/&3LP1f2A:a Volume 81, No. 19 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Monday, September 26, 1983 The '84 Olympics: an SJSU affair By Mike Holm "I have a prejudice l(mard San He got away from Los Angeles a lot of other people, then I read a A few SJSU alumni are refer- Ueberroth used to own one of the Jose," Ueberroth explained. "The to attend Saturday's Stanford-SJSU newspaper article that said there ring to next year's Summer Olym- largest travel companies in the U.S., prejudice is that most of the young- game and hit a few tailgate parties. were six finalists, five who were in- pics as a SJSU production. Peter Ue- however, he sold the business when sters who go there don't have great One does not simply ask to run terested and one who wasn't. berroth, president of the Los he took the job as the committee's economic backgrounds, they are the Olympic Games. Ueberroth de- "I assumed it wasn't me, then I Angeles Olympic Organizing Com- president. He said he will be facing going there because it offers a won- scribed his route to the job. got another call, and well, your com- mittee. agrees. the prospect of unemployment when derful education, economically. "They ( the Organizing Commit- petitive instincts takeover and you the Games are over but hopes some- "I'm personally grateful, I went tee) hired a search firm to find want a chance to do something "I would guess , all tolled, thing will come up following the to San Jose State, and if it weren't somebody, and they looked through that's important for this country. there're probably about 25 or 30 San Games. for the opportunity I just wouldn't some 200 candidates," he said. "One "So I took it," he said. Jose State graduates involved," the have gone to college." day they came by and asked if I was Ueberroth works for the com- Class of '59 grad said, and "three or Who you know can be impor- Ueberroth sold shoes and had "a interested. I said no. mittee, but looks at his position with- four from Delta Upsilon," his frater- tant. couple of other jobs" while at SJSU. "I think that separated me from continued on page 8 Lockheed, NASA Three's a charm Center to send telescope attracts on space shuttle real men By Eric Hermstad The Men's Center continues to By Jeff Barbosa Hasha said the telescope's pri- grow as they apply for funds and 4t1 A highly sophisticated space mary mirror is eight feet long and plan their first general board meet- telescope may be ready for opera- 1,700 pounds. ing. tion by 1985, said an engineer for The telescope is highly magne- Their membership drive and ob- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. lied and, therefore, can't look at a jectives will be covered at the board large amount of space, Hasha said. meeting, said Rick Spargo, "The Martin Hasha, a senior research It is equipped with outer sensors Most Grand Exhalted Poobah." engineer at Lockheed. said the tele- that lock on to its target. If the tar- Spargo described the interest in 11 scope was a joint effort between the get starts to drift, the sensors relay the Men's Center as "really mush- National Aeronautics and Space Ad- a message to the telescope's con- rooming, (it's) a popular thing on nt the- ministration and Lockheed. He trols and it will drift with the target. campus." Fran - made his comments Thursday dur- Hasha said. He hopes for a turnout of more ing a meeting of the American So- Hasha also discussed the tiles on than 100 people for the meeting ciety of Mechanical Engineers in the the space shuttle. He said Lockheed Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Guadelupe Room. aid the SJSU Engineering building. makes "virtually all the tiles that go In an executive meeting Thurs- rts de- Hasha said the purpose of the on the shuttle." day night, the Men's Center elected iters in telescope was to "look at the mys- Hasha said Lockheed is trying teries of the universe. to make tiles that are more flexible their first female officer when Robin "If we can learn something and durable. Carr became "Worthy Scribe." She from space that can be applied to "The tiles are used on the shut- will handle the publicity for the life, then we have done a good tle to prevent damage from the 2,500 Men's Center. thing," Hasha said. "The telescope degrees ( temperature) in re-entry," "She's a dynamo and really an has a lot of support in the science he said. "If you rip off all the tiles on asset to the organization," Spargo community in general." the bottom, the shuttle will burn said. Lockheed has been designing The Men's Center will appear the telescope for seven years, Hasha Hasha said the shuttle has 33,000 before the Associated Students Site- said. tiles measuring six inches by six cial Allocations Committee today to Hasha estimated the project inches. They are computer-coded request funds. would cost $750 million. He said that because no two are alike. They are requesting $1,970, but figure was approximately equiva- "They're pretty stable. I don't what they get "depends on the lent to 212 B-1 bombers. think any tiles fell off on the last amount of money that the A.S. has to The tetescope will go up with a shuttle," Hasha