1979_04 The Daily Collegian April 1979

              The Daily Collegian
Listener-sponsored radio stations
Coming up loud and clear
Next time you're driving the inter¬
state or switching on the radio receiver
by your bedside, allow your hand to
range along the dial Listen hard for a
news broadcast that cuts through the
four alarm fire/missing person/sports
and weather mediababble. or a music
show that breaks free of the Top 40
straightjacket
Chances are, pickings will be slim on
both the AM and FM band. Radio, the
playground of creative iconoclasts in the
1930s and 40s, is now mostly the home of
Muzak and megabucks, hosted by
sound-alike "personalities* as inter-
changable as machine parts. It's a
dreary situation, but it could be worse
J ust a few years ago, it was
There has been a rapid, though un¬
heralded, growth in non-commercial,
community-based FM radio in the 1970s
Ten years ago, there were barely half a
dozen independent, non-commercial
stations in the United States Today,
there are 30, with an almost equal
number preparing to go on the air. With
their birth has come a resurgence of
eclectic, creative radio
The new community stations should
t be confused with National Public
While the new stations sometimes get
government grants, they are largely
supported by listeners' donations. Most
wouldn't have it any other way, for it is
grassroots support that enables them to
be different in an age of tired, timid,
profit-swollen media
Radio,   which
government-funded
If Baxter goes.
when a small group of pacifists and liber¬
tarians suited KPFA-FM in Berkeley,
California. For 10 years, KPFA was the
only listener-sponsored station in
America. In 1959, it was joined by KPFK
in Los Angeles. The following year,
WBAI signed on the air in New York and
the ball was rolling, if only a little
Those eariy -.canons-grouped under
the non-profit Pacifica Foundation-set
the tone for what was to follow They
survived on shoestring budgets, were
run by volunteers and a few paid suffers
and took forthright, unpopular political
KPFA's 30 years of pioneering radio
have been especially remarkable The
station spoke out early and often against
the repression of the McCarthy era In
1954, KPFA broadcasted a live interview
with anonymous marijuana smokers who
suggested, as they got high on the air,
that the evil weed might not be so evil.
In 1962, KPFA aired the first radio
expose of FBI malpractice. Its reporting
of the civil rights movement and the
Vietnam war was exemplary.
KPFA has been as culturally innova¬
tive as it was politically daring. Beat
poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti read their work over its
airwaves, and musicians like Pete
Seeger, Paul Robeson and Janis Joplin
(in 19621) sang live from the sUtion's
studios. Musically, KPFA is as diverse
as it is possible to be. Rock, jazz, blues,
bluegrass, opera, classical and ethnic
music from all over the world are aired
regularly
The marvelous experiment that is
listener-sponsored radio has not sur¬
vived without a struggle The FBI expose
so angered official Washington, KPFA
nearly lost its FCC license. In 1970,
rightwing vigilantes bombed Pacifica's
then-new Houston sUtion off the air-
twice Legal problems are a constant
headache The most recent one was the
George Carlin 'seven dirty words" case,
which Pacifica fought-and lost-before
the Supreme Court last year.
The internal pressures of running a
shoestring station Uke a toll too. Over¬
worked and underpaid suffers are
always leaving, and KPFA and WBAI's
staffs have gone on strike several times.
Bitter personality conflicts are common.
Pacifica's founder Lew Hill, despondent
over troubles at KPFA, took his own life
in 1957.
Yet, despite its sometimes-terrible
birth pangs. Lew Hill's brainchild lives
and grows. Listener-sponsored radio
sutions now cover an area with 50
million potential listeners, in all parts of
the country. They range in size from
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Trustees have the ultimate choice
When the CSUC Board of Trustees
anticipates a presidential vacancy at one
of the campuses, a Presidential Selection
Advisory Committee (PSAC) is chosen to
search for and nominate candidates to
the Board
The chancellor heads the committee,
which consists of three members of the
Board of Trustees, one CSUC campus
president and representatives from the
affected campus. The campus represen¬
tatives include three faculty members,
a student, an alumnus and a campus
1 Story Penthouse
Although the committee is free to go
about finding candidates in any manner
the members choose, the Board of
Trustees has the actual decision-making
The committee decides on the general
qualifications for the open presidency,
the means of publicizing the vacancy and
interviewing candidates. Board of
Trustees Press Officer Charles Davis
said the committee may advertise the
position in publications such as the Wall
Street Journal or the Chronicle of Higher
Education. The committee members
may 'solicit suggestions from col¬
leagues*  as   to  potential   presidential
Davis said the guidelines for choosing
candidates by the committee are deli¬
berately vague to allow the committee to
decide on its own functions.
However, the rules for the selection
of presidents do specify that the candi¬
dates to be interviewed should have
qualifications *in accord with the back¬
ground required for the appointment.*
After interviewing the candidates, the
PSAC has the vice chancellor of faculty
and suff affairs conduct 'background
studies' of the candidates in which it has
'continuing interest.' Members of the
PSAC with sources of inforrrurtion'aoout
candidates are expected to contribute to
the background studies.
The committee chooses at least three
finalists, of which the chancellor recom¬
mends to the Board of Trustees two or
more nominees. If the committee Is
unable to reach a consensus on the three
finalists, the chancellor may add to the
PSAC list.
The Board of Trustees usually con¬
siders nominees from the PSAC's list.
However, the Board is free to ignore the
recommendations and choose a presi¬
dent without committee help.
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Short Shots
A CSUF dairy cattle judging team has
won first place honors in competition at
the Great Western Dairy Judging Con¬
test in Los Angeles on Monday, April 9.
