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VOLUME 123, NUMBER 19 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 Computer network shut off in library ns of the branches ot Outage interrupts online operations, him% systein. Iilegan Brill, a student , library's reterence departmeit. complicates patrons' access to Internet the system was taken offline At 1,, on Thursday and that the : . , teen it of the San 34 use Public Library sys the server may have been , , By Kenneth Sell trio, said the Internet technology depart Vednesday’s reports of 0.41A .Stat/ f Pir, ment rut 1,, uth San Jose State I Iniversity and "( Vednesday night) we - .t*, 'IT . the City of S.111 .lose were working on the problems --- especially with 1)espite the white paper signs hung os er serVer. said Brill. a senior histors A series of Ile nit, its puwet less computer on "Nis it is that one of the telling us hooks that are itithi t the ground Hoot or the lklartin Luther kes ersets is down," Himmel said. "We in different hi an, lies." Iir i; king Joint I .11i It ars..., tely ,tudetits brw ed don't know At this point (what i,i.ed the Brill said the probleo- I? th tt h 11 ' past the &Wiled wanting, only to be the server)." Thursday. Recitation I . , 'staff ,is lie ut librats inhumation If immel, whir works closely with the In- "(T)iursday tiuoruuutlg it is A., I, 1,r it ',\ Papers taped on the monitors of computers in the Library ,sere sloise,1 down ternet technology teani, said that the server. touchy," Brill said. "'The libt.as I Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library inform patrons Tlititsdas k hie t11 .1 k whis Ii was manufactured lw Cisco Systems, still having problems and the Ilk II, KII.At that computers were out of service Thursday The , die, ting the library ,uperations of the were kind of iffY so (the people .1 ! 10 a m Is I illary AMU, with the systems opera - the network) took it .ill I 11111 \P library's server went down at around le Tooting their own horns ... Jews celebrate
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By Janet Pak , ,,- /1
, Nelson Brasil, left, a student at San Jose High Academy, plays musk with other students after performing at the inauguration of the superintendent of the San Jose Unified School District on Wednesday night at the San Jose Repertory Theatre in downtown San Jose. Brasil, playing a soprano saxophone, and his friends were waiting for their rides home. Jaywalkers risk injuries, tickets New Campus Village Web site
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Ilot ,0111,1..t1 Pelaso usually gets off the shot 14 tie ut the Dr. ,,,e JAVW.11 IN I N( iii Itrrett, camp's. in fount Martin Luther 1 Students lack time to read for fun
Crum htoum, hiltdues limit have Mlle to read ti By Kenneth Sell types of 1111440 ii iW that he is A college stink' Daily Stall Writer Ben Behliallt, a 11111101 computer engineei, St I itlo ,,, I tail, ',Litt and tan of science lieu, up,t 111t,I,V and hist..? s 1 Diana Iran, community relations coordinator for University Housing sail that his tir,e for pl After poring over teXthiP0113, niany SAO Jose State reading outside ot Services, looks at the progress in Building 8 on Sept 11 The 15 story tents has been cut short. lIniversity students have 11 different view of recreational building is slated to open next fall and will house apartments for upper last .t reading. "rve Inniestls not bent able 1,1 read A book the division students thou \ Evan I.11111e.ssieti.e11111i0t, said two setnestets, eVell gli Ain in thr librart l’Ainp I
said "I look At it 11111Killgly 2.(111i) fed . that he is strapped tot time Heiman and ror it ha. k t
.. het-Mlle mute bes a,mse I don't really have tuatkitig. I. "I used to te.111 OP ire I had time," time " oiline, sI itlelits Woillil Krt lit - tr
