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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 Deans Gerald Wheeler of the unconditional admissions policy. to be, and end up enrolling is pretty clear, we should do 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. administrators to appoint and dismiss part-time, temporary college, she hopes. But right now opportunites are limited at Twice the reporter refu.sed to Natal D.01. !Lc, .1 I:. ta hire and layoff tenure-track I perm:meat, that level too, Ileifferson said. budge citing the state open meeting Special to the Daily laculh A former search for candidates is made by the There are dozens of teachers in various departments with laws as reason to stay. The com- Nancy Heifferson stays busy. university when a permanent position opens up part-time situations similar to Heifferson's. They want to teach and mittee eventually decided not to call She teaches three composition courses for SJSU's English jobs at SJSU are filled with less trouble. temporary status is the only game in town. the police or postpone the meeting, , department. She also teaches part-time at San Jose City Why would anyone take a part-time job which has no job continued on page 4 the options it had earlier considered. page 2 Wedoesday May 19 1982 forum Reagan's gutting the FCC
The proposal by the Reagan Administration to FCC, was established on the basis that the airwaves deregulate Federal Conununiciation Commission belong to the public. Unlike newspapers, radio is controls of radio in favor of the marketplace deter- restricted to the boundaries of the airwaves, its mining any guidelines, if at all, is another blatant regulation by government. attempt that can only hurt, if not destroy, the rights of This move by Congress thwarted complete control Amercians to be effectively served by one of the of the medium by the advertisers and slowly grew into nation's most vital and necessary mediums. a comprehensive system of regulation designed to The move is in effect a smokescreen by Reagan to serve in the public interest, convenience and necessity. give another industry a carte blanche invitation to During the past year-and-a-half there has been an regulate itself. exhaustive effort underway in Washington to The logic is that deregulation means less govern- deregulate radio from government control, a move I ment and thus will save the taxpayer money, ac- that informed sources say will lead to the eventual decontrol of the entire communicatons industry. Radio stations that before 1981 were required to have a specific amount of public affairs programming and to provide public service announcements to community organizations would be exempt from doing By Wade Barber so under the proposed guidelines. Assoc. Forum Editor Also slated for removal are ascertainmnt guidelines, which call for constructive dialogue bet- ween station management and community leaders to determine what needs can be filled by the stations' programming. cording to the administration. But deregulation will Another FCC guideline designed to keep also tighten the flow of information available to the programming "in the public interest" is the required public while at the same time eliminating any control program log. Destined for the scrap heap, the log is a or input from the public sector concerning program- public record that can be compared to a diary of the ming. stations' programming. What is proposed is the elimination of commercial This FCC rule enables concerned citizens to limit guidelines, the ending of the practice of detailed challenge the content of a station's programming program logs which enable the public to examine a through examination of the log to determine if the station's content along with the removal of ascer- station is following guidelines and is acting in the tainment guildelines. public interest. This amounts to a wholesale slaughter of the These regulations of the radio industry, if regulations that keep commercial television from eliminated, can only hurt the public's interst in ob- becoming one big conglomeration of programming taining a fair balance of news and entertainment and unaccountable to the public interest. information in the public interest which reflects the Are radio stations losing money? Is this another needs of the community. government bail-out designed to save the industry At a time when more regulations are needed to from economic ruin? ensure proper compliance with existing FCC rules, it is The answer is no. Deregulation is simply a way to disheartening to find the elimination of these protec- improve the profit margin of the media corporations. tions going down with barely a whisper from the One example is KMPX radio in San Francisco American people. which was recently sold for $15 million while just a few Instead of the deregulation of electronic media, years ago the same station sold for a paltry $6 million. these regulations must be retained so that program- Losing money is not a characteristic common to ming continues to benefit the American public. the radio industry given the limited numoer ot radio Considering the profitability of television and stations. radio, revenues for maintaining the FCC could be Losing hard earned and much deserved legislation extracted from the media's corporate coffers. designed over the years by Congress through the FCC Ownership of radio and television stations is a is but another example of Reagan's policy of "trim- privilege, not a right, enjoyed by the electronic media. the mailbag ming the fat" at the expense of