County job outlook hopeful By Margaret O'Brien
,According to a report released bY Manpower, Inc., the employ,e,..t outlook in the Santa Clara valley for the fourth quarter of thisyear is good. The survey, compiled by local bUsinessmen, shows employment ill continue to be "upbeat" w ' ·s·1xty-thr'ee per cent of the respondents to our survey said theY will continue to hire at their present levels . for the remainder of 1977. Thirty per cent projected increases in hiring for the fourth quarter (Oct., Nov., Dec.). but only seven per cent forecast a decrease ill their hiring levels." said Roland
Manpower also works in conjunction with the Job Placement Center on the SJCC campus. Edy the Pelican, placement officer and EDD representative, says that there are a lot of jobs available now. "One of the problems that we have had this semester is that many students have classes that extend into the afternoon and they aren't available early enough," states Ms. Pelican. "I.B.M. had several good job opportunities open for clerical help, but they had a typing lab in the afternoons and couldn't get off in time."
0. Hill, Manpower franchise owner. The largest increases are ex- . pected to be in the "wholesale and retail trades and in the mcPIUfacturing of durable goods," the report stated. (Durable goods are those items that are expected to last a long time, such as, ffl'•P-~er and electronic componenU.Jo'e\· Larry Ollenburger, director of sales and services in ·Santa Clara county for Manpower, said that the upcoming holiday season is probably one of the reasons for . the increase. Those that are available from Manpower are usually temporary and there are few part-time offers.
Another one of the problems is that some of the job requests are only open to students of certain majors. "We try to get specialized job announcements out to the specific departments on campus so the instructors can notify their students," said Ms. Pelican. According to Ms. Pelican, the ''Open Line" newsletter was a great deal of help in getting announcements of jobs out to the students, but now it is only published twice a week. The Placement Center has a wide variety of employment options. There are several technical jobs
available including a Quality Control Inspector, several electrical technicians, junior programmers, and panel wire a~emblers. The wage fpr tjese kpbs begoms arpimd $3.00 per hour and can go as high as $8.00 per hour. Other job offers are along the clerical line. The Placement Center has jobs from part-time general clerks to technical typists. Most of these jobs begin at $3.00 and go up to $5.00 per hour. "We also have jobs in the areas of cashiers, restaurant help, main· tenance, security, teachers aides, and delivery drivers."
'These jobs pay at least $2.60 an hour," says Alvira Job Placement Qfficer. Former students as well as current students are entitled to tha services offered by the Placement' Center. There is even a Veteran Work Study assistant to aid veterans. "If you are interested in Jobs, they are out there. Come in and look over the opportunities and see if they coincide with your schedules," Is Mrs. Pelican's advice to anyone looking for employment.
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Vol. 29. No.5.
Friday, October21, 1977
Board apprc;>vescultvralcenter By Joan Ward Before a standing room only crowd, the San Jose Community College Board of :rrustees vot~d ,Tuesday. to set . aside $250,000 m Community Service funds to be used as seed ~oney for a new 1.4 million Community Cultural Center. The Cul~ural Cer:tter will be a joint v~nture With the City of S~n Jose and Will be located adjacent _to Evergreen Valley College on city property.
