FRIDAY, FERFttiARY 15, 2002 WWW.TH ESPARTANDAIIN.COM 1 BA( k I 111. UtME After 16-year absence, wrestling finding a foothold at SJSU. Sports, 4 SPARTAN WHERE S MY LIGHTER? Going to see Gwar and living VoL. 118 to tell the story. No. 16--- Opinion, 2 V ALSO IN TODAY S ISSUE Opinion 2 Sparta Guide 2 Letters .... 2 Crossword 3 Classified .. 3 Sports 4 SERVING JOSE IL SAN STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 Brazilian Love notes . SJSU,Taiwan band to join in program play By Anna Bakalis versa.), Chun-Yen Chang. on The program is intended for Dk11.1 SI \I-1- WHIM( students working toward an A top Taiwan University has Executive Masters Business joined academic forces with San Administration and a Masters of campus Jose State University to offer a Science in Electrical Engineering. program of study to graduate stu- The engineering part of the By Rickee Hill dents in business and engineering. program will offer one-week field DAILY "The program will be used to trip courses in addition to tradi- STAFF WRITER expose students to the globaliza- tional classes. A fusion of reggae, funk, rock, tion of high tech businesses," said The business emphasis will rap and hip-hop with a Brazilian Belle Wei, chair of the depart- offer coursework as well as visits twist, Brazilian band Samba Da, ment of electrical engineering. to top business companies. is slated to visit the Student Last month, Wei, SJSU "This is a jointly offered degree Union Ballroom on Saturday to Provost Marshall Goodman and program," Wei said. "In order to participate in the Brazilian Car- SJSU President Robert Caret get a degree, coordination is need- nival Dance Party. took a trip across the Pacific to ed between the two universities." Club Latin America, a stu- visit five universities and three According to Wei, the main dent-run group, is sponsoring the industry and science institutions. purpose of the program is to com- cultural event. The participating college, bine real-world business prac- "Samba Da performs and is National Chiao Tung University, tices with top courses offered at recognized (both) nationally and is one of the top universities in the two universities. internationally," club president China. Wei added that there is a Jesus Angulo said. "They recently "This university is the Taiwan demand for talented high-tech pro- were on tour." equivalent to Silicon Valley," Wei fessionals in China, and this pro- According to Angulo, the objec- said. "It also has a very extensive gram will enhance scholarly oppor- tive of the concert event is for alumni network." tunities for the Republic of China. both Latin Arnerican students Last month, Caret signed an "Taiwan is more advanced in with and those of other cultures to be agreement of cooperation See Page 3 exposed to Latin American enter- the president of the Taiwan uni- PROGRAM, tainment. Club Latin America is designed for education and enter- tainment purposes, he said. celebrated at Angulo said that San Jose has Love a large Portuguese community and that it is good for students to interact with one another. Angulo said he expects many Valentine reading people to attend the event and enjoy the cultural experience. By Rime Shah so deeply with love because it speaks more deeply in the psyche Musical Director Papiba God- DAIL). STAFF Vb KITH( inho leads the six-piece Brazilian than prose. band. The rhythm of poetry blended "I think partly because it According to the band's Web with the cadence of music at the depends on images rather than site, Godinho formed the band in 20th annual Valentine's celebra- the logical picture," Peterson 1997. tion at Le Petit Trianon Theatre said. "It relies on the picture part The band is based in Santa in downtown San Jose on Thurs- of language and the sound part of Cruz and is a cultivation of day evening. language. When you are reading artists that "create music that Love poetry flowed into the a poem, it is not just operating on fuse the rhythmic base of folk- tiny chapel inside the theatre. your intellect and mind, it is also loric Brazilian percussion and About 100 people, listened to operating on your emotions but it vocal with contemporary instru- the deep booming voice of Nils is also operating on your body. ments," the site stated. Peterson, a retired poetry profes- "It is just like when you are Performing regularly in Cali- sor at San Jose State University. singing, your body is an instru- fornia, Samba Da can be seen in The audience laughed with ment on which the music is venues ranging from Los Angeles Peterson making fun of himself played and it just the same as Bay, includ- and reciting poetry describing when you are singing as when to the San Francisco Christy Kinskey / Daily Stall crushes and sighed at verses ing San Jose's the Usual. first somebody is reciting