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The Daily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
Tuesday, May 10,1988
Students brawl at La Fresca's
By Tracy Correa
News Editor
Several CSUF students were involved in a dispute
Friday at a local restaurant that resulted in a student be¬
ing physically attacked while having several windows
broken out of his vehicle.
Police said they responded to the disturbance com¬
plaint at La Fresca's restaurant at 2373 E. Shaw Ave. at
6:59 p.m.
Although it is not known exactly how the incident
began, one witness said he believed some of the prob¬
lems emerged because of a pin he was wearing.
CSUF student Sean Denting said he had been in the
restaurant drinking with a friend. He then left and re¬
entered shortly thereafter. Although Deming said he was
already wearing the pin, it was not until he entered the
second time that several people in the restaurant seemed
to notice. It was then that Deming said he was approach¬
ed by two of the customers, both of whom he identified
as Theta Chi fraternity members, who started question¬
ing him about the pin. Theta Chi was unavailable for
comment. .
The pin, said Deming, had the last names of AS pres¬
ident Mark Astone and Senator-at-Large Sean Ford
written in black ink with a red slash mark through the
names.
Deming believes this may have upset some of the
customers in the restaurant.
"[The Theta Chi members] started asking me why 1
hated Mark Astone so much," he said. Deming said he
responded, "1 don't hate Mark Astone as a person, I just
don't like the way he's handling the Collegian situa¬
tion." Deming was referring to the Collegian's recent
budget cuts by the AS.
Deming said it was then that another person, only de¬
scribed as a Hispanic male in his mid-twenties, came up
to them and asked Deming if they were bothering him.
"I didn't know the guy, and I don't think he was a stu¬
dent, but he had come up to me earlier in the restaurant
and said, after reading my pin, that he was on my side.
"I had gotten mixed reactions from the customers in
the restaurant when they saw my pin. A few people ask¬
ed me to show my button. When 1 held it out, some of
the customers cheered while the Theta Chi members
booed," he said.
Deming said the gathering soon turned into a push¬
ing match between one of the Theta Chi members and
the unidentified male Hispanic. Il was at this point a
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Bulldog pitcher Melanie Parrent, center, Is congratulated by teammates Raeann Ptfterinl, left, and Laura Macedo after Monday's 1-0
victory over San Jose State. The win gave the team the PCAA title.
CSSA heads lobbying for
increase of EOP grants
By Angela Valdivia
Staff Writer
$1.8 million increase to the Educa¬
tional Opportunity Program was the fo¬
cus at the 10th Annual Legislative Con¬
ference "Quest for Equity," recently held
in Sacramento.
The California State Student As¬
sociation was successful in getting the
$1.8 million increases for EOP grants on
the Senate and Assembly checklist. The
CSSA is also heading the campaign that
they hope will leave i lasting impression
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on legislators that will eventually con¬
vince them to vote for the proposal.
The CSSA, -which represents more
than 350,000 students statewide, is com¬
peting against 500 other requests for fund¬
ing.
Julie Ann Finkin, the legislative assis¬
tant for the CSSA, said that 60 students
from most all of the CSU campuses were
meeting with legislators at the state capi-
tol.
"We were lobbying directly on the
EOP issue," said Fjpkin.
The students met with the Assembly
Ways and Means Subcommittee on Educa¬
tion and with the Senate Budget and Fis¬
cal Review Committee on Education.
It is these committees that will decide
which programs on the checklist will live
or die.
Finkin said California State Univer¬
sity, Fresno was one of the few campuses
that was unrepresented at the conference
which was held Sunday and Monday, said
Finkin.
"No one actually went to the confer¬
ence," said Robert Hernandez, director of
EOP at CSUF.
One of the reasons for CSUF people
not attending the conference is because
the information was given to the coordina¬
tor of EOP"s peer advisers. The coordina¬
tor was out of town al the time so the
peer advisers and students were uninform¬
ed, said Hernandez.
Another strategy the CSSA is using is
sending letters to legislators.
The CSSA is encouraging students and
faculty to write setters to legislators sup¬
porting the proposal.
"We have been working with MEChA
and EOP directors to get them to send in
letters. We need more and can accept them
through mid-June,'' said Finkin.
Please see CSSA, page 11
Collegian
budget up
for vote
Today's Associated Students Senate
meeting, could change the funding of
Vie Doily Collegian for next year.
Although the paper's budget is not
on the agenda, it will be brought up for
reconsideration. AS President Mark As-
too* has said he will submit a new bud¬
get proposal.
The senate meeting is at 3 p.m in
the College Union Lounge.
The Collegian's funding was cat at
last Tuesday's meeting in a surprise
move by AS President Mack Astone.
Astone submitted a budget to the sen¬
ate slashing the paper's funds from the
requested $40,600 » $16,000. After
about an hour of debate on the senate
floor, the AS allocation was upped to
$27,000. ...    -.     .,