1977_05 The Daily Collegian May 1977

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I Graduation is scheduled | Science building flawed
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Science*, Julia Kwan Yiu Ko-
arid School of Social Work, Marie
France* Coui*.
One of the 10 Dean's Medal
winner* will also win th* sliver
Prudential Medallion. Webber
said the recipient doesn't know
who h* or the Is, even though the
selection has already bean made.
Sb* said the announcement will
be mad* at the commencement
The Alumni Association will
give a DUUngulshed Alumnus
Award to Phillip V. Sanchez
Sanchez is a graduate of CSUF
and served as an ambaaaa
Honduras and Columbia.
CSUF doem't have a
valedictorian, but the top 15
■tudetna will be asked to stand
during the . graduation
Selection of those
students is  based  entirely
grade*.
Admission to the ceremonies is
by ticket only and each senior
receives six ticket*. Webber laid
any extra tickets will he given
out la the Student Activities
Office, upstairs in the College
Union, on the morning of May 17.
She said the tickets will be given
on a first come, first served
basis.
BUI Corcoran, assistant dean of
student affairs, said, "How many
graduating itudent* actually
attend the ceremony 1* anyone'*
guess. It wouldn't »urpri*e me to
»ee between 1.500 to 2,000 there "
Webber said (he hoped that
many did not show because there
i» only enough (eating for 1,500 to
1.600 In the center of the arena.
She said seating had to include
faculty, administration, emeratl,
a* weU a* the graduates.
faculty, Banner said.
The drawing error should have
been caught by the chemistry
department, said Tim Johnson.
CSUF building coordinator
"But those kind of mistakes
sre to be expected," he said
While that contractor was
sawing off benches, there wss
one bench that had to be jacked
up.
"It looked like a sawed-off pool
table ," Burtner said.
Short benches have not driven
anyone out of the building, but at
least one professor left because
of a rumbling vibration
The noise is heard occasionally
ventilation hood*
according to Burtner
The towel hits the fan blades of
the motors on the roof putting
them out of balance and causing
the   unnerving
object Is sucked into the pow«
ner said.
The ventilation hoods also have
caused other problems Fumes
•re pulled out of the labs up the
chimneys on the roof The
problem is the fumes do not slay
out of the building.
The fumes exit and re-enter the
building through the air cir-
cul«tion system which is also on
"Every once in a while, we're
almost gassed out here." Burtner
said
Some of the other novel fix
lures in the building are a
second floor   corridor   that   was
Jack-hammered because It had a
high spot in the center, * bench
that had the gas outlet sprocket*
pointing into the user's stomach,
and electrical sockets that do not
have connecting wires.
Johnson said the New Science
building, like all large con-
stmction projects on campus,
has a contingency fund included
ln the cost of cc4istructlon. The
fund is used correct design *nd
contracting oversights, he said.
The approximate 88.4 million
cost of the New Science building
had a 8368,300 contingency fund,
Johnson said.
All requests for construction
corrections are given to Johnson
who make* a budget
authorization plea to the
Chancellor's office.
Johnson said he now has a list
of 23 items that have not yet been
corrected, and he estimated
tiSO.ooo is left in the contingency
Found: one damaged canoe
l damaged canoe, a forgotten
arm chair and 880 in cash are just
« few of the biggest losi and
found Items held by the Campus
Security in the last few years
Backpacks, books, sweaters
wallet* and Jewelry are more
common than lost canoes ac-
cording  to Virgil  Cope,  acUng
chief of campus security   Cope      - _.
»*id   it    is   not    uncommon,       building:
Could quakes cause
however, for students to find and
turn in cash and checks.
Cope said calculators and tape
recorders are often brought to
the security office by students or
campus personnel.
Lost and found articles can be
n office in any of the
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, to   place   those   strips   on   the
shelves." said Kodcmeyer
The safety standards of the
entire building were investigated
last year by a Cal-Osh* safetv
inspector and Ihe problem was
pointed out again
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would react the strongest if
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"We know approximately how
much it will cost to make the
changes necessary on the
building since the chemistry
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It cost J30,(ioo to redo the
lighting and all electrical wiring
as well as other projects."
That project also was undertaken to meet Cal-Osha
requirements
The chemistrv department
safety has basically been the only
major concern regarding earthquake safety, said Roddy and
Johnson
"All the buildings are about
equally safe." said Johnson.
