2004 Associated Students Elections
Results delayed; election commissioner blames
faulty equipment
By Laban Pelz
A faulty ballot-tallying machine suspended AS
election results, election commissioner Raylon Madan said Thursday
night. “ We had significant discrepancies between
the hand count and that machine,” Madan said, pointing to
the scantron-counting device sitting on a table in the USU. There
is currently no way of knowing any winners.More>>
College of Arts and Humanities hit hardest, with
a $1 million deduction from its budget
By Martha Martinez
About 200 fewer classes will be offered in the coming school year
because of proposed cuts for 2004-05, University President John
Welty said in a budget summit meeting yesterday. Governor Schwarzenegger’s
proposed budget will result in an $11 million reduction for Fresno
State and an enrollment reduction
by at least 900 full-time students. Academic Affairs will face
a reduction of $5.6 million. Each division, school and college
was
asked to reduce its budget.More>>
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University Spokesman Tom Uribes (left) stands
outside of the music building Wednesday after the body of a UHS
student was removed from one of the practice rooms.
-Photo by Ryan Smith By Joshua D. Scroggin
The body of a female University High student was found Wednesday
morning in the music building. Two Fresno State students noticed the
body at around 9:50 a.m. in a piano practice room on the north end
of the second floor. Music professor Sandy Giersch came upon the couple
and a third Fresno State student, Katie Sanford, just before a 10 a.m.
class
and discovered the girl apparently had died of suicide.More>>
By Mitchell Peters
In memorial of the Armenian Genocide, members of the Armenian Students
Organization and community members will gather in the Free Speech
area at noon to present poems and remember those lost in the Genocide
of 1915. The Armenian Genocide was carried out between 1915 and 1916
by the government of the Ottoman Empire. About 1.5 million out of
2.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were killed. The Turkish
government to this day officially denies such an event occurred.More>>
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