ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS Woody Alien's film 'Celebrity' takes serio- SJSU football team gets early report card; comic look at fashion, TV, films, publishing Tuesday team's strengths, weaknesses rated SPARTANSee page 6 DAILY See page 5 Volume 111, No. 62 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 December 1, 1998 Struggling Filipino vets remembered SJSU's Akbayan Club serves holiday meal to honor elders ByJoAnn Peach ment. The club's choir sang Staff Wnter both the U.S. and the Philippine national anthems East met west and young and performed a traditional met old during a luncheon Filipino dance called the Saturday that was provided for linikling." The dance is per- Filipino veterans of World War formed with two dancers hop- II by San Jose State ping and turning between two University's Akbayan Club. long bamboo rods. The group The veterans were served invited several veterans to join traditional Thanksgiving food, in the dance, but they declined, including turkey and stuffing, saying that they preferred to at the Northside Community watch. Center downtown. The The veterans fought with the Akbayan Club and several U.S. military during World War other Filipino student organi- II, said Ben Menor, executive zations, including Northern director of the Northside California Filipino American Community Center. Since the (Above) Gina Gapasin, a freshman Student Organization and Philippines was a U.S. protec- at San Filipino American Student torate at the time, thousands of Francisco State University, Association, also collected Filipinos enlisted to fight serves cake at a luncheon to honor clothing that was given to the alongside American soldiers Filipino veterans of World War II on veterans. against the Japanese. Saturday at Northside Community The event was intended to These "manongs" and "man- Center in San Jose. The luncheon provide Filipino veterans of ags" Filipino terms for was provided by Akbayan of San World War II a hot meal and a respect to elders were Jose State University, a club for chance to interact with the allowed entrance to the United Filipino students. younger Filipino generation, States as citizens in the early according to Hideo Ikeda, com- 1990s. munity service leader for Today, they are fighting to be Akbayan. recognized under the G.I. Bill of "We wanted to bridge the Rights, according to Menor. (Left) Deanna Capili, an occupa- generation gap between us and Once recognized, these veter- tional therapy major at San Jose the veterans," Ikeda said. ans would receive the benefits State University and member of The members of the club also covered under the bill, which Akbayan, talks to Sinay Parayno, a wanted to learn about the vet- guarantees veterans who erans' roles in the war and served in the U.S. military free volunteer at the Northside about their fight to be recog- full medical coverage and a Community Center, during a lun- nized by the United States, pension of up to $1200 a month. cheon at the center in downtown Ikeda said. Until then, they subsist with San Jose. Akbayan, along with sev- "We want to show them that the aide of Supplemental eral other Filipino student organiza- we're here for them, that their Security Income. tions, provided a meal and donated justice is seen by our Filipino However, for many of the clothes to the Filipino seniors at the youth," he said. veterans, that is not enough. Members of the Akbayan "SSI does not provide center Club socialized with the veter- enough coverage for medical ans and provided entertain- See Veterans, page 8 1.111.111 Irp, p.trr.,11 Nutrition students dish up A different kind of coach Speaker teaches athletes how to survive interviews peer education conference By Hugo Rivera Sufi Writcr By Laurie Ifbillips from 10:30 a.m. to 1:20 p.m. in known as an intervention, and Staff Wow in a Rooms 229 and 230 of the present it to an audience Andrea Kirby has coached athletes such as Pete Industrial Studies Building. form they choose. That format Sampras, David Cone and Clyde Drexler not on Nutrition can be an interest- The event will skit, video or include three could consist of a how to serve, pitch or slam dunk, but on how to ing thing to teach, especially or four interactive student pre- lecture. deal with the media. when it can be conveyed sentations on nutrition-related "This is a way for students to Kirby is founder of Andrea Kirby Coaches Inc., through a puppet show topics and a display of student contribute to the community," a Palo Alto-based by sports teams to aim to from agency hired Nutrition students posters this semester. Wang said. help athletes maintain under difficult and control show that puppet shows All 45 students in May She said students have tack- interviews. She gave a lecture to Bob methods of Wang's Nutrition Education deficien- other alternative led topics such as iron McDermand's information gathering students on teaching are effective ways to and Counseling class are cy and anemia through puppet Monday afternoon in Clark Library on how to be education at a design at least one shows, teach nutrition required to skits and presentations. more sensitive when interviewing and on certain mini-conference on Wednesday nutrition education lesson, See Nutrition, page 8 tips for success. Kirby said her interest in helping athletes cope with the media began in 1985, when she saw NBA rookie Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks SJSU relief drive collects food, drinking water struggle through a news conference with New