State plan·spells more homework Tougher prerequisites for '88 By Deborah Kerr Students who register for the first time in the fall of1988 can expect stiffer prerequisites and tougher homework standards, in accordance with new State of California "Title V" requirements. The Title V requirements passed by the state legislature and clarified into an administrative code on September 15 call for "college level vocabulary, study skills, and reading materials," along with a two-hour-per-unit homework requirement. According to Dean of Instruction Dr. Leo E. Chavez, the new "college level vocabulary, study skills and reading materials" requirements eventually could result in
mandatory lock-outs in all disciplines. "How do you enforce that with more than 10,000 students?" he questioned. The requirements were bounced between the school's administration and the courts for approximately two years because the requirements couldn't be defined, according to Gordon Peterson, chairperson of the Instructional Policies Committee. "The legal people, whom we normally cannot understand, are now saying that they can't understand what the educators · meant," he said. The committee, made up of faculty, administration and students, and designed to review
new course proposals and changes in criteria, is a body that takes upon itself the responsibility to understand criteria and make course recommendations, according to Peterson. Peterson stated that the two-hours-per-unit homework requirement has been a tradition for years, but he expressed concern about incorporating that requirement into courses such as physical education. Although he couldn't say exactly how it will be enforced because the committee is still in the process of deciding, he conjected that most courses would require a revised course outline and that individual
courses would have to be more carefully managed by the department deans. '"Teachers are concerned about the task of rewriting course outlines," Peterson said. "It will be time consuming and laborious," said Dr. Chavez, "but we don't have any options." He said it is unfortunate that ihe state is becoming so involved in community college education, and feels this is happening because of a bad perception of community colleges. "We are being forced more into a bureaucratic system by the state to prove that we are, in fact, demanding college level work," he said.
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Genocide feared in South Africa By E. Mark Moreno The problem in South Africa isn't racial segregation but what looms on the nation's horizon the out-and-out murder of its black population, according to a New York educator during a speech Wednesday morning at the City College theater. · Dr. Leonard Jeffries is currently chairman of the Black Studies Department at the City College of New York and for the past year has been working for the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, on the question of racism. Also founder of the Black Studies Department at San Jose State University, Dr. Jeffries was invited to speak to students on campus by social science instructor Charles Murry. Clad in a blue nishiki and slacks, the Columbia Ph.d. and spoke in a down-to-earth manner, contrasting at times with firey gestures and comments. This extreme contrast in mannerisms made for an attentive audience. "The crisis in South Africa is something that is not far away in another part of the world," he said. "It's right here, it's us ." He went on to say, "Nothing that we are doing is as meaningful as resolving the crisis in South Africa. We are in a mult-racial society, in a
multi-racial city and a multi-racial institution called San Jose City College ... It would not take much to destroy what you represent." Jeffries said that when the "white race war" reaches its peak in South Mrica, it won't be easy for people of different colors in this country to "sit down together." He then stated that the South African problem is not a question of divestiture or apartheid, but "The most degenerating system ever developed by humankind genocide." "The fascists in South Africa have the capability and the will to destroy 10 million Africans in a weekend. No people have ever had that hanging over their heads," he added. The professor said that the South Mrican people are facing genocide because the South African government has the military capability to wipe out the black population, if it has to, in order to maintain white status. He cited the existence of a secret South African brotherhood called the Broederbond that is made up of "15,000 white Afrikaner men sworn to maintain white supremacy at all costs." . This society, he said, is in alliance with the Dutch Reformed Church and the ruling Nationalist Party on a systematic plan for the destruction of black South Africans. Jeffries told the audience that, with the use of Japanese computers, this alliance has figured out how many blacks are expendible and how many can be retained as needed for work in the mines and industry. Too many local students, he concluded, are now concerned only with their individual careers and their own little piece of the pie. "When I was a student here in San Jose, an alliance of Mexicans, blacks, and progressive whites worked on ways (of changing the world). All that is dead now."
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Chief, Gordon Levy of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Jan Hutchins, Anchorman for Channnel 36 News, were just a few of the participants that modeled formal wear, business clothes, ski wear, sports, and western wear. The event raised $1,500. City College President Dr. Byron F. Skinner is expected to recommend that $1,000 be allocated to the new Honors Program and $500 to Wmpen's History Week.