Faculty Senate Decides It Won't Oppose Bonuses
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Only four of the 18 instructors If passed, the bill would also who left SJSU retired. The rest en- 4. have recommended that the CFA tered the business field. The one re- and the CSU Board of Trustees omit placement was hired only after in- all provisions for salary supple- dustry donated $5,000 so he would ments in future contract negotia- not have to take spay cut. tions and would have asked Presi- Senate member Robert Spicher, dent Gail Fullerton to decline a civil engineering professor, ag- implementation of such supple- reed that the loss of engineering in- ments at SJSU. structors is due to inadequate sala- Arguing against the resolution's ries. passage was Professor James "When we tell them ( prospec- Lima, Associate Dean of academic tive faculty members) what the sal- affairs, and a contingent of about ary is, they're not interested any five other faculty members from the longer," Spicher said. Liza Murphy School of Engineering. He added that if the School of "We are in danger of losing the Engineering doesn't continue at The Gamelan ensemble performs music from Bali and and students can enroll in the ensemble for credit. They School of Engineering at San Jose," SJSU it would hurt the rest of the Java on an intricate set of percussion insturments and moved out of their usual location in the music building to Lima said. "We're down 37 faculty campus. members and we've lost 18 this year "Engineers take classes from gongs that were made by two SJSU professors. SJSU is play their exotic and mystical sounds in the Student Union Spicher said to the one of only a handfull of universities that have Gamelans, last Thursday. due to retirements and reSigna- the rest of you," lions." Senate members. "After lengthy recruiting ef- continued on page 8 Latin labor leaders Dance brews small profits for fraternity denounce U.S. actions Beer sales leave Kappa Alpha Psi tiny sum By Eric Hermstad the Oct. 14 Homecoming dance. Kappa Alpha Psi will receive a "We rounded it up to 80 cents," By Jennifer Koss check for 80 cents from the Asso- he said. Three members of the Cen- ciated Students. The check was brought to Mon- tral American Trade Union Dele- The fraternity had recently bat- day afternoon's Inter-Fraternity gation spoke in the Student Union tled the Homecoming Committee Council meeting by Stephanie Duer, Monday to protest U.S. interven- over the use of the Student Union A.S. director of community affairs tion in Central America. Ballroom during homecoming. and chair of the Homecoming Com- Miguel Albizures, Marta Riv- KA1'5 relinquished the ballroom mittee. era and Sebastian Castro after the committee met the stipula- However, KAPs was not at the charged the United States with tions the group requested. meeting because they dropped out of preventing unionization in Cen- KAPs had reserved the ball- IFC, said Nate Deaton, IFC presi- tral America to allow "transna- room last semester. dent. tional corporations" to take ad- The stipulations included a de- "I'd hate to think they dropped vantage of cheap labor. mand that KAPs receive 10 percent out of IFC because of the AS., but I About 12 students assembled of the net profits made from the sale don't think they did." Schneider in the Guadalupe Room to hear of beer at the Homecoming dance, in said. the three representatives. order for the Homecoming Commit- Deaton said KAPs had been Guatemalans "see the work- tee to have the ballroom that night. missing the weekly meetings of IFC. ings of the transnational corpora- Michael Schneider, AS. control- He said he was sorry to see them go tions as an oppressor and, Miguel Albizures ler, said the dance made a profit of but thought they did the right thing. Michael Schneider principally . the petroleum . Union leader about $775 from the sale of beer at continued on page 8 A.S. controller transnational corporations," said Guatemalan labor leader, the failure of Guatemala's citi- Albizures. zens to unify against the mili- Since the first U.S. military tary, he said, though "throughout Senate OKs bill for nerve gas weapons intervention in 1954, Guatemala our history, indigenous people has had a succession of military have risen up and struggled WASHINGTON (AP) The ence, just as he did July 13 ins 50-49 of chemical weapons committee will now have to nego- dictatorships, he said. Histori- against these powers." Senate yesterday