the public and for the But it seems that the "in the public interest" benefit of corporate America. philosophy inherent in U.S. radio and TV will be The Radio Act of 1927. the forerunner of today's replaced by whatever the market will bear. curate warheads or disarming their and I use it. I don't have to worry 'Nuclear' editorial bombers carrying multiple about uneven tans, unsightly strap warheads for their sub-launched marks, or worst of all, sunburns. failed to inform ballistic missiles. I also notice that I do not sit at The Soviets and the U.S. would home weekends waiting for a tall, have to decide which weapons have tan hunk like you to call me because -Daily Policy priority and which are just wasted I do not have a tan myself. You are Editor: money. obviously the type of person who The April 21 editorial containing When one of these proposals is judges someone's social prestige by a full page picture of a nuclear blast carried out, further negotiations how much Coppertone they wear. The Spartan Daily would like to All letters must include the and will appear with a byline at- entitled, "Support Nuclear Disar- could take place to lower the total Although tans look very at- hear from you-our reader. Your writer's signature, major, class tributing the article accordingly. mament," was very effective, but it number of nuclear weapons even tractive on some people, the damage ideas, comments, criticisms and standing, address and telephone Comments, columns and failed to give some of the facts further. done to the skin by the sun is not suggestions are encouraged. By number. Only the name, major and editorials will discuss local, state behind nuclear disarmament. These are just two of the worth the trouble. Tanning without listening to our readers we feel we class standing will be printed. and international affairs. Naturally we'd all enjoy seeing possibilities that weren't mentioned protection of a sun-screen can be can better serve the campus com- The Spartan Daily reserves the The Daily encourages reader Reagan and Brezhnev shake hands in the editorial. Though emotional very damaging to the skin. munity. right to limit the number of letters comments regarding editorials, and agree to disarm all nuclear appeal is a very effective device, it This opinion is supported by Letters to the Mailbag, opinion on a given topic after a sufficient opinions or news stories. weapons, but the U.S. has a must not give the impression that many dermatologists and skin care articles and press releases are amount of comment has appeared. Guest opinions are encouraged, reputation for dragging its feet and nuclear disarmament is as simple as experts. So, while you are soaking gladly accepted. Letters should not exceed 350 but will be printed at the discretion the Soviet Union has a goal to make taking apart all nuclear weapons, up all that Vitamin D, you are also Our policy for accepting such words. of the Forum Page editors. the world communist, so the solution though we wish it were. soaking up the sun's cancer causing, material is as follows: to disarmament is not that simple. ultra-violet rays which will per- Opinion Nuclear disarmament will take Releases manently damage your skin even time, patience and hours of Roger Lee Letters after your tan fades! The intent of the Spartan Daily negotiations from the U.S., the Biological Sciences Exposing Letters should be submitted to Forum Page is to present a variety Releases should be submitted Soviets and their allies. freshman your skin to the sun as the Spartan Daily office IJC 208) of viewpoints of interest to the as early as possible to the City Many proposals have been a "year round delight" is abusing weekdays, or by mail to the campus community. Editor at the Spartan Daily office, or suggested, one being the disarming your skin despite what you might think. Mailbag, do the Spartan Daily, San Editorials reflect the position by mail. The sooner the release is of weapons, one-by-one, on a neutral Although I do not walk around Jose State University, 125S. Seventh of the Daily. Opinions express the received, the better coverage the island until an agreed upon in my down jacket all semester, I St., CA 95192. views of the writer or organization topic may receive. megatonnage is reached. 'Apollo' rebuffed, also refuse to put on a bathing suit or Another, and possibly a better short shorts and sit on a lawn for solution, would be to set a quota on sun's cancerous hours baking myself. the number of nuclear warheads I enjoy sunny days like everyone that a country could have at any one else, but I do not strive for society's time. ideal of beauty by tanning. So, Mr. This plan would be beneficial to Editor: Dempster, when we are both thirty the U.S. in that the government Dear Mr. "Apollo" Dempster, or so, my skin may look like a could build a balanced force with its I strongly disagree with your currant white raisin) but your skin already proposed MX missile and response to Ms. Weeks' letter. ( with constant exposure to the sun) bomber warheads, disassembling Although I do not begrudge your will look like a prune. the older, outdated versions. opinion, I believe that your No hard feelings! The Soviets would have to patronizing attitude only per- choose between scrapping their petuates the myth of the narcisstic massive (number and megaton: mentality of the typical Southern Maria Theren nage) Inter-continental Ballistic Californian. Art/Graphic Design Missiles for their newer, more ac- I happen to have very pale skin junior
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