1979_03 The Daily Collegian March 1979

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More requests than money
Senate must pick & choose in fund allocations
In an era when 'balanced budget' is
becoming a political catch-phrase, the
Associated Student (AS) Senate is
challenged with balancing it's own
1979-80 AS budget. The AS Senate
must cut $60,000 in funding requests
from more than 30 campus organ iza-
With $295,000 collected in student
fees to support CSUF organizations
next year,. 35 groups have made
5333,532 in budget requests, creating
obvious budgeting conflicts. All of the
groups contacted say their requests are
justified.
The Senate Finance and Budget
Committee (F&B) is holding weekly
public hearings to consider how the
$60,000 can be cut equitably from the
requests, allowing for a balanced
budget and a minumum AS surplus of
$20,000.
The committee will conclude the
hearings this Friday and then make
budget recommendations to the Senate
for approval.
Luis Sepulveda, F&B Committee
member and Senator for the School of
Social Work, said he believes the tight
financial situation for the AS has
created an atmosphere where "it would
be impossible if every group (acquired
the funds) they wanted because it
would cause a deficit."
Thirty-three of the 35 groups making
budget requests have asked for more
money than they were allocated in the
1978-79 AS budget. And all are cur¬
rently lobbying dgainst any cuts in their
respective programs—-
Intramural director Pete Conrad said
the Intramurals recreation program
fulfills the AS Senate's list of budget
standards and should therefore receive
funding.
Nearly 4,000 students are involved
annually with the Intramural program,
which was allocated $19,400 in the
1978-79 AS budget-making it one of
the largest AS-funded activities  this
Conrad said, 'It (Intramurals) deals
with more people than vote in student
elections."
Conrad said because the Intramurals
program has grown into a major CSUF
activity, he has requested $29,795 for
next year's IM budget, a $10,395 in¬
crease from this year's allocation.
If granted by the Senate, the add¬
itional IM funds would pay for the
hiring of additional clerical help in the
Intramurals office and would allow
Conrad to discontinue the $10 playing
fee currently charged recreation par¬
ticipants.
Stating that a major funding increase
is "justified,' Conrad said any reduc¬
tion of the Intramural budget request
would, threaten the student activity
with program cuts.
The Intramural program, he said, is
much more than "a special-interest
group.'
The African Student Union and the
Chicanos In Law organization are
among 12 groups making budget
requests to the AS for the first time.
Founded by CSUF instructor Imeh
Uyoe, the African Student Union has
requested $6,000 to fund culturary-
related programs to "promote unity"
between the community and CSUF
African students.
Uyoe said he understands the financ¬
ially-tight budget situation, but asked
the Senate Finance and Budget
Committee to give the African Student
Union the money, adding that if the
organization didn 't follow through with
their programs, he wouldn't expect to
be included in the following year's
AS budget.
Chicanos in Law, an organization
which has been on campus for over
three years, is asking for AS funding
for the first time. The organization is
planning on sponsoring a law-related
display to encourage interaction
between the group and the community
with the $2,875 it is requesting.
But Uyoe and Chicanos In Law leader
Luiz Ambriz both agree that budget
request cuts are "inevitable," and both
are hoping for at least partial funding
to allow their organizations to grow.
The Educational Opportunities
Program (EOP) director Manuel
Perez said that any severe cuts in their
$19,689 budget request would jeopard¬
ize the EOP Summer Institute pro-
Representing a $7,345 increase from
last.year's EOP allocation, Perez said
Here's whafs happeningl
Faculty-Staff Bible Study: Pauls
Epistle to the Romans, EdP 102,
12 p.m.
Anthropology lecture: Or. Naomi
Katz (San Francisco State),
"Marxist Anthropology: Contem¬
porary    Approaches,"    SS    105,
Concert: Jazz Band 'A' and the
Wind Ensemble, directed by Larry
Sutherland, with guest artist Carl
Fontana (trombone), CU Lounge,
German Club program: poetry and
music concert 'Voices of the
Nations,' directed by Walter
Ensslin, no charge but
are welcome, M 100,8 p.i
Williams earns spot on All-PCAA team
Art Williams' 51-point, two-game
performance at the Pacific Coast Ath¬
letic Association Tournament held last
week clinched the 6-5 junior center a
spot on the All-PCAA team for the sec¬
ond straight year.
Three Bulldogs made the five-man
All-PCAA Freshman squad, as Rod
Higgins and Bobby Davis claimed the
forward spots and Donald Mason was
selected as a guard in selections
announced yesterday.
University of the Pacific's Ron
Cornelius earned the Most Valuable
Player honor with UOP coach Stan
Morrison picking up the Coach of the
Year award.
CSUF had no second t
Nuclear power plants:
Less of a risk than other
power producing alternatives?
Dance marathon to be held
This Saturday, March 10th, the
CSUF Men's Gymnasium will be the
scene of the First Annual SAE/Muscul-
ar Dystrophy Association 'Can't Stop
Dancing' Dance Marathon. The Dance
Marathon will run from noon to mid¬
night, and will be twelve fun-filled
hours of people dancing to raise money
to help fight Muscular Dystrophy.
