rt SPARTAN DAILY 1) Vol. 98, No.39 Published for San lose State University since 1934 Thursday, March 19, 1992
Munitz blasts PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH SJSU factions sit
By Les Mahler Daily staff writer 'I don't want the SACRAMENTO Firing off an angry salvo at both SJSU faculty and people at San Jose alumni members Tuesday afternoon, State to think California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz said the scuttling of the they've won a search for a new president had done "severe damage." victory.' "I don't want the people at San Jose Star,. to think they've won a vic- Barry Munitz tory," Muiutz said. 'They need to real- Chancellor, CSU ize that they've done severe damage" to the selection process. how much she was paid, citing confi- Munitz's comments came one day dentiality. after Ruth Leventhal withdrew her The point that the position offers a name from the presidential search at relatively low salary was taken up by SJSU. Munitz, who said CSU "is not com- Leventhal, a provost at Pennsyl- pensating our presidents in an ade- vania State University at Harrisburg, quate way:' withdrew Tuesday morning citing "We cannot continue to recruit and heavy opposition from some alumni retain quality leaders" given the pay and faculty to her lone candidacy, and and responsibilities involved, he said. also the economic setback she would While he acknowledged the weak undertake by leaving her position at pay level cited by Leventhal in her Harrisburg. decision to reject the SJSU presidency, As SJSU president, Leventhal's Munitz blamed the downfall on the pay would range from $116,000 to "politics" of the process. $124,000 annually. Administrators at Penn State Harrisburg would not say See MUNITZ, Page 3 Photographs by Sheila Dawkins Daily syaff photographer George Smock, Ohio professor of theology, draws attention in front of the Student Union Wednesday for a 'soap-box' talk Wilson vows to veto 10% fee increase plan Students take By Les Mahler some 90 minutes after Wilson did. on evangelist Daily staff writer But the Assembly speaker never appeared, sending instead an aide By Mike O'Reilly SACRAMENTO Vowing to from his office. Daily staff VITilff veto any proposal which would limit According to acting press secretary California State University fee hikes to Jim Lewis, Brown "was going to be Prowling the area between the Student Union and the 10 percent, Gov. Pete Wilson drew a talking to the board of trustees to dis- Old Cafeteria Wednesday, George Smock provoked, chal- line Tuesday between Assembly courage them from making unilateral lenged and outraged over 100 students on a variety of Speaker Willie Brown and himself. decisions" on the fee increase. subjects. Wilson's speech before the CSU Gov. Wilson requested the hike in This unannounced lunch-time speaker preached to Board of Trustees was in opposition to fees because of a $6 billion state bud- students about abortion, homosexuality, the teachings of Brown's vow to accept no more than a get deficit. It is the second year in a Jesus Christ, the environment and the qualities that would 10 percent increase in CSU student row California is faced with a massive make Pat Buchanan the best choice for President. fees. deficit The discussion often became heated, but officers from Wilson thanked the trustees for In his state budget, which must be the University Police Deparunent were present to make approving his request for a 40 percent finalized by July 1, the governor pro- sure things did not get out of band. fee increase, and showing "courage posed the fee increase of 40 percent Although he spent much of his time voicing his sup- and foresight" in doing so. for the CSU system. port of the former speech writer for President Reagan, In a press conference Tuesday, The University of California sys- Smock said that he was not on campus to campaign for Brown criticized the trustees for acting tem is faced with a 24 percent increase Buchanan. Rather he came to preach the Gospel. illegally when they passed the request- in tuition. SJSU biology junior Alen Ternian questions George Smock about gay ed fee hike. On March 12, the Assembly's See PREACHER, Page 3 rights Wednesday at the Student Union as Smock leaves the crowd Brown had been expected to make an appearance at the trustees meeting See WILSON, Back Page Panel discusses U.S. hate crimes In search of a president By Mike O'Reilly Daily staff writer Selection process A sampling of faculty Wednesday assured until the final six were 'It is an indisputable fact pointed out the concern with the selected, but he does believe there Hate crimes are becoming a more common occurrence needs change selection process and a need to incor- should be more frequent reports from throughout the United States, according to a panel that dis- that hate