Spartan Daily Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934
VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1975 PHONE: 277-3181 Collective bargaining fight Faculty groups vie for support
By John Bodie way is just not compatible to the Although collective bargaining for university way" of bargaining state university faculty has not even grievances, according to Dr. Richard passed the legislature, it has already Smith, chairman of natural science and sparked a fight between two competing president of the SJSU chapter of CFA. acuity organizations. Smith believes the UPC would use Only one organization will represent strikes widely to enforce their university employes in their grievances which is a lack of negotiations with the trustees, ac- professional responsibility to students cording to a number of proposed bills he said. now awaiting legislative approval. The question is: which group will poll Under the leading collective the majority of votes in a state-wide bargaining bill is the right to strike referendum? unless a court rules that such a strike The answer is now being decided on would "endanger public health or campuses throughout the state, as safety." faculty organizations pull for support. "We feel quite strongly that only The front-runners appear to be through collective bargaining can we United Professors of California (UPC) do anything," said Dr. Bud Hutchinson. and the newly formed Congress of executive secretary of UPC. Faculty Associations (CFA), a group Bud Hutchinson Richard Smith uniting the California State Employees American Association of University Its size and control is being threatened "If you really want some power you'll Association ( CSEA ), the California Professors ( AAUP ). by CFA. ( the faculty) have to get yourselves Colleges and University Faculty The UPC, for years, has been the CFA was developed as an alternative together," he said. Association ( CCUF A ) and the largest of six statewide organizations. to the UPC union because "the union Continued on back page
FTE drop cuts back faculty and classes; David Yarnold Dog days
WHAT'S THERE TO DO on a rainy day in February? Not much; wait Social Science, Humanities hardest hit for somebody to toss the ol' stick, said this pooch. But an inch and a half of rain, and gusts up to 40 m.p.h. over the week- end made stick tossing hazardous. By Dan Williams just have to wait and see," he said. Declining full-time enrollment (FTE) Sawrey said the school is still able to forced SJSU to pay $638,000 back to the provide general education required chancellors office last fall. FTE enrollment crash classes and graduate studies. According to Dr. John Foote, dean of He added that he hopes the quality of academic planning, cutbacks enforced instruction does not suffer. However, he Campus beer decision this spring to enable payment include: necessitates cutbacks noted, if the "inadequate support" 24 fewer full-time faculty positions continues, the school will be in trouble. a reduction in materials and ser- positions this spring, but added next Second hardest hit was the School of vices Full-time enrollment (FTE) is ap- parently crashing at SJSU, and is ex- year, "we'll have around five more Humanities and the Arts. elimination of at least 82 class Dean of the school, Dr. Robert postponed bytrustees psitions vacant. sections pected to drop even more next year, of "It's all tied to enrollment. It's fair Woodward, said, "In order to meet the reduced faculty salaries according to Dr. John Foote, dean planning. that we give up time to other depart- payback we had to cut 5.37 full-time The money paid back to the chan- academic FTE will cause further ments...that need the staff as ( history I faculty ) positions." Translated into By Cheryl Downey It consists, said Barrett, of 15 cellor's office came out of the operating The decline in services, materials, department enrollments drop," he said. class sections the cut in faculty means Students over 21 "might" still be able members two trustees, two university budget. Departments with the greatest reductions in and will affect the Wheeler said enrollment has been 12 fewer class sections. to buy beer at California State presidents, three student presidents, percentage of FTE drop have had to faculty positions going down at a rate of 15 per cent a Universities and Colleges in the future. three faculty members, one dean of reduce materials, services and faculty number of office employes and student Woodward discounted the payback as year over the past three years. Wednesday afternoon, the full board students, one student union director salaries. One student taking 15 units is on-campus jobs, he said. being responsible for a drop in "We just really don't know why we've of trustees voted 9-3-1 to postpone until