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Students Can Peek at 'Reality In Features... SJSU grad keeps THEY DID IT! students Read all about from falling the Spartans' through first victory the cracks of the season in the system Sec sn iry on page 6 DMITl'uhli.hcd tor San Jo.... State I. 'on cr.'? \ 'ant 191-1 Volume 101, Number 35 Monday, October 18. 1993 Students Many views can peek make Senate different By Jane Montes at 'reality Spartan Daily Staff Wnter SJSU's Academic Senate is the only one in the CSU system with three voices. By Nicole Martin While other senates around the CSU rep- Spartan Daily Staff Writer resent only the faculty and the school Picture a world-famous surgeon performing a administration, SJSU's represents the facul- life-saving laser operation from Europe on a ty, administration and students. patient in the United States. "The Academic Senate takes up issues Virtual reality computers will make it possible. such as questions of accreditation and the Virtual reality allows computer users to inter- budget," said Senator Peter Bazanski, who act with an artificial environment. A basic virtual describes him as a history repository. reality system manipulates objects via a "hand" Irene Miura, chair of the Academic Sen- that floats in space. ate, acquires some of her knowledge from Specialized equipment including a headset Bazanski. and gloves translate the user's movements into Miura is the senator who heads the Acad- commands that can control the visual display. emic Senate and presides over the meet- Users can walk down the hallways of a building, ings. The senate meetings are open to the for example, and open a cabinet before the campus community unlike like the exec- building or cabinets exist. utive committee meetings, is ft ich follow Students can learn more about virtual reality orders from Presidentl Handel Ercuis. at Silicon Graphics' (SGI) Technology Day on The senate is unique in that it has student Tuesday in the Engineering Auditorium. Presen- representatives from the committee level on tations begin at 10 a.m. Demonstrations of virtu- up. al reality software will be given from 1() a.m. to 4 p.m. See SENATE. page 3 There will also be a 'Virtual Reality Night" at 6:30 p.m. featuring Division Inc. and Fake Space applications running on SGI's Onyx, a graphic supercomputer. Company The pri( c of computer systems is beginning to drop as (otninercial use grows. SCI's low-end Indy compi tier, for example, sells for around helps furnish $5,000. The Indy is not supposed to replace the per- sonal computer. It is more of a high-end Macin- SJSU offices tosh for individual software developers, said Susan Rosconi of SGI. By Pat Matas High prices have prevented the use of virtual Spartan Daily Staff Writer reality programs at SJSU, according to Don Tan- ner, director of technical services. When SJSU's Mathematics, Engineering He said SJSU will get students involved in and Science Achievement program (MESA) learning virtual reality programs over the next asked its advisory board for desks and file few years. cabinets, Digital Equipment Corp. donated "When it is more commonly available com- over 8,000 square feet of office furniture mercially (the physics department) will use it. It instead. is about five years away," said Alex Garcia, a Lauria Urbanejo, MESA's associate direc- physics professor. tor, realized the MESA offices needed furni- Physics students working at NASA or Lock- ture. She asked the advisory board if it had heed Corporation research labs may be using the any good contacts. specialized equipment because the programs is She was put in touch with Albert Brown, still in the research stages, according to Garda. DEC's customer relations manager. and two 'The computer can generate more informa- months later, moving vans hauled donated tion than we can make sense out of," Garcia said. furniture to the university. "It adds another dimension that we can explore." "We brought it (furniture) Ulu) the engi- Virtual reality computers can also aid manu- neering quad," said Jim Hill, SySl..s director facturers by cutting production time and costs, of logistical services. "Some of it %v.:. taken Tanner said. into the engineering building :Aid stt red in For example, a car prototype can be built and the classrooms that were available. tested by computer analysis without using high L LILIFFMAN. st'Aft TAN DAILY "I remember looking at it (for the first paid engineers or costly material to build the Carrie Shere, a graduate student in art, lifts a ceram- hay. Raku is a firing method that produces a smoked time). It was like walking into a furniture prototype and test it manually. ic piece of Raku-fired art out of a garbage can full of metallic glaze on the surface of a piece. manufacturing place. I figured rather then See REALITY. I latjt' 3 See FURNITURE. page 3 ERC promotes