Stricter Rules Placed on Local Care Facilities
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Running back faces fearsome 49ers, page 6 Volume 81, No. 37 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Thursday, October 20, 1983 Campus police assailed Stricter rules placed on local care facilities By Warren Bates for the shutdown of the Greer boar- Regulations on unlicensed dinghouse at 323 S. 12th St., last downtown residential care facilities June. are being tightened. The Mental Health Advocacy The San Jose City Council unan- Project investigated the boarding- imously approved a zoning ordi- house and found, among other nance proposal Tuesday night that health hazards, vomit on the carpet would require limited service care and slime in the refrigerator. facilities to adhere to regulations Chris Von Motz, director of similar to those of state licensed fa- Twelfth Step House, a licensed fa- cilities. cility at 619 N. 4th St. said he "en- The council will meet on Nov. 1 courages any move by the city to get to discuss final approval of the pro- unlicensed houses up to par." posal. If approved, the ordinance Von Motz also said he applied will take effect Dec. 1. for a state license because he found it virtually impossible to get the city "It is in the best interest of the to approve his facility. city, the citizens and the council to "You have to go through the have some control of the land use in housing committee, the fire mar- the downtown area," said Coun- shall, the city attorney and the zon- David Cheiemer cilwoman Susan Hammer, at the ing commission to get anywhere. ( Above)Students protest the university police arrest and alleged beating of meeting. Hammer represents the Ruben Benitez. (Right)Francisco Dominguez voices his opinion. downtown district. "State licenses are issued State licensed facilities are not through the Department of Health," permitted to be within 300 feet of he said. "All I had to do was go to an each other and facilities housing orientation, fill out five pounds of mentally disabled sex-offenders can paperwork and pray to God." not be within one mile of elementary Although Beddo said the city did protestors schools. The houses are also subject not know the locations Student of all the unli- to health inspections. censed facilities, she said "We know enough of them to keep the legal State licenses are required for staff busy for a long time." brutality facilities that house at least Downtown police care claim residents have been seven people and provide higher 'complaining for years about the fa- By Mark Johnson Center, also participated in the protest. standards of care, such as counsel- cilities which often house mental pa- Approximately 30 demonstrators gathered There were no incidents of violence during ing. tients, ex-convicts and drug abus- outside the University Police Department the demonstration, and University Police re- Before going into operation, un- ers. Wednesday to protest the arrest and alleged mained inside their offices until the demonstra- licensed facilities will have to obtain "What this ordinance will do is beating of SJSU student Ruben Benitez. tors left the front of the building. conditional use permits, which scare off those facility operators Benitez was arrested at the Homecoming "Technically they (the demonstrators) would be granted only after public that don't want to be bothered with dance last Firday night by campus police and don't have a permit to assemble here today," hearings and approval by the plan- such strict regulations," Beddo charged with being drunk in public and resist- said University Police Information Officer Russ ning commission. said. ing arrest. Lunsford, "but as long as it remains a peaceful "The only way we would be able "It's going to have a definite The bulk of the demonstrators belonged to demonstration there's no reason for us to inter- to look into these (unlicensed) positive impact on the area. The city MEChA (a campus chicano group), although fere." houses before, is if nearby residents will be able to eliminate inappro- members of other groups, including the Native complained," said Carol Beddo, priately located houses and better American Students of SJSU and the Women's continued on page 8 Hammer's executive assistant. ensure the safety of the neighbor- Beddo said this was the reason hood," she said. Student rep retains A.S. cuts Administration's enthusiasm post despite arrest funding for development office fades By Ken Leiser after last spring's elections failed to By Jennifer Koss and fund-raiser Alan Simpkins last A student member of the Aca- fill the student vacancies on the Aca- to Daily Money, or rather the lack of September. demic Senate accused of using false demic Senate, is serving a one-year money, was the dominant topic of It would enable SJSU to "really identification at the Spartan Pub term on the Senate. By Ken Leiser President