Disabled Will Get Shuttle City Axes Marine World Site by Larry Hooper the City Where Marine World Relo- "That Lack of Stability Would by Janet Cassidy Metz
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St. Pat's traditions, recipes & hots pots ... SEE PAGE 5 Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 Volume 80, No 32 I hut %day Mat ch 1/ 1983 Board blames A springy beat 'Sparse' ads for $4,300 loss By Craig Carter A $4,300 loss on two concerts this weekend has the Associated Students program board thinking twice about ever again co-sponsoring an event with the Women's Center or any other campus organization. Members expressed anger and frustration at Monday's program board meeting for what Bob Gibson, lively arts chairman, called "sparse" adver- tising by the Women's Center for the Wallflower Order and Robin Flower concerts in Morris Dailey Auditorium on March 11 and 12. "Unless they have their act together," the program board shouldn't even think of co-sponsoring an event, Gibson said at Monday's meeting. Bluegrass musician Flower and the feminist dance collective Wallf- lower Order drew 90 ticket buyers apiece to the 1200, capacity auditorium and generated $351 and $286.50 respectively far less than the $2,200 the board spent on Flower, or the $2,700 spent on the Order. No more than a $400-$500 loss was anticipated going into the shows, said Dan Ross, program board director. He classified the shows as cultural en- When the Wallflower Order saw the size of its audience it wanted to do half a show richment events the board often lose money. The board had informally agreed with the Women's Center to pick up the tab for the shows in return for the ticket revenue. The Women's Center would handle the advertising and ticket sales. The center's promotion was called "lackadaisical" by Ross. The shows were not advertised to the general public, but were instead directed towards community women's centers, feminist and gay publica- acy ey tions, said Karen Hester, co-coordinator of the Women's Center. The shows were also advertised in 400 flyers and 1,000 brochures and Inspired by Tuesday's sunshine these five rhythm devils get together to -celebrate life' Edwards (Human Performance senior) and Paul Williams (Interior Design senior) rap with an impromptu lam session behind the music building. On the supermarket version along on bongos and cowbells. Hidden behind Wieske is Marvin Chatman (Music - were included with regular Womyn's Week advertising, Hester said. sesort "We had no idea the of the congos me Music seniois Tam Wieske (left) and Kevin Borges, while Clarence Continued on pep II Disabled will get shuttle City axes Marine World site By Larry Hooper the city where Marine World relo- "That lack of stability would By Janet Cassidy metz. Kelley Park is no longer being cates. jeopardize the city's bond rating and The university's parking committee Wednesday "Maintenance after that will be up to the Disabled considered as a relocation site for San Jose commisssioned Ralph may leave us holding a white unanimously approved 23 disabled-parking spaces and a Students Office." he said. Marine World-Africa U.S.A. Anderson and Associates, a consult- whale," she said. 10th Street parking garage shuttle for next semester. The shuttle will be running by next fall, Nemetz San Jose City Council voted ing firm, to investigate the possible Locating the park in a resi- Parking officials will add 15 spaces to the 10th Street added. Tuesday to remove Kelley Park, means of financing the Marine dential neighborhood was another garage first floor this June when they restripe the entire Other campuses, including San Francisco State Uni- about a block from SJSU's south World's relocation. problem Williams had with the Kel- garage to add 172 regular spaces. Three more disabled- versity, already have a successful shuttle service, he campus, from consideration. The confidential report filed by ley Park site. parking spaces will be added to the area near the resi- said. However, the council directed Anderson and Associates recom- Demetrios, however, didn't see dence halls and one in front of the Univerity Police Of- The additions would bring the total number of dis- city officials to investigate other mended the city consider sites other it as a problem. fice. abled-parking spaces to 107, within the federal possible locations in San Jose for the than Kelley Park for Marine World, "We have kids grow up with us Martin Schuller. coordinator of the Disabled Stu- guidelines for SJSU. Nemetz said. park, said Frank Taylor, assistant according to Jim Herringer, who from the neighborhood we are in dents Office, also suggested using the existing Disabled The guideline suggests 2 percent of the 5,323 spaces city manager. prepared the report. now," he said. "By the time they are Services cart for a garage-to-building shuttle for dis- on campus be painted blue for disabled drivers. Marine