Serving San Jo~e City Coll~ge
Vol. 43, No. 12
Thursday, October 19, 1989
SJCC rides ·out 7.0 quake College is one o~f few open despite disaster By Ellie Molloy The San Jose City College campus looked like a ghost town Wednesday, as an aftermath of the devastating earthquake which struck the Bay Area. Many instructors and students, unaware that the school had remained open, stayed away leaving buildings nearly empty and infrequent footsteps echoing through the walkways. The quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, was centered in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and struck at 5:04p.m. Tuesday, just prior to the third game of the World Series to be played at Candlestick Park. As of 10 p.m. Wednesday there were, by some estimates, as many as 275 earthquake fatalities.About 1,400 people had been reported injured, according to officials. Chancellor Richard Goff was at Evergreen Valley College when the strongest earthquake since 1906 made its mark on history. Dr. Goff knew the responsibility was his to decide if City ColI lege and EVC were to remain open Wednesday. After the colleges were closed around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, he toured the grounds with facilities and maintenance personnel, found no structural damage and declared business as usual for Wednesday. But the word did not get out to the campus community. Classes were sparsely attended.
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Jour ey down fashion row Loren McKee, coordinator of the fashion show, said that "everyCome "Journey on the Orient one is extremely excited." Express," with San Jose City ColSocial Sciences and Humanities lege Trust's Third Annual Male Instructor Bill Kester has been Fashion Show Fund Raiser. "Desti- contributing a lot of his time and nation: San Jose." effort developing the theme using The stage is set for all the action theater art designs. to begin Saturday, Oct 28 at the Le "Travel would be an appropriBaron Hotel. The festivities kick ate theme," Kester commented. off at 6:30 p .m. with a no-host He has been busy setting up the COCktail hour, followed by dinner large room on the second floor of and the fashion show at 7:30p.m. the Le Baron with train decorations This year, instead of the theme and adjusting sound levels for the • being "a spotlight on excellence," event the planning committee has come "Macy's should get a Jot of up with the theme, "Journey on the credit for coming through for us," Orient Express, Destination: San McKee stated. Jose." The theme is a multi-culJudy Serlin, who is in the Mantural one with the train stopping at agement of Macy's by Appointvarious locations and San Jose ment is involved with organizing being the final destination. the fashions to be worn by the
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Some campus coverage was sacrificed in this issue to make room for coverage of the killer earthquake that ravaged northern California Tuesday evening. See page 5 for Times production supervisor Chris Bucholtz's account of reaction to the quake by World Series fans at Candlestick Park. but only the vending machines were available to hungry staff and students. Parking lots were nearly empty. Many students were dismissed from class because attendance was so low. In other instances, though, students had to dismiss themselves for lack of an instructor. Dean of Administration Ri<;:hard Casey said that many teachers live in the mountains and that Highway 17 was closed by landslides. The colleges did not go com-
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See Quake, page 8
·'Wracking and rolling'
Linda Bodine, a library technician, sorts books to be reshelved after Tuesday's devastating quake.
By Jill Morales
"Only two students were in my 9 a.m. class," said Journalism Instructor Art Carey. Social Scienc~ Instructor Dr. Jeanne Gobalet one-upped her colleagues, however, by noting on her classroom blackboard: "Yes, Dr. Gobalet's 12:00 History 17A class will meet as scheduled today." The Student Union was open,
models in the show. "Macy's is contributing all the fashions," McKee noted. Last year smaller retailers helped out, but this is the first year a major independent retailer has been involved, according to McKee. The actual modeling will be done by prominent Bay Area people and students and staff from City College. Bob Stepanich, KNTV (Channel 11) sports director, Chief Robert Osby of the San Jose Fire Department, Alan Dean Moore, co-.star of Lethal Weapon II, Jan Hutchins, KICU (Channel 36) anchor, and Santa Oara Mayor Eddie Souza will participate, just to name a few. This year, unlike the past three,
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Students stunned in library By Richard Grey My nerves were wracked as I was trying to cram for an Astronomy test that was going to hit me that evening of Oct. 17. It must of been about 5 p.m. when the table where I sat in the San Jose City College library began to shake. Immediately I looked up from my books and turned to look at the young lady sitting across from me. We both sat there for a few seconds, hoping the shaking would stop, but it only grew worse. Shortly, voices in the library began to rise and heads began to duck; panic spread through the students. As I saw most of the students in the library begin to duck for cover under tables, I pushed my chair out of the way and leaped under the
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table. The young lady who sat at the table and I soon met under the table. Our eyes were glaring wide with fear. As books began to leap from the shelves and tables, I could see particles from the ceiling snowflake down to the floor. · I peeked out from under cover only to see the fans swinging on the ceiling as they struggled to stay intact. The quake wasn't going to end, and this was the big one, I thought to myself. My heart was shaking fast when the movement fmally stopped and the voice of the librarian shouted to move everyone to safety. I slowly crawled out from under my shelter and quickly picked up my books that were lying on the floor. As I rapidly exited the library my Astronomy test was now the last thing in my mind.
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