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E-mail connects students
are managed by professionals. Several investors pool their money, and different types of investments are made. There is less risk than buying stocks
individually.
The diversification of these types of accounts are
smart for someone who doesn't have a lot to invest,
Mahoney said.
She added lhat mutual funds with overseas investments offer a lot of growth potential.
Chen says that mutual funds are a smart investment
choice for a student on a limited budget.
"Students don't have the time to track the markets
and don't have the knowledge," Chen said. "Leave it to
the pros." He pointed out that the long-term return on
mutual funds can be as high as 12 percent per year.
Harry Massucco. 21, is another student who also
learned the value of investing at a young age. Massucco
is a finance major who works at a local investment company.
"I see so many people who don't have money set
aside for retirement," Massucco said. "I figure the earlier I start, the better off I'll be."
Massucco said he currently has money invested in
individual stocks and someday he would buy real estate
as an investment. "I would do that before I put money
into mutual funds, looking at interest rates."
Franco also indicated an interest in real estate.
"I've gotten more ideas from my real estate classes
about investing money than I have from finance classes,"
Franco said. "I've gotten more inspiration and more information about investing in general."
Franco, who works at a local restaurant, also has 20
percent of his biweekly paycheck deposited into a 401(k)
account set up by his employer.
A 401(k) account allows participants to save by having a portion of their paycheck deducted on a pre-tax basis.
The money is set aside until age 59 1/2, and taxes do
not have to be paid on the funds in the account until the
money is withdrawn.
Laura Ferdinandi Mahoney, an investment advisor
with the Ferdinandi Group at Prudential Securities, says
that starting to save and invest at a younger age is smart.
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pump water uphill. The water first starts in a bucket at
the base and makes its way up to the top where the children are waiting wilh faucets.
According to Abramson, this is an introduction to
understanding relative energy and mailer.
"I'm sure lhat this kind of discovering things is great.
You can tell kids things, but they have to learn for themselves." said Susan Tracz, professor of statistical research. Her daughter Ariel, 4, attends the daycare center.
Fruit and nut trees, along with a vegetable and flower
garden, are planned for the Early Agricultural Education Environment Area. This area will also house a number of rabbits and an aviary. An occasional pig, sheep or
lamb will be brought over for the day.
The children will work in the vegetable and flower
beds. Dwarf fruit trees will enable children to pick the
trees' produce.
According to Abramson, the agricultural area, "Allows young children to have experience to the role of agriculture, to have that part of the community."
There will also be a compost bin where the children
will recycle their lunches. A small redwood forest will be
planted and according to Abramson, the children will be
taught appropriate uses for the trees and the importance
of replenishing the forest.
A pond is in the making and will allow the children
to explore the species growing in that atmosphere. A math
and science lab has been set-up to give the children the
opportunity to view the organisms through microscopes.
This playground will be used by different teaching
classes on campus and will enable teachers from the community to learn ways of incorporating science into their
everyday lessons. Education students at CSUF will get
hands-on experience with the children on this playground.
Rush
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"The friends you meet in sororities are women you wouldn't normally have the opportunity to know,"
Simonelli continued.
Fall rush was postponed three
days before it was to occur.
Rushees who experienced the
activites will not have noticed a real
change.
The usual nights of activites
were kept such as: Open House,
Theme Night, Sisterhood Night, Preference Night, and Bid Day.
Women who missed the opportunity to rush may still notify the
Greek Affairs Office, located above
.the country store, to go through open
rush.
Houses that have not reached
their 65 girl quota will resort to this
secondary rush process.
WANTED
FEMALE 1!M0\B STIHILNTS
FOR MRM WITH
If interested, please call Kori a
278-2027 or 432-8352
Tower
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Though the Tower District has a
lot to offer, it also has seen its share
of crime.
Recently, Goodbody's Pub and
Philosophical Society closed in the
Tower District after it was robbed
twice in one week. Some Fresnans
still remember the Tower District as
the place where Kimber Reynolds
was murdered.
Felix Cura, a security guard for
Perez Security Company, says the
district's security guards work hard
to keep the area safe.
"We have the most problem with
the skinheads. We warn people once.
Then we ask them to leave. If we
continue to have problems with them,
then we immediately call the police.
We can't stand to have anything get
out of control," Cura said.
According to Bill Kuebler,
Tower District Marketing Director,
the police are concerned with the
area.
"For several months we have
been working in conjunction with the
Fresno Police Department to get a
volunteer police station in the Tower
District," Kuebler said.
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To the many students who use
the campus computer labs to write
papers, "mondrian" may sound an
like exotic fruit drink.
Mondrian, however, is the name
of the student electronic mail (e-mail)
program that allows students to send
and receive electronic messages via
the computer.
There were about 2,400   =
students who had mondrian
accounts and between 1,000 '
and 2,000 e-mail messages
were sent from mondrian last
semester, according to Gail
Abbot, the computer consulting coordinator.
Many professors get
computer accounts for their   ^==
students for class assignments, she said. Students also
use mondrian to talk to each other and
to gain access to the Internet for research, Abbott said.
Some students who are cm-
ployed on campus also have computer accounts for work.
To use mondrian, students need
to first complete an application thai
is available at the computer services
office in McKee Fisk. Students are
then given a computer login name
and a password to gain access to
mondrian.
Students can use computers on
campus or their own home computers to use mondrian.
Song Vue, a senior liberal studies major, said he uses e-mail for
business and communication.
