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Volume 146 • Issue 29 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Wednesday, April 13, 2016 SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY VIDEOS AT YOUTUBE.COM/C/SPARTANDAILYSJSU ARDROBE DNESDAY The U.S. women’s soccer team ACCESS: Pick up a copy of the second issue SEE MORE ON A&E P4 OPINION P4: is not being paid enough. of Access in tomorrow’s paper. NEW MEMBER WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM Diversity officer appointed By Vasuki Rao Managing editor When the sentencing for “Wong(Lau) served as a the SJSU hate crime was tutor and advisor for Upward announced last month, Bound, and as a bilingual it engendered a negative education counselor for the reaction on campus. TRIO program, where she Just before SJSU’s Black encountered and directly Student Union conducted addressed the challenges a rally in response to facing underrepresented the sentencing, Interim groups in higher education,” President Susan Martin sent Martin wrote in an email out an email addressing the sent out to students. “She reaction with a list of actions was selected by and will the university was going to report directly to President take in order to prevent more Papazian, and will serve on Quincy Bouldin | Spartan Daily racially motivated incidents the president’s cabinet.” Among others, San Jose State students stand in long lines from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. during Ben and on campus. Among those When Wong(Lau) was Jerry’s Free Cone Day yesterday at San Carlos and Third St. actions was to appoint a appointed Tuesday morning, chief diversity officer to she said she was thrilled lead the Office of Diversity, because she thoroughly DENSEST GALAXY Equity and Inclusion. enjoyed her visit at SJSU Mary Papazian, incoming during her interview. SJSU president, appointed “It felt like such a great Dr. Kathleen Wong(Lau) as time to be at San Jose State Students studying galaxies SJSU’s first chief diversity University to do the kind of officer Tuesday morning. hard work necessary to make In June 2015, Mohammad change in a collaborative continue to strike gold Qayoumi, the former way,” Wong(Lau) said. By Nick Avila I just wanted to help solve the mystery president of SJSU, wrote in an “What I mean by that is that Staff writer behind them. It just turned out that I email sent to faculty, staff and I felt a collective sense of was able to find a type of object that students regarding SJSU’s urgency, willingness to have When Richard Vo and Michael said. “Once I was in that class though, wasn’t classified before.” 2015-2016 operating budget the hard conversations and Sandoval discovered the densest I just loved learning about what our While the findings have been praised that he set aside $1 million ask the hard questions that ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in 2014, universe was composed of and what in the science community, Sandoval in base funding to establish may challenge us, but in the the world of science took notice. else was going on in our universe that said there’s still much to learn about the Office of Diversity and end, will help our campus According to Science Daily, ultra- wasn’t on Earth.” UCDs. He said that, regarding Vo’s Inclusive Excellence. move forward on equity for compact dwarf galaxies, or UCDs, are Sandoval’s discovery was classified object (M59-UCD3), their main goal “Led by a chief diversity students, staff and faculty.” bright star clusters. as a hyper-compact cluster. Putting is to find a Hubble Space Telescope officer, this office will In Oklahoma, Wong(Lau) “It felt really cool to show the world things in perspective, Sandoval said, (HST) image of the object to “see if it also have an assessment launched a faculty training the spectacular finds that we both “if a dwarf galaxy,” which is already has an overweight supermassive black specialist, Title IX institute that focused on made,” Sandoval said, “so once we miniscule, “is like an apple core, then hole,” which would give more insight coordinator, administrative inclusive teaching and an started getting attention, we got our a hyper-compact cluster like M85- into how UCDs form. support and operating funds administrator training that 15 minutes of fame which was nice, HCC1 is about the size of the seeds of Sandoval said that many believe for diversity programming,” focused on management but that was just a bonus.” that apple core.” that tidal stripping is behind the Qayoumi wrote. and leadership for diversity Sandoval, who graduated with a ma- While Sandoval doesn’t have as UCDs. Tidal stripping, as described Wong(Lau) is currently the and innovation. jor in physics and minor in math and much time as he’d like to follow up on by Sandoval, is “basically extreme director of the Southwest According to Wong(Lau), astronomy, became involved in the his findings due to graduate school, tidal forces acting on a smaller object Center for Human Relations she took a nontraditional project after Vo started researching Romanowsky said that he has students which is near a bigger object.” Studies and the National path in her journey toward for the project himself. currently following in the footsteps of While Sandoval focuses on his Conference on Race higher education as she grew “It’s so great for them to have hit the Vo and Sandoval and some have made studies at the University of Tennessee and Ethnicity in Higher up in a working class family. jackpot,” Dr. Aaron Romanowsky discoveries of their own as well. in Knoxville, he said he hopes to Education (NCORE). “My experiences of being said to NBC Bay Area. “And not only However, for Sandoval, it just contribute as much as he can on the a woman of color working hitting the jackpot, but twice.” turned out to be some good fortune UCD that offered him so much acclaim. in collaboration with other Sandoval wasn’t the prototypical in finding the UCD, although he said “As long as it does not take away women helped highlight the student to find something like the he was researching to find something from my coursework and the research difficulties of pulling out our UCD either, due to it being his first along the lines of what he discovered. that I want to get involved in at threads of identity in this time ever studying the subject. “It was definitely something I made UTK, I am up for anything that Dr. work,” Wong(Lau) said. “I actually made my discovery, an effort to do,” Sandoval said. “I was Romanowsky wants me to do in the Wong(Lau) also mentioned which is named M85-HCC1, while I on a mission to find UCDs, whether UCD project,” Sandoval said. her experience in creating was enrolled in my first astronomy/ it was a spectacular never-before- a research-based training astrophysics course ever,” Sandoval seen object or just an ordinary UCD Follow Nick on Twitter curriculum at a public @NickVanExelent university that experienced a racist incident. That curriculum and a large- Courtesy of SJSU Newsroom scale facilitating training she created in response to the Dr. Kathleen Wong(Lau) incident eventually became will be the chief a structure adopted by the diversity officer starting July 25. OFFICER PAGE 2 SEE FALL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE on page 7 22 NEWS Wednesday, April 13, 2016 A.S. Election:MEET THE CANDIDATES President Erik Mateo is one of fi ve candidates pursuing the title of Associated Students wouldn’t typically see at a forum,” Mateo said. President this spring. Mateo is a sophomore entrepreneurship major with an Mateo said he feels most useful when he’s involved, which he was throughout high emphasis international business. school and now into his college experience. He is heavily involved with the Residence Born in Los Angeles, Mateo said that he was driven to run for A.S. President Hall Association (RHA). because of the communication that A.S. has with the students at SJSU, or the great He served as the national communications coordinator for RHA this past year, potential of communication there could be. He said that some get discouraged when where he attended three major conferences, including the National Conference at they hear that only 8 percent of our student population voted in the last election, but North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. Getting a perspective from it drives him to work for more. students outside California and discussing a lot of issues in resident life across the “One of the initiatives I want to work on is creating a success center for every group country, including a lack of inclusion and discrimination, was an experience and an Erik Mateo and identity on campus … helping with the retention rate would help with off ering eye-opener for Mateo and will carry on with him in his presidency if he is chosen. more classes,” Mateo said. “A lot of students are stuck in upper division classes with Mateo is confi dent that though he is only two years in at San Jose State, he has a lot one professor … If SJSU cannot provide more than that, they should off er alternatives of experience and many skills to off er. Entrepreneurship major like online classes or sister campuses.” “Coming into college, I really wanted to grasp everything that I could get out of Along with describing himself as being approachable and adaptable with students college. I was involved with a Greek organization, and then UHS, and now I want to needs, he says that his entrepreneurship major inspires him to think outside the box.