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--Tmmr Sports 4 Opinion 2 Coming Monday imppromppmimoffpfliroppor Softball safe 'Friday Confession' takes Election dates, campai at home, win a look at society's and application deadlines key topics doubleheader AdiL invisible people in A.S. update PARTAN MIX February I. 20110 Serving San ...lose State University Since 1934 l'ulume 111, .\' SOOND Of rule VONKY DRUMMER l'hot,J. I),/,,. ,' .S1,11 fall Daily Junior Tristan Pradelle practices a west African playing the rhythmic beats during the West African Julian Gerstin shows his West African Drum class the right way to hold a drumstick. The class drum pattern Wednesday in the Music Building. It is Drums Music 1601 class. An interesting aspect of the is at 2 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays in the Music building and otters different techniques. not uncommon for students to get swept away with class is its being open to non-music majors. Gerstin has studied drums in Ghana and in the Carribean. New $5,000 You got mail This way, grasshoppers scholarships make up for the potential loss of future business due to the closing Post office of the Colonnade location on Plaza de San Antonio between available 1.cond and third streets. in Union The Colonnade location was Monica L. Ewing scheduled to lose its lease at the. DAILY STAVE WRITES Jessica Neu end of 1999. We'd all like a rich aunt or uncle DAILY STAFr 14 RITElt The Colonnade location served a who would pay for us to go to col- large amount of university busi- lege. Afraid of going postal? ness, which the postal service hoped The next best thing to having Students can now handle all to continue servicing on campus. wealthy relatives is winning a their postal needs right on cam- Warren said the university scholarship. pus. An express post office is now came to Spartan Shops and urged Two new $5,000 college scholar- open on the lower level of the them to house the post office.. ships are available to upper divi- Spartan Bookstore in the Student Spartan Shops agreed with hopes sion students at five Bay Area pub- Union. of filling the large void that would lic colleges, including San Jose The post office began welcom- be left when the Colonnade loca- State University. ing business during the winter tion closed its doors. The scholarships are made break, offering customers all the Surprisingly, the Colonnade available through the Goldman benefits of a full-service post location's lease was renewed at Family Fund, is administered by office with the exception of voter the first of the year. Belinda the Mann Education Fund and registration, express mail, post Ingram, branch manager, said the honors Ruth Goldman, a San office boxes and the accommoda- branch would continue to stay in Francisco State University psy- tion of packages up to 70 pounds. business indefinitely. chology professor. "It was slow at first, but it's In response to whether or not "We are very excited to be a part starting to get busier and busier," the new university location would of this scholarship," said Kim said Adrienne Cadman, employee take business away from her Mazzuca, the president of the of the campus post office. branch, Ingram said, "It's too Mann Education Fund. "It is a "The express mail is in the early to determine. They have donor, advised scholarship where works and will be available soon," only generated a couple hundred the donor family plays more of a Court Warren, director of the dollars." I ore:y Swall / Spa,tars flatly mentorship role with the recipient." Spartan Bookstore, said. The current lack of business Chi-hisiu Daniel Weng, a Ninth-degree brown This is the first semester that Shuai Chiao is being Mazzuca explained the San Jose State University was can be blamed largely on students Goldman family wants to receive approached by the U.S. Postal belt, instructs a class in beginning Shuai Chao, one taught at SJSU, and it is held at 1:30 p.m. Service 18 months ago to open the of the oldest Chinese martial arts, in Uchida Hall Wednesdays site on campus in an effort to See Mail, back page See $5,000, back page verw- EDITORIAL Packing an extra lunch can also save the world because she had better places to 10 minutes late to my 9 a.m. school, to a degree, to a dream job and help Iwas class, driving as fast as I could perfect life. But why not her? Why not be. I won't ever travel to distant Super Bowl down Almaden Expressway, which I her instead of me? Maybe change the world, but maybe I take instead of Highway 87 to avoid Maybe that's just how the chips fall. lands to to. rush hour traffic. Life's unfair. don't have believe we have the privilege I've grown up in Almaden, one of Even so, she shouldn't be a name- I don't whether we will help those in victory equals San Jose's many suburban-style, mid- less, homeless person on the street, to decide think it's our obligation. dle class neighborhoods. belonging nowhere to no one. need. I pack a lunch, it doesn't take I don't think much about the differ- At 14, my plan was to change the If you make an extra peanut butter ences between my life and the lives of world, to end hunger, homelessness, much to sandwich to give to someone Spartan pride those whose homes I pass on my way to hopelessness. and jelly down and out. school. I studied French instead of Spanish who is set on helping kids from scenario of Sunday's Super Bowl might not But the two-income houses along because I had heard that most African If you're The countries, for about $20 a have been immediately exhilarating to Bay Almaden Expressway transform into dialects were rooted in the language of Third World could adopt a child through Area football fans. Lackluster seasons from both dilapidated apartment structures as love. month you established organization such as NFL teams in the area may have been a cause, but the road nears downtown. I imagined myself doing volunteer an FRIDAY CON/t5SION or Compassion. honestly, who would have thought the St. Louis Rams I'm neither shocked nor outraged by work in Africa, tilling crop fields, build- World Vision connected to a modem and the Houston Oil ... err ... the Tennessee Titans this. I don't ask why it is my family of ing schools, feeding malnourished And anyone food donation with a quick could be as intriguing as it ended it up? lives in a nice, three-bedroom home, and burnt by sun and wind. Her hair babies. can make a six www.thehungersite.com. It However, San Jose State University football fans when others are crammed into a one- was dark and gray, matted and snarled. I was sure I could make a difference, visit to to make a donation should have been overtaken by a rush of adrenaline bedroom apartment with chipped paint Her several layers of clothes were all and I was astonished that more people costs nothing the food is paid for by corpo- and a sense of pride, for that matter when the and broken plumbing. dirty and worn. And, even though she didn't. because who match the number of Titans were left a mere yard short and the celebration As I whipped around the corner of had on a coat, she still looked cold. Somewhere along the way, those rate sponsors specified portions of food. of the Rams' championship ensued. Almaden Expressway and Vine Street, I was in my car, singing to the radio, dreams like clouds slowly moving hits with least, I plan to acknowl- Followers of SJSU football should have looked at the lady standing on the sidewalk star- eating pear and apple slices, perfecting through the sky drifted out of my At the very forgotten by giving them Rams coach Dick Vermeil's achievement and seen it as tled me. my lipstick in the rear view mirror. sight. edge society's deserve. an alumnus who finally was able to capture a Super She was nothing I hadn't seen The difference was disturbing. That lady at the corner made me the respect they Bowl ring after a prolific coaching career in the before. She was an anonymous woman What did she have to sing about? remember some of the ideals I had let league. holding a sign, asking for food or work What did she have to eat? What did she slip away. I recalled an image of the Christina Lucarotti is the Spartan Vermeil, a 1998 inductee into the SJSU ring of or something. I'm really not sure. have to look perfect for? person I had hoped I might become: Daily Opinion Editor: "Friday honor, donned a Spartans uniform as a quarterback in Her skin looked like leather, tough I'm on my way to somewhere, to Someone who wouldn't ignore a plea for Confession" appears Fridays. 1956-57.Vermeirs sideline victory was matched by that of another former SJSU player, James Hodgins. Hodgins was a fullback for the Spartans from 1995- 1998. Upon leaving SJSU he was undrafted but was Potential NBA all-stars able to secure a free agent deal with the Rams in 1999. The 6-foot- 1 -inch back, who signed with St. 2-(0.1f:e Louis in April, quickly claimed a roster spot, and in .7.7" '.

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