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California State University Fresno INSIGHT AIDS committee chronicles trends MM KASABIAN STAFF WRITER For the past four years, a group of a dozen faculty, staff and students have collected, stored, sponsored and heard information on one deadly subject - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or Chairman Robert Paull, head physician at Student Health Services, envisions the low-profile AIDS Advisory Committee as "archival," rather than active. Anything AIDS-related that happens on campus is chronicled by the committee, he said. "We're putting together history for future reference," Paull said. The committee was established after CSU Chancellor Ann Reynolds issued an AIDS policy in 1986, which recommended that all CSU schools implement an AIDS committee to inform and educate their students and employees. Bill Corcoran, dean of student affairs, said he met with other deans on both a state and nationwide basis to get the committee off the ground. He then met with Paull to discuss implementing an AIDS committee on campus. Paull now heads the committee. Four years ago, the biggest problem with AIDS was familiarizing people wi th the virus, said committee member John Wetzel. Wetzel, CSUF housing director, said the committee was interested at that time with finding out how much people knew about the virus. Four years later, the committee's vision has shifted, he said. "Nowadays, it seems like you'd need to be on the moon to not know about AIDS," he said. But people continue to have sexual relations without any protection or communication between each other, which can only help spread the virus, said Wetzel. SamGitchel is the health center'shealth educator. He, too, sits on the advisory committee and shares some of Wetzel's concerns. "There are a lot of hurdles to overcome. Most college students don't prac tice what they know," Gitchel said. Breaking old habits is a "deeper, more difficult problem to deal with," he added, because it tends to go "in one ear and out the other." Gitchel said though people know more about the virus than they did four years ago, an alarming number of people still engage in high-risk sex. "I've heard two terms recently that illustrate the problem," said Gitchel. The first he said, is "serial monogamy," where the two partners believe that, for the time being, they are monogamous, and therefore, not at risk of contracting the virus - until they move on to another partner and begin rationalizing with each other again. The second catch-phrase, said Gitchel, is known as "simultaneous monogamy," where partners may have sex with others, but pretend they are faithful with each other. Another unsafe method is having sex with a variety of partners without usinga condom, said Gitchel. Though there are different ways to be at risk of contracting the virus, all are alike in that they use rationalization as the motivation for continuing to employ unsafe sex habits, said Gitchel. With the problem clearly before them, the committee is in the process of gathering information about how CSUF is helping to modify people's sexual habits. Please see AIDS, page 6 'Vine' time at Vintage Days celebration (JOHN WELSH | STAFF WETTER j | Alpha Gamma Rho is looking for its tenth straight Vintathlon victory. "And Now For Something Completely Deliverance" will perform the Clash hit, "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," during the Air Guitar concert. Hubert and Eileen Johnson, ages 59 and 53, respectively, will travel from Scottsdale, Arizona to Fresno for the Craftsfolk Faire, considered to be one of the biggest and best in the state. Vintathlon, Air Guitar and the Craftsfolk Faire highlight Vintage Days, the four-day CSUF spring time bonanza that kicks off its 15th appearance tomorrow. "We're trying to think of every possible little thing to make this thing go right," said Vintage Days' Student Director Nancy Grissom. Grissom and her eight-coordinator crew have been getting ready for Vintage Days since la teOc- tober. "Everything is pretty calm and everybody's pretty well set," said Grissom, one of the cogs in the Vintage Days' wheels the past three years. "If (Vintage Days) began tomorrow we would be ready," Grissom said last Wednesday. Vintage Days runs Thursday through Sunday, starting with a pancake breakfast running 6-10 Thursday morning and wrapping up with a jazz concert featuring Tuck & Patti" from 12-3 pjn. Sunday. Over 35 teams, with wacko nicknames ranging from "It Just Doesn't Matter" to "Grape Nuts" will be battling it out at this year's Vintage Days Vintathlon. The Vintathlon, sporting such events as a frog jump, cow chip toss and a rootbeer chug, runs three davs with teams wing for the Earl Whitfield Memorial Sweepstakes Award. Whitfield was a former Director of Student Activities and the University Student Union. Alpha Gamma Rho has dominated the Vintathlon over the past decade. Please see VINTAGE DAYS, page 10 a banner for the North Commons team. Co-op ed provides career opportunities D BETSY TUCKER STAFF WRTTER Nestled on the second floor of the Joyal Administration Building, the Cooperative Education Program sits as a threshold to