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SENIOR NIGHT Get Crazy RobertRobert OOwenswens makes Zombie movie drives six 3-pointersp iin last viewer crazy homehome gamegam SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 4 Serving San José State University since 1934 Monday,Monday, March 1, 20102010 www.TheSpartanDaily.com Volume 134, Issue 16 Evacuation drill American warrior to occur today Veteran speaks to ROTC students, remembers battle experiences Kristen Pearson said. Staff Writer Joe West Hall has recently Salman Haqqi been evacuated because of Staff Writer The University Police De- two separate fi re incidents on partment will conduct an all- Nov. 12 and Nov. 26. Israel Del Toro, a U.S. Air campus emergency evacua- Freshman music major Force technical sergeant, said he tion drill today at 1:30 p.m., Cristina Duran said she ap- has overcome intense adversity stated Police Chief Peter De- preciates the drills because in the fi ve years and 120 surger- cena of UPD. she had to be evacuated from ies since he and his team were “Alarms will sound, indi- Joe West Hall in the inci- ambushed by the Taliban in the cating that all faculty, staff, dents. mountains of Afghanistan. students, Campus Village “These drills have helped,” An elite joint tactical air con- residents and King Library she said. “I know not to stay in troller, Del Toro spoke to a group patrons should leave immedi- my dorm anymore during the of 60 SJSU Air Force ROTC ca- ately through the nearest exit evacuations, and that I should dets Thursday at the Boccardo and meet outside at the ap- take them seriously instead of Business Center, recalling his propriate building assembly look at them as a joke.” experiences as a member of the point,” Decena stated in an The last real emergency U.S. Air Force and the challenges e-mail. evacuation at SJSU was in he faced since he was wounded. Sgt. John Laws of UPD said response to a fi re in Campus Joint tactical air controllers the purpose of evacuation Village Building B on Feb. 14. are Air Force personnel assigned drills is to clear each building The drills are like the fi re to Army units on patrol or on the quickly and safely. drills most college students attack, Del Toro said. When un- “We’re required to have had to do in high school, Laws der fi re, the Army relies on these drills to make sure everyone said. units to call in air support and di- knows how to evacuate, such “The idea of telling people rect fi re onto enemy positions. as the emergency personnel, in advance is for faculty to Del Toro said he and his scout facilities staff and faculty,” he not schedule any tests at that team were acting on intelligence said. time,” Laws said. they received about a high-value The emergency manage- Undeclared freshman Alan target when their Humvee hit an ment team gets in touch with Huang said he thinks the drills improvised explosive device in the teachers through e-mail are for safety precautions. December 2005. to let them know of upcoming “They haven’t helped be- “I felt an intense heat blast drills, and it seems to be the cause nothing’s really ever on my left side,” Del Toro said. easiest way to contact them, happened,” he said. “When I got out, I noticed I was Amanda Quist, a SJSU vocal The emergency evacuations on fi re from head to toe. I felt like instructor in the music de- are performed to get people I was going to die, and I’m never partment, stated in an e-mail. out of buildings quickly and going to see my son again.” “It’s helpful to know where effi ciently, Belcastro said. Del Toro said the blast left to go in the event of an actual “They’re basically just fi re him with third-degree burns over emergency,” she stated. drills,” he said. 80 percent of his body, and he During an evacuation drill, Sophomore nutrition ma- was in a coma for four months students and faculty should jor Aileen Trujillo said she’s until he woke up in March 2006. move away from the buildings been evacuated from Clark “Doctors told me that I would because they could be hit with Hall in a real evacuation be- never walk again and that I’ll be falling debris in the event of fore, but said she thought it breathing through a respirator an actual emergency, said Lt. may have just been a false for the rest of my life,” he said. “I Frank Belcastro of UPD, who alarm. didn’t believe that. In my mind I coordinates the emergency “I think the fi re drills are was never going to quit.” evacuation drills. really important because Determined to defy the doc- Kibiwot Limo / Spartan Daily “There are observers who when an emergency actu- Israel Del Toro talks to SJSU students about his experience in the Air Force and the injuries look at what needs to be cor- See WARRIOR, Page 2 he sustained from an improvised explosive device explosion while serving in Afghanistan. rected during these drills,” he See DRILL, Page 2 Documentary captures time of segregation Professors seek benefi ts of tenure Angelo Scrofani San Jose State, said they put to- of elementary schools, years Staff Writer gether the event as part of a fi lm before the precedent of Brown v. Shiva Zahirfar han. Brent said, and the years before festival that will run through the Board of Education took effect. Staff Writer James Brent, department a professor achieves tenure is Brown v. Board of Educa- month of April. Brown v. Board of Education chair and professor for the po- called a probation period. tion had a sobering effect on About 15 people, most of was a 1954 United States Su- Although most college stu- litical science department, said As an assistant professor, the small crowd at Thursday’s whom were of different races, preme Court decision that over- dents have heard the term ten- he agrees that after a professor Brent’s dossier was reviewed fi lm screening, “The Road to huddled close to one another in turned the legal basis for racial ure, students may be unclear achieves tenure, he or she may by four groups: associate and Brown,” a documentary outlin- the Cultural Heritage Center on segregation in schools and other about the process a professor start to slack off. full professors in his depart- ing school segregation during the fi fth fl oor of the Dr. Martin public facilities. goes through to achieving ten- “Any time someone’s given a ment, a group of college profes- the Civil Rights era, according to Luther King Jr. Library for the 6 Oliver Brown was one of 13 ure. lifetime job there is a potential sors from various departments, the event’s coordinator. p.m. viewing. parents who fi led the suit after “It’s for a teacher that has for abuse … there are those fac- the dean and the provost. Each SJSU alumnus David Piper, In the state of Kansas, ac- he and the rest of the parents been teaching for a certain ulty that abuse it,” Brent said. group then makes a recom- along with African-American cording to the movie, a law le- amount of time,” said junior Professors are reviewed Faculty and Staff Association of gally permitted the segregation See BROWN, Page 2 nursing major Kiana McClana- after every year of teaching, See TENURE, Page 3 Weather SPARTAN DAILY BLOGS TWITTER Online: EVACUATION Follow us at @spartandaily for headlines Hi: 65° straight to your Watch video coverage What are the Spartans chances phone. 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ROTC cadet Jacob Wihl said he was encouraged by Del Toro’s talk. “It defi nitely inspires me to work harder,” Wihl said. “It makes me realize that the mind is a powerful thing.” Awarded a Purple Heart for his service, Del Toro said he was asked by Michael Moseley, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General, to become a motivational speak- er because he thought Del Toro had a story to tell. Since then, Del Toro said he has been speaking at military bases and sports teams such as the Chicago White Sox and Dal- las Mavericks. ROTC cadet Scott Dudley said he was moved by Del Toro’s story. “It’s incredibly humbling to Michelle Gachet / Spartan Daily hear him talk,” Dudley said. “To be able to do even half of what he’s done, I could go home hap- Elementary school students Eric Chang and Breanna Chi compete during the Racket Supply Badminton Open at the Spartan Complex on Sunday. py.” These days, Del Toro said he feels lucky to be alive. “I live every day like it’s the hurt in a real emergency,” he “I don’t know about them last day of my life,” he said.

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