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Enrollment drop to cause loss of 49 teachers Spartan Daily by Morgan Hampton SJSU will lose 49 faculty positions next year as a Volume 73, Number 46 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Wednesday, November 7, 1979 result of declining enrollment. Layoff of tenured faculty appears imminent, according to Academic Vice President Hobert Burns. Burns told the Enrollment Patterns Committee in a Power driving recent memo to prepare for the possibility of the layoff of Iran students regular faculty, because "it is unlikely the university can absorb the loss of so many full-time equivalent faculty without layoff next Fall." He urged the committee which is charged with favor takeover recommending faculty reductions to step up its deter- minations so layoff notices could be sent out "no later by Sean Whaley that existed before the revolution. than March 1,1980." The majority of Iranian students "That's why forrner ) President The number of tenured faculty who face layoff is still on campus applaud the recent Nixon and ( Henry) Kissinger visited unknown, Burns said Friday. student takeover of the U.S. Em- him ) the shah) in Mexico," Djabbari "A loss of 49 faculty positions doesn't mean 49 in- bassy in Tehran, although a said. dividuals will be laid off, because there will be some spokesman for Iranian students here As of press time yesterday, the retirements and resignations," he said. said no demonstrations supporting Americans were still being held SJSU loses an average of 20 tenured faculty each year the move are planned for SJSU. hostage but no one was believed to to attrition - retirement, resignation and death - and one "I would say that 98 percent of be seriously hurt. or two cases of non-retention of probation faculty, ac- the Iranian students ) on campus Khomeini, the spiritual and cording to Robert Sasseen, associate academic vice feel that way," said Ali Djabbari, an political leader of Iran and president. electrical engineering senior. spokespersons for the U.S. govern- A tirnetable of steps the Enrollment Patterns Com- Amin Hoseim, an engineering ment, have yet to work out a mittee must take in the layoff procedure was approved by junior and member of the Iranian mutually agreeable solution to the the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate and Students Association of Northern problem. given to the committee Oct. 26. California, also supports "what But the U.S. has rejected the The timetable sets a Dec. 1 deadline for the com- Khomeini says in this matter." demand of the Iranian students that mittee to tentatively identify departments where cuts will The situation in Iran arose the shah be extradited. be made and to notify individual faculty in those depart- Sunday when a group of students None of the students knew what ments that they face a possibility of layoff. loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini was going to happen with the The committee, however, has already missed the first invaded the American Embassy in hostages but they agreed that the deadline which was to determine student-faculty ratios Tehran, and took as many as 60 U.S. citizens would not be harmed. SFRs), the first step in determining departmental Americans hostage, demanding the They said that the U.S. and Iran faculty requirements. extradition of the shah. would work something out. SFRs represent the number of full-time students per The shah is in a New York The purpose of the takeover, full-time faculty position, and are used to determine class hospital undergoing cancer treat- according to Djabbari, the size. ment. spokesman for the eight other The timetable set a Nov. 2 deadline for completion of Djabbari disagrees on the Iranian students present, is to ''show departmental hearings on proposed SFRs, but as of that reason for the shah's presence in the the world that the U.S. supports a date, only three of the 21 departments scheduled to be U.S. murderer. heard had presented arguments to the committee. "He is not that seriously ill," he "If the shah is ill, he has got Jack Foote, chairman of the enrollment patterns said. The shah is in the U.S. because enough money to bring the doctors to committee, said Monday that three departments will be he is supporting the Republican Mexico to treat him," he said. heard today, and a group of eight departments will begin Party for the presidency in 1980, Djabbari said the U.S. govern- their responses to the committee Friday,continuing the Djabbari said. ment signed a statement refusing to following Wednesday. The Republicans will aid the allow the shah to enter the U.S., but He said he expected the hearings to be completed in shah in returning to Iran, he added, now the government has gone about two weeks, but the committee's final decisions on resuming the puppet government against that statement. SFR's, which will be held until the completion of the hearings "are another matter," Foote said. However, Burns said, Foote and the committee members agreed to be back on schedule by Dec. 1, the $80,000 condos set date faculty must be notified of possible layoff. University policy states that "proper notice of layoff of tenured faculty should be given a year in advance, but in no case shall be given less than 30 days before the ef- for campus community fective date of layoff." Burns said Friday, however, that "legally we have to by Jan Flanery-Taylor Although Overoyer did not give a couple of weeks" notice. The first condominiums to be speak for the entire association, he The number of faculty positions for next year has built in the campus area are going said the group generally preferred been cut by 49 because SJSU enrollment for next year is up in Fraternity Row on 10th Street to see housing built that students expected to be less than enrollment this year, so the because an SJSU marketing could afford. university budget will be cut. professor believes "downtown San "That's the area for apart- The California State University and Colleges system Jose is the only place to live:' ments," he said. will allow SJSU a budget for next year based on 18,000 full- Prof. Jim Harper has bought a "Any plan to help the quality of time equivalent students, a cut of 850 FTE/S from this vacant lot on 10th St., between San housing we'd support," Overoyer year. Antonio and San Fernando streets, said, but he is unsure what kind of A full-time equivalent student is equal to one student with the intention of building five stand the group would take on taking 15 class units. condominiums, one of which he will condominium building in the area. This year, enrollment is expected to fall short of the live in. According to Franklin Maggi, a estimated 18,850 FTE/S by 825, which will result in an The property is now just a dirt staff plannner for the city, San Jose approximate $800,000 payback to CSUC. Should lot, but the plans for the buildings has no policy which gives preference enrollment fall short of 18,000 FTE/S next year, another have been cleared through the city, one way or another to apartments or payback could result, possibly as early as January 1981. Harper said. condominiums. This year, as in past payback situations, SJSU has "We're ready to dig the hole," Under state law, the city cannot avoided layoffs by "returning" most of the money by he said. discriminate between the two when reducing the university's budget for temporary lecturers, Harper said that landlords giving building permits, Maggi said. should live near their tenants. "In terms of zoning, apartments equipment and supplies, service funds and faculty Students pause to watch the gigantic pile driver pound concrete columns At one point, the lot was being and condominiums are the same," benefits funds. into the foundations of the new library photo by Lee E considered for apartments which he said. would have rented ranging from $185 Maggi said the block concerned to $385, according to the building was zoned R-3F and R-4 so the application Harper submitted to the development is within the city's Planning Department. requirements. Harper said he was asked by the The planning department also fraternities to build another has no policy on condominiums profile fraternity house and had also con- versus apartments, according to sidered building another dormitory, Maggi. "but I don't want to live in a dor- Although the University Area mitory." he said. Task Force, which last spring "I'm building a home for completed its report on downtown myself, and in the meantime, I'm encouraging high-density housing, Bunzel's life after SJSU building a home for other people," "there's no means of implementing he said. concerns that people are wrestling it," Maggi said. This is the first of two articles Harper wants to build close to with in higher education, in the about John Bunzel, former SJSU SJSU because he doesn't want to CSUC system in a large sense, and drive to campus and also, -It's my president, a year after his San Jose State specifically." resignation. Bunzel has written many essays home - I belong here. After 32 years, where else would! go" he asked. Condos pay by Erin A. Hallissy and articles during the past sear, Harper said he doesn't 'I spent my first year most of them concerning higher Although John Bunzel sits quietly in his will be to education. Some of his pieces have know what the costs reorienting myself to office at the Herbert Hoover tenants, he claimed the con- while campus Memorial Building, scribbling notes been printed in such publications as Newsweek, the I.os Angeles Times dominiums "absolutely" would the reflective life...' on scraps of paper for a column he's constitute affordable housing for writing for the San Jose Mercury .