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Volume 150 No. 36 Wednesday, April 25, 2018 SPARTAN DAILY

sjsunews.com/spartan_daily VOTE TEXT Tenants demand rent rights Campus police use anonymous tip app Report crime with TipNow

BY KRISTEL RODRIGUEZ receives a couple STAFF WRITER messages a day,” Renelle said. “The service helps Police officers and with the, ‘see something, community members say something’ are connecting, one philosophy.” anonymous text at a time. “See something, say The growth of something” is the idea mobile technology and that people should report the pervasiveness of unusual activity to smartphones have made local authorities. staying connected with Human rights junior family and friends easier Yvette Jones agrees with than at any point in this approach. She has human history. the TipNow app on her LOVETTA JACKSON | SPARTAN DAILY Local police phone and knows of San Jose resident Brenda Grigory holds a sign while sitting in on a San Jose City Council Meeting on Tuesday. departments are now friends that have used During the meeting at City Hall, council members discussed renters’ rights. wondering if the same the service to report technology can be disturbances. BY LOVETTA JACKSON intimidation. A second item rent,” Sandy Perry, president “That’s not fair. That’s used to help bridge Jones said her friends STAFF WRITER deals with the percentage of the Affordable Housing not right,” Perry said. “We the gap between law used the TipNow app to of affordable units in the Network of Santa Clara have landlords who commit enforcement and the request immediate help Protesters demanded San housing marketplace and County, said. crimes. There’s no penalties communities they serve. when a student fainted Jose City Council members a third item focuses on Perry claimed San Jose in this law for landlords who San Jose State’s on campus. to vote for stronger tenant utility charges. Mayor Sam Liccardo is commit crimes and actually University Police “They came within protections during a City An open forum allowed trying to weaken the Tenant who endanger their tenants.” Department offers minutes,” Jones said. “I Council meeting at City Hall residents to speak to the Protection Ordinance. The city’s website explains an app called TipNow have seen the results of on Tuesday. council was hosted by the This ordinance outlines the Ellis Act Ordinance where the public can having the app available Items were discussed Silicon Valley Renters’ the tenants rights in regards provides landlords a anonymously text or and it works.” during the meeting that Rights Coalition, which to notices of eviction and legal way to shut down email UPD to report any Jones said she affect the rights of landlords pushes for stronger outlines responsibilities of their buildings. suspicious activity. feels safer on campus and tenants. renter protections. a landlord, according to the It gives some protections UPD Lt. Jim Renelle knowing the app is According to the “We’re here to try to city of San Jose’s website. to tenants when a landlord said the service has been connected to on-duty meeting’s agenda, one item get the council to put in Perry said he believes wants to shut down a building available for five years police personnel 24 would prohibit a landlord more tenant protections, it is unfair for an entire or demolish it, Perry said. and he has witnessed an hours a day, seven from disclosing a tenant’s more protections against household to be evicted if Perry’s goal for new increase in use within days a week and is citizenship or immigration displacement and more one person in the house the last few years. status with the intent of protections against higher commits a crime. CITY COUNCIL | Page 2 “The department OUTREACH | Page 2

HEALTH Students learn to cook at CHEW workshops

BY AMANDA WHITAKER Center and taken into its STAFF WRITER own program,” Goody said. “Now it’s not a grad If you ever walked In college you project anymore, but it’s inside the Student don’t have a become its own entity Wellness Center and that’s actually funded by found that it smelled like lot of time to the Wellness Center.” your mother’s kitchen, really spend on CHEW workshops AMANDA WHITAKER | SPARTAN DAILY you weren’t imagining cooking. teach students basic CHEW instructor Kyle Goody teaches workshop attendees how to cook healthy things. You smelled cooking techniques, food mixes of vegetables in the Wellness Center at a workshop held Thursday. something being cooked safety and nutrition. Elizabeth Popov in a CHEW workshop. All of the recipes are freshman Elizabeth Popov and lettuce cups. These classes typically business administration CHEW, which stands freshman created to be quick and said. “You would rather These workshops fill up fast and only offer for Cooking Healthy, affordable, making it easy go to the [The Commons] are free to register around 15 to 20 seats. Eating Well, is a cooking- for students to duplicate and grab something ready, and the food used Walk-ins are also demonstration lab where as a graduate project. the recipes. but a lot of the time that’s to make the meals is welcome, but a spot is not students can learn how “It was pitched as “I like that they do unhealthy. So it’s nice to also free. guaranteed. to make a variety of an idea to maybe do healthy stuff because I have a variety that they Students can register CHEW encourages healthy recipes. community outreach or feel like in college, you teach college students.” online by filling out the students to email the CHEW instructor Kyle teach people a skill set don’t have a lot of time to CHEW teaches CHEW class reservation program with any recipe Goody said the program and then it kind of got really spend on cooking,” recipes such as pad thai, form and select their was started by a student adopted by the Wellness business administration ratatouille, shrimp scampi desired workshops. CULINARY | Page 2

FREE LESSONS!!! Bring Your Student ID & a Copy of Spartan Daily To Receive Free Classes 4334 Moorpark Ave For more info, send email to: San Jose, CA 95129 [email protected] (408) 418-3535 www.jparts.org sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 NEWS Security robot takes a test run on campus

