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king, have yway. king Spartan Daily s I Volume 72, Number 53 Serving the Wednesday, April 25, 1979 too San Jose State Community Since 1934 d his brand I Billy 'wed h the of The Inauguration of a President great Elizabethan Faith in future fun highlights stressed by in- Fullerton's day Fullerton to h the By Carla Baker By Stephen Cohodas Dodd and Peter G. Bliss Inaugurated as the first woman The romance of the Elizabethan President of San Jose State s are period was captured yesterday at University yesterday afternoon, .mpus SJSU President Gail Fullerton's Gail Fullerton called for the ns. inauguration as the ceremony restoration of faith in the future la lion opened with 18 Elizabethan banners tional leading the procession of academic Speaking before a plethora of 4uriel regalia. visiting dignitaries representing the At one point one of the minstrels, academic and political com- holding a chain which had an ape at munities, Fullerton likened these the other end, tried to follow the times to a "fearful" Western Europe procession onto the stage. approaching the year 1000. Brian Convoy, theatre arts "There was a similar sense of im- major, and Jerry Enright, dressed pending doom among Western in an ape's suit said they wanted to Europeans during the decades make the ceremony a little bit preceding the year 1000," she said. " Italiano." Convoy, who prefers to "Intellectual vision was focused on be called "Luigi" said that it was a the past, on man's fall, on the long kind of spontaneous thing to do. decline of civilization from the glories of the classical world. University Police stopped the two before they got to the stage. "Having lost faith in the future, The national anthem, performed having come to fear the discoveries by the SJSU university brass of the research laboratory, con- quintet, brought the crowd of ap- temporary Americans have lost proximately 1,000 people to their feet some of their traditional com- as the music descended from the top mitment to higher education," she of Tower Hall. said. The crowd remained standing as the invocation offered by Father William J. Rewak set the tone for the 1979-80 funding estimated at $520,000 Fullerton warned her assembled solemn investiture. colleagues against entering a period The participants and the of low morale in the wake of audience gave Fullerton the first of Proposition 13 and the public mood A.S. toward higher education. two standing ovations after the budget hearing scheduled today silver medallion, which represents "As faculty and administrators, we the authority of the office of the need to regain our own faith in the By Erin A. Hallissy president, was placed around her A.S. Leisure Services -- costs. limit raised from $10 to $15; future before we can convey con- The proposed budget for the $49,964; fidence to our students or neck. Some new stipulations include: to the 1979-80 year will come before the A.S. Program Board -- The Asian-American Spring various publics whose support we No A.S. money can be used at The medallion A.S. Council today. $101,895; Festival will be included in Cultural need," she said. is worn on official Holiday Inns, because they built a El Concilio $6,959; Week funding along with Black occasions and was conferred upon hotel over an Ohlone Indian burial Environmental Information Awareness Month, Semana Chicana, Fullerton by Chancellor Glenn S. An open hearing is scheduled ground in San Jose; Fullerton repeatedly referred to Center/Spartan Gardens - 9,928; Greek Week and Womyn's Week; Dumke. from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the upper "publics" throughout her speech. pad of the Student Union to allow Fullerton received her second Child Development Center - Dues of $5,9001 will not be students or organizations to come No A.S. money can be spent in ovation after the half-hour speech. $29,000; paid to the California State Student She pointed out that since the before the council to discuss the states that have not ratified the The formal ceremony was full of Intercultural Steering Association the Student President's birth rate has been declining since proposed $520,000 budget. The Equal Rights Amendment, including color as the academic regalia Committee - $11,500; Association) if it does not include the early 1960s, the "eligible" pool of amount is based on projected travel to those states; (professors wearing their formal MEChA - $3,127; tally votes, agendas of actions to be students for the university would enrollment. caps, hoods and gowns respective of Reed Magazine - $3,500; The 10 cent charge for check taken and information sent out to also decline and necessitate new their alma maters) sat in a semi- SCALE/Multicultural Ex- cashing in the Business Office will campuses