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DEVELOPING Academic Senate requests SJSU governance review By J. Bennett, J. Gonzalez, M. Lewelling, which was the last item addressed at the meet- The resolution follows a Nov. 6 meeting be- that it has attempted to serve those interests in C. Shyvers, A. Williams ing. tween college deans and three members of the the best way it knows how ... but at some point @JennyDaily, @JeffVGonzalez, “This is a difficult moment for San Jose SJSU administration regarding a last-minute we must admit that these efforts have failed.” @melissadanae91, @cshyvers, @all3ybobally State,” Peter said, “and a difficult moment for budget issue that would have resulted in cuts to Judith Lessow-Hurley, an elementary edu- each of us.” courses and faculty. cation professor, spoke in favor of the resolu- SJSU’s Academic Senate passed a resolution Peter spoke of “unpleasant truths” that In a statement released the following day, tion during the meeting and said it was about Monday to request a review of university gov- have caused “widespread concern” from facul- San Jose State University President Moham- a “confluence of events” that have led to an ernance by CSU Chancellor Timothy White. ty and students about budget efficacy and the mad Qayoumi said the school would reallocate “unprecedented” level of discomfort, dismay The Senate, comprising past and present direction of the campus. infrastructure funds to restore course sections and frustration. faculty, students and administration mem- While Peter said the resolution wasn’t di- originally planned for the Spring 2014 semes- While Lessow-Hurley said some SJSU fac- bers, passed AS 1531 by a confidential vote of rectly related to a specific event as cause for the ter. ulty have called for a vote of no confidence in 38 for, two against and five abstentions. review, he mentioned the recent “scheduling “Nearly everyone here knows we have a Qayoumi, she said the resolution is an effort to Kenneth Peter, a political science professor fiasco” and a “series of conflicts over the last problem,” Peter said. “I personally believe that “respectfully urge communication.” and chair of the professional standards policy year” that have “highlighted issues” involving the present administration does have the in- committee at SJSU, introduced the resolution, communication and transparency. terests of San Jose State University at heart and SEE RESOLUTION ON PAGE 6

CAMPUS COMMUNITY Students’ dreams become a form of art SJSU aids Typhoon Haiyan victims By Jamie Ramirez @jlreports

Typhoon Haiyan destroyed part of the Philippines when it hit the islands on Nov. 7, but it also damaged the hearts of Americans, such as Gina Erfe of San Francisco. Erfe, who was born in the Philippines, said her three older sisters and six nieces and nephews live in Manila, the capital city of the country and home to more than 10 million citizens. “When I heard about it, I was nervous for them and called right away,” Erfe said. “My eldest sister, she did not pick up and I panicked. I could feel my heart, it would not stop pounding.” Efre said when she finally spoke to her eldest sister, Grace, she felt a sense of relief knowing Grace and her family were alive. “My sister told me about the winds and the rain pouring so hard that she could not see anything and could not hear because the winds were so loud,” Erfe said. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, reached winds of 195 mph at its peak, according to the AccuWeather website. The city of Tacloban, capital of the Leyte province located more than 350 miles southeast of Manila, was hit the Jenny Bennett | Spartan Daily hardest. Jonathan Fan, freshman digital media arts major, writes on a chalk wall to finish the sentence “Before I die…” Passersby wrote on the wall Local damage officials claimed the set up by Peer Health Education, Project Shine and TEDx San Jose State University on Monday. city was hit with 138 million pesos in damages, approximately 10.6 million By Jerry Salas Huynh said anyone can write a ed by Peer Health Education, TEDx- “I wrote that because I feel like U.S. dollars, according to the Philippine @popcrnchicken goal they want to achieve in chalk on San Jose State University and Project some people can get overlooked, and government’s official website. the “Before I Die” wall. Shine, they were able to bring this in high school I was one of them,” The death toll in Tacloban is more Kelly Huynh, a sophomore nu- “This is an adaptation of Candy concept to SJSU. Fan said. “It’s nice to be able to see ev- than 1,700 and expected to reach nearly tritional science major, and Andrew Chang’s original ‘Before I Die wall,’” Roselo wrote on the wall, “Take a eryone’s dreams on the wall.” 10,000, according to reports from dam- Roselo, a senior health science major, Huynh said. “Chang started this selfie with the new Seven Wonders The writing on the wall states age officials. helped create the “Before I Die” wall project on an empty building’s wall of the World,” and Huynh wrote, serious goals such as “I want to influ- Akbayan SJSU and other campus next to the ATM center on campus. in New Orleans in honor of someone “Dance with Ellen DeGeneres.” ence a generation,” but some more groups teamed up with nonprofit organi- “The goal of this project is to help she lost to help build better commu- Jonathan Fan, a freshman digital frivolous ones include goals of hav- zations, Project Pearls, the Philippine Red better understand ourselves and the nities.” media arts major, wrote, “I want to ing sex with certain celebrities. Cross and LBC Express cargo company to students around campus,” Huynh Huynh said people around the be remembered, I don’t want to be Huynh said she is aiming to have collect relief funds to send to victims of said. “A state school isn’t typically world are starting their own “Before forgotten.” the wall up until the end of the se- Typhoon Haiyan. known for its campus unity and I Die” walls. Fan said he had a certain mean- mester. The typhoon has affected more than that’s what we hope to bring forth Huynh said with the help of nine ing in mind behind the words he Jerry Salas is a Spartan Daily staff 35 provinces and 42 million people, ac- with this.” other students and funding provid- wrote. writer. SEE CATASTROPHE ON PAGE 6

INSIDE FORECAST Correction Showers In the Nov. 14 issue of the Spartan Daily, Michael Kaufman, P. 5 A&E: Eminem doesn’t hold back in latest album 61°F physics and astronomy P. 6 News: Moratorium relieves ethnic studies department chair, should have 52°F been listed as a member of the P. 7 Opinion: Does Thanksgiving even exist? Academic Senate.

