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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1972
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A committee formed fo r the purpose of evaluating the Bortolazzo recommendations has found the report "lacking thoroughness and depth ," according to committee spokesman Stu Bennett. · Benntee, in giving a progress report to
Superintendant/Presid ent Dr. Otto Roemmich and Dr. Bortolazzo. Dr. Julio Bortolazzo, a private consultant from the Santa Barbara Area, was hired by the Community College District last May to review the administrative structure of the college and make recommendations for change. He also ivuded in his report recommen-
last Tuesday's meeting of the Faculty Senate, stated that the committee would publish a formal report in several weeks. He made it clear, however that the recommendations of the committee would vary slightly form thse posed by !ji
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Alfred E. Alquist, democratic Senator representing the 13th Senatorial District told a small group of City College students last Thursday of the strong need to oppose Proposition 14. Alquist stated that if Proposition 14 (The Watson Tax Initiative) passed on November 7 it would "totally destroy the public school system" and be extremely determental to the <;:ommunity College ststem throughout the state.
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Although campaigning for re-election to his third term in the senate, Alquist's delivery seemed more anti-Nixon/antiReagan than pro Alquist. According to the Senator Calilornia governer Ronald Reagan is an "a rrogant, strong minded, and stubborn man" who has kept Californians from getting the education they are entitled to. He a lso stated that the state Master Plan for Higher Education has never lived up to the standards set up ~Y the plan. Reagan , said Alquist, is unconscionable for asking for an increase in taxes when the state has a surplus of 600 million dollars, and has done nothing about the equalization of taxes. He then reminded the prodominatly student group that the equalization of taxes was one of Reagan's campaign promises.
In a final self-boosting effort Alquist urged students to "look at what the candidates have to say." He told them that all candidates sound good at fi rst, but that most people vote for the image of a m an, and that Americans must begin to look carefully at the promises of these candidates, and think about the overall effects of the man's promises during his term of office. Alquist informed the group that the best and only way to win an election, either for yourself, or the candidate the student supports, is to go out into the neighborhoods and call on the people personally.
OPPOSES PROPOSITION 14-State Senator Alfred E . Alquist (center) speaks to a group of city college students about Proposition 14. He said "it would totally destroy the public school system" and be extremely detremental to the Community College system throughout the state. Pictured with
Senator Alquist are (from left): Jobn Arnett, Director of activities; Phil Moschella, vice president of student council; Manuel Sepulveda, president of studen" council; and Otto Roemmich, superintendent-presi dent of San Jose City ' College.
Senate Bill 164 has proved to be of great importance to 1ile Cooperative Learning Program (C.L.P.) as it has provided a budget. of $108,000 to finance the many different racets of the program. The money i~ diyided equally throughout the grant ,Program and tutorial programs. The district budget under the programs pr.ovide the wages for each faculty member working with . CLP. The program hires students on a parttime basis, in which clerical work is ·offered with earnings of $1.75 per hour. Tutors are hired at $2.50 per hour with a maximum of ten hours work per week. Armando Moreno, coordinator for CLP, said that there is definitely a need for tutors, and that he would like to have a program dealing with cost effectiveness. ~'tot only do the tutorial positions provide a job for the students, Moreno continued, t he tutors provide a educational ·service to the students in need of help. The CLP offices are located in room 303 and help is available from 8-5 Monday through Friday.
ASS Council Disc usse s Eve nts The blood drive, political speeches, and a carnival were the main topics of discussion at last week's student council meetings. City Colleges annual blood drive will begin Friday with donor sign-ups, according to Pete Pizzola, administrative assista nt. Those wishing to donate blood should sing-up in Pizzola's office, located upstairs in the student union, and there will be a table set up in the quad for signups. Next Thursday, Oct. 26, the donations
will be t'\ken in the women's gymnasium · attn:ictions. Tentatively planned is a from 1o-2 p.m . The donations can be kissing booth, baloon booth, penny pitchrequested to be placed in a family or ing booth and a fortune telling booth. The main event will be a whipped friends blood account, or will be placed pie throwing booth. A.S.B. cream stuthe by used be that-can in an account dents of San Jose City College should council members will stick their faces through a board and for a price, you may anyone need it. to "get even" with the counciattempt being is A fund raising carnival planned, according to Phil Moschella, lman of your choice. Moschella also stated that there may vice-president of the student council, a chance that Dr. Otto Roemmich, be place take and he hopes the event will superintendant- president of the " in the near future. " The clubs on campus will each have a district, will participate in the receiving booth where they will hold certain end of the pie throwing booth. '
The exact date and cost of booths have not been established as yet, but will be taken up at student council, explained Moschella. Four speakers, whose names were not available to the Times at presstime, will speak on behalf of President Nixon tomorrow at 11 p.m . in the quad. If it rains tomorrow, the speakers will most likely appear in the Board of Trustee's Conference room in the district offices at the north west end of campus. The political speeches are sponsored by the Associated Student Body.
