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The Spartan Daily will not circulate on Monday, Nov. 14. AACCESSCCESS MMAGAZINEAGAZINE iiss hhereere today!today! SeeSee insertinsert Joe Paterno takes heat Opinion p. 7 Loves Cupcakes Day of Service Thursday SPARTAN DAILY November 10, 2011 A&E p. 4 Photo spread p. 8 Volume 137, Issue 41 SpartanDaily.com Faculty voice angst From the service to school, over unpaid raises SJSU’s red, white and blue by Peter Fournier cigar in her mouth, with a tag identi- Staff Writer fying herself as Chancellor Reed. As stated in a previous article in SJSU faculty picketed in front of the Spartan Daily, the old contract the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library was signed in 2008, but only one year Wednesday morning to protest what of the contract between the California they believe to be California State Faculty Association and the CSU was University Chancellor Charles Reed’s honored, and faculty now want those refusal to honor their contracts from two years of back pay to be honored. 2008 to 2010. Faculty members from all CSUs plan Faculty carried signs that showed to meet at CSU East Bay and CSU Reed’s salary increases, wishes for a Dominguez Hills to strike on Nov. 17, new chancellor for Christmas and oth- according to a CFA fl ier handed out at ers which stated Reed’s actions forced the protest. them to protest. “Th is is historic,” Cara said. “Th ese “Faculty are mad, and students are one day strikes will be historic. Th is will too, because students have had a raise be the fi rst time the largest public univer- of 106 percent in their tuition and sity in the United State has had a strike.” while administrators and presidents Anthropology lecturer Jonathan Reed’s salary have gone up at least 25 Karpf has been at SJSU since 1987, and percent, and faculty salaries have gone said he hasn’t seen a contract situation down 10 percent in that time,” occu- as bad as the current one. pational therapy Professor Liz Cara Karpf said there was informational said. picketing at all 23 CSU campuses on Cara was dressed in a suit fi lled with fake cash, sporting a top hat and SEE CFA PAGE 6 Mark Pinto holds his art piece, “My Flag,” the cyanotype that depicts his journey through the Gulf War for a portrait. Pinto, a former Marine, is working towards his masters in fine arts for photography. Photo by James Tensuan / Spartan Daily Five veterans share their stories from different branches of service by Peter Fournier Bartlett said his time there was very Bartlett originally wanted to join Staff Writer chaotic. out of high school but was advised “It’s very noisy,” he said. “Th e by his grandfather, a World War II Veteran students at SJSU smells — you remember a lot of the veteran, to not sign up immediately have stories of duty, honor and re- smells. It seems like I always smell and try college fi rst. Aft er receiv- membrance that are oft en left un- burning rubber tires from fi res or ing his associates degree at age 25, shared. cars that had blown up or things of Bartlett made the decision to join Graffiti adorns the walls surrounding the wheelchair ramp leading to the lower Th ey are anthropology majors that nature.” the Army. level of Joe West Hall. Photo by Jasper Rubenstein / Spartan Daily who manned machine guns, pho- Bartlett oft en fought boredom “I couldn’t aff ord to go to a four- tographers who piloted helicopters while not on duty in Iraq, reading year school, so I decided to just join during search and rescue missions books, working out and playing the military because it was some- Increase in vandalism and linguists who stood guard at video games. thing I wanted to do anyway and embassies in the Middle East. He said the slow change of pace had wanted to do for quite a while,” According to the SJSU Veteran’s could oft en shift quickly. he said. Student Organization, there 283 “Th en there was a lot of times Bartlett was discharged as a cor- veterans enrolled on campus. when it was like really popping and poral in 2005. attributed to less cops you’d constantly be out on a mission DAMIAN BARTLETT - ARMY, ARMY for days at a time,” Bartlett said. MARK PINTO – MARINES NATIONAL GUARD He said the biggest thing he MASTER IN FINE ARTS, PHOTOGRAPHY by Nic Aguon “I have seen graffi ti on newspa- GRADUATE STUDENT IN JUSTICE STUDIES learned from his time in the service Th e Gulf War veteran enlisted in Production Editor per boxes and white delivery trucks Th e San Ramon native joined the was to be disciplined with anything June 1982 aft er