Students Vote to Increase A.S. Fee by $8 by Stew Hintz to Call the Election, Approximately 1,000 RAFI Funds the Music and Theatre Arts Other Factor
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Berry In-house jams brew SJSU hoopster invited to try out for U.S. team Bay Area beer joints stir up suds on the spot Li SPORTS PAGE 4 L; FEATUREPAGE 6 k:31P 21111 Volume 86, No. 66 Serving The San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Monday, May 12, 1986 Students vote to increase A.S. fee by $8 By Stew Hintz To call the election, approximately 1,000 RAFI funds the Music and Theatre Arts other factor. The initiative approved last week recom- Daily staff writer signatures were collected, about twice as departments, KSJS, the Art Gallery, the Messner said he assumes the fee increase mends replacing RAFI funding with money Students voted to raise the Associated many as the A.S. constitution required. Spartan Daily and the Radio and Television would proceed without any problem. from the Instructionally Related Activities Students fee by $8 and to abolish News Center. no reasons that fund. the Revised A.S. Executive Assistant Paul Sonne- Sonneman said he saw Automatic Funding Initiative in special Sonneman said Fullerton from allowing the fee elec- man, the initiative's author, led the drive to the vote is only advisory would keep The IRA account currently is funded with tions Wednesday and Thursday. and the executive assis- bring the fee increase and RAFI repeal to the A.S. Board of Directors must request increase, but Dan Buerger, 643,162 from the State General Fund, $248,9170 If implemented, the the fee ballot measure will voters. increase from SJSU President Gail tant to Fullerton said that until he had more in projected student fees and $19,000 from the raise the A.S. fee from $10 to $18 per student, Fullerton, who in turn must seek approval time to look at the procedure for increasing prior year's reserves, according to informa- per semester. "This is direct democracy in action," he from CSU Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds. the A.S. fee, he couldn't comment for the said. tion provided by the office of Maynard Robin- The initiative passed by 218 votes, with Louis Messner, vice chancellor of budget president. son, associate academic vice president. 671 of the 1,110 votes supporting and 433 RAFI, approved in 1982, specified fund- planning for the California State University "This sort of thing hasn't happened in 30 wouldn't be against. Six students turned in ballots without ing levels for six campus programs based on system, said the chancellor's office is more years . I would have to check the Exec- Sonneman said IRA groups voting on the initiative. enrollment. inclined to follow the student vote than any utive Order," Buerger said. continued on pages Shaky Executive wants Spartan unity on campus shanty New academic vice president to take position this summer Paul Mezzetta of Students By Herb Vluktarian mento, said her decision to take the for the Free Market puts some Daily staff writer interim position here was an emo- finishing touches on a model of The university's newest exec- tional one. a Nicaraguan contra or Af- utive said she will be working to "I wrestled with that for a long ghanistan shantytown in A.S. bring a greater sense of unity to the time," she said. "But this is my cam- Vice President Michael Fab- SJSU campus. pus . I have been here for 17years. er's office. Paul Romero, presi- Arlene Okerlund said her goal as "This university gave me a job dent of the College Republicans the newly appointed interim aca- when I was flat broke." she said also worked on the shantytown demic vice president will be to pull Okerlund said she took the job when Friday which was designed to the campus closer together. she was trying to make ends meet. protest the living conditions of "I'd like to bring a feeling of bringing up a 5-year-old daughter. contra and Afghanistan free- community to this campus." she "That goes a long way toward dom fighters. said. building loyalty. It was directed at the "rhe- Okerlund, who will fill the posi- "If I can pay back what the cam- toric of the left to free certain tion on June 1, was named interim ac- pus has given me, then !owe it to ( the people while ignoring the oth- edemic vice president in a university university)," she said. ers," Romero said. It was also press release Thursday. replacing Okerlund said she is planning to supposed to poke fun at the John Gruber, who has held the post apply for the position on a permanent shantytowns built at UCLA and for almost two years. basis, but said, "who knows when we Dartmouth. Okerlund will be leaving her post get to that point." Romero said Faber would as dean