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Special Edition A tipeulal lbur-page section. edited  by Vicki May, honoring Wonben's Week, an anntud  event sponsored by the Asso-ciated  Womens Students, ac (minipanic% today's regular edi-tion of the Spartan Daily. AWS  Woman's  Work  activi-ties, woman's organizations and coed fashions are featured In the edition.  PARTAN DAILY SAN JOSE  STATE COLLEGE  Orphans To Sign Students receiving pao  meats under the War Orphans Rill must sign vouchers  tor the month of March, 411.4.11rItillg  to Mrs. Kai. Nose,  senior clerk in the Registrar's Mike. Forms are available  in ADM102 and are due Wednesday, Vol. 64 .4111110.6 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95114, TUESDAY, MARCH  4, 1967 No. 92 DS Student  Found Dead in Apartment Petitions Out  On Campaign To Free Daily  The Spartan Daily, aided by other campus organizations and in-dividuals,  today will begin a cam-paign to have the question of the paper's  financial independence from ASB government put on the ballot for  this month's election. A booth will be located on Seventh Street  so that students can  sign a petition asking SJS stu-dent government  to place  the "In-dependent Daily"  proposal on the ballot as a constitutional  amend-ment. Signatures of 15 per cent of the student body are necessary be-fore  the question  can be Placed before the voters. MORE EXPEDIENT  "With Student Council's  work-load, especially now that budgets are coming up, we feel going to the students directly will be a more expedient  method of getting the issue  before the college," said Spartan Daily Editor Jerry Town-send yesterday. Townsend last week  asked coun-cil to consider the "Independent Daily" proposal for inclusion on the April  ballot. The amendment calls for the es-tablishment of the Daily as an in-dependent campus newspaper  di-rectly receiving $1.25 of the $10 students will pay in activities fees each semester beginning next fall. The Daily now receives approxi-mately one-third of its more than $100,000 budget by allocation from Student Council. COUNCIL  REFUSAL Representatives of the Daily pre-sented their amendment to council before the body was to vote on the controversial Publications  Advisory Board  bill, co-authored by Repre-sentative  Dick Miner and Ken Shackelford. The student legislature, how-ever, refused to discuss the Daily's proposal,  instead passing  by a nar-row margin  of two votes the bill creating a seven -man committee to review and evaluate all ASB-funded publications. The Daily's proposal also re-quires that the paper function with an advisory board  of 10 persons  representing the six schools of the college, faculty, and administra-tion KISSING THE BRIDE and marking the first wedding ceremony in the campus Memorial Crapel since its reopening last semester is Phil Whitten. The graduate representative  to Stu-dent Council and Cindy Waring, a junior music major from Modesto, exchanged vows Friday night in front of nearly  150 friends and family. With the couple  are Penny Cassidy, matron  of honor, The  Rev. George Collins,  Steve Thomas, best man and ASB  chief justice, and  Dick Miner, another prominent graduate rep. Also in attendance were President Robert D. Clark, Dean Cornelia T. Tomes, and ASB Presi-dent Jerry Spolter. Panel Discussion To Kick  Off Local Vietnam Week Activities A panel discussion probing "Psy-chedelics and Politics" and a folk concert were added yesterday to the slate of on -campus peace activ-ities protesting the war in Viet -Rant The panel, scheduled Wednesday in ED100 at 3:300 p.m., trips off a scheduled 10-day effort to "stimu-late student awareness" and pro-mote a national Vietnam Week protest. Panelists are Nick Kopke, Andy Clausen, Bob Cugini and Reid Fin -Di  Emcee  Sparta Sings  KYA disc jockey Mike  Cleary will be the Master of Ceremonies for this Saturday  night's Sparta Sings.  The popular San  Francisco DJ will host the 8 p.m. program in the San Jose Civic Auditorium. Cleary, also  the star of TV's rock. show "Tempo," will  entertain in between acts at the show.  San Jose State's Jazz Ensemble will provide special entertainment  at this year's all-college  song fes-tival. The Jazz Ensemble has been lauded  as one of the finest groups in Northern  California and was viewed by SJS students at most all of the pre-game shows before last semester's football games. This year's production will fea-ture six groups competing in three divisions; Women's,  Mixed and Mixed Production. Tickets are on sale in front of the bookstore, on Seventh Street and  at the Student Affairs Busi-ness Office. Admission is $1. Tickets  will also  be on sale  at the door. Vietnam Student  By PAT SINGLETON and GAIL KNIGHT Spartan Daily  Staff Writers  Students gazed in wonder at this group of visitors. Is the U.S. government, in addi-tion to sending Americans to Vietnam,  now sending Vietnamese visitors to San Jose? Yes, It is. On Wednesday,  March  1, 15 Vietnamese students moved into the men's residence