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"~ '' wiwiPip^ Volume 24, Issue 18 Wsdnesdsy, March 18,1902 Armenian shuffle ■ -^ 1 H 1 t^^fl Unb.w H BnmSBLVlannnnT^ R i Lfif 'J ■ ^WBfc^BB aflaVV Law^^T Jk [I m |l I > m Tht Arax Dancer*aiuTRIchard Hagoplin't Armenlen Band performed a fret show Sunday lefere av crowd of 100" people et the* satellite ■ Itudsnt Union. • CSUF graduate program in flux ByJohnD.Chavira Staff Writer When professor Lawrence Esta ville came to CSUF last August from Clemson University to chair the geography department, he found a department wracked by years of internal dissension and a graduate program in suspension. In 1989, the CSUF University Graduate Committee, a panel of nine faculty from various departments with graduate programs, denied any new admissions for the master's degree in geography, leaving all of Central California without a university graduate program in that field. The geography department's woes are an exceptional example but they illustrate the ongoing ebb and flow of graduate programs at CSUF. All graduate studies and research programs must be approved by the graduate committee, which also has the power to delete or suspend existing programs. The vast majority of dissolutions occur simply for lack of student involvement For fall 1992, the career development option, under the master of science degree in counseling and special education, will be dissolved as will the master's degree in city and regional planning offered through the political science departmenL However, the essentials of both programs will be kept alive by being combined as electives in more popular programs. "We had a very low student enrollment in the career option," said Robert Monke, school of education graduate programs coordinator, on the decision by his department to request dissolution of the program. Thisldeietion] did not ha ve artything to do with budgetary considerations,''Monke said, referring to the master'soption, which frequently attracted only three or four new'students a year. " ' "If we offer programs that nobody enrolls ia we go out of business. Ii we offer am* everybody likes, we do what supposed to be dring," Monke said. ThedecJsson to stop graduate pi whether it to ii committee or the departments is a halt to wwadmusiore to the program, not an outright termination. Students enrolled in graduate programs due for deletion or suspension, students said to be In the pipeline," are allowed to continue unimpeded toward Iheir master's in that program, much like the last surviving members of a species headed torextirtction. After two years, there are onh*^ raphygianiiateatialeiaUaeftmtt this semester. Only three are active. The graduate committee gav* **x main reasons why it decided in 1989 to discontinue admitting new students for the master's in geography. The three most serious deficiencies the ca lackofasolid changing "Aeon "A couple of years ago there were some difficulties in this department," EstaviOe said. "there were some morale problems, some in-house fighting and people decided not to continue with a vigorous [graduate] program. "We have done a 180-degreerurn; we're prepared to go forward," said the exuberant Esta ville. On March 17, EstaviDe win present a proposal to the graduate committee to readmit new graduate students for the faD 1992 semester. EstaviDe asserts that his department has met all the requiren»ents stipulated by the committee for reiiuUtt ment lOOpquent supportfrom the fatuity and lie credits attitude changes, newly received Harassment victims slow to come forward By Roselinda Abdul StaffWriter It takes a lot of courage for a sexually harassed victim to come forward and file a complaint, said Arthur V. N. Wint, director of Affirmative Action Services. Over the last three years. Affirmative Action Services has dealt with 17 cases involving 14 students and three staff members. For 1991- 92, there have been four complaints from students. Two of the students are Hispanic one is a white male and one is an African- American female. The usual cases that we have seen over the years have been in a situation where a member has either made a harassing remark or engaged in harassing behavior either in thedassroomorintheoffke," Wint said. Wint gave an example where he had received complaints from student assistants alleging that they had been harassed by the people for whom they worked. These complaints range from propositioning to touching. CSUF has defined sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verba] or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Wint said that when a formal complaint has been filed by a vic tim, his department will carry out a thorough investigation. He further said that conducting the investiga- tion can be very hard because sexual harassment usually happens in private between people of unequal power. "Becauseof that unequal power, many individuals, often times students, fed, 'Who are they to object?' or 'Who are they to complain?'," Wint said. Instead, the students involved usually feel that they just want to get their degree and get out of the university. Thafs sad, because what then happens is that semester after se- mester,year after year, individuals are being sexually harassed and we know nothing