BY BRIANNA SHEATS founded in April 2013 by tested on campus was the The K5-security robot of Technology’s (MIT) STAFF WRITER Stacy Dean Stephens and K5 model. This version does not carry weapons. Technology Review that William Santana Li. includes every feature listed However, a built- it plans to have an app for A human-sized robot In a 2013 statement, on the company’s website in alarm will sound if students to download so was spotted in front of the company’s founders except weapon detection someone interferes with they can request an escort the Martin Luther King Jr. said they created and multi-terrain. the robot and an alert around campus at night. Library earlier this month. Knightscope after the These robots are gets sent to the main “I do not think I would It was being tested on Sandy Hook Elementary designed to be placed monitoring system. request one because how April 6 to see if San Jose School shooting, with on campus to patrol and If someone feels like much can it really help State would want to invest the goal of preventing record any behavior that they are in danger, the me?” Tupper said. “They EXECUTIVE EDITOR in a fleet of security future shootings from may seem threatening, robot has a button near the have no arms or anything SARAH KLIEVES robots to increase safety happening. such as someone being top of the head and will to protect you.” on campus. Currently,Currentl y, harassed or someone contact someone to help, Knightscope does not MANAGING EDITOR “I really did not have Knightscope walking in a building at much like the blue lights intend to replace security THOMAS SOARES anything to do with this has ffourour night when the person is that are around campus. personnel jobs. Rather, the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER project and I have yetyet differentdifferent not supposed to be there. “I think that it’s cool the company’s goal is to help MARCI SUELA to see them because models.models. According to robot has these features, with the advancement of it is an informationmation TheThe Knightscope’s website, but the blue lights barely security, according to its PRODUCTION EDITOR technology project,”oject,” oneo n e the K5 robots’ features ever work and when they mission statement. NICHOLAS GIRARD interim Universityersity include cameras, sensors, do, UPD takes, like, 30 “The robots have NEWS EDITOR Police Chief AAlanlan navigation equipment minutes to come help,” multiple cameras and WILLIAM YAP Cavallo said. “It“It and electric motors. business marketing senior can be the eyes and is not a for sureure A total of four cameras Sona Rawat said. ears that UPD maybe A&E EDITOR thing, it is justt a and microphones are on “If they really want to needs,” sophomore JOSE F. GOVEA company doingg a each side of the robot and help keep the campus environmental studies OPINION EDITOR demonstrationo n it also has a weather sensor. safer, they should think Rebecca Carmick JONAS ELAM to show us thehe People can monitor the about taking the safety said. “Even if there are capabilities.” cameras via a Wi-Fi system. of the students more already multiple cameras SPORTS EDITOR The robotot “I feel like these robots seriously. And I don’t on campus, the robots JESSICA HOWELL tested on campusus will not change anything even want to get into the could get the blind spots PHOTO EDITOR was provideded on campus,” business fact that we don’t get an and angles that regular SAVANNAH HARDING by the startupup junior Katie Tupper said. alert until hours later if an cameras can’t.” companyy “There are already UPD incident happens.” MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Knightscope.e. all over campus and they Knightscope told the Follow Brianna on Twitter OMAR PEREZ @briiiiiiii_ The company was ILLUSTRATION BY MARCI SUELA hardly do anything.” Massachusetts Institute MULTIMEDIA REPORTER DAISUKE EGUCHI Development subsidy. She ONLINE EDITOR CITY COUNCIL claimed landlords don’t want KELLY BURNS residents who have a subsidy Continued from page 1 COPY EDITORS for public housing. “When I let them know I UPD TipNow App JACKIE CONTRERAS NOE MAGANA buildings in San Jose is to have a subsidy, that’s the end,” keep them rent controlled. If a Grigory said. STAFF WRITERS building is not rent controlled, However, this topic KAEL BENITEZ-AUSTRIA he believes a large percentage was postponed on the DIANA AVILA Available at the App Store. WILLIAM DELA CRUZ – about 33 percent – should council’s agenda. ANDREW GLENN be more affordable. Grigory said she has been DOMINOE IBARRA “As students, a lot of struggling for two years to LOVETTA JACKSON us are tenants, aside from afford housing and may have Connected to on-duty police personnel 24/7. CHIOMA LEWIS commuting, a lot of us are to leave the Bay Area because ALEX MARTINET GABRIEL MUNGARAY living here in San Jose,” of the high cost of living. KRISTEL RODRIGUEZ sociology senior Gigi The alleged discrimination JOE ROIAS Bolanos said. “It is essential against tenants were some Report anonymously. BRIANNA SHEATS for the city’s ordinance to of the reasons why residents BEN STEIN support tenants rather than were speaking at the meeting. JASMINE STRACHAN MEI SUZUKI landlords because landlords “People are literally not AMANDA WHITAKER already have their own having homes because of the power, and the position way that they look,” Katherine