Thursday, Volume 151 9.6.2018 No. 8 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY A&E Opinion Sports Indie fl ick “En el Séptimo COUNTERPOINTS:CO Volleyball team returns with Día” follows life of ShouldS Nike have hopes after securing best undocumented includedinc Kaepernick conference fi nish immigrant ini its campaign? last season Page 3 Page 6 Page 8 On the path to success: Policies aim to “It’s OK to fail” reduce teacher shortages By Vicente Vera “Once I started to see STAFF WRITER how easy it was to connect By Winona Rajamohan “For with people online, I STAFF WRITER too long, On Wednesday wanted to reach out with too many the Student Alumni the people I was talking A report by the districts Connections (SAC), a to in person,” Truong said. Learning Policy Institute have student organization Associate Director (LPI) identified state been LATTIMER at San Jose State of Student and Alumni policies that could forced University, hosted the Engagement April Cole produce solutions to end to use second installment of first came in contact with the rampant shortage emergency permits and their Fall 2018 Student Truong when he filled of teachers across long-term substitutes Success Series. out an “Alumni Mentor the country. for hard-to-fill teaching The series, which has Interest Form.” The report, “Taking vacancies,” LPI President been put on by the SAC “Michael told me that he the Long View: and CEO Linda Darling- since the 2015 spring was interested in sharing State Efforts to Solve Hammond said in a news semester, invites alumni to his experiences with Teacher Shortages release on Wednesday. speak directly to students current SJSU students by Strengthening the The policy strategies about tips and tools they because he wanted to give Profession,” draws include offering service have used to succeed. back to the school that attention to the evidence- scholarships and student This event took place helped him through so based policies pursued loan forgiveness for in the Student Union much,” Cole said. by states to strengthen those earning degrees Meeting Room 1A and Truong also wanted to their teacher workforce. in education, mentoring featured SJSU alumnus lend his voice to students, These policies for and induction and entrepreneur literally. recruiting and retaining for new teachers, Michael Truong. He told Cole that teachers were identified offering competitive Truong graduated from he wanted to be a to be enacted in 40 states, the university in 1998 with motivational speaker and including California. EDUCATION | Page 2 a degree in finance. share his experiences “I hated working in VICENTE VERA | SPARTAN DAILY with failure throughout finance,” Truong said. SJSU alumnus and entrepreneur Michael Truong his career. “Since I graduated during shared his experiences – the successes and the failure. “When the economy the ‘.com’ boom, I knew tanked in 2008, my that everyone wanted an MIS is a program are administered through business was losing Renowned folklórico information technology for business students the internet without the revenue fast.” Truong (IT) person.” that want to venture need to download any continued, “I knew for my fi gure leads Luna y Sol After realizing his true into technology. new software. family that I had to swallow passion, Truong came back Truong has heavily He delved into building my pride to pick up the to SJSU to get a degree in invested his talents into a personal online network phone and call my dad for management information cloud technology, which when he joined LinkedIn system (MIS). are online services that in 2007. ALUMNUS | Page 2 Grant to boost BART security efforts By Winona Rajamohan Station while he was in the STAFF WRITER process of looking for a suspect who was harassing BART received two female passengers. $6.8 million in funding This same agent from the Federal happened to be on duty VICENTE VERA | SPARTAN DAILY Emergency Management when 18-year-old Nia Maria Luisa Colmenarez will instruct the Mexican Agency (FEMA) to tighten Wilson was stabbed to folk-dance group, Grupo Folklórico Luna y Sol. security on their trains death. and platforms, according “The grant provides By Vicente Vera Mizoc de Sacramento,” to a media release by the an extra boost to the STAFF WRITER and “Danzantes del company on Aug. 27. important steps we have Alma de UC Davis” The grant will help already taken to improve Former artistic before joining SJSU. pay for continued officer the security and safety director of the Mexican “I was always a huge patrols on trains travelling of BART riders,” BART folk-dance group, fan of Luna y Sol prior to through BART’s busiest General Manager Grace PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Grupo Folklórico Luna coming on,” Colmenarez stations as well as upgraded Crunican said. A new