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a rents currently housed in the Immanuel Lutheran Church on Leigh Avenue, has used up available money that had been allocated to the group last fall. Jean Machado, director of the center, informed the San Jose Cqmmunity College District board that her people would need approximately $4000 to continue operations through to the end of the spring semester. As it stands no~, funds financed the center up until yesterday, Feb. 28. It is remaining functional on a voluntary basis.
By Barbara Page ;truggling to keep the long - awaited . y College Child - Care Center alive, ected parents are staging a fund sing dinner next Tuesday in the tdent Union. ~he event, sponsored by the Child Care r1ter Action Group, will run from 11 r1. until1:30 p.m. Cost for each person o enters will be $1.50. The luncheon J feature Mexican Enchiladas. 'his course of action has become ;essary because the organization,
The facility is currently seeking contributions from private sources to keep operating to offer assistance to young married students with small children, and mothers on welfar~ who are attending college in an effort to prepare themselves for employment. Miss Machado said that many of the students utilizing the services of the center would be forced to drop out of college in order to take c~re of_ ~heir youngsters during the day, 1f additiOnal cash is not allotted.
In response to the report delivered by area, in buildings that did not meet state Miss Machado, the City College Board of standards on earthquake safety. An administration spokesman related Trustees direc ted the college administration to come up with recom- that the funding of an on - campus day mendations for either a portable building care service is a subject being looked to be installed here on campus, or into, and a final decision would be agreed renovate an existing school facility to upon sometime in the near future. The Board of Trustees has this matter accommodate the child care center. College officials in the past had placed on the agenda of their next adopted a hands - off policy _in_ r:etation to meeting, scheduled for March 5, where the child - care center's actJVltles on the plans for the center's tentative housing advice of legal counsel because the will be discussed and acted upon at that facility was located in an off - campus time.
The Chi ld Care Center Action Group had the following statement in regards to the planned dinner: "To provide funds for the Day Care Center, we are sponsoring a Mexican Enchilada dinner. We are a non - profit, student - parent, Cooperative organization which is struggling frantically to keep the center open through the end of the semester. Closing the center would mean hardship for the student - parents, and possibly force the loss of their education."
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Beat The Gas Lines
'HE ONLY WAY TO GO- These bike- packers" pedaling in the San 1se State area know the score when
it comes to transportation, a Ia 1974. The entertainment section of today:s Times is de\·oted to the most popular
pastime of the current day, finding alternate means of transit. (Photo by Jim Thompson>.
GairiSSjlring Popularity
By Barbara Page its second semester City College's men's Re - entry to Education 1gram <WREP> has doubled its ollment this spring, from 35 to 70 ients. ccording to coordinator Marge Blaha, vouches for the effectiveness of the portive educational atmosphere erated by WREP. r1e said that the group identity is 10rtant to women who have been away n the academic life for so many rs. Especially today, when so many nen are examining and changing r roles, interests and attitudes. The ortunity to explore new ideas and ~~ new challenges has become all {)rlant. r particular interest to women in this ~ram ls the extensive counseling dee provided, which is especially
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helpful 1 to the educationally disadvantaged. Bobbie Kawazoe, full - time counselor for WREP, is available for individual counseling to those seeking a first time career or a career change, the economically disadvantaged, female heads of families, inner - city women and all of the WREP students who are seeking to develop their potential through education. Her counseling activities overlap with Services Coordinator, the Social Guadalupe Hernandez, who advises on roblems in living other than education, such as child care, medical problems and legal issues. Guadalupe says she has been particularly effective with women from minority groups, and in community liaison work . The counselors also advise needy students about the availability of financial assistance through various
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college loans and grants. The WREP is a one year program (two school semesters), where the student takes a block of selected, transferrable courses in company with other women enrolled in WREP. Having students remain together for classes in a block arrangement encourages the group identity and provides academic and social support, according to Ms. Blaha. There are no entrance examinations required for the program, no high school diploma, and no age limit since no one is too old to think about continuing her education . Because of the popularity of WREP, a new Women - In - Transition (WIT) one semester program has been instituted this spring to help with the overflow. To inquire about either program call extension 365.
