Students to SJSU Hit Again by Power Loss Perform 6 Hours Iro of Beethoven
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SPARTAN DAI IN VOLUME 126 NUMBER 31 Serving San Jose Stale University since 1934 FS1).%). \! I I 21 DAY NIGHT 'Full House' dad Time to Vote Watch your to bring crude Associated Students ele( Lions manners begin today. Polls close on Wednesday. humor to Improv Cast your ballot on campus or Opinion Page 2 41 my.sjsu.edu A & E Page 6 online at 58.F 41 *F Students to SJSU hit again by power loss perform 6 hours iro of Beethoven Marathon will have no breaks By Teresa Hou DAILY STAFF WRITER The alluringly melodic sounds of Beethoven can be heard in a six -hour music marathon at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library today, performed by 16 piano majors from San Jose State t .niversity In celebration of the Beethoven Center's 20th Anniversary, the "Beethoven Marathon Concert" will be held from 11 a.nt. to 5 p. in. in the Fifth Floor Program Room and will feature 17 of music composer Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 sonatas. The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies was established in 1983 when Aritona real estate developer. Ira F. Brilliant donated his collection of 75 first editions of Beethoven's music to SJSI to create a library and study center completely devoted to Beethoven's music and hu- manitarian accomplishments, according to the Beethoven Center's Web site. "There'll be 17 pianists total Sixteen are for solo pieces while one is for a cello and piano." said ( iwendolyn Mok, pianist and head of keyboard at SJSI According to Mok, students can conic in at any tune every hour on the hour. "There'll be no break (in between) that's why it's DANIELLE STOLMAN / DAILY STAFF called a marathon." Mok said, "People should come and support their fellow students. I think they'll have fun. Students gathered outside the Central Classroom Building in the rain following a power outtage that lasted about 10 minutes Monday afternoon. (Plus) it's free." Aera Jot), a piano major who is performing Sonata No. 90, Opus 110, said she has been practicing since last semester. Students forced out of classes, wait in the rain during blackout "It's going to be an interesting performance," Joo said. i ping 11,1 in ilie "Whether there's an audience there or not, we're just By Greg Lydon lilt the s.iiiipiis blanketed iii Iii had bccii my iii kola going to play." Windt disrupted campus and isis i :MOS: id liii it ii .1,Il I reshinan 1ili siology Illalor hike and Janet Marcelo The marathon will also feature guest appearances phone and Internet 111.M.t1 diiC liiid.I \let :sflut'II said his /04 )logy ills, had IMIUel by director of the Beethoven Center Professor SSilliam DAILY STAFF WRITERS hile sililie snatlents ell at I ii Mid ha% C been pi,,ed ii II had Ills) begun \s hell the Went out Meredith, library curator Patricia Stroh. Mok and Thalia getting out of . lass Monday. others been dile :Oda\ 1.1 Ailed for and they %s ere ti *Led to head outside Moore, a cellist from the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. I ate NIonday afternoon, San Jose ii err left scrambling trying to remem .1 COtiPICilullilulus 114 the tatilliniters to "It has been cold." Nguyen said "I according to the press release from the library's Web site State I ins ersity fell under dark bet if they so ed their papers on their start back lip html. bin it didn in is ould rather be inside in class or at "Dr. Meredith from the Beethoven Center will start nes, following a brief campus -wide computers s.1% mine ot It sollieW heti: ’ honte off (the event) with a talk about the Beethoven Center." blackout chits cuninnuton a senior ma s,a eial NI's( 'Allah:Ilk hair to ellt isa ke)es..1 public health gradu- said Kathy Fox, administrative assistant for the Beethoven The m iii er went down at around tor ingiii aer.isp,ne engineering. is as iii mm Ism nits and classes ...holt as they ate student Ni As hiking .1 midterm in Center "Dr. Mok and Moore will be featured (in Sonata 4 20 p in and remained off for about is (irking on his senior protect in the stood\salting out the posse' outage in her en% itonmental studies class "I for piano and cello Opus 691. and of course the famous 10 minifies s of press time. there Iii Martin laithei King Joint I almary the rain thought it wt. lightning." Reyes said. Moonlight Sonata will be played " was no otra. ifil %stint on the cause of ss lien the lights \sent out lawn lanom WilS %sinking out S. had heard thunder .ifitside and On Thursday, there will be a continuation of the the blackout I is as lucky I saved my data." iii tlw sports club In Ille 1:1elli 1 enter thou dit it kills kl.'d :he pIM Ci nut Beethoven marathon during the weekly I.istening !lour that Iftis is as the second time this se unifington said ii licii the pi us er ss era doss n 111,CiNik P,,11,C I kpartment did will feature six sonatas. "Fhe concert will be held at the con- mester that the power %sent doss n senior ....fol.