Speaking in the quad on Monday March 26, wiD be Congressman Pete McCloskey of the 17th district. Also coming to San Jose City CoUege is the San Jose Chorale under the direction of Darrell Leland Johnston.
On page three take a look at the drama review of "What the butler sa.w." Also appearing on page three is Tom Rowens Music column. •~n
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Wednesday, March 21, 1973
Number 4
City Involved In ·Lawsuit Affirmative Action Controversy Raise.d
Trying &o convey his point at the Affirmative Action Meeting is Jorge Pineiro of the Confederacion de Ia Raza Unidia. Seven
~thnic gr:oups leveled charges at San Jose City College, claimmg unfatr charges in hi_ring practices.
~~Be tt er late than never"
c ·ouncil Gives ·Owens Belated Surprise Party By Troy Speers The student council used the formality of a closed personnel meeting last week to conceal their cleverly laid plans of a surprise birthday party forT .J. Owens, student council advisor. Owens thought throughout the meeting that he was going to "catch it" during the closed meeting since the unusual session had not been called this year. When the meeting was called and visitors asked to leave the room, T.J . responded with appropriate surprise as all those who had left the room, along with helpers, came back with a huge cake. The advisor's real birthday was on February 4th, as the cake proudly ex.claimed, it was a " Happy Belated Birthday." The cake had a can of Coors on top and T.J. received a pipe and some tobacco. Owens commented that, while he wasn't normalJy a Coors drinker, the can would be "taken care of" at a later time. During an earlier and more serious part of the meeting, Mrs. Donna Grotte spoke to the council on behalf of the Citizens Committee For Measure "B." Mrs. Grotte called for support from the council for the bill. The legislation, which will be on the April lOth ballot, places a two year restriction on developers in areas which have overcrowded schools . The developers currently can build without considering t he school situation in a given area. Under the new measure . "B," they would not be allowed to build new homes unless they provided temporary or permanent facilities for any new students which would like in the new homes. The council tabled any action on the issue until the following Tuesday's meeting so they might be given a chance to look at the scope of the. law. Conrad Chaviel, director of finance, reported that he had nothing to report, at
least to do with ·finance . T .J. Owens has been requesting that he turn in a report to the council concerning the financial status of the student body. However, he has, according to Owens, dealt with the reporting of va-rious activities around the campus. T .J. says he wants a report of expenditures and available funds made to the council so·they can wisely spend what we have. Chaviel has promised to make a report to that effect. Even with the prospect of a party at the end of the meeting, a small flare-up still managed to mar the relative calm of the gathering. The incident came with
Campaign Promise • IS Kept Keeping one of his campaign promises is Congressman Pete McCloskey. He will be speaking in the quad on Monday March 26, from 12:00 to 1:00. The congressman is interested in meeting with the students. He wants to listen to them and answer any questions. San Jose City College just recently became part of the 17th district. The congressman is especially dedicated to the idea of the students and what they feel. On the day before the election McCloskey spoke to a filled quad. He promised to that if he was ·elected that he would come back to City College every few months. He has kept that promise. On Monday March 26, be in the quad and ask the congressman anything that has crossed your mind.
Pete Pizzola again charging the council witb giving people in the audience a ' 'run around." Pizzola, administrative assistant to the council, said he wondered if he would be recognized if he were not a member of the council. Pizzola was referring to the " railroad job" given to Steve Stevens, TIMES writer, when he was placed on the agenda and then when he came up on the agneda, the matter was tabled until the following Tuesday's meeting. The matter was presumably tabled so the party could be held during the closed personnel session at the meeting's end. In other business dealt with by the council: • Two new clubs were accepted by the council this week. The Horse Power Unlimited Club, a riding club to introduce handicapped students to horseback riding. The other was the Wayward West Biblical Club aimed at those students interested in biblical teachings. • Jr. Ensminger announced a new contest. This one being held by the student council. The prize includes a dinner for two at the Black Angus, tic~ets to the Pruneyard theater and a bottle of champagne. The object is to find an object hidden on campus by following clues announced in the student union at 11:00 a.m. each day. • Miss Swanson brought up that members of various athletic teams would not receive money for meals from the student5!ouncil unless they held ASB cards. • T.J . Owens made the comment that there was not nor had there ever been any funds for the homecoming queen elected last semester. The money was promised in various amounts to the winner but no appropriation was ever made. The matter is now hanging in the air with the Homecoming Queen still waiting.
