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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Volume 26, Issue 4
University Village debate rages on
Matt Soby/INSIGHT
At the now uninhabited corner of Billiard and Willow lies the possible future home of the University Village.
David Mirhadi
The expansion of Willow Avenue
between Bullard and Shaw last ycar
has created a Mason-Dixon line that
separates the city of Clovis from
CSUF.
The "University Village" rift has
pitted Clovis residents, a city of
60,000 people intent on managing learning,
growth, against CSUF, a university The plan has been in the works
eager to delve into new development since March 1993, and after two fea-
possibilitics to make it one of the sibility studies, discussion and de-
West's premier institutions of higher bate, no developer has been found
Deans get grades
Shelly Silva
INSIGHT
Professors on campus grade students every day. But last semester,
professors had a different kind of
grade to give. They were given the
opportunity to evaluate the dean of
their school.
Results show that some deans did
not make the grade in some cases,
while others scored at the top of their
class.
One of the most obvious results
from the evaluation is that there is a
need for greater consultation between
deans and faculty, said Tom Ebert,
chapter president for the California
Faculty Association (CFA), which
sponsored the evaluation.
"I could go down the list of a whole
bunch of those deans who wouldn't
know their faculty if they dropped
dead in front of them," Ebert said.
Provost Alex Gonzalez said the
deans are evaluated every five years
through the formal university process
administered by his office. He said
more than 100 questionnaires are
sent out, and the results are compiled.
Even though the formal evaluations
are done regularly, no one ever gets
to see the end results, Ebert said.
He also said the CFA questionnaires
were sent out, because faculty had expressed an interest in wanting an opportunity to evaluate the dean of their,
school and to see the end result of
the evaluation.
"One of the strongest results [from
faculty] is 'I think my dean should
talk to me,'" said Ebert.
However, the results of the CFA
effort have been called into question,
because only 121 faculty members,
or 24 percent, participated in the
evaluation.
Some deans — even those with the
highest marks — and Provost
Gonzalez found the results to be invalid and useless. They felt that the
methodology of the questionnaire
was unscholarly.
Twenty responses from faculty in
the School'of Education, indicated
that their dean, Barbara Burch,
would need to have more consultative meetings.
However. Burch said faculty in her
school holds monthly meetings
which she attends regularly.
"The survey was skewed." Burch
said. 'The questions were skewed to
give people the opportunity to complain."
The most asked about and fluctuating result of the questionnaire was
the issue of the budget. In some
cases, faculty answered that the
deans of their schools do not consult
them on the budget.
Luis Costa, dean of the School of
Arts and Humanities, who had one
of the highest scores on the evaluation, said that 96 percent of the budget is fixed due to faculty salaries and
only four percent is left to split
among the faculty.
"There is no mystery to the budget
when you break it down. Faculty in
general, are mistrustful of administrators and budgets." Costa said. "No
matter how often you explain to
them, at the end there is always a
feeling that somehow they didn't get
the whole truth."
Many deans said that the questionnaire and the results were not meaningful or showed them in a bad light.
Elden Shaw, dean of engineering,
had the lowest scores on the CFA
evaluation, although only seven of
the 80 faculty members in the school
filled out a questionnaire.
"The questionnaire showed poor
scholarship. The results were shabby.
They were meaningless," Shaw said.
Some of the questions dealt with
the deans and their relationship to the
faculty. Others dealt with whether
faculty was being listened to or how
some of their ideas were incorporated
into the deans' overall plan.
The questionnaire was answered on
a scantron sheet with 20 questions
and seven answers. The most obscure
answers to choose from were "no
opinion" and "neither disagree nor
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Shelley Sllva/INSIGHT
David Fakhrl, Stacey Green and Chris Volkerts display CSUF's
addition to the AIDS Quilt.
and no concrete plans have been
made to proceed with the project.
In a meeting of the Clovis City
Council last month, many residents
stated their uncertainty about the
university's position on the development
Dr. Don Stengel, a CSUF professor of management, said a lot of
things went wrong in the past in the
university's handling of the Village.
"Some faculty are complaining that
the university is just trying to make
revenue. I hope the city is looking
out for themselves," Stengel said at
a Sept. 6 meeting of the Clovis City
Council.
Dave Lawson, the city's previous
mayor and a current CSUF employee, stressed the need to expand
Clovis' sphere of influence through
a plan like University Village.
