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LIFESTYLE Toon Time I Prime-time cartoons coming on strong on Fox, cable channels Insight California State University, Fresno M Sept. 17,1997 Vblumc 30 Number 2 ^^L^^^^m SPORTS Pure grit I Volleyball team follows example set by senior hitter Job recruiters back in force, seeking Bulldog grads ■ Job offers to Fresno State students at career fair increased by 24 percent in the last year. by Unda Bickford StaffWriter ■s are returning to Fresno State in growing numbers to court recent graduates, and that has school administrators smiling. Several companies that had skipped recruiting here for up to seven years have returned to career day events and set up interviews, said Caroline Williams, associate director of Fresno State's Career Development and Employment Services office. At last May's campus career fair, "We just had [recruiters] coming out of the woodwork," career counselor Aleta Wolfe said. Nearly 70 organizations tendered a total of 410 job offers to 840 May graduates attending the career fair. The number of offers rose 24 percent over the 1996 career fair, Wolfe said, while 13 more organizations recruited at the fair than in 1996. Wolfe also called the mix of organizations a good one, with both technical and nontechnical groups. The next career event is slated for Oct. 1 and will include several companies attending for the first time, along with others that had skipped events the last few years. Turner Construction Co. will be one such first-timer, although the company has hired Fresno State students through the campus interview process in the past. "Fresno State has a very good construction management department - good curriculum, good faculty." said Tom Turner, the construction company's Los Angeles- based personnel director. "You go where you find a program that turns out good quality students." Turner Construction lends to focus on engineering, architectural and construction management majors. But the company has also hired students with liberal arts, history, political science, sociology and marine biology majors, the recruiter said. Entry-level positions with the global firm pay from $37,000 to $42,000 annually. Turner said. An employees' market Most recruiters cited the booming economy as the reason for their renewed interest in Fresno State graduates. Another firm that recruits at Fresno State is Arthur Andersen, one of the "Big Six" worldwide public accounting firms. "It's an employees' market." Andersen recruiter Dawn Howard said. "There are more job opportunities available than there are qualified Candidates." Andersen requires candidates maintain a willingness to relocate, as do some other corporations recruiting iams said. One 1997 graduate who was willing to relocate is business administration major Jesus "Jesse" Lopez. He was hired last month as a staff accountant in Andersen's San n campus, Will- Jose office. Lopez, originally from the Salinas Valley, found the offer brought him closer to home. He said his starting pay — well over $30,000 — and chances for advancement at Andersen made his affordable Fresno State education even more of a bargain. Local companies not left out Companies with Fresno facilities also search for talent at Fresno State. A high demand for graduates exists in restaurant management, Williams said, which provides opportunities many graduates overlook or reject without hesitation. "Their perception is someone frying hamburgers or taking orders," she said. "We are talking about management positions that have the ability to take you into upper management." Clovis-based Pelco, a surveillance-camera manufacturer, used to hire through agencies, recruiter Lisa Suslita See JOBS, page 2 Number of parking spaces growing Insight photo by Christine Mirigian In addition to the 8,000 vehicles with parking permits that fill Fresno State parking lots, vehicles without permits fill many of the 4,709 spaces available for students. Parking enforcement officer Frank Napoletano has been writing parking tickets on campus for two semesters. by Christine Mirigian and Lisa Holmquist Staff Writers Convenient on-campus parking can be hard to find at Fresno State. Last semester 8,000 general parking permits were sold with only 4,709 spaces available for general student and visitor parking. The faculty and staff had 1,702 spaces available for parking and only 1,700 restricted permits were sold for their use. "There is plenty of parking on campus," said Rick Finden, director of campus parking and transportation. "It's just not convenient parking." And parking is not expected to become convenient anytime soon. With a parking garage still a very distant possibility, officials are planning to squeeze in spaces wherever they can by redesigning lots and filling in ponding basins. However, the renovations will not meet the current demand for parking. The student demand for parking is on the north and west sides, Finden said. But most student parking is available on the east. , The director said the $54 fee for semester parking permits goes "right back into the parking program." The fees are spent on renovations, maintenance and upkeep of the parking lots, Finden said. He said the parking fee has held steady for at least 10 years. * $1.6 million in parking fees was collected last academic year, with more than $1 million left over after paying for payroll, supplies and services. The remaining money is used for parking lots' renovations and upkeep, Finden said* Changes have occurred over the summer, Finden said, and plans to improve on-campus parking are gradually taking effect. The north campus lot P near Maple and Barstow avenues was recently remodeled to incorporate more parking spaces. The old parking spaces were repainted and changed from 45-degree angles to 60-degrec angles, adding 33 new spaces. Summer renovations made to lots K and L west of the Industrial Technology building added another 134 new stalls. Parking meters were removed from Lot P. making it a student/public parking lot. These meters were moved to rows in lot C, south of Joyal Administration Building. Lot G west of the dorms will also be gaining 300 additional parking spaces after the Housing Department takes down fences by the end of fall that previously reserved the spaces as secure parking for dorm residents. These spaces have been open to students since the start of the semester, Finden said, but the fences enclosing them have caused some confusion. By next fall, the parking department will fill the ponding basins near lot Q along Barstow Avenue, as well as lots J and A east of the Peters Business building. Lot Q alone will gain 100 student spaces. There are also plans to increase the number of parking spaces in lot E south of the library from 85 to 180 by next summer. Plans also exist to redo the southern area of lot D north of the Lab School. These plans could include changing the access road abutting the library and could be completed by next fall. Additional renovation plans for lots E and Q could add around 200 new stalls. However, no new lots are planned in (he near future because the parking office doesn't want to take away land from the Fresno State agriculture department. "Once the siting of the new [proposed] events center is determined, we will move forward to improve parking." Finden said. Parking for the event center may also be utilized See PARKING, page 2 Variety of speakers, topics scheduled for lecture series by Jill Blevins StaffWriter I997-'98 marks the 61st year of the Town Hall lecture series. Deborah Prothrow-Stith. M.D.. is the first lecturer in this year's series, scheduled to speak 10:30 a.m. Oct. 15 at the downtown Saroyan Theatre. Dr. Prothrow-Stith will be lecturing on "The Prescription to End Adolescent Violence." In her book "Deadly Consequences," Prothrow-Stith called violence a societal disease that can be prevented through public strategies. Prothrpw-Stith, a member of the federal Commission on Crime Control and Prevention, advocates changing behavior patterns, redefining heroes, and she calls for alternatives to violence in problem solving. Fresno State criminology professor Eric Hickey agrees with Prothrow-Stith's approach. "We don't have real heroes any more," Hickey said. "In movies that we see today, the heroes aren't realistic. In the movie 'Spawn,' the hero, who was supposed to stand for good, was from hell." As the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Health, Prothrow-Stith also started the state's Office of Violence Prevention. The next Town Hall speaker after Prolhrow- Stith is Pennsylvania governor Dick Thomburgh. He also served as U.S. Attorney General under Presidents Reagan and Bush. Thomburgh will speak Nov. 19 on "Challenges in the 21st Century." Sheilah Kast is scheduled to speak Jan. 21. Kast, a former ABC News correspondent, covered Congress for three years and the Reagan administration for four years. She is also credited as the first reporter on air during a 1991 coup attempt in Moscow. lee LECTURES, page 2 Planned system will link CSU libraries I New computer network will offer instant access to 22 CSU campuses. by Ezra Danciu StaffWriter "Alice." a hypothetical student, needed a copy of Psychology Weekly magazine for her research assignment, but the Henry Madden library does not sirtrscribeTo it. Soon she would be able to run a computer search of the 21 other California State University libraries from her home. "Alice" would be pleased to see that Sacramento State's library subscribes to the journal, and within minutes, she could have a text version of the article on her screen. Currently. "Alice" has to submit an application with the inter-library loan office for the article and wait two to three days to receive it from Sacramento via courier. Instead, as early as next fall she could get the same information instantly using the new Unified Information Access System (UIAS.) Students, faculty and staff at Fresno State will use the system to access all 22 libraries in the CSU system from Madden Library terminals or