Services Face 'Drastic Cuts' in Brown Budget
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Spartan Daily Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 VOLUME 64 NUMBER 27 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1975 PHONE: 277-3181 Services face 'drastic cuts' in Brown budget By Terry LaPorte services fee to make up the difference, professional worker and one clerical Services Dean Robert Martin said. Martin said. The financial aid office would be a 13 to 15 per cent reduction in student position. Martin said the survey was conducted "For example, if the housing service forced to be closed to the public three "Drastic cuts" are in store for services staff will result. at the request of A.S. President John now takes 40 per cent of the budget, we hours a day. student services programs in the state Student Activities and Services - Staff reductions are expected in these Rico. reduced them 40 per cent in the sur- "Financial aid problems are com- university system if Gov. Brown cuts one professional and part of a clerical areas: The results will be presented to the vey," Martin said. pounded because its office is already $5.3 million from education funds. worker's hours would be cut. Health Services - loss of two governor and members of the Martin then asked each program to understaffed," Martin said. Testing loss of one-half of a According to a student services physicians, two nurses, one technician legislature by Joe Hay, Lobbyist for the list the reductions which would result if "A chancellor's study said the office professional position. survey, SJSU's $280,000 share of the cut and one secretary. California State University and their funds are reduced. here is already understaffed by 10 Housing - loss of one-half of a would cause severe cutbacks in the Counseling - loss of four coun- Colleges Student Presidents The $5.3 million figure includes $2.5 positions. professional position. financial aids, counseling, career selors and one-half of a full-time Association. million for instructional supplies which "There has been an augmentation planning and placement, housing, secretary's hours. The survey said the cuts would also The figures were derived by dividing Brown cut in his state budget proposal item for the last two years to beef up the testing and student activity services. Career Planning and Placement - cause reductions or curtailments of the $280,000 cut into the six student announced in January. office, but that has also been cut out," If the proposed cuts are signed into loss of one professional and one clerical student services programs. services areas. Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post Martin said. law by Brown and if the board of worker. Grim picture "It really is just a crude guestimate," recommended $2.8 million be cut from Program cut trustees do not raise the materials and Financial Aid - loss of one "It's a pretty grim picture," Student proposed salary increases. Brown announced he would go along A reduction in Student Activities and with Post's recommended cuts. Services would cause the elimination of Senate calls "Potentially, there could be a $5.3 one of four programs, which include the million reduction. We wanted to know re-entry program, leisure services, the effects of this," said Martin. SCALE, and the disabled students to halt Eton The possible effects, according to program. Martin, are discouraging. The individual diagnostic testing Health services workers estimated service would be cut and consultation hiring, firing their cut would result in 6,000 fewer on thesis and independent study would patient contacts in one year. be eliminated. Also, a "drastic" reduction in birth A nearly total elimination of service for off-campus housing By Don Ketterling control programs would result. to students student housing A "Cease-Fire Resolution" calling Unhealthy cuts would result in the for a suspension of hiring and firing in The preventative health and health service. the Economics Department was passed education programs would be partially Martin emphasized the survey is only by the SJSU Academic Senate Monday. or completely curtailed, Martin said. a rough estimation of the results if the A second resolution calling for advice Cuts to counseling services would $5.3 million cut goes into effect. and assistance from the California cause 7,000 fewer student contact "We didn't have the capabilities of State Universities and Colleges (CSUC) hours. working with a computer. (statewide) Academic Senate on the The programs for graduate student "You could punch in data into a Economics controversy was also training, the outreach program, and computer and it would spit out passed. consultative services to faculty and reductions by payroll classifications The suspension of hiring and firing is departments would be cut back. instead of our straight percentage intended to be in effect until the In Career Planning and Placement, cuts," Martin said. completes there would be a