San Jose City College Times, Vol. 29, Issue 10, Dec 9, 1977

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b o ,a r d d e c i s i o n 1978- 79 c a I e n d a r

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By Joan Ward No decision has been made regarding continuation of the 160_ day calendar for 1978-79 at San . Jose City College. Otto Chancellor Aithough Roemmich recommended on Nov. 15, that the Board of Trustees of the San Jose Community College

defer action until negotiations with CSEA are completed. · SJCC is ·one of six Community Colleges participating in the 160day program as a result of the passage of AB 2232-Vasconcellos by · the state legislature in 1975 D-1strict extend the program for· one year, the board decided to

David Birney... actor On screen and off

Bir ney reveals self By Diane-wesson Times E xclusive

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"Someone on the Community College level interested in acting should get involved in a theater that's doing substantial work" in productions a n d then develop yourself, says David Birney, well known dramatic and comedy actor. That is what Birney himself did, after receiving his masters degree in Theater Arts from UCLA. Birn~y is best known for his starring roles in "Bridget Loves Bernie" , and "Serpico." However, more recently Birney starred as the passionate crusader Dr. Johnathon Ferrier in the highly acclaimed television drama " Testimony of J'wo Men" . As a result of his performance in "Testimony of Two Men", Birney became noted as one of the most versatile young actors on stage or screen today. When asked how he got interested in acting, Birney said, "My high school acting got me started but it wasn 't really serious at the time. It certainly didn 't have my serious attention. I got sincerely interested as a 'grown up' probably while I was at Dartmouth College./' There Birney began to approach drama through the literature of the Shakespearean theater. " I found even the language of the theater very interesting here." Born in Washington D.C., Birney moved around the country until his family finally settled in Cleveland, Ohio. As the eldest of four sons, of a then FBI agent, he earned school letters in football, basketball and track, although he claims to ha~e ran "the slowest mile of anyone m the school." After gr a dua ting from high school, Birney went to Dartmouth College and graduated as an English with honors in Literature. that time " Viet Nam was heating up and there were a lot of possibilities in my future, but I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. So I applied to Stanford Law ~hool , had an offer to teach E nglish m East Africa and even an offer to work with the phone company. " 'fhis made him decide to look a httle longer into the theatrical world. "So I applied for a fellowship to UCLA since I thought acting was SOmething I ought to take a shot at now, rather than regreting it later." Numerous friends at Dartmouth helped and encouraged him to continue his work in any and all theatrical possibilities. Birney received h is Masters of Arts degree within the next year and a half at UCLA. " I was there just long enough to get my degree before I went into the a rmy ." While spending two years in the service, Birney was in a number of stage contests . He eventually won enough competitions so that the first ~eek after his discharge, he go.t a Job as a n actor in New York City. I could say I kind of side s~epped Into acting. It was not a comm1tment l made when I was six years old. Like some people I know wantedto b~ in acting from the very begmnJng." Birney went on to say that "it was SOmething he was never really sure. Of." Perhaps I'm not eve~ sure. of today." His days in New York C1ty, Birney rem embers as " ... Une of the

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· most unhappy periods of my life. I hqd to stay available for interviews and hopefully an acting job." Birney even worked in a boutique during that time. "My professional desire left a lot to be desired." "I was ready to close up all of my hopes; even my suit had perspiration•stains - at the kneecaps!" Finally the Hartford stage company offered Birney a position doing repertory, which lasted eight months. After those eight months Birney returned to the stage in the New York Shakespeare Festival playing as the lead in 'Comedy of Erros,' and later made appearances at the American Place Theater. Then came his appearance as a young soldier killed in an nameless war in "Summertree" at New York's Lincoln Center. ("The show as a rea1 weeper.") Davis performances in this play brought him the cove ted Clarence Derwent Award and The Theatre World Award. He remained with "Summertree" for six months, leaving to "enter one of the most interesting periods of my life ... " Birney next spent two years as the leading man in the day time serial "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", which beca me the most successful daytime show on television. Late in 1971 Birney was offered a job in Los Angeles with the Repertory Company a t the Mark Taper F orum . He still maintained a r esidence in New York, but remained in Los Angeles to do two television pilots. They were the "Anthology Ghost Story" and the later to be popular "Bridget Loves Bernie". It was here that Birney met Meredity Baxter . " I didn't know Meredith, she didn 't know me, so it was r efreshing-- both professionally and personally. " They had one full season on the air and finished that season fifth in the Nielsen ratings. The two starred as lovers in the "Bridget loves Bernie" series and were later married, but this time off stage. " We've since make a decision not to work together in films unless it is a special project." They felt it was important to maintain separate identities, because "it would be very easy to / ackage ourselves at that time an probably even today. And that's a ve ry exploitable situation." The Birneys along with their dau~hter Kate, travel as much as (Continued on page 5)

