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Tight money, fewer instructors, and use of the Little Theatre for science lectures and et al at San · Jose City College loom on the horizon not 5 years from now, but within the next one or two . years. These possibilities were advanced by Robert King, chairman of the Science department and chairman of department chriamen's council, in relating as most science students realize by now, the lecture portions of their classes have as high as 72 st~dents. parked car displays In addition all of the lab portions of on windshield by placed citation most of the science classes, physical and rafters. the to filled natural, are """'"'"'"'"""_.~.....~,...,.~~ .!------·~--..__~;._..;_.........:.:-~"-,...o..::........,.....-"_""''"....._.,_,_. campus police. What causes this situation? For a moment, consider the fact that as the student load goes up more money is needed for instructors. But with state aid to junior colleges cut back and tax increase election fai1ures, no more instructors have been hired to handle the increased student load at City College. By the way, the incominb day student than we can provide, or acute surgical The Board of Trustees has decided that efforts made possible through funds body at San Jose City College is 11 per such as possible appendicitis problems Opportunity Extended the cent above what it was during the 1971 the 25 cent. parking fee may not be legal. under to outside facilities. referred are This decision was reached after board Program. . spring semester. also stated that they do Peden Dr. fold: four are objectives term long The In discussing the problems of handling members heard Anthony Lister, City therapeutic abortions and for counseling (1) To reduce by June 1973 the average the student load in the science depart- College student. _ birth control clinic. active an have income low of rate Lister stated that he has noted - semester withdrawal ment, King said that both his department The Health Service and the Counseling 30% (1969 students. time full minority peak during spaces parking empty many of and the City College Department Service are coordinating efforts in the ·Chairmen's Council are considering the parking hours in the faculty parking lot. est.) (1970 18.5% est.> (2) To increa~e by operation of the Drop-in Center which is use of the Little Theatre to be used as a , He also noted many teachers park in the June 1973 the estimated percentage of under the supervi sion of Clin ical ,lecture facility for science students. , 1 student · parking lot and they do not these full time day students who Psychologist orma Crockett. Various · From all indications, King mused, receive parking citations but if a s tudent graduate from SJCC using the June 1969 members of the faculty have volunteered "this could happen within the next year parks in the faculty lot, he can be assured estimate of .13% as a baseline. (3) To programs. increase by June 1973 the estimated to help on or two, " and the accommodating of the that he will receive a citation. Service has also been inHealth The minority Lister went on to state that the percentage of these low-income science students in the future, "would get guest lectures in the giving n i volved California Education Code clearly states students of SJCC who enter San Jose worse before it gets .b etter." Page 2, Col. 5) on (Continued the to Probing into what other solutions that the maximum fee a student may be .State College as juniors compared 13.8%estimated in the fall of 1969. (4) To 'might be a possibility, King said that if charged per semester is $20. The proposed City College parking increase by June 1973 the estimated ·city College decided to go to the automatic classrooms -- all lectures on system could exceed this amount by $8 to percentage of CLP students of SJCC who tape and film - that this method would $10. This is based on the fact that some enroll in vocational education programs cost money to implement and install-- he students have morning classes and af- using the fall 1969 estimate of 15% as a . ternoon classes- they may leave at the baseline. wonders "if that is the answer." These findings suggest progress is Another way to save money, according' end of their second class and return in the made in the cooperative learning being per cents 50 of total a paying afternoon, trips field all out to King, would to be cut - but we w.onder just how students:wowdi- day:. This could a'dd up to nearly $100 per program (CLP) . In other business the 154.975 a cre tract take to this as field trips give the students school year. Also discussed at the ·T uesday evening that was to be the site of the Evergreen a closer insight than most labs can. Especially if they are studying fauna, 1 board meetingwas theSJCCCooper ative Valley campus was put up for bid for flora, ants, rocks, ecology or the moon or· Learning Program (CLP), a program for lease by the board of trustees. Only one bid was received, that of low income minority students. The stars, he added. King says that City College needs. question asked was, is it meeting its Peter and George Sordello for the sum of · · objectives? The answers were put forth $500. money for all departments. It was accepted unanimously by the In relating to more money he pointed in a number of statements like the short of trustees .at about 8:35 p.m. at board from increase to was CLP of ·goal term out there were two avenues from which1 money can flow into the coffers to sup-' the falll969 figure of 225 students to a fall last week's board meeting. This lease will be on a year to year port the ever increasing size of student o_f . 