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By Tony Marek from uninvited "touching" of women, passed out at a Nov. 20 staff meeting, Los Angeles at the 1991 Big West oiniy staff wnter a "promise not to peek" when women was intended to "initiate continuing Conference media day on Nov. 13. 'I thought the attempt to climb up the corporate lad- discussion regarding a very important Marilyn Moniz-Kahoohanohano, A "male code of conduct" prank der, as well as a commitment not to subject." University of Hawaii assistant athletic memo itself memo distributed within the SJSU "bother" women with stories about But Brennan has come under fire director and senior women's adminis- athletic department by Athletic Monday night football. for distributing the memo which has trator, passed out photocopies of the was a form of Director Tom Brennan has led to A formal investigation into the alle- met with a strong reaction within the memo at the meeting. charges of sexual harassment in a gation is underway, according to Lidia athletic department and across cam- She said she purchased the item at sexual complaint filed by four women in the La Garda Rios, director of the Equal pus. It has also generated local media a card shop and felt it would shed a department. Employment Opponunity/Aflirmative attention including coverage by the humorous light on what she describes harassment.' The document, billed as an "agree- Action Office. La Garda Rios declined Mercury News, the San Francisco as the serious problem of sexual ment to refrain from sexual harass- to comment beyond confirmation that Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee and harassment. ment" and apparently intended as a the investigation is under way. local television news channels. "We found this humorous thing we Wiggsy Sivertsen humorous satire, outlines a 10-item list Brennan could not be reached tor Ironically, the memo was originally thought the guys would enjoy," she Faculty adviser for the Women's of rules of behavior for men in the comment on Monday but was quoted distributed by a woman. Brennan said. Resource Center work environment. in Thursday's edition of the San Jose obtained his copy of the memo at an The list includes pledges to refrain Mercury News as saying the memo, athletic directors' council meeting in See MEMO, Page 4 Torn Brennan UPD calls CHRISTMAS COMES TO DOWNTOWN PARK two fires on campus suspicious, accidental
By Robert Drueckhammer Daily staff writer
Two small fires that were started over the Thanksgiving weekend did no damage to SJSU buildings, but at least one is labelled as "suspicious" on University Police Department logs. The first fire, which was confined to a trash can, started at about 1:08 a.m. on Thanksgiving day. The fire, called "acciden- tal" by Dick Staley, UPD spokesman, was extinguished by the time officers arrived. Staley suspected that it was started by a cigarette or other burning object thrown in the can. The second fire, which bunted a small amount of brush on the west side of Dwight Bentel Hall, is labeled "suspicious" by UPD officers. This fire started at about 11:20 a.m. on Photographs by Nov. 30 and was extinguished by officer Bach rran. It was reported to UPD by James Walsh, Jeanette Glicksman dean of social sciences. Even though the fiecas listed as suspicious on logs, however, Staley said it is not looked at as arson. Avove left: Volunteer Martin Nick (left) sets the railroad track in place with day.with elves as passengers. Nick is the grandfather of the wife of Tont "If it were arson, it would Nay arson on the the assistance of parks department employee Dave Quimz for the annual 'Dalton who is the designer/builder of this year's park display. The park logs. I don't think anyone was trying to burn Christmas in the Park display in downtown's Plaza Park. The train will cir- will open to the public on Saturday and the decorations will remain until down Dwight Bentel Hall by starting some cumnavigate the park's colorful and festive displays 20 hours every January 2. The Christmas in the Park parade will be held on Sunday. bushes on fire," Staley said. He added, however, that he thinks it was "unlikely that it was spontaneous combustion." Seminar promotes global awareness Fire safety improvements By Traci Deguchi World," SJSU geography protessors and stu- X'Parnmallii worraPnY and en aronmen Daily oaf! writer dents will discuss topics from Southern Me \i,:o tal studies professor David Schwarz will he giv- underway at Duncan Hall rain forests to the vineyards of Hungary. ing a welcome at the presentation and is also Where was Kuwait before the war? Coordinator of SJSU's Geography participating in Geography Awareness Week in By Angela Hill Hall to be used for storage." What about the Baltic states? Awareness Week activities, graduate student another way. Daily staff wnter "It should make everyone in the t'uikiv For many people, pointing out some geo- Marcia Holstrom, has put together the first on - Schwarz said that he helps students study feel safer that some of the debris has been graphical locations on a map may not be just a campus Geography Awareness Week activity in geography in the academic decathlon at Lincoln Corrections of tire code violations have removed, but it's not a final solution until we stretch ot the memory, but an impossibility. the past three or four years. ligh School in San Jose. begun in Duncan Hall's mechanical rooms, get the doors rckeyed," he said. Parts of the world, through photos and "Usually the geography and