Bunzel Analyzes Carter Slip
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Serving the Sm. jose Slate Utiivert.it Comitititiit%Daily Since Spartan 1931 Volume 67, Number 40 Thursday, October 28, 1976 Phone: 277-3181 Employes Bunzel analyzes Carter slip get flu shot, By Gilbert Chan elected, it will not be because he The inexperience of conducting a won it but because Carter lost the receive pay national campaign and the voter's election. uncertainty about Carter's political Bunzel said Carter will win "big" About 2,700 SJSU employes positions have threatened his drive if Ford fails to win in California, will be paid up to one hour of for the presidency, according to which holds 45 of 438 Electorial administrative time off for SJSU President John Bunzel. College votes. receiving swine flu inoculations. Bunzel told a near capacity He said Ford must carry the Since the swine flu clinic at audience yesterday at Concert Hall "swing states" New Jersey, nearby San Jose Hospital will be on Seventh Street that Carter's Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois in open during business hours today campaign failed to attract "grass order to make the election close. and tomorrow, Dean of Faculty root" support. Momentum diminishing Robert Sasseen said too many He said Carter's organization did Carter's campaign momentum people would show up at the clinic not initiate local and state has been diminishing since Sep- on their lunch hour. registration drives crucial for tember, according to Bunzel. He He said he issued a memo support. said voter's do not know "what authorizing the employes' Bunzel also pointed out that makes Jimmy run." An enigma still release with the hope they in- "millions of Americans are uncom- surrounds Carter, he said. stead would receive the free shots fortable about Carter." He said Ford "Carter appeared to get weaker at scattered times during the has held the same political position as the primary went on," he said. day. since the primaries while Carter has Bunzel pointed out the Watergate SJSU President John Bunzel shifted from a conservative to a matter, congressional sex scandals, authorized the payments. liberal position. Vietnam War and inflated economy "If they felt they would be Election analysis as the major factors for the public's penalized (lose pay), it would In analyzing the 1976 race, Bunzel discontent. defeat the purpose of the said, "This has been a very strange People, he said, "hoped for a new program," Sasseen said. campaign." He added it has been the code of official conduct." "It seems reasonable to do "dullest and dreariest campaign in Carter tried to show he was a President Hall this in order to facilitate the recent memory. "candidate of hope and new begin- John Bunzel at his "Campaign 76" address yesterday in the Music Concert health program," he added. "This country is begging for ning," he added. Bunzel noted that There is no way to estimate mockery," he said. Bunzel pointed Carter was aware of the public The key to the election, he noted, the cost to the university because out that the election campaign has desire for a "renewed confidence in will be the undecided and the voters they have no way of knowing how lacked a sense of humor, which is this government and political who are not seriously committed to a Reactions favorable many employes will use the paid important to the voters. legitimacy of the presidency." candidate. He said the second time off, Personnel Officer Sam Throughout the 50 -minute Also, he said, Ford failed to presidential debate in San Francisco Milioto said yesterday. speech, Bunzel seemed relaxed and provide the leadership needed after hurt Ford "seriously." to election analysis A tally will be released confident. His anecdotes illustrated the Watergate affair. "In short," he said, "President Monday to see how many SJSU the importance of humor during a Sensibility offended Ford might have a chance if he could Student-faculty reaction to SJSU president's jokes and his relaxed faculty and students took ad- political campaign. Bunzel said Ford's connection shut his mouth retroactively." President John Bunzel's speech presentation. vantage of the swine flu program, Using the George Washington- with Watergate was his pardon of Bunzel pointed out Ford's gaffe yesterday appeared favorable. The stage was set with a blue- said Oscar Battle, SJSU health cherry tree analogy, Bunzel Richard Nixon. He said the people's about the Eastern European The question and answer period and-white background with two educator. described Carter chopping down a sensibility was offended because countries not being under Soviet went through without incident. Last flags flanking him. The bright back- In order for employes to peanut bush with a new hatchet. Nixon was put above the law. domination "blew his