substantial reduction Senate's Liaison Committee "Multiply the effects by 19 because firing of in the listings of job placements, which its investigation into the all of the campuses in the system will now places 26,000 people in part-time several economics instructors and the be affected similarly," Martin said. jobs. loss of faculty voting rights in the Martin said it is possible that only The Career Information Center would Economics Department. part of the cuts will stand in the final have to reduce its office hours and the SJSU President John Bunzel budget. removed those voting rights last curtailment or discontinuance of in- semester citing "severe internal dif- dividual advisements and job seminars Also, the board of trustees could vote ficulties." would also result. to raise the materials and services fee officials said in the by $16 to make up for the cuts. The resolution was sponsored by John Financial Aids in the processing "However, the board will be under Rico, A.S. president; George Moore survey major delays applications would fantastic pressure not to raise the and David Eakins, professors of of financial aid fees," Martin said. history; Milton Anderson, associate result. could not be notified "If the services meant that much, professor of psychology; Clay Trost, Recipients of aid summer. They are now maybe the students would be willing to student representative to the senate; until late notified by late spring. accept the increase," Martin said. and Conrad Borovski, associate professor of foreign language. Rico, Moore and Eakins are also members of the Liaison Committee. Lorren Au The resolution seeks to avoid any Rico warns faculty SJSU ACADEMIC VICE PRESIDENTHobert Burns, is known for his sardonic wit and his political gambits. "suggestion that the administration is using the lengthy senate investigation to gain time to carry out a 'house cleaning' in the Economics Depart- Hobert Burns wielding power ment." on bargain ing issue James Willis, Economics Depart- ment chairman has recently offered full-time teaching positions to SJSU By John Bodle while sparking praise, criticism economics lecturers. A.S. President John Rico delivered Some faculty members see this as an his "ultimatum" to the SJSU faculty attempt to block reinstatement of three senate Monday afternoon, focusing on By Phil Trounstine matters deliberately and wields his power sparingly. radical economists who lost their jobs the possible effects of collective He read "Peter Pan" when he was six and concluded he Others say he is "bright but not deep" and point to his last year. bargaining on students. never wanted to grow up. Now that he's 55, many of his brash, sometimes impetuous reaction to events. Rico stressed the need for student The second resolution was passed by colleagues will swear he never hasa charge he insists is Still others say he's ruthlessready to sweep away those representation on a collective unanimous vote. untrue. who would oppose him. bargaining board to protect student Submitted by Charles (Mac) Larsen, He's known for his impulsive temper, his sardonic wit, his He's been known to storm out of a Council of Deans interests. professor of mathematics, the political gambits and his unsung male chauvinism. meeting in one minute, then fire off an apologetic memo in No collective bargaining legislation resolution is a response to a recom- His efforts to bolster SJSU's liberal arts and science of- the next. has been passed for university em- mendation made to Charles Adams, ferings have sparked heated debate. His allies applaud him His memos, in fact, have become somewhat of an inside ployes, but several bills are now before (SUC Academic Senate chairman, while his antagonists deprecate himthere is little middle joke around the university: his secretary says he's written the state legislature. Burns, SJSU Academic ground. more than 2,000 of them in his seven years at SJSU. from Hobert "To have collective bargaining President. He is, most agree, the second most influential man on the "One in particular I remember," recalls a department Vice without students' involvement would be in paper SJSU campus and yet he wears his power well, if not secretary, "was a parody on efficiency Burns advised Adams that the like having democracy without elec- modestly. management. statewide Academic Senate should not tions," Rico told the Academic Senate. pages and pages long and really hilarious. He said Plain suits, skinny ties, simple shoeshe exudes tidy in- "It was take any action related to the "It would not be just to those it would department secretaries are the real bosses around here formality, an almost casually thrown-together look. the Economics Department until the most seriously and dramatically af- trouble because he wrote a follow-up The years have taken their tollthe face is etched with and evidently got in Liaison Committee completes its in- fect," he said. apologizing to the women who were offended." experience, the shoulders slightly haunched.