York reporters. for Honduran victims of Hurricane Mitch She said sometimes athletes have difficulty By Marcus Ulrich All goods donated for the Beltran. dealing with the media because they are young Staff Writer relief drive will go to people M.E.Ch.A., a Chicano club at and inexperienced. However, it is something they affected by Hurricane Mitch liv- SJSU, and the Hispanic Student must do. After seeing the devastation ing in Honduras. Association will also be helping "They have to get used to the pressure because :aused by Hurricane Mitch to "We're focusing on Honduras with the drive. it is part of the job," she said. Honduras, psychology major because they were the ones that "There's a lot of people in Kirby told the class of about 20 students that Rena Beltran decided she want- were hardest hit by Hurricane Honduras in need of aid, and we athletes need to have media-relations training to to help by organizing a relief Mitch," Beltran said. wanted to do something to help keep from losing control and perhaps losing their Irive at San Jose State Hurricane Mitch hit those people," said Jose Santos of tempers. She said any inappropriate behavior by University. Honduras on Oct. 28, and by the M.E.Ch.A. athletes could cost them and their teams millions Clayton Staltrr 'Spartan Dallv "I just saw the devastation time the storm was over at least Goods donated on campus of dollars in fines and endorsements. She showed Andrea Kirby (left) helps Lance Analla maintain ind I felt like I had to do some- 7,000 people had died and will take two to seven days to the students video footage of athletes and other eye contact while speaking to an audience during ling to homeless, sports figures losing during inter- help the people," 600,000 were left reach victims in Honduras, Raul their tempers her presentation to journalism students Monday. Beltran said. according to the American Red Avila said. views as an example of how not to handle media For one week starting Cross. Avila works with the pressure. Nednesday, there will be dona- Non-perishable goods includ- Christian Community Church in "These are good examples of bad behavior in "If they want to be there, great If not, well, it's ion bins at three locations ing canned food, baby food and San Jose. sports," Kirby said as she showed videos of sports harder to (coach) people who do riot want it," she iround campus: the Housing drinking water are the focus of Beltran said she hopes the figures cussing, throwing things at reporters, said. Mice of Joe West Hall, the third the drive. relief drive raises awareness of yelling and assaulting interviewers and fans. Kirby said athletes are not always at fault; loot of the Health Building near Other supplies, such as tooth- the hardships people in Most teams have media-relations coaches for sometimes interviewers are to blame for the mis- he elevator and the entrance to paste, soap and bandages, are Honduras are facing as a result players, some of whom force athletes to attend ses- behavior of athletes. Some of the things she said lark Library also needed, according to of Hurricane Mitch. sions with them, according to Kirby. See Kirby, page 8 Santa Clara County's Kenny Starr talks denial of stimulants over Levvinsky saga kills jailbird dreams with Big Al Bundy seems to There was a time Everybody when I considered be talking about going to jail. I Bill Clinton and his thought to myself, "Let's uwinsky.little friend, Monica see, I haven't been raped and I do need a tattoo. If you think there is Where in the world could nothing new to learn I get those for free?" about the scandal, you're That's when it came to wrong. I have just p Iten a me. I would go to jail. transcript of a conversa- I gave up that idea tion between Kenneth after I found out the ban Starr and his buddy, Al on smoking was extended Bundy (the poor guy on and prisons will no longer "Married ... With provide inmates with cof- Children") at a bar. fee or sugar in Santa Al Bundy: Hey Kenny, Clara County. why do you hate Clinton? Santa Clara County officials said they are Kenneth Starr: He has violated the trust of doing this for health reasons. They say since the American people and used his interns in nicotine and caffeine are bad for you and sugar ways that are reprehensible. is used for a type of homemade liquor, prisoners Bundy: You sound jealous, Kenny. don't need it and the prison should not be Starr: No. I mean ... well I have had many responsible for providing it. There goes my idea interns in my office over the years and not one of of going to jail. I don't think I could deal with life them ever offered to help me relieve my stress. without cigarettes, caffeine or sugar. Bundy: I've been married to Peggy for over 20 Although this move by Santa Clara County's years, and she has never done that either. How new chief of correction, Tim Ryan, has obviously did you get that Lewinsky broad to talk? deterred me from committing any serious Starr: It's embarrassing, Al. crimes, I seriously doubt it will work on the Bundy: Kenny, I'm your friend. more hardened criminals. School-free life outshines parking citation Starr: She had me ... put on glasses with a big Not only will this move do very little to deter nose and mustache and then I had to ... in laughter) You performed crime, it could even make it harder to control Waking up Monday, tired and I wanted those filthy mongrels to suf- Bundy: (Explodes prisoners. Inmates, who are already deprived of worn from the long holiday fer a similar fate, only much, much worse oral