197~ f!gure of 350 st~dents parbasis, and the lease will automatically load in science classes · from the state bc1patmg m the CLP. However, the number of low income renews itself from year to year. and passing of tax electi~n measures and The board also heard a report on the minority students attending SJCC in the bonds. health services presented by Dr. SJCC 755 but expected as 350 not was 1970 The latter of the two .. election to in- fall of ·crease revenue and bonds-· seems to be a students of SJCC who participated in the George Peden. Dr. Peden stated that health services dead horse a fter voters defeated a tax cooperative learning program . This increase measure earlier in the year. figure exceeded the objective goal_by 450 provide care for short term medical And how about the state forking over students so this goal was clearly at- problems such as minor accidents, burns, abrasions, lacerations and consome hard cash -- that's another story tained. ) with all state levels wanting a chance at . P~r~aps most notewort~y was the tusions, certain types of non-orthopedic the money first - and the attitude of SI~nifi~ant . per centage mcrease of fractures (fingers and toes), venereal officials in Sacramento seems to be that mmority enrollment from fall of 1969 disease and gynecological problems. Dr. Peden stated that they refer to of letting schools schools (junior. (21.69~ CLP _mi~ority to fall _1970 (23.49%) CLP_mmonty. Cor~espon~m~ly private physician~ in this area all colleges) get the money on their own. Of course, there is the Average Daily there was a decrease m maJOrity problems requiring sp~cialist type Two members of the campus medical care, or medical problems that Attendance (ADA) which brings in' students. police force eye vehicle that student money. This is based on per student· This maybe ascribed to the recruiting are ongoing and require better coverage attendance each day . . . the more students we have at City College the iarger the classes and the wheel never · stops - just keeps going in a circle. What about when City College moves to When the four were arrested as they A former San Jose Community College testimony to the House committee. the Evergreen Campus, will there be his with along Goff, as the campus after letting the students old left year identified 30 been The has enough space to handle the student load? District employee "Maoist" the entered 28, decide if they (Greenberg, Sue, Betty present wife informant. FBI an but space, be will there Undoubtedly, Lawrence L. Goff, in testimony before oriented group to "try to keep them from Schacter, Miss Zakata and Mrs. Haragain the incoming students are going to find larger classes, and fewer instructors a House committee on Internal Security, accomplishing . . . .. the violent over- tline) should remain or leave as directed, the throw of the United States government,'' it was Goff who alerted a "Times" infiltrating to - this is all based on the theory that funds admitted supplying and Union utionary l according to their statements before the reporter to their arrest. Revo· . buildings the build to will be forthcoming Frank Divers, of the business district's and the rest of campi at Evergreen-- but information about the Bay Area group to securities panel. the FBI. The Revolutionary Union has been linked services office confirmed that Goff had no money for instructors. Goff·was also in the company of Barry by some to the Radical Action been employed by the district last In discussing City College's Departsemester. Karl Schacter, Linda Zakata Movement, located on this campus. Greenberg, was it Council, Chairmen the of ment The comm ittee which heard the Mrs. Hartline, one of the four nonsaid that there were two major com- and Melody Hartline on March 10 last for arrested the were leave to 2-1/ 2 hour testimony is looking four the failing couple's for when year, convicted Graham John students by chaired one mittees, campus in their allotted time, is the wife into the R. U. 's activities in connection and the Long Range Budget committee coming onto the City College campus. Greenberg was named by Goff as a of City College student Perry Hartline, a with its <the committee's) hearings on which is in the process of being formed. attempted subversion of the armed leader -of the Palo Alto R. U. in his member of RAM. (Continued on.Page 2, Col. 3)
Trustees Agree
Parki ng System May Not Be Legal
