San Jose City College Times, Vol. 39, Issue 14, Nov 26, 1986

Vol. 39, No. 14

Serving San Jose City College

Wednesday, November 26, 1986

Jags face Merced, not De Anza

By E. Mark Moreno on Monday (Nov. 17), but no Plans for a gridiron show- new bowl game can be down between two undefeated established until all the bowl rivals, the De Anza College Dons games have been filled."

She said that De Anza couldn't and the City College Jaguars, fell through, and City College is now make a move on the proposal scheduled to play the Merced until that Wednesday, and by that time City College had accepted College Blue Devils at the Dec. 6 the invitation from Merced.

Elks Bowl.

Schafer also cited a $10,000 Hopes for a Jaguars - Dons clash were dashed when De Anza bond that had to be posted by couldn't respond in time to a both colleges before an invitation bowl game proposal set forth by could be ac<;epted as another factor involved in the decision not City College.

The nationally 3rd-ranked to accept the bowl game proposal Jaguars will now go to Merced on Monday or Tuesday, Nov ~ College to play in the Elks Bowl, 17-18. As a result of these as 9th ranked De Anza heads factors, no response could have north to play Sacramento City been given before the following Wednesday, she said .

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De Anza Coach Bob Mazzuca The Jags defeated the City College of San Mateo Bulldogs had also said earlier that not 34-9 in the last game of the enough time was given to regular season last Saturday night respond to City College's proposal, which would have revtved at home.

The Times has learned that the Bay Bowl game that was last City College had reported De held at City College in 1982.

"I told Bert (Bonnano) that the Anza to the California Assorule book states, 'you gotta ciation of Community Colleges sometime after Oct. 1 on charges wait'," Schafer added, "De Anza of alleged athletic recruitment didn't turn down anything.

"There's no such thing as a violations. l-Iowever, CACC Athletic 'book'," said City College Director Walt Rilliet said that the Athletic Director Bert Bonnano. matter was only a question of He pointed out that De Anza accepted an invitation afterwards interpretation. to play against the Sacramento "San Jose City is questioning a practice that De Anza was doing," City College Dukes on Dec. 6 in he said. "If it is correct San Jose a new bowl game. can do it. If it is a violation it will · "Isn't that interesting that all of be straightened out ... It's a sudden they decided to play in a invariably a long drawn-out new game to be hosted by process which we hope will get Sacramento," he said. At the time, according to Bonnano, all resolved before Christmas."

Said De Anza Athletic Director established bowl game invitations Debi Schafer about the proposed hadn't been filled .

He said that he called Schafer bowl game mix-up, "We were just following athletic procedure. three times on Tuesday morning There was a proposal that came without getting a response before

Victorious Jaguars carry Coach Howard Gay off the field after winning a fourth GGC Title.

accepting Merced's invitation.

Responding to De Anza's contention that there wasn't enough time given by City College, Bonnano said "I don't know what takes so long to accept (an invitaton) ... all they would've had to do was say 'yes .'"

"The bottom line is, they don't want to play us."

The main reason De Anza

didn't accept, he added, was because they didn't want to play at City College, were the proposed Bay Bowl game would have been played.

"They didn't want to play here ... but like (City College Coach) Howard Gay said, 'We'll play them at Foothill, we'll play them at Milpitas, we'll play them in the parking lot of IBM."' Bonnano couldn't comment on

the rumor that De Anza didn't want to play City College because of the complaint filed by the latter against the former on charges of athletic recruitment violations, but did say "I have no doubts in my mind that that has nothing to do with why they didn't play us."

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Campus lottery ticket sales down

By Judith Gwananji Lottery sales at San Jose City College have dropped substantially since last year.

According to Don Rea, City College accountant, the estimated total sales so far this year are $1,800 compared to $19,000 in October 1985.

"The district anticipated (the decline) and adjusted our

budget," said Mike Hill, assistant superintendant and in so doing was the district able to withstand the drop in lottery-generated income.

According to Hill, the district will make an estimated 1.9 million this · year from lottery sales as opposed to last year's 2 million.

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Most students have not won much more than $2 or $5 ...

