Deukmejian Fee Hike Nixed
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sge on ,m the under ents," ,37k/A7TA:ti DAuff v d gen- Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 Volume BO, No 55 Wednesday April 21 1983 n con- they y, she avail. Deukmejian fee hike nixed By Dave Berkowitz Bergeson. tal affairs, the Assembly subcom- Senate has not addressed the issue jected by the Legislature, a two- Gov. George Deukmejian's pro- While lobbyists for CSU and UC mittee move was just the first in a yet. thirds vote in each house would be and it posal to raise student fees next year testified before the subcommittee long budget process. "This is what we prefer and required. Plotkin said that would in- ;igned was rejected Monday by a state As- against the fee proposal, Patrick "This is just one step of many to were supporting," said Plotkin, who clude Republicans who traditionally sembly subcommittee in the first Callan, director of the advisory Cali- come," he said. was encouraged by the rejection. "I support the Republican governor's d on, formal legislative hearing on fornia Postsecondary Education think we should realize the final de- platform. higher-education fee hikes. Commission, said that as undesira- The rejection, he said, still must cision on the fees is going to be polit- "The governor is really in the George Deukmejian idents The Republican governor's pro- ble as raising fees are, it is necces- be voted on by the full committee, ical." driver's seat about this thing," he posal called for a $230-a-year fee in- sary because the state's revenue is and on the assembly floor. The state For the fee hike to be totally re- said. fee proposal stumbles e that crease at California State Univer- declining and state government aye to sity campuses and a $150-a-year can't afford the price tag for higher hike at the University of California education. to cover a budget reduction of more Meanwhile, Kevin Brett, the all, it than 9200 million to higher educa- governor's deputy press secretary, tion. early to Colts choose Stanford's Elway as expected t with said that it would be too g mil- Voting to reject the plan were comment on the subcommittee's ac- If it's 11" Democratic Assemblymen Robert tion because the education portion of dress Campbell, Mike Roos and Richard the budget could still be amended. make Katz. Voting for the plan was Re- According to Scott Plotkin, as- publican Assemblywoman Marian sistant director for CSU governmen- are of tIonal )ondi- ilistic Byrd selected in to re- dere I I any deral draft's first round I dis pro- By Mike McGuire tee of Former Spartan football standouts Gill Byrd and Ken Thomas were se- lected today in the National Football League draft. Byrd, an honorable mention All-American in 1980, was selected by the down San Diego Chargers in the first round of the draft, and Thomas was picked in il dis- the seventh round by the Kansas City Chiefs. -re at Byrd was the 22nd pick in the draft, and Thomas was the 171st player id es- picked. ow if Byrd, who awoke at 6 a.m. to hear the news, was very happy with the results. "I am really looking forward to ha p- going to a great program," Byrd te in said in a statement given to Law- be o rence Fan, SJSU sports information tech- director. idus- "Coach Coryell has a great of- fensive mind and Coach (Tom) Bass g the has a great defensive mind." atch Byrd said that he hopes to be- then come more diversified in his play- ime, ing ability with San Diego. Byrd said "pandemonium" such broke out in his house when the tgan news was broadcast. Mahan Schmen "All I could hear was 'Gill, Gill, Stanford quarterback John Elway, picked first in Tuesday's NFL draft by the Baltimore trade him to another team. His father Jack Bway, SJSU football coach waited in the it is "he said. Colts, announced he would play baseball for the New York Yankees unless the Colts background. ig to The Chargers had two other ard- first-round picks, both from Arkan- tack Gill Byrd sas: Billy Ray Smith, a linebacker By Lisa Ewbank kees, a contract has been agreed upon "in prin- couldn't believe it. I was surprised and bewil- c in. who was picked fifth, and Gary An- Stanford quarterback John Elway, the ciple" and no time limit has been set for Elway dered." ...Chargers' first round pick derson, a receiver/running back first player picked in Tuesday's National Foot- to sign. He refused to disclose the financial de Elway had contacted the Baltimore orga- who went 20th. ball League draft, will play baseball for the tails, but the contract is for five years, with an nization by letter and by phone several times that A mainstay on the Spartan defense for four years, Byrd, a cornerback, New York Yankees unless the Baltimore Colts option to get out of baseball after the first, sec- since December, and informed them he would D be made a comeback from a serious knee injury he suffered against the Uni- trade him to a West Coast team or a top con- ond or third years, he said. not play football in Baltimore, according to versity of California, Berkeley in 1981. tender. The Colts, after being told for months that John's father, SJSU football coach Jack In addition to the knee injury, Byrd was hampered by a hairline frac- "As of now, I'm going baseball," a tired Elway would forego football for baseball if Elway. ture on his right hand, which required wearing a cast for the 1982 season. and disappointed Elway said Tuesday at a San they drafted him, ignored the threats and Byrd managed to overcome this hinderance easily, intercepting four Jose Hyatt news conference. "Football isn't picked him anyway. When Colts head coach Frank Kush called passes, making 33 unassisted tackles, 29 assists and I fumble recovery. out of the question, but I won't play in Balti- "They called 15 minutes before the draft his newly acquired quarterback after he was Professional teams have a tendency to shy away from players who have more." and told me that they were not going to pick picked, Elway was fuming. suffered severe knee injuries like Byrd. However, Rick Smith, the Chargers Although he has not signed with the Van- me," he said "But then 1 heard it on TV and I Coninued on page 5 Unnamed m page 5 tung ni- t of ttn- Burned-out light leaks sticky 'goo,' causes PCB scare ay- bi- By Dave Berkowitz After spending nearly half an hour cleaning up the strange mess from and determine whether there was any PUB inside ing A burned-out lighting fixture gave SJSU safety officials a scare last shelves, -ounter tops and a sugar bowl, two unidentified plant operations That study, proved there was. However, what Yale found in her cream week when a mysterious substance leaked into an office in the Faculty Of- men entered the room and told her they were there to clean up the PCB and sugar that morning, the tests concluded, was only tar used to insulate a fices Building. which, they said, had leaked from a burned-out lighting fixture in the ceil- capacitor housing the PCB. The capacitor, according to Montgomery, had ter Safety officials feared at one point the substance might be the toxic ing. not broken when the fixture burned out, and the PCB was still safely inside chemical PCB, used to keep the flourescent lighting cool. That sent Yale into a frenzy. The coffee she might have consumed that Montgomery said there were at one time thousands of such fixtures morning, she said, had residue from the fixture. If nothing else, the cream around campus. ert Tests conducted Friday, however, proved the substance was not PCB and sugar she would have added to the coffee was dirty. "There are so many of them," he said, "it would be impossible to keep a but melted tar, used for insulating the exterior of the light's capacitor hous- track record of how many are lett." ng ing. Yale said she called George Connell, the new plant operations director, Although Montgomery admits there is a potential hazard, he said the to The news came as a great relief to the SJSU secretary who cleaned the who assured her there was no PCB in the lighting fixtures. When Yale told chances for any PCB-related problem are slim. He believes most of the fix mess left from the leak and who was falsely told it had been a toxic chemi- Connell that his own employees had said, the director said he would look into tunes using PCB have been replaced with newer fixtures. cal. it. The Enviromental Protection Agency outlawed the use of PCB in 1974 When Janet Yale opened up her office April 18, she found a "room full of Yale then called the SJSU environmental health and safety department after a spill of the chemical contaminated a cattle-grazing area the previous goo." where Director Ron Montgomery promised to examine the lighting fixture year. 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