SJ Police Connect Suicide, Robbery Money Problems May Limit
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SJ police connect suicide, robbery by Cyndee Fontana These two factors and the San Jose city police believe closeness in time and location of the 16-year-old boy who shot and the two incidents are why police killed himself on Fifth Street late believe Vasques also committed Tuesday morning is the same the robbery, Moir said. youth who committed an armed According to police reports, a robbery at a nearby market youth entered the market earlier that day, according to U. brandishing a gun and forced the Robert Moir. clerk to open the cash register. Dead is Frank David The youth fled on foot with about Vasques of 442 S. Fifth St., Apt. 5. $20 in cash, the reports said. Vasques was announced dead at Moir said witnesses told San Jose Hospital following the officers they saw the youth run 11:43 a.m. shooting. northbound on Sixth Street before A motive for the suicide has he ducked between buildings at not been established, according 461 and 465 Sixth St. to Moir, an officer in the robbery- Officers were searching the homicide-assault division. area for the robbery when they Moir said Vasques matched heard a gunshot, Moir said. the physical description of the Officers traced the gunshot youth who held up the College sound to the apartment complex Market at 502 S. Sixth St. at 11:20 where Vasques lived and found a.m. Tuesday. him lying on the sidewalk with a A clerk at the market said gunshot wound to the neck and she was threatened with either a head, Moir said. photo by Don Smith rifle or a shotgun in the robbery, Moir said witnesses at the FRESH AIR STUDYING -- was in vogue outside Moulder Hall peacefully protest the pinning of first floor windows so that Moir said. Vasques was shot with scene told officers Vasques' wound was self-inflicted. Tuesday as students (left to right) Ron Meza, Juan Abia, Robert they won't open more than 10 inches. The students said the a 20-gauge shotgun, Moir said. Gallardo, Bob McClure, Allison Appleby and James Hendrix rooms were stuffy Spartan Daily Volume 76, Number 17 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Thursday, February 19,1981 CSUC schools to share burden Students 'pinned' in Moulder by Doug Kelley Bob McClure, a Moulder Hall be afire hazard. Money problems may limit Dormitory residents in Moulder resident, said there were three "Now to get out you have to Hall think crime prevention major reasons students opposed the break the window which will in- measures have gone too far. pins. crease the change of someone The students are angry about First, he said, if someone getting hurt," McClure said. number enrolled pins being placed in all first- and wanted to get in all they would have Third, he said, the ventilation in at SJSU by Russ Fung Fullerton said she presumed Askea how enrollment limits some second-floor windows which to do would be jerk the window and it the already "stuffy" rooms will be prevent them from would pop open. decreased. SJSU President Gail Fullerton that, if the CSUC budget was would help the budget situation, opening more than 10 McClure said, it would "Most people on the floor have said she expects the university's reduced by a "large enough Fullerton said the mount of money inches. Second, pulled the pins out," he admissions policy may have to amount," the enrollment limits available to hire instructors already change to limit the number of would be divided among all the determines how many students can added. students students accepted into certain campuses. be accepted. "We've discouraged from pulling the pins out but it's programs. "It's conceivable they could say "If the state says this is all the difficult to enforce," resident ad- In a recent press converence, your allocation is lowered to 17,000 dollars you're going to get, then viser Ron Speers said. Fullerton discussed the entrance (full time equivalent students) and what you need to do is ratchet down "We know they're doing it for limits as well as future student- when you reach that point, you just the enrollment to match the dollars our own protection," Speers said, teacher ratios and the 1981-1982 stop accepting applications," she or somehow reduce the quality of the we're able to take on the budget for the California State said. education that you're giving," "but we feel responsibility of policing our- University and Colleges ( CSUC I Fullerton said SJSU could not Fullerton said. selves." system. increase general admission "If you're not given that money, Koehn, head of dormitory Entrance limits are already in then you're going to have to reduce Will security, said at first he was opposed effect for some CSUC campuses, the number of students in that to installing the pins but an at- such as San Luis Obispo, where a program." tempted break-in at Moulder Hall ceiling on enrollment was The $ 10 million budget Fullerton said raising the through a first floor window and two established due to a lack of housing teacher-student ratio would risk rapes which occurred because for students, according to Fullerton. will be divided among accreditation in some programs. windows were left open at California Fullerton said an "impacted" SJSU's 16-17 students per teacher all CSUC campuses State University at Sacramento program, or one that sets a limit on proportion, she said, is already caused him to change his mind. those admitted, may require stricter higher than desired by the ac- "What we're trying to do is admissions policies, higher grade creditation board. prevent access when students are point averages (GPAs) and a first- requirements unless the system as a Fullerton said the governor's asleep," he said. come, first-served arrangement in whole does so. proposal for the CSUC 1981-82 budget Koehn said the best way to choosing students. "I think to have a GPA will now be sent to the legislature. protect residents was through One example she cited was requirement and not a course The $10 million budget reduction prevention and "pinning the win- SJSU's nursing program, which had requirement in fact nudges students will be divided among all the dows was a preventative measure." required a 2.50 GPA for enrollment, into taking whatever is easiest to get campuses in the system, she said. "Eventually too much security rather than the university-wide 2.00 a good grade in and not necessarily The reduction is required to will make it like a prison," Moulder GPA criterion for transfer students. to come well-prepared to undertake balance the 1981-1982 budget. Hal! resident Robert Gallardo said. Whatever arrangement is used, most of our majors," Fullerton said. She reiterated that most of the "A fire or an earthquake could make Fullerton said, no more applications A student who had nut made a permanent funding for SJSU It a real dangerous situation." accepted after the number of decision until his junior or senior campus security had survived in the are Allison APpleby, whose room reaches the limit a year in high school of whether to governor's proposal. students was the site of the attempted break- can hold. attend a state university and lacked "My assumption is since it is one program in at Moulder Hall, also objected to Fullerton added that any further the necessary courses for of the few program change the window pins. CSUC entrance limits will depend on enrollment could make it up at a proposals that survived in the budget requests. community college, Fullerton said. governor's budget probably means "Just because we didn't heed it has a pretty good chance," the dorm security precautions. I Fullerton said. don't think everyone should have to Fullerton said it was unlikely pay for our mistake," Appleby said. that a 17 percent pay hike requested Spartans' sign superstar A petition signed by 30 to 40 by the trustees on behalf of the Moulder Hall residents was faculty would be approved by the delivered to the Housing Office, but ... maybe: legislature. no action was taken on the petition She added this was not a large because Housing Director Cordell page 4 amount considering the rate of in- Koland is on vacation until Monday. flation during the last 10 or 12 years. The cost of installing the pins Fullerton said the bail-out was estimated at $400 by Tom money given to state and local McGinley of Auxiliary Enterprises, governments after Proposition B which is doing the work. has been "drained." "The state is really in very dire The state fire marshall and ENTERTAINER financial straits this year," health department approved the Fullerton said. plan, McGinley said. "Unless there are additional photo by Don Smith The job is expected to be Special Section resources found, certain programs Guido Palermo of Buildings and Grounds installs a window pin as completed on all dorms by the end of are going to be hit very hard," Interior Design senior Seong No looks on. the week, he said. Workers face job burnout by Russ Fling fatigue and insomnia. curs when someone experiences Job burnout is a problem en- Anderson, a lecturer in the SJSU complete physical, emotional and dbr. countered by many different Counselor Education Department, attitudinal exhaustion. professionals and in response has been conducting the job burnout She compared the problem of workshop focusing on the problem workshop for two-and -one-half burnout to a rubber band which and how to solve it was held here years.