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\e\\w£ vV' i ,;V Sports Feature: Mr. T)' dances into post-season Insight Immigrants in the dough with bagels California State University, Fresno March 29, IMS Professors create loans JEFF 0 USE N Insight reporter For tbe Association d California State University Professors, the establishment d an emergency loan fund is just one way d improving i d the CSUF chapter donated 1640 for short term emergency loans to help students having difficulties meeting recent fee increases. Students were unexpectedly asked to pay an additional $84 for tbe spring 1983 semester. Although only a couple d students took advantage d the loans, many said tbey were grateful to know hdp was available if they needed it. "It's nd fair students are the ody ones who get taxed," said Dr. Tomas M. Martinez, CSUF criminology professor and president d the ACSUP Fresno chapter. "We thought we would help by making the loans available." In existence since 1928, the organization is the oldest non-union CSU faculty association. With chapters on every CSU campus, the Association boasts a statewide membership d more than 3,000. The chapter at CSUF has 190 members. Tbe birth d tbe association took place in the summer d 1925 when a group of professors from Fresno, Chico, San Diego and San Francisco gathered to discuss the need for an organization to improve the professional status d the California' State Colleges. In 1928 the Association d California State College Instructors was formed. Although the association has gone through several organizational and name changes during its 55-year history, one thing remains the same; the ACSUP seeks to "foster high- quality education in the California State UUversitites and Colleges." Tbe association's present name was adopted during 1972 after the state legislature changed the name California State Colleges to California State Universities. According to a letter written by J^ See ACSUP. page, 4 Look out below KRAUSE/UatlfM Mike Hall d Industrial Electronic Services eaters an access shaft to phone lines which run underground at CSUF. HaU was Installing cable which will connect tbe new on campus banking services building being thwest d the CU. The building will house banking services d Guarantee Saving and Bank d America. Queen brings indifference CHKISTY HOFFKNECHT Insight reporter Although area residents found tbe Yosemite visit d Queen Elizabeth II exciting, members d the local media returned to Fresno with mixed reactions on the royal happenings. Of the six reporters contacted by Insight, all spoke d thdr Queen coverage assignment as enjoyable, though a few didn't find it particularly exciting. Limitations thrust on tbe press during tbe royal visit were tbe main complaint d the local reporters. Security at tbe park was obviously tight and well-organized during the events d March 5-7 but was too heavily enforced against the press to the opinion d Fresno Bee reporter Gene Rose, who thought the media were treated as "third rank dtizens." Because the watchful eyes d secret service men were constantly upon the media, and sources for potentially interesting stories were told nd to speak with the press, Rose believes that be was unnecessarily kept from reporting on what would have been an interesting news angle: how the Queen and Duke fdt about Yosemite. Other members d the press spoke about bow Utile the Queen opened up to them. Fresno Bee reporter Jim Steinberg said he didn't expect to bear the Queen talk, but spoke with others wbo were disappointed about it. In fact, practically none d the frustrated reporters heard her speak, whkh, as Rds© stated, "would have been nice." "Security was too heavy, they bed paranoia,'' said Rose. "The park belongs to U.S. dtizens and bopduUy to the people d the world.""" Rose was particularly disturbed when he attempted to take pictures d the gate at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where the royal party lodged for the weekend. Secret service men asked why he was there. He responded by saying, "Bug df. I'm outside the control area, it's U.S. property." According to Rose, tbe press wasn't treated as weU as perk Queen's visit. This was unfair, Rose said, because tbe press didn't want to cause any problems. "No one argues with security. Threats are real," said Rose. "(But) their bssic attitude was that something Is going to happen to the Queen; tbey overreacted." Despite feeling intimidated, and to a way, cheated, Rose viewed this type d assignment as a challenge. But still, be wondered why tbe press was