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Tuessday, Volume 152 May 7, 2019 No. 41 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY Photos persist despite ban Recreation center policy prohibits photography within facilities By Cindy Cuellar and Jozy Prabhu STAFF WRITERS I know for a fact I won’t Students are prohibited from taking photos or video inside the Spartan stop taking pictures. Recreation and Aquatic Center, unless they have prior approval, per the Christian Jimenez handbook they agree to before using international business junior the facilities. The rule is one of several regulations within the center’s membership handbook. Clarke said if they saw anyone taking Shawn Clarke, spartan recreation and photos or videos in the center with any aquatic center facilities manager, said type of camera or a cellular device, they students are “not supposed to” take photos would ask them to stop and quote the or videos on their phones while in the policy. facility. Civil engineering senior Stephanie When asked about how many students Nguyen and mechanical engineering read the membership handbook, Clarke senior Chris Arzadon said they have been declined to comment. actively attending gyms since high school There’s no photography or videography and understood the policy. allowed inside without prior approval “I feel like it’s almost respectful to not by the associate director or assistant take photos while being in the gym,” director, according to the Photography Arzadon said. and Technology section of the handbook’s However, some students believe the General Policies chapter. policy will not deter people from posting a Taking photos or video in the locker selfie or clip from their workout. rooms and restrooms is prohibited at all “Since Snapchat is such a heavy times. influence and a big form of “When I registered, nobody told me communication, I don’t think people about that [policy],” said Luke Yang, a are going to stop taking photos,” said graduate student of human factors and international business junior Christian ergonomics. Jimenez. “I know for a fact I won’t stop Out of 20 students the Spartan Daily taking pictures.” PHOTO COURTESY OF DALTON CHAMBERLAIN surveyed, 18 didn’t know about the policy, Kinesiology senior Dalton Chamberlain poses for a photo inside the Spartan while seven took videos or photographs Follow Cindy & Jozy on Twitter Recreation and Aquatic Center for his fitness Instagram account, @dac.fit. in the past. @eredetii and @PrabhuJoanna Chamberlain said he did not receive prior approval before taking his photo. Tagalog class scheduled for fall semester By Roman Contreras fight for it,” said Malonzo. student organizations, that the curriculum had STAFF WRITER SJSU students will have including Akbayan, a been established. the option to take TAG predominantly Filipino- “I got an email that we Since starting at San 1A, next fall. The course I knew that if I was gonna American organization, had to start immediately Jose State, advertising will cover four units, and many of whom signed the in the fall term and I sophomore Tyrell teach students the most go to college and there petition. was on a time crunch Malonzo has made it his prominent language of the wasn’t a Tagalog class at the By the end of his and needed to find a personal mission to bring Philippines. campaign, Malonzo had professor. I reached out a Tagalog class into the Malonzo has been university I attended, I was amassed 150 signatures, to organizations in San Tyrell Malonzo course catalog. trying to get a Tagalog going to fi ght for it. which he presented to the Francisco, Davis, Santa advertising This upcoming fall class on the SJSU campus sophomore department chair. Cruz, here in Silicon semester, Malonzo will since the spring of his Following summer Valley and even Southern achieve his goal. freshman year. vacation, Malonzo was California,” Malonzo said. “I knew that if I was “I talked with the he wanted to see if others out to linguistics majors contacted by Dr. Yasue Malonzo said eventually gonna go to college and department chair of world did too,” said Malonzo. and friends to spread the Yanai, an associate all things worked out, there wasn’t a Tagalog language, [Dr. Damian To accomplish his word. professor of world and he is excited for the class at the university I Bacich] and he told me he goal, Malonzo created Additionally, he asked languages & literature at attended, I was going to saw that I wanted this, but a petition and reached for the support of several SJSU, who notified him LANGUAGE | Page 2 San Jose Fire aims to recruit more women By Cora Wilson workforce consistent with get some local women who STAFF WRITER the Organizational Values are interested in a career in Statement.” the fire service. Bilinguals, San Jose Fire Department Matlow said this plan was ethnically diverse, different will be holding a women’s put in place to help recruit socioeconomic backgrounds, boot camp on Saturday, May more department members varying education levels,” 18, at the fire department’s to match the makeup of the said Condren over email. training center, to help San Jose community. Condren mentioned that recruit women in the San “San Jose Fire is unique this boot camp will help to Jose community who are among the Bay Area fire create one of the most diverse interested in exploring a departments. We are the work forces in the country career in the fire service. 