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TUESDAY', Avini 16, 2002 WWW.THESPARTANDAIMCOM Doa \ I HE CENTER SJSU softball team splits dout:Tle- header with Loyola Marymount Sports, 4 4UNRAVEL ARIAN Minal Gandhi extrapolates on the pressures women face from their mothers. VoL. 118 Opinion, 2 AHOMEMADE CLOTHES Sarah Tejada makes models a sr.. No. SO tablecloth she transformed V ALSO IN TODAY'S ISSUE into a shirt. Opinion 2 SpOrtS 4 Classified .. 5 A & E, 6 IL Sparta Guide 2 Crossword 5 A & E 6 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSFTY SINCE: 1934 Gerald Wheeler 1925-2002 Former dean A taxing situation Some students rushed to get remembered their taxes to the post office for kindness Niina Bakalis before the midniAht deadline D \ \FI WRI I I Gerald Wheeler, former dean of the College By Moses Peraza Lobato said she did her taxes of Social Sciences, died Wednesday after a bout last weekend, DARN' S I NI WRIFIR but the post office with cancer. He was 77. was not open on Sunday, so she According to San Jose Senior Adrian Combes asked mailed in her taxes on Monday. State University col- senior. Maria Lobato if he could Gloisa Garcia, an employee leagues, Wheeler had a borrow her envelope so he could of the Spartan Bookstore, said sense of humor and kind- write down the address to the the bookstore was busier earli- ness that paralleled his Tax Franchise Board. er in the day, but it had slowed varied scholarly pursuits. These were two of about nine down by the time she got to "He had a model wit who were students standing in work. about him," said Benton line at the post office on the Garcia said the mail carrier White, retired professor ground floor of the Student comes at 4 p.m. and that is of religious studies, who Union at about 3 p.m. to make when the employees change the knew Wheeler for 42 sure their envelopes were post- meter. years. "He went out of his marked before the deadline on Any mail that comes in after Wheeler way to make people feel midnight. goes out the next day at 4 p.m., good about themselves." "I sent my federal tax a cou- he said. Three years ago, Wheeler and White ple of weeks ago," Combes, a However, not everyone pro- formed a group with several other retired civil engineering major, said. crastinated. SJSU professors. The circle of friends met Combes said it took him a Stefanie Walters, a junior monthly for lunch and kept companionship half an hour to fill out his state dance student, said she did her going after an afternoon on the golf course tax. But he said he was happy taxes thzough telefile. wasn't possible. he was getting money back on Using telefile, taxpayers can They called themselves "The Old Farts his return. file their truces by phone by Group." Another student who was fil- putting in a code given by the "We were never great golfers, but we loved ing his taxes on the deadline Internal Revenue Service. day was Henry Uhui, a senior At about 2:30 p.m., the Third See WHEELER. Pap 5 and mechanical engineer. Street station on Paseo de San Uhui said he had too many Antonio had a line that went projects going on, such as work from the counter to the lobby, and school. which is about 20 people. Car accident Lobato, a human resource Francisco Vales, a tattoo student, said people don't real- artist, said he was one of those ize how fast time goes by. last-minute men, especially "It's like doing a paper," she when it came to taxes. victims stable said. "Procrastinating to the Ra Rinia Shah See TAXES, Page 3 last minute." DAIL1 STAFF WRIII-R The two MEChA members involved in the car accident in Arizona on April 1 were said to be stable, according to Jose Lopez, a MECM member. MEChA member Alma Aquina, who was the Impact Party candidate for legislative affairs for the A.S. elections, had been transferred to the rehabilitation center at the Sharp Memori- al Hospital in San Diego. "I am recuperating right now," Aquina said. "With some help, I can get into a wheelchair." Aquina, a political science major, who said &aria Gachei Dailj Shrtl she has a fractured pelvis, a broken right leg, a dislocated arm and minor fractures in her neck, Above, Mar Romano, a postal worker, received tax forms from people driving is hopeful that she will get better soon. through Meridian Ave. right across from the post office on Monday night. This service is "I want to go back to school," Aquina said. 