crimes are porate a wide range of views from the search committee to the media. cussed the issue Tuesday night in the Student Union during increasing..,' various campus groups. Larry Gerstori, professor of politi- Jewish Heritage Week.. By Dorothy Klavins "We need to resolve contentions cal science pointed out that serving "It is an indisputable fact that hate crimes are increasing Duly staff writer before they burst into the open," said on the search committee is a thank- in the United States, in California and in the Bay Area," Glenn Earley Aldon Nielson, professor of English. less task. Ile said sometimes cautious said Glenn Earley, coordinator of inter-religious relations Coordinator, inter-religious relations San Jose has an international air- Nielson also felt there was "too delays can be mistaken for secrecy. for the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Early port, a trolley line, a possible big much speed and secrecy, with no "It is disappointing to me that so teaches critical thinking at Santa Clara University. league baseball team and enough access to candidates before the cam- much time, energy and money was Hate crimes are defined as action based on specific bias lectcd at high schools, middle schools and universities. rainfall lobe above average this year. pus visits." spent on the search this year, with toward the victim's perceived ethnicity. Racist groups such as Skin Heads and White Aryan But there's no president for its All the factions need to get such meager results. But we need to In his report, Earley stated that the reasons for the Resistance are frightening because they project traditional university. together sooner, he said, and a two- profit from our experiences," Smart increase in hate crimes is varied and complex. Economic Nazi views as desirable qualities. Earley said. He said The only finalist chosen from a week period is not enough to get to said. tensions, religious bigotry and low self-esteem are among these groups play on people's ignorance and use pseudo- field of six candidates, Ruth know the candidates. He suggests the early involvement some of the possible causes for the hate crime increase, scientific mumbo-jumbo that attempts to rally people Leventhal, withdrew on Tuesday James Smart, chairman-elect of of the faculty. One way to do this is Earley said. behind their cause. leaving the university to start the pro- the SJSU academic senate and a to make a greater effort to get input According to Earley there are three basic strategies to Anastasia Steinberg, a deputy district attorney and the cess all over again. Many faculty member of the presidential search on the leadership statement. counter prejudice and hate crimes. The first strategy is coordinator of the Santa Clara County hate crimes unit members want to see it work differ- committee, reported that the confi- ameliorating social conditions conducive to the growth of explained to the crowd how the county is addressing the ently this time. dentiality of the candidates had lobe See WHY, Back Page hate. Secondly, perpetrators of hate crimes should be legal- increase of hate crimes. ly prevented from committing them and punishment !late crimes are legally more serious than many other should he imposed. crimes. Steinberg said. Those convicted of a hate Clime Selection time-line: Months wasted in futile process Finally, people should be educated to question and will receive twice the normal sentence of a person who change their own ideals which cause prejudice. committed the same crime without the bias, Steinberg said. Development of cognitive skills and critical thinking is Steinberg said that more people are coming forward When SJSU's first woman president, Gail element in presidential search. the key to combating hate crimes, Earley said. with accusations of hate crime actions. However, she said Fullerton, announced her retirement on September February 11, 1992 Low turnout for student's Sophistication in logic and critical thinking is the best that it is difficult to convince a jury that the crime was 30, 1991, she set off a nationwide search for a presidential selection forum, two attend. weapon against prejudice. based on a bias against the victim. replacement that ended Tuesday with no new pres- February 25 Final six candidates announced: Earley ended his speech with what he described as a "Most juries feel that prejudice is just a pan of life." ident at all. Joseph Watson, vice chancellor for undergraduate sobering and nauseating look at mist fliers that he has col- Steinberg said, "which is unfortunate." May 6, 1991 Fullerton shocks campus with affairs at UC-San Diego; Ruth Leventhal, dean and announcement of retirement after 13 years as SJSU provost at Pennsylvania State University, president and 28 years at SJSU. Harrisburg; Gerry Meisels, chief