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Child Care ·Funding Approved By ·rrustees
By Todd Cunningham child care center at San Jose City e received a financial shot in the but a proposed class in Human lity was shot down at the Board of ~es_ meeting Wednesday night. child care center, which was on the of closing down due to financial :ms, was allocated funding for the ,pment of an on- campus center by 7ard. motion, introduced by Dr·. Otto mich, San Jose Community College ct Superintendent will allow the Fare center to move into room 5 of ome Economics building at SJCC. renovation program should be leted in two to four weeks. The total Jle board agreed to finance was ximately $8,000. This will cover the ation of the new facility and the JS operating expenses of the center e remainder of the semester. board also allocated funds for the :~m to continue to operate at the nuel Lutheran Church on Leigh where the center is currently . This will allow the child care :tm to function right up until its g date. program will serve up to '24 en every hour. The center will be ::1 by two full time directors who will •ise a staff of student teachers up of students in the nursery
program of the Home Economics department and members of the work study program . The fee for the service will be $25 per month. The program is filJed now and a waiting list for future spots is anticipated. A spokesman for the center said the on campus location will probably encourage more parents to make use of the program. Jean Machado, director of the center, said she was very pleased with the decision of the board, and felt "it was a step in the right direction ." She also commended Dr. Otto Roemmich, saying that he had been "very sympathetic from the beginning" and that he had "done everything humanly possible" to secure the support of the board of Trustees. Ms. Machado said she and her staff would strive to run " an .exemplary program" to give the District something to be proud of and to further point out the benefits of the child care center. Efforts are still being made to secure contributions from various private sources in order to further improve the center. Sex Class Vetoed Human Sexuality 100, a course dealing in sex from a psychological viewpoint, was dropped from the list of course proposals approved by the board of Trustees Wednesday night. . The question of approving the course arose when Dario Castelblanco, ASB
President, said tha.t the student council had approved the course with the understanding that it was an experimental course. San Jose City College President, Dr. Theodore Murguia, who had sent the proposal to the student council, said the course was not experimental, but rather was a regular course proposal. At this point, questions arose from the board . regarding the nature and necessity of the course. Richard Manseau, chairman of the Psychology department, and· originator of the course proposal, fielded a series of questions from the board, apparently not to their satisfaction. A motion was then introduced to drop the Human Sexuality course from the list of those to be approved. This passed, and the board then approved the original list of the proposals, minus the Human Sexuality course. Manseau said later he was surprised and disappointed in the board's failure to approve the course. He noted the proposal had been submitted to the board over a week before the meeting, and that he had received no communications, unfavorable or otherwise, from any of the board members, prior to the board meeting. Manseau said he felt now that the only By Barbara Page course of action is to reach the various City College's Resource Center for the board members, further explain his Handicapped is working on pr-oposals to corse, and resubmit the proposal at the eliminate archtectural barriers on next board meeting. campus and in the community, according
Handicapped Barriers Not Just Physical to Counselor Paul Beddow. swimming pool should be ready in time They are drafting a petition to Mayor for the Fall '74 semester. Norman Mineta to cut curbs and modify "Plans a re in the works to open ·the the island at the intersection of Moorpark Resource Center at night for the benefit and Bascom near the college. of evening division students," he said, Members of the department have also · "so that they will be able to take adattended Santa Clara County Tran- vantage of the many services we have to sportation meetings at City Hall to keep offer. " "The number of evenings will track of improvements in the transit depend upon available funding," he district. Plans have been irutiated to added. supply two dial -a- buses with ramp and Beddow announced that speech lift adaptions for the handicapped. They therapy classes are planned . for next will service areas from the East Side of semester. Students who are mterested San Jose to Palo Alto. can contact him at extension 338 or 367. Beddow also said that someone from the center will be attending a Conference of the Blind later this month, in order to perfect services and familiarize the staff with problems facing blind students. Plans are also in progress to have room numbers printed on classroom doors in braille before the end of this semester. A newly assembled Childcare Coalition Beddow has instituted a grant proposal has voted to sponsor a county - wide for: elevators in the business building, childcare initiative for the November which is used frequently by handicapped ballot. The initiative will be modeled students; automatic doors in the student after San Francisco's Proposition M union, science building, business and which was passed by the voters last' drama departments; ramps in the November. theater entrance, counseling building Proposition M established a county and Records and Administration; policy of supporting low cost, quality, making the "W" building more ac- child care programs. The Childcare Coalition is presently cessible; modified bathrooms; and many more ramps around campus walkways. composed of representatives from: Two new electric wheel chairs have Parents for Childcare; SJCC Childcare been acquired for the center this Action Group; Sunny,vale T.O.O.S.; semester, and a one- handed typewnter Sunnyvale F.I.S.H. ChiJdcare Center; that can attain speeds up to 70 words per Childrens Lobby; Santa Clara Children's minute. After familiarizing themselves Centers; Lowell Childrens Center; with the different keyboard, students P.A.C.; Licensed Day Care Group a nd would then enter a regular typing class the National Association for the for instruction with students using a Education of Young Children. 46,000 signatures are needed by June standard keyboard. Beddow is working toward adapting 17, 1974. Petitions will be circulated on certain PE courses as another resource SJCC campus . For more information caJI of the center. Installation of a lift in the 279-1160 or 292-3289.
