Caret Says Campus Needs 'Selective Pruning'
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,IrvM I (4 I u SP() KT s Chorallers SJSU basketball sing and dance comes to end in D.C. with 77-66 loss to Runnin Rebels ( See page 6... See page 4... itemtamt. Volume 101, NumberSPARTAN 31 Published for San .illtit Slate I ilk ersii since 1931 DAILY!lido% N1..1( Ii 10. 1993 Caret says campus needs 'selective pruning' By Blair Whitney last three years and Caret said that the deans and col- Caret said. He said that he would like system. For example, we're the only Spartan Daily Staff Writer the university now leges should make the choices about to encourage creative ideas from the campus offering a degree in occupa- San Jose State University needs to faces some tough which programs should be dropped or deans by letting the dean's college tional therapy, so that's probably not a limit the number of programs it offers, choices, said Don consolidated. keep whatever money it can save. program we would cut," Caret said. said President Robert Caret in a press Kassing, vice presi- "These things have come up general- "We need to do some 'selective prun- Caret said that his comments at an conference Wednesday. dent for administra- ly for discussion, but we haven't heard ing'," Caret said. Academic Senate meeting about the "With no new money coming in, SJSU tion, at an SJSU any major proposals," said James In considering cuts, Caret said SJSU importance of engineering and busi- cannot continue to run all the pro- Academic Senate Walsh, acting academic vice president. should consider its history and tradi- ness programs were misunderstood by grams we have without sinking into meeting. "We'll need to set up a process with tions, as well as the needs of the com- some to mean that these programs mediocrity," he said. "We need to con- SJSU currently has Caret extensive consultation to consider pro- munity it serves. SJSU needs to decide would not be considered for cuts. centrate the money on fewer pro- 150 degree programs gram cuts and consolidations." which programs are most important, "Everything needs to be examined," grams." offering bachelor and master degrees, "We need to find a way to limit the Caret said. Caret said. "We offer something like San Jose State University has lost according to the 1995 - 1997 course cat- number of programs we offer "We must also look at how we fit into $19 million in state funding over the alogue. majors, minors, and concentrations," the CSU (California State University) See Caret, page 3 UPD: Foct s Kinder, Downtown gentler hangouts Officers like for students By Catherine Ippoliti personal touch Spartan Daily Stall Writer When students aren't working, By Dexter T. Manglicmot studying for exams, or writing Stall Writer Spartan Daily term papers, they can often be University Police Officer found partying in one of the Robert Noriega has patrolled many nighttime hangouts locat- the San Jose State University ed in downtown San Jose. campus for eight years and has From jazz to alternative, seeli fellow officers move on to karoke to jukebox music, these other departments. But for clubs and pubs offer different Noriega, UPD is home. atmospheres for the diverse per- "You get to deal with a lot sonal tastes of individuals. more people on a smaller Toons seems to be the num- scale," Noriega said. "And you ber one hot spot for a lot of San have more ability to contact Jose State University students. people in a more positive way." Russ Hedgteth, a political sci- Noriega likes the relaxed ence major, said he's a regular environment and said UPD customer at Toons on Thursday doesn't have to deal with a lot nights. of the problems the larger "It's a college crowd here. police departments face. everyone is real sociable and the "We have a pretty good work- beer's only 50 cents," Hedgteth ing relationship with most said. departments," Noriega said. Although Hedgteth is a bounc- He prefers UPD because er at San Jose Live, he believes he has more control over his Toons is the best place in San work and the small size of the Jose to go after hours. "There Pik rro BY CIIRItillAN DEL ft 'SARI SPARTAN 11Ali a family are not many fights here. It's department creates San Jose Live provides an assortment of activities for those looking for a bar are some of the things to look to upon entering. The -end See Nightlife. See UPD, page 6 place to hang out and have fun Pool tables, basketball courts and a on Sec Street between Son C i i.d San Fernando str.,n't- page 6 'Writer's writer' Grace Paley Alum founded Calif. Communist Party reads her work tonight 60-year career included Center for Literary Arts sponsors her appearance Women's