General Fund Increased; Band, Cheerleaders Get Money from A.S
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182 nd, /iLDArzirt-Avi hat er- ire Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 nt S.. Volume 79, No. 19 Friday, September 24 1982 General fund increased; band, cheerleaders get money from A.S. board By Dan Nakao The A.S. board of directors Wednesday increased the University of Nevada -Las Vegas game Oct. 30. general fund, then allocated $2,916 to two groups. The board granted the band only $2,400, which must A.S. directors unanimously voted to divert 92,000 from raise the remaining $2,266. an equipment replacement fund to the general fund, Directors required that any funds raised above $2,266 increasing it to $7,480. have to revert to A.S. Directors later voted unanimously to allocate $2,400 to A.S. directors place the same stipulation on the the SJSU Marching Band and $516 to the Spartan cheerleaders' $516 request for uniforms. cheerleaders. The board waived six stipulations in granting the The allocations leave $4,564 in the general fund. allocations. The $2,000 diverted to the general fund was originally A.S. directors stipulated, however, that both the intended to be part of a $5,000 A.S. equipment repair fund. cheerleaders and the marching band must revert any A.S. Controller Robin Sawatzky told the board the money they make in fund-raisers to the A.S. diverting of those funds would delay equipment repairs The marching band needs $4,666 so its 124 members for a year until the fund can be replenished. and the six cheerleaders can attend the SJSU Confined on polo 3 CSU ballots challenged; bargaining agency sought Administrators and lecturers tallied incorrectly By Karol Warner Since May the election to decide what group will by administrators. represent the CSU's faculty in collective bargaining has UPC is currently ahead of CFA by 12 votes; UPC has been delayed by challenged ballots. 6,491 and CFA has 6,479. The CSU's challenged ballots will There were originally 509 ballots challenged by four most likely decide the election. groups: The Public Employment Relations Board. Congress of Faculty Associations, United Professors of Aside from competing for the position of CSU faculty California and CSU administrators (see graph below.) representation union, representatives from CFA and UPC PERB is the official state board that develops policy met during the summer and talked about supporting each regarding public employees. Representatives from CFA other in the area of collective bargaining regardless of and UPC (the two unions competing to represent the who wins. faculty), PERB and CSU adminstrat ion, met this summer CFA members are "simply not going to buy a pure 1 during an informal hearing on the challenged votes. merger," Tidwell said. The 271 remaining ballots were challenged mainly on two issues. Some votes were cast by adminstrators in the George Sicular, UPC northern vice president said, CSU and others were cast by lecturers, not professors. "The general discussion I've had with the CFA is that it UPC withdrew 37 lecture challenges and PERB does want to merge." dismissed 101 of the remaining lecture challenges. CFA is only willing to merge in the area of collective PERB based its decision on the UPC's failure to show bargaining, according to Tidwell. He explained that UPC cause that the lecturers should be exempt from voting. asked for "basically" a pure merger. The merger would UPC will, however, have an opportunity to present ad- call for both CFA and UPC to go out of existence. Tidwell Markkhme ditional facts at the Oct. 4 meeting. said. Paul Blote entertains a small crowd of students at lunchtime Thursday in front PERB also dismissed 27 employer representative CFA's proposal would bring the two unions together at Guitarist Blote of the Student Union. Blote, performing songs ranging from The Beatles to performs solo Neil Young, described his repertoire as adult contemporary music. For Blote, it was his third appearance at SJSU in the last two years. The singer/guitarist challenging ballots. challenges resolved challenges crowd played the Pub twice before his noontime appearance yesterday. party challenged voided counted remaining for S.U. PERB 11 4 3 4 CFA 2 n 0 2 show on for tonight; UPC 206 23 13 170 Gallagher CSU 290 168 27 95 Ballroom event gets exception 43 509 195 271 By Christine McGeover The Rory Gallagher show will to repair any damaged equipment, if man for the Program Board. "We not be cancelled. necessary." appreciate everybody's help." The statistics on the challenges are from a CFA newsletter. The S.U. Board of Directors will The S.U. audio-visual supervisor "make a single exception" to its and a University Police officer will S.U. Director Ron Barrett said challenges. 