INFORMATION GATHERED FROM UPD, INFOGRAPHIC BY KRISTEL RODRIGUEZ | SPARTAN DAILY PRODUCTION CHIEF and the money in order to Nasol, member of Serve the same officer patrols and monitored by a third- MIKE CORPOS protect themselves.” People San Jose, said. OUTREACH works in the same area on a party company that NEWS ADVISERS At the meeting, students Serve the People San Jose permanent basis alongside supports the merging Continued from page 1 RICHARD CRAIG and residents had the is an organization that does community members to of police departments NISHA GARUD opportunity to speak directly not support the decision keep the area safe. and advanced mobile SCOTT FOSDICK to City Council members. for Google to build a mega- more prone to report San Jose Police rolled technology as a tool to ADVERTISING ADVISER “We’re begging you, save campus downtown. suspicious activity. out its version of this reduce local crime. TIM HENDRICK us, save our city. Protect Nasol is involved in “There is an additional service called textmy90. The Mercury News these people,” San Jose a storytelling project on layer of safety,” Jones com on April 3. reported SJPD is using ADVERTISING DIRECTOR resident Derek Stanfill said renters and tenants around said. “Because you can According to SJPD the service while it is JESSICA EWING to the council. “The majority Silicon Valley. report anonymously.” Media Relations Sgt. still in its testing phase, CREATIVE DIRECTOR is asking you, please protect “A lot of folks have been This is the first time Enrique Garcia, the but initial data collected TIFFANY LUONG our rights.” evicted because they are Jones has attended a person responsible for showed that 48.8 percent The United States on Section 8 or they are college that offers this creating the program was of San Jose residents ADVERTISING STAFF Department of Housing and at risk for homelessness type of service and on vacation, but offered reported feeling EIAN VELASQUEZ Urban Development provides because their kid is of said she is hopeful the the program’s website for somewhat safe. ADRIANNA BENYAT a subsidy, which provides mixed race or a person of benefits of the mobile further information. To use UPD’s KIMO PAMINTUAN SAUL MANRIQUEZ financial assistance for low- color,” Nasol said. app will inspire more Unlike UPD’s app TipNow program, HIEU TRAN income families. Nasol and other residents communities to adopt it TipNow, textmy90.com simply download the BRETT BARLOW “They [landlords] don’t believe Tuesday’s demands as part of their efforts to requires the public to app from the Apple or KRISTEN DEVERA want low income tenants,” were very impactful toward reduce local crime. use an internet browser Android store to your ANGELA MABINI San Jose resident Brenda tenants receiving fair rights. Community policing to submit comments, smartphone. YOSHI WANG DUC HUYNH Grigory said. As of press time, the city appears to be spreading, report alarming activity To enroll in SJPD’s NHU HO Grigory said she has council had not voted on with neighboring police and provide feedback on “text my 90”, visit ALEX AUBRY lived in San Jose for 42 all items. departments adopting police interactions with textmy90.com. ALBERT ONYEMEM years and she feels legally similar texting services. local residents. ALEXANDRA KROG discriminated against because Follow Lovetta on Twitter Community policing Textmy90.com is Follow Kristel on Twitter JO TADEM @Lovettaajackson @KO_352 SERGIO RAMIREZ of her Housing and Urban is a philosophy where the hosted nationwide and KYLE ZANKICH CULINARY Students worked CONTACT US together by cutting, dicing, cooking and Continued from page 1 stirring ingredients EDITORIAL together as they followed suggestions they may have. the CHEW instructor. PHONE: “I think these The instructor stood (408) 924-5577 workshops are really before the class in the EMAIL: important because if you kitchen and talked the SPARTANDAILY don’t learn how to cook students through the @GMAIL.COM when you’re young, when recipe step by step. There will you ever learn how was also a TV screen ADVERTISING to cook anything at all?” located on the side of psychology freshman the kitchen that showed PHONE: Andy Vasquez said. “Even a close-up view of the (408) 924-3270 if you don’t remember instructor’s cutting board AMANDA WHITAKER | SPARTAN DAILY EMAIL: an entire recipe, just and frying pan. CHEW workshop attendees make ratatouille at the Wellness Center on April 19. SPARTANDAILYADVERTISING learning little tips and “With our recipes, we @GMAIL.COM stuff like that I think is try to make them health really helpful.” driven and have a few view it as just a very safe their fellow classmates All recipes are posted on Several students points that we teach about place and a very fun place a little bit better, kind of CHEW’s website for students participated in a nutrition,” Goody said. for everybody in the diversify themselves and do to refer back to and use. workshop on April 19, “But the purpose of the community to kind of come something fun.” where they learned how class for me, I believe and learn how to cook the CHEW offers new recipes Follow Amanda on Twitter to make ratatouille. that most people should basics and get to know and classes each semester. @AmandaWhitDaily sjsunews.com/spartan_daily ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 3

