1991_04 The Daily Collegian April 1991

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Learning to counsel
The Collegian • April 3,1991    D
Voice comes to CSUF
By Jillian Fritch
Collegian Staff Writer
Family conflicts can be painful and are
sometimes inevitable. For many, getting
help can be a financial impossibility when
hourly fees for a counselor range from S60
to SI 00.
But these fees do not apply at a small900
square foot house north of Herndon where
a team of CSUF graduate students meet
with local families to help them with their
problems. The first counseling session is
S25 and the following sessions a re SI 0 each.
The program, called the Marriage and
Family Counseling program, began in 1985
and isa cooperative venture between CSUF
and the Clovis Unified School District.
The graduate students are supervised by
Dr. H. Dan Smith and Dr. Ronald Kiyuna
via video cameras in each room.
The two professors simultaneously watch
the sessions on television monitors in an¬
other room of the house. If any guidance is
needed the professors knock on the door
and give advice to the students.
The interruptions and cameras do not
seem :o inhibit the interaction between the
clients and training counselors. "As soon as
what you are talking about becomes impor¬
tant thecamera just fades a wav," Smith, the
chair of the Counseling and Special Educa¬
tion department, said.
Another form of feed-back is called "dual
channel." While viewing Ihe session on the
television monitor the supervisor records
his common ts giving a "play by play" of the
interaction. The students can later listen to
the tape and review the intricacies of the
session.
"The University gave us S18,000 in the
beginningand we haven't needed toaskfor
anymore money since that rime," Smith
said.
The money made from the sessions is
usually put back into the equipment pur-
chaseandmaintenanceof VCRs, televisions,
and stereos used for supervision.
Over the past six years over 500 families
fromClovisand Fresnohavereceivedcoun¬
seling at the center.
On an average a family is seen 8.5 times
which over the years equals more than 4,000
sessions that have been done at the clinic.
"We have saved the community a lot of
bucks," Smith said.
In addition to saving families money it
provides real life training for the graduate
students working towards their license
which requires 3,000 hours of counseling to
obtain.
"I feel very fortunate to be in this pro¬
gram. There's nothing loeven compare,"
graduate student Lisa Lofton said. The
counseling sessions are held on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m.
One student brings dinner and everyone
See FAMILY, page 7
By Jana Ballinger
Collegian Staff Writer
"Everybody Dance Now!"
T the voice may be recognizable, however
the nameand face will probably elude you.
Her name is Martha Wash.
Performing her smash hits "Gonna Make
You Sweat/Everybody Dance Now" by
C+C Music Factoryand "You're My One
and Only True Love" by Seduction, Wash
will appear at the Satellite Student Union
tonight.
The story behind the New York singer is
familiar and certainly not unbelievable.
Regardless of the undeniable quality of her
voice, Wash's image was not what the rec¬
ord producers had in mind. Although she
has five songs in the top50, faces and bodies
of women reflecting the "preferred" video
image replace her on the screen.
"The record company said that she is not
appealing enough to be on a record jacket,"
says producer Peter Robertson. "Ilis sad to
say'we like your voice but we don't like the
way you look.'"
The concert will begin at 9 p.m. and the
doors will be opening at 8 p.m.
Proceeds benefit Friends of People Liv¬
ing with AIDS and the event is being co-
sponsored by B-95.
'This is the first time a radio station has
co-sponsored an AIDS benefit," said Peter
Robertson, producer, "which to me is a big
step.
Friends of People Living with AIDS is a
Fresno-based California non-profit organi¬
zation that is committed to raising funds to
be used exclusively in providing direct
services to people living with AIDS and
A RC-rclated conditions.
"I'm very proud of this," Robertson said.
"IWashl is an underdog. Her music is big
but people don't know it is her singing.
This la test lip-syncing sea ndalhas caught
the attention ot newspapers across the na¬
tion including the New York Times, Los
Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle.
