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iB"iaL.Miji.nia Vol.23rH>.;08 daUy California state university northridge, California sundial friday, may 4,1979 Finance unit in sight By CHRIS SEBELIUS A motion recommending that President Cleary form an ad hoc committee to consider the creation of a permanent University Resources Allocation Advisory Committee was passed 12 tb 6 by the University Advisory Com mittee on Layoff Procedures. The purpose of the committee would be advising the president on the yearly allocation of university financial resources. CSUN receives money to be spent in one of four categories: Instruction, academic support, staff and students. "There are 'x' number of dollars for this and that, but the president has some flexibility to move funds PRESIDENT PREVIEWS POOL-Pres. James W. Cleary $202,000 USU swimming pool began yesterday, (Sundial from one category to another," looks on as woricers 'dig in.' Construction on the new photo by Rick Holicker) Mary McEdwards. author of the motion said. "It should be a permanent committee so there's time to in Slides identify Tay-Sachs danger signs vestigate, not just when the funds come." McEdwards, a member of awareness of Tay-Sachs disease and ottier The Disease Prevention Program's prime the Faculty Senate, said. and SCOTT STERLING genetic disorders. The ultimate goal, according objective is to test for carriers of Tay-Sachs in to spokesperson Iris Schultz. is to motivate the order to decrease occurrences of it "We are not facing immediate Steven was not unlike any other baby t>om campus community to take the free Tay-Sachs A child bom with Tay-Sachs will appear layoffs, so we have the time to into a loving family of three. His sister and blood detection test from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and normal as an infant. After four to eight months investigate what other campuses parents were strong and liealthy as was Steven from 5 to 7 p.m. May 8 throu^ 10 in the USU the child will tiegin to lose the physical skills he across the nation are doing about for the first four months of his life. It was then West Valley Room. has learned, just as Steven did. layoffs," shesaid. that Steven's motor and cognitive development The child of a Tay-Sachs disease carrier, like This is followed by blindness, seizures and Tlie proposal was passed in place slowed. Steven's parents found that he could no Steven, may not live to see his fifth birthday. general unresponsiveness to his parents and of an alternate proposal that would longer sit up unaided nor could he control his Tay-Sacte disease is an inherited genetic environment. review the budget and recommend facial expressions. disorder which, when transmitted by two Within five years of his birth he will die, after allocations from the perspective of Doctors, upon a second examination of "carrier" parents, gives a child a one in four spending most of his life at hoQie or in a avoiding layoff. Steven, diagnosed Tay-Sachs disease, which is chance <A contracting this fatal disease. hospital intensive care unit. William Krohmer, author of the a genetic disorder fatal in every case. Three The disease is carried by approximately one If a person is tested and found to be a carrier defeated proposal and Staff grief-filled years later, Steven di«l. in every 150 to 200 people in the general (tf Tay-Sactis disease, tie or she is counseled Council president, said his motion Steven's story, stiown in a slide presentation population: The rate fat the Jewish population and Md of the options available if children are would make the policy of the by representitives of the California Tay-Sachs is higher—one in 27. wanted. "^ committee to protect the tenured Disease Prevention Program, is currently The disease can only be transmitted if tioth Persons interested in obtaining more in professors. "The perspective of the being shown in classes at CSUN to alert people parents are carriers. If only one parent is a formation atwut the CSUN program may * 1 committee is to avoid layoff," he to the danger of Tay-Sachs. 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