%%lien lie had the time. freshman i'.1 the th !Aline said. Robeit Phan, a lot the Campus Village, she the read wience fiction and Ii it. said that he used to s it,I. but tor othet students it would be Oil{ toot, fantasy from writers like IRk. Tolken and Michael tee READING. page 6 art twit first served ileto I' -The termini-1g residents get first ,,, I 1101 'SI PAGE 2 SPARTAN DAILY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 OPINION EXPLETIVE DELETED Philippines a better fit for SJSU nursing student (Irowing up, American children are taught that the United feel disgusted by what has happened? Flow can I not feel an- college students in this world. I lounv the best education in the dents at SJSU. States is the greatest country in the world. gry about another American having to leave the country to get world is offered at American universities. Provost Marshall Goodman once asked me it I am proud They are told that they are the luckiest kids on Earth be- his degree? And I know that if my friend had his way, he would stay to be a Spartan if I would remember SJSU Madly enough cause they have the advantages in life that are not allotted to I feel cheated not just because a good here in San Jose for the next two years and to come back and donate to the school. children in other countries. friend of mine is leaving, and not just because graduate with his degree from SJSU. Well. I will remember SJSU fondly, and I know my friend Well, no longer. the reason is he's getting shafted by the univer- And that's the problem. He can't. will, too. There have been many, but I know one young man who will sity and nursing program. He can't just sat around semester after se- I know I will remember all the great memories I have from be boarding a plane to the Philippines in a year because San I feel cheated by all of those people that told mester taking useless classes while he waits to all my years of being a college student enjoying these years Jose State I Iniversity has let him down. me when I was growing up that this was the enter a program a program where students where people in their 20s are allowed to act like six-year-olds For three years he has taken his classes here at SJSU, stud- land of opportunity." who have transferred from other colleges have again. ied as the school told him he should and earned great grades. They lied. already been accepted. And I will also remember a young man who was forced to However, he was unlucky enough to choose nursing as a If there is no opportunity for an American SJSU has taken six semesters' worth of this go to the other side of the world to actually earn a degree. major. who has, seemingly, done everything right for man's tuition and given him nothing but a few So, to Mr. Goodman and all those in the administration That means he has had to wait fin years to try to even get 21 years, then who has an opportunity? general education units, nothing he couldn't who are looking to me to donate when I leave, I'll have to into the program, applying during multiple semesters only to All of the adults lied when they said I was have received at any junior college in America. pass. he declined. lucky to have been born in this country because He has fought for so long, taking classes he But you know. I'm sure they will take solace knowing they It's so screwed up that he has yet to have an adviser in his I had the advantages other children didn't. MARK CORNEJO didn't have to just to wait to get into the nursing have stripped away 17,000 from some college student and got major. All of those schoolteachers lied when they program, only to see transfers come in with no away with it. figured if he wanted to be a nurse, he should have some- said the United States would offer me the great- hesitation from anyone. one to help him through, much like most students have in est education in the world. It looks like the Philippines is far And all the time he kept writing a check to this university, their majors. ahead of us in that department. and fin what? I figured the school would want the same thing fiir him. The one thing I try to tell myself is that this happened, not Ile will never receive his degree from here time God's But, of course, he's only a student at SJSU therefiire, he because of incompetence, but because our education is still the sake, he never even was important enough in the school's mind is one of the last concerns Mr the administration. best that our classes here are impacted because we still offer to get an adviser but they will always have the $7,000 worth So he will now leave America, his home Mr all 23 years of one of the finest educations in the world. of checks he has had to write out. his life, to go live in the Philippines fiir nearly two years. And I somewhat believe it. And now, he will be paying to learn what he could have Mark Cornejo it the Spartan Daily sporti editor. As ail Aloe! nun .1 proud American hi,u-i.rpi I not I know that in many ways I AM still better off than most been (Aught here onlv if :someone Actually cared about the sin- "Expletive Deleted"appeart every Friday.
