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Opinion
Inspector Dreyfuss
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Feature
Sign language breaks
G.E. barrier
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Sports
Keeping 'Track' of
the Bulldogs
/^Collegian
Volume XCVII
issue No. 47 ^°e Daily News Source for California State University, Fresno ^sm
April 9, 1991
Daves vetoes '91-92 budget
By Debbie Speer
Collegian News Editor
A veto of all! 991 -92 Associated
Students Inc. budget i terns passed
by the ASI Senate at last week's
meeting was issued in a terse
memo from President Don Daves
yesterday.
The items vetoed were for ASI
administration, programs, operat¬
ing expenses, TheCollegian,intra-
murals/recreation and cam-
puswidebudgets, and their fund¬
ing had been approved unani¬
mously by the senate at its April 2
meeting. "Campus wide budgets"
include Vintage Days and the
University Lecture Series.
Daves said he will also veto any
other 1991-92 budget items that
may be approved by the senate at
todaysmeetingas well. Thema-
jor budget items yet to be consid¬
ered are cultural, joint school fund¬
ing and miscellaneous items.
According to Daves, those three
items include all funding that
normally goes to CSUF clubs and
other organizations.
The action taken by Daves, in
effect, nullifies the entire budget
for the next ASI fiscal year. If a
budget is not approved by
semester's end, it will be consid¬
ered unfinished business for the
incoming administration to be
elected April 23-25 tocontend wi th.
The last time an ASI president
vetoed a budget was in 1982, ac¬
cording to Anthony Castelli, ASI
administrah' ve vice president and
chairman of the Finance and
Budget Committee which devel¬
oped the budget and presented it
to the full senate for passage.
At that time, according to Cas¬
telli, the budget was taken out of
the hands of the F&B committee
and thrown to the senate for re-
writingand resubmission. He said
the senate meeting that finally
approved a budget lasted until 2
a.m.
Daves said yesterday that he
intends to send the budget back to
the F&B committee with recom¬
mendations, rather than turn it
over to the senate.
According to Daves, Castelli was
in error when he proposed a CSUF
student enrollment estimate of
18,000forthecornmitteetobaseits
total budgetupon. Daves believes
the estimate should be setat 20,00).
Current enrollment is 19,042,
however, spring semester enroll¬
ment is usually somewhat lower
than that in the fall.
Another wrench in the enroll¬
ment estimate process is thrown
in bv Gov. Pet Wilson. Under his
proposed CSU system wide budget
cuts and a 20 percent universily
fee increase, it is widely expected
that enrollment will in fact drop.
How an enrollment shortfall
would affect the ASI budget was
not immediately known.
The total budget figure is ar¬
rived at by multiplying the esti¬
mated enrollment by the $16
mandatory ASI fee all CSUF stu¬
dents must pay upon registering
See BUDGET page 3 ASI President Don Daves
YAF pushes ASI fee
decrease initiative
•Group wants mandatory fees cut in half
By Debbie Richards
Collegian Staff Writer
Amid controversvand concern over reg¬
istration fees which might be increased
20percent next year, the Young Americans
for Freedom arc circulating a petition to
reduce those fees by eight dollars.
"At this point, we want to be the Ralph
Naders' of the school. Ifs kind of a neat
position tobc in," Steve Seewald, president
of YAF, said.
YAF—a group that formed last semester
on campus — is disappointed in the ASI's
use of student funds. Six teendollars of each
students' registration fees are used to fund
the ASI. To change what they feel is a "cor¬
rupt" use of those funds, the group is circu¬
lating a petition that will place a proposal
on the ballot this month to reduce the fees
from 516 to eight dollars a semester.
'The government has been unresponsive
to students for a long time," Seewald said.
"I;'s not just under Unity-SRC we find this.
We found the same thing, in looking at
records of past student governments, un¬
der the Reality party, also."
YAF's primary concerns are the large ASi
acministration, large operating budget and
the funding of whalYAFcalls "special inter¬
est" clubs and events.
A flyer YAF is circulating on campus says
that 22 percent of the ASI budget is allo¬
cated for "administration and operating
expenses." This, YAFcharges, is too high. 1 n
comparison, the CSUF Athletic Corpora¬
tion "used up no more than 12 percent of
their budge' on administrative expenses."
It concludes, "So why does ASI spend 22
percent of its total budget onadministrtaive
ard operating expenses?"
ASI president Don Daves called the YAF
proposal "an uninformed effort," and re¬
sponded to the administrations allocation
See YAF, page 3
AIDS focus of lecture
By Jason Peepgrass
Special to The Collegian
"Mv life, my health, my future should be
more serious than anything else in the next
ten minutes," said Richard Keeling M.D.
during a strong and powerful lecture Mon¬
day night at the Satellite Student Union.
Addressinga large crowd, Kcelingsta ted
that the topic of AlDSand sexual awareness
needed to be continually enforced by the
rommunitv.
The lecture, which was funded through a
grant from the University of California
Univcrsitywide AIDS research program,
was co-sponsored by six community or¬
ganizations dedicated to increasing AIDS
awareness, including the University AIDS
Advisory Committee and the CSUF Stu¬
dent AIDS Task Force.
