1985_10 The Daily Collegian October 1985

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OPINION
Oct. 7,1985
Oct. 7,1985
NEWS
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Rambo:   hatred, not patriotism
The war America once wanted to forget
As Ihe 20th anniversary of our involve¬
ment in Vietnam and the 10th anniversary
of its cessation approach, movie-goers
will continue to gorge on the adventures
of miliury supermen.
Opening last week was "Commando."
yet another gung-ho portrait of an army
vet as a super hero. The film surs Arnold
Swarzenegger, who, in a recent interview,
took pride in the fact that his new film
displays over 100 gruesome enemy killings.
The king of Vietnam vets. John Rambo,
took out less than that in both of his films.
In addition, there is Chuck Norris in
"Invasion U.S.A.."which rcsembles"Rcd
Dawn" more than Rambo. but the super-
flagwaving killing machine concept is still
In recent years, [here has been a complete
180-degree turnaround in altitudes the
and other related areas Films like "Coming
Home" and  "The   Deer   Hunter" have
back-seat to "Rambo" and
"Commando."
Sylvester Sullone, while explaining the
importance of the "Rambo" films, sumed
it up best: "There was a bad time a few
years ago when some  people stopped
Oh.
starred   Gene troversies raised by "Coming Home" and
Hackmanasaderangeddadwhogathered "The Deer Hunter." If it were only that
a group of veterans and ventured to Laos simple.
to rescue his imprisoned son. It was not a I propose to you that the "Rambo men-
box-office bonanza, but it provided a lality" being pushed these days at the thea-
premisc on which our favorite karate kid ter has nothing to do with patriotism. It
uld capitalize. feeds on our animal instincts of revenge
Stallone might have been referring to
"The Green Berets," starring the late John
Wayne. Filmed in 1967 at Fort Benning,
Ga., the film was a pro-Vietnam involve¬
ment action yarn that probably wouldVe
donealotbetteratthcboxolTicetoday.lt
was released during the days of campus
unrest, peace rallies and "Easy Rider."
Duke's fans (the older, more conservative
generation) made the film a respecuble
success, but would probably preferred to
have seen him wearing a cowboy hat.
Afler the brief run of controversial
Vietnam films in the mid-70s. a minor
production was released, setting the sugc
for the lypc of movies we are seeing
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Chuck Norris. tired of starring in cheap
science fantasy karate yarns, hit it big with
"Missing in Action" last year. Only weeks
later, a sequel (or, more accurately, pre-
quel) was released: "Missing in Action II:
The Beginning."
His brotherdiedinaP.O.W.camp,and
Norris himself had only been free for a
year as the first film opened. His passions
for the plight of the prisoners cannot be
questioned. It's too bad, however, that his
interest didn't extend into believability.
The enemy soldiers are depicted as car-
loon karate goons. They also stand by
patiently while Norris utters, "For the
atrocities you inflicted
In other words, these
films cater hate, not love of country.
The problem with these movibs is their
total lack of a grey area. They are com¬
pletely black and white: Rambo. good;
Commies and gooks, evil. Period. I have
yet to walk out of one of these films and
feel proud to be an American, only shame
that the audience seemed more blood¬
thirsty than the people they were booing
on the screen.
It's loo bad that the film industry has
made movies like these simply to compen¬
sate for what some narrow-minded "pat¬
riots" feel are shortcomings of our gov-
,] life, s
s the Ii
death." Please!
Stallone followed suit with "First Blood"
and its sequel "Rambo: First Blood, Part
II." In both films, Stallone declared thai
"Nothing is over" and that vets want
"their country to love us as much as we
love it." Not a lot to ask at all.
By reducing it to a clear-cut issue of
patriotism, we can forget about ''
1 of hijackings and
kidnappings.
My idea of patriotism does not revolve
around killing, like these films suggest,
but, rather, only involves killing as a last
resort to preserve our human rights. Still,
movies like "Rambo" have successfully
accomplished on film what many of us
wanted 10 years ago.
This lime, we win.
Foreign Service Officer CO/? INNE HEDITSIAN
Representing the State Dept, USIA, and the
Agency of International development
Will be on campus Tuesday, October 8to meet with students
concerning requirements for the Foreign Service Exam, and
discussion of work & life in the Foreign Service. All meeting
times listed below will be held in the Career Development &
Employment Services Office, Joyal #267.
10:30-i1:30AM   Faculty & Staff Only
1:30-2:30PM   Student Meeting
4:00-5:00PM   Student Meeting
Additional Information on the Foreign Service is available in the Career Qevelopmen! &
Employment Services Office  .
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BLOOM COUNTY
by Berk* Breathed
Think
tank is
planned
Interdisciplinary study,
more research
to be addressed
CSUF has Fabulous Fresnans
Conley, Grant, Haak, others among 118 elite
Several present and former CSUF
adminstrators and instructors were
among the 118 Fabulous Fresnans
honored for their contributions to the  "
city Friday night.
