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Volume 109, No. 8 WEDNESDAY September 10, 1997 BART strike: Students traffic, lines receive By Jeff Niese Bill Lloyd. "My attitude is, I've updated eorrespondant been up a lot of nights. There's been a lot of late nights so we're With the BART strike enter- just gonna make it one more ing its third day Tuesday, peo- late night." e-mail ple around the Bay had to suf- Although union demands fer with traffic, lines and frus- haven't been made public, the By Christine M. has tit:itrWlitvis tration. strikers reportedly want annual "I wanted to cry," said SJSU raises of 6.5 percent, 5.5 percent student Elizabeth Britton. three and 5 percent over the Tiltany Matsuyama was a It took Britton 45 minutes to years of a new contract - about little confused when she got the reach Fremont from twice the cost of the litter in t he mail about starting San Leandro $28 million package up a new e-mail account. Monday morning, a they rejected from "I already had one and had- stretch that usually BART management. n't heard about the changes," takes her 15 minutes The unions also the S.IS1' business major said. to travel. But, from want to abolish a "I haven't had a chance yet to the added traffic two-tier wage sys- change my account " caused by the BART tem, in which newer Tile apathy and confusion strike, commute employees are paid may change. however, when she times were abnor- less for the same job. discovers that her old e-mail mally long. BART workers ....count with SLISIT will no On Monday, the are among the high- ,1:.k 1::,ge,r be valid in roughly two first work day affect- est-paid in the ed by the walkout of industry. The changes in student e- 2,600 BART opera- Journeyman main- mad accounts IS 111S1 Otte of tors, mechanics an i station tenance workers earn a base many problems Rhonda Rudd hour was marked agents, rush wage of $48,000 and train oper- had to contend with when she
by 15-mile backups. commute ators and station agents make took on the role of S.1;41.7 com- times that were tripled arid $40,900, with overtime boosting puter lab manager several frayed tempers. most checks far above those lev- week."I aro Comes Although BART only els. lie former Inform:0am as far south as Fremont and State Sen. Quentin Kopp, 1 - Sy.apiti, and Computing IISCI doesn't connect Santa Clara San Francisco, said Tuesday deportment was faced with County, MSC student that lie would offer legislation overcrm ded computer labs. Marriann Tiilikka said she has making it illegal for public tran- III -tunctemal network systems noticed more congestion down- sit unions to strike. And intiqoated equipment town. Kopp, who chairs the Senate "I wa- Appalled at the "I have definitely noticed Transportation Committee, -III l' I fF111111 WithIll the that parking is a lot harder to said he wants to reverse a 1985 first Ii minutes." litifid said "I find," said the administration of state Supreme Court decision immediately -et out to See what justice major. allowing strikes by public kind of fund': were available to Angered over wages and a employees, except for public illittr.11111 \ Steel, two-tier pay scale, union work- workers. safety Rudd neva it'lldeal With ers walked off the job Sunday. "Public transit workers Ile vlett Packard for discounts
Both sides met with Mayor affect public safety, and they eqlopoietit and hotwht an Willie Brown on Tuesday all er- certainly affect the public 20 - that should noon to continue the informal health and welfare," Kopp said. lie-.1 .111.ible to students start- discussion he arranged Monday Kopp said common law has tlg \I week" and resumed formed negotia- forbidden strikes by most public IF computer in the lab at 6:30 p.m. in Oakland. tions employees because it is consid- will co.! $.-0100 on the mar- Shortly after 8 p.m., a ered a strike against the people. ket ;rol We pald less than hall spokesman for the Service "The solution is a law pre- t,li;ti,ti tor each module." Rudd Employees International Union venting strikes by public transit 1 ,,,, I 11. 111,1.1, came out to say the or 'F FF. Local 790 workers, who already have pro- Oblivious to signs of protest over the future of het health Rudd also manatzed to have sides were making the first Pitt view!: on Me at Kaltief i 1,0 , , two tections no other worker has - displays her mother Scar F; Malan. a 200 gigabit,' "juke Road in San Jose steps toward a tentative agree civil service protections," Kopp -.pryer- that %%all (-undone ment. said 111111.4. than MO inch s 44141;41 'Until we get a tentative dep.irtmental servers into one. agreement, we're going to In- Associated Press con- Kaiser Permanente RNs strike The Fill IIrl.tie'lhSI',I' . vSt..111 here," said SEIC spokesman tributed to this report. I. S,11I .111S1. .111' 1 I "The Itikehov will centralize By Vie Rihein, 1,:1111,-1 ramp'', communication, Staff Writer Cl1titt i i - the 111-t S\ .ir al potentlaill sdv e t he mover Chronology of the Hit Will (11111.i1 1 1 .11 1 I F,' couple 111111FiriFil of me KART unions, A Hundreds Fit I nform thAit 11111. thousand Jun. 27: Three 01111.1 sdul and Municipal Employees 1 striking back at their emplo% Not -I., Ill .".. 