Election Board Rules Recall Petition Invalid

Symposium Book Talk A two-day symposium en. titled "The Unintelligent Use "Painting and Reality" by of Intelligence Tests" will Elizabeth Gilson will be dis- begin today at 1 p.m. in the missed today at noon by Dr. College Union Umnnhum Whitaker Deininger, pro- Room. The symposium is a fessor of philosophy, in the rebuttal to Dr. Arthur Jen- weekly faculty book talk. It artan Dail. sen's theory that blacks are will be held in the Spartan genetically inferior to Cafeteria, Rooms A and B. Serving the San Jose State College Community Since 1934 whites. Vol. 58 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95114, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9,1970 No. 50 President Presence Election Board Rules Uncertain Recall Petition Invalid Despite rumors being circulated that By KAREN PETTERSON The board went into closed session which to turn in the required College President Dr. John Bunzel will to number of Daily Political Writer consider all the arguments, and definitely appear at tomorrow's voted signatures." They will contest their After lengthy discussion and debate on the motion in open session. The final right to submit additional signatures recruiting forum, the decision will not at in both open and closed sessions, the motion that was passed read: that time. be made until tomorrow morning. "In Election Board yesterday declared the accordance with our authority as Langan said he was pleased at the According to Administrative Assis- recall petition against A.S. President established in the A.S. constitution, we decision, but added that there were no tant Mrs. Ruth H. Aubrey, Dr. Bunzel is Bill Langan to be invalid. find the petition for the recall of Bill "hard feelings" as a result of the recall attending a conference in New York. He Controversial discussion centered on Langan, A.S. president, to be invalid." movement. "If last semester's election will not return until Thursday and no the validity of 158 signatures on the Faculty adviser Louis Borozzi said losers can't pull off an election, iC was commitment could possibly be made in petition that were ruled to be illegible. the board was "forced into making a obvious from the beginning that they advance. The petition was found to be 68 technical decision that may or may not couldn't pull off the recall," he said. signatures short of the required be the fair decision." "We plan to continue with our pro- The forum, sponsored by the San Jose number to insure a recall election. The next step for recall coordinators grams and continue working for the Liberation Front and several other Election Board chairman Bob Riner will be to take the case to the A.S. Judi- student body, and let these people con- campus groups, is intended as a opened the meeting by requesting any ciary. According to Andy McDonald a tinue their games if they so desire," medium through which the issue of arguments from concerned parties. leader of the recall, their argument will Langan went on. "But they are not go- allowing on-campus recruiting can be A.S. Councilman David Krawitz, a be that the Election Board "has no ing to recall meeven if they get it on discussed. recall supporter, said that the board constitutional right to limit the time in the ballot, they won't do it." Ted James, a member of the Front, should consider the intent of the said the groups plans to hold the forum signers. He also pointed out that most of regardless of whether Dr. Bunzel shows the A.S. numbers are legible even when up or not. The forum will be held tomor- the names are not. row at 11 a.m. in the Loma Prieta room Riner pointed out that the system of UPC Seeks Revision of the College Union. checking the names was by the "number 11" cards from registration, and there was no means of checking by the numbers. Lozada Subject: Krawitz also mentioned that from a Of Disciplinary Code standpoint of mere percentages (of the valid signatures compared to the total The United Professors of California Specifically, Dr. Smith charged that number submitted), 68 out of the 158 Brief History )UPC) has started legal action to the new rules were adopted without any should be elegible. prevent the chancellor from imple- meaningful consultation with faculty Steve Brennan, A.S. executive vice menting new faculty grievance and representatives. SPIRAL STRUCTURINGThis Is an emergency spiral staircase, part of the president, read from a prepared disciplinary procedures. Furthermore, he said, they eliminate Past, Present Radiology Laboratory wing of Duncan Hall under construction. The lab, which, statement contending that the obtain- Dr. Bill Smith, president of the peer group judgment in discipline cases Froben Lozada, SJS scholar-in-resi- under present plans, will be administered by Radiology Safety Officer Dr. Ruth ing of correct signatures was "The organization, announced