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CONFUSION SAYS THE FINAL STRETO-th Dealing with dissipating SJSU cross country teams hea 9 memories of online friends into WAC championships (5.ii - SPORTS 6 44;1 OPINION 2 VOLUME 119, NUMBER 46 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2002 Family still copes with Dean Bull, a senior in music FIT FOR A performance/education, plays some notes on a officer's death French horn for Matthew Locke's "Music for King Charles II" in a brass ensem- One year later: Park, fund ble class. Locke's piece MCP comes from the early named in honor of Baroque period and was written for King Charles II. rmerdered policeman By Karen Imamura Spartan Daily Writer Remembering Jeffrey Fontana, the graduate and San Jose police officer who was murdered after making a routine traffic stop, has been especially hard for those who knew him this past week. Monday Oct. 28 marked the one-year anniversary of Fontana's death. Fontana was cornered and shot after stopping a car on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Almaden Valley in south San Jose, according to a San Jose Mercury News article and the Officer Jeffrey Fontana Memorial Web site. "The officers are still reluctant to talk about it," said Sgt. Steve Dixon of the San Jose police department. "They're still having a hard time dealing with it them- selves." A ceremony was held in honor ofJeffirey Fontana by the San Jose police department Monday. Fontana's mother said she is trying to take it one day at a time. "I still have a huge void," said Sandy Fontana, who said she has bouts of depression. "It has been dif- ficult, and I don't see it getting any better. Some days are worse than others." The Jeffrey Fontana FONTANA Nlemorial Scholarship Fund, which was established last year,. has seen a decline in the number of donations, said Kris Ellithorpe, the administration support coordinator who handles the fitnd. The Scholarship Fund is awarded to San Jose State University students who are majoring in administration of justice and are intent on joining the police force. "'We've had one huge deposit recently, and the first recipient was awarded at a graduation ceremony last year, she said. Sandy Fontana was notified Wednesday that Steve ABOVE: Music Professor Mariucci, the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, instructs his would be malting a S10,000 donation to the fund. The Jesse Leyva money was raised at his annual bocce ball tournament brass ensemble class about that took place in June. how Matthew Locke's A second printing of a memorial T-shirt with Jeffrey's "Music for King Charles II" badge is also in the works if there is enough interest. The should sound like. Leyva money from the sale will go toward the fund. was preparing his class for The Fontanas, who personally write thank you notes to an upcoming performance all of those who contribute. appreciate all of the com- on Nov. 19 in the SJSU munity support that they have received in the last year. Concert Hall. See F 0 NTA N A, page 4 RIGHT: Amanda Buckman, a sophomore majoring in music, practices the trombone Thursday for the upcoming Final skate event concert. set for Saturday PHOTOS BY By Kristina Mendoza RYAN BALBUENA / Dady Stull Writer DAILY STAFF Downtown San Jose will host its last Positive Skate Experience Event for 2002 this Saturday, featuring giveaways, skating tips and celebrity guests. Slated to begin at noon and end at 5 p.m., the day will be filled with t'ree skateboarding-related expe. riences on South Third Street, between San Salvador and San Carlos streets. Sniper suspects In addition, a skate clinic is scheduled for 11 S.U. referendum debated a.m. Steve Cohen, who is head of the West of Fourth linked to slayings By Bryn Graziano have been an Associated Students meeting, with four of the Street Neighborhood and is part of sponsoring Daqy Staff Writer five panelists being a part of the student organization. and the production of the event, said a lot of spon- 'The panel was actually divided on the issues. sors are making this event possible. Ballisticsfrom attacks in Louisiana The pros and cons of the Measure V referendum were the Enka Jackson, director of community affairs for A.S., who "This event is free because of the suu..rt of the Redevelopment Agency, The Downtown topic of discussion during an open fiirum ill the Stutient also serves on the Student Union Board of Directors, was a and Alabama match sniper's rifle Union on Thursday. panelist. She made a point of clarifying that although last Association, Circle-A Skate Shop, Community A group of about 10 students, all sharing