'TUESDAY LIFESTYLES - PAGE 4 OPINION - PAGE 2 SPORTS - PAGE 3 Daily staff goes ghost hunting Day of the Dead is time Women's volleyball team and learns about campus secrets to 'Confess' life's sorrows tries to upset No. 1 Hawai'i partaia i SFR N SAN I F STATF UN F S N 1934 Volume 115, No. 43 www.spartandaily.org October 31, 21100 Band Carving up a scare... Campus trauds crime try to rates profit hit Web I lelena D. Hong It% I in tIN B. /. rich Duly Wsiiiit I \ The federal government is putting campus crime statistics for 6,700 People selling magazine subscrip- national colleges and universities on t ions door to door, claiming to be affil- the Internet. iated with San Jose State Universi- San Jose State University is one of ty's band, are not telling the truth. the schools listed on the Web site Residents near SJSU told police www.ope.ed.govisecurity, that people were soliciting money for Federal law has required campuses the band's trip to France, according to to keep track of crimes for the past 10 Sylvia Hutchinson, interim director years. for communications and public The law stipulates schools must dis- affairs. close violent crimes, burglaries and Hutchinson said the University auto thefts on campus and arrests for Police Department notified the school liquor, drugs and weapons violations. of music and dance. The law was amended in 1998 to Edward Harris, director of the require that the reports be available school of music and dance, said he has on the Internet. received four calls per day for the past Sophomore Joel Ordillo, a civil engi- three days from concerned residents. neering major, said he thinks crime "We've had probably over a dozen statistics should be published on a Web phone calls verifying if this was legit- site and that it could help students imate." Harris said. decide which college to attend. Harris said the people claimed to "Anything that benefits the students be selling magazines to help raise should be accessible," Ordillo said. money fin- the San Jose State band, Sgt. John Laws of the University but the people did not specify which Police Department said students band they were representing. should be more attentive about crime "Someone came up with an idea to statistics. make quick cash.- Harris said. "Students choose schools for various reasons," Laws said. "They should be See BAND. Page6 aware of safety as an issue when doing so." The Web site allows users to call up reports on colleges one at a time. Cynical Before the site came into being, stu- dents had to contact schools individu- ally to find out the crime statistics. Senior Miyoko ICawabe, a psycholo- humorist gy major, came from Japan, studied in New York and eventually came to SJSU. "I feel safer in San Jose, more than New York," Kawabe said. brings act Being able to concentrate on studies is a priority for her, and the likeliness of a school being dangerous could be a deterrent from applying, Kawabe said. to SJSU The Web site is the product of a law passed after the 1986 murder of 19- By Beau Dowling year-old Jeanne Clery, a student at \1<11114 see CRIME, Page6 Be. wiling author David Sedaris. hut las been described by some as dar d sardonic. CAMPUS CRIME RATES Se aris, also a National Public a 601 0% 1111 B AI: Radio humorist, is scheduled for %%1111.01.1.11).(.0%/SI( 114111 reading at 7:30 p.m. today in Morris V 14 DIN tl CO% 111%%ft Rita !Ana Dailey Auditorium. VEIN %III ()NI UV. i 1111STICS Simpson, the event coordi- Lavonne Fop 6,700 ( ou I II.I% %NO \ INF MI 111%. for the College of Humanities nator S%% TIM SRO N1%114,111 1)%1 and the Arts, said the event is spon- Sehaviian Widnumn 1)(1,6 Mill (s):1,11.111 11001.% IS( I I DI ON 1111 sored by the Center for Literary Arts. "We raise the money ourselves by Kappa sigma member Rig Partida and Dwaun, a Last year the fraternity donated 3,000 pounds of canned receive V BF( Al OF STIFFER LANS, EA( II applying for grants, and we RIME NOI REPORTED donations from the arts council of Sil- child from the women's shelter Inn Vision. carved a food to the community. ( 0E1.0 RFS' LT IS A Hsi: oF $25,000 icon Valley," Simpson said. "We've pumpkin Thursday at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. brought Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasser- stein, George Plimpton, Jane Smiley and ()liver Stone." Beth Anstadig, the director of the \lark !kill, an Center of Literary Arts, said Sedaris actor in the definitely has a dry and cynical sense Dating, sexual woes of humor. play "I Love "Anyone is at risk of being one of his You. You're subjects," Anstadig said. "He can speak in different accents and voices portrayed in play Perfect, Now and uses family events in his com- Change.