WEATHER Adapting the Spartan soccer Partly cloudy, key to survival team breaks high temps in in the into national the mid-50s to information age. rankings. low 60s. See page 2... See page 4... SPARTAN DAILY \tIiiiit Ili. Ntiliilwt I I Published for San Jose State 1 M. ersit) shire 19:i i Wednesday. November 2. 1994
Instructionally Related Activities Funds '93 '94 Allocation of IRA Funds:
Hey, here's a change $700,000 Total Revenue: $1,120,473 I. Athletics. $676,600 $600,000 2. Radio-TV - $24,500 ($20 per semester 3. Spartan Daily- $47,000 student fee) $500,000 4. Art Dept. - $60,000 Students get to vote on proposed fee increase 5. Music Dept. -$99,417 $400,000 6. Theatre Arts $94,392 By Kevin Valine primarily to help pay for Seventeen percent would be he said. "It also builds com- 7. Forensics - $24,000 Spartan Daily Stall Writer $300.000 8. Reserve fund/ intercollegiate athletics. used to extend hours and munity support. Some of our Accounting fee - $91,844 November is the month During the 1993-94 acade- upgrade services at Clark alumni keep in contact with $200,000 for elections. Not only will mic year, the $20 fee gener- Library. Nine percent would the university only through Californians go to the polls ated $1.1 million with be placed in reserve. athletic events." $100,000 on the 8th to elect a gover- $670,000 going to athletics. This is the first time IRA Scialabba played football nor and senator, but San The balance helped fund funds would be used to sup- at SJSU from 1986 to 1990. Jose State University stu- such activities as port Clark Library. Troy Stewart, a business 1 2 :1 4 5 6 7 8 dents can vote on a fee forensics, the opera Supporters of the graduate student and former increase. workshop, the Spar- fee increase said it's SJSU gymnast from 1988 to '93-'94 Allocation: Proposed Allocation: On Nov. 16 and 17, stu- tan Daily and KSJS. necessary to make 1993, said IRA fees help pro- dents can vote on whether Based on the SJSU a complete vide students with a total or not to increase the spring 1994 enroll- university. college experience by fund- Instructionally Related ment of 25,000, if "I believe a lot of ing a range of campus pro- Activities fee from $20 per passed, the $75 fee this (fee increase) grams. semester to $75. would generate $3.75 million is for athletics. I don't want "Experience makes a dif- Students For Spartan per year. to mislead people," said ference," said Stewart, who Art, Music, Pride, a group of six SJSU According to the petition, Mike Scialabba, a graduate founded Students for Media- 30% students, collected enough 54 percent $2 million of assistant in the athletics Spartan Pride two years ago signatures on their petition the $3.75 million of the department. "But what peo- and calls himself an unoffi- Athletics drive to call for a special IRA money would be ear- ple need to realize is that cial adviser to the group. election to be administered marked for athletics. athletics plays a vital role on "Anyone can just go to Current IRA Fee: $40 per year by the Associated Students Twenty percent would campus. school and study. What mat- Proposed IRA Fee: $150 per year such programs as "It gives campus local and ters in the real world is Election Board. support CSU system -wide average IRA fee: $42 per year
The IRA funds are used dance, music, and art. national media coverage," See Fees, page 6 V, Up, up and away Proposal would require computer access at CSUs
By Michelle Maitre Spartan Daily Staff Wnter cover network and support infra- gram because they are "popular structures for computers, said with applicants," said Don Farish, A proposal sitting on California Colleen Bentley-Adler, spokes- provost and academic vice presi- State University Chancellor Barry woman for the chancellor's office. dent for Cal State Sonoma. Munitz's desk may make comput- Under the proposal, incoming "The chancellor suggested ers a prerequisite for acceptance freshmen would have to own or there might be a differential fee into three CSU campuses starting have access to a computer, that would make students attend- Fall 1995. Bentley-Adler said. "Access" ing these universities pay more," The proposal, if approved, will includes borrowing computer Farish said. "Instead, we thought, set up a three-year pilot program time from another computer 'Why not try something differ- at Cal State Sonoma, Humboldt owner a residence hall room- ent.'" State and Cal Poly San Luis mate, for example or using a Farish and other supporters of Obispo which will require all computer in an on-campus com- the proposal laud it as a last- incoming freshman to own or puter lab. ditch effort to rejuvenate the have access to a personal com- But, Bentley-Adler assured, the CSU's ailing computer system puter as a condition of enroll- campuses "definitely would not" which, because of budget cuts ment. deny any student admission and a general lack of funding, can- The program will also charge because he or she did not have not meet student demands. students $72 per year. The fee access to a computer. "Computer access is one of will be used toward the creation The three campuses were tar- See Computers. page 3 of software libraries and will