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Vol. 30 No. 12
Spri ng Telephone 298-2181 ext. 346
Friday, May 19, 1978
150 gra d uates of SJCC will. hear uthor o n May 31 About 150 City College students expected to participate in gradion exercises at 11 a.m. May 31 the main gym, with Dr. Joseph Bird scheduled as the guest speaker. Bird has practiced as a clinical logist and psychotherapist in Jose for the past 15 years and co-authored many books with wife Lo is. Bird is also the of a new concept in the of psycholo9'y which is called Visual Image F..,.mula. This
concept was developed to help the individual reject the limitations on their won lives and seek to cha119e their lives for the better. Bird recently participated in a Community Services <;:ultural Series open public forum at the Center for the Performing Arts with author of "Jonathan livingston Seagull," Richard Bach. Mayor Janet Gray Hayes will award a $100 scholarsh1p; however, ~~-other awards have been announc-
Graduates will be notified of honor status when they receive their diplomas. Nevada Gov. Michael O'Callighan was scheduled to speak at this spring's graduation, but decided to decline the invitation to speak be· cause of a protest planned by an Ad Hoc Student Protest Committee. Evergreen Valley's grauation is scheduled tor 6 p.m. June 1 in the amphitheater with Dr. Richard P. Mesa, to be the guest speaker.
Energy sQvings achieved at City College ca mpus By Melinda Mitchell
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Pacific, Gas and Electric Co. has lowered some of San Jose City College's gas and electricit y rates as a direct result of the energy saving programs at City College. " P G & E recognized that we are very frugal in saving energy," said Bob Brydon, district superof construction and mainten· nee at City College. The energy City College saved a sample average of approximatel y 20% between 1976 and 1977. The energy saving programs immediately begin saving energy
once they have been implemented. less energy and give off approxiHowever, the saving of money mately the same light. Brydon said comes in the long run said Brydon . that the school would like to convert all the incandescent bulbs to Many energy saving programs fluorescent bulbs. However, since have been put into effect at City there is not enough money to do College. One of the most effective this all at once, he is maki!lg the. of .these was all the boilers and changes little by little. heaters were put on time clocks. Two major energy saving proAlso, an intrusion alarm system jects are now being planned. One has been installed. With this securof these is to construct a solar enity system all services such as lightergy heating system in Records and ing and heating are automatically turned off. Admissions office. 'Besides conserv· Anthor energy conserving methO ing energy, this will also save money over a period of years of the od is the replacement of incandesweather is good, said Brydon. cent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs. The fluorescent bulbs use City College is also planning to construct a central utility building in which there will be one large boiler. This boiler will heat water which will go through pipes to all the permanent buildings on campus. According.y , the elimination of in· dividual boilers in the rooms will require less maintenance. "We use much more energy, .. Brydon said when he compared San Jose City College to Evergreen. He said that City College is a larger campus and has more pilot lights. However, Evergreen has only one pilot light and was built to conserve energy. He also said that Evergreen has an automatic energy con· troller. The computer monitors all the heating and lighting systems and turns everything off and on. The only obstacle to the entire energy conservation program are "money and personnel cooperation," said Brydon. He was referring to the lack of cooperation of the instructors, in turning off the lights in their classrooms .
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PING OUT LIGHT LY-Home Economics stud ents S ue CaseII a_n d EP Sanstrom ham 1· t up while modeling some of the pieces of cloth1~g th made in Creating Creative Cloth ing class. The c Iass he ld 1ts at 1 efyashl' on show Thursday night in the Faculty Lounge, where the nua · dents had an opportunity to display their talents as des1gners.
In a survey of 75 classrooms on April 18, 16 percent of the rooms had lights left on in empty rooms. Brydon said that this is the big· gest waste of energy at City College. At one time in the last, Brydon paid a student to go around to each classroom and turn off the lights in the empty rooms. Explaining, "It is something I might initiate again," he said. "I'm weighing the cost and the public relation value of turning off an instructor's light when he might be in the back of his room." Brydon said that one way that students can help to conserve is to "think conservation when they go into a room where there is only t " He sa1'd th at one or two st u d ens. students often go into an empty lab ....__ he and t urn on a II the I.19ht s .."'""' or she will be in only part of the room.
THE FINAL REWARD-Photographer David C. Brown used some darkroom manipulation to visua,. ize the reward of two years of work that graduates will be receiving on May 31 . Dressed in the tradition·
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al cap and gown the graduates win receive their sheepskin signifying they have received an A. A. degree after many hours spent with the books. Contrats gratis!
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Ca feteria problem commOn By Keith Hodgin One of the things City College has in common with other area communty colleges is student complaints concerning the high prices and low quality of food provided on campus. Representatives from Foothill and West Valley colleges stated that students on both campuses had ex· pressed complaints concerning their cafeterie~s.
