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WEATHER SPORTS A&E SOCIAL MEDIA FFollow us on TTwitter Baseball team: Drink of @@spartandaily safe at home the week BecomeB a fan oon Facebook High: 67° ffacebook.com/ Low: 51° PAGE 8 PAGE 5 sspartandaily Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Wednesday, May 11, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 53 Three dead in campus shooting Students not alerted in place as support systems to deal She said no cars were damaged garage was open for students to gency notifi cation until 9:39 p.m., with these kinds of situations. during the incident, and that any remove their cars from the second, when police announced there had until hours after incident Amada Munoz, a senior Radio, students who received tickets would third, fourth and sixth fl oors. been a shooting at the garage via Television and Film major, was in a be free to communicate the situa- Amanda Kolstad, a master’s stu- the emergency phone notifi cation friend’s apartment around the cor- tion to UPD, whose goal was not to dent of English, said UPD did not system. ner from the garage when a sharp be issuing unjust tickets. respond via any of the emergency Harris said both UPD and San Francisco Rendon sound caught her attention. A text alert released by Alert- notifi cation systems. Jose Police Department participated Staff Writer “We heard a bunch of gunshots SJSU at 12:35 a.m. stated that the UPD did not issue its fi rst emer- in the investigation. that go muffl ed,” she said. “It sound- Three unidentifi ed individuals ed like a whole clip went off.” were killed in a shooting on the fi fth Munoz said by 8:45 p.m. police fl oor of the 10th Street Garage on had responded to the scene and were Tuesday. blocking off the streets. Pat Lopes Harris, director of “Next thing we know, we hear media relations for SJSU, said the sirens,” she said. “so we walked over shooting was an isolated incident there to the 10th Street parking ga- and that the offi cers who responded rage.” to the call quickly determined that Police barricaded off Ninth and the campus and the general public 10th Streets from San Fernando to were safe. Santa Clara Streets. Two of the individuals died on Elizabeth Pitt, a senior business the scene and the third, who is sus- management major, said it was frus- pected of being the shooter, died in trating having to sit outside the ga- the hospital, Harris said. rage and wait without having been It is still unknown whether those formally addressed by university po- involved were students, but Harris lice. said an investigation would contin- “It would be nice if UPD would ue. address us and tell us something,” “We know there are a lot of peo- she said. ple that will be seeking assistance,” The police allowed no access into Harris said. “We want to direct the or outside the garage for two hours student attention to SJSU Counsel- and about 20 students were being ing Services and faculty to the CON- contained in the garage and up to CERN counseling program.” 120 outside until students were per- Both services offer free short- mitted to enter and remove their Photo by Brian O’Malley / Spartan Daily term counseling, Harris said, and are cars, Harris said. A victim is lifted into an ambulance by paramedics outside 10th Street Garage in Tuesday night’s shooting. FEATURE Deal with local company brings Graduation takes sixteen software titles to students longer for most Whitney Ellard trying to fi gure out where the fund- what classes, programs and majors Staff Writer ing for the program will come from are going to want to use it.” to allow SJSU to enter into a con- However, with all of the pro- Christian Gin “Students are uncertain with tractual agreement with Adobe. grams Adobe is offering, Nance said Contributor what they want to do for their ca- Adobe has reached out to SJSU “The challenge is fi guring out it would be hard to fi nd a major that reers, which leads to indecisiveness and other universities nationwide how we can come up with this source does not use one of the programs. on their major,” said Ann Baldwin, to introduce an educational licens- of funding that makes it available to Timothy Schulenburg, Adobe’s Sitting in his dorm and staying offi ce manager for the College of ing agreement. students,” he said. education territory manager, has up late, Hugo Garcia studied for his Science Advising Center. The Education Licencing In terms of a university-wide fee, been working with SJSU for more history class fi nal exam. Baldwin said she has en- Agreement program provides Nance said that is something the than 16 years and as part of Adobe Later, he spent his time reading countered many students over an extensive Adobe Suite that university does not want to do. more than a year. He reached out to an assignment about triglycerides the years visiting her offi ce for consists of a variety of soft- He said if SJSU can come up the university to offer the program. from his nutrition class. advising. ware packages available to with funding for the software, the In various meetings with univer- After drinking an energy drink, “Students have trouble faculty and students. university’s goal is to make it at no sity leadership, Schulenburg said the study session continued for so choosing a major, and sticking with Universities would be required cost to students. discussions about student achieve- long that it went till sunrise the it,” said Ana Acosta, a senior English to enter into a multi-year contract As a partner to the university, ment and differentiating SJSU’s next morning. major. “My friends have changed on an all-students basis. The pack- Nance said the price Adobe is of- student body from other students This is something that most stu- their majors more than once. As a age is offered to SJSU at a discount- fering the program at is the lowest in the employment pool are what dents are doing right before fi nals. result of this, they will not fi nish in ed price of $49, per the university’s discount price available. prompted the offer of Adobe’s Garcia will most likely not fi nish four years.” full-time equivalent students. “We don’t want to charge all licensing program. college in the planned four years. Acosta said her friends have Bill Nance, interim vice president of the students when they are in a He said expanding a student’s According to the 2007 SJSU Aca- changed their majors because their for information and technology, said major that is not going to use the digital literacy for a low-cost fee demic Report, more than 50 per- initial choice was too boring or an- the university is in the process of program,” he said. “We don’t know is something the university should cent of students will change their other major was more interesting consider. major at some point during their to them. According to Megan Stewart, academic careers. “On occasion, the students who Adobe’s director of education, the Angel Chavez, a junior arts come for advising will be given company has been offering student and animation major, said he the wrong information and the licensing programs for many years has seen many of his friends advising is misleading for them,” to institutions, offering students switch their majors after their Baldwin said. up to 80 percent off the original previous one didn’t work out. Baldwin said the goal of the price of software. Advising Center is to help students “Even with the 80 percent off, on their way to academic success. it is still somewhat prohibitive for CORRECTION Instead, students can misunder- many students,” she said. In the May 10 issue of the stand what they are told and will According to Stewart, the licens- Spartan Daily, the story titled take the classes they don’t need. ing program currently being of- “Multiple car accidents occur Baldwin said she feels that fered began more than a year-and- east of campus,” two greek houses these misunderstandings are her a-half ago. were misidentifi ed. The responsibility, and she is working “We’ve done individual agree- correct names are Delta Zeta to stop them from happening. ments like this with institutions and Theta Chi, not Delta Chi She also mentioned that the Photo by Brian O’Malley / Spartan Daily just testing out how we can provide and Sigma Zeta. 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