"The San Ramon buildings might
look flimsy but they have more
give than some of the older
buildings, such as the Men's
Gym."
The possibility that a quake
with enough force to knock the
shelves could hit Fresno is
"perhaps rather slim," said
Robert Merrill of the geology
department. "There have only
been two earthquakes In the last
five years that have been felt In
"Those tremors were ln the
three-to-four point range on the
Rlchter scale. And yes, there
were a couple of stories of things
falling, but tbey didn't do «ny
real damage."
But Merrill admitted not
enough is known of the records of
eartbquakea In Fresno to know If
meeting Cal-Osh* retirements
should be an urgent matter.
"We wiU need the record* of a
hundred year* from now to really
know. We do know that the
potential of a larger quake is less
In Fresno lh*n, say, Bakersfleld
or Los B*nos."
The closest major fault to
Fresno is the San Andreas Fault
one of the most active in the
«tate. But Merrill added be baa
"no idea what the effect would be
of a quake tremor coming from
the eastern part of the state "
Data on that possibility i*
minimal, he said.      '
But with what Is known now
"there Isn't too much of a concern." Merrill said.
"But the danger is there," said
A modern
ife of Malcolm X
Malcolm X wss bo-n Malcolm
Utile tn Omaha, Nebraska, on
May  10,  IMS,  th* eon ot Rev.
Earl Little, a black-skinnedBap-
tl*t preacher from rur*,lC*orfta,
and Louise Little. a light-skinned
We*t  IndUn.   HI*   f»th*r w»* a
grew to a hetiht of six foot three.
From his mother he jot his light
m tho ■
.   I
a 'crazy nigger,* Bells refusal to bowdown,
driven out of Omaha,
rnie burned In L»nslng,
He did iwl actually a* to raform *™>»o »» «•» *tr**t» a* Detroit
achool. H* charmed the lady who R*d or Big Red. Although he wa*
ran th* bom* Into letting Mm stay not medically an addict, be Stayed
and   went   to  achool In Mason' on opium, haehteh, reefer*, co-
wh*r*   he   made straight A'a. «•**». H* n*v*r shot heroin, aa
Joined the debating club and was he «»'d. bteaa** he Intended to
elected   class  president  ot th* s*ll that to the chump* *
But In the eighth grade every- *
thing   collapsed- for   the  young
* came up against the
rd fact that no matter how hard
worked, how brilliantly he p*r-
rmed, a black In those day*
red not h«ve very high »m-
wa* a youth,*
ild, "ihe only thin*you
n »bout r-ecomlng w»*
r or t good bushoy
ar a good shoeshi.ie man . . .*
Malcolm dropped out and took
ind Malcolm In detention tn Ma-
lon. Michigan, awaiting transfer
Ha finally had to ktav* Harlem
to escape not only th* polio* bat
th* enemies he had mad* 1* th*
afreet*. He returned to Boston,
formed a burglary gang with his
old while girl friend and her slater aad two black friend*. They
were caught In a robbery and pat
on trial. Malcolm believed ha got
a much suffer aantanc* than he
otherwise would bar* because of
his association wtth the white
girl*. Th*. judge told m* to my
face, TMa will teach you to stay
away from white gtrla'."
The girl* were sentenced from
one to flv* yeara. Malcolm got
eight  to ten. Shortly before Ua
2lst birthday, ha began Ma long
of which  ha   served  six
years  and five months In three
Maaaaehnsett* penitentiaries.
In prison he began cold-blood-
.....      -tgpHJjf fll
It oo th* authority of the ft
He apset Ma ramalMng yaara
In   prison   1* endle*. labor of
study. He copied oat th* dleto*-
arjr word for word oa writing
tablet*. He r**d iroaaaatty at
night until ha damaged Ma eye*,
atralnlng than to «tudy by th*
dim light from th* prison corridors. ^Eventually Elijah Muhammad himself tutored Malcolm
by mill In th* sacraments ot
Black Islam.
When Malcolm came out of
prison In 1952, be went directly
Into th* Nation oflalam.Malcolm
confirmed Ma commitment by
abandoning Ma *»laver.ame* Lit-
Ex-Chrtetlan.   Ex-
almoat Malcolm rose rapidly toassla-
lmroedl»t*ly. It  c»m* from hi*     t»nt   minister   tn Detroit, then
younger brother, Reginald,     minister In Bolton and philadel-
       ■     - phi*. Th* devotion between Elijah
Muhammad apt his disciple was
Ethnic Studies Attract
Large White Enrollment
(Continued o
.Li'
The Ethnic Studies Program Is
described by many of its faculty
members as being bom out of a
struggle. A struggle by ethnic
their culture and put.
