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Volume 109, No. 64 WEDNESDAY December 3, 1997 Glass Menagerie Seizures injure SJSU student Resident of Spartan The Daily was notified by a fax received on Tuesday by student Village in stable condition Samariya Smith. In the letter to the Daily. Smith made speculations about after collapsing at South how Washington's injuries occurred. In Campus pay phone her statement she said, "Lakim was an African -American inale who lives with By Ingrid l'erez Staff Writer three Caucasian males. They have ni.ver really gotten along." A student 11%ing in Spartan Village Following an interview, Smith said has been reported 111 1111 (111111110,11 It she was not at the scene when Suit Nledical Center, hut San Jose Washington was rushed to the hospital. State 1'111(.0r:11y police investigators I Washington's rootEmates, who ;ire haftled doesn't want to be eleatitied. said he Corporal Nliirk S%vineford said he is has already received two phone mes- still investigating hue. 9 vearold sages accusing him of lining involved. Lakim Washington was toimil having Iii' said he and his roinnmates deny any ..pileptic seizures ,it 1 SpArtito VillAgt involvement in the alleged assault. Ho: phone. NI IV said he Washingt Iin's roommate denies Wilt.: discovered in a -"elm conscious Washington was assaulted Ile said he state" with blood on his Lice and trail talked to Washington's father nia to his head 11 ruled an Assault, Wednesday .ind he htld him that police soy tlit re are no suspects Washington suffered from a blood clot 'arta Zacchio of the San Jose that lid Ile said the stroke 'Alialical Center said after being in a could have caused him to fall and hit his ,ana for several clay -. 1Va -hington Is in head stable condition Ili is hut San dose Medical Center couldn't con- will not speak to anyone 111- ,Itil firm the information as of press tune See Student, page 6 Photos By Mkt. O'Leary
Above: Sheila Pickett, Board President of The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Warehouse claimed by and child development major Karina Crawford, standing, admire the glass orna- ments on sale at The Artist's Guild Christmas Sale. Items for sale include glass, ceramics, homeless squatters paintings, drawings and prints Housing advocates look 1 him( 1 an Ali Starts wit Ii N'our-alt.- bc to use vacant buildings as - ii the painted brick v .111 I- are cif Not illegal shelters for families - local gras, major Right: Business Management ,ominitiod to teedinv. the lioniele.. peers int., a glass vase and individuals in need Tamara Striffler Alilioirdi 'nut the taur li Ole while shopping at the Artist's Guild Ity Christine it. 1..itt5 t Banks im one %%anted 'heir Christmas Sale on Tuesday afternoon The -1,1111,0.1 11.110, 1., lit1' til .11t, ,1 is set up in a tent from the sale rding to the S.111 P Iire he open Student Union and will through , 1, :11." nut thr Act Thursday. 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OPINION Page 2 SPARTAN DAILY Wednesday, December 3, 1997 Sprewell given too many chances; he should be kicked out of NBA college football Ail( lir it Litt’t ll Spr,,,,.,ll You cat) scream at you team- up though. After trade. Every team pended him for 10 games, and nents ears and dragging ex-girlfriends INNot because I want to be ;in mates. You can half-ass it in doing an imitation needs a player with the NBA is considering a sepa- players the lov, est form ot life in the practice. You can refuse to of the Boston a short temper and rate fine. Let me suggest one down staircases. doesn't throw NBA, hut this guy's Jill) perks shoot the ball in practice. You Strangler for a violent nature for them. If the NBA of the league, are to I.!ri ii id to pass up. can laugh in the middle of a Warrior coach P.J. who's totally out of Throw Sprewell out of the Sprewell out It su don't like your coach, huddle, and when your coach Carlesimo, Sprewell control. NBA. their will be no holding back you can physically attack him, tell; you to get senous, you can reportedly charged In fact, psy- Never let him step on a bas- players and their egos. When you might I ,,t, ice, ;Old hot gii to jail. tell him him off. into the Warrior's chopaths are such a ketball court again. that comes to pass, your Yi ill Will suspended for 10 AND, after you attempt to General Manger's boon to the sport, If Sprewell isn't cut off from as well throw out game-. which will cost you strangle and punch your coach, office, yelled at the the L.A. Lakers are basketball, it will only further Warriors tickets and buy into looking to sign damage professional sports. professional wrestling. At least almost :1 million dollars in lost you can threaten to kill him. GM, ripped the scan SHUEY salary. hut hey, don't worry, Must be nice. I've never seen phone out of his hand Charlie Manson. Not that professional sports there the violence is fake. that's ,n1.