1994_03 Insight March 1994

              March 16,1994
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Blood drive nets
349 pints of life
By Lisa L. Alvey
Staff Writer
"Oh my God hc fell," a student
yelled.
Six or seven volunteers ran over to
where a tall student had crashed to the
ground, his head sounded like a bowling ball being dropped.
"Hello sir, come on, wake up," said
Jun Sayong, a recruiter for the Blood
Center. "Come on. wake up." Sayone
repeated.
Thc young man lost consciousness
briefly while waiting to give blood.
When he came back around the volunteers sat him up, checked his blood
pressure, gave him a T-shirt and sent
him on his way.
"Hc is okay," said Sayong. "Hc
was just a little nervous about giving
blood. We encourage donors to have
a positive attitude when ihcy come
in."
Thc Satellite Student Union, filled
with donors and volunteers, was a
hectic place March 9. Three-hundred
and forty-nine students waited for an
average of two hours to donate blood.
Blood students donated will go to
32 area hospitals in Fresno couniy,
according to Debra Sheridan, a rc-
inuiierfortheCentralCalifomiaBlood
Bank.
Thc Tuesday following the
Northridge earthquake, thc Blood
Bank sent 160 pints to thc Red Cross.
More than 1,000 people donated
blood.
Sheridan said she wished more
would donate at least twice a year. If
pcopledid, the Blood Bank would not
be in such a shortage now.
Many of the donors at the March 9
blood drive started to donate blood in
high school, some were regular donors while many were first time donors.
The reasons students donate blood
vary.
Shelly Silva donated because shc
wanted lhc T-shirt
"I donate every time that they are
on campus," said Silva. "I have thcT-
shirts to prove it."
Ivan Lanoen, a iirst-umc uonoi,
was not sure why he donated blood.
"I never did it before and with them
being on campus it made it very convenient. Besides, I got a nice T-shirt
and ii didn't hurt," hc said.
Anna Hernandez, an annual donor,
said shc heard of thc need and decided
to give to those who need it.
Not all students at lhc Satellite Student Union were donating blood,
though.
Katie Fcrrington, a membcrof Beta
Alpha Psi, donated hcrtimcasa walker.
She worked for two hours carrying
studenls' bags after they got up from
ihc table to the refreshment area jusl in
case the sludent got lightheaded and
passed out
"I would rather donate my time
instead of my blood," said Fcrrington.
The next blood drive will be a two-
day event on Nov. 2 and 3.
"Wc want toaccommooatc as many
students as possible and because of thc
long wait, some students couldn't donate." said Sheridan.
"With a iwo-day drive, more people
will be able to participate."
Three-hundred and forty-nine pints
were donated.
Study finds Fresno civility among the lowest
By Jason Gibbs
StaffWriter
Professors labor in scholarly research, usually with anonymity,
only to end up buried in obscure
publications read only by other professors.
Not Dr. Robert Levine.
His research on urban civility
led to national exposure on Cable
News Network.
Levine, chairman of the psychology department and a professor at
CSUF since 1973,received national
attention for a study of civility in
Amfrira which aired on CNN as
part of an hour-long show "Thc
Decline of Civilization."
Levine researched 36 cities to
find out in which U.S. cities people
are most helpful to strangers.
Research included people's response to a dropped pen, being
asked for change of a quarter, and
donations to the United Way as a
measurcof chart tabic contributions.
Rochester, NY, ranked first as
thc kindest to strangers.
New York city was last, ranking 36
on the list
Levine's study was done during
three summers between 1991 and
1993.
The study was
published in American Demographics
in October. 1993.
For thc CNN
show, Levine and a
former psychology
student, Gary Brasc,
traveled with a film
crew to Rochester
and New York city.
Many of thc study
experiments were repeated, this time with
hidden microphones
and a camera crew
ready to catch the action.
Thc results were
similar the second time around.
Brasc walked thc streets of New
York, dropping pens, magazines and
even playing the part of a blind man
trying to cross Ihe street while busy
New Yorkers rushed by, none offering help.
In Rochester, however, folks
stopped to help, picking up the pen or
magazines and offering to help him
walk across the
street as a blind
man.
Levine that he
is grateful for the
experience, partly
because of the
publicity it gives
the department
and thc school, but
also because it
gives him quality
which hc can use
in class for years.
Of the 36 cities
Levine studied,
Fresno ranked 33,
finishing dead last
on two measures.
In one of thc experiments in which
Fresno finished last, a stamped, addressed envelope was left on the windshield of a randomly selected car
parked at a meter in a main shopping area.
