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Brown for signing L: 55 Volume 139 / Issue 20 Opinion, p.5 new bill protecting gay teens Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Printed on recycled paper UNIT CAP By Melanie Martinez According to the release, seniors “I hope it (the unit cap) won’t re- The release also noted that Winter @meltinez who have already applied for gradu- strict the graduation process that and Summer 2013 semesters would ation in the Spring 2013 term will be much,” Maligaya said. also be offered for students who are Max 16 Undergraduate students will be allowed to sign up for a maximum of Khanh Tran, a second year biol- interested in enrolling in additional limited to a maximum of 16 units 18 units beginning Jan. 2, 2013. ogy science major, said that while she courses. during the Spring 2013 semester in Seniors may petition for an excess hasn’t felt the consequences of the Joe Demler, a second year me- unit cap an effort to deal with over-enroll- of 21 units until Feb. 6, 2013 as long unit cap this semester things may be chanical engineering major, said that ment. as the Registrar’s Office has students’ different for her in the spring. is exactly what he plans to do if the Provost Ellen Junn released a graduation applications on file. “I’ll be half a unit over the limit unit caps ensue. set for statement yesterday announcing that However, the release also stated the because of a workshop,” Tran said. “I’m taking 15 units this semes- the unit caps placed on this semester’s only candidates for excess units are “That’s annoying.” ter,” Demler said. “I’ll probably have undergraduate students will roll over those graduating in the spring and not Junn’s release stated that under- to take more summer classes, too.” spring ‘13 to next semester. seniors who are planning to graduate graduate students should, “visit their While the release stated repeated- “The only exception to this policy in fall 2013. academic advisors or advising/suc- ly that the unit cap of 16 units would will be for Spring 2013 candidates Despite the cap on units, Kevin cess centers to plan their Spring 2013 be in place by spring it also stated Provost sets cap to help who have graduation applications on Maligaya, second year mechanical en- schedules now and not wait until “that this policy is subject to change.” file with the Registrar’s Office on or gineering major, said he still plans to Spring 2013 Advanced Registration Melanie Martinez is a Spartan Dai- manage enrollment before December 10, 2012,” Junn’s petition for 18 units in order to obtain which begins on Tuesday, Nov. 6, ly staff writer. Follow her on Twitter at release said. the classes he needs for graduation. 2012.” @meltinez. AFTER GRADUATION CAMPUS CULTURE Engineer Dancing for equality talks of workplace difficulties By Jacque Orvis @jorvis Genentech engineer Jenny Stevens talked about the imbal- ance of diversity in the workplace and the challenges of starting a career after graduation at the SJSU’s student section of the Society of Women Engineers’ Tech Talk yesterday. Stevens said college graduates aren’t progressing in the work- force because older generations aren’t advancing either, even though the graduates are “eager, extremely intelligent (and) media savvy.” In 2000, 26 percent of the workforce population were aged 16 to 29, 51 percent were aged 30 to 49, 20 percent were 50 to 64, and three percent were 65 years old or older, according to Stevens. She said those percentages changed in 2011 to 23 percent, 44 percent, 28 percent and five Dancers practice for the Queer Homecoming Dance Tuesday night in the Spartan Complex. Photo by Thyra Phan / Spartan Daily percent, respectively. “I’m stuck at my level because SEE NEWS ON PAGE 6 there’s a whole a bunch of baby boomers not moving (in the work BUDGET CUTS force),” she said. By Sage Curtis that we’d like to for international students. Now we SJSU alumna Jennifer Holm- @sagedanielle are facing the reality of being part of that large $250 dahn said Stevens’ advice gave her million ‘trigger cut.’” hope that she’ll find a job soon. International Students at SJSU have trouble getting the classes The college includes the intensive English pro- “It was a reassurance that I am they need to graduate because of budget cuts and grams for visiting students and Open University, as doing the right thing,” she said. “I fewer classes, but international students have even well as the international program and services. was kind of getting discouraged students feel bigger requirements to satisfy — immigration re- “There are expectations for the proposition not to with the job hunt.” quirements to be enrolled as a full-time student and pass,” Gecenok said. “There are plans for the college, Holmdahn has been a mem- finding a place to live in a foreign country. but those plans change. I think now, university-wide, ber of SJSU’s student section of special burden The college of international and extended studies they are expecting to continue cutting classes.” the Society of Women Engineers falls under the supervision of academic affairs, which According to Gecenok, these cuts effect the in- since studying at SJSU. stands to have cuts to its budget in 2013 depending ternational students — students who are doing their The Society of Women En- of budget cuts on the outcome of proposition 30, according to Louis whole degree at SJSU from a foreign country — with a gineers is a global organization Gecenok, assistant director for international stu- bit more urgency than permanent resident students. aiming to promote women in dents and scholars. “International students have a requirement from engineering, according to SJSU Budget shortages add to “The university as a whole has had budget cuts,” their legal status to be full-time students,” Gecenok student section president Joy Gecenok said. “As a result, we can’t expand the way Franco. difficulties of being a foreigner we probably should to provide the kind of services SEE STUDENTS ON PAGE 3 She said the goal of the society is to help young women engineers POLITICS succeed in school and work. A senior engineer at Genen- tech in San Francisco, Stevens California outlaws ‘reparative therapy’ for young gays gave advice about career naviga- tion, balancing life with work, By Sage Curtis passed in the first place because it’s of them in college because they potential for achieving changes in and the importance of re-evaluat- @sagedanielle against APA Guidelines already,” aren’t (going through it) in high orientation,” said the American ing career choices while working said Bonnie Sugiyama, director of school.” Academy of Pediatrics in a 1993 in engineering. California has become the first the LGBT and Women’s Resource According to the psychiatric published statement. Fifty guests attended the lec- state in the country to outlaw the center. “You can call it a pseudo- studies included in the bill by psy- Matthew Cadena, president ture, an installation of the soci- practice of “reparative therapy” therapy, I guess. I think it’s great chological associations like the of the SJSU LGBT student group ety’s Tech Talk series at SJSU. for underage homosexuality with for LGBT community members APA, the risks associated with the QTIP, said he could relate his own “The first take-away point is to the passing of Senate Bill 1172. who don’t have control over them- therapy include depression, anxi- experience to people who have un- have fun,” Stevens said. “Remem- The American Psychiatric selves because they are minors.” ety and self-destructive behavior. dergone the therapy even though ber what’s important to you.” Association said the practice of According to Sugiyama, SJSU In the language of the bill, other he did not go through it himself. Stevens said she has worked health service providers perform- has more than 2000 LGBT stu- associations are named as having “There’s a lot of parents out in pharmaceutical engineering ing sexual orientation change ef- dents on campus and a ban on the evidence against the effectiveness there that think that being gay is for the 15 years and earned her forts to a person under 18 years of practice could mean a rise in that of the therapy, such as the Ameri- an illness,” Cadena said. “I think Bachelors of Science in chemical age, commonly referred to as “re- community. can School Counselor’s Associa- it’s one of those things that had engineering from the University parative” therapy, has “scientific “People who have gone through tion and the American Academy of to pass because being gay has not of Alabama. validity (that) is questionable” in a that, their chances of getting into Pediatrics. been considered an illness since published statement in 2000. college are even harder,” she said. “It can provoke guilt and SEE ENGINEER ON PAGE 3 “It’s sad that the bill had to be “Maybe we might be seeing more anxiety while having little or no SEE LAW ON PAGE 3 Page 2 | Spartan Daily A & E Wednesday, October 3, 2012 THEATER PREVIEW ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ play blossoms to life backstage By Sage Curtis Nobody had any money.