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Student arrested at off-campus Greek party
By David Childers
The Daily Collegian
A Fresno State student was ar¬
rested Friday night at the Baja
Cantina for allegedly punching a
female who had declined his invi¬
tation to dance.
Joel Covarrubias is expected to
be charged with felony battery, ac¬
cording to authorities.
Covarrubias was attending a
party sponsored by Nu Alpha
Kappa, a Latino fraternity with no
national affiliation. Covarrubias is
not a member of the fraternity but
was at the party because rt was an
open event. NAK officers had dis¬
tributed flyers throughout campus
before the event and pre-sold 100
tickets with another 150 party-goers
buying tickets at the door..
"Because it was held at a club,
wc can not keep people out of the
party." said NAK Culture Chair
Pedro Avila. "People come to our
parties because they arc safe and we
have strict regulations on our mem¬
bers. We have had four or five
events at [The Baja] and we have
never had a problem like that."
Avila said that while
Covarrubias was familiar to many
members of the fraternity, he is not
associated with NAK in any way.
"I have seen him around, but I
don't even know his name." said
Avila. "I am not even sure if he is a
student here or anywhere. I really
don't know anything about him."
According to witnesses that
were in attendance, Covarrubias
was "very drunk" and asked an uni¬
dentified female to dance. When
she declined, one eye-witness said
he punched her once in the nose,
near the bathrooms Then a bouncer
from the Baja, Charles Griljava,
intervened and Baja employees
They're everywhere
Ryan Weber    The Dotty College
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loss to the Bears. The Fresno State football team will next play Oklahoma State on
Sept. 13. For complete football coverage please see the back page.
called the police, according to man¬
ager Lucy Perc/
"Some friends of mine were
talking to the girl after she got rtit
and she was in shock." said junior
Cielo Alvarado. "She said she
didn't even know the guy and she
had know idea why he hit her."
According to Avila. the uniden¬
tified female was treated and re-
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Possible library
graduate program
to be added
By Amalia Aguilar and
Yvonne Martinez
The Daily Collegian
A lack of student interest could
derail Fresno Stale's attempt to be
come one of only three campuses
in California that offers a post¬
graduate library science program
The program is scheduled lor
next fall. Only two potential stu
dents ha\e attended the mandator)
workshop Iliere is one more work
shop being ottered Wednesday
Sep! lOw till hopes that enough stu¬
dents will attend and qualil) forthc
program.
According to Ross I LaBaugh.
coordinator of library instruction,
there is a great necessity tot this
course to he hrought to the Central
Valley because n is an inconve¬
nience lor students to travel to San
Jose State or to UCLA, the only
universities in the stale that offer
librarian media credentials and de¬
grees accredited by the American
Library Association
"Where ever there is information
needed to be accessed, there is
probably a library and a librarian
said LaBaugh
LaQaugh explained thai the new
program would'give graduates
many opportunities in |oh areas
such as computer technology. »pc
cifiv career research or s-pecified
libraries like business or medical
According lo ihe coordinator there
,ue (houSands ol students who are
looking to graduate with proles
sionaj degrees
the workshop will be an inter
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One Card' will do it all
By Cherie N. Arambel
The Daily Collegian
Fresno State will join several other Cali¬
fornia State University campuses in the near
future with the high-tech 'One Card*.
The 'One Card' was created to provide
technological, user-friendly services for stu¬
dents, faculty and staff at all CSU campuses.
It is a part of the Integrated Technology
Strategy which will provide CSU campuses
with the latest in technological advances.
When introduced in.about two years,
Fresno State students will be able to make
long distance pheme calls; access security
areas, (the dormitories and computer labs).
and use the 'One Card* as a multi-purpose
identification card.
Institutional long distance services, the
'One CarcT service provider, are currently
being used by Fresno State faculty and staff.
University Associate Vice President of Infor¬
mation Systems and Technology Jim Morris
says the 'One Card' makes phone calls easier
for students and staff.
"Long distance calling ts easier now and
cheaper in the long run for Fresno State.
Eventually, students will have the same privi¬
leges we have," explained Morris.
According to Ken Swisher, media rela¬
tions manager for the California Stale Uni¬
versity, the 'One Card' system is funded by
the CSU system with AT&T supplementing
some of ihe costs. Students are not projected
to fund any part of the 'One Card' system.
As more schools adopt the program, more
advances to the 'One Card' system will be
used. Swisher said
"The future of the One Card' sees on¬
line applications for students to apply to any
CSU - the ability to purchase book for classes
- and access any university library in Cali¬
fornia and check out books," Swisher said.
Survey finds college students
want a high-tech learning
By jayne Noble Suhler
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Services
DALLAS — Young people want an
education thai combines high-tech with
high touch, according to a survey of stu¬
dents nationwide.
Distance education, taking college
classes using television and ihe Internet,
is a convenient way for busy people to
learn, said most of the 550 people sur¬
veyed.
But convenience needs to be coupled
with the human touch.
Members of Generation X "want the
convenience and flexibility that technol¬
ogy offers." said Paula Ann Hughes, dean
of the university's graduate school of
management.
"But they also want face time, they
want talk time, they want time with each
other." she said
ThefHill o( 16- to 29-year-olds was
conducted by New York-ha>ed Opinion
Research Corp. to help the graduate
school" in strategic planning. Dr. Hughes
said
The survey also shed light on what
Generation Xers. a label often given to
the 45 million or so people born between
1965 and 1977. are thinking about how
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