poetry in "I first heard (Samba Da) last describing the mysteriousness of front of you." In the afternoon glow of Valentine's Day, Mass Communications masters student Laurie love. Singing. therefore, accompa- Peterson said poetry connects see CAFtNIVAL, Page 3 Shantz works on a deptartment newsletter. See LOVE, Page 3 Choraliers get ready Packaging program receives donation By Jason Crovse for trip with concert DAII SUAFI V4 Rill R ( 'Bum) -1 choirs i an five West-Coast On Wednesday, students in San Jose State states, is scheduled for Feb. 21 in University's packaging program found out DARN MAI I WRIll Honolulu, Hawaii. that gifts can come in very small packages. Ys In anticipation for their The Aloha Concert will feature The program received a $7,500 check from upcoming trip to Hawaii, the San the program the choir will sing the Western Packaging Association. Jose State University Choraliers for the Association's Western The association is a non-profit organiza- are scheduled to present their Division Conference, Archibeque tion of West Coast professionals in the pack- Aloha Concert at 7 p.m. on Sun- said. aging industry. day at Prince of Peace Lutheran "The SJSU choraliers are one According to Bill Floyd. the president of of only four University choirs the Northern California chapter of the WPA, Church in Saratoga. the donation to SJSU fits in with the associa- Charlene Archibeque, director selected to perform for the Choral tion's goal of pmmoting packaging education. of choral activities, said the con- Directors Association," "Our donation will go to support student- cert is practice and preparation Archibeque said. "They had to related packaging programs at San Jose for their upcoming. performance make tapes (of them singing) and State," Floyd said. at the American Choral Directors were chosen last summer for the The check was accepted by Professor Lucy Association Western Division conference." McProud, the Nutrition Science and Food Conference. Studies department chair. The conference. which will see CONCERT, Page 3 "It's a wonderful gift," McProud said. "It helps us rnntinue and flourish at SJSU." McProud said that the Western Packaging Caltrain to run different times Association has given a total of appmximately $70,000 to the department in the last five years. B ,triclres Bollinger a) on Monda. busi- "The ( packaging) industry really pitches iit -es will be closed which means in," McProud said. "They help DAII S I AI-I WRIT I R supplement our les, people will use the trains on limited funds through the WPA (Western Caltrain will be running on a Presidents' Day, Maltbie said. Packaging Association), which has been a modified schedule on Monday Sixty-two trains will run very generous supporter of our program." because of the Presidents' Day between San Francisco and San The group also donated $2,500 earlier this holiday, according to Caltrain Jose with another four going to year to help pay for packaging students to trav- Public Information Officer Janet Gilroy, according to the Caltrain el to trade shows, professor Peter Cocotas said. McGovern. Web site. McPmud said that Sall packaging stu- San Jose State University stu- dents are given an opportunity to present On a normal business day 80 id R. /huh Stall dents who use Caltrain to get to trains are in operation, while just examples of their work to professionals in the Western Packaging Association to solicit and from school may be affected 20 run on normal business holi- Peter Cocotas, Left, chair of The Pack- University Department of Food Science and by the holiday schedule because advice and suggestions. aging Advisory Board for the Western Nutrition looks on. McProud holds a $7,500 days, Maltbie said. Cocotas said that the WPA has had a rela there will be fewer trains run- Sophomore Industrial Technol- Packaging Association shakes hands check that was donated to the school in the ning, she said. tionship involved in the creation of the pack- "We are not trying to inconve- ogy major Jonathan Garcia said," aging program at &NU and has been a con- with association president Bill Floyd while Dr. Almaden room of the Student Union nience anybody," said Caltrain I didn't know. Too bad we have a sistent supporter ever since. Lucy McProud, chair of the San Jose State Wednesday. Public Information Officer Jamie holiday." Cocotas said that the money would be Maltbie. "We always run on modi- San Jose State students can going into the department's foundation fund. The Student Packaging Association hosted Stefanie Harris, president of the Student schedules (in Presidents' Day look at the modified schedules at "The donation will primarily be used to fied packaging lab this month's meeting of the Western Packag- Packaging Association, expressed gratitude and the day after Thanksgiving.