Coalition
Hydrogen May Answer Fuel Crisis resulting mixture of hydrogen, carbone dioxide and .carbon monixide is combined with more gasoline and air injected into the cylinder. Although the compete engine has not been assembled under a hood JPL studies, substituting bottled hydrogen for the hydrogen generator, shows it to be cleaner and more efficient. The engine is 10% more economical in gasoline usage than are engines fueled only by gasoline. Other companies are experimenting with hydrogen alone as fuel. The International Materials Co. in Burlington, Mass. has developed an engine that converts all its gasoline into hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide by reaction with water. This car satisfies all the 1977 standards for clean air. German motor also Uses hydrogen At the Atomic Energy Commissions Brookhaven Lab_oratory on Long Island, engmeers are testing the Wankel engine as the major component of another hydrogen powered automobile. This is the same engine that runs the Mazda. !iJe Brookhaven Laboratory ts also pioneering the use of components known as hydrides to provide pure hydrogen for propulsion. When hydrogen is mixed under pressure with a metal m powdered form hydrides are produced. Hydrides are unstable and break up into hydrogen gas and the original metal when heated. In the Brookhaven concept the cars gas tank would be cylinder containing powdered metal which would be converted to metal hydride when mixed with gaseous hydrogen when
By Arlene Wagner Hydrogen , the fuel which .oc.~~...u. r .s ~n:wts into s pace, is now considered by m any scientists to be the fuel of the future, and a boon to the auto industry. Triggered by the energy c risis , technicians at a number of research centers throughout the U.S. have m ade notable progress towards finding a direct substitute for gasoline by the use of hydrogen. This fuel could be made in limitless quantities, is clean, and efficient and its technology may prove to be scarcely more then that of the internal - combustion engine, according to "Newsweek". An automobile engine .vhich runs on a mixture of 1ydrogen and gasoline has ·ecently been revealed by >cientists at the Jet ? ropulsion Laboratory :JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. £'he operation of this engine l.'as found to be so clean that t meets almost all of the rederal emissions standards 1et for 1977 model cars. Although hydrogen is not :ompletely new to the ransportation field, what is tew is the use of hydrogen as 1 fuel for conventional inernal - combustion engines. Uthough there may be ninor internal engine ·hanges , according to troject manager Harry E. :otrill of JPL Pasadena, hey could be considered omparable to year to year 11odel changes by the auto ldustry. How The Engine Will Work The initial step in the JPL ngine is to produce ydrogen in a special hamber with a reaction that tvolves a small amount of asoline and water. The
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ral Mass was held for San Jose ege staff member, Isabel Huber, 44 Gunar Drive in San Jose. llapsed while at work, Thursday, and was taken by ambulance tO' ,lara Valley Medical Center, e died the following day of a hemorrhage. iuber, an employee since Sep1972, worked in the college ·epairing and binding books. or of Library Services, Dr. ~. Brundin, expressed the senl the entire staff, " We were all at her untimely death, and will iss her. She was liked and by everyone she worked with ary -she was a lovely person."
A native Californian, Mrs. Huber was in Oxnard July 9, 1928, and resided m the San Jose area for the past 15 years She is survived by her husband, Emii E . Huber, of San Jose; and two daughters, Mrs. Anita Garcia 28 and Sylvia Huber, ~. both of San 'Jos~. She was the sister of Charles Puentes Jr ., of Sacramento; Mrs. Alice Azevedo' San Jose ; Mrs. Margaret Sandoval' Fremont; Mrs. Esther Aguayo, Liver: more ; and Mrs. Virginia Jacobo San Jose. ' Mrs, Jacobo, also a SJCC employee has_ worked in the Law Enforcement Offtce for three years. Interment was Monday, Feb. 25, at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery. ~rn
only one of several to benefit from the future hydrogen .econop1y, Many - hydrogen enthusiasts believe that hydrogen will be used to heat homes, drive turbines to produce electricity and store power produced in off peak periods for later use.