'New classes offered during Sff!n

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fering a var iety of classes during the semeste r break for fun and units. SJ CC students may register by attending the firs t class meeting. There is no health fee required. Among the courses offered are those of busi ness, m a r keting, F r e nch, Spa ni sh , j ournali~ m , na tura l science a nd ob vstcal education. For futher mtormation on times, classes and credits available, see page 68 or the SJCC spring schedule for 1978, obtainable fr om the counselors' office.

Friday, December 9, 1977

Jenner returns to SJCC

This bill provides more flexible and effective nontraditional course scheduling and brings community college schedules in line with those ::~f four-year colleges and universities throughout the state. Random surveys taken at SJCC in Sept. and· Oct. indicated that 54% of the students, 64% of the faculty and 80% of the administration favored the _160-day calendar. In Jan. 1978, the state legislature will evaluate the pilot program in an effort to determine if it should be expanded to include all community colleges in the state. In other board actions, Robert - M. Giuli, newly elected trustee, was sworn in at a brief ceremony before the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees. JENNER RUNS AGAIN - ChryAt the meeting, Giuli and the stie Jenner times her husband other board members voted to Bruce and ·t heir dog Bertha, as they limit apprenticeship classes to ap·jog around the track. This scene is prentices registered with t he Califrom Jenner's movie, "Ten For fornia State Division of Apprentices. Gold" which was filmed at City Faculty Senate President, Phil College this week. The movie is Crawford, voiced opposition t o the being filmed by Borden Producclosed enrollment of the apprenticetions the same company that films ship program but Mr. Ed Ferner, True life Adventures, ,National director of the school of apprenGeographic Specials and the Amertices at · San Jose City College, ican Sportsman. The film will be stated that in some program a reas, based on 'Jenner's life and his quest addit ional courses of comparable for the gold medal in the Decathlon content are provided fo r non-apevent at the 1976 Montreal Olymprentices. pic games. Jenner also spoke at Accord ing to Ferner, t he apprenthe Sports Award Banquet held t iceship classes are geared t o last Wednesday at Lou's Village. students with on-the-job expe rience (Photos by John Schmitz) and " to· admit non-apprent ices to these classes would be untenable for the 2,000 students already enrolled." In other action the board also approved the transfer of t he Laser Technology program from SJCC to Students at San Jose City ColEvergreen Valley College, Effective lege can look fo rward to some new I Sept. 1981 . Presidents of both and better facilities next semester. colleges, administrative staff and Over the semester break a faculty members agreed that the number of the facilities that have program should be t ransferred to been under construction this EVC because of lack of space at semeste r will be completed and SJCC. President Yancy Willla~ in his ready for use in the spring. opening remarks at the meeting _ , The Cosmetology building which commended the City College Times used to house the photo department and the dental tech lab is for the editorial "College Isn't Free." 95% completed. The Cosmetology The editorial appeared in the department will have the whole Dec. 2, issue of the T imes and was building to themselves. It has been written by Editor-elect David C. Brown. Ill addition the board: 1 ne Associated Student Body at - -Adopted four instruction polS.JCC has less than $1,000 remainicies. ing in this semester's account. - -Approved two experimental According to Robert Ramirez •. business course proposals, one new ASB president, "Sixty to seventy course in behavior and social per cent of. our money goes to science and four new courses in sports and we end up losing money the ESL program. on them." - - Eliminat ed the posit ion of In"We have also had administrastructional Aide now held by t ion, problems and our hands are Virginia Scales.