CREEP ON CAMPUS AIDAN CASSERLY WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS 6THEWORSE:.\--- DON'T KNOW WHAT'S CRACKS AND HOLES IN THE Sex in college is a reality WAILS OR THE BLINKING RED LIGHTS BEHIND 'EN1. that should not be ignored
While sitting Around the dinner table with Ibis i usa us, Well, hate ti. break it t,, itu kiddy, but life is raunchy, es- speaking imi whispered innuendos about what our past expert pecially life in college. ences have been and complaining about how rigid our parents' !lave these people, those in the generation that brought rules were. I was interrupted with a complaint. us such ola iss as "National Lampoon's Animal House- and "Why do you always talk about sex," my youngest ...man 'Fast imes At Rulgemt ont I high," thrgomen what it was like to asked. it's never really all isstle because they teach us Assn (11 high s,li.a.1, and especially going 'May rim ub.hlege' rieliVe at schtml." It may not be as eXciting as the movies, but it, still illie "DO yoU [Vet intend 011 having any kind of sex?" I asked. fish ,W1111111111g In a big bseamb Old there are 110 parents hang "What do you mean, any kind?" she said. "And ye-. cceit - ing around. tually." writhing With anti. Menu) 01 what might happen Silly girl, sex is all issue, good or had, all next. the time And Icor everybody -- and sonie days The gr"Wing trend fin some parents and WOTSe thall others. government agent les, wall hope, of I tering I could not understand her ignorance, so you h promiscuity and disease. proillote sexual I, being somewhat sober anti As Uninhibited edit, Mum that teat lies abstinence only the, the As always, decided to rationalize it away with 'hide het imutetitibutis in what 11101101W, I had left tel1111 tin sexual ed - restoring "Alfieri. A's lack it tantlIN- Values,- tiles WM1011 Classes - IllihelolOWIlst to Ille at nught want to 4oreasler that, nide, the govern the time, I decided to explain my backward mem his hcen hiding A time medium that I hi irk out Imbilil. di Ulf know ab)ult. it will he pretty diffii tilt to set in rile 180th, the popular view of mastur- this ...tinny hat k 110 years. SPARTA GUIDE bation was that it WAS haellItill to A person's Some parents J11.1 students believe that health. "ignorance is bliss." but some "(these same stu 'Fite loss of bodily fluids vvas to be kept ELIZABETH NGUYEN dent- ssill soot, timid but that so Is M1,414.1,111 TO a minimum, and this could be kept under ft Smile parents are so worried about their sp irta limb/ is provided tree of charge to students, tacults and 'Lill members for entries is noon [he deadline WrallS by continuing a tiler of Mild foods. tiren doing the Mrhidden aim that some have 1111Ce working days befiire the desired pubhi anon date. Entry Mi ins Are available in the Spartan 1)Aily office in Dr. Sylvester (4:th:on and Dr. John I larVey Kellogg t44411141 thlergc,rttenhn to teach kni what kind, 'it are AVailahle 1 fuiglit Hemel Hall, room 209. Entries cot also he e - mailed to spartandailyi,', asa.sjsmedu titled "Sparta I;itide." a connection between MINI and sex drive and des ided to swan Space restrictions may require editing of submissions. do Entries are printed ill older in which they are received. gle the beast by creating (irahallt crackers amid tolli Hakes. Teenagers grim tip thinking that sex Is wrong and mans Thanks for Kiting time options tor A itIllege dinner oth Are Afraid to ask how to do it right TODAY er than Kamen noodles and Mr making it dear that sex is A It makes sex a guilts pleasure. MONDAY plague oil mankind. Promisclutv tit t011ege is Alliurd unavoidable But School of Art Then there was a period of about 130 Seals ot 110 sex that I ttf teat hing jUst Ahstillelite, Yee slitillIal be teai lung students An art exhibition of student galleries will take Catholi, Campus Nlinistry 011ellOW tell asleep through during class beoAU,C it was about about responsibility. 