Athletes Gain Support from A.S. Board
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f/N Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Volume 90, No 03 Thursday. MaN, 2. IS 100W Putting around Athletes gain waiver can be support from bypassed A.S. board By Vic Vogler By Jennifer Truman writer Daily staff Daily staff writer Students wanting to bypass the The SJSU Athletics Board has 100W writing requirement, provided made a unanimous recommendation their majors allows it, can now do so to President Gail Fullerton to cut the by paying $25 instead of $50. wrestling program, Associated Stu- Starting this fall, SJSU will no dents President Michael McLennan longer require a waiver exam, said said at the board of director's meet- Cynthia Margolin, associate dean for ing Wednesday. academic advisement and retention The Athletics Board was dead- Instead, the Writing Skills Test will locked in their recommendations for serve as both the 100W pre-test and field hockey and track. the waiver exam. The final decision on the destiny Under the old policy, students of these sports will be made by Ful- wishing to waive the requirement lerton. would have had to take both tests. At a news conference Tuesday, Each costs $25. Fullerton said her decision would be Margolin, who works in the Gen- made by next Tuesday. eral Education Advisement Center. All three sports made presenta- said the administration wanted "to tions at Wednesday's meeting and 'We can't argue with save students money. Also we earned the unanimous support of the thought it wasn't very efficient to A.S. board for the presented resolu- the reality that give two tests." tion. About 40 athletes attended the Fearing that students might think meeting to present a petition with 1,- President Fullerton G.E. was "ripping them off" be- 600 signatures supporting minor cause of the 100W test fee. Margolin sports. is committed to said the department has searched for McLennan passed an executive ways to spare expenses. order to suspend funding to intercol- haying a Division-I By eliminating the waiver exam. legiate athletics pending the A.S. ex- she said, "We're saving money for amination of the program cuts. football team.' the students. But we're not saving Intercollegiate athletics currently any money." receive a total of $301.640 from Wiggsy Sivertsen, Starting this fall, students enrolled combined Instructionally Related SJSU counselor in the junior level writing workshop Activities and A.S. funding. (100W) must pass the WST before Athlete representatives Neil Le- they can actually take the class. The ford (track) and Gina Sutherst (field Wiggsy Sivensen advised the ath- administration adopted the policy to hockey) and wrestling coach Kevin letes on how to approach the A.S. screen students who can't yet handle Hejnal presented facts and emotions board and what to present to them. 100W' s courseload. of the effect a program cut would "You all have to contact your To compensate for the Writing have on the athletes' academics. support," Sivensen said. "We need Workshop Waiver Exam, the WST Sutherst said that with the cut of to call the media and get their atten- now offers two sets of cut-off scores: field hockey the university will lose tion. You need to go into the meet- To take the 100W class, stu- 25 percent of its female representa- ing organized, to give yourself some dents must score 23 out of a possible tion in athletics. credibility. 45 on the objective (multiple choice) The cutbacks are to provide a bud- "The problem you have to realize part of the test or score seven out of get for three new positions in the di- isn't only raising money. Sivcnsen 12 on the essay section. vision of intercollegiate athletics. said. "We're talking about on -going which would include a drug abuse salaries." To waive the 100W requirement drug prevention counselor, a weight The athlete's defense is that a (without units), students must score training and conditioning coach, and number of scholarship athletes will 39 on the objective part or 33 to 38 a full-time academic monitor. be hurt or even have tel with an essay score of 10. drop out of Tuesday night SJSU Counselor See ATHLETES, back poet. As before, however, some schools and departments won't accept a waiver of 100W. Margolin said Among them are the history depart ment and the schools of engineering Inflation decreases and business. Margolin urged students to "check with your major advisers" about the possibility of waiving the library's purchases exam. Although most departments won't change their policy, she said By Hazel Whitman movement to change the wanner in they can under special circum- Matthew E Durham Daily staff photographer Daily staff writer which the libray is funded include: stances. Paul Scott, a junior majoring in business, putts a baseball team member, sees jilt is lined up. l'he Looking for a periodical or book An. Humanities. Philosophy. Politi- Any