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·a ley Str ess es D·e rit age by Terry Thompson Staff Writer "Black America must first know and understand its history before we can begin to plan for the future" were the first words spoken by Alex Haley before a capacity crowd of 360 in the men's gym Tuesday. Haley said that he has dedicated the last three years of his life and $70,000 in searching for his roots in Africa and around the world. His search began in Tennessee, where his grandmother used to sit on the porch or in the living room of his house and tell stories of "Kin-Te", and how he went into the woods near his home to cut wood for a drum and was captured as a slave. The story went on to tell how he landed at " Napolis," escaped, was caputred by a slave catcher and his foot amputated as punishment. As a cripple, he could perform only limited tasks, so he stayed on the same plantation in Spotsylvannia County, Virginia, for the rest of his life. He taught his daughter strange words for guitar, cow, river, trees a nd other objr _ts. Kin-Te's daughter had a son after she grew up and was sold to a planter in North Carolina. The son grew to ·be expert at training roosters as gamecocks, a favorite sport in the South, and earned the name "Chicken George. "
Alex Haley, pictured a bove, spoke to a capacity crowd Tuesday on black America's heritage. The revealing story of his s~a rch for.his own family's lineage will be ma de into l'our-hou r epic by (;olumbia Pictures entttled "Roots". (Photo by Pat Yep) .
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Sen ate Blas ts Eva luat ion
by Lynne Lajeunesse Staff Writer
Turning his attack to President Richard Nixon, Alquist explained that Nixon's accomplished a major roirade during his term of office by raising the unemployment rate so that 5 million Americans are presently out of work. Alquist also said that Nixon had failed to keep any of his campaign promises, and charged him with ignoring the public interest.
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VETERANS DAY :i!i .;:; No classes will be held ·in observance of:;: :;:; Veterans Day, this Monday, October 23.::: ;i; :;: Normal schedules resume on Tuesday.
George had seven children, whom he told the story of Kin-Te. One of them , Tom, a blacksmith, had seven children, whom he also taught the story of Kin-Te. One of Tom's children was named Cynthis, who became Haley's maternal grandmother.
After twenty years with the Coast Guard, during which time he decided to become a writer, Haley became inspired with the desire to learn more about his heritage and the heritage of all25 million blacks in America . He bagan by talking to scholars in African language to·try to decipher the words Kin-Te used to describe things . He discovered that the words were in the Mindango tongue, and the words used for river were actua lly Gambia River. Haley immediately flew to Gambia , West Africa, and organized a safari to· take him to the back country where he was told that old men kept all of the history of the area in their heads because there is no written history in Africa. In one village, there was an old man, 76 years of age, who began to relate the history of the Kin-Te clan. He told of a young boy who went into the woods to cut some wood for a drum and was never seen nor heard of again! This had to be Haley's great-great-great-gran dfather! The people of the village welcomed Haley as a long lost son back from many years in exile with a ceremony in which he touched every baby in the village. The emotional impact was tremendous. He spent the sent several d ays in a trance in which he saw everything through a ha ze and heard nothing unless shouted at him. Haley now had a challenge- he bad to know everything about Kin' Te's capture, pa'Ssage to America- everything! He flew to England where he found that a Colonel James of the British Army had led a slave catching expedition in Gambia from 1775-1776. The slaves he captured salted on "Lord Landsdowne" in 1776. Next Haley flew to America to find out more on the Lord Landsdowne . She was
built in New England, in 1775, saili ng that same year for England with a cargo of rum. In England again, Haley found that the "Lord Landsdowne" had sold her cargo, bought the chains and other necessary equipment for transporting slaves, and sailed for Africa . He traced her passage from Liverpool, down the coast of England, across the English Channel and from there to Africa with t he aid of libraries and old seafarers dia ries, noting weather, winds, a nd every other detail he could find on her passage. After that, he could find no more and took a three day teave of abscence from his quest spending the majority of it recovering from a hangover in his dissapointment. But "Napolis" coundn' t mean anything but Annapolis, Maryland! When he got there, Haley looked through 1,023 copies of tax records before he found the one he wanted. Lord Landsdowne had made port in October of 1776 with a cargo of 98 slaves of the 140 who had left Africa in July! Haley ha d traced Kin-Te's life from a tiny African village to his dea th in Virginia and his own heri}age in the process. - '' Every one of the 25 million black men and women in America can trace his or her history back to a village in Africa. I have written a book about my experiences in doing so, and the book will be made into a movie, filmed on location in Gambia, to be completed sometime next year. I ruge everyone, from every ehtnic background, to see this movie." In conclusion, Haley mentioned the • fact that the people in the village are Moslem. He and his brothers are undertaking to build them a mosque and send the old historian to Mecca this year. " And," he said, " it's possible that we' ll bring him back with us to Ame rica and have him on the David Frost Show!"