26 of which were UPC's. The decision on these the bargaining table but leave both parties intact. policy and allow Gallagher to be also be present in the lighting booth he hoped it was a "workable com- challenges may also be appealed at the Oct. 4 meeting. responsible for the lighting at all times during the show. promise." He is concerned with the PERB negated three miscellaneous challenges, "We think that it doesn't matter who wins nominally if operation at tonight's concert in the S.U.'s interest, he said, "in terms of leaving 103 ballot challenges, many of which should be in we can merge," Sicular said. "But it will mean a great S.U. Ballroom. Associate S.U. Director Pat safety and equipment." favor of CFA, according to William Tidwell, state vice deal if one organization insists on going through to the At an emergency meeting of the Wiley voted against the motion. He According to Gibson, "a few president of CFA. bitter end and winning. I guess we think that will further S.U. board of directors Thursday, declined to comment on the matter. hundred tickets" have been sold. He Of the CSU's remaining 95 complaints, 23 deal with embitter the faculty and instead of unity we get a con- the A.S. board of directors, the Derrick Mathis, A.S. student-at - could not comment further. The San members of the Faculty Early Retirement Program. tinuation of antipathies." Program Board, and S.U. audio- large, abstained from the vote. Jose Box Office has sold ap- Members in the program retire early but have the right to visual, a motion to make the ex- "We're very happy." said Bob proximately 20 tickets. return to teach one semester of each year. The 23 FERB Both unions have members whose duts are deducted ception passed 10-1-1. Gibson, contemporary arts chair- The concert is at 8 p.m. members whose votes are in question taught on the from their paychecks. When one union is certified to The motion, by Tony Anderson. campus last spring during the election. represent the faculty then it will, by law, be the only union A.S. president, also said that the Also 71 of the CSU's complaints are directed at votes that can deduct dues through payroll. Program Board will "cover the cost Students feeling pinch in financial aid decreases Sexual harrassment studied by prof By Kathlyn Warren The U.S. Department of marketing. "It covers my books Education has received many and my registration and some By Karol Warner phone complaints that "the general living expenses." amusement. A few read on the subject of sexual and 15 percent men. "A vice president of the com- only reaction was government has let parents and The DOE expects a later, my supervisor started harrassment. The criteria the USMSPB study pany where I worked made overt months students down that college is no "reasonable" contribution from making advances. When I found used to describe unwanted sexual advances following a company longer affordable," according to the student's family, and in- job, I left. It's much better McIntyre has not only done a lot attention were: banquet," said the 27-year-old another Edward E. Elmendorf, deputy dividual self-help in the form of but a considerable Actual or attempted rape or computer specialist. "This included where lam now." of reading, assistant secretary for student loans, private scholarships and account of sexual amount of writing, on the subject. sexual assault stroking my buttock and continually This financial aid assistance. work. from "The received a doctorate in public Pressure for sexual behaviors rubbing himself against me. harrassment was taken He "Callers are often confused SJSU's Financial Aid office from Florida State Deliberate touching, leaning "At one point he got me alone -- Joint Redbook Harvard Business administration by misleading or incomplete wants to cut down on the self-help 2,000 University with a dissertation en- over, cornering or pinching away from the group -- and put his Review Report: A survey of information." Elmendorf said. and increase the amount of "Sexual Harassment of Sexually suggestive looks or hand down my dress. I finally Executives," an article by Eliza titled In a memorandum received "free" money available, such as Employees, the gestures managed to get rid of him. C.C. Collins and Timothy B. Government by the Spartan Daily recently, that from the Pell Grant. Florida and in the Letters, phone calls, or "For several weeks afterward Blodgett. The article was one of 100 Situation in the DOE admitted there have Students, however, must turn materials of asexual nature he kept calling me at work. When I works that Doug McIntyre, SJSU Nation." been "considerable changes" to loans now because of the lack his has In his studies on sexual Pressure for dates talked to my supervisor about it, professor of political science, and "some reductions in the last of grant aid.