World announced last "It is quite feasible that Marine 12, we know them on a first name abled students, faculty and staff members. The proposal reflects an agreement reached by Ne- July the plans for relocation. The World can move to San Jose," he basis. By the time they are 16, they The university parking and alternative transporta- metz and Schulter over the lack of disabled-parking property the park leases in Redwood said before the meeting. "But Kel- are working for us," he added. tion advisory board unanimously agreed to set aside $5,- spaces currently available on campus. Nemetz said. City is slated for office devel- ley Park is not our recommenda- Williams also said that she be- 000 in alternative transportation funds for the staff who opment. tion." lieves San Jose can find a more ap- will operate the shuttle. "Disabled Students agreed to accept the new spaces Marine World President Mi- For Marine World to relocate in propriate location for the park The office of traffic management and parking will as compensation" for the low existing number of chael Demetrios said the bulk of fi- Kelley Park, the city would have to within one of the city's redevel- handle the shuttle staffing, said traffic manager Ed Ne- spaces, Nemetz said. nancing would have to come from invest $25 million in the project, opment areas. Councilwoman Iola Williams said. If the park was moved to a rede- This $25 million would have to come velopment area. she said, financing through mortgage revenue bonds is- the project would not put a "drain on sued by the city. If the park did not the budget." SJSU may get automated banking tellers succeed, the city would be left with Councilwoman Susan Hammer, the bill for the construction of the representing the downtown area, in- By Carrie Hagen "We are pursuing the idea of multiple automated tellers, hopefully from park, she said. William's district in- cluding SJSU, originally supported The beeping of automated bank tellers may be heard in or around the several banks," Barrett said. cludes Kelley Park. locating Marine World in Kelley Student Union soon, according to Ron Barrett, S.U. director. Barrett proposed the automated banking idea to the Student Union "I believe San Jose will become Park. She said that the park would Representatives from five banks were interviewed Friday by an S.U. board of director three years ago. At that time the board voted it down. known for the quality of life it offers provide jobs, especially for students staff committee. The committee is looking into the possibility of putting au- A year ago, the board decided to seek permission from the California its citizens rather than whether it at SJSU. However, Hammer also tomated tellers on campus. State University Chancellor's Office for the tellers. The chancellor autho- has an amusement park with seals, now opposes the Kelley Park loca- The committee members are chairman Terry Gregory, Pat Wiley, rized the board to proceed at that time. dolphins. camels and whales," Wil- tion. Adrienne Robison, Gloria Robertson, and Barrett. Barrett said he had hoped for "networking," where several banks would liams said before the meeting. "Marine World would have Barrett said the meeting with the banks was informal. The banks rep- get together on the same computer line. Marine World has gone through meant the loss of Happy Hollow resented were: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Hibernia, Bank of the West, "The technology is there." Barrett said. "The problem several years of financial instabil- Park, the petting zoo and a lot of pic- nic areas in Kelley Park," she said. and Crocker National Bank. C0411111.ii on page ity, according to Williams. "The funding is another issue I am not real comfortable with. I do be- lieve, though, that we can find a suit- able location in San Jose." Other Bay Area cities vying for Anthropology students unearth mammoth elephant the park include Hayward, Moun- tain View, Oakland and Vallejo. By Cheryl Clemmons found a tusk, a tooth and several other bone elements that Me day we were there, we did locate some mammoth Demetrios said the park will SJSU anthropology students have made a mammoth dis- were identified as belonging to a mammoth," said Rick bone," Fitzgerald said. "We were looking in the area where it consider proposals from all of the covery. Fitzgerald, anthropology graduate student. should have been in the stream bed near the bottom, and there cities, but the "time frame is getting By participating in a joint excavation effort with Cabrillo "He I Motz I said that if he had been there a day sooner or a were fragments of mammoth bone." tight." College and the University of California, Santa Cruz, their ef- day later, he probably would have never seen it," Fitzgerald "It was hard work," said Peggy Hartsell, president of the "If someone comes up within forts in digging up the remains of an extinct elephant north of said.