Yew College .Aces Changes Urban Studies

Spartan Daily Volume 72, Number 18 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Tuesday, February 27, 1979 Yew College Urban Studies: .aces changes fewer units? cepted limiting student control over tured list will "guarantee the individual course material. .;urriculum students who came through the "In the past, we believed a Reduction plan program to have a rich un- person had the right to fail and take derstanding of the problems and the responsibility for what they do," lot 'defined' approaches involved in city plan- said New College librarian Jack in fall 'works' ning." Douglas. "People like Chenoweth By Stephen Cohodas He added that the current un- think we have to be cops over here." By La Rosa Carrington The era of limits has arrived at dergraduate minor in urban plan- The current New College style is A proposed reduction in the ew College. Curriculum changes ning is a manual of courses relating best typified by instructor Michael number of units required for an ir upper division students are to urban topics on a introductory Brady. He served on the committee undergraduate minor in urban tering the school's structure and level only. which drew up the new curriculum. studies was approved Thursday by yle and placing new limitations on "We know from surveys that He says the number of in- Gerald Wheeler, dean of the School iculty activity as well. students want more useful ex- dividual contracts with students is of Social Sciences, which includes Founded in the late 1960s as an periences," he said. itpost of social rebellion and ex- "way down" but is taking a "wait the Urban and Regional Planning Lrimental education, New College and see" attitude until the new Department at SJSU. is survived a stormy history. curriculum is given final approval The proposal is now being ntagonisms with former SJSU by the university administration. considered by Dean of Un- resident John Bunzel, a "flaky" Nancy Markham is another New dergraduate Studies Richard E. unpus image, a liberal arts ap- College instructor indicative of the Whitlock. mach to education in a period of change happening within the new If signed by Whitlock, the udent interest in more technically- limits. proposal would mean a six-unit ilated fields are part of a long list "I can see a great deal of reduction in the current 21-unit hich underscores New College's freedom within a great deal of requirement for the minor. intinued development. limitations," Markham said. "I "We think he'll approve of it," According to New College don't feel a loss of freedom." said Donald Rothblatt, chairman of rovost Larry Chenoweth, chief Markham did acknowledge the the SJSU Urban and Regional nong its current problems is a lack new program ran the risk of Planning Department and author of defined curriculum goals. He sees "becoming oppressive" by rigidly the proposal. "We've had a good ress on more traditional scholastic limiting the teaching to "our own response I in signatures ) from mitations such as classroom disciplines." She warned that such a everyone so far, including the !minus rather than experimental course would be "cutting our own students." dividual contracts between throats." Fall 1979 is the operational date (Continued on back photo by David Korner of the proposal, once it is adopted. udents and New College as the page) Donald Rothblatt eans of keeping alternative Rothblatt said he had been lucation alive through the end of working several months to Questions asked at meeting is century. "streamline the existing Faculty members appear to requirements." :tee with him. Some of the existing "Individual work is still Campus reps answer requirements for the urban studies gays issible," said one faculty member. are courses such as sociology 161, urban sociology; ['here are more constraints on a By Carla Baker treasurer, said from her perspective Proposition 6 and both were for business 101, the pe of contract. They have to be Several questions were ad- all students are important and human rights. principles of real estate; and ore thoroughly written and more dressed to four undeclared can- should be recognized and respected. geography 105, urban geography. Don McCarthy, spokesman for However, Rothblatt believes early related to the student's didates running for A.S. Council and Fazel Fazelbhoy, A.S. coun- the Spartan Daily, explained the mgram." representatives from the Spartan these requirements are nothing cilman, said they are a group just editorial policy of the paper. He said more than a "list of possible choices The new approach has, as a Daily and Independent Weekly in a like any on campus. last semester several stories were insequence, placed more emphasis meeting in which the Gay Student without any structure." Some of the weather "Government can't exist unless written about Proposition 6 and all n faculty instruction and control of Union, I GSU I, addressed the courses, he said, proved to be too those of us involved find out what the the letters to the editor, either pro- ourse material in the new question of gay people on the SJSU time-consuming for the students. problems are and help with those gay or anti-gay, were printed. According to Rothblatt, it is minars. Likewise it has enhanced campus. problems," he said. hard for the faculty to determine e power of the provost to decide He also said coverage of student how much a student "is actually hat student contracts will be ac- Nancy McFadden, A.S. Joe Trippi, A.S. vice president, activities on campus was based on said when he first came to this the event's newsworthiness. getting out of the courses. "A list of campus he began to be more aware Steve Hastings, editor of the courses with just enough structure would of the problems of gays, blacks, Independent Weekly, said his paper be more beneficial to the students," he said. Chicanos and other minority groups wanted to catch items of interest The proposed list of courses, and that he has always been con- before they became so ,alled constructed by Rothblatt, would cerned with human rights. newsworthy. Trippi reduce the electives of other urban said everybody belongs "The gay issue is something we Fair today with tem- on this campus and and regional planning courses from that gays and the need to cover as an overall story, peratures ranging from a high A.S. Council needed to work nine required units to six. Instead of together rather than something that is of 65 to a low of 44. Forecasted to make it known to students. three units required of similar breaking news," Hastings said. electives, the count would go down to by the SJSU Meteorology Trippi said both he and Mc- Hastings said he felt gay one. Department. Fadden had taken stands against students have every right to belong. Rothblatt hopes the restruc- B of A asks for delay on new branch 'No plan to present,' says spokesman By Erin A. Hallissy The bank is being evicted from Clara County, the bank is thinking there could be no ground floor retail Bank of America is scheduled to its present site at Second and San about a building that would be 10 to shops in the building. present a plan for its new branch at Carlos streets by the Redevelop- 15 stories. Even if the plan is approved by Third and San Fernando streets to ment Agency. One of the major objections of the planning commission Wed- the San Jose Planning Commission According to Branch Manager Eric Harlow, co-owner of Un- nesday, no construction can begin on tomorrow. Vic Burton, the Redevelopment derground Records, who is fighting the site until the tenants resisting However, Robert Baxmann of Agency will use the site for a 750- the bank's relocation, is that the the bank, including Harlow, leave. the Bank of America Acquisition space parking garage for the state bank wants to own the land that it Corporation said Monday that the and federal buildings which will be will be using, instead of leasing it. Harlow was evicted from his bank doesn't have a plan to present, built north of the proposed garage. However, neither the planning building by landlord A.B. Barren' and will tell the Planning Com- The bank's original proposal for commission nor Self has any oh- Jan. 18, but is remaining while photo by Sharon Hall mission to postpone the hearing for contesting the eviction. Aatthew Savoca (I) and Alice Phillips listen as Joe Trippi In, A.S. approximately six weeks. The sale is supposed to come out Baxmann said that the bank still vice president, expresses his concern for the problems of gays See Related Story on Page 3 of escrow March 1, at which time after a recent meeting. Savoca and other Gay Student Union doesn't know the configuration of the Bank of America will officially own land because it doesn't know the land. members questioned four undeclared A.S. Council candidates whether San Fernando's Mexican development of the site at Third and jection to the bank owning the land. Harlow said nal he will not be 'bout gay issues. Restaurant will remain. San Fernando streets was rejected According to Self, national out by March 1 and that the eviction by the planning commission as being banking laws prohibit banks from will be further delayed because too "suburban." owning large spaces not specifically Barrera's attorney filed in superior Neekly It consisted of a two-story used for banking purposes, so if court instead of municipal court for forced into A.S. funding building and a parking lot for ap- Bank of America owns the land, the eviction.

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