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A scholarship is available for students interested in going on a 4 year architectural program. This scholarship is open to both male and females. The deadline for submitting the names and addresses of interested students is April 13. Additional information may be obtained from Mr. McFarlin.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1973
NUMBER 7
Young Socia lists Blasts · Somo s Raza
Pictured here are five of the six students who qualified to take written criminal law and court procedure examinations. Shown here with their trophies are Anna Woods (left), who won
honorable mention; Don Amidan (center) won a second place trophy and Jeff Vinson (right), won a third place trophy. Seated are Paula Shaw and Don Powers.
Students Win Iop Honors For the seventh consecutive year, San Jose City College Law Enforcement students have placed in the top ten criminal law and court procedure examinations. The tests are sponsored by the national law enforcement soci~ty,
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Lambda Alpha Epsilon. . In the annual competition held recently in Orange County, students Don Amidan and Jeff Vinson won second and third place trophies, and Anna Woods won honorable mention.
Eleetion
By Laura Joesten Are you satisfied with the way that San Jose City College is presently run? Are you one of those people who feel that new blood is needed? April17 is your chance to vote two new members to City Colleges Board of Trustees. John Brokenshire incumbent stated, "I'm seeking re-election in order to achieve a dream we have long entertained, the dream of a new college." Claiming to work diligently to help achieve integration of ethnic minorities among the staff and students of the college. Brokenshire believes that State funding is rapidly dimishing and that local taxes now supply 80% of the schools budget. Gael Douglas, another incumbent and product of a junior college stressed the need for " quality and equality in education." Douglas is open to new ideas and promises to listen to the students. Mary Boyce, a graduate of San Jose City College and presently a student at San Jose State believes that the students today are being sacrificed for the benefit of future students. Mrs. Boyce says, " I was just repelled by the cancellation of classes this semester." She claims that
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some of the classes cancelled had as many as 45 people enrolled. Tony Lister, a current student here at San Jose City College believes that the board could be doing a better job. He claims that the board has not adequately looked into the problems of day care . center and minority hiring. Sophia Mendoza another candidate claims that there is still no where near enough minority and women holding positions on campus. She also pointed out that it was not Mr. Brokenshire or other Board members who were responsible for Black and Chicano Studies programs, but that it had taken up the " Tactucial squad hitting heads" to achieve the program . Jess Morales another candidate, claims that the present Board was just unresponsive to student needs and that it was time for a change in the make up of the board. Candidate Pete Pizzola also a student at City College feels that as a student he best knows what the students need and want. Two seats are available on the board. If you feel that some changes are needed in the present system vote on April17 for that change. It's up to you.
City College law enforcement instructor and club advisor George Peyten said the college has come to expect high performance from students. "For the past seven years, they have consisently placed first or second in the whole state of California. Six students from City College took the written test. Over 100 students from . other colleges participated. Peyten, who joined the staff in 1961, accompanied the students to Orange County. Other students participating in the test were; Don Powers, Paula Shaw and Lou Bogdon. The San Jose City College Law Enforcement program has drawn praise from law enforcement agencies in the area, for its quick response to the increased need for new officers. New officers are being added to many local police departments as a result of the funding through federal revenue sharjng program, crediting professional training. According to Dr. Otto Roemich, City Colleges superintendent president, "Instead of just an academy sections originally planned for this year, we expect to present 10 separate sections to meet the demand." Police Chief Robert B. Murphy of San Jose, who also serves as chairman of the Law Enforcement Executive Com'm ittee of Santa Clara County indicates that City College Academy is the only training facility of its kind in the central county area.