halls at SJS to participate in a pilot education program sponsored by the Agency for International Development. The students are among 105 from South Vietnam attending seven State Colleges. The 15 Vietnamese students will undergo Intensive orientation in English through the summer. It is expected  they will begin regular classes by the start of the fall semester. Uong Dinh Chuyen spoke for the group when he told of some of their activities since arriving at SJS. MEET MORE PEOPLE "We find the  dormitory to be quite com-fortable. It is the best place for us to live, because we meet more people this way. The most important aspect  of this living condition  Is the opportunity to speak  and understand  English at the regular American  pace." layson. Malvina  Reynolds, writer of "Little Boxes," "Turn  Around," "It Isn't Nice," and "What Have They Done to the Rain?"  apepars Mon-day  in Morris Dailey Auditorium, from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Dona-tions of 50 cents  are being ac-cepted at the Student Mobilization Committee's booth on Seventh Street daily, or at the door. Tickets for the "Peace Rock" Saturday, which f ea t urea the Berkeley  folk group "County Joe and the Fish," may be obtained at the booth for a donation of $1 or donations of $1.50 will be accepted at the door.  The dance is sched-uled from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Other activities set during  Viet-nam week include a march to San Francisco, beginning Thursday, April 13, and presentations of a peace film entitled, "Sons and Daughters." ^-71.^,n..norr,rinnirmrrnio, nm,171711.11,r Roommate Recalls Youth  Morose Over Girl's Death An SJS sophomore  was found dead in his apartment. early yes-terday, a sack containing a poi-son bottle and an empty pain pill bottle lying nearby. John Michael Napoleon, 19, of Menlo Park, described by his  roommates  as morose and des-Candidates For Office Meet  Friday All candidates seeking to run for elective offices in the spring election,  April 19 and 20, must  at-tend an orientation meeting this Friday in Cafeteria rooms A and B at 4 p.m., according to Paul Morey, election board chairman. Morey  said if candidates  cannot attend  the meeting, they must send a representative  providing that the candidate has a signed and dated letter of authorization. Candidates are urged to pick up application forms and copies of the newly adopted election code at the student union and to have read them by meeting time Fri-day. Office seekers must have an overall 2.25 GPA and be qualified to hold the office they seek by the beginning of the fall semester. Official campaigning begins Sun-day, April 9. Lensman Speaks  Sam Vestal, chief photographer for the Watsonville Pajaronian and regional director of the National Press Photographers Association, will speak to members of Kappa Alpha Mu, photojournalism fra-ternity, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in JC101. Vestal's work in press photogra-phy has earned regional and na-tional awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper. The illus-trated talk is open to the public. pondent since the death of his girl friend last October, was found lying on his bed by James Le g ge t t, a life-long schoolmate. The two had roomed together at 385 E. Wil-liams St, with Ken Glaser and James Lantis, since the begin-ning of the spring semester.  Leggett told police  Napoleon had been despondent since the October 22 death of Shirley Byrne, 19, of Menlo Park, in a cycle accident in Palo Alto. Napoleon was driving the motorcycle at the time. LEAVES LETTERS He said Napoleon stayed home from classes all last week and drank heavily. Police found three letters in Napoleon's room which indicated his despondency. "He had  been really down for a long time, but we never thought he would do a thing like this," said Glaser, who arrived home early Monday and was called to Napoleon's room by Leggett. Leggett, according to Glaser, checked the dead youth's room be-cause Napoleon had spent almost all day Sunday in bed. Napoleon got out of bed about 4 p.m., he said, but returned almost immed-iately. "He had  been dead about six hours when we found him," Glaser said. Glaser said the police would not show Napoleon's letters to them, but said he knew Napoleon was haunted by the memory of the cycle accident. 'COMPLETELY CHANGED' "He was completely changed," he said. "Before he was a really great guy, very smart. He could just go to lectures and get A's and Napoleon found out about his girl friend's death, Glaser said, be-fore his doctors intended him  to. While awaiting  an operation on his knee for injuries sustained  in the accident, Napoleon sneaked out of his hospital room, called the  hospital, and learned she  was dead. "It was a hard way to find out; the doctors  wanted to wait until after the operation,"  Glaser said. r.,1111,,thniurnm.,,,inimmormormmtromilmmoilmirrn)nripirmir.ffintrir...,. Discusses First Month  The Vietnamese students have become acquainted with  the campus and many of the students during their first month  at SJS. They also have learned a little about the city of San Jose by frequent walks through the downtown area. "I'm glad that we are here in San Jose, because it's a small city.  