the Daily Sundial CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY. NORTHRIDGE VOLUME 30 NUMBER 43 THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1985 CSU Trustees pass new admission requirements Measure passes easily Minority organization despite demonstration reacts to new standards By FRANN BART ByjIMBADHAM and KARIN FURUTA Staff Writer Senior Staff Writers ... The debate has heated up as to whether Califomia high LONG BEACH — A change in admissian requirements schools wiU be able to live up to the new standards for and a new emphasis on doctoral studies were approved by CSU admission outlined in a plan passed Wednesday by the Board of Trustees Wednesday, bringing the Califomia the CaUfomia State University Board of Trustees. State University system into closer alignment with the On one side t)f the debate are administrators and State University of Califomia. Superintendent of Schools BiU Honig, who say that the Under a new policy to be effective Fall 1988, the CSU system is short-changing students by allowing them to will require incoming freshmen to have completed three remain imqualified for coUege and by diminishing the years of mathematics, one year of U.S. history and value of their degrees. govemment, one year of lab science, two years of a On the other side are minority students and teachers foreign language, one year of visual and performing arts, who say that since the schools currently are unable to and three years of electives from specified fields of study. meet estabUshed educational standards, they wiU not be The current requirement of four years of college- Artist's rendering JILL OVIATT able to meet the tougher standards included in the new preparatory English remains unchangol. plan. (The Daily Sundial reported in Wednesday's paper that SEX C0N8EALED — The Califomia Stata Unlvaralty Many of CSUN's MEChA students said Wednesday the proposal to raise admission standards had already seal will aoon ba Inoorporatini a naw non-gandar that they think the plan is a racist proposal. been adopted by the Board of Trustees. It was the board's specific motto approvad Tuaaday MEChA Co-Chair Gina Rodriguez s^id it made her Educatiotial Policies Committee that had approved the angry when one of the trustees said it was minority resoliition Tuesday. The full board's action did not occur support functions such as counseling and tutoring. students' "own fault" that they're not ready to team, until Wednesday's meeting.) "The counseling function should be a function of the white Co-Chair Luis Ramirez caUed it "a slap in the face These course requirements are similar to UC admission whole school," he said. "I think schools can do it, but it and the closing of the door to us." standards. takes more time and we have to pay for it." The new plan ''wUI hit minority students right off the Despite a protest demonstration outside the board's In connection with minority protests against the rKw top," MEChA Chair GUbert Acuna said, and it wUl headquarters and two hours of intense and emotional standards, he said that students from minority groups further the class division in education. debate Tuesday, the full board unanimously voted to drop out of the CSU system at a "huge rate." "The more affluent students wiU have the best" impose the tougher college preparatory courses for in­ J "These kids have talent and ability, but need education as usual," he said. "The schools can't handte coming freshman applicants to the 19-campus CSU preparation and encouragement," Honig said. what they have now. It's tike giving you a flat tire without system. In another move shortening the scholastic gap between a jack to fix it." Major concerns had centered on the issues of current the CSU and UC systems, the trustees approved a But Susan Lange, ab assistant in Honig's Sacramento high school capabilities in preparing students for coUege resolution, as part of its overaU Mission Statement, which office, said, "A lot of jacks have been handed out in the and whether minorities would be shut out by the tougher paves the way to awarding independent doctoral degrees last few years." She said that SB 813, the 1983 requirements. through the CSU in the field of education. Educational Reform Act, has provided nuuiy new Although many trustees questioned the feasibility of Currently, CSU degrees higher than the master's degree programs that are already getting results. implementing such a project in the face of widespread may only be granted in conjunction with the UC system "Minority kids did better on their SATs last year than opposition, most agreed with the policy's concept that the or other private institutions. they ever have," she said. "And their increment of im­ quality of CSU education must be