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Thursday, October 4, 1973 Today last day for fees Today is the last day students can pay fees and turn in packets. A $5 late fee will be charged after 8 p.m. Collection is being held in the S.U. Ballroom, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Students should enter the north end from inside the Union. Class cards will be reviewed and collected in the Ballroom prior to payment of fees. Fees will be collected in the adjoining room. Friday is the deadline for packet turn-in and late payment of fees. Late partan Daily registration and fee collection will be handled by the Cashier's Office Serving California State University at San Jose Since 1934 tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. oath under protest Mitford signs loyalty By Carol Tognetti supporting Mitford's stand against "I'm madly excited about being here. 20 students who will eventually work in Jessica Mitford, author and new signing the loyalty oath. I've never been near a college as a pairs to rake muck on any deserving SJSU sociology professor, said "We applaud Jessica Mitford for student or a teacher and I'm enjoying it subject in the San Jose area, Mitford, yesterday she may be guilty of perjury opposing the issue," a spokesman for to no end," Mitford said, referring to continuously smoking a cigarette, said. by reluctantly signing a loyalty oath the ACLU said. the fact that she has never had any Referring to the importance of required of all SJSU instructors. Leaving the problems of the loyalty formal education. muckrakers in today's society, she Under the provisions of the oath, each oath behind, she expressed her en- Muck-raking pointed out Ralph Nader's assistance to instructor is required to sign it "freely, thusiasm for teaching two sociology Her honors seminar class, consumers. without any mental reservation." classes at SJSU. "Techniques of Muck-raking," involves "Ralph Nader brought muck back as But the language contained in the an important thing to do. oath is ambiguous, Mitford said as she "The most marvelous example of read from a printed statement for the muckraking is what is being done about press. Watergate," she said. Inviting interesting persons to speak She said it compels her to not only to her Tuesday-Thursday lecture class, support such portions of the state "The American Way," is one of the constitution as those guaranteeing most relevant aspects of the course, racial equality, freedom of religion, according to Mitford. Speech and the press, but such items as Tuesday's class featured Donald J. "Article 4 Section 25-3/4 limiting boxing Lima, a funeral director in San Jose. and wrestling matches to 15 rounds," which she questions. Funerals Stating specifically that she could not "The students were extremely sharp support and defend the amendment in their questioning, not at all shy or reinstating the death penalty, "which I bashful," Mitford stated. believe conflicts with the Eighth Speaking of her own funeral plans, Bart Rex Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Mitford said she plans to go for the best. prohibiting cruel and unusual punish- "I know a great deal about em- Artists' conception of San Antonio Plaza project ment," she asked to have the words balming now. They can take 20 years "under duress" substituted for "freely, off your looks and I don't want to miss without any mental reservation," but out on that," she said, laughing. was refused. But the most important section of the Perjury course will deal with the criminal San Antonio Plaza Mitford, who finally did sign the oath justice system, Mitford said. under protest, wondered how the Prisons perjury clause will affect the ad- Her recently published book, "Kind ministrators of the university. The and Usual Punishment," deals with the penal code attached to the oath states methods of treatment prisoners receive eliminates parking that university officials who require while serving their sentences and many Malligo employees to swear that they have other aspects of prison life. By Linda signed the oath freely, "when in fact The prison system as it stands today More than 1,000 student parking parking and traffic problems which will signing is a condition of employment, is ineffective in rehabilitating the places will be lost when construction of result as the construction begins. are equally guilty of perjury," Mitford criminal, she said. The main benefit the Saga block of the San Antonio Plaza According to A.S. Vice President Rick said. derived from these institutions is development begins in a few months. Marks, other parking possibilities are The dirt parking lots between Fourth explored but little can be done at If a person is convicted of perjury, directed towards the prisons them- being and Third streets and San Fernando this time. the punishment is confinement in the selves. establish- and San Carlos streets will be replaced After the parking garage is com- state prison not less than one year or "Crime pays the prison by a 744-unit apartment complex and pleted however, students will have the more than 14 years. ment. ci1,111, "But prisons don't make the streets three-level commercial plaza to be built opportunity to park there. Later yesterday the American Civil Jessica Mitford fears penury. Murphypossible safe. We've got them and the streets by Saga Enterprises Inc. of Menlo Larry Benson, senior civil engineer Liberties Union issued a statement still aren't safe," Mitford said. Park. for San Jose, said a study conducted by A three-level parking garage will also the city showed that of the 4,500 spaces New vice chancellor be built by the city of San Jose through to be available, 600-800 of them could be its parking authority. used by students. The land belongs to the San Jose "But the rate would definitely not be Redevelopment Agency. The agency the same as what the students are leases the land to AMPCO Auto Parks currently paying at the AMPCO lots," Sherriffs denies trustees engineered job Company for interim use as student Benson said. Students are now paying By Peggy Rudnick' parking lots. 25 cents per day in these lots. "It's a huge area of responsibility. charged the selection of Sherriffs was Langsdorf retired from the post July 11 political recruitment and fund solicita- San Antonio Plaza is part of the Higher rates Frankly, I'm a little awed and terribly "engineered largely by the trustees and Sept. 25 when I was appointed," he tion, which is often regarded as the Redevelopment Agency's plan for Benson said the rate would be higher proud," said Dr. Alex C. Sherriffs of his themselves, most of whom are Reagan said. starting point of the Free Speech renovating deteriorating downtown San depending on construction costs and new role as vice chancellor of academic appointees." "I was also told I was not the only Movement, was only a "symbolic Jose. The agency purchases and clears other building considerations. affairs for the state university and In yesterday's interview, however, candidate," he added. beginning," he said. "The general the land, then sells it to private cor- Since the San Antonio Plaza project colleges system. Sherriffs said the motion to hire him The graying Sherriffs received a feeling had been brewing for a long porations such as Saga. began in 1968, parking problems have Sherriffs, who was on the SJSU was made by State Superintendent of unanimous endorsement to the $40,320 a time." Eight blocks covered been just one of the hassles delaying the campus attending a meeting of the Public Instruction Wilson C. Riles, who year post from the board of trustees Sherriffs also said his decision in 1966 The project will cover an eight block construction to the point where it looked state college and university vice- is "neither a Reagan appointee nor a last week. to change parties and go to work for the area from Fourth to Market streets like the land might permanently presidents yesterday, sees his job as member of Reagan's political party. Sherriffs was vice chancellor at the Reagan administration lent to his between San Carlos and San Fernando remain a parking lot forever. one of "furthering new approaches to That charge just isn't so." University of California, the early 1960s controversial status. streets. Originally the project was planned by make education exciting." Sherriffs, who is often labeled a and it was there he said he gained his The new vice chancellor was Construction of the parking garage Saga and one of its subsidiaries, Scope, However, the appointment of the 56- controversial figure in higher "controversial figure" status. education advisor to Gov. Reagan for and the Saga buildings will begin Inc., as a college-housing community year-old Sherriffs to the system's chief education, said the charge that he was During his term as vice chancellor, five years. simultaneously, with an 11-story hotel with college-oriented stores. academic position has met with some rushed in and was not valid. Sherriffs said he saw a mounting trend Sherriffs said, however, that now he to be built in the next five years. Student housing lost dissatisfaction, according to the Los "There was a thoughtful search toward a testing of campus rules by is "back in higher education where I In the meantime, AMPCO has been This idea was abandoned in 1971 Angeles Times. process over a two-month period bet- small groups. belong." trying to acquire land to facilitate the because Scope had been losing money The Times reported sources have ween the time Dr.

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