Vol. 40, No.2
Serving San Jose City College
Friday, February 27, 1987
Honors program off to a slow start By Brenda Yesko Limited exposure and the struggles of launching an innovative new program have led to virtually no enrollment in City College's $44,500 honors program which began this spring. One of the four honors program courses offered, Great Books, taught by honors program head Dr. Albert Solomon, is being held as a regular class. "It takes a while to know that a new program is in existence," said Dr. Solomon, adding that the program's primary audience is not found in the spring, but fall semester, because most spring students are continuing and not newly enrolled. Of the program's remaining three courses, English lA, taught by Kathleen Colligan was dropped, because there were no sign-ups at all. The other two, Intro. to Sociclogy, and Physical Environment, are now being individually instructed because both had a sign-up of one student each. Dr. Leo Chavez,the dean in charge of the program, stated that efforts to recruit high school students for the
summer honor's program are under way with the anticipation of a much higher enrollment. "Our original intent was to aim the program at incoming freshmen and high school and juniors who could either use the credit for high school or as college credits," said Chavez. Honors program requirements will remain the same for City College students which includes having a 3.5 grade point average, a 90 percentile score on verbal placement tests, and a writing sample, but will not be as rigorous for high school students this summer. "High school students are being required to get a letter of recommendation from their school principle and be interviewed by honors program advisors," said Dr. Solomon, who is confident of success for the fall once the summer program gets under way .. History lOA and English lA are the two honors course being offered this summer. These courses will be instructed by part-time teachers. In addition, the fall semester will feature English lA with Colligan,
Environmental Science with Lopez and Intro. to Biblical Literature with McAfee. "We're working hard for greater success in the summer and fall," stated Chavez, who blamed the low enrollment on on "little reasons," such as conflicting time slots for students and the fact that a lot of City College students have already taken some of the courses that are being offered. Students receiving individual instruction this spring are receiving the same, if not more specialized instruction in spite of being the only students enrolled, said Dr. Solomon. :'These students and instructors can set their own objectives and goals to work to their greatest advantage and they will probably be getting in more hours because of this," stated Solomon. With greater exposure and increased recruiting of high school students, the honors programs hopes to be in full swing by the fall '87 semester.
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Photo by Luzmaria V. Martinez ASB's new president, Kim McDonald, in Student Union By Brenda Yesko Kim McDonald is City Collge's new ASB president after winning the council's second presidential election held February 11-12 with 58% of the total votes cast. "I never expected to win by such a wide margin," said McDonald, who defeated her opponents Scott Moore and Frances King who both carried less than half the 202 total votes cast.
McDonald had been the council interim president since October '86. She will remain president until elections for new ASB officers are held in April. McDonald is unsure if she will be running for the position once again in this next election. This second election went off without any problems according to the election commission which is enthusiastic about April's election as well. "Everything went smoothly this time, we had no complaints," said ASB secretary, Ann-Marie Ruiz, a commission member along with Shannon Sweeny and Charlina Harshbarger, who worked to bring about and insure greater accuracy for this election. At this week's ASB council meeting, held Wednesday, five ASB offices were appointed and confirmed by the council. Among these appointments was
the office of vice president to which former Director of Academic Affairs, Shannon Sweeny was named. "The reason for its (the election) success, was due to the fact that the jobs that one person had to in the first election were handled by three people this time," added the new vice president Sweeny also explained that the council was working on further improvements for April's election which will not only
"I never expected to win by such a wide margin." -- Kim McDonald include election procedures, but new ways of reaching a greater voting audience on campus. "Of 21,084 students enrolled at this college, only 203 actually took the time to vote," stated a frustrated Sweeny, but said she is hopeful that there will be a greater turnout at the next election. The council will also be making revisions to the ASB constitution which have to be voted on by the student body in this election. However, the process is time consuming and tedious as Sweeny relayed.
In addition to Sweeny's appointment, the following offices were named: Director of Evening Affairs, J.: elley Bundy; Director of Acede.:nic Affairs, Carmen Flores; and ASB Newsletter Secretary, Elizabeth Hopkins. Sweeny said that the council was "pushing " to have the revisions ready in time to be included on April's ballot. April election will be held to re-elect the offices of president, vice president, secretary, Director of Finances, and other top ASB offices of the fall 87 -spring 88 school year. "We will be working to make the ASB's constitution understandable to everyone," added Sweeny, who emphasized that the council's main problem as always, is lack of student interest and involvment. The ASB has an exciting events calendar of the remainder of the semester which includes a "Black and White Ball/Spring Banquet," the "Talent-No-Talent Contest," and they will be co-sponsering a dance with the wo·m en's basketball team. For more information on these and other ASB events contact any ASB officer or stop by a council meeting Wednesday afternoon's at 2 p.m. at the council chambers upstairs in the student union.
On ·Thursday, Jennie Buckner, .;Maggi Scura and •. Susan · $timdley . will dis·'cuss"Women in Media." .· ' Oil Friday; to conclude the ' lorig celebration, ~U<UIJUUIIVCrOWell and ll10na · present · dra~ ... , ..,...,. . ...,.~ ..... ~ from· "A
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credit food boOths, entert<i,iritnelltt, and exhibits in ;')UJtaelllt Union. .· . . . , · on Saturday~ ~~~~, ~.T·. iri the College will be an ptesellLtation fo.r Janet Following the will be the • Ice~mote\ Jlddte~s . . .. given by Senator Watson> Qri. Srinday the . 15th, the play ~:Top Girls" by·, Caryl Churchill, will open·'in the carnptisJheateu General ad-
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At \ JJ • a:m. on Monday, · Mar~h}\J 6, . City ~ollege . .·instriic!Oi Martha .. Kendall . · will ::·{teiNer \: a ~h . on Eliia~th . Cady •. Stanton, a femal(jQurnalist wllo fought. for the equality of women iri the lat¢18()0's. This will be irithifaculty lohnge••...... addition. . lretJe ·.I)atis;
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