1995_11 Insight November 1995

              NOVEMBER 1,1995
INSIGHT
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
VOL. 27, NO. 8
Cellphones Horses join police at Fresno State
connect
the world
+ Cellular service is
expensive but helpful in
the fast-paced society
bv Trm Wagner
SlttfWriter
Luckily, silting in ihc Irom scat o
your vehicle is your handv cellula
phone. You pick il up, punch in 9-1
I. and emergency paramedics arc a
Having thai cell phone eliminate.
hav ing to look Tor a pav phone.
Senior Sarah Howerton. a 21 -year
old business administration student
likes hcr Motorola cellular llip-phon.
"I like being able
purse and call sonic
anytime,*' Howcrtoi
i reach into i
saiil. "Il is al
il emergencie
Ce/lpbone convenience
A couple months ago. Hbwerton's
1992 Honda Accord'had a Hal lire.
Instead of having lo search lor a pa)
phone on an unfamiliar street, she
simply reached inlo her purse and
called AAA lor assistance.
"It's limes like those lhat make me
glad lo have a cell phone." she said.
"I would have eventual') found a pav
phone, bul I would have had to find
change, leave and lock lhe car. and
walk back to the car."
♦ Patrolling campus is
made easier with the
use of mounted police
In October, Silva and Zamora al-
■nded a week-long basic mounted pa-
svh.a
n Sacrament
a dav
Ui.-;.
From out of ihe Old Wes
distant pounding of hool
Whoa' This is no western
the California State Uniwr
campus — and the htxit b
iveek.
Silva said b) ihe fourth day. some riders couldn't even sit down.
"The h< irses get real s< ire You get oral
sore.** Zamora said.
Silva said the School was a greal success with over 100 nders. People and
h< irses w ere bn 'tight U >gelhcr from different agencies lo leam how lo work
belong
>ld Zack and 16-year-old
Buddy, two new additions to lhe campus polio
IX-sensiti/mg the horses was one of
ic most important elements focused
n at the school. The horses were ex-
"You'll be seeing us in lhe parking     posed to firecrackers, sherry bombs.
and you'll he seeing us in Ihe free     smoke bombs and people veiling and
speech
Silva and Police Officer Mai
Zamora are lhe officers chosen lo pj
irol the campus on horseback.
Zamora said il hasn't been easv H
and Silva have worked hard in the la>
iwo months, despite iht
nding. to gam confidence and control
Silva and Zamora have been ndins
the horses two hours daily on campir
lo get them used to their new surround
Zam
.• then
act them
e their stimulus skills
,s ot
The horses will gn
cess to ihe campus
•lhe i
A lew wee*G agt). Buddv and Silva were
tn "tunc toward the Kind that was pracuc-
ing in the nearby field when suddenly
Buddv turned an Hind and backed away
Silva said he couldn't hear anything
out of ihc- ordinary Not long after, a
tlcct of cross country runners jogged
up behind them
Silva couldn't hear the runner, coming, but Buddv could feel the pulse of
Iheir soft tennis
around the pc-
Nhoes on lhe
DU&tasescan
The horses will give the
cut    straight
officers access to the
the horses need
through
Silva said the
campus. While patrol
lo be trained so
horses will give
cars have to drive
spook   easilv.
officers a belter
around the perimeter of
Thev need lo
perspective of
whal is happen-
campus, horses can cut
know who has
straight through.
one will get in
campus. The
jured.
Ighl
! drop-
o cause a prob-
Can pn
istly
Thomas Cee.
Insight photo by Apolinar Fonseca
liberal studies major, pets officer Mark Zamora's horse, Buddy.
But having a
be expensive.
Local electrc
kli ..
nd C'ircui
The Good Gu
may sell cellular phones for as litiU
as a penny, or. in sonic cases, jusl
give them away. However, the big
gesi cost with a cellular phoiu
comes alter lhe phone has alreadv
been purchased.
Gregory l.aniay. a SO-year-olrJ
graduate student al California Stau
University, Fresno, who works for;
recycling busin
AT&T Wirelc
month of September was S3K3.24
which was about average lor him.
Minus the monthly service chargi
of $30. he was charged $353.24 loi
air lime, which is the amount of lime
in minutes thai the cell phone was
used.
See PHONES, page 6
Expansion not in sight for
impacted nursing program
said his bill from
lervices for lhe
♦ Prospective nursing
students jind there is no
room at Fresno State
by Stefanie Hard
StaffWriler
the
cal 11
i subn
Wilmington said, "the) els
lion lobe something thai s
mission lo lhe program. If you have
loo many applicants for a program,
then programs start setting criteria 10
is! qualified and most vvor-
n the i
Health care is a fast-growing
try.   Bui cm college programs keep pick Ih
up wiih the demand lor qualified thy."
workers? According io Wilmington. 230
California Stale University, Fresno's people applied lor admission to the
nursing program has been impacted program litis semesier. Of those. Ml
for several years, according lo N'urs- were admitted,
ing Chair Dr. Kuih Wilmington. The program currently has 3(H) stu-
hen n
period. Thev imisi al
rale nursing prograi
Feb. 15.
Students can apply
requisites are completed bt
inio ihe program. Prospec
point average in prcrcquisi
mill of the film
o submit a seps
i application b
alone makes it easier l
shrubs, people and cars, lem. Silva said
"If we have to chase somebody, lhc The droppings w ill cither he scooped
horse will catch him. I can't catch him. up immediately, or" after Silva and
but the horse can." Silv a said Zamora return from their ride.
Fresno Slate is first in the California The police had thought about hiring
State University system to have a someone lo clean up after the horses,
mounted patrol. but s(xm realized the expense.
