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TAIL SPARTAII 1934 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since Volume 90, No. 53 l'ucs(lay . April 2(1. 1985 100W pre-exam policy confusion creates By Vie Vogler If students enrolled in 100W this Daily staff writer `No matter when you start, you will always fall fail the pre-test. Natty believes 100W changes affect students Some faculty and school officials their schedules will he disturbed. He disagree over the future merits of the be told you didn't give enough notice.' feels the lack of students might also These are the changes Until July 16, students new 100W policy. But all agree that cause some sections to close. under the new 100W policy:. may take a waiver exam to it's creating confusion right now. Leo Dorosz, "There will he a lot Students who enroll in bypass the 100W require- Starting this fall, students enrolled of sections folding and in 100W will be required to pass a associate academic vice president consolidating." he said. 100W must pass a $25 pre- ment. School officials have pre-test before receiving credit for Nancy Fimble, a business profes- test before they can be ad- yet to decide whether stu- the class. Adopted in fall 1986, the Daily as the "official line of com- tion, also expects some initial prob- sor who teaches 100W, is undecided mitted to the class. Students dents will have to pass both policy will screen those who aren't munication. lems with informing students. about the pre-test policy. She sees who take the class without the Writing Skills Test and prepared for "advanced instruc- "It's difficult for us to figure out "I suppose if I had a . budget. advantages. but not in the way stu- passing dents have been informed. the test will receive the waiver exam after July. tion," Leo Dorosz. associate aca- other ways to do it," he said. "The I'd take out an ad," she said. "But I a U" grade. 100W re- demic vice president, said Monday. word doesn't always get to every- don't have a budget. No matter how "I wish there had been more no- "No matter when you start, you one." much you warn people, reality tice given to students about the mains a graduation require- Students who fail the will always be told you didn't give Dorosz acknowledges that some doesn't set in." change in policy," Fimble said. ment. WST may take an optional enough notice," he said. students may not be informed of the "We're not sure all those students Like most SJSU faculty, Mara Students will no longer sophomore writing class to For two years, SJSU has notified policy before they choose classes for are going to get the word between Southern, director of testing and lake a university-wide exam improve their skills. The students through bulletins and list- next fall. Next semester he "antic- now and fall." added Damon Nally, evaluation, knew of the policy for after finishing 100W. Until course, however, does not ings in the school catalog and sched- ipates a flurry of activity." the chairman of the social science two years. But she didn't know ule of classes, Dorosz added. He Cynthia Margolin. associate dean department. "I have yet to find a now, the exam was manda- . excuse students from the said the campus relies on the Spartan for academic advisement and reten- student who knows." See /00W. hack page tory to pass the course. WST requirement. Saxon picked Come blow your horn ahead of Perez in late rounds Saxon received his first contact call from the Chiefs at 6:45 a.m. NFL draft "They called to tell me that they were going to use their sixth round By Jennifer Truman draft pick for me," Saxon said. Daily staff writer Saxon became the first Spartan Only two SJSU seniors were se- from the 1987 PCAA Championship lected in the two-day National Foot- team to be picked up by the profes- ball League draft. sional ranks. Many followers of Running back James Saxon was SJSU football hoped to see their se- the first Spartan picked up as the niors go a little higher up. Kansas City Chiefs picked him in the "I wasn't disappointed." Saxon sixth round. said. "Being drafted is good enough Quarterback Mike Perez was cho- alone." sen by the New York Giants in the Saxon will head for Kansas City seventh round. some time next week. "I'm not really disappointed "I'll probably start out on the spe- (about not going higher in the cial teams," Saxon said. "Filling draft)," Perer said. "I prepared my- the running hack slot right now are self for the worst. I had a feeling I Paul Palmer and Chris Nicoal." was going to go late.'' Palmer. from Temple