REC Study Trip Planned

Special screen edition, see Entertainer Volume 82, No. 17 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Thursday. February 23, 1984 Right on cue REC study trip planned By Karen Salom The SJSU administration and students will be given the chance to visit a facility at the University of Califor- nia. Davis, that is similar to SJSU's proposed Recreation and Events Center. The Student Union Board of Directors will sponsor a bus trip to UC-Davis so the administration and student, can tour the UC-Davis Recreation Hall. Jeff Coughlan, chairman of the SUBOD said the pur pose of the trip is to "familiarize people with what a RE(' is." He said although the building plans for the SJSU Rec Center will not be exactly like the UC-Davis facility, it has the closest resemblance to SJSU's plans in the North- ern California area. According to Coughlan. the bus trip to the university was originally scheduled for last September. Although students showed interest, there was not enough people committed to the trip so it was rescheduled. Coughlan said the board is urging people to go on the trip because viewing the UC-Davis Rec Hall could provide good insight for those concerned about the Rec Cen- ter. "I think it's (the UC-Davis trip) a great idea. - Coughlan said, adding that the people at SJSU can better understand the Rec Center plans by seeing an actual center. He said the Rec Center is just an abstraction for the campus. Ron Barrett, S.U. director, said he thinks the trip to Thomas Hardy VC-Davis "will give students the opportunity to see a Rec Farrukh All, a junior, lets loose with a low-percentage shot in the Student Union games area as friend Vish Akella looks on. Center in use." Barrett added that,-SJSU administration and students are welcome to go on the trip continued on back page City council ratifies parking plan KSJS presents By Melissa Calvo a 85.647 fee, according to Dennis low cost of city parking, private per 1,000 square feet and housing feasibility study An ordinance that would pro- Korbiak, San Jose's city parking operators could not come in and requires one space. Korbiak said. vide uniform parking require- coordinator. accomodate new contractors. ments throughout the downtown The basic situation down- Gary Schoennauer, director The ordinance does not in- By Cindy Roberts Gillis Hall. area was approved by the San town is that the city had no park- of planning, said "everyone is clude nightclubs, theaters and KSJS representatives presented Jose City Council at its Tuesday ing requirements at all," Kor- treated equally" under the new restaurants, because they are their feasibility study for the trans- The feasibility study outlines op- night meeting. biak said. ordinance. mostly in use at night when park- fer of the station to the Student erational and technical problems, as The downtown area includes She said the proposal was It also established a parking ing is not a problem, she said. Union Board of Directors on Tues. well as potential problems and solu- the West Guadalupe Freeway, made after her study on city to building space ratio, he said. The ordinance was supported (lay. tions, and lists three essential areas North Julian Street. East Fourth parking was completed. by nine council members. Mayor needed for the station: an on-air stu- Street and South Interstate 280. "We couldn't build up enough This would require 1,2 park- Tom McEnery abstained from KSJS General Manager Joel dio, a production studio and more of- money to accommodate new de- ing spaces per 1.000 square feet voting because of possible con- Wyrick and Faculty Adviser Dr fice space. The ordinance requires new velopers," Korbiak said. of floor area for each commer- flict of interest resulting from his James Lull feel a more centralized developers to provide parking San Jose has city-operated cial building. Retail buildings ownership of land in the down- location will help the station better SUBOD suggested the station spaces for their buildings or pay parking, she said, and with the would require 21? parking spaces town area serve the campus community. The could move into the old Bike Shop station is currently housed in Hugh downstairs in the Student Union, but Wyrick and Lull said that space is too small. The room is less than Sensationalism sells, local newsman says eight feet wide. This space could be modified if By Mark Freeman "They think that the best way to "We are trying to focus our part of the adjoining games area Television newscasts are struc- manage a station is holding the news coverage here, because San could be used, Lull said, but added tured because the station "wants power of firing over your head all Jose will be the dominant center of that this space is less accessible to students. Remodeling costs would you to look at their commercials," the time." the Bay Area because of Silicon Val- also have to be considered. local anchorman Jan Hutchins said One can prepare a "long list of ley," he said. Tuesday. people who had bad experiences" at "The people in San Jose have a "They put the most sensational Channel 4, he said, although the "on perceived inferiority complex. One Lull and Wyrick would like to things first, and who can find the air" people at Channel 4 were "good half of the population now lives here see the station move production into weirder stories," the KICU (Chan- folks." It was the management with ( the South Bay), and it is growing the Music Listening Room annex. nel 36) newsman said in an informal whom he found his difficulties. very rapidly. By 1990 or 2000. it will and house offices in the adjacent talk in the S.U. Ballroom. Hutchins, a Yale graduate with be the key to the Bay Area." Montalvo Room. The annex is cur- Hutchins also ripped his old sta- a history background, got his first rently used as a lounge area. It is tion, KRON (Channel 4) in San job in Pittsburgh by walking into a The media market of San Jose is filled with multi-level carpeted Francisco, and spoke of the coming station and asking for a chance. currently the fifth largest market in steps and benches. The Montalvo growth of San Jose and news work in the United States, and "the trend is Room is used for conferences and general. "A black person who sounds up consistently not fast, but al- meetings Being constantly involved with white is marketable. I'm sure that ways up," he said. the news and bombarded with so was a factor ( in landing my first Hutchins used to see his position The floor space of both rooms is much information is a concern of job)," he said. as a broadcast journalist as one ideal for the station's needs, so a Hutchins. Hutchins did sports reporting which could effect change, but he minimum of remodeling would be "It makes me a little more par- for nine years. until his move to has learned that it is not that way. required, Lull and Wyrick said, but anoid about my family. The percep- channel 36 as a full-time anchorman "When I came out of college. I their proposal for the two rooms is tion is, though, erroneous because three years ago. thought I could set the world on fire "by no means a request, just our the news is slightly sensationa- "News is so much easier than I have since come to realize that's recommendation. - lized," Hutchins said. sports it's ridiculous. Sports is much not my job," he said. "All the prophesies of the Bible more rigorous. The people that The station's cost estimates for are coming true," he said. "All watch you really know their sluff. He looks at it now as a crafts modifications of such rooms are $4.- which is supposed to happen is hap- and ( I) just can't smile as much man working with a skill that mans 500 for construction material and pening, and lam more objective (in (doing news)," Hutchins said. have, and it is the politics that keep, labor, $800 for wiring, and $700 for news coverage) because of this." one in a position In national report counters to hold the equipment. His eight months as sports di- He is quite sure, he said, that his ing. he said, one cannot be contro rector at KRON were unpleasant race had nothing to do with being versial because it will affect one', Theater Arts design and techni- and riddled with controversy, Hut-. hired as an anchorman. standing with the broadcast corn cal engineers would provide all of chins said. "The people at (Channel) 36 are pony. the work necessary for the transfer "Have you ever seen Marquis colorblind," Hutchins said. "But "When working under national of facilities. and the radio station de Sade with the insane asylum? they tend to give me weirdo assign- syndication, one loses freedom oi staff would move all of the equip- That was Channel 4," he said. ments because I'm more weird than speech because one represents NB(' ment. There is quite a power struggle black." or any other national news organi between members of the manage- He likes his jot at Channel :16, he zation )," he said. SUBOD referred the matter t ment at Channel 4, and they believe said, because of the vast opportunity "And if you don't do what the its House Committee for further in intimidation and power in manag- San Jose has as the media capital of want.

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