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CIA Hits up SJSU REVIEW! ‘CABARET’ BOUNCING BACK See STUDENT CULTURE, The story of an SJSU gymnast page 3. TAINTED TALENT, see OPINION, page 5. See SPORTS, page 6. VOLUME 130 ISSUE 25 Spartan Daily 68˚ / 44˚ thespartandaily.com MOSTLY SUNNY SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008 FREE SINCE 1934 ‘Saigon’ nameless CIA after Council votes hits By KATE TAYLOR vote reversing the name passed at Staff Writer 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. “I think it should be the people of San Jose City Council passed four the community’s choice what they motions early Wednesday morning want to call it,” said Kimia Rahn- up rescinding several of its actions in- emoon, a senior biology major. volving the naming of a retail area McGurk said the claim that 90 within District 7, the area between percent of the district voted for the Highway 87 and Highway 101. name Little Saigon is false, as some The Council voted unanimously to of the “vocal segment of the Viet- reverse its Nov. 20 decision to name namese community” have asserted. SJSU the area “Saigon Business District” The San Jose Redevelopment but voted against renaming it “Little Agency sent 1,136 surveys to proper- Saigon” in a 7-4 decision. ty owners within a 1,000-foot radius Michelle McGurk, public infor- of the district, she said, and 117 were mation offi cer for Mayor Chuck completed and returned. Reed’s offi ce, said the motions that Of those, McGurk said, 44 stated Agency hopes were passed recognized the desire of they wanted the name “Little Saigon.” the district’s community to title its “I think it’s ridiculous that they’re to recruit area “Little Saigon” and prohibited making a huge deal out of it,” said City Council from naming any area Andrae Macapinlac, a junior political JULIA WEEKS / SPARTAN DAILY ARCHIVES within San Jose without fi rst identi- science major. Chayale Ash-Fuhrman recounts her family’s experiences during the Holocaust in front of an students fying the area’s stake holders. Macapinlac, 21, said the attacks MCOM 136 class titled World War II Coverage by the American Media of Holocaust By ANGELO LANHAM “Essentially City Council will on Councilwoman Madison Nguyen, Concentration and Internment Camps for Japanese Americans. Staff Writer not impose a name on any district who represents the district, were rude without the participation of business and that “fringe members of the Viet- The CIA is currently looking to owners,” McGurk said. namese community are blowing this SJSU’s marketing honors program The Council’s staff was directed out of proportion.” for information. to come up with a process for nam- Nguyen could not be reached for Surviving messages According to a Feb. 26 news re- ing any areas or districts within San comment. lease, 10 honors students who have Jose in the future, she said. “I think the Council’s actions Course gives students fi rsthand accounts of internment formed a team called iNovatiV>, The meeting lasted more than six and their statements made last night pronounced “innovative,” are re- hours, according to a video of the (showed) they really want to recog- By DINA BASLAN about the subject. And imbued with tion Camps and Internment Camps searching SJSU students’ knowledge meeting by Nhat Meyer of the San nize the contributions from the Viet- Staff Writer the lives of the survivors he has for Japanese Americans, was held of the CIA to help the agency more Jose Mercury News, with the fi nal namese community,” McGurk said. interviewed, he started the course Fall 2000 and still continues today. effectively market itself to potential He hasn’t lived a life-threaten- MCOM 136 — a code translating “I was interested in what the job candidates. ing catastrophe himself. But stories his birth month and year: January Jews and Japanese-Americans saw “They want to get a feel for what of survivors who once lost their 1936. in World War II,” Gotliffe said. “I the students are like,” said Jamen human rights, even their family But this semester might be the drew a lot of connecting points and Koos, 23, a senior business major, members, help him teach a course last for him to teach the course as was interested in how journalism “to learn what some of the best SJSU he began building eight years ago. Gotliffe is set to retire. covered it.” students think is the best way to Professor Harvey Gotliffe spent The fi rst experimental course, Students spend the fi rst four reach candidates. They tap into our 10 years of extensive research in which is in the mass communica- weeks learning about the history knowledge, and it’s a benefi t for us. respect of Holocaust and Japanese tions department and titled World of the catastrophes through a col- It’s a win-win.” internment events. He has written War II Coverage by the American All team members are part