8th largest city in America and will serve one of the “We are underrepresented and we serve one of the most diverse communities in in female firefighters,” said most diverse populations in the country. Mitchell Matlow, public the country,” said San Jose Condren said the fire information officer for the firefighter Corey Condren. department currently has fire department. “Some of Condren was a paramedic no Latina women and very the female staff came up with for four years before few African-American or this idea so that we could get joining the department as Asian women. Condren feels more women interested in a firefighter more than four that to serve the San Jose careers in the fire service.” years ago. Now stationed community, this needs to This event is a part of with Engine 2 in East Side change. San Jose Fire Department’s San Jose, she is one of the “Women bring an entirely PHOTO COURTESY OF CRAIG ALLYN ROSE PHOTOGRAPHY “Vision 2023” plan, which creators of the boot camp. new dynamic to the fire Firefighter and paramedic Cassie Loessberg (left) is the lone woman in a row of aims to “actively recruit “Through hosting this graduates ready to enter the next tier of their profession in firefighting. a talented and diverse boot camp, we are hoping to DIVERSITY | Page 2 A&E Opinion Sports Former Disney Top two men’s golf What to do with stars make a players putt their my dead body comeback way to Austin Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019 NEWS LANGUAGE Continued from page 1 “The worst part was that I never got start of the course this to communicate properly with my upcoming fall semester. “It’s dope [the class] grandparents before they passed away, because it brings equal and I don’t want that for anyone else.” representation of another group,” marketing senior Tyrell Malonzo Kevin Luu said. advertising sophomore SJSU offers majors in Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish and separation he felt from Malonzo said he is offers classes in several Filipino culture. grateful for all the help the other languages. “There’s a lot of cultural faculty provided, because Classes in other Asian disconnect. It’s much harder the course would not languages, such as Japanese to maintain, preserve and have been made possible and Chinese, have been love our culture than it without it. incorporated into SJSU has been before, simply For students, Malonzo curriculum for at least because many of us are hopes the class will two decades, according first generation Filipino- break down cultural to the world languages Americans,” said Malonzo. barriers and keep Filipino department chair, This disconnect affected families connected. Dr. Bacich. Malonzo greatly due to the “I hope this class will Speakers of Tagalog barrier in communication ensure that people can in the United States between himself and much live their culture through have increased from of his family. their language, and be IMAGE COURTESY OF CRAIG ALLYN ROSE PHOTOGRAPHY 474,150 people in 1980 “The worst part able to preserve it, and to 1,573,720 people in was that I never got to share it with their kids,” Mary Gutierrez, former Battalion Chief for San Jose Fire Department and current Division 2010, according to U.S. communicate properly said Malonzo. Chief for Gilroy Fire Department, gives commands to a fi refi ghter at a structure fi re. census data. with my grandparents Bringing a Tagalog before they passed DIVERSITY the women will attend a class to the SJSU campus away, and I don’t want question and answer session was important to that for anyone else,” Follow Roman on Instagram where some of the speakers Continued from page 1 Malonzo because of the Malonzo said. @roaminroman_52 I want the women will include the first female service. When people think firefighter ever hired by the of firefighters, they have who attend the San Jose Fire Department, been conditioned to think boot camp to a gold medalist and the of a big, muscle bound fire chief. man; books, tv shows, and understand that At the end of the day, movies haven’t helped. But they can achieve the women will have free that just isn’t accurate,” time to talk with the female Condren said.

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