filled at a specially equipped filling station . When heated by water from ~ the car's radiator the hydride would produce hydrogen gas , which would burn in the Wankel engine. Unlimited Uses The auto industry may be
The Spring of ~74
Troubled !(ids Get Second Chance By Dave Goll . It's not easy growing up in a strife torn world, especially when your own family life provides little comfort and support but much unhappiness. For countless numbers of children, this is how they are brought up to face our complex modern society. The results of such confused lives are graphically portrayed by alcoholism and suicide statistics. People have begun to awaken and realize the causes for such afflictions, known in every corner of the globe. Not long ago, a small group of these people banded togeth~r to combat this " troubled family syndrome" head -on. Known as the "Social Advocates for Youth," <SAY> they were formed five years ago, in 1969, by a successful San Francisco lawyer, Tadini Bacigalupi, Jr. From humble beginnings in a Santa Rosa office, the organization has mushroomed into a nationally recognized program, with nine centers in California and other parts of lhe Western United States. Bacigalupi saw the need for a helping hand regarding disadvantaged kids because of what he calls, "my strong desire to eliminate delinquency and the negative responses of society towards troubled youth." He has recently retired from his lucrative law practice in hopes of devoting the major part of his life to these children. Why a SAY? Jim Valentine, Assistant Director of SAY's Mountain View branch, believes strongly in his group's efforts. "There are so many kids," Jim remarked, "that will get into, or are in trouble. Most have no idea what they're in for." ."People should not try to compare us w1th the SHARE program, which by the way is an excellent organization. We are more into helping the child through the mental problems of an unhappy home," he added. . Valentine related that children being atded by SAY are referred to his people via other social institutions, including Family Services, Catholic Social Services, and various police departments. The Santa Clara County chapter of SAY did not come into existence until last September, at which time the Mountain Vie_w center was opened. The county is logtcally separated into two geographical areas; north, including the Palo Alto Mountain View - Sunnyvale region, and the south portion, involving the immediate San Jose area. yolunteers are matched up with ch1ldren geographically, so that it is convenient for them to reach one another. Volunteer "advocates", as they are known , must put in a certain amount of time in what is called "service
training,'' which acquaints them with the various social problems they may face, and how to deal with them. Currently, Mountain View is headquarters for the South Bay operations. According to director Valentine, it is hoped by SAY members that a house of some sort could be acquired in San Jose, closer to the center of the county's population. This house could serve as a "live-in" abode for involved children and volunteer counselors, a concept presently being used in Santa Rosa . Limits Because of staff size, SAY does have restrictions as to how many children it
can handle at one time . The maximwn case - load is 75 kids, and the referred child must be screened and evaluated by the staff. SAY has at its disposal a board of advisors, consisting of such professional people as psychologists, social workers, policemen, lawyers and judges. They assist the organization in coping with the many and varied social dilemmas which confront them. Age limits also serve to narrow down the amount of children in the program. SAY tries to keep it within the Tange of five to 13 years of age , although Valentine admitted that there are some older than 13 being counseled.
Volunteers- are requested to spend a period of nine months with their designated child, and four hours a week together is the minimwn. Valentine remarked that the bulk of his counseling staff consisted of college students, who in the course of their work, can receiv~ college credit. Jim Valentine and his fellow "Social Advocates" view their efforts as positive, sharing one's own past experience and knowledge with someone who is going through similar quandries that affected you years before. In other words, when you've learned the answer to a question, don't keep it to yourself.
Drop-In The Health Center "Athletes Have Feelings Too !" is one of three new drop - in classes available to City College students at the Health Center. It is a rap session for athle'tes,_ both men and women, to share feelings and common concerns from the athlete's point of view. It meets Thursday at 11 a.m ., under the direction of Norma Croekett,Ciinical Psychologist. : Another new offering is: "Making' Things Perfectly Clear ," a group focusing on individual growth and clarity of relationships. It meets on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Everyone is invited to participate; it is not restricted to couples only. "Man and Woman," a discussion group focusing on problems in relationships, marriage and divorce, will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. in room 30A.. . AJI other drop - in classes will meet m the Health Center, Room :rlSA . Other drop - in classes, em~sizing self - discovery and potential, are : Psychology of Women, Monday at 10 a.m.; Personal Potential, Tuesday at 10 a.m.; Weight Control, Thursday at noon ;· and Counselor Aide on Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. All sessions last one hour.
Counseling A HELPING HAND - Problems affect us all, including our children. "Social Advocates for Youth" is
doing somethin g about these troubled kids , offering an alternative to them. <Times Photo).
The Christian Science Campus Cou nselor, Ray Prendergast will ~e available for drop-tn counseling inside the Stude~t Union from 6 to 7 p.m. thts Thursday.