Today, the once predominately
non-white program ls attracting
many white students that are
seeking knowledge of the people
that they plan to owrk with In the
80 per cent white and are In-
creaxina each vear. He said that
tae enrollment ^ the Asian
Studies course* which he teaches
is over SO non-Asian students.
Ng and the directors in the
program has placed a lot of the
credit for the Increase in the
enrollment of white students to
the change -in attitudes of
department  heads  toward  the
Ng said that many department
heads have realised the validity
of Ethnic Studies and are
recommending to their student to
enroll in the courses. Ng said that
many of the white student* are
education, criminology, social
welfare and business majors.
The Ethnic Studies Program Is
divided into three sections:
Black studies, Asian studies and
Native  American  studies.   La
Alphas Defeated
.R*z*  studies  is  *   separate
program   with   Its   own   coor-
Bob Mikell, director of the
Black Studies program said that
the university's enrollment
problems are very serious
because the program can not
afford any more cut back* In
faculty members. Mikell said
that there were eight full time
and three part time faculty
members in 1973 but the staff has
dwindled to only three full Ume
and two part time members.
Mikell said that many of the
faculty member* were hired as
lecturer* on two-year contracts
and were not rehired when their
contracts expired. Mikell said
that the cost of most of Its faculty
member* has hurt the program's
enrollment. He died th* ca*e of
Isaac Okin as an example:
"Okin   taught   the   African
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A special edition of
THE COLLEGIAN
California State University,
Speaker Says Zaire
Invasion Provoked
of pulling power. Africa la th*
The Alphas were defeated In a basketball game by a team composed of members of the PAL' superbrothers and Black faculty and
staff members.
The game was held April 29 in the Women's Gym and spectators
also • messed the destruction of the Lincoln Elementary School
Wildcats by the Wildcat* of Bethune Elementary School.,
The game was sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and
donations were accepted for the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation.
teach," Mikell said. Whan Okin
was not replaced we lost those
course* and many of the students
Mikell said that the enrollment
in the Black studies courses ar*
over 40 per cent whit*. He said
that put of the reason for th*
Increase is due to the exposure of
th* history and culture of Blacks
through the media.
"The record breaking
audiences of the "Roots"
television series demonstrated
that white people want. to learn
more about our history," Mikell
said, "and our program can give
them that knowledge."
The director of La Rasa
studies, Alex Saragoxa, joined
Mikell and Ng In saying that the
future of ethnic studies is still
uncertain. He said that It will
remain uncertain until the administration .makes . a com-
to the program.
(Continued on p. 2
by Bob Cuddy
The   Angolan   "Invasion"   of
Zaire may hav* bean provoked
by Zairean foray* into Angolan
this year, according to Dr. John
M*reuni, an expert in African
affairs.
College at the University of
California, Santa Crux, trad ■
Town Hall meeting at th* Convention Cooler Theater to. Fresno
media,    Included    repeated
the  National  Front for  th*
Llveratlon of Angola (FNLA),
| and Marcum said Neto and other
African* believe th* FNLA U still
Aghostlno Neto to Zaire
President Mobutu Seas SeKo that
he would take  "appropriate
for the Total 1	
Angola (UNTTA) during the civil
war, and UNTTA Is still active ln
mining inter**** during the
Katanga secession in Zaire
during the early 1980s.
Neto's claim that Angola was
not Involved in the military
difficulties ls "very much • nalf-
truth," Marcum said.
Mobutu supported a rival
faction In the Angolan civil war,
the Movement for the Liberation
of Angola (MPLA).
Although there Is no evidence
that the U.S. continue* to support
UNiTA, Marcum said neither
has there been • formal
statement from th* U.8.
government that it has stopped
supporting the rebel movement.
He said many Africans believe
the  U.S.   continues   to   try   to
(MPLA) through an operaUon
known as Cobra 77.
The U.S. backed the losing side
ln the Angolan war, Marcum
said,  because  "we  didn't understand the process of history;
(Continued on p. 2