VOLUME 100. NO. 44 FRIDAY MAY 2, 1997 r: SPORTS INSIDE Golfer overcomes Spinal Artist Ben Harper rocks Meningitis to play for SJSU the Student Union Page 6 4. Below SPARTANServing San Jose State University DAILY Since 1934 H Cinco The fire next time de Mayo Gang intervention group creates U.N.I.T.Y. festivities By Devin Fehely Spartan Daily Staff Writer LOS ANGELES Darren Bo Taylor has seen the riots. Now, he is waiting for Sunday the revolution that will improve education and bring employment to the inner city. Taylor is the president of UNITY. By James S. Gonzales the festival will host over 400,000 ONE, a gang prevention/intervention Spartan Daily Staff Writer people throughout the day-long of event, making it one of San Jose's organization he started in the aftermath This Sunday morning the streets of the year. the 1992 L.A. riots. UNITY. ONE, largest events of downtown San Jose will once "We have so many families that which stands for United Nations In Touch again come alive with the brilliant with Youth, uses education to keep stu- come to the fiesta every year that colors of folklorico dancers and the the committee decided to do dents out of gangs. trumpet blows of mariachi music Taylor preaches a gospel of self-help, something different this year and when the annual Cinco de Mayo put in a children's area at the refusing to blame the powers-that-be for his Parade and Fiesta comes to town. problems. Children's Park section of the Beginning at 9 a.m., the day's event," Madueno said. "No white man told me to sell dope; no parade will start at the corner of white told me to shoot my own kind. I did In addition to the parade there Santa Clara Street and the will be six performing stages and it to myself," Taylor said. Guadalupe Parkway overpass. Taylor credits a near-death experience over 25 vending booths selling From there the parade will pro- items from clothing and food to with his decision to begin UNITY. ceed west on Santa Clara, then ONE. He said he had an ephipany while alcoholic beverages. east on Market Street and will With six showcase stages, the recovering from a burst appendix. then head west down San Carlos "I knew I needed to change; divine festival will accommodate over 38 Street to Woz Way where it will performers before the festival ends prayer and guidance from God helped me," end at Children's Discovery Park. Taylor said. at 5 p.m. The entertainment will According to Festival range from bandit and mariachi His sentiments are echoed by others in Coordinator Maggie Madueno of the group. Andrew, a member of the San Jose's American GI Forum School Yard Crips, joined after he was shot See Fiesta, page 8 in the leg by a rival gang member. Soft-spo- See U.N.I.T.Y. ONE, page 5
PHOTO BY ARIC CRABB Spartan Daily Above: Hildebrant "Hilly" Flowers of UNITY. ONE a gang intervention group comprised of members of the Crips and Bloods hugs fellow member Bo Taylor. The group came to voice their displeasure during a town meet- ing at the First AME Church in South Central Los Angeles. Left: Former Los Angeles Grip John Sikes, 26, left, and Bo Taylor, presi- dent of UNITY. ONE, a gang inter- INSIDE: vention and prevention organization High are trying to guide the youth of Los Angeles toward a life of legitimacy by school getting them out of gangs and into the workplace. One problem L.A.-based students UNITY. ONE is facing is the lack of try to employment and employers willing to hire ex-gang members. "We are human change beings, we have children and wives," Sikes said. media images PHOTO BY DAVE LUCHANSKY Spartan Daily Page 4 PHOTO BY LEA TAURIELLO Spartan Daily Mexican-American Studies professor Randall Jimenez reads from 'Voices of Matatlan.' a book he co-authored with Felix Garcia, Jr. Marketing students present GMC Chicano By Laura Venni Marketing Internship. According to Werbel, the interns do worked with ( :mend Motors. The stu- Spartan Daily Staff Writer The interns hosted the day, which the marketing and library research on dents receive academic credit and a included a hockey shoot-out, a football their own, they also devise a public rela- grade for In an opportunity to give marketing panicipating in the program. toss, free gifts including 'F-shirts, pens, tions plan, a press packet, advertising, INCUR interns practical business experience "These are very successful. drinks and gift certificates from loul find sponsors and give a presentation to 'I ht' students put a lot of work in mak- professor and to allow San Jose State University downtown merchants. Cars from Smythe. students a chance to have a day of ing sure it is," said Rob Mutt! of Sgro Smythe were on display and the band Over 100 schools in seven states, Promo Associates. "We're the entity enjoyment, the General Motors Dream Station performed for a noon participate in the internship Marketing Interns hosted with part- that provides