1990_02 The Daily Collegian February 1990

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California
State
University,
Fresno
CThe Daily
OLLEGIAN
20 years of
progress...
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Monday, February 12,1990
Established 1922
Vol. 95 No. 73
Due to technical difficulties...
Variety of reasons attributed to Daily Collegian's delay
By Beth Corbo
Staff Writer
It's time to gel informed.
For the last 10 school days, students
have been thirsting for campus news
and have come up dry. For a variety of
reasons, mainly administrative delays
tn the .upper echelons of the CSU sys¬
tem, the Daily Collegian has not been
able to grace the bottom of your shoes.
But despair no more.
Michael Green, former Daily Colle¬
gian editor, atlributes the two-week
delay In publication to the bureaucracy
Involved in getting the Dally Collegian
Independence Plan officially adopted.
The Independence Plan, passed by
voters last March, established a Pubi-
calions Commission responsible for
overseeing the newspaper's operations.
Some of the Commission's duties In¬
clude selecting editors, drafting the
budget and appointing a business
manager for the publication. The plan
was co-written by Gregory Wuliger, a
journalism professor, and former ASI
Senate parliamentarian. Ron Avedis-
lan.
The main objective of the plan is to
maximize the amount of independence
the Dally Collegian could have and still
get AS funding." Wuliger said.
Though the document was passed by
the voters late last semester.' it was not
officially adopted untlUanuary 1, 1990
due to numerous delays.
"We were supposed to phase the plan
in gradually durjng Ihe Fall '89 semes¬
ter. When the [document] got approved
so late we just had To get up and run¬
ning as soon as the Commission came
into effect." said Wuliger.
•Due to the late adoption of the plan
and assembly of the Commission, the
current editor of the Collegian. Erie
Burney. was not appointed untlUanu¬
ary 31.    »
The things I am doing now should
have been done a month ago, at least-
supplies being ordered, the staff being
pul together and dealing wilh the busi¬
ness side of It." he said.
The Independence Plan was met with
caution by the California State Univer¬
sity legal department, said Green, be¬
cause it feared the newspaper would
have too much independence from As¬
sociated Students lnc.
Despite the Initial negative recom¬
mendation.   CSUF   President   Harold
Haak approved the Independence Plan
fora three-year trial run after his return
from the Soviet Union late last semes¬
ter.
Further hampering the Independence
Plan's adoption was poor timing.
"The reality of campus politics is lhat
It comes grinding to a halt every time
there Is a vacation because all the mov¬
ers and shakers have gone away during
a time when the incoming editor would
traditionally be working his butt off to
get the pafier off the ground." Green
said.
Nearly a year after the student voters
approved the establishment of the Pub¬
lications Commislon, It has-flnally been
assembled and has met several times.
See COLLEGIAN^ page 5
Long hard look
Jason B. CanowlDaHyCollegian'
Every week. Cheryl Kershaw, agraduate art student, has been practicing for the American College Dance Festival in Tucson. A2 March 7-H. *y
Budget proposal questionable
CSU Chancellor Reynolds forsees maintenance complications
By Todd Heth
Staff Wrtter
California State University system
Chancellor Ann Reynolds received the
Governor's proposed 1990-91 budget
with mixed emotions after noting the
funding shortages in most areas.
Reynolds satd the budget will com¬
plicate the maintaining of the system
and Its expected growth.
"While we anticipated a very sparse
budget, the support level proposed In
the Governor's Budget Is wholly inade¬
quate to accommodate the number of
students who are projected to enroll."
said Reynolds.
The proposed budget must first be
approved by the state legislature before
the budget Is actually set Into motion.
That will come sometime In June, said
CSU Assistant Vice Chancellorof Budget
Lou Messner.
Proposed opera ting support finances
are $224 less than requested by the
Board of Trustees' Amended Request.
Although 11 represents a 2.1 percent
increase from the current budget, pro¬
jected 1990-91 enrollment requires an
Increaseof 10.8 percent, said Reynolds.
Some of the major disappointments
the chancellor pointed out were no pro¬
visions for prici.- increases, no funding
for required non-faculty merit salary
adjustments and reduction of relief for
current year unallocated reductions.
"We haye an $84.5 million debt that
is confronting us unless we get some
relief from the legislature." said Mess¬
ner.
One bright point in the CSU pro¬
posed budget is the Capital Outlay
portion, which at $212,626,000 pro¬
vides 95 percent of the request.
"It is one of the highest levels of
construction funding the CSU has ever
received." said Reynolds. Tamgraufled
by the administration's support for Ihe
facilities the CSU so desperately needs
tomeettheenrollmentchallengeswhlch
the university is facing."
As for employee compensation, the
proposed budget-would provide an av¬
erage of 3.9 percent for non-faculty em¬
ployees and 4.9 percent for faculty,
subject to collective bargaining.
Reynolds said that although Ihe per-
See BUDGET, page 4
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