The student council passed a motion last week referring the current disagreement between the Young Socialists and the Somos Raza to a judicial committee. The committee is to look into the matter and see if the council can do anything about the charges made. Arguments during the council meetings Tuesday and Thursday came as a follow-up to charges made against the Young Socialists by Somos Raza at an earlier ICC meeting. The situation began when the Young Socialists printed leaflets stating that the Somos Raza wasn't doing anything to help pe'o ple in the community, on campus or anywhere of their own race. The · Somos Raza then countered with charges of their own at ICC meetings a nd student council meetings. Somos Raza feels that the Young Socialists are trying to undermine the Chicano mo"ement on campus. They stated that they have several organized projects going at this time which they (Somos Raza) feel are more important to them than the issues surfaced by the Young Socialists. Among the things the
Somas Raza is doing at this time are: the Cinco de Mayo cultural week festivities action taken on the affirmative action law suit, and involvement in several plays and arts associated programs with other schools in the area. According to the Young Socialists the Somos Raza should be more interested in the "life or death" issue of the working class peoples struggle against the Nixon a dministration. The Young Socialists is a politically orierrted group which generally takes the working public's arguments against the government as their cause. The meeting last Thursday wasn' t actually a meeting due to a lack of the eight members necessary for a quarum, so the meeting was open to general discussion ranging from the Somos Raza problem to the welding class project and the art department. T.J. Owens stated that the Young Socialists were within their legal rights but that their attack was in very poor taste. He suggested that they (Young Socialists) should get involved in the community rather than with another club on campus which has totally
Virgil Thomson, internationally famed composer critic will conduct the San Jose Symphony in one of hiw own works Friday, April 13, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. The Pulitzer Prize winning composer of opera, symphonies, quartets , portraits and music fo r films, who is also the dean of American music critics,_will join Maestro Cleve and guest soloist Michael Lorimer in the symphony's fifth concert of the season. In this rare West Coast appearance the man Maestro Cleve calls an " American institution" will lead the orchestra in the " Seine at Night," written as a ' 'postcard" to his nat ive Kansas City. Explaining at the 1947 premiere that he had spent 20 years in !<'ranee writing music that was "always in one way or another about Karisas City," he visited on this occasion to give his American natal city a souvenir from ,P aris. "The Seine at Night" is a memory of Paris and its river as viewed from one of the bridges to the Louvre, " he wrote in program notes. " The stream is so deep and its face so quiet that it scarcely seems to flow. Unexpectedly, inexplicably a ripple will lap the memory of its bank. Thompson was born in 1896. the
prodigiously gifted son of a tone deaf postal employee. He spent his boyhood in Kansas City, rem.aining there until World War I when he joined the Army Aviation Corps as a n officer. After the war, he entered Harvard, graduating in 1922. In the years followi ng he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris on a Payne Fellowship and with Rosario Scarelo in New York on a Julliard Fellowship. He taught music at Harvard and directed its glee club. He also launched his career as a music c ritic at that time, when his articles began appea ring in VANITY FAIR and the BOSTON TRANSCRIPT. An able conductor, Thomson has directed most of the nations major orchestras in his own works. The NEW YORK HERALDS TRIBUNES Music critic for 14 years he is t he author of several books on music. Tickets to the April 13 concert are available at the San Jose Box Office, The Peninsula Box Office, Downtown Cent er and Thramns Box Office Oakland, as well as all Macy's . The concert will also feature Maestro Cleve and the orchestra in Bach suite #4 in D major and Hindmith' s " m athis der Maier " symphony and classical guitar ist Michael Lorimer.
Diet Cola· Big Shock Drinking a diet rite cola on a warm day is usually a pleasant experience with the exception of one San Jose City College student. Ben Windman, a business administration major , saw a bloody bandage in the bottom of his diet rite cola. He said that his grandfather had purchased a 6 pack of cola Ideal Market, 797 E. Julian Street.
Windman's first reaction was sick. "Tell anybody who wants a diet rite cola, ' to be careful. " Windman said be contacted the Diet Rite Cola Company and they sent him a new 6 pack with their apologies. They refused to take any .d efinate action. Windman plans to take this to the consumer office in San Jose and the Mercury News.
Election Interview
Mary Boyce Speaks Mary R. Boyce, a recent graduate of City College and presently a full time student at California State University at San Jose, is vying for one of the two seats up for election on the San Jose Community College Board of Trustees, on April17. As a one time student of City College, Ms. Boyce is aware of current student problems, particularly of the " nonsensical wholesale cancellation of classes" that students face. Ms. Boyce' s platform is essentially one of more responsible action and responsibility to the student and initiation of a policy that will fit student needs. A matter of particular concern is the inadequate building and teaching facilities on the colelge campus and the unstimulating academic environment which is evident by looking at the campus, expressed Ms. Boyce. In conjunction with this matter is the planning of constructing a second campus, that of the Evergreen Valley Campus, which Ms. Boyce considers unjustified in light of current decreases in daytime enrollment here. In Ms. Boyce's opinion the funds could more justifiably be used to improve the existing campus.