PHOTO ESSAY Abstract ideas turn into architectural reality

CHIOMA LEWIS | SPARTAN DAILY (Top Left) Installer Aaron Lee works on a project named “Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)” for “The House Imaginary” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. (Top Right) Two untitled art pieces by Salomon Huerta, who popularly painted the backs of people’s heads and suburban Los Angeles houses. (Bottom Left) A sculpture set in the middle of the art exhibition. (Bottom Right) A three-piece set called “When two places look alike” by Clarissa Tossin explores economic and cultural exchanges between the United States and Brazil. Follow Chioma on Twitter @clevermindlewis

MOVIE REVIEW ‘Traffi k’ shines light on human traffi cking, but comes up short

BY GABRIEL MUNGARAY Sacramento Post, and the through the peephole, with STAFF WRITER fi ght she had just had with the merciless biker gang her editor about letting lurking in the background. Th e thriller “Traffi k” another reporter run a Without even noticing portrays all the blood and story she had been working at fi rst, the strange woman horror in its depiction on for months. slipped a cellphone into of real events of human Her editor promptly tells Brea’s purse when she traffi cking, but it comes up her that he doesn’t see a was not looking so the short when trying to get the place for her anymore on biker gang could track the message across. the newspaper and that she couple’s whereabouts. Th is Director Deon Taylor should consider looking part did tie up loose ends had a great vision in mind for another job. that I was confused about when writing and creating It is also Brea’s birthday in the movie, but it had the movie, but he couldn’t weekend. Her boyfriend now taken over an hour to ultimately fi nd that eff ective John has planned a fi nally get into the plot of punch to fully engage the romantic getaway weekend human traffi cking. audience right away. for Brea in a mansion in the Now being face-to-face Actors Paula Patton, woods up in the mountains with the lethal biker gang who plays Brea, and Omar of Northern California. that controls the traffi cking Epps, who plays John, did Before even getting to ring in the mountains, an exceptional job in their their destination, the two you’ll have to go watch at roles as they kept their fi rst make a pit stop at a gas your own risk to see if Brea, emotions running high station along the way where John, Darren and Malia are at times of great suspense they encounter the deadly going to be the next victims and also made their biker gang that would of human traffi cking. relationship very believable ultimately cause problems as a couple that were about for the couple. to get married. Th en, Brea has a close Patton’s acting alone kept encounter with a strange Follow Gabriel on Twitter me awake throughout the woman in the bathroom of @SJSneakerhead fi lm, but without her I’m the gas station. not sure if I would’ve been Once at the mansion, able to make it through the Brea and John make the MOVIE fi lm without nodding off most of their aft ernoon, in some scenes. Th e movie as any couple would in a REVIEW is only 96 minutes long. mansion in the woods all Th e movie begins with by themselves, until they get “Traffi k” showing the words “based surprised by their friends on real events” which I Darren and Malia, who at fi rst found interesting show up at the mansion. Directed by: because I always tend to Darren and Malia bring Deon Taylor enjoy movies that are based their relationship problems Starring: on a true story. At the same to it causing the getaway, to Paula Patton, time I found it to be cheesy not be so romantic for Brea Omar Epps as there has already been and John anymore. a ton of movies that have Th ere is another Genre: used that cliche as their suspicious knock at the Thriller opening line. door and, lo and behold, Rating: Th e fi lm then shift s the mysterious woman to focus on Brea, who from the gas station  is a journalist for the bathroom can be seen sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

RESTAURANT REVIEW New old joint serves Cuban cuisine

BY KAYLEE LAWLER rice, black beans and CONTRIBUTING WRITER plantains. Personally being Just a couple blocks someone who is not from campus, a Cuban fond of bananas or restaurant, Habana anything resembling Cuba, has found a bananas, I ate the new home in the SoFA plantains on my plate Market with a counter with delight. setting to sit and watch The pork is prepared chefs cook popular in a slow roast Cuban dishes. marinade with Cuban While watching the herbs and citrus juices. chefs cook, you can When you receive also admire the display your dish, the pork of sodas domestically is swimming in these imported from Miami. juices and the container If you’re unsure about separates the pork what to order, you can from the sides, keeping check out the menu the pork warm and board, where entrees simmering. and specials are listed The Sandwich in colorful chalk. Cubano, a twist on a Habana Cuba plain ham and cheese, presents itself as a well- also includes roasted oiled machine of hard pork, mustard and working chefs and food pickles grilled and prep workers that prove pressed together. PHOTO BY KAYLEE LAWLER their speed with short Served on Cuban A popular sandwich, Sandwich Cubano, includes roasted pork, ham, swiss cheese, mustard and pickles and is wait times for dishes. bread to soak up the served with sweet plantains. This sandwich and other Cuban dishes are served at Habana Cuba in San Jose. Originally located juices from the meats, on Race Street, Habana this sandwich comes Along with the bone, bottled in Miami. With all of the Cuba’s home for 16 with sweet plantains the oxtail is braised in The blackberry juice is dishes, appetizers and GOOD years closed its doors to on the side to make it a a garlic, tomato base free from seeds, leaving drinks being less than relocate and downsize utensil-free dish. with a hint of red wine a sweet aftertaste. $20, college students EATS to the SoFA Market. The combination of and pepper. The Iron Beer tastes can stop by in between The Race Street meats are perfect when When digging in, the familiar, almost like classes for a quick bite “Habana Cuba” location closed on balancing out the salty meat practically falls Miami’s version of a or a place for a dinner March 24. taste of the pickles. off the bone. sweeter Dr. Pepper. date and still have Habana Cuba The Sandwich You can tell that the The menu also enough in your budget Cuisine: opened its counter Cubano is perfect for oxtail has been cooking includes side to help pay for next Cuban location on April 12, any one who wants to for hours that day, substitutes such as semester’s textbooks. Location: bringing along its spice up their usual which results in leaving moros, gandules, 387 South First St., usual customers from lunchtime routine and you with a warm tostones and yuca frita. the Rose Garden/The do something different slightly spicy taste on For anyone with a San Jose, Calif. Alameda location. from the Subway your tongue. sensitive diet, Habana Price: Its popular dish, the sandwich lunch they The drinks they Cuba offers vegetarian $ Lechon a la Cubana, can grab on campus. serve include fresh and gluten-free dishes Rating: is also a traditional The Oxtail is an exotic blackberry juice and while keeping the menu Cuban dish. dish that includes the Iron Beer, originally simple with traditional Follow Kaylee on Twitter  It comes with white meat still on the bone. from Cuba but is Cuban cuisine. @kayleelawler94