about it We can't do anything about it," Wint said. Wint explained that the law only allows action to be taken if Sm Sax, paga 8 Physics student earns degree in only two years selection of new UC site ..rending to the County ByHui-SinTeoh Staff writer For 16years she lived with her parents and younger sister in a red-brick, three-story dormitory made up of old classrooms at the Central Institute of Music in IS. r family cooked with a gas stove on an oily, slippery floor in the corridor outside their room. She bathed without privacy with her female neighbors in public bathrooms. Today, Ah-San Wong, 21, sits on the bed in her dormitory room at CSUF, her back against a wall next to a large poster of Albert Einstein while she recounts her earlier years in mainland China. Wong has broken the physics department student record by completing a physics degree in two years. She graduates this May. Wong, who moved to Hong Kong in 1987, has been offered scholarships and teaching assisUntships to do her doctoral studies at California Institute of Technology, Stanford Universify and University of California, Los Angeles. On Feb. 22,1987, Wong's fa ther accompanied her by traintothestatic»ninShen-Zhen,Lheborderdtybetw^ Hong Kongand China. In Hong Kong, she rejoined her mo ther and sister who had moved there in December 1985. "The journey took us more than 80 hours. From Shen-Zhen, I went to Hong Kong myself. One year later, my father moved in with us," said Wong, who went to a secondary school on her fourth day in Hong Kong. Wong didn't know English and did poorly on her first test in the class. But by the time of her first final exam,shewasoneofthetopfcwrstudentsinthest^ool. m 1988, Wong was one of 10 students who won the Barry Gump is CSUFs outstanding professor Ah-San Wong has taken as many as 34 units a semester white maintaining a 4.0 GPA. annual Hong Kong Outstanding Student Award. The following year she scored eight distinctions out of rune subjects- English held her back -in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and got into King's College, one of the most prestigious in Hong Kong. Twi was very active in school during my three and a half years in Hong Kong. I also gave private piano lessons. I strived for the gold medal of the Duke By Erin Yasuda Staff Writer A huge whale bone, a souvenir from a research expedition in thewatersoffthecoastof Alaska, sits prominently on a bookshelf packed with old books from floor to ceiling. A plastic beaker inscribed with the message This beaker's for you" sits upon his crowded desk. The man is 51-year-old Barry H. Gump, CSUFs Outstanding Professor for 1992, who teaches analytical chemistry, enology (the study of wine) and food science. Gump, affectionately called "GumpeV* by some of his students, is also a nominee for outstanding professor in the CSU system. Gump's office is crammed with a mishmash of gifts that he has received from students over the years, ranging from a purple wine bottle with a handmade label that reads'To a swell teacher with a lot of class," to a teakwood tea cup covered with gold geometric designs that he received from some students in Uruguay, where he taught for awhile on a Fulbright scholarship. Although his office is tucked into a small, secluded corner on the second-floor of the science building, it is buzzing with activity. It is a late, overcast Thursday afternoon and students popinand out, bombarding Gump with questions about ho w to figure out difficult chemistry equations or about the chemical interactions involved in winemaldng. However, the brown-eyed, bespectacled Gump never seems to become frazzled. ^ "You cannot imagine how patient Gump is," said Vie Wen, a 28-year-old graduate student in analytical chemistry.-y Wen, who is from China and came to CSUF in 1990, said that Gump is always willing to meticulously check every aspect of the rough drafts for his thesis. "1 have trouble with my grammar sometimes, and he even checks my grammar." Wen said that while he has had some teachers with strong teaching skills and others with strong interpersonal skills, Gump is "the best professor overall. He has been an excellent guide." Gump talks fondly about former students as if they were his own children and keeps in touch with many of them. Dressed casually in brown slacks, a V-neck sweater and an Oxford shirt; Gump said proudly that one of his former chemistry graduate students is doing Ph.D. work at Virginia Tech. Gump, who came to CSUF in 1967 and has written 21 I the commut Academy; County, if that "site is Local water exchange unity a* the awsftemr The water source will come from an bmova- tive water exchange and banking program. Storm wa tera that sow run unused to the sea will be captured and stored underground. The stored water will be extracted and used by farmers In smaller I amounts. In exchange for this water, the Fresno Irrigation District will Rave rights to t face waters of the San Joaquin and Kings Hirers for the proposed This plan, an agree- [ ment between the Fresno1 Irrigation District and the County F^blicWor^pronuses \ ■
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Title | 1992_03 Insight March 1992 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Dept. of Journalism, California State University, Fresno. |