Couples can sign up to dance as
many hours as they wish, and can win
prizes for themselves, or an award
for a supporting organization. There
are four divisions ol competition open:
1) Fraternity, Sorority, and Dormitory
2) CSUF Campus Organizations
3) Fresno High Schools
4) Individual Couples
The winner of each division will re¬
ceive a trophy and will be the couple
who has raised the largest amount of
money, and danced the full 12 hours. A
Crand Prize will also be given to the
couple who has raised the largest a-
mount of money in the dance mara¬
thon.
All proceeds from the dance will go
to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Registration materials can be picked up ■
at the SAE booth in the Free Speech
Area, the Student Activities Office
(CU 311), or the SAE House. For more
information call Bill Lorenz, SAE
Chairperson- 226-9502; Evelyn Acosta,
MDA Youth Rep.- 227-1972; or the
MDA Office-486-3420.
Risks - they are associated with
everything. You take a risk when you
get into a car, walk down the road, or
live by a nuclear power plant.
Some situations present a greater
risk than others, but according to Dr.
David Okrent, Professor of Engineer¬
ing and Applied Sciences, UCLA,
nuclear power plants are less of a risk
than other power producing alterna¬
tives.
Okrent was the guest speaker at a
School of Natural Sciences colloquium
last Thursday. His topic was 'Perspec¬
tive on Reactor Safety and Risks.'
Through a presentation of charts,
graphs, and equations, Okrent said the
statistics available show that nuclear
power plants present less of a risk than
coal or oil plants. The danger to the
public is much greater through conven¬
tional plants, Okrent said, because of
the high emissions produced.
Okrent is a member and former
chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regula¬
tory Commission Advisory Committee
on Reactor Safeguards and has author¬
ized more than 100 papers on reactor
safety, technology and risk-benefits.
His talk, as was expected, dealt with
probabilities and calculations of the
risk  associated with  reactors,  dams
Okrent does not deny that nuclear
reactors can have accidents - major
accidents. But he is quick to point out
that dams can, and according to his
statistics, are more likely to have ac¬
cidents with greater effects than nuc¬
lear plants.
The magnitude of harm a nuclear
plant can do to the public is dependent
on the size of the accident.
'As in most systems where there is
some kind of hazard, there are a range
of possible accidents,' Okrent said.
Some accidents have 'negligible ef¬
fects on the public, really negligible,'
tOkrent said, because the protective
devices prevent a more serious acci¬
dent from happening.
The most serious accidents occur
when the fuel, uranium dioxide pellets,
loses its cooling medium. In most reac¬
tors that cooling medium is water. If
the water is lost, then the fuel, which is
shaped like pencils, three feet long and
assembled together like a core, melts.
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Student organizations lobby against cuts in budget
From Page 2
that due to a recent reinterpretation of
EOP state guidelines, the organization
has asked the Senate to fund some of
the Institute's activities which were
previously paid for with state grants.
The EOP Summer Institute is a two-
and-a-half week campus activity which
encourages low-income students from
throughout the entire state to enroll at
CSUF.
TEHERAN, Iran -- Iran resumed
oil exports yesterday after a 69-day
break marked by the shah's down¬
fall and Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho¬
meini's rise to power, but warned
world consumers they could no
longer 'take any amount of Iranian
oil at whatever price they wish."
Pasadena, Calif - Voyager 1 sur¬
vived intense radiation, passed
Jupiter and then swept within
13,000 miles of the rugged, yellow
and orange surface of the Jovian
Perez said the yearly summer event
helps alleviate the current CSUF enroll¬
ment problem and therefore makes an
'important contribution to the Univer¬
sity.*
Perez said he believes that the EOP
program fulfills the Senate's list
of budget priorities. He said he would
argue with any attempt to severely cut
their budget request. A severe funding
cut two years ago by an 'insensitive*
moon lo yesterday, radioing back
pictures of strange features never
before seen.
The robot explorer, 422 million
miles from Earth, swept within
173,000 miles of Jupiter, the planet
colossus of the solar system, at
7:05 a.m. EST and raced beneath
the south pcfk of lo three hours
later. It thdHwaded toward the
large moonsiCanymede and Cal-
listo.
UPI - The Israeli Cabinet yester¬
day approved two proposals by
President Carter aimed at breaking
Senate caused a major setback to EOP
Insititute, he said
The program 'is one of the oldest
funded AS activities,' Perez said. 'We
hope the AS will continue to show it's
commitment to equal opportunity.*
Of the 35 campus groups seeking an
AS 'commitment" in the shape of fi¬
nancial support for next year, only two
are requesting less that they were
allocated in the 1978-79 AS budget.
the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
impasse, but so many difficulties
remained that the White House
announced Carter would fly to the
Middle East tomorrow to try to
resolve them.
A White House spokesman said
Israel had 'responded favorably' to
Carter's proposal and warned that
'difficult issues* still remain. The
Middle East trip was announced
shortly after a surprise 10-minute
meeting of Carter and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin in the
Oval Office.
The CSUF Homecoming Committee
is asking for an $800 reduction in their
budget, and The Daily Collegian is
requesting $48,000 for the 1979-80
fiscal year, $4,650 less than this year's
AS contrubution
AS President Gordon Riddle, who
must sign the Senate-approved 1979-80
budget before May 4 said, 'the budget
process is the hardest thing we (the AS)
have td"do each year. *
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