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The drama department has scheduled Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" for tlie Little Theater on May 21, 22, 28 and 29 ab 8:30 p.m. Stuart Bennett, City College drama will direct the production which stars Bob Gould as "Estragon ;" Tom Oleniacz as "Vladimir;" Edie Berry as " Lucky;" and Bill Campbell as ''Pozzo." in~tructor ,
S tu.d ent Participation ("Mandated' On Policy -Making Committees
" Waiting for Godot" was billed as "fhe laugh riot of.the continent" when it first played in United States in 1953, but playgoers, according to Bennett, now recognize the work as a confrontation with life as it actually is -- not always a laugha ble situation. Hope and energy, intellectualism -- or lack of hope, continuity and concern of time, and passive servitude are portrayed by the four main characters in the play. Each symbolizes one of the four aspects of man, dealing not so much in r eal tragedy or comedy on stage but rather acting out the absurd condition of ·man. His amusing, pathetic, painful and laughable facets are all there to see. Bennett points out that Beckett, in writing the play in French then translating it into English, avoided the "trap that comes with a facility of one's language, and was able to write in a more direct and revealing manner."
WAITING··Bill Campbell as "Pouo"
CJCA Directors Approve Quadripartite Policy Nine -studconts will become votingmembers of the California Junior College Association board of directors when that body adopts a quadripa!','tite system this . summer. Yancy Williams, San Jose Community College District board of trustees president, told the TIMES last week that the 27 CJCA directors have resolved to make the transition from a tripartite to a quadripartite board effective JuJy 1, 1971. The CJCA board of directors presently consists of a faculty member, an administrator and a trustee from each of the nine regions into which the CJCA is divided. Williams , the Area III trustee representative on the state board, said the transition is complicated by the fact that the California Community College Student Government Association <CCCSGA> is broken down into areas which do not coincide with CJCA areas. While City College faculty, adare trustees and ministration represented by CJCA Area III, City College students are represented by CCCSGA Area VI. The schools comprising CCCSGA Area VI are City College, West Valley, De Anza, Foothill, San Mateo, Canada, Skyline, Hartnell, Monterey Peninsula, Gavilan, Cabrillo and City College of San Francisco. CJCA Area III includes Menlo College (a private junior college), while CCCSGA Area VI does not. Conversely, CCCSGA Area VI includes City College of San Fr ancisco while CJCA Area III does not. Otherwise they are the same. CJCA directors, according to Williams, turned down a student proposal that CCCSGA Area presidents become directors, since the incongruant area composition could result in situations which · students find themselves representing different areas than faculty members from their own schools. Williams said the directors decided tha t the student representatives would have to meet according to the CJCA area memberships, but that the manner in which student directors are to be chosen ''is strictly up to the students." No· guidelines were given as to how students would be chosen to represent their schools, and, according to Williams, the representative could be either appointed by the student administrative council or elected by the student body. In other business conducted during the CJ CA board of directors meeting in Sacramento early this month, directors opposed Assembly Bill 572 (which would allow mandatory student body card salesi. Williams said the directors were not convinced that student government represents the general student body, since only a small minority of students are voting in campus elections. Williams reported that the "atmosphere is improving" in regard to junior college financing, and that the CJ CA board of directors is optimistic that a compromise will be worked out to make Senate Bill 801 (which would es~ablish a statewide property tax) operable. Directors, as well as the California Community Colleges board of
Council Sends Policy Outline to Faculty Senate, Board of Trustees
While CJCA is supporting ("v.iHl guvernors, object to '' adversitles" written into the bill which would reservations") SB 801 and its Assembly r eportedly eliminate permissive counterpart, Assembly Bill 1406, the overrides and the present $300 seat tax. board of di rectors is sponsoring Williams said.the directors also felt that Assembly Bill879 -- a board of governors the cost of living increase written into the foundation support bill which is expected to run into opposition. bill. is not adequate..