careers for students to discover. "The program exists to provide students with academically related paid work experience," said Paul DeRuosi, coordinator of student employment and cooperative education. "It's a win-win situation. The student gets to know what he is getting into in his career field, and the employer gets toknow a student who could possibly work for him after graduation," DeRuosi said. In fact, 75 percent of all students participating in cooperative education internships remain with their co-op employer after graduation. The program, which began in 1979, is designed to match up willing students with an employer who will offer them paid hands-on work experience in their chosen field. Units for the co-op internships are negotiable for credit through individual departments. Many students shy away from internships because most of them aren't paid, DeRuosi said. The Cooperative Education Program combines the two elements that most career- minded students are looking for — money and experience to put on their resume. This way, if students have to work, they still have the option of gaining career-related experience, DeRuosi said. It is a way to extend classroom learning into the job world. Any CSUF student with a 2.0 G.P.A. is eligible, but DeRuosi recommends that only those Please see CO-OP EDUCATION, page 7 Faculty parking negotiations still stalled MARK GARCIA STAFF WRTTER Stalled negotiations between the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the CSU Administration over the issue of retroactive parking fees has caused both parties to call on a arbitrator to solve the problem. According to Pat Nicholson, president of the CFA, John Kagel, a legal consultant from San Francisco, has been selected by both parlies to solve a situation that has dragged on since the 1987-88 school year. The crux of the problem is the refusal of CFA officials to pay retroactive parking fees from the '88-89schoolyear, when CSU, who represents 19 CSU campuses, instituted a new faculty parking fee increase from$750to$12amonth. "Our position is that they (CSU) did not deal in good faith during the negotiations over the new fee," said Nicholson. But according to Jacob Samit, assistant vice chancellor of Employee Relations, the CFA's complaint is settled. "The issue, as far as I'm concerned is resolved," said Samit, "they (CFA) are just exhausting impasse procedures." During the '88-89 year, union and CSU representatives negotiated, but the talks lingered on as both sides couldn't agree on a compromise. However, before the fall '88 semester the administration imposed the new fee without the consent of the union, which is the bargaining agent for all faculty members. __^___ Faculty members, including professors, lecturers and coaches, were ad vised by the CFA to refuse to pay the new fee. That is until last summer when the administration forced the faculty to purchase their parking permit at new fee costs. "We wouldn't be able to park without the permits," said Wayne Dominick, the CFA representative at Fresno State. But since the beginning of this year, the administration has been pressuring the faculty to pay $54 from the '88-89 year. . Please see PARKING, page 10 Highways adopted for trash cleanup JENNIFER L. KONZE 1 STAFF WRTTER J UP FOR ADOPTION: Two- mile stretch of highway. Requires attention about once every two months and a two- yearcommitment. Call Caltrans for further information. Delta Sigma Phi made such an adoption and was awarded a two-mile stretch of Highway 41 from Bullard north to Friant Road. The 40-member fraternity, not officially recognized by the Intraferternity Council or CSUF, was the first group in Fresno to make an adoption. "We want to present a positive image to the community and to CSUF," said Mike Ringer, Delta Sigma Phi co- philanthropy chairman. He added that it was a way of dispelling the negative Greek image. A positive Greek image in the eyes of both me community and the university is one of the fraternity's goals, which has been in existence in Fresno for about 42 years but lost its charter in the '70s, Ringer said. The fraternity's stretch of highway is designated with a blue and white sign on the northbound side of Highway 41 near the Bullard offramp. "There is a sense of pride because we have that sign," Ringer said. There is also the pride of giving something back to the community." They spend about two hours along the highway every other month with the exception of last month, when they participated in Caltrans' Great American Trash-Off March 31. "About 20 tons of trash was collected in a five-county area" during the Great American Trash-Off, said Rose Willems, public affairs officer for Caltrans District 6, which encompasses a five-county area in- Please see FRAT, page 10
Object Description
Title | 1990_04 Insight April 1990 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Dept. of Journalism, California State University, Fresno. |
Publication Date | 1990 |
Description | Weekly during the school year. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 8 1969-v. 29, no. 23 (May 13, 1998, issue. Title from masthead. Merged with Daily collegian. |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodials |
Contributors | California State University, Fresno Dept. of Journalism |
Coverage | October 8, 1969 - May 13, 1998 |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35mm |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi, TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
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Title | Insight Apr 25 1990 p 1 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publication Date | 1990 |
Full-Text-Search | California State University Fresno INSIGHT AIDS committee chronicles trends MM KASABIAN STAFF WRITER For the past four years, a group of a dozen faculty, staff and students have collected, stored, sponsored and heard information on one deadly subject - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or Chairman Robert Paull, head physician at Student Health Services, envisions the low-profile AIDS Advisory Committee as "archival," rather than active. Anything AIDS-related that happens on campus is chronicled by the committee, he said. "We're putting together history for future reference," Paull said. The committee was established after CSU Chancellor Ann Reynolds issued an AIDS policy in 1986, which recommended that all CSU schools implement an AIDS committee to inform and educate their students and employees. Bill Corcoran, dean of student affairs, said he met with other deans on both a state and nationwide basis to get the committee off the ground. He then met with Paull to discuss implementing an AIDS committee on campus. Paull now heads the committee. Four years ago, the biggest problem with AIDS was familiarizing people wi th the virus, said committee member John Wetzel. Wetzel, CSUF housing director, said the committee was interested at that time with finding out how much people knew about the virus. Four years later, the committee's vision has shifted, he said. "Nowadays, it seems like you'd need to be on the moon to not know about AIDS," he said. But people continue to have sexual relations without any protection or communication between each other, which can only help spread the virus, said Wetzel. SamGitchel is the health center'shealth educator. He, too, sits on the advisory committee and shares some of Wetzel's concerns. "There are a lot of hurdles to overcome. Most college students don't prac tice what they know," Gitchel said. Breaking old habits is a "deeper, more difficult problem to deal with," he added, because it tends to go "in one ear and out the other." Gitchel said though people know more about the virus than they did four years ago, an alarming number of people still engage in high-risk sex. "I've heard two terms recently that illustrate the problem," said Gitchel. The first he said, is "serial monogamy," where the two partners believe that, for the time being, they are monogamous, and therefore, not at risk of contracting the virus - until they move on to another partner and begin rationalizing with each other again. The second catch-phrase, said Gitchel, is known as "simultaneous monogamy," where partners may have sex with others, but pretend they are faithful with each other. Another unsafe method is having sex with a variety of partners without usinga condom, said Gitchel. Though there are different ways to be at risk of contracting the virus, all are alike in that they use rationalization as the motivation for continuing to employ unsafe sex habits, said Gitchel. With the problem clearly before them, the committee is in the process of gathering information about how CSUF is helping to modify people's sexual habits. Please see AIDS, page 6 'Vine' time at Vintage Days celebration (JOHN WELSH | STAFF WETTER j | Alpha Gamma Rho is looking for its tenth straight Vintathlon victory. "And Now For Something Completely Deliverance" will perform the Clash hit, "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," during the Air Guitar concert. Hubert and Eileen Johnson, ages 59 and 53, respectively, will travel from Scottsdale, Arizona to Fresno for the Craftsfolk Faire, considered to be one of the biggest and best in the state. Vintathlon, Air Guitar and the Craftsfolk Faire highlight Vintage Days, the four-day CSUF spring time bonanza that kicks off its 15th appearance tomorrow. "We're trying to think of every possible little thing to make this thing go right," said Vintage Days' Student Director Nancy Grissom. Grissom and her eight-coordinator crew have been getting ready for Vintage Days since la teOc- tober. "Everything is pretty calm and everybody's pretty well set," said Grissom, one of the cogs in the Vintage Days' wheels the past three years. "If (Vintage Days) began tomorrow we would be ready," Grissom said last Wednesday. Vintage Days runs Thursday through Sunday, starting with a pancake breakfast running 6-10 Thursday morning and wrapping up with a jazz concert featuring Tuck & Patti" from 12-3 pjn. Sunday. Over 35 teams, with wacko nicknames ranging from "It Just Doesn't Matter" to "Grape Nuts" will be battling it out at this year's Vintage Days Vintathlon. The Vintathlon, sporting such events as a frog jump, cow chip toss and a rootbeer chug, runs three davs with teams wing for the Earl Whitfield Memorial Sweepstakes