shunned from extensive coverage d the sightseeing trips by tbe royal party, when tbe original purpose d thdr visit was to spend a weekend d relaxation at the Ahwahnee. "Any thinking person knows that if be is coming to Yosemite, be isn't going to lock up in a room for rest and relaxation," Rose stated. KFSN channel 30 anchor-woman Nancy Osborne described her opportunity to cover the Queen d England as a "real plum," but she later used herself as an example d one person who didn't reap much emotion from the whole experience. "1 spent three-and-a-half full days covering it, and out d that there was about 20 minutes d excitement. The rest d it was reel hard work." There were differing views among local media as to bow much perk visitors and residents were inconvenienced by security. Some said nd at aU, and that tbey were delighted in having "prestige" brought to Yosemite. But Osborne fdt a Utile differently. "I don't think anybody wbo Uvea or works there was very excited about It," she said. "Skiers were delayed by an hour or so, they could have cared less if she (the Queen > was there." But Debbie Glovan, public affairs administrator d the Yosemite Park and Curry Co., disagreed about the inconveniences. "Roads were blocked df only a short period d time," said Glovan. "The locals were notified when they would be dosed. See Queen, page 4 Japstnese recall^ wartime hysteria HELEN MARIE JANOUSEK Insight reporter It was less than three months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and Fred Hlrasuna and his family were on an eastbound highway, trying to escape the anti- Japanese hysteria escalating on the West Coast. Hirasuna will never forget the greeting he gd when he tried to rent a motel room in Wlnnemuca, Nevada for the night: "Go back to California, you damn Japs I" 4^ Frank Nishio gd a similar reaction when, as a 21-year-dd Fresno State student, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army. "We don't know what to do with you guys," the recruitment officer told him frankly. Both men were Just iwo d the 110,000 Japanese-Americans stripped d thdr constitutional rights and forc ed from their homes to be interned behind barbed wire fences during the second world war. Today they are a part d the Japanese-American community striving to elicit a formal apology from the " President, with a request that Congress pass into law a bill awarding (3 billion compensation to the 60,000 surviving internees. The Japanese-Americans were In-, terned under Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin Roosevelt Feb. 19, 1942. It gave the military authority to designate areas along the Pacific Coast where Japanese-Americans could be excluded and permitted construction d camps to intern those evacuated. In 1976 President Gerald Ford rescinded the order, calling it e "setback to fundamental American principles." Both Los Angeles County and the dty d San Francisco recently passed ordinances offering repara- Judge settles disputes in Fresno courtroom *j FRED HIRASUNA tions d $5,000 to each individual fired from their jobs due to relocation. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a similar bill in August 1982 authorizing payments d 95,000 to each state worker fired in 1942 because they were Japanese- American. The evacuation was necessary to insure against internal sabotage, according to Gen. John L. DeWitt, commander d the Western Defense Area, who issued the order in March, 1942. National security was "merely a reason created to Justify the evacuation," said Dr. Izumi TanagucU, chairman d tbe economics department at California State University, See Japanese, page 3 Experimental fire insurance offered to Visalia residents LOGAN MOLEN Insight reporter (Funds far this story were provided by the Reader's Digest Foundation.) VISALIA-Citizens of Visalia may soon be part d an experimental municipal fire insurance program that could tower Insurance costs to homeowners. The plan, caUed Cooperative Home Insurance Program (CHIP), has been adopted by a few other California cities, including Huntington Beech and Mill Valley. Mill VaUey was the first to put the plan in to effect in February, 1982. Visalia City Manager Ted Gaebler recently proposed the idea for the Visalia area. The objectives d CHIP ere Improved home safety and reduced insurance expenses to policy holders. It offers four different plans with varying degrees d municipal involve- " We haven't gotten into any d the programs," said Joe Hopper, e battalion cUd in the Visalia Fire Department. "We're Just looking toto the feasibility