graduating with a parked near campus,” junior kinesiol- Army in 2001 and served two tours he works on. four-year degree in physical educa- Since the beginning of 2010, graf- ogy major Daniel Mosqueda said. “It of duty in Iraq, including the inva- “I’ve always had a prett y strong tion from CSU Long Beach. fi ti and tagging reports have in- just surprises me that taggers would sion in 2003. drive while in school and a lot of Pinto fl ew CH-46s or “Sea Knight” creased nearly 40 percent in San do it here on campus.” Th e president of the VSO, Bartlett my time and experience in the mili- helicopters in the Marine Corps, at Jose, from 29,285 to 40,405, causing According to University Police served as light infantry, working as tary helped shape me in that way,” fi rst being part of combat squadrons an issue of concern, according to Department’s police blott er, graf- a rifl e team soldier, team leader, ra- Bartlett said. in Hawaii and Okinawa before being a September 2011 San Jose city council fi ti was reportedly found etched dio operator, assistant machine gun- In addition to being a student, assigned to search and rescue duties memo. onto the exterior doors at the In- ner and driver in combat. Bartlett is a research assistant, a com- in Iwakuni, Japan in the late’90s. According to an article from Pro- dustrial Studies building. Dudley His fi rst tour of duty in Iraq last- munity assistant at CVA and sits on the tectsanjose.com, 278 SJPD police offi - Moorhead Hall was also defaced at ed nine months, the second was 13. SJSU veterans’ advisory committ ee. SEE VETERANS PAGE 2 cers were laid off . Th e same article also the beginning of last October, ac- stated that with a reduced number of cording to UPD’s October police offi cers on the force due to fi nancial blott er. CORRECTION cuts, the San Jose Police Department Vandalism and graffi ti were also View exclusive stories and multimedia at has fewer offi cers on duty than it did reported at the North Garage between In the Nov. 8 edition of the Spartan Daily, a story appeared on page 2 spartandaily.com four years ago. In the month of Octo- Ninth and 10th streets, according to titled “Women’s basketball makes quick work of Cal State East Bay” which ber, there were seven reports of graf- included several paragraphs used without att ribution from a press release fi ti and tagging on and near campus. TAGGING titled “Women’s Hoops Takes Exhibition 70-53” from SJSU Athletics, which SEE PAGE 6 appeared on its website sjsuspartans.com on Nov. 6. Th e article was used as a reference and the Spartan Daily regrets the error. In the second week of protests on in front of 15 people regarding A few feet away from Reclaim Occupy, Reclaim campus on the Tommie Smith and actions to be taken for student’s SJSU were the Occupy SJSU protest- John Carlos Statue lawn, Reclaim rights. ers, who have continued to demon- continue in front SJSU discussed the organization of a “We are calling out to students to strate on the Smith-Carlos Statue walk-out Wednesday. walk out,” Huerta said. lawn since last week. t Twitter: @spartandaily 71˚ Meanwhile, Occupy SJSU reached According to Huerta and fellow “We’ve been outreaching San Jose f facebook.com/spartandaily48˚ of historic statues one week of demonstration in the organizer Francisco Ruiz, Reclaim State for about a month,” said Dan- same space. SJSU will meet Wednesday at noon iel McCormick, a junior political sci- Spartan Daily For their second meeting, Re- near the Smith-Carlos Statue, hold an ence major. “We were coming out, Serving San José State University since 1934 by Christina Molina claim SJSU organizer Sandra Heur- open forum then march throughout Volume 137 / Issue 41 Staff Writer ta, a senior sociology major, spoke campus and the city. SEE PROTEST PAGE 6 2 NEWS Spartan Daily Thursday, November 10, 2011 VETERANS: Stories from Somalia, Iraq, Japan UC president works to avoid tuition hike McClatchy Tribune he said UC’s regents would Wire Service consider more modest tuition increases. LOS ANGELES — Shift - Th e regents are scheduled ing tactics in a diffi cult bud- to vote on the budget request get situation, University of at a meeting in San Francisco California President Mark G. next week. Yudof acknowl- Yudof said Tuesday he will edged Tuesday that his earlier seek enough additional state proposal, aimed at warning funding to avoid a tuition hike the public and the regents next year and increase enroll- about unstable state funding ment by 1 percent, or about for the university, had pro- 2,100 students.