a week before each evaluations of university policy. circle around the podium. Some of the major budget Neighbors - periences/Friends and be eliminated and the check cashing meeting in its by-laws. proposals are: $19,010.82; "Declining enrollments are not One unusual gown was that of University Alternative the only reason for our A.S. Business Office -- reduced Jose Hernandez, professor in the Program -$7,000; budgets," she said. "We have Foreign Language Department, who $130,250; Women's Center - $11,917; A.S. BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS discovered to our dismay that higher wore a priestly light blue gown with Cultural Weeks - $30,000. Earth Toys - $11,389.50; education no longer receives the alight blue fringed cap. Other things budgeted include level of public support, either in Hernandez said the religious A.S. Executive (salary, legal counseling, administrative A S . BUSiNESS PI terms of funding or in terms of looking attire was common in the travel, telephones) - $19,200: services for A.S. and other operating EARN ToYS respect." university in Spain. Hernandez was ExEc UTIVE a graduate of the University of LEISURE SER V , Fullerton faulted that loss of Madrid. support for higher education to "a A.S. budget questioned; 'PR ociPAM -13oAla D. 0 growing fear of the future." The Elizabethan festivities EL coNci LLo following the investiture were added "A commitment to education is to Fullerton's theme of moving E_Jki V. IN Po. cEsk/T'12 om a commitment to the future," she backwards into the future. E CB S squeaks by committee said. "But as the year 2000 ap- The 22 choraliers under the CHILD DEV. CENT'R proaches, we seem to have direction of Charlene Archibeque cornm i TYE E developed a collective fear of the sang madrigals and motets in front IS. The proposed A.S. budget barely between A.S. and student programs. ME C h A 1 future." of the library south wing. passed in the budget committee, However, he said on the whole On the field across from the with a vote of 3-to-2. It still remains the budget is "one of the best REED MACA I She likened life approaching the library wing, members of the SJSU to be approved and possibly revised presented in recent years." SCALE year 2001 to "science fiction, a fencir.g team demonstrated fencing by the A.S. Council before going to UA . 'PRoc,12.AM mon future we cannot imagine." techniques while dressed in SJSU President Gail Fullerton for McFadden said the budget was Elizabethan costumes. final approval, May 1. "fairly solid," although she said she womEN's cEisi-nz mi. "Even to speak of 1989 is to Dancing to the whining tunes of would have liked to have given full evoke a slight shudder. Hanging Scottish bagpipes, eight Scottish In favor of the proposed budget CULTuRAL 1"/EEtS were chairman of the committee funding to some groups and lowered over us is a vague apprehension, a country dancers entertained a the amount for the A.S. Business 0 .25,000 50, COD 75; 000 ig fear that the world as we have handful of onlookers. Kiran Majithia, A.S. Vice President Joe Trippi, and A.S. Treasurer Office. Most of the other voting known it cannot survive the ap- The SJSU men's and women's members on the committee agreed. proaching end of the second gymnastic teams put on tumbling Nancy McFadden. Dissenting were A.S. President Maryanne Ryan and millenium," she said. displays to the crowd's delight. Ryan said she thought it was a student-at-large representative (Continued on back page) Along with the activities going good budget overall, but she voted Bryan Anderson. around the field, costumed against it for two reasons. Campus copiers' fumes Elizabethan vendors sold flowers Majithia said he thought the and fruit to those participants that budget was "very progressive" and She objected to the $7,000 wandered from performance to included some significant changes budgeted for the University cause user complaints Vintage books performance. from earlier years. Alternative Program. She said the program doesn't need the money By Phetsy Calloway Saxon machines on campus, ac- behind glass By combining several next year because it hasn't used the Improperly ventilated Saxon cording to Purchasing Agent James programs, such as including money it was budgeted last year. copiers, which have been the source Hill. See Page 4 Election polls Multicultural Experiences and of user complaints about fumes, Thirty-five of the offices which Friends and Neighbors with SCALE, Her other objection was a have not been moved or ventilated. use the machines were contacted by administrative expenses will be stipulation introduced by Trippi Campus enrivonmental health the Daily earlier this semester. lowered while still providing these openingtoday regarding witholding $5,400 in dues and safety officer Ron Montgomery.