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Skinner to prese t plan By Jim Boeck!
City College President Dr. Byron Skinner is scheduled to present a plan of action to the district board Sept. 20, in response to recommendations made by the Special Athletics Task Force. The task force investigated the allegations made by the San Jose Mercury News of impropriety by the City College Athletics Department. No evidence of serious wrongdoing was reported, but several recommendations were made. Dr. Skinner's plan was requested by the district trustees, in response to the task force's recommendations. The first item in the plan is a proposal for discussions between various groups of district and college employees to improve communications, and the finding of ways to reduce "the suspicion and mistrust between the Faculty Senate and the administration," of which the task force found evidence. There is no mention in Dr. Skinner's plan of investigating alleged student transcript privacy violations, which was recommended by the task force. Instead, the focus is on preventing future violations. Other suggestions of Dr. Skinner are expected to include closer monitoring of financial aid policies and variable unit course enrollment, and the development of a computer program that spots conflicts in class scheduling. Dr. Glenn Gooder, - executive secretary for. the 14-member task force, presented the $10,000 report to the District Board in June. The task force's investigation was not without its critics, however. While the task force was
selected and labeled "Blue Ribbon" by Dr. Skinner, at least four faculty members refused to participate in the investigation. Faculty Senate President David Yancey, instructor/counselor Pat Butler and instructor/attorney Phil Crawford each wrote letters to the task force that said they thought the investigation would not be objective and would be biased toward the Athletics Department. Black History instructor Charles Murry has long been critical of the department. "What the task force came up with was predictable," said Murry, who refused to participate. The recommendations made by the task force included finding ways to ease the friction between the Faculty Senate and the administration, tighter monitoring of the athletics department policies, the formation of an internal group to conduct similar inquiries, and "a district board investigation into the allegation that the privacy of student records was violated." The investigation came about after the San Jose Mercury News shocked thecollegecommunity last April with a three-part, front-page series charging the athletics department with recruiting violations, allowing ineligible students to participate on teams, neglecting academic standards of players, and improper handling of athletes' financial aid. · With the exception of a few minor violations of policy, the task force found no evidence to support the charges. One long standing desire of Murry, Athletics director Bert Bonanno, and Dr. Skinner has been the creation of a counseling position dedicated to student athletes, but budget limitations have prevented it.
En roll ment up 11 perc t By Kathy Flynn and Robin Stock City College enrollment for day students is up 11 percent from last fall. with an approximate 550 increase in student population, there are an estimated 5,633 day students. Evening enrollment has dropped 14 percent, which is a 665 student recline. This figure may change because students are still registering for the Mini Semester and off campus classes. · Evergreen Valley College has a 21 percent increase of day students. Evening enrollment increased by six percent. Evergreen Valley College has an estimated 3,214 evening students, and approximately 4;796 day students. ~hile the gap between City College and Evergreen College is closing, Crty College has approximately 1,836 more students. The increase of student enrollment may possibly be attributed to both advertising and off campus offerings for the fall.
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City College's Hall of Excellence, opened at the end of last semester, is drawing attention in the entrance to the library. TimE wers, left, Tyrone Smith, center, and Kim Kemp admire the school's national football
Photo by Robin Stock championship trophy. Russ Fischer, library director and custodian of the exhibits, is searching for more additions to join the achievements of the City College students, faculty and staff now on display.
152 classes canceled By Louis A. Collonge
Due to low enrollment in some sections and, in some cases, Jack of instructors 152 class sections offered at City College (10 percent and climbing) had been canceled as of last Friday. City College offered 1437 sections this semester, including the Mini-Semester which begins Sept. 19, and off-site classes. Robert L. Brown, District Director of Admissions and Records, reported that only 16 out of 867 class sections were canceled at Evergreen Valley College. "Definite!y heavier cancellations than last year," said Dr. Leo Chavez, Dean of Instruction, referring to the number of sections City College has canceled. Both Dr. Chavez and Richard Casey, Dean of Administration,
agreed this was not the first time mass cancellations have taken place. In trying to be sensitive to the needs of the students both deans instructed the assistant deans to phone the students whose classes had been canceled the Friday before classes started. Some students, like Steve Plaudnick, received the Friday "your -class-has- been -canceled" phone call too late in the day to be able to come down and make the necessary adjustments to their schedule. For at least one student, who wished to remain anonymous, the cancellation of her class meant that her financial aid requirements would not be met. Because of the cancellation she had to spend more time in the lines at the Financial Aids office, not to mention the possibility of losing financial aid.