sex on an intern while wearing funny glass- freedom and are a little on edge because of it, weekend, I knew it was going to I wanted them all to get a big, fat es? An intern! now have even more reason to be irritable. be a bad day. speeding ticket that would cost them Starr: Yes. I know how people on the 'outside" act when Yet somehow through it all, it ended much more than my citation and would Bundy: Does Clinton know this? they don't get their daily nicotine, caffeine or up giving me a whole new outlook on life. cause their insurance premiums to rise Starr: Yes. sugar and I can only imagine how people on the I finally realized how exciting it was sharply. Bundy: What did he say? "inside" will react. going to be to graduate, despite a whole "Oh, what sweet revenge that would Starr: He laughed at my face. Then I got mad About 70 percent of prisoners use nicotine semester of feeling indifferent toward my be," I thought, when it suddenly hit me and mentioned Hillary. products, according to several surveys. That's a upcoming commencement. like a ton of bricks two more weeks of Bundy: Oh, boy. lot of upset prisoners. I've had to endure a turbulent ride to this madness and I would be home free. Starr: I couldn't even make out most of what One jail decided to reinstate smoking after achieve this new outlook, but it was At this point I forgot all about the mon- he said. All I could understand was (rhymes with several inmates got into a mini-riot over black- worth it. tilt, Sins.1 I it p grels and I couldn't help but crack a witch) which he kept saying. After that he mark& cigarettes. As I rolled out of bed to the sound of smile. calmed down and spilled out a sob story Hillary Expect more of the same kind of behavior pouring rain, I could only imagine the , I Hi IIIus se Beautiful thoughts suddenly flooded pushes him around. She tells him what to do. He when inmates find out they can no longer use hassle I'd have to go through to navigate my mind. I realized that upon graduation did not want to bomb Iraq, but she insisted. the relatively harmless substances of nicotine, my way to campus and search for a park- I would no longer have to stress over Bundy: Those Amazon broads are the worst. caffeine and sugar. ing spot. parking citations or parking spaces. Starr: Chelsea beats him up too. Socks likes to Call me a bleeding-heart liberal or any other While getting dressed I thought at least a thou- No more walking in the rain and dodging the con- (Makes slashing gestures) claw at his ankles. name, but I believe prisoners have rights too. sand times how torturous my cross training class struction. byDave Whamond Bundy: This is our president? Prisoners should be allowed some freedoms. would be. After all, who wants exercise after four No more money blown on countless books that Starr: Hillary is the real president. Clinton is Furthermore, the County Office of Corrections days of utter laziness? Not me. were never opened more than once. just the stooge. He just takes all the blame. must also realize that it makes little sense to Running out the front door, I noticed I was behind No more green sheets, Scantrons, term papers, Bundy: I knew I should have voted for Dole. make inmates any more ornery than they schedule, but arriving near campus I was unusually group presentations and final exams. He's a Republican. (Shakes his head) I always already are. lucky at getting a parking space a spot that had No more registering and adding and dropping, oh end up voting for a Democrat when I'm drunk. Prisoners are not the only ones who will be saved me many a time before. my. Starr: Oh, their wives are much worse. They hurt by these new rules. Guards and any other However this time it gave me more than a place Believe it or not I was walking on air. Eleven like whips and leashes with spikes on them. The person working in the jail will now have to deal to stash My car while I ran to class. semesters later and more pounds gained than I voters should just elect a woman president. with these inmates who are pissed off After making the two-block trek in the rain to would have liked, I had come to see that it was They're going to run everything no matter what. Ryan said he knows prisoners will not have a class and back, I was happy to be inside my dry and indeed worth all the aggravation. Bundy: Then I say we elect a gay man as problem getting off these substances because he warm car again. Despite disappointing grades and dreadful president! A gay man with no broad holding a was able to do it when he got pneumonia. By his Then I made the horrible discovery a neatly instructors, registration fees and graduation post- leash over him. logic, if he can do it, anyone can. folded, sopping wet parking citation had been neat- ponements, I had somehow managed to land on my Starr: Bad idea. You know how guys are. Ryan is taking the hard line on this one with ly tucked beneath my windshield wiper. feet. Who knew I would finally make it? They'll nuke a country to settle a bet over beer. quotes like, if they don't like it, they don't have I couldn't believe my eyes. I had made the mis- It took a $25 parking citation for me to see what Bundy: Yeah, but ... hey, did you say Clinton to come back," and "If you stay with us, you're take of parking about seven inches farther than I have ahead of me a life without San Jose State takes the blame for everything? Even Monica? going to have to change you whole lifestyle." I usual and for that I was punished another $25 University in it. Am I sad about the