Spartan Daily (April 27, 2010)

Movie Review FOOTBALL J. LoSEE returns PAGE with 6 Quarterback competition underwhelming performance stirring this Spring SEE PAGE 5 SEE PAGE 4 Serving San José State University since 1934 Tuesday, April 27, 2010 www.TheSpartanDaily.com Volume 134, Issue 44 Fellowship Formula hybrid club builds car rewards to race in international competition writers to the center’s website. Steinbeck Program Cox was a professor at SJSU brings talented writers from 1955 through 1989 and taught American Literature, Eng- to SJSU for one year lish, Composition, drama and fi lm studies — during that time she Melissa Johnson also founded the Steinbeck Center Staff Writer in 1971, according to the center’s website. The Steinbeck Fellowship pro- The fellowship is open to appli- gram is celebrating the 10th anni- cants who are enrolled in a gradu- versary of its inception this year. ate program of study, and must Paul Douglass, director of the furnish evidence that they have Steinbeck Center, which is locat- completed all coursework, except ed in the Dr. Martin Luther King any course registration associated Jr. Library, said the fellowship is with a thesis, according to the cen- unique to the California State Uni- ter’s website. versity system in supporting writ- Katie Chase is one of three ers who affi liate themselves with recipients of the 2009-10 fellow- the university and its faculty. ship. “It has a remarkable track re- “I’m honored to be a recipi- cord of successes,” Douglass said. ent of the fellowship,” Chase said. “For such a young program, its “It’s been a great boom in terms ‘graduates’ have gone on to re- of time to write and the support markable glory.” of the San Jose State community (left to right) John Monson, a sophomore mechanical car’s overall design and a 13-mile race. The events run According to the center’s web- and other fellows.” engineer, Brian Lai, a senior mechanical engineer, May 3 to 6 in Loudon, New Hampshire. Team manager site, Martha Heasley Cox founded The fellowship has enabled her Carlos Taboada, a senior mechanical engineer and Joshua Hogan said the car was designed to be a hybrid, the Steinbeck Fellows Program. to complete a collection of short Pardeep Hothur, a senior electrical engineer work on but will be electrically powered in competition, which is This program brings talented stories titled “Man and Wife,” and Athena, the formula hybrid club’s race car, Monday. The allowed for fi rst-year clubs only. Hogan said he started writers to SJSU for one year, of- she has began working on a novel club will compete in the 2010 Formula Hybrid construction on the car in June. fering a $10,000 stipend and Competition, an event that includes a judgement of the STEFAN ARIMJO / SPARTAN DAILY housing assistance, according See PROGRAM, Page 2 Century-old landmark hosts A.S. events Students showcase Eric Bennett house. This is their house. This was a place of residence. A brief history Staff Writer is the student government “I’ve gotten comments from The building is commonly offi ce.” visitors and students wondering known as the Scheller House ideas for 10k prize The Victorian-style house ad- Chuma Nnaji, a junior soft- if students stay here or if it was and was built in 1904. The house jacent to MacQuarrie Hall is not ware engineering major, said he just a museum,” she said. is named after Victor Scheller, a Angelo Scrofani where they are to explore the va- where the university’s president spends time Freshman prominent lawyer at the time, Staff Writer lidity of their idea, but beyond lives, and despite the school’s outside the marketing according to the Scheller House that, they are to also explain how original conception of the build- building and Th e building had major Nick historical document. Every fall semester SJSU hosts they are going to turn this idea ing, it’s not a computer lab ei- was initially Thoryk said he According to the aforemen- the Neat Ideas Fair, in which stu- into a real business.” ther, said a campus executive. unsure about“ become an eyesore. likes to prac- tioned document, the house is dents illustrate an idea and pres- Basu said the competition is Within the house's maroon its purpose. It had become very tice juggling historically signifi cant to down- ent it to a panel of judges, said the open to every SJSU student re- and beige walls is the home of “I thought on the patch of town San Jose because the origi- director of Silicon Valley Center gardless of his or her course of the Associated Students, which the school dilapidated and there grass in front nal architect, Theodore Lenzen, for