1993_11 Insight November 1993

              campus V^alendar
Graphic art
Instructional Media Services
Video is offering basic mforrna-
tion workshops covering desktop video applications on the
AMIGA computer.
Editing, creating animated
logos, and learning a graphics
program are among lessons to be
taught in small groups with
hands-on training.
Workshops will be held on
Saturday, Nov. 20. Registration
is $10 for CSUF students, faculty and staff, S15 for the general
public. Prc-rcgistration is required. For more information call
IMS Video at 278-5070.
Ex-UPI editor
to speak
FriendsofiheMaddenLibrary
will present "Heroes, Liars and
Scoundrels I Have Known," a
pRScnuniuti uj Rvgcr Tma'smt,
former editor -in-chief of United
Press International and professor emeritus of journalism at
CSUF. Now a Fresno Bee columnist, he will speak at 6 p.m.
Nov. 19 in the library solarium.
Tickets willbcsoldat ihe door.
for $2 for non-members, $1 for
students. For reservation information, call 278-2587.
Commentator
to lecture
University Lecture Scries presents author Linda Chavez discussing education and the politics of Hispanic assimilation at
7:30p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in
the Satellite Student Union.
Chavez wrote "Out of the
Barrio: TowardaNewPoliticsof
Hispanic Assimilation" (1991),
and heads the Manhattan Center
for the New American Community.
Admission is $2 for students,
$10 for the public, and may be
purchased at the University Student Union Information Desk
between 9 a.m. and 7:30 pjn.
weekdays. For more informauon,
call 278-2078.
November 3, 1993
Volume 25, Issue 8
HT
Divln Hulchinv 'INSIGHT
Charred skeletal remnants haunt the El Morro Beach Mobile Home Park on Pacific
Coast Highway. For more on the Southland wildfires, see an INSIGHT Special
Report Inside.
CSUF water
tested, fails
Bacteria found in campus water supply deemed
karmlez, biiibcir."
monitored
By Michael Yparrea	
StaffWriter
Tainted meat served by Jack-in-the-
Box last year created a national health
crisis and caused the deaths of several
patrons.
ButCSUF'swaicr system also came
under scrutiny earlier this semester
when its wells failed to pass coliform
tests.
What began as routine water lesting
has become a $2 million project to
upgrade the many wells on campus. A
bacteria called coliform was found in
the samples taken from ihe wells.
"Colifoims are harm less," said Dave
Terstegen, Environmenial Health and
Safety Advisor. "They're everywhere—onthciable.iniheair.countcrs.
When it gels into the water, though, wc
need to know where itis coming from."
What worries Terstegen is the pathogens the coliforms can create, a deadly
bacteria ihat comes from animal waste,
such as E.coli that was found in Jack-
in-ihe-Box beef last year.
"If we were io find pathogens in the
water, then it would be a big problem
because ihat would mean sewage of
some sort was getting into the water
supply," Tersiegen said.
Terstegen was silting behind his desk
ioowng over uic iaiesi icsuiu uftcaicu
water. He was obviously happy the
water had passed for a ihird week with
no sign of coliforms.
CSUF is its own water proveyer
wiih its own wells and follows the
same water regulations as the City of
Fresno. A federally regulated agency,
Cal. E. P. A. lakes 40 samples a week
from the campus wells allowing only
one failure. "If 1 have more than one
failure in a month, the whole system
fails." said Tersiegen.
Putting high levels of chlorination
into the water is a short-term plan already in effect to keep the water safe.
"The chlorine is at a high level now,
butitwillevcntuallybebroughtdown,"
said Susan Aldrich, Facilities Planning
Advisor.
"Now what wc*rc doing for long-
term is separaling ihe irrigation and
drinking water."
CSUF is spending $1.7 million to
install an anti-syphoning system, according to Aldrich.
"This will keep the irrigation water
from seeping back into the drinking
water when there is a power failure,
therefore keeping pathogens such as
E.coli oul," Terstegen said.