University, Perez, who only watched the first was a candidate for the 1986 Heis- two rounds of the draft Sunday, said man Trophy. he received the call from the Giants "I'm just really excited." Saxon at 8:30 Monday morning. Perez will said. "To be considered one of the he leaving for New York today. best in the country is great: to be art ew lurham laily staff photographer "I'm happy to go." Perez said. drafted is just another accomplish- "Besides arranging my contract. I'll ment." Jun Jang and the Pan %%len Arkestra members Jett Pressman, left, the lunt h stiles, the' group encourages students Iii n rite Ronald probably he attending a mini - Both Perez and Saxon will not be and John W orley Jr. play jazz at the Student Union Amphitheater at Reagan about the plight of Japanese- .1mericans in Sorld Vt ar camp.'' See DRAFT. back page Economist urges abolishment Researcher 'Private' poet Olds of current income tax system talks chimp returns to San Jose Dani Parkin alva>s enjoys coming to San Jose. By Hazel Whitman on campus Daily staff writer "The center is famous all over the Daily stall writer By KatarinaJonholt Most poets are ecstatic to re.eal country," she said, "It has the repu- is the noblest of human motivations, accord Greed thought we were supposed to Daily staff writer themselves to their audience, hut tation of being a real positive place Friday's honors convocation guest speaker. 'I mg to Like a Doctor !Nanette of modern poet Sharon Olds insisted Friday for poets.'' economist. Walter Williams. also The outspoken putting humanism into the science. Roger Fouts can "talk with night that poets need privacy, too. said. "I am for seduction, but I am against rape." be Her reading started with a poem the animals" using American 'Most poets are not all poets," Both of the above statements refer to Williams' phi she had memoriied. "For a Missing world.' Sign Language. Sharon Olds said. None of the losophy of opposition to taxation. Roy.'' She said reciting a mem- The primate language researcher poems she reads necessarily reties:, 'We ask. moral for anybody to confis- orized poem allowed more feeling to need to 'Is it Sivertsen, will speak on "Chimpanzee Conver- her family or herself. property of one American and give it to another Wiggsy he placed into the content. cate the sations: Public and Private. at 7 'It's all about pris :icy.' she said. American?' " Williams said to a full house of honor stu- SJSU counselor p.m. Thursday in Duncan Hall, But fellow poets, at the San Jose "It's very different knowing i the and their families in Morris Dailey Auditorium. dents Room 135. Center for Poetry and literature poem), not having it bounce from Most members of the audience applauded Williams' Fouts is best known for his work reading said her poetry was personal the page, hut coining from here." remarks. is a basic pan of your own freedoms," he continued. with female chimpanzees Lucy and and in-depth. she said, pointing to her chest Wiggsy Sivensen was one audience -old economist was introduced as "a SJSU Counselor The 52 -year Washoe at Central Washington Uni- "She writes out of herself It's In "For a Missing Boy ." Olds who was not clapping when the keynote speaker major scholar in his discipline" by SJSU President Gail member versity. Lucy coined the phrases strong, honest stufT. said Pat Shel- talks about her son seeing a missing finished. Fullerton. "cry hurt food" for radishes and ley, a Saratoga poet. boy poster on a bus She relates how "1 thought we were supposed to he putting human- "His educational background and career reflect a 'candy fruit'' for watermelon. "She made a lot of sense. her son felt He said that since the ism into the world," Sivensen said. level of achievement that I hope many SJSU students try Fouts is no longer working with . She's really great. said Gre- missing boy w as only 6 ' and he was "I thought I was trying to (make the world more hu- to embrace." Fullerton said. Lucy. said Robert Jurmain. profes- gory Hall. a San Jose poet. 7, he s as much too big for the same mane)," Williams later said. However. Fullerton didn't say if she agreed with any sor of anthropology. But Washoe is This was the third reading Olds thing to happen to him. "I respect human freedoms so much I would never of Williams' non-mainstream ideas on domestic or for- a member of his five-chimp family at had done for the center. She said she See POET. hack page support helmet laws. Taking chances with your own life See HONORS, back page the university.

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