% a fraction of your anyone else get offered a bene- and demanded to be traded. Sprewell will be lucky if he's could get much worse. We Daily million tbur-year contract. fit package like that. I'm sure most of the other not traded right out of the already tolerate spitting on Scott Shuey is a Spartan Staff Writer. And that's not all. Sprewell wants to give this teams just lined up to make a league. The Warriors have sus- umpires, boxers biting off oppo-
r ; .1 Editorial tu nr,i, nciloq American dream found Unless more people wake up to the fact that "it can happen to them," the in hope of Mexican world may never recover from the nightmare of AIDS. workers in this country According to tlw American Association for World Health 40,000 to 60,000 people are infected with the disease each year. Since Ithink Americans have lost their sense of oppor- 1988, Dec. 1 has been designated World Al - tunity. They complain that there are no jobs here Day. The Day is set aside so people all over because they have all been taken by foreigners the world can show compassion and under corning here for opportunities and the jobs. standing for those living with HIV and AIDS It isn't that the dream has been lost, it's the deter- According to the World AIDS Day welt mination to succeed. page, the observance emerged front the call People from other by the World Summit of Ministers of Ilealth countries such as Mexico on Programmes for All /S Prevention to open are aware of the opportu- channels of communication. PM511,11 ULF. nities America has to At San Jose State University. the loth offer. annual World Aids Day was observed by For a little over a year members of the Peer Health Education I've been working with Program Volunteers set up an AIDS and many people from anoth- HIV informational booth i and distributed `The Real Doll' is simply..a a fake er country. And boy what pamphlets about the disease a learning experience it SHAYDA FATHIPOUR tlemen, they'd have to men- Students and faculty were also asked to a time when Barbie has been.
7 for struate. sign a banner entitled "SJS1 Remembers" to Aht as come under fire Juan is from Mexico. lie's a lot like most of the support those living with AIDS or HIV and eing an unrealistic The Real Doll is an "Ideal other cooks and bussers at work. He's been living in in memory of those who have died. ideal for women, here comes Doll" as sad and pathetic as California for the past year and a half and his One day out of the year isn't going to bring the 'Real Doll." that concept is. English is not the best. about a miraculous change in people's atti For those of you who don't She's ever-ready, doesn't Luckily I can speak some Spanish, so we manage no problems and indeS Blit one day is all it takes for people to know what the Real Doll is, it is speak, has to communicate fairly well. open their minds and their hearts. a lifelike sex doll that sells for good god even has a hinged He has told me a lot about the police in Mexico At last month's health fair, men wore a 3i' close to $5,000. jaw. and the government. He says the police don't need poundempathy simulator to give them an I personally find the Real "Now if only she had a flat more than a third grade education. They can take idea of what it feels like to be pregnant You Doll a fascinating phenomenon head to put your beer on she'd bribes from you if you get stopped for some reason. If don't need anything that elaborate. to simu- particularly because, despite be perfect," a colleague of mine the price is right, they'll let you go without even a late what it tee!0 like to have .AIDS Just pre her looks, there's nothing real said. I've long thought that his slap on the wrist. Mexico has lots of money in its tend that you have herrn ostracized by fami- about "her." wife must surely be a saint... country, but according to Juan about 20 families ly. friends and coworkers Imagine living She can withstand heat up that last jewel confirmed it. have all the power. with a disease for which there is no cure. to 400 degrees hell, Palm The Real Doll website ii Yet, at the same time my Mexican friends want to We applaud the Peer Health Education Springs in July is too much of a stretch for refuse to give the URL) says that a "Male live in their home country because they know the Program for acknowledging the need