Vol. 43, No.6
Serving San Jose City· College
Thursday, April 27, 1989
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The ASB elections, which began Wednesday and continue through May 2, feature three candidates for president who have emphasized student involvement in government and three other candidates running unopposed. The race for the student trustee post, also to be decided in this election focuses on the very nature of the position. Candidate Robert Robledo, who attends both City College and Evergreen Valley College, asked the San Jose/Evergreen Valley Community College District Board ofTrustees to create two separate student trustee positions, one for each school. Although his request was turned down by the board at its April18 meeting, Robledo said that, if elected, he would still push for the second position. 'Two separate positions would give each school a voice on the board," Robledo said. "This would bring the two sister schools closer together." His opponent, City College student John Morales, disagreed. "Having two student trustees would take away from the effectiveness on the board of the student body presidents," Morales said. He feared that a change to the current position would lessen its influence with the board. 'The position has the jx>tential to play an effective role," Morales said. "It is taken seriously, but only when the student trustee follows the board's procedures." Morales, who is currently the Hispanic Student BOdy President, says he will try to concentrate his
efforts on implementing suggestions for increased enrollment, retention and transfer rates made in the California State Master Plan for Community Colleges. Mildread A. Barnett, Michael Hasz and Edward Morillo, the three presidential candidates, each pointed out the need for greater student involvement in deci. sion making. In the last ASB election, to fill the vacant vicepresidential seat, only 158 students voted. Barnett, who cites her experience working with the Black Student Union, said that despite the limits imposed by a one-year term of office, much could be accomplished. She said that student involvement was vital, and that her goal would always be "to reflect the views and goals of the students at City College." Hasz, a theatre arts major, said he wanted to use the Council of Presidents to "make this a college where people want to be, not where they feel they have to be." "Our futures start now, here at San Jose City College," Hasz said. "Doesn't it make sense to be involved?" Morillo, who currently serves as vice president, also said he would work to increase student involvement "The greatest threat to the students' voice on campus is a silent student body," Morillo said. Three candidates are running unopposed- Virgil Dizon, for vice-president, Gail Martinez, for administrative assistant, and Daniel C. Morales, for director of finance. Polls will be open on campus from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Monday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Robert Banda practices with his guitar before attending Bahram Behroozi's intermediate guitar class. Robert puts his talents to good use by playing in the East San Jose-based salsa band Santu, who will appear in San Jose City College's Cinco de Mayo celebration (see story below). ' photo by Dolores Lorigo
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By Caroline Schoch As a reaction to the drought, plans to conserve water will go into effect at San Jose City College. The mandatory 25 percent cutback on water consumption will not inconvenience students, said Dennis McKiernan, District Grounds Supervisor. Like households, City College will be able to "bank" any amount of water usage under the allotment, which is based on use in 1987. Because it would be hard to reduce water consumption in the buildings, a 30 percent cutback in landscape irrigation is planned. "The more we can conserve off the landscape, the more in line we'll be witlfthe 25 percent cut," said McKiernan. No turf will be removed, but it'll be maintained in a stressed or semi-green condition. ''There shouldn't be any areas that look real bad," McKiernan
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said. The hardball and soccer field and south bleachers will receive less water than adjacent turf areas and the softball field will not be watered until reseeding, if the renovation comes through. The past days' cool and drizzle have made following the conservation plan easier. "We're doing great," said McKiernan. Going ·by two month periods, the allotment for the warm and dry summer months will be higher, and should present no problem. "We're trying to avoid wasteful use of the water," said McKiernan. Good maintenance of the equipment is essential. "That's where you'lllose water," he said. McKiernan said that, in the end, the drought could have positive results. "Conserving and the drought will just make us better water managers. In the long run, we'll be getting some beneficial water savings."