d It. "It looks like it might be a way for the dtizens to benefit through tower insurance premiums. They may also bendlt by reduced risk If they par ticipate in the program the way it's to- tended to be." The Insurance companies would also pay a very small sum of money to the fire department. Hopper said the department would matoly benefit by being able to contact people while making suggestions during safety checks. "You can reduce rates, thereby reducing fires." said Hopper. "Your tion than suppression." The bandits to the public are the posslbUity that If they partidpate to the program and pass the safdy inspection they may be eligible for some See CHIP, page l SUE ROSENSTE1N Insight reporter lily Sanchez doesn't dispute the amount d her $475 dental bill. "I can pay the money," she tells tbe Judge In small claims court. "But I'm nd satisfied with the work. My teeth haven't been weU since be worked on them." "Why don't you go back and talk • to him?" the judge suggests. "See If he can correct the deficiency, if there is one." Mrs. Sanchez agrees — she'll voice her complaints to the dentist and pay $25 a month on her debt — along with $20 to court costs. Each weekday morning, from 8:15-9, small claims cases are heard in Fresno County's Municipal courtrooms. Ody civil disputes involving less than $1,500 qualify as small claims, and disputants represent themselves — no lawyers are allowed. Last year 11,165 small claims cases were tried locally. Nearly all d them were settled in five to 10 minutes. Judge Armando Rodriguez has served on tbe local Municipal Court bench for five years. He says most small claims cases ere routine, uncontested matters Involving unpaid bills. "But there was an unusual one last week," Rodriguez adds while smiling. Tbe case involved two neighbors — one the owner d a parakeet, the other the owner da cat. "The plaintiff claimed that his neighbor's cat came through a hde in the screen door and attacked the bird. When the plaintiff discovered the bird it was under a car to the driveway — In the cat's mouth, but still breathing,'' Rodrigues recounts. Tbe bird owner rushed Us $14 pet to a veterinarian. The vet told him there was a chance the bird's life could be saved with a $100 operation — but tbe prognosis was far from certain. The bird owner opted, instead, to ha ve Us pd "put to sleep." "Then tbe guy gd a $47 bLU from the vet for examining the bird and disposing d it," Rodriguez continues. "He thought his neighbor should pay for it, and they gd toto a squabble." By the time the case reached small-Claims court, the defendant was Insisting that the cat to question wasn't his cat at aU. "I believed the plaintiff," Judge Rodriguez says. . Tbe bird owner sued for more than $200 -$60 to cover the cost of the bird and its treatment, the rest to for mental anguish and important as a million-dollar lawsuit. And it's harder for me to gd a clear picture d which way to go because the evidence is presented by To make sure Justice is served. Judge Rodriguez makes about one trip a week outside his chambers "to eyeball evidence" personally. He likes to see for hi mself if a car's paint Job is substandard or if an apartment has actually been damaged by a tenant. To lodge a small claims complaint, a plaintiff files a form with the court and pays a $6 fee. Then the wages tost during the incident. defendant is notified d the claim and "Ultimately my decision was to a trial date Is set - usually within a find for the plaintiff," says Judge month d the filing. Rodriguez, "but only in the amount ot Although they cannot hire lawyers to represent them, small claims disputants are entitled by tow Judge Rodriguez says that most Defendants readily acknowledge the to tree legal advice. Local attorneys debt they owe, and many times only and tow students ad as small claims the plaintiff appears to court. Other advisors. Plaintiffs and Defendants times, it's nd that simple. are also entitled to bring witnesses to "Sometimes I find making a deci court with them, if tbey wish. sion to smaU claims more difficult A small claims court ruling Is bin than regular eases," the Judge says. ding for 10 years, end gives a suc- "To the people Invdved. It's Just as See Coert, page 4
Object Description
Title | 1983_03 Insight March 1983 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Dept. of Journalism, California State University, Fresno. |
Publication Date | 1983 |
Description | Weekly during the school year. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 8, 1969)-v. 29, no. 23 (May 13, 1998). Ceased with May 13, 1998, issue. Title from masthead. Merged with Daily collegian. |
