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Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 PARTAN DAILY CSU enrollment up; SJSU's down By Mark Steidel omy is getting better, and the num- graduate student applications, closing Spartan Daily Staff WIlh bers are back up." applications for undergraduate stu- However, SJSU has not enjoyed dents and beginning the enrollment Student recruitment increases applications In the early 1990s. the recession this prosperity. It is one of three decrease. Burton, however, said he is By Deanna Zemke tall 1997. affected virtually every industry. The CSUs that experienced a decline. encouraged by the recent enrollment Spartan Dully Staff Writer Decreasing enrollment had been decreasing enrollment, four new California State University system SJSU's enrollment has decreased by numbers and believes that SJSU is Applications for the fall 1996 a concern. people were hired in the fall of 1995 and San Jose State University were no 12.7 percent in each of the last five back on track. and spring 1997 semesters at San According to Leon Washington. to recruit students to SJSU. exceptions. years, from 29,626 in fall 1992 to "The AUL (average unit load per- Jose State University are up thanks associate vice president for Since then, the number of appli- State funding was sliced, programs 25,874 in fall 1996. student) has shown a significant in part to new recruiting methods. Enrollment Services, appointed last cations received has increased. Not were cut and CSU campuses suffered "The state cut our funds signifi- increase, our FTES (full-time equiva- Spring 1997 had a total of 6,127 September, Student Outreach and only was recruitment concentrated a systemwide enrollment drop. Now, cantly during the recession." said Edd lent students, or students with at least applicants vs. 5,889 in spring 19%, Recruitment (SOAR) has been reor- in SJSU service areas, such as Santa with the recession quickly becoming Burton, acting vice president of 15 units) numbers are up and our which is a 4 percent increase. The ganized to address the issue. Clara and San Mateo counties, but an ugly memory, CSU enrollment has Education Planning and Resources at original goals for applications were university's application target is "The goal is to stabilize enroll- recruiters were able to concentrate increased for the second consecutive SJSU. "Programs had to be down- exceeded," said Burton. The AUI. 6,200. With two more weeks of ment to where it was five years ago," on uncommon areas in the state, year. sized. We had the same amount of increased from 10.98 in 1995 to accepting applications, they are 79 said Washington. such as Southern California. To "Enrollment suffered during the students and less resources. 11.13 in 1996, he said. applications short of their goal. Fall In the fall of 1992, the number of compete with other schools, new recession," said Karen Newell Young, Something had to be done." SJSU's Enrollment Services 1996 received 19,479 applicants applications was 18.310, while in brochures were distributed to spokeswoman for the CSU Something was done in the spring Department has implemented many with a projected target of 19,80(1 for the spring of 1992 there were 8,039 See Recruitment, page 8 Chancellor's "Now, the econ- Office. 1993 when SJSU accepted only See Enrollment, page 8 Wrinkle-free Child-care invention legislation in A.S. talks eases path First meeting of the semester features campaign reform; to success removal of officer By Doug Burkhardt By Aaron Williams Spartan Daily Staff Writer Spartan Daily Staff Writer Most inventors have trouble ironing out the wrinldes in The first Associated Students meeting of the their creations. Robert Perri, an SJSU industrial design major. year Wednesday featured some impending legis- took a similar problem and won a cash prize for his portable lation, a little housekeeping and a refund offer. ironing station. The childcare center and changes in the stu- Thomas Conley, National Housewares Manufacturers dent election code were two bills which received Association president, awarded Perri $2,500 and two all- their second reading in froat, c2f the board. The expense paid trips to promote the iron at conventions. Perri's second reading is the only. time proposed amend- invention tied for first place with a portable dishwasher, beat- ments or deletions are allowed to be debated by ing out 200 other entries. the board. Both bills passed to a third reading at Perri recently returned from the first trip, a four-day jaunt the next board meeting. to Chicago, this month. He used his prize money to pay the If a bill is passed in the third reading it travel expenses for his wife, Renae, and their two-year-old becomes enacted as legislation. daughter, Brenna. The board debated changes in Bill 70 that In Chicar, an international event open to buyers and sell- dealt with who would be on the operating com- ers, including K-Mart, Rubbermaid, Black & Decker, Singer, mittee, fee levels and budgets and what programs Braun and General Electric, was held. will be offered at the proposed childcare center. "There were a number of job offers there," Perri said. "Over A.S. president Jerry Simmons said the center, 105 countries came to the convention, and they were all pret- slated for construction on the Eighth Street ty impressed with my iron. employee parking lot, is moving forward. More "There was a lot of interest from the people at Singer, Black than $1 million has been collected to date & Decker and Sunbeam. A company called Hamilton Beach through the AS fee increase students approved gave me work building ergonomic iron models, and the presi- two years ago. dent of Singer, Mark McGuiness, was so impressed he intro- Proposed changes in the AS election code duced himself personally." ranged from absentee ballots to filing deadlines. Perri began work for Hamilton Beach for the prototypes The board proposes moving the filing date for but his patent is still pending. candidacy to be publicized from the current 10 "I don't want to spend my whole life to develop and mar- school days to 20 days prior to the deadline. The ket this one product," Perri said. "But a list of people want to board also proposed sending an absentee ballot manufacture it. I am waiting by the phone until something m all students who are off campus at election materializes." time. 'this concerned controller Adrain According to Perri, his SJSU industrial design instructor Rodriquez, who questioned the financial ramifi- Del Coats was a huge influence throughout the entire project. cations of the absentee ballots. "Actually the whole thing started out ass class assignment," Business Affairs Director Chris Constantin Perri said. "Del uses his own design theories. He has his own disagreed with Rodriquez' concerns. vocabulary. Basically, I used his technology structure with sur- "The money spent on them (absentee ballots) veys which showed that the market wanted something new and will he insignificant, probably $500 to $1,000," innovative. The market was bored of the same old iron." Gorman!' said. "Is is important that all students "It was a project-assignment to design a housewarc item. are given a chance to vote." He was also taking an ergonomics class where I gave the whole If the election code legislation is passed it will class an iron to design," said Coats, who is also the Associate take effect in the 1997-98 school year and won't I )irec tor of the Siliion Valley Ergonomics Institute. affect the upcoming March elections. "Robert went the extra Iiit and made a board and every- Mary Turlotte, Director of Intercultural thing. I could tell from early on in the project that he had a Affairs, was dismissed from the board by a unan- good chance of winning an award," Coats said. imous vote for attendance problems. Coats instructed the class to use marketing surveys to dis- The board also voted to agree with the Smith PHOTO BY BRANDON GARCIA Spartan Daily cover what industrial designs consumers would most likely use. vs. the University of California Board of Regents l'crri said he was looking fig a way to simplify the task of iron- for an old household appliance. The court case regarding the use of fees collected by ing and fulfill buyers' needs. lie innovated a 30-degree angled SJSU Industrial design student Robert Perri shows off his award-winning design Station is compact enough for dorm rooms and cluttered houses for those busy, messy people. the Associated Students on public university See Invention, page 8 Cordless Ironnig See Meeting, page 8