P. 8 News: Keep up with crime on campus Printed on recycled paper Th e Spartan Daily regrets the error. 2 | Spartan Daily NEWS Tuesday, November 19, 2013 SCIENCE MAVEN spacecraft to study solar erosion on Mars

By Amina Khan along with clay minerals that must have been McClatchy Tribune formed by exposure to water. “I wouldn’t be surprised if, for many tens LOS ANGELES — Four billion years ago, of millions of years, Mars was a pretty friend- rivers and lakes dotted the surface of Mars, ly place with natural water, wind, waves and their waters reflecting puffy clouds drifting in rain,” said Paul Mahaffy, an atmospheric scien- a blue sky, scientist believe. tist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Now, it’s a dry, rusty rock that’s subject to Greenbelt, Md. who leads instruments on both fierce sandstorms, withering blasts of radia- MAVEN and the Curiosity rover. “But I think tion and freezing temperatures that have fro- we just don’t know.” zen carbon dioxide to the planet’s poles. Liquid water can’t exist on the Martian What happened? surface today — it would quickly freeze in the That’s the question NASA seeks to answer coldest spots and boil off elsewhere, because with the scheduled launch Monday of the MA- the low-pressure atmosphere is far too thin to VEN spacecraft. keep it in. Planetary scientists believe the answer lies Understanding why Mars’ atmosphere van- high in the Martian atmosphere. Today, it’s a ished and Earth’s did not is key to understand- thin layer of mostly carbon dioxide gas. But ing Earth’s ancient history. Someday, it may long ago, it may have been thick enough to host even help scientists study the atmospheres of a life-friendly, even Earth-like, environment. planets orbiting distant stars. If so, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolu- There are several theories about why the tion mission may reveal clues about where it all Martian atmosphere has been reduced to a went. wisp. Some researchers think a giant cata- Previous missions, from rovers to orbiters, strophic impact blew out much of the atmo- have tried to see into Mars’ past by examining sphere. Others suspect that much of the carbon the Red Planet’s surface. But that only tells part dioxide may have been sunk into Mars’ rocks of the story, said Bruce Jakosky, a planetary sci- in the form of carbonates. But neither of these entist at the University of Colorado Boulder explanations can fully account for the massive and principal investigator for the MAVEN loss of water vapor and gas. mission. The sun, many experts believe, is the most “If we want to understand Mars as a system, likely culprit — and it has been whittling away we need to include the role of the upper atmo- at the outer edge of the Martian atmosphere sphere,” he said. “We can no longer just look at for billions of years. Unlike Earth, which is A look at NASA’s mission MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN), which will the geology and understand it in isolation.” protected from the sun’s radiation by a strong research the Red Planet’s atmosphere for at least a year. Earth is flanked by two alternative worlds. magnetic field, Mars has little defense against On the side closer to the Sun is Venus, a planet solar erosion. This may be because the planet’s ones. So if the scientists find that many of the nedy Space Center in Florida in a lurch. with too much atmosphere, boiling away un- inner dynamo cooled long ago, while Earth’s lighter isotopes are missing, it will give them a If the mission stalled and the launch win- der thick layers of carbon dioxide. On the other molten core keeps churning. clear sense of how much of the atmosphere has dow passed, team members would have had side lies Mars, a planet with too little air shield- MAVEN will study solar erosion in the escaped into space — and thus, how much more to wait more than two years for their next ing its cold, dead deserts. Martian atmosphere with a suite of sensitive of it there must have been in the past. chance. By that time, the spacecraft’s instru- “We think all three of those planets, when instruments that can pluck ions and electrons The scientists hope they’ll be able to catch a ments would have aged and the cost of storing they formed, were not all that different,” said from the solar wind, analyze energetic par- Martian aurora in action, which could provide it would have added to the mission’s price tag. Steven Lee, curator of planetary science at the ticles from the sun, and examine faded mag- insight into weak patches of magnetic field On top of that, the sun would have gone Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Life netic fields. that still exist on parts of Mars. They’ve also into a quieter phase of its 11-year solar cycle. arose on Earth because it’s a “Goldilocks” case, MAVEN also has tools to analyze the gas got their fingers crossed that a few solar storms MAVEN scientists would have missed their protected by just the right amount of air. near the top of the Martian atmosphere. Ele- will hit Mars during the mission, so that MA- shot at key data that could have helped them Robotic explorers sent to Mars by NASA ments, like hydrogen or nitrogen or argon, VEN can witness the type of solar pummeling understand the ancient, more active sun. and other space agencies have already picked typically come in slightly heavier and slightly they think would have been common in the It was Curiosity that saved MAVEN from up many signs that water once flowed across lighter versions, called isotopes. As an atmo- past, when the sun was far more active. the short-lived furlough. MAVEN has a radio the surface. Scientists have identified craters sphere slowly escapes over time, the lighter Unlike Curiosity, which captured hearts, relay built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that they think were once filled with lakes, isotopes tend to flee faster than the heavier minds and 1.4 million Twitter followers in La Canada Flintridge that will serve as a around the globe, MAVEN isn’t likely to be backup to the two aging orbiters that currently much of a scene stealer. It doesn’t have cam- send the rover’s messages back to Earth. If both eras that can take breathtaking panoramas or of them broke, MAVEN would have to provide cheeky self-portraits. that link. But Curiosity and MAVEN have common Other than that, the mission has gone re- goals: Understanding how life-friendly this markably smoothly, said MAVEN project cold, red rock really could have been — and manager David F. Mitchell of NASA’s Goddard westvalley how long those conditions could have lasted. Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. MAVEN The longer the atmosphere was thick, the more is on time and appears on track to come in be- college likely that life would have had a chance to take low its approximately $671-million budget, a hold. point of pride among the team. C If Monday’s launch is delayed due to bad After MAVEN completes its 10-month trip rea re weather or unforeseen glitches, NASA will have to Mars, it’s scheduled for a primary mission te Your Futu until mid-December to get off the ground. Af- of one year, though the hope is that it will last ter that, Mars and Earth will be too far away for much longer. MAVEN to get there on its limited fuel supply. Jakosky says MAVEN has dominated his life SJSU Students: MAVEN was in danger of missing its launch in recent years. He even made special coupons Fulfill your lower window altogether when the federal govern- for his wife, worth a few hours of MAVEN-free division general education and major ment shut down on Oct. 1, putting 97 percent conversation. of NASA’s employees temporarily out of work They came with an asterisk: Not valid for requirements for only $46/unit! and leaving the mission team at NASA’s Ken- launch day.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 NEWS Spartan Daily | 3 GOVERNMENT Senate GOP rejects another judicial nominee SpartaGuide Michael Marrinan: Writing majority to change the rules and cial, won unanimous confirma- win confirmations with 51 votes tion in May, impediments have Letters, Marking Paint — instead of 60. been far more common for the Van Gogh’s Doubt The judicial nominee show- court, sometimes called the na- Today downs also illuminate the se- tion’s second-most powerful. lective use of evidence by both Located about four blocks 5 - 6 p.m. sides. from the U.S. Capitol, the ap- Art Building, Room 133 “Now what we’re getting is pellate court oversees federal not the pretense of extraordi- regulatory agencies, among nary circumstances (to block a other things. When Florida- Company One: Macbeth nominee),” said Norman Orn- based SeaWorld challenged La- Wednesday, Nov. 20 stein, resident scholar at the bor Department rules imposed to Saturday, Nov. 23 conservative American Enter- following the drowning death prise Institute. “What we see of a trainer, the company came Times may vary is, ‘We’re going to keep the D.C. to the appeals court. The court University Theatre Circuit tilted in a conservative heard oral argument in the Sea- Chart compares the number of federal judgeship appoint- direction even through eight World case last week. ments by president; President Barack Obama has the lowest years of your presidency.’’’ This week, underscoring the A.S. Harvest Festival numbers since President Ronald Reagan. The court’s eight active judg- court’s reach, three judges will Thursday, Nov. 21 es are split evenly between Dem- hear a challenge to the Envi- 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. By Daniel Rothberg Four of my predecessor’s six ocratic and Republican appoin- ronmental Protection Agency’s McClatchy Tribune nominees to the D.C. Circuit tees. But of the court’s six senior postponing smog cleanup dead- A.S. Rec Lawn were confirmed. Four of my judges, who can also hear cases, lines for certain regions in Cali- WASHINGTON — Senate Re- five nominees to this court have five are Republican appointees. fornia and other states. In Janu- Student Leadership publicans on Monday stymied been obstructed. When it comes Republicans say the court ary, a challenge by a Yakima, President Barack Obama’s latest to judicial nominations, I am has all the judges it needs. Wash.-based company prompt- Conference judicial nominee, leaving one of fulfilling my constitutional “We shouldn’t confirm any ed the court to strike down pres- Friday, Nov. 22 the nation’s top appellate courts responsibility, but Congress is more judges to the D.C. Circuit, idential “recess” appointments 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. shorthanded and escalating the not.’’ especially when those addition- made to the National Labor endless confirmation war. The Senate’s action, with al judges cost approximately $1 Relations Board. The Supreme Student Union, Barrett Ballroom Facing a nearly unified GOP only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa million per year, per judge,” Sen. Court will review this sweeping Register at bit.ly/leadconf2013 front, U.S. District Judge Robert Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Charles Grassley of Iowa, the decision early next year. by Wednesday, Nov. 13 Wilkins failed to secure the 60 Collins of Maine, voting against senior Republican on the Sen- The court is also important votes necessary to overcome a the continuing filibuster, leaves ate Judiciary Committee, said for what it can lead to. Four of filibuster and win a seat on the the appellate court with eight Monday. the Supreme Court’s current Fall Choral Concert U.S. Court of Appeals for the active judges and three empty Obams nominated Wilkins, nine justices once served on the (ft. Women’s and Men’s Glee District of Columbia Circuit. seats. One of the seats has been who is African-American, along lower appellate court. Keeping The 53-38 vote late Monday af- vacant since 2005. Sen. Orrin with Georgetown University potentially attractive candi- Clubs and Pitch Please!) ternoon marked the third time Hatch, R-Utah, voted present. Law Center Professor Nina Pil- dates off of the D.C. court in the Monday, Nov. 25 in three weeks that Senate Re- The persistent filibuster, lard and attorney Patricia Ann first place, as Democrats did 7:30 p.m. publicans used the filibuster to moreover, poisons the well for Millett to the appellate court in during the Bush administration block an Obama nominee to the other judicial nominees, po- June. Each, in turn, has failed to with thwarted nominee Miguel SJSU Concert Hall D.C.-based appellate court. tentially for years to come. It’s clear the 60-vote hurdle. Estrada, is a tactic employed by ``I am deeply disappointed prompting Senate Democrats, Politically, they never really both parties. Amahl and the Night Vistors that Senate Republicans have once again, to consider the so- had a chance. “It serves as a farm team for once again refused to do their called “nuclear option” that For years, Democrats and the Supreme Court,” said Nan (ft. SJSU Opera Workshop job and give well-qualified nom- would change Senate rules and Republicans alike have resisted Aron, president of the liberal and Choral departments) inees to the federal bench the ignite GOP rage. the other party’s nominees from Alliance for Justice, adding that Saturday, Nov. 30 yes-or-no votes they deserve,’’ The often threatened but joining the D.C.-based appellate the D.C. court handles an array the president said in a statement never used nuclear option refers court. Though former Lawrence, of “environmental, civil rights, 7:30 p.m. afterward. ``This obstruction to a parliamentary maneuver Kan., resident Sri Srinivasan, a worker’s rights and health care” SJSU Concert Hall is completely unprecedented. that would enable the Senate former Justice Department offi- cases.