geted as the site for the pilot pro- Accreditation committee gives thumbs up to Health Services By Shelley Spackman first received accreditation six "A health organization such as Stall Writer Spartan Daily years ago by the Accreditation SJSU's Student Health Center San Jose State University's Association for Ambulatory must gain approval in about 20 Student Health Services was one Health Care and the California different areas such as the rights of the first accredited health cen- Medical Association, according of patients, governance, adminis- ters in the California State to Latta. tration, quality of care provided University system, according to "Every three years the center and quality of management and Dr. Richard Latta, director of must go through the accrediting improvement," Berg said. Health Services. process again," Latta said. "We The rights of patients category, "Accrediting helps us provide just went through the process in according to Latta, guarantees better quality care to students, September. The results won't be patients are treated properly and maintain professional standards known for another six to eight confidentially. with physicians and make sure weeks, but we're pretty confident The area of governance looks we're up to community and that we'll pass." at the relationship between the JrAserrs L. HANNA SPARTAN DAILY national standards," Latta said. According to Judy Berg, a repre- CSU system, the university and sets balloons on the stage in the Student Spatial arts graduate student Paulette Peterson up Student Health Services, one of sentative of AAAHC, a health orga- the health center. The area of Monday morning for a project she is working on Peterson chose the loca- Union Amphitheater about 50 student health centers nization must gain approval in sev- administration guarantees the tion for its "outside influence." in the country to be accredited, eral areas before accreditation. See Health. page 6 Sorority to host Mr. Fraternity contest to raise funds for arthritis research By Cindy Trotter ternity event, Thursday Nov. 3 Stephanie Roloff, Mr. Fraternity Every fall, the sorority breaks more towards philanthropy." Fraternity competitor. "I'm ner- Spartan Daily Stall Write, in the Student Union Ballroom. Chairwoman. "That money goes Into groups that are assigned The participants are judged vous. But it is for a good cause. I If you've been telling yourself The event will include all to Alpha Omicron Pi's headquar- to specific fraternity houses. on swimwear, talent, formal know a lot of the competitors, all semester you're going to do Interfraternity Council members ters and then we donate a large Throughout the semester they wear and their response to a and they are all good guys." something good for the commu- as well as the Sigma Pi fraternity sum of money to arthritis work with the fraternities to question regarding philanthropy. Participants will also be nity, now is your chance. to help raise money for arthritis research every year. pump them up for the event. "I'm not wearing Speedos. I judged on their grades and how Alpha Omicron Pi, an San Jose research. Each spring the sorority orga- "This year I'm changing the am too embarrassed to do that," many clothes they donate to the State University sorority, will "We've raised about $3,000 nizes the paperwork and makes emphasis a little bit less on tal- said Bryce De Vincenzi, a mem- Sacred Heart Community Center hold Its sixth annual Mr. Fra- every time we've done It, said calls for sponsors said Roloff. ent and skit," Roloff said. "It's ber of Beta Theta Pi and a Mr. See Contest, page 6 2 %ednesda). November 2, 1994 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY
Writer's Forum
Kevin Moore I ME tio aPERIEtics 111* In age of change, M A LAMER air (0hit,1111,1 qA SURE I CANWN folks adapt or die leURCA:Z Hey, can you spare some change? er attention span of the television generation. It seems a lot of people have change to spare This is actually an evolutionary advantage in the these days. There is so much change lately, some information age people just can't handle either the degree or A shorter attention span allows people to pace. process more information in less time. Data pre- the I IAAVE NI) ETFCRIMs 1 ME tsr) aFcFsEKT To take an old saw from the I Ching, everything sented in a short burst, 10 or so images per sec- As A P:)uncIAN EAJT I'M that is a ond takes less time to assimilate than data pre- AS A FAFIMIC EuT l'141 changes, even when there is no change, SURE I CAN Fris %URS PD A GMT change from constant change. Modern society is sented over a five minute, uninterrupted scene. 