Chancellor's Copyright Policy Proposes Royalties for State
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iemen Spartan Daily Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 LUME 64 NUMBER 13 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1975 PHONE: 277-3181 Chancellor's copyright policy proposes royalties for state By Mark Stafforini In that report Cohen and Sasseen explained. If the faculty member is "feed information" to Bunzel, Schein The chancellor's office has proposed made the following recommendations: relieved of one class to work on a said. Executive Vice President Burton a copyright policy that will require Books and articles should be project, the CSUC should receive 25 per Brazil is in charge of the task force, he California State University and College exempted from the copyright policy. cent of the royalties, she said. added. ( CSUC ) employes to go through a Materials produced on leave, paid The Academic Senate will consider Schein said the faculty is working clearance procedure before or unpaid, should also be exempt. the proposal at its next meeting, ac- with the administration on the policy copyrighting any material. The first $1,000 of royalties should cording to Dr. Arnold Schein, chairman proposal. The employe will have to submit the go to the author, to provide incentive. of the Academic Senate's Professional The faculty was "alerted to the material and information on how it was After that royalties should be split 50-50 Standards Committee. dangers" in the proposed policy by obtained to a campus copyright com- up to the amount of direct state costs But Schein said he is opposed to the Academic Vice President Hobert mittee, according to the draft for the ( for the project; This is, for projects proposal as it reads now. Burns, Schein said. copyright policy. that are assigned.) The propsed policy would "create a The statewide Academic Senate's The committee will then determine "Significant support" should be more bureaucracy" that would delay Professional Standards Committee will who owns the copyright. clearly defined, Cohen said. publication of material, he said. discuss the policy at its meeting this If the employe developed the When state costs are less than $5,000, The policy will be considered at the weekend, Cohen said. material on his own time without the author should own the copyright, Chancellor's Council of Presidents (of Dr. David Elliott, chairman of university funds or equipment, he will Cohen said. CSUC) on March 3, Schein said. SJSU's Speech -Communication own the copyright, the policy says. Royalties scaled Bunzel's ammunition Department, is the chairman of the If the author (employe) is assigneu, Royalties should be shared on a The Professional Standards Corn- State Professional Standards Com- commissioned or hired to develop the sliding scale, Cohen said, when only mittee hopes to supply SJSU President mittee, Cohen added. material, the CSUC Trustees will own partial support is involved. John Bunzel with "ammunition" Elliott refused yesterday to discuss the copyright. A faculty member carries a class against the policy, Schein said. the policy until the committee has Royalities shared load of four classes a semester, she An SJSU task force has been set up to discussed it. When the material is developed with significant support from CSUC Forum on falling enrollment resources, the author will own the copyright, but the CSUC will receive 50 per cent of the royalties until it has received $10,000, the policy says. According to the policy, the material Educators debate college role involved includes writings (books and Gregory attacks racism articles), musical or dramatic com- positions, sound recordings, films and California universities and colleges "This requires more administrative diverse backgrounds. The distinctions ICK GREGORY -"If you want to kill me, you all have another thing lecture notes. must define their role in society, ac- muscle and a centralized ad- between campus and non-campus will -rung,- the comedian told the CIA before a packed auditorium at San "In the past when a scientist used cording to speakers at an SJSU forum ministration," said Cheit, a former vice disappear due to media education and e City College. See story page 8. university equipment and then on "Creative Responses to Declining chancellor of UC Berkeley. self-instruction, according to Gray. patented something, the university and Enrollment." "Most of what we admire in the in- "I am convinced that we must he shared royalties," said Kathleen Although agreeing that a response to stitution came about from autonomy decentralize," said Gray. "The market Cohen, chairman of the SJSU Art declining enrollment is necessary, the and decentralization," Cheit said. will demand that we operate all over Department. three featured speakers saw different He predicted the current downturn in the community." rown aide hints But when a book was copyrighted, the solutions to the problem. student enrollment will continue until One of the reasons for student decline faculty author received the copyright, Increased