"Sales are going slow, partly because there aren't enough big prizes here," said Colleen Hartman. Supplies buyer for the college bookstore.

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sales clerk said that to her knowledge most stutlents have not won much more than $2 or $5.

Social science major Elizabeth Mbaacha bought tickets regularly for a month, she said, until she lost more than she won. At that point, she quit buying them.

English instructor Diane McAffee said that she doesn't

buy lottery tickets and that she does not approve of the use of lottery money for education.

"The college receives 5% of the $1 as commission for every ticket . sold," said Rea, "which docs not really amount to much."

Lottery money has been allocated to the district in ar~as like matriculation, remodelling and equipment, according to Hill.

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McKinn on students QIVe enthusiastic servtce

By Deborah Kerr They eagerly descend upon the campus with one goal in mind to do their jobs well.

Their task at hand is tough.

They must clean the City College student union famous for its filthy table tops.

The ages of these 13 enthusiastic workers range from 14 to 22.

They clean the filthy tables and chairs in the student union with such enthusiasm that they put City College students to shame.

Moving around faster than the eye can follow, they pick things up as soon as they are set down sometimes cleaning something up before a diner is finished with it.

They are developmentally handicapped.

In cooperation with Dean of Students Charles Southward and the food service management, these students from McKinnon

School of 2390 Moorpark, work on the campus Mondays through Thursdays from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30. Another group from .

McKinnon School, referred to as the starter group, works in the cafeteria from 1:30 to 2:30 on Mondays and Thursdays. • When they first arrive, they can be seen in the inner quad, adjusting their smocks, listening to their 'pep talk' and eagerly anticipating the tasks ahead of them.

Sometimes they get carried away, according to Jake Louie, vocational education instructor for the severely handicapped, and remove a student's plate or soda before he or she is lmished.

"The cafeteria employees are wonderful about it," he said.

"They usually replace the item for the student."

There is hope for the unkept state that the student union is in -

not from within the campus College campus. .

"We need more work from community, but from handicapped people who learn from various City College departcleaning it and take genuine pride ments," he said. "We also do office collating and stuffing in their work.

"The 1 work in the cafeteria envelopes. We have collated and student union is regarded by the stapled exam papers for several kids as a meaningful work City College departments."

Louie feels that the experience with a purpose," said Louie. "(They) feel a great handicapped students have been accomplishment when the greeted warmly when they are on cafeteria is cleaned and their job campus. is done. It makes them feel good "It's especially nice to see City about themselves."

College student's and staffs' Louie hopes to arrange an smiles of acceptance whenever they see us on campus," he said. on~campus room for the At the end of their work day, handicapped students to meet in, the handicapped students march but as of yet, that has not materialized.

According 'to off campus - their smocks on, Southward, there just aren't any • heads held high, and a visible empty classrooms to dooate at sense of accomplishment shows on their faces. So ends another this time.

Moreover, Louie hopes that his day where they have made an students will be able to do a important contribution to the City variety of jobs around the City College community.

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Required writing memory vs. intelligence ?

By Brenda Yeslco

Editorial

It's the frrst day of the semester, you walk into your intermediate swimming class and pick up the course green-sheet.

Everything looks in order until . you reach the bottom of the . page, where your eyes stop cold on the final course requirement a thousand-word essay on · the historical aspects of com~titive swimming events in the United States.

You immediately panic.

A research paper for a P.E. class?

Without another thought, you head straight for Admiss10ns and Records to drop the class.

Sound outrageous? To some, the thought of "Writing across the Curnculum" is like remembering what it was like having to eat their vegetables - something they'd only do when it was absolutely neces~, like on holidays or at grandrila's.

Ther, feel as though they are being 'force-fed" a subject in a way which puts them under and called it 'Homecoming'," said pressure to prove their knowledge and comprehension, rather McDonald. than absorbing it for what it Although homecoming failed to really is, the most complete and materialize, for whatever reason, things thorough form of understanding can be attained by simply communicating. and learning next to writing.