Also, recent appearances on the Arsenio
Hall Show, Entertainment Tonight and A
Current Affair have prompted nationwide
attention.
Wash successfully sued RCA over an
incident involving the recordingof the group
"Black Box" in which she sang back-up
vocals but was not credited.
Her settlement included an eight-album
recording contract, however current suits
are currently in litigation with Sony and
A&M Records.
Once a back-up singer for the late
Sylvester, she formed one half of the duo
Two Tons of Fun, who later called them¬
selves The WeatherCir Is ("It's RainingMen"
and "Success").
Wash will play Fresno between stops in
LA. and San Francisco stops.
"She's never been to Fresnoand probablv
she'll never come back," said Robertson.
Reggae: Varied influences focus band
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ihrce minutes
In the front row was a "mosh
pit" {sometimes called a "slam" or
"skank" pit in which fans aggres¬
sively collide with oneanothor) of
four to five head-bangers (fans,
usually with long hair, who vio¬
lently "nod" or "bob" their heads
to the beat of the music) which is
more indicative of hard-core or
punk rock.
By the third song, the mosh pit
consisted of nine to ten members.
Then things mellowed-out con¬
siderably.
A little more than a third of the
concert was then soft reggae. The
Highway:
Continued from page 1
alma matertotheUniversityof
California at Berkeley in terms
of student activism. He doesn't
see tha t degree of involvement
at CSUF.
"The student body there is
very active on campus and in
the community," he said.
"When I came here three and a
halfyearsago, I didn't see that
The students here, as a whole,
just don't seem to care very
much.
"It really burns me when I
hear peoplesay, 'Fresno is ugly.'
Well, if they don't like it, do
something about it."
Adopt-a-Highway is not the
only item on PSE's busy agenda.
The organization is currently in¬
volved ina half dozen other com¬
munity service and research
projects, and is putting on fun¬
draisers toattend PSE's national
convention next week in Los
Angeles.
differences in the song selection
could be attributed to the band's
varied musical background.
Lead singer Ras. known as
"H.R." to fans and "Joe" to fellow
band members, cites his musical
influences from such a mix of art¬
ists as The Abyssinia t% Bad Brains,
The Beatles, James Brown, The
Israel Vibrations. BobMarley, and
Stevie Wonder.
In a pre-concert interview H.R.
described his debut in reggae
music as a "spritual transforma¬
tion" and said "it was my destiny
since being exposed to BobMarley
in 1978.
Erald Briscoe (a.k.a. English¬
man), bass player, spoke on the
tour bus about the idea of legaliz¬
ing marijuana and said that it
should not be linked with artificial
"hard" drugslikccocaineand LSD
H.R., a Rastafanan. also spoke
about the legalization of mari¬
juana, but also of concern about
the image marijuana use hasgiven
the followers of his Jamaican relig¬
ion.
"Rastafari are not herb addicts.
We do bathe, we stav clean and
useshampoo. Wearevcrvscnous
about bygeine." said H.R.
H.R. and other members of
Human Rightscomplained of the
negative drug-dealing image the
Rastafarians were branded with
in such movies as "Predator 2"
and "Marked For Death" which
Doug "Hamma" Levy, the band's
sound engineer called "wolves in
sheeps clothing."
H.R. attacked the movies as
presenting a false image, "Rasta-
tari don't sell drugs.   We are a
peace-loving people."
H.R. repeated that he had a
family and defended the "demo¬
cratic" virtues of Rastafarian re¬
ligion saying "You don't have to
smoke herb (marijuana) to be
Rastafari. You don't have to be
black. You don't have to wear
dreads. You don't have to plav
reggae. Just as if you plav reggae,
it doesn't make you a Rastalan."
Tuesday's concert was the last
of the band's west coast tour.
They came to Fresno after an
appearance beforea crowd of more
than 10,000 in Rosarito, Mexico
over spring break.
The band hails primarily from
America's east coast, where thev
are returning following the con¬
cert.
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