Award. Whitfield was a former Director of Student Activities and the University Student Union. Alpha Gamma Rho has dominated the Vintathlon over the past decade. Please see VINTAGE DAYS, page 10 a banner for the North Commons team. Co-op ed provides career opportunities D BETSY TUCKER STAFF WRTTER Nestled on the second floor of the Joyal Administration Building, the Cooperative Education Program sits as a threshold to careers for students to discover. "The program exists to provide students with academically related paid work experience," said Paul DeRuosi, coordinator of student employment and cooperative education. "It's a win-win situation. The student gets to know what he is getting into in his career field, and the employer gets toknow a student who could possibly work for him after graduation," DeRuosi said. In fact, 75 percent of all students participating in cooperative education internships remain with their co-op employer after graduation. The program, which began in 1979, is designed to match up willing students with an employer who will offer them paid hands-on work experience in their chosen field. Units for the co-op internships are negotiable for credit through individual departments. Many students shy away from internships because most of them aren't paid, DeRuosi said. The Cooperative Education Program combines the two elements that most career- minded students are looking for — money and experience to put on their resume. This way, if students have to work, they still have the option of gaining career-related experience, DeRuosi said. It is a way to extend classroom learning into the job world. Any CSUF student with a 2.0 G.P.A. is eligible, but DeRuosi recommends that only those Please see CO-OP EDUCATION, page 7 Faculty parking negotiations still stalled MARK GARCIA STAFF WRTTER Stalled negotiations between the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the CSU Administration over the issue of retroactive parking fees has caused both parties to call on a arbitrator to solve the problem. According to Pat Nicholson, president of the CFA, John Kagel, a legal consultant from San Francisco, has been selected by both parlies to solve a situation that has dragged on since the 1987-88 school year. The crux of the problem is the refusal of CFA officials to pay retroactive parking fees from the '88-89schoolyear, when CSU, who represents 19 CSU campuses, instituted a new faculty parking fee increase from$750to$12amonth. "Our position is that they (CSU) did not deal in good faith during the negotiations over the new fee," said Nicholson. But according to Jacob Samit, assistant vice chancellor of Employee Relations, the CFA's complaint is settled. "The issue, as far as I'm concerned is resolved," said Samit, "they (CFA) are just exhausting impasse procedures." During the '88-89 year, union and CSU representatives negotiated, but the talks lingered on as both sides couldn't agree on a compromise. However, before the fall '88 semester the administration imposed the new fee without the consent of the union, which is the bargaining agent for all faculty members. __^___ Faculty members, including professors, lecturers and coaches, were ad vised by the CFA to refuse to pay the new fee. That is until last summer when the administration forced the faculty to purchase their parking permit at new fee costs. "We wouldn't be able to park without the permits," said Wayne Dominick, the CFA representative at Fresno State. But since the beginning of this year, the administration has been pressuring the faculty to pay $54 from the '88-89 year. . Please see PARKING, page 10 Highways adopted for trash cleanup JENNIFER L. KONZE 1 STAFF WRTTER J UP FOR ADOPTION: Two- mile stretch of highway. Requires attention about once every two months and a two- yearcommitment. Call Caltrans for further information. Delta Sigma Phi made such an adoption and was awarded a two-mile stretch of Highway 41 from Bullard north to Friant Road. The 40-member fraternity, not officially recognized by the Intraferternity Council or CSUF, was the first group in Fresno to make an adoption. "We want to present a positive image to the community and to CSUF," said Mike Ringer, Delta Sigma Phi co- philanthropy chairman. He added that it was a way of dispelling the negative Greek image. A positive Greek image in the eyes of both me community and the university is one of the fraternity's goals, which has been in existence in Fresno for about 42 years but lost its charter in the '70s, Ringer said. The fraternity's stretch of highway is designated with a blue and white sign on the northbound side of Highway 41 near the Bullard offramp. "There is a sense of pride because we have that sign," Ringer said. There is also the pride of giving something back to the community." They spend about two hours along the highway every other month with the exception of last month, when they participated in Caltrans' Great American Trash-Off March 31. "About 20 tons of trash was collected in a five-county area" during the Great American Trash-Off, said Rose Willems, public affairs officer for Caltrans District 6, which encompasses a five-county area in- Please see FRAT, page 10 |