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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 memberstwo 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.

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