Publication Date | 1992 |
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 Mar 18 1992 p 1 |
Alternative Title | Insight (California State University, Fresno) |
Publication Date | 1992 |
Full-Text-Search | "~ '' wiwiPip^ Volume 24, Issue 18 Wsdnesdsy, March 18,1902 Armenian shuffle ■ -^ 1 H 1 t^^fl Unb.w H BnmSBLVlannnnT^ R i Lfif 'J ■ ^WBfc^BB aflaVV Law^^T Jk [I m |l I > m Tht Arax Dancer*aiuTRIchard Hagoplin't Armenlen Band performed a fret show Sunday lefere av crowd of 100" people et the* satellite ■ Itudsnt Union. • CSUF graduate program in flux ByJohnD.Chavira Staff Writer When professor Lawrence Esta ville came to CSUF last August from Clemson University to chair the geography department, he found a department wracked by years of internal dissension and a graduate program in suspension. In 1989, the CSUF University Graduate Committee, a panel of nine faculty from various departments with graduate programs, denied any new admissions for the master's degree in geography, leaving all of Central California without a university graduate program in that field. The geography department's woes are an exceptional example but they illustrate the ongoing ebb and flow of graduate programs at CSUF. All graduate studies and research programs must be approved by the graduate committee, which also has the power to delete or suspend existing programs. The vast majority of dissolutions occur simply for lack of student involvement For fall 1992, the career development option, under the master of science degree in counseling and special education, will be dissolved as will the master's degree in city and regional planning offered through the political science departmenL However, the essentials of both programs will be kept alive by being combined as electives in more popular programs. "We had a very low student enrollment in the career option," said Robert Monke, school of education graduate programs coordinator, on the decision by his department to request dissolution of the program. Thisldeietion] did not ha ve artything to do with budgetary considerations,''Monke said, referring to the master'soption, which frequently attracted only three or four new'students a year. " ' "If we offer programs that nobody enrolls ia we go out of business. Ii we offer am* everybody likes, we do what supposed to be dring," Monke said. ThedecJsson to stop graduate pi whether it to ii committee or the departments is a halt to wwadmusiore to the program, not an outright termination. Students enrolled in graduate programs due for deletion or suspension, students said to be In the pipeline," are allowed to continue unimpeded toward Iheir master's in that program, much like the last surviving members of a species headed torextirtction. After two years, there are onh*^ raphygianiiateatialeiaUaeftmtt this semester. Only three are active. The graduate committee gav* **x main reasons why it decided in 1989 to discontinue admitting new students for the master's in geography. The three most serious deficiencies the ca lackofasolid changing "Aeon "A couple of years ago there were some difficulties in this department," EstaviOe said. "there were some morale problems, some in-house fighting and people decided not to continue with a vigorous [graduate] program. "We have done a 180-degreerurn; we're prepared to go forward," said the exuberant Esta ville. On March 17, EstaviDe win present a proposal to the graduate committee to readmit new graduate students for the faD 1992 semester. EstaviDe asserts that his department has met all the requiren»ents stipulated by the committee for reiiuUtt ment lOOpquent supportfrom the fatuity and lie credits attitude changes, newly received Harassment victims slow to come forward By Roselinda Abdul StaffWriter It takes a lot of courage for a sexually harassed victim to come forward and file a complaint, said Arthur V. N. Wint, director of Affirmative Action Services. Over the last three years. Affirmative Action Services has dealt with 17 cases involving 14 students and three staff members. For 1991- 92, there have been four complaints from students. Two of the students are Hispanic one is a white male and one is an African- American female. The usual cases that we have seen over the years have been in a situation where a member has either made a harassing remark or engaged in harassing behavior either in thedassroomorintheoffke," Wint said. Wint gave an example where he had received complaints from student assistants alleging that they had been harassed by the people for whom they worked. These complaints range from propositioning to touching. CSUF has defined sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verba] or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Wint said that when a formal complaint has been filed by a vic tim, his department will carry out a thorough investigation. He further said that conducting the investiga- tion can be very hard because sexual harassment usually happens in private between people of unequal power. "Becauseof that unequal power, many individuals, often times students, fed, 'Who are they to object?' or 'Who are they to complain?'," Wint said. Instead, the students involved usually feel that they just want to get their degree