for me. Real Doll" is in development. language and their families live there. They also say information and for bringing it to 5.1517. Her skin can be pulled up to 300 times its The creators are probably silly enough to it's just a whole lot prettier there. production of You can't put big scarlet letters on people size wow, 150 inch nipples. Now that's not see the ramifications of the So why have Juan and so ninny others come here? living with AIDS and cast them aside. All) attractive. a Male Real Doll. It's for the money. affects iis all. AIDS is why your secretary I Her breasts are silicone so they "feel real." As with most men, they think nothing can Could it be 14 to 17 percent of Mexico's population
been calling in sick a lot. AIDS is the reas,,n In real life, there's a word for breasts made of replace them in the bedroom. of almost one million people are unemployed? Yeah you haven't spoken to your parents in years silicone it's fake. Walk with me, will you, down fantasy lane I'd say, that's pretty much why so many Mexican cit- All is why your son died alone... The combinations of eye color, hair color, for a moment, ladies. izens come here to find a job. We thank the Peer Health Education eyeshadow, lipstick, body and face type and, To be in keeping with the falseness of his Many of the Mexican people I work with have two counterpart, the Male Real Doll l'ro;rmii for helionr i IS ri ilwillber yes, pubic hair style (customers can choose female or three jobs just to pay the bills. They don't spend from shaved, trimmed or natural, mind you) would have a six-pack stomach, no farmer their money just on beer as some people think. Many are practically limitless. tans, a bigger-than-average penis, would are supporting families here and in Mexico. She tans, comes dressed in garters and a insist on cuddling and would be insulted by As for Juan, at age 23, he supports his immediate Opinion page policies minidress and weighs between 100 and 115 flatulence. family and he's paying for his house in Mexico. The difference is that women would also R../1,1,.r. ire . 11,o1,111g1,11 ii expres, therms-Ives on the pounds. He tells me all the time how beautiful it is in Opinion nap Willi a Letter to the Editor or Canipos Viewpoint She has a modified skeleton, can be want their doll to come equipped with a Guadalajara and how he's going back in a year. It A Letter to the Editor is a 200-word response to an wane or brain. point of view that ham appeared in the Snarler] Doily. pierced anywhere and can go for a dip in the seems to be the consensus with the Mexicans I know. A Campos Viewpoint is a 450-word matey on corrent campus. pool. Men don't. They want to make money here and take it back political or social canoes with Technology may have made leaps and Soliniowione !Ronnie the property of the Spartan Doily and The Standard Real Doll equipped home. They want to live well in Mexico on money may be edited for clarity. grammar. WWI and length a paltry two entries goes for $4,249. The bounds regarding the look and feel of sex from the United States. Submieeinne must contain the author's name, addree, budged the sovereign of silicone what is known as dolls, but it's obvious we have not I think this will be the case until someone in phone number, signature and mnior. society's ideal image for Sotorossions may he ;int in the Letters to the Editor box at the the Deluxe Real Doll has three orifices and when it comes to Mexico fixes the corruption of the economy. Spartan Daily Offire in Dwight Bente! Dail Room 209, sent by fax is $4,499. women. Americans have to realize things are worse in to ION, (124.3237 or moiled to the Spartan Deily Opinion Editor, Cut Barbie a break. Srli,w,1 of Joorna)iani and Mass Communiratinna, San Jose State Five thousand dollars for a flexible man- other countries. America still has a lot to offer. I Tniversity, One Washington Square, San Jose. CA 95192-n149 nequin? Great. Well-to-do perverts. The Real Doll is here. The American dream is still alive. Maybe those F,ditorimils are written by, and are the commenew of, the To truly fulfill her name, the Real Doll Americans who are disillusioned Spartan Daily editor., not the Waft Terri K. Milner is Managing Editor of the need to go out, look lloblished opinions and advertisements do not necostenly would have to age over time, acquire droopy Her column appears every and work for it. refiwl the view. Of thr Sportan Doily, the School of Journalism Spartan Daily. breasts, stretch marks, cellulite and, yes gen- Wednesday. and Maw Commune-au/me or S.ISI1 Shayda Fathipour is a Spartan Daily Staff Writer.