EDUCATION Emerson College to rename Winter 4 school after Ron Burgundy 1 By Daniel Rothberg conference, attend a naming ceremony and McClatchy Tribune introduce a screening of “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which opens in theaters Session

You stay classy, Emerson College, and on Dec. 20. 20 maybe pour a glass of scotch. This is not the only publicity Burgundy Legendary (fictional) TV anchorman has seen in the last several weeks. The New- Ron Burgundy is coming to the Boston seum in Washington, D.C., recently opened school on Dec. 4 and, in his honor, the col- an exhibit dedicated to the film that fea- Lighten Your Spring lege is renaming its communication school. tures original props and a replica of Burgun- Granted, the Ron Burgundy School of dy’s anchor desk. There’s also an underwear Communication will be in business only one marketing partnership with Jockey. Course Load day, but it’s what Burgundy might call kind Ferrell’s Burgundy character plans to use of a big deal. the daylong Emerson visit to “share his path “A visit from Ron Burgundy is a chance to journalism greatness,” according to the to engage with someone who understands statement. the power of media, as well as hairspray, Best of all, perhaps this will finally pave first-hand,” Emerson College President Lee the way for the “Derek Zoolander Center Pelton said in a statement. for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Who Will Ferrell, who plays Burgundy on Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good screen, will participate in a morning news Too.” ARTRAGE

