1994_03 Insight March 1994

              March 2,1994
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Home calls
unpopular
with faculty
By Jason Gibbs	
StaffWriter
Christianc Koch, a professor
of recreation and leisure studies
wholives in Napa Valley, drives
to Fresno every Tuesday morning to teach class.
Thursday evening shc drives
back home.
Once home, shc looks forward to relaxing and spending
lime with hcr husband.
It'sastudcnt with acall about
a homework assignment.
"1 just got home." Koch says.
"Can wc talk about this Tuesday in class?"
Intent on an answer, lhc student and thc conversation continue for ten minutes.
Koch rcluctandy listens lo the
student, though shc would rather
be spending lime with hcr husband.
At lhc beginning of every semester professors hand out a
syllabus with information including their namc.officc hours,
office phone and sometimes
their home phone number.
What docs il mean when a
home number is included in the
syllabus?
Is il just for emergencies, or
do professors welcome studenls
calling wiih any questions ihcy
have aboul class?
"I just figured it meant lhat if
wc had any questions wc could
call them al home." said David
Morgan, a 22-year-old senior
who once had a bad experience
when calling a teacher al home.
"When I was a freshman, my
English teacher gave lhc class
hcr home number in case wc
had a problem.
"But halfway through thc semester. I called hcr to find oul
when an assignment was due
and shc got upsei.
"Shc said it was inappropriate for me to call hcr at home
with a question like thai," Morgan said.
"How was I supposed to
know?"
Apparently, many students
don'i know.
Koch described another experience shc had a couple years
ago.
"1 was new. and 1 didn'l have
an office, so sludents who were
looking for me were calling the
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Speaking skills
for kids blossom
at Peach Festival
By Jenny Garrett	
StaffWriter
CSUF's population will increase
by more than 5,500 students on March
16 and 17.
Elementary schools from all over
the Central Valley will be flooding
thc campus with children for thc 36th
annual Peach Blossom Festival Dre-
scnicd by CSUF's Speech Communications Department.
'They arcsocxcitcdtocomc here,"
said Tisar Mansour, a senior speech
communications major and an assistant coordinator of the festival. "It's*
prestigious honor to get to come to
thc university."
Thc objective of thc Peach Blossom Festival is to expose children in
a positive way to oral interpretation,
while at the same time, have a memorable experience at CSUF.
This will be the second year that
children will be encouraged to perform multi-lingual presentations in
languages such as Hmong, Spanish
and French.
Julie Bowman, a senior speech
communication major and an assistant coordinator, said, "This gives
children a chance to deal with their
fcarof public speaking early on and in
an exciting way."
"This is a confidence building experience and good for self esteem,"
added Lynn Badertscher, Peach Blossom coordinator and speech professor.
Preparations for the festival start in
September for both lhc students who
panic ipaic and for the coordi nators of
the event.
only the elite contenders move on to
Peach Blossom.
Mansour, also a former festival
participant recalled, "It was a really
big deal. They are very selective."
Badertscher begins the endless
paper shuffling and constant correspondence with schools throughout
thc fall semester.
The faculty also gets involved.
"A majority of them arc very helpful," said 18-ycar veteran Amelia
Hernandez, former Peach Blossom
coordinator. 'They pull out all of the
stops to make this a special time for
ihe kids."
When the big day rolls around the
children, as well as the faculty and
students involved ai CSUF, are anxious and excited.
"The children arc in awe of thc
place," says Hernandez.   "Most of
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With the North Gym packed to capacity, best-selling author Elisabeth Kubler-Ross kicked off
the Universiry Lecture Series Wednesday night. Kubler-Ross, an authority on death and dying,
told the audience that her area of study makes her appreciate life.
Children discover more in library than books
By Virginia Madrid-Salazar
StaffWriter
Students wiih children will be able
to research and study easier knowing
that their child is entertained at lhe
new Children's Activity Room at lhc
Henry Madden Library.
'The room will be lhc first in thc
nation at a university library," said
project coordinator Susan Shwciki, a
senior double majoring in history and
Chicano Latino Studies.
"Since wc arc going to be the first,
it makes mc feci really good lhat wc
can scl this kind of precedence for
other campuses," Shwciki said.
Shwciki, a mother of three, thought
of thc idea for iheroom while shc was
joining other students for study groups.
Shc said shc was constantly getting
up to see whal hcr children were doing and not gelling much accomplished.
"There is a need for this room because of thc large population of stu
dents on campus who have children," drcnatatimc.   It will consist of an
she said. area rug, tables and chairs,   chalk
Thc activity room will be located board, television set, VCR,   corn-
on the second floor of the library, in puier, toys and books.
"There, is a need for this room
because of the large population
of students on campus who
have children."
—Susan Shweiki,
project coordinator
Room 2041. lhc old typing room. It
will have a school and a library selling, shc said.
Space limits the room io 24 chil-
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A wall will display a mural of eight
children holding hands and dressed in
international garb with a sky blue
background, paitcd by criminology
major Toni Montcz. The mural depicts thc 'It's A Small World' feature
at Disneyland.
Children ages three to lOycarswill
have access to the room.
"The reason is because il is noi
child care. It is a place for thc children
to be while parents are in the 1 ibrary,"
Shwciki said.
Parents will be required to show
their student I.D. and nolify lhc supervisor where ihcy will be in thc library
in case they need to be located.
Shweiki said that children probably
will not be in lhc room for longer than
two hours, because the parents should
be done with their business by then.
"If they abuse this privilege they
won't be able to use the services." she
said.
The use of thc room is free of
charge. There was talk of charging a
dollar for the service but u was decided lhai sometimes students do not
have a dollar.
"Wc didn't want students not to
use die room because they couldn't
afford it, so there isn't a fee .'she said.
Thc activity room will be run by a
student coordinator and an assistant
student coordinator. Sludent volunteers from thc School of Educauon's
Reading Program will also comprise
thc Children's Activity Room staff.
A panel of four — Dr. Sharccn
Abramson. Literacy Early Education
professor; Stacy Green. ASI president; Sonya Davis, secretary to Chair
of LEE; and Susan Shweiki, project
coordinator — selected the student
coordinators.
Volunteers will assist with reading
books, playing games and keeping
children entertained. Dr. Sharccn
Abramson will possibly supervise
the Student volunteers. There is also a
possibility lhat these sludent volunteers will receive credit for their participation, said Shwciki.
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