1997_11 Insight November 1997

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CETI: Faculty union Code of conduct a security
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also occur if the corporation is unable
to fulfill it* mission for any reason "
Fasse said students must not be left
high and dry
"We cannot walk away from pro-
v iding higher education to the staie-of
California." he said
Morris etpressed the same con-
"If this fails, who ha* ownershipT*
Moms asked "Funding is based on
the corporation selling service* If that
revenue is overe*timated aad doss eat
meet the projection* wVt happens to
(he corporation'*"
Morris estimates the corporation
could fail within 12 to IK months af
. ter getting started if the projected revenue*, arc not mei.	
The cornpanie* estimate thai tn the
tirsi vear ot operation, marketed prod-
. ucts and services under the title of
"Flagship fsT will generale more than
$41 million in revenue
Many of these same products and
ser* ices thai vt ill be wld are currently
being offered on campu*. *uch a* the
Central Valley Internet Project
«< ttnfj
(VIP currently charges student*
and faculty SS 33 per month for
Internet acce**
Chances are very high that CETT
will he charging a higher rate. Mom*
The free e mail *er*ice provided at
Fresno Stale by Infiirmation Technol
ogy and Service* may mi longer he
free under the new corporation
Some have also questioned the re
liability of these corporasieai to deliver ttate-of-the-art wchraotogy
GTE'* main focus has been South
em California. Moms said. So how
will they he able to handle Northern
by Matt Kraatrtar
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GTE official* would not comrnem
After ditcustion* with university
president* aad officials, the chancel
lor selected Team GTE in September
of thi* year II wa* one of three finalist* out of a field of SB possible part
ners
The two other finalists included
Team IBM and Team Ericsson TV
IBM warn consisted of IBM. Pacific
Bell. Lucent Techntvlogies, ATAT and
ITC Learning Corporation Team
Ericssoe comprised Ericsson
Westinghousc, Sun Micro Systems
Oracle and Cisco
On Thursday. CSU Lo* Angeles
President James Rosser and A*ti*tant
Vice Chancellor of Information Re
sources and Technology Tom West
held a telephone press conference i*
suing question* about CETI
Throughout the 100-mmute que*
lion answer period, held through
ATAT — one of the initial competi
tors for the partnersbip -- technical
difficulties were encountered
One reporter commented I teel it
ironic that we are talking about a technology initiative and this conference
call is kind of crazy "
Everyone laughed
Fresno State professor
John Shield* began taflung
about an aBtirtx code of
conduct this fait, most m the taasnat
community ernbraced B. Eseryoue
agreed alt student* even athletes,
need to be held accountable
In the past year, criminal allegation*
have plagued the Fresno State athteBc
department Basketball players
IXwninick Young and Chris Herren
state accused of shaving points to
help bettors Teammates Rater Alston
Danyell Macklin and Daymond
Forney were accused of assauBmtwo
o
WON    r
v*h<c hTvitowed hn cas*neahev was
the final *traw for Shaetd* tad weakes
motivation for the Code of Cttnduct
titled. "Have We No
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Jf laatajht a just a*** rf "
Bui a code ft* conduct, vahile dr
*ity^» realty muhmg raore Ban a tew
aajtaaagleii woros on a piece of pa
per It wilt not keep athlew* from
efataXtXautt^lII    even «*BegBne athhaaa, know how    u*swM»aeai asggse M.nawajteu
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I dueu
et.«rthallpiat
ter allegedly hitting hi* girlfriend
Something obviously need* to he
done, but a code of conduct is by no
means a cuSe-all The problem i* not
whether it i* adopted or not, the prob
lem i* what happen* down Bw road,
after a year or two have passed and
athlete conduct is not a hot topic
History show* the futility of conduct codes
• A code of cttnduct at the University of Minnesota mandate* that any
criminal allegation against an athlete
result* in removal from the team That
code was ignored when two basket
ball plaver* were charged with sesual
»**aull
INTERNMENT: Wartime hardship
npagel
Taniguthi *aid the letter ot apology
wa* more important Individual losses
from the internment often tar et
ceede.il :u mm
In American society a small
amount i* necessary to make this
meaningful," Tamguchi said "Now
we feel that the Amencan government
i* willing to correct the mi stake It ha*
restored our faith in our system "
Tantguchi and other surv i v or* ol the
camp* have recovered Stimearesuc
cessful businessmen, tanners and pro
But he warn* Amencan* not to for
lie* in ihe United
Iul and know what
aaasa in Washing
[ participate in their
How the kifttwiaiSBlatft II
lapanfc
US aaahary base at Pearl Harbor
TV ne*t day, the United Slate* de
.U.edvta
And in Fehniary of I *M2. President
I ranklm R.aviveli *igned"rlwcutn
Thit order authona
any aajnaay co Huron ait to exclude
aay ser ton from designated, military
Constitution of the United States."