Faculty reaction does not seem, over all, favorable. "There should be much more coordination between the teachers, administrators and classified staff," said Charles Murry, who is a Black Studies/History Instructor at City College. "Planning is very important" and canceling classes was the result of "poor planning." Murry said , "This whole mess is caused by campus politics" and "should not happen." "All they're doing is taking out their problems on the students. They should eat their mistakes and hold all the classes they offer," was the reaction of Patrick Butler, Counselor and Psychology Instructor. Butler suggested this school's "first priority is the dollars, then the students." He went on to say this
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By Joe Medina The suggestion that the press has been unfair to Dan Quayle is, respectfully, myopic. It's a perspective of Dan Quayle's dishonesty and/or incompetence as seen through the cardboard tube of a paper towel roll. Since his recent joining of George Bush's Presidential ticket, Quayle has tried vainly to conceal questionable events in his past. The news media discovered that his father's influence got him into the National Guard despite a very long waiting list during the Vietnam War. Even more materializes from this unveiling. His job at a law
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flrm was not as elevated in staUJs as his resume mdicated. Bush and his staff, if not Quayle, are certainly in a disadvantageous position fornot catching these things
A no-win conflict Well, the Special Athletic Task Force finished its investigation of the allegations of impropriety by the City College athletics department. While it didn't find much evidence to substantiate the charges, it did find a problem that is a threat to the quality of education at City College and requires immediate efforts for a remedy: "suspicion and mistrust between the Faculty Senate and the administration." Unfortunately, this kind of problem is not uncommon. It's a result of the struggle for power between labor and management. Oftentimes, certain members of the faculty (labor) don't like the way something is being done on campus, so they get together and try to influence the administration (management) to change it. This is an important process and often produces positive results for the school. If the administration does not respond, however, tension can build; sometimes to the point where the actions of one or both sides become counter-productive. These conflicts are not new to City College. There are reports dating back to 1970 of mistrust and unwillingness to communicate by these two groups. It's just that the problem has recently intensified. This time the college got a lot of negative publicity when the San Jose Mercury News published a three-part, front-page series of articles that charged the athletics department with recruiting violations, allowing
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ineligible players to compete, neglecting the academic standards of players and improper handling of financial aid. Out of all that came an investigation by a task force that cost the district over $10,000. And while the task force couldn't find much substance to the charges, it was criticized by some Faculty Senate members for being too closely related to the athletics department to be objective. Now, after all that effort, expense and conflict, the college is no better off than it was before this mess started. The wheels were turning, but we didn't go anywhere. There are no easy solutions to the conflicts between the Faculty Senate and the administration. College President Dr. Byron Skinner has compiled a plan of action that may help to improve communi· cation through regular discussions be-, tween different college officials and employees. The bottom line though, is that both sides will have to forget the conflicts of the past and be willing to compromise and develop a co-operative attitude toward each other in the future. Yes, it's a lot to ask for, but these are intelligent, rational people. They can exercise diplomacy if the want to. Hopefully, they will remember that students look up to them as role models, and that energy spent fighting is energy taken away from educating.
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quickly. Whether they made the proper background checks or not is unclear. Meanwhile, George Bush has taken to tongue-lashing the press for treating Quayle badly, which is
similar to his attack on Dan Rather when Rather took Bush to taskaboul his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Whenever the press brings up something he doesn't like, he accuses them of being unfair,a son of "I'm -taking-my- bat-and-goinghome" strategy. Not only that, but he has also clouded the issue as well. He has defended Quayle by saying that he was patriotic and never burned the American flag as if these things hao a direct bearing on the matter of Quayle's lying. The issue at hand isn't whether joining the National Guard is less patriotic than serving in other armed forces, but the integrity of the man. Between Quayle's dishonesty and Bush's inability to cope with the press, the Republican ticket is one that seems to be a very poor option. Neither of these men can stand up to scrutiny because· of a lack of temperament or a lack of honesty. It's better to discover that through the investigations of the press now instead of after these candidates ever enter the White House.