last week that and grant excessive power to state dence, speaks Thursday at noon in the Vallee, contains small labs, a briefing room and storage rooms. (See stories on responsibility of the recallers." He also UPC will immediately seek a court college presidents. C.U. Loma Prieta Room on The page 4.1 claimed that there were persons who order to prevent the procedures from In addition, the rules restrict the Chicano Struggle for Self-Deter- -Daily photo by Bill Lovejoy "purposely missigned" the petition. being made operative. right of representation in grievance mination, Past and Present." The group will also "pursue other cases, he said. legal efforts to resist and test these In grievance cases, a faculty member His speech is a brief historical Browns: 'Major Labor Force' analysis of the Chicano struggle procedures." may not have representation unless he followed by the activities of Chicanos The new rulings by the trustees put says he is physically, emotionally or including the Raza Unida Parties in final say in grievance and disciplinary mentally incompetent to represent Texas and Colorado. matters in the hands of the chancellor. himself. A statewide faculty grievance com- Representation is also allowed if the Lozada was born in the barrios Chicanos of Rap White Culture mittee used to have final authority in grievance committee decides the south Texas. This is an area which he these procedures. faculty member needs representation. claims is poorer than Mississippi or Semana ChicanaChicano Week taken produced an hallucinogenic trip want the chance to do it ourselves." opened Monday night with Chicano which made "everything seem better." There will be more speakers, Under the new rules, the statewide In no case may the grievant be repre- Alabama and which is also the primary committee is merely advisory to the sented by a lawyer. labor. speakers, scholars and performers on Bongo drums, guitars, a flute and workshops and representations of the source of migrant chancellor. Continued on page 3 Lozada is chairman of the Chicano the stage of the College Union Loma rhythm instruments were played by brown culture from 7 to 11 p.m. nightly Prieta Room amid an enthusiastic, more young people who sang mostly in in the Loma Prieta room the rest of this According to Dr. Smith, the San mostly brown, audience. Spanish and whose spirited songs week. The $6,700 symposium is being Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) brought applause from the audience. sponsored by Chicano students, will support the proposed court action. Speakers spoke either in Spanish or Before breaking for intermission, they Mexican-American Graduate Studies George Johns, executive secretary of President's English and sometimes slid from one to sang one slow-moving song, "Brown- and the Chicano Educational Oppor- the labor group, promised the labor the other. Speakers and performers eyed Children of the Sun." tunity Program. council will file an informational brief criticized the white culture which they Mariachis, in traditional costumes, in the case, Dr. Smith said. said has held them back, spoke optimis- played the last portion of the first night. Dr. Smith charged that the new Veto Powers tically of a new day for the brown Cries and cheers from the audience procedures "strip faculty committees culture and varied in their suggestions Semana goaded them on. of all authority to decide charges of of how the Chicano culture could best CHICANO EDUCATION wrongdoing brought by or against strengthen itself. The second guest speaker, Jose faculty members." Interpreted Jack Ybarra, a community worker in Chicana' Carrasco, professor in the Tutorial The rules were ordered by Chancellor Santa Clara County, said that since Program, told the Chicanos not to hide Glenn S. Dumke "in order to curry A.S. presidential veto power is Santa Clara County became the in college or in graduate programs"if favor with Gov. Reagan who has made limited to legislative resolutions and nation's "food basket" Chicanos have Tonight directives and does not extend to the there is a job you can do, go out and do no secret of his desire to purge the state been the major labor force. In those it." Tonight's "Semana Csicana" will colleges of liberal faculty members," procedure used by A.S. Council in days, local government, he said, was He said, however, that college feature three speakers with topics he continued. arriving at the decision, according to the political machine run by two men. needn't weaken the cultural ties and ranging from Chicano student move- the A.S. Judiciary interpretation Today, the political power has been pointed to the students performing ments to the La Raza Unida party. reached yesterday. extended to 25 menbut they are not there as examples. The program, which will be held in Bill Langan, A.S.

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