SPARTAN DAILY One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0149 Alcohol insert biased; stories emphasize trivial campus issues 408; 924-3280 E-mo,1 SDAILYPirnc.sisu.edu writing in response to the Tani students who do not use the Pub are "In-depth '97 Alcohol" insert to not a bunch of alcoholics like your EDITORIAL ADVERTISING LETTER TO THE EDITOR Executive Editor Advertising Director your paper on Nov. 25. insert suggested. They are responsi- Managing Editor An Director . I thought SJSU had left the age of ble adults who do not need adminis- Production Editor Retail Manager superstition and entered the age of Assistant Production Editor Marketing Manager 0' . fessors, or only for the students? trators to tell them how to live their Photo Editor Downtown/ Entertainment Mgr science? Yet your unbalanced "alco- How far will the censoring of free lives. Opinion Editor National Manager ' hol" insert seems to suggest other- The community of SJSU must Chief Photographer Reim! A I Executives: speech be taken by vice president Sports Editor " wise. Your portrayal of alcohol as Roscoe in her attempting to help us now decide what it wishes to stand entertainment Editor being inherently evil was worthy of (read "run for: Superstition or science, totali- Lifestyle Editor our lives"). Fliers she Senior Staff Writers, Oesvntearni Entortainment Executives: the dark ages. feels encourage alcohol abuse are tarianism or tolerance, prohibition No mention is made of the grow- already banned, what will be next? or progress, the 1920s of the 1990s? Staff Writers: 1.,'"1 ing body of scientific evidence which The days of the elitist caretakers r A Artists: And what about the hypocrisy of .1 , lay tylonternari shows that alcohol use can be bene- encouraging high risk by nature sex- must now come to an end. ocaphio, no Stoke ficial to humans in many ways ual activity by handing out condoms Advisers: including the prevention of heart like they are lollipops, while at the John Wilhelmmson AdvArtisins Jock (i1t,r1 attacks and the reduction of stress. same time inferring that we should Alumnus Photograpihers: tdit.rl.I ,rophen (.fol , A Nay Yet the insert brings up other close the Spartan Pub because Some- obvious questions. If SJSU is to body vomited. become a dry campus, as vice presi- If INSiallsetwes , people want to blue nose they dent Roscoe would obviously like it can at least be consistent. to, will it be a dry university for all, No student under the age of 21 is Na., few 408 924 3280 Pm 408 924 1282 Advertising 4011924 3270 Sporn Doty ).1SPStil,09-4801 0 poomeme salty including administrators and pro- allowed in the Spartan Pub. Those ichool dip loi dull academic year) 12S and faernesten S15 Penodc postage paid et San Jose and micronsi mailing oases Mail eubscriptions accepted on rernaintipe it ternold.r ham, POSTMASTER Sand erldress changes lo 5ns Amman tee San Joie Stele University One Weenington Square San Jose CA IS 920049
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bead on inner-city minorities Editor's note: The drinking at the hands of strange brew is a By Anthony Perez Carson said. "It's a poison." of alcoholic beverages By Adam Billington it clear plastic bag over my shoulder. A Staff Writer So far the inner city serious decision that deserves Staff Writer guard takes us out the back door and targeting itrategy has responsible thought. Nothing the all of a sudden we were in the middle of While the in-your-face advertising that you been working because Lifestyle editor has written here "She puked on the bar.- SelSl' grad- the strip and we had to walk back to once saw for Coors and Budweiser on major net- while malt beers make should be construed as an endorse- uate Karl Nove said, referring to his our hotel dressed like that," he said. work television may no longer exist, the large up only 10 percent of ment for any of these malt liquors or for girlfriend. Malt liquor refers to alcohol such as malt beer labels still find it easy to reach their the overall beer sales alcohol in general. After all. it his liver. And so begins another malt liquor Colt 45, Olde English 800, Mickey's, target audience of inner city minorities. in the Un;ted States, experience. Many college students Crazy Horse, King Cobra, St. Ides and Malt beer commercials on network television they make up 40 to 60 can relate and many more have a the like. and