Ci ty Co lle ge He alt h Fees To Rise
By Andrew Smith The California State Senate and San e School District have passed t "ll''""'""ou that will result in a $5 health next semester. the Roberti Bill (Senate bill district is entitled to raise t health fees as much as $10. to the rise in cost to staff and equip the centers on colleges campuses. district's governing board decided the health services budget here at College warrants the $5. increase to tinue providing adequate health for students. about the health fee inobtained from Ben Agustine, Finance Director. He reports West Valley, Foothill and all other
colleges in the area are at the $5level for ·student health fees. A health services report by Lois T. Davis, PHN, January, 1973 explains how some of the money is used. Her report explains that the health service is financed by the compulsory health fee of $3.75 for the day students and $1. for evening students each semester. The present health services were started in the Fall semester, 1970. Remodeling the center had cost $24,000. by Fall of 1971. Money for operating health services is deposited in a general fund, but it is restricted to Health Services use. Salariex, remodeling costs, equipment and supplies -- are all paid for out of this fund .
Personnel in the health service facilities includes a doctor, who is a general practitioner, a public health nurse who assists the doctor, counsels in health, pregnancy, abortion and teaches a class for one hour twice a week. There is also a receptionists who handles all of the clerical work and assists both the doctor and nurse. The evening nurse at the health center is also a PHN. She has the responsibility for health education materials and care for the ill or injured students or personnel on the campus at night besides doing a lot of health counseling . Health services serve an average of 35 students a day although some days it handles as many as 60 students. Most of the illnesses handled by the
center are short term. Problem and long term illnesses are referred to the student's doctor or referred to community doctors . Pregnancy tests, paptests, and venereal disease tests are done at the health center. Blood samples that are drawn are sent across the street from the college to the County Health Dept. Referral service is provided for students in need of dental and eye care to doctors in the community who are willing to help our students and who have established a good pattern of care. The drop-m clinic located next door to Health Services was created because of the discovered need to have professional psychological assistance for some of the health centers student-patients. Counselors decided that a clinical
psychologist was needed as a consultant for some,of the psychological problems that students have. A clinical psychologist was hired on a part tjme basis but the job of dealing with student psycholog ical problems proved to require full - time attention. In 1971 the Clinical Psychologist was hired by the Dean of Student Services to provide full-time help in dealing with the mental health problems of students. A classroom adjacent to the Health Services Center was remodeled to accommodate students as a drop in center where they could get professional advice and help in the area of mental health. The Drop-In-Center is a multi-purpose facility that was conceived by the Clinical Psychologist to deal with the needs of students and faculty in a variety
of ways. Programs are underway at the drop-incenter that are designed to help students discover things about themselves that will help them in areas of mental need and interests. Yoga, meditation alcohol rap, racial encount~r. open e~counter, and therapy groups are among the kinds of programs available to students at the center. The centers staff includes a clinical psycholog ist, a psychiatri sts gradstudent interns and student voiunteers ~h~ ~ssist in working with groups and md1v1duals in some of the programs. . Hea~th fee money goes towards fmancmg both the health center and the drop-in-center. The total cost for this year will be over $73,000.
