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matammemmin t a ir le rt ill air re te a he 'is or Is. tit !al ed ... all ins go (F. '7 lo, From the Seventh Street garage, photographer Gary Feinstein captured helicopters dropping bait laced malathion over campus re te Friday, September 4, 1981 Volume 7 7 , Number 5 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 is Daily to take scares students Football Labor Day off Spray By Randy Paige classes started Aug. 27. possible emotional reactions not too shaken by the spraying, Because of the Labor Day Staff Writer Zamora, a liberal studies senior spurred by helicopters passing according to Residence Hall weekend, the Spartan Daily Preview Karen Zamora heard them at SJSU, arrived from her Newport overhead. It might bring back Director Will Koehn. will resume publication on before she saw them. Beach home unprepared for the memories of Vietnam, he said. Koehn worked with malathion in Wednesday. The staff special "As it got closer and closer, it helicopter sighting. She is a Hoover Ghahremain's concern may be the 1960s when he was a tree topper section the campus a happy wishes got scarier," she said. -We ran to Hall resident, an on-campus dor- well-founded. Richard Freeman of for the City of Los Angeles. three-day weekend. the windows to see what was going mitory. the Veteran Administration Center Koehn explained to Royce Hall on." "It didn't hit me until you hear at 361 S. Monroe St., said he received residents that the spray will come Then she saw them. them and then it gets scary," she more than a dozen phone inquiries down in the form of droplets which "It was like science fiction. said. from vets who wish to stop the will be difficult to inhale. .everything was shaking," she said. Farad Ghahremani, an SJSU spraying. "I don't consider it a hazard," The first close encounter with senior and also a resident of Hoover "It's hard to distinguish Medfly he said. Robinson freezes helicopters spewing malathion to Hall, expressed concern about the spraying (helicopters) from the big But Koehn does not find battle the Medfly can be harrowing, effects of malathion. cobra helicopters coming in," malathion completely harmless. especially for SJSU students from "I wasn't sure about the Freeman said. out of the area. chemicals pouring out so I closed the "I have been irritated because funds for African Anti-Medfly choppers swept windows," he said. "It's a flashback, a memory of of my car." Koehn said, referring to over SJSU Tuesday night. It was the Ghahremani was also concerned Vietnam," he said. the spray's damaging effect on Awareness Week second pass over the campus since about Vietnam veterans and the Residents of Royce Hall were automobile paint. By Julie Pitta dividuals woo are accountable for Staff Writer the funds." A.S. President Tony Robinson Octavia Butler, A.S. director of One-way streets: two views has denied funding for African minority affairs, has been asked by Awareness Month because of the Robinson to lead the planning of this By Carol Peterson position. SJSU President Gail Fullerton has opposed the financial problems of its sponsor, year's African Awareness Month. Staff Writer The last stand between neighborhood groups community plan, backing instead the "no-project" the African Student Union I ASU). Butler said she plans to call a The sign on Highway 280 says: San Jose State, and city hall comes in October. The Oct. 13 council option, which proposes 10th and 11th streets con- Questions arose regarding ASU meeting for the black students on Next Two Exits. meeting is expected to bring a final vote on the tinue as one-way arterial traffic routes. finances when checks made out to campus to decide the direction of The second of those exits winds down to 10th and issue. One of the sticking points between the neigh- the four speakers at last year's African Awareness Month and at- 11th streets. Drivers heading south stay right. A public hearing on possible street conversion is borhood groups and the city are findings of an African Awareness Month returned tempt to revitalize the ASU. Heading north toward SJSU, drivers take the left scheduled to take place immediately before the vote Environmental Impact Report IEIRI that was to the AS. Business Office. Butler said she understands why lanes under the overpass. in the council chambers on North First Street. commissioned by the city last year. The signatures on the backs of Robinson cut African Awareness When the light flashes green, commuters Headed by Joan Corseilia and Overroye, the The E1R, which studied and outlined five the checks didn't match signatures Month out of the budget, but feels the prepare for the 11th Street speedway. Campus Community Association approached the solutions to the street problem, summarized that on the contracts signed by the move was too severe. All the while, traffic races in the other direction city with an alternative plan that would restore both none of the conversion alternatives would eliminate speakers prior to their appearances. "Black students sense that there on 10th Street. 10th and 11th to two-way streets. the traffic and environmental problems. Robinson said. were other problems within the ASU People living on the sidelines of this daily fast- The group believes the community plan they The report stated that traffic volumes would Robinson said he was unable to and feel this is too strong a track, say they don't like the busy one-way streets. proposed is a compromise between their needs and continue to exist and would seek other routes, even reach any of the four speakers by reprimand for those problems," she They remember when the streets connected a those of a commuter campus such as SJSU. if 10th and 11th streets were returned to two-way telephone. said. "Other methods of reprimand neighborhood. The community plan proposes 10th Street streets. Robinson said he also attempted would be possible, such as a half-cut "The 10th and 11th Street corridor has been a become a two-way street with a series of stop lights A.S. Vice President Andy Arias, who has to contact ASU President Antonio or freezing the funds until another barrier to the community. It's just like having a between Keyes arid Santa Clara streets. It would studied the city's EIR said, "The report showed McDaniel without success. Mc- responsible individual could be freeway put right down the middle of your neigh- acconicalate traffic from S.ISU students using the most of the traffic isn't students." Daniel failed to keep any of the four found. borhood. It rips it apart," said Bruce Overroye, 10th Street parking garage. "People are using 10th and 11th instead of 101. appointments Robinson made with "Now all black students are president of the Campus Community Association, a North of Santa Clara Street to Bedding Street, Traffic doesn't slow down in the summer," Arias him, the A.S. president said. being punished. We're going to have neighborhood group that headed opposition to the stop lights would be replaced by stop signs and the said. "The problem boiled down to to go to special allocations to try and one-way streets. speed limit lowered to 25 or 30 mph. The community groups don't agree with the who was accountable for funds," get funding. We're trying to clean up The two heavily travelled streets have been a All of the stop lights on 11th Street would be report summary. They say the city could reduce the Robinson said. "I couldn't reach this situation and restructure the point of controversy between neighborhood groups replaced with stop signs and speed limits lowered to traffic coming onto side streets with stop signs, anybody. I had no choice but to MU." and the City of San Jose for almost three years. 20 or 25 mph, thereby reverting it to a local-use pedestrian signals and rerouting traffic onto other freeze the money. You can't allocate Following the notification of the The final round that will decide the fate of 10th street. major traffic: routes before it comes into residential money where there's no ac- funding cut, Robinson has received and 11th streets begins later this month when the A.S. President Tony Robinson supports the areas. countability involved. letters from each of the four city council is set to hold a Committee of the Whole community plan, adding that the two one-way On Sept. 24 the city council has scheduled a fact- "I don't think African speakers, verifying that they ap- meeting. streets separate the campus from the community. finding Meeting of the Whole to study the impact Awareness Month is not going to peared at African Awareness Month The session, which is open to the public but bars Campus sororities and fraternities, many with report and take reactions from city staff in the come off this year. It's Just a matter and had received payment for their them from making comment, is used by the council 10th and 11th Street addresses, have also supported transportation and planning departments. of finding some responsible in- services. to review the issue and formulate an official the proposed return to two-way streets, see TWO-WAYSTREETS, page 4 Career workshop targets disabled students lty Julie Levy The Career Planning and employer does not and how to handle We have tinplects it he \ I think its important I. A. Students wh, ould like to visit Staff Writer Placement Office will conduct a an uncomfortable interviewer.