The Student Administrative Council last week approved, by a 4-3 vote, a recommendation that will allot a $250 " entertainment fund" to Dr. Otto Roemmich, college president. Student director of activities Steve Hughes, who spoke out against the proposal, stated that he did not feel "Dr . Roemmich should be given any money by the students. " Hughes indicated that he thought the money could be put to a better use, such as financin g certain activities not already budgeted. T. J. Owens, advisor to the council, in favor of the proposal pointed out that "we" (the council) are in a " give and take" position: " We" give the funds to Dr. Roemmich to represent the college effectively and the board of trustees and Roemmich give back certain items to the college such as picking up the tab for campus phones. Virginia Sandoval , adm inis trative assistant, was in agreement with Owens. A new club, Student Mobilization Committee, was recognized. The club has nationwide membership. Their platform is based on total abolition of the Vietnam War. They are also against campus war research and military recruiting being done on campus. SMC has one month in which to submit a more detailed consUtution. Another item brought before council concerning clubs was that certain clubs, such as SDS and the Social Club, have been revoked for failing to comply with the requirement of submitting their constitution within thirty days. Also last week a motion was made to
restrict administrators from attending Area Six and state conferences. Paul Sepulveda, Associated Studen_t Body President, felt the effectiveness of the conferences would not be destroyed. Ralph Blom, on the other hand , pointed out that this action might break down communication between administrators and students. Irwin Maloff, student supreme court member agreed with Blom. The motion failed. In past sessions there has been discussion on closed and secret meetings of committees Maloff related to council that the Brown Act pertaining to this does not apply to student government. At last Tuesday's meeting Ron Becker requested that a Hypnotism presentation be allowed on campus. Action was delayed until Thursday's meeting, at which Becker was not in attendance. Information was presented by Owens concerning legal aid for students on campus. Ralph Blom moved to put Owens in charge of formulating all aspects of the legal aid program and to make it operable. Under the heading of new business SOMOS RAZA provided information dealing with Senate Bill 40 which pertains to election and farm workers. Representatives requested a letter be sent to Assemblyman Allister McAlister {D-San Jose ) expressing opposition.
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san Jose City College ;:; celebrating its golden anniversary:::: :::; ;:;: this year. :;:; In 1921, when San Jose's first two;:;: ::;: year comm uni ty college was :;:: ·:;: founded as San Jose Junior College,:;:; ;:; there were an estimated 15,000 ;:;: :;:; junior college students enrolled in ;:;; the entire United States ; in which 86 :::: :;: · ·l •• :;:: ;:;: was enrolled at SJJC. :;:; This year, SJCC enrolled 14,281 ;:;: ;:;: students on the Moorepark, Bascom :;:; ;:;: Avenue campus and is completing;:; :;:; plans to open its Evergreen Valley:;: :;;; campus by 1974. A third Fampus, in :;; ;:;: the Milpitas a rea is also planned for ;:; ;:; ;:;: ul timate development. :::: The name San J ose City College ::: ;:;; was changed in 1958. It was operated ;:; :;:; for the first 32 years of its life by the :;: ;:;: San Jose Unified School District on ;:; ;:;; the San J ost State College campus. ;:; ;:;: It moved to the Moorpark a venue ;:; :;:; site in 1953 and occupied buildings :;: ;:;: that had been originally built for San ;:; ;:; ;:;: Jose Technical High School. :::: There has been considerable .:;: ;:;: expension since then, both in { ;:;;campus and in service area . The ;:;: :;:; college separated from San Jose :;:; ;:;: United School District in 1963 when ;:;: ;:;: the San Jose Junior College District ;:;; :;:; was formed. Today the college :;:; :;:;accepts studeJ1tS from San Jose :;;; :;:; Unified, Milpi tas Unified, an d :;:; ::::Eas ts ide Union High School :::: :;:; Districts. The junior college :;:; ;:;: district's name was changed again , ;:;: ;:;; in 1970 to San Jose Community ;:;; :;:; :;:; College District. · ;:;: Over the fifty years of the city ;:;: ;:;: college's history, this school has ;:;; :;:: pioneered in a number of vocational ;:;; ;:;: fields . Notably various police work :::: ;;;; and nursing. It has accepted an ;:;: ;:;: increasing responsibility for ;:;: :;:; preparing s tudents for transfer to :;:; ;:;: four year colleges and universities. ;:;:
Nixon was in town trying to drum up votes for California Republicans, including Governor Ronald Reagan and former U. S. Senator George Murphy. :::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;;:::::;:::::;:::;:::;:;·;;~
Shor tage Of Fun ds Mfe cts Educatio nal Bud get Prio ritie s by Pete Moylan <This is the first of a three-part series which will study the effectiveness of City College's student-help-student program, SHARE and Cooperative Learning Programs.) Today' s economy has forced local, state and federal governments to tighten the purse strings on funds for education and most colleges, high schools and elementary schools have felt the squeeze .. If an educational program is to be funded at all, the program must deal with the n~w. key word in educational appropnatiOns, cost effectiveness. .Two City College educational programs have faced that problem and h~ ve_been reasonably effective in dealing With It. Both SHARE and the Cooperative Learning Program (CLP) were forced to fight for the funds with which they operate and the programs' effectiveness played a large part in the battle.