By Tony Bojorquez Discrimination in hiring charges have been brought against City College. Spearheaded by Somas Raza, seven minority organizations have signed the complaint. In the complain~ to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the charges are as follows.: l. City College has not adopted an affirmative action plan. The Board of Trustees refused to adopt an affirmative action plan proposed and approved by the A.S.B. the Faculty Senate, and the Administrative Cabinet. 2. The College does not maintain fair and non-discriminatory hiring practices. 3. . Despite the fact that MexicanAmericans comprise over 18 percent of the population of the College District and 14 percent of the day time student body, Mexican-Americans comprise less than eight percent of the day time instructional staff. 4. There are no Mexican-Americans in the College Administration. 5. There are no Puerto Ricans on the teaching staff. 6. Despite a student population of over 140 Filipinos, there is only one part-time instructor of Filipino origin. 7. The College, in selecting eight applicants for an administrative
internship program selected only one Mexican-American. 8. No effort has been made by the administration to exhaust every reasonable means to hire and recruit Native-Americans to City College. There has been a non-Indian instructor for the American Indian class; for the past several semesters. No effort has been made to correct this situation. Only one single semester American Indian History class has been allowed by the administration. 9. As of Jan. 5, 1973, there were a total of 176 classified personnel. Of these 15, or less than ten percent were MexicanAmerican and seven of whom are custodians. Most of the other area either clerical type positions and a few who are supervisory capacity. There are no administrative positions held by a classified employee. 10. In general, there seems to be a demonstrated apathy for the concerns and problems of the staff and students of City College. All of this action is being taken for the purpose of assuring minorities an equal opportunity in employment. Many things are being done by the members of various minority groups around campus and the community to get this problem rectified. A letter writing campaign is in full swing to bring
legislative pressure on the college administrators. Letters are being written to State Senators, Assemblymen, the County Legislative Representative, Congreeemen, and Federal Senators. The purpose of the letter writing campaign is to inform the local representatives of the action taking place here on campus. The administration in an attempt to pacify the minority groups put forth an affirmative action policy March 13. The policy was immediately rejected by the steering committee of the group. They regarded the policy as vague, and not extensive enough. The new policy that was submitted for approval by the administration was one paragraph whose wording still left much leeway to the implimentor of it. The TIMES reporter had a chance to speak to some members of the steering committee, they had these thipgs to say; Manuel Sepulveda, Somas Raza representative, " The attitudes of the people on ca mpus must change and gear itself to the . minorities needs and wants. " "The administration claims they have done something to rectify the situation but they have fallen short of actually accomplishing anything worthwhile." Continued on Page 2
Faculty SenGte Discusses Plan A proposed Affirmative Action Policy brought before the Faculty Senate for approval in compliance with Federal legislation, became one subject of debate last Tuesday and ended in a motion tabling discussion till the next meeting. The proposed policy before the Senate would establish hiring practices that would reflect the ethnicity and sex ratio of the college district population in the staff and faculty here. Contention over the matter came from David Gutierrez, spokesman on behalf of the Raza Faculty Association, the Filipino Student Association, the Black Student Union and Somos Raza. Gutierrez wished the Senate to delay any action on the proposed policy until members of the community can review it and possibly draw up an alternative proposal. The request by Gutierrez came in the wake of a complaint filed with the H.E. W. Contract Compliance in San Francisco by the coalition of groups, citing San Jose City College for non compliance with Federal legislation in the ethnic composition ratio of staff and faculty to the community served. Some of the charges include: - Mexican-Americans comprise over 18 percent of the population of the College District and over 14 percent of the day time student body, but MexicanAmericans comprise less than 8 percent of the day time instructional staff. - There are no Mexican-Americans in the College Administration. - No effort has been made by the administration to exhaust every reasonable means to hire and recruit Native Americans to San Jose City College.
