A.S. Program Board Feeling AFI Pinch Islamic-Moslem Differences Result In

81 1 a is is Spartan Daily 111111MMIr Volume 77, Number 15 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 19:74 Wednesday. September 23. 1981 A.S. Program feeling AFI pinch Board #=-. By Maureen Keenan residence, dance and classical arts. even," Rolland said. beat shows. ther loss to the program board. According :o Rolland, more Staff Writer Rolland hopes to see this happen Rolland also said there's a built- "Do we do a bizarre show that Rolland recently requested that time spent in the office equals more The A.S. Program Board, sometime next year. in handicap on the board. loses money or a show that the AS. Board allow $2,000 to be programs. responsible for campus en- This combination will help by "For one, there's me," Rolland everybody likes, making money, but taken out of the $77,000 to pay $50 a Rolland said the $50 would also tertainment, is feeling the pinch of giving some programs a larger pool said. being less innovative?" Rolland month to five program board be used to cover costs incurred by the Automatic Funding Initiative of money to draw from instead of Since he's a student and has questioned. chairpersons. chairpersons. (AFI), according to Bill Rolland, giving each program a separate classes to attend, this infringes on In the end, the cut will result in Rolland said that although the RoUand's proposal was denied A.S. Program Board director. specified amount of money. his time for scheduling programs. less free concerts and higher ticket $2,000 will cut into programming, by the A.S. Board. The AFI, an initiative passed Another adjustment is the This conflict exists with all chair- prices, according to Rolland. the money will pay for itself since Rolland said adjustments will last spring by students, allocates a elimination of the drama chair. persons, according to Rolland. Rolland is concerned that higher chairpersons will have an incentive just have to be made with the AFI percentage of their fees to six Activities previously done by the There's also a conflict between prices will result in fewer people to remain in. the office, eventually representing just one more hurdle to specific groups. drama chair are covered by the making money and presenting off- showing up for shows, causing an- bringing in more money. overcome. The AFI puts the board in a Theatre Arts Department. "very bad position," resulting in Rolland also expects the cutbacks on all programs, Rolland classical arts and artist-in-residence said. chair to be eliminated next year Iranian dissension The board was originally to since Theatre Arts is doing most of receive $91,500, but will only receive the work already. $77,000. But, Rolland said, "It's still Rolland said it is hard to be a hard for us to cut." professional organization competing To bounce back the board will with people like Bill Graham or put effort and money into popular other Bay Area promoters when the money-making programs like the major funding, needed for quality film series and speaker series programs, doesn't exist. although according to Rolland, these Some economizing measures in "profits don't cover the cut by a long a the making are to combine the shot." program board's six entertainment The film and speaker series chairs into three accounts. This will would have to make enough profit to result in separate accounts for subsidize classical arts and dance forums, films and "lively arts." which tend to lose money, according "Lively arts" will consist of to Rolland. contemporary arts, artist-in - "If we're lucky, we'll stay Suicide attempted at Joe West Hall By Randy Paige University police and Staf f Writer paramedic units arrived at his An 18-year-old Iranian dormitory room in Joe West Hall student tried to commit suicide around 1 p.m. They administered shortly after noon Monday by medication which induced . taking non-prescription sleeping vomiting. He was then taken to pills, university police report. He San Jose Hospital and released at was treated and released from 6 p.m., police said. the San Jose Hospital emergency The student had taken 10 to 12 Russell Lunsford, non-prescription sleeping pills room, said Photo by Stephen Blakeml, university police technical after he became despondent - Members of the Moslem Student Society and the Islamic services officer. Monday afternoon, police said. Republican Party voiced anger Wednesday. Islamic-Moslem differences result in S.U. confrontation By Billy Thomas Mujahedeen (majority) in Iran, chanted, "Death to the Shah's regime," Eslamy said, "and it is Forum Editor to Khomeini" as they marched back and forth in exactly what Hitler was doing. A confrontation between members of the front of the Student Union carrying placards "We want to get rid of Khomeini's regime; Moslem Student Society ( MSS) and supporters of inscribed with "Death to Khomeini's regime." we want complete freedom for the people," she the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) occurred in "We are here to tell the