Vol39, No 9
Serving San Jose City College
Friday, September 5, 1986
City College adopts theme By Deborah Kerr San Jose City College has adopted an academic theme for school year 1986-87. "Freedom and Responsibility" is the theme that will be used to "bring cohesion of the City College Academic program," according to City College President, Dr. Byron F. Skinner. The theme is designed to link together all aspects of the college community - drama, music, as many courses as possible, speeches and activities, he said. According to Dean of Instruction Dr. Leo E. Chavez, the reasons for adopting and implementing a theme were twofold. One reason is to spark excitement in the college community. "We are trying to react in a positive way to some criticisms directed towards City College,"
he sai~. "Hopefully, by doing that~ ~1ty College will be more ~xcltmg and alive, especially mtellectuall y." Selecting a theme should also improve the overall image of the colleg.e, Dr. Chavez said, adding that City College needs to project ~ts pres~~ce into the community m a positive way by selling itself better. The theme was decided upon by the faculty, according to Dr. Chavez, who came up with the initial idea of "Freedom and Responsibility." "The whole notion of ~cademic freedom brought the Idea to my mind," said Chavez who also said that the celebratio~ of the 1OOth armiversity of the Statue of Liberty also influenced the decision. The 1986-87 City College catalog describes the theme by saying that teachers and students
"We are trying to react in a positive way to some of the criticisms directed towards City College ... " have the right to free expression, but they also have the respon- sibility to study and investigate opinions. Thus, it says, "academic freedom cannot be separated from academic and professional responsibility." "Freedom and Responsibiliy" will be the focus of as many aspects of the campus as possible, according to Dr. Chavez. Instructors will incorporate the theme into their lectures, outside readings and so
on . . School plays and concerts will also use material selected with the theme in mind. California Supreme Court Associate Justice Edward A. Panelli will speak at City College's convocation on September 25, and may' be the 1987 commencement speaker this May. Congressmen Norman Mineta and Don Edwards have agreed to speak at City College. Tentative plans are made for October and September, according to Dr.
Chavez. According to Dr. Skinner, adopting a theme is common in universities. He feels that since that community colleges are part of the four-year college system, he wants City College students to get the same exposure. "People don't realize that the chancellor of UCLA graduated from a community college," he said. He hopes that the theme and all the ·related activities will , encourage students to become involved in culture outside the classroom and enjoy their. intellectual heritage. Dr. Skinner said that the benefits of adopting this theme would be that students would understand culture, instruction · would be emiched, and students will develop pride in their institution.
Changing Times unveils new look Notice anything different? This edition of the City College Times is special. First, it has a new "flag," or nameplate. The "flag" was designed by Debra Warsaw, a student last semester in James St. Clair's Graphics Design class. The typeface is Pistilli Roman Black, and it is continued throughout the paper on inside page headings. Text is set in 10-point Times Roman, and headlines are in Helvetica. "We want the newspaper to be more attractive visually " journalism instructor Art Car~y said.
Take a number!
. This is the first edition of the Tlffies to be completely type-set by.stu?ents. All copy -- stories, edlt~mals, opinion columns, captwns and headlines -- was typeset by students emolled in the Journalism 65 Newspaper Staff class.
A lot of students spent time in lines that continued to extend along the quad outside the cafeteria during registration. !errell Graveas was one of them. He got the idea of stepping mto the cafeteria and to borrow a chair to make his wait a little more comfortable. As of Tuesday, the Records Office reported that there were 4,398 day students and 5,377 evening students emo_lled at San Jose City College. These figures represent a 3% I?Crease in day students while evening emollment has remamed about the same since last year.
"It's a good learning experience. Students learn how to use the computer," Deborah Kerr, Times Editor for the fall semester commented. "We have got new equipment that offers new capabilities," Carey added.
Photos by Luzmaria V. Martinez
"The new equipment produces a better looking typset," Kerr said. "It will be a more independent and efficient paper because we're using the computers." Stories were written and edited on four Apple Macintosh computers in the Journalism lab Room 303, and then converted t~ camera-rea~y paste-up copy by a laser pnnter located in Reprographic Services, Room 307. On-campus setting of type _ for the newspaper should save about $6,000 a year in typesetting costs and end frequent trips to the typesetter with copy. Computerized production of newspaper o~ campus began m earnest durmg the spring seme~ter with the setting of headlmes, corrections advertising and late stori~s. This semester we hope to begin the process of pagination -- designmg the appearance of the paper by computer. This will also include design of advertising and greater use of graphics. ~e
1f you'd like to learn more about journalism in the computer age, drop into Room 303 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday.
Not so lazy summer comes to end aRec~orto be rra Ig ned By E. Mark Moreno
It was lazy summer time on campus ... but not for everybody. For most people, the semester ended with a graduation ceremony that was held June 5. The event was held for the first time ever at an off-campus location, the Montgomery Theater in downtown San Jose. A~cording to City College President Dr. Byron Skinner, a record-breaking attendece of between 1300 to 1400 people turned out to watch the approximate 220 graduates march. And while many students and graduates worked, drank, or slept through the summer, other students attended summer college.
So did the kids. The kids in College for Kids, that is. For the past three summers, the College for Kids program at City and Evergreen Valley colleges has provided summer classes for children and adolescents in the kindergarten through tenth grades. Described as an enrichment program by Community Services Assistant Dean Roberta Firetag, College for Kids developed as an alternative summer school because of cutbacks in the grade and high school summer curriculum in local schools a few years ago. The program offers classes in science, martial arts, computers,
and French, among others. In add~~on to these, other~. less trad1U?.nal courses such as Teen Image were offered. . In yart of a class eval~u~n. a quesuon asked what was disliked about a class, and one 11-year-old responded, "the br~." . Frretag estlffiated that ru:ound 700 students were emolled m the 48 classes at City College and Evergreen. "~t's a~ program to run," she srud, addmg that the program will be in effect "as long as people ':"ant it." . Also acuve on campus this past summer was the Drama Department with three productions. The department'~ Summer Shakespeare Festival featured "The
Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Hamlet." Alon~ with the Shake~p~.are productions, s.~even Gooch s Female Transport was featur~. . .. . ~ mter~stmg addition to t.J:Us years fesuval was the_ Rena1ssance Troupe as an operung act to the Shakespeare plays. "We did something new this summer," Kester said, referring to the performance of "Female Transport" at the downtown City
The arraignment proceedings for Gregory P. Rector, 24, charged in the murder of former Student Trustee Mark K. Garies, 27, are set to continue Sept. 29 in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakla.1d. _Rector is also being charged w1th three counts of kidnapping. Two counts stemming from the ab~uction of Garies and Lori Shifrel, 22, from Garies' home in San Jose on February 26. Lights Theater instead of the The additional count is for campus theater. "Transport" drew takin_g over the car of Michael a crowd of between 40 and 100 Turrunello, 24, of Modesto after the shooting that killed Garies. people a night because of a Charges against Rector also "solid review" in the Mercury include one count of assault with News, Kester said. a deadly weapon.