field support with the an event to crowd. ners General Motors, Sgro Promo promote Smythe Buick, Pontiac, designers i if the ( NMI program." lends voice People were also given the opportu- Associates and local businesses. a and we GMC, a San Jose auto All the is is like regular class dealership. nity to experience Pontiac On-line on schools compete against each other, base The event, called "Smythe Pontiac: the event on the students. By Vic Ribiero eight computer terminals set up to dis- with the winners being chosen by Sgro Spartan Daily Stuff Wrart Your Onramp to the Information Students like the Internet, they like play Web sites. Promo Associates. sports, we give Superhighway," in conjunction with them a little bit of every- "The internship gives the students Werbel is not sure what this year's thing that they like," said Les Wong, Randall Jimenez knows its hard to grow tip in a culture that is Smythe, was the culmination of an from mainstream America. Students who have taken his practical experience in marketing," said prize will be, but he suspects a donation event support staff member. different entire semester's work of seven students Richard Weasel, faculty supervisor and to the school. Mexican -American Studies classes know how vocal and proud hosen for the General Motors marketing professor. 'lilts is the fourth t.iii SJSU has See Marketing, page 8 Jimenez is of his heritage. Jimene/ ILIs decided to express those experiences through words and pride into a new book about growing up as a Chikano in San Jose. On Thursday, he read limn "Voices Of Matatlan" Program Board gives MI Editorial en, Atli which Veli X (1.1RIA, Jr. horcd. Regulations needed Monday Both students and representatives from Chusma House of to shield children Profile of Music Publication attended the reading left Paul, the director SJSU's final blowout concert Professor Gus Chicano Library, was (MC iii thow attending the reading. from pornographl "I think 'Voices Of Matatlan. is going to receive a tremendous By Puna Nair Board," Kogura said, "and we sold out 2 Lease: providing .audience throughout California and the Southwest in terms of its Spartan Daily Staff Writer Page The 5 -foot-9-inch, lanky Harper weigh- appeal to students and teachers on what it is like being a person ing no more than 170 pounds. soulfully SJSU with 47 years The A.S. program board may he axed Baseball of color," Paul said. expressed his music combining the sounds of his directing and Matatlan is actually the original fume given to San lose bel'orc but the fruits of its labor was seen recently Spartans prepare of his idols Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix. singing talents the Spanish came here, Jimenez said. by the success of the Ben Harper concert. The soft-spoken Harper, who grew up for final series before Harper is a 27-year-old rising funk J imenez, a San Jose native, received his master's degree from in Southern California said he could never the plov offs SJSU and earned his doctorate from I lniversity of California, master who, along with his hand, Ben forget his roots especially since he grew up Harper and the Innocent Criminals, per- Page 6 Berkeley. in the ghetto. In the book, the main character. Juan, is hued with cultural formed before hundreds of fans eager to 1 can't forget my dive, you know what quench their thirsts with his rock music. conflicts from home, the outside world, and especially school. I mean," Harper said. "It will always he a Scholarships luan faces the problem of having one of his grandmothers, who is According to Tyler Kogura, executive part of me." director of the A.S. Program Board, there Students are Indian, teaching hint one culture versus his other grandmother, Harper said he was happy to perform in who is ICAChing hint his Spanish Ell ropean heritage. were more than 1,000 people at the front of an audience who appreciated his encouraged to stud) Student Union Ballroom to sec Harper Paul was very impressed with Jimenez's writing. Wednesday. MUSIC. packaging technology "There are We 11011S it t his 11011k perform "This was one of the 1 felt very happy the concert went very greatest events put up by the A.S. Program See Jimenez, page8 See Harper, page 3 Page 8