from their personal computers. Together the CSU libraries contain more than 12 million volumes and more than 30,000 periodical and serial titles. The system linking these libraries is being conducted in a partnership with American Library Services, a communications company based in Provo, Utah. This system will provide users a gateway to research information at each college through local campus networks and the World Wide Web. The projected cost of the project is $2.542.811 over the first four years. This figure includes gateway server hardware and supporting software al each campus, creating a combined catalog of CSU holdings, hardware and software maintenance, and project management. The project's budget and status, along with project background and dimensions, related projects and a direct e-mail link are available at the UIAS web site: http://uias.calsiate.edu. "This is a small price to pay. less than one percent of the total CSU system budget, which is $2.6 billion." said ALS spokesman Ken Swisher. The UIAS provides direct on-line access or delivery of print resources, such as those available from CSU library catalogs and bibliographic and abstract databases such as periodical indexes. The system also offers digital resources like text, images and multimedia files, Internet- based resources, and help for using information resources. Each user would receive a system profile, allowing campus librarians to tailor UIAS information for the student's level, such as lower-division undergraduate. The basic process would begin with the user starting the program, giving a user name and password, and running a search. The system then checks whether the user has legitimate borrower privileges. Once authenticated, users would directly request books and articles from another CSU library without going through the inter-library loan department. Under the inter-library loan system, if a title is not found on campus, library staffers check a shared database to locate the volume at another CSU site. A courier service then delivers the requested item, whether a one-page article or a 10-bookset. Transporting the item could take from two days to two weeks, depending on availability, inter-library loan officials said. ■ Library officials estimate they share between 15.000 and 17.000 volumes each year, 75 percent of which are requested from other CSU campuses. The other 25 percent are borrowed by University of California campuses, community colleges, and private and out-of- "The CSU [system) has a concept of resource-sharing." said Marvin Pollard, project manager for UIAS. "We are here to make that easier." Initial installation of campus UIAS gateway servers is scheduled for this month, and users should be able to run partial searches e by next fall. The complete linkage enabling full search features should be in place by 1999. Swisher said system training would be imple and anticipated a smooth transition to the n syst program will continue through the four-year transition period to share information across the system. This program will ensure library staff remain involved in designing UIAS system features. Criminology program is among best in the nation by Donna Ramirez-Baker Staff Writer Prominent criminologists all over America have hailed Fresno State's criminology department as one of the best in America. Department chair Haney Wallace said the department enjoys a high profile in the profession nationwide, and students come from across the nation to study criminology here. The department's graduate program lures top prospects from University of California- system colleges and other prime universities. They come because law agencies appreciate the department's excellence, Wallace said. Fresno Slate students are consistently considered among the top criminology prospects. These students are placed at major law enforcement agencies all over the United States. These agencies include the Los Angeles Po lice Department, the New York Criminal Investigations Departments, and the Fresno Police Department's homicide department. In addition. Federal Bureau of Investigation recruiters have approached graduate students at Fresno State job fairs. This is "extremely out of the norm," Wallace said, and speaks for the credibility of the criminology department. Wallace urged caution in trying to compare the quality of Fresno State's criminology department to the departments at other universities. "It is not like sizing up sports in the top five or 10 around the nation," Wallace said. "Rather, it is marked by which institutions' graduates are at the top of the job selection lists at various agencies," he said. See CRIMINOLOGY, page 2
Object Description
Title | 1997_09 Insight September 1997 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Dept. of Journalism, California State University, Fresno. |
Publication Date | 1997 |
Description | Weekly during the school year. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 8, 1969)-v. 29, no. 23 (May 13, 1998). Ceased with May 13, 1998, issue. Title from masthead. Merged with Daily collegian. |
