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EVENING TRIBUNE

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Winless Toreros tackle the Stags

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30-15 loss Saturday to Red- lands. It was some consolation to Coach Bill Williams that his club won the statistical battle, outgaining the Bull- dogs 367 yards to 3;5 ~nd holding a 22-18 edge m first downs. This will be the opening game for the visitors, who won last year's meeting be- tween the two teams 38-8.

The University of San Diego is hoping to eliminate some mistakes and come up with better results when its football team faces the Claremont Mudd Stags to- morrow night at 7:30 in USD Stadium. The Toreros, winless after two starts this fall, yielded one touchdown on a recovered blocked punt in the end zone and another after losing a fumble in a

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FOUNDERS GALLERY (University of San Diego): "Retrospective," 30 years of paintings and etchings by Dorothy Stratton, opens Sunday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and continues to Nov. 5 Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. I weekdays.

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Dean sees no solution to 1J Uovercrowding By JOSEPH THESKEN ntBUNE Education Writer

Hostage~" read one of their signs. Another said: "We Have a Worse Crash Record Than a Demolition Derby" - a reference to the small n_umber of students able to "crash" fllled courses. SDSU is bulging at the seams with students - a record 34,000 _ but the most severe crush occurs in the busi- ness college, where an unprecedent- ed number have applied. Some seniors can't get the one or t~o courses tll y need for gradua- twn. Upperclassmen resent a flood of freshmen getting priority on classes when they are turned away. ' They crowded into an SDSU con- ference room yesterday, looking for answers from the administration. And they didn't hear what they wanted to hear. Dean Allan Bailey of the business col)ege and a~sociate dean Penny Wrigh_t were gr11led by officers of the Associated Business Students and the chee~mg and jeering audience. Baller said 14,400 are enrolled in the. busmess college, including 7,BOO busmess .majors, and every class is full except a few at the graduate level. "We have roughly 25 perce~t of the students at SDSU and only 10 percent ?f the resources," Bailey said. "That is why we have this problem. One- fourt~ of the incoming students want to go mto business." He said there was no provision to add more professors for the spring term._ ?,his is a complex problem," he..5a!d_. There_ i~ no quick solution." . ~mng qual!f1ed teachers is very d1fhcult, because we can't attract them with the low salary schedule we have," Bailey said. "The private sector offers $5,000 to $6,000 a year more than a person can get as a teacher. "As for limiting enrollment in the c?llege,_ I understand that the univer- Sity will close down enrollments Monday." Some students wanted to know wh~t they could_do to get through the busmes college m four years, since it takes many of them five years to graduate. "If you're willing to go to school at 7 _a.m., at 4 in the afternoon, and 7 at mght, yo~ ma~ be abl_e to get all your classes, said Wnght bringing gro~ns and a few laughs from the audience. "You'd be surprised how many peopl~ are up and about at 7 in the mormng."

The room was overflowing with 400 SDSU business students _ some angry, others frustrated, all wonder- mg if the administration had any so- lution to a severe case of overcrowd• ed classes. "Free the SDSU Business Student

DR. ATKINSON New leader at UCSD fates thallenges Dr. Richard Atkinson will begin his first year as chancellor of UCSD Monday. Arecord enrollment is expect- ed for the fall quarter - 11,478, compared with 11,180 last year, the previous high. Atkinson, who replaced Dr. William McElroy, is the former director of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. As chancellor, he will be faced with several challenges: - Healing the rift that devel- oped last year between faculty and administration, which was at least partly responsible for McElroy's resignation. - Maintaining UCSD's presti- gious status as one of the na- tion's top universities m acquir- ing federal grant money. Last year, it received more than $100 million in government grants for science projects. - Selecting an administrative team, which is expected to differ in style from McEJroy's. This fall's enrollment includes more than 9,038 undergraduates, 1,175 graduate students, 1,085 in the School of Medicine, and 180 in Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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FILLED UP _ SDSU business students protest closed and crowded classes. - Dennis Huls photo