chances" in time Bunzel spoke on campus ground and blue-and-white podium receive this pay, they must be "Maybe I did and maybe I However, Carter's portrayal as a capturing the East -European student Mark Owens was arrested set the mood for the speech. inoculated by tomorrow. didn't," is how Bunzel described person capable of being a president American vote. for disturbing the peace for sup- Brian Michael, a senior biology In his memo to department Carter's reply to his father's inquiry has not surfaced. During a question and answer posedly disrupting the speech. the laughter broke up chairpersons and administrative student, said about cutting the bush down. His interview with Playboy period following his address, Bunzel David Kloss, a senior pre-dental the pace of the speech. heads, Sasseen said the time off Bunzel, in samming up the two Magazine, he said, was "not a presi- said the Republican Party "is close student, said, "Overall, I thought it should be arranged so as not to candidates, told the audience: "If I dential thing to do" in the opinion of to becoming a permanent minority was pretty good." Kloss said Bunzel In reference to Bunzel's interfere with classes or the had a bumper sticker, it would say the voters. if Ford loses." knew a lot about the election cam- statement about the lack of humor normal operation of campus 'Thank God only one of them can get "Jimmy Carter has transformed Ford's loss, he said, would paign because of his expertise as a during the campaign, Michael said offices. elected'." himself from a solid favorite into the narrow the party's philosophy political scientist. "I think in humor you get your He said if President Ford is center of controversy," Bunzel said. toward the Reagan conservatism. He added he enjoyed the leadership. "It helped me a little," he said. ,,441rataSefl Michael said the comparison of this year's campaign with past Jonathan Fil approved by council presidential races was an in- teresting point. A pair of wives of faculty to fill A.S. Attorney General post members also lauded Bunzel's speech. By Burt Dekker choice in Crawford-Drobot. chose Fil was because he felt he has Arlene Decker, wife of an in- A.S. Council ratified Jonathan Fil He lost a run-off election to the initiative to do the things dustrial studies faculty member, as the new attorney general resigning Attorney General Perry required by the constitution of the said Bunzel's speech reinforces yesterday following his selection by Litchfield last spring by 64 votes. attorney general, he was reasonably some of the points made during the President James Ferguson. debates. The letter also stated he had been well informed and he showed an interest in acting as a liaison be- Ferguson made the appointment told by A.S. Personnel Officer Gloria Another wife of an industrial arts tween the academic fairness com- after reinterviewing two students Grotjan that he was qualified for the instructor, Arlene Chaplin, had a mittee and students. recommended by an ad hoc com- post but too controversial a can- favorable reaction to the speech. She didate. that there are many undecided mittee formed to assist in the at- He said the choice between Fil said in the state and agreed with torney general selection. Crawford-Drobot was recently and Soper was very close. voters that California is involved in a fight for possession of Councilwoman Edna Campbell Bunzel's statement Scott Soper was the other state for the presidential Academic Fairness Committee expressed concern that a con- a pivotal recommendation of the committee. records. troversy in another sector of the election. The approval came after another school entered into the consideration Dr. Roy Young, chairman of the applicant, Robert Crawford-Drobot, A.S. Vice President Jeff Brown, of a successor. Political Science Department, said asked council to set aside the council's representative on the ad he "had no reaction one way or the recommendation in consideration of hoc committee, said he chose Fil on Litchfield pointed out that the other," because he left 15 minutes better qualified applicant, himself. his qualifications, not on whether he a attorney general must work closely before the speech was completed. was controversial. Fairness Com- A letter to council, read by with the Academic he could not Crawford-Drobot, stated, "You are Grotjan admitted to the mittee, and last year with Crawford-Drobot. not being given the benefit of statement, but said she made it work selecting an individual who has the clear that it was her opinion and not Litchfield was appointed to the Weather and seasoned of the ad hoc committee. relevant, practical the opinion Academic Fairness committee at Fair through Friday with highs in experience students want and Brown refused to recognize yesterday's meeting. the mid-70s and lows in the mid-40s.