four instructor applicants and recomBy R. S. SUTHERLAND mends them to the department dean, operating quadripartite The department chairman, and Strelitz, who procedures, as submitted by the fourmakes the final hiring decision. member procedures drafting committee, Phil Williams, ASB director of finance, passed student council Thursday and and Duncan Reed, TIMES editor, both next will be presented to the faculty stated students should have a voice in the senate and board of trustees for final hiring decisions. ratification. "Students should have more say so Quadripartite government at City than any faculty membea·s as they have College authorizes voting power for students on six standing committees and 1 more to do with instructors," Williams said. provides some input into the hiring "Don't sell short the department policies of new instr uctors. chairmen. They are well qualified to The implementation procedures, represent the entire depa rtment," drafted by Vicki Ruff, ASB vice Strelitz returned. "Student participation president; Paul Sepulveda, ASB adis mandated. It is written as well as ministrative assistant; Harris Shaw, possible." then faculty senate president; and Dr. Reed countered that "the most im·Gerald Strelitz, associate superinportant part of an interview is person to tendent, stipulates the numbers, duties, person, not looking over a resume. If a and powers of the council appointed student doesn't have a final voice, he has student representatives. no voice at all ." The implementatio·n procedures Strelitz, Miss Ruff, and George require one change in district policy "Steve" Holeman all recommended that under certificated employment hiring to as quadripartite is new and untried, that involve student participation. The term council adopt the procedures now and try "department" will include student them for a year keeping a list of problem representation at every mention. or ineffective student representation Discussion, before the motion to adopt areas and make changes next spring. the procedures was , passed, centered Gil Jones, ASB president, asked· why around the amount of power students · the number of student representatives to exercise in the selection of new in.the departments was limited to one and structors. suggested that the words "at least" be Under quadripartite each department, inserted in the document to allow including one student, selects at least
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departments desiring multiple student participation to do so. "We didn't want the process to fall dow!) because students didn' t attend committees," said Strelitz. Miss Ruff commented that it will be hard enough to find 22' qualified students interested enough to become integral members of departments anyway. At Tuesday's council meeting, John Arnett, director of activities, presented his plans to stage a " Miss SJCC for Spring 71" contest to be judged in early June. "It will be a yearly thing with lots of student participation," said Quick, ,"without beauty we have no contest but we have a lot more in mind than walking across the stage with hot pants on." Claiming contestants would be judged on talent and poise as well as beauty, Arnett said, " They can do whatever their thing is, sing, dance, read poetry-whatever. " Jones polled the nearly 40 people in U200 to see what they thought about holding a beauty contest and, after scoring 12 for and 11 opposed, the council tabled the motion until a later date. In money matters the council: Approved $254 for the Black Studies Union (BSU) on culture week. The club presented "The Lewis Gospel Singers" a gospel singing group, and speaker Mamadu Lamumba.
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~Legalities' Last minute legal advice has wiped out any chance of a childcare center being formed this semester. A proposal to set up a cooperative babysitting serv~ce/ club at Emanuel
Stall Childcare Center Opening
Lutheran Church (adjacent to the campus) fell through when Steve Holeman, assistant dean of student activites, presented it to the board of trustees.
"We found out that the information received from the county council, legal acfvisor for the public school district, was not fully correct," said Holeman. "We started to make it a club activity
and . keep in touch with the' board," explained Holeman. When the board was informed of the propgsal, however, it informed Holeman that a license issued by the state weHare
Vets Pass Unanimous Censure of War . Debate Nets Condemnation of War in General and the Vietnam Conflict in Particular' Veterans for Responsible Action unanimously passed a resolution condemning war in general and the Vietnam conflict in particular Thursday, ending three weeks of debate on the issue. The group, which currently numbers over 140 members, heard Terry Rush-
brook, a former Army lieutenant, present the resolution at the weekly meeting. ··After discussing the resolution, which was a compilation of the work of several members, the vote was held. The resolution states:
City College Denies Fall Influx Rumors Paul Becker, dean of student services, said in an interview last week that the rumors that San Jose State College would be cancelling lower division classes and sending students to City College are entirely untrue.
Tax-Funded CC Parking Draws Critic Board of Trustees President Yancy Williams told the TIMES Thursday that he would oppose any attempt to transfer the costs of maintaining City College parking lots to a city assessment district. "If we had an assessment district to provide parking, the taxpayers of the entire district would be paying for student parking," Williams said, "and they would therefore object." Williams said he would favor a "return chit" which would allow a student to leave the campus and return the same day without having to pay an additional 25-cent fee. The decision to initiate a parking fee next semester, according to Williams, has been finalized, but he added that he would continu e to study altemalives.
Becker said he believed that the story had grown out of an article printed by the "Spartan Daily" (San Jose State stud~nt newspaper) which was an attack on Governor Reagan's School budget cutbacks. The article was interpreted by · many to mean that because of a lack of funds, SJS would be forced to send its students to City College to attend courses which are duplicated here rather than to hold a similar course over at State. According to Becker the fact is that because of limited funds SJS will not be filling 60 to 75 teaching positions left vacant by non-returning teachers. Because of this teacher shortage, the quota for first term freshmen will be greatly reduced. First term students turned away from SJS are expected to enroll in community colleges in their respective areas. When asked if this will mean a noticeable increase in' students at City College Becker replied "They've been cutting their first term freshmen back so much anyway that I don 't think it's going to ma ke that much difference." Becker went on to say that this shouldn't make acceptance to San Jose State any more difficult than it has previously been. "Any of our students who are qualified (60 units with a 2.0 grade point average) and meet the application deadline will be accepted," he said.