grant will support more security for BART. y Sol de San Jose State, said. “Me and the former surveillance cameras and BART has been Itza Sanchez, left an director are colleagues radio equipment. struggling to reassure Among one of the The annually-applied instructor position as well.” The announcement their passengers of their cases was the attack of a funding acts as a primary vacant following her Colmenarez’s came at a time of public safety following strong San Jose State University resource for anti-terrorism July departure. background also includes scrutiny on the agency’s nationwide concern over student in early August at measures that the The beginning class cultural consultant work enforcement of security the murder of Wilson Richmond Station. Department of Homeland instructor’s role went to in the private sector. on its trains and platforms. at MacArthur Station in The victim was treated Security requires from a renowned figure in the In 2013, she and her According to ABC Oakland, as well as three for broken teeth, a public transportation folklórico world, Maria husband Rudy were News, a BART agent other cases of violent concussion and a possible agencies, according to Luisa Colmenarez. brought by the animation was sucker punched late stabbings and slashes in broken jaw, according to She was a folkórico Friday night at MacArthur recent weeks. reports from ABC7 News. GRANT | Page 2 artistic director at “Grupo INSTRUCTOR | Page 2 12TH ANNUAL APPLY BY Friday, September 14 AAS TO HOST A BOOTH: ASSOCIATEDASSOCIATED STUDENTS SASANN JOSE JOSE STATESTATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY tinyurl.com/fotfbooth2018 A HOMECOMING TRADITION TO PERFORM: as.sjsu.eduas.sjsu.edu tinyurl.com/fotfperform2018 THURSDAY TOWER LAWN as.sjsu.edu/CCCAC SEPT 27TH 4PM-9PM sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 2018 NEWS INSTRUCTOR Rudy was on the guitar, Already a fan of the dances such as, “Veracruz” and Luis shredded away dance style, Reyes jumped and “La Viejada.” Continued from page 1 at his violin, while the on the opportunity to be a “[Colmenarez] has been new instructor danced She’s already established in the part of the folklórico world. really great. She’s moving company Pixar as cultural in front of a group of community, and I know first-hand that “Since [Sanchez] was a faster pace, but everyone advisors to the Día de about 30 students. already taking on so many seems to be keeping up los Muertos-inspired Grupo Folklórico’s she knows how to teach a group of roles in the group, she since she knows how to film “Coco.” faculty advisor Kathryn students who might not have dance didn’t have time to also be a keep students up to speed.” “When we were called Blackmer Reyes suggested experience before coming to the faculty advisor, so she asked With Colmenarez in by [Pixar], we took with Colmenarez for the job group. me to take the position,” starting her first semester us costumes, dancers and based on their history. Reyes said. at SJSU, Reyes hopes the our knowledge of Mexican “Kathy and I go way Kathryn Blackmeyer Reyes “One day, we hope to instructor’s presence cultures,” Colmenarez said. back,” Colmenarez said. Grupo Folklorico faculty advisor, make SJSU the hub of will boost interest in the “I was so proud of the “She was a student manager folkloric dance in the city,” dance collective. end product of ‘Coco,’ the at UC Davis during the up bringing her Davis to the group,” Reyes said. Reyes added. The ultimate goal of the director was so respectful same period that I was colleague on board. Reyes came to Grupo Psychology senior club is to institutionalize in his portrayal of teaching folklórico there.” “She’s already established Folklórico at the request of Ana Canela has been Grupo Folklórico so that Mexican culture.” She initially contacted in the community, and I Sanchez, who knew her as with the club since her it gets more funding, Colmenarez’s husband Colmenarez to consult know first-hand that a librarian from the Martin freshman year and thinks and its own space. Rudy and their son, Luis with her on who would best she knows how to teach Luther King, Jr. Library’s Colmenarez filled in Garcia, brought live music fit the role of instructor a group of students who Africana, Asian American, Sanchez’s old role quite to Grupo Folkórico’s for the beginner dance might not have dance Chicano, & Native well. Canela says the class Follow Vicente on Twitter Aug. 29 beginner class. course. Reyes ended experience before coming American Studies Center. has taught new Mexican @VicenteSJSU GRANT Crunican proposed a EDUCATION fully credentialed teachers Safety and Security Action by the start of the 2018 Continued from page 1 plan on Aug. 6 to the BART Continued from page 1 school year, confirming the Having Board of Directors following .