Subject | California State University, Fresno Periodicals |
Contributors | California State University, Fresno Dept. of Journalism |
Coverage | October 8, 1969 – May 13, 1998 |
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Title | Insight Mar 23 1983 p 1 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publication Date | 1983 |
Full-Text-Search | \e\\w£ vV' i ,;V Sports Feature: Mr. T)' dances into post-season Insight Immigrants in the dough with bagels California State University, Fresno March 29, IMS Professors create loans JEFF 0 USE N Insight reporter For tbe Association d California State University Professors, the establishment d an emergency loan fund is just one way d improving i d the CSUF chapter donated 1640 for short term emergency loans to help students having difficulties meeting recent fee increases. Students were unexpectedly asked to pay an additional $84 for tbe spring 1983 semester. Although only a couple d students took advantage d the loans, many said tbey were grateful to know hdp was available if they needed it. "It's nd fair students are the ody ones who get taxed," said Dr. Tomas M. Martinez, CSUF criminology professor and president d the ACSUP Fresno chapter. "We thought we would help by making the loans available." In existence since 1928, the organization is the oldest non-union CSU faculty association. With chapters on every CSU campus, the Association boasts a statewide membership d more than 3,000. The chapter at CSUF has 190 members. Tbe birth d tbe association took place in the summer d 1925 when a group of professors from Fresno, Chico, San Diego and San Francisco gathered to discuss the need for an organization to improve the professional status d the California' State Colleges. In 1928 the Association d California State College Instructors was formed. Although the association has gone through several organizational and name changes during its 55-year history, one thing remains the same; the ACSUP seeks to "foster high- quality education in the California State UUversitites and Colleges." Tbe association's present name was adopted during 1972 after the state legislature changed the name California State Colleges to California State Universities. According to a letter written by J^ See ACSUP. page, 4 Look out below KRAUSE/UatlfM Mike Hall d Industrial Electronic Services eaters an access shaft to phone lines which run underground at CSUF. HaU was Installing cable which will connect tbe new on campus banking services building being thwest d the CU. The building will house banking services d Guarantee Saving and Bank d America. Queen brings indifference CHKISTY HOFFKNECHT Insight reporter Although area residents found tbe Yosemite visit d Queen Elizabeth II exciting, members d the local media returned to Fresno with mixed reactions on the royal happenings. Of the six reporters contacted by Insight, all spoke d thdr Queen coverage assignment as enjoyable, though a few didn't find it particularly exciting. Limitations thrust on tbe press during tbe royal visit were tbe main complaint d the local reporters. Security at tbe park was obviously tight and well-organized during the events d March 5-7 but was too heavily enforced against the press to the opinion d Fresno Bee reporter Gene Rose, who thought the media were treated as "third rank dtizens." Because the watchful eyes d secret service men were constantly upon the media, and sources for potentially interesting stories were told nd to speak with the press, Rose believes that be was unnecessarily kept from reporting on what would have been an interesting news angle: how the Queen and Duke fdt about Yosemite. Other members d the press spoke about bow Utile the Queen opened up to them. Fresno Bee reporter Jim Steinberg said he didn't expect to bear the Queen talk, but spoke with others wbo were disappointed about it. In fact, practically none d the frustrated reporters heard her speak, whkh, as Rds© stated, "would have been nice." "Security was too heavy, they bed paranoia,'' said Rose. "The park belongs to U.S. dtizens and bopduUy to the people d the world.""" Rose was particularly disturbed when he attempted to take pictures d the gate at the Ahwahnee Hotel, where the royal party lodged for the weekend. Secret service men asked why he was there. He responded by saying, "Bug df. I'm outside the control area, it's U.S. property." According to Rose, tbe press wasn't treated as weU as perk Queen's visit. This was unfair, Rose said, because tbe