11111,1 1 I.11 N.d dr it 55.1 di't where Rudd al t nion Local 790, and Amaliproa er Kaiser Permanent, Hu' Itliov And 1.111 1 ' 55 sots la kIVOr of a strike. the health care mant is 11111 \tillS Are -trikim. ii spondull, 1FF arious stit- Jul. 7: Wilma 60-dby cooling off tinning to reduce the windier the 5,1111 1,11,./.1 memo. dee, ,.empl.litd, :11,0lit the com of registered IIIIrSeS in !lir!! ktio5% tyho I, .1,111,1115 111 ' Aug. 30: offer" hospitals mg their medn al que-t "l .11" 111111' Illii t.rsit:v 1 .1,ed 11111 ii .IC1111111! . set Sept. 3: Police This is the third major -1114. striking 11111 - 1,, ,,,,IV liii IF FF1111 In. dim(' Aaeoelatior strike or the CalitotnIA r.ill v concerned ilh44141 I\ 'Piny'', 55 hull In, very con remaining Uwe Nurses ASs1111i11 PM S1111 11,1 111t% FFt 11111' 1,1 IF tpcialltiati ,lt Ill Sept. 4: break dams. it I Ile Y11111' V.111 ), .1%,111,1111I 144 14444,111, 1111 1 ..4111 Ailing past problems Sept. 4: U reject contract sear The latest walkout 1.,,c11 -es 1.,111 1111 41.11t1.1.- (11,11 14-- 'Fl tdm- \ ccoriling to the !be strike. on plans for Kaiser to open up 1411.1,011, spoke,inan for thA At 1 11 le now defunct ISC. List %Feat s procedure to Sept. 7: R7' train operators, statism a [WM,' rettional call center in Califortim Norse,- Athol' 1..11,r.t II Iu, walk off the mob. h'.\. 'tit ski' 0,111 See pagt.3 *Svcs: ultv oith San Pranckwa Exploding high-tech industry seeks to employ SJSU students
1114.% SF, Ill I44 I 11 11,14 IS 11 IS 1141 Thousands of stu- Now what? "Most companic, reall% %% ant II, 1.1 \Lou,. -.did Here in Silicon Valley, infor- to recruit here Peck "did mIld 11111111.1 111011 Ills nI lull \I Ion. ...oil that Lockheed I,Il , dents hired through mation -age companies are "They know- WI. tia i Vri.al .11.1 quotA,. I'll Is - ii 11. b Is, OF tIll Si 'I It.44 5% Oh 5.151' 111111nr sprouting up like trees in places (Ionic prix.tranis 1111, 411 4111114.11 11111111 .111,14.41 I ,,, ' , 1. IF IF, ,.4414 40.111 industry recruiters, 4. and programs to seek where orchards once flourished. These companies retTlill ill 1 hit :-.41114,411 \.i111 - 1,11111 ’ litit lie% hires, and the ;tern- Career Center Those companies are looking for several difliFrent wi s In ad& IOW S ISt. .4411111 ill, 11141 A111114141 14.1%14,11 '1 pare want has expanded its help And many of them get tion to job postings in the on it thu 11111t1t1111% 111 119 pi tr. IS Ill I mill ptIS reTrUlting l'irOrt$ By Kevin W. Ileeteman shopping for talent at campus Career Center, they StI141111 tI1 the. %,1114' 1,1 IliepastCOUple Stall' ..S ,.1 uryearg Writer Ill. Irene Peck, recruiting ser- send recruiters to campus for \hi F... .I F. F. ockhel.ei Manti ri especially After six years of toiling vices coordinator, said that com- job fairs and on -campus inter tnake toncerted hut I', tFF blue,' ...Aid Ill I I'C, III I. Fl II pcople majonng in electri- away at San Jose State panies known for hiring SJSU views. Many of them post "I Flu ;ind .1111111111 1111, S1 it t mechanical, and aerospace graduate's include Hewlett- their job opportunit% intorma .1t4. 14 1,114441 University, you finally have .1ero-pate firm I Med 111, .111 111.1 vitrilleuring They also st'ek (emit that coveted degree in hand. Packa rd, Intel, Lockheed tion on their web sou.. .is does Minim bort t- -tiolAnt, IF F 111 1 1111,’ 1,10 111 11Ill Martin, and Sun Microsystems. the Career Center its %co klovue Tla 1. /IF IIIIF, 0011-1 '.1101.... for compAii seq School to work, page 3 OPINION Wednesday. September 10. 1997 Page 2 SPARTAN DAILY Parking woes continue to plague student lives No matter what the alterna- to hear the latest campus, and 4,000 parking leave early enough every student, alternatives to remedy the Want unbearable parking situation. tives, there doesn't seem to be oke on ettillpa s? spaces within all three univer- to find a parking parking problems any bright side to the parking Parking. Ha! sity garage's, the situation spot and still get to should be the least Park and Ride, as well as dilemma. I know it's not really funny appears dismal and hopeless. class on time. of our worries. light rail, are available to stu- traf- Commuting students are in when you're circling through Especially during the first In all actuality, However, they dents wishing to avoid the constant need of an additional level after level in one parking two weeks of class, when the being thee "early are not. fic jams inside the parking parking structure, yet their garage after another, but it is a parking situation on campus is enough" is never By the time garages, but they too have