and three members of the chancellor's one FTE. Foote said the expected annual FTE enrollment. He said he felt students been going down," he said. March a motion to prohibit the sale of staff. "We are down 24 ( full-time) faculty for this year is 19,450. For the 1975-76 look at the job market more now than in However, Wheeler did say that alcoholic beverages on campuses. At the March 25-26 meeting of the positions this spring," Foote said. year the FTE is expected to slide to the 1960s, a period when Humanities "there seems to be a (student) disin- The motion to prohibit the sale of board of trustees, the task force will More than 50 per cent of students' 19,100 for the fall, and to 18,700 for and Arts enrollment increased. terest in things away from the United beer, which had passed earlier in the present their report. fees go to materials and spring. One student taking 15 units Woodward contends students are not registration States" and a lack of intellectual in- committee on gifts and public affairs, Barrett said he found it hard to services. equals one FTE. being inconvenienced by the cutbacks. terest. would have prevented the first meeting imagine why the trustees weren't Foote said these funds are distributed Cutbacks will affect essentially "The school has been able to cover the "Students are staying away in of a task force to study the question. allowing the sale of beer on campuses. to various services and all departments everything except the number of current needs of students in the groves," he said. Gov. Brown attended his first board He said he thought the drinking age of on campus. maintenance people needed for compus classes," he said. Wheeler said that because of this lack of trustees meeting and proposed that 21 was a problem and that if the A large chunk of those funds are up-keep, Foote said. Wheeler, History of interest, history classes on the He said professors are taking on each university president make the drinking age were lowered to 18, the placed into the instruction program Dr. Gerald chairman said his Middle East and India had to be can- more classes, sacrificing community decision on whether a liquor license trustees might feel more comfortable operating expense fund. The fund Department department had to cut six full-time celled. work, advising and doing other should be sought for his campus. allowing the sale of beer on campuses. covers the cost of office supplies assignments in order to deal with the His substitute motion failed but George Sicular of the Civil pencils, paper, etc. and is passed to situation. postponement of the original motion to Engineering Department is also on the departments for expense purposes. Dr. James Sawrey, dean of that school, degree is essentially non-employable prohibit the sale of beer subsequently task force but was unavailable for An increase in FTE covers the costs between 70 and 80 sections of classes and computer registration as factors Woodward called the situation passed. comment. of operating departments sufficiently, were axed from this semester's for the drop in enrollment. -serious," but not yet a "disaster." The task force, created in November, "The trustees were prejudging the Foote said, but "when we don't get the schedule and instructors were dropped. "Every place they begin an Most departments at SJSU have been will meet today for the first time at the work of the committee," said A.S. students, we have to cut back the "We cut back a total of 17 (faculty) automatic ( registration procedure), affected by the cutbacks. Several of the chancellor's office in Los Angeles, President John Rico, reacting to the materials and services." positions," he said. registration drops," he said. most serious situations include the according to Ron Barrett, director of trustees' original move to prohibit the Hardest hit by the cutbacks was the Sawrey blamed the economy, the fact "I don't know what's going to happen History, Psychology and Environ- the Student Union and a member of the sale of alcoholic beverages on campus. School of Social Sciences. According to that a person with a social science to enrollment at this institution. We'll mental Studies Department. task force. "I'm personally in favor of the sale of beer," he commented. However, he added that his mind could be changed depending on the report of the task force. Rico argued that since beer is lap campus, he sees no $80,000 dropped in A.S. Council's available near objections to its on-compus sale. For By Chris Smith Guttormsen noted, however, that the Stephanie Dean, A.S. treasurer, with A.S. funds, she said. general fund until it has been deter- campus residents, that would eliminate AS. Council has $80,000 sitting in its fiscal year was half over when explained that approximately $136,000 On the