Subject | California State University, Fresno Periodicals |
Contributors | California State University, Fresno Dept. of Journalism |
Coverage | October 8, 1969 – May 13, 1998 |
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Title | Insight Sep 17 1997 p 1 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publication Date | 1992 |
Full-Text-Search | LIFESTYLE Toon Time I Prime-time cartoons coming on strong on Fox, cable channels Insight California State University, Fresno M Sept. 17,1997 Vblumc 30 Number 2 ^^L^^^^m SPORTS Pure grit I Volleyball team follows example set by senior hitter Job recruiters back in force, seeking Bulldog grads ■ Job offers to Fresno State students at career fair increased by 24 percent in the last year. by Unda Bickford StaffWriter ■s are returning to Fresno State in growing numbers to court recent graduates, and that has school administrators smiling. Several companies that had skipped recruiting here for up to seven years have returned to career day events and set up interviews, said Caroline Williams, associate director of Fresno State's Career Development and Employment Services office. At last May's campus career fair, "We just had [recruiters] coming out of the woodwork," career counselor Aleta Wolfe said. Nearly 70 organizations tendered a total of 410 job offers to 840 May graduates attending the career fair. The number of offers rose 24 percent over the 1996 career fair, Wolfe said, while 13 more organizations recruited at the fair than in 1996. Wolfe also called the mix of organizations a good one, with both technical and nontechnical groups. The next career event is slated for Oct. 1 and will include several companies attending for the first time, along with others that had skipped events the last few years. Turner Construction Co. will be one such first-timer, although the company has hired Fresno State students through the campus interview process in the past. "Fresno State has a very good construction management department - good curriculum, good faculty." said Tom Turner, the construction company's Los Angeles- based personnel director. "You go where you find a program that turns out good quality students." Turner Construction lends to focus on engineering, architectural and construction management majors. But the company has also hired students with liberal arts, history, political science, sociology and marine biology majors, the recruiter said. Entry-level positions with the global firm pay from $37,000 to $42,000 annually. Turner said. An employees' market Most recruiters cited the booming economy as the reason for their renewed interest in Fresno State graduates. Another firm that recruits at Fresno State is Arthur Andersen, one of the "Big Six" worldwide public accounting firms. "It's an employees' market." Andersen recruiter Dawn Howard said. "There are more job opportunities available than there are qualified Candidates." Andersen requires candidates maintain a willingness to relocate, as do some other corporations recruiting iams said. One 1997 graduate who was willing to relocate is business administration major Jesus "Jesse" Lopez. He was hired last month as a staff accountant in Andersen's San n campus, Will- Jose office. Lopez, originally from the Salinas Valley, found the offer brought him closer to home. He said his starting pay — well over $30,000 — and chances for advancement at Andersen made his affordable Fresno State education even more of a bargain. Local companies not left out Companies with Fresno facilities also search for talent at Fresno State. A high demand for graduates exists in restaurant management, Williams said, which provides opportunities many graduates overlook or reject without hesitation. "Their perception is someone frying hamburgers or taking orders," she said. "We are talking about management positions that have the ability to take you into upper management." Clovis-based Pelco, a surveillance-camera manufacturer, used to hire through agencies, recruiter Lisa Suslita See JOBS, page 2 Number of parking spaces growing Insight photo by Christine Mirigian In addition to the 8,000 vehicles with parking permits that fill Fresno State parking lots, vehicles without permits fill many of the 4,709 spaces available for students. Parking enforcement officer Frank Napoletano has been writing parking tickets on campus for two semesters. by Christine Mirigian and Lisa Holmquist Staff Writers Convenient on-campus parking can be hard to find at Fresno State. Last semester 8,000 general parking permits were sold with only 4,709 spaces available for general student and visitor parking. The faculty and staff had 1,702 spaces available for parking and only 1,700 restricted permits were sold for their use. "There is plenty of parking on campus," said Rick Finden, director of campus parking and transportation. "It's just not convenient parking." And parking is not expected to become convenient anytime soon. With a parking garage still a