1994_05 Insight May 1994

              May 11,1994
LIFESTYLE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY. FRESNO
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Buddhism encourages good deeds, pure minds
Yi-Ping Ho	
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"Avoid evil acts; do good deeds;
and purify your mind."
These arc the underlying philosophical principlesof Buddhist teaching, according to Palphlo Rodloyluk,
the leader of Human Happiness Buddhism Association.
Palphol Rodloytuk said he founded
HHBA two years ago to bring Buddhist teaching to interested CSUF students. Being a Buddhist by birth,
Rodloytuk said he always has practiced Buddhism.
He said practising Buddhism has
reconnected him to his native coun-
away from home. Buddhism has revealed things to him, he said.
AsagraduatcsiudcntinMassCom-
munication, Rodloyluk said he applies Buddhist teaching of tolerance.
Palphlo Rodloytuk
optimism, fairness and keeping an
open mind. These characteristics enable him to learn subject material well
and get good performance in academic.
Rodloytuk "s main concern for the
club was to create a sense of har-
mony.affinityunderone belief—Buddhism.
In addition, he would like to change
people's wrong perceptions about the
Buddhism.
Thcclub is none-sectarian, in which
CSUF students, regardless of their
gender, nationality, and background,
can join and benefit.
His approach to the club is to provide opportunities to members and
interested public to learn and perceive more from Buddhism.
So far, the club has 70 members.
Activities provided to members in-
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regarding Buddhism, food sales, picnics, trips to the temple and regular
lectures. The activities intend to give
members a chance to do activities
together and to gain more knowledge
about the teaching of Buddhism.
Rodloytuk said Buddhism can be
defined as being simple, happy and to
be who you really are.
Oneof the goals in Buddha's teaching is humble understanding. To be
simple means to be compassionate
with easy-going mind. It docs not
mean a simple mind.
To be happy is one of the results of
being simple.
To be really who you arc, nobody
will programmed you.
You arc the true individual of your
own. You are in charge.
"By intcgratingand practicing Bud
dhist teachings in our daily lifes,
Rodloytuk said wc will eventually
understand Buddhism more and increase our wisdom as well."
Through the practice of Buddhist
teaching, Rodloytuk said he became
more sharp, mature, calmness and
open minded.
"It is an opportunity for us to grow
and cultivate ourselves by experiencing the sufferings." he said.
"The only way to get rid of pain is
lostopcomplaining and blaming others. Wc should try to learn toleration,
forgiveness and be satisfied with what
we have."
18th century pipe organ finds home at CSUF
'We know this is an instrument that will be around for 200 years —plus
JoeRosatoJr.
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The project has been in the works
since the planning of the new music
building, which opened for classes
last year.
What arc pipe organs going for
these days? Try S203.0OO, according
lo music professor Gary Unruh.
The funding came mostly from
private donations including S50.000
from Lylc Diversified Inc. The rest
was made up by ihc stale.
With the addition of ihc organ, a
void will be filled, a void in ihc music
program.
The school has been without a
church organ training program for
more than ten years.
While most students weren't inconvenienced, many local churches
were left wiihou". organists to accompany services.
"Nobody is training people," said
Unruh, referring 10 the school's
absccncc of a local religious music
curriculum.
"Churches call looking for students
studying organ—but wc don't have
anyone studying organ."
Martin Oil Pipe Organ of Oregon
was chosen to build the organ. The
company had a good reputation—the
music department left nothing to
chance.
A group of faculty members traveled California listening to different
manufacturers'organs before narrowing the candidates to three.
They let bids from the three companies make the final decision.
Unruh has faith in the organ's
craftsman.
"Wc know this is an instrument
that will be around for 200 years—
plus,"he said.
The organ is being built in St.
Louis, with the actual campus installation to take place before December
1995 as contractual requirements call
for.
Once installed, the builder will then
tunc the organ to the room, which
requires adjusting the organ as well as
the room until the best sound is
achieved.
The elaborate, painstakingly built
pipe organ will replace the Roger's
electronic organ, a cheaper, inad
equate substitute—its tone a different world from the chilling, gothic
sound of air bellowing through the
pipe organ's giant 8-foot pipes.
Organ music dates back to the
Middle Ages, it arose with the Gothic
cathedrals, according to music department chair Jack Former.
The most well-known composer
of organ music was J.S. Bach, who in
the 1700s composed more than 300
choral pieces.
Where computers, synthesizers and
amplifiers have dominated today's
music industry, a pipe organ is a leap
backward from cold, humanlcss technology.
It is an instrument, which like a
piano, is controlled by touch—the
dynamic and warmth of every note
guided only by the player who sits at
its bench.
In the music building, whichboasts
of the latest in musical technology,
digital recordings will be made, songs
will be composed by computer and
Bach's pieces will fill the Vocal Recital Hall, performed as they would
have been originially—on a pipe or-
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Paul McEntee belts out a song during practice with
the CSUF Choir.