OBITUARY Famous Swedish EDM DJ Avicii dies at the age of 28

BY LOVETTA JACKSON online on Laidback Martin said. “I took a in having to drive in According to were nothing because I STAFF WRITER Luke Forum. spin class to help with traffic to already know Billboard, Avicii began didn’t really believe it,” Different artists can my depression and we my grandfather had suff ering from the eff ects Sherwood said. Tim Bergling, better post their music on would always listen to passed and I wasn’t of having his gallbladder “Or more like I didn’t known by his stage the forum for feedback an Avicii song so he there for it was a pain and appendix removed want to believe it. My name Avicii, died at 28 from producers and became somewhat of I hadn’t felt before. The in 2014. roommate and I love years old on Friday. other musicians. a symbol that things entire car ride I listened This led him to EDM equally and she The cause of death is It wasn’t until could get better some to Avicii’s ‘The Days / postpone his tour that was the one to tell me. not yet confirmed. But 2011 when he time to me.” Nights EP’ album.” year and then stop It was almost as if I according to an article gained international His international “I cried the whole touring for good. had no emotion when published by Billboard, attention with his hit “Wake Me Up!” way home but it was “My choices and I heard the news. Then Avicii had several song “Levels,” which featuring Aloe Blacc was an emotion that wasn’t career have never been as the day went on it issues relating to his peaked at No. 1 on the released in 2013. through pain but driven by material kind of blew me away alcohol use, including U.S. Billboard Dance “The biggest through the love that things, although I’m to know it was true.” acute pancreatitis. Club Songs chart. contribution he made the words in the song grateful for all the He also had to get “I have been listening in my life though said and the intensity opportunities and his gallbladder and to Avicii since I was in was the night my the track had brought. “ comforts my success appendix removed. high school but more grandfather died,” “Three years later has availed me,” he According to often once I got into athletic training junior and that album speaks wrote in his letter. Billboard, Avicii began college,” behavioral Haley Sherwood said. to me the same way it “My initial thoughts Follow Lovetta on Twitter posting his music science junior Madison “The place I was did that night.” on Avicii being dead @Lovettaajackson

Corrections

On Tuesday, April 24, the Spartan Daily published an article titled “Celebrities should not be role models for relationships” in which Chrissy Teigen was misidentifi ed. On Tuesday, April 24, the Spartan Daily published an article titled “It is irresponsible to call Jordan the greatest player ever.” Th e article was accompanied by an infographic in which LeBron James was misidentifi ed. On Tuesday, April 24, the Spartan Daily published an article titled “Injuries won’t stop Spartans’ Lozano” in which Janessa Lozano was misidentifi ed in a cutline. She is an infi elder. Th e Spartan Daily regrets these errors. sjsunews.com/spartan_daily OPINION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 5 Cheerleading should be included in the Olympics

air while performing get their teeth knocked and strength,” must be invited, a series of different out, take elbows to the hospitality junior Tara meaning you’ve tricks and flips? face, get black eyes Hatami said. “The scored high enough Amanda Whitaker Not many. and break bones. sport requires the in other regional and STAFF WRITER People also like to At one point, I entire team to come national competitions underestimate the even received three together to be able throughout the season. strength it takes to be layers of 11 stitches in to reach perfection, Cheerleading a cheerleader. my face. it’s the strength of fits perfectly in the Flipping through The more advanced all individuals not Olympics, considering All-star cheerleading According to a the air and holding the skills are, the just one.” it has performance is like gymnastics BBC article, in 2016 a person above higher the risk of Throughout sports such as figure on steroids. cheerleading was your head for 30 injury, but if your the season, teams skating, gymnastics Many people believe “given provisional seconds takes a lot team can execute these compete at a variety and synchronized cheerleading isn’t a recognition as an of endurance. skills efficiently, it is of competitions swimming. sport, but it has come Olympic sport. That I know because most likely to take the such as regionals, Next time you say a long way since means the sport will I was an all-star top spot. nationals, and if you’re cheerleading isn’t a chanting “go team get £19,700 a year cheerleader myself. “I think cheer good enough, the sport, you may want go” at Friday night from the International There is a lot of should be an official Cheerleading Worlds. to think again. football games. Olympic Committee conditioning that Olympic sport This is the highest It’s evolved into to spend on training comes with being a because it’s not just competition you something much the cheerleading cheerleader. about looking pretty, can attend as an all- Follow Amanda on Twitter bigger and should athletes of the future.” In order to complete it requires endurance star team, and you @AmandaWhitDaily be recognized as an The awesome thing a routine, cheerleaders Olympic sport. about cheer is that it’s must flip, toss, jump and dance with no breaks. It takes a lot stay connected out of you, and it’s not Cheerleading fi ts perfectly in as easy as it looks. FACEBOOK: INSTAGRAM: “I 100 percent spartandaily @spartandaily the Olympics, considering it believe cheer should be an Olympic sport,” all- has performance sports such as star cheerleader Abby TWITTER: YOUTUBE: Allen said. “It takes so @spartandaily spartandailyYT fi gure skating, gymnastics and much muscle control, synchronized swimming. agility and flexibility to be able to perform at a very high level of fast-paced endurance. Letters to the Editor may be placed in the Cheerleaders put in letters to the editor box in the Spartan Daily offi ce All-star cheer is an a sport that will never a lot of extra work in Dwight Bentel Hall, Room 209 or emailed to [email protected] to the attention of the entire world within stop progressing. just like any other Spartan Daily Opinion Edtitor. itself. It’s just like any There will always be Olympian would, and Letters to the Editor must contain the author’s other sport where a greater skill, stunt, I believe it would be a name, address, phone number and major. Letters teams compete against jump or tumbling pass very fun performance become property of the Spartan Daily and may be other teams. to achieve. to watch and to edited for clarity, grammar, libel and length. Only letters of 300 words or less will be considered for There’s different What other sports compare between publication. levels, divisions can you think of countries who really is Published opinions and advertisements do not and rules. Teams where an entire 2 the best!” send a letter necessarily refl ect the views of the Spartan Daily, the are judged on their minute, 30 second The sport can also be School of Journalism and Mass Communication or tumbling, jumps, performance is based very dangerous. Back to the editor SJSU. Th e Spartan Daily is a public forum. stunts and dance on people throwing in my competitive performance skills. other people in the days, I witnessed girls

