SPARTAN DAILY VOLUME 126 NUMBER 17 Serving Sari Jia,a: StaIL I r .1 \ ,1114..t.: 1934 lilt RS1).%). HAW( AI(1' 23, 2006
\\ 111. ..i11.111 1.1iIV .1,111 Opposing Views: Reasons to go online Friday: DAY NIGHT all ' !be Ibrilla From Manila' Should the Danish media have Fourlof (4alifornia.iovera e Ail 4 - v. Nlen's basketball vs. Fresno published the controversial cartoons? l'hoto sit deshow and in med i 'Garage' restaurant review Opinion Page 2 presentation Drink of the Week 68F 44 F Clark Hall 'Lost boys' find SJSU A.S. scheduled to approves open in Fall funds for Faculty and staff to move in March legal fees By April Maramag DAILY STAFF WRITER New director
The finishing touches are being introduced to board placed on Clark !fall this week so that faculty and staff can move in by By Erin Keilah Chin March. (lark !tall, formerly ( 'lark DAILY STAFF WRITER abrary, will be the nos home of the Academic Success ( 'enter open- In a meeting on Vk ednesday. ing this Fall. The 1.19 million the .5ssociated Students Board of state- funded renovation of Clark i 1111:001s i.ic,1 on and :wpm ed the Hall 55111 HOW house new labs and "ii 5,1111(1 lot .5 s Legal classrooms along is it ti I ic iilt and ,ei%I.es lion% the .5 s ( gyrating administrative of Many 01 the (:xsei) faculty and staff going inio the new s had set a 521).0(10 budget lot offices ii If be mos ing Indio modu- "Pcilscs 110 %cel) the months lar trailers, according to I .kiniel No, .4 July and I )evembei, S S used be architect and construction manager "'en $18.111111 anti $211.11011 01 thy for the Facilities Development and I ...gal se is ices I Mid,
Operations department C Mt' t 011)1,1.1I11,11. anti C "Before It a is "lark Library. till need legal Loinisel.- sant 5 We're changing 111,, (a) student ser- ( 'ontroller le I:amos "V hate \ et vice area, classr,,, ans. Lie tiny offic- is v- do in terms sul ,,,t,,r ork retliiiies let, ,, hal es and sonic nit the admmistiation ationws I, 1,, [ht., tmi offices." No said "The shell. (in- %%,.. ale doing cluding) the outside, the walls and !,-- DANIEL ESCH /DAILY STAFF is cliai gest tot legal counsel roofs (will) stay We gutted every- %% ben tiOl11111e111, are reiieiieit. tee thing out Mach Gong, center, a Junior majoringlit international business, takes ail L'A,1111 III ills finance class Wednesday. Gong, along with 0111111eIlli.111,,11, Mt' made and is mil The building. %%Inch opened in two other students, fled his native Sudan after civil war broke out. pioce \ sing ovciirs. said Ramos in 1982. was originally built to hold all the library's colleoll /11 in one multi- the meeting story facility It vs as named after Students' journey takes them from Sudan to Bay Area 12amos said that ii Jule changing former College l'resident Robert D. the Ile.. lions 1:egadation, lanual, Clark, according to salivary org. s had it) tin' Hough legal counsel until -2( loll go% "Isles "The constructs in v, ill be com- By Teresa Hou ss hen the I lilted states mmil I %%mild be real cook- said to inei cult inn ingement of personal 10 plete next week. March 3," No said. eminent began to send the 'lost iso s 11,1 .1 111.11 keIllIg major -lint is hen I came right. :tau, pus ii \ issues DAILY STAFF WRITER "But the mos ing will be different. merwai heie I iias worried about is here to sleep Vii transtei oi el the amount ol There's a is hole different stage for Nccording to the IZed ( I. us'. 55 thu sue. tsoi I is ciii ont to look 101 a sib so that I Its.1)(H) nee \Is io be appitned by the I -mm the outside, Bol Ittil, \l,ii h ( iong is .1 ',mil, mo\ing Not all usei gimps will be " I he I ost of all eu It ,111,1 base itt place to use It Inas) real S Hoak! of seem and Peter Thou may like ani other \ nun mg the same day (is .iisl orgamiations to a ls niintil 2timoo hatd I he legal sirs .c-es .1,1 I .11)11,11 San Jose State I ins ersitv students They at mid I him in The modular buildings. \vhich siiilanese bois like Ilia. nina 'ii an international business major. 