0111 tr4 SPARTAN DAILY 4* Vol.97, \r) Published for San lose State University since 1934 Friday, September 20, 1991 Some faculty left out of nomination voting Fairness presidential selection process questioned again of By Robert Drueck hammer hers that are not part of a faculty union. committee. ballot are there only because their names are ty representatives. Daily suitl writer The ballot contains 19 names, all of And while she said she got a letter back widely known," Holstrom added. According to university policy, these whom were nominated by other administra- from Munitz telling her about the process, But Kitagawa says that all faculty mem- other committee representatives do not need SJSU administrative and support staff tive and support staff members, said Human she claimed that she never heard anything bers should have heard about the nomina- to be elected. members have until Sept. 23 to vote for a Resources Manager Celeste Kiuigawa. else. tions. The faculty members on the committee representative to sit on the presidential Kitagawa, who is helping to coordinate "I looked on bulletin boards every day Nomination forms were sent to all vice will be the chair, vice chair and immediate selection advisory committee, but not every- the election, said that ballots must be turned for announcements on how to nominate presidents, deans, directors and administra- past chair of the Academic Senate, and the one is happy with the nomination process. in by 5 p.m. on Monday. She expects a win- someone, and I never saw anything. I'm a tive heads. student representative will be appointed by The committee, which will give recom- ner to be announced on Tuesday or secretary in two departments, and I sec a lot These individuals then distributed the the Associated Students. No guidelines have mendations to the Board of Trustees on who Wednesday. of mail; mail for the department, mail for forms to administrative and support staff been set down on how the other committee to hire as a new president for SJSU, will But all is not rosy with the elections. my bosses .... I never saw anything written members in their department. members will be appointed. have one representative from administration Marcia Holstrom, a secretary in the center of about nominations. It makes me so upset," In order to be nominated, a staff member To help students, staff and faculty mem- and support staff members. economic education, said that she has been Holstrom said. needed five signatures on the nomination bers understand the presidential selection Current SJSU President Gail Fullerton misled about the nomination process. "I am a graduate student, a teaching form. process, CSU Chancellor Barry Munitz will will retire at the end of this month. She claims to have written Munitz a letter assistant, a secretary and a San Jose resi- Other representatives on the committee be holding a forum at 2 p.m. in the engineer- As pan of the election, a ballot was sent two months ago stating that she would like dent. I feel I am the best person qualified for will be one trustee, one student, one alumni. ing auditorium; room 189 in the engineering to all administrative and support staff mem- to be on the presidential wic,!iiiri advisory the position, hut I think the people on the one advisory board member and three facul- building. HIGH AND INSIDE Air vents breed fear .411 41P." on campus re. AlP"."... % . a . Legionnaire's III See related story, Page 3 .11. . - bow causes concern ments. If untreated, these ailments - . grow into serious and often fatal over ventilation cases of pneumonia. That's what worries Reynolds, .- . ltv Deborah Kerr who also serves as the health and jisbv ' Daily staff wnter safety officer for the Campus Faculty Association. .71'4;4 .gos ^ .’ Maintenance of ventilation sys- According to Reynolds. her fifth- aar: 44. , 14' tems at SJSU has suffered from bud- floor office right next to the ' ;Of, 1: 'sr get cuts that's evident to some at women's restroom is often over- .41. SJSU who have looked up lately and come with swamp-like and bath- ). -4% tt 4.. sitY spotted ceiling vents caked with room odors coming through her grimy dustballs virtually dripping vent. "- through the grates. Reynolds said became alarmed 4-4.946 4v-k, With the outbreak of about the safety of campus ventila- ’zr Legionnaire's disease at the tion systems when she read a May 8 Richmond Social Security Building, article in the Spartan Daily which t. those dirty vents look a lot more said, in order to meet 1991-92 bud- Att threatening to SJSU faculty and get cuts, campus facilities planned staff, according to Judy Reynolds, to change ventilation