'MCA. JOB INWRIPItian built on change ... progress is a measure of Of course, there is a major societal backlash success. from people who are unable to handle the pace of .4fp, The problems arise from people change. They decry the "break- visa ,4FP who are incapable of dealing with down" of society without realizing " the increasing rate that informa- culture is dynamic. Like any living tion, which must be processed, 'when culture thing, when a culture be- becomes available. The last gener- comes static, it is already at ation knew this phenomenon as becomes death's door. future shock. People who are unable to deal Writer's Forum Those who bother thinking static, it is with the information overload in about it these days generally con- modern life are at an evolutionary sider it an extension of the psy- already at dead end. Evolution has declared Sharks' altruism chedelic revolution. them unfit to survive and they Tim Schwalbach The psychedelic revolution has death's door.' resent it. slaty reporter to do with the human mind dealing By crying about it, and fighting it, an example to all with information overload. There they ensure their own demise are many recent developments that lend them because only those who can adapt will thrive. selves to this task. The meteoric rise of the per- Thriving in the age of the psychedelic revolu- Here we go again another professional sport San Jose shelter that assists thousands of emo- sonal computer is one of the most important. tion means more than simply adapting to an disagreeing at the collective bargaining table. tionally and physically abused children, and San IBM estimated the U.S. market for personal increasing rate of change, it means reveling in it. Amidst the labor dispute and lockout between Jose Children's Shelter have received visits from computers in the '80s was around 2,500 units. The people who will do the best in the future team owners and players of the National Hockey Sharks players, said Ken Arnold, director of Reality is that more than 60 million units were are not simply those who can move masses of League, whose season has been indefinitely post- media relations for the Sharks organization. sold in that decade That megalithic corporation information but those who learn to control that poned, players are making the best out of a bad The state of professional sports has been blast- was wrong because the!, lacisect lutiounietital Ii it'asingly less knowledge and situation. ed, s. rutunied and labeled, especially aftei the understanding of the underlying dynamic of mod- considerably more understanding. San Jose Sharks' team members Jeff Norton 1994 Major League Baseball strike, for its greedy, ern society. No, buddy. I can't spare any change. I need all and Jeff Odgers, along with other NHL and Sharks corporate business-like mentality and actions on One of the other aspects of the psychedelic rev- of it 1 an get. players. are giving their time to help those less and off the field of play olution many people find disturbing is the short- fortunate while unemployed themselves. The hedonism and self-aggrandizement of These players have filed for unemployment multi-million dollar professional athletes whose Letters to the Editor benefits in which they will receive $230 per week egotistical heads tarnish childhood and public for 26 weeks, the state maximum benefit. They perceptions has got to change. I guess it's all part plan to use this money to purchase dinners for of the sell-centered society we live in that takes In America, votes are stored in banks local San Jose homeless people and make contri- but doesn't give. butions to other charities. But in this case, despite the labor and unem- Dear Editor: because he nas no chance of In my early days within our This is a prime example of the altruism in ployment problem, players are extending their winning. mighty public school system, I sports rarely seen or heard about. appreciation and giving back in the true humani- A.J. Nomai (Oct 18) is com- Oligarchy has no mom for was taught that we live in a Professional athletes' involvement and support tarian spirit of life. pletely correct in saying that "proportional representation," democracy, where everyone of their community reflects and serves as a posi- The Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New York Rangers, what we have here in America is where a party that wins 8 per- has a voice, everyone has a tive image of role models. This is something the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils are an oligarchy. cent of the vote gets as 8 per- vote. public doesn't see enough of in this day and age. doing the same thing Jeff Norton and Jeff Odgers Our choice of candidates is cent say in the legislature. Now I see that votes are actu- Ultimately, ills the community and fans who are doing. limited to those who have or After all, we wouldn't want to ally stored in bank accounts and help "feed" these players' salaries by going to "We're trying to take advantage of something can beg the vast amounts of have our government accurate- no one shouts louder than tele- games and watching them play. Now, some play- we can do to help out in the community," Norton money needed to erect a media ly represent the views of its citi- vision sets. ers are "feeding" the community back all said in a recent interview in the San Jose Mer- image of themselves. zens. Someone could write a propo- they can. cury News. Politicians have become The tobacco and insurance sition to allow proportional rep- In San Jose alone, Sharks players are donating "We're not doing it to get the money for our- artists of illusion and deception. industries have poured millions resentation and to take the money for