1989_02 The Daily Collegian February 1989

              the Daily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1989
Lies mislead victims
Discussing methods of deception
the Upstairs Cafeteria Monday
the Nazis to exterminate Jews, Dr.
Nazis deceived Jews in Holocaust says speaker
By Mike Klingbeil
Staff Writer
The deception surrounding the Holo¬
caust involved euphemisms for death to
steadfast secrecy and lies, according to
Dr. Jacob Boas, associate director of the
Holocaust Center of Northern California
in San Francisco.
Boas' lecture Monday at the Upstairs
Cafeteria in front of approximately 200
people described an environment in
which Jews were told they were going
"East* to be resettled.
"They [the Jews) were told they were
being taken East to be resettled and,
more important, they would be reunited
with their families,'' said Boas. 	
According to Boas, the Jews were
promised work by the Germans at their
new destination.
Boas said thai the Germans were
elaborate in their deceptive techniques
from showing the Jews maps of where
they would be living in Germany to
the jobs that would be waiting them
when they got there.
The most obvious of the Nazi
deceptive ploys, he said, came in the
terminology they used.
"They used the term 'special
treatment' for being gassed," Boas said.
He added that Jewish secretaries work¬
ing for the Nazi Party were given a list
of 34 accepted causes of death while
excluding the the real ones.
When the Jews died by execution or
in the death camps, the cause of death
would be due to medical reasons that
would leave the public unsuspecting as
to the truth.
Similarly, the gas chambers were
dubbed "the final solution". Boas said.
"'Cleansing operations' was a positive
phrase for saying me Jews were wiped
out," he said
The death camps, said Boas, were
called "resettlement camps."
Boas said that most Jews believed
what they were being told.
Moreover, Boas paints a picture of
German obsession with deceiving the
See JEWS, page 3
AIDS
testing
offered
By Suzanne M. Colby
Contributing Writer
With 127 cases of AIDS reported in
Fresno since 1985, the CSUF Health Cen¬
ter will begin voluntary AIDS testing
Thursday.
According to a Central Valley AIDS
commission representative, there have
been a total of 127 identified AIDS cases
in Fresno since 1$85. Of the 127 cases,
there have been 81 deaths.
Obviously, like many communiucs
across die nation, Fresno is not immune
from the AIDS virus. Aware of this fact,
the CSUF Health Center has become in¬
creasingly active in promoting AIDS
awareness education on campus.
The testing program is a coopcrauvc
effort of both the Fresno County Health
Department and the campus Health
Center. AIDS specialists from the Coun¬
ty Health Department will take blood
samples and conduct lab tesung of the
samples. Those being tested will prob¬
ably receive lab results within two weeks
of their initial tests.
Complete anonymity is guaranteed to
those wishing to be tested.
Sam (.Michel, health educator at the
Health Center, said counseling is an
integral part of the AIDS testing pro¬
gram. "One of the main purposes of
testing is to better educate people about
their immune status in order io prevent
the spread of AIDS to others."
Those interested in having an AIDS
test should call the Student Health Center
first and ask for more information. A
county AIDS specialist will meet one on-
one with people in a designated area in
the Health Center. Numbers will be used
in place of names in order to insure anony¬
mity.
Though publicity for the testing
program is aimed at students, faculty, and
staff at CSUF, it is available to anyone
in die community. "We won't know who
the people are anyway because the testing
is anonymous," said Gitchel.
AIDS testing is already available at
other sites in Fresno but Gitchel said that
he feels a test site on campus is a good
idea. "Access is an important variable in
the AIDS tesung process," said Gitchel.
"It makes it more convenient for people."
GLSA president Ivan Vincent, who has
Please see AIDS, page 4
CSU to give out Forgivable Loans
By Sylvia Castro
Staff Writer
In a unique effort to help
others help themselves and even¬
tually reap rewards for itself, the
CSU system has devised a pro¬
gram to encourage more women
and minorities to pursue doctoral
degrees.
According to Dorothy Tucci,
administrative aide of Affirm¬
ative Action, the Forgivable
Loan Program was devised three
years ago in an effort to get
more in*denepresented individ¬
uals into doctoral degree pro¬
grams.
Emphasis is put on fields
where numbers are small,
such as in physical and life
science, mathematics, computer
science and engineering.
Those who are eligible can
receive up to S 10,000 a year for
three years to realize their doc¬
toral degree." said Tucci, "Upon
completion of their studies, if
they work as full-time faculty at
any of the CSU system cam¬
puses their loan is forgiven at a
20 percent rate per year. So in
five years, they can pay off their
loan." she said.
Out of 40 CSU students who
were awarded loans last year, six
were from the Fresno campus.
Once students meet a given
criteria and file their applica¬
tions, they arc sent to the Chan¬
cellor's Office for selection and
are notified by June 30, said Tuc¬
ci.
"The economic assistance
determined my ability to attend
school to get my doctoral
degree." said Janis Patch, a Fres¬
no native and blind student at
UC Berkeley who was awarded a
loan last summer. She was able
to continue studying language
and literacy problems in educa¬
tion.
Without   this   program   she
would not have continued her
education.
Dr. Barbara Mayer, a CSUF
chemistry professor who spon¬
sored recipient Darryl Leon last
year, said that a program such as
this definitely gives the CSU
systems an edge when vying for
minority faculty in underrep-
resented areas.
"Everyone else wants the
same person because it's difficult
to get minorities as teachers,"
said Mayer. "It's an advantage to
them to come here. The depart¬
ment benefits from one of its
own students and the student
doesn't lose either."
CurrenUy the loans are
financed by the lottery funds.
The program has been so
successful that Chancellor W.
Ann Reynolds will request mat
additional funds be allocated
from 1989-90 budget
This program comes in a
timely manner, over the next ten
years institutions of higher learn¬
ing across the nation will con¬
front a shortage of faculty
members to replace those hired
in the 1960's who are getting
ready to retire.
Besides  in  academic   fields
Please see LOANS, page 3