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MARCH 1,1995
Lifestyle
page 5
Being in the
Spotlight
Taking hold of your dreams
Goddess
of the
airwaves
By Melissa Haverty
Staff Writer
Photo by Dan Halmbold/lntlght
Chrissl Henderson, known as "The Goddess," Is a DJ and traffic director
for the campus radio station, KFSR.
X une your FM dial to 90.7. the Fresno State campus radio station KFSR,
and you*ll hear the voices of many student DJs.
Chrissi Henderson is one of them. She is better known on thc airwaves as
"The Goddess."
Henderson, who is on the executive staff at KFSR as traffic director, is fairly
new to KFSR. She started in August 1994. Some people have been there for
several years.
"Most people start off as a DJ then work into the executive staff. Whereas I
got a job on the executive staff then got a job as a DJ, so I would know what
it's like." she said.
Her position as traffic director consists of recording public service announcements (PSA's), or she oversees that other people get them done. She is also in
charge of the traffic log. which is when the PSAs or promotions will be run.
If that isn't enough, she jokingly said lhat she's in charge of the office sup-
, which basically means office manager. She was
quick to add that it's nothing like the station manager.
Henderson puts in 15 to 20 hours weekly, and being
on the executive staff, she is paid minimum wage.
I Henderson said being a DJ is completely voluntary but
9 is great experience and lots of fun. She said she has had
a great time putting together her show, which is progressive music, on Sundays from 9 p.m. to midnight.
"It's a fun place to work because there are lots of rewards and radio is a place where you can expect the
—^H        unexpected," she said.
,^-H      When talking about the show of Sunday. Feb. 12, she
explained what kind of evening it was.
"That night was a screwy night, oh gosh, il was just
insane. Our engineer came in during the middle of my
show and decided to work on our two CD players. So I
was stuck with a turn table and a cart machine that didn't
work at all. It was really a mess," she said, laughing.
Henderson also fills in for other people. She's done
reggae shows and jazz but hasn't done blues or hip hop.
She said lhat is probably because she hasn't been available for those times if they've needed her.
If you're familiar with KFSR you know that it plays music
you've probably never heard on other radio stations.
Henderson said they are told not to play commercial
music, but they can play any song off a CD that comes
in. They do play commercial bands, but not songs you
hear on other stations.
"We used to play Green Day and Offspring and a lot of
other bands before anybody had heard of them," she said.
She said she thinks other radio stations don't play certain bands because they haven't been established. She
said once thc bands become popular then the other stations will lake a chance with them, basically because
they've become a moneymaker.
Henderson is a senior planning to graduate this May
and is majoring in Mass Communications with media
studies as her option. Her goal is to work in radio or
film one day. She said that newspapers aren't her style
because they're loo hectic, and at the same time, too
boring.
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Photo by Christine Mirlgian/lnslght
Exercise science graduate student and aerobics Instructor,
Krysten Boele, left, helps CSUF students to keep in shape.
Aerobics instructor
shapes up classes
♦ Excercise science
student helps others
improve fitness level
By Jeannette Baeza
Staff Writer
W-
aking up before dawn and
teaching aerobics classes is one of
Krysten Boclc's jobs as a graduate
teaching assistant for the Exercise
Science Department.
Boele teaches four aerobics
classes twice a week. "The classes
are fairly safe, they aim to keep
[the] body firm," said Boele. The
classes are available to help students understand and become involved with fitness. Thc students
have learned how to read their heart
rates before, during and after an
aerobics session.
This allows the student to
choose to slow down or work
harder during thc workout. The
class includes both low-impact
and step aerobics.
According to Boele. the exercise
science program has been growing
within the last few years. The program currently has nine undergraduate students, three exercise
professors and nine lab assistants.
Boele also works with various
athletic groups by helping the athletes improve their fitness levels.
She has access lo many different
machines in the human performance department that allow her to
do various tests, such as heart rate.
Boele requires all of her aerobics
students to use a device that reads
an individual's body fat.
This is a tank that is filled with
water, and the student sits under
water on a chair suspended from a
scale. Density is calculated by the
difference in weight and water displacement. Body fat is read by a
faculty member or lab assistant.
This is Boele's last year in the exercise science graduate program.
The research topic for hcr thesis is
pregnant women and exercise. Boele
said, "The graduate program mainly
deals with researching your topic."
After she has completed her thesis,
Boele hopes lo be published in
American College Sports Medicine.
