No Leads in Campus Attack on Art Student an SJSU Art Major Suffered Incident
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Spartan Daily Volume 74, Number 16 Serving San Jose State University since 1 934 Friday. February 22, 1980 No leads in campus attack on art student An SJSU art major suffered incident. called University Police Tuesday several bruises after being attacked The posters read, in part, "Be and requested protection but that Monday afternoon in the Art careful and be thinking of a solution they said they were "too busy." Building. to the dangerous situation we have A guard was later assigned to The assailant fled when the here on campus, especially in the accompany the student until the student, who wished to remain Art Building." close of her exhibit. unidentified, screamed, bringing a In addition, the posters included In an apparently unrelated man, whom she identified as an art the victim's first name) Randy), her history professor, to her aid. incident Tuesday evening, Dining exhibit room number I Art Building Commons employee and student There are no leads in the case 204) and a statement that her show Leslie Erickson was "verbally due to a conflict between the "will only be open sporadically for harassed" and then struck with a student's and faculty member's obvious reasons." small bucket when she refused to descriptions of the attacker, ac- A check of a bulletin board admit a man into the Commons. cording to Russ Lunsford, located adjacent to the door of Art The man did not have proper University Police inf.;:mation of- Building room 204 displayed a card identification, according to Erick- ficer. listing Randy Wade as artist of the son. One description identified the exhibit in the room. assailant as a black man, but the University Police are in- The exhibit was scheduled to vestigating the incident. other description stated the attacker end yesterday. was a white man, Lunsford said. However, the posters were Lunsford advised women At the time of the attack, the removed by University Police working in isolated areas of the student was assembling her own art because they could have triggered campus to notify University Police exhibit and had paused at a drinking another attack, according to Luns- and tell them where they will be and fountain when she was grabbed ftom ford. for how long. Regular safety checks behind. will then be made. "We understand her concern, Following the attack, the victim but the posters were taken down for "We encourage the use of blue posted throughout the Art Building her safety," Lunsford said. phones which are connected directly approximately 30 hand-lettered, to the University Police," Lunsford photocopied posters concerning the The attacked student said she said. try Mdth Student Richard Melendrez stands near bike storage locker Foreign language instructors More bike lockers at SJSU face possible fall layoffs SJSU will receive 50 ad- in the Spartan Bookstore. The bike lockers are rented ditional bicycle lockers in "mid Students should live more out to students for $10 a semester. by Ron Regalia "If Jarvis II passes, we may not Bruinsma admitted that to late March," in order to join than a mile away from SJSU in Each locker holds two bikes. An associate professor of have Russian at all next fall," enrollments in French and German with the existing 10 on campus, order to receive a bike locker. "The city ( of San Jose) foreign languages with more years Bruinsma said. Pann, he added, is are up in a Foreign Language according to Ben McKendall, Some of the 50 new bike received a grant from the state of seniority in the department than the only Russian instructor at SJSU. Department meeting Tuesday night, junior associate dean of student lockers, which will holds total of ( of California) to buy the lockers all but one other faculty member has Some layoffs may be required in Radke added. services. 100 bikes, will be located "near as part of its plan to increase been given a letter warning he might German and French because of Pimentel was hired in 1965 and The 50 new lockers will cost Duncan Hall and under the bicycle usage and relieve com- be laid off next fall. enrollment problems, Bruinsma Federici and Burger in 1968, Radice "approximately $18,000 which overhead of the Seventh Street muter congestion," McKendall Francis Pann, added, saying the department associate may said. All have tenure, he added. comes out to about $350 each," garage," said J. Handel Evans, said. professor of foreign languages, be "overstaffed" in fall 1980. McKendall said. associate executive vice He said the plan to obtain the received a warning letter two weeks Based on anticipated Bruinsma insisted he is required There are 70 persons on a president. lockers was coordinated through ago from Henry Bruinsma, dean of enrollments for next fall, two to notify all professors involved waiting