Volume 149, Issue 19 www.sjsunews.com/spartan_daily Thursday, October 5, 2017 SPARTAN DAILY SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 FOLLOW US! /spartandaily @SpartanDaily @spartandaily /spartandailyYT #spartanpolls A MEAL FIT HOMECOMING FOR AN EARL RIVALRIES What’s the better option, online or in-person classes? See full story See full story 21% Online on page 4 on page 8 79% In-person DREAMERS SPARTAN UP! SJSU responds to end of DACA BY CINTHIA LOERA A.S. president Ariadna Manzo Staff Writer said she brought the idea of scholarships to the A.S. Board On Sep. 5, Attorney General Jeff of Directors because she wasn’t Sessions announced President seeing any monetary assistance Trump’s decision to end the being offered to DACA recipients Deferred Action for Childhood on campus. Arrivals program (DACA). “Our general reserve fund is Recipients learned that they had there for emergencies like that one month to meet the Oct. 5 and we’re funded through student deadline to renew their DACA fees,” Manzo said. “We need to status in order to keep it for another provide to students what we were two-year period. elected here to do. If we had the According to the U.S. Citizenship funds and other people weren’t and Immigration Services doing anything about it, we needed (USCIS), recipients could only to step in and do something.” renew their DACA status if their Pictorial art senior Diego current status expired before Barragán is an SJSU student who March 5, 2018. Those who don’t was able to pay for his DACA fees meet the March 5 deadline will through A.S. MOHAMED BAFAKIH | SPARTAN DAILY begin to lose their benefi ts granted Barragán explained that he came by DACA. to the United States at 12-years- San Jose State University President Mary Papazian high-fi ves head football coach Brent San Jose State University’s old from Oaxaca, Mexico without Brennan with her “Spartan Up” foam fi nger after the inaugural Golf Cart Parade Wednesday afternoon as a part of the homecoming week festivities. Participants marched across campus Associated Students (A.S.) knowing he was coming to stay. and showed school spirit for homecoming. The Spartans will play against rival Fresno State allocated $150,000 in scholarships He said the renewal process was on Saturday at CEFCU Stadium, with the kickoff starting at 4:30 p.m. from its general reserve fund for easier for him this time because he enrolled students to use for their had been through it before and has SEE PHOTO ESSAY ON PAGE 2 DACA renewal fee. The fee for the application is $495. RESOURCES | Page 2 DISCRIMINATION Author delivers immigration evolution lecture BY TREVIN SMITH Marcias-Rojas on stage. rights crisis, then something really fi shy The event focused on the lessons she Production Editor She was joined by fellow assistant and wrong is happening here.” learned during her research for her new professors of justice The book, titled “From book, which began just before the attacks Author Patrisia Macias-Rojas delivered studies John Halushka and Deportation to Prison: The on Sept. 11, 2001. a lecture regarding the evolution of the Ericka Adams. “They were sorting Politics of Immigration She explained what she learned during incarceration of immigrants in America All three had the us by criminal Enforcement in Post-Civil her research of the evolution of America’s on Wednesday. opportunity to ask Macias- Rights America,” is the immigration enforcement and emphasised The lecture, given in the School of Music’s Rojas questions about her history, not just 2017 Oliver Cromwell the history of politicians who stoke its auditorium, was part of the Ann Lucas research for her book and legal status.” Cox Book Award winner, rhetoric for personal political gain. Lecture Series, a sequence of lectures what she hopes people which is an award granted “What I saw in practice was little from speakers who highlight areas of focus learn from reading it. to publications that make more than crime control, delivered in an within the justice studies department. “In 2003, there [were] Patrisia Macias-Rojas a signifi cant contribution immigration practice,” Macias-Rojas said “I appreciated that there was an open 315 (deaths) in the Arizona Author, “From Deportation against racism. to the crowd in attendance. “They were dialogue,” justice studies major Prince desert alone,” Kil said. “So to Prison: The Politics of “There’s a demographic sorting us by criminal history, not just Sahot said. “I liked how there was a multi- you can just imagine the Immigration Enforcement in change in the country that legal status.” level analysis, so you can think about hundreds and hundreds Post-Civil Rights America” both parties are responding Macias-Rojas, a professor at the problem solving on a broader level.” of people, every summer. to and [it’s] being fought University of Illinois at Chicago, claims Associate professor of justice studies Sang When we’re talking about thousands of out on the backs of people of color in local Hea Kil opened the event by introducing deaths and we’re not talking about a human communities,” Macias-Rojas said. DEPORTATION | Page 2 PRESERVATION SJSU linguists get funds to record endangered language BY NOE MAGANA mountain range in northern Pakistan. Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. that the villages where Domaaki is spoken Staff Writer The eight-member team is led by Four graduate students split into pairs [are] way up on the mountain, during the Linguistic Coordinator Roula Svorou and spent a month in two villages. They winter it’s very diffi cult to get there,” The Language and Linguistics and lecturer Chris Donlay. They obtained about 10 hours of audio and video Donlay said. “If you get there you might Department earned its fi rst ever grant are working with Ayesha Sohail, a recordings of ceremonies, folk stories, get stuck because of the snow. We only had from the National Science Foundation specialist in pragmatics and conversation spontaneous conversation and songs. this window [in] August to get up there to for $150,000 to document an endangered analyst, Abdul Qadir Khan, specialist They are in the process of translating the get recordings and get back.” language in Pakistan called Domaaki. in phonetics and phonology and four recordings into English and Urdu, the Prior linguists had estimated that a couple The Dooma, a small community, live in the graduate students from the University of national language of Pakistan. Hunza and Nagar Valleys in the Karakoram Azad Jammu and Kashmir University in “Because of the school year and the fact GRANT | Page 2 2 NEWS Thursday, October 5, 2017 SJSU kicks off homecoming week MOHAMED BAFAKIH | SPARTAN DAILY (Top Left) Harrison Hoffman and Bryce Crawford get into the school spirit during the Golf Cart Parade Wednesday afternoon. (Top Right) Business senior Claudia D’Amato cheers proudly during the inaugural homecoming parade. (Bottom Right) Members of the SJSU cheerleading team prepare for the festivities. (Bottom Left) SJSU President Mary Papazian fl ashes her “Spartan Up” foam fi nger and serves as a parade marshal. DEPORTATION headed, stating her belief that President Trump speaks with post-colonialism Continued from page 1 rhetoric and warned of its dangers. “At the end of the day you start to see that what she gained the most during gosh, this isn’t even about immigration, her research was a greater appreciation it’s about these changing demographics, for the politics surrounding the debates, this changing political landscape,” rather than the politics themselves. Macias-Rojas said. “By imposing this “By giving border patrol police criminal stigma on immigrants, you’re privilege, it brings them into our basically preventing them from ever communities,” Halushka said. being legal, from ever becoming voters. He went on to talk about the over- It’s a form of voter suppression.” representation of minorities in the criminal justice system, stating that 66 percent of people who are released from TREVIN SMITH | SPARTAN DAILY incarceration return to prison. Assistant professor Ericka Adams speaks to the crowd about minorities being over- Macias-Rojas voiced her concern about Follow Trevin on Twitter represented within the criminal justice system. where America’s immigration policy is @TrevinS_media ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ | SPARTAN DAILY (fi le image) A sign that reads “No Human Being Is Illegal” in Spanish was placed on a table during the “Undocumented, United and Unafraid” event in April. RESOURCES borders or citizenship [dividing] us. We’re all the same people.” Continued from page 1 Salazar-Mendoza said students should know that there are other undocumented students decided to stay positive about the next two on campus, along with professors who are years in which he will be able to keep his ready to talk to them. He mentioned that some DACA status. professors even have an “UndocuAlly” sign “At the end of the day, even if you’re on their doors to show students their support. undocumented we’re still all humans,” “We’re moving in the direction where Barragán said. “We’re the same, we’re regardless of what happens in Washington students who are trying get an education.” D.C., regardless of what happens Oct. 5, Jaime Esquivel, the current co-chair of that there is gonna be support [on campus],” SJSU’s Student Advocates For Higher Salazar-Mendoza said. Education (SAHE), is also a DACA recipient An UndocuSpartan Center is scheduled along with SAHE treasurer José Salazar- to open in the Student Union by the Mendoza. Both members emphasized the end of this semester, according to importance of undocumented students UndocuSpartan director and fi nancial aid familiarizing themselves with the resources associate director Lucila Serrato-Lager.