A junior judging team from CSUF
placed fourth in the contest. Other top
teams in the competition were Cal Poly,
San Luis Obispo, second; California
State University, Chico, third; and UUh
State University, fifth.
The first place CSU Fresno, team
swept the individual breed classes,
placing first in Jerseys, Brown Swiss,
Holsteins, and in oral reasons. The
junior team placed fourth in Holsteins
and reasons and fifth in Jerseys.
Senior team member Joe Dutra of
Oakdale was the second-high individual
overall, Jim Sweeney of SanU Rosa was
third-high, and Jon Faranda of Burbank
placed fourth overall. Junior team
member Edward Friend of England was
the ninth-high individual.
Ruth Holine of Fresno, a member of
the junior team, placed tenth in judging
J erseys and Karen Ottesen of Woodland
Hills was ninth-high  in  placing  Hol-
In other individual piacings by the
CSUF judges, Dutra was second in
Jerseys and reasons, third in Holsteins,
and fourth in Brown Swiss; Sweeney was
fourth in reasons, fifth in Holsteins.
sixth in Brown Swiss, and seventh in
Jerseys; Faranda was third in Brown
Swiss, seventh in Holsteins and reasons,
and eighth in Jerseys. Friend placed
second in Holstein judging.
The teams are coached by Dr. Robert
Osland, an associate professor of animal
science, and are partially sponsored and
financed by the CSUF Associated Stu-
ganization, is being held on campus this
week and will continue through April 24.
Among the activities will be,an Arm¬
enian folk dance workshop at 6:30 p.m.
today in the College Union. Tom Bozig-
ian, dance researcher and choreograph¬
er, will head the workshop. It will be fol¬
lowed at 9 p.m. by a dance featuring
Richard Hagopian and his orchestra
Also beginning today and continuing
through April 30 will be an exhibit on
'The Armenians of 1915" which will be
displayed in the CSUF library.
Journalist Levon Keshishian, corres¬
pondent for the Egyptian newspaper.
Al Ahram, will lecture at noon Friday on
the "Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty '
He will speak in the arena theatre in
the Speech Arts building.
The observance will conclude April 24
•ntly t>
igheld.
The new series, which will begin May
14, will be held on six consecutive Mon¬
days from 6 JO to 9 30 p m in room 210
of the CSUF Business Building. Donna
Hudson, a lecturer In accounting and
quantitative  studies,  will  conduct  the
A fee of J10S includes classroom
materials and hands-on use of a mini¬
computer system. A textbook costing
$9 95 will be available at the first class
session. Enrollment is limited to 20
persons   and   advance  registration   is
The seminar will cover procedures for
setting up business problems for compu¬
ter solution, concepts of system design,
A panel of local and state education
officials and a taxpayer group represen-
tative will participate in a noon-time
discussion on 'School Finance in a Prop
13 Era* Monday, April 23.
The program will be held in Room 101
of the Industrial Arts Building.
Wallace Taylor, a lecturer in the CSUF
School of Education, said the partici¬
pants will include Robert Cornelius,
director of budget services for the
Fresno Unified School District, and Larry
Kavanaugh, director of community
services for the Sute Center Community
College District, who recently prepared a
report for the SCCCO Trustees on the
effects of Propostition 13 on the District.
Also participating will be Dr. Ann
Leavenworth, a member of the State
Board of Education; and Frank Oneto,
representing the Fresno Tax Watchers
Association and the Spirit of 13 Com-
Dr Richard Sparks, a CSUF professor
of education, will serve as moderator for
the panel discussion
The Experimental Theatre Company is
now accepting play submissions for the
Fall '79 season. Those interested in
submitting and directing plays are asked
to contact Charles Randall or Kathleen
McKinley in the Theatre Arts depart¬
ment for further information. Original
when Armenian students on campus will
commemorate the Armenian genocide
by wearing black armbands and as¬
sembling from 11 a.m. until 2 pm in
the free speech area.
BASIC    language   programming    and
hands-on use of a system.
For further information, contact the
CSUF Bureau of Business Research and
Service at 487-2352.
The
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gramming for Small Business Compu-
An  Armenian heriuge  observance,        ters Using BASIC" has been planned
sponsored by the Armenian Student Or-'       by the Bureau of Business Research and
Armenian choreographer to
hold folk dance workshop
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Tom Bozigian, famous Armenian
dancer<horeographer, will conduct an
Armenian folk dance workshop at the
CSUF College Union Wednesday,
April 18.   .
The event sponsored by the UACC wiH
be hosted by the Armenian Students
Organization. Admission is free.
The workshop beginning at 6.30 p.m.
will be highlighted with a film presenu-
tion featuring a demonstration of folk
dances from the Armenian cities and
interior. Bozigian will also conduct a dis¬
cussion and give dance demonstrations
Adding his Ulents to the evening's
program is another famous Armenian
musician from the Fresno area, currently
artist In residence at CSUF, Richard A.
Hagopian. Hagopian and His Orchestra
will play Armenian dance r '"
ing the workshop.
Bozigian was bom in Los
was raised in Fresno. H
Fresno schools, receiving
degree in education from CSUF.
Ho Is a graduate of the Sayat Nova
Armenian Sute OweograpWc School
in Erevan. While studying in Armenia he
joined a team who,traveled extensively
Into selected areas of the Interior to
research, film and record traditional
. songs and dances with the Ethnographic
Institute of the Itotverstty of Erevan,
He has traveled (
world including tl
Canada, as well as in the USSR and parts
of Europe conducting dance workshops.
In his workshops, Bozigian strives not
only for the enjoyment and preservation
of Armenian folk dance but for the
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