Entrepreneurship. study, acknowledging that good students can now see for them- had got the were talks of tearing of the A.S. was famous in the 1800s for his During the spring semester, a concepts aren’t necessarily exclu- selves thanks to recently in- building from building. residential work in the Bay Area. much larger event called the Sili- sive to business majors. stalled signage that had been somewhere a it down. “I found out Saffold, who is the only re- con Valley Business Plan Compe- “Good ideas need multiple absent for its fi rst eight years, long time ago Randy Saffold what the build- maining A.S. employee from the tition, allows students to refi ne the skills,” she said. “So if we can Randy Saffold said. and some- ” ing was when time the organization moved idea they used in the Neat Ideas somehow encourage students A.S. interim director “Without the sign out front one forgot to I took a tour into the house in 2002, said the Fair and enter it into a competi- from different disciplines to work to be welcoming and friendly knock it down,” Nnaji said about my junior year of high school,” wear and tear on the Scheller tion for a chance to win a $10,000 together, then nothing stops us … people wondered, ‘Is that fi rst seeing the building in Fall he said. “During the recent House became apparent after fi rst-place prize, said Anuradha other than our imagination.” where the president stays?’” 2007. “Guess not.” voting process for the student nearly 100 years of use. Basu, an organization and man- Jason Sokoff, a junior recre- said Saffold, the interim associ- Elizabeth Ontiveros, an ex- government, I noticed the A.S. “The building had become agement professor. ation, hospitality and tourism ate executive director of mar- ecutive administrative assistant budget was something like $7 an eyesore,” he said. “It had be- “The business plan competi- management major, said it’s good keting, events and recreation. for the Associated Students gov- million. I guess I should fi nally come very dilapidated and there tion takes that idea to the next to incorporate students from “Students have been confused ernment, said she has also heard go in and see what that's going stage,” she said. “Students have to about what is actually in this of students believing the house toward.” See HOUSE, Page 2 write a full-blown business plan See FAIR, Page 2 Weather SPARTAN DAILY BLOGS TWITTER OPINION: BEST BOY BANDS Go online to the Spartan Daily news blog and fi nd out COURTESY OF ANIRUDH KOUL Follow us at when you can catch a free movie on the Campus Village @spartandaily quad. for headlines Hi: 63° straight to your Also, check out the blog for more information about the phone. Lo: 50° jazz musicians coming to campus. spartandailynews.wordpress.com FACEBOOK WTH Become a fan and get the latest headlines straight to you Hi: 59° Hi: 61° facebook.com/ Lo: 47° Lo: 49° spartandaily See page 6 & 7 2 NEWS Tuesday, April 27, 2010 The computer lab ended up Ontiveros said students’ be- HOUSE taking the offi ce space in the Stu- fuddlement regarding the house’s THIS DAY IN HISTORY dent Union that the Associated purpose was warranted. From Page 1 Students once used, Saffold said. “I could understand their con- “Many of the offi ce spaces in fusion as we did not have any type were talks of tearing it down.” the Union ended up coming to of marker outside of the house,” The house was vacated and the A.S. House,” he said. “That she said. “Now we have added our went unused from 1991 to the year worked as a much better place to name to the glass of the front door 2000, when the Associated Stu- give student government a home as well as a wooden sign just in dents spent $2.3 million to reno- as well as some administration.” front of the front porch.” vate the building, according to the The building houses all four of The school has a policy calling document. the Associated Students depart- for all buildings to post only one Prior plans for use ments — government, administra- sign outside and that it had to be Saffold said the school’s origi- tion, marketing and I.T. services “those big metal letters you see on nal plan was to retrofi t the Schell- — and has two conference rooms all the other buildings,” Saffold said. er House to become a new com- for student organizations, ad- “The big metal letters do not fi t puter lab. ministrative assistant Ontiveros the genre of this house,” he said. “If you look through the rooms, said. “We’d rather have nothing than you’ll notice there is an enormous Saffold said the house’s loca- put those letters out there.

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