www.sjsu.edu/winter Advance Registration begins Wednesday, October 30 4 | Spartan Daily SPORTS Tuesday, November 19, 2013 BASKETBALL Belmont stuns UNC with 83-80 victory By Andrew Carter porters who celebrated one of the McClatchy Tribune greatest victories in school history – there was plenty of blame to go Roy Williams walked into the around. In a game with no shortage of North Carolina locker room after one mistakes, No. 12 UNC (2-1) made two of the most stunning defeats of his critical ones in the final 15 seconds. tenure and he apologized. He told his First, the Tar Heels allowed J.J. players he was sorry. Mann, the Belmont senior guard, He felt he hadn’t prepared them an open 3-pointer near the top of well enough for their final posses- the key. Mann, who finished with a sion in the final seconds of a shock- game-high 28 points, made the shot ing 83-80 defeat against Belmont, with 14 seconds to play, and it gave which trailed by eight points with the Bruins (3-1) an 81-80 lead. about two and a half minutes to play “It wasn’t even necessarily a before completing a dramatic come- screen,” Paige said of Mann’s shot, back with five points in the final 14 which he released over Tokoto. “Just seconds. towards the end, we had been switch- “I apologized to them,” Williams ing everything. That’s what got us said. “I told them it was my fault. And back in the game. (I) said we did make some mistakes. “And then they started going to You need to get shots, you need to not these little dribble hand-offs, which get turnovers down the stretch. You were a little harder to switch, because need to make free throws down the you don’t know if your guy is going to stretch.” fake the handoff or not.” The players heard Williams’ apol- After Mann’s shot went in, Wil- ogy but not all found it necessary. liams elected not to call a timeout. Many blamed themselves. Marcus That has been his long-standing Paige, the sophomore guard, said it philosophy in those kinds of circum- Robert Willet | MCT was his fault. Three of his five turn- stances – trailing by a point with more The Belmont Bruins bench erupts as they secure a 10-point lead over North Carolina in the second half. The Bel- overs came in the final two minutes. than seven seconds to play. Williams mont Bruins defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels, 83-80, at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Nov. 17. J.P. Tokoto, the sophomore forward, hoped UNC could execute a play be- non-conference home loss in Wil- 28 from the line in the first half, and his players each shot 200 free throws said it was his fault. He missed 12 of fore Belmont had set its defense. liams’ tenure, and its first since losing finished 22-for-48 (48.5 percent). and that everyone made more than his 16 free throw attempts. Instead, though, the Tar Heels against Illinois here in 2005. “It was definitely a snowball ef- 70 percent. Perhaps Brice Johnson, the sopho- appeared to panic. Johnson wanted In defeat, the final 15 seconds fect, just seeing them clunk out, or “The last time we did that, James more forward, best summarized the to call a timeout. Paige, meanwhile, became magnified for UNC. The missing them all the way left,” said Michael was 81 percent, J.P. was 84 players’ reaction to Williams’ apology. wanted to push the pace. He said was Tar Heels, though, made it diffi- Tokoto, who was 4-for-16 from the percent,” Williams said. “But it didn’t “It’s not his fault,” said Johnson, there was “confusion.” The possession cult on themselves nearly from the line. “That should never happen. It go in for us today. It was a big part of who scored 10 of his 14 points in the ended when Tokoto rushed an off- start. They trailed by seven points was all mental for me.” the game, there’s no question. But I second half. “It’s our fault. We didn’t balance shot near the baseline. at halftime and by as many as 11 Tokoto wasn’t the only offender. still let my team down in the end.” play. We didn’t play in the first half. “We haven’t really worked on that points in the second half before James Michael McAdoo, the ju- The Tar Heels for the third con- We could have done a lot better in the very much,” Paige said, referring to holding the Bruins scoreless for nior forward who led UNC with 27 secutive game played without P.J. first half. UNC’s limited practice of similar about six minutes. points, made 11 of his 19 free throw Hairston and Leslie McDonald, the “And we could have knocked down end-of-game situations. “It was kind UNC during that stretch out- attempts. Johnson was 2-for-5. UNC team’s most experienced guards. some free throws, (and) it would have of new, and in the heat of the moment scored Belmont 14-0, which was part had never missed more than 20 free Both are sitting out amid NCAA eli- really changed the game.” you kind of forget things like that.” of a greater 22-5 run that gave the Tar throws under Williams, but it missed gibility concerns. Without their two By the time the final buzzer After Tokoto’s miss, Belmont’s Heels a 73-65 lead with less than four 26 on Sunday. most proven perimeter shooters, sounded and a crowd of more than Caleb Chowbay made a breakaway minutes to play. Still, though, the Tar He seemed as surprised as any- UNC made just two 3-pointers on 15,000 sat in silence – except for a layup just before time expired. And Heels continued to miss free throws body by the woeful performance. Sunday, while Belmont made 15 of its small contingent of Belmont sup- then it was over — UNC’s second at an alarming rate. They went 9-for- Williams said that in recent practices, 37 3-point attempts.

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The When it ends it begins with former Dance Hall Crashers you/I’m gonna learn every In summer of 2012, co-vocalist puts Sly’s haunt- time you do.” frontman of local punk ing lyrics to a tear-dropping These lyrics show Sly band No Use for a Name, ride throughout the whole wants to hang out with his Anthony “Tony” Sly, died album. daughter and see what is unexpectedly at the age of Consider these lyrics: best for her. Sly showed 41. “It’s false sincerity, we hear he truly cared for her and According to the band’s celebrities/Buy a hybrid if wished the best for her. This website, No Use for a Name you can with 10 years of song is from the album, formed in San Jose in 1987 your food stamps/Caught “Keep Them Confused” and released eight albums myself listening to shel- from their 2005 release. when Sly was alive. The tered excuses for human be- The next song that im- band disbanded after Sly’s ings.” pressed me in the album death. I feel he said he wants is “On The Outside” from Now, Fat Wreck Chords, to isolate himself from the Jon Snodgrass & The Dead a record label run by his world. Denike’s cover of this Peasants. Their version of friend Fat Mike, will release song did do it justice, and this song sounds folk-like “The Songs of Tony Sly: A she also had a real haunt- compared to Sly’s version — Matthew Reamer | Fat Wreck Chords Tribute” — an album featur- ing sound. The original song more than a punk-y vocal. Tony Sly, frontman of No Use for a Name, passed away in summer 2012. ing artists doing their own sounded like more punk Lyrics from “On The performed by Joey Cape w/ This song’s message Use for a Name or Tony Sly. takes on Sly and No Use for than the Denike cover. Both Outside” say, “I’m trying to Scorpios. Originally, this is that people will make a I have listened to this album a Name. When people buy versions of this song are forget you and everything/ song was from No Use for deeper impression on you about 10 times already, plus this album, all profits will good. We had (we didn’t stand a Name, but Sly’s solo work than you may think. It is a I have listened to my favor- go to the Tony Sly Memo- There is even an acous- a chance)/We’re miser- with Joey Cape was a duo be- depressing song, but it is ite song again and again. rial Fund, according to the tic rendition of “For Fiona” able and it’s true I haven’t/ fore that. They worked on my favorite because you will If you don’t want to buy record label. from Rise Against. The Rise Learned a thing/But now I an acoustic album and this hear so many artists singing the tracks on Fat Wreck’s This album has tracks Against version has that know I’ll trust no one else” song came out of that album along with Joey Cape on the main store where all profits from No Use for a Name acoustic feel and sounds sad Sly’s lyrics deal with his in 2004. last verse. go to the Tony Sly Memorial and Tony Sly’s solo album compared to the No Use for a real life or everybody’s life. The lyrics from this Overall, I found this trib- Fund or you don’t have time as well. Name version — rather than This song is about a failed song go, “Where did I go ute really well done and it to look up all the individual Twenty-seven different using an electric guitar. relationship. He tries to live wrong?/I should have told has captured many of the tracks online, you can also artists do their own take Another lyric from the life without her, which is in- you from the start /That artists’ vision of each song listen to this album on Spo- on No Use for a Name and tribute album says, “Noth- credibly hard. I’m closer than you think/ from No Use for a Name or tify. Tony Sly’s songs. The first ing is the same/Everything The last song I really en- When we’re apart /Nothing Tony Sly. Anthony Nguyen is a song in the album will be is a better change/Some- joyed from this album is that I’ve tried /Is as simple I recommend this album Spartan Daily contributing an eye-opener, with “Big- times I see silence in your “International You Day,” as this line.” to anyone who enjoys No writer.

