1993_11 The Daily Collegian November 1993

              Vol. 101, Nb. 4?
CSU-Fresno
Thursday, Nov. 11,1993
Chia Vang in
center of ASI
tug of war
By Oouglaa
StaffWriter
The Associated Students, Inc.
has been debating whether or not
the executive order appointing
Chia Vang as senator for the School
of Arts and Humanities was legal
and whether or not it can be over¬
ridden for weeks now.
The debate appears to be be¬
tween mostly Reality party sena¬
tors and ASI executives, but, in
fact, they go much farther than
that •
The forgot¬
ten man in all of
the hubbub is
Vang himself,
whrjse appoint¬
ment to the va¬
cant Arts and
Humanities po¬
sition led fo all
the arguing.
Now, with the
motion to over¬
ride the execu¬
tive orders
passed at last
week's meet¬
ing, the issue
concerns Vang
more than ever.
Vang was appointed by ASI
' President Stacey Green and the
J-'^tt two executives after weeks
neffecti ve meetings and after
ost two months passed without
 .rts an Humanities representa-
1 live. Vang was appointed, and
from then on the ASI has talked
about little other than whether or
not his appointment was legal and
if he will remain a senator.
"As far as I know, the appoint¬
ment was done in full accordance,
of the bylaws," Vang said. '1
don't see what problem they, [Re¬
ality senators] have with my ap¬
pointment." v
The Reality senators insist they
, have no problem with Vang per-
sonally, but that the whole issue is
preservation of the checks and bal¬
ances ofthe ASI. During ihe Nov.
4 meeting, when the debate over
Vang was at its peak, Sen. Jennifer
Nutting told Vang, "It's Qothing
personal, but
other people
should have
been consid¬
ered for this po¬
sition."
Reality feels
that since Vang
was appointed
without tbe in¬
put of the Sen¬
ate or Senate
committees, the
action was dic¬
tatorial.
Although al¬
most every
senator has told
Vang not to take the Reality sena¬
tors' actions personally, he has
done so.
"I don't know how else to take
this. They tell me that I'm not the
problem, but then they talk about
my appointment for the whole
meeting. What am I supposed to
Please See Vang, page 4
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Terrence show beads into its second year
By Jason Owen
Staff Writet
The Chevy Chase show didn't
last six weeks. Whoopi lasted one
season. Nobody can remember Pat
Sajack having had a talk show.
Rick Dees, Alan Thicke and Dick
Cavett have all come and gone, or
in Cavett's case keep coming and
aping.
There is a local talk show in
Fresno called'The On Tonight
Show with Chris Terrence" and it
celebrated its one-.year anniver¬
sary last week. -
The show airs on Ch. 53 at
10:00 p.m., Monday through Fri¬
day. It is the Valley's only prime
time talk show featuring local ce¬
lebrities, comedians, artists and
musicians with a focus on com¬
munity oriented events.
After one year, Terrence is en¬
thusiastic about the show's accom¬
plishments and is optimistic about
the challenges that the show faces
not only in tbe future but 0{as daily
basis. "^
"Tbe biggest improvement is
to team coming to¬
gether very strongly.
it sounds coroy, but  uj^\ fl,e people that work and
it's true,   Terrence W ■■■• *. *
said. *Aii topeopie help with the show, the band,
we all work like a team and
The band is led by Larry Gittens,
whose musical resume includes
recordings with Stevie Wonder,
working with Kool and the Gang
for nine years, Ray Charles and
many others.
Gittens is complemented by
drums and Hank Sandoval on bass.
The band is looking for a per¬
manent keyboardist and guitar
player to make to sound com¬
plete. Every night tore is a guest
musician such as Tony Craig or
Steve Ono who sits in with the
that work and help
with the show, to
.band, we all work
like a learn and that is
the highlight."
The band is un-' 0_
questionably one of mmmmmimmm*
the biggest assets to ,
the show. Lanny Larson of The
Fresno Bee has praised the top-
notch quality of to "On Tonight
All-Star Band."
that is the highlight'
—Chris Terrence
three other musicians: Percussion
wizard Johnny "The Stick"
Valenzuella, who has played with
War and Tierra, John Schafes on
"We've had great
musicians on. I love
music," Terrence said.
"I love having to op¬
portunity to bear local
musicians in this town
and from the south Val- .
ley, like Steamin' Stan
Ruffo. We've had on
Bob Mathias, Zzah,
■ Bimbo   Walker—all
■ kinds of great players.
"I remember to night Harold
Payne was on and he made up this ,
song as he went along about gall
stones. I'd call that one of the
," Terrence said.
One of to strong points of the
program is its spontaneity and its
flavor of improvisation. It is die
only place where you can find
Brian Setencich and rock band
Circus Bogus under one roof. On
the iiiiniversary show Terrence
went so far as to get into a cake
fight with one of his guests.
Kerry Yo, who is the jack-of-
all trades for to show, also does
the dirty work of selling the pro¬
gram to local advertisers to keep
tbe wheels running. Yo is excited
about to show and backs it com¬
pletely.
"It accentuates the positive in
this valley, whether they are a mu¬
sician, artist, writer, a news-maker
or any type of person tot has a
special capacity in entertainment,"
Please see Terrence, page 4