Spartan Daily

o place for rock concert Spartan Daily SJSU fans lave to wait Volume 72, Number 28 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Tuesday, March 13, 1979 By Carla Baker SJSU students might as well not old their breath waiting to see a big ock concert on campus, because ad facilities prevent it, according Applied Arts told Ted Gehrke, Program Board dviser. Program Board members said ley were not required to make of SJSU's planned loney on their programs and that yen if they were required to do so it ;could be impossible. An investigation of the Program new layoff policies board headed by AS. Attorney By Patrick McGreevy "There are no plans now to :eneral Bruce Santos began Feb. 23 "I used to say, 'I will outlive layoff anyone this year," Sasseen Then monthly budget reports were Reagan,' now I say, 'I will outlive reassured those in attendance. "I ot presented to A.S. Council as Brown, Helen Ross, AS. senator don't anticipate any next year, but tipulated by council policy. from the School of Applied Arts and then, we can't predict what will Santos has been looking into the Sciences, said to close a special happen with the governor, the mounts of money the Program department meeting, Friday. legislature and enrollment." board has spent and has been The meeting was held to irnform McNeil was equally as unsure. uestioning if the money spent has the department's faculty and staff, "I'm pretty confident," he said. 'eally been used in serving the of SJSU's layoff policy, as passed by "It's pretty healthy looking in the tudents in the best way. the Academic Senate last year. short term, at least it isn't fatal. Gehrke said the reason that big The comment by Ross was Sasseen and McNeil outlined ock shows can't be presented at representative of the hopeful yet S78-9 which spells out steps to be )JSU is that the campus does not cautious atmosphere that existed taken to avoid layoffs, and rules lave the facilities to do this. throuhgout the meeting, as Dr. governing the dismissals. "It is impossible to get rock 'n' Robert Sasseen, dean of faculty and The policy is divided into four oll to come to this campus. Why?" Dr. David McNeil, chairman of the steps, Sasseen said. ;ehrke asked. "Because there's Academic Senate Professional First, the Enrollment Patterns (nly a 2,500+seat gymnasium. All photo by Terry Ste/ma Standards Committee, explained Helen Ross and Robert Sasseen Committe, set up by the Academic he other theaters who make money, SJSU's layoff policy to the 31 faculty Senate to anticpate and devise ways or example the Center for Per- and staff members present. to avoid layoffs, examines which orming Arts which has 2,700 is quite departments are overstaffed and nique. Student neighborhood may get rezoning why. This is the step the policy "Most other theaters anywhere program is at now. the country have 3,500 seats. You Then the Enrollment Patterns wed that to get the top gross Committee will make recom- wtential." he said. mendations to the A.S. Senate. To figure how much money can Task force to present ideas Sasseen said that 15 alternatives to e made per show, multiply how By Don Vetter One of the other concerns the development in the area, noise and parking facilties. layoffs have been discovered so far. nany seats are going to be sold by A few he mentioned are, retraining, he price for the tickets to be sold, he The University Area Task Force land use subcommittee addressed Trippi said that residents in the Aird, however is still wary about will make its recommendations to was the rezoning of the area south of area felt that the hospital was en- the compromise. transfering to other departments aid. and leaves of absence. "Nowadays rock artists want 60 the San Jose City Council sometime San Jose General Hospital. croaching on the neighborhood. "I think the cards are still out," in fate March or early April, ac- According to Health Center he said. "We need to assure our- The third step is consulting with wrcent of that money. That's all The land use task force com- those individuals affected, in an , hey ask. What's the gross potential, cording to A.S. Vice President Joe President and task force member promised and gave the hospital a selves with real live medical offices. Trippi. John Aird, the hospital requires a Aird said he is going to contact attempt to find an alternative to What are the ticket prices, then you proposal of commercial zoning three layoffs, such as transfering the Make your offer,- Gehrke said. Trippi, a member of the task commercial zoning for the neigh- to four lots south of Santa Clara. development experts to see if the force, said the four task force borhood in order to accommodate comromise would hurt future person to another department. I "That's one problem. The only Jim Williams from the city The fourth and ultimate step is a committees on land use, public physicians' office space. planning. racilities we have are the men's gym planning commission said that the letter telling the faculty member he safety, transportation and social The land use sub-task force If he finds it does, he will present Which has 2,500 seats and we have to zoning will allow "good quality or she is laid off. All layoffs are services will bring their completed propsal calls for the Coyote Creek to an alternative to the task force ?)over the floor and it's a pain in the developments that protect the subject to greivance hearings by the proposals together on Wednesday, 12th Street area south of Santa Clara miss to use. But it is possible. It is neighborhood." San Jose General Hospital is individual who feels he or she was Oct. 8:30 a.m. in room 114 City Hall. be zoned residential. The health ,ntimate and nice," he said. He said that any plans that currently being renovated to include unfairly dismissed. Gehrke said the Peter Gabriel Trippi was joined on the land use center president said that a would be submitted would have to a new clinical lab and diagnostic -:oncert was the best concert that sub-task force by SJSU President residential zoning designation would include an impact statement as well radiology center according to (Continued on back page) Imybody had ever seen, because Gail Fullerton, Tim Starbird, a city further discourage any new as provisions for the buffering of Director of Planning Mike Hyland. ..verybody was closets the stage. planning commissioner, and Joan Gehrke said the Gabriel concert Corsiglia, a 16th Street resident. as the smallest theater Gabriel The area the task force con- Campus area reputation called undesirable 'played in by 800 people in his whole cerned itself with was a land block The SJSU campus community imposing strict penalties on on the SJSU area's land use, tran- weather -our, which was 600 theaters. with its northern border St. James has received the reputation of an prostitutes and their customers. sportation, public safety and social Morris Dailey is the other place Avenue, south to highway 280, east undesirable place to live, according The task force recom- service. hat concerts could be held in. to Coyote Creek and west to Fourth to the University Study Area Task mendations and findings will be The task force was formed eight According to Gehrke there are Street. Force. presented to the San Jose City months ago by the city council at the three ways in which the Program Trippi said that one of the main These findings were made by Council sometime in late March or suggestion of then City manager Ted Board could do their programming. proposals of the task force is to the public safety sub-task force early April according to SJSU A.S. Tedesco and former SJSU President (Continued on Back Page) establish a student niehgborhood which reported that the livability of Vice President Joe Trippi, a John Bunzel. south of the SJSU campus. the residential area is threatened member of the task force. Other recommendations of the This area, south of San Salvador because of the concentration of It will be up to the council sub-task forces included: to 280, is currently zoned for medium problems. whether or not the task force's Increased enforcement of Fair today with some high A.S. election: density residential or 12 to 25 Among these problems studied recommendations will be im- drinking regulations in the parks. cloudiness and winds from the residents per acre, he said. by the sub-task force was increased plemented. A public hearing is Police pick up of alcoholics northwest at 10 mph. Tem- "We are going to recommend to occurrences of prostitution. scheduled for sometime later this should be replaced by a non-police peratures will range from a time to file the city to allow it to be designated Recommendations made in the month to present the task force's alternative pick up service. high in the mid 60's to a low in very high density residential," report stated that protection from completed package of reports, Development of a neighborhood the 40's. Rain is scheduled to is tomorrow Trippi said. "This would mean 25 to prostitution should have a higher according to Trippi. awareness program to encourage appear on Wednesday. 40 units per acre. priority in the residential areas over The task force broke off into four neighbors to watch each other's Forecast by the SJSU Applications for A.S.

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