Tantguchi said "We knew right away
our constitutional rights were v lolated
The Fifth Amendment to the Con
stnutton states "No person shall be
depnved of life, liberty, ot propenv
without due proces* of law " And at
cording to the Sixth Amendment, the
accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial by an impar
tial jttry and to be inf.vrmed of the
cause of the accu*atHvn
Though Tantguchi and other Japa
nese American* were angry vtith the
military order, they didni demon
I or resist »
Tantguchi said many Sansei (third
generation Japanese Amerkami e*k
him why he and other setrood genera
lion Japanese Amencan* .ImI not re
*i« Bw government
"If we did «omethin|
have only caused) the government to
react more," he *aid
He also etplained that Japanese
American* had no political strength
at thai time And since (hey were
forced lo abandon their properties
during the evacuation the* did n,M
have the financial resource* M <^ga
erused by playing baseball. ba*ket
and judo TV camp also
had a hospital and combination el
and high school
Ihe military allowed young Japanese Americans interested in college
io lease the camp* and travel to New
York, Denver and other cities away
trom tbe West C.ssst to attend school
laSagaU hi left camp to attend Wayne
t nivetsily in Detroit. Mich
In April IvMV Tantguchi and hi*
»ith hit lather a a camp in Teta*
Tantguchi
ihetherhe was Amen
aanasnj
•A code
Virginia Tech football player* from
being arrested m the l0** Out of the
\o athlete beating his
girlfriend is going to stop
in mid-slap because he
remembers there is a
code of conduct
players waa arrested for rape twice in
• In W5 and I <Wf., aa athletic code
of conduct was in place when the
I'nivcrwty of Nebraska won consec u
tive national championships with
player* charged with sexual assault,
theft, assault, a finng a gee a an occupied vehicle and truntreed weeds!
Simply, a code of csutduct docs not
stop cnmmal hehatha, laeteed, h en
cotirage* s pattern of cover tea aad
*pt*cuu treatment
mf*\ ourtnev Alexander, found
I        guilty m vugawa of ataaah
^ss~S inghistiancee.vtasrfvru.tect
by Conch Jem Tar
hi* basketball tfcnh
When n cmes ,k-v*» gj ,i  peopk
they theuid act They know they
But man. do | imvsav   And itw
ant wart dertag watoa aad eaty a
atdhsl of them get hat »tV*V»htp»'
Or *ueaM the prefer Baa tach of
i a a code ef conduct
if the code is finally approved next
aaBBl aatnaBau) BaaBanaahhhhaaaa
of this campus will pat each other on
the back and ivffer c-tms^ulaftons on
a jivb well done
What they will torgei is thai n
•hasn't maarr The only Code of Con
duel needed it ajready in place at
It * called Bw Penal Code
Hart Krrttmer is the Etna
tfmtttsmfisdmsntmnsmkemstoc***
tfajaaaea when ***rarnc mg my crutu
and *hoaad he ahte to redeem haa or
herself from a foible Everyone, not
just athletes, deserses equally a*
much So whv dor* Bonner thspar
age psaaul an athletes'
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it when the v* ar herween Bw United
a broke out
'e said thai an
der the curfew he and other Japanese
a oa Bw We« Coast had to
mopm tots • m and
could go no rnore than five miles from
* clearly rhe .lay hit
d by the FBI Hi*
a aa active Ittet." a Bra
generation Japanese in the U
Suae* Issrt were ma eligible to he
come naturalized I   S on/emu
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"Mow of the feadert of Japanese
American *ocwty were l»*ei a tha
time he said And all the
an were < iiattthiiett tube aaagsrua*
lyalirn* by Bw FBI because «*ry