The following is a list of these people
and a brief synopsis of some of their
accomplishments and contributions to
CSUF and to Fresno.
Pbebe Conley was married to Carlos
McClatchy, founder and first editor of
The Fresno Bee, and after his death
began to take classes at CSUF, particu¬
larly classes in history and art. In 1958
she married the late Superior Court
Judge Philip Conley. In 1962, she
became the first woman to be appointed
to the California State University and
Colleges board of trustee — she was the
only woman for nine of her ten years on
the board. In 1972, CSUF recognized
her service to the board by naming the
campus art building after her — the
Conley Art building. She was recently
awarded a plaque in recognition of her
community service at a special "Women
Making History" luncheon.
Ed EmanuEl has been a full-time pro¬
fessor in the Theater Arts program at
CSUF since 1969. He is an actor, direc¬
tor, playwright and educator. He has
directed and acted in several major plays
at the Good Company Music Hall in
Fresno. His play "Guys Like Me and
Bogey" won the Fringe First Award at
the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, an
international competition. "The Liberty
Dance of Henry Sparrow" which he
WTOte for the U.S. bicentennial, won top
honors at the American College Theater
Festival in Washington, D.C. In 1981.
he was awarded the top honor given by
the Conference of Indian Colleges and
Universities for his play "Conquest of
My Brother." He was named "Fresno
Artist of tbe Year" by the Alliance for
the Arts for his contributions to the
promotion of the arts. He directed
CSUF* production of Shakespeare*
play "The Taming of tbe Shrew" which
won at the American College Theater
Festival in 1984, bringing national
acclaim the CSUF theater program. His
class "Theater Today" continues to have
the highest enrollment of any single class
on campus. He was named CSUFs
"Outstanding Professor of 1985" in
recognition of his many contributions to
the Theater program and the university.
Karl Falk is a professor emeritus of
economics at CSUF. His 30 years of
teaching at CSUF include serving time
as bead of the School of Social Services
and one year as acting president of the
university. He and his wife Doris, who is
a professor emeritus of biology at  .
CSUF, donated 145,000 to the Reeding
Park Zoo • few yean ago for theeotv
struction of the Doris and Karl Falk
Wildlife Center, a 5,000-equare-foot
multipurpose facility. He has also been
involved with housing in different capac¬
ities for over 35 yean, servitig u chair¬
man of the Fresno Housing Authority
and as chairman of the Cooperative
Housing Foundation, an international
lions. He
articles on the national economy, and
several of his articles have been pub¬
lished in The Fresno Bee.
Boyd Grant — is the head coach of
the CSUF basketball team. Since assum¬
ing this position in 1977, he has become
the winningest basketball coach in
CSUF history. In 1983. he led the Bul¬
ldogs to victory in the National Invita¬
tional Tournament. He has led the team
to three Pacific Coast Athletic Associa¬
tion tournament fust-place titles in four
straight years and has been named
PCAA coach of the year three times. A
nationally recognized coach, he has
received several standing offers from
other universities since coming to
CSUF, but has continued to refuse
them, pledging his devotion to the-Bul¬
ldogs. In 1985, he headed the Summer
Job Connection campaign of the Private
Industry Council to help find jobs in
private industry for 1,000 Fresno-Clovis
youths.
Harold Haak — is president of
CSUF. He becme CSUF's sixth presi¬
dent in February 1980, after spending
six years as the first chancellor of the
University of Colorado at Denver. Prior
to this he served as CSUFs Academic
Vice President from 1971 to 1973. He
came to CSUF from San Diego State
University where he was the dean of the
College of Professional Studies and
taught classes in urban studies, public
administration and political science. He
is the author of "Parable of a President,"
a novel that in many ways parallels his
own first year at CSUF as president.
Haak* self-proclaimed goals as presi¬
dent of CSUF have been to open lines of
communication between faculty, com¬
munity and staff and to raise the number
of minority students at the university.
Arthur Margoalan — has been a full-
time professor of journalism at CSUF
since 1965. He began teaching journal¬
ism at CSUF in 1956 but left after three
years to leach history, English and jour¬
nalism at Fresno City College. He
returned to CSUF in 1961 and became
the university's public information
officer, a position be kept until he
returned to full-time teaching in 1965.
He was chosen as Fresno's "Outstanding
Young Man of the Year" in 1965 by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce. He
served as dean of Professional Studies at
CSUF for five years. He is very active in
Fresno's Armenian community and was
once editor of the California Courier, a
newspaper geared toward Armenian
readership. In 1984, he wa* appointed to
the states community college board of
governors by California Gov. George
Deukmejian.
