Can~idates mu.s f file
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Student Council electi-o ns sch edu led for MCy BV David C. Brown . A tentative date for the U_PCom~ ASB elections was set m the ruesday meeting of the Student council. The dates which still h~ve to be IPProved by the Council are as rollows: Applica~ions for ASB Pr~s dent, Vice-President and . Admmstrative Assistant may be p1cked up Rooms U204 or U215 beginning ~ril 17. deadline for su~ission is ,April 28 in the same locations. A forum for t he candidates is tchedu led May 3 and the general eleCtion will be held on Mav 10 and
11, notification of the winners will be made twenty-four hours after the election. Students wishing to run for one of these offices must meet the qualifications as stated in the 1977 Constitution. The student must be a sophomore with 28 units completed at the end of the semester in which they are running. Musf have a 2.0 grade point average, must be enrolled in 10 units and not be on probation. Or a first semester student at San Jose Cith College enrolled in 10 units and have a 2.0 grade point average tor work in progress.
If no petitions for office are received by the April 28 deadline the student council may nominate by 2/3 vote two or more qualified mem.bers of the student body for the office. Write-in candidates must meet the same qualifications as the those who have filed petitions. The current President of the ASB, Robert Rameiz said that he would not tolerate any of the election problems that have happened in the past. He said that the elections will be run by the 1977 Constitution regardless of any con-
troversy over the validity of that document. The battle over the validity of the Associated Student Constitution has not yet reached an understanding between the interested parties. The most recent development is a letter from the CQmi!tu· · tion Committee stating that the 1977 Constitution is not valid and that the controversy violates constitutional and human rights. "In reference to ASB Memoran- . dum dated February 24, 1978 and Dr. Murguia's reply of March 14; -, 1978, related to the Associated Stu· dent Body Constitution .. we still
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is not the same that was previously voted and approved by the General Student Body. This is a clear indication of lack of respect for the Board of Trustees, the Administration, the Staff, the Students and the Community in general. It is.also a violation of constitutional and human rights. We have sufficient evidence to support these facts and as suggest· ed in Dr. Murguia's Memorandum, we are urgently asking for a special · meeting with the Board in order to present documentation to you so this matter can be corrected accord· ing to district policy and state/ federal laws. "
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contend that the document in reference, as printed by t he Admin· · istration for ASB use during the 1977-78 school year, is not and should not be considered valid or legal. Constitution, hereafter The Constitution" "1977 entitled is not the one which was vot~d on by the ASB council and ratified by the General Student Body on Democratic Election, with its Amendments, on June 3, 1975. Indeed, the "1977 Constitution.::..was... passed by the Board as given to them by the Administration. This does not, however, negate the fact that the "1977 Constitution"
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By Alex Michael It rained the day of the launch, and a swollen river threatened to overflow into the mission building. Still, San Jose City College Professor H. Paul Shuch could see a patch of blue sky approaching. Shuch was at Vandenburg Air Force Base with 600 other educators on March 5 to watch the launching of a satellite he had helPed build and which he would be using in classroom demonstrations. City College is the only Bay Area school offering a two-year course Communications , Satellite in Shuch's specialty. Asked if he felt f)ervous about the launch, Shuch answered, "The word is terrified." He added, "My students don't understand that. They'll know how I feel when it's their own bird sitting out there." The satellite, called Orbiting
By David C. Brown Four women sat, in a circle hands'clasped on the floor of the
rust colored room. Their bodies erect, eyes closed' as they
became aware of themselves. Soft music from Gustav Holtz' "The Planets" soothed· their minds. The voice of Angela Smith blended with the music in the rowth Center as she instructed the others to think about love, peace and harmony with one's total being. The music ceased and the women stood up. Their faces relaxed indicating a sense of joy and peace. "What I would like for us to do now is to reach out into the space around us and gather in the positive forces that are there. Using our bodies pull these forces of love and peace into ourselves and then pass them on to the next person," spoke Angela Smith. Angela then began to move ller arms and hands above and around her as if she were gathering a tangible substance. She pulled it toward herself and spread it over her arms, across her face and down her body. Moving like a shoreline reed in a soft caressing breeze she continued to bathe in the feeling of harmony with the world. After a while she turned to one of the other women and' began to reverse the process. All of what she had gathered she now began to pass on to the other women. Angela moved her body like the waters of a forest brook as she splashed the feelings of love over the other woman. The other woman reached · toward Angela and received what was being offered. Like a child playing in the cooling waters of the brook she let the feelings of love and joy cleanse her spirit. This cycle of passing peace and love continued around the circle of women until it once again reached Angela. This is n.ot a review of a modern dance or even a psychodrama. It IS an example- of a pregram being . offered at the Growth Center of San Jose City College. · This drop-in class, is led by Angela Smith, a dance and choreography student at City College, is open to all students a11d meets in the Growth Center Mondays and Wednesdays from 2p.m. to 3 p.m. e four rust colored walls have now expanded. Vast vistas f. the world could be seen in the minds eye. The air glowed . . 1th the softness of sunlight and the positiveness of life·. Love, oy, hope and harmony radiated from the bodies and faces of ewomen. The women began another excercise in body awareness. Two f ~hem became trees, tr.ees of doubt and confusion firmly root. m the mud of despau. The third woman became of tree of oy and love; her roots planted in· the earth of peace washed by the waters· of hope and faith. The fourth woman had to pass through this forest of life using her body to feel the everyday onflicting forces of life. The trees of confusion were harsh and angular, their move-
Phpto by David C. Brown ~ANCE THERAPY- AnQela Smith of the Growth Center avoids the grasp· mg hands of two other students who are trying to capture her. A third . student's hands lead her to safety.
