SPARTAN DAILY Serving the San University Since 1934 Volume Jose State Community 90, No. 37 Thursday, March 24. 198M Rec Center budget victim of poor plans By Jim Hart Associates' report. released Mon- would reduce the delay. is unneccessary. Daily staff writer day. pointed out that Roebbelen Shields said much of the delay Apparently some of the interior Contract plans for the Student Construction is claiming extensive to do with the $1.7 million change, stud walls were reinforced for what Union Recreation and Events Center delays and millions of dollars in ordered involving metal studs walls. Shields understands as "wind- A.S. seeks legal counsel are the "worst set of drawings re- extra costs. The report fails to clearly identify -shear." Wind-shear is the load wind By Mike leased to the street," said Tom As of Wednesday morning. who is responsible for this error. puts on a large vertical surface: for I.ewis According to A S President Daily staff writer Shields. project manager for Roeb- Shields said he had not read the re- The architectural firm, Hall. example, a wall. No wind occurs on Michael McLennan. Fulton will Hiring a belen Construction Co. port. Goodhue, Haisley and Barker. drew the inside of a building, so there is lawyer is usually re- verve in only an advisory capac- served for "We have been going nuts. It's a PMA has been on the site for up the plans which were approved by no reason to reinforce for wind-shear serious legal situa- ity. so far. tions. miracle (the Rec Center) has been nearly two months, overseeing the the California State University purposes. "Bob Fulton has been ap- built," Shields said. construction of the Rec Center. Board of Trustees before construc- The Associated Students Board proached to help the A.S. make "Most of the contractors would According to the report, Roebbe- tion began. "I warned (the CSU trustees) of of Directors feels the Rec Center an intellegent, clear course of ac- have shut (the project) down back in len projects a completion date of Au- The plans did not receive a "final this." Shields said. cost overruns and the potential tion," McLennan said. April when the shit hit the fan. We gust 1989. an 11 -month delay. The student fee increase is a serious Action could include an injunc- plan check" as is the custom of CSU Ifhe stud walls are the original set have been cooperating well with the report states that in the opinion of legal situation. tion to halt any fee increase until funded projects, said John Hillyard. of change orders that led to owners (CSU)," Shields said. PMA. "A good contractor could PMA So they hired a lawyer. a later date. McLennan said. assistant vice chancellor of auxiliary being brought into the scene. Students are facing a potential fee complete the project by December and business services. Robert Fulton. attorney for "All other parties involved in increase as the financially troubled 1988." "It is clouded in who is responsi- Roebbelen Construction had to Fulton Associates a San Jose- this issue have retained counsel- Rec Center is 50 percent over budget Based on PMA experience, a pro- ble," J. Handel Evans, SJSU's ex- wait nearly a year to receive detailed based law firm, has been hired by ing, including the (California thus facing cost overruns of up to $8 ject of the sin of the Rec Center ecutive vice president, said. plans of the stud walls, the report the A.S. to help try to stop the po- State University Board of) Trust- million. should see manpower levels at dou- Shields has said that the reinforce- stated. Adequate plans were not pro- tential fee increase. See LAWYER. back page The Professional Management ble or triple the current rate, which ment of the stud walls in his opinion See REPORT, back page Student paper Grasping the basics fights takeover Editor alleges censorship By Daiii Parkin communication studies department. Daily staff writer said, "It was not a case of not allow- The press is being censored on the ing these were faculty meetings. California State University at Los It's not usual that students or staff sit Angeles allege the editors and pub- in. Ms. Zyda is basically staff." lisher of the school paper, University Zyda said the Times. newspaper staff has offended the administration. Editor in chief Peggy Taormina said. "There has been a gradual "The students have been writing takeover of the student paper ever articles criticizing Rosser, the Dean since President (James) Rosser ar- and the journalism professors. Ev- rived on campus. He felt we printed eryone along the way is trying to too much negative news. He brought suppress us. They are treating the in Dean Bobby Patton to