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Twitter: @spartandaily INSIDEINSIDE facebook.com/spartandaily P. 3 Sports: Draft aided both See exclusive online content and multimedia at Bay Area NFL teams spartandaily.com P. 5 Opinion: Security cameras Gosling faces risk personal privacy Weather: Clear SPARTAN DAILY P. 5 Opinion: moral dilemmas Environmental H: 82 Serving San José State University in ‘Pines’ since 1934 changes shouldn’t fall by the L: 59 Volume 140 / Issue 47 wayside Wednesday, May 1, 2013 A&E, P.4 Printed on recycled paper CLASSES On April 15, SJSU and Udacity extended decided on these particular courses because University system and to most U.S. colleges SJSU Plus, an online partnership, by offer- there’s a high need and demand for them. and universities,” according to the Udacity Partnership ing 10-week summer classes. “SJSU and Udacity believes these courses website. According to Pat Lopes Harris, director are the ones where there is the highest need Harris said not only are the courses with Udacity of media relations, three classes are cur- and also greatest demand from students cheap, but are strictly online, making it rently being offered through Udacity – Ele- who are looking to enter CSUs and have suc- convenient and easily accessible to stu- offers students mentary Statistics, College Algebra and En- cessful college careers,” she stated. dents. try-level math – and Intro to Programming Catheryn Cheal, the associate vice presi- “The benefit is for San Jose students who and Intro to Psychology have been added to dent and senior academic technology offi- need to squeeze in an extra class or don’t summer courses the list of offered courses this summer. cer, said the prices of the courses are cheap- have time to come to campus can try this Clarissa Shen, the vice president of stra- er than classes offered on campus. approach,” she said. By Sydney Reed tegic business and marketing at Udacity, “Each class costs $150 and credit earned @SyydNee_Daily stated in an email that SJSU and Udacity is transferable within the California State SEE ONLINE ON PAGE 6 CAMPUS IMAGE TECHNOLOGY Just dance for cancer awareness Mobile apps attempt to eliminate DUIs By Sydney Reed @ SyydNee_Daily Driving under the influence can easily cost an individual thousands of dollars and their life, but smartphone applica- tions geared toward letting people know their blood alcohol content have been created to prevent drinking and driving. The California Department of Mo- tor Vehicles states on its website that under the Zero Tolerance Law, it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.1 percent or more if you are under 21 and for drivers over 21, the blood alcohol concentration is 0.8 percent or more. “According to the National College Health Assessment from Spring 2012, about 55 percent of SJSU students reported having a drink within the last 30 days,” Liz Romero, wellness and health promotion coordinator, stated in an email. Lil Swagg and his dance group perform during SpartAwareness to raise cancer awareness on Tuesday. Codi Mills / Spartan Daily SEE DRIVING ON PAGE 2 COMMUNITY WORKSHOP Beauty Bowl is not pretty to all Public Relations Day to provide students with opportunities to By Christiana Cobb tives from their homes who run for Beauty @christianacobb Bowl Princess. “The Facebook page which is accompanied network and stay up-to-date The annual Kappa Sigma Beauty Bowl and by the ‘Beauty Bowl Princess’ Competition the Princess Facebook Competition are events is an outlet through which we build excite- By Rochelle Beckel vice president of marketing and commu- designed to raise money for the military, but ment amongst the academic and Greek com- @rochellebeckel nications at International Business Ma- according to Men Creating Change, the community for our event,” said Patrick Burns, the chines, according to DiSalvo. petition overshadows the philanthropy and co-operator of Beauty Bowl and a junior busi- Students interested in receiving ca- “He’s coming from New York to be our sexualizes the women involved. ness management major. “The event planning reer advice from public relations profes- keynote speaker,” Di Salvo said. “Then Lukus Hosin, a member of Kappa Sigma takes some time so a need for constant updat- sionals and learning what it would be like we’re going to have three different pan- and a senior civil engineering major, said the ing is very important.” to work in the public relations industry els. One of them is (about) working in a Beauty Bowl is a powder-puff football game Burns said the Beauty Bowl is May 11 from can attend SJSU’s ninth annual PR Day PR agency versus working in a corpora- in which they invite sororities to participate, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Kappa