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CSUN interpreters bring hearing world to deaf By SUSAN SURGES the pioneers of the field as it is not the time." known today is Faye Wilkie, acting When Wilkie arrived at CSUN in The professor enters the coordinator of the communications 196S, she said the interpreting classroom, positions himself in the office and an interpreter at CSUN. service was "quite different" than front of the room and begins tlie Wilkie, a child of deaf parents, it is today. day's lecture. came to CSUN in 1965 as the first "At that time, there were only A few milliseconds behind the full-time staff interpreter. three of us," she sakl. "We woukl speaker, a pair of hands reaches "In the community I grew up in, interpret as many as su hours a t4> and beginsto form sentences in no one knew sign language except day straight and thiiyc nothing of it. the air. "These hands beloi^ to a Today, interpreters are asrigned sign language interpreter, who *We would interpret as two to three hours a day. It stvdy takes the words, thoughts and has mushroomed." emotions of the instructor and puts many as six hours a Interpreting is one of five ser­ them into a visual form of com­ day straight and think vices administered by Campus munication for the deaf students in Services tar the Deaf, a unit of the the class. nothing of it (in 1965). National Center on Deafnesss at "Interpreting is a challenging Today^ interpreters CSUN. field with some very unique are assigned to tiro to In addition to the interpreting qualities that set it apart as a service, it offers counseling, profession," CSUN interpreter three hours a day.* tutoring, mrtetaking and com­ Sharon Neumann Solow said in her - Wilkie munications skill-Building. new book( "Sign Language In­ Campus Services for the Deaf terpreting: A Basic Resource our family. We did not think to now serves 164 hearing-impaired Book." teach people sign language. Pei^le students at the undergraduate and Historically, the interpreter was always relied on us kids to talk for graduate levels. There are a total a person who worked with deaf them," Wilkie said. of 148 employees, iiicluding 81 part- people and just haroened to know "I look back now and say, 'my time interpreters, 24 notetakers- sign language. There was no such goodness, the great opportunities communicators are 43 notetakos. think as a (M-ofessional interfHreter. we missed.' But they did not accept FAYEWILKIE One of the people who is among it then like they do now. It just was Please turn to page 3 aallyWV W vol. 25 no. 45 California state university northridge, California Simdial Wednesday november 19,1980 P.U.B. plans new fom^at to solve liquor problem By DAVID FOY Ring, where akhohol will be Although the P.U.a had tried From 8:15 to 11:15, 35 students "It's because we pay for it," he and DARRYL MORDEN served. Minors and those who do other measures, incliiding hand- were turned away, because tliey said. "It's part of our tuition and not want to drink will be seated in stamping «nd stopping sale of were under 21. It is possible more student union fees. If tliey Uiere may be hope yet for CSUN another area. The dancing area pitchers of beer, ttie university was would have shown up, if a story in discriminate, we should get our stuctents under age 21, who want to wUI be available to both groups, notified by the Alchoholic the Daily Sundial tliat day had not money bade up to the time we're attend "Wednesday Nite Live " at Ixit people can not bring drinks out Beverage Control Department that announced the new ruling. 21." the P.U.B. of the Bull Ring onto tbe dance its license was in jeopardy. Many of the students, minors w Tim kimtiaU, a junior physical A iMtiposal to split audiences into fioor, or anywhere else. Minors are still permitted in the not, objected to the rule banning education major, said that it is drinking and non-drinking rooms Zeidman plans it to be a "Best of P.U.B. diaing other days of the people under 21, although some "obvious that more ttian half of the has been submitted to the 4- school is under 21." Recreational Programs Com­ 'We want to provide some type of alternate programming, because "It's total discrimination. If thqL mittee and will tie dtecided upon at can't control it (the drinking) the committee's meeting at 3 p.m. people under 21 have nowhere to go',* there's something wrong with the Monday in the Board Room of ttie — Zeidman management," KimbaU said. University Student Union. Zebi Hitt, 22, a waitress, sym- "We