Fac ult y Sen ate Vo ice s Pro tes t
Faculty concern over the development ministration had not kept its word about Evergreen College campus has faculty involvement in matters relative ifested itself recently in the to the new campus. He cited the ways: -James Gray resigned as president of states in part : he Faculty Senate and was replaced by !ill Kester. Share? responsibility in policy -The Faculty Senate passed a motion can only function to that developmg operations. normal _its o suspend the faculty, students that degree meeting -A spec1al Board of Trustees administr ation and Board of ras called to hear the positions of the Trustees willingly respect on dminjstration and the Faculty Senate. another's role in the guiding and In the emergency meeting of the functioning of the district. It must be 'acuity Senate Nov. ~. It was resolved recognized that each clearly hat· segment of th_e policy making The Faculty Senate suspend its normal structure has a nght to participation peraUons until such time as the difby mutual consent of the others and !rences in operational philosophy be its rights respected thereto. esolved in favor of effective democratic articipation in policy making for the istrict, which is inclusive of both San _Keste~ ~lso charged the administration [)Se City College and Evergreen Valley wJ_th fallmg to meet provision of the allege. This action was taken because ac- \Ymton Act which provides negotiation large Jrding to the resolution : 'The nghts for teachers. He said that awill be Jperintendent of the San Jose Com- number of City <;:ollege teachers Ever~reen, and they to . transferred the denied has District College lunity be mvolved m the planning ght of the faculty through its should thereof. lpresentative body-the Faculty Senate ' effective participation by unilaterally Roemmich said provisions of the lCommending the appointment of the resident of Evergreen Valley College Winton Act apply to City College and not College. msulting only with the Governanc~ to InEvergreen a Faculty Senate meeting Nov. 29, 'tt le concern exconsiderab ommJ ee, a committee explicitly there was :gar~ed as a hand-picked advisory pressed among the faculty. James Gray said: "The Senate still hasn't been inlmmlttee to the Superintendent. As a result of the action taken by the vi ted as a quadripart ite member." Bill acuity Senate, a special meeting of the Kester said that if the Board were to accept the Governance Committee's ilard ~f Trustees was called Nov. 27. dation as is, then the Board recommen was agreement an meeting, In this !llched under which the Faculty Senate would be in violation of the Winton Act. 1d _the Evergreen Governance Com~ There are three objectives decided. 1 jttee, representing the administration Governance C~m~ P.m~t and discuss issues relaliv~ t~ G~t thet_o Evergreen ite e administration of the Evergreen mJttee go through the quadrepart process , Develop recommendations of , mpus. [t was further agreed that areas of the S~nate _and put them through the ;a~reement resulting from these quadr!par tJte process, and form a '!ebngs, would be presented to the commi,ttee to_ consider the Faculty illl"d of Trustees for determination Dr. ~nates role m the transition from a t~ Roemmich, District Superintendent, Ssmgle campus Senate to a dual campus enate. iicated however, that disagreements 1uld not be permitted to delay the mned opening of the new college in
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\t the meeting, Roemmich made clear 1stand on the Faculty Senate's stake in ! school's future when he insisted that ! internal procedures at Evergreen f th c· :re no conce Ity College · y Senate.rn"Each ecollege should cul_t ve ~ts own administrative structure.. • saJd. THE BOARD WILL , CONSIDER kcording to Renee Baum, chair_man of the Board, the question of the 1g structure" which will be a rification of the roles of the Faculty 1ate and that of the Evergreen vernance Committee would not be o~ved at this meeting but would lllll'e further consideration. A VIOLATION OF COLLEGE POLICY lill Kester, Faculty Senate president 1 the board members that the ad: .;.·.·.·.·.·..-.-.·.·.·.·.·.···- .. ........ _.. .
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FASA Host s
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fl M be ot the F i.Pinoem rs American student Union (FASA) are hosting a luncheon "Fflipino style.. on Tuesday, Dec. 11, in the Student Union from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The advance sale of tickets, entitlq you to a comPlete plate sell for $2, and can be obtained from any FASA members, or in the FASA office 1n room u-203 _ A, in the Student Union. ·
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. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMB ER 21, 1973
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VOL. 25 Number 8
FoodFo~
Hol iday s Beginning today, the TIMES will sponsor a 1973 Christmas Food Drive, for needy San Jose, families.