stifle us. changes as minor curriculum "Now they are trying to reduce changes but it is merely a facade for our circulation from 8,000 to 1,000. what they really want to do," Zyda The department plans on charging 25 said. cents for each issue, and making us subject to the censorship of the ad- Ruth Goldway. director of public ministration," Taormina said. affairs for CSULA. said, "The in- The Times' staff agrees the circu- tent is to provide the University lation changes would reduce their Times with more resources. These advertising base and make them proposed plans would incorporate a completely dependent upon the more accountable budget. school for funds. "The paper will he a more inte- The communication department gral part of the school it will he wants to redefine the paper as a labo- even more meaningful. Those ratory experience. Taormina said. charges don't make any sense," Joan Zyda is the publisher of the Goldway said. paper. She is considered both news- paper staff and part-time professor. Yet. Taormina insists they are Changes proposed by the commu- being slowly censored. She said the nications department would elimi- administration blames the paper for a nate her job, she said. lawsuit the school is facing, "They've been meeting in all "We wrote a story about the (Oct. these secret meetings and planning 1) earthquake (in which) one student the future of the paper," Zyda said. was killed. We did a litle bit of in- "We were not invited. We were not vestigative work and found out her Matthew E Durham -- Daily staff photographer included. We were not even al- death was caused by a slab that had John Vogt, SJSU's defensive line coach, shows one of the Spartans its Wring practice session Tuesday. The squad's first scrimmage lowed." fallen. It was supposed to have been how to stand up to an opponent. The football team officially started takes place Friday at Spartan Stadium. Starting time is 3:30 p.m. Keith Henning, chairman of the See TIMES. page 6 'La Bamba' star greets `raza' Campus $2 allocations show By Katarina Jonholt Daily staff writer More than 8(X) Chicano; Latino phone list Greek participation high school students clapped and cheered as actress and SJSU alumna By Jeff Elder grains last week, and Bret Polvo- Rosanna De Soto approached the po- error-filled Daily staff writer rosa, current director of student serv- dium in the Student Union Ballroom More than one-fifth of the stu- ices, both belong to ATO. Tuesday and said, "Buenos dins. Yo By Joe S. Kappia dents who voted in last week's Asso- His fraternity does not try to tell soy de San Jose." Daily staff writer ciated Students election donated $2 its brothers how to vote. Newton The students had come from San The recently-released cam- of their student fees to a sorority or said. Jose, East San Jose, Gilroy, Watson- pus phone directory will not be fraternity in the A.S. revenue shar- "All we push for is that brothers ville and Morgan Hill for Raza Day, reproduced this year despite the ing section of the ballot. be active and vote," he said. an annual event designed to promote existence of several errors in Of the 2,146 students who cast a Newton said the Greek commu- higher education and cultural pride. the listing of phone numbers ballot. 467 chose to give $2 to a nity has a good voter turnout because De Soto, most known for her role for faculty members and their Greek organization rather than to "we are campus-related and have a as Ritchie Valens' mother in the departments. lot of people involved.** Disclosing this in an inter- any other A.S.-recognized club or movie "La Bamba," delivered the group. The top five vote-receiving orga- keynote address. When the cheers view Monday. Carl Vigil, di- Terry McCarthy, vice president nizations were Greek. as were eight died down, she said, "I'm going to rector of campus telecommuni- and president-elect, called the reve- of the top nine. tell you something: I'm happier to cations, said there is no money nue sharing figures "a good rep- Katawicz battles Kim Scow for di- see me." to publish another directory see you than you are to resentation of who voted." rector of personnel in this week's "No way," the students yelled. since they have already used "I'd say it's quite indicative." run-off election, because neither was "Don't argue with me," said the the amount allotted for this fis- McCarthy said. able to win a majority of the vote last popular actress. cal year. He said that it costs week. to produce 4,000 copies Seven candidates for the Respon- De Soto said that when she was at- $5,000 Katawicz campaigned heavily at tending SJSU in the late '60s, Chi- of the directory.