their cries for help have so far gone joke nonetheless. a walking nightmare. quite enough. many students drawbacks. unanswered. It should be obvi- Just the fact alone that stu- The garages on Fourth, Students get so frus- tackle the parking Convenience and time are ous for anyone to see that addi- dents pay $81 a semester for a Seventh and Tenth streets are trated with the obstacle and finally lost with both of these methods. tional parking is a must, parking permit and they are filling up as early as 8:30 a.m., parking siti3J:ffim AMY BA NKSTON get to class, they are Students also using these although immediate relief still never guaranteed a spot is and metered parking is not that they end up missing class so stressed out and upset that options lose the ability to leave seems to be nowhere in sight. outrageous, not to mention a even a realistic option. or driving back home. they can't even concentrate or campus when they want Unfortunately, the joke With all of the stress of class- pay attention to their profes- because they must wait for waste of time' and money. is a Spartan es, assignments, and exams sors. shuttles to take them back to Amy Bankston With approximately 26,600 often affects the new students Daily Staff Writer. students on this commuter who naively think they can that fall on the shoulders of' Of course there are other their cars. . 0, ct. c.... cc deaths Editorial 6'Ver IfilVis Recent should teach that BART union employees are Nowentering the third day of a strike without an end in sight, we have to wonder... about life, love Why are they striking? you need is love. Before the Officials representing the unions involved in AtIIGeneration X or Beatles movements. the BART talks, the Service Employees here were International Union Local 790, the American two individuals Federation of State, County and Municipal who exuded love: Employees and the Amalgamated Transit Union Diana and Mother Local 1555, who represent about 2,600 employ- Teresa. ees, claim that each time they renegotiate their Forget the spec- contract with BART officials they lose benefits. tacular scene at Maybe if these employees were so underpaid Westminster and under-rewarded we could sympathize with Abbey. Ignore Elton their plight. But, earning between $40,900 and John or even the $48,000 a year, as a base salary, should hardly "Queen Mum. CHRISTINE M. UAS be considered underpaid. "Obliterate the Meanwhile, these employees duke it out with other funeral in India. No royal cassocks. No officials for wage increases of 6.5, 5.5 and 5 per- screaming ladies or wilted roses. cent over the next three years, and 270,000 com- Princess ie G1156 Stim i The deaths of Mother Teresa and muters are stranded on train platforms. Diana, both the real "queens of our hearts," BART officials offered these workers raises of should have a more profound impact on our :3 percent a year, with new employees reaching Smoking ban unconstitutional lives. top pay levels after five years. They said these true that These two raises are the maximum the transit provider, While individuals, customers and taxpayers can afford. understand this: smoking having red paint thrown on these two strong so different One would assume that perhaps BART could is legal. Having said them. and yet, the afford to provide its employees a slightly higher that, the proposed ban on They have the right to get women are gone, same, tried percent, but 6.5 percent? If these raise than 3 smoking in bars beginning Jan. an abortion without protesters the world has to get the employees expect that much of a pay hike they 1, 1998 is unconstitutional. assaulting them. world to see might not only have time-off while they strike, At the very heart of the mat- And they do have the right much to learn things differ- but pe rtlia 'wilily, when BART goes under ter is that people have basic free- to smoke a cigarette with their ently. because it can't afford to pay its own workers. doms that, so long as they are ale if they so choose. from Diana and For exam- BART union workers will We hope that not illegal, they should be able to Laws have already been Mother Teresa... ple, what rethink their position and come back to the nego- pursue freely. made against smoking in would Diana offer. tiation table with a more reasonable Such is not the case pertain- restaurants and in businesses and Mother of $40,900 a year isn't Making a base salary ing to smoking. There was a day and now the government Teresa say if they spent a day on the campus the average salary of too bad considering that and it wasn't too long ago, wants to make smoking in here at SJSU? Diana might try to escape the most of BART riders is probably considerably either when smoking was not bars illegal without actually photographers and find out about on-campus lower. And if it isn't, so what. only acceptable, it was encour- making smoking itself