"The water on campus is very safe.
I drink it every day. But this system will
ensure it will remain safe."
Jewish-German flees Nazis in WWII, now student
By Mohammad Baddar
StaffWriter
Adolf Hitler is to thank for sending an 80-ycar-old
man to CSUF.
Herb Kanter was a Jewish-German bom and raised
in Frankfurt. He like many others fled Germany and the
unjust punishment Jews suffered because of their religion. "I was a victim of Hitler," Kanter said.
At age 23, Kanter made it safely to New York in
1936. "I had very little education because I left school
at 15, and I did not speak English," he said.
And fall 1993 marks the first time Kanter has stepped
foot in a school since he was 15. Getting an education
in Germany was hard al the time, Kanter said. "Wc
went to school six days a week, 11 months ofthe year,"
he said.
After arriving in the Slates, Kanter was drafted into
the U.S. Army in 1941. In 1942, then an Air Force pilot,
he became a U.S. citizen.
Kantcrwas stationed in Fresno in 1943. He found the
love of his life, Marion, after being discharged from the
Army. Marion passed away three years ago.
Bul she left Kanter with two gifts: a daughter who is
a clinical psychology doctorin San Francisco, and a son
who is a movie writer on the other side of California.
"When I tumcd40,1 realized ihat togivc my children
education, I would have to have my own business," he
said.
He and a partner then went into the wholesale
business, which covered the whole slate of California,
he said. Now retired, he lives in The Windham, a
retirement home provided by Saini Agnes Hospital.
Reading and educating himself on his own was not
enough to quench Kantcr's thirst for knowledge. He
enrolled at CSUF io continue hiscducation. "I fell I was
wasting time just living and spending time in the
afternoons," he said.
Kanter, who said he watches television and reads a
lot, wanted io broaden his horizon. "The more I know,
the less I know," he said.
The best way to make his afternoons more fruitful,
he thought, was to make use ofthe fee waiver program
offered io people over the age of 60.
For $5. California residents over the age of 60 can
register in one or more courses. They will have to
register late though, because they will be enrolled on a
space-available basis. Health and parking fees arc
optional. Kantcrpassed the SAT and became eligible as
a CSUF student. Now an athicst, he chose Anthropology 2. or cultural anthropology, as his first class. "I fell
it would give me insight into the beginnings of human
kind," he said.
Linguistics is his next step. "I want to enlarge my
knowledge of the Spanish language." he said. Kanter
speaks English, German and French. He will turn 81 in
March and drives his own car to school.
"Learning doesn't stop with age," said Prudence
Zalewski. Kantcr's friend and ex-neighbor. "You owe
it to yourself to leam what you can."
Zalewski, an information systems instructor in the
School of Business, said she and Kanter did some
community work together in ihe past. "Nothing scares
him,"she said. "He is willing to go to any length in order
to achieve what is on his mind."
She said Kanter is interested in helping other students, loo. "One time he brought a student to mc and my
husband for a scholarship, she said, and the student did
in fact get it."
Kanter, who volunteers at the U.S. Small Business
Association, is the focal interest of his classmates
during classes. "When we talk about things in class, he
See KANTER page 7
Cold War ghost haunts CSUF
Ballistic missile finds
new home—off the
launching pad and into
the teaching lab.
By Lisa Wackowski	
StaffWriter
The button has been pressed. Total
destruction of Earth is imminent.
Nuclear war has occurred.
Remember ihc days of the Cold War.
when nuclear holocaust seemed aclear
and present danger—a time when missiles were scattered in silos around the
globe, and the world was scared?
But today, as nuclear missiles arc
being dismanUcd, where do ihey go.
and what is done wiih them?
The Industrial Technology department has found use for one intercontinental ballistic missile. They use it for
educational purposes.
In 1969 ihe department obtained a
Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile engine. "Wc were offered Uic w hole
missile, but wc decided on jusi Uic
engine," said Dr. Skip Adrian, professor of die Industrial Technology department.
