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Student victim of busy intersection
By Perui McElroy
By Denis n
StaffWriter
"Students are always cutting off carsat
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A CSUF student, cydlngfrc™ school,
-TV was whisbrfaway In an ambulance
on Monday, May 4, after -he and a van
collided at tha Intersections of Cedar and
Bulldog Lam.
Joanne Cortes suffered a minor con-
cu»lon,brjlswar_1 abrasions to her skin
and wai rclcaied the Mine day from tht
According to witnWM, Cortes road
Into the Intersection weatbound on Bull*
dog Lane lust aa tha light turned yellow
ar)dwrKrntr*croaawalkalgnhndflnl»hed
blinking don't walk.
The police report aald that the driver of
tht1977 gray Dodge van, Omnia Burton
of Clovla, didn't havt another vehicle In
Ma lane, ao aa he approached tha Inter-
section and the algnal light turned green
he continued aouInbound on Cadar.
Ron Hults, Preano Police Department
public Information officer, aald the police
report aUted that Burton waa the cauac of
tha accident becauac ha failed to give tha
rltjii of wavto tha Wcvdlat. Burton v
not cited air   "
leaking or they are in a hurry.
Hid, who waaonhlaway to workat when
the accident occurred.
Sgt. Rick Snow of campus police raid,
-Many Hrneaatudenr* have other things
on their mind* and safety isn't one of
He said what they usually have on
lhdrmlndalaatest,anotherda3aorwrat
they are going to do the rest of the day.
'Moat students believe that a pedestrian haa the right of wav.no matter what
the drcumatancea are," Snow said. They
Aa Burton approached the Inters
he aald that traffic waa slipped In the left
lanes and he began to alow down, waiting
for the light to change. When the light
turned green he continued through the
Kan Peafjerman, • CSUF senior, said
that he has aeen many people nearly get
Wtbyacarbccausetheyaretooanxkwsto
get across the street
1 saw tr* ambulance as I was walking
to the crosswalk and knew what had
happened, Fesperman said. -What hap-
pena more times than not, is that a group
of students will go across the street and
then a couple of people on bikes think
they can make it, too.
Fesperman said he will probably
more csu tion In the future when hecro
the atreet at Cedar and Bulldog Lane.
Hulas said the police department on
Joanne Cortes Is the latest victim of Intersection at Bulldog Lane and Cedar Avenue.
Nell Stickelf waa driving the first car
stopped at the Intersection when he noticed Cortes,
He said Cortes started acrosa the street
lust as tht traffic light turned yellow, and
he knew she would n't have enough time
officers Into areas around schools to make
people aware they should follow the sig-
*We try and educate children around
schools about what will happen to them if
a car hits them," Hurt* said. -But we
expect adults to haivtcoriwnon sense when
Fresno city residents upset
about chlorinated tap water
it comes to safety."
By Krista Lemos
Staff Writer
One Fresno city resident
summed up his reaction to
the freshly chlorinated tap water
with one word:"lousy."
Charles Cantwell, who lives on
East Gettysburg, found his first
experience with chlorinated water
at his Fresno residence distasteful
and annoying.
"I'm not afraid to drink it, I just
don't like it," Cantwell said during
a break from his evening meal
The smell is terrible."
Cantwell's sentiments were
echoed by other residents who
have called Fresno's Water Division Office in the past month with
questions about the new treatment
process and the health risks of
chlorine.
In late February, Fresno began
chlorinating Its tap water south of
Clinton Avenue, which serves
about 20 to 30 percent of the city's
350,000 people. The treatment was
started in response to new federal
Environmental Protection Agency
water standards.
The EPA implemented a colif-
orm rule in December of 1990,
mandating that no bacteria of that
kind be present in drinking water.
Coliform is usually harmless bacteria, but it may indicate drinking
water contamination, such as fecal
contamination or disease-causing
organisms.
State agencies had 18 months to
comply with the ruling.
City officials said they took
more than 100 calls in a three-day
span after the first dose of chlorine
was distributed.