illegal. volunteering. Reality must sometimes outweigh our dreams, aged. Fred and Barney touted The government should let Mother Teresa would have searched deep The dream of 2,600 BART workers to make high- Winstons and Charlton Heston brazenly businesses run themselves and let the bars within her sari for a coin for one of the wan- er wages is affecting the lives of 270,000 Bay puffed away on a Kool Menthol. and taverns make their own choice as to dering homeless around the Student Union. Area commuters. Smoking is not so hip anymore and, whether to prohibit puffing in their individ- Mother Teresa said she could see the face of Dream on BART employees. admittedly, it shouldn't be. The facets of ual establishment. God in every individual she met. smoking are well-documented: lung cancer, What they should decidedly not do is shove Pretty tall order to fulfill when a professor premature aging, yellow teeth.., and being smoking issues down smoker's throats every gives you a fifty-page reading assignment or a LEGAL. chance they get, and then gleefully cash in hurried individual cuts in front of you in the Two weeks ago, revisions to delay the ban the substantial booty they get from taxes and coffee line. Opinion page policies were amended by Sen. Ken Maddy, R-Fresno, tobacco. Or what about the person at the bookstore Headers ore encouraged to express themselves on the Opinion on behalf of over 2,000 bars and taverns who The government should either bite the who buys the last textbook for the class you page with a letter to the Editor or Compile Viewpoint. understand that paying customers will not financial bullet and illegalize smoking or A Letter to the Editor is a 200-word response to an issue or point of just added? When was the last time that you view that has appeared in the Spartan Daily. want to abandon their beer at the bar to take they should let smokers have the rights they donated time or a couple of bucks to a charity? A Campus Viewpoint ut a 450-word essay On current campy., polit- a puff outside. deserve. While it's true that two strong women are ical or social manes. Submissions become the property of the Spartan Daily and may be Second-hand smoke is a reality, though I The long-arm of the government cannot gone, the world has much to learn from Diana edited for clarity. grammar, libel and length. Submbwilons mast find it utterly unbelievable that the results yank the cigarettes out of law-abiding citi- and Mother Teresa, especially here at SJSU contain the author's name. address, phone number. signature and major. are as staggering as are being touted. If that zens mouths and then laugh all the way to where it's easy to get caught up in sole acade- Suhmittaione may be put in the Lettent to the Editor box at the were true, why wasn't it an issue before the bank with the money smokers generate. mia. Spartan Daily nffice in Dwight Bentel lisA Room 209, sent by fax to someone put a name to it? Either put up or shut-up. It's time (408)924-3237 or mailed to the Spartan Daily Opinion Editor, School to stop There's more to life than fame, fortune and ofJournaliam and MA90 Communications, San Jose State University, What people desperately need to under- straddling the middle. straight As. One Washington Square, San Jose. CA 95192-0149. stand is that they cannot live someone else's All you need is love. Editorials are written by, and are the conseneue oE the Terri K. Milner Smitten Deily editors, not the Matt life for them. Americans have rights, no mat- is Managing Editor of the Published opinione and advertisements do not necessarily reflect ter what another's view is. Spartan Daily. Her column appears every Christine M. Lias is a Spartan Daily Staff the views of the Spartan Daily, the School of Journalism and Mass Wednesday. Writer. Communicat ions or &MIL They have the right to wear fur without
SPARTAN DAILY Day of Atonement must be remembered One Washington Square, Son Jose, CA 95192-0149 (408) 924-3280 *E-mail: [email protected] the repeal of affirmative ourselves, to the With person whom we action, the abolishment of wronged and to EDITORIAL God. After confession ADVERTISING black Congressional districts, Vattan Deily comes repentance. To repent means to Executive Editor , , .r Advertising Director welfare reform and other setbacks, One WalshIngton aqua. Ran Joao, re ,,,,, -Old, Managing Editor ’ r V feel sorry for the wrong we have done. Art Director black people are being forced to Production Editor , Retail Manager Until we repent we will never have the Assisthnt Production Editor - , Marketing Manager '! r depend and do for self. Blacks can no Photo Editor v , ,,. Downtown/ Entertainment Mgr. desire to change that behavior. This Opinion Editor longer look toward the government for ourselves, our people and obey God. ', , National Manager . leads us to the fifth stage: Chief Photographer 1r Marketing