Athletic Fund Just Enough, Officials

Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 Volume /9, No. 25 Monday, October 4, 1982 Spartans fall flat on their 'Bear' ends Athletic fund just enough, officials say Directors take issue with Senator By Karol Warner Two athletic directors rebutted Women's athletics does not have an academic senator's statement the income from televised games that Intercollegiate Athletics nor do its gate receipts bring in large received a "disproportionate" sums of money. amount of "tax money." Zimmerman explained that Men's Athletic Director David more than one-third of the women's Adams and Women's Athletic athletics budget comes from Director Mary Zimmerman, said donations or money earned from that the instructional funds received fund-raisers. were necessary for their programs. Adams and Zimmerman said Roy Young, academic senator their phone budgets are necessary and political science professor, said because phone calls are their least that compared to other depart- expensive means of recruiting. ments, athletics receives "ex- cessive" amounts for phone, sup- "When you're in competition for plies and services and technical and recruiting individuals, it is vital that clerical expenses. you keep in contact (with possible Adams is familiar with the recruits)," Adams said. "I think the resolution passed by the Academic coaches have been very con- Senate last year which called for the servative and concerned with the gradual reduction of instructional use of the phone." funds used by athletics. Adams said athletics is trying to Recruiting benefits 11.1 AhYou follow the resolution. Zimmerman said that the SJSLI quarterback Young, however, does not Steve Clarkson was haying a rough day in the Spartans' 26- Williams returned a Clarkson interception for the Bear's first touchdown. See University. believe that athletics is moving fast recruiting benefits the 7 loss to California last Saturday in Berkeley. The Spartan signal caller SPORTS for details. out and recruit enough. He said he'll have a more "When we go scrambles for yardage before Cal defender Fred Williams Ileft) stops him. recruiting people who precise idea in two weeks of how people we are area and the rapidly athletics is decreasing its are in the science and that is use of instructional funds. Academic engineering area our phone bills are -- Vice President Hobert Burns will basically what Zimmerman said. give a financial report at the our recruiting," that last year, ac- academic senate meeting in two Young said reviewed cording to Burns' report, in- program be weeks. Graduate to athletics had two By Ken Carlson Adams said that men's athletics tercollegiate for every three faculty The Mexican -American find where its strengths and According to statistics compiled correlated with the general is seeking more revenue from secretaries graduate studies department weaknesses are," Cabrera said. by the School of Social Sciences, 187 enrollment decline at SJSU over the televised football games. members. MAGS I will undergo a review this Wheeler said the action was students were enrolled in Mexican- same period. This year, women's athletics fall to determine whether it is necessary because of MAGS' American Studies courses as of fall Wheeler, however, associated has two full- and one part-time feasible to continue its degree diminishing student pool. According of last year. In 1980 that number the decline with competition beteen secretary. Three others are em- program. to Wheeler, from 1979 to 1982 the stood at 255 and in 1979 it was 329. SJSU and other schools for Mexican - ployed in technical positions. Two of MAGS is the second department number of graduate students in the Cabrera thought these figures American students. those technical employees also work to be reviewed this fall. Two weeks department has decreased from 60 with men's athletics. ago, Gerald Wheeler, dean of the to 18. Men's athletics has three School of Social Sciences, announced State quotas require a graduate secretaries and four technical a special assessment of the Afro- program to award at least five 'Bad faith' hampers employees and an additional American Studies Department. degrees per year to justify its secretary who is not paid with in- Wheeler said Wednesday he existence. "The (diminishing structional funds, according to would make a formal announcement number of graduate students) is a CSU contact talks Adams. to MACS Chairman Arturo Cabrera signal -they are going to fall below By Bruce Barton by the end of the week, although the requirement," Wheeler said. Contract negotiations between negotiators of being unwilling to a 17 percent Money crunch Wheeler said Cabrera is aware of Wheeler reported the State Employees Trade Council compromise. of students the review. decrease in the number and California State University "We bargained in good faith," Young said that the "most up for Mexican - "We're asking the department who signed system management stalled said Frank Gerry, administrator of disproportionate" amount of