1985_12 The Daily Collegian December 1985

              Hansen vetos AS funding decision
Jeff" Hansen, Associated Students Senate
president, has vetoed the Senate's fund¬
ing of S595 to the Political Science/-
Public Administration Association for
a Washington, D.C. symposia.
Some senators are claiming that the
Finance and Budget Committee because
of an attempt by two senators to bribe
the Political Science/ Public Administra¬
tion Association into sending them to
the symposia.
Members Of the F4B Committee in
turn are said by some senators to have
convinced Hansen to veto the'funding.
The Senate last week hag voted to
approve the funding, desfeite the F&B
Committee's recommendation not to
fund it.
Sen. Daniel Chacon. Sqhool of Social
Sciences, said that after the two seniors
— who have not been identified —were
found out by other members of the
Senate, they decided not to support the
funding request.
None  of the  senators  claimed  to
involved in the alleged bribery were.
Chacon will try to rally support this
week to override Hansen's veto. A two-
thirds majority vote is needed to do so.
The vote was 9-5 in favor of funding the
request when it was passed Nov. 26.
Ten yes voles are needed for a two-
thirds majority.
A polling of senators Tuesday indi¬
cated  that  most  senators supported
: doubted if he would
Har
Hans
"That showed me there I
for not having it," he said.
One of the reasons Chacon is critical
of Hansen's veto is that Hansen was
absent at last week's senate meeting,
taken, and he was not at the Finance
and Budget Committee meeting on
Nov. 21, when the item was also
discussed.
Chacon said that had not members
of the Senate told Hansen he should
veto the funding, he would never have
Sm VETO, pacta B
California State
University,
Fresno
The Daily
Collegian
Wednesday
Dec. 4, 1985
Senators
halt transfer
of AS funds
An attempt to transfer to next semes¬
ter's cofTers the $2,079 left in the Asso¬
ciated Students Senate unallocated budget
was halted by three senators who want to
get funding requests passed at the Senate
meeting Tuesday.
Tuesday's meeting is the last one of the
Sen. Robert Castorena. Graduate Stu¬
dies, accused Sen. Pat Broderick, a prop¬
onent of transferring the money, of being
"selfish."
"He's gotten his constituents a substan¬
tial amount of money, but what if the
Graduate Student Council wants to obtain
more funding?" Castorena asked.
Broderick is senator from the School of
Agriculture and Home Economics.
Castorena, president of the Graduate
Student Council, has submitted a $250
funding request from the council to be
discussed at the next Senate meeting.
Sen. Daniel Chacon, School of Politi¬
cal Science, opposed the transfer because
he will attempt to have President Jeff
Hansen's veto of a $595 funding request
from the Political/ Science Public Admin-
Senate at its next meeting.
"If we were to do this, it would deprive
me of my rights slated in the bylaws to
override the veto because there would be
nothing left (with which to fund  the
See SENATE, paga 8
Farmer:
Basics
essential
The Amen
gered species
nfan
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tback
eh/ less on creditors ■
and get back to the
basics in order to survive, said farm
poet, essayist and novelist William
Berry during his lecture at the Satel¬
lite College Union last night.
Berry has authored over 20 signifi¬
cant works on the plight of the Amer-
II gf<
long re
at the Satellite College Union.
dence on a Kentucky fan
allowed him to paint a poignant
insight of the problems facing the
American farmer since the
Berry told the SCU audience of
about 75 that too often a farm is
treated like a factory assembly line
rather than a piece of land that
requires patient care in order to
"The farmer is essentially a nur-
turer." said Berry in a slow drawl.
"The life of a healthy farm is unlim¬
ited, unlike a factory."
The lanky Kentuckian was
obviously drawing on personal expe-
Sn FARMERS, p*tt. 3
Jesus was only a magician, says historian
Staff Writrr
Jesus Christ knew magic and used that magic for his
own purposes as a magician in society, said Dr. Morton
Smith, a Colombia University historian speaking on
7Jesus — Messiah or Magician?" Tuesday afternoon in
the Upstairs Cafeteria.
Smith, who holds degrees from Harvard University
and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, discussed the
different roles people have assigned Jesus in society and
listed reasons the roles do not apply.
"What was Jesus' role in society?" Smith
asked, hypothetically. "This has been commonly neg¬
lected by New Testament scholarship which said He was
the savior of the world."
But Smith said that savior was not a socially accepted
role. It did not pinpoint a position in society that Jesus
filled.
The title of rabbi did not fit Jesus either because he did
not represent an authority on Jewish law, which the term
rabbi means.
"His disciples arc said to have called him that occa¬
sionally," Smith said, "but that indicates their esteem not
his profession. He said this term was honorific, meaning
"tbe great man I honor."
Smith said that Jesus avoided answering questions on
Jewish law by "passing the buck." On other occasions
Jesus turned the questions into riddles.
Smith used the example when Jesus was asked,
"Should we pay tribute to CeasarT" Jesus replied, "Give
to Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and give to God that
which is God*."
"You couldn't beg the questions more clearly," Smith
said: "The qoestion is, what is Ceasar i and what is God s,
and since be doesn't stay to answer that, the question is
neatly ducked."
Smith rejected the idea that Jesus was a prophet, say¬
ing that be did not fit the pattern of Old Testament
"The prophets were not exorcists, didn\ cast out dem¬
ons," Smith said. "Jesus does it all tbe time."
Another common picture of Jesus was as a preacher of
moral reform, but this causes difficulties when looking at
tbe Gospel of Mark. Smith said.
"There's almost no preaching in Mark, except for that
long prediction of the end, otherwise very little. In John,
on the other hand, Jesus is preaching all the time, but
what does be got to say — 'believe in me,' " he said.
The sermon that preaches moral precepts, Tbe Sermon
on tbe Mount,, from the Gospel of Matthew, is "enor¬
mously admired by people who have no intention of
obeying it," Smith said.
lite sermon tells the people to sell all their belongings,
give to the poor and follow Jesus.