other hand, Dean pointed out, mined if this and other similar bills will the drinking and driving problem, he lap and doesn't know what to do with it. AS 3116 went into effect and state funds of this year's $460,000 A.S. budget was the $80,000 could be increased to $90,000 be paid by the AS. or the state, Dean said. A recently enacted state law will cannot be applied retroactively to slated to IRA. Of that $136,000, Dean if it is decided that certain IRA ex- said, adding the amount should be close He also thought the sale of beer would provide the AS. general fund the reimburse the A.S. for funds allotted to said, approximately $80,000 had not penditures made prior to Jan. 1 should to $80,000. create a social atmosphere now lacking $80,000 cushion this semester which the IRA that were spent before Jan. 1. been spent as of Jan. 1. be paid with state funds. Dean said she doesn't know how the on campus. AS. treasurer thinks the council should For the remainder of the fiscal year, An example, Dean said, is some A.S. council will spend the $80,000, but Jim Noah, director of university sit on for awhile. Guttormsen said, A.S. budgeted IRA money spent prior to Dec. 31 by the she suggested that special allocation relations, said SJSU President John AB 3116, which became effective Jan. funds that remained unspent as of Jan. That figure could be reduced. Dean basketball team for items not needed requests be considered, currently Bunzel's position on the proposal is 1, provides state funding for Instruc- I will be frozen and the balance of the explained, if any more IRA bills come until after the first of the year. funded programs could be granted that, "he has no objection to beer being tionally Related Activities (IRA) budgeted accounts will be paid with in for money spent before Jan. 1. Those The AS. council won't know exactly more money or increased allocations sold on campus. He is glad the trustees previously supported by A.S. state IRA money. bills would probably have to be paid how much money will go into the could be made to the AS. Program are reactivating the task force to look To qualify for state IRA funds, ac- Board. into the question." cording to a memo from Executive Vice The wisest move, Dean said, would be Chancellor H. E. Brakebill, programs to hold onto the money until after the must be "integrally related to formal Brown budget to cut faculty trustees respond to the Feb. 24-25 instruction." student referendum. Approved activities, the memo said, Through that referendum, students at must either grant college credit the California State Universities and themselves or be "directly related to grant fewer promotions Colleges will be asked to advise the the granting of credit." trustees as to whether they wish to Examples of programs which qualify continue paying A.S. fees at the present for IRA money, which is administered Staff reductions and fewer Brown's "austerity budget" calls for faculty, according to Academic Vice level or cut that amount from 10 to 50 at SJSU by Academic Vice President promotions are in store for SJSU under the elimination of 54 "unneeded" President Dr. Hobert Burns who called per cent. The trustees make the final Hobert Burns, include men's and Gov. Brown's $11.3 billion budget for faculty positions. the possibility "disastrous." decision. women's intercollegiate athletics, 1975-76. This does not include the 24 positions Non-academic salary increases, Dean said if the trustees decide to cut lost in last year's payback of $638,000 t. included in the budget, average 8.5 per fees, it is conceivable they could make Spartan Daily, the Radio-TV News The proposed budget calls for $38.5 the chancellor's office, the money cent. the reduction retroactive to the Center, KSJS, Co-Rec, and music, million in general fund support, a coming mainly from faculty pay Funds included in the budget for beginning of the current semester. dance and drama productions. reduction of the current budget figure allocations. construction and new equipment at That, she said, would force AS. Glen Guttormsen, SJSU director of of $39 million. business affairs, said $2.6 million of Another area of reduction in the SJSU totaled slightly more than $3 councils to reimburse students the 10 to drop of state IRA money was allocated to the 19 This is based on the projected proposed budget is funds alloted for million. These funds will go towards 50 per cent they paid over the new level. students at SJSU state universities and colleges for the full-time equivilancy faculty promotions. rehabilitating the Old Science Building, Without the $80,000 reserve, such a 1975- 1974-75 fiscal year (July 1, 1974 from this year's 19,450 to 19,100 in The system-wide cut for promotions and new equipment for Home reimbursement "would kill us," Dean units equals through June 30, 1975.) 