WUaaai Moaaoa - has been an
instructor in the radio-television pro¬
gram at CSUF since 1968. He teach**
writing, production, performance broad¬
cast and film history and criticsm. Mon-
son has written numeriou* plays, screen¬
plays and libretto* and ba* served as •
local radio and television holt on several
occasions. He hat acted and directed for
the Fresno Community Theater and has
Fresno's centennial celebration.
with his daughter, was purchased by
Walt Disney Productions. He play
"George Jolly's Life of Martin Luther"
won Wittenberg University's national
Martin-Luther Playwriting Contest. He
is the author of "Fresno Founder's
Review," a play about Fresno's first 25
years which he wrote for the Fresno
Centennial Prelude last year. He is also
the author of Fresno's Centennial Page¬
ant, a musical recently performed as part
of Fresno* centennial celebration.
Darwin Muaadman — is a professor
emeritus of the Industrial Arts Depart¬
ment at CSUF- He retired from teaching
in 1977 after 25 years. Musselman is a
prolific painter and has been exhibiting
his art since his days as an undergradu¬
ate student at CSUF in the 1930s. His
paintings express a variety of themes
and a great deal of versatility. His oil
portrait of CSUF President Dr. Norman
Baxter, which hangs in the Henry Mad¬
den Library, was submitted to the
National Portrait Seminar in Washing¬
ton D.C. where it received a Merit
Award, the fourth consecutive merit
award he had received in his competi¬
tion. He is a nationally recognized artist
and one of his paintings, after exhibition
in a a nationally recognized artist and
one of his paintings, after exhibition in a
national show, was purchased by the
Oakland Museum. He travels exten¬
sively and uses his trip pictures as a
source of inspiration for many of his
paintings.
Joan Serrano — is a part-time teacher
of guitar at CSUF. He is regarded as
one of the world s greatest Flamenco
guitarists. He became nationally known
when he came to the United Slates in
1962 and played in a State Department
concert before President John F.
Kennedy and the appeared on the Ed
Sullivan show. For many years, he
played concerts internationally, per¬
formed in night clubs across the United
States and on television, and made a ser¬
ies of recording for RCA. In concert, he
has received critical acclaim for hi* uni¬
que combination of Flamenco and clas¬
sical guitar playing. He moved to Fresno
in 1980 and helped found the Fresno
Guitar Society. Since coming to Fresno
he has begun to settle down, playing
mostly local concert* and be recently
opened this years University Downtown
•eric* with a concert.
Research could have a new name in the
future of CSUF. Guidelines for developing
a "think tank," which would focus on
regional concerns, are being drawn up by
an ad-hoc committee of Academic Policy
and Planning.
Committee member Dr. Warren Kessler
of the philosophy department said think
tanks arc usually typified by general
research and brainstorming, but this one
will work with "issues of broad public
interest and relevance."
Kessler said there has been a great
desire for increased research and inter¬
disciplinary study on campus.
"There has been a lot of ci' '
history department and has been teach¬
ing a CSUF since 19*56. He served on
Fresno's Historic Preservation Commis¬
sion for five years, and led in the fight to
save the old administration building at
Fresno City College and turn it into an
agricultural museum.
Reaar Ttaaeiaa -came to CSUF in
1972 after retiring from hi* position a*
editor-in-chief and vice president of Uni¬
ted Pro* International. He graduated
fr<>mCSUFml93«andiminedsa»ery
began working for U PI Over tbe years
he continued to ascend lo position* of
u within disciplines. We
need to understand each others work in
order to make ideas work together," said
Research has received a helping hand
from CSUF president  Harold  Haak.
"We believe we contribute
to the public good by
educating people."
—Kessler
Kessler said Haak has been emphasising
CSUF* role as a regional university.
"We are a state university, a public
institution," said Kessler. "We believe we
contribute to the public good by educating  .
The think tank is still in the planning
stage, and several factors must be worked
out before specific research topics can be
Kessler said funds for the program will
be drawn from an overall increase in
"University wide, we are talking about
one to three percent of the faculty payroll
being freed to support research. Funding
will come from that percentage," he said.
The annual cost of operating a think
tank has been estimated to be between
$125,000 and $200,000.
Along with money, the program will
need access to personnel. The committee
has decided that a core group of seven to
10 faculty members will be needed, as well
as participation of qualified community
professionals.
The think tan k will need the services of
faculty involved with the research topics.
I n order to devote time to the project, they
will have to be relieved of some of their
classroom responsibiities through re¬
assigned time. This mean* those involved
would have a reduced unit load so they
could devote time to the think tank.
"It is very hard to get free time without
cutting corner* on your classes," taid
Kessler. "This way we can say, 'we're
buying your time, think hard and well.'"
The committee will be looking for a
match between yet-to-be-cbosen topic*
and participants. Kessler taid that with
tbe right combination of talent and
ratna»unityualeT«»t.the think tank should
be able to provide n