The 69-acre site has surpassed its
usage as adequate land for the CSUF
university farm, said Dr. Daniel
Bartell. dean of the School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
"The land had limited use for us in
the past and has limited use for us
now. It would increase our liability
to continue to use the land in its
present form," he said.
Bartell said the land could be used
to create something very positive for
CSUF, despite criticism by citizens.
"We have a responsibility to move
forward and take a look at the needs
of our university," he said.
Isabel! Lawson, a longtime Clovis
resident, was skeptical of the
university's involvement in the development without the city's participation or help from a citizens' advisory
committee.
"How sincere will the university's
effort be with the citizen's committee if they don't go through the city ?
If the university doesn't have to ask
Clovis resident what they want in the
project, it is my educated guess that
they will not ask," Lawson said.
In a meeting to discuss the Clovis
general plan, several council members voiced concern about the University Village'and the state of Clovis
as a whole.
Their concern with preserving the
status quo was reiterated by several
members of the council as well as
residents concerned about their city's
future.
Council member Kent Hamlin was
one of those members who was unsure of the path that Clovis was taking.
"If we're going to be making decisions about growth, we should
specify what areas to protect," he
said.
Residents citing concern for the city
blamed the general plan for encouraging uncontrolled expansion plans
like University Village.
"The general plan was pushed and
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Second HIV
strain found
INSIGHT
A recent study by the Harvard
School of Public Health has confirmed that another mild form of
HIV exists.
HIV-2 is rare in the United States,
but is common in West Africa.
The Harvard study followed 136
Sene-galese prostitutes with HTV-2
and 78 with HTV-1, which is most
common in the United States.
Among the prostitutes studied,
one-third with HIV-1 developed
AIDS within five years.
However, no cases of AIDS were
reported with HTV-2.
HIV-2 has been known lo cause
ATDS.
"It's not a benign virus. It's a much
slower virus with less disease-causing potential," said Harvard's Dr.
Richard Marfick in a recent article
published in USA Today.
Further studies on HTV-2 could tell
scientists how to weaken HIV-1 in the
United States.
New data from the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
show that in the United States in
1993:
•African-American, Hispanics and
other racial and ethnic minorities had
51 percent of new cases among men,
75 percent among women and 84 percent among children.
•New cases were five times more
common among African-American
men and IS times more common
among African-American women
than among whites.
•Intravenous drug-users in the
Northeast accounted for 24 percent of
cases among minorities.
For more information on HIV and
AIDS, contact the CSUF Student
Health and Counseling Center at 27 8-
2734, or the Fresno Health Services
at 445-3434.
Students hammer AIDS fears away
INSIGHT
The sound of hammering on metal
b.oke the quiet, rainy Wednesday afternoon as a group of students vented
their frustration outside the Student
Union.
They were pounding metal plates
to be made a part of AIDS Quilt displayed at Selland Arena Oct. 1
through Oct. 3.
Chris Volkerts, presidential aide of
the student government, said the student government passed a resolution
last month to make a panel for the
NAMES Project AIDS Quilt in
memory of CSUF students and fac
ulty who have died of AIDS.
"We decided that wc, as an institution, wanted to add a panel to commemorate those in our campus community who died from AIDS,"
Volkerts said.
He explained that the project will
allow people who are living with the
disease, their friends, their lovers and
their family members of those who
have'died, a chance to express themselves.
"The NAMES Project is about remembering, honoring4 and about
strength," Volkerts added.
Many who participated had personal reasons to be there.
David Prasad, 31, graphic arts ma
jor, for example, knows eight people
who have died of AIDS.
He wanted to be with people to express his remembrance and honor of
those who have died.
'These metal pieces that are going •
into our quilt symbolize hard, cold
society, and we're pounding it to relic vc the frustrations as a society as
people keep dying," Prasad said.
. The three by six foot panel consists
of 12 metal plates with a three-inch
canvas border.
The plates were bound together
with metal ring and displayed names
of six CSUF students and a professor who have died of AIDS.
Holes were driven into the plates
in the shape of the letters and entwined with colored wire.
The names were submitted by family, friends and lovers.
Two names that appeared — Anthony Bullock and Annondo Biasa—
were submitted by their sisters.
Other names of students included
Craig Perry. Joseph Calloway, Scotty
Markland and Don McBride.
Christopher Beits, a former professor with the business department who
died in 1992. was included in the list.
Although AIDS is still a sensitive
issue to many, Volkerts said he did not
think these seven names would be a
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