·oi Pippa speaks philosophically of freedom Attempting to tackle the vast subject of freedom in the context of history aM philosophy, he destiny?" a poignant and com- dug deep into the heart of the plex question posed by Dr. matter coming up with the Albert Di Pippo, during a brief conclusion that most people . speech in the City College haven't been able to comprehend what freedom truely is. theatre. "We don't have the least Di Pippo, a San Jose City understanding of freedom," College/Evergreen philosophy instructor, addressed the City asserted Di Pippo, . professing College theme of "Freedom and that freedom has become a buzzword in today's society and also Responibility." Di Pippo challenged every- one whose concept is comthing that society and its people paritively new to the western believe to be freedom and re- world Di Pippo began by spanning sponsibilty.
By Brenda Yesko
TIII'IU Editor "Is man free to create hi own
Committees to look into fund raising By Brenda Yesko
A committee bas been formed to review fund raising activities and the accounting of the collected monies on the City College and Evergreen campuses. Trustees Richard Bowers and Charles Blackmore of the San Jose/Evergreen District Board make up this committee which Dean of Instruction, Dr. Leo Chavez said he hopes will be "a quick, thorough look (at the way fund raising and over all accounting take place on campus.)" The formation of this committee, according to Dr. Chavez was directly related to the arrest of City College assistant baseball coach, John A. Payne, 41. Payne, who was arrested April 5 was charged with writing a $600 check without sufficient funds to back it up. Because the check exceeded $500, he was also charged with grand theft, according to San Jose police. These charges are in connection with a fund raising raffle held by the baseball team last December to raise money for a field trip to Japan this June. Payne is scheduled to appear in court on these charges at 2 p.m. on May 21, according to the County Clerk. District Superintendent, Michael Hill, said the board had become "very concerned" and that there was need for a review. Hill did not however, say that he felt the reason for the investigation sprang from Payne's arrest as Dr. Chavez had stated. According to the district board minutes, trustee Bowers suggested the appointment of an outside auditor to work with the subcommittee but the Board-has not since employed the services of one. A second committee which will be looking into fund raising on the City College campus is the Senate Athletic Committee
"We don't have the least understanding of freedom. "
- -Dr. AI Di Pippo He cited the Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex and challenged the meanings of its unfairness and cruelty, contesting that "fate gives insight to the future." Di Pippo, who holds a Masters Degree in philosophy
from Stanford Unive¢ty, freq-
uently referred to the innovative thinking and reasoning of Socrates calling him "the first to specifically talk about freedom," not in terms of choice but as a mtionalist He retold an excerpt from the Greek myth of Hector and his wife Andromache. Di Pippo reasoned that Hector, who was fighting the Trojan War, was forced to "bow to necessity," which he felt was fighting the war, while his wife stayed at home, leaving them sepamte,
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the historical aspects of freedom from Plato to Socrates to Gredc mythology to Jesus Christ.
Friday, May 15, 1987
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(SAC). This committee, headed by q-ty College Facufty Senate president David Yancey will be probing the Athletics department SAC was formed in the spring of 1986, after political studies instructor Charles Murry wrote a memorandum to college president Dr. Skinner, on the subject of "embarmssing academic perfonnance of student athletes at San Jose City College." · The committee has been viritually inactive until Payne's arrest, however. Since the formation of the Bowers/Blackmore committee, seveml memorandums have been Photo By Luzmaria V. Martinez
"The (district) board had become very concerned (with fund raising)." --District Superintendent Mike Hill
Emergencey Medical Technician lA a simulated accident created on campus. students, Michelle Escamilla and Eric The exercise was part of 'triage' (the Savage, attempt to "stablize" accident sorting of victims) which is a comvictim, Briain Brackbill (lying on spine ponent of the EMT program at San Jose board) who is also a lA student, during City.
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Head injuries prove fatal
Dr. Skinner circulated a memo stating that the "accounts of monies that are being collected by programs and/or indviduals that are associated with this college are not being deposited Campus ESL (English as a with the District or Student Second Language) instructors Accounts," and calling it "a and personnel called him a nice practice of long standing." Following this memo was a guOthy. · ll similar one from Hill, clarifying ers added quiet, me ow and theprocedurefocacceptingmone-: laidback. Mainly they said he tary donation for the benefit of was someone angry angery or the distn'ct, ~oundati'ons, trust ,_ violent enough to spur an argu"" ment which woufd leave him any related groups. dead five days later. The most recent, dated May 8, The accidental death of City from Dr. Chavez, again repre- College ESL student, Juan senting the office of the pre- Arellano on April 27 sparked sident, reminds staff members anger among the campus that student records are confi- community. dential and that the president's ESL staff and personal authorization is required to view believed that the circumstances them. surrounding Arellano's death Hill stated that he felt the weren't thoroughly looked into. committee investigating over all Linda Lewis, Arelliino's ESL accounting at the college expects instmctor toolc a special interest to. finish up its investigation .in AreU~'s death and questions frurly soon. trorn me stan. ·
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SJCC student is .dead Acconllog to Santa Clara County Sheriffs department, Arellano, 29, allegedly started an argument with San Jose Earthquakes soccer team member Ronald Morriss, 31, outside a Cupertino restaumnt . During the argument, Morriss allegedly struck Arellano once, causing him to fall back and strike his head on a concrete parking divider. Five days later at 9:25 p.m., Arellano was pronounced dead at. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Until recently, the authorities believed that Arellano's fatal head injuries resulted from striking the divider after sustaining Morriss' single However, last weekend, the Sheriffs
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department reported that Arellano may have received his fatal injury from a good Samaritian attempting to help him. According to wiunesses, the Samaritian accidentally dropped Arellano's head back onto the pavement after lifting it. Police say this force may have been what killed him. Lewis said she knew a very different Arellano, someone she couldn't imagine being involved in something which included violence and disruption. "It doesn't seem possible, he was so different from how the newspaper described him," said Lewis, who began makifig phone calls the day after reading an account of the incident in a
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