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Restroom surprise By Joe Posadas Something took me by surprise when I returned to the City College campus on opening day. It wasn't the relative ease at having found a parking spot although sometimes that in itself can be quite an unexpected surprise. Nor was it the fact that I was able to get my hands on the last available used textbook required foroneofmy courses, thus having saved some ten dollars off the cost of a new and already overpriced book. No, the surprise I'm writing of was the one I came literally eye-toeye with when I stepped into the men's room to tend to nature's calling. I walked up to the wall mounted johns expecting to have to stare at the usual mindless graffiti, but instead found myself looking at a rather large metal casing protruding from the wall and directly into my face. What it was became obvious in an instant. CONDOMS FOR SALE AT .50 CENTS A PACKAGE. Now this, a condom vending machine, was the last thing I would have expected to fmd when entering a restroom on a college campus. If someone would have asked me where I most would likely think
to come across a condom vending machine I would have said at some dilapidated, out of the way gas station, where the attendant kills time leafing through Hustler magazines when he's not using them to swat mosquitoes attacking his flesh like Kamikaze pilots.
Mosquitoes like Kamikaze pilots Now I know that the threat of A.I.D.S., and other venereal diseases has made it necessary to practice safe-sex. Still, condom vending machines in college bathrooms seem so seedy. Why not leave the selling of condoms, like other contraceptives, where they belong: in the pharmacies and Student Health Services? But, I suppose, if some student is too afraid or embarrassed to walk into a store to purchase a condom then bringing the condom to him in the men's bathroom is better than the possibility of him using no condom.at all. So until enough people with some degree of good taste petition to have them removed then they are here to stay. One odd thought stuck in my mind as I headed out the door: · there will be a lot more guys with spare chatl.ge in their pockets now.
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Jags face Sequoias in grid opener By Gilbert Gardner A lineman gasping "damn I'm tired" during wind sprints ... Cheerleaders practicing routines for unseen crowds ... The slamming of weights and the smell of sweat coming from the weight room ... These are signs that the defending champion San Jose City College football team (an unprecedented five-time winner of the Golden Gate Conference) is preparing for its season home opener against College of the Sequoias at 7 p.m. Saturday. "We're a 'we' type team·," Head Football Coach Howard Gay said recently about the most successful community college program, an .816 winning percentage, in California over the past five years. "We're going to play together and work together. This team has a superior attitude compared to last year's .... We're gonna have a good football team."
"I think we've got quality. We've got some real good players." -Dan Yetter Quarterback Although this year's squad is smaller, due in part to last year's allegations of inproprieties in the Athletics Department, Gay expects to field a quality team. ''What happened last year is in the past, it's said and .done," said Gay. "In fact, it may have been a blessing in disguise because we've gotten some real good quality [football players] ... "We have a good quarterback situation. I'm very fortunate to have two, who could be starters elsewhere ...both who are very good." Leading the team will be sophomore quarterbacks Dan Yetter, second team all-league last season, and Daryl Fortenberry, honorable mention all-league. "Ithinkwe'vcgotquality. We've got some real good players," Yetter said when asked for his assessment of the team. "We have a much better attitude. Last year we had a real bad attitude."
Yetter, who wants to transfer to the University of Hawaii, hopes to · "lead the team to its sixth conference championship." Yetter and Fortenberry will rely upon a large offensive line this season to give them protection. The linefeatures: JohnMcClusky(T/C, 6' 2", 280 lbs.); Thor Harrison (T, 6'6", 285 lbs.); John Akina (T/G, 6'4", 270 lbs.); Mark Wohlford (T/ G, 6'4", 240 lbs.), and Andy Maloatta (T, 6'7", 360 lbs.) Gay hopes his quarterbacks will _ get the time needed to find receivers Albert King (WR) and Antar Williamson (TE). Williamson, at6'4", 205lbs., is a potential league standout because of his "good hands," Gay said. Other weapons in the offense include returning running backs Daryl Gagliardi (FB), Oscar Pittman (TB), Luis Gomez (FB), and Michael Timmons (TB). Coach Gay doesn't plan any major strategy changes but will "try to do what's been successful. Adjust to the talent that's available. That's a real strength of the Junior College program. Making adjustments to the changing talent."