academic officer at Bay Area poet reads at awards dinner Wheels set in motion for replacement search. University of Southern Florida; Sheila Kaplan, chan- CSU Chancellor-designate, Barry Munitz named to cellor at University of Wisconsin at Parkside; Tomas head committee. Arcienega, president of Cal-State Bakersfield; Doris By Viliha Bansal Institute for Arts and Letters will counter-texture for our culture," August 26, 1991 Fullerton says good-bye to M. Ching, vice-president of student affairs at Duly staff writer honor San Jose Councilwoman Soldofsky said. Ile comes from the SJSU in final speech as president. "San Jose State University of Hawaii at Manoa. Shirley Lewis and director of the San "beat" period of the artistic culture is making do with string where rope is needed," February 28-March 5 Finalists visit campus, One of the Bay Area's bards is Jose Symphony, George Cleve. the same period that made James Fullerton said. "Something is likely to fray or snap." participate in open forums. coming to campus. At the public reading. Ferlinghetti Dean an adolescent hero. September 20, 1991 Munitz visits SJSU to March 12 Ruth Leventhal was chosen as the Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a San will read from his book "When I "He would call himself a leftist," poll students and faculty for input on new president's single final presidential candidate, three names had Francisco poet, artist and author of Look at Pictures" The book contains he said. lob description. Mostly white, male make-up of been expected to be selected for consideration. more than a dozen books, will read poems about paintings that he kives, Ferlinghetti defended himself selection committee (still in formation process) is March 13 Latino groups hold a press confer- his works at a public reading tonight said Alan Soldofsky, director of the against the conservative ideologies criticized. ence denouncing the choice of Ruth Leventhal and at 8 p.m. in SJSU's Concert Hall in Center for the Literary Arts. and district attorneys who tried to September 27, 1991 Fullerton's last day on the presidential selection process. the Music Building. The Bay Area knows Ferlinghetti repress his poetry for the use of pro- campus. March 17 Citing the contention over the Before the reading, he will be hon- largely as a poet who brings together fanity, and published many controver- October 1, 1991 Interim President J. Handel selection process, and the "severe financial loss" ored at the Center of Literary Arts' poetry and painting, said Soldofsky, sial and sometimes award-winning Evans takes over. she would incur, Leventhal announces she is with- Annual Authors' dinner at the but during the late '40s and '50s, he books through his own press, City November 8, 1991 Presidential Selection drawing her name from consideration by the CSU Fairmont Hotel at 5:30 p.m. was renowned as an influential politi- Lights. Advisory Committee lists ethnic diversity as a key board for the office of SJSU president. Ferlinghetti will be the guest of honor cal figure. at the ceremony, in which SJSU's Ferlinghetti represented a "kind of See POET Page 3 2 Thursday, March 19, 1992 San lose State University SPARTAN DAILY FORUM OPINIONS
EDITORIAL PUBLIC- 1 1...rBRARY Children bear brunt of city's budget crunch society's shortcomings on young Public libraries children. In the process of cutting hours, 11 reduce weekend officials have decided that it is in the best interest of the economy to cut weekend eiz1101REA/S hours, making it inconvenient for many story hours parents. SroRyi-ImE The city still holds story hours on budget crunch is weekday mornings or afternoons. But Theout for fresh blood, this means no weekend or evening hours which were getting to be popular because Aileszi.ED and this time it has they were becoming family events. taken the youngest There is something people can do to and most innocent portion of alleviate this problem. the population as its victim: Volunteerism, a word we hear often but don't take as seriously as we should, the preschoolers. can help to make up for what is missing Thanks to the budget deficit, San Jose in these children's lives. has now cut back story hours at some of Today's children are faced with such a its public libraries. trouble-ridden society that they have no The groups of three-, four- and five- choice but to grow up fast. year-olds, who usually attend these social With all the problems that exist functions for the young, now have a big nowadays, children need all the positive time gap where they have little, if forces in their lives that they can gel anything, entertaining to do on the weekends that is actually worth-while. A few extra hours on the weekends 84.4 it may not mean that much to the rest of It is ludicrous because so many extra- us but it makes a world of difference in a curricular activities have already been cut little child's life. from the public-school system. It doesn't Ed Fowler Spartan Daily seem logical to inflict the ills of the After all, the future rests on this generation's shoulders. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