improved. Some trustees criticized the limitation on education provement was greater than that of non-minorities. The In an interview just 'prior to Wednesday's vote, State doctorates, saying they wanted to develop doctoral changes put in place by SB 813 are beginning to improve Superintendent of Schools BiU Honig said primary and programs in other areas as well. things." secondary schools have "a long way to go" in preparing William Vandament, CSU provost and vice chancellor Lange added that everything is not perfect and that students to meet the new standards. of Academic Affairs, replied: "The education doctoral there is a long way to go, J>ut that for 15 years minority "We're not doing the job by any stretch of the degree is in high demand. At this point this is the single students have been getting hurt by the school system ^^ imagination," he said, adding that he agreed with the new area we could document with great detaU." "handing them a crutch rather than helping them to fix policy as a way to "beef up education along general lines He added that the Chancellor's Office is looking into their teg." only." other fields of study biit said: "We don't have sufficient A major source of support for Honig's tougher core- "However," he said, "once you set the standards, you evidence to move forward in these areas. We had to requirement programs has come from the minority must get the whole system geared toward preparation," consider doctoral programs one at a time." communities, Lange said. Honig 3lso cited the need to "pay more attention" in CSUN Presider.t James W. Cleary said the chancellor "We're hearing from minority communities across the order to foster a sense of purpose for students. This could be accomplished, he said, by increased Please tum to page 15 Phase tum to page 15 Hayakawa says make English U.S. language By TERRY TITUS cultural adjustment of American im­ Hispanics and red peopte like the Indians StaffWriter migrants, has been replaced by the term are assumed to not be smart enough to "salad bowl," where the "ingredients team English," he said. "White peopte BUingual education is generally retain their character." (who did not speak EngUsh) weren't given ineffective and English should be the "This is a kind of ethnic chauvinism," bilingual baUots." national language in the United States, he said.'"Legislation promoting this came Hayakawa said that a bilingual ballot according to a former U.S. senator from from Hispanic leaders and was passed by initiative was passed with no debate and California. tegislative leaders as charity." no roU call vote in "almost empty "A common language is what makes Hayakawa, who is collecting signatures chambers." society possible," said S.I. Hayakawa, for a petition to put a measure on the The former Republican senator also who is also a psychologist, author and California ballot to make English the spoke out against biUngual education. He semanticist. "An American ought to be official language of the state, spoke out said that during the Carter Ad­ more proud of his country than the one ^ainst^Mingual ballots. He said they are ministration, the Department of he came from." in direct contradiction of U.S. im­ Education required that non-EngUsh Speaking to approximately 75 people in migration laws that require immigrants to speaking students be taught English and the USU Court of Community Wed leam the English language. also have aU of their subject matter be nesday, Hayakawa said the term "melting "As a result of an ammendment to the BECKY MARQUkZAMlly Sundlai pot," which has been used to explain the Voting Act in 1975, brown peopk Uke Hease turn to page 14 S.I. HAYAKAWA -^ Blues Blonde Blhz A00<5 Cterk exposes the woes of 'Do-it-yourself band teUs Lady Matador spikers pour working in a bookstore. how to make it in VaUey it on against the Toros. music biz. PagaS PagaT BackPaga 2 Dally Sundlai, Thursday, November 14, 1985 campus calandar Alpha Sigma Tau — Emergency meeting today Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity — Announcing 18th Volunteer income Tax Aselstaiioa Proarsm — Today at 1 p.m. in USU A113. Important details on annual Phi Psi 500. All invited. Games start at Prepare tax returns for the put>lic and earn 2-3 exchange will be distributed. 12:30 p.m. Friday at Health Science field, party units of credit. VITA workers from previous Pro PMC* Vktoo — "The Storm at Valley State" FHIplno-Amerlcan Student Association — All at 9 p.m. at Nawman Center. Party tickets years may apply to be center supervisor will be shown in Oviatt Library Room 30-D today members come and watch our first-ever dating available for $2 from any sorority lady, $4 at beginning Friday, Nov. 15, starting at 7 a.m. in 11 a.m.-noon and noon-1 p.m.