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Thursday, April 27, 1989
Opinion Viewpoint
Action by attitude By Kathy Flynn
If people think there is no such thing as blatant racial prejudice in this country today, they are wrong. During Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, there were riots in Florida brought on by racial tension. A friend called me from Springfield, Oregon; she was in tears. Skinheads had burned a cross on an inter-racially married couple's lawn. The skinheads continued the violence by beating up blacks and screaming obscenities at their children. According to my friend, the authorities took three hours to respond to the ·call because they said the fire was not life-threatening. My friend encountered this cross-burning on a bus trip home from her daughter's school. She had been to the school to see the principal because her daughter came home in tears after a grade school teacher allegedly called her daughter a nigger. I was shocked that these acts of racial violence were taking place
Editorial
The 'noose' media The Jim Wright vs. the Ethics Committee battle seems to have taken a turn for the worse for the beleaguered House Speaker. Wright faces possible reprimand, censure or even expulsion if the charges of impropriety against him are found to be true. At this time, it appear~ as though the evidence the ethics committee has comQiled against Wright may be too much for a successful defense. The issue here, though, is not really one of Wright's innocence or guilt. His conduct is probably more commonplace among politicians than the public could eyer perceive. Jim Wright will probably suffer more from the effects of media exposure than from findings of the ethics committee's exhaustive ten-month-long investigation. Since the beginning of the investigation, all of Wright's political and business dealings have been subject to close scrutiny by the media. As a result, even if Wright were to be completely exonerated, a change in negative public opinion concerning Wright would seem as unlikely as his acquittal. Wright seems to be a victim of the same trial-by-media process which has abbreviated the careers of noted political figures, a list which most recently includes Gary Hart, Joseph Biden, Edwin Meese and John Tower. The judicial system works meticulously slow for political figures; consequentially, any inference of wrongdoing brings an onslaught of usually negative press long before the wheels of justice can turn in their
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favor. And it is not only politicians who are becoming prey to these media attacks (which are equivalent to modern-day inquisitions). The once idolized sports figure is now equally fair game. . Once-certain future Hall-of-Farner Pete Rose has lost all credibility within the very circle of sportswriters which once held him in such great esteem. He, too, has yet to be found innocent or guilty on gambling charges, but has already been tried and convicted in the media. Right here in the Bay Area there are similar accounts of trial through the press, such as the recent accusations of child molestation against public figures who were later cleared of charges but found that the adverse publicity had stained their lives indefinitely. Closer to home, City College' s Athletic Department is still trying to overcome the damage done to its reputation by an unfounded accusation of unethical recruiting in the San Jose Mercury-News . The media is certainly not to be held accountable for someone's else's actions. Nor should pertinent information be omitted in the coverage of ariy newsworthy story. But somewhere the ethics of media coverage should be questioned. The future of a person's political or private life should not be based on any irrelevant information used by some newspaper editor or television news producer to sell more papers or increase ratings.
Editor-in-Chief Chris Bucholtz Opinions Editor Eugene Guido Sports Editor Bruce A. Carter Campus Editor Caroline A. Schoch
Staff Writers Mildread A. Barnett John Besmer Ellie Molloy Kathy Flynn Hortencia Sandoval Marie Yoder Adviser Art Carey
Photographers Dolores Lorigo Robin Stock Joe Jolly Production Chief Joe Medina Production Assistant Luzmaria V. Martinez
around Martin Luther. King Jr.'! birthday, not to mention that it wa~ happening in the 1980s. I am ap. palled to think that some people still have an "Archie Bunker' atti. tude in this day and age. If I had one wish it would be for equality for all races and creeds. Often times I thought that it was the uneducated who were prejudiced, but sadly, I now know that is not true. • So, what is the solution to this proBlem? I wish I could say that it would be as simple as changing the laws to stop discrimination, or to teach children at a young age to accept differences between people. These things could help im· prove this situation, but I think the real answer is in attitudes. In ad· dition to being supportive of civil rights legislation, we should work together to help change the atti· tudes of narrow-minded people. We can never help the cause for racial equality by sitting silently or by shaking our heads and uttering, "that's too bad.''