one of their basic rights. There was nothing hike. Besides hitting students, Wilson also Piñata notgrotesque grotesque or ominous about it. Just the oppo- stomps on the poor with his welfare cuts and CAMPUS Editor, site. bashes gays by denying them their rights. "Grotesque," "violence," "hatred." These Of the estimated 27 million 18 to 24- Why doesn't this engender the same were some of the alarming words Darius year-olds eligible to vote, only 16 million revulsion on Kolyszko's part? Does VIEWPOINT Tim K. Fitzgerald Kolyszko (Campus Viewpoint, "Voices of will do so. The point of the event was to get Kolyszko only feel sympathy for a papier- the Freddy Krueger Generation," Friday) more of these students to register by making niacht doll and not real people? used to describe the voter registration kickoff the process lively and fun and if a few of Mr. Kolyszko should realize hitting a held on March 10 by Students United for them got their frustrations out in the process, piñatais not reminiscent of Freddy Krueger, Accessible Education. The focal point of this no harm done. nor is it violent. A piñata has nofeelings Leadership sore festers event was a Pete Wilson pifiata which, like While it is unfortunate Kolyszko's sensi- people do. Any welfare mom facing cuts can all pifiatas, was hit with a stick. bilities were offended by the symbolic bash- tell you that. I must say, as a former member of a 1966, the newly created position Kolyszko's description of a "grotesque ing of Wilson, many people have been Dan Fei nste in of Academic Vice President came selection committee myself, I was bashed by Wilson's bat. And not just sym- /n impressed, generally, with the caliber of show of rage" and people with clenched fists Vice President, Students United for into conflict with then conservative makes for dramatic bolically. According to a report from the Education presidential candidates that came on "shaking feverishly" Accessible Dean Gilbaugh, dean of the college, is not true. In reality, the California State Students Association, 7,000 Senior campus earlier this month, with but one reading, but simply while the university here was still a students couldn't attend CSU schools this Film exception. people at SUAE's event were having a good Radio, Television and "college." time, laughing and joking, while exercising year because of Wilson's 20 percent fee Since that time, Academic Vice Of those remaining five, all were from President Hobert W. Burns had been a Big League schools and had major guiding influence in this young accomplishments to their credit, meeting university under three presidents: Robert criteria of academic and scholarly How sad that SUAE has so little respect expressing their dissatisfaction exists. In the Clarke, John Bunzel and Gail Fullerton. achievement recently in modern, major Protest exploits animals for the life of another living creature that it future. I suggest that SUAE become more Now, with the university and the entire institutions of higher learning. Editor, felt it was appropriate to give a dead pig's sensitive to our fellow earth dwellers and
state system of higher education in crisis, If I may speak to you as my I am writing to express the disgust and head as a symbol of the A.S.' lack of action explore its options more carefully. we sorely miss AVP Burns. colleagues, for indeed I have been here revulsion I felt when I read the article about in the fee protest. lam highly offended that Kimberly Hagen
This is most clear when some of the so long each and all of you are my the group Students United for Accessible any group would feel that this exploitation of Member, People for the Ethical current faculty, who, had they been here colleagues: each university and college is Education giving a pig's head to the animals is justified for any reason. The senti- Treatment of Animals then, would surely have sided with unique, requiring the attention of a Associated Students board members ment of the protest may have been called for, Senior conservative spokesperson Gilbaugh special leader. (Spartan Daily, Thursday). but the action was not. Administration of Justice against Robert Clarke in 1966 and raised By way of example, those of us who I am sure that a more responsible way of the cry of credentials and prerogative as knew him can attest Robert Clarke's regarded 1)r. Bums, then much as they professed interest in the "life of the have done regarding Dr. Ruth Leventhal mind" and a "lifetime of learning" was