want to provide some type Wednesday Nite Live," with two week, but are asked to leave approved of it, patidzed with the P.U.B.'s iriight of of alternate programming, bands scheduled for the evening. Wednesday at 7 p.m. "I think it's good, because a lot having its liquor license in because people under 21 have He cautioned, however, that it is an The new policy was im­ of people in liere who are 21 would jeopardy. nowhere to go," Lee Zeidman, experimental effort that must be plemented for the first time last give alchohol td people who were "It's either this or close the bar, USU program director, said. approved by the committee. Wednesday. Zeldman said at­ minors," said Bernard Hicks, 21, a which puts us out of work," she Under Zeldman's proposal, Minors were banned from at­ tendance was down that first night, junior sociology major. said. "I'm sorry that a few peo|de Wednesday Nite Live will be held tending Wednesday Nite Live but it wiU take a few weeks to Lance Packer, also 21, a physical had to ruin it for the minors who in the Northridge Center of San programs at a Nov. 10 meeting of assess the policy to see if it really education senior, was against the don't drink." Fernando VaUey HaU. Scheduled the USU board of directors, does result in lower attendance. pdicy. Mojo Geller, 21, a P.U.B. em­ to begin Dec. 4, if approved, the because of fears that the P.U.B. Some 210 people attended the "There shouldn't be any kind of ployee, said of the new rule: "It's program would s^regate drinking would lose its liquor license if it first "Wednesday Nite Live" since discrimination of who goes into the pretty low down. At the beginning and non-drinking patrons. waa cited one more time for the policy's passage, with Sn P.U.B., as long as they're college of tlie semester it (drinking) was a Those who are 21 or older and violating state law in saving average <^ 115 in the room at any students, whether they're 17, U, 19, protdem, but last weekend it was want to drink will be put in the BuU miiKMi. v!o onetime. 20,21 or whatever," Packer said. pretty mellow." CSUC to spend $50 million for new computers ByRUSSSHUBEN The computar itself is called tlie conversion ta the new com­ hardware. The computers also puter, professors will have to move The largest i»ocurement ever need sets of instructions or their applications to the new obtained by an educational programs in order to perform system," Bdes sakl. system, $50 million, is being spent functions — these are called soft­ With the new computers, ad­ to lease a new computer for each of ware, Hayes said. ministrative users wiU, for the first the 19 campuses in the CSUC "With four different kinds of time, have direct and immediate system, Jerry Boles, director of computers using four kinds of access to information in the CSUN's Computer Center, said. software, little exchange of computer system, Hayes said. CSUN's new computer will be in the Cmnputer Center is a ser­ operation^by April 1, he said. vice facility for the entire campus, "We've been wanting to expand '/f c€tsts more to and nearly all departments use the the uses for computers in the CSUC computers in some way, Hayes for some time, it was impossible, maintain the old unit said. because the old computers are than it is worth, lt*s Three new computer labs, one in obsolete," Boles said. like a 20'year'old engineering and one in each of the The new connputers are about libraries, will be established. Boles Jl half the size of their predecessors radio; it needs to be said. Computer labs are open to all and have about 50 to 100 tim«8 the fixed constantly.* students taking computer-using computing power, he sakl. courses, Hayes said. More than Perhaps most importantly, the -Boles 10,000 students used the computers new computers will enable smaller lastyear, shesaid. schools within the system to have programs witliin ttie system was The computer being replaced at the same computer programs as possible," she said. CSUN will probably be junked for the larger campuses, said J.A. The ISO million will be spent to scrap metal. Boles said. Hayes, academic coordinator for lease and install-one new computer "It costs more to maintain the the Computer Center. for each of the 19 campuses and old unit than it is worth. It's like a "In the past, there were four two for the central computer 20-year-old radio; it needs to be different varieties of computers in facility in Los Angeles, over a two- fixed constantly," hesaid.

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