Letter
-A Bonanno booster Editor: Do you remember the song "Do You Know The Way To San Jose''? Even though many people certainly do not associate San Jose City College with that song, there is an event that brings recognition to San Jose City College and that is the Bruce Jenner International Track Meet After years and years of lack of recognition in the Bay Area San Jose City College has achieved acceptance by the community, and the Bruce Jenner Meet has given it that boost But for the last 11 years there is a group of faculty on the SJCC campus who are not satisfied unless they disrupt, destroy, or distract from the achievements of San Jose City College. And for the last eleven years they have tried to force the Bruce Jenner Meet off the campus and to harm the reputation of Bert Bonanno in the process. Here is a man and a special group of faculty who have given their best efforts to the college in addition to their hired responsibilities to bring this fabulous event to our campus, giving us worldwide recognition. So what does this group try to do to those who give of themselves in effort, time, and energy....they fmd ways to vilify
them. They dig for ghosts in the closets; and if they don't fmd them, they invent them. For once why doesn't San Jose City College faculty and students applaud the efforts of those dedi· cated, tireless teachers who coo· tributed so much. The community knows the way to San Jose City College because of the efforts of Bert Bonanno and those other dedicated teachers like him and not because of the mean and degrading efforts of the Gang of Four, or is it Five. Because they been unsuc· cessful so far, they have now re· cruited a group of naive students to do their dirty work. I speak fro m experience -in trying to bring recognition to San Jose City College during the time ! taught on that campus. It is hard work to schedule conferences and workshops, so I am aware of how much work Bert is putting out to bring this recognition to the col· lege. Let's continue to encourage this kind of positive effort I think now is the time for ~ faculty and students to get involved by letting everyone know that they support Bert Bonanno and that~ negative efforts of the Gang of Five will not work any more. Thelma Radding-Smith
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This situation is true today, that all kids in Denmark do the • only more so, because more mothI have watched this attitude same. When I was in high school, ev- ers are working. continue through the years. And I have great admiration for we have seen the results of the ery non-vocational student had to lowering of standards in this coun- take two years of chemistry and teachers. They give so much for so little. try. Once we were the world's pro- two years of physics or biology. Time after time I have seen The United States was at the top duction leader, but little by little we are losing out to Japan and Eu- of the world in inventing new ways non-teaching jobs pay almost of doing things and in scientific de- • double the salaries offered to ropean nations. teachers. Why is it that Japan, with half velopment. The problem developed when CCC is fortunate in having inthe population of the United States produces twice as many engineers many children put in much less structors of outstanding caliber and time in study than their parents ability. and scientists annually? Their willingness to help, and At one time every non-voca- had. When a bad report card came tional student in this country had to home the parents would go to their understanding of students take Latin for two years and then members of the school board and problems, put them in a category higher than "public servant" two years of a modem foreign lan- complain. The usual scam was, the teacher I know that my hearing impairguage. In Denmark I talked to a young is picking on "Willie," or whatever ment has caused problems and I lady who works part time and the child's name was. have never had a complaint They My father's usual question was, are all wonderful people and, bespeaks Danish, English, German and her native language Norwe- "How many hours a week do you lieve me, I am not trying to polish gian. help your child with homework?" the apple. When my wife complimented The answers were generally, "I Joe Biller her on her ability, her reply was don't have time." Contra Costa Advocate
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Homosexual activity alleged
Bathroom closed after arrests By Marie Yoder The men's bathroom behind the library has been closed since March 15 because of illegal homosexual activity, according to Ed Dunn, Chief of Police for the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District. "This (activity) has been going· on ever since I've been here, and that's been 17 years," said district police officer Cal Thomas. According to Thomas, San Jose City College students have not been involved. The arrests made by the San Jose Police..Vice Squad have been of outsiders. The suspects involved included three doctors employed at Santa Clara County Valley Medical Center and an instructor from a college in another city. The frrst arrest was made four months ago, when a plain clothes San Jose vice policemen was asked to follow a male into the bathroom, and was solicited for sex. The police officer then arrested the suspect. Thomas said, " ... Since then,
over 20 people have been arrested in the last three months, usually three or four each week." According to Chief Dunn, campus police tried to suppress the problem in 1986 by taking off the middle door to one of the three bathroom stalls. The Associated Student Body President at that time, Kelly Anderson, said that this was a violation of personal rights and insisted that all doors remain on. "I feel like if this type of activity happens (in the bathroom), my privacy is violated," said Chief Dunn. In September, steel plates were put up to cover holes in the stalls, but to no avail.
