San Jose City College Times, Spr 18, Mar 22, 1972

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-LOSTA reward of $50.00 is being offered for the r eturn of a set of wedding and engagement rings , with high sentimental value. The rings , lost in ceramic room 360, if round should be retur ned to the lost and found , in the duplicating office.

The City College Bookstore is sponsoring a drawing to promote the sale of ASB cards. All ASB cardholders a re eligible for the drawing, a nd winners need 1 not be present to win. ' A special assembly Thursday at 11:00 in the Quad is being set-up to announce the winners.

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Conditions At County Jail Central Topic

Council Overrides Sepu lved a

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City College's Student Administrative Council has filled the thr ee vacant directorship poistions, according to an announcement made at last Tuesday's meeting. Seated on the council were Richard Taliaferro, director of .a cademic affairs ; Steve Hughes, director of activities; and Al Trumbo, director of Finance. Council accepted all of the three positions but ASB presi dent Paul' Sepulveda vetoes the appointment of Hughes, stated that he did not have a 2/ 3 majority vote. There was some discussion concerning the legality of Sepulveda's veto, and the possibility of council's power to override his veto. This discussion, which also brought into focus several contridictions in the CC Constitution, ended without any action, due to the absence of Administrative Assistant John Borba. Council, however, will meet in a closed personn el session, before the next meeting to iron out all the discrepancies. This must be completed before any legal action by council can be taken. In other discussion, T. J. Owens, speaking for College President Dr. Otto Roemmich, told council that Roemmich would not recommend the ASB constituional amendment establishing four commissioners of ethnic affairs on the council. The amendment, passed by students Feb. 25, places the commissioners on the financial aids committee, which is in conflict with administrative policy, ;occording to Roemmich. A motion made by vice-president Sam Rohde stated that Council approve another election, with council first approving the entire ballot before sending it to the entire student body. This motion passed, but discussinn was . tabled until the next meeting. It was also stated that before any final decision can be made, the legality of the entire election must be reviewed l;ly the Supreme Court. The Court, however, has not yet been seated. The discrepancies will be discussed in closed personnel session, before the next council meeting,

Progra ms To Look At P risons, Politica l Prisoners

Displaying a mere half of the dozen trophies the City College Merchandising Club walked away with at the California Marketong Clubs' state competition two weekends· ago,

are Barbara More and Cheryl · Tu~tl e. Miss Mora was awarded a first place for Chapter of the Year , while Miss Tuttle took top honors in the Business Speech competition.

Mer cha nts Tak e Eleven Awa rds Thirty-two marketing majors took Fresno by storm recently as they attended the 14th annual California Marketing Clubs' convention. Accounting for 11 awards and trophies, City's Merchandising Club also walked off with the conventions grand prize, Club of the Year. Greg Shore won the big individual award, Marketing Student of the Year, while also taking a third place in the Sales Managers Meeting competition. Other City College participants who won first-place trophies were Barbara Mora, Chapter of the Year; Carl Tiffin, Merchandising Management Decision: Making; and Cheryl Tuttle, Business Speech.

Faculty Senate

Gree n c ·a lled ~~ u npro fessi onar'' Faculty Senate, after more than an hour of debate, overwhelmingly rejected charges of arbitrary and unsubstantiated policy making by th e Professional PersonnE!l Policies Committee (PPPC) regarding the approval of sabbatical leave applications, March 14. The action led to a motion to censure English instructor and senate member George Green for unprofessional and unsubstantiated charges made in an informational-t ype communication to senate members. The censure motion was tabled until the next meeting. <Ed. Note - the meeting was held yesterday, but results ere unavailable due to the TIMES printing schedule. ) Green, who said the communication was for informational purposes only, was rebuffed by Bill Kester, chairman of PPPC. Kester claimed that the communication was more of an attack on personalities and that the senate should take a stand. Gabe Cordova, a member of PPPC and one of the personalities involved denied making statments to Green whic,h Jed to the English instructor's communication. "Gabe Cordova, in the presence of an ~successful sabbatical leave applicant, Richard Davis, and myself indicated in certain and unmistakeable terms his ~onvictio_n that the committee was acting man arbitrary fashion in granting leaves for sabbatical, and admitted that he h~self (Cordova) had phoned in his choices, with no substantiation," stated the communication. ."He expressed discontent with the disorderly proceedings , of which , nevertheless he was a part. " Cordova accused Green of using PPPC as an issue with which to attack the faculty senate. He stated that he would cnsult with a lawyer before deciding L Whether to take any action . r r Da~is, however, was not present at the meetmg. the chall enged al so G~e.en quahfJ~ations of the members of PPPC, a committee originated· by the faculty senate but which a lso has worked on ~ollege policies for the dis tric t upermtendent, Dr . Otto Roemmich.

