To Receive Doctorate Alumnus Will Be Honored
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Spartans victorious at Stanislaus . page 5 Volutik' SS , Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 1 hut \ pril 9. 1987 Child care gets attention Grad speaker to receive doctorate Alumnus will be honored By Tom Dunlap Daily stall writer When Ro!, I Brophy received his diploma from SiSt in 1946, only 342 students graduated with him. Next month. Brophy will return to his alma meter to give the commence- ment address for as many as 4,500 grad uates of the class of 1987. He'll also re ceive an honorary doctorate at ceremony for distinguished service III public higher education in California. Brophy., who received his bachc lor's degree in journalism at SJS1.1, will he only the fourth recipient of the Doc- torate of Humane 1.etters in the school's history. said Richard Staley, public in- formation officer. Brophy, 64. is the first person to serve on all of California's public higher Roy Brophy Edward Ledesma Daily staff photographer education boards and will receive the . commencement speaker San Jose city councilman Jim Beall and Jose Low, director of chil- child care issues at a symposium sponsored by Spartan ('ity Families award for this service. Staley said. dren's centers for the Santa Clara Unified School District, addressed ssociation One such dispute is lirophys back- Wednesday. ,,tn ice cream social ss as also featured. Receiving the award is "the most inf of the $2.500 meritorious perfor- lliiilliiig thing to happen to me.' espe- mance award given to faculty, which he cially because this year marks the 50th initiated, he said. Spartan City discussion anniversary of what is now called the CFA members and non-members Department of Journalism and Mass have complained that the money should Communications. Brophy said. be used for other purposes and that the But some instructors are not as honors children's week criterion for selecting winners is too sub- thrilled with Brophy speaking here be- jective. cause of his voting record while he was a By Paige C. Berge' for their employees, Beall said. "I was in a leadership role," Bro- member, and later the chairman, of the Daily staff writer This would also help reduce traf- phy said. "I drew the flack from those California State University Board of Child care issues, problems and fic in the area because people would who didn't like the leadership." Trustees. solutions were topics of discussion at drive straight to work instead of driv- Negotiators for the CSU and CFA a symposium sponsored by the Spar- ing to daycare centers first, he said. "When he was a trustee he was the are still embroiled in contract negotia- tan City Families Association Until recently, industry has most outstanding opponent of collective tions. trying to settle the more than 40 is- Wednesday. viewed child care as a women's prob- bargaining," said Scott Rice, SJSU Eng- sues on which they disagree. The symposium and an ice lem. Campbell said. lish Prof. and chapter president of the Brophy was chosen for the award cream social were held to celebrate California Faculty Association. after President Gail Fullerton nominated "We have to start educating clIl the California Week of the Child, him and the CSU Board of Trustees ap- ployers on child care.- Beall s., Brophy is president of the Sacra- said Leo Johnson, proved the selection, said Dan Buerger, families associa- "Employers are finding that compel. mento-area-based construction and de- tion president. executive assistant to the president. lion for employees also involves the velopment firm. Roy T. Brophy and As- The other three recipients of the Keynote speakers at the sympo- child care issue." sociates. sium included James Beall, San Jose honorary doctorate are Peter lleberroth. city councilman: Jose lope?, director the need and demand for child "I'm not an opponent of collective Buckminister Fuller and John Gardner. of children's centers for the Santa care will have to be met by the city bargaining." Brophy said. Staley said. Clara Unified School District: and and employers working together, he The CFA doesn't like several of the The award represents the higcst rec- Toni Campbell. director of the child said. programs he initiated or the way he voted ognition for any number of things in the development lab preschool at SJSU. City bonds and industrial devel- on several issues. Brophy said. system. Stale, said. "Children are suffering due to opment bonds to fund child care lack of child care lope, said. would serve as incentives for compa- Beall said a task force designed nies to build child care centers on or by the city listed the major child care near site. he said. problems in San Jose as lack of The first thing the city must do is A.S. can decide space. funds, facilities, private sector get employers to recognize child care involvement and flexibility in work as a problem, he said. schedules. Other alternatives open to em- The task force will implement a ployers arc implementing new per- three-year plan to improve child care sonnel policies, Campbell said. control of boxes in the area, Beall said. These policies could include job Brad Mangin Daily staff photographer The city will try to work with sharing -- with two working mothers By David Barry major employers to get them to de - splitting time between the joh and Sheila Collins. 