'ullerton confirms mrsonnel cutbacks esulting from Spartan Daily '13' By Stephen Cohodas eliminated, although student ser- Volume 72, Number 19 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1939 Wednesday, February 28, 1979 and Mary T. Lee vices may assign members of its SJSU President Gail Fullerton staff on a rotating basis to perform nfirmed at her weekly campus the ombudsman function. ess conference yesterday that Fullerton said Student Services iversity Ombudsman Jo Ella Dean Robert Martin had promised nnah and Director of Facility to make someone "available to anning Angelo Centanni will be assume the function of the om- ! first administrators to lose their budsman." )s as a result of Proposition 13. Fullerton said the two positions Two clerical positions will be re being dropped because they lost in addition to the two ad- d "come under fire from the ministrative posts. gislative analyst and the depart- While no one has yet been ?.nt of finance" for several years. named, eight permanent faculty e cuts become effective July 1. positions will also be cut due to By cutting these two positions, Proposition 13. The final decision e university will save ap- rests with the CSUC trustees, she oximately $48,872 annually, in- said. ding benefits, Fullerton said. Fullerton said SJSU no longer Five positions were questioned faces a 10 percent cutback in its the state legislative analyst and budget from the state. The cut has Department of Finance, ac- been whittled down to about 1 per- ding to Fullerton, to see which cent of last years budget or $7 d the "greatest liklihood" of not million. ng funded in next year's budget. "A 10 percent cut would close She declined to specify what this campus," she said. ler positions were considered, but "We just don't have any fat," d they were in the academic area. she said. "I didn't want to take them ay from the academic areas, she See related story this page. d. -I feel we are under ad- nistered there now." Neither Hannah nor Centanni re available for comment at press ne late yesterday. "These are two positions that I Bargaining agent petitions circulating nk would probably not be funded 3ch longer in the budget anyway," By Mary T. Lee an election to select a collective collective bargaining agent comes the table as quickly as possible, believes. He is furthering his illerton said. The first step toward bargaining agent for the system. about, Sivertsen said faculty may before more people get hurt." political career at university ex- The building coordinator func- establishing a collective bargaining "We just started the petitions choose to elect UPC, Congress .of In addition to petitioning for pense, she said. n will be phased out in July but agent for CSUC faculty and today," Sivertsen said yesterday, Faculty Associations, or they may collective bargaining, UPC is also "We are falling prey and victim ntanni will remain at SJSU in academic-related staff was taken by "and we are getting support from select "no agent." spearheading a campaign to fight to Brown,- Sivertsen said. "He me capacity at least until Sep- United Professors of California faculty." UPC is the largest faculty union layoffs caused by Proposition 13 and shifted his original stance on nber when he will have completed (UPC) Tuesday. If the required number of in the CSUC system, claiming 4.000 declining enrollments. Proposition 13, because he realized years with the CSUC system, Wiggsy Sivertsen, president of signatures is obtained, the petition members systemwide and ap- "The university has to re- there are votes to be had." ilerton said during her talk to the the local chapter of UPC, began will go before the state Public proximately 300 members at SJSU. educate the population about the According to Sivertsen, people ademic Senate Monday. circulating petitions among SJSU Employee Relations Board for Sivertsen said. need for the services it provides," are frightened by inflation, the The ombudsman, "a position faculty which would, if signed by 50 consideration. It is then up to the It is also the only faculty Sivertsen said. world situation and financial ated during the late 1960s to deal percent plus one of the total em- board to arrange an election. association pushing for collective According to Sivertsen, stability. "It is hard for them to h student unrest," will also be ployees in a proposed unit, call for When the vote to elect a bargaining at this time, Sivertsen everybody is doing everything they think about higher education," she said. can to avoid layoffs of people. said, "and Brown is taking ad- The primary opposition to "Gail Fullerton is really vantage of this." collective bargaining, according to committed to that," she added. Any cuts should start at the top - 2urricular priorities decided Sivertsen, is coming from professors Sivertsen plans to arrange a at the chancellors office, according in areas such as science. She said "meet and confer" session with to Sivertsen. She believes there