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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
October 26,1994
INSIGHT
4b Letters to the editor £>
Dear Editor.
discussed and voted on separately.
•Single Payer means monopoly.
Dear Editor,
The Central California Society
The creation of a single government
Wow! Who is Terese Farmen? I
of Internal Medicine, composed
agency to control all aspects of care
haven't seen such good writing in
primarily of physicians dealing
without checks and balances will
a student paper (or any other) for
with adults with serious acute and
mean less patient care for more
a long time. Is she a student?
chronic illnesses, met to discuss
money.
Keep up the good work. I'm
Proposition 186, the Single Payer
We encourage all citizens lo reject
showing the Dylan Thomas book
Health Care System.
Proposition 186.
review to my friends.
The proposition was unani
mously rejected for several rea
Sincerely.
Sincerely,
sons, two of them being:
Roger F. Brown, M.D.
•The proposition contains sev
Presiacnt
Keith Sauer
eral complex issues, some good
Central California Society of Inter
Dept. of Foreign Languages
and some bad, which should be
nal Medicine.
Midsemester burnout blues
OPINION
Midsemester burnout.
What a great feeling.
There is nothing better than the
sensation of being so stressed that
the thought of crawling into a nice
warm bed and hiding from the
world is more feasible than trying to be productive.
Everyone, il seems, is suffering
from the midsemester syndrome.
Everyone on campus is wandering around with a "don't mind me,
my mind is elsewhere" look on
their faces.
The number of
students hanging ^^^^^
out in the Pit is increasing, while
most classes are so
empty that some
professors wonder
if maybe they can- <
celled class and
just forgot. ^^^^_
Students who actually attend
classes are getting antsy 15 minutes into the lectures.
They wish they would have
opted to hang out in the Pit or,
better yet, have slept on the lawn
by the Gandhi statue.
ever invented, and it seems that they
are all due on the same day.
In the words of the off-beat rapper
Vanilla Ice, "Stop this train, I want
to get off."
The stress level for ihc average student is so high right now that it is
amazing that the number of homicides in Fresno hasn't increased.
Most students arc at the point that
when they hear their name, they automatically respond with. "How late
can I turn that in?"
So, this is the road of higher education that is supposed to lead to a
well-paying job, huh?
Most students are at the point
that when they hear their name, they
automatically respond with,
"How late can I turn that in?"
on a commision from the UC and
CSU systems.
However, when the syndrome
sets in, there are ways to stay
functional.
I know, because I've been suffering from midsemester bumout
for several weeks now.
First of all, flake whenever possible. Flake in little ways, like
taking an afternoon off to watch
"Ricki Lake" and other mindless
talk shows.
It's a waste of time, but that's
the whole point.
I always find comfort sitting in
my favorite chair, with a beverage in one hand and
—-___ remote in the other,
channel surfing between infomercials
about fishing lures
and "Tiny Toon
Adventures."
One
of     my
The world of books, papers, computer software, no sjccp.aod an unhealthy stress level.
I guess this is what my high school
counselor was referring to when he
told me my college years would be
What could cause this campus     the best time of my life,
campus to be full of zombies? Out of all the career counseling scs-
Stress.Plain and simple. sions I had in high school and all the
There are midterms to be taken,     college fairs I went to, no one men-
books to be read and presentations     tioned the midterm syndrome,
to be given. But, most impor-        Maybe that was on purpose. Il had
tantly, there are many papers. to be.
Papers are due in every class       I think guidance counselors were     Notes arc for.
friend's outlets for
stress is to go shop-
^^^^~      ping. Of course,
this is bad on the
bank account.
Bul every time I see her, she is
smiling. I figure it's got to be the
shopping. Maybe I should try it.
The best thing to do when the
midsemester syndrome hits is to
stand back, take a deep breath
and drive on.
Take solace in the fact that the
semester is half over and use that
as a motivation to keep going.
As far as book reports for unread books go, that's what Cliff
Guest columnist
George Radanovich
candidate, 19th District
Thank you for the opportunity to
express my views to your readers.
I am running for Congress because
this country needs new leadership
and because we need to reduce the
size of the federal government and
shift control back to the local level
where we can better deal with our
problems.
Our representatives are currently paid $ 133,600 a year, more
than most executives, yet we are
nearing a $5 trillion national debt,
which you and your children will
be forced to repay.
Your individual share of the debl
is now $ 17,000 and growing daily.
My experience comes from the
private sector. I am a 1978 graduate of California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo.
My degree is in Agriculture Business Management.
After college, I returned to my
home in Mariposa.
