Not Enough Funding for Rec Center 11Th Street Death Probed

1582 no Ity rie Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 r0- Volume 79, No 43 Thursday, October 28, 1982 to In- Would you buy a used pumpkin from this lady? n’ Not enough so ity funding for of Rec Center Costs miscalculated, Evans says By Eric lach and Carolyn Kennedy The Recreation and Events tion of which now goes to the Rec Center that students approved in an Center project, Evans said. advisory referendum last March To pay for the project, the cannot be built without reducing the Student Union fee was raised $10 at scope of the project or finding ad- the start of this semester, and in 1983 ditional funds. the fee will go up another $30 and That was the message remain at $40 for the next 30 years. Executive Vice President J. Handel The report indicates that the Evans delivered to a stunned S.U. Rec Center portion of the S.U. fee board of directors meeting Tuesday. would have to be raised to $65.17 in "It seems that this board has order to pay for the $13 million reached a point where some very center that students voted for last serious thought should be given to March. the scope of the project and to the Private funding could also solve next step the board wishes to take," some of the project's financial Evans said. problems, Evans said. Evans presented a 13-page "Private funding for a project report which indicates that at the like this is of incredible value," he time of last spring's student elec- said. Evans said another solution would be to reduce the scope of the 3110'-- 'Serious thought should be given to the scope of this project' -- J. Handel Evans Hilarie Wnght, a sophomore art major, models a mask during a Halloween costume dental plaster, was constructed in a makeup class Dental plaster is commonly rummage sale in the Speech and Drama Building Wednesday, The mask, made of used for casts for broken limbs, as well as Halloween masks. project. SJSU President Gail Fullerton Kw Kopp has said she is against eliminating J. Handel Evans features of the center students wore death promised. 11th Street probed tions, the costs of the Rec Center However, Bob Martin, dean of were badly miscalculated. student services, voiced support for By Puma &sinned. According to the report, reducing the project's scope at Santa Clara County Coroner's officials are ministrative support officer at the coroner's headband around her head. proponents of the project estimated Tuesday's meeting. "Students when still attempting to determine the cause of death office. Destro also said the body was partially the cost of floating a $13 million they voted last spring did not vote on of a woman found dead Tuesday afternoon in her The county does not have its own criminal clothed but declined to comment on what she was construction bond rather than the a specific plan for a Rec Center," he studio apartment at 234 11th St., one block from toxicology laboratory, and that information wearing. cost of constructing a $13 million said. SJSU. must be secured from a laboratory operated by "If it is a murder, there are certain details building. "We do not know if it's a murder yet," said the Santa Clara County District Attorney's of- that must be withheld and kept confidential," The actual cost of the proposed "This is a highly idealized San Jose Police Lt. Don Trujillo referring to the fice, Fait said. Destro said. center would be $21 million, not $13 program," Martin said of the death of 23-year-old Laverne Denise Baker. Trujillo said a two-man detective team has Morray said he did not touch anything in the million, the report indicates. original Rec Center plan. "It con- It was originally believed Baker may have been assigned to the case for preliminary in- room and did not need to check Baker's pulse. The center considered in the tains everything that anyone could been an SJSU student. However, university vestigation, but the matter is "in the hands of the "I can tell death when I see it," Morray said. report is the "best case" center ever think of that would go into the records indicate she is not registered. coroner." "I've seen plenty of them when I was in which "incorporates everything that Rec Center." "I've checked with admissions and records Trujillo said that if the coroner releases Harlem." everybody wants," Evans said, Martin told the board, "You are and continuing education, and Baker has not nor results of the autopsy that indicate a murder was Sandi Day, another manager at the 11th including swimming and diving not committed to anything by that has she ever been a student at San Jose State," committed, homicide division will do "whatever Street apartment building, said that "tenants pools, racquetball courts, a large referendum. Absolutely nothing. We said Richard Staley, SJSU community relations is necessary to handle it." told me Sunday her light was on for a couple of multi-use gym, a 10,000-seat concert are committed to a concept." manager. Until official results are available, however, days." facility, a weight room, a ski slope The remaining solution, Evans The Baker autospy was completed by doc- the preliminary investigation will continue, Morray said he detected no odor in Baker's and a rock-climbing wall, among said, would be for the board to tors Wednesday afternoon and there was no Trujillo said. room, indicating she probably was not dead for a other things. proceed with its under-financed evidence of physical trauma that would have Baker lived in a small apartment on 11th long period of time. He said magazines and a The costs not originally taken plans. Features left out of the center caused death, according to Trujillo. Street between San Carlos and San Antonio vase were knocked off a table, a television an- into consideration are those for lack of money could be added "There was some speculation that it was a streets, ins building with 22 other residents. tenna had fallen to the floor and clothes were associated with floating the bond later if the center is designed to strangulation and there is nothing in the autopsy Rollin Morray, one of two managers at the strewn around the room. and readying the project before the allow for that, he added. to indicate that," Trujillo said. two-story building, said Baker's body was found "She was very quiet," Morray said. construction phase. SUBOD chairman Matt Trujullo also said it may be four to six weeks by a cleaning woman who summoned him to the Baker had been living at the apartment Urging the board "not to panic," Bogoshian named a subcommittee before a toxicology report would be available to room. building since Oct. 19, according to Morray. Evans outlined several options to meet next Tuesday and begin determine if alcohol, poison or drugs were Police said earlier reports from witnesses "She was cute and seemed nice," said one available to the board. exploring reduction of the project's present in the victim's body. that the victim was blindfolded were false. resident. One possible solution would be to scope and sources of private fun- It is not unusual for an investigation to take Detective Sgt. Mark Destro of San Jose Police, Morray said he did not know if Baker had raise the Student Union fee, a por- ding several weeks, according to John Fait, ad- said Baker was not blindfolded, but she had a any family members in San Jose. Mayor Hayes: SJSU students Sweat Lodge experience By Ken Colson not ignored by city on parking v were in the womb of Mother pray." Then he tossed spitting mad two lodges in his backyard, but it Earth -- my relations and I. The demons upon the rocks. hadn't taken him out of East San rocks breathed red light in the Water played tricks with Jose. When he prayed he thanked Alejandro safety standards. By Room center of our ring and warmed our temperature and puffed cedar- Wanda Tanka Takshula for the Mayor Janet Gray Hayes said at Tuesday's City Hayes made her statement that the city was not toes. The 12 of us were squeezed scented steam into our lungs. Some Earth, the animals, the trees, the Council meeting that the Council was not trying to ignoring SJSU after Duer asked the Council not to inside the round tent-like lodge sighed and exhaled through their preservation of all living things. during the parking dilemma. overlook the students. ignore SJSU students which sloped just over our heads as teeth in protest. But the heat Candlaria wouldn't explain, for assure you," she told Associated Students Duer, who spoke after the Council had already "Let me we sat naked on some old carpets. It penetrated the lungs, the blood, the print, the meaning of the symbols or Stephanie Duer, "that we do not ever proposed to lower the rates, told Council members that representative was as though Grandfather held us bones, and made liquid of our skin. the words of the Lakota songs he you (to feel that way). We feel very much a part she empathized with the city's current situation of want in the cups of his hands. "Don't think about the heat," sings in the lodge, the meaning of the having to repay $243,000 a year in bond payments for of the university." Chemo Candlaria, the keeper of Candlaria said.

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