"We, as members of Veterans for that the Veterans for Responsible Action Responsible Action, feel a strong moral will stand and act for peace in our world, obligation to express our views on armed in our time, so that future generations conflict and on the Vietnam conflict in will not have to face the horror or insansity of war." particular. The vote on the resolution came shortly " We have seen the split the war has caused between the American people as after VRA President Pete Stellar played well as between all the nations of the the tape of a speech by Navy Lieutenant world. Most of the views presented by John Carrey to the Senate Foreign groups discussing the war are abstract Relations Committee, chaired by Senator and isolated, reflecting economic J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) The speech, recorded in a GO-minute pressures or moral convictions. They are removed from personal experience and program by WBAI radio in New York City, reportedly brought tears to the eyes first-hand knowledge. "In our position as veterans, we have ·of the senators and observers present. Carrey told the committee that the been exposed personally to the why's and wherefore's of war. Each of us has had to government had let the veterans down by cope with physical and psychological sending them to a war which they pressures too often unseen or ignored by believed to be wrong and then disowning the general populace and the decision them when the veterans protest. Carrey was referring to the recent makers. We have had to watch our own friends lie mutilated and dying, not just veterans demonstrations in Washington, hear or read of combat deaths in news D.C. during which many veterans were accounts. We have had to kill people, not arrested. ·just hear of 'enemy losses.' We have had In other action, VRA nominated to act upon unjust a nd inhuman com- candidates for officers for next semester. mands from those in charge of us. We Dan Curry was nominated for president have had to witness the destruction of a and P ete Moylan for secretary. Both men once beautiful land, not just hear reports are running unopposed but there is of bombings and defoliation . provision for write-in ballots. Curry is "It is in view of our past experinces presently chairman of the grievance and primary knowledge of the horrors of committee and Moylan is secretary prowarfare that we declare our position : tem. 1. Warfare is the most heinous and Dave Morgensen and Ray Vargas are irrational method of solving percandidates for vice president, Both are sonal or national disagreements. members of the VRA publicity com2. The United States has made a regretta ble error in entering a war ' mittee. Election day for VRA is tomorrow in Southeast Asia and was morally during the regular meeting and in room and legally wrong in doing so. U-207. 3. The only course of action available for the retribution of this Off campus liaison Chuck Corey angravest of errors is the complete and nounced the postponement of a proposed 'immediate withdrawal of United visit to the Veterans Hospital in Palo States troops from Southeast Asia. Alto. 4. Defending the continuance of "The administration of the hospital the conflict in Southeast Asia on the grounds of. national or personal said we couldn't visit the veterans as an " honor" is totally obviated by the organization until they checked us out," Corey explained. " They think we might loss of any s ingle life in warfare. ' " Let it be hereby known and resolved be too radical. "
agency would be required to operate a program in which more than six children would be involved. The program, in which parents would share babysitting chores with other students, students ,in training to be nurses and nursery school teachers, bad been accepted by the church. " We decided that by the time we got the license or board approval (acceptable in lieu of a license) the semester . would be over," said Holeman, "so the student council has set up an information service to help parents find childcare centers for the rest of t he semester. "We have learned a lot though," conceded Holeman, "there are a lot of childcare centers with openings now which, based on income, are free or range to a nominal fee of $2." The committee formed to attack the childcare problem consists of Holeman; Mrs. Aneita Radov, phychology instructor; arid six students, five of whom are parents. "We have to approach the problem from another angle now," said Holeman. " We are looking into other possible programs." One alternative would be a childcare .center with 75 percent of the expenses funded by the federal government. The other 25 percent would be raised through nominal fees to the parent and student body funds. "Parents are more in favor of a childcare center because they can use the free class time to study or go to the library rather than babysitting," Holeman pointed out. "It seems to be the program we are leaning towards. "The question is whether we want to go to the church next semester, which would have to be re-evaluated, or go for the long-range federally financed program," Holeman said. Holeman blamed lack of student in-. terest in part for the failure to establish a childcare center. "A scientific and valid research project by Dr. Paul Preising, director of research and development, proved a need .for a childcare center," Holeman stated. "But the students don't show this need. "The committee has had about six meetings," explained Holeman, "and we have never had more than five persons attend the meetings. The only ones there all the time are RAl\1 (Radical Action Movement) and they aren'l even parents."