Scores were then measured by
the number of letters that later arrived because people were helpful
enough to mail them.
Fresno's rate of return was 53
percent.
San Diego finished first with a
return rate of 100 percent
Fresno also finished last in contributions to the United Way with
per capita contributions of less than
one-tenth thatof front runner Rochester.
As for why Fresno ranked so
low, Levine cited thc lack of a real
walking traffic.
"Fresno is unaccustomed to
street life," Levine concluded.
"It isn't that Fresnans are rude,
they just have no practice in public
courtesy."
Levine is currenUy going international widi his study.
He plans to have students on six
•continents, including China, Japan and most countries in Europe.
Farrakhan visit sparks opposing reactions
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StaffWriter
Time magazine rccenUy trumpeted
his teachings as a "ministry of rage"
and put his photo on the cover.
Individuals on the CSUF campus
sec Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of
Islam as a dichotomy of styles. To
some he is the picture of hostility,
hate and violence. To others, he instills feelings of hope, self-reliance
and determination.
Recently, Farrakhan, who will be
speaking at the William Saroyan
Theater March 19, has come under
fire for his harsh anii-Scmetic remarks. A top aides, Khalid Abdul
Muhammad, delivered disparaging
remarks against Jews in a speech
given to students at Kcan College in
New Jersey. For his remarks, hc has
since been demoted. Yet, Farrakhan
is seen as a visionary by millions of
Nation of Islam Muslims and non-
Muslims alike.
The Nation of Islam was founded
by Wallace D. Fard in 1930 as an
attempt to embrace true African values and cultures. Its roots were based
in orthodox concepts of Islam -
practicics lhai included abstinence,
temperance, and submission to God.
Eventually, thc torch was passed
to Elijah Poole, who later became
Elijah Muhammad after his conversion to Nation of Islam. After
Malcolm X's popularity waned fol
lowing, his silencing by Muhammad
in thc mid 1960s, Farrakhan rose
quickly after breaking off from the
ministry led by Muhammad's son
Wallace.
While thc rhetoric may be unfairly
perpetrated in the media, Dr. Su
Kapoor, chairman of thc peace and
conflict studies program at CSUF,
said the media picks up on it rather
quickly.
"People arc fearful because there is
a misconception based on ignorance
trine of self help and self-reliance
among African-Americans.
"It is a marvelous philosophy, and
it is something lhat we can all leam
from. I ihink his good message gets
overshadowed by the comments that
he makes," said Kapoor.
Turning from Farrakhan's positive
qualities, Kapoor said Farrakhan must
attempt to resolve the differences between African-Americans and other
ethnic groups.
"We should respect our differences
"/ think his good message gets
oveshadowed by the
comments that he makes/*
— Dr. Su Kapoor
and the media is able to blow things
out of proportion," he said.
Commenting on lhc fact that
Farrakhan'sspcech is punctuated wiih
salvos against Whites and Jews,
Kapoor said it is his right to express
his opinion. "This is a free country
and wc have a right of speech, so hc
has lhat right. I would like to keep an
open mind aboul him."
Kapoor admired Farrakhan's doc-
and come to a resolution. Wc must
change before wc become part of thc
solution toconflicts,"hc said. "Black
leaders all wantpositivechangc...their
rightful and respectful place in society. Their differences are how ihcy
meet this goal."
In any event, there has to be healing between ethnic groups," hc said.
Sludent reaction to Farrakhan's
impending visit has run thc gamut
from ihosc who called him "an irrational anti-Semitic jerk" to a "powerful" individual.
"I think he is trying to wake us
(African -Americans) up," said Phyllis
Hill, ajunior criminology major. Hill
fells heempowers lhc African-American individual to be strong by preaching self-reliance.
"A loi of people think that empowerment means hate. That's not true,
and Whites are apt to fear lhat," she
said.
Lyncttc Windom, a junior business major, said that African-Americans have many reasons to be proud
of Farrakhan's teachings.
"Whai he's teaching is for us to
empower ourselves and be dependent
oneachothcr. We can'l be dependent
on each other if wc keep fighting,"she
said.
Hill agreed, saying, "A nation divided can not stand and if we are
divided, wc ran't work together."
Windom is aware of the heat that
Farrakhan has been under fire for
recently. Shc believes his message
has been misunderstood by lhe establishment.
"If thc person doesn't have knowledge (of Farrakhan's teachings] they
could be seeing what hc is saying as
hate."
Others were not so quick to praise
thc minister.
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