the Dirfly SuMal CAUFOmMA STATE UNIVERSITY. NORTHRIDQE VOLUME 2t NUMKR 1 MONDAY. AUOUST 2T, 1984 Trustees vote students ^, $39 reduction in fees By LAURIE DAVIDSOHN were $354 and $219 respectively. I,*' •' Sentor Staff Writer The trustees towered fees by $42 for students taking six or more units, but A $39 reduction m student fees for the raised the student service fee by $3, , 1984-8$ academic year was approved in bringing the net reduction to $39 per : July by the California State University academic year. Board (rf^ Trustees, the first fee reduction The last time there was any kind of fee since 1979. reduction was in 1979-80 when the Fees for the 1984 Fall semester are trustees lowered the student service fee by,"' $33S for undergraduates with six or more $2, said John Richards, principal budget tf,., units and $250 for undergraduates with analyst for the Board of Trustees. five units or fewer. Last semester the fees The trustees originally requested a $90 > fee reduction, but as a result of Gov. George Deukmejian's budget plan, that amount was cut to $42, said Jtidy Elias, Governor cutspubli c information officer for the Board of Trustees. I science wing Rkhards sakl Deukmejian approved the $42 fee reduction to compensate for the 1983-84 student fee increases. The out of budget governor did not approve the original request for a $90 reduction because the By THOMAS ANDONIAN state needed money to (rffset decreasing Senior Staff Writer federal fiiumcial akl funds. The governor wanted to replace the Preliminary planning of a new $42 used for federal grant money with structure to be added to the outdated state money, RKhards said. science complex has been delayed for at In Deukmejian's State of the Sute '1 least one more year, according to address made in January before a joint Assemblyman Richard Katz, D— sdtek>n of the Legislature, his 1984-85 Sepulveda. spending plan listed educatkxi as his top A budget request of $150,000 to begin priority. the project was passed by the state Of Deukmejian's $31.3 billion budget, legislature in JUIK, but'was vetoed by 53.5 percent is alkxaited for education. Gov. George Deukmejian. The fee reduction was made poasibte \ However, Katz said the chances of the because the governor increased the CSU request passing next year are good. budget this year by 21.6 percent. As a result, CSUN science students will According to a report prepared by the continiK taking certain courses that are California State SttKtents Associatkm, the tau^t with equipment that is "not up to student k)bby group dkl not object to the date" with modem technok)gy, according $3 student services fee increase because to science department faculty. "it b the least worst alternative" and "any KATHUEN HACX)ADn>aHy Sundial In an attempt to modernize the science reduction in student service programs facilities at CSUN, the university had wotdd probably be irreversible." StudMit* •xpecting a fraa rkla on tha to waK umN mM-Octobar, whan thay requested $150,000 from the state to OvtaM Ubrary't aacalatora will hava ara axfiaetotf to ba moving again. "The impact of this fee increase is more begin initial drawings of a 40,000-square than offset by the large State University foot ScieiKC buikling that woukl be j<Mned fee reduction," the report sakl. to the east side of the two present However, some CSUN Associated Library escalators still down buiklings. Katz, who helped push the budget /Please him to page 16 request throug>^ the Legislature, said the Contract moyes another step governor vetoed the- leanest because he Faculty move in probably does not "understand the need ByCHRISHOFER at CSUN" for new science facilities. Contributing Writer f Two contracts totalling $190,000 were "With all the governor's talk about as new building submitted to the General Services Office, higher education," Katz said, "this comes *i A contract to flx the Oviatt Library according to George Beitner, assistant as kind of a surprise." nears completion director of engineering services for CSUN escalators has climbed another step Katz explained that the reason the By ELIZABETH CAMPOS plant (^)eration. One of the contracts is toward final iapproval but it could be request did not pass was a "combination for the library's six escalators while the Staff Writer *" mid-October before the escalators are of the governor's office and the CSU other is for maintaining all the campus working again. Chancellor's office not doing their job." The faculty and staff of six CSUN elevators. The escalators were shut down in April He said the two offices did a "sloppy" academic departments are completing because they were considered unsafe oii While there has been regular main­ job in presenting CSUN's request to the their move into the new Faculty Office two counts, said Jack Hug, director of