Carter's Early Concession Kept Liberals from Polls, Say SJSU Professors

Spartan Daily Volume 75, Number 49 Serving the Son Jose State Community Since 1934 Friday, November /, 1910 Many voters stayed home Carter's early concession , kept liberals from polls, say SJSU professors by Wayne Norton continued. Construction interests succeeded in electing and Mary Washburn five out of the seven council candidates they endorsed, Jimmy Carter didn't do California Democrats any according to Christensen. favors by conceding Tuesday night's election an hour Builders have "grown more sophisticated" in their before the polls closed, according to three SJSU political selection of candidates, he said, choosing candidates they experts. aren't "wildly enthusiastic" about, but who have a strong Although they fall at different points on the political chance to win. spectrum, political science professors William Borges, Other interest group endorsements were less suc- Terry Christensen and Department Chairman Roy Young cessful, according to the political science professor. agreed during a panel discussion in the Student Union The two candidates endorsed by the liberal Campaign Wednesday that Carter's action kept liberal voters away for Economic Democracy were defeated in their districts from the polls. where the endorsement was made a campaign issue by "Carter really hasn't learned anything about politics their opponents. in four years," Christensen said. "I hope he likes peanut "The attacks may well have worked," Christensen farming." said, noting I,u Ryden's unexpected win in District I and Voters who came to the polls after Carter's 7 p.m. Claude Fletcher's victory in District 10. photo by Torn Surges announcement were "very angry about it," Christensen Two of the three candidates endorsed by the San Jose Dave Damon, said. Mercury-News won council seats. ( The paper did not Douglas Ryan and Bob Mills, officers in the Theta Chi fraternity, discuss upcoming activities. The early concession may have kept some liberal make recommendations in two council districts.) voters in front of their television sets rather than in the The Mercury News editors were "real important with voting booths, he contended. Some progressive candidates their endorsement patterns," he said. "They tried to be in the local non-partisan elections "could have used the even more important than they turned out to be." Frat objects to wild party image, extra votes," he added. Six of the seven candidates endorsed by the Besides the winning council candidates, he said, Vice policemen's union were elected. The police and Mayor Jerry Estruth and building interests were big firefighters unions pushed for the successful binding winners in the city elections. arbitration measure. claims Mercury coverage unfair Along with Councilman Tom McEnery, Estruth has Christensen noted that seven of the 11 council can- expressed an interest in running for mayor when Janet didates ( including the mayor) are now women, con- by Kathy Dutro Mills was quoting a line from an but added that he thought a "fair Gray Hayes' second term expires in 1982. tributing to San Jose's reputation as "the feminist capital It was a warm autumn af- article about Theta Chi that ap- shake" would be given to other The election results found Estruth on the winning side of the country." ternoon and the Theta Chi fraternity peared in last Sunday's California aspects of fraternity life. of the binding arbitration issue, a city-wide measure He was quick to point out, however, that this does not house was enveloped in serenity. As Today, a magazine section in the Corwin said he felt the section of opposed by McEnery. necessarily mean that all of the women elected are strong the front door opened, the gentle San Jose Mercury-News. According the article where he detailed the Estruth's endorsement of several successful council feminists. sound of one of the brothers scouring to Mills, the article was one-sided, fraternity's plans to promote a new candidates should also help boost his mayorial Christensen said he was "a little disappointed" with the sink drifted from the kitchen. biased and sensationalized. image helped balance the article. aspirations, Christensen said. the outcome of the city's first district elections. He was a 'A fraternity is not a place However, the author of the "The story was about one "It will be interesting to see if he can sustain that prime mover in the city's change from at-large elections where 'kegs roll out the door,' "said article, Miles Corwin, said he fraternity during rush," not about ( advantage)," he said. to district elections in 1979. Bob Mills, fraternity president, in a believes his story was balanced. the fraternity system as a whole, "If anybody was successful, it was the builders," he -continued on page 3 recent interview at the house. Corwin said references he made to Corwin said. improvements