REVIEW Eminem’s latest album sells more than a million copies its first week — double what was projected, In true Eminem fashion, this album released more than a decade ago, particular- By Jamie Ramirez according to Billboard. is full of controversy, packed with deep lyri- ly in tracks 13 and 15. @jlreports It’s no surprise because the first Marshall cal content and dressed in satirical punch Slim Shady makes clear references to one Mathers LP, released in 2000, went dia- lines. of his arguably more recognizable songs, Eminem’s latest album, “Eminem — The mond and sold more than 10 million copies The opening track, titled “Bad Guy,” ad- “The Real Slim Shady.” Marshall Mathers LP 2,” was released Nov. 5 in the U.S. and 21 million copies worldwide dresses the fact that Eminem knows he’s a Mathers also pays homage to some and sold nearly a million and a half copies in that year, according to Billboard. controversial figure in the media, but said throwback 1968 music in “Rhyme or Rea- he’s not a bad guy because he openly dis- son” where he re-imagines the original cusses topics he knows best. “Time of the Season” by the Zombies and On this track, Mathers raps about what leaves his own fingerprint on a classic. makes this album different from the first Track two is entirely pure controversy LP, but also tells us he hasn’t forgotten because “Parking Lot” is a 55-second skit of where he started. Eminem committing a crime, running from “Twice the magic that started it all ... the scene and shooting a store clerk, dog and Blacker and darker than anything imagin- a police officer. able, here goes a wild stab in the dark as we Though the track is heavy and dark, this pick up where the last Mathers left off,” he album wouldn’t be complete without it be- raps. cause Slim Shady just wouldn’t be the real Eminem delivers as promised with tracks Slim sans controversy. containing dark details about his life. And it wouldn’t be the same without Em He opens up about his father, tells lis- bashing on celebrities. teners what it feels like to be the victim of Throughout this album, Mathers makes bullying and discusses his deep regrets for jokes about celebrities including Kanye statements he made West, Britney Spears about his mother early In true Eminem and Khloe Kardashian in his career. Odom, who he not- In a track titled fashion, this so-affectionately re- “Headlights,” he makes fers to as “the ugly Kar- a public apology to album is full of dashian.” his mother, Debbie An Eminem al- Mathers, whose figura- controversy, bum also wouldn’t be tive grave he was dig- packed with deep complete without a ging in the music video tribute to his daugh- for “Cleanin’ Out My lyrical content and ter, Hailie Mathers, the Closet” from his 2002 apple of his eye, who album “The Eminem dressed in satiricalrical is undoubtedly men- Show.” tioned in nearly every Mathers writes about punch lines. other track. that track as “that song In keeping with true that I no longer play at shows and I cringe Eminem tradition, he also references his in- every time I hear it on the radio.” famous ex, Kim Mathers, who must be the We see Slim Shady’s softer side in “Head- unnamed woman in track four, “So Much lights,” but the pain he feels in his younger Better.” years rears its ugly head in “Legacy,” when On this song, Em says all the things peo- he describes what it’s like to be the victim of ple think about their ex after a dirty break- bullying. up — whether it’s about Kim or not, is up to The song takes a twist when Mathers said the listener to decide. he’s learned to embrace being different and “My life would be so much better if you has turned his uniqueness into a successful just dropped dead ... I thought, wouldn’t rap career. (expletive) just be a lot easier if you dropped “The best part about me is I am not you, dead,” Eminem writes. I’m me, I’m a fire Marshall and this is my Mathers hasn’t made an album in legacy,” Mathers writes. three years and it’s been 13 since the origi- This track and his song “Brainless” nal LP, but this album was worth the wait are how Mathers gives a big middle finger to and is a definite must-listen for Slim Shady everyone who has ever called him dumb. fans. “Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2” feels Jamie Ramirez is a Spartan Daily staff like an extension of the first album that was writer.

Follow us on Twitter! @SpartanDaily 6 | Spartan Daily NEWS Tuesday, November 19, 2013 ACADEMICS Chancellor’s moratorium lets African-American studies breathe

By Nirmal Patel moratorium places the depart- priorities,” she said. can-American studies at SJSU. courses that really changed his would also try to get a big grant @NirmalPatelSJSU ment on hold. While the moratorium is in “We must strive to sup- worldview and taught him a lot or donation. “It’s not only for San Jose effect, Wilson said the African- port their academic success about himself and his history as “San Jose State means a lot to CSU Chancellor Timothy State,” he said. “This morato- American studies department and their professional dreams a black person in America. black history so I think it’s do- White issued a statewide mora- rium will cover all of the CSUs should continue to seek funds that can transform their fami- “I also saw how supportive able,” he said. torium last week that cleared throughout California.” and reach out to students and lies and neighborhoods,” she the professors were and how Senior business finance the confusion as to whether or Uhlenkamp said this mora- the community to support its said. much they really cared about major Keini Wilson said that not SJSU will have an African- torium will put together a team efforts to strengthen African- Wilson said she believes their students,” he said. “Every though he is not an African- American studies department that will study and observe what American studies. everyone should think positive faculty that’s affiliated with American studies major, the for the Spring 2014 semester. problems are going on in ethnic According to Wilson, stu- because she assures good things the department always goes out talks surrounding the African- The moratorium will allow studies throughout all CSUs. dents have been coming to will happen if everyone can be of their way to be a mentor to American studies still affect all CSU campuses to regroup According to Ruth Wilson, public forums, voicing their positive about the moratorium. students. That’s something stu- him. and focus more on ethnic Ph.D., professor and depart- concerns, taking leadership and “Now, more than ever, we dents notice and it helps us.” “I feel like it will take away studies. ment chair of African-Amer- informing colleagues. need ethnic studies depart- Daniels said that after the good professors,” he said. “It’s Prior to the moratorium on ican studies, in the meeting “It’s just beautiful to watch,” ments that inform our diverse moratorium, he hopes the de- going take away African-Amer- Sept. 10, Spartan Daily posted a with Chancellor White, con- she said. “If this continues to student population of the his- partment can continue to be a icans from campus who are try- video in which there was a con- cerns to save the department happen, we will be victorious.” tory of how our nation has place where students of color ing well rounded education.” frontation between African- were placed and put in writing Wilson said she believes struggled to create this cam- can continue to feel supported Wilson said he believes the American studies supporters regarding African-American CSU campuses have leadership pus climate that embraces and and welcomed. moratorium is a good thing be- and President Mohammad studies at SJSU. that can make things happen. honors diversity represented Daniels said President Qay- cause it gives African-American Qayoumi at the Acceleration “The CSU Ethnic Studies “Here at SJSU, Dean of the by gender, skin color, ethnicity, oumi is in charge of raising studies an opportunity to im- celebration. Qayoumi refused Council recommends that fac- College of Social Science Sheila nationality, culture and sexual funds for the entire university, prove over a period of time. to answer if he would support a ulty of ethnic studies programs Bienenfeld is working to pre- orientation,” she said. not just one or two departments. “Because the moratorium moratorium on the ethnic stud- should have input in the deci- serve the African-American Senior political science ma- He said if Qayoumi chooses not was brought to the major, it’s ies department at SJSU. sions that (affect) ethnic studies department,” she said. jor Gary Daniels said he has to promote ethnic studies then bringing statewide attention,” The confrontation was a re- programs and departments,” According to Wilson, Bi- been following the concerns these departments will not get he said. sult of the lack of support that she said. “Their voices should be enenfeld has championed the that were going on with Afri- the resources and exposure they He said during this morato- the students and supporters be- heard, and their suggestions for proposed merger with the De- can-American studies in the need to be successful. rium, it would be best to contest lieved President Qayoumi was department and program de- partment of Sociology and In- beginning of the semester. “President Qayoumi already it, bring awareness and raise showing regarding the African- velopment should be carefully terdisciplinary Social Sciences Daniels said he was there made it clear that his stance money to support the depart- American studies department considered.” as a plan to preserve African- during the celebration of the on ethnic studies and African- ment. at SJSU. Wilson said she hopes the American studies. Acceleration program on Sept. American studies is rather dis- “If you’re a student, you’re Michael Uhlenkamp, direc- moratorium will show the is- “African-American studies 10. dainful, regardless of how deep investing a lot of money and it’s tor of media relations and new sues ethnic studies programs departments need more vis- At the Acceleration pro- San Jose State was intertwined not fair to just eliminate a major media for the CSU system, said on every CSU campus are fac- ibility, more marketing, more gram celebration there were with the west coast civil rights like African-American Studies,” last week Chancellor White put ing and there will be something programing, more fundraising, coffins that symbolized the movement,” he said. he said. “SJSU is investing in a a moratorium in effect state- done about it. more donors and more alumni death of ethnic studies at SJSU Daniels said he would try to lot of other things other than wide to re-examine all the eth- “If ethnic studies is a prior- support,” she said. and across the CSUs statewide. raise money for the department ethnic studies.” nic studies departments. ity, the CSU administrators Wilson said there has been a Daniels said he took two from the surrounding commu- Nirmal Patel is a Spartan According to Uhlenkamp, a need to put resources into those lot of negativity regarding Afri- African-American studies nities and alumni. He said he Daily staff writer.

