1983_10 Insight October 1983

              Poor facilities endanger
Business accreditation
CSUF's School of Business and Administrative Sciences may lose its national accreditation because of limited classroom and office space, poor facilities and lack of funds for a
new business building, business school officials
say.
Although CSUF's business school was the
first school in the CSU system to receive national accreditation from the American
Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, the
last few visits from the accreditation agency
have not been too encouraging, according to Dr.
Kelly Black, a professor in the Department of
Information Systems and Decision Sciences.
The school has received official warnings
about the poor facilities. Black said the warnings were specifically in reference to the San
Ramon classrooms and the split departments —
departments whose faculty members have offices spread out all over campus.
"So far San Jose State and Long Beach
State have lost their accreditation," said Black.
Black said they lost tbe accreditation because
state funds were not a warded for improvements
that were needed in their Schools of Business.
The new business building on tbe CSUF
campus is proposed for completion during the
1987-88 school year. According to Tim "Alan"
Johnson, director of Space and Planning
Facilities, tbe proposed building is number one
on the list of CSUF priorities and number 15 on
the chancellor's lists for all 19 CSU campuses.
But completion of the building is still five
years down the road and the accreditation agency visits the campus each year, according to
Dr. Gene E. Burton, dean of the School of
Business.
Burton said, "Every time the accreditation
agency visits us, one of their criticisms is the
improper spacing and officing of our faculty. It
is one of the many problems you have in staying
accredited."
Of the building's present size, Burton said,
"The students outgrew the building they now
have 10 years ago. After we outgrew the
building, we tripled in size. And it's just impossible to maintain the status of a school when
over 50 percent of your classes are scattered in
nine buildings on campus."
The business school is the fastest growing
school on campus, with 3,500 majors now enrolled, and the school is the most over-crowded
school on campus, according to Black. And as a
result faculty members have offices in 14
separate buildings across campus.
Every little thing
she does is magic
By Shirley Cavelia "TbworsbtoSatan, you most first believe
insight Reporter m Christianity. Satan is the antithesis of
Christ," she said.
Sitting yoga-fashion on the floor, owner of        AttW»tinj«,Plexit»,satt*ntk»wasturn-
The Brass Unicorn Kathy Barile Plexico, 25.   ed to a customerwho requested a selection of
talked about her belief and her studies of   her herbal teas.
metaphysics,  "a euphemism  formagick.'
she laughed quietly.
"Magfck has no color," the 1981 CSUF
graduate said, "but it can be used for good or
evil. It's only a tool which can be used to build
or destroy, such as a hammer," Plexico ex-
"It is the Intent behind the toot; For that
matter," sbe continued, "good or evil is a
matter of perceptions What is good for you
may be bed for me or visa versa."
Modern practitioners of witchcraft consider the art akin to tbe power of positive
thinking. "It is the focus on one's self." said
the young woman as she delicately brushed
long auburn hair out of her eyes.
Plexico admits that confusion about tbe
> nature of her shop still exists in the minds
• the uniformed.
'I don't ester to 'devil worshippers,' "
Mid emphatically.  "I sent  those
tomers  elsewhere.for their needs,
j they require can be found at tbe
 • Bible House."
Plexteo further explained that, in her opi-
Satan exists only in the Christian mind.
"I blend tbe teas myself," sbe said as she
carefully measured out his order. "My herbs
come from suppliers throughout the state. I
plan to one day plant my own herb garden out
here." As a firm believer in folk medicines,
sbe explained tbe benefits of the different
herbs for aiding tbe body's ailments.
Sbe smiled when attention was called to
the hand-lettered sign above tbe archway.
"All products sold as curios only — we make
no claim of supernatural, medicinal or
magical about anything.
"Yes," she acknowledged laughingly,
"that's my tfisdaimer.
Her shop, which occupies two rooms in an
old twostory house, is filled with herbal teas
in largt glass containers; tarot cards;
candles; books on the ©cult; jewelry and incense labletod with signs of the zodiac, and exotic names such as: 'Lust,' 'Perfect Mate,'
'Money,' 'Jinx Removal,' and "Secret Lave.'
Individuals can bum tbe incense and concen-
(See Witchcraft page 4)
Enrollments in the School of Business have
increased dramatically over the past six years.