In 1982, I pioneered grape
growing in Mariposa County, and
in 1986,1 opened the first winery
in Mariposa since prohibition, the
Randanovich Winery. I understand
the frustration of employers and
employees with excessive government regulations.
I served my local community first
as a planning commisioner and then
as a County Supervisor.
I was paid all of $24,000 a year as
a Supervisor, during which time I
built roads, funded prisons, brought
a water project to the community and
balanced the budget every year for
four years. We could have done
much more, but 90 percent of our
budget was controlled by unfunded
mandates from Sacramento and
Washington.
That's when I decided I could do
more for my community by going lo
Congress, reducing the size and
scope of the federal government and
returning control back to our local
communities, where we could do a
better job determining our priorities
and solving our problems.
On September 27 of this year, I,
along with 300 other candidates for
Congress, signed a contract with
you, the voters, outlining our plans
for the first 100 days of the next
Congress.
The next action would be to write,
debate and vote on 10 bills addressing our most pressing problems.
Foremost among those bills would
be an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget.
We would also give the President
a line-item veto in order to eliminate "pork-barrel spending
projects.From there we would
move on to developing effective
crime controls that lock-up violent
criminals and reform our welfare
system by requiring able-bodied
recipients to work.
Other things on my platform are
to protect children, cut taxes on
families so they can save money,
buy homes and send their kids to
college. On the national level, I
propose to slash government red
tape and regulations to make it
easier for small businesses to invest in new jobs for better wages
and enact term limits to replace
career politicians with citizen-
legislators.
The contract I have signed is
with you, the voters.
It's very simple-- if I break this
contract, throw me out of office.
We have all seen and heard politicians make promises in order to
get re-elected or elected. I felt it
would be refreshing change to put
my platform in writing.
Why not give them a chance?
Nice girls need love too
INSIGHT
It seems that in many cases women
need to "put out" to get asked out.
Beautiful women with brilliant
minds and personalities are getting
turned down left and right.
This may be due in part of the mentality of some men who think that
the money spent on a date should be
immediately reimbursed later that
night at their place.
This is sick and wrong, but it's not
entirely the man's fault.
Equal blame can be placed on the
women who go along for the ride.
It used to be a big mystery.
Well, not anymore. Four years of
college provided pretty solid
grounds for naivete.
College men are settling for mediocrity.
An average girl willing to go all-
thc-way on the first date should expect a phone call for the following
weekend.
If last week's date doesn't call
back, his best friend may give you a
call in hopes that he can recreate the
previous night's festivities.
Ladies, men gossip just as much as
we do.Once your name gets out, it's
out. Suddenly, what was once your
business is now the talk of the town.
Remember, it is your reputation on
the line, not the
Take off your rose-colored glasses.
It is a dog eat dog world out there.
Don't let anyone drag your
through the mud.
This is not an attempt to damper
your spirits.
Let it recreate your awareness of
Ihe current situation.
Newsflash: Good girls can also be
a lot of fun.
Give them a chance.
Maybe for men it is ihc intimidation factor.
The man might think lhat because
Ihc woman is beautiful and smart,
she is too good for him.
In some cases the smart female
may, in fact, be too good for a certain type of male, but some female's
behavior may also be a facade.
Take a chance, men.
Ask a female who has a brain and
isn't afraid to use it out for a date.
At worst, she might turn you
down.
You will never know until you try.
If it doesn't work the first time, try
and try again.
The so-called 'good girls'
shouldn't lose hope cither.
At this age, biological clocks are
just beginning to tick, and curiosities are just beginning to develop.
Sometimes, the shy women are the
ones who surprise men the most.
These girls arc the quiet type.
When they are quiet, they're thinking of creative things. Probably creative things to do on maybe the second or third date, but not the first.
Men, the women that you plan to
marry are probably not the ones who
get down and dirty on the first date.
Unless you intend to prematurely
send your mother to her grave, it's
a good idea to bring a nice girl home
for dinner, not a woman who wants
lo be just like Madonna.
The focus of dating should not be
on the quantity of dates, but rather
on the quality.
For all those women who arc dateless and desperate, don't settle for
mediocrity.
It's far belter to sit alone on a Saturday night than be with someone
who treats you like a blow-up doll.
Hold out for Mr. Right.
Senilis it .straight
■ A story on Amy Tan which
ran on Page 6, Wednesday,
Oct. 12 incorrectly stated that
Amy Tan was wearing a black
leather dominatrix outfit when
she spoke at the University
Satellite Union. She was not.
INSIGHT apologizes for this
It is the policy of the INSIGHT to acknowledge errors. Any factual errors should
be called to the attention of the
editor in chief.
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