Exercise science was not Boele's
first career choice. "1 wanted to go
to art school, but it was too expensive." said Boele. Instead of going
straight to college after graduating
from high school, Boele chose to
join the Army.
She began her Army training
when she was 17 years old. Boele
has spent two years active and six
years reserve in thc Army. Hcr specialty was chemical warfare, and
she has worked her way up to lieutenant through the Reserve Officer
Training Corps. She was also a
member of the ROTC program here
at CSUF.
When Boele entered thc army, she
was hoping to save enough money
to go to art school, but after she finished saving for college. Boclc
found she only had enough money
to go to two years of art school.
Although exercise science was not
Boele's first choice, she enjoys it
very much and plans to get her
Ph.D. Bole said. "I feel a Ph.D. will
give mc job security, plus I want to
work for a university." Boele feels
she can be employed by a private
or junior college, but she enjoys thc
atmosphere and the security a university provides.
From Rio de Janeiro to Fresno,
professor fulfills lifelong dream
♦ Brazilian professor
realizes dream of teaching
at an American university
By Paulo Albuquerque
Staff Writer
Some may find him hard lo understand. His accent is evident,
sometimes thick. Some of his expressions appear lo be a little out of place.
Nevertheless, after more than 20 years
of teaching in Brazil, Aroldo
Rodrigues fulfilled his dream: lo teach
at an American university.
"He is a good teacher, but sometimes I had problems while trying lo
follow what he was saying." said Paul
Master, a CSUF psychology student.
Born more than 60 years ago in Rio
de Janeiro. Rodrigues became very
involved in sports. In 1953. he
achieved thc dream of almost every
young Brazilian — he played in the
Maracana Stadium, the largest soccer
stadium on the planet.
'To play in the Maracana represents
for Brazilians the same feeling of
playing in the Super Bowl for Americans," said Rodrigues, who played
there twice in intercollegiate games.
"My performances were not the
greatest of my career. We tied once
and lost the other time by 5-1," hc
said. "It was embarrassing lo gel our
butts kicked in front of a huge crowd."
Despite his failures with his university soccer team. Rodrigues managed
to graduate with honors from the
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
in 1956. He earned a bachelor's degree
in law and psychology.
According to Rodrigues, after his
college graduation, he felt thc necessity to continue his studies.
"I felt the urge to Icam more about
psychology," he said.
He got a master's degree at thc University of Kansas in 1961.
A few years later, he earned a doctorate in psychology at UCLA.
America. All his children, except
Magoo (named after the cartoon character), 14, have completed college.
"I just completely fell in love with
the United States." he said. "Here psychology is taken seriously."
According to Rodrigues, Brazilian
universities are saturated by politics
and that takes a lot away from learn
ing and research.
"1 soon became very motivated by
the American way of life, and, moreover by the way American universities deal with psychology," he said.
"Here was not so much of whom you
know but how much do you know."
But despite his aspirations to remain
in the United Slates. Rodrigues was
forced to return lo Brazil after he finished at UCLA.
"I had a family to raise," he said.
In Brazil. Rodrigues worked many
years in some major universities. In
1972, he became chairman of the
Department of Psychology at the
Catholic University of Rio, but due
to what he called "political implications," he lost his position there.
In 1988, he became a professor at thc
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
one of thc most important centers of
psychological research in Brazil.
Rodrigues wrote publications, both in
Portuguese and English. He participated in many conferences, congresses
and symposiums of psychology. He
also received many awards, including
the Interamerican Psychology Award
granted by the Interamerican Society
of Psychology in 1985.
In 1991. Rodrigues participated in
Photo by Kori Rlanda/lnslght
Aroldo Rodrigues taught psychology in Brazil before coming to teach at CSUF In 1993.
post-doctoral research work at UCLA
as a Fulbright fellow. It was then that
he met CSUF Psychology Deportment
Chairman Robert Levine and learned
about the possibility of becoming a full-
time professor at CSUF.
In 1993, Rodrigues was hired by
CSUF as a full-time professor of psychology.
According to Rodrigues. he is very
happy to be in Fresno but misses Brazil very much.
"There are many aspects of life in
Brazil that I miss tremendously," he
said. "There is no professional soccer league to follow, dinner is served
too early, the beer is always too weak
and the bikinis on the. beaches are way
too large." Rodrigues said.
Rodrigues said he First planned to
stay in Fresno for IS years but now
believes that 10 years would probably
be long enough.
"I must stay as long as I can in order to qualify for retirement," he said.
"Only one thing I can guarantee, I will
never work in Brazil again."