Dr. Keeling is thedirectorof student health
services at the University of Virginia and an
associate professor of internal medicine
(division of hematology and oncology) at
the University of Virginia School of Mcdi-
See AIDS,pa^e4
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| Title | 1991_04 The Daily Collegian April 1991 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
| Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
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Description
| Title | April 9, 1991, Page 1 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
| Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
| Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
| Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
| Language | eng |
| Full-Text-Search | 2 Opinion Inspector Dreyfuss writes an open letter 3 Feature Sign language breaks G.E. barrier 5 Sports Keeping 'Track' of the Bulldogs /^Collegian Volume XCVII issue No. 47 ^°e Daily News Source for California State University, Fresno ^sm April 9, 1991 Daves vetoes '91-92 budget By Debbie Speer Collegian News Editor A veto of all! 991 -92 Associated Students Inc. budget i terns passed by the ASI Senate at last week's meeting was issued in a terse memo from President Don Daves yesterday. The items vetoed were for ASI administration, programs, operat¬ ing expenses, TheCollegian,intra- murals/recreation and cam- puswidebudgets, and their fund¬ ing had been approved unani¬ mously by the senate at its April 2 meeting. "Campus wide budgets" include Vintage Days and the University Lecture Series. Daves said he will also veto any other 1991-92 budget items that may be approved by the senate at todaysmeetingas well. Thema- jor budget items yet to be consid¬ ered are cultural, joint school fund¬ ing and miscellaneous items. According to Daves, those three items include all funding that normally goes to CSUF clubs and other organizations. The action taken by Daves, in effect, nullifies the entire budget for the next ASI fiscal year. If a budget is not approved by semester's end, it will be consid¬ ered unfinished business for the incoming administration to be elected April 23-25 tocontend wi th. The last time an ASI president vetoed a budget was in 1982, ac¬ cording to Anthony Castelli, ASI administrah' ve vice president and chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee which devel¬ oped the budget and presented it to the full senate for passage. At that time, according to Cas¬ telli, the budget was taken out of the hands of the F&B committee and thrown to the senate for re- writingand resubmission. He said the senate meeting that finally approved a budget lasted until 2 a.m. Daves said yesterday that he intends to send the budget back to the F&B committee with recom¬ mendations, rather than turn it over to the senate. According to Daves, Castelli was in error when he proposed a CSUF student enrollment estimate of 18,000forthecornmitteetobaseits total budgetupon. Daves believes the estimate should be setat 20,00). Current enrollment is 19,042, however, spring semester enroll¬ ment is usually somewhat lower than that in the fall. Another wrench in the enroll¬ ment estimate process is thrown in bv Gov. Pet Wilson. Under his proposed CSU system wide budget cuts and a 20 percent universily fee increase, it is widely expected that enrollment will in fact drop. How an enrollment shortfall would affect the ASI budget was not immediately known. The total budget figure is ar¬ rived at by multiplying the esti¬ mated enrollment by the $16 mandatory ASI fee all CSUF stu¬ dents must pay upon registering See BUDGET page 3 ASI President Don Daves YAF pushes ASI fee decrease initiative •Group wants mandatory fees cut in half By Debbie Richards Collegian Staff Writer Amid controversvand concern over reg¬ istration fees which might be increased 20percent next year, the Young Americans for Freedom arc circulating a petition to reduce those fees by eight dollars. "At this point, we want to be the Ralph Naders' of the school. Ifs kind of a neat position tobc in," Steve Seewald, president of YAF, said. YAF—a group that formed last semester on campus — is disappointed in the ASI's use of student funds. Six teendollars of each students' registration fees are used to fund the ASI. To change what they feel is a "cor¬ rupt" use of those funds, the group is circu¬ lating a petition that will place a proposal on the ballot this month to reduce the fees from 516 to eight dollars a semester. 'The government has been unresponsive to students for a long time," Seewald said. "I;'s not just under Unity-SRC we find this. We found the same thing, in looking at records of past student governments, un¬ der the Reality party, also." YAF's primary concerns are the large ASi acministration, large operating budget and the funding of whalYAFcalls "special inter¬ est" clubs and events. A flyer YAF is circulating on campus says that 22 percent of the ASI budget is allo¬ cated for "administration and operating expenses." This, YAFcharges, is too high. 1 n comparison, the CSUF Athletic Corpora¬ tion "used up no more than 12 percent of their budge' on administrative expenses." It concludes, "So why does ASI spend 22 percent of its total budget onadministrtaive ard operating expenses?" ASI president Don Daves called the YAF proposal "an uninformed effort," and re¬ sponded to the administrations allocation See YAF, page 3 AIDS focus of lecture By Jason Peepgrass Special to The Collegian "Mv life, my health, my future should be more serious than anything else in the next ten minutes," said Richard Keeling M.D. during a strong and powerful lecture Mon¬ day night at the Satellite Student Union. Addressinga large crowd, Kcelingsta ted that the topic of AlDSand sexual awareness needed to be continually enforced by the rommunitv. The lecture, which was funded through a grant from the University of California Univcrsitywide AIDS research program, was co-sponsored by six community or¬ ganizations dedicated to increasing AIDS awareness, including the University AIDS Advisory Committee and the CSUF Stu¬ dent AIDS Task Force. Dr. Keeling is thedirectorof student health services at the University of Virginia and an associate professor of internal medicine (division of hematology and oncology) at the University of Virginia School of Mcdi- See AIDS,pa^e4 |
