Spartan Daily, March 12, 2015

INSIDE ONLINE: SPARTANDAILY.COM Hi: 75o PHENOMENALLY DAILY VIDEO SPARTAN UPDATE FEMINIST Lo: 51o Catch up on the Preview upcoming Bigotry is not a weekend tennis stories about dead regional problem tournament and men, pancakes and Thursday, new A.S. Garden water polo March 12, 2015 PAGE 4 Volume 144 • Issue 21 VISIT SPARTANDAILY.COMANDAILYY.CCOMO Serving San Jose State Universityy sisincence 1934 PAY TO PLAY PROGRESS REPORT A LEG UP Tinder Forum will to charge provide based update on on age diversity BY ANDREA SANDOVAL policies @axsand0val BY MARISSA TRIGOS Tinder, the iOS and Android @MarissaTrigos app designed for meeting new people, now has an update that may San Jose State President Mo- either lose or gain users. hammad Qayoumi will host his According to the app, the pop- second Diversity Open Forum on ular dating site has launched a pre- April 28 in the Student Union Th e- mium version last week for users to ater from 12-2 p.m. download called Tinder Plus. Qayoumi’s Chief of Staff Stacy Tinder Plus allows users to fi nd Gleixner said the purpose of the partners in foreign countries, an forum is to continue to address unlimited amount of right swipes and update the campus commu- and likes, as well as the rewind nity on the progress of the recom- button when recovering from a mendation items of the Diversity mistaken swipe. Th e update also Task Force. lets users search by city, where they “A lot of time things happen, can drop a pin anywhere around but it’s not communicated well the world and start swiping. to the campus and so the percep- Th e app itself is free, but users tion is that nothing is being done who want the ability to utilize the Rain Stites | Spartan Daily when in reality a lot of work is be- add-ons will have to pay a price. Senior industrial design student Travis Ng ﬁ ts on a model prosthetic leg during ing done its just not shared,” said According to BBC News, in the class in the Art building on Monday. Itza Sanchez, program and oper- U.S. the corresponding fi gures are ations coordinator for enrollment $9.99 and $19.99. Each price gives DIGGING THE DIRT services and the Chican@/Latin@ you the ability to swipe right more, Student Success Task Force. rewind when accidentally skipping Th ere will be a presentation over a person and like more pic- Students get their hands dirty at the portion of the meeting where pan- tures. el members share what they have been working on and attendees new campus community garden will be able to ask questions on TinderTinTindd users BY ROSA JASSO Mark Batcheler, the garden manager, has been how they have implemented the @rosabjasso involved with sustainable agriculture for about recommended items. must decide fi ve years. “It’s an opportunity for the San Jose State welcomed agriculture into the “I think one thing to realize is that this garden campus to get their questions an- if the update student community with the new Associated Stu- is going to continue to grow,” Batcheler said “ ... swered and ask the questions be- “is worth the dents Campus Community Garden, which allows If I come here on a regular basis I can see a seed cause the people that make the students to walk into the garden on Wednesdays grow into a plant that in turn feeds me.” decisions and the people that can to pick fruits and vegetables for free. Batcheler said it took him about six months to eff ect change will be there,” San- pricee Students were able to get their hands dirty at form the garden and there is still more work to chez said. the garden’s grand opening located on San Sal- be done. Judge LaDoris Cordell mod- vador Street across the street from the Dining He plans to setup picnic tables and shade erated the fi rst Diversity Open Commons yesterday, structures to create a relaxing environment for Forum and chaired the Diversity For users in the U.K. who are Th e garden was created to give SJSU students a students. He wants to decorate the fences sur- Task Force that made the recom- between the ages of 18–27 and want new food source and students that attended picked rounding the garden with a type of art. mendations for the forum. to pay for the add-on” features, the carrots, artichokes and cilantro to take home. Batcheler said he will use coff ee grounds and “I believe that there is still much fee is $3.99 a month. For users ages Maribel Martinez is the director for the Ce- left over food donated from campus eateries such to be done to improve things,” Cor- 28 and older, the monthly charge sar Chavez Community Action