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)5 SPARTAN DAILY Serving San Jose State University since 1934 V011 IME 124, Nil IMB112 27 MONDAY. MARCH 7. 2005 !NIA X OPINION Officials welcome new students By Angela Forte Daily Staff Writer Students and their families filled the rows of chairs outside the Dr. Martin King Jr. Joint Library on Saturday for San Jose State How Swede It Is lIniversity 's Admitted Student s. anti -abortion policy causes Reception. more damage than good p. 2 The students first-time fresh- men and transfers - have been ac ceptc.xl to the unisersity for the Fall semester. The reception began with speeches from interim President Ikm Kassing. interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Carmen Sigler. Associated Students President Rachel (ireathouse. Academic Senate Brutally Honest Chair Annette Nellen and football Don't fear fads - embrace head coach Dick 'Forney. them p. 2 Cindy Chavez. the vice mayor of San Jose. followed the speakers with her own welcoming speech. In her speech. Chavez said 5.151 V1as diverse, not having a majority of one ethnicity. Students from the English and ciun paratis e literature depart mem held up signs that read. "Be Original. don't be a business major and -Word is Dope.- en counting new students to declare Engl ish is I heir majors. .lertrti.fer !bolo A crowd of new students follow tour guide Kenda Pot, a junior majoring in liberal studies, to the Dining Commons as part of a c opus tour Saturday at the see RECEPTION, page 4 Admitted Student Reception. Men's Basketball 1 hpes to upset the opposition at \\ vt tourney p. 3 Aviation group Sorority celebrates NI tV S awaits response Womanhood Month Complaints yet to be substantiated By Vaishali Kirpekar of the struggles that women had to lace. to Daily Staff Writer find their place in the male dominated soci, By Rachel Hill :15 tation maintenance is.-ch ets." said Ethel Walker. a professor in tele% i Dadytital/ lucid!! school. sion. radi,i, film andtheat re. The sorority of siv members locuscs on I he grie% ance tiled last October came The Zeta Phi Beta sorority has organized Finer Womanhood scholarship. sisterly lose Irinn an organization consisting of cur Blue and White Week, part of the regular rent IS iat ion students. alumni and ;15515:1 and community sers cc Ramifications sicmniin.2 Iron] the celebrations of Womanhood Month. The :11CS sit the ,lepartment. -The events cisc the tools and resources formal complaint Mot hs the Coalition sorority will hold es CMS from today through .11w Spartan Daily's weekly I he 01 hcial complaint came in the to women, even outside the academic set of San Jose 1)1% epot) As union Thurstkis to try to sensitize young women ting.- said Shit. C Monte,. the sorority's recap of campus crime p. 5 form of a letter addressed to the dean of and men 10 V1omen-oriented issues. Students against the .1% iation and technol- it ot the College of Engineering. Belle Wei regional direct, Ness Mesico. Nes atla. ogs department ;ire set to be known. The spirit of womanhood will be cel- Both complaints has e set to be sub Alaska. Hassan. Washington. ( )regon. Progress has been slow if not unap ebrated by discussing issues as plain as good stantiated. and the FAA has not formai ty California, A rizi ma. Japan and South Korea pitman in dealing with the student led food habits or as serious as date rape. Today. charged Hacker with any %nil:mons "Finer Wilmanhood means enipowering IhI complaint that accused the department of a self -esteem and image workshop is being Hacker did not is ish is comment on the women, bond with themsels es. be educated violating federal aviation regulations and held by Nicole Ruzek. of counseling sen ices who %dilation and said that 0111C ,1 the details and help others," Monte, said Monte,. employing inadequate instrucuus. in the ( ;mid:dupe room of the Student I !Mon. included in the complaint %vele pro ate graduated in 1,444. said she leek passionate The Nutrition Tducation Action Team will It openly criticized the department and tinder Wei 's super'. isiim about empowering women Monte, has been pro also participate ti highlight the importance of for has ing ineffective. unprepared Wei could not he reached Ii ir s inn associated with the sorority liii 24 years. She good food habits tan Wednesday. Sgt. Jenny lessors and alleged that the department n)rartittai regardingg the status sit the c o m said the womanhood week is celebrated ev is :is mit in compliancY with accreditation Pak of the I 'ins ersity Police Department is ill ery where and begins friim the last iwo weeks hold a self defense workshop with a focus on standards established by the Western With regards to unqualified professors, of February and continues until March date rape. A ssticiatit in lit