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A&E Opinion Sports KoJa Kitchen serves Sinclair airs script about Champion track athlete Korean-Japanese fake news on dozens of stations, Destiny Longmire fusion with a twist sets sights on Olympics echoing Trump’s fake news rhetoric Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Serving the San Jose State University community since 1934 Volume 150 No. 27 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 SPARTAN DAILY sjsunews.com/spartan_daily GONE TOO SOON REMEMBERING CIVIL RIGHTS ICON DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BY OMAR PEREZ Young was withh King on the MULTIMEDIA EDITOR balcony in the momentsoments after he was shot. April 4, 1968 was supposed to He was also one of King’s be like any other day for a 39-year- confidants and thehe two worked old activist and minister from closely coordinatingng desegregation Atlanta, Georgia. efforts throughout the South. King Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. grew to trust Young,ung, eventually and other Southern Christian assigning him commandmmand over the Leadership Conference (SCLC) SCLC while King spentpent time in jail. members were called into Memphis, According to the National Tennessee to support a sanitation Archives, King wasas shot minutes workers strike. after 6 p.m. and was pronounced King and fellow activists checked dead just about ann hour later. An into their rooms at the Lorraine autopsy later confirmedfirmed he died Motel, which at the time welcomed from a single gunshothot wound. African-Americans in an otherwise His death sent shockock wavwaveses unwelcoming Jim Crow South. across the country. Things took an unexpected “No one at thatat titimeme turn moments after King stepped wanted to believee that outside room 306 onto the balcony our leader had been that evening. assassinated,” Wardelldell That’s when one shot rang out. Hurst, a Mississippipi “Even though Martin Luther native and Bayy King was only 39 when he was Area resident, shot, his death was almost instant,” said. “It seemed former SCLC leader Andrew Young that everybody said. “I really don’t think he heard whether you the shot or felt any pain but his body was dead.” MLK | Page 3 PHOTO FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS OBITUARY TECH GIANT YouTube attacked Notable alumna dies at 59 Armed woman fi res shots, injures three at Peninsula headquarters BY JESSICA HOWELL office, she received multiple SPORTS EDITOR prank calls and her car was tampered with. BY ALEX MARTINET York Times, a male victim San Jose State alumna Her A.S. presidential STAFF WRITER was in critical condition, Nancy McFadden, Gov. campaign was also endorsed one female was in serious Jerry Brown’s chief of staff, by the spring 1979 Spartan A woman from condition and another lost her battle with ovarian Daily editorial staff. Southern California opened female victim was in fair cancer on March 22. McFadden went to law fire and injured three at condition. She was 59 years old. school at the University YouTube’s headquarters According to a press McFadden studied of Virginia and after in San Bruno Tuesday release sent out by San political science at SJSU and graduating, she pursued afternoon, according to Bruno Police, SBPD graduated with a bachelor’s a career in politics in NBC Bay Area. received multiple calls degree in 1984. Her political Washington, D.C. She Multiple media outlets of reported gun fire on career began in 1979 when she eventually left for Little confirmed Nasim Aghdam the YouTube campus at ran for Associated Students Rock, Arkansas to work was identified as the 12:46 p.m. President for SJSU. She ran for then Gov. Bill Clinton’s shooter. SBPD arrived on the against current Democratic presidential campaign. She San Bruno Police scene two minutes after strategist Joe Trippi. returned to California in FILE IMAGE | SPARTAN DAILY Chief Ed Barberini said the first call. She told the Spartan 2000 and started working SJSU alumna Nancy McFadden won a delayed to media outlets in a Multiple employees Daily in 1979 that the for Gov. Brown in 2011. Associated Students runoff election, becoming A.S. press conference Aghdam were seen fleeing the President, on April 26, 1979. election was full of “dirty According to the died from a self-inflicted building during the tricks” against her by Trippi Sacramento Bee, two of her “Nancy was the best chief a diplomat and she was gunshot. incident, which Barberini and his campaigners. These biggest accomplishments of staff a governor could fearless. She could also write Barberini also confirmed described the scene as included rumors that her include her work with ever ask for,” Brown said in a like no other. Nancy loved the three victims