Center, the group as the Dining Commons to decompose and use dell said. “I only hope there is the will be $14.99. that created the garden with funding from A.S. as soil. He decomposes plant matter and paper political and moral will on the part Members in emerging econo- “We have a lot of students that are unable to shreds to turn into new soil. He is constantly of everyone to make the campus a mies will be charged an average of purchase food,” Martinez said. “ ... And so the gar- looking for sources to donate food scraps, better place where everyone is accepted $2.99 a month, according to BBC den’s gonna provide an opportunity for students soil, materials and plants. and appreciated.” News. to come in, do a little bit of gardening, learn about Myra Ochoa, a senior sociology major, is part Members of students for Racial Taylor Medina, a senior psy- how to do some of this work and then be able to Equality attended forum in the chology major and active Tinder take home some fresh fruits and vegetables.” SEE GARDEN ON PAGE 2 Fall and said they plan to attend user, believes the new update dis- the next one. criminates based on age. “It was interesting to see that “I get the update has cool new EASING UP when there were questions being features, but I think the way Tin- asked to the president he would der is separating the prices be- Singlebarrel to cease speakeasy-style service divert them to someone else and tween age is unfair,” Medina said. we just wish that he might take it “Th ankfully I am 21 and would BY RAV EN SWAYNE have to pay about $9.99 a month if @itsRavenDawn SEE FORUM ON PAGE 2 I really wanted the upgrade, but I don’t plan to.” Singlebarrel, the only 1920s speak- Tinder users must decide if the easy-themed bar in Downtown San Jose, CORRECTION update is worth the price. is closing its doors to the prohibition Rosette Pambakian, Tinder’s nightlife this summer for an estimated Yesterday in an article vice president of corporate com- 10 days to remodel and change a few as- titled “SJSU goes banan- munications and branding, said pects of the bar. as for Dada Life rave,” the diff erent age brackets are not In May 2010, the bar fi rst opened its the Spartan Daily inac- a form of discrimination. doors and introduced the San Jose area curately reported that “Th e age diff erence is not a to the re-imagined prohibition era, spe- a security guard was form of discrimination. Over cializing in craft ed cocktails, fi ne cigars stabbed during the Dada the past few months, we’ve test- and bartenders dressed in 1920s paper- Life concert on March 6. ed Tinder Plus extensively in boy attire. No guard was stabbed several countries,” Pambakian Cache Bouren, owner and bartender at the event, according said. “We’ve priced Tinder Plus at singlebarrel, recently announced the to Jim Service, general based on a combination of fac- speakeasy bar will be closing. counsel for security tors, including what we’ve learned “By changing the concept, we’ll be company Contemporary through our testing, and we’ve able to change people’s expectations,” Services Corporation. found that these price points were Bouren said. “It enables us to start over San Jose State Event adopted very well by certain age and create a new guest experience.” Director Ted Cady con- demographics”. Raven Swayne | Spartan Daily One aspect that displeases some cus- ﬁ rmed that no stabbing Pambakian compared Tinder Entrance to singlebarrel. Singlebarrel’s speak- tomers is the amount of time they have took place. The Spartan easy-theme will be revamped this summer to Daily regrets this error. SEE TINDER ON PAGE 2 improve the overall experience. SEE SPEAKEASY ON PAGE 3 2 NEWS Th ursday, March 12, 2015 Scan Jose app moves its users through history BY RAIN STITES “Nothing looks the same as when I @writeas_rain used to come downtown,” Roessler said while on one of the tours. Illustration by Linh Nguyen A smartphone app combines technol- Photo by Rain Stites At age 62, Roessler found it difficult ogy with exercise to illustrate how histo- to navigate her old “stomping grounds” ry has transformed San Jose. as newer buildings replaced those of yes- Selected photos allow users of the app teryear. to compare specific locations while on “I’m glad I’m on this tour because I an actual walking tour of the city. think it’s really interesting to see how The transformation comes to life. everything has changed, especially since San Jose began as a small farming before I was born,” Roessler said.

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