School of Engineering Declared Impacted by Julie Pitta However, Raising Enrollment in the Engineering Applicants

Spartan Daily Volume 77, Number 11 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Wednesday September 16. 1981 Excessive student demand prompts decision School of Engineering declared impacted By Julie Pitta however, raising enrollment in the engineering applicants. As of now, half of "All you have to do is look in the Fullerton believes that impacting Staff Writer program. those will be incoming freshmen and half newspaper and look at the employment engineering "could affect enrollment," The school of Engineering was Under rules of impaction, the School of will be transfer students, he said. Those offers and salaries," he said. "More and but said California Polytechnic State granted impacted status Monday, to be Engineering will admit students to the numbers are subject to change, he added. more students want to take the program." University at San Luis Obispo has overall effective fall semester 1982. program once a year. Admissions for According to Lima, the School of Also, Lima said, the school is unable to impaction and demand for that campus According to James Lima, associate spring '82 have been closed. The school Engineering expects to receive 3,000 to hire new faculty and therefore can't ex- "hasn't been cut down." dean of engineering in charge of academic will only admit students declared for the 4,000 applications this fall. pand. affairs, the School of Engineering has been program each fall. Impaction also prohibits the program SJSU President Gail Fullerton said the According to Lima, there are no plans working for impaction since last spring According to Lima, program from accepting out-of-state or foreign problem in hiring faculty boils down to the to expand the school to meet rising student because of the school's inability to ac- requirements have only been set for students. inability of SJSU to compete with salaries demand. commodate high student demand for the "cycle one," the fall '82 school year. Lima said 11.1 percent of the being offered in private industry. "That would probably have to program. Admission in fall '82 will be based on bachelor's level engineering students are "What it comes down to is that a originate at the legislature," he said. "It Lima said engineering began curbing the eligibility index: A combination of non-residents. But he didn't know how person with a B.S. in engineering is able to would cost millions of dollars invested in admissions three years ago by cutting the GPA and SAT or ACT scores that the state many out-of-state students are in the get a job with a starting salary, the same facilities, equipment and faculty to number of applications it accepted. A currently uses for entrance to the program. or better than the salary we offer a enlarge the Engineering School. No one at higher number of declared engineering university. Lima believes the job market has led Ph.D.," she said. "We can't get full-time any level is even considering such a thing. majors were accepted to SJSU annually, Engineering will admit the top 1,000 to the decision for impaction. faculty, we're just not competitive." A.S. exec, Weekly recommended for A.S. funds former By Cindy Bundock distribution, postage, and office proximately $100 for installation and Staff Writer upkeep," he said. construction of two new distribution director The Special Allocations Com- The Independent Weekly is boxes, which will be located near the mittee of the A.S. Board of Directors looking to up last year's distribution Business Tower and Robert Clark recommended Monday that the of 10,000 papers each week, to a Library. debate AFI Independent Weekly, an alternative 12,000 circulation rate. "We have to put them where the campus newspaper, be funded Shifrel said they did not want to Spartan Daily boxes are," Shifrel See page 2 of today's $13,000. charge A.S. for that extra 2,000 said. Spartan Daily for arguments for The recommended allocation, and against implementation of POO short of the Independent the Automatic Funding Weekly's request, must still be Initiative, the controversial approved by the board at today's 3 $800 short of weekly request; ballot measure which SJSU p.m. meeting in the A.S. Council students passed in last March's Chambers on the S.U. upper level. must still be approved by board election. Groups and organizations not Jeff Smith, executive originally included in the A.S. assistant to Associated Students budget are required to fill out President Tony Robinson, favors special allocation forms to request papers, but would strive to make up Jean Lenart, AS. business the initiative, which stands to funding. the deficit through advertising administrator, said A.S. funds one- provide six different campus Clark Meadows, director