Vue, who has been using e-mail announcements on the computer in-
for almost half a year, said that he formation bulletin board and for corn-
uses e-mail tqdiscuss class with other munication.
students in hiJmajor. He also uses e- Gilewicz, who is in charge of the
mail to talk to his friends. English Writing Center, said that she
There are many students who keeps in touch with people in other
use e-mail, Vue said. cities who work in writing centers.
David Oreol, a sophomore elec- E-mail is efficient because it
trical engineering major, also uses eliminates paper, it is faster than w
mondrian mainly to talk with friends.
"It (e-mail) makes it easier to get
"E-mail is efficient because
it eliminates paper,
is faster than written memos,
it saves money on phone calls.'
— Magdalena Gilewicz
in touch with people," he said.
Oreol has been using mondrian
for 3 or 4 months but has used the e-
mail system on the Bulletin Board
System (BBS) for four years.
Likewise, many faculty and staff
find that zimmer, the e-mail program
for faculty and staff, makes communication and research easier and more
efficient.
Although some faculty use e-
mail to talk with friends, faculty use
e-mail (o also communicate wilh
other faculty and staff for business
reasons.
Magdalena Gilewicz, professor
of English, said she has used zimmer
for about two years.
She uses zimmer to read campus
ten memos, and it saves money on
phone calls, she said.
Benjamin Quillian, vice
president for administration,
said that he uses e-mail all
day.
Quillian uses e-mail primarily to communicate to
staff members who report to
him and to communicate
with other faculty and staff.
Most of the time e-mail
==    is more efficient than phone
calls, he said, because people
aren't always in their offices.
E-mail eliminates "phone tag."
"It has made my work much
more efficient," he said.
It reduces the workload of secretaries who used to answer phone
calls all day, and it reduces the
workload of campus mail service
employees.who handle less mail due
to the increased use of e-mail,
Quillian said.
The demand for e-mail accounts
by faculty, staff and students have
increased since the current e-mail
system was put in place four years
ago, Abbott said.
If the demand increases and
there is a need for a bigger system,
then computer services will expand
its existing system, Abbott said.
TGIF for student road trippers
Kori Rianda
INSIGHT
The students of CSUF have one
thing in common with Garfield, the
flabby cat of cartoons. They live for
weekends.
The week barely begins at CSUF
before students already have plans for
the weekend.
Fresno's Central Valley location
offers a plethora of weekend activities all within a few hour's drive.
Many venture to the coast, Los
Angeles or to the Sierras.Out-of-
town students often find themselves
driving home.
"I go back home to Orosi and
visit my family." said Vicky Carrillo,
a freshman studying English.
"I go home on the weekend to
visit my parents and I do my home
work on Sunday," said Ism'ael
Martinez, a junior mechanical engineering major.
The great outdoors rank high on
student agendas.
According to Christy Cooper, a
senior liberal studies major, the outdoors are "a great release from Ihc
busy work week."
As the seasons change, so do students' hobbies.
In the winter months, Kjell
Akerstrom hits the slopes at Sierra
Summit.
When the sun is shining and the
waves arc intense, Akerstrom, a junior business management major
heads lo San Luis Obispo to catch a
wave.
Bulldog football is an excellent
road trip deterrent.
Marc Brobcrg, a junior e:
physiology major enjoys attending
home games.
"Before the games I like to meet
with my friends and enjoy a few adult
beverages," Broberg said.
Kristin Eslingcr, a junior liberal
studies major said, "on the weekends,
I like to go to the local clubs with my
friends."
Stacic McConnell, a senior
studying construction management
jumps al the chance see a concert.
According to McConnell. it
there is a good show, "I will definitely
go out-of-town to see it."
As the warm Fresno days
dwindle away and the fog begins to
roll in, CSUF students will lose their
tans, but they will never lose their
weekends.
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have now become a common fixture in music society.
In contrast to the first album, which boasted a semi-
chaotic format. Trip shows evidence of a plan that was
well thought out and executed with the precision and
patience of a surgeon.
The songs follow a concise sequence of both theme
and emotion, therefore making it easier to listen to and
understand. For instance, the typical sequence on Another Minute might follow like this:
'You think you know her' (an unfaithful woman),
'Farewell to Arms' (bidding farewell to something that
the listener has yet to discover), and "The Echoing Green'
(a place that only children can see). Needless lo say, one
could get pretty confused by just listening. With Trip,
the sequence is consistent, and the listener knows exactly what is going on.
As with any second album (with the exception of a
few), the songs on Trip display evidence of maturity
within the band's ranks. Unlike the first record, where
the theme changed like the wind, Rowe sticks to only
two subjects (religion and love) and interchanges them
constantly so lhat the listener can't get bored.
He appears to actually know what he's talking about
in the romance department, and is able to convince the
listener of this with an aura of humility thai more than
appeals to his audience. In addition, Rowe takes the risk
of singing everything in first person (unlike Another
Minute, where he sang almost everything in third person), proving that he is strong enough to show the world
how he feels.
Overall, Trip is definitely a belter record than the
first one. Although Another Minute proved itself to be
worth listening to, it only catered to its target audience.
Trip, on the other hand, can be tolerated by just about
anyone.
It can be enjoyed by listenters of pop, rock, techno,
or alternative and is open to interpretations of every kind.
If you like this sort of thing, or are just looking for
something different to listen to. Trip is an album well
worth its weight in both dollars and sense.
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