76. One student taking 15 is 75 per cent. While the chancellor's Economics and Science. said. Lot ref. SJSU's share of that, Guttormsen one full-time equivilancy. office has not yet decided how to SJSU President John Bunzel called SJSU students currently pay $10 a BEER ON CAMPUS once again a said, was set at slightly more than One of the hardest hit areas of the distribute this cut, it could mean as few Brown's budget, "neither the best nor semester into A.S. fees. $207,000. budget is faculty positons. as 17 advancements for eligible SJSU the worst." Continued on back page foaming issue. Page 2, February 4, 19 14 -ruczNin.icr --rue Ecc Aomse 4RcONIC7 World's food shortage examined from a 'more positive' viewpoint
By Richard Applegate solution to the food problem is within India's yearly need. SJSU Linguistics Lecturer our present means. We don't have to 3i Drink less alcohol. The grain w As the world food situation hope for improved seed, better fer- consume in the form of beer an deteriorates and "famine" becomes a tilizer, control of the weather, or divine whiskey could feed up to 20 millio household word, we are bound to hear intervention. Here are some steps people. more and more of the terms "triage" which all of us can take, as individuals, 41 Don't over-eat. By some estimate and "lifeboat ethics." right now. 40 per cent of North Americans are ove These alarming terms in con- I) Decrease meat consumption, weight, and the trend is increasing. Pe junction with equally alarming but narticularly beef. It takes 21 pounds of capita we consume five times as muc utterly misleading statistics threaten to plant protein to produce one pound of grain, directly and indirectly, as th paralyze us, to prevent us from taking beef, while the total ratio for all classes average Indian or Nigerian. action now which could prevent human of livestock is 8 to 1. Plant protein can Si Contribute even in these in suffering. Let me present a more be the basis of a balanced and flationary times to CARE and othe positive view of the same facts. nutritious diet. recognized agencies for famine relief "Triage" was a system used in World 2) Save energy, especially petroleum- 6) Make your views known t War I for separating the wounded into based forms of energy which could go government representatives. Ask then three groups: those with relatively into vitally needed fertilizers. The to cut down grain allocations to minor injuries, those seriously but not amount of fertilizer now used in this alcohol, and to insure that grain su critically wounded, and those likely to country for ornamental purposes plies are sold or sent to countries whic die even if treated. Since medical lawns, golf-links, cemeteries) is 3 really need them. supplies were limited, men in this last million tons annually, enough to meet group were left to die without treat- ment. The concept of triage is now being applied to the present world food The profits are there, situation, in which the poor and hungry nations of the world are the third group. Their populations have outstripped their agricultural capacities, the theory but who pays the price? says, so they are as good as dead, and they should be left to die without By Ray Manley wasting the resources of more for- The major U.S. steel companies have tunate countries. cornment posted last year's profits and are Proponentsof triage espouse "lifeboat following in the footsteps of the oil and ethics," drawing on the image of a sugar industries. "profit maximizing animal." This lifeboat at sea. The United States with Steel profits rose from a "humble" 30 apparently true. its food surplusses is the lifeboat, and "embarrbassing 300 per But industry is not an employmen we are the passengers. All around us per cent to an year's profits. maximizing animal, a literac people are drowning, but if we pull cent above last heartening to know that industry maximizing animal, a decent housin Causing confusion can be more them aboard and share what we have, It is solved the age-old growth problem. maximizing animal, a starvatio our supplies will be exhausted and the has has proved it is not important for eliminating animal or a genera boat may sink. Better that a few sur- It and services to be constantly welfare of the people maxirnizin vive than none at all. This is the counsel goods expanding so long as profits continue to animal. than just a career, it can be fun of despair. rise. The serious question of poverty vs. But there are steps which all of us can But in 'roving it can flourish in the plenty in our economy is beautifull By Tom Lee the time he single-handedly take to help end the threat of famine, if midst of recession, the industry is mirrored in the current situation o Dr. Gunther T. Zippo sat down and reorganized