charities, Thanksgiving dinners and selves, but if we can feed a few people with it, This Nov. 8, I will vote only to more into the fights over money factor out of politics, but homeless shelters. Other shelters have benefited that's great." keep the worst candidates out Propositions 188 and 186 than those with the money have got from players' support of local causes. I wish there were more people like that in the of office, not because I feel any their opposition. what it takes to keep that from In the last two weeks, Eastfield Ming Quong, a world. It would be a better place. of them represent me, my ideals Will the voting public see happening. hope for the future. through their b.s. blizzard? or to the Editor Due to this money factor, a Who knows, but they only Letter vote for a "third party" candi- have to fool those few people J. Wilson date who may actually repre- who have not given up in dis- Senior Even 'good' politicians need term limits sent my views is wasted gust over the electoral process Civil Engineering Dear Editor Congress has become stagnant Anyone who has authority for with men and women who are an extended time tends to One cannot cut, paste Biblical truths Those who oppose term lim- no longer in touch with their become less in touch with those its for congressmen, saying the constituents. he or she leads and will be more Dear Editor: society, why, then, is it okay to detestable in His sight. Not the "good ones" will be as affected By putting limits on politi- Influenced by those who will bash Christians? person, but the sin. as well as the "bad ones," are cians' terms, we would ensure serve his or her interests. I would like to respond to Mr. Danner's perspective is Mr. Danner states he is gay missing the point of what term new faces with new ideas to get In short, term limits are Michael Danner's letter that he believes the teachings in the and a Christian though I may limits would do for Congress. Congress moving again would exactly what we need to jump- appeared on Oct. 26. Bible are "... appropriate for the raise my eyebrow at this, that is On the Oct. 25 opinion page get elected. start Congress. Despite argu- Before I respond, I would like ancient world during the time between him and God. cartoon, the cartoonist propos- These people will not be as ments to the contrary, the ben- to just address a question to that it was written." However, if Mr. Danner insists es that term limits wouldn't be corrupted by lobbyists because efits of term limits would, by those SJSU students who are I believe that the Bible was "our actions are what counts," it beneficial because it would pre- they will not have had a long far, outweigh the consequences non-Christians and who find applicable then and now. Is ironic to me that he can say vent congressmen who are time to influence them. It would- of getting rid of those that do this Christian versus homosexu- Why? Because I believe if God this in full knowledge of the doing a decent job from contin- n't eliminate corruption, but it their job well. ality issue irrelevant to their does not change, neither does Bible's teachings and still justify uing indefinitely. would improve it. lives. His Word. choosing his gay lifestyle. She doesn't understand that, It's irrelevant if the office- Denise Portugal First, take a moment to realize One cannot pick and choose No one is perfect, and some- with so many career politicians holder is doing well or not. Sunnyvale that in a society which so and cut and paste the scriptures times I feel like lam forever ask- embraces homosexuality virtu- to whatever is in fashion in ing God for forgiveness when I ally anyone who disagrees with society. do wrong things. Opinion page policies the homosexual lifestyle is Nowhere in Genesis does the Yes, Mr. Danner, it is easy to stereotyped as either having Bible state or even infer Sodom say one is a Christian. The Spartan Daily provides a the Opinion page must be in Journalism and Mass Com- "ignorance and lack of under- was destroyed due to the But the hardest thing to do in daily forum to promote the Letters to the Editor's box munications, San Jose State standing" or labeled a bigot or a "inhospitality" displayed by society today is to live one's life a "marketplace of ideas." in the Spartan Daily newsroom, University, One Washington fundamentalist. those who happened to be the way Christ taught it Contributions to the page are Dwight Bentel Hall 209, or left at Square, San Jose, CA 95192. These assumptions and preju- homosexual. always has been, It always will. encouraged from students, the information booth in the Fax articles to (408) 924-3237. dices have to stop. Mr. Danner is right, however, staff, faculty and others who are Student Union. Articles and letters MUST For a world so interested in in stating the Bible "says that Interested in the university at Articles may also be mailed contain the author's name, being "politically correct" and one sin is not worse than anoth- Denise Tortorici large. to the Opinion Editor, the address, phone number, signa- not offending certain groups in er" all sins are equally Art Any letter or column for Spartan Daily, School of ture and major.