Schools and Colleges. the coalition's letter asserts that unnamed "In Jaixin and South Korea. our prilrams A karaoke night will be held Tuesday and Ehe complaint also accused the as iation professors were hired only one week be are modified to reach Asian women as well a bow ling night is planned for Ihursday. both is department Chair Patricia Backer of siii lore the semester started, resulting in ill as the Americans ho are lit ing there." a lighter mood in an effort to lating Part 147 of the Federal As at ion prepared. inadequate 111,101.:10r meant to inl use she said. I-hese commies are military bases Rcgulatii ins. Pao 147 stipulates require draw larger 1.70Nds ments that :in institution must follow to see COMPLAINT, page 4 'A recognition of this month reminds us see MONTH, page 4 Mediation Center l'inequest iliii le.ioat kicks If its lith year p.6 trains volunteers Hen Kingsley Itecriw. Maverick Spirit By Enn Caballero Common liniund Hi's% cCi. conflicts be Award p.6 nolly Staff Writer tweet) faculty members cannot go through the program - they must use other means. Jon Polito The goal is to create a sale. neutral ens llonored for lifetime ronment to settle issues without resorting to iichievement in acting p. 6 At San Jose State I 'tioersity. as well as the legal system. anywhere else, conflicts arise on a daily .Wosie Review Mediation services aren't just limited to basis. 'Our f n'' featured the four comers of the campus. howes Cr, (.1am ('sminty Dispute al ( 'ineque.1 p. 6 I he 1:inta and the Mediation ( .11111 to reach out Program and the organization Resolution tii the los.al community Whtle the final de hosted Conflict and Common (iround tails are being nailed down. the center will "Mediator Certification] raining." a %vim be hicated in the Adm oustranim Sparta ( tunic p. 2 dispute resolution. nar for ilitunteers about num 21t( "West, gotten a Vt..r good re in the I'm% er.ity Room during the week ( 'rossword p. pow.- said Dina Medina. project coordi end Each seminar featured lectures. role- mann for the new program She said about Thomas / Daily Skiff play ing evercises and a brief Itinch. Classifieds p. orra 34 applicants applied ha 24 openings. Kenneth Boston, financial specialist at SAW' College of Business, argues with Tina Thiry-Hang I he. volunteers will he trained to meth "We're only budgeted to do it annually. Thi Pham, senior majoring in social work and psychology, during a role play when Thi Pliant ate conflocts how MD students and staff. and I see a big awed for it What if we had Is the mediator for a dispute between Boston and Panel Kaur, left, sophomore majoring in sitisktit organtzations and roommates in WWW. TIIPSPANT4"40411.V.rf Al biochemistry. the new Mediation Center "Conflict and me MEDIATION, pogo 4 PAGE 2 SPARTAN DAILY OPINION MONDAY -- MARCH 7. 2005 HOW SWEDE IT IS U.S. abortion policy hurts more than it helps The Bush administration has once again alienated the policy, which cuts off U.S. aid to any nongovern- HIV-infected countries in the world, including such as HIV testing, treatment and prevention. its European allies by pushing its domestic agenda mental organization that provides, advises, advocates Gambia, Lesotho. Mauritius, Swaziland Zambia and Also, with no safe alternatives available, more onto the world stage. or is affiliated with abortion-related practices, has Zimbabwe. women will turn to backstreet abortions that put their While hosting a U.N. meeting in New York last wreaked havoc on some of the world's most impover- The perverse effects of the U.S. anti-abortion poli- health and lives at risk. Bush's policy will cause more week assessing the advancement of women's rights in ished countries. cies overseas become all the more obvious when con- childbirth-related maternal deaths as fewer women the past 10 years, the United States inflamed European Developing countries rely on funding sidering the fact that nearly every single will have access to contraception and experience equality ministers who criticized Washington for re- from the U.S. Agency for International health objective set by USAID has been more unwanted pregnancies, which will lead to more stricting women's access to abortion and contracep- Development which used to provide obstructed by the gag rule. unsafe, back-alley abortions. tion. U.S. Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey triggered the more than one-third of all donated sup- USAID aims to reduce unintended and It's sad to see the president exploit the "culture of attack when she asked for the EU ministers to sanc- plies to poor countries, for their health mistimed pregnancies, tight infectious life" slogan to win support for his anti-abortion poli- tion the addition of anti-abortion language to the final care clinics to serve the people.