filters once a head librarian for library instruction year instead of twice a year. and education at Clark Library. Concerned for faculty and stu- Legionnaire's disease is caused dent safety, Reynolds fired off a let- by a bacteria called Legionclla ter to Hank Hendrickson, director of which forms in warm, dark, moist facilities, development and opera- Barry (muerte/ Daily staff photographer environments and in standing water. tion, telling him not to jeopardize Robb Kluba, sophomore business major, ducks a ball civil -engineering According to Dr. Robert J. Latta, the health of SJSU employees and major, and Kluba play an informal meet the hurled by pitcher Sandy Silman. Silman, a sophomore game of baseball near Joe %N..st hall on Thursday. associate director of SJSU student students in his efforts to health services, when inhaled, the bacteria can lead to respiratory ad- See VENTS, Page 3 Five new A.S. members Angry partier damages Sigma Nu join ranks, one more By Traci Deguchi men proceeded down the sidewalk, they appeared floor bedroom window breaking it. In a late Daily staff writer a few minutes later, continuing the verbal tight. August incident, the same window was damaged Licbenberg, who had been standing at the front by a padlock, also thrown through the window. position remains vacant Last Friday the Sigma Nu house floor party door of Sigma Nu, watched the group walk up to President of Sigma Nu, Joel Willhelm, was ended in a yelling confrontation with Job Corps the front of the fraternity house and began a face- asleep when the window broke, but the incident Daily tuff report board," said Jon Fleischman, members and a broken bedroom window at the to-face confrontation with the annoyed members. has left him concerned about relations with his director of students rights and Fraternity house on 155 S. 11th St., according to a "They were right in each other's faces," he neighbors, the Job Corps. The Associated Students board responsibilities. University Police Dejx.rtment log report. said. "It was getting really bad." "I heard the commotion and guys talking in positions left vacant since the end of This part of the A.S. hasn't been According to 20 year-old Sigma Nu member At one point, a member from the group the house," Willhelm said. "This is the second last semester, are almost full. treated as an equal branch and it has David Liebenberg, it was approximately midnight retrieved a large rock, held it up. and started time this is happened." There are four new directors on just faded out. when members refused to let in an unidentified yelling and shaking the rock in a threatening Job Corps community relations spokesman AS.: Emmanuel Comeille, academ- They need to make an identity," male to the party. When he started walking away. manner towards fraternity members. Liebenberg Richard Martinez wasn't aware of the incident ic affairs; Donald Cecil, communi- said Fleischman. "They need to Liebenberg said that the man began yelling angry said that the man put down the large rock after and believes the Job Corps had no involvement. cations; Ken Dods, sponsored ser- reawaken a whole process." remarks at Sigma Nu members. Liebenberg convinced him to stop arguing. The "I'm skeptical since there was no follow up vices and Yogi Chugh, student The judiciary branch has quite a Three other men who were passing by the group then left. done to the incident." he said. "If there wasn't affairs. bit of work to do for A.S. house joined in the ruckus, defending the man Minutes later an object (the UPD report identi- any other complaints filed, that leave a lot of All of the appointments arc new All justices must be familiar with who had been rejected. After the group of four fied the object as a rock) was thrown at a second questions to be answered." to the board except for Chugh who Robert's Rules of Order as well as has been on several committees and the A.S. bylaws. been very active in student govern- ment. Checks and balances According to Dods, "It was a Custom commute INSIDE good opportunity to get involved in They arc there as a checks and Chancellor to the presidential search." balances system for the A.S. board, and without them it is possible that routes available hold open SU Board chosen hoard members could make one- FEATU RES sided decisions. By Kim Carter Steinbeck They have also chosen represen- This will also give students a Daily staff writer Center: forum today tatives for the Student Union Board neutral place to go with complaints Wahlquist collection cele- of Directors on AS.: Mark Young regarding hoard decisions. 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