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• VOL. LXXVI NO. 22 Wednesday, May 3, 1978 ~WINGl~G HER SKIRTS-One of Cal State L.A.'s Grupo Forlorico twirls across the stage . an~ events.given to-celebrate Semana de la Raza, CSLA's con·Hr1.emoration of Cinco de Mayo., • '"Bua~~k"i ~nggr•p·i~~· ·t~cud ~;; wt'°it"t"i;ug;itu dent interest By JOHN HAECKL Special Assignment Reporter Dollens said, use B of A's current telephone eliminate the need for customers to per• the plan "directly violates federal laws A new banking plan that would permit the transfer method. sonally come to the bank to transfer funds which prohibit payment of inter~st on any automatic transfer of funds from a savings This service permits students to transfer from one account to another. type of demand deposit (checking) ac­ account to a checking account will find few a maximum of $1,000 from their savings ac­ Another beneficiaf aspect of the · plan, count." participants on campus, according to Bank count to their checking account. In order to Dollens noted, would be the fact that · One of the primary fears is that the plan of America's branch manager. transfer more than $1,000, the student's customers could keep their savings in an in: will result in customers transferring much Under the plan, which has been approved signature is required. terest bearing account until it was of their savings to checking accounts, by the Federal Reserve Board, banks could To use the plan, which has no service necessary to transfer funds. thereby making less money available for automatically transfer funds from a charge, students must transfer a minimum One drawback to the plan, Dollens said, home loans. customer's savings account to his checking of $50. It is not necessary to have both the would be the service charge customers wilf Savings and loan associations are account. savings and checking account at the B of A pay for the convenience. Dollens refused to responsible for making approximately half This plan, to take effect Nov. 1, would'per­ branch that processes the transfer. speculate as to how much the service the home mortgage loans in the U.S. mit customers to collect as much interest The B of A has approximately 4,400 total charge would be. Robert H. McKinney, chairperson of the as possible on their savings before accounts, Dollens said, with the number The banking plan has received criticism Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said that transferring funds to cover checks. being evenly divided between savings and from the savings and loan industry, who say this plan would reduce the amount of When a transfer was necessary, the bank checking accounts. · that the service will hinder its chances of at­ money savings and loan associations have would automatically do it in order to cover On a busy- day, Dollens noted, roughly tracting new funds for use in making home available to lend. overdrafts or to maintain a certain minimum 8,000 pieces of paper (deposit slips, checks) loans. "This tourniquet on the supply of balance in a customer's checking account. are processed at the B of A, with the num• It has been announced that the United savings," McKinney said, "translates into Cynthia Dollens, branch manager of the ber dropping to about 3,000 on a slow day. States League of Savings Assns. will file a reduced mortgage credit availability and Cal State L.A. B of A, said that such a ser­ Dollens, who has been manager for more lawsuit in order to keep the plan from being higher mortgage interest costs, placing vice would not be actively used on campus. than a year, said that the new banking plan implemented. home ownership further out of reach of Only "two or three" students a month, would be convenient because it would A spokesperson for the group said that American families." Suicide every 7 seconds, speaker says By PATRICK KING Stat f Writer for," he said. "Many suicide victims see "Establishing rapport with the person," De Salvo's list of resources Included "Nationally," said Marxo De Salvo, con- doctors in the last four months of their he add~d, was very important. family members, friends, and proper sultant from the Institute of the Study of lives." Other things De Salvo suggested in­ medical personnel. Destructive Behavior and Suicide Preven­ De Salvo also said that there are verbal cluded establishing a line of com• De Salvo added that the effectiveness of ion, "there are seven suicide attempts a cues to watch out for. munication with the person and finding out • these resources must also be evaluated. second." "When a person says he is going to kill why the person wants to die. He added, "The more people involved, the And "75 percent of these people have himself even jokingly, there is a chance he "Once you have established the better." previously contemplated killing them• will do it," he added. "You are gambling reasons," he added, "you must evaluate the "Resources," De Salvo said also must be selves," he added. with his life if you don't react." person's suicide plan. supportive, "otherwise the situation won't Speaking to a group of psychology De Salvo added that a person who has "This," De Salvo said, "will give you some be helped. students on counseling potential suicide tried killing himself before has a greater indication on how to handle the person." ! "Many adolescents who do commit victims on a hotline, De Salvo outlined how chance in succeeding the second time. "Evaluating a person's suicide plan," oe' suicide," he adds, "have an abundance of to talk to a person contemplating killing A crlsis, said De Salvo, is one thing that Salvo said, "includes finding out how a per­ pressure from home." himself and discussed many of the myths can make a person kill himself. son plans to kill himself, how available De Salvo also said that certain types of connected with suicide. A crisis, he explained, is an intolerable these means are, and the details of the people have higher suicide rates. De Salvo said that suicide is a cry for situation in which a potential suicide victim plan." "Men," he said, "have more successful help, and it's a reaction to certain things. believes has no solution. "If the plan is complete with many suicides than women, but women attempt It "Contrary to popular belief," he added, "Your job on the hotline, De Salvo said, details, the person is more likely to be suc­ more often." "most people kill themselves when they are "is to clear some of the shrubbery out of the cessful in his suicide attempt," he added. He.added that people with unstable work at a up swing." person's mind. Allow the person to tell his Another important thing, De Salvo said, histories and chronic problems also have De Salvo also said that suicide victims story. He must ventilate." was for the counselor to give resources to high suicide rates. are common to all social and economic De Salvo added that once a person has the person. "More people," De Salvo added, "kill lifestyles. called the hotline, the job of the counselor "These resources," he said, "are people themselves more often In pulmonary unit "There are many warnings to watch out is to offer both direction and alternatives. who can help th~s person." than in mental wards." C . S.Fres no Chicano students protest By PAT ROBINSON that the administration has lost contact was presented to Baxter and Volpe, the eluded chargee-that the administration has Staff Writer with the students. students want the administration to im­ refused to hire Chicanos in Its affirmative With shouts of "Baxter no, La Raza yes" "I see a big hole across the street where plement a special Chicano recruitment action program. Currently there are no about 300 Cal State Fresno students they plan to build a football stadium but I program and -an end to "harassment of Chicanos among the school's 26college ad­ marched through the school's ad­ don't see them trying to help out women, Chicano and other minority faculty, staff ministrators and only 16 among the 700 ministration building Mor,day protesting blacks, or Chicanos," he said. and students." faculty members. what they charge as "the.rape of La Raza Students at the school have demanded to Students want an investigation into the They also want the administration to meet with President Norman Baxter to Studies." case of Dr. Francisco Baril, art department distribute more funds toward the La Raza discuss their grievances at an off-campus La Raza, the school's Chicano studies instructor, who was "denied tenure program. department, along with several other community center May 10. because of his ethnic background." departments, has been the subject of con­ In a statement released Monday to the According to student allegations at the "They're trying to ignore us, to wipe us troversy at the school for the past several protesters Baxter said that he would decide rally the administration "has ignored the out, the way they did in 1969," said months. later this week whether to meet with them. Chicano students and the affirmative action Saragoza. The demonstration was the culmination "They (the students) may have valid programs. We want Baxter to take concrete f a student faculty effort to "bring at­ grievances with the administration. We will action to recruit Chicanos, to give us equal In 1970, after one year of operation the • ention to the administration's insensitivity have to investigate these matters before we representation in the school," said school did attempt to discontinue the La to minorities.'' can reply to their charges," Louis Volpe, Saragoza.

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