1: 11111: to about 111111, has e "ohs and consist of six trailers located classes, complain about is ho fled then siiiithein s illages in the meeting Ite \ au \ : ol a ietainyi campus parking Its e% er, that is is along Ninth Street boss een San ius .1 t sd ssar broke 1,111 ',eh\ t.l.11 11w PIC 'ming here. our No I goal %%AS a tie1/0511 irl,isle 101 legal counsel the similarities end. Fernando and San Anti inio. house dmsiuuiivaitil Mi111111111111111muI .1111,11i111 il1/111 . using said -But is hen it e got .5 s aill get 'I.4.ouo liii k In the 51 hen they Were about S or 9 icars the Adnumstratise Sy stems and ',Muth here. silk /nil became second because sic end, .5, it ill need to 1).1\ S14.11(111 Finances' offices. This department old, Hot, (tong and Ikon were forced to 111,1 limes'. iialked hundieds it miles had to Ii ml a lob and support one another for the month of Jamiai will move to( 'lark I lall first to save lease their families and the other Melll in earCil e .111(i 1111.11i 1.,1111.1 II III Ille 1 on hail. ill \s1.1rk a lot of holm to make esiia St 111111 lll,il S s is money on rentals. bets of their Dinka tribe behind when cis il Kell\ .111 eluiaee c.111111 is !It'll' Iilt 1,1 eti some mime% and then send NOWA; Monil to nansieoing \\ the legal "AS&F people will go in first," %s at broke out in their native country of 'Or 11111e CM, 1111111 tile I !2t,, C111111elli 11111 I.11111R and basicalli stall ii tt hole new suit ices lip (11C month oi \ No said. "The trailers will be \ a- Sudan. brought 3,1,1111 Oi glen] to the I illed stale, said R,uuiin is cant. So those will be taken assay "We ten in I u'r and moved to Ethiopia according to the Red lissss I buses el is itfu the people the befriend In the meeting. \ s also ap The next group will be t ms dutY for four years." said Thorn a finance ma- In 2001. liol.( iong and I limit time iron] 'uli Inst especialli .1merican Tann- proied the tianslei si 511 1.111111 from Advancement. I 'no ersii> jor "After that %%dr broke out in I:thiopia Ken a to the I tilted state. (luting!' spoil lies. said inn ing. life in the I. S has become the Capital I Mita) and I imminent Advancement (is) currently located and we had to vs 'rile back to Sudan where sorships limn the I !wed state. goi eminent ea aci tdi hint, I song and Thom who tondi.s Reseries to support the upgrade outside the campus They're leas- it wasn't safe because the air was still go- and the I nil salmi ..os lie loends are a part of his -big (ml equipment in the Morris 1)aily ing (their space) 's)) the idea is to ing on (and) so we crossed the border to The I tided Ntaies. hos\ es el. s iloth Ken a We siaed in Keny lot nine years ing like ss hat they eves led SEE JOURNEY PAGE 5 SEE CLARK PAGE 5 in a re I ngec Lamp where %se \sent to school ''s\ hen I lett a. I thought it, SEE A.S. PAGE 4 Activists recount time in Haiti Panel to discuss Silicon Valley and Israel Event to describe business links between both regions By Janet Marcelo lan.ki and Consul ( ieneral of Israel I )(hid DAILY STAFF WRITER Laura Rheinheimer ,s ill open the et tin, speaking on the DAILY STAFF WRITER links hem Ismel and the Silicon Valle) The Day of Atli\ ism event "Eimts in both Israel and here depend on Wednesday in the t 'munhum The Ilitrepreneurial Society of San .lose each other's resources to the mutual Ivenelit of Room of the Student l'nion started State I inies.0 a ill hold an es cult to show- both." Magid said in an e iiimi off by posing a question to a small case business tie. between S 111cm iii Vallei and Thy college sit Isnsmess is hicusing on a group of San Jose State I 'niversity Mis es ening from 6 to 0 p m in the global approach. sant \ adding that he students: what would our lives be Ballot Ballroom in the Student I 'mon hopes this e\ tilt will lead id others like it like if there were no activists? The eient. "Israel and the S liv sill \ Ale) "It's ically an emergence suer the past less Building I attrepreneurial Bridges." \\ ill lea- years.- said Jarad Bernstein, directoi I nicdia tury .1 panel discussion among top personnel relations lor the consulate general di ',lad in at the high tech companies SanDisk. Aran San Francisco. !shiny companies find using Y MONTH and Partech International Israel for research and des elopment advanta- flie I nirepieneunal Society President geous, Bernstein said. Ryan Baird said the event aims to show how "Many start-up companies were created in "The event WaS Ver) iiiftimia venture capitalism is done beyond the Bay Israel and bought by companies here." said live," said Natalia Venbke, senior Area. David Ben Israel, who helped organize the social work major. "The speakers luiping people can see the types of event "Nlicrosoll (Ise stems, Intel just really articulate their points real businesses flourishing overseas.