New facilities almost read y completely remodeled with riew equipment, carpeting, paint and lots of mirrors. Walking through the facility reminds one of a super salon. Would be photographers, intermediate photographers, and expert photographers will tie impressed with the new photo lab being completed in the 100 wing of campus. The facility will have two com-· plete black and white darkrooms, a color room with a color processor, ·

A SB b r 0 .k e - Ra m I•r e z

.Gi·u I i w i II str1ve \

for Un,i ty on board By Joan Ward "I am not anti-faculty," said Robert M. Giuli, newly·. elected trustee of the San Jose Community College District. "This was one of the accusa· tions made in the campaign but my wife is a membe r of the California Teachers Association and I am a former teacher. I'm just not in favor of CTA financing school board candidates. A trustee has to be objective," he added. Th ~ young, soft-spoken trustee looks as though he is a member of the student body at one of the two coll eges he will ser¥e. However, he is the head of his own computer consu lting firm, Giuli Microprocessing in Willow Glen and has had a wide educational and business background. Giuli, a former naval aviator, is the son of a ret ired Naval officer and as a "Navy Brat" lived in many parts of the United States and various foreign countries. He speaks several foreign languages as a result of these moves. His family finally settled in this area in 1962 and he graduated from Fremont High School. Giuli went on to attend San Jose State University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with an M.S. in applied mathematics. At San Jose State, Giuli served as math representative on the Academic Council This experience convinced him that students need to take a more active role in college .. "The student lives with the decisions that everybody else makes. I don't necessarily expect him to know what is best for himself as far as curriculum goes, but students should have a voice in what goes on in the college," he said. Giuli received a teaching fellowsh ip at S.JSU and worked ~part-

tied in the area of sports." Part of the problem has been mismanagement and disorganization of the Associated Student Council. Finally about two weeks ago a Director of Activities, Robin Preston, and a Director of Academic affairs, Mike Gerlound, were appointed. Among the ideas suggested by .these two were, a "Get to Know Government" Student Your night, tentatively scheduled for February and a Film Festival during the winter vacation still in the discussion stages. A Semi-formal Christmas Dance is scheduled for Friday, December 16 in the Student Union from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Cost is $1.50 with current Student Body card or $2.50 general admission. There will also be door prizes. According to Robert Ramirez, "this semester is a lost cause, but we are looking forward to a success' ful next semester."

a lecture studio room which will have seam less paper backgrounds and studio lighting. There is an office for the instructors, a small kitchen and plenty of room for photograph,ers. The photo lab will be open next semester for black and white photography and the color facility will be operational in the fall. Oth.er areas under construction still have a long way to go before completion. The Child Development Center will take the longest of any of the new facilities t o complete. Right now work is progressing at a good pace but completion will not be until next year. One of the big problems that students have suffered from th is year because of the construction is parking. It doesn't appear that the problem will get any better next semester. It may even get worse as new construction is initiated. St udents planning to attend SJCC next spring s,hould check with administrat ion to find out what w ill be available in the way of c lasses. The schedule lists them but the beginning of the fall semester found students checking posted Iists to f ind out where their classes were actually meeting.