approved by a vote on a defense authorization bill. But John Tower, It Tex., chair- tiate the differences between the A cally, these governments have The decade of the '70s was vote of 47-46 to begin the production The Republican-controlled Sen- man of the Senate Armed Services House and Senate. failed to consider the interests of marked by efforts to unify, he of new nerve gas weapons, as Vice ate Appropriations Committee had Committee, successfully moved to The defense appropriations bill the Guatemalan people, choosing said, involving industrial work- President George Bush cast the de- sided with the House and recom- restore money for the nerve gas includes $766.9 million in other funds to persecute them instead. ers, education leaders and stu- ciding vote for the second time in mended blocking nerve gas funding weapons to a $252.5 billion defense for defensive measures against 'They have a policy in Gua- dents. The military regime suc- four months on the issue. and continuing the 14-year freeze by bill. temala which is called 'scorched ceeded in suppressing these The House earlier rejected the the United States on the production A congressional conference continued on page 8 earth,' " Albizures said. "You efforts. $124 million program, assailed by might remember that from Viet "For the past 29 years, after opponents as gruesome, immoral Nam, which has, as an end, the the military takeover, there have and a threat more to civilians than extermination of the whole indig- been more than 100,000 assasina- soldiers. SJSU student victim in hit and run auto accident enous (regional) community." lions" he said. But the Senate's decision fol- Sixty percent of Guatemala's These include 90 university lowed arguments by President Rea- By Mike Holm Stephen Gale, 26, was arrested by University Po- population is indigenous and professors, 300 teachers and 100 gan and others that the "binary" An SJSU student was the victim in a hit and run lice Officer Brian Garret. After failing a field sobriety each region has a different lan- trade union leaders. bombs and artillery shells should be accident late Monday night. test, Gale was charged with felony drunken driving guage, he said. The total number The situation in El Salvador produced to prod the Soviet Union Steven Springer was traveling east on San Carlos and felony hit and run. Gale was then turned over to of languages in Guatemala is 22, is similar to that in Guatemala. into a negotiated reduction of chemi- Street between 10th and 11th streets at approximately San Jose Police. and 70 percent of the population Rivera, a member of a Salvado- cal stockpiles. 10:30 when his motorcycle was struck from behind by is illiterate, Albizures said. ran teacher's union, said. But "There is no fiscal reason, a late-model Cheverolet El Camino pickup. Springer San Jose Police Officer Rudy Hernandez, said Eighty-one out of every 1,000 chil- Salvadorans "struggle to be no negotiating reason and no mili- was thrown forward over the motorcycle's handle- Gale probably did not see Springer before striking the dren die in infancy and 81 percent able to create better working tary reason, there is no reason of bars, according to police reports. motorcycle. Witnesses said after the accident Gale of the country's children are mal- conditions and better salaries." any kind to produce this weapon," He was taken to Kaiser-Permanente Medical Cen- parked his car on 11th Street and walked back approx nourished. she said. "The response of our said Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. ter in Santa Clara, where he was examined and re- imately 50 feet to where Springer lay. When Gale say. These problems contribute to continued on page 8 In a rare, dramatic repeat of his leased, said Matt Bringuel, a member of Sigma ('hi, UPD cars approaching, he attempted to run away and constitutional role as president of Springer's fraternity. was arrested the Senate, Bush made the differ- Page Ttollomm Wednesday, November 9, 1983/Spartan Daily LE)i.P_LICAA Published for the University and the Univers,: y Cumniumty THIS IS -Thie PEN 71-4 .AT by the Department of Joumahsm and Mass Communications Mike Betz Lou Dynes PRES 117ENT RONALD REAGAN Editor Advertising Manager USED TO SIG-N Mike Holm LEGISLATION City Editor DESIC7NATiNG- A NATIONAL- Scott Bontz Mike McGuire Layout Editor News Editor HOLIDAY IN HONOR OP Janet Cassidy Forum Editor SLAW CIVIL RIG4475 LEADER MARTIN LL/114ER K NG- JR .