in- studies this fall. to make a good case for itself," American because of "bad faith bargaining" employee relations in the chan- structional funds is given to In- stands at 154 Wheeler said of the upcoming MAGS Enrollment now and "retaliatory pressure" from the cellor's office. "We continue to seek tercollegiate Athletics supplies and study. students. chancellor's office, according to a collective bargaining agreement." services. was estimated that Cabrera said yesterday he However, Garcia SETC representative, Bill Halloway. The debated contract is Last year Intercollegiate the not concerned about the review and there are 10 to 12 students "on "They (the chancellor's office) currently undergoing a practice Athletics received 23.4 percent or the who said his department is due for last leg of (their programs)" reneged on 17 items in the contract called fact-finding, where three $300,000, of the university's supplies master's normal five-year assessment should receive their that they had previously agreed to." representatives, one from each and services budget. required of all departments. degress this year. Halloway said. opposing side and a neutral party, Both directors expressed con- "I think the review is a chance The department does not offer a A spokesman from the chan- will make their decision on the cern about the University's money to get a handle on the program and bachelor's degree. cellor's office denied that the office contract. 'Coaches have been crunch and said they sympathized had bargained with the union un- "We intend to fully comply with with other departments' money very conservative fairly. the fact-finding procedure," Gerry woes. School of Social Science Among the items deemed said. with, the use of the If Young had $300.000 to spend in unacceptable by the chancellor's Halloway and Hector Burmea, his department he could make it the employee grievance SETC union president, traveled to phone -- Adams best political science department in enrollment decline slows office include procedures and a non- Long Beach Monday, where the the nation, he said By Ken Carlson discrimination clause, all part of a decision to form the fact-finding Figures for the first four weeks In the fall of 1979 MAGS boasted 281 93-page settlement proposal from committee was made Tuesday. He explained that the Pacific University priorities of the semester suggest that the enrollees. Halloway estimated a decision Coast Athletic Association divides the office that Halloway called, said instructional funds School of Social Sciences' six-year But the department maintained from the fact-finding committee television revenue into eight shares. Young "flowery." be spread more evenly decline in enrollIment may have only 18 graduate students last year, would not be made for another two SJSU receives two shares; the other should Thirty-two of 63 skilled trade throughout academic departments bottomed out. prompting Wheeler's announcement workers in SJSU's Plant Operations months. seven schools in the conference get Since the fall of 1979, enrollment this week of plans to call a special The dispute according to one share each, regardless of and that Intercollegiate Athletics staged a one-day walkout over the not receive as had dropped from 19,492 to 16.945 review to consider continuance of Halloway, has been going on since whether they had a game televised. should much as it stagnant negotiations bewteen does. last year. However, statistics the degree program. SETC and the chancellor's office. last April and the SETC union has Men's athletics is preparing a released this week indicate a new Wheeler said no other depart- Thirty-four of 38 workers at San met with the chancellor's office 50 proposal which would give a greater Young said the University decrease of only 107 students. ments are in jeopardy. Francisco State University followed times in collective bargaining portion of TV money earned to priorities policy lists athletics below The figures denot the number of Afro-American studies, which is suit with a one-day walkout Wed- sessions at Long Beach. schools which have televised games academics. This situation is in- students attending classes offered at already under review, bolstered its nesday. The SETC union represents 816 Adams added, however, that it is consistent with the proportion of the school. rolls by 7 percent, according to the "All we want is for them to sit skilled-trade workers state-wide, important that other schools in the funding that athletics receives as Dean Gerald Wheeler was fall figures. down and bargain," said Halloway, CSU-employed electricians, conference receive some of the compared to that which academic exuberent over the figures, taking Enrollment decreases were also who accused the contract plumbers, carpenters and others. money. departments receive, Young said. credit for halting the decline with 11 evident in traditional studies. less faculty members on his staff Political science, one of the largest this year.

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