"I'm not against these peoplewe just don't want that type of activity here," said Chief Dunn. The bathroom will stay closed indefmitely. The decision to reopen it will be made by College President Dr. Byron Skinner per recommendation of Chief Dunn. Chief Dunn said he would like to work with the campus to keep this type of activity from recurring. He suggests taking off the middle door of the men's bathroom stalls. Evergreen Valley College has had only one incident of this type, in one of the Acacia bathrooms, while City College has had three, in the Business Building, the FWing and the Library bathrooms.
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A mendt takes third at Jenner -meet By John Besmer San Jose .City College athlete Joe Amendt and 1988 Olympic gold medalist Andre Phillips were among the recent competitors in the Bruce Jenner track and field meet, held on April 8 here at City College. In this portion of the Jenner Classic, for university and amateur athletes, Amendt placed third in the 800 meters with a time of 1:50.66 seconds. Phillips participated in the 100 meter dash, but placed his hamstring in jeopardy by straining it during the race. Members of San Jose City College's 1989 League Championship Golf Team are from left, front row: Mark Mallin, Eddie Ordonez, Eric Buckelew and Joey
Cea. Back row: Doug Hanson: Steve Nichols~ Mitch Botelho and Mark Richmond.
Team swings into action May 1
Nor-Cal tourney next for golfers By Marie Yoder The San Jose City College 1989 Golf team has won the Camino Norte Conference Championships, and will next participate in the Nor-Cal Tournament on May 1. According to Coach Harley Dow, City College finished first with 70 points, followed by Santa Rosa City College with 60 points, and San Joaquin Delta in third: On the team of six, Eric Beckelew, a freshman from Pioneer high, holds the lowest average score to lead the league.
Beckelew's average score is two strokes ahead of last years' champion, Mike Lane. Lane currently holds second place in the conference. Eddie Ordonez, from Hollister High, is third in the conference. The rest of the team players are Mark Mallin, from Gunderson High School, Joey Cea from Lyndbrook High School, Doug Sanders from Wilcox High School and Mark Richmond from Santa Teresa High School. "Our golfers are first or second in the conference every year, but
Amendt, a heavily-recruited junior college athlete, is one of the premier athletes in the Golden Gate Conference. He is a favorite to win the 800 meter race this Friday at Chabot College during the GGC championships. Amendt will also be competing in the 4 x 400 meter relay and 1500 meter races on Friday. As for Andre Phillips, he will perform, along with the likes of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carl Lewis, Mac Wilkins, Joe Dial and many others, at the International Bruce Jenner Classic to be held at City College on May 27.
Baseball squad tries to pick off leaders By Keith Gaxiola
San Jose City College's baseball team, with a win today against we don't have the number of play- third place Diablo Valley College, ers we used to," said Dow, com- would significantly boost its menting on the limited number of - chances to repeat as Golden Gate Conference champions. golfers that try out for the team. Today's game at San Jose City "I used to get twenty-odd players that used to come out, lately we College will feature Jaguar pitchhave had fewer and fewer," com- ing ace Sophomore Kerry Woodson, who is 10-0 this season. mented Dow. The Jaguars are 30-11 overall, Despite that, Coach Dow will be heading into the Nor-Cal and and at 14-6 rank second in the State Tournaments with a league- GGC behind Laney College. In Saturday's meeting against championship squad. Dow attributes his team's suc- Laney, the Jaguars prevailed 4-0, cess to the fact that ''This season but have no remaining games we have experience, youth and scheduled with the league leader. Coach Barry Woodhead said, dedicated young men." "Some things will have to happen
for us to win the league. We need to beat Diablo Valley and to have Diablo Valley win against Laney." The GGC champion will go directly to the regional playoffs. However, the second and third place teams must survive a single elimination tournament against teams in Northern California to earn a berth in the regional playoffs. Woodson is one of four pitchers on the staff who have already signed letters of intent to play at Division One schools. Woodson has signed to play at Arizona State, Tom Myers with the University of Arizona, Jim Thompson with Louisiana State and Todd Manley with Oklahoma State.