The proposal for "Writing For school spirit activities to work at all, · across the Curriculum," which the people involved have to talk to each would require instructors to assign more writing in classes other and find out what the other is which otherwise didn't depend on working on. How else can progress be it as a method of instruction, measured? would be a huge stride in the direction of greater retention and Since the ASB provides the understanding and would benefit cheerleaders' funds, it has to ultimately be every . aspect of a student's held accountable for what does or does not educat10n.

In addition, required writing in happen. all areas would broaden the scope The current cheerleading squad has of the student's potential for

Communicating An article in the Nov. 14 issue of the Times described a homecoming event that didn't materialize on Oct. 25 at the SJCCWest yalley game.

What went wrong?

According to the ASB Secretary, it was "traditionally" the cheerleaders' responsibility to present a homecoming proposal to them. "We made every effort ... but the failure of the cheerleaders to present a proper proposal made everything impossible," she was quoted as saying.

When asked about the proposal, . cheerleaders' advisor Kathy Degn said, "Nobody's ever talked to me about it ...

The first I'd heard that it was the cheerleaders' responsibility was when I read it in the paper."

However, ASB Interim President Kim McDonald said that the cheerleaders had submitted a letter stating that they wanted to hold a homecoming dance one week before the game.

The council's response was that if the cheerleaders wanted to do it, they could.

The ASB accepted no responsibility because there wasn't enough time to guarantee an event.

Then why the comment about the "failure of the cheerleaders?" It's like the - title of the Led Zeppelin song, "Communication Breakdown."

It also appears that many students attending the "homecoming" game confused it with an advertised - "Homecoming Pep Rally." There had been a communication breakdown here too, but those things happen. "We just went ahead

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been atound for only a year anyway, so they can't be held responsible for what "tradition" dictates'. They do have an obligation to cooperate with the council since the ASB does provide them a total of $950 for the 1986-87 school year.

To avoid frustration over what didn't happen or what's not getting done because of a lack of student involvement- or whatever - the ASB should also deal with what is, and not with what should be.

We can bang our heads all day trying to figure out what to do about student apathy; the bows and the whys and the "they're not like that at De Anza" blues.

The fact is, we're not De Anza, we're not West Valley and student apathy is an age-old problem here just as it is for many other community colleges.

We can, however, work with what we've got. And we can make what we've got work better - more often - by communicating.

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learning and add needed motivation to the learning process.

To truly grasp a particular body of .ICnowledge it is necessary not only to know it backwari:ls and forwards in your sleep, but to know how and where it fits into the scheme of thin,gs and how to apply what you ve learned to your greatest benefit Personally speaking, the knowledge whidi has remained with me and which I constantly draw upon in my day to day life and in the study of other subjects, are those courses in which I was required to write.

I believe that instructors who regularly integrate writing into theiJ: teaching plans are making an unportant statement about just how effective this method can be.

When an instructor asks you to write an essay or research paper, it's clear that he or she is much more concerned with what is actually being attained rather than how much a student can mechanically remember through hours of repetitive study.

Anyone can fill out a ScanTron answer sheet or "fill in the blanks," but these particular systems for measuring a person's comprehension are snort-changing our minds and making us more dependent on our memories instead of our intelligence.

Anyone can go through the motions of learning, just like they can .smile ~hile gaggingdown therr carrots or spmach.z but who's fooling who"!

Education shouldn't be an illusion, but an evolution of experiences, which can be bound together through the process of wntng.

Other campuses

Excuse me!

Excuses, excuses. Those ubiquitous, often eloquent little pretexts serve to redeem even the most awkward of souls from the stickiest of predicaments.

Society's preoccupation with pardoning itself has caused many people to become experts of the excuse1 and shirking one's responsibility. seems tp have become a nattonal pastune.

In fact, Americans are so adept at the art of absolution that most could probably teach a class on how to get out of doing just about anything. It's impossible to get through a week these days without hearing someone try to explain why they couldn't, wouldn't or didn't We continue to originate excuses for every conceivable situation. When t!)'ing to weasel our way out of attending an in-depth discussion on the role of the silkworm in Thailand, we may say. something like this: "I really didn't want to miss that lecture. I've been planning to attend for weeks. But my Uncle Sydney is flying in from Australia that evening and I'm the only one in our family who remembers what he looks like.

So guess who's elected to pick him up at the airport?"

