COLLEGE
lty Vol. 29 No.6
Fa~l
Friday, Oct.
phone 298-2181, x346
28, 1977
1 Mu lti -R es ou rc e Ce nt er
· a.ids di sa bl ed st Ud en ts By Dave C. Brown App_roximately 400 handicapped and disabled students are getting a better education with the help of the Multi-Re source Services Center located in the 300 wing here at Sa~ Jose City Collete. The list of disabilities covered by the center includes the blind and partially sighted, deaf and hard of hearing, orthoped ically handicapped, and services for other , disabled persons. . Peter Dal Pog~etto, of the center, IS an Orientation and Mobility specialist. He is currently working on setting up SJCC for the blind and partially sighted. "To most of us trash cans and planters are not major obstacles , but to the low vision student they ca~ be a dangerous impedime nt." says Dal Poggetto. By moving1 these obstacles back from the walkways Dal Poggetto hopes to recruit more low vision students to the campus. "Just knowing they can move around freely is a incentive to these students, " he says. SJCC currently has three blind students and a number of low vision students enrolled in classes. Dal Poggetto is making a Braille map of the campus to help these and other students who may attend !he school.
weight training, archery, bowling and wheel chair activities . At SJCC there are classes through the Multi Resource Center designed to assist the disabled student in the areas of nutrition, consumer studies, money managem ent and in dependent living skills. All classes are taught in modified and accessible rooms. Emphasis is given to
SJCC currently has three blind students and a number of low vision students enrolJed in classes. These students are enrolled in most of the regualr classes and often go unnoticed by other students and in some ·cases the instructor s. Dal Poggetto is making a Braille map of the campus to help these and other students who may attend the school. The Multi-Resource Center offers a number of other services to the paritally sighted student. CHING BANDS CONTEST - Pirates, Civil In the library there are Braille in the . stadium waiting for the final attention and These Army. British Soldiers, and the machines , large print books, an year in a row, serond the for was it, ults, re y other organiza tions gathered at San Jose optacon1 a large print magnifier , the Live Oak High School Emerald Regime Band and "talking books" . College Saturday for the Third Annual Marchand Color Guard or Morl(an Hill that took top The blind partially sighted are not Band Contest of Northern Californi a. For ovf'r Live Oak won its division and also took the only dlsabled students who honors. man·hin!Z played , marched hours 15 bands benefit from the center. Many other fi'nii place n the overall t•a&e~ori tU!ic, a nd waved flags. Wtfen the dust settled in "' disabled students make use of the (Photo by David Brown} facility . The Deaf/ hard of hearing can get assistanc e in obtaining intereprete rs, or someone to help with notes in class. They also have I available to them, tape recorders and a phonic ear. handicap ped Orthoped ically students can receive minor wheel chairperson," stated Kamirez. chair service, mobility assistanc e, game. She will receive a $50 night 's Another possibility for the poor and special parking. The list of Saturday scholarsh ip for the honor. turn out could be "lact of publicity," equipment avaiiab1e to them inPnlec•omin~ Dance was not as The first runner-u p Anna cludes battery chargers, loaner cess as was hoped for siad Ramirez. WiUiams. 22. will receive a $30 to Robert Ramirez, ACS After the formation of the new electric and manual wheelchairs, sch olarship. Seconci run ner-up committee, "they only had one week one handed typewriters, and typing "Those who came had an Elizabeth Robinson, 19, will receive to re-organize and I feel they did for limited arm-movement students. •'"'""'' .. time." a $20 scholarship. Third and Fourth their best," said Ramirez. ppr,oxiJna t.ely 75 people attended The Center also offers special runners-uc were Lydia Neis and Looking ahead to next year's service in many other areas inDance held from 9 ly. Debbie Gomez, 19, respective Student Union .• Homecoming, Ramirez said that he cluding academic vocational and 1 a .m. in I Homecom ing Game was would select a date for the rehabilit ative counselin g. Also, The whole Homecoming planning more successful due to the Homecoming now, so that next fall's guidance is offered in career and organization was a bit " shaky '' the ~~,.,c Jaguars were council "won't have to worry about personal goals. over the Dons of De Anza, according to Ramirez. San Jose City College offers the date." The first committe e chairperson Ramirez states, "If more people classes in Correctiv e Physical before one week resigned Porter, a>, representing the had been involved, it would have Educatio n . These classes are Homecoming was scheduled and a was crowned Homecoming been better . There were only six specialized and have been developed new chairpers on had to be apof 1977 by last year's queen members of the Homecom ing to meet the needs, desires and inKelly, during halftime of pointed. committee." terests of the disabled student. " I was very pleased with the way He also adds, " I hope next year's The classes offered in the program Homecoming is more successful include , therapeu tic swimmin g, the committe e picked up the pieces than this after the resig~ation of our first
1977's homecomi'ng dance no t successfu I as hoped
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Veterans you can receive up to each academic year if you are to Martm Roberts of VA has steam lined its loan procedur es by . essing s tudent loan ap....... uu••::; from veterans. ln the past applications were not processed I after the student started . Now the agency hopes to the 30-day waiting period by lcectirl2 applications and. detern loan eligibility before school
A public forum to present William Priest and Robert Giuli candidates for the vacant seat on the San Jose Commun ity College District Board of Trustees in the Nov. 8 election, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the SJCC Theater. The forum is one of a series sponsored by the Social Science Department since 1966. Priest is a San Jose attorney and an officer in the Naval Reserve. He is also a part-time instructor at SJCC, Evergreen Valley College and Santa Clara University Law School.
the new procedure the VA ready to issue the loan soon the shcool confirms the·studen t class. condit10ns muM 0e preseni. veteran enrolled on at least a time basis to quaHfy: veteran must demonstr ate his expenses will be greater his/ her income and the vet be turned down by at least two in the area or the school must that area banks are not ng guarantee d student loans.