advertisements in major magazines haven't percent of African St. Ides, $1.79: story that ends in vomit. Malt liquor is a special favorite of been around for years, but through selected American beer sales, In Nove's ease, he and his girl- college students, probably because it is media campaigns in the inner city, malt beer com- according to Alaniz. Initial flavor is fine but it has an friend were in Las Vegas on vacation generally inexpensive compared to reg panies have been successful in promoting their Of all the malt beer aftertaste that gets worse as the and started drinking 40 -ounce beet ular beer, as well as having a consider- products. sold around SJSU, beer warms up. Prettiest label of tles of malt liquor in ably higher alcohol "The people King Cobra is priced their hotel room. They content: usually "It's the bunch and a big -mouth spout targeted first inexpensive. "The first time that in the middle of the that keeps the.alcohql moving. decided to gee out and around double and most exten- The target for five most prominent made it tee a hotel bar had a 40-ounce of of beer. sively were malt beers. Old befiire the malt liquor "Honestly, I don't African those products are English 800 and kicked in. Mickey's, I threw drink malt liquor Ameri Magnum, both made Magnum, $1.29: crazy. We because it tastes peoplecans.- 'It was Maria Alan iz. looking for by Miller Brewing Cheapest beer of the group with a were talking and then up all over the good," Nove said social science inexpensive company, are the taste to match. Lots of carbona- all of a sudden her sarcastically. professor, said. place. I was liquor is cheapest beers in the tion that hides what can only be body waved I asked Malt "There was a drugs." liquor stores around her if she was OK and young." generally served in campaign to tar- SJSU, selling at a described as a tangy aftertaste. she said 'yeah.' Then, a 40-ounce glass get inner city price around $1.25 for This ain't no sippin' beer. bottle and, in that Randall Jimenez suddenly. there. was young people in a 40-ounce bottle. pudding all 'ever the - Danny Ortega, form, the beverage) the 1980s." Mexican American Studies A comparable 40- bar. The. bartender SJSU student has reached cult Alaniz is cur- ounce of Budweiser, Olde English, $1.99: really triple 'ii tilt status The. 40- rently con(luct- Coors or Miller costs If you c arnell, you'll Nove said. ounce is refi.rred to ing the first Bay Area study on the affects of alco- about $1.25 more be rowel flavor and. This did nit endear the couple to in movies as well as songs. hol on minority communities. The study began in than a malt beer. E 800 'cause that's my brand, a bitter epresents' the bar empleeeees and they were "Old 1993 and examined Redwood City, Union City "It has to do with asked to leave. take it in a bottle. 40, quart or can," and Gilroy for the first three years. Now the focus the mood I'm in," Rich the true alt. -They 'management) wanted to rapper Easy-E said referring to the is on San Jose. de Miguel, industrial malt liquor Old English 800 in N.W.A.'s JAI pa kick us out but she was tee., drunk so "One thing we (the people doing the study) technology major, they tried to sober her up Then I track "8-ball." fimnd was that in ethnic communities there is a said. "If I go out to Colt .45, $1.79: tried tee clean her up the lee st I could College is generally thought of as a really high concentration of alcohol outlets," dinner and want to at the fleeted peed. :s;,ve time leer young people to experiment Alaniz said. "And those places have posters in hang out with my Wide at the pool. Nove and his and partake in new experiences For their storefront windows and inside there are friends, I'll have a girlfriend were asked tee le.ive again, some. that experience includes cheap posters wallpapered on the walls." Budweiser. If I want this tinte. by a hotel see:tint% guard. alcohol and it doesn't get any cheaper She added that movies like "Boys in the Hood" to kick a party off, I'll As we were finally getting (nit of than malt liquor. and "Colors" glorify the drinking of large 40- have a malt (liquor). there. I looked at her and she's wear- "The first time I had a 40-ounce of ounce malt beers. For the money, you ing iii', .11Id 'f -dart and Mickey's, I threw up all over the place .