5 years old, enjoys an ice cream cone at the social Daily staff writer %clop on -site and war sm facilities See CHILD ( I RI pave Wednesday for the Spartan City Family Association. The Assiiciated Students Hoard of Directors has the power to determine who will use the on-campus blue news- paper distribution boxes, according to expert Adrienne Robison, scheduling manager Crisis in business ethics to be addressed by for the Student Union. 11) Elisha Arnone ill speak on "Business Fthics and the Robison made that determination Daily staff writer Constitution." al 12:30 p.m. today in last week after speaking to the members 'The business of America is busi- Speaker to address basis of problem Business Classrooms, Room 004. in the A.S. business office. ness," Calvin Coolidge once said. Benson also has written "Business Because A.S. money was used to At SJSU, where more students Thomas Wendel. SJSU professor of his- Students are more concerned with Ethics in America" and other works on purchase the boxes used by the defunct major in business than in any other field. tory. ethics when they're in business because this subject. Independent Weekly a paper that this statement holds some truth. Use search is for business ethics, he they start seeing violations, he said. The failure of the country to main- lasted on campus for several years Hut America's business has been said. However, ethics is not a require- To rouse student interest in this sub- tain ethical business standards will be re- they should revert back to A.S. control, under scrutiny lately, said Burton V. ment of the department. he said. ject, the llistory Department and busi- lated to fundamental weaknesses in our she said. Dean, chair of the Department of Orga- The business school is trying to ness school are bringing in George Ben- Constitution, Wendel said. The yellow distribution boxes are nization and Management in the School bring ethics into the students' conscious- son, professor of government at 'Our Constitution has created a owned by the Spartan Daily. of Business. ness. Dean said. Claremont McKenna College and successful economy but has been less Questions about who owned the "The insider trading scandal has 'Many students arc not interested founder and president emeritus of Clare- successful creating an ethical business boxes arose after circulation of a memo Roger Wert put the question of business ethics in the in business ethics. he said. .....hey hear mont Men's College. environment . he said. two weeks ago by A.S. Vice President public cons, iousness.' ' said class, don't . A.S. vice president forefront of about the but the, sign up " Benson. a Constitutional scholar, Ace ETHIC'S, page 6 See BOXES, page 6 Dissident speaks out on the struggle Prof. writes Santa Clara history underground press Clara County. for solidarity, By Larry Aragon Daily staff writer "This is where the opportunities have always been for By Judith Faught "i the books; arc written according In 1852, James f Payne left his father's farm in New me," Payne said. Daily staff writer to Marxist theory. Czuma said. starts new lite in California. One of those "opportunities" was an offer by the His- Use Roman Catholic Church has 'The Solidarity movement "According to the theory. the history of York to His first job was in the gold fields. Eventually he torical Heritage Commission to write the text to an illus- been the most powerful ally in the Poles' humankind is simply a drive toward so- would marry, and in 1875 he settled on a 126-acre farm of trated history of the county. struggle to gain independence from their forced the communists to cialism and communism. To fit that de- his own in San Jose. At that time, agriculture was the driv- 'Die result "Santa Clara County: Harvest of socialist government. said Polish dissi- scription, the facts have simply been ing force in Santa Clara County. Change" will be available in local bookstores next dent Andrzej Czuma during his speech in negotiate with its twisted around." The county has changed much since Payne arrived 135 month. the Student Union Amphitheater on To combat the government's con- years ago.