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jHBHI   San Francisco	
Foghorn
The   University   of   San   Francisco
APRIL 30, 1998
http://foghorn.usfca.edu
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 19
Low Turn Out for Elections
Adriana Lopez
elected ASUSF
Senate President
David J. Gudelunas
MANAGING EDITOR
Voter apathy, campaign controversies and Adriana Lopez were the
winners in last week's ASUSF Senate elections.
Lopez defeated sophomore Erin
Warnke in the run-off election on
Friday, but the ballots were not
counted until both candidates decided to not contest the election
process.
The Electoral Governing Board
(EGB) received several complaints
about improper soliciting and
posting of fliers in the residence
halls hung in the air before Warnke
and Lopez signed agreements to
approve the election.
Some of the charges, however,
applied to campaign practices that
occurred prior to Thursday's general election. An initial agreement
to approve the results of the general election had been signed before those votes were tallied.
Signing such agreements is
standard procedure in both general
and run-off ASUSF elections.
"There were some concerns
raised about campaign practices,"
said Deborah Golder, advisor to
the EGB. "Of course we will follow
up on them.
"We have to find out if those
things happened and if they did we
will certainly have some sort of
sanctions."
Golder noted that every candidate decided to support the elec-
Bad Reception
Radio reception on the USF
campus limited by topography
Lia Steakley
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
As ar. added perk to living in
the University of San Francisco
campus dorms, Rachelle
Bagwell, a USF student, has acquired and perfected a new talent. Bagwell has become a expert at constructing wire radio
antennas into arrangements capable of picking
up static free radio reception in
her dorm room.
Two wire radio antennas are
strategically
placed in the per-
manently shut
window blinds
and often held in place by scotch
tape, coffee cups and, occasionally, colored paper clips. Anyone
who destroys the sacred position of the antennas is reportedly punished by death.
Problematic radio reception
is not unique to just certain USF
dorms.
Many USF residents living in
all four dorms have difficulties
receiving various San Francisco
and Bay Area radio stations
and even re-
Can you
avoid radio
static?
ceiving the campus FM radio
station KUSF or AM/FM station
KDNZ. Other students can receive KUSF on six different dial
settings on their radios.
Some students on campus
said they are tired of dealing
with the constant static of the
radio stations. They often escape the irritating   static    by
choosing to listen
to tapes and CDs.
"I don't ever
listen to the radio
because of all the
static,"   Daniel
Smirniotis,     a
sophomore living   in   Phelan
Hall said. "The
radio stations are so bad that I
only I isten to CDs."
The topography of the Bay
Area and the weak radio waves
of FM stations are responsible
for the radio reception problems.
"[The] topography of the
Bay Area plays a large factor in
the quality of reception," said
Bill Ruck, engineering manager
of Susquehanna San Francisco
and chief engineer for KUSF.
"The bay area is long and skinny
otsof steep hills. It's impossible for one station to cover it."
The complications of
FM radio
station's frequency and
federal limitations help explain
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Executive Officers
ASUSF President Adriana Lopez
V.P., Internal Affairs
V.P., Business Administration
V.P, Public Relations
Heidi Bajurin
Roberto Duran
Matthew Winters
Representatives
Senior Class      Krista Chonos, Christine Smith
Junior Class    Marites Alves, Bekah Hernandez
Soph. Class Marjan Pejuhesh, Carolyn Schultes
Arts & Sciences Joyce Libuano, Iris Valerio
McLaren Matthew Koch, Jasmine Vergara
International Allan Aguilera, Fabio Fires
Non-Traditional Age Scott Borland,
Tonja Harvey-Domingo
On-Campus Vicky Nguyen
Off-Campus Andy Richardson
Full results and voting breakdowns on Page 17.
tion process and that there will not
be a disqualification of any candidate.
"We're trying to hold people to
the regulations," she said. "That has
not always happened in the past."
Lopez won the run-off election
by a margin of 68 votes. Only 348
students voted in the Friday election.
"I felt that some of the campaign practices weren't following
the regulations but we ended up
deciding that the best thing to do
was to not contest the election,"
said Warnke. "I don't want any
hard feelings, I do respect [Lopez]."
Warnke said that all of her concerns were answered when she sat
down on Friday with Lopez,
Golder, and Gerlie Collado, the
EGB chair.
"I congratulate [Lopez] and
hope she does well next year," said
Warnke.
Lopez said that she also respects
her opponent and that "we figured
people would vote for who they
wanted to vote for. I just hope there
are no hard feelings."
Low voter turn-out was another
topic of discussion following the
elections.
Fourteen percent of undergraduates voted in the general elec-
Senate: Page 17
Students Lend a Hand
David J. Gudelunas
MANAGING EDITOR
Waking up by 8 a.m. on a Sunday to bag cans of
peaches isn't what "Animal House" taught us about
college.
But for over 55 University of San Francisco students, volunteer work was very much a part of the
college experience last week.
As part of ASUSF's Earth Week, students participated in four different community outreach programs
last Sunday. From packaging food with Project Open
Hand to working at the Hamilton Family Shelter, and
from cleaning up the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park
to beautifying Fort Funston, the outreach activities
proved to be a great oppertunity to put away the books
and get out into the San Francisco community.
Students: Page 3
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TENIELLE THOMPSON/ASl'SF
A handful of USF students gather outside Project
Open Hand before lending their help.
'Fast for Life' to Protest
Farm Workers' Conditions
Students will fast
for 24 hours
Louis Galian
FOGHORN STAFF
A recent wave of student activism at the University of San Francisco is bucking the stereotype of
the apathetic college student.
USF students will join students
from Stanford University in a 24-
hour fast to raise awareness of the
conditions of California's strawberry
workers and to honor the memory
of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the
United Farm Workers.
The "Fast for Life," beginning
May 4 at noon, will protest Driscoll
Strawberry Associates, the largest
strawberry corporation in
America. The UFW have charged
that berry workers employed by
Driscoll are paid unjustly low
wages, work in fields treated with
harmful pesticides and are harassed and intimidated when trying to organize with the UFW, the
national farm workers union.
Further, according to the UFW,
a private field audit cited 18 farms
under contract with Driscoll that
violated field sanitation standards
and two Driscoll farms with exposing workers to Captan, an illegal
pesticide and known carcinogen.
Cinco de Mayo
Friday, May 1 — Dance in
Crossroads — 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 3 — Bilingual
mass in St. Ignatius
Church — 7 p.m.
Monday, May 4 — "Fast for
Life" begins at 12 noon.
Tuesday, May 5 — Fast
ends at noon. Cinco de
Mayo celebration in
Harney Plaza during
dead hour.
According to USF senior Mary
O'Donnell, who coordinated the
student fast on the Hilltop, the
plight ofthe berry workers moved
many students to action.
"These workers are being exploited less than an hour from us,"
O'Donnell said. "We're not just
talking about the exploitation of
workers. We're talking about sexual
harassment of women (farm workers), public health and the degradation ofthe environment."
Many have been drawn to
Monday's fast after realizing how
close to home this situation hits.
"It's a local, current, relevant
issue that we're not all aware of that
we should be aware of," said senior
Eric Baumgardner, who plans to
participate in the fast.
Students from Stanford will
join the approximately 20 USF students who have already pledged to
go without food this Monday. In a
Fast: Page 17