Assistant , / help, hut we must rely on God and our- The Day of Atonement is when we atonement. Sports Editor v Rothil Account Executives: selves to improve our condition. This Atonement is taking action to do Entertainment Editor: begin the process of becoming at-one S filor Start Writers: is what the Whin, Man March was with ourselves and at-one with God. something in reparation for the evil about, and as the second anniversary we have done. Downtown/ Entertaimnent Executives: The process of Atonement was laid approaches, we roust revisit the mean- After the sixth stage of forgiveness Staff Writers: ing of that day. out for us during the march. !3eltrula Array,' , A 11 , y comes reconciliation and restoration. Artists: This Oct. 16, the Second Atonement is the fifth stage in an fiAlingInn Shawl, t" : To restore means to reconcile our dif- r;ome2 Kevin I A, Anniversary of the Million Man March eight-stage process. The first stage is Inc John MeyPr , .1 ". Graphics wrong being pointed out. ferences and move into a perfect union r When some- ',find Pere! Tray, ,,,, Advisers: and the Third Annual Day of with God, which is the eighth and final Jmess Allis', Wright Y.),,on. A idwo Advertising Atonement will be celebrated across one points out wrong in us, we must be Ph1990,91411111111S: Editorial stage. Let us able to accept it. That takes us to the all observe Oct. 16 as a h f .arlwrIght. SCof I er.hrler M., r v Ai., Moto V the world. There will be a gathering in Holy Day, let us revive the spirit of the P ',try Shay U Reolry OnT,Prr all the major cities in the next stage acknowledgment. country. Our Million Man March. We have to be humble enough to a Nom Sawn 4041924 3290 929 408924 1292 Adverialne 409 924 1270 Spartan Deity IUSPS 509 480) is published every primary duty on this day is to seek for- 92e:0)d./ for (1911 4.9499,9c year) 125 4nd isernemer) It Pedak posing pod at San Jose and adeleonel rneeng oat., acknowledge our wrong. Then we Mel eubscnpeons accepted on emends, of semester bees POSTMASTER 5e0d address changes to Ts Spartan Defy giveness for our sins, mend our rela- David Muhammad Sin Jose Stal Unnersey Co. Weehrnglon Square San Jose CA 95192.0149 tionships and pledge to do right by must confess the wrong. We confess to Minister, Nation of Islam
4 e3 Wednesday, September 10. 1997 SPARTAN DAILY
Teenager has near-fatal seizure Sunnyside Up at SJSU pool; student saves life
By Lisa Marie E Areliana with his three older cousins. of the lifeguards did. Staff Writer The boy's older cousins did not "The lap swimmer took him inform the lifeguards about the to the side of the pool, while I A hot September day at the boy's epileptic condition until rushed there," Rogat said. "I pool turned almost fatal for a after the incident, Rogat said. then pulled him out of the 14-year-old, according to the The cousins later said they water." University Police Department. had forgotten to take the boy's "He was in the perfect spot to The 14-year-old, whose name pills with them. save the kid," Rogat said. "He cannot be published because of The boy was swimming in made my job a lot easier." his age, almost drowned when the deep end of the pool when Rogat said the boy was he went through an epileptic he had an epileptic seizure, breathing when he was pulled seizure while swimming in the according to Rogat and Lt. out and didn't need CPR. Rogat deep end of the pool at the Maloney. Rogat said the boy said the other lifeguards were Aquatic Center Sunday, accord- was allowed to go to that side of then notified and were instruct- ing to Lt. Shannon Mahoney of the pool because he could swim ed to call 911. the UPD and lifeguard Keola and because he was accompa- The UPD and the para- Rogat, one of the three life- nied by his adult cousins. medics arrived at the scene guards present at the scene. "I then knew that something within moments, said Rogat. The teenager had apparently was wrong when I saw the kid Lt. Maloney said the boy was left his pills at home. with his face down in the conscious and alert when the The 14-year-old was rescued water," Rogat said. Rogat said officers arrived at the scene. by a 29-year-old, who asked not the 29-year-old who was doing The boy was brought to to be identified, according to Lt. laps at the time, was on the lane Columbia San Jose Medical Maloney. right next to where the 14-year- Center and was later released. Rogat said the 14-year-old old was swimming, and was came to the Aquatic Center able to get to the boy before any E-mail: System gets updated Continued from page 1 sent all students , whether they "I think its a pleasant register involved filling out one had an established e-mail change and makes things sim- form, waiting several weeks, account or not , a letter in the pler," Rudd said. setting up a password and an mail about the changes in gain- The only backlash seems to initial log-in. A