TOP PLAYERS-Antar Williams (Tightend), top right, Oscar Pittman (Tailback), Dan Yetter (Quarterback), Ken Pavack (Defensive lineman), Lower right,
In order to have a successful campaign, Gay may have to juggle some talent on a defense where the only strength is at linebacker. Transfer student Cecil Lincoln (LB, 6 '2", 220 lbs.) ,a member of the 1985 team; Dennis Weber(LB, 6'4", 225 lbs.), and Alo Sila (LB) 6' 1", 250 lbs.), will try to stabilize the defensive unit.
X-country team has high hopes By Jerry Mclntrye The men's cross-country team finished second in the Golden Gate conference last year, and hopes to better that mark this season.
How strong the Jaguars are this year is a "relative thing," according to Gay. "How successful we are depends on the strength of our opponents."
"On a very young team, there is one veteran and seven newcomers. Luis Ortiz, the lone returning runner, should be the strong point of the team," said Coach Steve Haas. Newcomer Danny Gonzalez should lead the pack for the freshmen."
Some of the strongest opposition is expected to come from the College of San Mateo, which the Jags face Oct. 22. According to Gay, San Mateo "will be fielding a very skilled offense featuring Tom Martinez Jr.... one of the top passers in the state." Martinez was first team all-league last year. '
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Ortiz missed most of last season with a stress fracture of the shin. He still managed to be a strong contributor to the team. Ortiz· will be doing the long distance running. His specialty is the 10,000 meters.
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Instructor retires By Kathy Flynn Counselor Evelyn Carter, who began her career at City College as an intern student through the ReEntry Program, retires from City College this semester as a counselor. "It is a real loss to the school," said Maria Garcia, Re-Entry Program Coordinator. "Evelyn is the kind ofcounselor who goes the extra mile to help students avoid confusion and attain their goals," she added. {Accurate quote or paraphrase?} Carter started as an intern student through the Re-Entry Program in 1977. She taught Career Planning and counseled Re-Entry students under the direction of Guadalupe Gutierrez. {Correct spelling?} Carter acted as Coordinator of the Career Center for a semester before substituting as a counselor at Evergreen Valley College.
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A woman who studied law enforcement at City College has alleged in a suit filed Aug. 24 that male students fondled her after her instructor told them to search her Continued from Page 1 against her will. policy is being supported by the Kimberly Linser, 25, of Seaside District Chancellor, Dr. Richard · is seeking unspecified damages against class instructor David Goff, "who cares more about dolYancey, the college and the state lars than he does about students or Department of Education for alpeople." The decision to cancel a class is, leged violations of her civil rights, according to Dr. Chavez, " ...ajoint assault and battery, and other charges. decision. First the deans then the Linser's suit said that one porassistant deans have to agree or tion of the course required the studisagree but a decision is made at dents to search each other, acting as that level. Then we review our "officers" and "suspects." decisions with the president...," who Linser was the only female in the in," ...99% of the cases agreed with 12-student, advanced class for reour recommendations."
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"It was a wonderful experience to counsel students and to be part of City College's faculty and staff," said Carter. She added that student growth and their attainment of their goals where her greatest satisfaction. The Counseling Staff honored her with a farewell party on August 26.
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Linser refused to continue in but her claims were ruled to be what the suit describes as a "hostile "without foundation" in February and sexually discriminatory class- of this year. room environment" and requestted "The student who complained that she be tested on the course ma[Linser] went to the hearing and terials by a female instructor. was found not to have a just cause," The request was denied. said Vern Renner, the assistant At her graduation ceremony, LinProvost of the college district's ser was not allowed to graduate Criminal Justice Training Center. because of the incomplete grade in "The charges were unfounded ." the course, according to the suit. YanceywasunavailableforcomLinser presented a complaint to the grievance committee at San Jose ment.
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In 1980, Carter returned to City College as the substitute Director of the Re-Entry Program. In the Fall of 1981, she was appointed Coordinator of theRe-Entry Program. Four years later, due to budget cuts, Carter was laid off. Six months later she was offered a position at Evergreen Valley College as Coordinator of the Career Center. A year and a half later, Carter returned to City College as a parttime counselor and instructor.
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