- So called "Gangsta Rap" also glorifies the can't beat Olde [Deign@ roxsogeoe s dICYLTD(WM liii wearing se,,ine -eve limning trunks Danny Ortega, SUSI' student, said "I drinking of malt liquor by referring to the 40- E(nglish) or St. Ides." 127/frtr* I've got all her puke -covered clothes in was ounce bottle in song lyrics. Malt beers go Its (malt liquor) definitely a (gang) symbol through a different brewing process which and its definitely a blight on the community," extracts more alcohol from the hops during fer- Alaniz said. mentation. And since the alcohol content of those And these forms of media reach the people the normal beers is only three to four percent, a per- malt beer companies want to, young inner city son would have to drink nearly two of those main- minorities, a lot more effectively than putting an stream 40-ounce beers to get the same affect of STAY CLOSE. ad in newspapers or magazines. one malt beer 40-ounce which averages six per The beers are extensively designed for those cent alcohol. This translates into a quick way to people looking for a fast buzz,- Jack Quinton, get high for a cheap price. advertising professor, said. "These guys aren't "It's inexpensive," Randall Jimenez. Nlexican going to spend 50 cents on a USA Today when American studies professor, said. 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Motherhood on display 'From Within' Juana Alicia's pastel drawing on paper Jose State University. She said liked the. animal attempt to show how beautiful a bi-racial face Fifteen female artists use "Mayahuel" is an example of the. "gift of life" nature of nursing because it made her feel like can he. In the photograph titled "Eye-con: explore theme because the piece was created to celebrate she was an important source of sustenance for Merilyn," Lee. put Asian eyes in the place of their creative work to the life of her infant daughter who was born her child. Part of the reason Lasser did the. video Marilyn's Caucasian eyes, she. said. the themes of motherhood, seven week:, premature. was because she wanted to depict the bonding a Lee performed "digital eye surgery" on the pic- "We were both in danger of losing our lives the mother has with her child, she said tures of Hollywood's most famous glamour girls gender roles and ethnic identity day she was born, so the art is a "I think there is a kind of sen- so people could see how they would look as inter- thank you to the Aztec goddess suality in breast feeding that is racial women. Lee. used computer programs such By Allison K. Wright who represents both healing and never addressed because it as photo shop to insert her own eyes into the pic- StafTWrite,r fertility," Alicia said "I think so often becomes taboo in the. way that it tures, she. said. Alicia used vibrant orange and gets distorted in our culture.," "I am playing with mass media because these maternal energy flows at "From Within," red pastels that cradled the smil- just being a Lasser said. "But there definitely are the icons that are. role models, not only for TheWORKS/San Jose's exhibit exploring the ing image of her baby daughter, mother is dis- is that kind of love serge that you Americans, but for other countries all around the role of motherhood in modern society. who is sitting in a cactus plant. It have with a child as soon as they world, and their images can create insecurities "From Within.- on display on campus at the is as if the child and the plant are missed in our cul- pop out and for the. rest of their for women who do not look like them," Lee said. Thompson Gallery through Dec. 12, features the rooted together in the earth as one lives. Now that she. is a mother, she. sees the world work of 15 female artists, many of whom were at entity which symbolizes growth. ture, and then to "I think so often just being a through her daughter's eyes, so it was important WORKS/San Jose for an informal question-and - Next to the warm glow of do art word mother is dismissed in our cul- that she explore new ideas of beauty inclusive of answer session Nov. 7. The exhibit presents a rich "Mayahuel" was a television with ture., and then to do art work her daughter's image., Lee. said. variety of feminine images: pregnant torsos, por- a home. video of a five-day-old about mother- about motherhood is even more. Her daughter is now in a Korean Emersion traits of the artists' children, a video of an infant infant boy suckling at his mother's unappreciated," she. said. program in San Francisco