typical e-mail ing e-mail accounts. Students' be getting the word out to stu- address would have a total of new addresses use only the first dents that the old accounts will about 20 characters in both initial of the person's first name be deleted and new accounts numerical and letter form. and the entire last name. are already established. "It seemed to be a lot of work Passwords are made of "Sj" plus "I haven't had time yet to log- for the students to have to go the six digits of a student's date on," english major Maya Mann through those steps and then to of birth. said. "But I think it's good to remember the address and Computing services have have an e-mail account here in password," said lab technician, already activated the accounts. case my server at home breaks Dianne Ch a mb e rli n. Students only need to log-in down." This year, computing services and enter the password. School to Work: Recruitment Continued from page 1 Mary Hammershock said. people with math and physics backgrounds, as Netscape's David Bizer said his company is well as business majors with procuremen knowl- looking for people who can, as he put it, "get in edge. the driver's seat and go." Because Netscape is a Barbara Francis, a 1996 SJSU graduate, went young company, they want a more experienced to work for Lockheed Martin shortly thereafter. workforce, he said. Netscape is looking for engi- She is a member of Mauro's recruiting team and neering majors to work in a variety of areas, works as a campus ambassador for the team. including software development, quality assur- "They [Lockheed Martini want to make their ance, marketing, and information systems people. presence known," she said. Those pursuing MBA's are also being sought, lie Francis said SJSU graduates coming to said. He added that Netscape has a variety of Lockheed Martin can choose from a variety of internships available, mostly during the summer. fields. Lockheed Martin builds satellites, mainly Specific job information can be found on Heidi Perera decorates a mantiol., f , 1'.11 .1 for communications companies, and also for the Netscape's website. SJSU campus military. The company is also in aeronautics, Companies on campus aren't just looking for designing and building airplanes such as the U.S. recent graduates. Many offer internships and Air Force's F16 Fighting Falcon and the new F22 part-time work for SJSU students. These jobs are Raptor, as well as missile technology. suited for the student who wants to get real- In short, she said, there's something for every- world experience while working on a degree, one. while other part-time positions are ideal for stu- Hewlett-Packard also goes shopping for talent dents who need to make money to pay the bills. The Pride is Bil( k!!! at SJSU. Zahib Mansabi, a SJSU Alumnus with Lina Melkonian, the assistant director and co- San J0!; , ',No:11p bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engi- op manager for the Career Center, said last year, neering, heads up Hewlett-Packard's SJSU over 200,000 job opportunities were posted in the recruiting team. Mansabi said that Hewlett- Career Center by companies looking for full-time, Packard makes two appearances a year for "HP part-time, seasonal, and intern help. Melkonian Day," and does all pre-screening, resume reviews, said many SJSU students have found part-time )01' BA LI and interviewing on campus. Hewlett-Packard's work through the Career Center. SPARTAN 1-4-1( workforce currently includes approximately Melkonian also said the Career Center has an 1,350 SJSU alumni, established Job Bank on its website, and that Hewlett-Packard, like Lockheed Martin, has a beginning this semester, all students are auto- fondness for hiring SJSU graduates. "We are matically registered to access it. She said that, OVUM DONORS Kic recruiting heavily from San Jose State," hp said. from the Career Center's main site NEEDED "The talent level has gone up." (www.careercentensjeu.edu), students may MEET the 1997 Football team c8.040 Andre Arms, another SJSU alumnus and a use their student ID number as a password to Women Ages 21-29, member of Mansabi's recruiting team, said that peruse the job and internship opportunities. Healthy, Responsible, FUN Games!! FREE Prizes!! Hewlett-Packard offers an intern co-op which The Career Center also has a 24 -hour tele- allows the student to spend a semester working phone hotline for students without modems. The All Nationalities. at Hewlett-Packard. Student interns can work hotline lists part-time, full-time, and internship Give the Gift of life! Friday, September 12th full- or part-time, and can choose whether to openings in everything from engineering to sea- attend school during that semester or take the sonal jobs. The hotline number is 14081924-2562. S3,000. Stipend and Expense.. semester off Interns work a variety of jobs Students looking for professional