were chaotic during a press vice president was involved Brown on a gas tax to help statement about McFadden’s her job and we loved her transported to Zuckerberg conference. in an election scandal fund road repairs and an death. “She understood doing it. This is truly a loss San Francisco General Officers first encountered at West Valley College, extension of California’s government and politics, Hospital. files were stolen from her climate change program. she could manage, she was LOSS| Page 2 According to the New SHOOTING | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2018 NEWS LGBTQ community dances in ‘space’ BY BRIANNA SHEATS anyone to attend, but was STAFF WRITER mainly advertised for those who did not go to their Science fiction decor high school prom because and vibrant colors of personal reasons. filled the Student Union “Queer Prom to me Ballroom for the Pride really means that we are Center’s annual Queer able to have a space for Prom Tuesday night. us that is not secretive or The theme of the underground,” business EXECUTIVE EDITOR dance was “Queers in senior Abdullah Deen SARAH KLIEVES Space!” which encouraged said. “It’s public, people attendees to dress in suits, know about it and it’s MANAGING EDITOR dresses and space suits. very visible. We want to THOMAS SOARES A stage was decorated show that we are here and EXECUTIVE PRODUCER with colors of the rainbow we are not going away by MARCI SUELA to represent the LGBTQ any means.” community. For many of The event included live PRODUCTION EDITOR them, it was a night of love performances from local NICHOLAS GIRARD and acceptance where they bands, a DJ and drag BRIANNA SHEATS | SPARTAN DAILY could be themselves with performances by current Remington Greathouse (left) and James Morton (right) dance together to the music NEWS EDITOR at this year’s Queer Prom in the Student Union Ballroom on Tuesday night. WILLIAM YAP no judgment. and former SJSU students. “This is a safe space where When Bay Area band Deen said. “Personally for up. Getting to Zero is a can dress up and have fun,” A&E EDITOR we can express ourselves and Azuah started playing, me, I have been harassed campus-wide health history freshman Jenna JOSE F. GOVEA talk to our friends and have people got up on their for the way that I dressed, education program which Mack said. “I just wanted OPINION EDITOR the night that we did not feet to dance. acted or even coming out of aims to reduce HIV-related a night where everyone is JONAS ELAM have in high school,” theatre Friends rocked out gay bars. So for us, having stigma by offering accurate comfortable being gender arts freshman Remington with smiles on their this space in public it is to information about the non-conforming and you’re SPORTS EDITOR Greathouse said. “We faces and couples had really show people we are nature of HIV. not gonna get weird stares JESSICA HOWELL couldn’t wear a dress or suit opportunities to slow going to do this as well as For the event, it set up a or anything. It’s just a night PHOTO EDITOR because we’d be judged. But dance during the night. give ourselves the self-love scavenger hunt online for to express yourself.” SAVANNAH HARDING now we are not being judged “Having this space for and care that we need.” the attendees to participate and we are out having fun individuals who are queer At the event, the student in at the dance. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR with our friends.” or LGBT really let us be organization SJSU Getting “This is a fun event Follow Brianna on Twitter OMAR PEREZ The dance was open for able to let loose a little bit,” to Zero had a booth set where the LGBT students @briiiiiiii MULTIMEDIA REPORTER DAISUKE EGUCHI LOSS said he remembered her the political science commencement speech challenge, enjoy the air and ONLINE EDITOR maintaining connections department is very proud for SJSU’s 2014 graduating behold the view. Climb it KELLY BURNS Continued from page 1 with SJSU and the political of her as an alumna and are class. During McFadden’s so you can see the world COPY EDITORS science department all very sorry to have lost her. speech, she quoted and not so the world can JACKIE CONTRERAS for me, for Anne, for our through her career. “She was a force,” high school teacher see you.” NOE MAGANA office, for Nancy’s family “She was a strong, Christensen said. “I David McCullough Jr., “I hope you don’t let and close friends and for powerful woman and you don’t mean to make her which her friends told fear stop you,” McFadden STAFF WRITERS all of California.” knew what she thought sound like a bulldozer the Sacramento Bee added. “I hope you take a KAEL BENITEZ-AUSTRIA She was a big part of of something when you because she wasn’t. She epitomized her legacy.