New A.S. Budget Already Under Fire
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Macchi hits his sixth home run 'Oz' loses mind, New animated of the season, but Spartans lose focus after movie, 'Shrek' to No. 3 Stanford 4-3 a tough week breaks the rules .Sports, page 5 Opinion, page 2 A dr E, page 6 San Jose State University SServingPART SinceN 1934 DAILY April 26, 2001 www.spartandaily.org Volume 116, No. 58 New A.S. budget already under fire By Jena Torres by the Finance Committee, was the meeting about budget cuts for Measure M requires that "a Currently, the $18 activity fee of mencement Committee, was upset affirmed Wednesday by the Board various organizations. minimum of 10 percent of DAII SIA1-1 WRI k the Asso- 1998 is used to calculate the bud- at the meeting because funding for of Directors. Casas said his primary concerns ciated Student's Operating Budget get instead of the $38 activity fee her organization was cut from Only a week into its approval, Sam Casas, director of legisla- are with the interpretation of Mea- be dedicated each fiscal year to that students pay today. $3,000 to $1,500, she said. Associated Students President Leo tive affairs, and Julie Rieken, who sure M, approved by students in Student Organization Activities in "If they were doing Measure M "It's upsetting," Moran said. Davila's proposed budget is was elected controller for next 1998, issues surrounding the pro- order to maintain their current properly, as it is legally worded, we "This is Silicon Valley. The cost of already being met with criticism year, are particularly opposed to posed computer lab and the level of funding." wouldn't have run out of money living is so high. The sad part is by student organizations and A.S. the new budget. decrease in stipends allotted to the The operating budget, according this year," Rieken said. we're missing out. We're out hus- members. Besides Casas and Rieken, A.S. president, vice president and to Davila, is based on the activity Lucy Moran, a graduate student The budget, approved April 18 three students voiced concerns at controller. fee portion of the A.S. fees. involved with the Chicano Com- see BUDGET, Page 8 Pulitzer winner to speak By Karen Kabiling I), , \II WHIIIR In her poem "Fearful Women," Carolyn Kizer, a visiting writer to San Jose State University's English department, speaks of feminism: "An educated woman is a danger. / Lock up your mate! Keep a submissive stranger / like Darby's Joan, content with church and Kinder, / not like that sainted Joan, burnt to a cinder. / Whether we wield a scepter or a mop / It's clear you fear that we may get on top." Kizer was a feminist activist and one of the first to write about women's issues - her writing won her a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1985. A reading with Kizer and National Book Award Winner Adrienne Rich is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. today in Morris Dailey Auditorium. 'If there were a Mount Rushmore for American poetry, these two women's faces would be carved in rock," said Beth Astandig, coordinator of the event. Admission is free and a book signing will fol- low the event. The event, "A Conversation about Carolyn See KIZER. Page 8 Writer talks about trips, foAr ttlilaYe PLANET 31st Earth Day celebrated on SJSU campus By Donnis Manglinong preserve them." Colbeck said. "Urban packs house svi, m n. Dmis creeks shouldn't be used as dunips. People need to enjoy the parks but Environmentalist organizations preserve them as well." Vivian Bejarin gathered in the Seventh and Ninth He also said that to preserve city By street plazas Wednesday: to pmmote parks, people should do certain 1)%1IN SIM WRIII and address issues affecting the things, such as not walking off trails Binh Danh, a senior art major, made sure he planet on Earth Day to prevent erosion. leaving vegetation wasn't late to the talk with featured Vietnamese The event, to celebrate the 31st alone and preventing litter. American writer, Andrew X. Pham. at noon in the Earth Day, tackled major issues Rod Diridon, executive director for Music building Concert Hall on Wednesday. including recycling goods, conserving the city's transit system. was thr As part of Asian/Pacific American Heritage the environment and ways to save guest speaker. Diridon addressed Month at San Jose State University, Danh and 250 natural resources. Students from the several environmental issues. such other people showed up to listen to the nationally envimnmental resource center rtior- as the greenhouse effect and increas- known writer share his thoughts about his first dinated the event. ing public use of mass transportation book, titled "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Doug Colbeck. a park ranger for systems. Diridon cited statistics to Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of the city of San Jose. and other park support his viewpoints. Krisropher /huh slap Vietnam." rangers set up their display of how "The United States is only about Pham said the book won awards, including the water is reused through drainage 2.5 percent of the world's population, Top, Mark Tranzen sings in protest of urbanization with the band Nullset Kiriyama Pacific Rim Literary Prize in 1999 and systems. The Water Awareness Pro- but produces about 22 percent of the at the Student Union Amphitheater during the Earth Day festivities. New York Times Book of the Year in 1999. gram involves park officials teaching world's greenhouse pollution." he Above, a fire-breathing dragon named "Claude" was outside the Stu- His passion for writing, Pham said, came as a school children how to conserve said. "Everyone should be using our water in homes and the environment. public transportation system, and dent Union on Ninth Street as part of the Earth Day festivities Wednesday. result of his older sister's suicide. The dragon was made by welder Gabe Zanotto out of leftover farm equip- He said his sister, who was a transsexual. took "The comniunity needs to know her own life because of her inner struggles and the more about its city parks and how to See EARTH DAY. Page 8 ment and took 23 years to build. See PHAM. Page 8 Teach-in talks conflict Campus media honored By Emily B. Zurich Wednesday afternoon in the 1)Aity Ripisti Mayes. Mike Osegueda. Don Costanoan room of the Student Perez. Chris Preavolos. David I)%11 SI 111 HAWK Union. Three of the media outlets ol San Jose State University - Royal. Ishii Santos. Sebastian Barbara Lubin was arrested Faten Hijazi, the vice president Widmann and Aaron Williams the UC Berkeley of the association, said she hoped Access Magazine, the Spartan Tuesday night on Daily and Update News - partic- took home individual awards. campus for protesting in favor of while the staff was awarded the and shutting down an see LUBIN. Page 8 ipated in the 52nd annual Cali- Palestinians fornia Intercollegiate Press ASSO- rest. auditorium. ACCCSK Magazine's Barbara Lubin, executive direc- ciation's competition in San Deborah "We closed it down," Lubin said tor of the Middle East Children's Diego on April 20 and April 21. Hudson and the magazine's stafl Wednesday at San Jose State Uni- took home five awards and the the doors. I see Alliance in Berkeley, speaks to a The Spartan Daily took home versity. "We chained 21 awards, sweepstakes for most awards the start of mass arrests group of students at a Muslim Stu- four of which won in it as just on-site competitions. overall in the magazine category. on this issue." dent Associabon meeting in the Stu- Update News, SJSU's broad- discussed with students David Bitton, Kellie Chitten- Lubin dent Union. Lubin spoke Wednes- den, Monica cast program, took home 15 the conflict between Israelis and L. Ewing, Tsutomu Palestinians at the Stu- day about the continued violence Fujita. Marcus R. Fuller, Erin See CIPA, Page 8 dents Association's "Teach-ln" between Israel and Palestine. David Salim Path Shill 11 b. A P INT I Co N SPARTAN DAIl THURSDAY, Am. 26, 2001 SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Letters Ramblings of a tired, sleep-deprived man service announcement courtesy of ... last week's column about the name- These are my ramblings: The ram- Tripling up in dorms blings of a guy who had a recent umm ... me. change thing. four-day span with only 16 hours Earlier in the semester I got angry I come to this conclusion after a few of sleep. The ramblings of a guy who about someone wearing a red SJSU comments and a letter I received. Well, is an atrocity at SJSU can say he almost died, was stuck in an MIKE sweatshirt when the basketball team for those who don't quite understand elevator and was one of 13 people OSEGUEDA was playing Fresno State, which, of the point, I have one word that may Imagme waking up one morning and find- crammed in one van all in a single course, goes with the color red like con- clear the air. i ng yourself lying on an old weekend. The ramblings of a guy who struction goes with our campus. I'll give you a clue, it starts with an mattress,smaller than the bed frame, and has had an almost continuous headache Anyhoo, the point is, I still see people "S" and rhymes with "arcasm." above you and next to you are two unknown for a week. walking around wearing these traves- For those still concerned with the beings. And all of that is probably why I ties.