tenance on the elevators over the years, governor in the proposed budget. Buikling despite delays caused by failure plant operation. They had several Beitner said they will be replacing parts While CSUN must wait until next to install legally required water pipes. that have simply worn out. handrails split on the side and bottom year's budget to request funds to begin A waiver was granted in July to allow that could pinch hands, and the teeth at While the repair work on the escalators the planning of a new buikling, the occupation of the buikling and the the end of the stairway were not catching will be quite noticeable, Beitner said he chemistry and biology departments'must imiversity was given 120 days to com­ the stairs when they finished their run, he plans to make the elevator job deal again with the problem of teaching plete the installation, according tO"' said. low-keyed. One or two elevators are to be modem technok)gy in buiklings that Facilities Planning Officer Mike The escalators will take 60 days to worked on at a time instead of a shut­ contain equipment that many science Nakamoto. repair once the final approval is granted. down of all the systenvs at once. faculty members consider inadequate and The four-story buikling requires both / Hug said; It may be a while, however, before "very out of date." wet and dry water pipes. Hug said. The A repair contract has been cleared by both systems are completely repaired. CSUN sciencestudents are at a "severe pipes, formally called standpipes,' run the CSU Chancellor's (rffice. Hug said, The contracts were originally preptircd by disadvantage" because technok>gical tlvough the buikling from the first floor and is now awaiting approval from the CSUN prior to June 30, when the equipment in the Science buikling is to the roof. Wet standpipes are filled with state General Services office in 1983-84 fiscal year ended, so they coukl out-dated, according to Dr. Paul water whereas dry standpipes contain no Sacramento. be ready and sipedTsn^July 1. Klinedinst, chairman of the chemistry water. In the event of a fire, the fire "Once it has been approved in However, the contracts had to go to department. department woukl hook hoses from its Sacramento, it will be sent back here," New York first so they could be looked "We can't turn out graduates who are tmcks to the dry stand pipes. Hug said. "Any contract that is over over and signed by the officials of the trained with state-of-the-art equip- "Everything right now looks good for $100,000 ias to b^ approved in contractors doing the job. This took Sacramento." , , » , longer than expected, Beitner said. Pkasetumto page 16 Please turn to page 12^-^^ Murder Olympics CSUNers win medals Outstanding graduate from 1967 held or Los Angeles Olympics in perspective^ CSUN athletes take home some medals ir murder charge. Page 2. ., •• '•,: * FciiitiireB, page ^; - - Olympics. Sports, page 43. ••••-•'f:- t^ FaR Raglatnrtian EdMan j36Z£radiiate helt'"" "Mufer choree Preliminary hearing delayed Brow OPEN "lying in wait," Avdeef sakl. ByOEfWYOENDUW/ Editor "He waited for him outside df Mattetf house, when he (Matters) was on his m, YOUR NEW NORTHRIDGE A 1967 CSUN phikMophy graduate, to work," Avdeef sakl. Smith allenih arrested and charged with murder m called to him and shot him, "once in tk May, has had his preliminary heanng face and twkx in the back when he wen postponed untU September 21 in Santa down." Ana. - ^ .. •, u Proctor has questioned the validitycf the special circumstances rulein the cue. JUST 500 YARDS FROM CAMPUS! RKhard Lee Smith, a philosophy He said Witnesses had apt described am professor at Cal State Fullerton and the ^Fotgopd food and foat sarvica on your way to and from school "lying in wait." or anytlma your in tha mood for a great meal. 1967 winner of the Wolfson Scholar Award at CSUN, is charged with the "Witnesses say they saw someone May 3 shooting death of Donald Lee walking up and down in front is i Matters, 38, of Orange. waiting for a bus. They say thwe w« •^ The Wolfson Scholar Award is some conversation between the assailant and the vktim for some time before the AA. McVcmqlcts presented to the outstanding CSUN graduate in recognition of academic and shots were fired," Proctor said. extracurricular success. Once it has been established that the Smith's defense attorney, Gary Smith was not sulking Matters, but Proctor, termed the polwc lineup to openly waiting for him to come out of hs identify Smith before the preliminary house. Proctor said, he is confident he can hearing "grossly unfair." get his client out on bail. ~^*The (July) hearing was cancelled over "To me, standing out in the open, in the issue of the lineup," said Gary front of other people, is not lying in wait," Proctor, Smith's attomey.Proctor said Proctor sakl.