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1 Pre dreg Deadline Pre -registration hill be held Tomorrow is the last day for for all mathematics courses, coeds to submit their appli- except Math. 180, 298 and cations for Winter Carnival 299. students may Alan: Queen. Applications may be information in MH 210 or MH returned to the Associated 211 beginning today. Date Students office in the College S for turning in pre-registra- Union or in the Spartan Daily mrtan Datil tion materials are Dec. 7-1C. office. Serving the San Jose State College Community Since 1934 Vol 58 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95114, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1970 No 44 Pakistani Recall Vote Set Casualties Get Help Before Holidays Recall co-ordinators have attained authentic signatures, the recall com- Students helping in the Pakistani the necessary 2,463 signatures needed mittee has an additional 103 signatures Relief Fund drive have been collecting to hold an election to recall A.S. Presi- which have not been turned in. money on campus since last week, but dent Bill Langan. The fate of the recall According to the A.S. Constitution, hope to mount a campaign in the com- election now lies with the participating which states that the recall election munity after today. voters, two-thirds of whom must vote in must be held within 15 days after the Ashrafali Bhagat, secretary of the favor to recall Langan to hold an open, petitions are turned over to the election Pakistani Students Association, said general election. board, the election must be held prior to the PSA and the Intercultural Steering The election is tentatively scheduled Dec. 17. Bob Riner, election board Committee submitted a request to the for the week prior to Christmas chairman, said that the election will be city of San Jose for permission to solicit vacation, probably Dec. 15-17. held sometime between Dec. 15-17. in the community and should get a Recall petitions, which have been in MEETING decision today. circulation for eight days, were turned An election board meeting is in Wednesday at 4 p.m., according to scheduled for 3 p.m. today in the Bhagat said the PSA 'table by the Andy McDonald, chairman of the ad council chambers to begin organization College Union collected over $400 last hoc committee to recall Langan. on the recall election, according to week. He said all money collected will Petitions are being checked in the Riner. be sent to some social organization in registrar's office by members of the Petition signatures must be checked Pakistan. election board. within three days or by tomorrow, "We want to make sure the money goes A total of 2,654 names were turned in according to the constitution. Riner to the people," he said, "and not used on the petitions, almost 200 more than pointed out that no work was done on for other purposes." PAKISTANI RELIEFA table hr., been set up outside the Pakistani Relief Fund. Here students Attar Hajjarian, needed. McDonald indicated that the petitions over the weekend and that "What we need most is more volun- College Union and is being used as a depot for the SJS Masood Syed, and Bonny Herrera man the table. should discrepancies arise over election board members will discon- teers to help out," said Masood Syed, tinue checking signatures when the president of the PSA. necessary 10 per cent of the student "When we go out into the community Student-Faculty Representation body or 2,463 signatures are checked. we'd like to have one Pakistani student Langan and McDonald are tenta- go with each volunteer." he added. "We tively scheduled to debate the issues think it would be more effective if we do surrounding the recall move tomorrow it ourselves, but we do need help." noon in the Loma Prieta Room. "We'd like to get as much done in the McDonald stated he will ask Langan for short period before Christmas," Council a justification of what he has done in Rejects office and a justification for the Equality amount Bhagat commented, "people start to forget about these things after awhile." of money he has spent. By PAM STRANDBERG mostly administrators. Students 60 members to 51 or 52. the college. 'EXTREMISTS' Writer Syed said the group has been working Daily Political presently make up 14 per cent of the Student Councilman Bob Crocker The council still has to decide In response to Blaine's endorsement with the Community Committee for The Academic Council decided council. argued against the proposal and said it whether the ex-officio members will of A.S. President Bill Langan in last International Students, which has been yesterday that it does not want equal The student proposal that was would tend toward uniformity of the emain as voting members or serve Tuesday's Spartan Daily, Langan com- doing some limited work in the com- elected faculty and student representa- defeated called for 16 elected student membership. only as consultants to the body. mented, "I do not in anyway condone or munity. He said the committee has tion. members, 16 elected faculty members Merz and others felt that ten fewer The council also did not have time to support Mr. Blade's suit or his activi- been arranging appointments for At the special meeting called to and 17 ex-officio members. members would not make the council decide on the crucial issues of just how ties regarding political activity on this Pakistani students to speak to various consider proposed constitutional and Dr. Charles Larsen and other faculty more effective because it would still de much student and faculty representa- campus." Blaine is currently filing suit groups such as the Lions Club as well as by-law amendments, the council also members argued against equal student quite large. tion there will be. These issues will against SJS for political activity on other service organizations and decided not to make the council and faculty representation because VOTED AGAINST have to be resolved at a later meeting. campus. churches. smaller. faculty members spend more years in The council voted against eliminating The council passed, however, a "I have made this apparent to state Syed added that the PSA appreciated The council is presently comprised of the college than students. various staff deans and other ex-officio provision stating that the council "is leaders in Sacramento and will the help being given by the AS govern- 30 faculty members, eight students, and LARGER STAKE members from the council. the means by which faculty, students continue working against Mr. Blaine ment in collecting food and dry goods. 22 ex-officio council members who are Therefore, they feel that faculty Many council members felt the and administrators participate in the and his attempts to stifle free expres- members have a larger stake in the administrators were needed because of establishment and revision of college sion. governance of the college and that the expertise they could offer. Others policy." "This administration is committed to faculty members are better equipped to stressed that administrators should be The present constitution says only keeping campus government out of the make long range decisions about included in the council because the that the council will provide partici- hands of all extremists whether they be college policy in view of their greater governance of the college should be a pation by faculty in the formulation of of the left or right variety," concluded Ogata experience. effort among ell groups in Officially cooperative policies and procedure. governing Langan. Student John Merz said that students do indeed have a great stake in the governance of the college. He said Denied Tenure students spend nine months or even twelve of each year of their college lives on the campus. "This is where we Trustees Pass Resolution Transferring By VICTOR JANG signed by Academic Vice President Dr. eat, breathe and make love," he said. Daily Staff Writer Hobert Burns informing him that the Merz also said that students tend to Assistant professor of economics college would not employ him after be unjustly stereotyped by faculty Mamoru Ogata has been denied tenure June 30, 1972. members as being irresponsible and by the college administration. The action followed a review by the inexperienced. Student Financial Power to Presidents The Japanese instructor received a department, school and the college Student Ron Harbeck suggested that letter over the Thanksgiving vacation tenure and retention committee. students and faculty members should By KAREN PETTEftSON cellor Glenn S. Duinke. punishment. Ogata, who had originally been not consider themselves to be two anta- The new procedures give the chan- Daily Political Writer OLD PROCEDURES denied recommendation for tenure by gonistic groups. Harbeck said that if cellor the ultimate authority in faculty LOS ANGELESState college presi- During the two years that the old pro- the majority membership of his depart- there is a common enemy, it is outside have the authority to disciplinary and grievance cases, in dents may soon cedures, drawn up by faculty members, Discussion ment's and his school's tenure and the collegenot in it. fees are which a faculty member who has not determine how student were in effect, only two faculty retention committee, had received at EQUAL REPRESENTATION distributed. been promoted or granted tenure when members were disciplined. It was noted least a majority recommendation from Dr. John Galm, associate professor of A resolution passed last week by the he felt he should have been, were heard by trustees that these two years were a the all-college tenure and retention English, felt students and faculty Of Student California State College Board of by faculty panels.