in recent Daily's. barely indicated when he first was 'Moral order' twisted International pamphlet). This is no doubt because of a deep selected president of this campus in Mr. Haddad also says, "certain crimes are Editor, 'Do you burn an division in the leadership of the 1963. so grievous to humanity that the only ade- university, going back some thirty years Therefore, Dr. Leventhal should have This is in response to the letter to the edi- arsonist's home? Do quate response is the death penalty:. That is between aspirants seeking to advance been given a chance to demonstrate her tor by Jack Iladdad which appeared on the whole problem with the death penalty. technical schools after the thought of proven tendency for greatness here. Friday, entitled "I)eath Penalty Essential:. I you rape the rapist? People are so emotional that they believe the campus President Wahlquist, vs. a more For those who would dissent from the was quite disturbed by the twisted views of No, because justice only way to punish a murderer is to murder evolving concept of major stature later, selection committee's unanimous the author of this letter. them. Why not'? They killed, it's only fair with then campus President Robert decision consistently have been the sore Mr. Ilaiklad starts out his letter by saying does not mean that they should deserve the same fate, right? Clarke. of distraction on campus for over three that the death penalty "...serves to remind us punishment that Wrong. Regardless of the fact that they decades. of the majesty of the moral order that is deserve harsh punishment, it is still wrong to I am sympathetic to the prerogative of kill. the faculty and its insistence that the head embodied in our law and the terrible conse- imitates the crime.' of the academy be a scholar and an quences of its breach." I don't know about The fact remains that it is wrong to kill academic. I likewise sympathize with the Tim K. Fitzgerald is a graduate student Mr. Haddad, but I don't believe in the justice people and you don't go about proving that of the history department and a former Thomas Zi 720 by killing the killer to show them that killing community, both on and off campus, that system being above the law or even being Sophomore, Journalism the head of SJSU be both accessible and member of a Presidential Selection close to be labeled "the majesty of moral is wrong. Do you bum an arsonist's home? forthright in their leadership of this major Committee eventually naming John order." Do you rape the rapist? No, because justice institution. Maizel university president in 1970. Mr. Haddad also explains that there "is does not mean punishment that imitates the absolutely no inconsistency between moral death penalty "instills fear into the heart of crime. The death penalty is wrong no matter disapproval of unnecessary killing of the every murderer..." Contrary to what many which way you look at it. It doesn't deter innocent and the judicial execution of the people believe, the death penalty does not crime, it isn't cheaper, it won't bring back guilty:. Wrong, there is quite an inconsisten- deter crime. This would be true if the con- the victims and most important of all, the cy in that statement. There is absolutely no victed murderer made a division and expect- death penalty is irreversible. CORRECTION way you can say that it is wrong to kill the ed to be arrested, convicted and then execut- What happens when innocent people are innocent, but it is OK to kill the guilty. One ed. When people murder, they do it quickly executed? Does Mr. Haddad's "majesty of wrong does not justify the other wrong, they without thinking or in great moments of fear moral order," inscribe an apology on their are both wrong. If Mr. Haddad didn't try to and under the influence of drugs and alco- tomb stone? Due to a photographer's error, the cap- ation junior, was the leaper on the right. use such inflated language, then it would hol. "An eye for an eye leaves the world tion on "Leaping Leprechauns" in The Spartan Daily corrects all signifi- have been easy to see how inconsistent his In fact, in 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court blind" Martin Luther King, Jr. Wednesday's Daily, the names of the sub- cant errors brought to our attention. If you statement was. reviewed studies by researchers analyzing Thomas Zizzo jects were reversed. feel we have made such an error, please I would now like to disclaim every one of crime statistics and found no conclusive evi- Sophomore Ryan Allshouse, music sophomore, was call us at 924-3280 during regular business Mr. Haddad's arguments in favor of capital dence that the death penalty deters violent Journalism the leaNr on the left and Mike Nolte, recre- hours. punishment. Ile makes the statement that the crime (according to an Amnesty
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