As measured by "full-time equivalents" — the
total number of units taken in the school divided
by the standard load of 15 units — enrollment in
the school was 1,045 in the fall of 1977. According to Dr.. Hal Best, director of institutional
research for CSUF, full-time equivalent enrollment in the spring of 1983 — the most recent
figure available — was 2,084.
Burton said the classroom space in the
business building is inadequate for teaching. He
said, "Teaching in a 14-foot by 16-foot room is
almost impossible when you're trying to teach
modern day business practices."
''Students on this
campus don't protest. They ... sit in
poor classrooms
and take it and so
the public doesn't
know."	
The business school does not occupy all of
the business building- The philosophy and
criminology departments used to have
classroom space in the business building, but
were relocated elsewhere on campus to give the
growing business school more space, according
to Burton.
The only non-business department left in
the building is the journalism department,
which has one wing of the second floor. With the
ever-greater number of business students, Burton said he does not believe relocating the journalism department would, by itself, alleviate
business'  problem of classroom space.
The situation of divided classes and office
space has existed since 1973 and it was then that
San Ramon 1 was built as a temporary
classroom facility, according to Burton.
Students and faculty* members of the
business school still use the temporary
classrooms more than any other school on campus.
There are 407 sections of business classes
being taught this semester; ill of them are
taught in San Ramon 1 — that is, one-quarter of
the school's classes.
Black, who teaches in San Ramon 1, said,
"San Ramon 1 has the worst classrooms I have
seen in all my years of teaching." Black has
taught on this campus for five years and spent
four years at California State University at San
Luis Obispo.
Black said the classrooms are hard to teach
in andare poorly ventilated.
Black said there are ways to speed up the
process of funding for a new business building.
"One way is to write our senators and say,
(See Accreditation, page 5)
Steven Schick is not your average percussionist. He's an accomplished musician with the
drums, cymbals, gongs, xylophone and marimba.
Schick keeps more
than just the beat
By Jody Head
Insight Reporter
When Steven Schick, CSUF's new
ensemble director, was in the second
grade, he was given a choice of several instruments to learn. After much agony and
debate, he chose the drums — and he has
never been sorry.
Today Schick plays a whole range of instruments that produce both primitive,
classical and contemporary music.
Schick bas goBtrbeyond being a drummer. He is now a percussionist
The distinction is that besides playing
so-called "non-pitched" instruments such
as drums, cymbals, gongs, the percussionist also plays such "mallet instruments"  as  the xylophone and tbe
"I don't view the percussionist as one
wbo sits in the back of the orchestra playing the triangle, and at the right moment
playing crashing cymbals in Tchaikovsky's
Romeo and Juliet Overture," Schick said.
The percussionist, instead, plays "a variety of instruments that in tbe 20th century
have come into their own as equals with all
the other instruments. Percussion is not
just purely an accompaniment, but is able
to play solos and chamber music as well."
Schick, bom and raised on a farm in
Iowa, completed one year of medical
studies before deciding on music as his
life's work. He got his bachelor's and*,,
master's degrees in music at the University of Iowa, where he taught for three years.
He and his wife*W_endy, a deaf-education
major, moved to Fresno from Washington,
D.C.where she attended grad school. She
is completing her studies through tbe CSUF
Communicative Disorders Department.
The oldest of five children, Schick is the
only musician in the family.
"They really didn't know what to think
when I began going in that direction," he
said, "but I certainly received ample support. My family lived with the midwestem
attitude that if you wanted to do something,
you just had to figure out what it took to do
it, and then do it." Snick said it was this attitude that kept them from panicking about
something no one in his family had ever
done before.
"I wonder if I would have been a musician had I played any other instrument,"
Schick said. "What attracts me to tbe percussion "tt the variety, tbe wealth of tone
coloring achieved when it's played. There
are an infinity of possible sounds that depend on tbe particular instrument you
choose, the size of tbe cymbal, size of the
gong, or tbe particular kind of mallet you
of percussion
i basically three mallet
or keyboard instruments: the vibraphone,
marimba and xylophone; tbe drum family
( snare, tom-toms and bass of different
sizes, the timpani or kettledrums); and a
variety of small Instruments almost
without number — such as the triangle,
wood blocks and castanets.