1Ve sin arid he teat hung stlitIrlits As nit place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Art building. A dad% mass will take place at 12:10jadn. in the A few books that studied the pathology ,st..:1X,'.,1,..1male while For inote infOrmation, call the ( iallers Office at ( 'Atli. iii CAinittis Ministry ('hapel. or more huumlitgv Of sex. were there, some people 924-433)4 int/ .rmation, call Father Mike Carstill At 9.18-1610. I remember thinking, 1 looray tbir SIIIS ndee t" Ise taught A few "how to'," Sigmund Freud and Richard Krafft - Promiscuity in Catholi, Campos Alitustr. I)epartment of Re.reAtion and Leisine Studies Elting. It's Always nice to luitow I'm st, k I tali see It HIM, I told 1111- 41.11,111 i And twisted," as sleep .. A dailt mass %%-ill take i'1"' at 12:10 p.m. in the A sugar rush will take place from 11:45 A.M. tt) I drifted off to looked at me in thshellef Carl, di. Campus t Chapel. For more 12:45 p.m. outside of the University. I louse. Free ice Then all of A sudden, "the pill" college is almost I le,. young men and w.onieti, worms popped up on the map in the 1961), and infoiniation, all Father b.Iike Carson at 9314-16114 cream, cake and games will be included. For more unavoidable ... we about Yu DM sexual pertinniame got la ii information, i ti1 Christine I ilarrow At 636 3843. sex Was everywhere and I Was Awake. tied 4144W14- The Sexual Revolution had "'me vim Student Lite and Leadership should be teaching Do still get lost trying tis find the about and brought with it many C011 4 ittOri, :11.1.11..16min are being accepted tor the 1)epartment of Recreation and Leisure Studies (Wen with A rtiap "1.eatiet ship %Vorkshop Series." Stop by Student 'A 'Time Om' to Tailgate" will take place seqUellt-eS. Are you smu k and tired cot Vow man It brought along with it a loss "'- students about Life and leadership to fill out a registration form. 1 p.m. Ti, 2 p.m. at the barbecue pits on Risen de thinking vont spot is A new trendy family values, all IlleteaSe 111 sexually night' lull,' The flts1 WtilkS1-1011 tvill take phi... 011 h 1 7 from Cesar Chavra. garnet. ;111,1 free food will be safety. transmitted diseases allti a very plx/fit- Then order MON 'Ile u,,iitrA, pni 4 p.m. Oil, p in in the ( )hilom/ totilli li the Mt hided. For MOW int," MAI, 111. kJ!! Shira I lowerton able sex ilititistry. vitleti, lid o 0rgA 11 I,,, tree. StlItlelit 1'111,in. For Illtite informat tom. all At =.10 671 3074. It conitilercialiZed sex and Made it Rut wait - there's untie It Von ail 924 ' ii .muiitii.mtplae. flow, Mr 4 Tie li,ss pasilient it A govern Dr. Nlartin Luther King Jr loon Library But it gave women a thoit'e. it gate woinell the "moan Meta -supported mint Mom well not 0111S Mt hide general A iii iii titled "Evert Ali niter\ Si /11'. Will be SATURDAY tiny n..11/flew when and if they will hilee A baby. It began to sAtista, non, but you get multiple iwirasins Aft,, olutrly tree. SI it 1W11 frinn 2 pin. to 3:30 Jimtu utu the lain:try, realm give Mine people A Vince. That's right, I said it tree. 1)r. Nlartiti Luther King Jr..loint labrar. 255/257. The film expliires the involvement of the During the 1960s. and 1970 the "lwbas, boomers" -- well, As I stood there mi awe it lin revelation, tin great Mint sat A lnu,k sale will take place from 11 a in t/. 4 rm. New 'fork I:Hy p.mh lie department in high pr ifile ?Mot of those WIlto YOUld WoUlt1 - bet Mlle sexually At ba.k in her , ban And "tilled at Caret Plaza. All proceeds help hind liter.n. pro cases cif three slayings and mothers working to bring flee. Allt1 for the first tune, many had the opportunity to take glad you loll, feel this 55,o5." site said. "I remember grams. For more iiiMrtuation, call Nan. s Freeman the t'aSe, tO illstlt I.Or more information, i All Library softie ot the sexual ethic Anon they learned About in high s. liiiOl bat kin my ilav ..." to whit It we took As otif tile l,111,1i out itt At 287 ( C.dlections SON 2 497 and in college and apply their knowledge unsupervised by the the n si. hoof SUNDAY Student 1 ate and Leadership hair decades later, people still have A chime, but Are still it. . ppli. anon. Are bellitz .4. (Tied time the "Leadership afraid to voice .3cl-cording to a recent San Jose MerctirV News Alit le, 01 SJSI 1 ( 'ally 4114 CaMplis Mist! y I ' %Vorkshop Series - Stop by Student I ate And Leadership to till /an iegistration form The first lege papers that launch sex uolimitis are bombarded with hate "Faithful Citizenship" will take place at 6110 .it mail and angry phone the SJSI I Catholic (.7atiipits NIiiiistry. For more ton kshop will take pla. (lit. 7 front 4 pan. to Sex is too raunchy fill the students' parents, and so it must hdrzabeth Nguyen it .1 Spartan Daily production editor information, All Sister Nlarcia Krause At 1b p.m. in the 01.1..ite 100111111 the Student I 'mon. lot be tiro raunchy for the students. "Moved I hiyi Wad 111111,1 Nnzliti" Alperin every other Friday 91)4 1 to 1 II. itiore information, All 921 C950.
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