Spartan Daily Thing .Ation Volume 78, No 6 1 Serving the San Jose Community Since 1934 Wednesday, May 19, 1982
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)82 I) San Jose gets For a closer look into the into windsurfing picture of Phi Beta Sigma in a big wave See page 8 for the story See story, page 7 t. I Spartan Daily thing .ation Volume 78, No 6 1 Serving the San Jose Community Since 1934 Wednesday, May 19, 1982 ps at t im- tupid lad a is not 'One-time' student surcharge may continue I two 'Rumors are going around'; t, and h. $400 million cut predicted By Scott Shdrel per student. ing "It's looking uglier and uglier," Richards said the surcharge will was one student leader's description likely continue into the next year. of next year's California State But the student lobbyist said s life, University budget prospect. most of the significant decisions will aised, Curtis Richards, full-time come out of the Senate-Assembly 'ess is lobbyist for the California State conference committee. Student Association, said CSU After annoucing his May ;et all students face an uncertain future revision last week, "the governor d may offering no hope in the face of a gave up he threw the ball into the deteriorating California economy. legislator's park," Richards said. resses Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s II have annual May revison of next year's The legislature is now working before budget proposal is now projecting a with last year's budget minus any ig else $3.3 billion defecit, Richards said. cost of living adjustments. Richards of all "Directives have gone out from said. ible to the governor) everywhere, for Many of the variables that could either everyone to start cutting," he said, affect the budget won't be known but pointed out the many variables until the June primaries. At that in the situation. time voters will decide on three large "We have no idea what students ballot measures which could change have a will be paying," Richards said. the budget situation. eing a The student association has The measures are Propositions voted to endorse a recent recom- 5,6 and 7. The first two, if voted for, stress mendation by the California Post- would repeal the inheritance tax. rson is secondary Education Commission State economists have predicted a resses. which would tie fees to state support. $340 million loss if that happens. finding I it's, CSU students would pay 20 to 30 percent of the state support for each Proposition 7, also called Jarvis III, would extend indexing of state ti'closed student per year. The state con- have tributes an average of $3,000 to each income tax. The tax would be ad- student's higher education cost. justed annually to inflation and is time predicted to cost the state another s that That formula would result in $120 million. body SJSU student's paying between $150 The student association is op- and $300 next semester. posing all three measures. avoid But Richards warned that Since the state constitution "rumors are going around all over prohibits deficits of more than the place" in Sacramento where the $300,000 the legislature would have Anti -Khomeini protestors picket Union CSSA lobbyists are based. to cut services or increase other taxes to make up the money. He said the governor has had One possibility leaders in Demonstrators, who refused to give their names, protested demonstration took place yesterday at noon by the Student weekly meetings with many of the Sacramento are "serously looking against Ayatollah Khomeini's government in Iran. the Union. representatives of the various state at," Richards said, is the oil agencies. severence tax. That would raise $500 Some in Sacramento have million. predicted a $400 million cut in Two deans favor faster process California higher education $100 After toying with the idea for million from the CSU system, months, Richards said Brown could Richards said. soon make a move for endorsement Last year the system was cut by of the tax something of a surprise Slow admission may stymie enrollment $22 million and the board of trustees in an election year. levied a "one time" surcharge of $46 continued on page 3 and (4 By Jon Swartz here, and not wait. We should use the rl a If two SJSU deans could have it process for those who are eligible." their way, the admissions process The admissions system used at SJSU Wheeler thinks the present raig would be changed from un- system used at SJSU is a slow king conditional to conditional ad- is a slow process, said Gerald Wheeler process. IRA committee vote allows will missions. "If we're slow, and the evidence iscle of the end up enrolling is pretty clear, we should do Deans Gerald Wheeler unconditional admissions policy. to be, and reporter to attend meeting School of Social Sciences and An- This policy gives students a elsewhere. something about it," he continued. scle drew Hughey of the School of Ap- longer time petiod to apply to SJSU Wheeler said he favors a con- "People don't like to wait for and plied Arts and Sciences favor a shift and has resulted in additional ditional admissions format instead notification of their acceptance. After a series of open and secret allow the press in the meeting. aid. to conditional admissions and an enrollment, according to Jerry of an unconditional process. They get impatient and go ballots yesterday the Instructionally The IRA committee makes n is accelerated policy of notifying Houseman, director of admissions "I'd rather have conditional elsewhere. People don't like un- Related Activities committee voted recommendations to SJSU freshmen applicants. and records. admissions," Wheeler said. "If certainty. 6-1-1 to allow the press to sit through President Gail Fullerton on which lues The remaining five deans could requirements are spelled out, yes. It Wheeler said "declining their final meeting of the year. groups should get how much of the 't be not be reached for comment. That process, however, also speeds up the admission's process in enrollment costs the school students Twice the committee asked the $278,000 fund. that Presently, SJSU's admissions results in a belated admissions some ways because it allows and money since the whole system is Spartan Daily reporter to leave The money comes from a $5 nine and records office notifies high process where students are not students interested in coming here run by enrollment figures." peaceably before voting to recon- semester fee levied on students. The school senior applicants under an notified as early as they would like and with the credentials to come continued on page 4 sider their earlier decision not to state kicks in $37,500. she The Daily will give a detailed ling account of the committee's iety recommendations tomorrow. F'M Yesterday was the last in a series of meetings that began last Part-time teaching lacks job security month. At the first meeting the committee voted to allow the press to sit through all the meetings. College. security and few benefits? But then at last week's con- Some days she works 13 hours: some weeks she reads and For some, it's perfect for them. Part-time instructors in ference the group reversed itself and corrects 90 compositions. She is rasing a pre-schooler and engineering and business don't have worries about enrollment, voted not to allow the press ad- ;mother child is noticeably on the way. and many have jobs in the business world. For others, it's a way mittance to the final deliberations. Heifferson's life could be used for a Geritol commercial. But to establish themselves in the education business. A state assemblyman on although her husband will keep her, she is reminded each Monday said he was outraged at the Nemester that the university may not. When Heifferson was finishing graduate school at SJSU in decision and said he would call Like most part-time teachers at SJSU. Heifferson is em- 1977, she imagined she would some day be a full professor of Fullerton to demand accountablity. ployed on a semester-to-semester basis. Enrollment drops and English. She now says that was an "unrealistic" goal. Without a But Hobert Burns, academic budget cuts hit the temporary part-timers first and hardest. Ph. D., she wouldn't even by seriously considered for a tenured vice president, told the IRA com- position and the job market is so tight she doesn't think going on mittee to disregard all pressures "It is a tragedy in many ways that they work at the whim of to get her doctorate would improve her chances too much. from the administration, state enrollment," Academic Vice President Hobert Burns said. But, Some departments at SJSU haven't hired any tenure-track assemblyman or the Daily itself and he added, part-time temporary positions are necessary. professors in more than 12 years.) make a decision on its own. I Editor's note: This is the first article in a three-part series Temporary lecturers serve as a buffer for full-time faculty. But she stays at SJSU teaching English IA, IS, writing exploring stress among faculty members. Part one looks at They teach extra classes, freeing full-time teachers to do workshop and other composition courses for the experience. The committee, which Burns problems facing part-time teachers and those breaking into the committee work, research and other non-teaching chores, Heifferson's philosophy has been to work hard and stand out and sits on as a representative of the education business. ) Bunts said. then get a good department reference. That, plus here SJSU administration, then asked the Daily Also, when student enrollment fluctuates, it is easier for teaching experience will help her get a job at a community reporter to leave.