Online dating isn’t the way to go

addition, more than 53 percent of Americans put fake information Gabriel Mungaray in their dating profi le details in order to look STAFF WRITER more appealing to other members. Choosing to go the online dating route may put you in danger of During the process Another online dating being a victim of rape of fi nding a soulmate, site, eHarmony, was or other sex-related using an online dating created in 2000. crimes, as one in 10 sex site should be your last Together, they have off enders use online resort – or not even be a total of 42,075,000 dating sites to meet part of your search at all. members as of May new people. Th e best way to fi nd 2017. According to In 2005, 25 percent that special person the Observer website, of rapists used online you want to date is by the 2017 U.S. census dating sites to fi nd meeting him or her in reported 110.6 million their victims, according person. As soon as the unmarried people over to Phactual. conversation begins, the age of 18. Th ough that was you can instantly get a 13 years ago, no one feel of the chemistry and should put themselves connection between the in a situation where they two of you. could potentially be a From there, you and The best victim of rape. Th is is your new love interest way to fi nd yet another reason to can grab a coff ee or a avoid online dating. bite to eat and talk more that special In 2011, the FBI to see if you feel a spark. Internet Crime A lot of the time person you Complaint Center there is a struggle to want to date received more than schedule a fi rst date and 5,600 romance it is awkward. But when is by meeting complaints from victims you meet someone in of “romance scams.” person fi rst, you don’t him or her in As someone that have to worry about person. has experienced both this because you’ve meeting a signifi cant technically already had other in person upon a fi rst date. fi rst glance and also Th ough some people Th ere are tons of risks trying out Tinder, I can feel they are socially involved with online honestly say I had a awkward and want to be dating that can easily deeper connection with able to chat online before be avoided by just not the girl I met in person meeting their soulmate, doing it. than with the girl I meeting someone in About one-third of met online. person instead of online people who date online Everyone should think allows you to get more don’t upload a profi le twice before considering comfortable with the picture to their profi le, online dating, as there are person right away. according to Match dangerous risks involved Th e fi rst online writer Debra Kent. that aren’t worth the dating site – Th is may be a cause potential relationship. Match – was created for concern, as you in 1995, according to can’t see what the Follow Gabriel on Twitter Business Insider. person looks like. In @SJSneakerhead sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 6 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018 OPINION

#SaveStudentNewsrooms so they can stay independent

Sarah Klieves EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Some people say the just our newsroom. It’s newspaper business is a happening in student- dying industry. I’ve even run newsrooms across heard people in my own the country and in newsroom say that. local, professional Whether or not newsrooms physical, print like that of Th e GRAPHIC BY MARCI SUELA | SPARTAN DAILY newspapers are dying is Mercury News. another debate. Students at Southern Seventh Circuit ruled can only be learned, in But there are Methodist University by a 7-4 majority that say, a print newsroom. skills that student in Dallas, Texas administrators at public Last semester, I journalists learn in a are lucky enough Unfortunately, a lack of colleges have total had the opportunity print newsroom that their newspaper control over subsidized to report on Title IX we can’t learn in any is a completely funding isn’t affecting student newspapers. issues at SJSU, and I’m other setting. Th at is separate entity from But the scope of the currently following why it is so important the university. just our newsroom. decision is breathtaking, a sexual assault case to #SaveStudent- However, according because the reasoning through the court Newsrooms. to an article by the of the case applies to any system in which a Today, student Student Press Law student organization student is being charged journalists across the Center (SPLC), the prior restraint. something to inhibit, receiving student fees. with fi ve felonies. country are publishing organization that funds To my knowledge, ban or restrain its Student newspapers, I am lucky enough editorials that highlight the paper, is dissolving SJSU hasn’t ever tried publication.” speakers and even to have been a part the need for student at the end of the to restrict what the Th e problem with campus protests could of an award-winning media – including academic year because Spartan Daily does universities being now be subject to the newspaper staff in both independent, student- of fi nancial problems. and doesn’t publish. affi liated with student- whim of administrative high school and college. run newspapers. SMU’s paper – Th e However, if the Daily run newspapers is that it approval.” Without student As the Spartan Daily Campus – has was to get more funding creates a slippery slope. I’ve been a student newspapers, I would Daily’s executive editor, no other option but from the university, our Even if journalist since my never have gotten these I feel it was important to re-affi liate with the paper might be at risk. administrators say they junior year of high opportunities. to address this. university. Students are Mike Hiestand, will not review content, school. Th ere is so Funding is important. To my knowledge, concerned this will lead a legal consultant a 2005 ruling by the much I’ve learned in the But I don’t know that the Spartan Daily has to the university trying for the SPLC, wrote Seventh Circuit Court two school newsrooms I would be willing to always received some to dictate what gets an article for the of Appeals declared in which I’ve worked. trade a free student sort of funding from published in the paper. National Scholastic that administrators do Learning how to press for it. Th at’s why San Jose State. Th is includes prior Press Association that indeed have the power work in broadcast, today – and every day In previous years, this restraint and prior explains prior restraint to dictate what can and multimedia and – we need to support was as much as $30,000. review. Prior review is “occurs when an can’t be published. print newsrooms and #SaveStudent- Now, it’s supposedly when administrators or administrator – oft en According to is important. Newsrooms. next to nothing. advisers read the content aft er he or she has an Inside Higher Many of the skills Unfortunately, a lack before publication. read material (prior Education article, “In cross over, but some of Follow Sarah on Twitter of funding isn’t aff ecting Th is is diff erent from review) – actually does Hosty v. Carter, the them are invaluable and @sarah_klieves