press didn't want to cause any problems. "No one argues with security. Threats are real," said Rose. "(But) their bssic attitude was that something Is going to happen to the Queen; tbey overreacted." Despite feeling intimidated, and to a way, cheated, Rose viewed this type d assignment as a challenge. But still, be wondered why tbe press was shunned from extensive coverage d the sightseeing trips by tbe royal party, when tbe original purpose d thdr visit was to spend a weekend d relaxation at the Ahwahnee. "Any thinking person knows that if be is coming to Yosemite, be isn't going to lock up in a room for rest and relaxation," Rose stated. KFSN channel 30 anchor-woman Nancy Osborne described her opportunity to cover the Queen d England as a "real plum," but she later used herself as an example d one person who didn't reap much emotion from the whole experience. "1 spent three-and-a-half full days covering it, and out d that there was about 20 minutes d excitement. The rest d it was reel hard work." There were differing views among local media as to bow much perk visitors and residents were inconvenienced by security. Some said nd at aU, and that tbey were delighted in having "prestige" brought to Yosemite. But Osborne fdt a Utile differently. "I don't think anybody wbo Uvea or works there was very excited about It," she said. "Skiers were delayed by an hour or so, they could have cared less if she (the Queen > was there." But Debbie Glovan, public affairs administrator d the Yosemite Park and Curry Co., disagreed about the inconveniences. "Roads were blocked df only a short period d time," said Glovan. "The locals were notified when they would be dosed. See Queen, page 4 Japstnese recall^ wartime hysteria HELEN MARIE JANOUSEK Insight reporter It was less than three months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and Fred Hlrasuna and his family were on an eastbound highway, trying to escape the anti- Japanese hysteria escalating on the West Coast. Hirasuna will never forget the greeting he gd when he tried to rent a motel room in Wlnnemuca, Nevada for the night: "Go back to California, you damn Japs I" 4^ Frank Nishio gd a similar reaction when, as a 21-year-dd Fresno State student, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army. "We don't know what to do with you guys," the recruitment officer told him frankly. Both men were Just iwo d the 110,000 Japanese-Americans stripped d thdr constitutional rights and forc ed from their homes to be interned behind barbed wire fences during the second world war. Today they are a part d the Japanese-American community striving to elicit a formal apology from the " President, with a request that Congress pass into law a bill awarding (3 billion compensation to the 60,000 surviving internees. The Japanese-Americans were In-, terned under Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin Roosevelt Feb. 19, 1942. It gave the military authority to designate areas along the Pacific Coast where Japanese-Americans could be excluded and permitted construction d camps to intern those evacuated. In 1976 President Gerald Ford rescinded the order, calling it e "setback to fundamental American principles." Both Los Angeles County and the dty d San Francisco recently passed ordinances offering repara- Judge settles disputes in Fresno courtroom *j FRED HIRASUNA tions d $5,000 to each individual fired from their jobs due to relocation. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a similar bill in August 1982 authorizing payments d 95,000 to each state worker fired in 1942 because they were Japanese- American. The evacuation was necessary to insure against internal sabotage, according to Gen. John L. DeWitt, commander d the Western Defense Area, who issued the order in March, 1942. National security was "merely a reason created to Justify the evacuation," said Dr. Izumi TanagucU, chairman d tbe economics department at California State University, See Japanese, page 3 Experimental fire insurance offered to Visalia residents LOGAN MOLEN Insight reporter (Funds far this story were provided by the Reader's Digest Foundation.) VISALIA-Citizens of Visalia may soon be part d an experimental municipal fire insurance program that could tower Insurance costs to homeowners. The plan, caUed Cooperative Home Insurance Program (CHIP), has been adopted by a few other California cities, including Huntington Beech and Mill Valley. Mill VaUey was the first to put the plan in to effect in February, 1982. Visalia City Manager Ted Gaebler recently proposed the idea