department can apply sub- Fifteen looter while Torn Eagen lkft), a Spartan green is in front of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. at SJSU may become an even more cal Science. Social Science and See 100W, buck page frustrating experience. Theatre Arts. A resolution. approved Monday The petition states, "Not only are by the Academic Senate, cites infla- we talking about an absolute decline tion and budget restraints as contrib- in numbers of books and periodicals utors to students' resource-material but, much worse, a gradual 'aging' locating woes. Groups will push bill at convention in the quality. of materials provided "The average price of a book in- by the Library. nority student organizations to add creased 158 percent. and the average By Dan' Parkin "This would almost be strength and numbers to their cause. price of perodicals increased 428 bearable if Daily staff writer there was an adequate 'Students will gain awareness on the Gutierrez said the organizers hope percent from 1970 to 1985." Sen- interlibrary A coalition of third world students loan system. But students of all backgrounds will at- ator Sandra Kajiwara said. the fact is that it plan to force an educational bill onto candidates' positions on education.' tend the conference because "racism costs the Library eight to ten dollars the floor of the Democratic conven- is still going to exist if people don't "We have not been funded for in- per interlibrary loan request . tion and make education a national flation." Kajiwara said about the li- Carmelita Gutierrez, get tel know each other. Data from SJSU's library states election issue. "We have to change this because brary 's budget. treasurer of MEChA The Academic Senate's Instruc- reasons why users did not obtain They will meet with Democratic when you look at California. it really materials from the results of an April presidential tion and Research Committee pre- candidate Jesse Jackson is a multi -cultural society." she 1988 document availability survey. as well as John Dukakis, the son and "We will leave the conference the candidates' positions on educa- said. sented a petition to Kajiwara urging southern campaign manager of presi- knowing that we made the presi- tion, and also awareness of different The issues they have addressed in- adequate inflationary funding adjust- The survey states. "Periodi- dential candidate Michael Dukakis. dential candidates accountable to the cultures," Gutierrez said. clude the 1988 admission require- ments to the annual library materials cals User on the average found at Stanford University on Saturday students. ' said Carrnelita Gutierrez, The bill was originally drafted ments, the retention rate of minori- budget formula. 58.8 percent of all items needed 1838 to discuss the proposed bill. SJSU student and treasurer of during a third world student educa- ties and high school recruitment. The pet;tion wa.- signed by five items needed; 493 items found; 345 Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, MEChA. a Latino/Chicano student tional conference at University of Students are invited to attend the department chairmeri and one acting not found. 0-San Jose, will be the keynote association. California at Berek ley. conference beginning at 9 a.m. in department chairman. Also stated in the survey are spe- speaker for the all -day conference. "Students will gain awareness on The group has combined the mi- the Stanford Memorial Auditorium. The departments supporting a See LIBRARY', hack page Directors lobby for student rights Speaker educates By Jim Hart bill. Daily stall writer "Even if you are not guilty, it takes six to 12 months Student representatives took a stand against a legis- to clarify that you are not in default," Warren said. audience on races lative bill titled "Student Loan Defaults" which would Warren also said, according to the bill, a student is cause students who fail to pay back student loans to have still considered to be in default if they arc making partial By Duni l'arkin their transcripts withheld. payments. and Hazel Whitman Deborah Warren, director of non-traditional student Terry McCarthy. A.S. vice president and president- Daily staff writers affairs-elect, made the Sacramento trip last weekend elect, does not have much optimism for the bill. The message of pluralism and peace with four Associated Student Board members to attend "I don't know if there is whole lot of support (for the between races was brought to SJSU by a seminars and discussions about several different legis- bill)," McCarthy said. widely respected figure in education. lative bills. An assembly bill offered by Senator John Vasconcel- Niara Sudarkasa, president of Lincoln "The object (of the seminars) is to get students more los, 1)-San Jose, titled "Differential Treatment" also University, the nation's oldest black col- aware and involved in state issues," Warren said.