Suffrage, By Michele Bolger attempt too much," he said. workers' rights Spartan Daily Staff Writer Paley often takes time out from writing By Linda Taaffe Her background as a Russian immi- to pursue political causes. She has shown Spartan Daily Staff Writer grant, growing up in the Bronx and being her activism by distributing anti-war When the State Normal School an anti-Vietnam War activist have led pamphlets, going overseas to show her opened in San Jose on June 14, award-winning author Grace Paley to dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War and 1871, it seemed unlikely that, 48 write of her experiences. marching on the Capitol. years later, one of its students Paley's career started when she began Although Paley never finished her would be the founder of California's writing poems at the age bachelor's degree at Communist Labor party and face a 64 of 5. However, she did Hunter College in New 14-year prison sentence. not become a published York, she has gone on to In fact, the State Board of writer until she was 35. Her successes are receive many awards Education moved the teacher's The author, now 73, intermittent, such as the literary school (now San Jose State will be speaking to San unpredictable, often award for short story University) out of San Francisco Jose State University stu- writing given by the because it believed the crowded dents today as part of shapely and without National Institute of Arts city, with its distractions, was not a the Major Author Series and Letters in 1970. proper place for young ladies. San sponsored by The Center wholeness. Paley also received the Jose, with its churches, provided a for Literary Arts. Edith Wharton award at more sheltered environment, said Vivian GOIlliCk York State given in San Jose Archivist Jack Douglas. An open forum with VIllage yoke New Paley will take place in 1988 and '89; the Rea "The San Jose Mercury News PIP al ol'12110 OF TM BANCROFT LIBRARY Washington Square Hall 19 award for short stories convinced local skeptics that the Political activist Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867-1955) right, and her attorney John room 109 at 12:30 p.m. given in 1993 and the school would attract 'desirable, Francis Neyland She will also be reading from her work in Vermont Governor's award for Excellence young women, not 'fast, mischie- democratic ideals. children working in factories, pros- the Engineering building auditorium at 7:30. In the Arts In 1993. vous men,' "he said. "Instead they Whitney graduated from the San titutes, rats, crowded living quar- Paley has written five short fiction "Her successes are intermittent, unpre- got a radical ... Anita Whitney." Jose Normal School in 1884 and ters. and poverty-stricken immi- books along with a book of poems and dictable, often shapely and without Whitney was a social worker, a Wellesley College in 1889. She aban- grants changed her life. In 1893, she book of collected stories. wholeness," said Vivian Gonick in the suffragist and a political activist. As doned her teaching aspirations after began 15 years of social service. She has been described as "a writer's Village Voice. the daughter of a wealthy, political- visiting the College Settlement "Social work was low paying, but writer" by reviewer William Novak. She "Paley, when she is good, is so good ly active Oakland family, Whitney House in New York City where social it was an acceptable and natural "focuses her talent and energy on the that one feels what can be felt only in the grew up in comfortable surround- workers tried to improve slum life. craft itself and observes the classic rule: presence of a true writer: safe," Gonick ings with Christian ethics and The unfamiliar sights of exploited See Whitney, page 5 She writes what she knows. She does not said. 2 Friday, March 10, 1993 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY The Mellow Prose of Texas Someone get me a gut-be-gone I am quickly losing the battle of instead. the bulge, and I can't stand It. "I see you have finally gotten a In the last three years. I went healthy appetite," she'll say. But from a comfortable 6-foot-7-inch- this is before you've started eat- es, 200-pound frame to an ever- ing. expanding 280 pounds. My once 'Your friends get together for BMX-sized spare tire is now big pick-up games of football or base- enough for a dump truck (slight ball and you are already designat- exaggeration) Since high school I ed rusher/blocker or catcher. have gained 100 pounds. Then they realize it takes five My friends say it's because I'm Chris McCrellis guys to bring you down, so they a married man, but that's not give you the ball, adding another good enough for me.