of the articles and spoken internationally Media of the Holocaust Concentra- See CLASS, page 4 Gary J. Sbona Honors Program, ac- cording to the news release. The team consists of nine market- ing students and one accounting stu- dent, who deals with the fi nances, said Th e road that makes some wonder Cassie Ng, a 22-year-old senior mar- keting major and iNovatiV> member. Stories paint haunting pictures of old Hicks Road in Los Gatos Professor Robert Vitale, director of the marketing department honors By DINA BASLAN residents, according to a 1974 San with a door painted on it: devil’s program, said the team will be work- Staff Writer Jose news report, and most of the door.” ing with the CIA through edVenture land was owned by Quicksilver He has his reasons for believing Five months ago Shawn Mining Co. in them, he said. His friend once Qureshi, a freshman marketing ANNE RIGOR / SPARTAN DAILY In 1868, the county approved touched devil’s door and found out major, made his way down a windy construction of a public road into the next day that his mother had “They tap into our Madison Nguyen, the councilwoman for District 7, faced criticism road in South San Jose, searching the area and named it after Hicks, cancer, he said. knowledge, and it’s for her position in the naming of the Vietnamese area, “Saigon Busi- for the man he’d heard about in who paid the cost of surveying the Another one of Whitcomb’s ness District.” Th e name was repealed by the Council. stories: the overprotective father. land. friends, he said, once fell off of a a benefi t for us. Qureshi said the story goes that Jason Whitcomb, a sophomore giant rope swing they had found It’s a win-win. one night, the father allowed his kinesiology major, said he has while wandering around the reser- daughter to go out with some guy heard all kinds of stories about old voir formerly named River of Our friends, but she never came home. Hicks Road. Lady of Guadalupe and injured JAMEN KOOS ” Sudanese students share history; He went after the boys and shot Senior “I’ve heard about an albino himself. business major them, assuming they had killed community, about trailer parks and Whitcomb said he has also movie commemorates ‘Lost Boys’ her, and he now stands in his front abandoned houses,” Whitcomb, yard every night, preying on pass- 19, said. “There’s a giant rock See HICKS, page 4 Partners, which is a nationwide pro- ersby. gram that helps companies work with By ELISHA MALDONADO Though, after six years of living “I’m going to punch him in the college students. Staff Writer in California, the pressures and way face,” Qureshi remembered telling The effort began with 400 surveys, of life are no longer new, they said. his friends. sent out to different majors across the Their life in the Sudan was not an “It is what we have been doing. He stepped out of the car, his campus, asking questions like “What easy one, neither was their entrance It’s become normal,” Akau said. friends switched off the lights, and do you know about the CIA?” and into America. Gong, an international business Qureshi started walking. There he “Are you interested in working for Mach Gong and Peter Akau, both major, and Akau, also a business ma- was — a 5-foot-tall, 2-foot-wide the CIA?” said Jillian Crawford, a students at SJSU and both “Lost jor, spent the fi rst part of the evening fi gure in the darkness. senior marketing major. Boys” of the Sudan, fi elded question in front of a crowd of 72, giving a Hicks Road is the narrow path “So far, 60 percent of our surveys regarding their lives before and after brief overview of their country and running up the slopes of Mount were aware of the CIA,” Crawford, their move to America. their lives. After the fi lm, they stood Umunhum that connects Almaden 24, said, “and 30 percent weren’t. Heifer International at SJSU is an willing and answered questions. and Los Gatos. Among longtime They were coming up with some fun organization dedicated “to ending Though now men, they talked in San Jose residents like Qureshi, it names for the CIA,” she said of some world hunger and poverty and car- regard to still being referred to as the has a curious attraction to urban of the acronyms that 30 percent came ing for the earth,” according to its “Lost Boys.” legends. up with, many involving the word brochure. The organization put on Their answer was that it is how The road is named after Eng- “corporate.” the movie Wednesday night in the they have been known — the name land-born Thomas Pasco Brown In the time between now and the Student Union, to commemorate the given to them by the “American me- Hicks, who moved to a village, program’s conclusion, events will be PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LUKE CUNNINGHAM / SPARTAN DAILY “Lost Boys of Sudan.” dia” — and they don’t mind it.
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