list for the bike lockers, Others will be located at "the the efforts of a joint "partnership the School of Humanities and Arts. professors in each of these fields when possible layoffs are an- said Mike McCawley, a student corner of Seventh (Street) and between the city and the "Possible lack of funds and may have to be severed to meet ticipated. who works for Customer Service Duncan Hall," Evans added. university." faculty required positions" in 1980 were cited SFRs, he said. Notices of possible layoff were as reasons in the letter, German enrollment Pann said. rose 17 issued based on seniority, according Only Prof. Reed Scott, percent, however, hired in between fall '78 to Dean of Academic Planning Jack 1957, has accumulated more and fall '79, according to years of Pimentel. Foote. Those hired first, in other Council reaction mixed service in the department. He added that French also Pann increased words, are to be notified last. received permanent tenure in 1961. and these patterns are common to French Assistant Prof. Gerard all California University and College Pann, though, is the senior Burger, German Associate Prof. campuses. member of the French faculty with A.S. considers Raul Pimentel and French and "How can he make a statement 22 years of service. He said he was constitution Italian Prof. Carla Federici like that," hired as an assistant professor in by Ron Regalia also said Werner Radke, He added that the date didn't council's efficiency by making it less received notices. chairman of the Foreign Languages 1958 and promoted to associate Council members received a allow enough time to work out the "bulky." Pann teaches Russian and Department, in reference to professor in 1966. rough draft of the new AS. con- questions raised by council mem- Rather than seeking at-large French. According to Bruinsma, Bruinsma's enrollment projections. Pimentel called Pann's stitution with mixed reactions at the bers. seats, council candidates would run declining enrollment in Russian "The letters were not issued notification "questionable" and "not A.S. Council meeting Wednesday Three major changes to the old for specific director positions, "does not justify a full-time position fairly," he added. "I see no need for exactly fair." night. constitution in regard to the council Cornfield said. in that area." any layoffs." A public forum on the con- were proposed by executive -continued on back page According to Pann, Bruinsma stitution was approved for Feb. 27. It assistant Scott Cornfield and A.S. admitted he did not know of his will be held at 3 p.m. in the council Attorney General Michael Medina. seniority in the French discipline chambers. Cornfield and Medina when he mailed the notice. Three-week study delays The constitution, when approved represented the constitutional Even if Russian is phased out. by the council, will be placed before committee which has been working Pann insists he has seniority the student body in a special election on the document for "several because he was first hired to teach on March 12-13. years," according to A.S. President foot French. patrol funding decision Ken Schott, one of three op- Nancy McFadden. Because his tenure was granted ponents to holding the special Under the new constitution, the by 'Irian Boyd election on March 12, said he didn't council would be reduced from 20 to confident about getting city funding We deserve some attention," by the college, Pann further "feel we would get anybody out to 12 members, Cornfield said. He The San Jose City Council has after the three-week study period. Coleman added. maintains he has seniority in both postponed the decision on vote that soon." added this would increase the whether or Pegram also said he is in favor "It's one of those things. They French and Russian. Pann said he not to fund the SJSU foot patrols of foot patrols and will vote for them chose this issue to talk about the first taught Russian in 1962. pending a three-week study on police once the funding question is solved. staffing of the police department as According to Bruinsma, this is department staffing levels. SJSU Executive Vice President a whole," McEnery said. "not a valid point." He said seniority The proposal, made by down- Jack Coleman said he is disap- Prop. Associated Students Vice is granted only in teaching service 9 jeopardizes town Councilman Tom McEnery, pointed with the council delay. He President Kiran Majithia, who areas (such as French and not in would have called for the city to stressed that it is the city's asked the city council to approve the University. provide about half of the $80,000 to responsibility to protect its citizens. funding, said he also feels confident students on probation $120,000 it would cost to run the "The university is a $60 million that the council will vote for ap- The warning notice states that, patrols for one year.