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Racial disparity plagues the American justice system

Chioma Lewis STAFF WRITER

African-Americans in when convicted of the United States are still murder than others. being treated unfairly in In 1972, a black man the justice system. They named Richard Phillips are still more likely to was convicted of murder be convicted of crimes in Michigan. The case while innocent than was flawed, and there other groups of people. was no real proof that In America, there Phillips had committed seems to be a belief that the murder yet he was black people commit still convicted. most of the crimes in the He spent 45 years and country, but that is not two months in prison ILLUSTRATION BY MARCI SUELA | SPARTAN DAILY true. I am tired of people before his charges making false claims were fully dropped concluded it did not for people of color. before they actually do in 2018. Phillips’ 45 match the DNA of any These men lost many some research. years in prison was the I will not be satisfi ed with of the suspects. years of their lives According to the longest time someone Despite lack of for nothing. National Registry of was imprisoned after the U.S. justice system until justifiable evidence and In a 2017 NRE report, Exonerations (NRE), being wrongfully not-guilty pleas, the although African- African-Americans convicted prior to statistics like these are gone. five were convicted and Americans and whites are 13 percent of the being exonerated in served prison sentences use drugs at about the U.S. population yet the U.S. ranging from five to same rate, African- make up 47 percent of When I see cases like white victims. in Central Park. The 13 years. Americans are more exonerations. There is this, it makes me doubt This statistic is not attack put her in a coma In 2001, a convicted likely to be convicted for a clear racial disparity the justice system. surprising, especially for 12 days. Five young serial rapist and drug possession. They when it comes to murder, America’s justice system when it comes to men, four black and one murderer, Matias Reyes, are also 12 times more sexual assault and has not always been fair black males being of Hispanic descent, confessed to the crime. likely to be convicted drug cases. to African-Americans misidentified. America were arrested and Reyes was already while innocent. The NRE claims and it’s disappointing to has a long history of convicted of the rape serving a life sentence. I will not be satisfied black people are seven see that it is still unfair. locking up black men and attack. The men were later with the U.S. justice times more likely to be As reported by the because they looked The young men exonerated in 2002 after system until statistics wrongfully convicted NRE, an African- like someone else who confessed on video to Reyes’ confession and like these are gone. of a murder than white American who is in jail committed a crime. being part of the crime DNA proved he was African-Americans people and on average for sexual assault is 3.5 One of the most but later retracted their guilty. In 2014, they should not be put in will spend three years times more likely to be well-known sexual confessions, claiming received a $40 million jail for crimes they longer in prison than innocent than a white assault cases in the U.S. they were coerced settlement from the city did not commit. white people before person in jail for the is that of the Central into making false of New York. No one should, for being exonerated. same crime. Park jogger. confessions. Since this case that matter. African-Americans This is because In 1989, a white Before their trials, opened in 1989, it is a Follow Chioma on Twitter are also 50 percent more many black defendants woman, Trisha Meili, the FBI tested the DNA clear example of justice @clevermindlewis likely to be innocent are misidentified by was raped and assaulted in the rape kit and taking years to happen

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL Raised in the Midwest, praised at the beach

