Academic Senate Candidates List Priorities; Incumbents, Newcomers
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Academic Senate candidates list priorities; incumbents, newcomers vie for five seats By Cheryl Dennison enough knowledge to make good Seven candidates have filed for decisions tot. the entire university. five student seats on next year's Ota has lived both in the dorms Academic Senate, the primary and in an apartment, belongs to a a policy-recommending body for the fraternity and has worked on university. committees with university of- The candidates, in alphabetical ficials. order, are John Banks, Allen "I want to work for student ideas, Graham, Richard Howe, Ronald to give the faculty and ad- Melzer, Mike Nuwer, Chris Ota and ministrators a better idea of what Brad Wood. Elections will be held students need," he said. Tuesday and Wednesday. Wood, a comparative politics Banks, a biology senior, said he 411k. graduate, said he knows more about would spend his second year on the If the Academic Senate than any senate revising general education John A. Banks Ron MeIzer Allen Graham B. Wood Mike Nuwer Chris Ota Rick Howe student on campus because he has requirements and increasing credibility of students by filling the with us." "I'm pretty much informed on ects he has begun. been a senator for the past three student participation in instructor vacancies on the committees," Howe would also like to see more what's going on around campus," "The senate moves so slowly that years. evaluation. Graham said. student seats on the senate, more Melzer said. "I have a good under- one year isn't enough time to finish "I want to get a sixth student seat Departments design G.E. classes He said it takes time to be an input from the community con- standing of the problems and I think anything," he said. on the senate and get the terms to increase their enrollments and effective senator and added he has cerning the job skills students should I would offer effective solutions." Nuwer is primarily concerned expanded to two years," Wood said. are not concerned with teaching the time to devote to it. receive, and better counseling Melzer said he wants to serve on with the fact that many good tem- "This will put us on an equal basis their students skills they will need in Howe, an undeclared junior, said services to prepare students for life the committees that can help porary instructors are let go with the faculty." careers, Banks said. he wants the Academic Senate to in "the real world," he said. alleviate the bureaucracy students because university policy limits Because it takes at least three Evaluate instructors begin taking more of a leadership "Realistically, it can't be done in must deal with. their employment to three years. months to learn how the senate Instructors should be evaluated role in the university. one year," he said. "But ill try and Bureaucratic hassles Policy encased operates, new senators are "running each by students in every class Veto override somebody listens to me, then maybe "I've run into so much red tape "Changing this would be hard to at half steam for the first half of the semester with the results going "We need to pressure the state it'll get carried on. If I don't start, and I've just about had it with the do because everything at this place year," he said. offices, directly to the department legislature to give us the right to then it'll take even longer." hassles," he said. "I want to do is encased in policy," he said. "But I "Overall, my record on student Banks said. override the president's veto," Melzer, an undeclared something about it." want to try." rights has been good," he added. He also like to Banks said he would Howe said. "He would have to ex- sophomore, said his background in Nuwer, an economics Ota, a biology junior, said his said he was responsible for see more cooperation between plain why he doesn't like ideas. It radio broadcasting has given him sophomore, said he wants a second wide exposure to students with requiring instructors to prepare student senators and the A.S. would force him to communicate the ability to communicate well. year as senator to complete the proj- different backgrounds will give him green sheets for their classes. executive council but that will be impossible until the A.S. sees its function as more than an "allocator of money." Graham, a radio-TV senior, said his two years of experience on the Academic Senate has allowed him to develop a good working relationship with other senators. As chairman of the Student Af- fairs Committee, Graham said his partanServing the San Jose State University CommunityDaily Since 1934 main concern has been to encourage students to work on the university committees. Volume 68, Number 45 Friday, April 15, 1977 "We have to build up the Two buildings inconvenient, library employes complain By Alan Janson the proposed structure. we're building a new library and Lorene R. Sisson, Barbara Newlin The solar heating system Much of the psychological don't know we'll have two and Colleen Sneathen in addition to designed for the proposed addition to materials are presently housed in buildings, Robison said. the authors. the library has covered up draw- education while the clinical journals "The new building is barely large The authors said they were not backs to the two-library system, are in science, said Barbara enough for half the volumes," opposed to the new building because according to five library staff Mulford, a library employe and Robison continued. something must be done about the members. botany senior, who co-authored the According to Robison, the overcrowded conditions. In a letter sent to local letter with Loren Robison, a present library houses 700,000 "We need more space; we need a politicians, the five complained that librarian and biology graduate volumes and has 100,000 volumes in new building," Mulford said in "emphasizing the currently popular student. storage. The new building could take expressing her mixed feelings. solar heating aspect detracts from Health care and physical 400,000 of these, she said. Mulford said she wrote the letter the basic drawbacks of the two- education material are split between Yet, "storage will still be a fact of in the hopes that the students would building design. social sciences and science rooms in life" even with a new addition, get a better view of the two-building the library while only a part of the Mulford believed. system. "Students may find that to cover computer topics are in sciences, The letter was sent to Assembly- "What I hope to see come out of certain fields of study they will have Mulford said. man John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, this is that the students will get more to use both facilities, which will 'be "As it is now, a physical hi response to his request for student active," Sisson said. "For the halfway across campus from each education student has to run from and faculty opinions on the proposed student who has term paper other," the letter stated. science to social science," Robison library, the authors said. deadlines it could mean more time. According to Katheryn Forrest, said, and the two-building system Copies of the letter were also sent "It won't do any good for us to acting library director, science and would mean that student would have to State Senators Alfred Alquist, D- say anything unless the students engineering materials would remain to run between the two buildings. San Jose, and Jerry Smith, D-San speak up." in the present building while the rest "Ninety-nine per cent of the Jose, and SJSU President John Forrest was unavailable for of the materials would be moved to students and faculty believe that Bunzel. The letters were signed by comment about the letter. Will help pay for corp yard Crumbled canning building to be sold Up, up and away goes an SJSU student to stow equipment atop the office roof of the Aeronautics Building, located on Coleman Avenue Due to a shortage of storage space, office equipment is overflowing, and now mandates the creation By Tony Bizjak "At that time and in that context, Centanni. gasoline consumption," Fullerton "new" storage areas The state-owned American Can it looked like the solution between "But all we were able to ac- said. "We didn't fret about the little Company building is on the selling the horns of the dilemma," acting complish with that," he said, "was distance to drive between campus block and for SJSU its sale means Executive Vice President Gail to demolish one section, cut a new and the corp yard." the closing of a forgettable page in Fullerton explained. "How to get the entrance and reconstruct the of- Transportation back and forth the university's real estate portfolio. library built and not destroy Spartan fices." over the distance of about one mile Corp yard will move City." The canning building, on Fifth Finally the figure for refurbish- became unfeasible, according to Fullerton, and Martha streets near south Guttormsen agreed. "My opinion ing the structure reached $1 million, and it became apparent to campus, is being sold to help pay for at the time was that there was Guttormsen said. the university that a corporation for new library space the cost of a new university cor- sufficient reason to buy it. It looked yard could not be built there. Along with the So the poration yard and is a structure like a good solution." spiraling costs building has sat vacant for came an unexpected leveling of en- 10 years.