- Despite a student population of The A.S.T. resolution was adopted by over 140 Filipinos, there is only one part- the Senate with the request to make the time instructor of Filipino origin. resolution a campus-wide procedure. Gutierrez added that the policy should The question of re-evaluating include hiring practices that reflect the graduation waiver procedure was also sex ratio of the community as well , and raised, as one regarding fairness to that citizens want a definite statement of students. policy on this issue. The Senate moved to se-nd the question In respoonse to Gutierrez' s to I.P.C. for study with a recommencomments, James Gray, Faculty Senate dation on procedures to be returned to President, clarified the proposal as a the Senate. tenative guideline of goals in compliance with Federal legislation. Gray also added that at the present time the district is " undergoing vast changes with a redefinition of policies and goals, and that if permanent guidelines were established at present, there could be possible conflict in the future on such a policy. A motion to table discussion concerning the proposed policy was passed by Three finalists for the job of college the Senate to allow further time for expresident have been chosen from tbe 53 amination by community people and the applications submitted for the position. Senate. Among the finalists is San Jose City The second item of conern dealt with College instructor, Robert C. Doerr. an A.F.T. resolution· concerning class Doerr, who teacher political science, cancellation and graduation waivers. received his Masters of Arts degree The resolution redefines faculty resfrom Stanford. Active in city ponsibility to treat students with government, Doerr, one-time mayor of fairness in education, specifically in San Jose and servinl! on the City Council consideration of class cancellation and for several terms, is currently chairman graduation waivers. of the Redevelopment Agency. The resolution proposes that each The second finalist is Dr. Theodore I department, as one educational resMurguia; chairman of the Department ponsibility, submit a list of sequential of Foreign Languages at the California courses or courses required for a major State University, San Francisco. Dr. providing for at least one section to be Murguia received his Ph.D. in Spanish offered each semester. for the University of Washington in 1961. A further stipulation of the resolution Dr. Arthur D. Ellish is the third calls for the Faculty Senate to finalist from the El Camino Community recommend, as a representative of the College in Los Angeles where he holds faculty, that the above procedure beesthe position of Dean of Instruction in tablished. Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Ellish received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
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Citing the lack of funds as the principle problem that the Board of Trustees bas to contend with, Incumbent John Brokenshire opened the March 13 meeting of the candidates for the SJCC Board of Trustees with students and faculty. The meeting was held in the college theatre which was less than one third fulJ. Each of the candidates was alloted seven minutes in which to speak, with a general question and answer period folJowing. Brokenshire said that he was seeking reelection in order to " help achieve a dream we have long entertained, the dream of a second junior college." Professing to have worked diligently to. achieve integration of ethnic minorities among the staff and students of the college, he claimed that state funding was rapidly diminishing and that local taxes now supplied 807/a of the school budget. Gael Douglas, also an incumbent, stressed the need for " quality and equality" in education. He seemed to be the most responsive candidate in
answering student questions. Stating that present students were being sacrificed for the benefit of future students, Mary Boyce called for immediate capital investment on this campus. A SJSU graduate, she is now attending San Jose State. She is supported by the American Federation of Teachers, COPE, .and was on the San Jose Housing Authority for four years. Ms. Boyce also said she "was repelled by the wholesale cancellation of classes" this semester, claiming that some of those classes bad as many as 45 people enrolled. Tony Lister is currently a student at SJCC and seemed to align himself with the mostly liberal slate of candidates seeking a seat on the board. He also criticized the board for not adequately solving problems which ranged from the need for a day care center to minority hi rings, and said that he "likes women ." Sophia Mendoza pointed out that it was not Mr. Brokenshire or other board members who were responsible for Black and Chicano Studies Program, but that it had taken the ''Tactical squad
hitting heads' ' to achieve the programs. She also claimed that there were still no where near enough minorities and women holding positions on campus. Jess Morales claimed that the board was unresponsive to student needs and that it was time for a change in their make-up. · Candidate Pete Pizzola was the last to speak and adopting a "let's pretend everything is aU right" policy, chastised the other candidates for " brow-beating" the board. One must assume from this, that he felt the present board was adequate and that he is not really interested in winning. He said that as a student, he knew what other students wanted and that be could best represent them . The theatre was virtually empty by the time the question period arrived, with only six people besides the candidates present. Mr. Brokenshire read statistics on the amount of minorities and women employed on the campus, to emphasize what he felt was great progress. Statistics or not, it should be readily apparent to anyone wandering around
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the school that even though many women and ethnic groups are employed, they mainly fill the lowest positions (cafeteria help, secretaries), and not the faculty and administrative ones. With only two seats available on the board (and both incumbents running), it will be some measure of dissatisfaction with the current trustees if even one new candidate wins a seat (incumbents usualJy being difficult to beat no matter how incompetent). The election will be held on April 17th.