the Registrar's Office. By we can see the whole picture. demonstrating that any benefits layoffs vs. rising profits. sighed deeply as he placed the last comment the time he finished, nobody knew what First, we must realize that the image workers receive from private en- Soon the banks will be posting their batch of papers and memorabilia into was going on, including the registrar. of the lifeboat is grossly distorted. terprise are purely coincidental. profits they will be embarrassingly the already overstuffed cardboard Who else, thought Gunther as he When we compare our patterns of Industry doesn't need full em- high. boxes. years. There had been a few rough chuckled, would have thought of using consumption to the rest of the world, we ployment, workers do. There is money to be made, industry He had always known this day would spots, but all in all things had been invisible ink on admissions records? see that our lifeboat looks more like a Remember that industry operating in is proving that. come, but like everyone else, when it pretty good here. Nobody could ever top that one, he pleasure cruiser. Americans comprise a capitalist economy is supposedly a But, at whose expense? finally came he wasn't quite ready for Another smile crossed his lips as he thought. 6 per cent of the world's population, but it. remembered when he reorganized Gunther put his feet up on his old roll- we consume 35 to 40 per cent of its A smile slowly crossed his lips as he walk-through registration for the first top desk for the last time as scenes resources. Our per capita energy remembered a banquet 35 years ago. time. Nobody knew if they were coming from the last 35 years flashed before his consumption is about 60 times that of He remembered the look on his wife's or going. eyes. the average Indian or Nigerian. We Putting a price on life face when the university president Stories are still circulating about the Making a policy not to allow cash to feed 78 per cent of all our grain to made the announcement that Gunther three freshmen who locked themselves be accepted for tuition payments. That livestock; just 10 per cent of the grain T. Zippo would be the next Dean of in the bathroom and refused to come was a good one. fed to beef cattle in this country would Bureaucratic Absurdities and Red out until school provided a lawyer and a Then there was the time he for- suffice to eliminate the grain shortage is something I can't buy Tape. technical consultant to help them mulated the policy on changes of in the countries now faced with star- Ali yes, 35 long years of service to this through registration. major. It's easier to get Congress to vation. fine center of higher education and Yes, those were the good old days. vote to disband itself, thought Gunther Our present priorities are all too be determined simply by his age and higher ideals. And they were good One of Gunther's fondest memories was smugly. obvious in figures from the Department the size of his paycheck, it is perhaps And then there was computer of Commerce's Bureau of Economic comment time to re-examine the phenomenon we registration. Ah yes, a tribute to a Analysis on what the American people call "the capitalist system." fertile mind. CAR was perhaps Gun- spent from June 1973 to June 1974: At a time when paychecks are in- Swallow your pride ther's greatest achievement, his last $77.6 billion dollars on national By Doug Ernst creasingly hard to come by, it imnic hurrah. defense A human life, the one thing humans that the worth of a human life is The nice thing about CAR was that it $22.2 billion dollars on alcoholic supposedly cherish above all things, determined by monetary wealth alone. wasn't a one-shot exercise in futility. beverages has a price on its head. There are those who, speaking and forget the Alamo All he had to do was change the $14.0 billion dollars on tobacco At the inflated interest rate of eight chemically, would argue that a human current value of procedure again and it was good for a $15.5 billion dollars on recreation per cent, Californians are worth life is only worth the found in the By Phil Trounstine son as a wedding present. whole semester of mind-boggling. Then $39.1 billion dollars on dining out $200,000 a piece, according to a recent the organic substances WANTED: One broken-down Texas It's just another instance in which when they finally figured it out, zap The World Food Conference in Rome report by two SJSU economists. body about $5. fort. Will offer outrageous price for Americans are having to recognize they change it again! estimated that $2 billion would alleviate When we allow ourselves to believe may item to be reconstructed in Saudi are no longer the unbridled studs of the That was the secret in this business, the present world food shortage