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If the computers are SJSUS WEEKLY CALENDAR meet all the demand," said Mark deemed necessary for enroll- Resmer, associate vice presi- ment, they must be covered by Come Raise A Glass After 'NW Student California Teachers Class dent for information technology financial aid disbursements. DOWNTOWN'S AIFSEC Association at Cal State Sonoma. "Seventy-five percent of con- FRIENDLIEST PUB Meeting, 5:30-6:30 p.m., SU Guest Speaker Gloria Macias, Featured beer this Thursday: Credential Analyst Current Resmer said he supports the cerns about this program are e Costanoan Room. Call 924-3453. Information on WS Certificate, proposal because lack of access financial," Farish said. Farish NEW CASTLE Asian American CLAD/BCLAD Credential, Noon- for students "seriously impedes said the schools are also look- 4 Buy the first pint for 14.00 Christian Fellowship 1 p.m., LRD3-SH 331. Call JoElla work they're trying to do. ing at alternative programs, like and keep the glass. "How to be Buddies With God," Molloy, 270-5329. "From my perspective the lease agreements from comput- 4 Refills are only $3.00. 7:30 p.m., SU Council Chambers. solution is cooperative," Res- er companies, to ease the bur- 8:00pm Call Jeff, 279-5790. SJSU Fencing Club this Thursday. mer said. "Students have got to den on students. Meeting & Practice, 5:30-7:30 LIVE BAND Caner Planning play a part as well as the univer- But some people question the & Placement p.m., SPX 089. Call John, CALVIN'S DAD 280-6019. sity. That's why we're advocat- veracity of the proposal. Larisa Coop Orientation, 3:30 p.m., SU e. Thursday at 9 : 30 diArt ing for this fee. If you want the Tompkins, director of university Costanoan Room and Inter- Society of Women Engineers university to give this all to you viewing for Success, 2 p.m., SU Resume Workshop, 11:30 am., affairs with the California State Happy Hour: Mon -Fri 4-,pm k.a 4 Almaden Room. Call 924-6033. ENG 335 and meeting, 12:30 for free, we just can't do it. The Student Association, said the 1) **5 31 E. Santa Clara Street, Downtown San Jose 293-1118 Catholic Campus Ministry p.m., ENG 333. Call Leanne, university can subsidize things, program might turn into a 773-1262. but the Between 1st and 2nd Street Tuesday Night Choir Practice, students have to play catch-22 for students. 7:30 p.m., Campus Interfaith Department of Sociology their part, too." "We don't want it to come Center and Tuesday Evening Leland Vandiver, associate vice across as students being against Lecture & INscussion with guest IF Dinner (free) , 7 p.m., Campus speaker Luis Talamantez: president of information systems technology," she said, "but Interfaith Center. Call Fr. Mark, "Human Rights and the Pelican and computing for SJSU, said the there's a big difference between GRE LSAT GMAT 298-0204. Bay Prison System," 1:303:30 proposal is "exciting." saying you have to own a com- Golden Key p.m., MD Auditorium. "If every student had a com- puter and saying you have to 0 SAT 1 CBEST 0 lNOnor Society Call 924-5334. puter, then a lot of things could have access to a computer. Executive Council Meeting, be automated," Vandiver said. "Student's don't want to be ANSWERS?! 4 p.m., SU Almaden Room. wednesday "[The proposal] might get a seen as not being proactive, but PRSSA negative reaction from some there's huge financial consider- Black Alliance of Scientists Yes. our director. Yes, all ot your materials Meeting, Guest Speaker: students who say, 'I pay enough ations. They're talking about ci & Engineers r Jerry Bobrow. has written are included in one, low lrmhard Lafrentz, 7 p.m., SU Meeting, 6 p.m., ENG 358. Call money.' But the money has to having financial aid available, over 20 national best-selling program fee Costanoan Room. Call Tanya, Howard, 924-EUYO. come from somewhere. It's a but there's not enough financial books on test preparation. 924-7913. 0 Yes, we administer Buhver-Lytton English Club problem in our state to take it aid available now." A Yes, our programs are programs for 26 California Russian Club Meeting, 12:30 p.m., FO 104. Call out of the students' pockets. On Bentley-Adler said Munitz absolutely up-to-date State Universities, colleges TV News From Russia (transla- Lara Stunning, 293-0183. the other hand, if the govern- should decide whether or not to Yes, we have a free and law schools tion by Prof V. Schenk), Noon-1 O ment isn't giving us money, what implement the pilot program 'repeat" policy Yes we prepare over p.m., HB 407. Call 924-3685. Fantasy/Strategy Club 0 el Meeting, 5-10 p.m., do we do?" before the end of the year. 1. 