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SJSU secretaries City Council awards contract would rather have for two-way San Fernando raises than roses Construction should begin Fourth streets is three lanes. The specifications for the cheological investigation which took environmental by Nancy Gibson sometime next month to make The improvements call for project were made by the council on place as part of the two run- Feb. 5, with the bids being received impact report. It's National Secretary's Week and many SJSU secretaries are improvements on San Fernando conversion to four lanes, the ex- on March 24. The council awarded the con- receiving gifts from their bosses. But for some this is not enough. Street, including opening the street ning each direction. With bordering The project, which was tract unanimously, but not before "I think it's all right," said Cornelia Brenneis, secretary to the de to two-way traffic between 11th and ception of the stretch Market streets. will have to be budgeted into fiscal 1980-81, was Councilman Tom McEnery of Humanities and Arts." But I'd prefer to be recognized in other ways.' SJSU, the street After the conversion, students originally allocated $1.1 million. questioned representatives from the Brenneis was given a Chrysanthemum by dean Okerlund. widened. enter the Ninth Street also calls for some In addition to construction costs, Public Works Department to make "Our salaries are incredibly low," she said. I've been here 25 years will be able to The plan since a portion of the city paid $20,000 to purchase land sure then construction would be and lam paid about the same as a groundsman." parking garage from either direc- street landscaping through the San An- between Fourth and Market streets completed before the Christmas Brenneis said she does "administrative-type" work such as assisting tion off the street which makes up the road runs Redevelopment Project. in order to widen San Fernando shopping season begins. the dean in making decisions on budgets and where staff might be used the northern border of the SJSU tonio intersections will also have Street. The environmental impact "We have to make sure no best in the department. campus. Six signals report on the project cost problems are caused to small Secretaries at the dean's level do "highly sophisticated" work as The San Jose City Council to have their traffic $130,000. estimates the businesses on the street," McEnery opposed to doing "straight typing in a clerical pool," she said. "Yet our Tuesday awarded the contract for modified. The city now the Another major improvement project total will cost about $1.5 said. salaries are not that different." project to Raisch Construction, in the project is the in- million. Mayor Janet Gray Hayes was Associate Dean of Engineering Harvey Sharfstein said, in general, whose bid of $1.4 million was the contained to not present at the meeting and will "secretarial positions are women's positions, and they are significantly lowest received by the council. stallation of a 27-inch sanitary sewer The budget overrun was due Third and Fourth of basements on be at home for approximately 10 undervalued and underpaid in terms of their value to the organization." San Fernando Street is running between the large amount currently one-way, with the street that nned to be filled in days following a skiing accident At one time in history Sharfstein said, most secretaries were men," two lanes streets. running west from The conversion is anticipated to to construction and a project over the weekend. and they were very respected." The secretary to the dean of engineering, Fourth to Market prior street. The section from Tenth to 140 days to complete. caused by a lengthy ar- see SAN FERNANDO page 8 Helen Ellmore, receives $17,808 a year and feels she is "underpaid." take delay "Three secretaries in Sacramento went out window washing and made more than they did as secretaries," she added. "I guess it's nice to be honored, but I'm not sure it makes up for the rest of the year," said Virginia Vitucci, secretary to dean of Applied AIL and Sciences. Vitucci makes $16,200 a year but receives benefits such as insurance, vacations and tenure "that have to be considered part of the the monetary package." she said. Vitucci stayed at SJSU rather than moving into private industry because she "likes the campus atmosphere." Spartan Daily see SECRETARIES page 8 Volume 76, Number 55 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Thursday, April 23, 1981 Activist says nuclear arms suicidal by Ted Catanesi Before a packed Morris Dailey Auditorium Tuesday night, anti- nuclear weapons and power activist Dr. Helen Caldicott foretold of a gloomy future for nations that persist in the nuclear arms race. "We are on a suicidal race with death," Caldicott said. Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, is on leave from Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center, where she is a pediatrician specializing in cystic fibrosis, the most common genetic disease among children. For months, Caldicott has been touring the United States with the national group, speaking to other physicians, health personnel and the public about the medical im- plications of nuclear power and weapons. "Nuclear war is not an economic problem," Caldicott said. "It's not a political problem. It's a medical problem." Caldicott criticized the nations and leaders involved in the weapons race, saying "They behave like 5- year-old boys arguing over a piece of cake. And the world is their cake." The audience listened intently throughout the speech, interrupting the speech with applause now and then. Caldicott said ever since the td` rir, hv Mr, "Manhattan Project" and the ANTI-NUCLEAR SPEAKER -- Dr. Helen Caldicott, a physician touring the country spreading the anti- testing of the first atomic bomb in nuclear power and weapon word, attacked the arms race between the United States and Russia. 1945, the world has entered a race sure to end in destruction. saying it will surely end in total destruction. "What does it matter who's leading the race?" she said. "At that time, man had har- "You won't be able to tell U.S. ashes from Soviet ashes." nessed an energy which he had no right, no moral right, to hold in his "But it wasn't until Afghanistan that preparing for a nuclear war," she would be vaporizedjust turned into to come out for two to six weeks. bombs and Russia has slightly hands," she said. "Yet we seem people started waking up," she said said. "I believe we'll be lucky to gasses." That's how long the fallout from the fewer. hooked on its energy. Like opiates, in reference to the Russian invasion make it through the next four She said the heat from the blast bombs is lethal, according to "But their bombs are bigger we can't give it up." in December, 1979. years." would be so intense it would cause a Caldicott. because they're less accurate," She said the world spends $600 "We push it back into our sen- According to Caldicott, a 3,000 square-mile fire. People within "They're death machines," she Caldicott said. billion a year on deaththe arms ses," she said. "We don't want to nuclear war would last about one 40 miles would be blinded by the said with anger. She said these bombs are race. think about it. It's too scary." half-hour and would require only the flash of the explosion. "In a nuclear war, the living will enough to kill the entire world "That's $1 million a minute Caldicott's tone became even pushing of buttons. She said people in the rural envy with dead." population 16 times. spent on killing people," Caldicott more serious as she talked about the Caldicott said if the button were areas, which will probably not be the "There are 30 countries in the "So what does it matter who's said. Reagan Administration and its ever pushed to drop a nuclear bomb targets of Soviet bombs, would have world which have the technology to ahead in the race?" Caldicott asked. Caldicott said the threat of stand on nuclear weapons. on San Jose, "there would be a about 15 to 20 minutes to reach a make nuclear bombs," she said. "You won't be able to tell U.S. ashes nuclear weapons and power has "Reagan's advisers say we crater one half-mile wide and 300 fallout shelter. But once inside the She said the United states has from Soviet ashes, anyway." been pervasive for many years. should begin psychologically feet deep. People within six miles shelter, the people would not be able between 30,000 and 35,000 hydrogen see CALDICOTT page 3 7 -4', -I-,_ - ,J i,cli\l'irl . )... c, ur ,,t mow Dept. asks $8,949 ' f0 ,., N, 'VGN cf AMEN Course fate rests Funds requested for on fund allocations Ir. audiology program The following are the third and and planning an activity for students posters for publicity, $454 for art fourth in a series of articles exploring and the community at large, according supplies, $550 for petty cash used to by Stephanie Villegas The machine is eight years old and in the last several campus groups' requests for to lecturer Pat Cavataio, of recreation reimburse students for "out of the The Department of Speech Pathology and three or four years new equipment on the the Instructionally Related Activities and leisure studies. pocket" expenditures, $516 for Audiology is requesting $8,949 in Instructionally market has been significantly improved according Funds.