Board Reiects
Phillips Claim By Todd Cunningham A claim of $1 million against the San Jose Community College District on behalf of Evangelos P. Phillips, !nstructor of English at San Jose C1ty College, has been reject~d by the board of Trustees at their meetmg February 19. The claim filed by Arthur Perez, attorney representing Phillips, cited " Damage to professional standing presently and in the futur_e, damage to reputation in the community w~ere th~ claimant r~sides, and me.ntal distress as the basis of computatiOn for the $1 . million figure. The claim was filed in reactiOn to a mimeographed pamphlet produce_d by GeorgeS. Green, instructor of English at San Jose City College, which was distributed on campus February 6. In the booklet entitled "Campus Newsletter" Green ~eferred to Phillips as "unambiguously authoritarian" and as one of the "Fat Cats in the English Department" .' In his claim Phillips said "the defamatory statemen~s ~ave inj~ed a~d will continue to InJUr clai mant s reputation in his profe~sion.. and the community where he resides. Green, when reached for_ com~ent following the denial of the cJa1m, satd he was "unconcerned" and felt that he was totally within his legal rights in . publishing the newsletter. Mr. Phillips was unavailable for comment.
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Counse lor Joins Staff
Gary M. Ledesma, new vocational counselor, is available to help City College students and familiarize them "Lack of security at Santa Clara with the many student services on County Fairgrounds was incidental-to th~ campus. stabbing of Jesse Hill, " said T.J. Owens, Ledesma, former SJCC student with an Dean of Students. AA in Accounting and a Masters Degree Hill was attending an ASS-sanctioned in Counseling Psychology from the dance given at the fairgrounds by Somos University of Santa Clara, can be seen in Raza. Room 206 every day from 8 a.m. until 3 No security personnel were present at p.m. or by appointment. the dance although over 2,000 people Students working toward an AA degree were at the event. or a vocational certificate in any of the control more that Owens indicated courses offered are urged to come in for over ASH-sanctioned events off-campus assistance in such areas as, scheduling would be exercised. Also, organizations classes for next semester; and referral to would have to adhere to the proper ASB other student services such as, career· guidelines in order to hold such an event. counseling ; financial aid; and tutoring . Hill was a Foothill High School stud~nt Job placement advice is another of the according to Somos Raza , not a C1ty services offered by Ledesma, as well as College student as reported in the Feb. 15 familiarizing students with campus drop issue of the Times. - in centers, career library , and study assistance centers. Ledesma urges all studE;nts who feel that they would benefit from the services offered, to come in and see him or call extension 303.
Gary Ledesma
'74 Cultural Series Presents Variety.
Green received warnings to the effect dinner for student body President - elect of "Stop being such a trouble maker", George Vierra. "At that time students got the idea that but nothing happened. In 1960 Green started a film series, they couldn't complete registration showing classic American and foreign without buying an ASB card," he said. films . The admission was free, and it "It was an enormous fraud perpetrated on the student body. Anyway, I guess I lasted till 1963. The next controversy occurred when gave them their dinner's worth." " A year later there :-vas talk of a bond he was up for tenure. Explains Green: The 1974 Cultural Series announced by "President Buchser sat in on the last issue, and just before fmals I was told my Larry Arnerich, director of the comclass on the last day of the semester. He job was in jeopardy_and to g~ t~ th~ munity services program at City Co!Jege, wanted to find some basis for not President to discuss my termmatwn. projects a panoramic view of the per"I'm guessing now, but I think Bu_chser forming arts . granting me tenure, but 1 had him. My feeling was the meaning of it was 'OK, thought I was single - handedly gomg to Set for March 19 is "La Tuna" from the Green, we're going to give you tenure but torpedo the bond issue by telling the University The Barcelona. of public the truth about City College.". we'd like to get rid of you.' " troubadours feature music, songs and this et.g_ wascharge specific "The The next flap happened as a result of a costunr1es of the sixteenth century. speech Green gave at the Installation that I had been drinking in public m front City College's faculty recitaJ, will be of students! That was a year ago at the dinner! You had to walk through the bar held March 24. A jazz concert presented by the band to get to the dining room and everyone over 21 had a drink. I had one martini voted "number one" by Down Beat Magazine, the Thad Jones - Mel Lewis that was just sitting there. 26. He added humorously, "They must Orchestra, is scheduled for March April 7 is the date for guest Marcella to have sat aroWld for months trying DeGray's appearance with the San Jose think that one up! " Green refused to resign and the whole Camerata, under the baton of Eugene thing disappeared, alleges Green, after Stoia. The Utah Symphony Orchestra will he wrote a letter to the Santa Clara perform here April 24 under the direction Council. His most famous encounter happened of Maurice Abravenel, who built the when he built a shaded garden spot orchestra to its world renown today. Marking their fiftieth anniversary of between the 30 and 40 wing, which was quickly ni cknamed "George's Green." the San Jose Chorus will present a " Buchser was astounded. I did it all program of show tunes led by Reginald myself and collected $850 from the Greenbrook, on May 12. Norman Delio Joio, Vasclav Nelhybel, faculty. Channel 11 came around and made Dick Goff, who was responsible for Samuel Barber and John Barnes Chance the grounds, look stupid. But Goff later are the composers to be featured in the admitted he was wrong, and told me San Jose Symphonic Band in a concert 'This place needs to look better.' He is the May 17 under the direction of Darrell only person I have dealt with who was Johnston. "Tamburitzans", a company of 40, will honest enough to admit when he was present the folk music and dance _of · wrong." The final flap, stiJl present, concerns Yugoslavia , Romania, Czechoslovakia, Green's unus ual method of teaching Russia and Bulgaria in lavish costunr1es remedial English. It started when Green on May 26, under the direction of Walter went on sabbatical in 1966. He returned to W. Kolar . The company comes to San Jose direct from Duquesne University Berkeley to study linguistics. _, ...,, (Continued on page 3, col. 1) Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Art. SJCC's 'establishment' rabble - rouser, George Green.