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Another m ain point of Green's criticism was the failure of PPPC to let applicants know why their sabbatical leaves were not approved. Kester responded that because of the large number of applications, the committee did not have time to explain the r easoning behind each approval or rejection. He added that it wasn't a matter of disapproving applications as it was a decision to choose the best. Seven of 19 applications for sabbatical leave . were accepted. Questioning what guidelines were used to select the seven, Green's communication indicated a lack of competence on the part of PPPC. " In that Kester's committee is not a ble to distinguish between a summary and sufficient substantiation, its decisions, though efficacious, are meaningless and arbitrary," the statement read, mentioning that the justification for accepting one of the leave applications amounted to a summary of that application. Kester pointed out that criteria for . accepting leave applications do exist in college policy, but that PPC was a lready working on establishing new guidelines as a result of the number applications received this year. An increase in allotment for sabbatical leaves resulted in the fact that for the first time more leave applications were received than could be approved, Kester explained·. Kester, in pushing for the senate to take action on the communication indicated a desire for the senat~ to separate the workings of the committee from the personal attacks leveled by Green. Supporting that idea, John Graham chairman of th e dra ma/ s peech department, said that the freedom to criticize is not available to those who use that freedom irrespor.sibly. In rejecting the communication as an " unsubstantiated altack on the senate co~mittee and its members," only two of votmg faculty sena te members a bstained, indicating that despite the personal attacks, some of the criticisms may have some credibility.

As icing on the cake, Jack Collins was elected by the state convention · as president of the chapter, while fellow City College student Dale Barry won the office of treasurer. Each will hold his post for a year. Second place honors went to J erry Dehrer, Sales Managers Meeting; Charles Serafini, Sal-es Representation; Jack Collins, Human Relations in Management Decisions; and Barbara Mora , Miss California Marketing Clubs. John Borba was awarded a third place in Chapter Marketing Improvement, as were Greg Shore for Sales Managers Meeting and Jeff Wilson in Sales Representative competition. Judging at the convention, which was attended by groups from two-year schools offering marketing training in sales, management, advertising, real estate and insurance, was ha ndled b.y a panel of sales executives and marketing managem ent specialis ts. The participating clubs were affiliated with Distributive Education Clubs of America. The contingent from City College was accompanied by their advisors, Ross W. Atkinson and Ralph Wilderman.

Conditions in the Santa Clara County Jail will be a central topic dealt with in the firs t of fo ur programs planne d by the Political P r is oners Commi ttee, tomorrow morning between 10:00 and noon in the campus theater. Among the four or five speakers dealing with the problems in the county's penal system will be Angel Bojorquez of the California ·Youth Authority. In addition to Bojor quez, Political Prisoners Committee (which is sponsored on campus by Radical Action Movement) intends to sp e ak e r s p resent representing: Lawyers Guild, to discuss a class action suit now pending against the county which seeks a court order to put an end to the present poor conditions existing at county jail. Stanford Medical Committee, to discuss the medical conditions in the

count y j ail, to include availability of services and medication and attitude of personnel administering the medical facilities. Black Student Union, to give a view of conditions prevalent in or related to the local la w enforcement and penal sys~ems from a perspective reflecting the black community. U nit ed Pr isoner's Union will possibly present a speaker to offer an inside look at the system. P urpose of the four-par t series is to pr omot e awar eness of the conditions in prisons, of the political aspects reflected in the prison systems in this and oth er countries, and the connection between political prisons in other countries and the aid by U. S. federal monies and/ or U. S. based corporations which have financial ties to countries which practice various types of discrimination and repression, accor d!ng to

or a schedule for setting bail Pete Stensrud of RAM. proportionate to the " ability The three remaining to pay" of the person are which programs, arrested, Stensrud indesigned to encompass the dicated. problem in an ever widening The high number of people score, will deal with the in the lower income brackets prison systems, political subjected to long stays in jail prisoners U.S.A. and, inprior to trial because they ternational political are not a ble to raise sufprisoners, respectively. ficient funds for bail costs, Political Prisoners while upper and middle class Committee, which is also persons charged with the sponsoring a book dri.ve on same crimes are a ble to campus to procure reading continue the ir norm al material for inmates in routines indicates a need for American prisons, includes bail lenient more some members of RAM, procedures, he said. Stude n t Mobilization Because of this situation, Committee, Somas Raza, Stensrud added, many Filipino-America n Student problems arise for the lower Association, Black Student's income class citizen if he is Union and some· other arrested. Among these is the campus organizations who fact that he will probably work in conjunction with lose his job if he is detained such off campus groups as for any long period of time UPI and the Revolutionary awaiting his day in court, Union. Directly related to the loss One of the goals which the of his job, is the ensuing committee is working hardships which are brought toward is the institution of an on his family, often resulting automatic release awaiting trial on "own recognizan~e:: .... ~ _t~~ -~~~?. f?r welfare aid.