DARIO CASTELBLANCO
NEUTIE DUKE
JOHN TOMLIN
Spr ing E·l ect ion s Ne xt We ek Tomlin Due to lack of time we were By Laura Joesten to get John Tomlin's platform. He Wlable Beginning next Wednesday, you will did tell the TIMES that "I would like to have a chance to voice your opinion in run a no nonsense campaign, one of student government by voting in the organization not confusion" . A.~hB. elections. The candidates for vice - president are : er.e are three_candidates running for the office of president. They are; Dario Martin Cross and Roberto Sepulveda. Cross "I'm currently vice- president of Castelblanco, Neutie Duke and John the Native Americana Club, I feel that Tomlin. ~astelblanco is currently finishing his holding office is the best way to get to th1rd semester at City College He feels know the school". Cross's future plans that his past experience as Director of include becoming a social worker and Academic Affairs has enabled him to helping minority groups. become aware of students problems and Sepulveda Sepulveda is currently be able to do sometqing about them. vice president. Says Sepulveda " If A.S.B. tive representa student is Caste~blan~o I hope to finish up all that re-elected am I Junior of e to Cahforma Committe Colleges Associ·atl·on and the Cal1'fornt'a Committe e of College students. Castelblanco conculded by saying "I am also an active member of the student grievance committee... Duke stated that "I want to get involved in student government." After tw~ semesters ·at the college he has noticed the lack of participation on the This week the Times examines the part of the students. "I'd like to do current energy dilemma, and its something about it," said Duke. Duke is effect on our own campus. See currently president of Black Student articles on Page -~· related Unien. Duke concluded by re - emget to hopes he that phasizing the fact By DaveGoll more students involved in the functions The dwindling supply of energy of student government. Duke feels sources has caused even City College to "Politics affect all of our lives one way begin to tighten its belt. ' or another' •. Some of the measures being taken were outlined in an interview with college president, Dr. Theodore Murguia. Murguia has sent memos, in recent weeks, to all school personnel regarding steps they can take to curb their use of electricity. He has also asked for suggestions and ideas from the teac:1ers, themselves. The energy - ~ving moves include the standards : turning off electrical lighting in unoccupied rooms, and closing doors and windows to conserve heat. Some of the more unusual ideas that are being put into effect have been contributed by faculty members. Notes are being placed on doors as reminders to shut off lights, etc. Also, work-study students are being enlisted to do these tasks in between classes, and are receiving pay for their work. "We'll not see measurableTesults until people begin to break their old, wasteful habtts," commented Murguia. However the president is not expecting a~ overnight change in the amount of energy that people con~ume on campus. Murguia stressed that tt would take time for these habits to be broken. Murguia also denied ~at any shortc~:~ts . will be used in the field of secur1ty lighting. He considers the night lighting too important to cut back on. The college's administration has gone over a checklist of some of the uses of electricity on campus, and have deemed some lighting practices as unnece~ry. Among them are included the mght cleaning of the football stadium. This nocturnal task by the maintenance departmen t involved the use of all of the field lights. Hence, the administration has requested that this job must be done during the daylight hours. Lights in the front of the District Office area have now been eliminated . Hall illuminati on, during evening hours, will also be cut by half. pUes of old, colored leaves that now Murguia, himself, said he has begun to carpet the empty lawns. Once again, stroll the campus in the evening to check a new season has transforme d the for unnecessary lights, and open winlooks and the mood of the SJCC campus. .· dows and doors.
I was unable to complete this term." Sepulveda has held office Since -he started at City. He spent one semester as assistant to the president, one semester as administra tive assistant and one semester previously as vice president. According to Rodney Borba chairman of the election committee , voting will begin for day students at 9:00 Wednesday, December 12 and run through Thursday, December 13. Voting will be in the cafeteria. Evening students may cast there votes Monday, December 10 at 6 :30 and continuing through Thursday, December 13 at 9:00. Absentee ballots are available today and all day Monday m room U 205.
Donations, preferrably canned and dry goods, will be accepted in the TIMES office, located in Room 211 M. The office will be open for your contributions on Monday thru Friday, from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. The final day that food will be accepted is Friday r Dec. 21, the last school d ay · before the Christmas vacation. All of the proceeds of the drive will be forwarded to Joe Hernandez, an Eastside resident, who works as an aide to six social workers. Hernandez' job has involved supplying needy San Jose families with necessities food, _furniture and clothing. In an interview with the San Jose SWl, Hernandez remarked, "I guess I want everybody to have a good Christmas, I'd hate to have Christmas in my home knowing there are children witho~t necessities in our area. " We of the TIMES would like to help these families , and make Mr. Hernandez ' job a little easier, by sharing some of the burden. In the true spirit of Christmas, give to the TIMES Christmas Food Drive for the Needy.
Cit y Co lleg e Goes ('Dark'
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~cember weather traditi~nally =es tbe fixed groups of chatting h~nts to dJsperse and eventually _, ~hThe pace Is quickened as tbe m of a classroom is sought to
~~lieve the cold and discomfort of left ~ainh. Only a few stragglers are ear the faint flow of wind • 0 urgmg brittle life away from its branches, and to shuffle through the
CRISIS HITS HOME - Times' staffers dramatize what it could be like to put out a newspaper, early ~
the morning, wltb no beat and ooly candles for lighting.
He related, that as a further step, half of the overhead lighting in his office would be removed. Finally , Murguia promised that,
"nothing would be eliminated that at all would inhibit the educational experience , in either academic or phys1cat activities."