- Baird said to name a less all have research facilities in well. I just wish more students in a phone interview Israel . - were here to hear it." The es era, organized by the I intrepreneurial The college of business is looking to ex- Audience members were asked Societ.v. the Silicon Valley ( 'enter Mr pand its programs by bringing international to close their eyes and think about MEGAN KUNG /DAIL,' STAFF Lntrepreneurship, the Consulate ( ieneral of programs to SJSE and having lac:Mr% and the question Israel in San Francisco and !fillet of Silicon Pierre La Bossiere, an activist with the Haiti Action Committee, speaks about Valley, is free and open to the public. the political situation in Haiti during the Day of Activism in the Umunhum Room Dean of the College of Business Bruce SEE ISRAEL PAGE 5 SEE ACTIVISTS PAGE 7 Wednesday. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2006 2 SPARTAN DAILY OPINION Opposing Views: Should the Danish media have published the controversial cartoons? of speech the press Freedom and The cartoons were offensive and incited of the shouldn't he curtailed because violence. YES tastes of some. NO One cartoon portrays the prophet Nluhammad with a lit bomb on his cartoons depicting a stricture of Nfuhanunad may have The Danish head, replacing the turban that would normally be there. but they abide liberty of unregulated speech been blasphemous, by the Another depicts two %%omen dressed in all black, with only their eyes tree In a iiiiss visible, as the eyes of Nluhanunad are blind to their circumstances. images ina he published in poor taste or simple igno- A1111,1101 the Cartoons are meant to be funny., like "Peanuts,- where Charlie I lei:dont ol espression has gus en us the alli MARL'S' 10 engage in rant:C. Brown kicks a football just as Lucy Van Pelt moves it. They can also and bettt Len II:111011s SS hillier tat oiable i iii else dialogue tt 'thin be thought provoking like the "Boondocks- political satire. Protests \solids% hte are based on the Muslim piohibition ot any il Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's comic section was neither fun- lu.stration lone% el-. tie ni,i liii e tiS erli ikril the ny nor thought provoking this past September when they published Fact that the .iis se aunt.iple is applicable olds to belies ets I Islam 12 caricatures depicting the prophet in a !legalise. or what they. might Commanding iii \liisliiiis hi I lIst slit. lii CIIg1011S des lee IlanslingS have seen as comical, light. St Ills II iiti.idii Is a t\ ell let.oviii,red principle 01 Islam into ei sell IOW No one was laughing in the Muslim ci multiunit stales Mete is Ili, it, teiftitott that According to the Habib. a supplement book to the Quran and a In tai. .1 Seise lint the I Joh Quran. an book unaltered situe it tills compilation of NIuhanunad's teaching,. depicting the image of the it limn and the most ponert id solllce ot Ham. stiles.-IsiSill lIe S prophet is prohibited. 10 tile IIIS ieliiiin rellglon..1111,1 AcLohling to the Quran, Muhanunad wanted worshippers to see It is miperatit e to rettli/e that this terse Is cited near the completion him as one of them. a human being no better than the rest. By having ,,I the MO book. undedining an impliLation peacet III t.t'e\isleiiee pit:lutes or image,. it would permit idolatry and NIuhammad is not to Ig i1.111Ce Ig1101111Le. Ole Call, X ins be seen as an idol is 1111 rill 11111/1 es Vile Illed 11111X:111s to For practicing Muslims. the images are ill1111IIIIISnle it loss Ilant MAI boundaries. to hard to %nation because they have been LCtIllife hellel 1111de I shillslIng ol each others taught to lilt e and respect the prophet more sensitis me, and esphlie \s ay coexist pcace than anyone else. :ibis in the long flIn It's no Wonder that such a violent re- \ IplionSe de I ..1111.11 I tie, in the hook sponse occurred after the publication of the "I lisione De 11,a Turquie.