
are drumming up kxal support, planning
for "what if?" and Utlking up the attractive
parts of their communities.
"I'd assume the university would build
in the area that has the most potential
appeal," said Maurice Johannssen, chairman of Redding's University of California
Action Committee.
UC wants an agricultural area,
according to sources Jensen declined to
name.
"That's what 1 heard, something thai is
an extension of the valley." Jensen said.
"If it's going to be developed around agriculture, we're as good as Fresno. We're a
little giant."
The local groups are doing different
things while waiting for a decision from
UC.
"We'll do what we can in terms oi
measuring community support and determining what would move Fresno inio the
vanguard once the UC makes the decision," Buzick said.
Jensen hopes Madera's recent progress
will be a major selling point, saying,
"We were very successful last year in getting a women's prison here.
"We're all in a holding pattern, to be
frank," said Jensen, who added his group
will not keep in close contact with Gardner's office. "I don't want be an annoyance."
Figures not associated with the pro- UC
groups have commented on what a second
university in the Fresno area could mean
to CSUFs future, CSUF assistant football coach Bill Dole pointed to the
situations of Los Angeles-area schools.
"Fullenon State and Long Beach State
can't attract anyone to their games and the
problem is you have to share money and
media coverage. There's only so much lo
go around," he said.
please see UC, page 5
Funding
requests
reviewed
By Steve Foottxh.
Staff Writer
Despite the loss of three members
over the semester break, tbe AS
Finance and Budget Committee managed to smoothl y work through their
first meeting of the semester Thursday.
Three of four AS Senators who normally sit oa the committee no longer
hoM senate posts.
Sean Ford and Eddie Chin, both of
whom held at-large seats, were removed from office last week for failing
to meet AS academic codes.
Former Social Science Sen. Patsy
Foley resigned carry this year citing a
■ FUNDS, page 8