ment Jerky and demanding. Their branches creaked in ·the ill wind of doubt, uttering sad songs ·of despair and the hopMess· · ness of life. The tree of joy and life swayed like a yielding willow, dane- · ing rhythmically with soft fluid movements. Its leaves fluttered in .the sunlight whispering the sounds of warmth and happiness. A singing_,bird spread the joyous song of life and. pea,ce from the tr~s uppermost branches. Angela Smith, says that the sessions are a chance for adults to have simulated play. "Most people don't feel comfortable with their bod~es ·and in many ways have become prisoners of them. What we are attempting to do, is to use excercise, deep breathing and dane~ movements to bring a person in tune with their whqle being. Body, mind, emotions and experiences." The program has been operating since the beginning of the spring ~mester. The participants have all been women but men are welcome also. Smith says the sessions are developed to help people become aware of the positive forces in life, love, peace, joy, harmony with oneself. She feels that the pressures of everyday living can become very heavy, and cause negative responses to other people, other ideas and even to ones own body and mind. Smith feels that the sessions are an opportunity for the students at San Jose City College to bring their minds, bodies and emotions together, in tune. So, if you are feeling like the world is crumbling 9:fOUnd you and mid terms, homework and the pressures of everyday life are pushing you under for the final time, drop by the Growth penter ·to play, become aware and feel the universal forces ·of life that you have hidden within ypu.
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CIRCLE IN A CIRCLE ·• Students Maria Armstrong and Donny Es pinoz stand bock to examine a multi-colored, angular metal sculpture in the campus fibrary. The sculpture, decorated with vivid splashes of color, often stops visitors to the library in their tracks. Originally displayed in the Campus Gallery at the beginning of the fall semester, the sculpture was moved to the library, where it is getting lots more attention.
The health of Bay ar6.t marijuana smokers is in danger because of Paraquat, a deadly herbicide being sprayed on Mexican marijuana fields at U.S. expense. The spraying has been going on since 1975, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), but has only come to public attention in the last three months. The knowledge has caused a near panic in the Bay area, where about 23 percent of the samples received by a Palo Alto lab have been found to be contaminated. The main symptoms of Paraquat poisoning are breathing difficulty, coujjling up blood, and cheat pains. Permanent lung damage may result, but little is known for sure. "We don't know a hell of a lot about the effects," said Everett lewis, a drug rehabilitation worker at the Berkeley Free Clinic: "We're asking peopl& to be a little paranoid about the dope they smoke." Dr. Darrell lnaba of the Haight-Ashbury Clinic in San Francisco said that earlier reports of several poisoning cases at the clinic were inaccurate. "Right now we've seen people with possible symptoms, but said. no confirmed cases," lnabe said that although some of these people tYere heavy smokers of pot which proved to contain Paraquat, he could not be SL!re that they did not have some other ailment with similar symptions, such as pneumonia. The Pharm-Chem Research Foundation in Palo Alto has been testing marijuana samples anonymously
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for a $5 fee. A spokesman for the lab said that out of 1,428 samples over the past two months, 330, or 23 percent, were contaminated. There is now a three to six week wait for results from Pharm-Chem, whose phone number is (415) 322-9941. According to NORML the Paraquat spraying has been going of for three years, using U.S. supplied helicopters and more than $6 million worth of herbicides on Mexican fields. NORML has formally demanded that the U.S. State Dept. and DRug Enforcement Agency stop all support for the spraying program. NORML national director Keith Stroup has charged that the spraying violated the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 because the government hasn't filed an En vironmental Impact Statement. Reportedly, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture recommended two years ago that Paraquat spraying be discontiued, after a fatal accident involving the herbicide. The City College Times asked several students what they thought of Paraquat spraying and its effects. All said they were occasional pot smokers. One man agreed that Paraquat caused lung damage, but said, so does pot." He asked, "Who does it (responsibility) fall on? The dealers who sell it, the people who buy it or the people who spray it?" Another man said he knew of a friend of a friend who had been poisoned. " It really irritated his throat," . he said. A simple solution was suggested by one student. "I don't buy it, I grow it," she explained with a grin.
he , has outtitted as a complete ground for sending and receiving radio signals to and from satellites. He recorded telemtry signals from the new spacecraft as it passed over the Pacific on its first orbit. Telemetry is coded information as to the condition of a space craft. For istance, the week after OSCAR 8 was launched Shuch's classes were decoding recorded data which in· dicated the satellite's batteries were soon too warm. The problem cleared up. · OSCAR 8 went into a pola~ orbit, passing over both North and S9uth poles at an altitude of 970 kilometers, about 580 miles. Because it is relatively low, OSCAR circles the world in only an hour ·and 43 minutes. ."That's not a very good or!:, it for communications , but it's convenient for educational purposes,"