for the Visalia area. The objectives d CHIP ere Improved home safety and reduced insurance expenses to policy holders. It offers four different plans with varying degrees d municipal involve- " We haven't gotten into any d the programs," said Joe Hopper, e battalion cUd in the Visalia Fire Department. "We're Just looking toto the feasibility d It. "It looks like it might be a way for the dtizens to benefit through tower insurance premiums. They may also bendlt by reduced risk If they par ticipate in the program the way it's to- tended to be." The Insurance companies would also pay a very small sum of money to the fire department. Hopper said the department would matoly benefit by being able to contact people while making suggestions during safety checks. "You can reduce rates, thereby reducing fires." said Hopper. "Your tion than suppression." The bandits to the public are the posslbUity that If they partidpate to the program and pass the safdy inspection they may be eligible for some See CHIP, page l SUE ROSENSTE1N Insight reporter lily Sanchez doesn't dispute the amount d her $475 dental bill. "I can pay the money," she tells tbe Judge In small claims court. "But I'm nd satisfied with the work. My teeth haven't been weU since be worked on them." "Why don't you go back and talk • to him?" the judge suggests. "See If he can correct the deficiency, if there is one." Mrs. Sanchez agrees — she'll voice her complaints to the dentist and pay $25 a month on her debt — along with $20 to court costs. Each weekday morning, from 8:15-9, small claims cases are heard in Fresno County's Municipal courtrooms. Ody civil disputes involving less than $1,500 qualify as small claims, and disputants represent themselves — no lawyers are allowed. Last year 11,165 small claims cases were tried locally. Nearly all d them were settled in five to 10 minutes. Judge Armando Rodriguez has served on tbe local Municipal Court bench for five years. He says most small claims cases ere routine, uncontested matters Involving unpaid bills. "But there was an unusual one last week," Rodriguez adds while smiling. Tbe case involved two neighbors — one the owner d a parakeet, the other the owner da cat. "The plaintiff claimed that his neighbor's cat came through a hde in the screen door and attacked the bird. When the plaintiff discovered the bird it was under a car to the driveway — In the cat's mouth, but still breathing,'' Rodrigues recounts. Tbe bird owner rushed Us $14 pet to a veterinarian. The vet told him there was a chance the bird's life could be saved with a $100 operation — but tbe prognosis was far from certain. The bird owner opted, instead, to ha ve Us pd "put to sleep." "Then tbe guy gd a $47 bLU from the vet for examining the bird and disposing d it," Rodriguez continues. "He thought his neighbor should pay for it, and they gd toto a squabble." By the time the case reached small-Claims court, the defendant was Insisting that the cat to question wasn't his cat at aU. "I believed the plaintiff," Judge Rodriguez says. . Tbe bird owner sued for more than $200 -$60 to cover the cost of the bird and its treatment, the rest to for mental anguish and important as a million-dollar lawsuit. And it's harder for me to gd a clear picture d which way to go because the evidence is presented by To make sure Justice is served. Judge Rodriguez makes about one trip a week outside his chambers "to eyeball evidence" personally. He likes to see for hi mself if a car's paint Job is substandard or if an apartment has actually been damaged by a tenant. To lodge a small claims complaint, a plaintiff files a form with the court and pays a $6 fee. Then the wages tost during the incident. defendant is notified d the claim and "Ultimately my decision was to a trial date Is set - usually within a find for the plaintiff," says Judge month d the filing. Rodriguez, "but only in the amount ot Although they cannot hire lawyers to represent them, small claims disputants are entitled by tow Judge Rodriguez says that most Defendants readily acknowledge the to tree legal advice. Local attorneys debt they owe, and many times only and tow students ad as small claims the plaintiff appears to court. Other advisors. Plaintiffs and Defendants times, it's nd that simple. are also entitled to bring witnesses to "Sometimes I find making a deci court with them, if tbey wish. sion to smaU claims more difficult A small claims court ruling Is bin than regular eases," the Judge says. ding for 10 years, end gives a suc- "To the people Invdved. It's Just as See Coert, page 4 |