CSU Board Votes Yes on Hike
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INSIDE: SPECIAL SECTION | HERSTORY Find our Geofi lter on Snapchat Volume 148. Issue 25www.sjsunews.com/spartan_daily Thursday, March 23, 2017 TUITION CSU Board votes yes on hike BY ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER LONG BEACH, Calif. — The California Board of Trustees voted on Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif. in favor of a tuition hike which affects all CSU campuses, despite protests from college students. Students from at least 15 CSU campuses arrived at Long Beach on Tuesday and prepared to protest the board of trustees. They began by making posters and signs and received a “know your rights training” for safety. “There is an overwhelming amount of excitement from all students to oppose this tuition hike,” said Luis Cervantes, San Jose State Associated Students Director of Community and Sustainability. Students woke up the next day at four in the morning and made their way toward the Offi ce of the Chancellor where they prepared to greet the trustees. Once they arrived at the Offi ce of the Chancellor, students wore caps and gowns with large posters around their necks as price tags. Signs read “Death by debt” and “$70 in debt.” Students created make-shift tombstones on the front lawn. The tombstones read “Here lies CSU Long Beach” and “R.I.P. San Francisco State” attached with stuffed bodies which represented college students. ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ | SPARTAN DAILY San Jose State University students Juritzi Torres and Luis Cervantes hold signs protesting the approved tuition hike at the California State University Offi ce of the See INCREASE page 2 Chancellor on Wednesday in Long Beach, California. SPEAKER PREVIEW SJSU to host award-winning author UPDATE BY TIANA WALKER have a profound social impact if how they can engage them around STAFF WRITER they take in interest in them. these issues and to take advantage “Students are the decision of their platforms. Missing SJSU Author of “Writing my Wrongs: makers of tomorrow and being “We’re in the age of social Life, Death, and Redemption actively engaged and the world media and students are great users in an American Prison,” Shaka as we know it today is really of these different platforms,” student found Senghor will be coming to the important,” Senghor said. Senghor said. “They need to see Martin Luther King Library Senghor mentions that students how impactful they can be if they BY RYAN BARNHART today at noon. can engage in the issue of mass use their social platforms for the NEWS EDITOR Senghor will be speaking about incarceration in various ways. greater good.” the American prison system as “I’ve dealt with a lot of criminal The mass incarceration San Jose State University journalism student Anne well as his journey of atonement. justice majors who are entering advocate wants to show his Elizaga, 27, has been reported as safe. Elizaga was Throughout his life, Senghor the workforce,” said Senghor. students what it means to be reported missing over the weekend. was an honor roll student with “Often times doesn’t really refl ect able to create something off of A Facebook profi le identifi ed as Elizaga said in college aspirations. the humanity of the people who minimal resources that can still a Facebook Messenger conversation that she is However, his journey was altered are incarcerated.” have major impact. well and not endangered. As of Wednesday the at the age of 17 when he was Senghor will be speaking in “Innovation takes place individual claimed she was in Illinois with Chris shot three times because of drug room 225 of the library at noon. everywhere in the world Chamblin, whom she reportedly met online. dealing related incidences and at “I will be discussing how do we including prisons. A lot of times They had allegedly left Reno by train. The profi le the age of 19 he was convicted of humanize men and women inside people only think of crime when also mentioned that she has notifi ed her parents second-degree murder. Senghor prison,” Senghor said. “How do they think of prisons, but they and the police of her status and requested that the spent 20 years of his life in prison. we look at mass incarceration are some very innovative people message be relayed to everyone else. The event is put on by the Silicon from a more humanistic who end up being incarcerated,” Valley Reads program, a program standpoint and to help people Senghor said. Follow Ryan on Twitter that is a collaboration with the realize the impact that our Encouraging students to take @ryan_barnhart San Jose Public Library, Santa inactivity has really had on the the issues in his memoir to create Clara Library District and the growth of the prison system.” discussion is another one of his Santa Clara County of Education. He says that what Americans focuses. He also has an online His life-changing journey has have failed to do has led to a campaign, #writingmywrongs, for brought him to where he is now, higher rate of recidivism, or people who wish to engage in the teaching at the University of repeated offenses. issues on Instagram and Twitter. Michigan as well as being a TED According to the National The hashtag is stemmed from talk speaker and a guest on Oprah. Institute of Justice, a study his New York Times best-seller Senghor’s main goal is to conducted by the Bureau of Justice book. “It was a gripping read that FOLLOW US ON change the way that Americans statistics shows that of prisoners provided a deeply personal look view prisoners and the prison released, about 76 percent of them inside America’s criminal justice SOCIAL MEDIA system as a whole. He believes are rearrested. system,” said Sarah Kishler. that as of now, American prisons Senghor will also be talking Senghor’s discussion at the are “warehouses instead of about what can be done to Martin Luther King Library is a rehabilitation centers.” prevent this and the solutions that free event open to the public. @spartandaily SJSU librarian and member of have been working to help men According to the Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Reads program and women make a successful Reads coordinator Diane McNutt Sarah Kishler said that his book transition back into society. He this will be his fourth appearance teaches readers “how we might be will also discuss tactics that with the program that goes along able to reduce crime by treating have been working to curb gun with their theme for this year prisoners less like numbers and violence in inner cities. “and justice for all.” more like human beings, with the Senghor says gun violence leads potential to do good in the world.” to so many ending up in prison in As a teacher, he tries to engage the fi rst place. Follow Tiana on Twitter his students in issues that will He tries to inform students on @itsmetiana_w Thursday, March 23, 2017 INCREASE Mary Papazian talked and students could be heard inside. students instead of talking for to the dismay of college students greeted students in the front row. “You’re taking away pressure them,” Torres-Mendoza said. sitting in the audience. Continued from page 1 “It’s good that you’re all here from the legislature and placing “How am I going to get to class A large roar from students today,” Papazian said. it on the students,” Lieutenant when I have two jobs that I’m followed as the fi nal vote was As students prepared to enter As board members began to Governor Gavin Newsom said. trying to juggle and my schedule read. “How can you do this? Will the chamber where the trustees deliberate as to why the tuition “I also want to thank all you for does not allow me to go?” you be paying for my tuition?” would be, they made a line in hike should be adopted, students showing up today and fi ghting for About 10 people urged yelled one student. front of the doors and shouted at interrupted, chanting “Chancellor your education.” the board not to accept the The 5 percent increase forces trustees as they walked by. White, do what’s right.” The fi nance committee fi rst preliminary vote. Some shared undergraduate students to pay “No cuts, no fees, no corporate Some students were escorted out approved the tuition hike 7-2. personal stories of struggle. $270 more per year and graduate universities” and “education is of the voting room for not allowing After the fi rst vote, there was an Students shared stories of students $468 more. our right, not just for the rich and board members to speak. opportunity for public comment taking care of their families, The tuition hike is set to take white” were some of the chants Outside, a large crowd of over for anyone that wished to speak. fi ghting homelessness and effect in the fall of 2017. that students yelled. 100 students gathered outside SJSU A.S. Director of External hunger and paying for Once inside, trustees and the Offi ce of the Chancellor Affairs Juritzi Torres-Mendoza transgender health services. presidents from CSUs slowly and chanted as deliberations addressed the board. “You need After an hour, the board of Follow Elizabeth on Twitter began to enter. SJSU President took place inside. The chants of to make sure you provide for trustees approved the measure @elizabwithlove VILLAGES UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR SERIES San Jose State strives for Author discusses book tiny houses for homeless about culture in library BY JENNIFER BALLARDO laundry. Community gardens and on site STAFF WRITER medical care along with social workers have also been suggested.