environmental As far as public knowledge of geography but a final solution may still be in the future. The rekcying will not begin until January, hands-on exhibits, will be brought into studies departments do more with local the goes, Schwarz said "environmental concerns Once piled on and around motors and however. Guadalupe Room in the Student Union on schools," Holstrom said. have fostered interest." electrical switch boxes, paper debris, card- "Nothing happens fast around here, but it Wednesday as a celebration of National Holstrom has seen most of the slides which board boxes and custodial supplies have been does happen eventually," Hendrickson said. Holstrom added that "global awareness is Geography Awareness Week from Dec.I will be presented Wednesday and is impressed moved, according to Eugene Ludwico, SJSU He hopes to change locks in critical. We can't live in isolation." mechanical through the seventh. with the photography. building service engineer. rooms and electrical closets across campus. In a slide presentation and discussion panel 'The work the professors have done is beau- The presentation will begin at 2 p.m. in the "People from (Facilities Development and "We're working on rckeying 30 to 35 called "Images of a Planet --- Portraits of Our tiful," Holstrom said. Student I Inion Guadalupe Room. Operations) did remove the cardboard boxes, rooms now. We've had storage problems in but the custodial supplies are still in the sixth the Engineering Building, the Art Building floor room," Ludwico said. and Wahlquist Central as well," Hendrickson Although corrections have been made, the said. University recycling program INSIDE violations, which were logged by the In these buildings, workers have stored C'alifornia State Fire Marshal more than a ladders and equipment in the mechanical year ago, could recur unless locks are rooms, according to Hendrickson. seeks student contributions changed on the mechanical rooms' doors, The campus-wide rekcying of mechanical FEAT U RES according to Hank Hendrickson, director of rooms will not be completed soon. By Kim Carter on Eighth Street. operations and design at FD&O. "Eventually, which means within two 1)atly staff wnter The money that is collected will go back into the 1 !Aping Mother "People from the departments and custodi- years, I hope to have all the rooms and electri- H.O.P.E. committee to plan incentive and education Nature: SJSU students ans store things there," he said. "It's hard to cal closets so that only people from Facilities The university recycling problem is not as desper- al programs," Quinn said. restore land at Big Basin stop it. We've been given a room in Duncan can get in," Hendrickson said. ate in the student residence halls as elsewhere on Although the two-week-old II.O.P.E. program is campus. SJSU students are pitching in to support on a roll with lots of participation, SJSI I !acuity are State Park in Santa Cruz Help Our Planet Earth, HOPE., an aluminum and still knee-deep in paper. Mountains. glass recycling project. Students Affiliation for Environmental Respect, Page 8 Campus magazine hits the HOPE., a residential community recycling com- an independent organization that collects paper prod- stands mittee, has sponsored recent meetings intended to ucts on campus, is having a hard time collecting Dedc Reis Alkire said the issue will also otter some- educate students on recycling. recycled paper products from faculty offices due to Daily staff wnter thing for students who will be staying in the "A lot of students are into it," said Lisa Quinn, co- lack of student volunteers. area this winter break. An introduction to chair of HOPE. "Students are trying to participate On Nov. 18, S.A.F.E.R. hosted a final meeting to The award -winning Access magazine of trails and parks within minutes of downtown as much as they can." get support from the student body. SJM I will be coining out with its tall semester San Jose will lx' outlined Two bins aluminum and glass are located "If anybody is interested they better come out WORM NEWS Publication Wednesday. The magazine is inipiled by students in outside on the patio of each of the six residence now," said Mike Carr, co-chair of SAFER. "We Articles ranging from Freedom reigns: what it takes to be Journalism 155, the mag,vine editing and pro- halls. HOPE. also is responsible for the two bins don't have enough volunteers who want to partici- an opera singer in "Opera San Jose," to a duction class. American hostage located in the Spartan Village community room. pate in the program." story which follows two SJSU students to the While most of the writers are magazine "So far the bins are getting full really fast," said Eleven people were present at the meeting includ- Joseph Cicippio freed streets of Amsterdam in "The Outskirts of majors, the class is open to anyone with the Phil Kaffen, co-chair of HOPE. "'They are getting ing six new members. after five years of cap- Paradise," to a piece written about the politics completed prerequisites who wants to con- emptied everyday." "The new people are just starting out hut may not tivity in I,ebanon. ol the campus organization Queer Nation, will tribute. only drawback with having the bins located stick with a," Carr said. "It's the end of the semester appear upcoming The Page 9 in the issue, according to "It's a great opportunity for students to outside is that the doors close at 10 p.m. Students and it's hard to get people to stick to the program." Andy Alkirc, Access spokesman. know how a magazine