Making More Than Just Music
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ANNE RIGOR / SPARTAN DAILY department. Therefore, Bohner and Harrison’s Warming up the vocal chords is part of the daily class routine for chamber choir students at Independence High School. Jay Jordana, a The university fi led a response request was denied. fellow California Music Program teacher, guides her students during vocal exercises on Monday afternoon. stating that the report, written by “The judge wrote that the docu- Brad Davis, assistant associate vice ment has no information regarding president of faculty affairs, after the aviation department, misman- conducting an investigation of the agement, or other public issues,” department, did not address the is- Harrison wrote in an e-mail. “What Making more than just music sues Bohner and Harrison were this tells us is that after the students concerned about, but, rather, was a complained publicly and asked for California Music Project brings tunes to local K-12 schools memo concerning former aviation an investigation, the CSU and the and technology chair Patricia Back- university ignored them.” By CODY HAUETER prove the face of music education music professor and project creator state legislation. er. The CSU cited privacy rights as Larry Carr, assistant vice president AND DINA BASLAN in California’s kindergarten through Diana Hollinger. “We just wanted The federal No Child Left Be- the reason for being unable to dis- of government and community rela- Senior Staff Writer & Staff Writer high school classrooms. to improve the general quality of hind Act, which was re-authorized close Davis’ report. tions, said that while the university is For more than a year now, she grades K to 12, and we thought that in 2007, directs all its efforts to pro- Backer was a focal point in the pleased with the court’s decision it Each week, Jay Jordana, a se- has combined her skills in music lending aid was the best way to do viding resources for math and sci- investigation because of Bohner takes the privacy rights of employees nior music education major, spends and teaching to participate in the that.” ence teachers, according to the De- and Harrison’s accusations that she very seriously. eight to 10 hours with music teach- San Jose Music Project, which The California Music Project is partment of Education’s Web site. mismanaged the department. Their As to Harrison’s comment about ers and students at Independence started at SJSU in 2006. a nonprofi t organization that has California Proposition 13 shift- lawsuit claimed Backer “hired un- High School in East San Jose as “Music education has been go- helped fund the San Jose Music qualifi ed faculty, shredded student See AVIATION, page 2 part of a program that works to im- ing down for many years,” said Project in the wake of federal and See MUSIC, page 3 Former SJSU department chair, President search could wrap up World War II veteran dies at 83 Final decision, formal announcement scheduled for Wednesday By KYLE HANSEN President Robert Caret both failed. previously worked at Utah State By KATE TAYLOR cial skills. He wasn’t feeble at all.” TheSpartanDaily.com Editor After an initial search, the trustees University, University of Colorado Staff Writer He was born Burton V. Dean in The new president of SJSU decided not to hire any of the fi nal- at Colorado Springs and the Uni- 1924, and was a World War II veter- Burton Dean should be announced Wednesday ists, according to professor Terry versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. Burton Dean, professor and for- an, lying about his age and enlisting taught morning, according to a California Christensen, who was on the advi- Jon Whitmore is the only can- mer chair of the department of or- in the Army in 1941. at several State University spokeswoman. sory committee at the time. A sec- didate with experience as a uni- ganization and management, died After the war, he went on to earn universities Claudia Keith, assistant vice ond search led to the appointment versity president. He has been the from a stroke on April 23 at the age his doctorate in mathematics at the before dying chancellor for public affairs, said of Paul Yu, who resigned after two leader of Texas Tech University on April 23 of 83. University of Illinois, and later took that the Board of Trustees inter- weeks on the job. since 2003. He also held adminis- at the age of 83. Dean’s wife of 14 months, Devi a job at Case Western University in viewed the three fi nal candidates Kassing was appointed interim trative positions at the University Dean, said his death was unexpected operations research. Israel, and the University of Brus- yesterday and should make a for- president after Yu’s departure and of Iowa, the University of Texas at because he was in good health. Dean taught at several universi- sels-Louvain in Belgium. mal announcement by the end of was later made a permanent presi- Austin and the State University of “He always said he was going to ties around the world, including the In 1984, he began a sabbatical at its meeting at noon Wednesday. dent by the board. New York at Buffalo. live for 10 more years,” she said. “He Technion-Israel Institute of Technol- The new president will replace Three fi nalists were selected by Eduardo Ochoa is the only can- was so active and had such good so- ogy and Ben-Gurion University in See OBIT, page 2 Don Kassing, who has led the a search committee made up of four didate that has worked in the CSU school since 2004 and is expected members of the Board of Trustees system. He is currently the provost to retire at the end of June. and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed. and vice president of academic af- SJSU media relations specialist An additional advisory committee fairs at Sonoma State. His previ- Th e fi rst day of the rest of their lives Pat Lopes Harris said that while the also helped to screen candidates. ous experience includes deanships Commencement ceremony to be last offi cial public duty of President Don Kassing board will probably pick one of the The fi nal candidates visited at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State fi nalists to be the new president, there campus last week to speak with Los Angeles. By LIZA ATAMY it will be his last offi cial public duty er, according to the news release. is a possibility that it will not settle on staff, students and the local media. The board’s decision will be post- Staff Writer as SJSU’s top administrator, accord- Approximately 6,000 candidates any of the candidates and will start Elizabeth Grobsmith is currently ed at theSpartanDaily.com as soon ing to the university’s news release who completed their studies in Au- the search over. The selected candi- the provost and vice president for as it is made available Wednesday. The Commencement ceremony on April 29. gust 2007, date could also decide to turn down academic affairs at Northern Ari- symbolizes the completion of a Kassing will retire July 1 after December 2007, and May 2008, the job, Lopes Harris said. zona University, where she is also Spartan Daily staff writer Kate course of study and the conferral of four years as president and 11 years will have their degrees conferred In 2004, two searches to replace a professor of anthropology. She Taylor contributed to this report. the appropriate degree graduates, ac- as vice president for administration upon by Kassing. cording to the commencement guide and fi nance, according to the news An estimated 25,000 graduates, on SJSU’s Web site. release. family and friends are expected to at- INDEX The 2008 SJSU commencement Kassing will receive the honorary tend the ceremony. INSIDE THE RIVALRY ceremony will be held on May 24 at degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Pat Lopes Harris, SJSU media the WEARS ON Classifieds..........................10 Spartan Stadium. The ceremony will Chancellor Charles Reed will confer relations specialist, said there isn’t a After 50 years on the West Columns.............................11 begin at 9:30 a.m. the degree upon Kassing, according way of summing up the exact num- Daily Coast, and counting, the Crossword,Sudoku.............10 President Don Kassing’s 15-year to the news release.