We also hear many of the old

standbys, including: "My dog ate my term pa~r," "The sun got in my eyes, and "Not tonight honey, I have a headache."

Everyone makes excuses, and why not? Our lives should be spent pursuing what we enj9y.

Why should we do somethmg we don't want to do or have to do, just because we are told to do it or asked to do it? Instead of attending that baby shower, Tupperware party or 8 a.m. electronics class, we would rather be turning brown on a Southern California beach, shussing down a Sierra mountain or reading the newspaper on a shaded park bench.

What do we say to grarldmother's Thanksgiving ilinner when our best friend has a beach house reserved for the weekend in San Diego? Shouldn't we throw accountability out the window and offer alibis when we don't want to finish what we started?

Maybe we all should take our...what did you say? Where do you want me to go - the BEACH! Well...

Please excuse me, I'll be back soon.

By Jeff Doleman American River Current

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Jags cap first perfect season

By Brenda Yesko The Jaguars wrapped up their first undefeated season Saturday night, stomping over the City College of San Mateo 34-9 in front of an ecstatic home crowd.

Currently, the Golden Gate Conference champion Jaguars are ranked No. 3 nationally, No. 2 statewide and No.1 in NorCal, finishing 10-0,5-0 (GGC).

"It feels great to be 10-0," said Coach Howard Gay, who couldn't have asked for a better finish for his team than Saturday's win, where Jim Mastro set a school record with his 98-yard TD. The Jaguar defense upheld its iron curtain, allowing1 San Mateo

a mere 4-yards rushing in 23 carries.

On the previous weekend, the Jaguars · were at 9-0 after a hard-fought 23-14 win over the City College of San Francisco Rams, the GGC title game which promised to shatter the Jaguars record and any hopes they had of running away with the championship.

"The game was closer than it should have been," said Jaguar quarterback Ed Larson, who ran for a key 35-yard touchdown in the third quarter and has a total of 1,689 yards for the season.

The sizable Ram defensive coupled with the whirl-wind running game of Louis LaDay, held the Jaguars to only field goals in the first half, as the ball

flip-flopped between teams faster dumbfounded and Larson and than the cheerleaders could Mastro in position to score. change their cheers. Jim Hughes Rick Huck and Norman Brown managed to hold command of the blocked a 35-yard field S.F. field posts with the halfs two field goal attempt which loomed to be goals of 32 and 20-yards. the Jaguar's upset, but instead Down 7-6 at the half, the left the Rams sheared and headed Jaguars got down and dug their claws in, letting loose Darron for the stables.

Aldrich and Jim Mastro, who "I couldn't have done it without impressively moved the football Norman Brown," said Huck, who into scoring position up against a was named state defensive player threatening San Francisco line. of the week following the game "The defense was tough," said and Northern California Football Mastro. "They knew what we Writers Association defensive were going to do but we just player of the week. stuck to our game plan and it With under six minutes of play worked." Mastro made the key · left the Rams were able to turn block for Larson's 35-yard TD. around and put LaDay in for the Larson's touchdown, a playgame's second catch-up, action pass, left the defense resulting in a 14-13 San

Francisco advantage.

An astonished San Francisco home crowd went wild as Ed Larson . handed off to No. 20, freshman Darron Aldrich, who ran for a 9-yard TD, to give the Jaguars a clear 20-14 lead. . Although the 5'5", 145 lb, Aldrich said the defense was "big and tough," he managed to out maneuver them with speed and set up an additional 25-yard Hughes field goal. Final score · Jaguars 23, Rams 14, pushing the Jaguars to 9-0 and putting them one away from a perfect season.

"The kids played great, it feels good to be this far," said Gay of the win.

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Photos by Luzmaria V. Martinez A San Francisco player jar s the ball away from the Jaguars' Pat Nelson (left), while Mike Caravelli and Norman Brown n (above) embrace after a hard fought Jaguar victory.

Track to get face lift for world trials in 1987

By E. Mark Moreno City College's track is in the of receiving a new face JUSt m time for the world championship track trials coming to the campus June 26-28.

The track resurfacing was made possible by an $80,000 grant from the City of San Jose this past summer.