Ms. Boyce proposes a postponement in constructing the Evergreen campus until a full evaluation is made of this campus and its ability to fulfill present community needs. The present members of t he Board of Trustees have not kept up with present trends, stated Ms. Boyce, nor are they concerned with responsibility to the student which should be their major concern. Ms. Boyce feels she will be able to suppl y the input needed to redirect the Board's goals to meet those of the student. In addition, Ms. Boyce expressed concern that there has been no serious proposals for a child development center on this campus. Ms. Boyce realizes the usefulness such a center would provide for mothers who wish to continue their education. Such centers would also provide a stable foundation for a teaching program for children. Ms. Boyce brings administrative experience with her from !four years of service on the San Jose Housing Authority during which time she served as Executive Director for eight months and as Chairman of the Housing Authority durning her last year.
Student Ben Windor with his bottle of Diet Rite Cola
different interests. The art department was on hand, after being tabled during the Tuesday meeting, to state that they did not want to keep anyone from doing anything, but merely wanted to offer their assistance in any area where t hey 'had s ome experience. This was all made in reference to last weeks hassle over a structure to be made for erection on this campus. The art department, in claiming they didn't want to sound like bad guys, said they wanted to hold a campus-wide contest for t he design of the 15 foot welded structure but they weren't trying to stop it from being built. T.J. Owens finished off the meeting Thursday with pancakes and grits! Not really, but he did announce that in spite of what anyone was spreading around, the pancake breakfast scheduled for May 20 is going to be a success. Put that in your grits a nd eat it.
I.C.C. Meets Sharon Bernstein Staff Writer In a raucous meeting that perhaps best illustrated the ' inherent bureaucracy in the system of "parliamentary procedure," the InterClub Council found itself confronted by factions of Chicanos and socialists. As the April 2 meeting continued, the situation became progressively clearer but there were s till those present who never could quite figure out what issue was being voted on. Following recent governmental financial cutbacks, the Young Socialists approached Somos Raza to enlist their aid in forwarding the policies of the· former organization. Somos Raza declined because they were already involved in projects of their own directed at the same problems, and because they were not in total agreement with the policies of the Young Socialists. The Young Socialists then attempted to circulate a hand-out which accused Somas Raza of refusing " to take up this fight against the cutbacks" and of attempting to " divide the youth along racelines, and divert the youth away from the central s tr uggle against the cuts." They further accused the Chicano organization of " playing directly into Nixon's hands." The circular was not allowed· to be mimeographed on school facilities , apparently because it was felt to be openly hostile and would perhaps incite some greater conflict. Somos Raza then charged the Young Socialists " with tampering and malicious actions in order to sabotage and disorganize our Raza." The handout which was distributed at the ICC meeting, went on to denounce the concept of socialism and to call for the disbandment of the Young Socialists organization, " We will settle for nothing short of this ." The Inter-Club council was unable to act on the matter because it lacked the constitutional authority to do so. Most of the meeting was consumed with a motion that would pass the matter oil to the Student Council. Some people argued that to pass the matter on, even without a recommendation, was to infer by the process of.logical reasoning that something was wrong. The motion was eventually passed with only the Young Socialists, the Black Student Union, and theN ati ve American Club casting " no" votes. At the council meeting on the following day, Somos Raza rescinded it's earlier demand that the Young Socialists be ousted, and instead entered a motion that would set up guidelines for the ac· tions of clubs in relation to one another. No such rules now exist. The motion is now being considered by the council. As an issue, the entire incident seems to have been blown to fantastic and unnecessary proportions . The Young Socialists accused Somos Raza of " playing into Nixon's hands." But the fact that they were prevented from cir culating those accusations is more shocking. Surely no Chicano would have been " brainwashed," as some Somos Raza originally accused, by circulation of such statements.
City College' s Trackmen go up against Foothill this afternoon, winding up this years league competition. Women's tennis team won twice last week. Read this and other s tories on page 4. Read Bob Goll ' s editorial on McCloskey and Steve Stevens editorial on Press Freedoms on page 2.