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Because the rising level of crime and violence in our soci- Another "hot button" issue that California politics has Single Payer Health Care is a health insurance system in ety is real and because there are no easy answers to the real issues. it created is illegal immigration. Certainly, every country has the which licensed health practitioners in California would submit all is very easy for demagogic and cynical politicians to push the "hot right and obligation to control its borders, but that being said, of their bills to a single state agency instead of to one of the hun- button" on crime. This is what has happened with California's Proposition 187 is a cruel, cynical, self-defeating and profoundly dreds of health insurance companies now operating here. Three Strikes and You're out law which mandates a 25-years-to-life racist way of addressing this issue. Currently, health insurance companies used 27gr of health :are sentence without possibility of parole to three time convicted felons. -Prop 187 would deny public services, including health funds for administration. Government run Medicare uses -Three Strikes makes no distinction between violent and care and education, to all undocumented immigrants and their Single Payer would be allowed up to 4%. non-violent felonies. In fact, three convictions for check fraud are children, whether or not they were born in the United States. Single Payer guaranties universal coverage for all treated the same way as three counts of armed robbery assault. This Imagine the public health problems that would result from families California residents. Under Single Payer there is complete free- is hysteria, not serious public policy. afraid to seek medical assistance. Imagine the social problems dom for the individual in choosing his or her own provider, to ith- -Implementation of Three-Strikes will require more than that would result from all the children not going to school in order out the restrictions of existing health plans. You do not lose s doubling the number of prisons in California in order to accommo- to avoid detection. Responsibility for discovering and reporting insurance if you lose or change your job. The coverage that L. date a prison population that is projected to increase from the cur- "illegal children" making use of these services would fall on provided is more extensive than most existing coverage. It rent 125,000 to an estimated 341.000 in the next six years. But the teachers and health care professionals. includes preventive care, nursing. and mental health care, and it same Governor and Legislature that gave us this Proposition refused -The advocates of Prop 187 claim that undocumented eliminates deductibles and exclusions for pre-existing conditions to place a bond measure an the November ballot that would finance immigrants cost the state far more than they contribute in taxes. Single Payer would be supported by 2.5% income tax on this expansion because they understood that the amount involved There are conflicting findings in this area. But one thing is cer- individuals and a tax on emplo!,ers which, for most individuals would be too shocking to the public. tain: of Prop. 187 violates federal law and would annually cost and employers, would not exceed current payments. -The California State Budget supports prisons and higher California $2.3 billion K- 12 education and $1 billing for higher Single Payer is supported by the American Association of education out of the same relatively small pool of uncommitted education because of loss of federal funds. retired persons, the California Nurses Association. the California funds. As the prison budget goes up, the higher education budget -Until it became politically expedient for Pete Wilson to Physicians Alliance, the league of Women Voters. Consumer goes down. It costs the state as much ($30,000) to maintain one engage in immigrant bashing, as Mayor of San Diego and as a Reports, the California Teachers Assos-iation and the AF1,-CIO. It prisoner for a year as it does for it to educate five five students in U.S. Senator he opposed restrictions on undocumented workers is opposed by the Insurance Companies the CSU for the same year. And, of course, the prisoner will be in coming to the United States from Mexico because they were a prison for 25 years to life. cheap labor supply to agribusiness. -Finally, even though there are many illegal immigrants from Europe in the United States, the entire anti -immigrant rhetoric focuses on those from Mexico. Central America, and Asia. The experience in Latino and Asian American communities is all that all members of those communities consequently become iden- tified as suspect by the Immigration police and in the popular mind.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 184 VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 187 VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 186