Doug Kirk, dty water quality
and water treatment supervisor,
said the city currently uses the
compound sodium hypochlorite,
which he compared to Clorox
bleach
"We got quite a fewcalls," Kirk
said. "We even got some calls we
hadn't expected about stomach
cramps." He said the cramps could
be a result of elevated levels of
minerals in the water.
The stomach or digestive system often rebels against a change
in water content Kirk said the
same thing occurs when people
travel to different countries and
drink the water.
One state official, working in
conjunction with Fresno officials,
said they are trying to get to the
root of the problem.
Alexis Melia, chief of the standards and technology unit for the
state Office of Drinking Water, has
advised the dry since the chlori-
nation process began. She said Ifs
not normal for people to have
stomach cramps when water is
chlorinated, but there may be a
simple reason for the pain.
"The theory here was mat there
are mineral changes in the water,"
Melia said. She said Fresno's old
pipe sysl
around sir
system, which has been
since the 1920s, has never
been chlorinated before and corrosion and various bacteria have
built up. When the chlorine was
added, the minerals In (he water
reacted to form different compounds.
'When you add something new
to a very old system, you can get
some chemical change* in the
water," Melia said.
Melia recommended testing the
mineral con tent of the water In the
next section of the dty before and
after treatment. This could help
pinpoint the changes.
More Information is needed
about what the people were conv
plaining about before any concrete
conclusions are drawn. But, Melia
said 20 to 30 calls out of a 100,000
population isn't a big number,
"It indicates some people ere
more sensitive," Melia said. Ifs
Peace Garden planning in early stages
By Susan Goad
Staff Writer
Pilaris for the proposed
Peace Gardenjoca ted between
the Henry Madden Library and
the Education-Psychology
building and home to the Gandhi
bust, are now in the preliminary
stages and work could begin on
the project by spring 1993.
The Gandhi bust was the first
installation in the Peace Garden, a
plan conceptualized by Sudarshan
Kapoor, professor of social work
education and coordinator of the
Peace and Conflict Studies Program
According to Kapoor, the idea
behind the garden is to "create an
atmosphere which will reflect the
ethnic and cultural diversity on
our campus."
Kapoor is also faculty advisor
to the Peace Garden Committee, a
groupof students, staff and faculty
which meets every two weeks to
discuss proposed ideas and plans
for the project Anybody who
wishes may attend the meetings
and Kapoor urged all students to
become involved.
This idea has not come from
the administration," he said.
"It has been a very grassroots
effort with students, faculty and
staff all working together. I
believe the students should be
the torch-bearers of the
project."
Susan Walker, sponsored
student adviser in the International Students Office and a
member of the Peace Garden
Committee, said that more
students need to become involved in the project to insure
that all groups are represented.
"I have talked to some students in the International Students Office about becoming
involved, but we ha ve nowhere
near the input we need to get
from the representative
groups," she said.
Ka t hi Sheehan, a junior majoring in ornamental horticulture and a campus grounds
keeper, has been working on
preliminary drawings of the
garden as ideas filter in.
"So far, we have had about
50or 60 ideas submitted from various
segments of the campus," she said.
"One of our concerns is to keep It
simple, tasteful and maintainable."
Sheehan said the plans so far include removing the four asphalt
walkways that intercept in the area
and replacing them with concrete. A
concrete circle would be formed
\^ere the walkways now intersect.
Suggestions have been made to use
stained concrete on the drele in colors
representative of different groupsand
nationalities, or to include a mural of
student art around the border of the
circle. Benches would be installed in
the surrounding areas.
Preliminary plans also call for
planting marigolds, Zinnias, Vincas
and other annual flowers around the
Gandhi bust and to possibly install
lights around the bust A rotating
display has been suggested that
would be placed in the area racing the
bust
Sheehan said the rotating display
would consist of a raised platform
and could have permanent plaques
commemorating peace leaders such
as Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural
campus groups could then display
for one month artifacts or memorial pieces representing the person
they feel Is most rerxeientanVeof
world peace.
.Debbie AdishiarvAatone, an
assist ant ptonoer from campus fa-
cilities planning and e member
of the Peace Garden Committee, said the plan must pass
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