1994_04 The Daily Collegian April 1994

              Vol. 102, Na/44^$
Fresno State's Independent Daily
Monday, April 25,1994
Dilfer's draft destination: Tampa Bay
By Chris Cocoles
THECOLLEGIAN
Trent Dilfer, with wife
Cassandra at his side, wore a cap
while displaying an orange No. 1
jersey of the former Fresno State
quarterback's newest employer, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Dilfer was the sixth player taken
in Sunday's National Football
League draft in New York City,
becoming the highest-ever football
draft pick in Fresno State history.
The first two rounds were com¬
pleted on Sunday, with the final
five rounds this morning..
Following the expected first se¬
lection of Ohio State defensive line¬
man Dan Wilkinson by Cincinnati,
Dilfer was rated anywhere from the
Review: Pink Floyd
brings the wall down
By Jason Owen
THECOLLEGIAN
Pink Floyd's performance at the
Oakland Coliseum Thursday night
can only be described as an "or¬
gasm of death."
( Floyd is on tour in support ofthe
group's latest album'The Division
Bell" which is their second album
since the departure of founding
member Roger Waters.
Even though The Division Bell
is far from being one of Floyd's
better albums, ticket sales show
that fans still support Pink Floyd
and their incredible laser-light show
concerts.Floyd added three shows
to the Coliseum this weekend,
bringing in about 50,000 people
per show.       '    ,s ^
Floyd has been around for the
better part of three decades. Syd
Barret, who was the band's found¬
ing member, essentially went in¬
sane from drug abuse and personal
problems, so the band had to let
him go. But Barret's presence can
be felt on Floyd's most successful
albums such as 'The Dark Side of
theMoon,""Wish You Were Here"
.and'The Wall."
Barret was an important force in
the origin of the band and even
came up with the name, which is
derived from his two heroes, Pink
Anderson and Floyd Council.
The Dark Side of the Moon is in
the Guinness Book of World
Records for remaining in the top
200 longer than any other album in
the history of music. Dark Side was
released in 1973 and continues to
sell an average of one million
records a year.
Roger Waters essentially left the
band after The Wall tour due to
creative differences and Pink Floyd
has since been led by guitarist David
Gilmour. Waters once spit on a
member of the audience because
the fan was enjoying the concert in
a way Waters felt was contradic¬
tory to his style of performing.
Waters preferred his audience
to watch his concerts like they were
movies and, of course, The Wall
tour was the epitome of his twisted
vision. On The Wall tour, Pink
Floyd constructed a wall between
themselves and the audience so the
crowd couldn't see the band for the
last half of the show.
Last Thursday night the wall
came down.
David Gilmour once said, "I
don't feel the pressure of a wall
between me and my audience; I
don't ever think there's something
there that doesn't get through to
them. I don't think a lot of the
things that happened to me in my
early years, some of which weren* t
so wonderful, adversely affected
my life to the extent that Roger
[Waters] feels' some of those things
affecrv his life."
There were three generations of
people at the show last week. There
were kids as young as seven and
eight years old and people who had
seen Pink Floyd on its first Ameri¬
can tour.
Floyd started the show with
about 30 minutes of weird noises
on a/million dollar quadraphonic
speaker system. Most people
seemed to ignore the bizarre sounds,
but I was being driven insane. It felt
tike there was someone inside my
head scraping nails on sheets of
scrap metal.
Floyd didn't have an opening
band, but they played their newer
music during the opening set, which
See FLOYD, page 5
second pick to the sixth.
Indianapolis chose Dilfer's
Wes tern Athletic Conference rival,
Marshall Faulk of San Diego State,
and the Washington Redskins went
with the draft's other marquee quar¬
terback, Tennessee's Heath Shuler,
with the third overall pick.
After New England picked
USC's Willie McGinest fourth, the
Colts, expected to draft a quarter¬
back, acquired the Los Angeles
• Rams' fifth slot, but instead opted
for Nebraska linebacker Trev
Alberts opening the door forTampa
Bay.
"I've talked to [Tampa Bay] a
few times and I know they're inter¬
ested," Dilfer told ESPN as the
Bucs' rum to draft approached. 'It
would be a great fit for me and my
wife to move to Tampa and start a
new-life."   _ **
The Buccaneers obliged the 6-
foot, 4-inch junior about five min¬
utes later.
At Fresno State, Dilfer was tu¬
tored by Jim Sweeney, a respected
offensive coach. In Tampa Bay
coach Sam Wyche, Dilfer gains the
services of a veteran who has helped
See DILFER, page 4
Smokers need not apply
ByLoriAab
THECOLLEGIAN
White working in die mines, coal
miners used caged birds to extend
their senses by providing an early
warning signal that dangerous gases
were flowing through their mine.
When the birds dropped dead,
the miners scrambled out of the
tunnel to avoid a similar fate.
Nonsmokers, however, don't
need canaries to team about the
quality of air at work.
Their senses serve that function.
Irritated eyes, noses and lungs are
normal reactions to irritants and
poisons in the air.
On Feb. 28, in a bold effort to
clear, the air at work, Kaiser
Permanente announced a new anti-
smoking policy in their Sacramento
facility.
The initial policy included a
smoking ban on their property, in¬
doors and outdoors, a campaign
forcing present employees to quit
smoking and a policy to hire only
nonsmokers.
Since the inital announcement,
officials at Kaiser Permanente have
renounced at least one of the poli¬
cies.
"We will not force our current
employees to quit smoking," Kai-
Air Guitar cancelled because of rain
COLLEGIAN STAFF
Air Guitar, an annual part of
Fresno State University's Vintage
Days, was cancelled halfway
through the show Saturday night
because of pouring rain.
Vintage Days officials cut the
show after technicians.turned out
the stage lights and would not al-
J#w use of the sound system be¬
cause of the risk that they would
. blow.
Technicians said the speakers
were too wet and electrical cou
plings were laying in pools of wa¬
ter.
The two-fhirds capacity amphi-
' theater crowd chanted "bullslut"
and threw litter on the stage after
the 9:30 p.m. announcement
Air Guitar student coordinator
John Hebert announced that the
Vintage Days committee hopes to
complete the student competition
at a free show one day this week
depending on the availability ofthe
amphitheater.
. The Battle of the Bands compe¬
tition was completed before the
show was rained out, however. Los
Hooligans, a local ska band,' was
awarded $2,000 and 10 hours of
recording time at Double D Music
at Vintage Days' closing ceremony
Sunday afternoon.
ser spokeswoman Kathleen
McKeena said. "If we don't let
them smoke on our campuses, then
it really doesn't matter whether they
smoke in their own homes or not"
"Only a few hours after the an¬
nouncement of the policy, our
phones were completely tied up
with Kaiser employees who were
not ready to give up smoking,"
attorney John Morgan said.
"They all wanted to now if mat
was legal and now to go about
filing a complaint"
See SMOKING, page 3
Inside
Opinion: Title IX allega¬
tions need to be ad¬
dressed, not denied .2
Opinion: Media coverage
of ex-president's death
overdone 2
Sports: Maureen Brady
wins four more games for
No. 5 Bulldogs 6