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The National Hockey League "A lot of stuff has been post- said he wished to remain anony- "I don't have to give bad news (NHL) season has been put on poned, and there's a lot of dis- mous since he is not an employ- to anyone. We're still giving JAPAN the back burner for now. No appointed people I have to con- ee or representative of the (nonprofit charities) merchan- EXPERIENCE skaters have been on the ice tact," Siville said. "I hate Sharks and is not authorized to dise donations," Steve said. since the union has instructed bringing bad news to people." speak with the media. Leslie Ruiz, a FIRSTHAND recreational/leisure studies teams not to conduct practice. The Sharks sponsor a variety "It hasn't affected me that The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Although the season was of community-based events. much since I'm part-time. This major is one of three SJSU stu- Program is sponsored by the Japanese scheduled to begin Oct. 1, The most recent was "Break The lockout has no bearing on the dents involved with Arena regardless of the lockout, sever- Ice." In this event, corporations programs the Sharks offer," he tours. She is the only full-time government and seeks college graduates from al San Jose State University stu- (this time it was Sports said. intern of the three. all majors (you must have a BA/BS by dents, who are also San Jose Channel) purchase ice time and Steve helps out with pro- Ruiz said the draining of the 6/30/95) to serve for one year in Japan as a and Parks, ice surface has been the biggest Sharks employees, are working Sharks' coaches and employees grams like Sharks Coordinator for International Relations (CIR) as hard as ever behind the host Sports Channel employees Fan Fest and deals with dona- difference in her job. or an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT). scenes. to an evening of entertainment. tions to nonprofit charity "With the ice gone, the whole Marketing major Lou Siville Several Sharks players and groups. arena is a little gloomy, and Japanese language ability is required for worked for three years as an coaches still show up to these Fan Fest, an event in which there's no players around," Ruiz CIRs only. intern for the San Jose Sharks and events, regardless of the union's fans are given a chance to meet said. is now the assistant to the com- issued statements. Sharks players, was pushed "I work in tours in the morn- To find out more, attend an informational meeting: munity development department. "We have a lot of community- back from October to ing, and people are disappoint- Siville's job requires his pres- based programs," Siville said. November. ed there's no ice right now." 4, 1994 ence in the off-season, so the "We have to keep the communi- There is a possibility it may Friday, November 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Student Union, Men's soccer team improves overall record 13-4 Guadalupe Room Spartan Daily Staff Report contest and up their record to half at 42.39. Alejandre has been ranked 25th In the nation for The San Jose State University 13-4. credited with four assists in the men's soccer according to the Or call I-800-INFO-JET men's soccer team won against Weaver also assisted on last two games. coaches poll. The Spartans face to receive an information Cal State Stanislaus 5-1 on SJSU's final goal of the game. Jody Riehl and Jason the possibility of making the and application packet. Monday. Weaver lead the Spartans in Martinez, with his ninth goals of NCAA tournament. Helping to bring the team to scoring with eight goals and 11 the season also scored. victory was Brian Weaver,who assists. Mike Pepe scored a Cal State scored SJSU's first and fourth Tony Alejandre assisted the Stanislaus' goal in the second Associated Students Special Election goals of the game ,helping the first two goals and scored the half. The Warriors are 5-11-1. VOTE! Spartans win their third straight Spartans' third goal of the first The Spartans are currently
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