"The idea of being able to come to A$IO,000 budget was assigned to the
work, do my job and ride a horse is re- project and Silva said it will pa>bably
ally exciting." Zamora said. "You start take ev cry bit of lhat to 00% er the COSH
10 develop a bond w iih your horse." of new equipment, food and housing
,1'olicc Chief Willie Shell. Jr.. started for the horses.
the project this summer and asked Silva It w ill ct>st the univ ersity S1,700 a y ear
if he vv ould be interested in being part to house and feed the S3.900 horses
ol lhe mounted patrol. The police department is try ing to cut
Silva researched other agencies arid the costs by loaning Buddy and Zack
> the Agriculture Department to use
found lhat the San Francisco. Yosemite,
and San Jose Police IX-partmenis. a>
well as the Clovis reserves, are among
the very few agencies that have
mounted patrols in California.
"When we first started a couple
inonihs ago riding ifieir (the
university's] horses, the idea was to
their classes in exchange for a $30
discount on the housing and food.
Silva is working out a deal with a Sierra National Pari ranger w ho reported
that he ha.s a couple ofiiorscs that can't
climb up and dow n hills anymore.
The ranger told Silva thai the horses
Campus employee spends
spare time restoring classics
This 1940 Ford
Deluxe convertible,
valued at $30,000,
was restored by
Paul Armendariz.
by Christina M. Penir
StaffWriler
Look oul car buffs. Paul Armendariz is on campus and he's serious.
Armendariz. who works al Plant Operations on
campus, has been restoring old cars since 1967.
He bought his 1940Ford Deluxe convertible and
began restoring it three years ago.
The Deluxe model is an upgraded version of the
Standard. It has a special exterior trim package, a
different grill and a more expensive price lag ihan
thc standard.
The restoration process was finished aboul one
month ago but, according to Armendariz. it is never
light photo by Apolinar Fonseca
really finished. Il is just one of four restoration
projects he has worked on.
Armendariz bought ihe convertible, he said, because when he would enter his hard-lop cars in
shows he kepi losing lo convertibles.
Hie 1940 nostalgic automobile is valued near
$30,000 when hilly restored, according to
Her
s Mot
The car was boi
whose daughter is
The four other'
are a 1940 Ford i
iwo 1955 Chev
which slill needs
iihl locally from Susan Davis,
i student on campus,
ars Armendariz has restored
>upe. a 1937 ford coupe and
2-door hard lops, one of
;i bit more work. Armendariz
siart getting us used to working logeiher    would do well in the c
Campus directory
misses target deadline
.. Alaska natives and males
iidered underrepresemed in n
ing
•f Deadlines delay
dispersal date for
student directory
e into the program is based
on a point scale using the criteria. It
ranges Irom 37 lo 52 points.
Grade point average is the most im-
portani. wiih points determined by
multiply ing the GPA by ten. This is
worth 30.io 40 points. Prerequisites
completed w ithoul repetition is worth Stale University, Frc?
rectory is not going
by Matt Lloyd
Stall Writer
Like the 1994-95 Student Directory
lasi year, lhe 1995-96 California
Sludent Di-
v available
representative from Hart, our general
understanding was thai they would
get the books on campus four weeks
after ihey got all the materials,"
Nelson said.
The final listings for the directory
were senl to Han on Sept. 18. Four
weeks have passed, and Nelson has
only seen the cover page of the direc-
The listings ana ads hasp noi been
sent back to the school's editorial staff
to be proofread and approved.
Howard Steffens. Han Publishing's
sales manager for the university directory, declined to com-
m^^mm^^^mmm^^      menl on lhc status of the
book.
The directory Bill Looker, general
underrepresented status is worth up until late this semester.
lo three poinis. The directory was originally
"A key factor is the descending geled to be on
grade scale and n descended to about campus by the end     m^^mm
3.0 this lime." Wilmington said, of October.
-We're always looking for good solid      Ideally, the di
students who can pass scifgee rectory would be     was Originally
courses. Those are the ty pe ol students on campus now.
that get in nghl away " according to Gary
Limited openings make the program Nelson, the pro-
highly competitive. There is no wait- gram advisor al
ing list. Students must reapply every lhe Office of Slu-
fall until being accepted. dent Life and De-
Bul even though program demand velopmenl.
is high, expansion is not in sight. Nelson, in his seventh year orga-      Publishing does not specify'ihe four-
Wilmington said this is "because of nizing the publishing of "the direc-      week time span between receiving the
budget constraints and administration tory. said Hart Publishing took over      materials and the subsequent distri-
constraintv Its certainly not the the university's old contract with      bution, a fault Nelson said will not
wishes of the department. If we had TCS Publishing last spring to pub-      happen in future negotiations,
the budget to move forward, we lish Ihe directory. The final edition of the directory was
w ould do that." Nelson's office is responsible for     sent to Nelson's office Oct 30 by Han
"Wc arc currently review ing'the cur- providing ihc final listings of students,
ricutum   from  lop to  bottom." faculty. siaft ami clubs dial comprise
Wilmington said. "If we can do more the book. Han Publishing has thc task
effective delivery, we can increase the of finding advertisers. They arc also
  in charge of printing thc book.
See NURSING, page 6      ••-„ our talks with TCS and the sales
manager of Han Publishing, said lhat to the
targeted to be On     best of his recollection.
CampUS by the mc scheduled disuibu-
end of October.      J™ *£,""' "* "**
^—i—————       The contract between
the university and Han
Publishing for final editing. The directories will then go lo the final printing
stage, a four- to six-week period
"Obviously, it's not here and it's not
going to be here for another month or
so." Nelson said