The department decided it only
wanted the engine instead of the whole
missile in part because of the era. Protests and demonstrations were common and the department felt as litilc
commotion as necessary was best. "It
would have been nice now, if wc had
gotten the whole missile," said Adrian.
The department obtained Stage I
and Stage 2 of the engine and it is now
on display for students. "Il was going
out on surplus," Adrian said. And the
department was able to gather enough
donations to buy it from ihc Air Force.
"There arc no other universities, dial I
know of, thai have one," said Adrian.
The department uses the engine for
pracucal analysis in its energy conversion and utilities class. The studcnLs get
hands-on experience with the engine,
as well as part of a J79jci engine from
an airplane, a gas turbine engine as
might be used in a helicopter, and a
piston engine, which could be found in
a crop-duster plane.
The Titan engine is still intact and in
the nakedeye is visibly arockcicnginc.
Although it appears there arc two engines, iherc is only one, which is broken down into two stages.
Stage 1 is the biggest pan of the
engine. It is the first part of lift-off and
propels die rocket up 30 miles at a
speed of 15,000 miles per hour with six
million horsepower.
After completing its job. Stage 1
disengages from ihc rockci and falls to
Earth.
Stage 2 then takes over. It keeps the
rockci propelled and acts as its homing
devise.
Cables, which are still intact on the
engine, were its guidance system designed as a radio-inertia unit.
Practical application is whai die department strives for, and die display
gives ihc students thai opponuniiy.
Televised learning sparks debate
Educators consider a
remote education system
enabling teachers to
reach a larger audience.
By John L. Cruz	
StaffWriter
Becoming technologically advanced, despite limited funds, hasgiven
ihe idea of distance learning a possible
hone in the university's future.
Though not everyone believes hav-
'*,
ing remote televised classes is the best
solution, the funds may just not be
there to hire new instructors.
"It isn't about choice—it's about
resources," said Helen Gigliotti, co-
chair of the Information Technology
task force.
"If we have to choose between not
providingacourscandmaking arrangements with another university, we'll
work oul an agreement," she said.
"It isn't like making between offering a course in distance learning and
hiring an instructor," Gigliotti said.
"The resources just might not be there
lo do so."
The idea of distance learning isn't a
new idea on campus.
"If we have to choose
between not providing a
coursp and making arrangements with another
university, we'll work out
an agreement."
—Helen Gigliotti
The departmentof Agriculture/Science and Technology has an arrangement with CSU, Chico to share seminars between each institutions.
Arid the overwhelming response has
been one of pleasure, said Michael
Thomas, coordinator of the seminars.
"Feedback has been extremely positive," he said.
"And ihc information we arc sharing is very helpful io both the students
and instructors on both campuses."
Throughout the semester, more than
10 to 12 seminars ranging in topics in
the agriculture/science genre are being
transmitted beiwccn campuses, seven
lo eight from Fresno to Chico with die
remaining three to four from Chico to
Fresno.
However, despite the absence of a
lecturer, Thomas noticed that students
were involved,eveninihecourses transmitted to Fresno from Chico. "Students appear lo be very interested in the
topics,"hc said, "even when ihey don't
K'
BACCUS members prepare for
making symbolic tombstones to wear
who have died In alcohol-related —
that represent those
relate to iheir specific major."
"They aren't afraid to ask questions
because they can see the lecturer and he
can see them. Students get very involved, and they appreciate the attention they arc getting and the variety of
topics and resources," he said.
While the shared seminar programs
were started primarily lo swap needed
information for both campuses and not
because of lack of funds, Thomas said
he believes this can take off and be very
successful.
"When we started mis program, our
objective was to let other people know
what we were doing here, and lo get
exposure from other people's work,"
he said. "And that part is going very
well. I think this has the potential to
expand to oiher camrjuses.Idon'tknow
if ihat will happen, but the potential is
there."