in the fraternity "A distinction should be made A.S. freezes advertising funds for boycott balanced out the wilder tales. between the copy, the headlines and Mills said many of the wilder the pictures," Corwin added. He incidents referred to in the article said his story was "reasonably occurred several years ago. For balanced" but added that he disliked Fraternity threatens legal action against A.S. instance, the article said Theta Chi the headline, which read "Animal had been on probation "several Ficuse: If you thought it was just a times in the past few years." movie, brace yourself for the men of D. Stroth by Stephen "We want to get payment" for the ads, Zamudio said after the meeting. "That type of lifestyle is no Theta Chi." Sigma Chi, an SJSU fraternity, has threatened possible legal action "Whatever we have to do to get it, we'll do. It may mean small claims court. longer acceptable in this com- "I didn't like the headline against the Associated Students of SJSU for not honoring a contract for $80 They're willing to sit on it. I'm not." munity," Mills said. because I wasn't doing an 'Animal worth of advertising in the fraternity's Derby Days advertising booklet. Despite the board's lack of action, Director of Academic Affairs Jim According to Don DiShane, House' story," Corwin said. "It According to Derby Days chairman Mark Zamudio, the A.S. purchased Rowen called the situation a "lack of communication" that left the board arsistant dean of student services, didn't fit the story." He added that three ads in the fraternity's charity fund-raising booklet and then froze the "sitting here with egg on our face" because the contract would not be the fraternity has been on "clear he had no voice in choosing the A.S. funds set aside to pay for them because Derby Days was sponsored by honored. status with the university since the pictures or writing the headlines. Coors, whom the A.S. is currently boycotting. Fil said that he and A.S. President Mike Medina froze the funds on fall of 1978." Theta Chi member Doug Ryan "We didn't have full disclosure," A.S. business manager Jean Lenart October 13, preventing any further expenditures on the A.S. funded and Corwin pointed out he did not said that Corwin was in the house for said. Sigma Chi organized Homecoming activities. say the fraternity was on probation a large part of three weeks and he "Tom ( AS. Controller Tom Fil ) and I were not aware in any way that They also cancelled the purchase order on the Derby Days ads. The now, only that it had been in the had a lot of pictures taken. they were affiliated with Coors," she said. "Otherwise we wouldn't have funds were frozen because the Coors sponsorship of both events was an- past. After he left to write the story, signed the purchase order." nounced at the Homecoming game and displayed on banners in Spartan Mills added that only two "When you enter a contract there is some element of full disclosure," Fil Stadium. the photographer, George Wedding, members living in the house now came back and said none of the said. "We were duped." "My feeling is, go ahead Sigma Chi, sue us," Fil said. That Sigma Chi were even in the fraternity at that Lenart said no A.S. funds can be used for any programs or events would pursue the matter is "ridiculous," he added. pictures turned out and he needed to time, and they had nothing to do with take more. sponsored or co-sponsored by Coors, according to the A.S. budget Fil and Medina called Zamudio that Monday to cancel the ads. Zamudio the probation. stipulations. was unable to comply, however, because the booklet "had already been According to Mills, Corwin told Ryan said all the pictures The A.S. has been boycotting Coors for alleged unfair and taken to the printer that maiming, and they ( Fil and Medina ) called to cancel him his main purpose in writing the printed in the paper were taken at discriminatory labor practices for two years. that afternoon," Zamudio said. article was to show how a fraternity that time, during an Alpha Phi Zamudio took his case to the A.S. board of directors' meeting on Wed- "If there was some way to get the ads out, I would have," he said, "even operates during rush, the period exchange party. nesday, but the board did not agree to pay the $80. though the ad deadline was Frida7, Oct. 10." when new members are recruited. Mills said that although nothing -continued on page 4 "I don't see very much about in the article was actually untrue, rush in there," he said. Corwin wrote a sensational article Mills said he knew the reporter "at our expense." A topsy-turvy look at study habits wanted to write about the parties, -continued on page 3 Job Corps gives youth a chance to start over by Mary Washburn Young people can leave job and academic failure outside the door when they walk into the Job Corps employment training center.

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