Looking back ...
Golf team won Nor-Cal in '86 1986-Harley Dow's City College Golf Team won the Nor-Cal tournament for the second straight year and went on to finish second in the State Tournament. Dow described the State Tournament, held at the difficult La Costa Country Club course in Saticoy, as "a matter of survival."
''The course was very difficult," said Dow. "It had been set up that way. "'For the frrst time in 22 years, I saw the course beat the players." Vince Falconi (who shot a 162), Frank Cali (166) and Scott Moog (169) paced the Jags' second place effort.
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Dr. Jeanne Gobalet, City College sociology instructor, shows some of her photographs of various cultures Photo by Robin Stock
After class, Gobalet's time filled with pots and shots
Instructor cultivates interest in bonsai trees, photography By Kathy Flynn
Dr. Jeanne Gobalet's hobbies let her see life as a big picture and in small scale, too. Gobalet, a San Jose City College sociology instructor, is an accomplished photographer of the world abroad. At home, she practices the Japanese art of growing miniature bonsai trees. Gobalet began taking photographs about 20 years ago during a trip to Africa. She has also photographed the People's Republic of China, Japan, Europe and South America. Her favorite subject is people. "I look for innocence in the faces 'o f people of different countries because it is something we rarely find here," said Gobalet. Her photos of different cultures show the diversity in dress, work, rites, and family. "It is a hobby I developed in connection with my teaching," said Gobalet. She uses the slides in her geography, sociology and history classes to give her students a better understanding of the wqtld's diversity. Gobalet's husband, recently retired economics instructor Garth Norton, develops and prints her pictures. "My husband is really the photographer in our house," ~d Gobalet. Although she has visited Japan several times, her first exposure to
growing bonsai trees came 12 years ago when her mother taught her to grow and care for the trees. Her mother then gave her 100 different types of bonsai trees. Bonsai trees are dwarf replicas of full-size trees whose growth is restricted by pruning the roots, using small pots and other methods. Gobalet now has a collection of approximately 200 different types of trees. The various types range from pine to maple to juniper. The oldest is about 40 years old. Bonsai trees range in price from five dollars to thousands of dollars, depending on the age, degree of development, and the type of pot they are in. "Growing bonsai trees is difficult because they require a lot of time, watering and care, and this time of year they require repotting, pruning and fertilizing. It's the type of hobby you can't put aside, because they will die," said Gobalet. Growing the trees helps to relax Gobalet, and she likes working
with plants because, "they don't talk or complain, and even though they don't always do what you want them to, they're passive in their protest" Gobalet wrestles with the ethical question of man manipulating nature, but her main objection is to people who dig up trees. "Some people collect old trees out in the forests and deserts and dig them up and bring them for bonsai trees. I don't agree with that at all," said Gobalet. Gobalet said that training the trees is difficult because it takes constant wiring and rewiring of the trees' branches and trunks to produce good looking trees. When the wires are removed, the tiny trees often grow back the way they were. "If you think about how diffi· cult it is to create a work of art that is aesthetically pleasing, consider how much more challenging it is when the material keeps changing the way trees do when they grow," said Gobalet
Graduation ceremony on June 7 San Jose City College's sixtyeighth annual Graduation Commencement will be held Wednesday, June 7. The Graduation Ceremony is tentatively scheduled to be held at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on_Almaden Boulevard from 6:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. A brunch will also be held to honor this year's graduates andretirees from 11 a.m. to 1 P·IT!· on Monday, June 5 in the San Jose City College cafeteria.
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