operates and to learn won't be able to recycle after that time. With paper bins overflowing in faculty offices, Also in the issue will be stories for graduat- the different stages of a magazine," Allure James Young, an SJSU student and one of eight S.A.E.E.R. said they are getting no help from ing students looking for jobs tips on writing said. members of HOPE, retrieves the recycled nuiterial resumes, interviewing techniques, and what The magazine is in as fifth year of publica- daily from the full bins and dumps it into a dumpster See 11.0.P.E., Page .1 employers look for in possible employees. tion. 2 Dieuhiv, December .1, 1991 San lose State University NI SPARTAN DAILY FORUM OPINIONS EDITORIAL Conduct code questionable S. S.U:3 atcU TartACEMINENNAN tasteless and clearly degrading memo. Blatant sexism But then, Brennan has a reputation for making women's sports a second HEY wrs! v41.1. HOLD no joking matter priority at SJSU. THE LADPOZ crarLE5 rOiR Last year he dealt with a budget A WOMAN THEN. vil-IEN SHE deficit by eliminating nine positions in egA-6Itift to think some athletics. Two-thirds of them were held 15E6Itts To GO UP . by women. of us were 13A94-13Ccts1....WE DO CUR And He axed Mary Zimmerman at the ItUSIRESS. hoping that time, the very popular and effective senior women's administrator. Clarence Zimmerman had held women's sports Thomas was an together by fund raising specifically for exception to common decency. them with the Walk for Women of Sparta. Recent revelations, however, indicate The walkathon made up for the that SJSU's own athletic director, Tom department's money being concentrated Brennan, is as insensitive to women and in the more macho, and therefore perhaps even more lacking in judgment apparently more important, sports of and common sense than Thomas... and football and men's basketball. he's a lot closer to home. Brennan will probably attempt to Brennan chose last week to express make himself out to be a real progressive his own wacky sense of humor by guy in order to deflect criticism. But distributing a "male conduct code" to the evidence to the contrary makes that athletics staff making light of sexual almost laughable. harassment. Among its For instance, just before Brennan recommendations: refrain from passed out the memo, he postponed a offending "ladies who are much bigger discussion in the department about than myself and could inflict great issues of gender equity and sexual physical harm." harassment. In response, three women's coaches No matter how much benefit of the and a woman in Sports Information have doubt one can manage to grant Brennan, filed a well-warranted formal complaint his actions were juvenile, ignorant and of sexual harassment with the university. insensitive. Maybe he just didn't think S[1.111.111 ) At the very least, Brcnnan's stab at about how women would receive the Raul l)tronguct comedy was unoriginal the code was memo. Stupidity is not an acceptable borrowed from a presentation at the Big excuse. West Conference athletic directors' That this is only the latest in a series meeting. of cases of sexual harassment lately at CAMPUS VIEWPOINT Tim K. Fitzgerald It was intended as a joke at the SJSU cannot be forgotten. The conference, too. It wasn't funny there, harassment complaint filed by the four either. Brennan should have known that women cites "several male and not only refrained from relaying it, administrators" who have recently been but protested on the spot. "reprimanded for their questionable Politically correct speech censors thought But perhaps we hoped too soon and behavior toward women" in the athletics too hard that America was capable of department. First Amendment guarantee of and action. Far better that ignorance and fear Far better an ounce of consideration overnight enlightenment. Maybe Brennan thought he was being TheFreedom of Speech and be rooted out and allowed to surface than today than a pound of tyranny later. The It is truly astounding that after the harmlessly funny. But humor, or any Assembly and its companion swept under the rug to pollute the minds and breach of intellectual freedom as posited issue of sexual harassment has been action for that matter, with a price tag of guarantee of "Separation of souls of the society in every back alley and here concerning our First Amendment rights plastered all over the sacred television making women feel ridiculed and Church and State" are the on every corner neighborhood fence. in the case of "politically correct" speech is sets of the American public, Brennan unwelcome in their workspace isn't bedrock upon which all democracy, any- From the testimony of the life of Martin so grave a threat to our security and domes- never thought twice about distributing a worth it. where and everywhere, is founded. Luther King, Jr. to the actions of Mahatma tic tranquility as to necessitate and demand I must thereby dissent and challenge the Gandhi before him to Christ, himself, history non-violent direct action and even litigation growing movement for "politically correct" records show that unless underlying hatred in court, if need be. speech on college campuses here and and bigotry are allowed to surface and give As the prime author of the "Use of State across the state. expression, they will corrupt and fester in the College Buildings and Grounds" revisions At this juncture of a new decade, where body politic. Ultimately, the infection done 20 years ago under special circum- tradition is being questioned everywhere and becomes