Absentee Police Chief Caught in Dispute

Art Mountain at its best camping SJSU sponsors sixth annual high school exhibit Student cotinselors spend week with children ri FEATURE PAGE 4 71 FEATUREPAGE 7 rAa\ Volume 86, No. 55 Serving The San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Wednesday, April 23, 1986 Absentee police chief caught in dispute UPD adjusts Meetings to discuss police surveillance of student groups By Craig Quintana ing police procedures for surveillance of student activist A.S. agenda. to cover six Daily staff writer groups. The memo was issued in September and re- In December, the San Jose Mercury News published The dispute over university police surveillance of scinded verbally shortly thereafter, Jones said, the memo outlining surveillance instructions. Shortly open positions student groups took a new turn when a university offi- Jones will attend the by the memo, pro- meeting, Evans said. He said thereafter, student groups enraged By Lynn Louie cial offered to meet with students, police and a member Lewis A. Schatz, who was named Monday as the new di- tested the action. However, no formal action was taken writer of the Academic Daily staff Senate. rector of public safety, will also participate. until last week's resolution. A temporary reorganization At the Monday senate meeting, J. Handel Evans, The senate voted unanimously to form an ad hoc After passing out copies of the resolution and the within the University Police Depart- executive vice president, offered to meet with Brian committee consisting of the above members. memo, Spurgeon was allowed to speak to the senate. ment has occurred due to the absence Spurgeon, A.S. director of student rights and responsibi- Evans said the meeting date will be set at the next This kind of surveillance inhibits student activism of the interim chief. lities, to discuss past surveillance of student groups by session of the senate executive committee, and thus violates First Amendment rights, he said. Lt. Maurice Jones, director of UPD. issues would be Last week, Spurgeon presented both the memo Student expression on controversial public safety since March 1984, took he said. If stu- Maurice Jones The controversy came out of a memo written by and a resolution calling for Jones' dismissal to the greatly inhibited by the police presence, sick leave April 16 for at least a page . interim chief Maurice Jones, interim director of public safety, outlin- A.S. Board of Directors. The resolution is on today's continued on month. At the earliest, he is expected to return to work May 15, said J. Handel Evans, executive vice president. Jones was appointed to the posi- Automotive gas & electric tion after the office of director of public safety, its formal name, was va- cated by Earnest Quinton for health reasons. Evans announced the selection of a new police chief at Monday's Aca- demic Senate meeting. Lewis A. Schatz, director of public safety at Oregon Health Services University in Portland, will take over on June 2, he said. Jones will revert back to the rank of lieutenant and the title of assistant 'The department is operating without a chief, sergeant and investigator so the reorganization is the best way to have it work.' Sgt. Ed Anderson public safety director at that time. To cope with Jones' sick leave, Evans appointed Sgts. Ed Anderson and Lloyd Hohu to positions of lieutenant in charge and operations lieutenant, respectively. The appointments will be effec- tive until June 2, according to an April 16 memo from Evans to all Iris Fong - Daily staff photographer members of the public safety department. Dick Chan, a senior majoring in general engi- electricity and gasoline. The car, pro% ided by Association, was on display yesterday in the Art Anderson put several organiza- neering, tests the cockpit of a car that runs on the Santa Clara International Electric Auto Quad as part of the Environmental Fair. tional and reporting changes in the department. The changes were put into effect April 18 to "make the most Actor re-creates the life efficient use of available resources." Nature fair addresses "The department is operating without a chief, sergeant and investi- naturalist gator so the reorganization is the best environmental issues of noted early way to have it work," Anderson said. Some divisions formerly under By Veda Anderson "It (environmental studies) is not just By Veda Anderson Muir and guides people through the park. the technical services department Daily staff writer flowers in the air and organic solid," he said. Daily staff writer He said he doesn't mind if people refer to were changed to the supervision of Information on alternatives to using nat- "If we don't include environmental per- SJSU students and faculty sat down for him as Muir. "Mr. Muir and I never had any are the Key Control