I - ."'. ".:') " ;:\~:~.:\ "~,,.tl::.i;~:t,<;.\,;,:,;; .• ;>{, ... ~;~;'::~ :;:.\Jl Poised Wildcats take two page 9 Volume 28, Issue 4 California State University, Chico Wednesday, February 19, 1992 ------------------------~---------------------------------~--~-----------------------------------------. The legend lives on Students protest fee increase He's a funny guy Ed Rollins, chairman of the 1984 Reagan! Bush Presidential Campaign and one of Crowd marches on I<endall Limited child c;:are, fee Chico State University's most trunous gradu­ ates, was on national television last week taking cheap-shots at his alma mater. Hall, Wi Ison speaks out proposal outrage parents During a recent Republican convention! celebration in New Hampshire for Ronald Patrick Mullins and Shelley White through the rain into Kendall Hall. Crissy Follmann the group as they marched through, from Reagan's 81st birthday, the state legislature Staff Writers The rally, which began at noon and 1..1S[<''<I Campus Editor Kendall 1-1;]11 and the Free Speech Area. had proclaimed it Rush Limbaugh Day (go Yesterday a group of about 100 stu­ until about 1:30 p.m., feanlnxl several speak­ Forty-five parent students and chil­ Four people spoke to the crowd in the figure) and Rollins was reading Umbaugh's dents braved the rain and cold to voice ers who are heavily involv(..>(i in the move [0 dren rallied and marched across the Fret.! Speech Area abollt their anger over introduction when he stuttered on a word. their opinions against the proposed 40 block the proPOSt.'CI fee incre:.\se. Chico State University campus Monday the lack of availabk, affordable child care "You'll have to excuse me," Rollins said percent fee increase, Richard Elsom, A.S. legislative analyst to demand "40 percent more child care" on campus, and about how a 40 percent about the miscue, "1 learned to read at The rally, organized by the Chico State and California State Student Association rather than the proposed 40 percent CSU incr~'lse would increase the bu rei<: n. Chico State, California." The New Hamp­ Associated Student Body government, representative, said to the calliers, "We're fee increase. lents H(~lping Students With Chil­ shire legislature got a good laugh at our began under shelter next to the Free doing something vocal and visible on Two women silting in the financial aid dren, :1 new support group for parent expense but they're probably just jealous. Speech Area and ended with a march waiting room cheered and clapped for The good news is that it was a Saturday See Rally, page 8 S(!C Child, page 8 night C-SPAN broadcast, so the audience was probably small. Just as well, since a little bad press can sure go a long way. Weathering the storm PR nightmare Harassment Speaking of Chico bad-raps, The Sacra­ mento Bee coverage of our campus this week focused on stolen bikes and nm­ pol icy terms down houses. How nice. Not only are we illiterate, but we live among slum-lords and thieves. And everyone knows how under scruti ny prone we are to rioting. It sounds like a war zone. Honey, let's send our kids there for college, maybe they'll get caught in the Aaron Purnell Staff Writer cross-fife. o Monday's Bee prominently featured a Proposals forthrec changes in Chico State University's story about 28 bikes that were lost or stolen sexual harassment policy v.. -ill be bro\lg~t to the faculty from a group of visiting agriculture students senate on Thursday by thl! student. :it·s committee. from El Salvador. Bikes get stolen from this The first change will allow the university president to place all the time, what's the big deal? appoint additional mcmlx:rs to confidentially receive "It makes students look like they're not informal inquiries from students and staff. playing with a full deck," said Tom Glenn Gomes, chair of student policies committee Dickinson, dean of the College of Agricul­ (one of three faculty senatl.! sub committees), said they ture and Environment:1l Sciences. would like to cxp:md the environment in which the 'The Bee reported Chico A.,sistant City confidenliality of individllals can be protected at the first Manager Bob Koch as expressing "great stages of the inq\.liry. ' disappointment" that the bikes were lost. Currently the university counseling cenfer and the Strong feelings conSidering how the bikes director, faculty and st:lff assist;\I1ce plogram are the ani.,. '7-.'ere ahandoned in the first place, which. Ollt!ets'...,n campus rlcsil:\!".,,:cd ~o t:;;;:..:'v,: ':ompl::lin:s :'nl~ was why the city wa:i so willing to part with informal inquiries or sexual l:;,ra:'s.m·;:nt v .. il.h (he in~;\.1:­ them. Maybe Koch is concerned about :1l1 ancc of ccmfidentiality. the lost auction revenues. Lizi Porter, coordinator for student judicial affair:;, :;;:id -The campus Environmental Impact thc proposed revision can benefit starr as \vell as Report and it'> proposal to raze a row of students. condemned old-Victorian houses for park­ "University cOllnseling is only for students," Porter ing lot'> also made this week's news. A said, .. And there are limited places for the ,';ta fT." Tuesday Sacramento Bee story reported "If we have more people that can guarantee confiden­ that a Chico businessman who has con­ tiality, we will prooahly attract more :-;tmlents and staff to verted several area houses into student tell their .