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The world premiere of a new musical work written by Allyn Ferguson in salute to San Jose City College's 50th anniversary will be presented by the San Jose Symphonic Band this Friday. A "Dialogue for Concert Band and Jazz Quartet," is a 22-minute composition that will feature solo sections for each of four jazz artists. The technique blends jazz ensemble with a fuJI symphonic band in 'dialogue' between the soloists and the band. The use of jazz soloists with a symphonic band in this manner is a new and Unique combination of the two unusual forms. Ferguson will guest conduct this original selection. The quartet of jazz artists will consists of: Tom Scott, electric flute; Paul Humphrey, drums; Charles Findley, trumpet ; and Ray Brown, electric bass. Ferguson born and schooled locally, is a member of the musically prominant

Ferguson family of ·San Jose. He has studied under the famed Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainepleau Conservatory in France, and with Aaron Copeland at the Berkshire School of Music. While pursuing his PhD at Stanford University, he was given a teaching position there and during the same time formed the world famous Chamber Jazz Sextet. Other selections to be included in the program are: Finale 5th Symphony, Shostakovich; Tulsa, a tone poem, by Donald Gillis; and Five Miniatures by Joaquin Turina. The San Jose Symphonic Band is a community group of select adult and college musicians which numbers·among its members a variety of occupational interests. The band, conducted by Music Department Chairman Darrell Johnston, is an adjunct to the San Jose City College even_ing program.

Vas con cello s Pion eer lrl Mov e To Leg.a lize Gra ss The first major step towards the legalization of Marijuana was taken by John Vasconcellos, 24th district Assemblyman , last Tuesday in Sacramento. Vasconcellos introduced a bill into legislation to abandon criminal punishment, imprisonment, etc; in substitute of a system of dollar fines and drug education courses for possession of marijuana . The bill changes penalties for personal possession of marijuana for personal use to the following : 1. For possession, for use of 1/ 4 oz. or less, a fine of not more than $100. 2. For possession, for use of more than 1/ 4 oz. but not more than one ounce, a fine not to exceed $200. 3. For possession, for use of over one ounce, a fine not to exceed $500. Thi s will help decriminalize, personal possession of marijuana, and in no way affects possession for sale, sale, or transportation of marijuana, Vascon-, cellos stated. Vasconcellos said there were five specific reasons which impelled him to make this decision and take this action. 1. Mora lly-based upon the evidence of the most reliable scientific experts, jail and/ or prison experience is more dangerous to the hum an being than thP. use of marijuana. I can no longer in good sonscience defend exposing persons to that great danger. 2. Practically-the higher penalties hqve utterly failed to deter use of marijuana. Even the most conservative estimates of Jaw enforcement are that more than 2,000,000 Californians have tried marijuana. 3. Economically-E stimates are that we spend more than $72,000,000 of California taxpayers' money per year in enforcing <police, court , probation, prison, etc. J our marijuana laws. The proposed

legislation will free up most of that money for the more effective preventive approaches in research and education, and free up police to deal with the far more serious criminal ·problems in our society. 4. P hilosophically-In a free society, a person ought to be jailed or imprisoned only when he or she poses a danger to another person or his property ; what a person _does with himself or herself, is not

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the government's business. It is time we get the government out of people's private lives. as Psychologicall y-Insofar 5. alienation and negative self-concept are the most likely roots Of drug abuse. Making them criminals probably reenforces the roots and greatens, r ather than lessesn, drug abuse. The only reason not to do this is political, and that is not adequate reason.

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Bach To " M e rry Widow' ' Feature d Music ranging from the ba roque period of Johann Sebastian Bach to the turn of the century operetta "the Merry Widow," will be performed by eight student artists at tomorrow's weekly . recital. Bach's 'Sicilienne and Allegro, No. 2,' and 'Sonatta II', will be performed by Charles Lemak, alto saxaphone, and Linda Pepper, flute. Sandra Adams will provide the accompaniment for both students. Robert Ratliff Jr. will perform Haddad 's french horn piece 'Allegro Giocoso,' with accompaniment by Miss Adams also. Grieg's 'Notturno' Opus 54, No.4 ,' will be done by Charlene Simpson, while 'Liebeslied, Opus 22, No .2' by Bohme will be performed by trumpeter Carl A. Antuzzi. Mrs. J ean Houser will accompany on piano. Gale Tarmina, soprano, will sing three pieces: L'Heure Exquise, by Hahn ; In Quelle Trine Morbide, by the master Puccini; and " Vilia", <from the Merry Widow) , by Lebar. Dennis Righetti, Bob Clarinet, will conclude the program with Mozart's 'Concerto, Opus 107 in Bb Major (first movement) .' The Fullerton Junior College Choir will be appearing during the recital hour on April 6. The choir is probably one of the state's best, according to John Tyers, music coordinator for the recitals. The weekly concerts are held each Thursday at 11 :00 a .m., in music room F7.

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Kovem 6er 6affdt! }fl, . ?~rttion

Members of the newly formed California i\1arijuana Initiative club, which was recognized by student council last week, have been busy trying to round up signatures to

qualif y t he initia tive for th e November ba llot . The measure, if given vote•· approval, would legalize adult personal use of marijuana in

the state of California. Suzanne Guynes <far left, seated>. receives information about CM I's goals from · Louis LaVon (also seated) .

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