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Farewell Insight
Ultimate parking plan: No traffic
on campus
Originally published
onOct.6,1969
by Norma Treat
Staff Writer
Why can't students find a
parking place at Fresno State
College?
The question never really
came up at the first meeting
this semester of the College
Planning Commission. What
did come up was a 23-page
report on traffic, given by a
highly polished member of a
Los Angeles firm. De Leuw.
Cather & Co.
Jim Meyers, the elder
representative, assured the
campus group that. "We think
we've come up with a sound
plan that should answer your
parking needs."
Mike McQuire. a black-
mustached junior member
and primary speaker for the
report, said there is an observable trend at FSC. The
increase in the number of
cars coming to campus can
be ascribed to the fact that
there are fewer persons per
car (1.7 in 1969) than formerly.
This is probably due to affluence, McQuire added.
"The auto will play a
larger role as time goes on,"
McQuire said. Rapidly increasing enrollment is a
relevant trend, he added,
because the report is projected for a future 20,000
enrollment.
Approximately 18 schematic diagrams and tables
indicate that the ultimate
objective of parking is to
redirect circulation to two
large peripheral lots, eliminating traffic in the campus core.
The objective presents
problems mostly unrelated to
circulation patterns today for
five years from today at FSC.
Lot A and a new freeway will
eventually block Barstow
avenue, the Science Building
will sit on Maple avenue, and
210-220 internal parking
spaces will be eliminated
entirely, along with
Wednesday's problem of
circulation five years from
now.
The problem most related
to the objective is waiting on
the freeway that will eventually skirt FSC.
A letter from the State
Department of Highways was
read by Dr. Marvin C.
Wampler. building coordinator. Three members of the
State Department of Highways were in silent attendance.
The letter stated that
Shaw and Barstow Avenues
were presently in the cards as
future turnoffs. The letter was
encouraging because this
decision would permit a
smooth access to future lot B,
behind the Administration
Building. A representative of
the city of Fresno said, however, that construction of the
freeway cannot start until
1974. Access to lot B, planned
to accommodate 5.300 cars,
until then is at best circuitous.
Dr. Keneth Beesley, executive dean, further warned
state building is behind in
funding.
"Projects scheduled to be
completed in 1966 are not
even funded yet," Beesley
said.
It was generally agreed
that waiting for the freeway is
a hang-up because enrollment will reach 20.000 long
before its completion.
Someone wanted to
know how the elimination of
210-220 interj)aj.spaces is
coordinated with providing
new spaces, in the face of
freeway problems.
Dr. Wampler said temporary parking for 661 cars
would be provided by improving and enlarging the lot
east of Maple at the Administration Building. The area
already serves about 200
cars. General parking this
semester, moreover, has lost
198 spaces to new restricted
areas and a conservatively
estimated 300 spaces will be
lost to the new Art Building for
a loss of 37 spaces.
McQuire suggested more
faculty and students might
set a helpful counter trend to
the auto by riding bicycles to
campus. Data on bicycles at
FSC was not readily available,
McQuire said, but eight foot
bicycle paths could be
constructed on campus If the
trend became observable.
Fay Zylka: CSUF headhunter
Originally published
on April 8, 1981
by Carol Fox
Staff Writer
Fay Zylka has changed
the campus barber shop from
a traditional establishment
into a contemporary salon
where five trained cosmetologists help students keep up
with the latest hair and
makeup fashions.
Prices have gone up, but
so have the available skills
and range of services. Zylka
said.
"Hair We Go," located on
the bottom floor of the
College Union was leased to
Zylka last December. She
completely remodeled the
interior herself and opened
for business on Jan. 15.
'Our problem is that most
people don't knowUbout us."
Zylka said. "We have our
good days and we have our
bad days."
Most of the shop's customers are students who just
walk in. Zylka said that as
business increases, appointments will become necessary
Zylka said a lot of students
originally come in for a
traditional barber cut but
that 90 percent of them
change their minds and get
a contemporary style-cut
instead. She said almost all
clients return.
The barber who operated
the shop before Zylka
charged about S5. Prices at
"Hair We Go" range from
SI2.50 and up. Zylka said that
although she doesn't encourage it. she does offer a $7.50
cut for faculty men who are
accustomed to the traditional barber cut.
Fifty cents out of every
haircut goes to an education
fund. Zylka said, that is used
to send the shop's cosmetologists to seminars in the U.S.
and Europe. The seminars
help them keep up with the
latest fashions from around
the world, she said.
"To me this is art," Zylka
said. "It's creating
something."She said she likes
to emphasize the "total look"
to make certain a hair style
adds to the total appearance of the individual. Zylka
said the person's facial
structure and body proportion should always be considered.
"The hair style should be
you," Zylka said. 'If your not
comfortable with it, it's no
good." She said she tries to
spend the first 15 minutes with
a customer trying to get to
know him, what he wants and
what he will feel comfortable
with.