Sigma house on on May 1 in the Barrett Ballroom for $28. tion, (another is) working in sports and spread the word and raise money for the Mili- 1257 South 10th St. According to Christine Di Salvo, a entertainment PR, and we also are doing tary Heroes Campaign and the Fisher House Lee said one of the controversial parts of public relations lecturer and PR Day ad- one called technology PR because we live Foundation. Beauty Bowl was the image on the event shirt viser, PR Day is a half-day seminar in in Silicon Valley.” Hosin said the event typically raises about that Kappa Sigma requested from Associated public relations, during which students The agency versus corporate panel $1,000, which is all donated. Students. have the opportunity to network with will feature speakers from companies Carlos Escobar, the vice president of Men “(At the) finance committee meeting, it was public relations professionals and learn such as Weber Shandwick, a global public Creating Change and a sophomore environ- a bit heated at first because when they were re- what’s going on in the field. relations firm, Kaiser Permanente, the mental science major, said he and a few other questing the money they showed the design She said the event is open to all stu- nation’s largest health care consortium, members of the group are in the fraternity and the design had the silhouette portraying dents, but primarily attracts public rela- Cisco Systems, a networking equipment Delta Sigma Phi and know about the event be- women very sexualized,” said Alex Sanchez, a tions majors. company and Edelman, the world’s larg- cause it has been happening since 2005. sophomore marketing major and external af- “I teach public relations event man- est public relations firm, according to Di According to Staci Gunner, a former advis- fairs for Men Creating Change. “The female agement,” she said. “We plan two events Salvo. er of Men Creating Change, the group is a male members of the committee were uncomfort- in that class and one of them is PR Day She said the sports and entertainment group on campus that seeks to mobilize men able with it, and they were uncomfortable of and the other one is the (Honors) Convo- panel’s speakers will represent Ubisoft, a to use their strength to create cultures free of approving the funding for the shirts.” cation.” French video game publisher and devel- violence. A.S. did not approve the original design and She said there is a committee of 15 oper, Xoom, an online money transfer Peter Lee, the president of Men Creat- Kappa Sigma changed the design to one that students this year that planned PR Day company, the San Francisco 49ers and ing Change and a sophomore international matched a previous year, according to Burns. and the other half of the class planned Charles Zukow Associates, a full-service business major, said the group stands for ad- “Associated Students thought an outline the Honors Convocation. public relations and marketing firm dressing stereotypes that face men on college of a woman doing The Heisman stance next PR Day begins with registration at based in San Francisco. campuses and taking steps to erase those ste- to a heart with the words ‘Beauty Bowl’ within 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch at noon, The technology panel’s speakers are reotypes. it was too sexual,” Burns said. “Because it was during which the attendees listen to the from Logitech, a technology product Escobar said aside from the football game, keynote speaker Jon C. 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Purchase tickets at: THE FOUR LARGEST GROUPS WILL GET A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN A sjearthquakes.com HALFTIME COMPETITION TO WIN A CUSTOM TEAM-AUTOGRAPHED JERSEY Use Promo Code “SPARTAN” NEWS Page 2 | Spartan Daily Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Driving: Programs are not a solution Online: Video courses are an FROM PAGE 1 Out of the students in the 55 alternative method for learning percent, only 2.2 percent reported driving after having five or FROM PAGE 1 structure of teaching,” do things quickly so they more drinks while the other 27.7 The online courses will Cheal said. would get it into email.” percent reported driving after benefit those students who To better support stu- According to Udacity’s having any alcohol, she stated. have already taken the dents who take these on- website, enrollment is lim- According to Sgt. John Laws courses at an university line courses, professors ited but Cheal says up to of UPD, in 2012, 63 people were but had trouble passing, communicate with stu- 1,000 students are able to arrested for driving under the Harris said.

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