rather than him ." Green was fired on a Monday. At the insistence of the vice president, he was rehired on the following Monday. The second flap, as Green calls them occurred with his further adventures int~ student politics. " At that time we were rolling in dough . My slogan for the student body election was '$83,000 is power.' The administration was very up set about that." "The administration was then, let us say to be kind, rather conservative. Robert Buchser was president and the same people who are screaming about faculty representation now wouldn't say a critical word in front of him, they were so afraid of him. "
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Our Campus Radical Wears A Tie
By Laurie Slothower card in his office window sums up his lSophy best. reads: t 's not what we are. it's what we do." te card belongs to George Sherman ~n . instructor of English at San Jose College. Green wiJI mark his fiflh_ye~r here on Sept. 11, which is hts btrthday. tha_t decade and a half he has been I twlce, made the news on KLIV and 'V, planted a garde_n, publ_ish~d a ., started the only ftlm senes m a •ge in the Bay area, and printed a n ne;vsle~ters , . t~e latest of which ~d Van Phill!ps, fellow SJC~ l1sh teacher. to file a $1,000,000 smt nst. the ~istrict. In 1972 he called_for ~es1gnat1?n of Dr. Otto Roemmich, :.let supenntendent, before the Board rustees and made the news on KLIV L week. forge Green was born 43 years ago in a Rosa . ly father was a ~ion leader who was ~d ~nd feathered 1~ 1937 for speaking tgamst the establishment" he says. moved to San Francisco in his ~scence where he attended Mission School - "Probably the worst in the You didn't go there if you were u s about college." But Green went ~ graduate from the University of ornia at Berkeley. His major was in ish literature and his specialty cer, which he found to be useless for )b. came to ~ity C?lleg_e in 1959 and was for the f1rst ttme m 1960. wo colleagues complained I was ng their programs," said Green. of them was a foreign language -tctor who felt that a question on our ty Forum - "Is West Germany a :tt to World Peace? " - would ruin l ment in her program . The other •laint was from the advisor to the ~ . new counselor, Carl Palmer, who he students were listenning to me
Brave, new blooms force their way through Lowering stalks of grass, and gracefully color the landscape as it prepares for Spring. This scene
Valucha , an international star who sings in 11 languages and accompanies herself on the guitar appears June 7. Tickets to the Cultural Series programs may be purchased at the door or at the San Jose Box Office in Town and Country Village. Admission is free to members of ASB, who have purchased student body cards. Faculty, Classified and Gold Card Holders are also admitted free.
Study Overseas The Community Ambassador program of the Experiment in In_te~ational Living , is now acceptmg ap~hcat10ns for partial scholarships of varymg amounts, up to $900 for a summer living experience (June, through August) in a foreign . . . country. Selection of rectplents w1ll be made on a competitive basis, from appl_icatio~s and personal interviews. A reclptent Will need to be able to supply the difference between the scholarship awarded and the total cost of the program. The date by which a preliminary application must be subm! tte~ is March 9, 1974. Preliminary applicatiOnS and _additional information may be obtamed from Robert Frost, Community Services Offic e, r oom 510! or How_ard Biebesheimer , VocatiOnal EducatiOn, room 304.