NMI SPARTAN DAILY y. University since by Serving San Jose State 1934 VOLUME 124. NUMBER 53 THURSDAY. APRIL 21. 2005 torn mt. off lsr\ rn- fill OPINION SJSU ter- Students protest fees the. rdi- to aid a .co in cyber 15. Wasted Gays and Wasted Nights What really happened in the get conclave p. 2 security L) SC lay 00 ern project [gh By Banks Albach :11 Daily Staff Writer SJSUCK Around San Jose in IS minutes The task of revamping America's p. 2 cyber security found a new. flag- hearer last week in the TRUST cen- ter. a newly formed seven-univer- sity consortium that includes San Jose State University's computer Aid engineering department. The Team fir Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology. or TRUST. will he led by a UC Berkeley research team with sup- port from eight universities. includ- ing SJSU. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with a five-year. $19 million grant Neal LVaters / Daily Staff with a chance for a five-year exten- San Jose State University students protest fee increases in front of Tower sion after that. The SJSU depart- Hall Thursday during a noon walkout. The students gathered at the A.S. ment announced its involvement on Play Review House and then marched to the Alfred E. Alquist State Building. April II. "Fame -- The Musical" P. 3 With LexisNexis announcing this week that recent security breaches may has e affected 310.000 people qf the Week 200 Drink Group swells to members instead of the company's initial "Skittles" p. 3 By Peter Clark claimed about 50 members. snow - estimate of 35.000 earlier this year. halted into a mob that was close to the formation of TRUST creates Play Review Daily Staff Writer 200 by noon. as they marched to some good opportunities. said SJSU Opera San Jose's "The Hying their first stop the A.S. House Professor Sigurd Meldal, computer Dutchman" p. 4 "Arnold, we're cal I in' you out. where speakers addressed the engineering department chair and Students, let's all walk out." crowd. TR 'ST hoard member. .Wusir Review "The state of cyber security is This was the battle cry Wednesday Shade was scarce as the sun beat Pianist Charles Rosen p. 4 pretty horrible." he said. "That's as San Jose State I. nis ersity students down on the crowd while the Stand just a statement of fact, not a con- participated in a statew ide school Up Party 's Marian Hoffer's words Restaurant Review began to jecture' walkout in protest of ss hat they heat things up further. Zymt Asian Grill p.4 "We want in Cyber insecurity comes in part view as inadequate funding of the politicians Sacramento to know we care about from a designer-engineer disconnect California State I 'ffiversity system our future," said Hoffer, a senior that pushes security to the end of the At II a.m.. a 4.1.0 \sd of students, majoring in math. product assembly line, which can faculty members and orgamters car- "Even Third-World countries. like eventually lead to breaches of con- rying picket signs and megaphones SPOR IS China and India, invest in their young sumer privacy. Meldal said In order began to congregate outside the people's higher education." Hoffer to strengthen it. security needs to University Room as chants directed Profile said. "California is the sixth highest he addressed at the drawing hoard. toward Gov. Arnold SO wartenegger SJSU football player Tony economy in the world. If we don't whether it be in consumer software erupted from the group. Ficklin hopes to be picked up in come around. we're going to lose the or large network servers, he said. As the protestors made a lap the NFL draft p. battle to stay on top. It's a shame that Because of this. the TRUST cen- stopped at around campus. they we has e to ask politicians to do the ter will take a broad approach, he out each building to cajole students job they were elected to do." said. For example. it will develop streets. of their seats and onto the Student complaints about tuition technology safeguards against cyber Students entering buildings were Increases were put into a broader insecurities, such as hacking, iden- " asked if they would he able to afford framework of problems by the next tity theft and even physical theft. classes next year if legislators admin- speaker, African American studies which UC Berkeley expenenced Ilcurnim Strific istered another round of fee hikes, and professor Steve Milner. when someone walked off campus students inside the buildings were "This is not just an issue only of Protestors rallying against tuition increases march toward Third with