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Volume 149, Issue 40 www.sjsunews.com/spartan_daily Wednesday, November 29, 2017 SPARTAN DAILY SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 FOLLOW US! /spartandaily @SpartanDaily @spartandaily /spartandailyYT GREAT AMERICA SPARTAN SETS WELCOMES GOALS RECORD #spartanpolls# CHRISTMAS IN THE WATER SEASON DoesD ending net neutrality See full story See full story on page 6 tthreaten American democracy? on page 3 LECTURE CA Chief SPARTANS MIX FOR CHARITY Justice visits SJSU BY KAYLEE LAWLER Staff Writer The Supreme Court of California’s Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye spoke to students and faculty about her life, her work and the state’s judicial branch at the Student Union Theater on Tuesday night. Cantil-Sakauye was born and raised in California and worked in the Sacramento County District Attorney’s offi ce. She was later nominated to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 and was approved by voters that same year. The event was part of the Don Edwards Lecture series. It began in 1995 and is named after the California congressman. University President Mary Papazian and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez opened the event by welcoming Cantil-Sakauye and retired California Superior Judge Len Edwards, son of Congressman Edwards. Every chair in the theater was fi lled with students trying to get a seat for the lecture. SALVATORE MAXWELL | SPARTAN DAILY Over 20 students lingered in the hallways Associated Students hosted a San Jose State community fundraising event to help aid the relief effort in Puerto Rico. Environmental and sat on the fl oor. studies senior Jessica Lomeli sits at the bath soaks station and mixes the ingredients following the recipe guide to create her own “It was gratifying to see so many students,” individual bath soak. The event was hosted at the Diaz Compean Student Union Meeting Room 1B from 11 a.m to 1:30 p.m. Cantil-Sakauye said. “I’m hoping that you all will take our place in the future.” City and political officials also attended the event. One notable attendee OBSTACLES was the Honorable Patricia Lucas from the Santa Clara County Superior Court of California. Former DACA recipient persists despite odds “This is probably the most full it’s ever been,” political science professor James BY CINTHIA LOERA came from state law AB Brent said. “I’m not quite sure why but Staff Writer 540, which allowed her to that’s just fantastic. Normally I don’t meet pay in-state tuition instead them until they show up. /you always Lucila Ortiz was one of international student fees. wonder what they’re going to be like and of many undocumented She worked full time then they open their mouths and it’s like, students who overcame while also being a full-time ‘Wow, I understand why they’ve risen to the obstacles to complete her student in order to pay her top of their fi eld.’” education at San Jose State. way through her bachelor’s Cantil-Sakauye began the lecture by According to data and master’s degrees. describing the judicial branch as a “three collected by the United In 1999, 11-year-old Ortiz story house” and continued to explain States Citizenship and immigrated to San Jose from how it works. Immigration Services, Mexico with her family and 197,900 active Deferred was exposed to a culture that Action for Childhood came with obstacles. Arrivals (DACA) recipients She remembers excelling “Normally I don’t meet currently live in California. in school while in Mexico them until they show Ortiz became a DACA and was proud of her recipient in 2012 while she accomplishments as a up. You always wonder was completing graduate student. School became what they’re going to be WILLIAM YAP | SPARTAN DAILY (fi le image) school at SJSU. The only her comfort zone and Ortiz San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo spoke at a rally against President Trump’s fi nancial assistance she like and then they open decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). received while at SJSU ALUMNA | Page 2 their mouths and it’s like, ‘Wow, I understand why OPPORTUNITY the’ve risen to the top of their fi eld.’” SJSU project off ers college courses to inmates BY NOE MAGANA James Brent Staff Writer Political science professor Until this semester, Record Clearance Project by the Department of Justice Studies “We are the largest judicial branch in the provided an opportunity to train students and country,” Cantil-Sakauye said. people with convictions about their rights. Notecards were passed around for When the right people met, it grew into students to fi ll out with questions they had college courses for Elmwood Correctional for the Chief Justice. Facility inmates. “Personally I’m not interested in the The project consisted of San Jose State government, [but] it’s really interesting to students going into the community to do sit and hear more details and learn more,” speed screens — reviewing a person’s nursing sophomore Katy Leung said. “It’s record known as Record of Arrest and good to know about it at least.” Prosecution (RAP sheet) — and to provide Cantil-Sakauye and Edwards started their people the guidance through the process discussion with Edwards as the moderator of expungement — clearing some of the asking the questions. They discussed topics convictions from the record, Nishtha Jolly, such as her early life, her start in the California justice studies lecturer and urban & regional judicial system and the discrimination she planning legal director, said. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHELLE BURNS Women who completed a class pose with their certifi cates of completion with GOVERNMENT | Page 2 EDUCATION | Page 2 instructors and correctional facility members. 2 NEWS Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1 2 3 GOVERNMENT She said she supports more education of all three branches of government, especially Continued from page 1 how the courts of California work. “It would be great to teach government and civic leadership had faced as a child because I think with her family and “It would be great that is leadership in as a female lawyer to teach government California,” Cantil- during the 1980s. Sakauye said. “When She also discussed and civic leadership you come out from issues that include because I think college, you’re going the shortages of to be ready to take on judges in areas in that is leadership in change and it would be California such as California.” nice if you understood San Bernardino and the world you’re in to funding of the state’s Tani Cantil-Sakauye be effective in your judicial system. Supreme Court of change.” KAYLEE LAWLER | SPARTAN DAILY California’s Chief Justice Toward the end of (1) Students sit on the fl oor of the Student Union Theater to listen to Chief Justice Tani the lecture, Edwards Cantil-Sakauye speak Tuesday night. (2) Cantil-Sakauye (left) and Judge Len Edwards (right) brought up the issue of Follow Kaylee on Twitter discuss her early career and how the California judicial branch works. (3) Cantil-Sakauye educating students about the judicial branch. @kayleelawler94 answers questions Edwards reads off index cards. WILLIAM YAP | SPARTAN DAILY (fi le image) Activists wave signs at the front entrance Martin Luther King Jr. Library during a Defend Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals rally on Sept. 5. ALUMNA the public school system in California. She worked as an organizer after she graduated. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHELLE BURNS Continued from page 1 “They provided me with opportunities of civic engagement and I loved it,” Ortiz Three women inmates (one on left and two on the right) at Elmwood Complex Women’s said. “I found that instead of trying to Facility look down at their certifi cate of completion. developed a connection with a majority of become invisible that speaking my mind school administrators. and being empowered was the thing that I But when she fi rst arrived in the United loved doing most.” EDUCATION included Intro to Kinesiology for male States, Ortiz felt as though there was no Ortiz never stopped being engaged inmates and Record Clearance for female way she could fi t in with her peers. She despite her busy schedule. She joined Continued from page 1 inmates in which a total of 30 completed said she could feel the racism directed SJSU’s Student Advocates for Higher the classes with a C or better. There were toward people of color and immigrants Education (SAHE) and began supporting 77 combined inmates enrolled. after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11. other undocumented students. The project was started by justice studies In the spring, two philosophy classes were “I had a classmate who called me a wetback “I saw myself as being connected and lecturer Margaret Stevenson in 2008, Jolly offered. Thirty-seven out of 92 inmates, both and even though I did not really understand that also connected me to campus,” Ortiz said. Due to lack of funding, it was put on men and women, completed the classes. what that meant at the moment, I knew that said. “It changed my whole experience. I hold after the summer 2017 session. The number of inmates that completed the it was not meant to be something good,” wasn’t just coming to school to learn and According to Jolly, Stevenson began to classes rose to 59 in the summer session, Ortiz said. “Some of my classmates made get a degree, I was coming to [a] home do presentations at Elmwood because they of which 51 obtained an A. The men and fun of me when I did try to speak English with my friends.” believed it would be very benefi cial for those women took education counseling classes.