Following a _slide pre~entation on the Cultural Center, by Planning Consultant Max · Tadlock, and a stateme~t by Jul~e Noble, dire.cto~ of community services for the d1st~tct, Mrs. Ethel Prusch, a long-hme Santa Clara County resident, appealed to the board to allocat the funds for the center. !'-1~s. Prus<;h 's. late husband W~~am an~ his SISt~r Emma had ongmally willed the City of San ~ose $250,000 and orooertv near Htgh-
Planetarium- -Innovative in design, the new planetarium at Independence High School features a tilted dome 30 feet in diameter that brings the dome down to eye level. Fact and fantasy about Mars, including the latest NASA ohotoqraphy and discoveries, will bi
. she added. According to Mrs. Prusch, the was not considered suitabie and the center is envisioned as a multi · city intends to transfer the Cultural cultural, multi - purpose center Center to the Montgomery Park which will serve not only. the East Valley, but all San Jose. area adjacent to EVC. Dr. Gerald Strelitz, presiqE:Dt of "I'm not here to mince words, I 'm here to get you to set aside money EVC and Phil Crawford · of the for this whole thing," said Mrs. facuity senate at San Jose City Collej;(e also spoke in favor of the Prusch. "I know where you are at tonight center. However, Mr. Crawford because it took me awhile to let Mr. requested that the board keep a tab Prusch set all that money aside," on the money so some type of proportional center and services would be made available at SJCC. Board Chairman Yancy L. Williams stressed that the Cultural Center, once constructed, would also be available for use by EVC and that the District's contribution of $250,000 is contingent upon the community successfully ra1sing the additional money necessary to build the center. Following a slide presentation by Phillip Mowry, head of facilities planning and construction, and a lengthy discussion, the board approved preliminary drawin~ for a $6.5 million Health and Science Building at EVC which will include facilities for biology classes, nursing education and the home economics department. · In addition, the Board: --Heard Pat Butler, president of the California Teachers Association, voice objections to several provisions in thee initial collective bargaining proposal made by the district. -Approved 14 new course proposals for SJCC. The courses, which will begin in the spring semester and cover a wide range of subjects from Aerospace Electronics to Women in American His tory. Three of the courses E arth, Sea and Sky, Real Estate for the Consumer, and Marriage and the Family, will be offered on T.V. -Authorized advertising for bids for sponsored the construction of the six tennis and presentation tonight and Saturday nighr at the . six handball courts at EVC and planetarium. Tonight's presentation will be at 7 and SJCC. 8 :30 pm; Saturday's presentation is at 1 and 2:30pm. (t'noto by Bril!n Stevens) · · - - ~---- ~---- - - - - - _,
Roemmich denies Butler's remarks By Dorie Panopolos Editor in Chief Dr. Otto Roemmich, chancellor of the San Jose Community College District, denied Wednesday several statements made by Pat Butler, SJCC psychology instructor, in an Oct. 7 "Profile" article in the Times. In the article, Butler said that he felt that the only updated SJCC facilities are in City College's Atheletic Department. "Butler's statement on updated facilities is a falsehood ," Dr. &emmich sai d. Among the non physical education projects being undertaken in the near future , is the Learning Resource Center, which will cost approxi mately $3 million , Dr.
District's enrollment rises 6% District Registrar Robert L. B Brown reports that enrollment figures for the District are six per cent over this time last fall. San Jose City College is show· ing a decline of two per cent in its day division, but the evening division is up by eight percent. The total percentage rise for the other college is four percent. In umbers these figures compute as 5 040 students for the day divisi~n and 9,404 for the even· ing program. Evergreen College shows a nine percent increase in enrollment over the same period last fall. EVC has a total of 3,452 students in its's day division or a seven per cent increase. The Evening divi· sion has 2,351 students or a 13 per cent increase. Overall the district has 8,492 students in the day programs and 11,755 students in the evening division.
Roemmich sa10. ln addition to housing the television studio, the new facility will also be housing the SJCC Times offices. In addition to the Learning Resources Center, Roemmich also pointed out other major construction projects currently being undertaken at SJCC. Thos projects include construction of the new child development center, remodeling of the vocational arts building, remodeling of the science building, relocation of the Times office, construction of the Educational Resource Center, and remodeling of the library. The total cost of all the projects funded and in progress at SJCC is approximately $5.5 million. " A lot of things are going to happen at City College, " said Dr. Roemmich, "and instead of bitching about it, the people ought to get together and cooperate." Another statement made by Butler, which Dr. Roemmich said is false is that there had been a great increase in part-time instructors at SJCC only teaching a couple of classes. Dr. Roemmich contends that "95 percent of all day instructors are Furinstructors. " full-time thermore, he said that there has been a substantial decrease in the ~umber of part-time hourly day liiStructors, from 55 in the spring of 1977, to 40 this fail semester. Also, SJCC has a very largt Continuing Education program , anc Dr. Roemm1ch said that it would be !mpossible to replace the evening Instructors with full-time people. He also said that the apprentice programs must hire specialists not ' full -time instructors. "l don't think Mr. Butler understands all this ," said Dr. Roemmich. " I don't think he wants to really." Dr. Roemmich also added that there are classes taught at mght by part-lim~ instructors in banking, ftnance, Insurance, real estate. ''All of the other instructors have other full-time positions and they don't seem to be disturbed about the part-time situation like Mr Butler · is," he added.