Giuli is a former teacher and administrator at Cogswell College, San Francisco, is associated with Giuli Microprocessing, Inc., and is a member of Musicians' Unioo Local153 . The election, which may cost the San Jose Commun ity College District an estimated $1 06,000, became necessary following the inability of the district board of trustees to fill the board vacancy before a May 7 deadline. The board held a special meeting May 5, but was unable to reach a decision between candidates.
riting clas s ase d on TV new course, English 92-T About Television >, will be ov. 7-Dec. 14 and March 13The one-unti class will give . ...,~uenL" an opportunity to sharpen writing skills while writing television . to be covered include , violence, sexual and sterotypi ng, educatio nal commercial broadcasting, The current semester 's be offered from 9:30 · and Thursday s. Tuesdays .m. a -llliext • smester's class will be at 10 Monday , Wednesd ay and
HOMECOMING CORO~ATION - Linda Porter. ehown above with her e"!cort Hit•hurd Taliaferr o, 'IOUS l'rowned as JCC's homecomin~ queen ottlw ;!lllllC Suturdo~ ni,.:ht 1H the 'j(;C fontball field.
The seat on the board was vacated when Ms. Virginia Sandoval, board member since 1974, resigned after not being elected board chairperson.
the n,ew adaptih kitchen, where complete cooldng skills are taught. The Multi Resource Center, coupled with the many other supportive services offered at SJCC, provides the disabled student with a good opportunity to pursue and receive a college education and have chance to make a better life for themselves.
,. CURBS CAN BE D,u,NGEROUs-- - Debbie Carrvahlo negotiates her way to class from the Multi Resources Center. 'bebbie is a low-vision student and uses a cane to find her way around SJCC. (Photo by David C. Brown)
Ba k ke decisio11 to b e lan d ma rk
Wilma Martinez of tne •llexlcanIn about two months the U.S. American Legal Defense and EduSupreme Court will make a decision cation Fund has said that the court's that could affect the lives of many guidelines will allow the admissions Americans, including students at programs to proceed. San Jose City College. A university of San Francisco The case involves Allan Bakke, a professor, Charles Lawrence Ill Law 37-year-old Civil Engineer, and the said "That when all is said and done, University of California, Davis Board each of the nine justices will be of Regents. choosing not so much between In 1973 and again in 1974 Bakke Bakke and the University as beapplied to the University of Calitween ensuring the equality for fornia Medical School at Davis. minorities and protecting the privBoth years he was denied admission ileges of the majority. " on the grounds that he was not The Court is faced with a decision qualified for one of the 100 freshthat could be as important at the man slots available. 1954 decision of Brown vs. The During the same years, the uniBoard of Education which was the versity initiated a special admission catalyst for the civil rights moveprogram that enabled 16 "disadment of the sixties. vantaged minority" students to atIt would appear that the civil tend the medical schooL rights movement has come full Bakke then filed suit claiming circle, and the U.S. Supreme Court the special procedure program must once more make a choice. It admitted students who were Jess have to decide between public will qualified than he, and that he had outcries of reverse discrimination been discriminated against because or the need for more minority d oche was white. He claimed this via-' tors, or it will have to decide that fated the equal protection clause of society has adopted a national the 14th Amendment. policy for health care to minority The California Supreme Court populaces and it will not interfere. agreed with Bakke in a 6 to 1 deciWhich what ever way the nine sion. The opinion of the court justices decide, it could have far began by pondering "whether a reaching effects on the civil rights special admissions program, which legislation already in existence. It benefits disadvantaged minority will also have an effect on the stustudents who apply for admission, dents at SJCC who are preparing ... offends the constitutional rights to attend medical or legal schools in of better qualified applicants the future, not to mention those denied admission because they are students who will be seeking not identified with a minority. " employm ent through any number Since the decision was handed of now existing affirmative action down, there has been much conprograms. troversy in the minority comThe Bakke case bears close munities. The contentio n being scrutiny by the students currently that the Bakke decision will, if enrolled in colleQe. upheld by the U.S. Court, do away with the special admission programs at the nation's universities and severly hinder existing affirmative The City College-West Valle _ action programs. game scheduled for 7:JC football There have been a number ot at Buck Shaw SUdiurT tonight p.m. rallies and demonstrations around has been moved. CIIJ'a Santi in the country by various third world now be plll'fed • will game The and womens groups against thP at City College Saturday . 7:30p.m . • decision, as well as demonstr atior Bakke. for Frank Mesa, a fourth year medical student at Davis, defended the special admission program at a For students who plan to graduate rally in Sacramento on Oct. 8 stat- in fall of 1977, the deadline for ing that it encouraged minority certificat es of achievem ents and physicians to practice in com- graduation petition is Nov. 14. munities with poor. medical care.
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