Complaints such as these led to the recent boycott of Guckenheimers by the Associated Student Council. Guckenheimers is the vendor that supplies the food for the cafeteria, which is located in the student union. According to Warren Newfield, manager of Guckenheimers, the problem of customer complaints has been solved by opening a better channel of communications be· tween Guckenheimers and the Student Council. Newfield took over management two weeks before the boycott was made public, and said that changes were already in motion when the boycott was initiated. He also said the complaints were valid but it took too long for the stud~nts to communicate their problems to him . The student council had two weekly meetings with Guckenheimers nd after the second one decided to ' lift the boycott. The boycott lasted from March 9 to April 4 . Armand said they decided to lift the boycott because Guckenheim· ers appeared to be trying to improve. Louise Tuite, a sales representa· tive from Guckenheimers, said that if the contract goes up for bid, Guckenheimers will not participate in the b idding. Jeff Kimball, West Valley studetn and student counc1·1 mem b er, said students there have liked the · quality of food, b ut t h at t h e pnces
are exorbitant. City College menus. Out of those "The quality has never been a 41 items, 30 of them were lower at problem, it's the price we pay for City College than at West Valley. that quality," said Kimball. The prices on the other college's Foothill college's food service menus fluctuated higher and lower doesn't excape criticism either. than City College's, but on the In an issue of the Sentinel {Foot· average were about the same. hill's newspaper) last semester, an Below is a portion of that s•Jr· article quoted a member of their vey showing the price differences Associated Student Fooo Commit-. in the items that are less expensive tee as saying, "Food servings at ·at City College. Foothill are small and the menus aren't that appetizing." City . West Valley A survey taken last semester by the student government at West $1.25 Chef salad 95 cents Valley showed that prices at City orange juice 35/50 cents 40/60 cents College were comparable to other ham and egg~ $1 .20 $ 1.75 area communtiy colleges. The colburrito 55 cents 60 cents leges in the survey were West Valley, City College, Foothill, Ohlone Roast Beef sand.· 95 cents $1.05 and De Anza. The biggeSt difference that can The survey compared the prices be noticed in comparing City Col· of 41 items on the West Valley and lege's cafeteria to other colleges is the atmosphere. City College is an older school and the decor does not compare to the other newer schools. Election '78 at San Jose City Newfield said he has asked the art • College has now come to a close department if they would paing a for the time being · mural on the wall of the commons Mike Galvan capt~red the race as a class project, but he has not by attaining 52.6 percent of the received a reponse from them. He vote. Antonio Rodriguez, the only said Guckenheimers is not responcandidate running unchallenged for sible for the atmosphere, but wantthe office of vice-president, won ed to help in cleaning the place up. the Office by the voting margin of 81 .5 percent.
District faces deficit The San Jose Community College District faces a $1.2 million deficit for 197B-79, according to figures released at the 9oard of Trustees meeting Tuesday . In a presentation of the 1978-79 Study Budget, Vice Chancellor Dr. Richard Goff cited declining enrollement as the reason for the def'1cit. Dr. Goff estimated there would be a 5.2 per cent decline in enrollment this year and a 3 per cent decl ine next year. The Board also heard a presenta·
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tudent card comp,a ny expresses emotions By D1vid C. Brown
There are those days of ~he year onlY the right greetmg card say how you feel. As a result spend hours looking at r?ws rows of greeting cards not fmdthe one that exactly _expresses true feelings . You fmd cards cute drawings and funny ~es and cards with beaut1ful photographs but the message out in the garden. of these feelings a nt at San Jose CitY College, a Pogue, and a friend of her's, le Schumake decided to cre~te own card company W~lch d bring together the nght of images and words. The idea tor the company came after a number of, c~ual nn"•orc!n ons at Schurnake s kltCh· table. They both had the talents work with images and words. is a photographer and Schue is a journalist. They two talked about various ways could express their talents perhaps make some money at
the same time. I hey finally decided that they should try to create cards that would convey a "madeforyou," impression . . Neither woman was sure qu1te how to go about tl)e job but as they looked at Pogue's photographs the messages began to flow. Work· in!l on a shoestring budqet and
always with their two children "our assistants," underfoot the company began . They found in the long run that a small budget and children were not the real handicaps but rather their inexperience in the field of graphics that hindered them ~he most. Their first attempt at takmg copy to a printer found t~em lo?k· ing for a class in graph1c des1gn so that they could learn layout, and what was meant by camera
tp]Pt ready copy. Pague says that she has found that her talents in talking with people and asking questions as well as organizing have paid off well. Coupling this with Schumake's knowledge of words and what they both learned in the graphics class the women soon had their first order of Christmas cards printed. Now they had to learn the techniques of marketing. One of the first thi.ngs they learned was that stores that carry cards order them six months in advance of the season the cards would be needed for. However they were able to sell a number of orders to friends and relatives. Since that leeble beginning the women have created cards for Mothers Day, Father's Day, as well as note cards, stationary, flyers and some campaign items. Their biggest order was for 250 cards for a mortuary . "Through all of this it never occured to us that our cards might
not sell," says Schumake. ''We had taken a substantial number of orders but by no means enough to exhaust our supply," she added. Pogue said that their cards are good but not flowery, they get to the pOint. She adds that they are trying to stay away from the word love because it has lost its meaning. Rather they are trying to express the emotions of love and caring. "I like love, but the meaning has been screwed up," adds Pogue.
Times says Goodbyel With this issue the City College Times will bid adieu for an~ther semester. Look tor our next ISSUe Sept. 15. The Times staff hopes that everyone has an enjoyable and relaxing summer.
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tion on reduction of personnel costs by Vice Chancellor of Educa· t ional Services Dr. Dorothy Burns. Reduction in personnel is expected to result in a $500,000 reduction in the current budget. "These reductions represent a positive beginning step in the process of total budget reduction," said Dr. Burns, but she also added, "much more will have to be done." Dr. Burns also suggested that both staff and students by involved in further budget reriurtions.