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Thursday, March 5, 1998
Women's History searches for past visionaries Shawna Lisk Staff Writer Women's History Month will be celebrated at San Jose City
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ve, from left, Rey Viterbro, Jorge Aguilar and gandro Rodriguez study the chemistry exhibit display on Welcome Day in the quad. The eriment demonstrates what happens when
The Times/Mari Matsumoto dry ice and water mixes, producing a thick fog . Below a dentistry student takes the blood pressure of a fellow City College student at Welcome Day.
tudents elcome' lub diversity Smoking water drew s tudents ser like something out of a ankenstein" movie, bubbling of three tall vials on the table, h one a mesmerizing color: genta, blue and green. The sight was attractive and nyofthe curious students who lured closer to the chemistry leon "Welcome Day" learned t dry ice, when added to waProduced the thick fog that ed out of the containers. That, as San Jose City College lllistry instructor Choo Song ned, was j ust an interesting ee of science fact that was de n behind a myriad of color Welcome Day. "It's usually a day for the Asia ted Student Council towele students ... and (for) clubs how what they're about," said ·e Chatterton, the AS presil
loping to attract mini-seter students as well as stuts who bad enrolled in the lllar semester, Welcome Day · held later in the semester, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday
in the campus quad . Draw n b y the col o rful displays, informative representa ti ves and free candy, between 100 to 200 students attended Welcome Day. Amongst the clubs represented were La Raza, Phi T he ta Kappa (the International Honor Society), Sigma eta Beta (the cosmotology club) and MECHa. Tables were set around the quad in a large circle with club representatives on hand to discuss the different things they have to offer students. "It's awesome," said L aura Bruton, Sigma Eta Beta member. "It's by far the best program that the state has to offer." While a lot of the people sitting at the tables belonged to a club, a few people there represented programs that affect students. A few of the non-club tables were Gateway (a program that helps students succeed in college by offering educational planning, tutoring and equipment loans), the
College from March 17 - 24. Women's History Month has been observed at City College officially for the last 14 years and informally for almost 30 years . "The reason that we have Women's History Month is because the history of women, their lives and accomplishments, what we did, wrote and thought is extremely under taught in regular classes," said Roseanne Lucia Quinn, an English instructor at City College and this year' s Women' s History Month coordinator.
The title of this year's celebration is "Past Visionaries, New Visions." Il focuses on women who have made significant social, artistic and political contributions to improving the conditions of those around them . This year's program promises to· be varied, informative and entertaining with presentations from City College instructor Martha Kendall, former student Yoshiko Buchanan and the Mayor of San Jose, Susan Hammer. Jewelle Gomez, a long lime feminist, African American activist and author of the book "Oral See Women's History,page 8
District trustees may vote on fees Luisa Prieto Staff Writer
health center and chemistry. While many of the tables offered chocolate to passing students, the dentistry table checked blood pressure. One of the tables that drew many students was the chemi try table. Although Song had set up a chem istry table for high school welcome days, thi was the ftrst year be had one at City College. "I was contacted by (the) administration .. .and asked ... to comeouttodayand set up abooth for Welcome Day," said Song. The photography department was another of the non-clubs who had a table. "It's a lot of fun" said Nikki Carmitro , a student photographer. 'We have a lot of group activities .. .! like it a lot" "I t went well," aid Chatterton. " .. .I was happy with the outcome."
The parking fee proposal could be up for consideration at the Tuesday district board meeting. The Sa n Jo se /E vergreen Community Coll e ge Di s trict board of trustees might decide on a fee increase for parking. The current propo als call for either a gradual increase of the parking fees or doubling the parking fee for this fall. AtarecentAssociated Student Council mee tin g, M a rie Chatterton discussed a meeting he had had with Vice-Chancellor Mike Hill about the grad ual increase of parking fees. According to Chatterton, if the fee is gradually increased there will be an architect bid in 19981999. Amongst the things that will be decidedis how many stories the parking structure will be. The building for the structure will begin in 1999-2000. "By 2000-2001 is when the $2.50 (parking fee) comes in effect and that's actually when the debt needs to be paid," said Chatterton. "So how it's going to work out is tho e of you who are herenow ... won' t reallybepaying for the garage, you'll be paying for the upkeep of our current
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parking lot." " ... (That's) bow it's being presented to the Board (of Trustees)," Chatterton said. " .. .1 think it makes for a win-win situation for everyone and Evergreen is happy." The ASC conducted a parking survey in which 32 of a possible 8,500 students responded . The three questio ns on the survey asked if students ever had trouble fmdin g a parking space at San Jose City College, would an increase cause them to transfer and how much should be charged fo r a daily parking ticket. Of those 32 votes, 13 frequently had problems fi nding parking space o n campus, 10 occasionally had problems and nine never bad any difficulties . Five said that an increase in parking fees wo uld cause them to transfer to another school while 27 said that it wouldn't. Despite the majority of the 32 that wouldn't leave the school if the price increased, no one wanted to pay more than $1 for parking. Twenty-one voted to keep the price at 50 cents while 11 rai ed to $1. Students have a Ia t chance to turn in the survey to the Facilitie Planning Commiue. The parking survey is on page 6.