BY MADYSON MONTOYA Scholl was learning a THE SPEAR new sport surrounded by athletes who had played Playing beach volleyball for years. This only drove was never a part of “the her to push harder and plan” for top-notch senior improve faster. Lyndi Scholl. “I owe everything to “My first [beach] season them,” Scholl said. “The ever was when I was 18,” club owner, he convinced Scholl said. me to play beach when I She grew up in Illinois was already graduated.” and if you look at a map, Once Scholl stepped the state does not provide foot on the sand, there much opportunity for was no turning back to play time in the sand. the hard gym floors. She Instead, Scholl started set a new goal — playing playing indoor volleyball beach volleyball at the in elementary school. college level. Set on playing volleyball The main drive for the after high school, Scholl switch to beach? Scholl went on to continue her was now able to play career at Kishwaukee volleyball with a smaller Community College just risk for injury. outside of Chicago. It “It’s way softer on your was a great year for her body,” Scholl said. “Indoor performance, but her body is strictly you want to hit took a beating. as hard as you can every PHOTO COURTESY OF TERRELL LLOYD | SJSU ATHLETICS Her initial dreams other time. Beach is more Senior Lyndi Scholl looks to return a hit during a beach volleyball match. Senior Nandyala Gama watches. were centered around her of a finesse game.” indoor career until the Beach volleyball across Scholl. Goldbeck knew beach players train on as a huge advantage. An Scholl is a “great leader” last minute. the country doesn’t about Scholl and gave sand all year. indoor and a beach player who caters to each person’s “I wanted to get have a lot of money for the volleyball coaches her Head coach Aaron together provides a new needs and coaching recruited to play indoor the athletes. information, which led to Shepardson said having dynamic, but the two are styles. Scholl strives to out of state,” Scholl According to her becoming a Spartan. strictly beach players on a clear understanding be a player that can play said, “But my knees and ScholarshipStats, beach Scholl came to “has been critical to our of each other. It’s a true with everyone and her shoulders were pretty bad.” volleyball is limited California for the first time success.” partnership between teammates see that. Then, she gave it all to having 37.5 percent to play in a tournament Scholl appreciates the Scholl and Gama. While being over 1,000 up. Scholl said goodbye of team members on and display her abilities to amount of focus she can “I know that she wants miles away from home to her scholarship, indoor scholarship, which isn’t the SJSU coaches. put into her sport year- to do things to see her would affect most, the volleyball and school and much compared to the “They offered me [a round to constantly partner succeed,” Gama distance doesn’t phase moved to a community 93 percent of basketball position] on the spot improve. said. “That makes her Scholl because she has college closer to home. players that receive there,” Scholl said. “She will get better play better.” her team. A goodbye like that scholarship money. From that moment, she whether she has a coach Gama knows that “I’ve never been doesn’t come easy for an This made Scholl’s college has been playing beach or not because she is very Scholl wants to continue on a team like this athlete like Scholl. Still search a little difficult. volleyball for the past dedicated to her sport,” her beach career after before,” Scholl said, “I’m driven by her undeniable Teammate and fellow three years at SJSU and Shepardson said. she graduates. They look extremely lucky to have passion for the sport, she Illinois-native, junior leads the No. 1 duo team. Her partner this year, out for each other on the this opportunity.” trained at her old club Julia Goldbeck, is actually While a majority of the indoor and beach senior court, which is why they facility which started her the one who made San team is playing indoor, Nandyala Gama, sees improve every week. Follow Madyson on Twitter beach career. Jose State an option for Scholl and the three other having Scholl with her According to Gama, @MadysonMontoya

SPORTS TUNES Athletes use pregame music to get ‘pumped’

BY MEI SUZUKI before gamesmes to performance. STAFF WRITER bring up her “If“If I’m mood. goinggoing Listening to music is “We arere intointo anan one of the best ways to tryingg intenseintense get your brain focused, to get game or especially when you are pumped,” if I feelfeel about to go out and do Drake said.d. likelil ke I something under a lot of “We haveave needneed pressure. Some San Jose a mentalityity of to get State athletes believe it going intoo games pumpedpumped helps their games. like ‘we are going up, I listen A lot of Spartan to win.’” to some rock,” Cantu athletes listen to music The team usually travels said.said. “It will make [the before games for a few to away gamesames in vans. game]game] fun and better different reasons. Drake said duringduring the ride, because you are nice and “It affects my mood she and six other players relax.relax. When you hear and how calm I can be or always listenn to a song music,music, there is alalwaysways how controlled I can be called “Bricks”ks” bby CCarnage certain energy to you. [in a game],” freshman and Migos. They rock the So I’ll say it provides you softball player Rayohna car to the beat of the song. some energy.” Sagapolu said. “That just gets us Cantu’s teammate, junior She said there is a lot pumped up so much,” Michael Bowes, agrees. of pressure to manage as Drake said. “It’s like the “It gets my energy a freshman player on the ritual we have, we do it pumped and rolling,” team. Listening to music every time. Bowes said. “I definitely helps her manage it. ”She said that the more feel like music can be “You have to keep hyped up she is, the more translated to energy and yourself to the level she is into the game. vibes around the whole that everybody else is Music helps some of the team that kind of unifies at even though they’ve softball players get into us together.” been playing for many the right mindset, but Music affects Spartan years,” Sagapolu said. “So listening to music doesn’t athletes in different listening to music kind of factor into performance ways and many athletes helps me calm down and for all of the players. listen to different music not stressed about it.” “I’m kind of for different reasons. She mainly listens to superstitious, so I like to Some say it helps them slow music before games listen to similar music,” play or compete better to relax her brain so that sophomore softball player physically, while some say she can focus during the Georgia Blair said. “But if it helps them mentally. game. Sagapolu plays Ed I didn’t listen to music, I No matter what, it seems Sheeran’s “Perfect” before don’t think it would affect to provide them with every game. me too much.” better outcomes. While Sagapolu listens Santiago Cantu, a to slower songs, her freshman on SJSU’s Follow Mei on Twitter teammate, sophomore baseball team, is the @meiS0000 Mackenzie Drake, opposite. He said listens to songs with listening to music before beats to hype her up a game does affect his ILLUSTRATION BY MARCI SUELA