very distant possibility, officials are planning to squeeze in spaces wherever they can by redesigning lots and filling in ponding basins. However, the renovations will not meet the current demand for parking. The student demand for parking is on the north and west sides, Finden said. But most student parking is available on the east. , The director said the $54 fee for semester parking permits goes "right back into the parking program." The fees are spent on renovations, maintenance and upkeep of the parking lots, Finden said. He said the parking fee has held steady for at least 10 years. * $1.6 million in parking fees was collected last academic year, with more than $1 million left over after paying for payroll, supplies and services. The remaining money is used for parking lots' renovations and upkeep, Finden said* Changes have occurred over the summer, Finden said, and plans to improve on-campus parking are gradually taking effect. The north campus lot P near Maple and Barstow avenues was recently remodeled to incorporate more parking spaces. The old parking spaces were repainted and changed from 45-degree angles to 60-degrec angles, adding 33 new spaces. Summer renovations made to lots K and L west of the Industrial Technology building added another 134 new stalls. Parking meters were removed from Lot P. making it a student/public parking lot. These meters were moved to rows in lot C, south of Joyal Administration Building. Lot G west of the dorms will also be gaining 300 additional parking spaces after the Housing Department takes down fences by the end of fall that previously reserved the spaces as secure parking for dorm residents. These spaces have been open to students since the start of the semester, Finden said, but the fences enclosing them have caused some confusion. By next fall, the parking department will fill the ponding basins near lot Q along Barstow Avenue, as well as lots J and A east of the Peters Business building. Lot Q alone will gain 100 student spaces. There are also plans to increase the number of parking spaces in lot E south of the library from 85 to 180 by next summer. Plans also exist to redo the southern area of lot D north of the Lab School. These plans could include changing the access road abutting the library and could be completed by next fall. Additional renovation plans for lots E and Q could add around 200 new stalls. However, no new lots are planned in (he near future because the parking office doesn't want to take away land from the Fresno State agriculture department. "Once the siting of the new [proposed] events center is determined, we will move forward to improve parking." Finden said. Parking for the event center may also be utilized See PARKING, page 2 Variety of speakers, topics scheduled for lecture series by Jill Blevins StaffWriter I997-'98 marks the 61st year of the Town Hall lecture series. Deborah Prothrow-Stith. M.D.. is the first lecturer in this year's series, scheduled to speak 10:30 a.m. Oct. 15 at the downtown Saroyan Theatre. Dr. Prothrow-Stith will be lecturing on "The Prescription to End Adolescent Violence." In her book "Deadly Consequences," Prothrow-Stith called violence a societal disease that can be prevented through public strategies. Prothrpw-Stith, a member of the federal Commission on Crime Control and Prevention, advocates changing behavior patterns, redefining heroes, and she calls for alternatives to violence in problem solving. Fresno State criminology professor Eric Hickey agrees with Prothrow-Stith's approach. "We don't have real heroes any more," Hickey said. "In movies that we see today, the heroes aren't realistic. In the movie 'Spawn,' the hero, who was supposed to stand for good, was from hell." As the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Health, Prothrow-Stith also started the state's Office of Violence Prevention. The next Town Hall speaker after Prolhrow- Stith is Pennsylvania governor Dick Thomburgh. He also served as U.S. Attorney General under Presidents Reagan and Bush. Thomburgh will speak Nov. 19 on "Challenges in the 21st Century." Sheilah Kast is scheduled to speak Jan. 21. Kast, a former ABC News correspondent, covered Congress for three years and the Reagan administration for four years. She is also credited as the first reporter on air during a 1991 coup attempt in Moscow. lee LECTURES, page 2 Planned system will link CSU libraries I New computer network will offer instant access to 22 CSU campuses. by Ezra Danciu StaffWriter "Alice." a hypothetical student, needed a copy of Psychology Weekly magazine for her research assignment, but the Henry Madden library does not sirtrscribeTo it. Soon she would be able to run a computer search of the 21 other California State University libraries from her home. "Alice" would be pleased to see that Sacramento State's library subscribes to the journal, and within minutes, she could have a text version of the article on her screen. Currently. "Alice" has to submit an application with the inter-library loan office