that blends a multi- nursing. breast. Many guests at the gallery hood is even Society plays a lot of "lip ser faceted array of ethnicities in a class room. Her Mel Adamson, guest curator for WORKS/San smiled and laughed as the artistic more unappreci- vice" to family values, but when it daughter feels more confidant becausec of the mix- Jose, originated the idea of the exhibit while she home video zoomed in to show the. comes down to reality, being a ture. of races that brings new cultural awareness was at home in her studio with her 2-year-old baby trying unsuccessfully to latch ated." mom is undervalued. Art is naked to her life, Lee said. daughter. Adamson's own experience of mother- on to his mother's nipple. if an artist does not form essential The exhibit "From Within" continues at the. hood guided her in the creative process of making "This puts nursing into an relationships with people. to lace. WORKS/San Jose Gallery through Thursday and the show come alive, she said. artistic context because of the way -- Robin Lasser, the art with emotional experience., will be at the Natalie and James Thompson Art Adamson said the artwork at the exhibit the camera only shows the baby's artist Lasser said. Gallery at SeISU through Dec. 12. addresses themes of ethnic identity, gender roles, face and the breast," said Sara Sasha Yungju Lee was inspired the cycle of life, cultural myths about motherhood Tompson, gallery guest. "I think it after her 3-year-old inter racial and the relatigpship between daily chores and is both beautiful and humorous to daughter came home. from an all - sacred ritual, fte said the other theme demon- see an infant try persistently to master the white preschool and told Lee she did not like. the. strated in the art is life. process of nursing." color of her skin. Her daughter is Korean and "If art is not linked to life it becomes void of The artist of the video, Robin Lasser, is an white so Lee decided to digitally transform meaning and emotion," Adamson said. instructor in the photography department at San Hollywood icons such as Marilyn Monroe in an Focus Wednesday, December 3, 1997 SPARTAN DAILY Page 5 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Lucy Cain Sargeant returoing to San secril AI\ until an illustration position with director and staff illustrator for 13 years and ForJose State University to earn her master Sun, r Magazine in Menlo Park became avail - then as a freelancer for 5 years. of Fine Arts degree in painting after a 20- Finally the need to do her own work and her year absence was the only choice. desire to teach became too great, Sergeant said. Sargeant received her Bachelor of Arts She could no longer follow the same course, So degree from &NU with a special major in edu- "I'm doing what I want," she gave up the security of her job with a steady cation and art from the now defunct New paycheck, "to do what I love." Sergeant applied College in 1977 after being a stay-at-home Sargeant said. "I'm still a and was accepted into the MFA program. mother and working as a secretary to put her Now Sergeant paints over-lifesize portraits former husband through school. morn and a grandmother and teaches Introduction to Illustration as a Sargeant knew however, what she really technical assistant. She also attends classes to wanted to do in her life was paint and pass her and I'm an artist." earn her degree. knowledge and skills on to others through "I'm doing what I want," Sargeant said. "I'm teaching. still a mom and a grandmother and I'm an Upon graduation she continued working as a able She worked for Sunset as an assistant art artist."
Mixing oil paint for her most recent over-life- Text and P hotos by Ch arles Slay size painting in her studio on campus
Sargeant listens to one of her students during a critique
Left: Sargeant reworks the eye on an oversize oil painting in her studio in the Industrial Studies Building.
Right: Sargeant along with classmate. Heather Lee, studies an 'artists statement during their aspects of criticism class.
Below: Sargeant demonstrates a pose for her student Binh Ngo, during a critique after her introduction to illus- ce tration class. n: of tc-
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Left: Sergeant shares a moment with her one-year-old grandson, Owen Bretton Sargeant has two other grandsons as well. Page 6 SPARTAN DAILY Wednesday, December 3, 1997