do all that it can to support the Chancellor’s of- him that “something has to be done” to save fice in responding to this request. it. Resolution: President Qayoumi gets “Today’s Senate discussion revealed a desire “We have enough of a crisis dealing with the for more transparency about our priorities systematic starvation of the CSU without these emotional during Monday’s meeting and explored questions about some aspects of needless, self-inflicted wounds,” Peter said. “If university governance,” Qayoumi said. “Other we could fix it ourselves, it would have been FROM PAGE 1 is different, the solution in the resolution challenges remain, but I believe we are on the done by now.” “(A) university is a special and meaningful seemed “highly appropriate and hopefully right track.” Jenny Bennett, Jeff Gonzalez, Melissa Lewel- place,” Lessow-Hurley said. “We must have an successful.” While Peter said members of the admin- ling, Chris Shyvers and Allison Williams are environment of transparency and mutual re- Michael Kimbarow, department chair of istration “love SJSU,” they continue to tell Spartan Daily staff writers. spect.” communicative disorders and sciences, said Qayoumi, who was present at Monday’s the resolution wasn’t a vote of no confidence, meeting, said that he “welcomed” the resolu- but rather a “vote of confidence” in faculty, STUDENT UNION PRESENTS tion in the spirit that “good governance re- students and administration. ACCEPTING THE JOHN STEINBECK AWARD quires transparency and accountability.” “We each are affected differently by what Qayoumi said he wanted to “speak from the happens on campus,” Kimbarow said. “We all heart,” and became emotional while discuss- want the same things.” ing his family background and parents’ lack of According to Lynda Heiden, chair of the education. Academic Senate and a psychology professor, “This institution has so many possibilities,” said the review itself will be conducted confi- Qayoumi said. “At the end of the day, it has to dentially. be all of us coming together.” “Those conversations (between the schools’ Qayoumi worked at SJSU as an adjunct pro- faculty members and Chancellor White) need fessor and associate vice president for admin- to be confidential, so they can speak candidly,” istration from 1983 to 1995, before becoming she said. “The results (of the review) will not be university president in 2011, according to the confidential.” CSU website. Because the resolution has passed, the “This has been more than just a career for school can formally send a request to the CSU me,” Qayoumi said. Chancellor’s office, Heiden said, a process Peter Buzanski, senate member and histo- which will begin in a few weeks. rian, said that he has been at SJSU since 1960 Laurie Weidner, assistant vice chancellor of and has seen a “number of downs,” the lowest public affairs, said her office received the reso- of which was a faculty strike in 1969. lution Monday afternoon and that resolutions “We are today at a situation that is unlike are a “common” channel of communication. the previous low, because now it is obvious that Weidner said the resolution will be taken morale is very, very low,” Buzanski said. “No under advisement by the Office of the Chan- one, single event has contributed to that.” cellor. Buzanski spoke in favor of the resolu- In a statement released after the meeting, tion and said because the current situation Qayoumi said his administration is willing to SJSU Student Catastrophe: Natural disaster Special Ticket prompts students to fundraise $10!

FROM PAGE 1 Nick Allison, a third year health science major. cording to the Official Gazette of the Republic of “They don’t have food or water or anything really. the Philippines. They lost everything they had.” “We’re collecting monetary donations, sur- Allison said he wished he could donate more vival items and canned goods,” said Hidee Reyes, than food and water to help. KEN BURNS president of Akbayan SJSU and a senior business “It’s a poor country to begin with, at least where AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER major. the typhoon hit bad,” Allison said. “If I could, I Akbayan SJSU is an organization consisting would donate building materials so they could be- IN CONVERSATION WITH of SJSU students of Filipino heritage and Project gin to rebuild their homes.” MICHAEL KRASNY Pearls is a nonprofit group, not affiliated with the Erfe said it was important to her that she do- university, aimed to improve the quality of life for nated canned foods and clothes to Philippine Red OF KQED PUBLIC RADIO poor children in the Philippines. Cross because she knows not everyone was as for- Friday, Dec 6, 8pm From Tuesday to Thursday, Reyes and other tunate as her sisters. members of Akbayan SJSU collected dry goods Erfe said she asked her family in the U.S. to Morris Dailey Auditorium and more than $3,000, $2,500 more than the send money to her sisters in the Philippines, who Student (GA) Balcony $15 | Gen Adm (Balcony) $20 | Reserved $25 group’s initial goal, to ship to the Philippines, are all alive and uninjured, to help them with the