- published iii tins, cartoons. Stole According to a 'NN report on Saturday, " t.s regards all the standards by is hich hu- at least 29 people have been killed and man glumness mat be measured, We 111:1 many more injured during protests os er the ZEENAT UMAR SS ell ask. 'is there am man greatei than , . incident Non -Muslims may wonder what the big JANET MARCELLO Millianimad has c% en been s (niched for lit Illustiatinn by CJG deal it.iiilicetli it it s. a I uiioiieaii [ICS% spripe I de111111e1111s his image .11.hies big deal is this What it y our religion. t.t minium t should he one of sett ImPs hit,I,". P 1115c \ I uslint it something else twinned shongly sible dialogne. tin! die linage ot Men inophei s is being made fun of as a result of a la,. k of knowledge or poor judg- the Imo! \I uisliiiisLontinue Iut %en! through tolence ol 1 1., I* ment', the man the) are delending. in li i it the ()man and the Rudd It. it col- Yes. the t .nited States' tarsi Amendment goes us the nght to exer- lection id authentic, brogiatiltii.,i1 teseatches mix hiding sat mg.. deeds cise our freedom of speech and of the press. Ina there are limits that and approsals narrated lit I lopliet I iihanunad dictate Iii is iesponsible we are kur Si hat ste sa or print 1 lie I Lido h is consideied ,landaid guide to all Muslims in supple Online poll: In the 1.142 I\ ( 'owl case 'haplinsky s Ness I lampslure, mem 1,, the chum' Should the Danish media have published the the ruling limited I reedom ol speech and press. stating. -idle I lets d and xpiessing justiliable Liumcetim. Icillon I tie the true Islamic tradition controversial cartoons? obscene. the profane, the libelous, and the insulting oi lighting %voids it mild be to demonstrate dignilied [what lot thiough rational debate .. by then s en uttenince tuihlict tnjurs or tend to incite an immediate instead itl bombing embassies, attas king buildings. hot coning and breach 01 the peace " threatening I he i titian states .1 he cartoons are a breach ol peace It's sometlung that is ollensive '11 hen (the righteous t hem s ant talk. diet it Within% flow it sat mg. Yes and doe,n't need to be Well II it inflicts harm on others ittit deeds ate lot its :mil touts lot 'Out. peace be ou to tuuit V1e di, ill 1,21101,,,it 'I he Muslim community is haunted each day as problems such as desire Me iso I the No the current politual issues m haq. \I gIi.iiiisi.uui and Iran and the got - I he treedom spec( Ii esercised Its the I %me. goes Ills .1 thiatii,c to ermiwnt restrictions and constant sins eillanee of their actions keep stilt e deepel undellt mg issues dotank mg the \\ est !tom the !Muslim Results to last week's question: stacking up. coninninit I he cartoon puhluation, should be perceo ed a, an educa ' I7s ert one has the right It, lice speech and to voice ss html he or she tional moment lot both ii 'Ills Should GPS trackers be placed on registered sex offenders belies es I hitt et er, if it is at the espense of others. helmets teedoms It's hard lot a wad,' b. understand the trite gm% itt ol a situation -- without thinking of the repercussions then it's a lreedoin unite and reithie hots and SS Ii', I IleS IllaS be ollensoc to .1 laige pail of the 53% Yes 47% No sensed \ luslim soc lets, and theieloic is not entire' \ as iii 1,11 a mallet as most What do you think? Iftr of us uould like to bell,- e Janet Marcelo is a Datly staff writer. %emu, Umar IN a ma / ,,1 a, I I campusvoices COMPILED BY ERIN CHIN; PHOTOS BY DANIELLE STOLMAN
"Yes. I believe that it "Yes. I don't think it's a "No. I think that the "Yes. 'just think that "No. He's like a very "No. There is a lot to is up to them to big deal because it was action and people have the right important figure, and say about Prophet publish it...because made as a sarcastic information both as a to do whatever they those cartoons that Mohammed. peace be that's their belief joke." whole wasn't want." were published were upon him." appropriate." degrading him." Derek Deocampo Alexander Sutkin Sami Alayoubi Christina Custodio Asma Asif Sarah Haridi graphic design finance biology psychology sociology accounting
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