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Friday, May 2, 1997 2 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY Regulating pornography to shield it from minors and fervor of pub- councilmembers David Pandori out of the hands of impressionable minors is minors can obtain this material can be pun- spotlight, lest the increase City a and Pat Dando think we have dirty, a good one. The fight taken up may seem Editorial ished. licity give the pornographic material slimy streets smut -filled streets to futile because of how easily minors can Publishers like Sunlove feel this is too deviant appeal. want to encourage minors to be MAGI. They have proposed that all coin- access soft porn on the Internet. harsh and too far toward censorship: "The We don't no way hamper or stop publishers such As ways to get their hands on the operated newsstands that dispense adult However, even small victories can be refusal by the Supreme Court to review this find creative sweet. It would be very simple: Place the ICat Sunlove, publisher of Spectator maga- flawed decision and not throw out this cen- material. erotic material need to be removed from zine, from practicing freedom of expression. downtown streets. newspapers behind a counter where a dili- sorious law is a dark chapter in the history of It's up to those regulating this law in the A California law passed in 1995 is the their regula- They proposed this so minors cannot gent store clerk can monitor sales. free speech in America." city of San Jose to make sure It worked with alcohol and cigarette sales, cornerstone of Dando's and Pandori's argu- There should be no political grandstand- tions are even-handed. The laws must ensure purchase the "soft porn" rags.1 hey also have ment. the benefit of taking up a politically advanta- and it will work with magazines as well. ing about the decision to make sure this that the right of capitalism and free expres- The law stated that any person who without leaning toward geous cause. This is not about eliminating publishers' access for minors is inhibited. The crack- sion is preserved rights to publish. The regulations should in knowingly sells pornographic material in down should happen quietly, away from the or allowing censorship and sexual repression. 'I he premise of regulating pornography coin-operated vending machines where
Protect your engine Students encounter TK UDC ts from summer heat CUCtcoo! VCRS WITH hardship when they TRIR MENTAL us, and people with cars are count- put off their education Siimmer is upon TASAMIT1 ing the minutes until they can leave work and wor- CI\ADEL.INE.S.. decision to go back to school can be difficult ries behind and race off into the sunset on their Thebecause of the sacrifices you have to make to Silltimer vacations. achieve your goal. Problem is, most don't take the time to make sure My suggestion is to get through it now. Don't put it their car is up to the task. And because everyone gets the because the sacrifices you will have to make will there are a limit- off same wanderlust at the same time (and increase with the years, and nothing is getting cheaper. ed number of roads on which to go) thousands find their People may discourage you by saying you shouldn't exceeding safe levels. tempers and their car's temperatures go to school until you are ready, but it is hard to say Before embarking on your summer sojourn, check when a person will be ready. _your car's fluid levels and conditions, belts and hoses It could be after you start feeling burnt out from manual. according to your car's owner's your receptionist job you've been at for three years. Most car problems during summer driving stem from By the time you decide to go back to school, you are poor maintenance, so either check for yourself or have oldert.r and may have addition al these things checked regularly. responsibilities such as a car While on the road, keep an payment and a child to sup- eye on all of your car's gauges gauge in pYou the temperature must leave your $12- particular. an-hour job that paid for your (Set a feel for where your gas, entertainment, clothes and car's normal range is so you can a job pot almortnal rises in tempera- w.th,,: other essentials and find around your ture belore they do any dam - that will work 11U’r - '17 school schedule at proba- age. . k new ?re r- you were WRITER'S FORUM If you notice die tempera- THE CAR GUY bly half the amount By Andrew W. making before. By Gloria Me Creeping up, try eliminat- change will be Magatia ing any unnecessary loads on Davin A lifestyle harder to adjust to because your engine. a tran- in heavy traffic, while at AIDS quilt a reflection of social injustice now you have to make Turn off your air conditioner the impoverished student. a standstill and while climbing hills. If your air condi- sition back into Witnessing the opening ceremo- AIDS. This indeed is good news. Now you are on a fixed income because you were too tioner is off, and under the above conditions your car's But who can afford these cures? Who parents' help to put heater on its ny, walking around with proud and would not accept your temperature continues to rise, put your car's GUEST COLUMNIST will be able to use them? when they were able. warmest setting and turn the fan speed to high. friends seeing the panels and you through college talking to people at the AIDS Quilt dis- The statistics show poor women of You were too impatient about gaining your indepen- This may sound suicidal on a summer day, but turn- Ft' fid it '