Reyes said. damage done to their homes. Featuring a sneak-peek of his upcoming documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, airing 2014. In addition to monetary donations, the group “No amount of money can help us feel assured collected 50 boxes full of non-perishable items that nothing like this will happen to them again,” such as bottled water, infant formula, granola Erfe said. “But God was watching them and we bars, pasta, juice boxes and more. continue to pray for the other families who were “I felt compelled to donate because it’s sad that not so lucky.” a lot of people got hurt and lost their homes,” said Jamie Ramirez is a Spartan Daily staff writer. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 OPINION Spartan Daily | 7

Thanksgiving will continue to be overrun by Christmas. Santa outweighing Thanksgiving I drew the line a long time ago and I’ve never Overnight, stores went from being decorated mean I think we should start celebrating it at the because we realized we would never be able to regretted it. I still shop with my family on Black with pumpkins and Halloween candy to shelves beginning of November. compete. We weren’t willing to go to bed early Friday and I still walk away with some good deals, stocked with Christmas trees and Santa Claus Can’t we at least wait until Thanksgiv- on Thanksgiving and give up time spent with our I’m just not willing to sacrifice Thanksgiving for figurines. ing has passed? And I don’t mean passed as in family just to save a few bucks and get a head start this trend of shopping. I remember walking into CVS on 8 p.m. Thursday night after din- on our Christmas shopping. Tanya Mutz is a Spartan Daily staff writer. Nov. 1st to pick up a few last-minute ner, although some retailers clearly Today it is even worse, getting a head start on