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Homecoming time is once again upon us. The crowning of the homecoming queen will take place at a dance in the Student Union Building from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sat. This event will occur immediately after the Golden Gate Conterence football at 7:30 p.m., between SJCC, which holds a record of-1-1·1,andDeAnza,whichholds a record of 3-1 and is tied for first place with Lan~y and College of San Mateo. Four clubs have nominated candidates for the homecoming queen. Independents could have been nominated by having the signatures of ten ASB holders. The clubs with candidates are the Black Student Union, Cheerleaders, Native American Club,
and the Somos Raza. The nominations are: Somos Raza - Debbie Gomez, 19, business major. Native American Club - Lydia Marie Neis, 19, psychology major. BSU - Anna Williams, 22, early childhood training. Cheerleaders - Elizabeth Robinson, 19,business. The neely elected queen will be crowned by last years queen, Karen Kelly. The winner will be awarded a $50 scholarship. A pep rally was scheduled for last evening. Tickets will be on sale at the door. There will be $1.50 for ASB card holders and $2. for general admission.
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' By Diane Wesson "The theater is a disease," de· clares Stuart Bennett, drama in· structor, "which 1 contacted very early in life and there is no known cure for it." Quite content and happy with his profession, Bennett sees himself as being involved in it for the "rest of his fife ." His father, an enginner and singer, his mother a musician, and his brother and sisters all artistically inclined. Bennett also comes from a long line of ministers. He took what he learned from all of these varied talents and backgrounds, tied them together, then took the result and applied it to the theatrical world. Bennett explained, "My interest in structures and design, along with using art to communicate some kind of message, idea or evaluation, all got tied in together in theater in a way that nothingelsesatisfiedme." Bennett's undergraduate and graduate work was completed at San Francisco State College in l948 and 1953 respectively. He took each degree in the are of theater arts. He continued additional graduate study at the University of California. He later worked with wome of the graduate programs at San Jose State University. In 1973 and 1974 Bennett studied with the British Museum in England, in a special research project. There he worked on reconstructing the scene location of the Shakespeare plays. So far he has reconstructed about 27 of the 144 sites that he has researched. Along with Bennett's deg rees and research projects, he has also performed
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worl<ed on radio duri11g tne "Golden years" 1941-43 with San Francisco's radio station KSFO. He took a break from show business in 1943 to join the military. However, he did return in 1946, only to f"lnd that h"ls old ser"les had been cancelled. The station programming had been changed to radio drama, referred to as the Franciscan Theater of the Air. While in radio Bennett worked with such personl:llities as George Fenneman of the Groucho Marx Show. The Bay area's announcer and programmer, George Ruby and Hollywood's film director Bob Sweeny were among those working with Bennett. . Beginning 1949 he worked for five years as an actor with the "Centennials Commission:" They toured the state putting on local history pageants. Also during 1949-59 Bennett had a television series called "You are the Jury," which he co-produced with channel 4 This 13 we+>k .,-ies, was a j.~:C,.eation of coun:' a-ials. It was later re-run a second year for another 13 weeks. The idea of this show was eventually picked l!P and usi<f in ottler shows, including "The Verdict is Yours·." Bennett also worked as an actor, on a television series called "Classics on Camera." Bennett recalled, "The greatest actress I hed a chance to work with in that series was my wife." He continued, "I got to play quite a few good roles. We did only grec~lays and literary works." His wife performed with him in several shows for that series. Presently, Mrs. Bennett works as a regular member of King Do-Do Playhouse, a semiprofessional resident theater in Saratoga. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have performed together in such plays as "Antigony." and " Macbeth" Bennett has also directed plays in which his wife has acted. Among these are, "Darkness at Noon," "Gaslight,." "Julius Ceasar" and " George Washington Slept here." The most recent being "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf," a faculty recital performed here at City Colleqe. Bennett was involved in " building the program here at City, getting the theater designed and constructed, and then he developed the curriculum. "I'm very happy with it," stated Bennett, "It's a good facility, with good staff and the program really produces worthwhile th ings."
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HOMECOMING QUEEN Hopefuls - These five girls are seeking the title of the homecoming queen. From right, are Debbie Gpmez , Linda Porter,
Elizabeth Robinson, Lyd ia Marie Neis, and An'n a Williams. The winner will be corned at Saturday's dance.
Chancellor Dr. Otto Roemmich was misquoted in an Oct. 7 story as say ing that unless negotiations between t he district and the California Teachers Association are completed by Feb. 17, 1978, that there would be no retroactive pay for the staff. The deadline mentioned by Rt>emmich was Jan. 17, not Feb. 17. The Times regrets the error.