dations concerning Evergreen Valley College. The consultant spent about nine weeks on the campus speaking to groups, attending meetings, and holding for mal and informal discussions with people from the various segments of the campus. According to Bennett and his committee and 100-plus page report has " very little impact, and very little significance. It restates things that have been known for some time. The " dull, shallow and repititious" report, said Bennett, contains structural evaluations that have been evident for some time, and it is full of recommendations which " lack a philosophic basis, " and are not workable solutions. Bennett and his committee will examine the college policies and make recommendations on how to get the Quadrapart ite functioning again, and will also present wbrkable solutions and evaluations of th~ Bortolazzo report. Bennett' s closing statement before the senate was a charge that Bortalozzo's report "doesn' t deserve the energy it takes to read it." The senate also heard a r eport from Martin Dreyfuss concerning religious leaves for faculty members. According to Dreyfus's the college polciy on religious leaves are unfair and possibably unconstitutional. He stated that he spoke to the county council and the American Civil Liberties Union, and will report their findings to the Senate at a later time. Senate president J im Gray presented to the senate a proposal for the endorsement of Proposition 1, on the November ballot. It was stated that the need for the passage of the proposition, which has .won the endorsement of various teachers organizations and college boards throughout the state, was apparent with the population projections for the coming years. After some discussion the Senate voted unanimously to endorse the propostion. Administrative Assistant Pete Pizzola then asked the senate about the faculty feelings about the distribution of student leaflets in the faculty mailboxes. Gray, after polling the other senators, explained that the majority of the instructors did not mind having informa tion about campus events put in their mailboxes, but did not want leaflets concerning off campus activities in the boxes or anything put of the cars on the parking lots. The reason for this, stated Gray, is due to the litter problem which usually arises from literature being blown a round the lots. Lastly, the policy on Student rallies was discussed. The senate is exploring the possibilities of allowing rallies any day int he 11:00 hour. At an expe rimental rally next week, the senate will decide if the loud speaker system would disrupt the classes in the front half of the science wing if the speakers faced the Student Union, instead of the Science wing .
Blood drive The annual City College is set for Thursday October 26, from 10: 00 a.m. to 2: 00 p.m. in the Women's Gym. This year the drive will benefit a specific individual in need of blood, provided that the doner give the persons name when he donates the blood, or it will go into a special City College account. This account is available to any studtmt whether or not he has ' donated before in an emergency case usually without charge. Sign ups for the drive will begin October 20, either in Rm. U 208 or in t he Quad, according to· drive chairman Pete Pizzola. Pizzola stated that the drive has been successful on-the campus for may semesters, and he hoped that this year everyone who could would give blood. c~sponsors for the drive the American Red Cross and the Santa Clara Medical Society report that anyone eighteen years of age, weighing a t least 110 pounds may give blood, unless they have had one of the following: • vaccinatio n or iht munizations during the past 24 hours. • major surgery or serious injury during the past six months. • anti-rabies vaccinations during tile past year. • small pox vaccinations dur ing the past month. • monouncleosis during the past two years . • serious illness during the past month. • active allergies. • serious heart disease. • infectious hepatitus. • malaria.