I Staff cuts reduce programs; student participation limited By PETER HOWARD department. jump of 67 per cent. said that as a matter of educational Faculty cut backs in several The Journalism Department. which In the same period, Dr. Brown philosophy priority is given to liberal departments within San lose State is in the same school, faces a similar noted, the number of faculty has arts areas. University next year will mean challenge. risen only 18 per cent from 11.5 to Dr. Moore said, however, that elimination of programs and im- Because its faculty is actually 13.6. while he "realizes Dr. Burns is in a position of quotas on the number of being reduced for next year from 13.8 This has meant the elimination of spot" because of what the chancellor students who may enter them. to 13.4 positions it may be forced to the magazine sequence, the cut gave him to work with, that Dr. The problem stems from two cut two classes in the basic planned for next year in the Spartan Burns' philosophy, when put into sourcesthe number of faculty journalism sequence. Daily staff, and a sharp increase in practice, is having very severe conse- positions SJSU was allocated by the As a result the chairman may have the size of the newswriting and quences for the school. chancellor's office and the division of to limit 10 40 the number of students editing classes. Students must pay these positions among the permitted to enroll on the Daily In fact, Dr. Brown sent a memo He also thinks Dr. Burns' universit ye schools and editortal staff. This semester 65 April 2 to Dr. Moore saying he was philosophy is "diametrically op- departments. students are on the editorial staff, concerned that the student -faculty posite" the current emphasis on using According to Dr. Hobert W. Burns. and enrollment in this major is still ratio in these classes was getting so a college education to learn academic vice president, the increasing. high there could be trouble when the marketable skill, such as journalism, chancellor's office awarded SISU ap- Same story accreditation committee comes occupational therapy, and teaching. proximately 1,160 positions for next The same tale is repeated in the around in 1976if the trend con- He quoted Dr. Kenneth B. Hoyt of yearan increase of 13.5, while the School of Education. tinues. the University of Maryland from a student population will increase by A total of 149 students from the The basic decision-making in story in the San Jose News: "Students about 500 Full Time enrollees (FTE). fields of women's and men's physical faculty allocations within SJSU lies must learn how to pay for the good He said this will give SJSU the education, home economics,and in- with Dr. Burns. life as well as how to live it." highest student -faculty ratio (19-1) dustrial arts were declared this year According to Dr. Burns, he receives This, he commented, is the current in the entire CSUC system. as being eligible to take the block of an allocation for the entire university trend in educational philosophy. He The big problem, however, comes courses to get a teaching credential in from the chancellor's office and then, said the chancellor agrees to it. with the division of the 1,160 their fields. based on recommendations from Dr. Burns, meanwhile, has been positions among the schools and The placement office has requests deans Benedict, Whitlock and quoted several times in recent years departments. for 522 job offerings in these areas Fullerton. decides how many as saying home economics has no The School of Applied Science and but there are only 36 openings in the positions will go to each school. place on this campus. Arts, and the School of Education credentials program for the 149 The dean of each school then His philosophy is illustrated by the will be the hardest hit. eligible students. divides this number up among the fact that the largest increase he gave For example, the Occupational Perhaps the situation in the departments in each respective to a department for next year is four Therapy Department, which is Journalism Department best illus- school. new faculty positions to Social within the School of Applied Science trates the trend. SJSU Pres. John H. Bunzel plays no Science while the largest decrease and Arts, will not be able to offer its According to Dr. Dennis Brown, operational part in the process, ac- falls on the School of Education four beginning courses next year, ac- the department chairman, since 1967 cording to Dr. Burns. which will lose four positions. cording to Dr. Robert J. Moore, dean the number of journalism majors has Dr. Burns said Friday that his Lobbying efforts directed at the John Von OundY of the school. gone from 427 to 720an increase of criteria for allocations include chancellor's office are the way out of TRUE GRITTribbey Miller of Whitney High School in Los Angeles was This means, he pointed out, that no 69 per cent. The increase in FTE enrollment trends and the filling of the university's problem in the one of the over 1.500 participants In the Wheelchair Games at San Jose City new majors can be accepted in that students was from 162.4 to 250.2 - a general education requirments, and future, according to Dr. Brown. College last weekend. She demonstrated her ability to throw a bean bag by using her teeth. The Sixth Annual Wheelchair Olympics opened on Friday Tuesday, May 8, 1973 night withthe lighting of an eternal flame carried in by one of the competitors in a wheelchair. 'Poodle' disobeys partan Daily bottomless ruling Serving California State University at San Jose Since 1934 This week set aside for coeds Despite recent arrests and violation of the ordinance. la. ill tic surveillance by Santa Clara Sheriff's represented in federal court in San Deputies, the Pink Poodle Theater of Francisco Thursday by attorney San Jose will continue to offer topless Michael Kennedy. and bottomless entertainment, stated Kuzinich said Kennedy will Women's Week old event at SJSU Manager Pete Kuzinich Monday. attempt to get the ordinance ruled as "The only way to fight the county's unconstitutional under the First By BARBARA FRENCH events are in the Student Union and According to Ms. Ellis AWS was student activities program adviser. anti -topless and bottomless Amendment, which includes freedom Women's week is an old acquain- open to the public. established "to give women a feeling "Two years ago the council put ordinance is to get busted and then of expression. tance to San Jose State University, The event started as an annual of participation in the laws of the together a really great women's take it to court," Kuzinich said. The State Supreme Court ruled last according to Virginia Ellis, student spring program sponsored by the As- school." Laws such as approved week," Ms. Ellis recalled, "the girls The manager, who, along with a Tuesday that local ordinances activities program adviser. sociation of Women Students (AWS), housing arrangeoients and dormitory worked hard and geared it to the dancer-waitress was arrested last prohibiting topless and bottomless This year's women's week is Ms. Ellis, nine-year veteran of SJSU, rules were over the heads of girls women's movement. Wednesday and charged with activities are constitutional and can scheduled to run until Friday and all said. under 21, she said. "Unfortunately," she continued, "it be enforced by local police. "Virtually every woman belonged was a bit ahead of its time and very The decision said all local to AWS," Ms. Ellis added. few people came." Protest planned governments have the right to bar "To honor all outstanding women, Fall of 1972 saw the official topless or bottomless entertainers $2,500 available students, and faculty on the SJS cam- formation of Women's Studies and in from working where food or pus," a May 1963 edition of the the spring of 1973 this staff took over beverages are sold in any public Spartan Daily said in announcing the organization of women's week. for eco review place other than theater-type es- that year's women's week. "Last year all the programs were The city s lu member En- tablishments. Programs included various well attended," Ms. Sutphen said. vironmental Commission will meet "We couldn't do anything until the in loans to students "The direct publicity in the Women's speeches by campus instructors at 7:30 tonight in City Hall to discuss ruling came down," said Santa Clara Applications for Federally Insured The applications now require a dealing with "Women in College," Studies classes really helped." a proposed ultimatum protest before County Sheriff's Lt. Mike Miller. Student Loans (FISL) for the 1973-74 more detailed analysis of a student's "Personal Development of a College And what do the men on campus the city council. "All of the topless and bottomless academic year are now available in actual need, Pfaff stated. As a result Woman," "Careers for College think of women's week? places have been called and advised The commission has been up in the the Financial Aids Office, Rm. 234, he said, The whole process will take Grads", and "War, Peace and "Last year the attendance of men of the law. We'll keep an eye from air since the resignation of its ad- Administration Building. an additional 3-4 weeks to complete." Women." ranged from one-third to one-half in a visor, Ken Boyd, as environmental now on," he added.