is they feel that they are professionals Fullerton in order to ascertain some, but not a lot of fat in the and as such should not be affiliated exactly how many positions are system. n with a union. going to be eliminated and what the The job of the university should Academic Senate action programs on a higher priority than "where the welfare of the university Citing the recent California administration's plans are. now be to alert people to the fact that Gov. irad programs graduate programs. requires it." Supreme Court decision which Brown's political am- free education in California may "Why will undergraduate "You build a good masters allowed for retroactive paybacks to bitions are the cause for the cut- soon be a thing of the past, Sivertsen o get protection programs always prevail over program on the base of a strong state employees protected by backs facing the system, Sivertsen said. By Chuck Henrikson graduate programs?" Donald baccalaureate program," said SJSU contracts, Sivertsen said, "We After considerable debate and Rothblatt, Urban and Regional President Gail Fullerton, the former (university employees) are ef- vision, the curricular priorities Planning Department chairman, dean of the graduate program. fectively paying for that." Layoff alternatives tement was passed by the asked the senate. She believes the "escape Since CSUC has no collective Monday. ademic Senate In recommending that the clause" would protect graduate bargaining agent and no em- It is a statement of goals and the statement be rearranged to place programs, but undergraduate ployment contract, the recent court ssion of the university, setting graduate programs in a higher programs should be placed on a decision does not pertain to its explored in report idelines for the undergraduate priority, Faculty Dean Robert higher priority. members. The court said that by not graduate programs "There are clearly Several senators, during the d and the Sasseen said, allowing salary increases, the state By James P. Wagner Patterns Committee has been for- teria for ranking priorities, that are discussion, said the some graduate programs course of the was in violation of the employees SJSU's policy of providing med to study these recom- The senate also sent a proposed almost as high a priority as un- Curricular priority statement should contract. stable employment to faculty is mendations and to report to the ulty layoff policy amendment dergraduate programs." be amended to place graduate being severely undermined by Enrollment Patterns Committee its ck to committee for further study. Bill Tidwell, biology professor, programs more on a par with the Sivertsen believes it would be budget cuts, declining enrollments findings. The curricular priorities countered that the "escape clause" undergraduate programs. foolish on the part of faculty and a highly tenured faculty, forcing According to Dr. Burton Brazil, oposal, which was unanimously in the statement was a sufficient members to vote for no agent. alter- Rothblatt said the small, a hard look into all possible professor of political science and proved by the curriculum com- safeguard for graduate programs. "That would result in making graduate-only programs would be natives to layoff. chairman of the subcommittee, teee Jan. 29, was met by amen- The "escape clause," as finally the chancellor's office their agent," recommendation especially threatened by the priority In a policy many departments and schools, lent attempts when it came before amended, gives the SJSU president, she said. "That is no collective to the Academic Senate in policy, since in the event of cutbacks submitted particularly Social Science, are senate Monday. after consulting with the university bargaining. 1978 titled "Policy and Procedures they would be forced to lay off already preparing instructors for The main point of contention and appropriate schools' curriculum "Some people will refuse to sign for Separation of Academic Em- faculty, while graduate programs teaching positions outside their ring the debate concerned the committees, the authority to raise or the petition because they don't like ployees from Service due to Lack of that were backed up by un- current assignments. cement of undergraduate lower the priority of any program collective bargaining," Sivertsen Funds or Work," 15 alternatives to "We need the ability to move dergraduate programs could move said. "Others won't sign because faculty layoff are presented. faculty sideways within depart- faculty down to the undergraduate they don't believe in unions. I would A special Alternatives to Layoff ments," Brazil said. "That's the programs. like to see collective bargaining on Subcommittee to the Enrollment starting point; we'll be able to move ;JSU ombudsman Many amendments were offered on from there." and rejected until, after more than Shifting teaching assignments is 90 minutes of debate, several word only one of the 15 alternatives set 'eatured at S.U.