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New garage prepare may not add Spartans S.U.'s musical week for homecoming any spaces by Morgan Hampton page 3 page 4 SJSU students won't gain a single parking space when the new $5.85 million parking garage is completed in 1982 if city urban renewal plans are finalized. The new garage has been approved by California State University and Colleges board of trustees, but still awaits master plan revision before plans are finalized. SJSU President Gail Fullerton said last week she expects no problem in getting approval at the next meeting in November. The 1.200 space garage will displace about 200 existing parking spaces at its site on Fourth Street between San Carlos and San Salvador streets, leaving a net gain of Spartan Daily 1.000 parking spaces. But 1,000 by SJSU students parking spaces now used Volume 73. Number 23 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Friday. October 5, 1979 will be lost when the city reclaims its property on Fourth Street between San Fernando and San Carlos streets. The city plans to build condominiums, apartments and retail stores on the Fourth Street property, according to Pat Forst, coordinator for the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. When construction will begin is "touch and go," ac- cording to Forst, because the city is waiting for financial Hannah's removal unclear clearance of the developer's plans. Forst would not estimate when construction would begin, but she said even if urban renewal plans for the Ombudsman Fourth Street property are delayed until 1982, the city may have plans to use the lots for its own parking before position filled that time. Forst said a new state building, planned to be com- pleted by 1982 on San Carlos Street between Second and by Whitcomb Third streets, will require parking for its employees and visitors. the first ut Iwo drh,. The Fourth Street lot is the only place they") have to eeireng what happened to former go." Forst said. SJSU ombudsman Jo Ella Hannah and Last year the city enforced a 1976 ordinance banning what will happen to the of/ice in the parking on city streets east of campus to all but neigh- wake of her dismissal borhood residents. Nearly 1.600 spaces were lost to student parking. There are about 5,230 parking spaces, including the by Steve Hastings garages, arid about 30,000 students and employees on The title "ombudsman" can be campus, or a ratio of six persons to each parking space. found in the front of the SJSU Fullerton said the new parking garage will do little to telephone directory with the name solve the university's parking problem. Jo Ella Hannah beside it, just 16 "We'd like to see more people on bicycles," Fullerton lines under the bold-faced listing of said. "We'd like to have more people ride the bus and see PRESIDENT Gail Fullerton. more people carpool, but we are desperately short of years, Hannah held that parking space." For five administrative position of om- She had rece.ved both her bachelor's budsman a Scandanavian term and master's degrees in English meaning "red tape cutter' acting here. She began teaching as a part- as a kind of grievance counselor for time temporary lecturer in the Opposing views students. But last spring, for reasons English Department in 1971. Hannah today does not completely understand, she was removed from She later became an athletic on peace efforts the office and replaced by recreation academic adviser, embarking on a and leisure Associate Prof. Charles program of peer tutoring to get 173 athletes off academic probation. by Lori Eickmann Whitcomb. The heads of Afro-American and Jewish Studies Her first year as ombudsman along departments expressed opposing views on the Rev. Jesse Hannah's job was listed was on an "interim" basis, as she Jackson's peace efforts in the Mideast. with other positions that were being competed with a reported 381 ap- wake of They were asked by the Spartan Daily for their cut last March 1 in the plicants for the ombudsman Academic reactions to Jackson's talk with Palestine Liberation Proposition 13. But, as position. ex- Organization leader Yasser Arafat. and Jackson's ac- Vice President Hobert Burns position cusation last week that Israel's Prime Minister plained, even though the Hannah said she had a verbal function of agreement from Menachem Begin is a racist. would be eliminated, the Bunzel when she kept. But was formally hired "Begin is no racist," said Robert Levinson. chairman the ombudsman would be in 1975 that she person? would have a two-year of Jewish Studies. "He is negotiating face-to-face with what about the renewable term "if the enrollment President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who is half black." stays up." It is clear now that there was Still. her formal contract was Dr. Carlene Young. chairwoman of the Afro- for Hannah's dismissal than only one year and it was American Studies Department, said, "I don't know about more to renewed budget cuts or Proposition 13. every year until Gail Fullerton Begin himself, but I do know that Israel has had some became president in 1978. problem dealing with blacks. Hannah is now dean of students There has always been "I think a distinction has to be made between the for New England College's British concern for ombudsmen throughout Jewish community and the Zionists," she added "The campus in Arundel, Sussex. She the California State University Zionists are very reactionary. They have aligned them- secured the position when it became and Colleges system when selves with South Africa." clear she would not be rehired as a new president is hired, since in In a recent San Jose Mercury article, Jackson, an ombudsman and moved there in almost all cases the ombudsman American civil rights leader, was quoted as saying the July with her husband Charles Jerry serves at the pleasure Israeli leader refused to meet with him because he is Hannah, a novelist and former of the president. But last black. November. Hannah had told San 7 om athletic academic adviser at SJSU, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said Begin declined to and their daughter. Diego State Ombudsman Barbara meet with Jackson because he didn't want to legitimize Gunning that things were going well Jackson's mediation efforts between Israel and the PLO. He's got a light head Hannah took the post of SJSU and she was "not subject to threat" Levinson said of Jackson's peace efforts, 'As far as An SJSU student promotes a campus tutoring organization as he wheels his Ombudsman in 1974, appointed by from the new president. I'm concerned, it's besmirched the memory of that great hike in front of the Student Union. Many of the Operation SHARE balloons have then SJSU President John Bunzel. -continued on back page apostle of non-violence. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. been bobbing from students' hands lately "I have seen pictures of the holocaust and I've seen paintings of the Spanish Inquisition and the next most obscene photograph I've ever seen was the picture of those American black people standing together with murderers and terrorists of the PLO. singing 'We Shall Engineering numbers double Overcome," Levinson said. by Dave Burekhard growing while the total number of "If there is a community in the He said Jackson has "involved himself in a situation of Engineering is students at SJSU drops. U.S. that needs a quality where he's not very well informed. Nations do not The School percent of the Although SJSU President Gail engineering program, it's this one," negotiate through people who claim to be organizations." over enrolled and 80 Fullerton recently said that she did he said. Levinson believes Jackson is seeking personal classes there have a waiting list. I). Pinson. not want the university to become He said that an average notoriety. according to Dean Jay technically oriented. Pinson said graduate from the school has a "If Jackson wanted to do something on behalf of black Enrollment there has nearly that the administration has put this minimum of five job offers upon people," Levinson said. "why has he not protested the doubled in the last three years into effect by establishing a budget graduation and starts with salaries high prices that poor black African countries are being making this year's the highest short $20.000. charged for Arab oil? enrollment in SJSU history with for the School of Engineering approaching -continued on back page 2,021 undergraduates for the 78-79 of the figure that he would like to Eighty-five percent stay in the spring semester. see. Bay Area "which is a measure of our Since SJSU receives funds based However. he did acknowledge service to the community," ac- on total enrollment. the School of that the administration has an cording to Schultz. Engineering suffers from obligation to the entire university "We do have an obligation," Graduation deadline decreasing workable funds because and that it is important that concedes SJSU Academic Vice while engineering enrollment in- engineering students get a well- President Hobert W. Burns. "but we Today is the last day to file for December creases, the total enrollment at the rounded education. do have a much broader respon- graduation. Applications may be lured into the university is declining. As SJSU is located in Silicon sibility.. Office of Admissions, Graduation applications must Thomas G. Schultz, As.sociate Valley with its demand for students "The primary function of the be accompanied by completed major and minor Dean of Engineering, said that it is with technical background, the university is not to serve the com- forms.