~tories," .~hc said. '. ~: ..' ... apartments, wants to buy the parcel from Another proposed revision suggesL<; a 180·day statute the university and remodel the structures. of limitations policy for stuclents and staff. The university wants the land for park­ Gomes said the 180 day statute may be the most ing. It's a no-win situation, really, with controversial aspect of the new re·/isions. asphalt on the one-hand and more student ;),~-"; . "We wanted to mirror a.~ closely as possible some of the ghetto housing on the other. key proviSions that the federal govell1ll1ent lIses. TIle 180- A ('Ulger in the dyke day statute of limitations is one of them," Gomes said. A decent proposal comes to the Assem­ However, Gomes emphasized that the I80-day statute bly floor via Tom Hayden, who introduced was merely a federal guideline and that it can be mooifiecl a bill (AB 2662) that would commit a to meet California'S statute of Iimitntions of 360 days. greater portion of state lottery funds to "The student policies committee would more than keeping undergraduate classes open. As it likely be in favor of the friendly amendment of making the statute a year rather than 180 days," Gomes said. stands, $S million of this year's ~2S-30 Coupled with the policy changes will he the active use million in CSU-bound lottery funds will go of politically correct tenns in the policy . into a "rainy day" endowment fund for use Loretta Metcalf, member of the President's sexual in future emergencies. With students fac­ harassment task force is adamant ahout the usc of more ing a drastic SO percent fee increase (last "user-friendly" terms in the new policy. year's 10 percent "one-time surcharge" Metcalf noted that the new policy's lise of the wort! compounded with this year's proposed 40 "victim," carries negative connotation, percent increase), the bill says that saving "To make one a victim is to destroy or cheapen," $S million for a rainy day is inappropriate. Metcalf said. "The term survivor is a much more positive Indeed, the storm is upon us. description, one who goes on after a particular event." JIM MIKLES The refinements in Chico's sexual harassment policy MANAGING EDITOR were prompted last October by the U.S. department of ALEX CURYENT'HE ORION education and federal office of civil rights, Gomes said there was nothing inherently wrong with After last week's torrential downpour swelled Big Chico Creek. student-tubers Mike Mogge, left the old sexual harassment policy and the federal organi­ and Jercmy Willenborg floated from Bidwell Park's One-Mile recreational area, through campus zations simply pointed out areas in the policy whkh on their way to Bidwell Drive. Chico has received 5.98 inches of rain this month. NEWS could be fine-tuned. Job hunting? Shoo~ for an environmental career................... 3 los Angeles flood soaks Chico State students OPINION Jamie Haugh Freslunan Amanda Artz's aunt and uncle were two of Schmidgall's family has a home built on a hillside in Staff Writer the few people who got out of the trailer park in time. Ventura. She said mud from the hillside caused sections Butte County inconsistent in The rain storms in Chico over the past two weeks caused They had driven their mobile home from Oregon to visit ofa rewining wall, built to hold back mud~lides, to burst dispensing justice ... , .................. 7. little damage, but some Chico State University students' their family and were staying in the park when the in her yard. The mud spilled into her backyard, destroy· parents houses and properties were damaged by the brutal flooding began. Her uncle had left the park and was ing everything in the yard. weather that left parts of Southern California in disarray. returning to the park when Artz's aunt decided to Farther south, communities in various Los Angeles-area SPORTS Approximately 1,350 Chico State students have their evacuate on her own. counties suffered similar damage. Woodland Hill., in Los Baseball team knocking the cover permanent residences in the Southern California areas "TIle water was coming up really fast, and she decided Angeles County was one of the hardest-hit communities.