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Volume 146 • Issue 28 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Tuesday, April 12, 2016 SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY VIDEOS AT YOUTUBE.COM/C/SPARTANDAILYSJSU A couple catchy song canʼt save Can data leaks be a good Campus Minute: preview this A&E P3: Weezerʼs album. OPINION P4: thing? VIDEO: weekʼs stories. CLASS IN SESSION DEBATE Potential A.S. WE WILL DETAILS BEHIND NOT AVERTED STRIKE candidates A historic strike was averted on Thursday March 28, it became obvious the university when the CFA and CSU reached a tentative administrators had lost the argument that agreement on a yearlong dispute over a 5 they could not pay the faculty the increase. STRIKE percent general salary increase for CSU faculty. “I know and regret that the threat of a The agreement will offer faculty a 10.5 strike authorized by CFA members has cre- address percent salary increase over the course of ated uncertainty and concern for students,” 366 days. The general salary increase breaks CSU chancellor Timothy White wrote in an down into three separate phases: a 5 percent email sent out to CSU faculty Friday morn- increase on June 30, 2016, a 2 percent on July ing. Indeed, the faculty, staff and adminis- their campus 1, 2016 and a 3.5 percent on July 1, 2017. tration has been concerned as well and fret- “We were asking for our pay to be retro- ful. I am very pleased to have this behind us active to July 1, 2015 and we did not get now so we can move forward together.” By Casey Geier & Ryan Vermont that,” said Preston Rudy, the president of the The agreement will remain tentative until Staff writers CFA chapter at SJSU. “But instead, we do get it is approved by the CFA Board of Direc- more than we asked for.” tors, ratified by the members and finally ac- According to Rudy, the main factor that cepted by the CFA Board of Trustees. “Meet the Candidates: advocating where our fees contributed to the CSU finally agreeing to Debate” was held Monday are going.” a higher offer was to prevent the strike and to give A.S. government Candidates were cycled up once the fact-finding report was released on hopefuls a platform to express on stage, starting with the and debate their plans for the most subordinate positions election on April 13. and wrapping up with the A main stage and chairs were more signifi cant positions. Infographic by Kavin Mistry & article by Vasuki Rao set in front of the Tommie Th e fi rst set of candidates to Smith and John Carlos Statue debate were the directors of AIR TRANSPORT for the event, which took place communication, and the last from 1:30 p.m. to almost 4 p.m. group of candid ates was for Th ree executive positions the presidency. were up for the taking as Candidates were asked Spartan Superway gets well as several other A.S. personal questions like the governmental positions words that best describe The three executive A.S. their personality as well as a little closer to reality positions up for election are questions regarding their controller, vice president stances towards specifi c By Ryan Vermont & Tyler Kittle make the Spartan Superway a reality. and president. issues on campus. Staff writers Th ere are several teams working on Th e other positions include All of the candidates were diff erent aspects of the project. One of the director of university also asked the typical, what- In 2012, professors Ron Swenson and determine the price people would the teams is working on expanding the advising aff airs, director of actions-would-they-take-if- Burford Furman began the Spartan pay. small-scale track model of the Superway. rights and responsibilities, they-were-elected questions. Superway project as a way to join the “It would be a network system not Th e small-scale track is meant director of student resource To cement their credibility surging trend of sustainable mobility. like Caltrain, which is a line system to portray a route that the pods aff airs, director of student to hold the desired position, Four years later, the project is nearly where everything stops along the line,” would need to navigate through. fee aff airs, director of candidates addressed past ready for a full-scale test trial. Furman said. “Th ink of a network One of the members on the team is programming aff airs, experiences that have Th e Superway is a three to four throughout an urban area, you get on Nasrat Haidari, senior mechanical director of internal aff airs, prepared them to hold the person pod suspended on a track at a station which is not on the main engineering major. director of intercultural role. A.S. positions, clubs in the air which is being designed to line … other vehicles can get on and “Th is (the small track) will be exactly aff airs, director of faculty they’ve joined as well as well travel around San Jose and descend off the main line.” directional wise and operational wise aff airs, director of co- as Greek organizations were downwards to pick up and drop off Furman said that the city has similar, not mapping wise,” Haidari curricular aff airs, director all mentioned. people at their request. gotten to a point in urban areas said. “We have a team working on the of external aff airs, director Each of the candidates had a It would be available to the where the current way we get around mapping right now, but this (the small of community and total of four minutes to speak public and price per ride is yet is just not sustainable. track’s) main concern is operation.” sustainability aff airs, director their thoughts. to be determined because more In the last six months, engineers of communications and Th e trick however, was that SUPERWAY PAGE 2 information needs to be gathered to have continued their developments to director of business aff airs. the four minutes allowed were Moderators of the event designated not only to answer HUMANITIES were Student Elections moderator questions, but Commission Chief Executive also audience questions. Th e Offi cer Ariana Manzeo and allotted time was also used for Interdisciplinary programs off er Ethics Offi cer Boon Yang. rebuttals from the candidates. “A.S. student government Naturally, candidates had matters because they are to be selective and smart with a diff erent approach to education really advocating for every their answers. By Melissa Hartman & Tyler Kittle student here at the university Candidates who spoke too level,” Yang said. “Th ey long on a single question Staff writers are pretty much the face of found themselves struggling A university education is oft en a diff erent experience classes in the fall, so the enrollment of those classes in the for students, teaching both focused majors and broad spring are about half the size of the fall classes. GEs. However, there are diff erent ways of getting a “Th ere’s a push around campus to get rid of low-enrolling broad general education within the university, such classes,” Mesher said. “In our college, if you have a class as the Humanities Honors Program, which recently with less than 20 students in it there is an excellent chance experienced a class cut. it won’t be off ered. It will be dropped right before the SJSU’s Humanities Honors Program is a four semester semester begins, or a little bit before that.” Mesher said that long, interdisciplinary program that teaches a variety of GE this process can also be inconvenient to students. classes. Th e program requires enrolling students to have a Dr. Cynthia Rostankowski is the Humanities 3.0 high school GPA, and possess a certain score on one of Honors program coordinator and currently the only four English exams, critical reading or verbal sections in recruiter for the program. However, Lena Jones, the SAT or ACT exams respectively. a child and adolescent development major who As an interdisciplinary program, professors for the graduated from SJSU and the Honors Humanities program are pulled from the college of the subject they will Program, says that Rostankowski could be a positive Kavin Mistry | Spartan Daily teach in Humanities Honors. Th is program focuses on a influence for any student. liberal education more than a standard general education. “Cynthia is a brilliant, brilliant woman and a fantastic Candidates running for A.S. Director of Intercultural Th e program recently experienced a class cut, losing its teacher,” Jones said. “Her management of the program Aff airs answer questions during open debate in front of spring class teams. shows how skillful and knowledgeable she is.” the John Carlos and Tommie Smith statues yesterday. Dr. David Mesher, a professor in the program, explained that spring teams were cut because many students take 1A PROGRAM PAGE 2 A.S. PAGE 2 SPORTS CORRECTION Womenʼs Water Polo split weekend games On the 27th issue of the Spartan Daily, San Jose State kept up, but never the article on page four titled “Inter- By Yale Wyatt regained the lead. That would carry national concept of being patriotic,” Staff writer throughout the entire game, and identifi es Waad Aljarado to be from despite keeping up with the goals, the Israel. Th is is a mistake and Aljarado With these women’s water polo Spartans took the lead in the first Sun Devils would hold a five-point is in fact from Palestine. Th e Spartan match-ups being the last games played period 2-1, with the Sun Devils lead until the end of the game, 13-8.