Zylka said that students in
Fresno seem very limited in
what they consider the
fashion. She said they do
everything from an "everyday
look to an outrageous'lobk."
Zylka, who has a Bachelor
of Science in biology, feels^s
necessary to inform her
clients about proper nutrition
for the hair. "I believe in it very
strongly." Zylka said. The salon
offers a complete line of hair-
care products.
Discounts are available to
students for all services, which
include cut and style, perms,
coloring, highlighting, braiding, manicures, hair removal
and makeup consultations.
For $25. there is a complete facial and makeup job.
A student can bring in her
own makeup and learn how
to use it for a lower price.
"Most women have
drawers full of makeup that
they don't know how to use,"
Zylka said.
Plenty of room aboard CSUF buses
Originally published
on April 8,1981
by Joan Hietpas
Staff Writer
It was 7;57 a.m. The big
yellow Fresno State shuttle
bus rounded the curve and
pulled in front of the library.
Three students got off.
A few minutes later a
second bus pulled up; four
students got off.
Just how successful is the
new free transportation
system, which provides the
service of two buses to run 11
hours a day at a total cost to
the school of $440 a day?
Paul Bissonnette, director
of business affairs, said that
given the amount of money
spent on the system, "relatively few students" take
advantage of the service.
Luis Sepulveda, Associated Students president,
agreed.
"The amount (of riders) is
not what was anticipated,"
Sepulveda said. "But I guess it
is expected, since the shuttle
is only a few weeks old."
In its first week of operation, the two 64-passenger
buses transported a total of
337 people. The second
week, 433 rode.
Bissonnette said the
system was "expensive,"
considering only "three or
four people are riding the bus
on a given trip."
A maximum of $22,000
was allocated for the buses
for the spring semester. Abbey
Transportation System of
Fresno operates the buses.
Bissonnette has faith that
the buses will increase in
popularity.
"It's hard to get people to
change their habits,"
Bissonnette said.
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Fashion Fair to open
its doors this fall
Originally published
onApril29,1970
by Phyllis Martin
Staff Writer
Opening Its doors to
reap back-to-school profits
this fall. Fashion Fair, a 58-
acre shopping complex at
Shaw avenue and First
street, will generate a mixed
bag of businesses, jobs,
people, traffic, higher taxes
and rents.
Fashion Fair will be a
definite "economic generator to northeast Fresno,
where most of the city's
growth is now taking place,
according to city planners.
Within 10 years, the bulk
of city growth will be north
of McKinley avenue with
two-thirds of the city population living closer to Fashion
Fair than downtown.
Four years ago. The
Fashion Fair concept was
just an argument. In 1966,
however, the Fresno City
Council rezoned Shaw
avenue and north First street
when Gordon C.
MacDonald and Associates
successfully applied for C-3
zoning (Regional Shopping
Center) — eliminating the
original residential zoning. R-
1 (single family) and RA
(rural) — to permit Fashion
Fair construction.
Fashion Fair's social
implications include the
danger that it will divide
Fresno into two retail areas,
north and west, with the
north seizing profitable
business gains.
The rationale for Fashion
Fair's Shaw avenue location
is simply economic...going
where the money is, and the
whole show is riding on
Shaw avenue.
Fresno State College is
also on Shaw avenue. So
what happens?
Fashion Fair will generate 15.000 new trips. Of this
total, 70 percent of the
traffic will be on Shaw
pyenue while the other 30
percent will use other
routes. Currently, there's an
estimated 22,000 traffic
flow at Shaw and Cedar,
with peak traffic flow
between 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Current traffic flow on
Shaw avenue isn't bad
because of the opposite
traffic flow during peak
hours, and traffic leaving
the college is scattered
throughout the day and
not all at once, explained
James Whltmer, city traffic
engineer.
However, Whltmer said,
Shaw and Cedar are now
close to capacity traffic.
So what happens?
Freeways 41,168 and
180 are seen as the ultimate answer.
Ramps off Freeway 168
will be dividing the main
FSC access for students
avoiding Shaw avenue
traffic congestion. However, since Freeway 168
won't be completed until
1972-73, college oriented
traffic will probably use
Bullard avenue and other
side streets to avoid Fashion Fair traffic, Whitmer
said.
Freeway 41, to be
constructed In 1977, will
benefit the crosstown
shopper wanting to shop
at Fashion Fair. All he'll
have to do is to connect
on a Freeway 41 off-ramp
until reaching the Shaw
off-ramp onto Fashion Fair.
Although 180 won't be
a direct relief to Shaw
avenue College traffic, it
will run south three and a
half miles parallel to Shaw
— with Freeway 168 connecting — to Huntington
Lake. This proposed freeway will be completed in
1979.
The original Shaw
avenue zoning was only to
provide necessary services
for the Immediate college
community and not meant
to attract outside business
serving the whole Fresno
community.
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