Crowley Responds to Referendum Academic Senate Recommended Football Leave Division I-A
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SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY VOLUME 122, NUMBER 62 WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2004 CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION Crowley responds to referendum Academic Senate recommended football leave Division I-A By Tony Burchyns the senate's resolution, and noted the Daily Managing Editor issue was vigorously debated in the senate. Whether or not to withdraw from Crowley on Wednesday said the Division 1-A athletics is too complex political tactic of applying pressure a question to put to a campus-wide on the president's office through faculty vote, said interim President a faculty referendum on athletics Joseph Crowley on Wednesday. would not work. Crowley "I don't think the pressure would was respond- be extreme," Crowley said. "It's ing to the the nature of the academy to be Academic plenty energetic when it comes to Senate's April the discussion of controversial issues, 19 decision to and the president has to listen, look do just that. at the pros and look at the cons, add Ballots it all up and make a decision." are due May Crowley later admitted he had 12, and the never before faced a faculty referen- Susan Reno / I tdd result will be dum in his 24 years of experience as a university president at the University Freshman business major Alina Dominguez performs a traditional Mexican folk dance with Grupo Folklorico Luna y Sol in the Student Union CROWLEY announced 17, of Nevada-Reno and San Jose State Amphitheater on Wednesday afternoon. The show was part of a series of events scheduled this week May celebrating Cinco de Mayo. according to University. the Academic Senate chair. He also remained adamant in his Crowley called the referendum position that dropping out of Divi- "not a particularly good way to do sion I-A would hinder SJSU's public Dances commemorate business." He said he honors the image, negatively affect campus life Mexican culture right of the senate and the faculty to and hurt future alumni-based fund hold referenda, but any drastic deci- raising. He said the faculty senate's holiday performances, costumes highlight traditions ofvarious regions in Mexico sions about the 110-year old Spartan resolution lacked an "adequate football program and athletics in process for understanding its way into a sunny Cinco de Mayo anthropology major and instructor Biblical David versus Goliath tale, general are "larded with implications implications." By Mari Sapina-Kerkhove The Daily Staff Writer afternoon Wednesday, reminding of the dance group. "Cinco de Mayo in which the smaller man overcomes and problems for the future of the students what the holiday is really honors the people, the working class." power. institution." Academic about the celebration of Mexican Sanchez said the holiday com- Luna y Sol's noon performance, In its April 19 meeting, the Senate's With bright and breezy dresses, April 19 stomps and uplifting melo- culture and its people. memorates the victory of the Mexican organized by San Jose State Univer- Academic Senate the representa- energetic voted resolution dies, the folkloric dance group, Grupo "All of the dances are the dances army over Napoleon's troops, but on tive arm of the faculty endorse a recommendation on athlet- Folklorico Luna y Sol, whirled its of people," said Itza Sanchez, an another level it also embodies the see HOLIDAY, page 8 21-11 to that Crowley "or his successor ics also immediately initiate the process of endorses a withdrawal from Division I-A and March sen- the WAC." ate report The senate then voted to send the that lists Report addresses rising housing costs resolution out for a faculty referen- academics, NELLEN dum, according to the minutes. ever-grow- Senate chair Annette Nellen said ing spend- By Dan King There are numerous theories about why the Bay The report puts the blame for the high housing some of the least affordable housing in the costs in the Bay Area on city governments and their the motion to hold a referendum ing and excessive commercialization Daily Staff Writer Area has I-A county. The mild weather, beautiful surroundings, use of inclusionary zoning. might have been rooted in the desire as major concerns in Division that might am- athletics. entertainment choices and great jobs are all often The report said that housing prices have been to "send a message" Ravneet Johal, a junior computer science major, plify the senate's 21-11 vote. Senator The report's concerns reflected is happy his family recently bought a Bay Area highly ranked rationalizations for the region's high kept artificially high by mandating that developers include less expensive housing for low- and moder- James Brent, a strong force behind some of the findings of an NCAA- house, but is concerned rising housing prices will housing costs. on Two San Jose State University assistant eco- ate-income homebuyers. According to the report, a vocal anti-football movement sponsored report issued in 2001 by make it difficult for him to ever move out once he campus, made the motion for the the Knight Foundation Commission graduates. nomics professors, Benjamin Powell and Edward inclusionary zoning has resulted in supply remain- Stringham, published a report last month entitled ing low while doing nothing to affect demand. referendum. on Intercollegiate Athletics, titled "A "I understand housing as a good investment," he Nellen said she wouldn't be sur- Call to Action: Reconnecting Sports said. "I just don't know if I'll ever be able to afford "Housing Supply and Affordability: Do Affordable page 3 prised if the faculty at large rejected and Higher Education." to lie on flIV own " Housing Mandates Work" see HOUSING, Books Aloud brings new life to literature Spring at the wharf By Theresa Smith Nicolai said the company services pay copyright fees, which are usually Daily Staff Writer children and adults with disabilities charged by the word or the page, so with the help of volunteers and10 we promise our publishers that the Enjoying literature should not be staff members, both full-time and people we service are disabled." limited to just those who can read, part-time. 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San Jose State University professors professors filled up the small area "This was a hard book to write," Terry Christensen and Larry Gerston sectioned off for the presentation, Gerston said in opening, 'because we held an intense discussion about Goodman made his way to the were writing history." their latest joint publication, "Recall: podium. He discussed the process of creat California's Political Earthquake." "People don't realize the depth of ing the book, and how the two had to The speech was part of the faculty operation," he said. "This cur- decide what would be included and University Scholar Series, sponsored rent collaboration is a good example what would be left out. by the Spartan Bookstore, the Dr. of their dedication to their craft." "We did it so fast," Christensen Nicholas R. Wright / Daily Staff Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library Being partially responsible for the chimed in. 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