life I am soon to Starr: Yeah. don't doubt that he has more expertise in pris- out of an already bare wallet. lead? Bundy: (Grins like a total jackass) Then that oner behavior than me, but I have to disagree My immediate reaction was to wish hateful crap Yeah, sure I'm as sad as I was happy about the means Monica and Hillary, they ... wow. with his decision. on badge number blab, blah, blah who had so need- mongrel who stripped me of my last few bucks. Starr: Cool, huh? Other than saving about $50,000, since pris- lessly caused me to fall deeper in debt. I found a whole new outlook on life, but I didn't Until this scandal finally dies, let's just keep ons will no longer have to buy coffee, these deci- Taking it even further, I wished all those evil lose my thirst for revenge. SJSU has taught me having fun with it for cheap laughs. It's the sions will do very little good to our prisons. cart-driving ticket hounds would fall under the well. American way, after all. Jeremiah Oshan is the same dark cloud I was under. Spartan Daily assistant Yvette Anna Drjo is the Spartan Daily features Shane Lewis is a Spartan Daily senior staff sports editor His column appears every Tuesday. editor Her column appears every Tuesday. writer Ninety-eight wrongs do not make four rights for university's carpool parking program
Here's some good news, are conveniently placed on the doesn't workout, ed again when the university The "Carpool +" timing could- commuters. The new first floor. This is prime parking work. eating or decided to make those 98 spaces n't be any worse. After students parking plan called for student commuters, who are Everyone EDITORIAL whatever- in the Seventh Street Garage had to surrender 98 spaces, the "Carpool +" can benefit you. teased as they drive by employ- would love you -do faculty parking. The faculty plan was implemented in the Four new carpool spaces in the ee spaces on the first two floors to see stu- schedule to parking was relocated due to the middle of the Most Seventh semester. Street Parking Garage en route to the top three stu- dents start carpooling and using carpool with. closure of Lot 4, which cost the parking permits have already have been allocated to reduce dent-eat-student levels. alternate forms of transporta- Ma make matters worse, for faculty 146 spaces, in order to been purchased too late parking and it's problems. Both stu- Carpooling students can even tion to help eliminate the horrif- every one of those four new house construction work. to switch over to a carpool pass. dents and faculty can occupy enter the the Seventh Street ic parking situation, but the fact "Carpool +" spaces, 25 non-car- You know that old saying, these "Carpool +" equals spaces spaces if they carpool with Garage after it's been closed due of the matter is commuters will pooling students will have to "Two wrongs don't make a that no one at least can use. two other people. to being full. If the four "Carpool choose convenience over con- carpool and park in one of those right." Well, 98 wrongs don't Students aren't fools. The plan is an experiment. +" spaces are filled and show sciousness. four new spaces to even reach make four rights. Sugarcoating the situation by : While the new plan is the same successful student response, The trouble is finding two the number of spaces students The numbers say it all giving us a as measly four parking. a regular two-or-more carpool more spaces will be reserved for people with anything similar to had prior to this month. Two roughly 27,000 students to spaces while does- permit, it 98 are taken rewards carpoolers. carpoolern. Enough with the your schedule. The odds are bet- weeks ago, the university cut 98 2,500 faculty members. Taking n't work. "Carpool +" will only Students who carpool with at good news, though. 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II I II II) Hu from the House Judiciary Committee. I1)11()I The White House was still weighing whether to send a team of lawyers to make the president's case on his behalf, other aides said. During a private session with impeachment Unions find CSU merit pay is without value investigators, Maryland Democratic operative Nathan Landow invoked his Fifth Amendment Reporters for the Spartan were rewarded for good perfor- 40 percent of the compensation right against self-incrimination and declined to Daily missed one of the mance. If an employee was not package. answer questions, according to a committee official most important aspects of a performing well, that employee Management says the PBSI who spoke only on condition of anonymity. Landow story. The Nov. 18 picketing of didn't get a merit salary system is performance-based. Clinton pushed peace effort refused to comment as he left the hour-long meet- Tower Hall was by all of the increase. In reality, due to the arbitrari- WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton ing. unions at San Jose State Denial of this pay required a ness of it, the system replaces a Committee members and aides tried to question University, not just California manager to document a reason. performance-based merit sys- sought to push the Mideast peace effort forward Monday, meeting with Yasser Arafat and pledging the real estate developer about whether he was Faculty Association. This documentation of a reason tem with a patronage-based aware of any effort to influence the testimony of Together we are protesting for denial allowed an employee salary increase system. If you to nearly double U.S. aid to the Palestinians. "No