a laptop containing data on told, very loudly. to "walk out." Street on their way back to campus. The march was part of a statewide The protestors. which originally see PROTEST, page 7 walkout, which was sponsored on campus by the Stand Up Party. see SECURITY, page Street preacher gets pushed off soapbox Baseball Spartans drop to second place WA(' p.6 By Elizabeth Nguyen try to take l'Irout 'si sign and push lkiily A&E Editor him off the block." Oho, said. "lie didn't do anything. so we were sur- Woneen's Golf prised that they arrested him." Team finishes tourney five Three patrol cars parked on cam- Oho. who had been watching strokes behind first P. 6 pus at 6 p.m. Wednesday in front Trout speak for about an hour. said of the fountain by the Event Center Muhammad claimed that Trout by spitting on where a slim middle-aged man usu- instigated the light Muhammad, but she said she did not ally stands to deliver his religious see it happen. NI WS thoughts. The street preacher, who "If someone spit on me. I would remained silent when asked his CFA Report push him off too." Williams said, add- name. v..as not in his soapbox - he Fee increases hun CSU ing that she did not see Muhammad was in the patrol car. enrollment p. 7 get spit on either. Mark Trout, a member of Family "I heard him say 'Ihin't put your Radio in Oakland who usually de- Earth Day hands on use,'" ()hot said, "Then I bates religious thoughts over at the VIA to discuss zero-emission heard him say 'Ihin't pull a knife on buses p.9 Seventh Street location. was detained me.' " and put in a patrol car lin approxi- Oho, and Williams said they did mately 20 minutes and released after not see anyone pull out a knife, hut a reported confrontation between him said Trout might have said it because was Sparta Guide p. 2 and Mihail Muhammad. who he was "kind of craiy." passing by the fountain. Ali Warmth, a senior majoring Crossword p. Brittany Ohm. a freshman Mat111 mis electric al engineering, said he has Shaminder Puha / Pally Staff mg in mass communications, and been in confrontations with Trout Classifieds p. Ashley Williams. a freshman mann- before and that he was not surprised Officer Celano, center, of the University Police Dripanment removes handcuffs from Mark Trout after he ing in psychology and dance. said to see the street preacher get pushed was detained for questioning about a confrontation around 6 p.m. near the Event Center. Sgt. Ramirez, they both witnessed the scuffle. left, and Cpl. Wong also arrived on the scene after campus police received a call about an escalating WWW.THEMPA PITA NM "I saw an Atli,. an American man um INCIDENT, page 9 shouting match. Trout was released approximately 20 mlnutos later with no charges filled against him. APR1 PAGE 2 SPARTAN DAILY OPINION THURSDAY APRIL 21. 2005 WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS Behind the scenes with the papal selection 8 After 115 cardinals spent a day in a conclave, party. Let's have a shot." ity. women as priests, stem cell research and scoffs "Oh, God," said a Polish cardinal. "What are we wispy white smoke puffed above the Sistine Chapel. Ratzinger opens the bottle and pours about an at improving ties between Catholic and Protestant going to do now?" signaling that the new pope had been picked. ounce of the black liquor on the ground. churches.* "Well," said a French cardinal. "who's the most Act As reported by the New York Times, the unusu- "This is for all my dead homies. JP the Dos, may he He yells out, "I'm going lobe pope. My name will sober?" Sunny' ally brief conclave seemed to suggest that German rest in peace." Ratzinger says. "Now let's drink." be Benedict XVI and I'm on top of the world!" ..*** launch Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was a popular choice for "So why do they call you the One American cardina turns to the other According to the New York Times, an hour after of "Fa the College of Cardinals. What went on in that room Enforcer?" the Spanish cardinal asks.* American cardinal and chuckles. the great bell at St. Peter's tolled, "the scarlet curtain Histori that could have made the decisions so easy? "Hey, we don't like to bring that "Huh-huh, yeah, he's a Benedict all over the basilica's central balcony parted and a cardi- Jose. Some may say that it was a decision based solely up." the Italian cardinal whispers to the right. He forgets that Germany is losing nal stepped out to announce in Latin. 'Habemus pa- Foul on merit, and some say the papal election is just a Spanish one.