full-time Paid. Bonus for Chinese ;nut in the Ampitheatre depending on experience and educational level. work may want to mark Oct. 8 and 9 on their cal- Japanese thaw,. Netscape, a relative Silicon Valley newcomer endars. On those dates, a Job Fair will be held Games Start at 12:00, Rally at 1210 and the maker of the well-known web browser, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Union has only recently begun its recruiting push. "We Ballroom. It is advisable to dress well and bring 5000 FREE ;ti,(ipnt d d I Vt recognize San Jose State has talent," Netscape's plenty of resumes. : I. I Please Call WWFC Sponsored by San Jos., I vr ' 800-314-9996 Spittl:iri RN strike: Two-day walkout , 1- " ’ Continued from page 1 more experienced nurses also laints from students who are in the past 5 years. may affect students coming out going out there and doing their Gene Kibbs, director of exter- of nursing programs," Parker clinical studies," (1orenherg nal affairs at Kaiser, said mem- said. said. 10V-e(CO"# -e atLCi bers should riot be concerned Parker feels students will about the walkout. have less mentors to work with "We have staff coming in due to cuts. Parker also said from other hospitals during the students have less of a chance two-day strike," Kibbe said. to work directly with a patient Only a Custom Built (keel it..r.ke; Kibbe said Kaiser needs to because all hospitals are admit. PC can give you centralize their call center. She ting fewer people. the latest Technology The director feels that by doing this, the of the nursing and personalize program at SJSU, Dr. Bobbye cre-eci( ("Jvic-e. company will actually he features for less. improving the services to its Gorenberg doesn't see any prob- warranty* customers. lems coming up for her stu- 3-year Eileen Parker, who graduat- dents. Free Consultation Mc-e ed from San Jose State According to Dr. Gorenberg University in 1980 was at the S.ISII has been fortunate to Kaiser Santa Teresa hospital have anticipated these prob- rally. She said the company has lems. Five years ago the nurs- EM!IBJ)yyd_ already eliminated 1,500 regis- ing program redirected itself to (1 Fl;: Council on Internalional 'dim:nano:a F Ncluovi prepare it's students for more tered nurses in the past three 530 Bush St., (a011I111 II. git) 'le, I, years. community hospitalization. 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By Anthony Perez Being the only master's pro- expects the program to double StattWnwr gram in transportation man- within a year. agement in the nation has pre- Although, the program is learn sented Rod Diridon and Robert centered at SJSU, the program II Students Vitale, the two leaders of the will be broadcasted around the the skills of traffic Norman Mineta International state to other sites. But before Institute for Surface any of that happens, SJSU management in Transportation with some needs to be outfitted with the new SJSU course start-up problems. necessary equipment. "It's hard to find textbooks The MSTM is looking at Fall Editor's note: Due to an error in for a subject never taught 1998 when it will originate its DiesdaN's Sporton the folbsi tog before," said Vitale who is broadcast from SJSU. Until .1e-tole is being re roll in its nHret, it, Education Director of the insti- then the lectures come from a ap,11141:. p MI' tute. California Transportation A new master's program at The institute was created Agency building in Oakland. SJSU aims to teach students and gets its funding from a bill In May, SJSU rearranged how to relieve congestion and passed by Congress in 1991. several bachelor and graduate unplug clogged arteries without Mineta helped spearhead the programs. In the College of any medical training. multi -billion dollar transporta- Business, the department that That would be pretty hard tion bill and for his efforts the the MSTM is under, six pro- without medical training, right? institute bears his name. grams were consolidated into Not when the congestion has Diridon spent 20 years in the one because the programs were nothing to do with humans and Santa Clara County Board of considered too specialized. all to do with traffic jams. Supervisors and all of the 20 The MSTM had to show a The new program, the first to years here was on the county's need for the program and a rea- be added since the mass reorga- transit board. son why the program was dif- nization that was suggested in Diridon has headed of the ferentiated itself from other May, is a Master's of Science institute since it was created in programs. After the initial test Degree in Transportation 1991. One of the institute's classes it went to a second level Management, is the only one of goals since its inception was to of certification before it was its kind in the country. create a unique transpiration finally implemented. Robert Serna/ Spartan Doily The program's borrows from