We feel more com-fortable and do not feel lost. "We've done some shopping because when we came we brought only the very basic necessities  with  us. "We have joined the ISO and plan to take a more active part in campus activities." BORN IN NORTH VIETNAM Chuyen was born in North Vietnam. He migrated to the south  in 1954,  following the Geneva  agreement to divide the country. Chuyen will  study for his master's degree  in international relations. With this degree he can work in the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs in Saigon. Later he plans  to eain his Ph.D. and  teach in a university. "In Vietnam one has to have a Ph.D. to work in the university. High school there is about the same level work as junior college in the United States." The orientation classes attended by the Vietnamese  students consist of at least three  hours a  day of reading in English, composi-tions, speech, language labs, lectures and seminars. The seminars with graduate stu-_ i I , I` SI rialeton VONG DINH  CHUYEN (r.) ... greets roommate Paul Gonzales "They had to put a pin in his knee." "There's really not much you can say. I just can't believe it happened," he said. IN HOSPITAL Napoleon, a biological science major this semester, was enrolled in the Tutorials program  before the accident. Afterwards, accord-ing to his  roommates, he was in the hospital  for two months and was forced to drop out of school. Parents of the dead youth are  Mr. and Mrs. John N. Napoleon, 2115 Menalto Dr., Menlo Park. Officials at the Santa Clara County Coroner's  Office said de-termination of the cause of death  is pending further study.  Napoleon's body is at Roller and Hapgood Funeral Home, in Palo Alto. Tickets On Sale For Spartacamp Tickets for Spartacamp  an intellectual weekendare on sale in front of the bookstore and on Seventh Street today through Fri-day,  according to Kathy Rasmus-sen, director of Spartacamp. Tick-ets cost $14. Spartacamp's purpose is to take the student  from the formal class-room to an informal situation where he  can study his ideas, while he is a significant member of the group--not  a number. SJS  Gets Grant  For Teacher Aid SJS will receive a $29,540 grant for the 1967-68 academic year to conduct In-Service  Institutes for secondary school teachers, accord-ing to Congressman Don  Edwards )D -9th District). The Institutes  offer instruction  In science and mathematics during the academic year on a part-time basis, late afternoons, evenings  or Saturdays. Participants receive travel and book allowances, and pay no tuition or fees. Impression  dents are conducted to discuss the materials covered during the day. Other state colleges involved in the pro-gram are San Diego, Sacraments, Long Beach, Fresno, Fullerton and California State Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo. "The girls in our group were sent to San Diego because SJS didn't have the facilities for them. It's too bad. We wish they could have come with us. "SJS is a good school. I hope that I can stay here to continue my studies. The campus Is not as beautiful as some, but is more convenient  than many. I'm glad the  buildings are so close together, because, like the other students, I don't like to run to my next class. NEEDS STUDENT BODY CARD "If I remain at SJS it will take me two years to complete  my master's degree re-quirements. I'm looking for another school that has international  relations as a separate course  of study and in this way  I could be finished  in one year.  I sincerely want to stay here, however. "I'm still  waiting for my student body card so I can check books out of the library. Right now I'm doing background studies for my degree in addition to the orientation program, and it's difficult to do so much of my reading in the library. Bringing  the books to the dormitory would be more con-venient. "Sometimes if we don't feel like eating in the cafeteria we go out for spaghetti or other good American food, 'LEARNING VERY MITCH' "Before coming here,  my friends and I didn't know much about American  life or the American college system, so we are learning very much through the orientation program. "My roommate. Paul Gonzales, wanted me to be a guest in his home during Easter vacation, as did many of the students with Vietnamese roommates, but the college had arranged for each of us to live with a host family in the area during the week-long vacation. This was interesting and it helped us to find out how families live and what American family activities are  like. I'm glad we had the experience  of living with an American family. "In sports we found that we enjoy ping pong and watching basketball. We haven't seen a baseball  game yet, but we hope  to see one here soon." 

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