Protestors Occupy Economics Office ' Students Ask I
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
1 Spartan Daily Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 VOLUME 64 NUMBER 45 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1975 PHONE: 277-3181 Protestors occupy economics office ' Students ask i . it , voting rights restoration By Ray Manley More than 40 angry students yesterday seized and occupied the office of James Willis, chairman of the Economics Department in a bid to force a meeting with the department's executive committee. The protesters, objecting to the "stalling tactics of the administration," left peacefully at noon after holding DMH 146 for more than two hours. BUNZEL RESPONDS -The president said he wanted no confrontation. The occupation was termed a disruption by university officials and office. down so the demonstration would not campus security was alerted. Willis said he asked the demon- interfere with his class. Before the police arrived, however, strators to leave his office but said they "You are infringing on our academic the demonstrators left the office and refused. rights and theirs Drago said marched through Dudley Moorehead Willis had a class scheduled when the motioning to his class. Hall chanting, "Rehire the fired! takeover occured, but according to Drew Adams, Economics Students Reenfranchise the Economics students in the class, they were told Association ( ESA) member, replied, Department!" Willis would not be present. "We did not disrupt your class, Bunzel The students in the office and in the did." Willis called the students' demand for corridor, clapped and chanted, "Stop While occupying the office, the an immediate meeting with the Bunzel's political purges! Econ students called local television, radio executive committee "physically department, our department! Nunn, and newspaper offices. impossible." Watkins, Gonzales and Chu, all must go Before the take-over was an hour old, Willis said he would try to arrange the way of Thieu," throughout the newsmen from KNTV, KGO, KCBS, the meeting if the students left his of- occupation. KLOK and the San Jose News were on fice. During the sitin, the students taped hand interviewing the protesters. James Sawrey, dean of the School of signs on the walls of Willis' office At 10:30 Sawrey entered the occupied Social Sciences, later told the students demanding the rehiring of several office and read a statement declaring they would be allowed to send three economics lecturers and calling for the the demonstration an "unlawful representatives to meet with the return of faculty voting rights. assembly" and asked the protesters to executive committee at 3 p.m. today. A piece of paper reading "a member clear the room. The students said they had four of the bourgeois school of economics" "I must now ask that you leave and demands they wished to present to the was taped over an academic award on allow the university to conduct its executive committee: Willis' office wall. business" Sawrey said. the immediate refranchisement of At one point, a department secretary "We are the business of the univer- the Economics Department faculty as entered the office and found a student sity-we are the students," shouted one using Willis' phone. it was constituted last year, demonstrator. all curriculum and course changes "I hope that call's not long distance," made this year be repealed, she told the students. Sawrey said he was concerned about the fired faculty be rehired, The noise created by the demon- students and didn't want to see them students be given a voice in the stration prompted complaints from two arrested. Economics Department. professors conducting classes across "I hope you will consider it seriously, the hall. it is a serious matter," Sawrey told the Edmund Drago, history lecturer, said students. See related story page 3 his class voted whether or not to con- Sawrey returned to the office at 11 tinue class. a.m, and read his statement again. But The class voted to continue, Drago at that time added that the students had Reyes The protest began at 9:30 yesterday said. only until noon to leave the building. OCCUPIEDStudents chanted and clapped as they held the office of the Economics Department chairman yesterday. morning when the group seized the Drago asked the protesters to quiet continued on back page Dymally: 'Cut administrators' Adviser criticizes Official fights faculty cuts Tower List boycott By Carla Marinucci colleges want to hire more ad- utilizing the faculty to enlarge the Stating that he would fight faculty ministrators to 'meet the demand'," course offerings at the state colleges A planned boycott of the Tower List There are 500 electrical engineering layoffs in the state college and Dymally stated. "When enrollment is and universities. surveys has been called "ridiculous" students. system, Lt. Gov. Mervyn down, they want to hire more ad- by the Tower List's adviser. Boycott