Spartan Dai1j Volume 74, Number 43 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Wednesday. April 9, 1980 Classes may be dismissed Prop. 9 meeting tomorrow by Boni Brewer means for Fullerton to get her king of the classroom. What she Saxon was not necessarily SJSU faculty can cancel classes message across, such as holding the means is it's up to that person. urging others to work to defeat or tomorrow from 2 to 3 p.m. so meeting on a Saturday morning or Classes come first. even vote against Prop. 9, students and faculty can attend a writing a memo and having it "As independent voters they Richardson pointed out. meeting in the Spartan Gym printed in the Spartan Daily. (students and faculty) have to make Richardson said if the style, regarding the Proposition 9 income "It was made to appear," in a up their own minds. She's not going tenor and timing of material tax-cutting initiative. memo sent out to SJSU employees to be telling people how to vote. We presented is factual and analytical, The meeting was called for by before spring break, as though are aware of the political im- forums on political issues are ac- SJSU President Gail Fullerton, a faculty must cancel classes, Wet- plications." ceptable. move which some people here say is tergreen said, even though that's not David Saxon, president of the needed, but others charge is what the memo actually said. University of California system, is A.S. President Nancy Mc- "playing politics." Fullerton said in the memo that being sued for $85,000 by Prop. 9 Fadden said she feels the meeting It is illegal for university per- classes meeting during that time proponents for sending out 110,000 "is a good idea. letters sonnel, or any public employee, to "may" be dismissed, "unless in the to UC students informing "Fullerton is assuming a strong take a political stand using public judgment of the instructor there is a them that passage of Prop. 9 could leadership role in uniting the funds. compelling academic reason for a mean tuition. campus," she said. But in the past months, ad- particular class to meet. Some He used from $30,000 to $45,000 in ministrators, faculty and student classes meet on Thursday af- U.C. funds to send the letters, ac- McFadden suggested a "broad organizations have stressed in- ternoons, for example ... there may cording to UC legal counsel David purpose" of the university is to in- formation issued on Prop. 9, con- be other reasons as compelling). Dorinson. form people that "this I Prop. 91 by MIA e Malone cerning such things as tuition and "Provided that essential ser- Saxon also said he would do could really alter the direction the state is going. It's responsible to Mexican students Rogelio Garcia and Carlos Wong study English layoff possibilities, is "educational" vices are maintained," she added, everything in his power to defeat and not "political." "employees of the support staff and Prop. 9. inform and trate an intelligent at the International Center. Losses to the California State administrators are invited to attend "That's the closest he came to ad- discussion on something of this University and Colleges system the meeting. Prop. 9 will potentially vocacy," said CSUC legal adviser magnitude." have been estimated at anywhere affect us all." Bruce Richardson, adding he felt According to Community from 10 to 30 percent, should Prop. 9 "We're not closing down Saxon is "on good legal grounds" Relations Director Ernie Lopez, Mexican students pass. classes," Fullerton's assistant because Prop. 9's fiscal impact can most of the 19 CSUC campuses will Fullerton said the meeting was Manson said. "The instructor is the "and probably should" be discussed. be holding similar meetings. prompted because the "anxiety and uncertainty" over Prop. 9's possible end SJSU studies impact on next year's budget "are beginning to affect the way we feel by Yasunori Chiba about ourselves and the university." Increased gasoline prices Eight Mexican exchange students, including one high school Fullerton said her intention is student, recently studied at SJSU for a month. "to discuss what we do know and They came from a government-owned university in San Luis what we can reasonably assume Potosi, a town about 250 miles northwest of Mexico City, at the would be the impact of Prop. 9, and may cut SJSU enrollment beginning of March. They participated in an exchange program what alternatives we may have." sponsored by El Concilio, an SJSU Chicano organization. According to Harold Manson, by Kevin Folan athletes. "I wanted to study English because I want to get a master's degree executive assistant to Fullerton, she SJSU could lose more than 2,000 students if the A majority of those surveyed supported the from an American university after I graduate from my university," will also discuss a problem at SJSU price of gasoline goes up to $2 per gallon, according construction of new facilities for basketball and said Alejandro Urbina, a business administration junior. unrelated to Prop. 9 and not found on to a poll conducted by the Sociology Department. water polo, but most also felt that the present ex- Lucy Andrade, a high school senior from San Luis Potosi, plans to most other campuses in the CSUC If gasoline prices rise even further, as many as pansion of the football stadium would not attract go to medical school in Mexico after graduation from her high school. declining enrollments. 5,000 students may drop out, according to the poll. A more students to SJSU. "Because we have received the medical technology from America, Still, some people at SJSU are majority of both faculty and students agreed the oil Most students and faculty polled felt that the I need to learn English," Andrade said. For example, most of the suggesting that politics is exactly companies should be heavily taxed with funds being Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade ( RCYB ) medical terms are English." what the university is engaging directed toward alternate energy sources and mass had little or no effect on the campus or community. A "Technology in America is much more advanced than in Mexico," itself in. transportation systems. large majority, though, supported the right of the said Julio Yanez, a business administration senior. "We received much One student, who wished not to Many economists are expecting gasoline prices to RCYB to express their opinions. knowledge from America." be identified, wondered why classes rise to $2 per gallon by the end of the year. A majority of students surveyed supported "English is the principal language in the world," said Miguelangel aren't cancelled to discuss all The poll found that two-thirds of those students having student representatives voting on the Saldana Assad, a lawyer who graduated from the Mexican university. propositions, or even who will be interviewed used private transportation to get to retention and tenure processes of faculty members at "Almost everybody speaks English, so I wanted to learn it." elected U.S. president this year. school, while 81 percent of the faculty surveyed did. the department level. However, most students sup- "I wanted to know some different people and another way of life as Political Science Prof. John The poll was conducted by the Sociology lab, and ported only non-voting representatives in the well as to learn English,'' said Carlos Wong, who graduated from the Wettergreen conceded that it's consisted of telephone interviews with 265 students promotion process of faculty members at the Mexican university majoring in geology last year. "I wanted to study possible to talk about Prop. 9 in an and 85 faculty. A probability sample was used to department level. here at San Jose State because there are good teachers in geology academic way, "but even if that's select those interviewed so that "everyone in the Most faculty members surveyed only supported here." what she (Fullerton ) intended, (college) population has an equal chance to being non-voting student representation in any of the three Wong also said his university is quite different from SJSU. "My which I doubt, that's no reason to selected," according to sociology lab supervisor processes. university is much smaller," he said. "The buildings are separated cancel classes. Linda Mason. To develop a viable downtown section, those from one another," while most of the departments at SJSU are con- "I'm in favor of advancing the Opinion polls are conducted by the Sociology centrated on one campus. cause of the university as a whole students and faculty interviewed said five kinds of Department Opinion Polling Center in order to give businesses were necessary: "We eat almost the same kind of food as you have here," said but we're teaching the public what restaurants, bookstores, sociology students practical experience conducting clothing stores, sporting goods Alejandro Muller, a geology senior. "But we eat our main meal not at we care about is not academic," stores and movie polls, as well as to assess student and faculty theaters. night but around 2 o'clock. Wettergreen warned. "We could lose opinions on questions related to academic, local and "At night we just eat a light meal such as coffee and breads," he credibility entirely. national issues. The existence of X-rated theaters and "sex- added. "Obviously we have to plan, but In other poll results, only 50 percent of the shops" in the downtown area was supported by both The students have studied English in a study room at the In- I'm concerned that classes are faculty and 44 percent of the students interviewed faculty and students as long as these businesses were ternational Center with an instructor, Jesse Herndez, who is a retired cancelled so this can be done.