Schick said he was also attracted to
percussion because the instruments take
up a lot of space — so much so that he and
his wife had to rent a house so that he could
practice.
Every piece that he plays consists of an
arrangement of percussion instruments. In
one piece, for example, he said he might
decide to use three drums, two cymbals, a
vibraphone, a xylophone and a gong. In
order to perform a piece, he must move
between the instruments, producing what
he calls "a form of dance."
(See Percussionist page 5)
Copyright law forces tape erasure
A CSUF collection of valuable, educational
videotapes — including Loe Buscaglia
pyschology lectures, Cal 'Sagan's Cosmos
series, Edward R. Murrow's original broadcast
ion Sen. Joseph McCarthy's red scare tactics
and CBS' study of political campaigns — have
been erased in compliance with new revisions of
the Copyright Act of 1976.
One professor has described the loss of information as "an educational catastrophe."
The copyright revisions state that information taped for classroom use can only be kept
for 45 days, after which time, they must be erased.
Because of this, Merlyn Burriss, director of
the Instructional Television Services, felt compelled to erase a majority of the tapes collected
over the years.
"Anything that we had that did not have advance permission to record, or that fell into the
45-day limit, we automatically removed from
the shelf," said Burriss.
"Of course, this hurt some instructors—to
suddenly find out that the content they relied
on in a class was no longer available," Burriss
said.. .
Many professors were stunned, recalled
Burriss. "I remember one had a look of
disbelief on his face and blurted, 'What? You
erased Buscaglia?' "
Don Burdick, professor of biology, recalled
his reaction: "I was annoyed. That's one more
tool removed from teaching. H took away the
flexibility one got."
Gail Wasser, coordinator of the Women's
Studies Program, said, "I was highly disappointed that programs would not be available to
students. This has impoverished the program
since some of the best materials are no longer
available."
But this is not the only impact the erasing
procedure has had.
Many courses have had to do without relevant information—information so new that the
only way it can be acquired is by taping off-the-
air, said Burriss.
"Womens' studies is a field of study that is
continually growing and many programs address issues that are of the highest relevance,"
said Wasser. "These programs present information that has not gotten into print yet."
While preparing for a class, some instructors would mix different types of media and edit
several recordings into one, thereby making the
information more at the level of the student.
"The entire tape may be useless since it's
generally aimed at a sixth to eighth grade mentality If it's on the air. We'd tape it, extract out
the important parts and create a visual aid that
the student could work with," Burdick said.
The Copyright Act, passed by Congress in
1976, revised the 1909 copyright law. Tbe new
law made a clear exception to general
copyright restrictions for academic purposes
under what is called Fair Use Doctrine.
"Fair use" is a legal concept that allows
some copying for such things as news reporting,
"In spue of the exception for education, the
law never spelled out in great detail what our
responsibilities were. Since we were operating
under 'fair use,' we continued to record," said
Burriss. <t
But shortly after simple videotape
machines came onto the mass market, 'fair use'
of material began to conflict with sales of
videotaped programming
"All of a sudden, a number of companies
that were primarily in film rental, started to
rent and sell non-entertainment programs,"
Burriss recalled. "This is when the headache
started."
The major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC)
began to sell their programs to such companies
as Time-Life and McGraw-Hill. These non-
entertainment packages, including documentaries and news series, are now being offered in
catalogs for a price most universities can't afford.
"For example," Burriss said, "it would
cost CSUF about $1,350 to replace the Buscaglia
lectures we had to erase. We don't have that
kind of money. So we're forced to do without."
Revisions of the 76 copyright law came by
1978. It included a provision that said taped
material could only be retained for 45 days.
Educational recording was also limited by
other lesser restrictions.
"At this point, it started getting very, very
tough and we started to see the first series of
lawsuits against universities across tbe
nation," said Burriss. Universities were being
told to purchase erasing machines.
Tbe Chancellor's Office set up a number of
copyright seminars for people in media and
library to order to better understand tlie restrictions, according to Burriss.
At some point during the seminars, Burriss
and other CSUF media people realized tbey
would have to erase a sizeable portion of the
(See Erasing page «)