a mortal and fatal wound in the stances, and still in effect; as a former candi- WRITER'S the authority of a "New World Order" is democracy itself. date for San Jose City Council in the being established, it now behooves those in Much better a David Duke be allowed to Downtown District and a three-time alumnus the Academy (who are in search of the abso- speak out and demonstrate his true strength of SJSU. I implore every student to attend FORUM Nicholas D. Smith lute necessity that freedom of thought at the polls, than to burn crosses at midnight the meeting in the Student Union on "politi- brings) to proclaim the promigeof the First and strike fear throughout the South by cally correct" speech Wednesday. Amendment guarantees that -must remain hooded raiding parties. I would not suppon > inviolate and sacred even unquestioned "hate crime" or violence in any form, yet 1 the final guardians of the rights of all would never muzzle dissent to allow it to Tag you're dead' inquiring mankind. vent and form later in a moment of anger or Tim K. Fitzgerald is a graduate of the Politically correct speech censors thought pain. history department. in the fun, carefree days people we had drawn on the blackboard. Evenof the first and second grades, The pictures no doubt mimicked what Tom used to tell me about the we had been told by Tom. movies he saw. His lucky A crowd of us played war on the family went to see every top playground most recesses. It was by far movie. Tom would tell me about the the most popular game. Tag, "you're guns, the shattering glass and the dead," instead of "you're it." Nearly LETTERS TO THE EDITOR exploding bodies. It was wonderful and every boy on the playground participated very exciting. in the game. My family never went to a movie My parents never reprimanded my unless it was a cartoon or had a brother and I for playing war, but they War vets not jerks ROTC scholarships in order to be able to country that he would fight for it. The Daily Volkswagen starring. I knew violence never gave us any toys that resembled Editor, afford school. said, "We owe you the freedom to be a jerk only through Tom, who told me how guns either. While my friends got G.I. This letter is in response to the editorial It's amazing to sec that the one thing because you participated in the mass-slaugh- good guy Dirty Harry blew people away. Jocs, guns and army men for Christmas, printed on Nov. 21, "Ram allowed on cam- related to education that the government is ter of defenseless people." I was jealous of his cool parents. I got books, trucks and Lcgos. pus at the expense of decency." This poor willing to spend money on is to be phased My brother fought in that war. By calling My best friend from kindergarten, It made a difference in my life, and piece of argumentative journalism upset me out all of a sudden. ROTC has not been Maj. Doug Campbell a jerk, you are also Tom and I had no secrets right up until I I'm glad now of the decision my parents so much that I had to respond. abolished yet on SJSU because the universi- calling my brother a jerk. I don't think so. switched schools after the eighth grade. made to not condone violence. I have a First of all, the Daily makes a poor analo- ty knows that it's their job to educate stu- Would the person who wrote that editorial We haven't talked much since those deep aversion to guns and war as an gy comparing cross-burners to ROTC dents, even if they don't agree with the like to visit the family members of murdered innocent days, having gone separate adult, despite how fun both seemed as a cadets. Sorry, this is hardly the case. The Defense Department's policy. Kuwaitis by Iraqi troops? Or would that paths, but we used to have some great child. editorial also claims that " ROTC's The Daily didn't mention that ROTC is writer simply like to address every veteran of times. I don't know what happened to a lot gay policy blatantly contradicts the universi- getting phased out at Chico State simply a foreign war and call all of them jerks? I remember him telling me about The of those old war buddies of mine. I ty's nondiscrimination doctrine." Well, what because no one wants to join it. I also find it Big Red One, Apocalypse Now and assume most are still alive. about the fact that by phasing out ROTC, the quite offending to call Maj. Doug Campbell, Thomas J. Zizzo every Dirty Harry movie that came out Jeff apparently followed his dream of university will be destroying the academic from Chico State's ROTC, a jerk because he Freshman during our grade-school years. Dirty flying an X-wing fighter and joined the futures for many students who need their was brave enough and loyal enough to this Journalism Harry was definitely Tom's hero. Air Force. He flew jets in the Gulf, and I Tom was only one of several of us think he came back alive. No one will who craved excitement. ever know how many people he killed. Jeff was a Star Wars freak. He had not Tom went into police work. I didn't only seen the movie several times, but know he was a cop until his obituary also had every Star Wars action figure appeared. (the small ones and the big ones I was He died at home of a self-inflicted Forum page policies exceedingly jealous). Jeff had wallpaper gunshot wound. The article didn't say if with jet fighters on it, an R2D2 light it was intentional. His funeral was on the The Spartan Daily provides a daily Forum page. Contributions to Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0149. 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