, Women's softball team cleans up .4., Weekend outlook Spartans sweep Santa Clara with 2-0 and 8-0 victories. Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out the Daily's 'CenterStage' pullout. Page 5 Inside SPARTAN DAILY Vol. 96, No. 17 Published Since 1934 Thursday, February 21,1991 Two more students attacked at university ATM lot Andrew Finkelman Tucker then came to help her friend, Daily staff %max Approximately 15 to 20 males allegedly 'When she tried to get up she was repeatedly knocked back down to the ground.' and was hit on the right side of the face, punched and kicked an SJSU student as Lt. Shannon Malone, knocked down and kicked in the stomach. who was When she tried to get up she was repeated- she came to the aid of a friend University Police Department also getting beaten by the same group, ly knocked back down to the ground. according to a University Police Depart- complaining of stomach pains. Dr. Neal, knifed and robbed Feb.12. between the Student Union and the modu- Another group of unknown men then ment report. who treated Tucker, ended up filing the 'flicker was allegedly assaulted Sunday lar offices when they came upon the sus- came over to the fight and told the attack- The victim, 20-year-old Rochelle 'nick- UPD report the following day, according night after leaving a Student Union dance pects. The group then started to touch ers to leave, which they did, Maloney stat- er, refused to report the incident to the to UPD Sgt. Bruce Lowe. sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Tucker's friend. When she told them to ed. UPD, which Lt. Shannon Maloney said The alleged attack occurred in the same Maloney said. stop, they punched her in the face knock- No descriptions of the suspects were "could have allowed us to catch them." parking lot adjacent to the automated teller Tucker and her friend left the dance ing her down, Maloney said in relating the given, and none of them are believed to be Instead she went to the Health Center machines where another student was around 2 am. and were walking in lot five story. students. Members 700 courses appointed may be cut to board payroll students are the most likely By Brooke Shelby Biggs $14 million to feel the repercussions of such a Dag,/ staff writer plan. Four new members will bring shortfall blamed That's because the schedule for new blood and new politics to the next fall must be at the printers by Human Relations Board, President By Robert W. Scoble April, but the university won't Daily staff waiter know exactly how bad the budget Gail Fullerton announced this SJSU students may have 700 week. problem is until probably May or fewer classes to choose from next June. The final budget might not New appointee Scott Rice, an semester as the university tries to English professor, has been a critic be released until August and deal with more than $14 million in administration officials say the of the board since its inception. He budget cuts. said he may prove to be the fire- problem seems to be getting worse According to members of the rather than better. brand of the bunch because he Academic Senate, if the numbers believes the reports of racism on Administrators are keeping are correct the university may have most of the classes in the schedule campus arc 'greatly exaggerated." to cut up to $5 million from teach- that they would offer in a normal "You know the saying, 'When ers' salaries. looks budget year. This will greatly you're a hammer, everything Already, part-time hiring has like a nail.' By its very existence, a affect whether students will get been frozen until the university into classes that they will be board like this encourages people gets a clearer picture of what the to be thin-skinned," Rice said. "By assigned by the Touch-SJSU sys- business situation will look like. tem, said Edgar Chambers, associ- and large, considering our popula- While students and teachers tion of 35,000, SJSU is a very tol- ate executive vice president of may be alarmed at the situation, Admissions and Records. erant community." some academic senators say that Rice resents recent assertions Most students, he said, will use the budget crisis will put tempo- the Touch SJSU system to register that the university is racist and rary instructor's jobs in risk of homophobic"; and will represent for classes before the middle of being cut the most. "They're in a August but when they show up for that position on the board, he said. difficult situation," David McNeil, "I may soon be rejected like a class they may find that several of SJSU history professor, said. their classes have been cancelled. bad organ," Rice said. "but there "Their working lives are poor should be someone on the board This might cause add and drop and their working conditions are lines to become much longer than who's not 'politically correct. terrible," he said. Many of the For the "politically correct" fac- the 45-minute wait that students temporary instructors share offices found this semester. tions, the appointment of Judy and phones and some of them Rickard, publicity director for con- While general education classes teach at other colleges. may be protected from being cut, tinuing education, came as a relief. The statewide Academic Senate Gay and lesbian organizations on smaller classes may be cut as full- raised some concerns that the part- time faculty are pulled from the campus favored the appointment, time faculty was being over used, according to Wiggsy Sivertsen. more specialized classes to teach McNeil said. The university likes the classes that pan-timers used to SJSU counselor and gay-rights pan-time instructors because it is activist. Sivertsen had publicly teach. "It would be bad for the cheaper to hire them because they major," McNeil said. protested the lack of a gay teach more classes for less money appointee to the board. and don't get as many benefits as Only 800 of the approximately Rickard said that while she is full-time teachers. They also do 2,000 faculty are full-time. Arlene active in campus and community not receive annual raises and pro- Okerlund told the Academic Sen- gay rights organizations, she will motions. ate on Monday that a million dol- not u.sc her position on the board Part-time instructors arc in a dif- lars will pay 24 faculty members solely to champion gay causes. ficult situation because they are who teach about 12 units each. So "I will make sure that when the first to be cut from the payroll $5 million represents 1,4(X) classes we're considering campus issues, and they have little or no assur- every year or 700 a semester, all points of view are included," which is about 10 percent of the Kan Wong Daily staff pholographer ance that they will be rehired next Rickard said last week. year. McNeil said. classes that the university offers. Bobbyc Gorenbcrg, graduate art student Diana Otwell sculpts a Some of the pan-time instruc- "It's just a horrible situation for coordinator of nursing and chair- Junior wax model for a bronze mold in the cast tors that arc teaching this semester, everybody," said Sybil Weir, the elect to the Academic Senate, said interim Bronze queen metalworks class run by the art department. he said, probably won't be asked associate academic vice she sees her role as much the same. back for next year. While that is an president for faculty affairs. "It's See ROAR!), page 4 easy way to cut people off of the going to be rotten." Professor discusses prejudice in workplace his BS degree in political science die to be accepted. Lecture marathon will explore diverse Lecture ranges from the and law degree at Santa Clara Uni- "One of the points you have to struggle of African versity. understand is that during the spectrum or issues related to downtown Civil War Discrimination in employment 18(X)s, black soldiers . had to Americans to is often decided, according to really fight just to get in the army By Lorrie Vino aspects of demography, business. ture is to encourage an open dia- By Carolyn Swart Allen, by "age, sex, national ori- so they could die." Daily stall writer performing ans, and public safe- logue between the university and Deity staff miler gin, and economic (factors)." Allen mentioned that many A marathon lecture series will ty, to name a few, and will last the city, where lines of commu- with the Opening his speech As evidence of discrimination of times black people will forget that take off on a 12-hour journey at half-an-hour each. nication regarding each other's in employ- quote, "Discrimination blacks in the workplace. Allen they are black, until they are 8 am. Friday at the Engineering The impetus for creating the needs have been poor at best. ment is one of the pillars of the explained. "statistics show us that reminded by employment discrim- Auditorium in a joint presenta- marathon speaking event is to "We're all living and working in a big house of unfair- outhouse in the black race... 11.4 percent of ination. tion by university scholars and raise money for a "President's on the same piece of ground, the and unjustness," Professor ness males over the age of16 arc unem- ". and they walk around San Jose city professionals.