of the School of Humanities The press release stated that the enjoy the shantytown because and the Arts, which she has held university will form a campus se- he supports the freedom fight- since 1980. lection committee this fall to search ers but said he might never see The appointment ended almost for a permanent academic vice presi- it. Faber is not on campus Fri- two weeks of speculation by univer- dent. days, he said, and the structure sity officials and deans that Gruber Okerlund said she would like to was in danger of being torn was on the way out. share various ideas as to where the down. SJSU President Gail Fullerton university is heading, with the idea of and Gruber would not comment on promoting a closer campus unity. his departure, stating that it was a "If you go back to the beginnings "personnel matter." of the word 'university', 'uni' means The press release stated Gruber 'one' . we have thought along indi- will be conducting research for the vidual lines too much in the past," Department of Defense this summer, she said. and then will return to teach physics Okerlund said there hasn't been a this fall. problem, as such, but that she feels Okerlund, who was in the running the university can do a better job. for the academic vice presidency at She said her goals in her new po- California State University at Sacra- continued on page 5 California schools Julie L Lug,ir Daily staff photographer pressured by change Hy Veda Anderson changes could be devastating. Daily staff writer Minorities now constitute more California postsecondary schools than 40 percent of elementary class- Former residence director's trial delayed face the most challenging test room enrollments, but studies show they've ever had to take, and the that only a handful will attain a tour- custodian and searched Koehn's apartment, find- day. "I hope I seitl he strong enough to get back to By I.ynn Louie state's future could depend on how year degree. ing three rifles, two pipe bombs and material used the case " Daily staff writer well they do. "If past patterns of educational to manufacture explosive devices. Otherwise, Marmon said she will consider The trial of a former residence hall director The test involves developing success persist into the future, the was not present at the time of the turning the case over to another attorney. charged with weapons and drug possession has While Koehn ways to educate a changing popula- implications of these changing demo- his wife Kim was arrested on drug and Koehn is still being held in Santa Clara County again been delayed. search, tion in which ethnic minorities are graphics on our educational system Will Koehn, former Royce Hall director, is charges. She remains free on bail. Jail because he has been unable to raise the $75,000 weapon projected to exceed the white major- and on the state's economy are scheduled to appear in Santa Clara County Supe- Koehn was arrested by Santa Cruz County bail, Marmon said. ity. alarming in the extreme," said As- on June 10 after a continuation was Department deputies two weeks later at Before his arrest, Koehn worked at SJSU for rior Court Sheriff's If California schools are not able semblyman Tom Hayden. home. seven years under the now-defunct University Al- granted to his attorney Tuesday. his Lompico to meet the challenge of educating Hayden, chairman of the Sub- County in attorney, Crystal B. Marmon, did not ternatives Program, which aided ex-convicts in Koehn was arrested in Santa Cruz Koehn's the vast numbers of underprepared committee on Higher Education for Tuesday but had a representa- applying to the university. He came to campus in April 1985 for possession of cocaine. He was then appear in court on minorities, experts foresee a state in extension.She had been through ex- 1978 after serving a five-year prison term for as- transferred to back to Santa Clara County. where tive ask for an danger of falling behind in technolog- and surgery, spending three weeks in the hos- sault with a deadly weapon. he was charged with possession of weapons tensive ical advancement. drugs which were by police in his dor- pital in March and is still recovering. Koehn's position as residence director was ter- discovered A report by the National Commit- Testing mitory apartment April "I haven't been able to look at the case since minated April 16,1985 after he failed to report to 12. tee on Excellence of Education states University police a tip from a I've been recuperating," Marmon said Wednes- work for five days. officers received that California is now on the leading edge of technological change, but Education without a more educated work force, the quality of life and standard of liv- Ethnic minority needs Merchant seeks A.S.