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Serving San Jose City College
Thursday, March 19, 1992
Faculty Senate moves to ban discriminatory recruiters
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The Faculty Senate approved a motion Tuesday that could eventually result in banning from campus military recruiters and other organizations that use discriminatory hiring practices. In a session that was at times healed, Anne Heffley of the LanguageArtsDepartmentmovedthat "any institution, organization or ampany that openly discriminates in hiring and/or retention against any group protected by our afftrmative action policy" should not ~ permitted on San Jo~ver green Community College District campuses for overt recruiting purJX)Ses.
Gunhild Swanson of the Physical Education Department sec-
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beated discussion, the motion was tarried by a vote of ten in favor, live opposed, with one abstention. The issue had been carried over from the Faculty Senate's meeting March 3, when Heffely introduced the motion, saying it was Ypocritical for City College to ve military recruiters on cam~ since the military discrimillates againstbomosexuafs., and the
campus affumati ve action policies prohibit such discrimination. After the meeting, Faculty Senator Fran McBrien of the Business Education Department said that the motion is " .. .in synch with current 1 district policy, which has been approved by the governing board," i and that the motion was intended , to " ... ban recruitment on campus 1 by organizations or institutions that I openly discriminate in hiring or i retention." "In some of the discussions," she said, "people were getting confused between merely a difference of political opinion, however, discrimination is clearly defined in the law." Although the motion has been carried, the road it must travel before it becomes actual policy is a long and hard one. The Faculty Senate is only one of four groups that make up City College's quadripartite government. The motion must now go before three other groups: the Associated Student Council (ASC), the Administrative Council, and the Classified Council. If it clears those hurdles, the motion must pass through the similarly structured
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District bound a ries to change by John Nalty Staff Writer
After a lengthy debate at the San Jos~vergreen Community College District Board of Trustees' meeting on Feb. 25, the board voted to change trustee areas within the district. All trustee areas will be changed in one way or another, and maps of the changes will be available in a fP-w weeks. Redistricting will provide a stronger voice within the district for under-represented groups, mainly the Asian and African
American communities. It will also boundaries would belp to unite their help to evenly distribute the popu- e~ic communities. When they unveiled their plan lation with in the district boundat the Feb. 26 meeting, the board aries. Every ten years, the district was praised by the representatives changes area boundaries. The pro- of the Asian and African Americess is in effect now, but changes can communities, as well as other won't affect anybody until the concerned citizens, for coming up November election, when some with a fair plan and such an open board members will be elected to process. Chancellor Ronald Kong said, the board of trustees within the "I feel positive ... the community new boundary lines. The board heard testimony from had valued input" many different groups within the StudentTrusteeRobertRobledo community. Some explained their agreed, stating, "I think it's wongroups were divided by the current derful what the board of trustees area lines. They felt that moving has done with the trustee area plan."
Stanford whistle blower speaks at City College by Mark Gomez Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Frances Conley speaks in the City College Theatre
photo by Elliott Millner
Before Anita Hill, Wiliam K. Smith and Mike Tyson, there was the neurosurgeon from Stanford University who resigned her position due to the inferior treatment she received on the job from the "old boys club." Dr. Frances Conley, a neurosurgeon at Stanford Hospital for 25 years, made national headlines when she resigned from her position, claiming she had been the victim ofongoing sexual barrassmentand discrimination. "The old boys club," Conley referred to was the 15-25 other men she worked with while at Stanford. According to Conley, the old boys club viewed women as needing to be in their place, and often treated Conley as though she were an
inferior doctor. Conley gave the keynoye address on March 16openingSanJoseCityCollege's week of events celebrating Women's History Month. At the March 16 speech in the City College Theatre, Conley spoke about the inferiority complex society has given women, and bow both women and men need to change their views in order to change that standard. "Women were taught to be lady-like, to remain silent," she said. Conley said that "traditionally, society looked upon men as provider, and women as nurturer and caretaker." She also said that more women are working because they want to, but are only making 60% as much money as there male counterparts. While working at Stanford, Conley was often the recipient of sexual innuen-
See Conley, page 4