said. give," said Nate Deaton, "Worthy NASA space shuttle. Hasha told the ASME that SJSU Merry-Maker of the Men's Center." "The space telescope is totally supplies more employees to Lock- In their application, Deaton said dependent on the shuttle for launch heed then any other university. He the Men's Center's purpose is "to and re-entry," Hasha said. said Lockheed hires about 600 em- provide social interaction for stu- The telescope, which weighs 24,- ployees each year. Ninety percent of dents at San Jose State not covered 000 pounds, is 45 feet long. It will fit Lockheed's work involves the De- hy other groups and to help define into the shuttle's 60 foot cargo bay. partment of Defense, Hasha said. the role of the male in the Ns." He said their membership is "officially listed on the special allo- cation list as 100," and that they UC regents' secrecy bill have about one-third female mem- bers. "I think our chances ( of getting upsets journalists' group funds) are pretty good," Robert Musil said. Musil is the "Worthy SAN FRANCISCO ( AP) - A committee the bill would reverse an Sergeant at Arms" of the Men's statewide journalists' group voted evolving state policy "making the Center. Thursday to ask Gov. George Deuk- University of California accountable "We are a serious organization mejian to veto a bill that would ex- to the public." and we are entitled to the same pand subjects on which University The bill would permit Board of money as the Women's Center of California Regents may meet in Regents committees to meet in gets," Musil said. secret. closed sessions under at least four He said they have plans for a The executive committee of the conditions, Dora is said. dance on Nov. 11, but it depends on California Freedom of Information Under one provision, he said, a whether they get funds. Committee voted unanimously to selection committee could meet pri- "The Men's Center is doing bet- urge a veto of AB550 by Assembly- vately and without notice to inter- ter than 1 expected," Musil said. woman Gwen Moore, D-Los An- view candidates for university offi- Kathy Kollinzas geles. The committee includes rep- cer posts, including the presidency. "It seems like a fun idea. but I resentatives of working journalists' The public and press also could Spartan defensive end TuIi Annul puts pre- during the Spartan's 2:1-10 victory over the know they're serious," Krista groups around California. be barred from nominating commit- sure in Stanford quarterback John Pa ye Sta n ford Cardinal Satin-day at Stanford. Coutts, A.S. director of California Michael Dorais, general man- tee sessions to consider board off i- affairs said. "It's about time we had ager of the California Newspaper a Men's Center since we have a Publishers Association, told the continued on page 8 Women's Center," she said.
Taiwanese troupe tones and trips the light terrific
;OR By Jennifer Koss In the Kung-fu exhibition, three boys faced three Oriental music accompanies the undulations of a girls for a theatrical presentation of the art. The girls rope snaking an arc half the distance of the feigned ferocity while assuming a variety of Kung-fu gymnasium. Orange-clad figures skip from the postures and speedily disposed of their male opponents. sidelines to jump the rope singly and in pairs, now One of the older boys did a serious and impressive faster, now slower, forming and fading in a myriad of Kung-fu study, followed by a smaller boy struggling convoluted rope patterns. mightily to ape his aggression. The fierce expression on Lithe figures leap in and out, up and down in his face contradicted the fragility of a puny form continuous motion. Movement quickens as more ropes feistily jabbing at an invisible opponent. merge to form gyrations of a rope within a rope within a The audience laughed at the incongruity and at the rope. little guy's pluck. This performance was one of nine events A fan dance performed by both boys and girls performed by the Chinese Youths Folk Sports Group of combined the grace of dance with the menace of Kung Taiwan, Republic of China. Thirty youngsters, ranging fu. Delicately painted Chinese fans were alternately in age from 11 to 16, cast a spell that transformed the fluttered as lovely decorations and brandished as SJSU men's gymnasium into a Shangri-La of grace and brutal weapons. The children's movements flowed beauty Wednesday night. from dance to battle and back again, following the In the rope trick's remarkable climax. 14 girls motions of their fans. formed a synchronized fan of seven swinging ropes, In The production also included a spectacular SOP the center of the fan, one agile figure jumped both her demonstration of shuttlecock-kicking ( by-product of rope and their seven ropes with acrobatic ease. The the Chinese soccer game), string-spinning (similar to a audience gasped and applauded. yo-yo game played with string and bamboi» and a Liza Murphy Then the girl leaped clear of the twirling center, the lantern dance. The program was designed to ropes came to rest and the stunt was over. Youths perform with fans, combining the grace of dance with the menace of Kung-fu. continued on page 3 Ir