people the truth," added. front of the west entrance of the Student Union at Malie Eslamy said. "In the last two days, 200 Majid Mojahed, an SJSU mechanical noon Tuesday. people have been executed, and 30 of them have engineering major, described the MSS as According to Louis Nieman, an SJSU been under 10 years of age." terrorists who espoused Communist ideologies. electrical engineering major, the two groups According to Eslamy, who is not an SJSU They support the group that killed President were distributing leaflets when MSS members student, Khomeini's regime has killed a number Mohammed Ale Rajai, and Prime Minister attempted to wrest the IRP supporters leaflets of pregnant women. Mohammed Javad Bahonai, he said. from them. At one point during the confrontation a Rajai and Bahonai were killed in a bomb A wrestling match ensued and university female member of the MSS, yelled to a member explosion Aug. 31 in Iran. police were summoned to the scene. No one was of the HIP that two of her cousins were executed "As soon as they see some Moslem people arrested. and one of them was pregnant. who are for the Islamic Republic Party, they The MSS, which supports the People's "What Khomeini is doing can be compared attack us and try to grab any leaflets we have," Mojahed said. Photo by Stephen Blakeman CFA, UPC in the running '78 California law Unions compete for faculty allows bargaining By Tom Quinlan seling department, CFA was content very early alternative." Office that what they were doing Staff Writer to split faculty from other Sivertsen said this avowed was legal, Tidwell said, adding, By Tom Quinlan workers will have a separate unit A struggle for the hearts and bargaining units. aggressiveness simply means "not "UPC didn't have a leg to stand on." Staff Writer bargaining for them. minds of faculty and employees is William Tidwell, SJSU biology working hand and glove with the Assembly Bill 1091 became law The largest bargaining The rival unions are in complete unit will taking place on all 19 campuses in professor and vice president of Chancellor's Office," something she in 1978. The bill allows employees of be made up of the faculty, including agreement about a "no agent" vote the California State University and CFA's Board of Directors, doesn't has acccused the CFA of doing. the California State University and coaches and librarians, numbering by CSUC system employees, Colleges (CSUC) system. agree with that, saying "everybody Both rivals disagreed with the Colleges (CSUC) system to form approximately 20,000 members. however. Two unions, United Professors wants it lone union) for the whole other's assessment. bargaining units to Some 1,200 people will A "no agent" vote by the em- collective be in the of California (UPC) and the system." Admitting that she felt "a represent them in the areas of last bargaining unit, made up of Congress of Faculty Associations Tidwell noted, however, that the responsibility to take any action we ployees would mean that no union wages, employment hours, and counselors, library assistants and (CFA), hope to be elected the first CFA is affiliated with organizations could" on behalf of CSUC system could go before the board or other working conditions. student affairs assistants. collective bargaining agent for that are "primarily education." employees, Sivertsen also declared Legislature as a unified body. Previously, the Chancellor's All of these units will exclude employees of the CSUC system. Among the CFA's affiliates are the ’a strike is the last thing." Pledging to support whichever Office and the CSUC Board of managerial and supervisorial The organizing effort by both National Education Association and And while not going so far as to union wins the right to represent Trustees were required by state law personnel. unions follows a 1978 state law, the Californie State Employees call it working "hand in glove" with CSUC employees, Tidwell called the to consider requests made by faculty The four bargaining units, which allows employees of the CSUC Assocation ( CSE A I. the Chancellor's Office, Tidwell prospect of a "no agent" vote worse groups in these areas. Such con- combined with the three choices system the same rights as other Both unions claim their various expressed a desire that the ultimate than not having had the chance for sideration could be ignored, available to employees, ( United state employees, including union affiliations, ( UPC has formed an union representative would be able collective bargaining at all. however, according to William Professors of California, Congress of representation, a collective alliance with the American to go before the State Legislature as Tidwell said that previously Tidwell, SJSU biology professor and Faculty Associations, and "no bargaining process and the right to Federation of Teachers, which is a 'allies" with the CSUC Board of unorganized groups of faculty vice president of the Congress of agent" I, make it possible for dif- strike.

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