1991_05 The Daily Collegian May 1991

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issue No. 64    The Daily News Source for California State University, Fresno   Mauy 2^991
Addressing
Drumming it up
Marcos Reys plays drums with his band Cafta Wednesday
CSUF Semana De La Raza celebration.
Hector Amezcu a/The Collegian
afternoon in the Pit as part of the
the future
By Christopher Heredia
Collegian Staff Writer
Paul Bohannan, noted author
and retired anthropologist speak¬
ing on campus today, said he will
try to place his science in a context
that all students can understand
in his lecture titied 'The Future
Context of Anthropology."
Bohannan, who will SDcak in
the Alice A. Peters Auditorium at
2 p.m., said anthropology has
become one of the less popular
sciences over thc years.
"With colo¬
nialism and
the liberal
ethic gone,
students need
to know
where anthro¬
pology fits
into the new
set ot ideas,"
Bohannan
said in a phone
interview
Mayl.
Bohannan, the former dean of
the School of Social Sciences at the
U niversity of Southern Califonia,
currently lives and writes in Three
Rivers, 35 miles cast of Visalia.
The manuscript of his forthcom¬
ing book "We, The Alien: An In¬
troduction to Cultural Anthropol¬
ogy," is being used in CSUF cul¬
tural anthropology classes this
semester
Bohannan said anthropology
can be applied in all the social
sciences and in business. He has
taughtat thc University ofCalifor-
nia at Santa Barbara and San Di¬
ego State University.
The WWII Army veteran stud¬
ied and taught at Oxford Univer¬
sity in the late 40s and early 50s
and said that education in the
United States was "inadequate"
compared to learning abroad.
"!n England, education works
very differently. Learning and
teaching there made me aware of
how inadequa te American univer¬
sities are." Bohannan said the
"course system" in U.S. universi¬
ties prevents them from being "as
daring" as universities abroad.
Bohannan said he retreated to
Three Rivers, in the foothillsof the
Sierra Nevadas, for his retirement
because of the "gorgeous view"
and "because it has as good air as
you can get in the San Joaquin
Valley." He is
working on
his next book
on anthropol¬
ogy and busi¬
ness which he
said will be
complete in
about      two
In England, educa¬
tion works very differ¬
ently. Learning and
teaching there made
me  aware  of  how
inadequate American
universities are.
years.
One of
Bohannan's
areas of field
research in the
mid-70s was "Old Non-Welfare,
Poor in Urban Hotels." Bohannan
said though today's homeless are
different than the people he stud¬
ied in the mid-70s, he believed
urban hotel housing could cut
down on the number of people
living without shelter.
The difference between urban
hotel living in the 70s and "wel¬
fare hotels" in large cities like Los
Angeles and New York today is
that people in the 70s "chose to
live in the hotels," Bohannan said.
"When they become welfare
hotels, they become very terrible,
but when people have a choice, it
can be a good situation. In the 70s,
there were some quite good ho-
See BOHANNAN, page 3
Dancing vampires
By Kathryn L. Jones
Collegian Staff Writer
Vampires?
Yes, vampires.
The spotlight will expose and
probe the dark side of human
nature when The University
Dance Theatre takes the stage.
"People live in the city; they
get changed, influenced, they
don't know who they are.
'"Vampires' is a dark piece;
ifskindofsad/' said John Diaz,
a senior dance major and chore¬
ographer. "Vampires," a dance
work of his creation will be
featured in this weekend's stu¬
dent dance production.
"This concert will be a cul¬
mination of all that 1 have
learned", said Diaz. 1 always
wanted to dance, since 1 was a
little kid. My first opportunity
came in the fourth grade wftien
I studied 'Folklorica,' a classi¬
cal style of Mexican dance. Since
then I have studied classical
ballet and modern dance."
See VAMPIRES, page 7
Research competition
By Jason Peepgrass
Special to The Collegian
One senior and seven graduate
students will be called upon to
present their research to a jury in
the California State University
Student Research Competition
held at CSU, Los Angeles May 3
and 4.
"Students who have partici¬
pated in the past have all made
comment on whata great experi¬
ence it is. Every year the people
who were there were extremely
excited and charged up," said Dr.
Vivian Vidoli, dean of graduate
studies research. The statewide
competition wasoriginally formed
byVido!iin1987.
The students were nominated
by their schools to present their
research toa jury. The jury is made
up of faculty and professionals in
exclusive fields.
The 20 CSU campuses are each
allowed to have 10 students par¬
ticipate in the competition with a
maximum of 200 participants
possible. Actual participation
however, usually ranges from 120
to 160 students due to funding
restrictions. The students will
compete for 18 awards. CSUF
students have won at least two
a wa rds a year except in 1987 when
the competition was held on cam¬
pus.
Cathi Tudman, a graduate stu¬
dent in speech communication,
and partner Eric Aoki are doing
their project on how friendship is
determined. "Friendship is made
up on the basis of intimacy, trust,
and self-disclosure," Tudman said.
Tudmanand Aoki arenostrang-
ers to research competitions. In
March they competed in the Inter-
See RESEARCH, page 7