centralization of authority, the mid-1980's, and conditions brought is that babies of the post-war baby Cohen added. increased sensitivity to student demand about by the decline are only tem- boom have passed college age, leaving When university equipment has been and more career orientation were all porary. empty seats, according to Gray. udget additions used, the university should get some of proposed as responses to the downward The consequence for higher "We must redefine the roles of the benefits, she said, but "There has enrollment spiral. education will be worse conditions students, faculty and staff," he said. By John Bodle Fox replied the choice could be be to been a bit of overkill with this Co-sponsored by the Academic during the period of decreasing "The only thing that can be rejected CRAMENTOGov. Brown's "have both of them fractured," hinting proposal." Senate and Academic Vice President enrollment than when the decline wholly is the maintenance of the status- sed $29.7 million educational cuts that there might be partia; :unding of The proposal gives too much to the Hobert Burns, the forum was designed bottoms out and a period of relative quo." not as well planned as they could some university programs not now state and will discourage faculty from to share ideas on responses to funding stability takes hold, according to Cheit. Baldridge, of Cal State Fresno, said been, a cabinet official in his budgeted by Brown. doing creative work, Cohen said. cutbacks made necessary by declining "The role of the trustees become he believes centralization is inevitable. mistration said Wednesday. Programs that are not funded include It will also require an "unbelievable student enrollment in state univer- crucial," said Cheit. "They have to set "I assume that we are in a situation own's budget was put together in a such student services as counseling, amount of paperwork," she added. sities. guidelines." of serious and long term change," said and is "not as fine tuned as it could testing, placement, housing, financial Faculty proposal Enrollment declining The problem, said Cheit, is to Baldridge. "Gimmicks and short-term e been," said David L. Fox, cabinet aid administration, office of the Dean of Cohen and Dr. Robert Sasseen, dean Faced with the prospect of continued maintain flexibility while centralizing ideas are not going to solve the etary for Brown. Students, health services and the cost of of faculty, prepared a report on the enrollment declines, SJSU ad- authority. problem. instructional supplies and services. policy for the Academic Senate's ministrators are attempting to Responsive to need x hinted that Brown may recon- "Under crsis situations there is Continued on page 8 Professional Standards Committee. determine academic priorities while Although agreeing that current r his support for some of the budget always a centralization of authority," maintaining the quality of education. economic conditions require a Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post said Baldridge. "We have a crisis for "When you are facing decline (in separation from the growth attitude, mended to him, mass education." ou don't walk into a program and Gay feminist chosen enrollment ), you have to scramble and Gray said, "We must establish a Different effects , 'We're going to knock you out' find out what it means to your in- reputation for being responsive to The decline in enrollment affects out detailed reasons," Fox said, stitution," Dr. Earl F. Cheit, associate student need. different institutions differently, said rring to Brown's blanket cut of the director of the Carnegie Council on "Where the students go, the as council member Baldridge. rnational Program which had Policy Studies in Higher Education, resources follow," he added. study overseas said Monday. "The steady state is a false reality," "It the decline) is hitting institutions wed students to A.S. Council has chosen a gay woman Robertson has been involved in the on home capuses. Other speakers were Dr. David Gray, said Gray. "In reality, the system and that are all things to all people," said e earning credit as graduate representative to fill the Lesbian Feminist Alliance, a com- vice president for administration at Cal the University are caught in a path of Baldridge. "those that have no clear ox met Wednesday at the state position on the 20-member munity group which serves as a social last open State Long Beach, and Dr. J. Victor sociological and economical forces far mission or definition." dal with members of the California and discussion organization for gay council. Baldridge, Cal State Fresno's assistant beyond its control." Noting SJSU falls in that category e University and College Student Nancy Robertson, who says she is women. vice president for academic affairs. Gray said he believes higher Baldridge said, "We must take on some sidents Association and the Spartan and active in the feminist "I'm interested in giving more funds gay "In the past, planning really hasn't education is now four years into a kind of distinctive mission." ly to discuss Brown's budget cuts.