continues university shifting instructors from depart- urged that "we ministrators to 'meet the crisis'. Evangelos Moustakas, associate Moustakas said the boycott will Dymally yesterday ments to understaffed departments off some ad- Administrators, he added "can't professor of electrical engineering, continue until Tau Delta Phi, the consider laying where possible. ministrators instead." have it both ways." announced recently that his depart- fraternity that puts out the Tower List, ment will boycott the surveys next "improves its procedures and methods Dymally, a member of the state Dymally said that at the upcoming reinforcement of the programs that "state colleges month because of "inadequacies" of so as to insure: high standards of ac- college board of trustees, said in a press May 23-28 board of trustees meeting he have not been able to perform fully, the Tower List. curacy, balance, fairness, and release that he is "not yet convinced will propose four steps to be examined such as remedial education." responsibility in preparation of written there really is a declining enrollment before faculty cutbacks are con- The Tower List is an attempt to comments and processing and problem". sidered: "I want to make certain this evaluate professors by compiling comments and rated answers from tabulation of data." "Administrators seem to be the review of student enrollment enrollment crisis isn't like the oil crisis, students. Dr. Daniel Buerger, English protected by a neat 'Catch-22' programs at the colleges to ensure that one more manufactured than real," he professor and the Lid's adviser, said situation," he charged. all who could "benefit from college are stated. reforms have been made and are being "When enrollments are up, the state actually being enrolled." continued on back page Mervyn Dymally made. But, he also said all of Moustakas' demands could not be met. As an example, he reacted to the neglected demand for "adequacy of sample size Housing safety inspections for each faculty member." "Who's going to determine adequacy Brazelton, who inspects housing in the housing," which can be occupied by as possibility" to make yearly inspections. plaints by some residents that he is By Jeff Mapes of cards" Buerger asked. campus area, maintains that absentee many as eight unrelated adults. But he said, he "knows every damn "defensive" about his job and that he is Frayed wiring, rotting bathroom "The engineers want nice statistical landlords are only part of the problems. "I can't do anything" about enforcing building" in the area, since he has "chummy" with many of the landlords. floors and inadequate ventilation are analysis but the students don't even "The main problem in the college code violations, unless called in on a inspected the area for twenty years, He said that people make charges some of the building code violations bother with figures. All they're in- area," he said, "goes back to zoning." complaint, Brazelton said. and he said he can watch the problem about code violations, but are not aware that present on an estimated 70 per cent terested in is the evaluation. Brazelton said he cannot routinely Brazelton also said the department is housing closely. of the facts. of the housing in the campus area, "If they're trying to reduce it (the inspect housing zoned as "single understaffed and that it is an "im- Brazelton also responds to corn- He said he invited Councilman according to Jim Welch, A.S. Housing Tower List) to that ( statistics) it'll Pegram to accompany him on his in- Officer. castrate the Tower and make it inef- spection rounds after Pegram an- And, while the San Jose housing in- fective,a bunch of numbers," nounced the formation of the task force spector admits these are the problems, Buerger charged. over may to look into building code formation, has no jurisdiction Rental bill requirement * he says he Prof critical among other things. much of campus area, housing. Professor Ftajinder Loomba, elec- Pegram never responded, Brazelton It is a subject that a task force on trical engineering, has been a critic of said. neighborhood problems set up by the List since Feb. 12, 1973. Brazelton also said he accomplishes Councilman Larry Pegram has ease security deposit flak Loomba claimed "false and more by working with tenants and promised to study. defamatory statements" were made observers agree that the landlords than by using his citation But The primary cause of rental disputes involving SJSU five days after a tenant moves in. about him in the List's last edition. require a more complex powers and going through the red tape problems students may be relieved if new tenant-landlord legislation Also, landlords will have to give written notice to any After several letters to President than "cracking down on that a formal proceeding involves. solution passes. tenants who, upon moving out, will not have their entire John H. Bunzel and members of Tau violations." deposit refunded.