Elementary students take crash course in animal science
Lisa L. Alvey
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The young children buddicd up in
groups of three or four with an adult
escort and held hands as they trudged
through the mud.
"Do you know what that smell is?"
four-year-old Kristina Regicr whis-
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percd. Her explanation was simple,
"It's cows."
Kristina was one of about 29 children that eagerly toured the CSUF
farm Tuesday morning.
Kristina was lucky, she was not a
student of Miss Thompson's kindergarten class from Centennial Elementary school on Saginaw, but she was
able to attend the field trip because
her six-year-old brother Jeremy is a
student and her mother was a parent
chapcronc.
Kaihy Wells, a sophomore at
CSUF. who is majoring in ag-busi-
ness and minonng in animal science
and Spanish, led the kids on their
magical tour.
The ag department opened its louring season on March 1.
"Wc stay pretty busy giving lours,"
Kaihy said.   "Wc conduct usually
about two tours a week."
On this particular Tuesday morning ihcrc were five different kindergarten classes participating in the
tours.
The firsi stop was al the Farrowing
House. This is where the female sows,
the mommy pigs, Kathy explained lo
the kids, arc brought to have their
babies.
After they deliver, they arc put in
small spaces that allow for very lilUc
movement so thai they can't crush ihc
babies
"Arc the black and white ones
boys?" asked six year-old Jarod Yates.
"No," answered Kathy.
Jarod persisted furthcr."Thcn are
the white ones boys?" he asked.
Kathy again said no.
"Can't you tell if it is a boy or girl
by the color?" Jarod asked.
Kathy laughed and cxphincd to
Jarod lhat pigs arc like boys and girls.
"Youcan'ttcll whethersomconc is
a boy or a girl by the color of their skin
can you?" Kaihy asked.
Jarod just siarcd at her.
Kathy then started to teach the kids
about pigs.
"Pigs are the cleanest animals,"
she said. "They don't sweat. The reason that most of you are wrinkling up
your nose is not because of the pig,
but because of what ihey roll around
in.
Do you sec the notches in the pigs
cars? Those arc lo identify the pigs.
You know how when you go to ihc
hospital you wear bracelets, well the
pigs gel their cars notched."
The next stop on the lour was the
milking parlor.
Here ihe kids learned thai al the
rate of six cows at a time, they arc
milked iwiccaday.at 3a.m. and 3p.m.
The 3 p.m. milking is open to ihc
public.
"Wc milk basically two different
lypcsofcows." Kathy said. "The black
and white ones arc called Holsteins.
Can you say Holstcin? Good, now
the brown ones are called Jerseys.
Can you say Jersey? From the Jerseys
wc get most of our butler and cheese."
As the kids trudged along they were
taking in ihe sights and sounds of
what it might be like lo live on a farm.
Strangely enough a stray cat evoked
loisof comments and finger pointing.
One of the highlights of the tour
was seeing a lcss-ihan-12-hour-old
calf.
As the calf shakily rose to its feet,
the children broke out in a chorus of
'oohs' and "aahs."
Making
of rose
garden
Lisa Dorman-Stttbbs
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You can stop and smell the
roses on your way to class —
but don't pick them!
"It's considered a misdemeanor, damaging state property," said gardener Kathi
Sheehan.
"1 don't know how well
they've cntorced it, out 1 Know
I go ballistic when I see someone committing shrub abuse."
Sheehan takes a lot of pride
in the roses and she spends a lot
of her own time maintaining the
plants.
The roses begin blooming
every year on schedule just before Vintage Days, according to
James Miller, director of the
public information office.
The 6,000 square feet of rose
beds located in the Memorial
Court between the Thomas Administration Building and the
Music/Speech Arts Building
were installed in 1991 by the
San Joaquin Valley Rose Society.
The SJVRS arranged the construction of the new rose beds
and organized the donation of
the 365 different rose bushes
from wholesalers. Funds for the
drip irrigation and soil amendments came from the ASI.
Eventually, SJVRS hopes to
make CSUF the site of formal
display garden.
They would also like lo sec
identifying placards on all of
the different varieties, but the
placards cost S2.50 each.
"There is no large scale rose
garden in the Valley," Sheehan
said.
The newer beds replaced a
small bed that had been there
since about 1957.
Miller had a transcription
from December 1991 of a conversation wilh former University President Dr. Arnold Joyal
regarding the creation ol ihc
original rose garden.
"1 rccalldiscussing this whole
(rose garden) business with Les
Kcigcr. who was the head
groundskcepcr.
I remember I made the suggestion that it would be nice to
have a rose garden in there (next
to the Thomas Building).
Wc talked about it a little bit,
and before long he got busy and
the staff put that in there," Joyal
said.
"It was my idea. 1 had some
roses at home and I have some
roses up in my garden in
Danville,'' she said.
"I've always enjoyed them.
Thcy'rconcof my favorite flowers. Les Kcigcr was a very fine
head gardenerand he deserves a
lot of credit, none of which he
ever got."
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