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R R R R R R R R R R S 202013201 R T. ments and Christmas decor every- Black Friday, a day in the U.S. ping on Thanksgiving. Many stores are choos- 19 Letters 34 where. I probably should have expect- meant to mark the first day of Christ- ing to open up at 8 p.m. but this year, Kmart ed this from retailers by now, but still I mas shopping, has been moving up announced they will be opening up their stores to the Editor was shocked. earlier and earlier every year. I don’t at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day! I am am deeply concerned about the current We are in November aren’t we? even know if we should be calling it Not only does that mean the people shop- state of SJSU. Specifically: What about Thanksgiving? Black Friday anymore since many ping are giving up time with their families on 1. President Qayoumi has introduced in- I know there aren’t many Thanks- of the major department stores are Thanksgiving, now employees are being forced ferior MOOC courses without proper consul- giving related products for retailers Follow Tanya Mutz choosing to open with deals Thursday to do the same. tation with faculty. This inferior educational to sell, but I think as a society we are on Twitter evening. Sure, shopping together as a family on product does not promote or enchance SJSU’s missing the point. @Tmmutz I remember when I was younger Thanksgiving means you are spending time first priority, which is student learning. Ad- Thanksgiving isn’t and my mom would wake me up together, but is it really quality time? I think an ditionally, this inferior educational product about shopping at all. at 8 a.m. on the morning follow- evening spent indoors sharing conversation, was hastily introduced this year and when its The holiday is meant to Until shoppers ing Thanksgiving and we would watching a movie or playing some board games failure became apparent, the inferior MOOC reminds us to be grateful collectively meet up with my grandma, aunt is a much better way to enjoy the time together project was placed on hold but is scheduled to for everything that we and cousin and all go shopping on Thanksgiving, at least in my house it is. restart in Spring 2014. Student learning cannot already have and to show decide to take together. It is easy to blame the retailers for making be compromised by vested corporate interests appreciation. Instead of Gradually we started waking their employees work holiday hours and for by privatizing and profiteering from education spending the days lead- a stand against up at 7 a.m., then 6 a.m., and I moving up the Black Friday deals earlier and in a public institution. ing up to the holiday ex- even remember the year we woke earlier every year, but to some extent, shoppers 2. Classes were initially cut for next semes- emplifying those actions, the retailers ... up at 4:30 a.m. and stood in line are just as much to blame. Year after year, shop- ter and then a week later restored. This stop- they are being bypassed just to get a free gift. However, by pers get up earlier and earlier and wait in those start way is not how administration should altogether for Christmas Thanksgiving the time we got to the front of the long lines, which only sends the message to re- manage a budget. We do not have a budget shopping. line, all of the prizes were gone; tailers that this is OK. problem at SJSU, we have an allocation prob- Now don’t get me will continue to we were beaten out by people Where will the line be drawn? Isn’t open- lem, with increasing dollars absorbed by over- wrong, I’m not against be overrunun by who had lined up at 3 a.m. ing at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day a little paid SJSU administrators and throughout the Christmas. In fact it’s That was the year my mom much? CSU system. my favorite holiday of Christmas.as. and I gave up trying to get the Until shoppers collectively decide to take 3. The overall mood at SJSU is not upbeat, the year, but that doesn’t free giveaways and crazy deals a stand against the retailers and their deals, including recent high-level turnover. Are the provost and deans operating under unrealistic much he loves his friends and teachers at expectations and pressures? Is this going to his “college.” lead to widespread dissatisfaction among SJSU I have also discovered a hidden streak of faculty? Ultimately, and most importantly, are competitiveness in myself that is surprising students going to pay a steep price for SJSU ad- since I used to be so apathetic. This has rubbed ministration failures? off on my two children as well. I overheard my son tell my daughter, “I can do that too George Pinto, and I’m going to do it better.” He should prob- SJSU alumnus (1991) and lecturer ably tone it down a bit, but that desire to take things a step further than others is a life skill I Ted Rudow III, MA in response to am glad that I have finally gained. “Our military is not our government” I am heavy-hearted as I write this, my online. last column as a Spartan Daily staff writer. The lessons I have learned during my time You can call the U.S. the world’s leading as an undergrad are invaluable and I want champion of peace, considering how many to thank the entire university for being wars and conflicts it’s been involved in and Closing the textbook part of that. I am choked up and the words considering how eager it is to sell arms to those don’t seem to want to hit the page, but as who would start new ones or keep old ones go- I’ve been part of the Spar- what is in my textbooks, and I think a friend reminded me, I have to move for- ing! Ask the Palestinians, who are being tear- tan family for a long time. In my own children have too. ward — graduation is part of the experience. gassed by American-made chemicals, shot by the mid-’90s, my mom was a While I have always been pretty I have to move on. American weapons, and bombed by American student here working toward outgoing, I haven’t always been con- I began the process of explaining to my missiles, how peaceful the U.S. is. Ask the Latin her English degree and teach- fident in myself. During the past son that after December, we are done with Americans who died at the hands either of ing credentials. At times, four semesters at SJSU, I discovered college, at least for now. I didn’t tell him governments or guerrillas wielding American she would have to bring me I’m actually good at some things and about my worries that I won’t be able to get arms how peaceful the U.S. is. Or ask the mil- along if I didn’t have school when I didn’t get it right the first a job. I didn’t let him know that I am scared lions of others who are involved in conflicts in or if there wasn’t anyone time, it wasn’t the end of the world. to begin a new chapter in life. I didn’t tell Africa, Asia, the Mideast and Europe, fueled able to watch me during a I’ve grown up considerably, learning him that some weird, twisted part of me and kept going by low-cost American arms, night class. Follow Leeta-Rose to digest criticism and feedback in a wishes I would fail a class and have to come on Twitter how peaceful the U.S. is. If the U.S. would export I would beg to borrow her @leetarose way that helps me progress further. back for just one more semester. half as much peace as it does weapons — work- oversized SJSU sweatshirt Before, I stubbornly ignored people’s With boldness, he looked at me and ea- ing on feeding the poor, clothing the needy, and that hung off my shoul- suggestions just because. gerly asked, “So what’s next, then, Mommy?” providing jobs to the destitute — then it would ders. Walking at her I’ve also found camarade- Leeta-Rose Ballester is a Spartan Daily make the world a far better place! side through campus, The lessons I rie in my two departments staff writer. I would stand as tall as — journalism and po- I could and try to play have learned litical science — that it cool in hopes that I I would never have could blend in. I would during my imagined I would sit in the back of the time as an take part. I’ve never classrooms and quietly been part of clubs or try to look like I was undergrad are any school-related ac- working really hard tivities. Since about on my own homework invaluable and third grade, I had while listening in on dubbed those things the salon-style discus- I want to thank as lame. sions she and her class- However, I now mates would have. the entire have a strong sense When I first ar- of community and rived here as a student, university for pride. This has carried the experience wasn’t being partart of over to my children. much different from They love to don their the one I had 20 years that. matching Sammy earlier. Could I make Spartan shirts when it as a college student? Could I just blend in we go to the park. My son, who at- and fake it until I make it? This is going to tends the Associated Students sound terribly cliché (sorry journalism pro- Child Development Center, tells fessors) but I’ve learned so much more than strangers at the grocery store how SPARTAN DAILY STAFF Fall 2013 EDITORIAL ADVISERS ADVERTISING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Ashley Cunha Parth Patel Kellie Miller Ryunn Young Tim Mitchell Vu Tran The Spartan Daily is a public forum. 8 | Spartan Daily NEWS Tuesday, November 19, 2013 CRIME Activists call for new steps SJSU Crime Log to prevent illegal fishing 11/12 - 11/17 By Robyn Dixon tainability values, with Atlantic tuna stocks McClatchy Tribune falling to nearly 60 percent below the 1970 level by 2008. The following items are selected from the University JOHANNESBURG — Illegal fishing off Af- “We call it the International Conspiracy to rica — often by ships from wealthy nations like Catch All Tuna, so that will tell you how bad it Police Department daily crime log. Times shown are South Korea — costs the continent millions of has been at its job,” says a comment by Green- when the incidents were reported to police. dollars a year, with poor West African nations peace on its website. among the hardest hit. The Cape Town meeting follows a series Activists and environmental organizations of illegal fishing scandals off West Africa re- Nov South Ninth Street are calling for new measures to prevent illegal cently, two of which involved vessels owned or fishing, including steps to make vessels — and operated by South Korea’s largest tuna fishing A man was arrested on suspicion of tuna fish — more traceable, at a weeklong meet- company, Dongwon, which owns the StarKist 12 trespassing and violating parole fol- ing of the International Commission for the brand. Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, which began Two tuna fishing vessels owned or operated lowing reports of a “suspicious” male Monday in Cape Town. by Dongwon — the Premier and Solevant — were A single tuna fish can sell for thousands of caught fishing illegally off Liberia in 2011 and in a residence hall. dollars — one bluefin tuna reportedly sold for 2012, respectively, and the company paid a $2 $1.76 million at auction this year — and rising million settlement to the Liberian government demand in Japan, which consumes 80 percent in May to have its ships released, according to Nov King Library of the world catch, has put world tuna stocks Liberian authorities. The Liberian government Officers were called to a report of a under severe pressure, according to Elizabeth accused Dongwon of forging letters to try to get Wilson of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ environ- fishing licenses from other African countries 13 theft. A man was cited and released on mental wing. after it was caught, which the company denied. scene. Wilson said in an interview with the Los Another South Korean vessel, the Nine Star, Angeles Times that fishing quotas in the At- owned by the Seokyung Corp., was seized by lantic designed to help the devastated tuna Liberian authorities in June for alleged illegal stock recover were meaningless without strong fishing, and a sister ship owned by the same Campus Village Building B measures to prevent widespread illegal fishing. company, the Five Star, had been fined by Si- Police took a report of a stolen bicycle. Members of the Pew Charitable Trusts were at- erra Leone for illegally transferring fish at sea, tending the meeting as observers. according to Stop Illegal Fishing, a Botswana- “If quotas are set and they’re not adhered to, based working group of the African economic Nov Joe West Hall they do no good at all,” Wilson said. development organization, NEPAD, the New The conservation commission has intro- Partnership for African Development. Officers responded to a request for a duced stricter fishing quotas, but a scientific In another case in September, a South Ko- 16 welfare check. A person was brought to study of tuna fishing in the Atlantic found that rean flagged vessel, the Kum Woong 101, was between 2008 and 2011 the illegal catch in the caught operating illegally in Sierra Leone’s wa- a local hospital for mental evaluation. Atlantic exceeded the catch limit by 57 percent. ters, according to NEPAD. Another report suggested that illegal tuna fish- Wilson said there were indications that ing exceeded the quota by 141 percent in 2010. South Korean companies were among the major Nov Engineering Building A 2012 report on illegal fishing off Africa offenders involved in illegal fishing off Africa. by the Britain-based nonprofit Environmental Activists will be watching to see if the ICCAT Officers responded to a report of Justice Foundation estimated the worldwide meeting puts South Korean vessels caught fish- 17 someone sleeping in a classroom. The value of illegal fishing at between $10 billion ing illegally off West Africa on a list of vessels and $23.5 billion a year. Illegal fishing cost Si- banned from operating. But Wilson said gov- person was issued a notice to leave. erra Leone nearly $30 million a year, the report ernment representatives often acted to protect said. vessels caught fishing illegally. The ICCAT, with 47 member countries plus Pew and other groups are calling on the IC- Information compiled by Leeta-Rose Ballester from SJSU police department the European Union, is an intergovernmental CAT meeting to require all fishing vessels to group responsible for managing the fishing carry a permanent identification number, like

of tunas in the Atlantic but has been sharply an automobile registration plate, so that ships at&t criticized for its tendency to place commercial cannot change names or flags to avoid sanc- fishing interests above conservation and sus- tions for fishing illegally.

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