a mutual inter- Wednesday the organization took a stance by passing the Action and Pride, and The West Fourth Street BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Authorities charged est in San Jose State University's Student Union resolution called "opposing Measure V," there was personal Neighborhood Group." the two sniper suspects with murder Thursday in a Modernization and Expansion project, gathered in the division on the topic among the membes. Shannon Wright, communications manager of Louisiana attack that came just two days after a similar Costanoan room to ask questions and listen to comments "It wasn't a unanimous vote," Jackson said. the Downtown Association, said Populus slaying in Alabama. made by a group of panelists. She brought the audience up to speed on the measure Presents, a large event-producing entity, wanted to John Lee Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, are Dawn Lee, MOSAIC activities coordinator at SJSU, said giving a brief history of how it was originally develo create an event that would appeal to everyone and now charged with a month-long series of killings stretch- she was surprised to find out that SJSU doesn't normally which was based on a feasibility study done by a cons ting had something to offer kids. When things dist ing from the Gulf Coast td the suburbs around the offer a public forum tOr this type of discussion and stressed firm. She said the resulting report stated that the Student kids would enjoy came to mind, so did skate- nation's capital. Police nationwide are said to be looking the importance of giving students a way to share ideas. Union facilities were -behind the times," which were at one boarding. for links to the two men, assisted by federal authorities. "I've been talking with students recently about the meas- time state-of-the-art, anti went on to report that the exist- Monique (;arcia, manager of Circle-A Skate The two men face multiple state and federal counts in ure, and many of them didn't know much about it or gave ing tee schedule W2S111'l enough to sustain them. Shoji, said it is a skate jam with a five skate open, the Alabama and Louisiana cases and the sniper spree conflicting information," Lee said. "I thought this would be Jackson said the next step was to hire a survey analyst who halt pipes and contests for kids. Cohen said the event would consist of three that left 10 people dead and three others wounded in 2 good thing for us to offer students." sent out 10,000 e-mails to SJSU students asking questions big Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. They are also Lee facilitated the asking anti answering of student's about campus facilities. There were 650 responses received. courses. suspects in a Februaryitilling in Washington state. questions, giving the panelists an opportunity to discuss of which 52 percent were in favor of a fee increase to sa"i,Fixtra tracks were added for older skaters," he Baton Rouge Police Chief Pat Englade issued first- both sides of the issue. improve facilities, and 30 percent were in favor of an oper- and Malvo after degree murder warrants for Muhammad "I'd like us to discuss the concerns you have with the ational increase, wh,, would only cover the day-to-day See SKATE, tag, 4 measure, as well as IIIMC of the benefits," she said. See MEASURE V, page 5 See SNIPER, page .3 At first glance, the forum appeared as though it could PAGE 2 OPINION THE SPARTAN DAILY NOVEMBER 1, 2002 CONFUSION SAYS The disappearing memories of living life online Yesterday, I saw somebody online who 1 hadn't seen for we were the best of buddies; in real life, I felt as if we were other computer nerds and geeks. 1 expertenced love, hate, I've been online for eight years now. It's been more than ages. I recognized her screen narne. Luckily, it had talking on two different planes. The one plane of us frustration, betrayal, depression, agony and a whole host 100 lifetimes on the Net. remained unchanged since I last saw her. knowing so much about each other, and the other plane of other emotions I won't be able to name, but unlike real Every now and then I try to e-mail my first girlfriend. This was back in my computer days, when I was a of discovering so much right now. life, the places that were so dear to me didn't exist. It doesn't matter to me that she was over the Internet - teenager in full-blown crisis. Unlike most teens, I wasn't Let me just say that people look so The chat room where I first got into net- she was the first girl I said "I love you" to and the ftrst one busy doing drugs or getting laid.

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