Christmas dinner lor foreign students

t ime at the S.JSU computer center. It was at the computer center that h e first met his petite, blond wife Christine, who is now a math Foreign students desiring to Have teacher in Santa Teresa High School. a Christmas dinner in an American After leaving S.JSU, Giuli helped home should see Frank Myers at the set up the computer center at Foreign Student Desk or contact him Cogswell College in San Francisco at 298-2181 extension 420. and taught microprocessing there, T~IO~N~SC~H':':E~D~U~L-:E---------~ r---------"!'-F~I~N~A":'L"':E~X~AM:":":':IO::N":'A~ for 3 y ears. DAY CLASSES - 2-HOUR FINALS He later worked for several Santa Clara Valley Corporations. T hese included Sylvania, the Nu•Group Aclasses meet•Daily M, MT, MTWF, MW, MWTh, MWThF, MTThF , MWF,W.WF, F. clear Energy Division of General Electric, and Measurex. He also • Group 8 claue•meet MTWTh. MTTh, T, TWTh,lWThF. TTh. TThF, TF, WTh. Th. served as a consultant at the Intel REGULARLY SCHEDULED CLASSES WILL ENDWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. NO REGULARLY SCHED Corp. before starting his own ULEDCLASSES WILL BE HELD ON THE FIRST DAY OF EXAMINATIONS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER15 company which manufactures comAll Englim 320, 330 and 92 classes w •ll hold their final examinatto"' durong the lan week of regularly...:hedule< mu l"!ications projects and sells comclassa. puter time. Giuli lives on the east side of SCHEDULED C LASS EXAMINATION TIME EXt.MINATION DATE GROUP San J ose with his wife and 2 year 7:40 - 9:40 Thursday. Dec 15 A 7:00AM o ld twin sons, David and Richard . 10.00 -12:00 Thursday, Dec 15 8 7:00AM 7.40- 9.40 Tuesday, Dec. 20 Giuli hopes that as trustee he A 8:00AM 10:00 -12:00 Tuesday, Dec. 20 8 8:00AM w ill be able tQ tie the board into a 7·40- 9:40 Froday, Dec. 16 A 9:00AM single unit and eliminate the 10:00 -12.00 FrKiay. Dec. 16 8 9:00AM 12:50 . 250 FrKiay, Oec 16 adversary relationship that has A 10:00AM 3:10 - 5 10 Froday, Dec 16 8 10:00AM developed between the various 12:50 . 2:50 Thursday D«:. 15 A :00AM 11 the in groups and organizations 12 50 . 2:50 Wedne>day, Dec: 21 8 11 :00AM 12:50 2:50 Monday, Dec 19 A college community. He noted, 12.00Noon 3.10 - 5:10 Monday, Dec 19 8 12:00 Noon "Everybody works better as part 7:40. 9:40 Monday_ December 19 A 1 OOPM of a team." -12:00 10:00 19 ec. O onday, M 8 1:00PM 12:50 - 2:50 Tuesday, Dec. 20 A 2:00PM 3:10- 5:10 Tuesday, Dec 20 8 2:00PM 7:40- 9:40 Wednesday, Dec 21 A 3:00PM 10:00 12:00 Wednesday. Dec 21 B 3:00PM 7 40 - 9 40 Thursday, Dec. 22 A 4;00 PM 10:00 -12:00 Thursday, Oec. 22 4:00PM 8 - This issue markS the c lose of - 2:50 12:50 Thursday. Oec. 22 A 5:00PM 3:10- 5:10 Thursday. Dec 22 5:00PM 8 another semester of the San J ose City College Times. Look for the next issue of the beginning 11 30 minutu aftet tho hour w~l follow the sch«<ult lor tho following hall hour (e.g, a 9:31 Times to be published February 10, d iSSClas._. will be IChedultd as a 10:00 d ass) . Christma~ the 1978 . Until then, enjoy h olidays. See you ne~ semester. Toavood conllicts '"tonal examonauon tomes. the Student mould not schedule two classes on the ume group a the same hour !e.g., a 10.00 MT c1 ..s and a IO.OOWF doss.)

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Times returns next semester

Veterans.' rap

Veterans having a ha rd time w1th an y of their classes are invited Lo come to the Veterans Office and tal k to Paul McKi nney of Dan Arruiza, or call the veterans office at 298-2181 extension 220.

Three·hour f inal e11manaho ns# af desared , may extend o~ r two e xa m1natton ptn ods when avaal able.

CONTINUINGEDUCATIONFINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE Eventng DtviSton lonah are goven durong t..e last cla.suessoon from December 17.1977 through December 23, 1977


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