and get out of the university. Thafs sad, because what then happens is that semester after se- mester,year after year, individuals are being sexually harassed and we know nothing about it We can't do anything about it," Wint said. Wint explained that the law only allows action to be taken if Sm Sax, paga 8 Physics student earns degree in only two years selection of new UC site ..rending to the County ByHui-SinTeoh Staff writer For 16years she lived with her parents and younger sister in a red-brick, three-story dormitory made up of old classrooms at the Central Institute of Music in IS. r family cooked with a gas stove on an oily, slippery floor in the corridor outside their room. She bathed without privacy with her female neighbors in public bathrooms. Today, Ah-San Wong, 21, sits on the bed in her dormitory room at CSUF, her back against a wall next to a large poster of Albert Einstein while she recounts her earlier years in mainland China. Wong has broken the physics department student record by completing a physics degree in two years. She graduates this May. Wong, who moved to Hong Kong in 1987, has been offered scholarships and teaching assisUntships to do her doctoral studies at California Institute of Technology, Stanford Universify and University of California, Los Angeles. On Feb. 22,1987, Wong's fa ther accompanied her by traintothestatic»ninShen-Zhen,Lheborderdtybetw^ Hong Kongand China. In Hong Kong, she rejoined her mo ther and sister who had moved there in December 1985. "The journey took us more than 80 hours. From Shen-Zhen, I went to Hong Kong myself. One year later, my father moved in with us," said Wong, who went to a secondary school on her fourth day in Hong Kong. Wong didn't know English and did poorly on her first test in the class. But by the time of her first final exam,shewasoneofthetopfcwrstudentsinthest^ool. m 1988, Wong was one of 10 students who won the Barry Gump is CSUFs outstanding professor Ah-San Wong has taken as many as 34 units a semester white maintaining a 4.0 GPA. annual Hong Kong Outstanding Student Award. The following year she scored eight distinctions out of rune subjects- English held her back -in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and got into King's College, one of the most prestigious in Hong Kong. Twi was very active in school during my three and a half years in Hong Kong. I also gave private piano lessons. I strived for the gold medal of the Duke By Erin Yasuda Staff Writer A huge whale bone, a souvenir from a research expedition in thewatersoffthecoastof Alaska, sits prominently on a bookshelf packed with old books from floor to ceiling. A plastic beaker inscribed with the message This beaker's for you" sits upon his crowded desk. The man is 51-year-old Barry H. Gump, CSUFs Outstanding Professor for 1992, who teaches analytical chemistry, enology (the study of wine) and food science. Gump, affectionately called "GumpeV* by some of his students, is also a nominee for outstanding professor in the CSU system. Gump's office is crammed with a mishmash of gifts that he has received from students over the years, ranging from a purple wine bottle with a handmade label that reads'To a swell teacher with a lot of class," to a teakwood tea cup covered with gold geometric designs that he received from some students in Uruguay, where he taught for awhile on a Fulbright scholarship. Although his office is tucked into a small, secluded corner on the second-floor of the science building, it is buzzing with activity. It is a late, overcast Thursday afternoon and students popinand out, bombarding Gump with questions about ho w to figure out difficult chemistry equations or about the chemical interactions involved in winemaldng. However, the brown-eyed, bespectacled Gump never seems to become frazzled. ^ "You cannot imagine how patient Gump is," said Vie Wen, a 28-year-old graduate student in analytical chemistry.-y Wen, who is from China and came to CSUF in 1990, said that Gump is always willing to meticulously check every aspect of the rough drafts for his thesis. "1 have trouble with my grammar sometimes, and he even checks my grammar." Wen said that while he has had some teachers with strong teaching skills and others with strong interpersonal skills, Gump is "the best professor overall. He has been an excellent guide." Gump talks fondly about former students as if they were his own children and keeps in touch with many of them. Dressed casually in brown slacks, a V-neck sweater and an Oxford shirt; Gump said proudly that one of his former chemistry graduate students is doing Ph.D. work at Virginia Tech. Gump, who came to CSUF in 1967 and has written 21 I the commut Academy; County, if that "site is Local water exchange unity a* the awsftemr The water source will come from an bmova- tive water exchange and banking program. Storm wa tera that sow run unused to the sea will be captured and stored underground. The stored water will be extracted and used by farmers In smaller I amounts. In exchange for this water, the Fresno Irrigation District will Rave rights to t face waters of the San Joaquin and Kings Hirers for the proposed This plan, an agree- [ ment between the Fresno1 Irrigation District and the County F^blicWor^pronuses \ ■ |