Peter .Lee Dies at 57
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14 Men' Soccer: Completes weekend home-stand sweep Page 9 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.TITESPAR VOLUME 123, NUMBER 39 MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004 Breaking the fast .:Peter .Lee dies at 57 Former SJSU administrator succumbs to cancer By Jennifer McLain in 1974 as a teaching associate at UC Berke- the University of Guam and the acting asso- Daily Executive Editor ley, was first hired at SJSU as an assistant ciate dean for Faculty Affairs. professor in the College of Social Work three "He talked about (SJSU) a lot. He really After working at San Jose State Univer- years later. enjoyed his work. He was always really grate- sity for 27 years, Peter Lee, 57, died after los- Lee worked in Taiwan for two years as a ful for his job because he enjoyed it," Jenni- ing his battle with cancer Oct. 13 at his home visiting professor of sociology from SJSU at fer Lee said. in San Jose. the National Taiwan University Lee most recently held the position of as- Lee, who retired from the position as as- He also worked at Tunghai University sociate vice president for Faculty Affairs at sociate vice president of Faculty Affairs in in Taiwan as the director of the social psy- SJSU from 1996 to July, when he retired. July, was diagnosed with cancer one-and-a- chiatric institute and the dean of else gradu- Lee's colleagues admired his service to half years ago, daughter Jennifer Lee said of ate school of social work before returning to SJSU and his behavior toward faculty and her father. SJSU as the chair of the social policy division students. "His health had been up and down after of the College of Social Work. "Anybody and everybody that ever came he was diagnosed. The last round use weak- "He enjoyed Isis work so much that it nev- into the office for help, even if it wasn't some- ened him a lot," Jennifer Lee said. er occurred to him that it was hard work," thing that we did, he tried to help them ... ise The funeral was held in San Jose on Sat- said daughter Jennifer Lee, a mass communi- wanted us to Iselp them," said Angee Ortega urday where an estimated 300 family mem- cations student at UCLA. McGhee, fisculty specialist for Faculty Af- bers, friends and colleagues attended to Lee held several other positions at SJSU, honor die dedicated SJSU fisculty member, including the director of else center for hu- fairsColleague and friend Joan Nlerdinger, [ Jennifer Lee said. man services research and development, pro- Lee, who started Isis career in social work fessor of social work, the president-select of see LEE. page ,3 California university students discuss state, local problems going on around their campuses and they communicate more often was also part of the By Janet Pak wanted to find alternatives to speak against agenda. Daily Senior Staff Writer those issues. Ali Rahnoma, an alumnus of De Anza "We weren't together, at least in the Bay College, said the event is die first of its kind. Students from universities across Califor- Area, in trying to take those steps and unifi- Students are taking sup the fight against cuts nia met on Sunday to discuss solutions and ing us," Salinas said. "The conference is the in education and proving they arefft going ideas to put education as the top priority of first step toward unifying education (at) unnoticed, he said. the government. each of the different schools." Missoula said the event inspired him be- The grosm of about 30 students called The discussions and workshops, she said, cause students from universities all over Cal- Action in Defense of Education organized a create dialogue between the different univer- ifornia came to the conference united by the three-day conference that started on Friday sity systems. same cause. at UC Berkeley's Barroivs Hall. Students are suffering because the gov- Kelly Burns, a sophomore fi-om Ire Santa On Friday students discussed problems ernment is spending more on other areas Barbara, said the presentations showed cre- they faced on their campuses locally and rather than on education, Salinas said. ative perspectives on what actions students statewide, and how they could get the state During individual and group discussions have taken. Tomomi Tsuda /Daily Staff to reprioritize education. Students spent Sat- on Sunday, some students said they were "It really encourages involvement," Burns Muslim men pray after the "Iftar" fast-breaking on Saturday at the mosque urday discussing skills they needed to orga- concerned about budget cuts, increasing tu- said. She said she was inspired to go back of the Muslim Community Association in Santa Clara. Men and women form sepa- nize a stronger movement. ition and