for the article and wait two to three days to receive it from Sacramento via courier. Instead, as early as next fall she could get the same information instantly using the new Unified Information Access System (UIAS.) Students, faculty and staff at Fresno State will use the system to access all 22 libraries in the CSU system from Madden Library terminals or from their personal computers. Together the CSU libraries contain more than 12 million volumes and more than 30,000 periodical and serial titles. The system linking these libraries is being conducted in a partnership with American Library Services, a communications company based in Provo, Utah. This system will provide users a gateway to research information at each college through local campus networks and the World Wide Web. The projected cost of the project is $2.542.811 over the first four years. This figure includes gateway server hardware and supporting software al each campus, creating a combined catalog of CSU holdings, hardware and software maintenance, and project management. The project's budget and status, along with project background and dimensions, related projects and a direct e-mail link are available at the UIAS web site: http://uias.calsiate.edu. "This is a small price to pay. less than one percent of the total CSU system budget, which is $2.6 billion." said ALS spokesman Ken Swisher. The UIAS provides direct on-line access or delivery of print resources, such as those available from CSU library catalogs and bibliographic and abstract databases such as periodical indexes. The system also offers digital resources like text, images and multimedia files, Internet- based resources, and help for using information resources. Each user would receive a system profile, allowing campus librarians to tailor UIAS information for the student's level, such as lower-division undergraduate. The basic process would begin with the user starting the program, giving a user name and password, and running a search. The system then checks whether the user has legitimate borrower privileges. Once authenticated, users would directly request books and articles from another CSU library without going through the inter-library loan department. Under the inter-library loan system, if a title is not found on campus, library staffers check a shared database to locate the volume at another CSU site. A courier service then delivers the requested item, whether a one-page article or a 10-bookset. Transporting the item could take from two days to two weeks, depending on availability, inter-library loan officials said. ■ Library officials estimate they share between 15.000 and 17.000 volumes each year, 75 percent of which are requested from other CSU campuses. The other 25 percent are borrowed by University of California campuses, community colleges, and private and out-of- "The CSU [system) has a concept of resource-sharing." said Marvin Pollard, project manager for UIAS. "We are here to make that easier." Initial installation of campus UIAS gateway servers is scheduled for this month, and users should be able to run partial searches e by next fall. The complete linkage enabling full search features should be in place by 1999. Swisher said system training would be imple and anticipated a smooth transition to the n syst program will continue through the four-year transition period to share information across the system. This program will ensure library staff remain involved in designing UIAS system features. Criminology program is among best in the nation by Donna Ramirez-Baker Staff Writer Prominent criminologists all over America have hailed Fresno State's criminology department as one of the best in America. Department chair Haney Wallace said the department enjoys a high profile in the profession nationwide, and students come from across the nation to study criminology here. The department's graduate program lures top prospects from University of California- system colleges and other prime universities. They come because law agencies appreciate the department's excellence, Wallace said. Fresno Slate students are consistently considered among the top criminology prospects. These students are placed at major law enforcement agencies all over the United States. These agencies include the Los Angeles Po lice Department, the New York Criminal Investigations Departments, and the Fresno Police Department's homicide department. In addition. Federal Bureau of Investigation recruiters have approached graduate students at Fresno State job fairs. This is "extremely out of the norm," Wallace said, and speaks for the credibility of the criminology department. Wallace urged caution in trying to compare the quality of Fresno State's criminology department to the departments at other universities. "It is not like sizing up sports in the top five or 10 around the nation," Wallace said. "Rather, it is marked by which institutions' graduates are at the top of the job selection lists at various agencies," he said. See CRIMINOLOGY, page 2 |