'I offered once a year on the last day to file taxes. lost this semester, and I want to graduate soon. Left, the Meridian Post Offic.e filled up with last-minute tax payers they rushed I also want to do a double major in the Chicano studies program." to beat the April 15 tax filling deadline. set MECHA. Pap 3 Civil Rights activists Students learn dances, to be honored today celebrate fallen Israelis By Mike Corpos MEChA and Akbayan, a Filipino ed States, Macias said. student group. Among the featured speakers SIAFI R By Amber Sheldon DARN "A lot of people don't know will be Sal Alvarez of the Insti- A tribute is scheduled to be about Filipino laborers in Califor- tute for Non-Violence. Alvarez DAIIN STAFF WRITIR held this afternoon to honor two nia," said Abel Macias, a graduate worked with Chavez during his The Jewish Student Union and civil right activists who fought for student intern at the MOSAIC struggle to improve conditions for Hillel of Silicon Valley presented the rights of migrant farm work- multicultural center. migrant farm workers, according Israeli dancing to San Jose State ers in the United States. Vera Cruz formed a Filipino to Macias. University students yesterday in and Philip farm workers union that merged Also scheduled to speak is Cesar E. Chavez the Student Union Amphitheater who worked closely to with Chavez's union to form the Jay Mendoza of the Philip Vera Vera Cruz, to kick off the beginning of Jew- form the United Farm Workers United Farm in 1966. Cruz Justice Project, who will during the 1960s, are While he is generally seen as give a history of Vera Cruz's life ish Culture Week. Union of the those to be honored. fighting for the rights of Mexican and his part in the struggle for Aaron Baskin, president Jewish Student Union, said this The event if; sponsored by the laborers, Chavez fought for the MOSAIC Multicultural Center, rights of all laborers in the Unit- See Page 3 is the first time the organization CHAVEZ. has done this on campus. "I thought it went great. I real- ly enjoyed it," Baskin said. "I shows effect of pollution never participated in it before, Art and it was a lot fun. I like the fact that it's a group thing and every- B) Lori Hanle). visually, and landscape photogra- banks one dances together." phy has always been closest to "They are meant to shed light DARN SIN! I WRIII Before the dancing was to com- my heart," Butler said. on both nature's rhythms and on mence, there was a moment of Bright orange pollution domi- He said he has lived in North- the pollution that is usually hid- silence. nates Tim Butler's exhibition of eastern Pennsylvania on and off den from view by the waterline," Arlene Miller, executive direc- photography, "Untangling my for 30 years. Butler said. tor of Hillel, said yesterday Ivan kavIrtnAkt Path Val, roots," opening at 6 p.m. tonight "There are scars of the coal- To create this effect, he said he start of Yom used an underwater evening marked the Leya Babchin, a San lose State University student, partid- in the Art building's Gallery 2. mining industry. There is aban- camera Hazikaron. of fine arts stu- doned land that nobody can do located halfway into the water. pates in Israeli dancing in the Student Union Amphitheater. Edo Butler, a master "1 It's) respect to -media pre- anything with. The Lackawanna Chris Hoang, a freshman busi- a time to pay from the University of Berkeley to dent, gives a free multi fallen civilians in Israel, to Babchin's right, came the effects of River is the most blatant," Butler nese student, said the pho- soldiers and sentation examining Israel," Miller said. "We actually teach different types of Israeli dancing Monday. pollution in Northeastern Penn- said. tographs were different from any- the Lackawanna The show features four large thing he had seen before. called for a moment of silence for According to the Institute for the State of Israel and in its sylvania and civilians on both near his hometown. photographs of a two-mile stretch "I have never seen angles like all soldiers and Public Affairs Web site, Yom defense and is marked during the River 12:30 p.m. In the "I grew up in the area, so I of the Lackawanna River that that before. They are so full of sides at about Hazikaron is a day of remem- 24 hours preceding Yom Ha'atz- know it is an important issue. I Butler said is "unlivable for Middle East, in Israel, they sound brance for those who fell in the knew it would he interesting aquatic life" and its surrounding see PHOTOS, Pap 3 a siren for 80 seconds." struggle of the establishment of see DANCE. Pap 5 2 APRIL 16, 21.)02 OPINION SAN jOSE STA I I UNIVERSITY For the love of Mother's, cookies and self decided to forgive her Ilove my mother.