the lack of a network to voice these to her campus and work harder to educate rate lines to maintain modesty and concentration, and it does not symbolize any Linda Salinas, coordinator of the event, issues. said students were concerned about issues superiority or inferiority, according to the association. See story on page 4. Salinas said figuring out another way to ve STUDENTS. page 3 Clocks to Health fair offers free screenings Outside ads More than 350 in classrooms be reset students volunteer as daylight at open-air event unauthorized, By Ruth C. Wamuyu saving ends Daily Staff Writer officials say The public stayed away as overcast weath- By Ling-Mei Wong er put a damper on The Health Trust's open- air health ('sir that Daily Staff I frriter By Monica Lauer offered free health dunks at the San Jose Flea Market on Saturday. Daily Ste Writer "Last year, it was shining and we served Some people are getting paid to post corporate ad- vertisements about 500 people," said Mike Hart, a nurse and fliers its classrooms oil campus, to end of daylight-saving time for The practitioner with the Washington Neighbor- the consternation of the maintenance staff. the corner. The this year is just around hood Health Clinic. "Companies hire people to put them up," said electric shop and custodians will set all However, Hart said the two-day event Tony Valenzuela, associate vice president of Facilities the clocks on campus back one hour Development and Operations. usually draws a bigger crowd on Sundays. on Sunday'. The unauthorized Rachel Kulik from San Jose State Univer- There are two types of clocks on postings mean :store sky's Center for Service Learning agreed and Cara Bowyer / Daily Staff APPROVED POSTING campus, said Dan Jansen, electric shop work for the mainte- said numbers swelled during certain times of LOCATIONS: Reginald Chery, far right, a fifth-semester nursing student at San Jose State Stair, supervisor for Facilities Development the day. nanee are a University, checks the blood-pressure levels of a patient on Saturday afternoon at and Operations. The two types after "Custodians take Art Quad bulletin board "On Sunday church, we usually' get. the Open Air Health Fair, located at the San Jose Flea Market, Another SJSU nursing system clock and a battery clock. slammed," she said. thesis down," Valenzu- Kiosks on the south "The system clock has a master student, far left, notes the results of the test. ela said. . -- . But on. the gloomy -Saturday afternoon, " side Of Clerk Rill clock in the.tentral plant which Sett& Postings may slot Bulletin board on the the volunteers outnumbered the public Velia Esquivel-Ferguson, a nurse isnd a dergraduate health science class from SJSU is signal out that brings them all to the be put up anywhere on south side of the members seeking help almost two to one. certified diabetes educator, agreed with Hart. (60 students), according to information pro- same time every hour and then every campus. It is 11(01'0- modular's "We have about .350 students Isere today "Today it is about screening, educating vided by the organization. 12 hours," Jansen said. ited to post on trees, Old Cafeteria Building and 75 percent are from SJSU," Kulik said. and referring," she said. "Today we have requirement for us," said Xuan The battery clocks run off batter- al- "It is a lampposts, phone at the Student Life "We recruit through 'course work most of ready found two people with elevated blood 'Fran, is health science major. "But it is ies and are not connected to any kind senior booths, benches, Center the students Isere need service hours. Nursing sugar levels. We referred them to local care and I am getting a lot of experience." of wiring in the walls, so they have to fim buildings or any per- Bulletin boards Inside students do all the screenings and health sci- providers." a junior health science ma- be manually reset for daylight-saving Plisiong Le, manent structure not the Student Union ence students do the health education," List year during the April screening with 'Fran, but said she time, Jansen said, jor, said she agreed specifically designates! The nursing students screen for high The Health Trust does two lairs every year wanted to volunteer to educate the public be- "The way you can tell is, battery for posting, according blood pressure, blood glucose, body mass in- or the 500 people given screenings, 32 cause it was important for them to learn how _clocks, they go tick, tick, tick every to Presidential Directive 01.-01. by former President dex and cholesterol, according to infortnation percent were referred to clinics and 50 per- to eat healthy. second. The system clock is a smooth Robert Caret. This means classrooms sue off-Iiinits to provided by The Health Trust.