for nine According to the report, a person's we are worth $200,000 apiece, we is still Arabia. world. keeping them off guard. Never let them months. So there is still room in the worth is determined by how many as well be worth $5. The concept know where you'll hit next! lifeboat for everyone if we were willing years he has left in which to be the same. Well, the United States is finally In fact, the Alamo just might be a Suddenly Gunther's reminiscence to part with some of our excess "productive," and by how much money The "system" has gone too far, when getting a taste of her own arrogance. good piece of nostalgia to unload in was interrupted by the buzz of the in- luggage. he produces in that time. it attempts to put a price tag on human Just the other day Sheik Masoud Al- exchange for a few billion barrels of oil. tercom. His secretary's whiny voice cut Second, we should realize that the When the value of a person's life can life, and I, for one, will not buy it. It represents nothing more than an through the silence like an air raid ( comment ) outpost of American imperialism in an siren. age upon which we can only look with "Dr. Zippo, there seems to be a shame--Davy Crocket or no. problem with your retirement papers. I Sharif al Hamadan of Saudi Arabia Some shrewd Washington sent them off this morning in triplicate offered to buy the Alamo. businessmen are even suggesting that and now no one can find even one Texans were up in arms. "Sell the we put the White House up for sale. copy..." Alamo?" they cried. "Never!" Surely there is a magnate somewhere Gunther leaned back in his chair with But what did Americans think the who would pay dearly for the old a twinkle in his eye. A fitting end to a people of other countries were saying building. brilliant career. when art treasures, tombs, castles and We could use the cash to employ other pieces of national memorabilia workers to build a new house for the were being carted off to Washington, President and still have plenty left over New York and Chicago? for other national needs. What did the Indian people say when So Texas, swallow your pride. Sell the letters a U.S. businessman offered to buy the dusty old Alamo to the sheik. It's the Taj Mahal? He wanted to give it to his American way. Protesting is valid It is good to be home but bombing is not Editor: After traveling about in the world for By David Yarnold the past two years, I am pleasantly The "Weather Underground" has surprised to discover I like being back surfaced again. The shock waves of the comment at State. bomb blasts in Washington, D.C., and Traveling, living and working abroad Oakland last Tuesday rolled across the is an experience I'd recommend to all. nation later in the week. -Weather Underground," was to Besides being a lot of fun, it is a Predictably, a rash of bomb scares protest President Ford's proposed $300 tremendously educational experience emptied buildings in a number of major million aid bill to South Vietnam. in that one is able to compare at first cities; these beasts seem to travel in Though it's doubtful that another $300 hand other cultures and life styles. flocks. million will bail South Vietnam out I did not have to travel far and wide Deafening reminders of the violent after $150 billion couldn't, it's just as before realizing the good life we have in protests of the late '60s , Tuesday's doubtful that bombing federal buildings this country. I think that we should all blasts seem all the more shattering in will sway public opinion. stop and think for a minute about the 1975, a year when orderly legislative America swallowed a belly-full of quality of life here. Where is it better? action, i.e. gas rationing, excise taxes destruction in the '60s, both at home I do not believe there is any country on large autos, portend of social change and abroad. Public pressure forced an in the world that has done more for its approaching many of the manifestos of end to the Vietnam war, and Vietnam people in giving them a good material the '60s. protests as well. life and guaranteeing basic freedoms The "Weather Underground" con- The "Weather Underground" that this country has for its citizens. I tinues to terrorize and disrupt while the deserves no shelter, no sympathy from am not for a minute saying the U.S. is other activists of the past, the Rubins, legitimate leftist groups. Their tactics Utopia, but this country has a hell of a Kunstlers and Haydens, have matured are as deadly and destructive as those lot going for it, and I think it's high time and carried their battles to the courts they seek to end; they are blatant we appreciate what we do have. and the legislatures. hypocrites. The protest is valid, the Larry Amkraut The purpose of the bombings, and the bombings deplorable. Junior, Geology