ural resources is being presented at this spectives in everything we do, then we can an evening with the late John Muir Monday serious disagreements," he said. Lt. Hohu. These crime prevention division year's Environmental Fa ir,which ends today. pretty much write off everything," he added. as part of the commemoration of Earth Day, Portraying Muir has definitely broad- Center, Anderson said. The two-day fair, ehich began Tuesday, Dodd said all fields incorporate the envi- an environmental celebration. ened his perspective on environmental is- and communications. Lowe is now the commemorates Earth Dav a day set aside ronment whether business or technical, and Muir, a noted environmentalist who sues. Before writing and performing the play, Officer Bruce UPD and the Key annually throughout the nation to raise con- natural resources have to be understood. fought for 25 years to preserve the National he said he felt the environment was impor- liaison between Control Center in addition to his pa- sciousness about the environment. "It's awareness and education to the av- Park System he helped create, was brought tant, but he didn't try to defend it. trol, he said. Lowe will coordinate the Seventeen private and government erage person who doesn't think about what to life by actor Lee Stetson. "Since the show, I see the obvious need paper work between the two depart- groups such as Green Peace and the Electric they do or how it will affect their world, said Stetson spends most of his time portray- Ito get involved)," he said. "It's pretty obvi- ments. Car Club have set up booths in the Student Karen Kurth, who helped coordinate the fair. ing Muir. ous that everywhere I go the environment is Sgt Leon Aguirre took responsi- Union Amphitheatre for the event. There are a number of ways we exploit He wrote a play about Muir, "Conversa- in pretty tough shape," he said. bility for the maintenance of police They will present their perspective of the our environment, she said, citing the overuse tion With a Tramp,- three years ago and has Stetson has been an actor for more than vehicles, Anderson said environment, said Ray Dodd, coordinator of of paper and waste of recyclable goods like performed it at Yosemite National Park and 20 years. He has had 50-plus major roles in In addition, Investigator Jeff the fair. aluminum cans. schools around the nation ever since. the theater and has had minor roles on TV Higginbotham officially took the post The theme of the fair, which runs from 10 "We don't live under the myth of super "I found it amazing that nobody had ren- shows including "Hawaii Five-O." of sergeant yesterday. Higginbotham a.m. to 2 p.m. today, is "Environmental Al- abundance anymore," she said dered the guy's life, looking at him through received a master's degree in Ameri- now supervises the investigations- ternatives." Earth Day, April 22, has been celebrated character," he said. He studies from the University of Hawaii. crime prevention unit. Dodd said the fair is actually an informa- at SJSU since 1970 when serious concern Stetson has performed the play more can UPD is recruiting for the posi- tional fair to present the environmental field about wildlife and forestry prowled active than 300 times. He does 90 performances a Stetson decided to portray Muir after re- tions of sergeant and investigator, to students and faculty. continued on page year at Yosemite, where he also dresses like continued on pages said Russ Lunsford, public information officer. Jane Goodall, Number Six rocks campus for Visibility Week events primate expert, By Shelly O'Day "We were surprised by the reception we got," "It's (Visibility Week) a new thing, so we're a big crowd," he said. to speak at SJSU Daily staff writer said Scott Valor, lead guitarist for the band and in- not expecting Number Six, a local band, kicked off 1.1,11)110y coming A.S. academic affairs officer There might be less of a crowd because they expected, he added. By Maria J. Gunter Week at a noon concert in the Student Union on Slean said he chose the band because he knew don't have the big names Daily staff writer Monday. the members. He also said a band would be a good The Transit Mall Project Manager, the San Anthropology 154 and 196Z will Visibility Week is an effort to promote SJSU's common denominator to begin the week Jose Planning Department and representatives have a substitute teacher today. Guadalupe Corridor construction man- image in the San Jose community. Students can relate to music, Slean said from the Jane Goodall, expert on primates agement company are all scheduled to speak, and their behavior as it relates to hu The psychedelic rock band played all '60s-era "Andy and I have talked about Visibility Week along rith Student Union Director Ron Barrett.

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