- per- mentaries." By kat(' Kositch vidual sitcom compacted into five minutes - whether it's making light formed at the Sedaris has done strange-but-true [-Nit, ,i %vim! it commentaries for NPR's Morning Edi- of the difficulty of dating or touch- rheatre On San alternative ing the audience with the reality of tion. Those looking for an Pedro Square. One is titled "The Santaland to the usual dinner-and-a-movie living life after a spouse is gone. Diaries. nights, look no further. The first act focuses on relation- I lefti has In the commentary, a mother urges The play, "I Love You, You're Per- ships prior to marriage. recently been on Sedaris, who is dressed as a Macy's elf, fect, Now Change," officially opened There are musical numbers rang- to inform her bratty kid that all he's last Wednesday at the Theatre on ing from the plight of a "Single Man Steve Silver's getting for Christmas is coal. San Pedro Square and is a fitting Drought" to the elation experienced Beach Blanket tells the boy that Santa no theatrical production for anything when "He Called Me." Sedaris Babylon in San longer traffics in coal. from a girls night out to a date. While two very unsure newly- Instead, "If you're bad, he comes to Because the play is a timelined weds end the first act, the second Francisco. your house and steals things." journey through the trials and act starts with the bridesmaid who Mona Onstead, president of board tribulations of relationships, people is certain that she has far too many of directors for the Center for Literary of any age can appreciate and relate unbecoming dresses in her closet. &olefin, Kinno Arts, said Sedaris is often seen on to the sketches and musical num- The cast takes the audience PBS. bers that are part of the whole per- through the joys of life after 1 Wily Staff formance. see SEDARIS, Page 6 Each sketch resembles an indi- See PLAY, Page4 2 Tut simy. ocf0111 It 3 I. 2000 Opinion_ SPARTAN DAILY SAN JOSE. STATE. UNIVERSITY Letters Day of the Dead: a perfect time to grieve A.S. election debate s a 14-year-old, it didn't seem joy - bookstore shelves are stocked judgments, and has no understand- strange to scour downtown with self-help material focused on ing of degree," poet Rusty Berkus San Jose in search of candy finding bliss, and there's even a per- wrote. informed students sugar skulls. fume named "Happy" - so a detour The Day of the Dead is the perfect Nothing about decorating skele- into the world of anguish may cause time to honor all the losses in our tons or baking bread of the dead or a plunge in the stock market. lives. about current issues preparing altars in memory of loved But why not give the gift of grief Even if no one we know personal- ones struck me as odd. its proper value? ly has died, it doesn't mean we don't Although I never truly believed It is because we have experienced have reason to lament. Thank you for providing excellent coverage of from the loss of love the Associated Students election debate last that the altars beckoned spirits to pain that we can appreciate life's Everything return to Earth on the first and sec- pleasures. to losing a favorite sweater needs to Wednesday. accordingly. As a result of that coverage, as well as the heroic ond of November, I always enjoyed Melody Beattie, the author of be mourned celebrating El Dia de los Muertos. "The Lessons of Love," wrote that Grief shouldn't haunt the living, efforts of Sam Casas, director of legislative affairs be ignored either. for Associated Students that made the debate possi- The Day of the Dead has been "life isn't just mysterious and unpre- but it shouldn't called silly, bizarre and even pagan Christina Lucarotti dictable, it can be unbearably cruel Sorrow isn't supposed to suffocate ble, I believe many students are more informed We shouldn't be afraid about Proposition 38, the school voucher initiative, by some. and breathtakingly wondrous, some- and paralyze. and Measure A, the Santa Clara Valley Transporta- The cheerful colors and brightly times at the same time." of it. decorated skeletons may give a false The Day of the Dead addresses It is meant to help us come to tion Authority transit measure. what we have lost and I was absolutely delighted that Sam allowed the impression of irreverence toward Muertos is based on a belief that life this duality in our human existence grips with death, but, in actuality, the day rep- is a dream and it is only in dying and offers a way for life's grief to be what we have learned.