program like the MSTM. "The CSU leadership recog- Mike Heggli's hackey sack acrobatics are observed by Tyler Ham, right, outside of Hoover Hall. several transportation disci- The program started testing nized that this program was Both are first-year freshmen from San Francisco and Spokane, Washington, respectively. plines. Students in the program classes a years ago soon after it unique," Diridon said. "The pro- will learn a little about civil got the initial approval to create grams farsightedness is some- engineering, urban develop- a pilot program. This fall,it thing to be proud of" ment and other sciences finally got the go ahead from SJSU's School of Engineering crammed into a 10 class mas- the CSU trustees to officially initially felt the MSTM pro- Spacecraft survives vital test near Mars ter's of science degree. recognize the certificate pro- gram threatened its Civil The program is career ori- gram. Engineering. After a few weeks, PASADENA, (alif. (AP) pellant that will he pushed into The step-by-step adjusting of ented rather then discipline ori- Currently there is only one however, the Engineering The Mars Global Surveyor the rocket engine Thursday the orbit is "like getting into a ented which gives graduates class being taught in the new department backed off. spacecraft on Tuesday survived evening. hot Jacuzzi. We'll do it a little the ability to naive into upper program. The program is broad- Any graduate program want- the critical pressurization of its Pressurization of the fuel hit at a time," said Joseph G. management and executive jobs cast in from Oakland to the ed to keeps its students," Vitale fuel system, the same step lines on Mars Observer is Beener, the Surveyor flight in public transportation and the Instructional Resource Center said. "Now that everybody has thought to have wrecked Mars believed to have caused an operations manager. private sector. The program on the north side of campus and seen that we aren't competing Observer as it neared the red explosion. It was never heard If the spacecraft dips too runs accelerated classes that other places in California able for its students they the engi- planet in 1993. from again. deeply into the atmosphere, it meet once a week for 10 weeks. to handle the broadcast. The neering and Urban Studies der- Officials of the planet-map- Since Mars Observer's fail- overheats: if it dips too shallow- Completing the program takes master's program currently has partmentsi have no problem ping mission were ecstatic that ure, "we made a lot of design ly, it will not reach the desired two to three years. 30 students enrolled and Vitale with it." pressurization went without a changes and everything looks mapping orbit, he said. hitch as the spacecraft closed in great now, ('unningham said. Scientists and engineers on on Mars. On Thursday, beginning the $250 million mission were "To see this event pass us about 6:31 p.m. POT, Glo'aal optimistic that they could cap- LAX has new found 'house pet' successfully today is really a Surveyor's rockets will fire for ture the kind of pictures and great relief," said Glenn 22 minutes, slowing the space- carry out the kind of science LOS ANGELES AP) The wanted to turn it into a show- of the neighborhood and left the Cunningham, project manager craft by about 2,200 mph and they'd hoped to do with the house cost 8231,000. The cat case for soundproofing. cat. at NASA's Jet Propulsion putting it into an elliptical $980 million Mars Observer. came free. The built-ins included a gray LAX workers didn't mind. Laboratory. He held the same orbit. Already, the Surveyor has Los Angeles International and white cat that the previous They feed and care for the cat, position with Mars Observer, Controllers will modify the sent unique pictures of the Airport found itself with an homeowner had named Cat. even paying for veterinary care. which vanished in August 1993. orbit over four months with planet. Michael Malin, principal unofficial mascot when officials Larry Trainor said the feline "lie's somewhat become a The nail-biting moments maneuvers called aerobraking investigator for the Mars purchased a Playa del Rey had been hanging around the mascot," said Nancy Niles, com- occurred between 7 a.m. POT that take advantage of atmos- Observer Camera, said that home last month. The house is house for some time. He sug- munity outreach coordinator for and 9:15 a.m. PDT, when valves pheric drag. The result will be a from Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, the the closest to the northern run- gested that a laid-off aerospace the LAX Residential opened to let high-pressure nearly circular orbit about 234 camera recorded eight views of way at LAX and authorities employee may have moved out Soundproofing Bureau. helium flow into tanks of pro- miles above the planet. the planet.
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