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October 1993
Vol. 15, No. 1(45)
Supplement to the Daily Collegian
15th Year Anniversary: 1978/9-1993/4
Hye Sharzhoom Keeps on Ticking
Armenian newspaper celebrates its
15th anniversary
By Nina Momjian
Hye Sharzhoom Editor
Who ever said the Armenian
spirit is dying among the new generation Armenians, must not have
known about Hye Sharzhoom.
For 15 years Hye Sharzhoom
has been the voice of Armenian
students at CSUF, expressing their
interests and concerns to Armenian
communities around the world.
Since the academic year of 1978/
79, Hye Sharzhoom has been the
only continuously published Armenian student-operated newspaper on any campus in the U.S., with
a mailing list of more than 4,000
names from every corner of the
world.
"The mission was to teach the
students how to own and run a
newspaper. The paper provided
both a vehicle of expression for
Armenian students at Fresno State,
and an instrument for developing
communication skills. Hye
Sharzhoom was theirs. They could
make it flourish or they could let it
Armenians
Boycott Unocal
By Khatchig Jingirian Jr.
Assistant Editor
For the past eight months, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's
(ARF) Shant Student Association, the
Armenian Youth Federation (AYF),
and the Anti-Blockade Committee, a
non-partisan group, have been leading
a boycott of the Unocal Corporation
because of its attempt to repeal Section
907 of the Freedom Support Act
The act, which was passed by the
United States Congress, forbids any
aid to Azerbaijan until the five year old
blockade on Armenian is lifted.
'If the act is repealed, it will bring
support to the Azeri war-machine,"
said Raffi Doudaklian, spokesperson
ofthe ARF Shant Student Association,
and member of the Unocal Committee, a coaution-committee to organize
the boycott.
The committee is not against
Unocal's business venture, however
they hope that the company will wait
until the Karabagh conflict is resolved.
Azerbaijan has already received
close to $70 million toward possible
business agreements with eight foreign oil companies to develop
Azerbaijan's oil trade. These companies include Unocal, Amaco, Penzoil,
McDermott, British Petroleum, Star
Oil, Turkish Petroleum, and more recently, Chevron.
Letters, from both Armenian and
American gas station owners, in the
greater Los Angeles area, have been
sent in complaint of a loss of business
due to Armenian customers whowon' t
support Unocal. Furthermore, over
200 Unocal credit cards have been
returned from angry customers.
Doudaklian said that peopleshould
help by writing letters and calling the
Unocal offices, as well as returning
their Unocal credit cards in protest.
Inside Hye Sharzhoom...
"Armenian Character"
Page 2
Kevorkian Faces Another Battle
Page 3
A&E: Music, Theater, Literature
and Religion
Page 4
Page 5
Dateline (News from Armenia)
Page 6
Return of the Armenian page
Page 7
die. Today it is still alive and still
lively and still produced by CSUF
students," wrote Dr. Dickran
Kouymjian in a 1988 Hye
Sharzhoom article entitled "Hye
Sharzhoom -a Decade Later."
The first issue's editors, Mark
Malkasian and Mark Najarian, produced the four-page issue with a
front page article entitled
"Armenocide: Crime Against Humanity."
Throughout the first few years
of the paper, students wrote about
various topics such as "Black Studies Prof. Sees Tie Between Hyes
and Blacks," "Assimilation: Will
Hyes Fall into the 'Melting Pot'?"
and "Intermarriage in the Armenian Community."
In 1981 the paper doubled in
size to 16 pages with a four-page
section dedicated to a man whose
writings have made Fresno famous
throughout the world. The section
was headlined "Impressions of
William Saroyan."
During these 15 years, Hye
Sharzhoom has received feedback
through letters to the editor sent
from countries such as Canada,
Hungary, France, Poland, Spain,
and even from our mother country
... Armenia.
Although Hye Sharzhoom receives donations toward mailing
costs, the paper has always relied
on the Armenian Studies Program
to pay for more than half the expenses for a mailing list which once
reached a high of 9,000 names.
Today the paper's mailing list is
revised, yet it's still dedicated to
educate and entertain more than
4,000 readers with opinions and
the skills of Armenian students at
Fresno State.
As Dr. Kouymjian wrote five
years ago ... "Will the paper last
another decade? Who knows?"
We the editors and staff of Hye
Sharzhoom 1993/94 are determined
to produce a positive answer.
From left to right: Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Nalra Shahsuvarian, Andrey
Shiglik, and Dr. Vartan Gregorian at Armenian Studies Program Banquet.
Gregorian Draws 250 at
ASP Annual Banquet
By Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and
Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Special to Hye Sharzhoom
A capacity crowd of 250 were
caught by the charm of Dr. Vartan
Gregorian, President of Brown
University and keynote speaker
at the Eighth Annual Banquet of
CSUF's Armenian Studies Program, Sept. 10,1993, where more
than 30 CSUF students were
awarded scholarships, most of
whom are working to complete
minors in Armenian Studies.
Known for his warmth and quick
brilliance, Dr. Gregorian personally welcomed the guests as they
arrived for the pre-dinner social
hour. This was Dr. Gregorian's
hallmark: personableness, warmth,
intelligence.
At the beginning of his talk,
Dr. Gregorian announced he was
--going to speak on a more dynamic subject, the history of Armenia and the Armenian Republic today, rather than on the Armenian settlement in New Julfa,
Iran. He presented Armenian
history through the ten important
Please see ASP, page 6