* ma). ii NanC Ta "I 5 er)OIle (list stopped.- /Alum' ill It upon any 55iii ills problems or m- cert hall in the Music building from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m. On Feb. 13, three separate late night IS Ille same lot her As said "Pin mad I didn't get to finish imics caused by the blackout Campaign season ... Sorority to explore relationships within the black community By Tandrea Madison mum: SImmliii. A III: ml 1551iC5 .1110111 hIn iii I iiti 1.11.1 ii iii cii fu other." she DAILY STAFF WRITER said "V1e isanlcd to idshiess Mal Slit' iieilI iiii iii sa !hal he sisters of Delta sigma 111(1,1 1 membeis asked people ii itluiii the black sp,ifisoring a roundtable discus is ill be II the leli Mal conunum - sion entitled nw !is can't \\c 'ill liisl Cation and ith each other " P iii iii dic was truly :in issue illIone room lt Of the ',Indent I Moll "People tell ii is as." Omer said "So X.:cording to Della sister N i ae we decided to has e Ous roundtable di, the discussi,,n is ;ibout finn sonkur. cussion so that people could talk about ii blacks interact with each other in to We ii ani to stall out Milan and then es en- di s ,I1CiCi Sonkui said that she tually blanch out into the community " thinks the turnout is ill be good, hut also This es cut is one of sei era! that the said the weatlwr might be an issue for women 01 Itella Sigma Theta spon- peiple sor throughout the school sear They 'It's definitely. going to be a good pro- also hosted an annual soul food night gram," she said "lint is It It the weather in February. in honor ot Black History the way- it is, I'm not sure We usual lonth. .ind during the hist week of ly have a pretty good turnout with our May, they have "'slay Week " During es erns So. yeah, I think it'll be good " that ss eek. there are ses end events 1 telta sister Tamika ireer explained planned including a sell -defense class, that day -to- day relationships within date -rape program and bowling night the black community can be compli- "I haven't heard anything about it" FANG LIANG / DAILY STAFF cated, which was the inspiration for the said Iota Phi Theta fraternity member event. zbel I labtegeorgis. "But I'm sure it'll A person walks by a Stand Up Party campaign sign on Monday. Associated Students elections begin today. "Within the African -American corn- be good." 2 SPARTAN DAILY OPINION TUESDAY MARCH 21, 2006 ERIN 01 T TIIE DEI 111 S Milosevic is dead, so is justice for thousands of victims The recent death of former Serbian leader and war day, an estimated 3,000 Albanians alone are still miss- been happening repeatedly throughout modern his- sight when all is said and done, when it's too late and criminal Slobodan Milosevic has made me wonder ing from the conflict. tory, from the Kurds in Northern Iraq to the the hell has been unleashed. whether justice could ever be served in cases of cnmes Even though we can't go after Milosevic Darfur region in Sudan. Ethnic cleansing on The death of Milosevic has only brought more against humanity'. Can the "Butcher of the Balkans" anymore, there are still those evading jus- such a massive scale has been a tragic real- questions. but perhaps that will always be the case. and his faithful fsmt soldiers ever be held accountable ticefrom the terrible conflict, such as former ity of the 20th century, but every time it hap- We may never know the full extent of his crimes, and for the atrocities they. have conumtted? Bosnian Serb leader Radtwan Karadzic. Ile pens, the world is completely shocked and we cannot undo the damage that has been done. All Milosevic died in prison at the International needs to be found, arrested and dragged to sobs crocodile tears of disbelief and outrage. we can do now is keep trying to understand what hap- Criminal Court in the Netherlands, never to answer the International ( 'nnunal Court to face jus- saying, "It'll never happen again." pened and renwmber the victims.