of revenue. third of the Independent Weekly's departments and programs with business affairs, made the motion to The extra 2,000 papers could be budget. a total of $120,000 in students' fund $13,000 to the Independent distributed off-campus sites that Thc Independent Weekly brings funds. Former A.S. Director of Weekly. tend to be student-oriented, such as in the remaining two-thirds from its Communications Ed Asian Independent Weekly Editor Ron Regalia (left) "I suggested a decrease in and Senior Editor Tower Records. advertising revenue, according to opposes the measure. I money as incentive for the ad- Scott Shifrel make a request for special allocation funding. The Weekly also needs ap- Lenart. vertising staff to sell more ads," Meadows said. "I don't want to give out full amounts because there is the committee and distributed 23 issues, option that they (the Independent "Through efficiency and averaging 12 pages per issue. Weekly) can come back." volunteers, they should be able to This year, Weekly editors want Brown requests cuts "If they didn't have $800, they cut their costs," she said. to put out 24 issues of 16 pages each. could still survive," A.S. Controller The Independent Weekly did not Shifrel said that it would be Angela Osborne said. have exact printing costs to show the tough to keep the paper at 16 pages with the committee's $13,000 budget recommendation. in '82 CSUC The Independent Weekly needs By Tom Quinlan theless was confident that the 1982-83 mencement. With efficiency and volunteers $575 to supplement advertising to Staff Writer budget SJSU submitted would not SJSU is currently without a put out the paper each week, he said. Saying "I don't know how we ultimately be cut the 5 percent campus-wide policy regarding they should be able to cut costs Independent Weekly Editor Ron would cope with a five percent Brown requested. faculty attendence at com- Regalia siad he will repeat the initial budget cut," SJSU President Gail Even if Brown doesn't change mencement, although full at- and still survive-A.S. Controller request for $13,800 at today's A.S. Fullerton told the Academic Senate his mind, SJSU could request the tendance by all faculty was once meeting. that the 1982-83 budget was already legislature to appropriate additional mandatory. "If they don't give us that, we'll on the monetary chopping block. funds and include them in the state The most frequent questioning still spend $575 an issue, but do only At Monday's meeting, Fullerton budget. of the motion by senators was Additional reasons for the $800 committee. 23 issues," he said. told senate members she had The preliminary budget for 1982- regarding the 50 percent level of decrease in the newspaper's funding Projected costs for an average Shifrel said that there would be received a letter from Gov. Edmund 83 hasn't even been started yet, attendance required if the senate are that there are other groups to 16-page newspaper would be from a rent increase of $50 to $100 a month G. Brown Jr. requesting a 5 percent according to Executive Vice approved the motion and Fullerton consider, and there were a lot of $1,035 Senior Editor Scott Shifrel starting later this year or early next budget cut from all California State President Handel Evans. signed it. costs Independent Weekly said. year to the $175 rent the newspaper universities and colleges for 1982-83. The effect of the 5 percent cut Young finally said that the 50 representatives were unsure of, Last year, the Independent pays now. Describing the cut as "a very, for 1982-83 would be to lower the base percent was chosen "because it Osborne said. Weekly was funded $10,000 by the "Tied up with that is paying for very serious," Fullerton never- amount of the SJSU budget, said sounds reasonable, and I'm a George Sicular, member of the reasonable person." California State University and After a brief discussion, this Colleges (CSUC) system Academic motion was referred to the In- nate. struction and Research Committee A resolution requesting faculty for study. Off-campus jobs more lucrative participation in the selection of the Although these were the only next chancellor, and a bill that new action items to come before the would force faculty attendance at senate Monday, Fullerton outlined a commencement exercises were the future problem that will soon- only new action items for the confront the senate. Police Fullerton outlined the failure of Wages discourage Senate's first meeting. A "sense of the senate" the Engineering and Buisness By Randy Paige It would not surprise me if more officers went with San Jose I police resolution urged the board of departments to hire new Staff Writer department)," Quinton said. trustees to allow the CSUC probationary instructors.

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