Gail Fullerton's press move into development in a sort of will serve the rest of his term on the At an executive committee The Associated Students conference Tuesday afternoon, and big way, much more than we're Senate as scheduled. meeting later Monday afternoon. board of directors voted 10-1 the administration's interest in a de- doing now," said Ernie Lopez, com- Dipak Patel, 19, was arrested Cordova gave a report stating that Wednesday to eliminate $10,- velopment office to attract private munity relations director, in a Sep- Thursday night after he tried to there was no reason to dismiss 000 in funds for the Spartan funds appears to be waning. tember interview. enter the Pub with someone else's Patel. Daily. Since the university is not al- But even with a development of- California driver's license, a univer- "It was brought up at the end of The money will now go to lowed to use state funds for solicit- fice, SJSU administrators, deans sity police spokesman said. the meeting," said SJSU President the A.S. general fund. ing donations, Fullerton has ex- and faculty would need to continue "We'll expect him at the next Gail Fullerton at her press confer- to solicit private funds while A At the time of Wednes- pressed the desire for a the de- meeting on Monday," said Aca- ence Tuesday. day's meeting, the general development office to handle such velopment officer would merely demic Senate Chairman William She said the Senate's Constitu- fund contained $3,360. affairs. coordinate their efforts, Fullerton Tidwell. tion was consulted and no provision said. The A.S. began buying SJSU would need to find funds to Kathy Cordova, Associated Stu- could be found dealing with discipli- "Even if we never get subscriptions to the Spartan begin a development office, but the a devel- dents president and student govern- nary actions stemming from ar- opment office .. last year alone, Daily instead of directly fund- president was optimistic. ment representative on the Senate, rests. Gail Fullerton we had considerable non-state funds ing it in 1969, according to a "We're persistent, we'll even- met with Robert Martin, dean of stu- Possession of false identifica- coming to the university, which is December 1974 Spartan Daily tually get some backing for that," said. 111 dent services, Monday. Cordova tion is a misdemeanor under the what a development office is all article. she said. The people now searching for said she and Martin agreed that dis- Business Professions Code. about," Fullerton said. The agreement was made When questioned Tuesday on private funds are mainly faculty ciplinary actions were not nec- SJSU received $1.5 million in in order to keep the two sepa- plans for hiring a development offi- members and deans. essary. Don Dushane, associate dean of gifts in the last fiscal year, along rate, the article said. cer, Fullerton had little progress to A development office would "I felt it shouldn't affect his student services, said the charge report. probably consist of a director, assis- with $2.5 million in equipment, most being on the Senate," Cordova said. could include furnishing false infor- continued on page 8 "We can't search for anyone tant director and secretary, as well of which came from IBM. Patel, appointed by Cordova mation to a state facility. until we have funding in place," she as alumni volunteers, said alumnus continued on page 8 NASA engineer lectures at campus forum By Jeff Barbosa "This is new to us because we've always His discussion of Soviet failures was "They have no problem at all getting "Jupiter is really the only way we can had scientific reasons for going into space more specific. Citing the Soviet Union's re- approval for a Venus mission," he said. understand the earth and our solar sys- . for years we've wanted industry in- cent mishap with its Salyut 7 program, he "They've launched over 35 missions to tem," Robert Nunamaker, an engineer volved." said they tried to send three cosmonauts to Venus." with NASA, said at a Tau Delta Phi forum Nunamaker, who has been involved join the three already stationed in space, Nunamaker also spoke of the physical Monday. with NASA's Pioneer project since 1970, when a failure occured on the launch vehi- problems involved with keeping a person in "By understanding this planet that said the space station is being sold with the cle. The cosmonauts were ejected before space for long periods of time, which hasn't changed much over time, we're lit- idea that it will benefit the U.S. economy, the launch facility exploded. causes loss of calcium in the body. erally studying how the whole solar system and that private industry may be able to Although the cosmonauts survived, Nu- got going," he said come up with a number of innovative com- namaker said photographs show the dam- "We never figured out a way to combat Nunamaker, who works at the Ames mercial ideas for space station projects.