rainforest week on campus \ Kevin Moot c ing destructive policies. The focus is On Wednesday, Lester Ro'.sit- 1p.111.111 Daily Staff Write, currently on Texaco and Mitsubishi. tree, program coordinator for the If rainforests are the lungs of this At SJSU, World Rainforest Week is environmental studies depat tment, planet, the Earth has emphysema. presented by the Environmental will discuss problems in the Selva Deforestation ravages all life, and Resource Center and is partially Lacondona rainforest of Southern through the pensive silence rings the funded by Students Affiliated For Mexico at 12:30 p.m. in Washington sound of aboriginal cultures falling Environmental Respect and Associ- Square Hall room 109. like dominoes. In Penang, Malaysia ated Students. Rowntrce will also address the in September 1986, someone decid- Throughout the week, there will possible impact of forest protection ed to do something about be many rainforest presen- on the upland Maya of the region. it tations on campus. There will be a questiorHuid-answer This week is the seventh On Tuesday, the Rain- period after the presentation. annual World Rainforest forest Action Network will On Thursday, Colorado artists Week. According to litera- 4.4 present a slide show at 2 and explorers Kevin Russell and ture from the Rainforest p.m. in the Student Union Andrea Caruso will talk about the Action Network, there are THE 444 Pacheco Room. remit] people of Borneo at 7 p.m. in three primary objectives: ENVIRONMENT Tuesday has also been the Student Union Loma Prieta to raise awareness of designated as a day of Ro( an. the plight of rainforests action. There will be a question-and- to raise money for grassroots The Rainforest Action Network answer peril )d, Bornean musit environmental work wants to encourage people to active- authentic tribal crafts, expressioi to put pressure on governments ly protest the destruction of the rain- painting, storytelling and suppot tug and corporations to stop implement- irests. Met attire. r TUSTIN A 5 ! TO ME DAILY kJ Hui, middle, an environmental studies and chemistry student talks about the Tour highlights SJSU's place in local arts scene inaishlands at Coyote Hills Park with his human ecology class on Saturday. By Carolina Moroder 'This group of art lovers especial- organizers chose SJSU's department Students take step back in time Sptu-tan Daily Staff Writer ly enjoy art in action," said Jo Ann of art and design because they want- Art lovers are willing to go a long Bright, one of the tour's organizers ed to visit several specific facilities. with visit to site of local settlers way when it conies to visiting art col- and an alumna of SJSU. One of them is the CADRE lab lections. But it's unusual to see a 'There are some wonderful art (computeis in art and design By Kevin Moore o*'. The studenis spent the morning Sktan Iiiuh Staff Writer group going a long way to visit an art facilities in San Jose, like the San research arid education). studying the \ le and habits of the school. Jose Museum of Art and the San They also wanted to see the glass The true origins of human agriculture Ohlone people in 'vote I {ills Regional The Committee for Art at Stan- Jose Institute for Contemporary blowing facility, the ceramic facility, are lost forever in the mists of time, and Park. ford decided to do a combination of Art," said Robert Milnes, chair of the and students exhibitions. Milnes modern man can only theorize about The word Ohlone means coast both. art and design department at SJS1 said SJSU has one of the most them. dweller, and those people left large piles The Oct. 14 tour included a visit "But they (CFA) wanted to attend diverse art programs in the CSU sys- One such theory by LTC Berkeley geo- of shells behind. The remains of the to SJSU, the Hilton Hotel's art col- some places where its members tem. grapher Cad Sauer formed the basis of a shells are essentially the gar bilge dumps lection, the Citadel an artists' stu- would not normally get in an orga- When the group arrived at San field trip Saturday for the students of of the Ohlone, still present alien 2.060 Emironmental Science 117, human ecol- dio complex and the Frederick nized tour." See OHLONE, page 4 Spratt Gallery. According to Bright, the tour See ART, page 4 2 Monday, October 111. 1993 Forum & Opinion SAN loaf STATE Dammam SPARTAN DAILY Editorial Campus Viewpoint THE NEW SPARTAN LOCO AFTER SATURDAY'S WIN English is not Anti-semitism a second language exists on campus public meetings should be held in English Editor: with efficient translation. lam the program director for the Jewish Stu- Spanish-speaking Al urn Rock Elementary dent Union and every Tuesday and Wednesday School District officials rubbed some people the morning I display an information table outside wrong way at a meeting on Aug.
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