peace stands a chance of lasting if it does not deliv- former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey, the way we are all being treat- to improve his or her perfor- look at who is and who is not who has accused Clinton of making a sexual ed by California State mance. Also, if an employee getting PBSI's, you will find a er real results to ordinary people," Clinton said. But while he spoke hopefully at an internation- advance in 1993. Mrs. Willey has testified she dis- University management. This was denied a merit increase for disproportionate number of cussed her testimony with Landow. tim3 we marched in support of reasons that were unfair or raise recipients are those who al donors conference of overcoming "bumps in the CFA. Soon they may be march- capricious, this system had a work closest with managers, road" in the peace process he has fostered, political Merger puts jobs at risk ing in support of us, the right of appeal. deans and directors in the CSU tensions between Arafat and Israel were rising again. California State Employees Now management negotia- system. In other words, kiss up NEW YORK (AP) - A merger between Exxon Association (CSEA) or any of tors are attempting to scrap to your boss and get a raise. Arafat declared anew that he hoped to establish an independent Palestinian state. He also accused and Mobil could prompt government antitrust the other unions representing this system and replace it with That's why we in CSEA call watchdogs to insist the new company sell off employees at the CSU campus- one that provides for what it pucker pay, and we're not Israel of undermining the Palestinian economy with a "continued siege and frequent closure" of numerous gas stations and refineries, putting es. management calls a going to stand for it. That is thousands of jobs in jeopardy. There are many examples of Performance Based Salary just one of the reasons we are the borders with Gaza and the West Bank. Despite U.S. appeals that Arafat tone down his "Everyone is kind of scared," Richard Hidalgo, a management at SJSU and in Increase (PBS!.) Under the joining with CFA and all of our 26-year veteran of Mobil's 1,200-employee refinery the CSU system ignoring the PBSI system, raises are solely other union brothers and sis- statehood assertions as premature before negotiat- ing a final settlement with Israel, the Palestinian in Beaumont, Texas, said Monday. "No one really needs of employees and trying at the discretion of managers. ters and saying we're mad as knows what's going to happen." to negotiate contract language They are based on evaluations hell and we're standing togeth- leader welcomed pledges of assistance as helpful to "realize our independence." Even without a divestiture order from the gov- that is bad language and that are often arbitrary or er. ernment, analysts predict thousands of job cuts, erodes employee rights. For capricious. There are few or no Midpoint in the one-day conference nearly $2 billion had been pledged, including $480 million by with estimates reaching as high as 20,000 - or example, for years the CSU rights of due process for about 16 percent of the combined work force. system has had a merit pay employees unfairly denied rais- Steve Sloan the European Union, $200 million by Japan, $100 million by Saudi Arabia, $80 million by Kuwait, "What you're talking about here is a classic cost- system in place for staff es. In the next contract man- information technology cutting scenario ... You merge two companies employees. Under this system, agement wants to raise the consultant $50 million by the United Arab Emirates and $30 million by Canada. together and you basically gut one or both of CSEA-represented employees level of PBSI compensation to journalism them," said Michael Young, an analyst with Impeachment hits obstacles Deutsche Bank Securities in Boston. But even though the merger would form the WASHINGTON (AP) - The House impeach- world's largest oil company, most analysts said Holidays lost in confusion of commercialism ment inquiry ran into more obstacles Monday as Monday they don't expect worries about industry dominance to be strong essence of the holi- ing. Come Mother's Day, florists tained by capitalism, made into one witness refused to answer investigators' ques- enough to kill the deal. M he true "When the final analysis is made, it will be day diminished ... Gobble! are the happiest people in town, parodies of themselves. The tions and the White House brushed off an invita- is in having jacked up their prices by process of religious or family tion to have President Clinton testify. determined that the industry remains highly frag- Gobble! This letter mented and highly competitive," Young response to the article written orders of magnitude that would piety made into cash-register "I don't think it's very likely you'll see the pres- said. by Yvette Anna Trejo titled bring a federal suit down on song has come to affect nearly ident appear before that committee," White House "Holiday frenzy: nightmare any other industry. Easter is a everyone in the global market. spokesman Joe Lockhart said of the invitation before Christmas."! agree with holiday beloved of devout The holidays should be a what the article had to say and Christians - but also of choco- time to celebrate meaningful I think more people should real- latiers and confectioners and moments with friends and fami- ize that the holiday season has egg farmers, to say nothing of ly. 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