Although the programs are unique enough to avoid overlapping services, both are based on having students help students. SHARE recruits college students to tutor elementary school children. CLP has college students helping each other. ACCOUNTABILITY "In education today there is a big trend toward what they call educational accountability and for years we have pured money into programs, millions of dollars actually, and no one can show what's happening," says the chief of SHARE, Gil Solano. "From my point of view, " states Solano, "if the program can't show what's happening thEm maybe we ought to look for some other alternative." Solano, a 30-year-old Chicano from Hollister, originated the SHARE idea in February, 1967. Now working on his masters in public school administration,
he received his bachelors degree in political science at Santa Clara University. Perhaps the best way to determine educational accountability is to determine the amount of services provided, the number of people benefiting from the services and comparing to to the amount of money spent by the program. SHARE SHARE is allocated $475,000 a year to operate a four county program involvi~g what this year, according to Solano, will be more than 6,000 tutors. "There is not a program that can match it on a cost basis," declares Solano. "It comes out to about $60 a year per child. "Staff is a primary expense. We know that in order to sustain tutors in the program we have to have someone in the college that can handle all the problems a tutor has."
SHARE operates in 15 colleges and six high schools. In each one there is a coordinator who handles the problems. Two more colleges in San Diego will join SHARE shortly, raising the total to 23 coordinators in Santa Clara , San Mateo, Alameda and San Diego counties. COORDINATOR Evelyn Robinson is the coordinator at City College and is also working on her mast ers in sociology after being graduated from Oklahoma State. In addition to her duties with SHARE, she teaches in t he Black Studies Departme_nt here. Mrs. Robinson depends upon volunteer help, she has no employed assistants. There are more than 120 volunteer tutors in the City College program alone. For every tutor there is a tutee, an elementary school child, usually from socially and economically deprived fam ilies.
"We try to get all the underachievers, " says the Muskogee, Okla . native. " We don 't go into all the elementary school, only designated elementary schools. These are chosen on the basis of location and how much we feel, based on experience, they need tutors." "Generally we don't go into that many middle class a reas," she adds. "There aren't too many schools involved in the program in South San Jose, for instance." "We don't go to too many schools in those areas because generally we find parents can afford to hire a tutor or afford to pay someone to help their child," explains Mrs. Robinson. "But the kid on the lower socio-economic sgatus, their parents can' t afford to hire somebody." The schools SHARE usually helps are in areas of high concentration of poverty stricken peoples, according to Mrs. Robinson.
. The underachi~vers are referred by the teachers in the elementary schools to SHARE coordinators, who in turn appoint tutors. In San ta Clara County, 143 schools have referred students and City College students work in 20 schools in their district. EVALUATION A large part of SHARE's money is used to evaluate the program 's effectiveness. A recent evaluation report showed that at the federal rate of $2.25 per hour for tutors, more than $270,000 in one year was donated because of the voluntary basis of the program. This year, SHARE volunteers also receive a unit of credit for their work, units which are not adding any expense to the college. " For the value that's achieved, we operate very economically," suggests Mrs. Robinson . "It's astounding really (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)