"I made a presentation to the mayor, who was in attendence at proce~s

the Bruce Jenner Classic (last meters.

May)," said Athletic Director Bert In addition to this, there will be Bonnano. The funds were a new pole vault run way and a awarded by the City Council widened high-jump apron, soon after.

Bonnano said.

Honnano said that the "About a year ago we decided revamping job "will allow us to to (resurface) the track," said make our track meet up to international standards" - from an Facilities Planning Director original 440-yard track to an Phillip Mowry. "That's when Bert started his deals with the international standard size of 400 city."

Mowry said that the track green ...There's a chemi cal reaction in the material," he said. now, but there has been a "That's all I can think of." problem with the track changing The new track should be completed within the next four to color.

"We're having problems with six weeks, according to ultra-violet rays turning the track Bonnano. should have been completed by

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Christmas Fest· Choir, brass quintet will perform- .Dec. 7

By Nora Hensley A nostalgic "Old Fashioned Christmas Festival," the first one of its kind, will be performed by the City College Chamber Choir and brass quintet at 6:30p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, in the City College Theater.

From 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. the College's chamber choir and brass quintet will be strolling, singing and playing in the theatre lobby among theater-goers who will be offered hot cider to create a festive mood.

Then, at 7 p.m., Joseph Blaha, lead trombonist for the Wind Symphony and formerly from the U.S. Army Band, Washingto? D.C., will perform a solo in the "Concerto for Trombone" by RimskyKorsakoff.

Guest artist Larry Crummer, a new music faculty member from Evergreen Valley ' College, will be performing "Fanfare and Processional for Organ and Brass Quintet," composed by Joseph Blaha.

The Grand Finale, a community sing-along of popular Christmas carols, will be directed by new City College choir director Charles Fidlar, assistant conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus ..

The cost is $3.00 for adults and $1.50 for students and seruor citi7..ens.

COMFORTING TONE -- Maria (Deborah Ann Norman) left, and Serafma (Inez King) attend to Semyon Semyonovich (Ric F~r:est~r),_the hero of

Photo by Sheldon J. Griffitl The City College College Choir will entertain in the Old Fashioned Festival.

"The Suicide" a play performed by me City College Drama Department. The play ended Nov. 23.

Review

'Suicide' succeeds

By Mildred Madamba The Drama Department's staging of "The Suicide" was a hands-down success.

The Russian play, written by Nicolai Erdman and translated by Peter Tegel, was amusing but still thought-provoking under the direction of David Nagey Gassner. This production of the black comedy, which explores an individual's susceptibility to coercion, was especially enjoyable because it was studded with solid performances.

Ric Forrester, playing the harried Semyon Podsekalnikov who is everyone's suicide victim but his own, gave an almost seamless performance, carrying the show which shifted wildly from farce to pathos and back again.

Deborah Ann Norman also did a fine job as Semyon's wife, Maria. She was particularly effective in the first act, which resembled a Russian version of a 'Honeymooners' episode. Norman played well against Forrester, matching his childish Semyon with her overconcemed Maria.

Chuck Hewitt's portrayal of Alexander Kalabushkin was journeyman-like but was not slimy enough for a character who would sell a neighbor's death tp the highest bidder. Hewitt, who should have been the number one

bad •guy, was upstaged by supporting players because his chaJ:acter had little bite.

The player who turned in the most notable supporting perormance was Robert James Fairless, playing the slightly off-center butcher, Nikifor Pugachov. Fairless made a memorable entrance and continued to hold the audience's attention, even when he was not center stage, with gleefully demented expressions and a convincing penchant for violence which put his character on the edge between rational behavior and insanity.

Other performances of merit came trom Inez King, as

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Semyon's mother-in-law, Cindy Marcus and Julie Haney-Walsh.

Lori Tuite, in the sizable part of Aristarch Golashcbapov, a male member of the educated class which is in the market for a martyr detracted from her already strained believability by hamming it up.

On the whole, "The Suicide" was a fine production with some very good perfqrmances, most notably Forrester's. Stark scenery and the sparing use of props helped to set the mood for the play, as once again the set construction and design crew fulf'llled expectations.

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