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SEP r. 0 1980 USO Goes After First Win Tonight From • Times staff wrn,r SANDIEGO-Th U · · . for its first win i·n teh mvers1ty of San Diego will shoot Cl ree games when it plays h st a~emont-Mudd College tonight at 7,30. 0 to 15 rm Call of USD made his first start in last week's 30 yar~~ to Redlands, completing 15 of 25 passes for 158

CHURCH ROUND-UP Methodist bishop United Methodist Bishop Jack M. Tuell of Los Angeles will speak at 5 p.m. tomorrow at First United Methodist Church, 2111 S. Camino del Rio. Tuell, formerly an attor- ney and bishop of Portland, Ore., this month became bishop of the 470 congregations in the Pacific and South- west Conference of the UMC, including 47 in the San Diego District. Areception will follow. The San Diego Roman Catholic Diocese will sponsor a catechetical institute next Saturday at the University of San Diego. Speaking at 9 a.m. in Spanish and English, respectively, will be Auxiliary Bishop Gilbert E. Chavez and Brian Haggerty, co-author of severar Silver-Burdet and Paulist Press religion textbooks.

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SDSU instructors assail poor students, faculty 'deadwood' By JOSEPH THESKEN TRIBUNE Edvclllion Writer

Crashing, the common practice of students trying to enter classes al- ready filled, was denounced by a fac- ulty member who said "overcrowd- ing in classes (occurs) largely as a result of administrative removal of class limits and administrative en- couragement of the crashing sys- tem." SDSU President Thomas Day and the administration were targets of some of the faculty barbs. "The entire 1978-79 year is a clas- sic example of breakdown in com- munications, questionable veracity, damaging 'leaks' to the press, all of it amounting to incredible destructive- ness of confidence, faculty self-es- teem, professional reputations and ultimate morale of faculty and stu- dents," wrote a science prof sor.

wood in many departmenfs. We have a number of faculty members who died professionally 10 to 15 years ago. It's a great argument for re- viewing tenure every five or so years." The most common complaint reg- istered by the faculty dealt with the twin hardship of a heavy workload and overcrowded classrooms. As an Arts and Letters professor put it: "The troublesome problems: (1) The almost unrelenting 12-unit teaching load. (2) The FTE (full-time equivalent) pressure that puts priori- ty on big classes regardless of sub- ject, teaching mode or consideration of programmatic balance ...." Another criticism: "The teaching load is too high in order to foster true professional growth."

tige of the graduate without ever graduating into learning and true self-discipline." And this one: "Students cannot read, write or spell - some of them, that is - and think it is an imposition to be required to study. They are more lazy and uncomprehending about the learning process than hos- tile." Faculty colleagues did not escape criticism. As a professor from the College of Business Administration put it: "Old tenured faculfy try to control new faculty members. Old faculty hold on to their outdated teaching materials. Too much inter- nal politics, jealousy, resentment, envy ...." Ascience professor was sharper in his attack: "There's too r 1 1ch dead-

"But I feel that the responses of a third of the faculty were representa- tive of the.entire faculty," he said. The professors, who were not re- uired to sign their names, took the opportunity to unload their pet grievances. Example: "I am under great pres- sure to please the students. I am a part-time instructor and my depart- ment has made it quite clear that good evaluations are essential. Al- though I have always been flexible, now I am bending over backwards. I don't dare have even one unhappy student." Another wrote: "Students ... want lhe degree more than the learning, the grade more than the knowledge the professor has to impart, the pres-

Students, administrators and fel- low professors are criticized in an- swers to a questionnaire filled out by San Diego State University faculty members. In the results disclosed yesterday, the educators complained about heavy teaching loads, overcrowded classrooms, "deadwood" in some de- partments and some students who cannot read, write or spell. Dr. Victor Goldkind, who compiled a report based on responses from more than 400 full- and part-time SDSU faculty members, cautioned that the questionnaire "was loaded negatively to focus on bad condi- tio.... " on the campus.

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