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Softball team loses series P.6 Downtown hot spots P.4 Cultural icons battle P.3 Spartans placed in the role of spoiler A guide to top 10 summer outings D-Day event pits Darth Vader against James T. Kirk in games against Wolf Pack. in the San Jose area. in a war of scribbles. theSpartanDaily.com MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009 Volume 132, Issue 49 TUE WED THU FRI Spartan Daily 73 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 68 74 74 74 THE WIRE POLITICS STATE Swine fl u causes several May Day march for workers schools to close Demonstrators walk three miles LOS ANGELES — School administrators across from Story Road to City Hall California are hoping to keep swine fl u at bay by keeping some campuses closed on Monday. The state’s Department of Public Health has confi rmed 29 cases of the illness across the state, and continues to test 130 probable cases. There have been no swine fl u deaths in California. The median age for the state’s confi rmed and probable cases is 18 years old, which means many of those who have been affected are among the state’s 6.3 million school-aged children. — Associated Press NATIONAL Souter’s retirement unlikely to change court’s makeup WASHINGTON — Awaiting President Barack Obama’s fi rst Supreme Court pick, activists expect a less-spirited nomination battle than would have been anticipated if a conservative justice had Demonstrators protest outside San Jose City Hall in support of immigration rights for workers after marching from Story Road to CARLOS A. MORENO / Spartan Daily stepped down or Democrats Downtown San Jose on Friday. held a slimmer edge in the Senate. up to rally the crowd, including Cars honked their horns at pro- Retiring Justice David H. Souter HARVEY RAÑOLA Richard Hobbs, interim executive testers while motorcycle police is part of the court’s liberal Staff Writer director of Services, Immigrant made sure the protest remained wing, and his replacement by Rights and Education Network orderly on the westbound lanes a Democratic administration Despite the forecasts for rain, (SIREN). of Alum Rock Avenue and Santa probably won’t change the hundreds of protesters crowded Hobbs said he believes im- Clara Street. ideological balance. the parking lot in front of the Mi migrant workers are the most Students from universities and Pueblo supermarket on Story oppressed people in the U.S. and community colleges in the area Colorado may abolish Road on Friday to participate in they are being denied basic hu- joined the march and were also death penalty a May Day march for immigrant man rights making their voices heard. workers’ rights. “We have as many as 200,000 Cesar Juarez, a senior social DENVER — Colorado is one of Demonstrators prepared for people in Santa Clara County liv- science major and community 10 states that have considered their three-mile march to San Jose ing in second-class conditions,” organizer for SIREN, said the abolishing the death penalty City Hall by waving Mexican, he said. “Some conditions are marches, which also took place this year to save money, but American and Palestinian fl ags. worse than under slavery in the in several other cities, were a way Colorado’s proposal has a Th e sound of drums competed United States to some extent be- to send a message to President twist: It would use the savings with the voices of protesters car- cause at least slaves had the right Barack Obama. to investigate about 1,400 A woman holding a sign marched STEFAN ARMIJO / Spartan Daily rying bullhorns and chanting “yes to work. ... Th is is the civil rights unsolved slayings. with thousands of other activists to San Jose City Hall on May we can” in Spanish and English. movement of the 21st century in The measure has sparked Day in support of rights for immigrants and workers. A number of speakers stepped my opinion.” See MARCH, page 2 fi erce debate between prosecutors and some victims’ families. Prosecutors want to CULTURE keep capital punishment as an option for heinous crimes, and they say the bill has Vietnamese photography sparks remembrance day raised unrealistic hopes about solving cold cases. graphic works of Nguyen Ngoc nam War and the people who to me because the sun was shin- Hanh had served in the Supporters of the bill say it’s DAN LU Hanh, a veteran and war photog- fought in it. ing right through the holes.” Vietnamese army as a second more important to fi nd and Staff Writer rapher, were showcased during a “I pay my respects to all the One photograph, titled “Mend lieutenant and att ended a French prosecute killers still on the slideshow presentation. people, especially the Vietnam- the Flag,” showed a woman sew- photography school in 1956 loose than to execute the ones Photographs of human body Hanh’s favorite photographs ese and U.S. soldiers who sacri- ing up the former South Vietnam- where he began to serve as a already convicted. parts of those who died during of the Vietnam War along with fi ced for freedom and democ- ese fl ag with red thread hanging military photographer. He said “The death penalty is not the Vietnam War were some of scenes from around the Bay Area racy,” Quach said. from her mouth. of all the types of things he likes relevant without a murderer the more than 80 photographs were among the works that were Chau Nguyen, an economics Another photograph was one to photograph, he loves taking brought to trial,” said Laurie featured during the fi rst Vietnam featured. open university student, att end- of the more compelling pictures pictures of wars the most. Wiedeman, the older sister of History and Remembrance Day Huy Quach, 29, of Milpitas ed the event with her husband of the night, which featured a fa- James Rosenthal, a retired am- 17-year-old Gay Lynn Dixon, event held on Th ursday evening. said a picture depicting U.S. sol- and viewed all the photographs ther with a missing left arm and bassador and former U.S. Embas- whose 1982 slaying remains Th e event took place inside diers protecting Vietnamese ci- that were presented. leg. Hanh said the picture repre- sy offi cial in Saigon, Vietnam, said unsolved. the Engineering Auditorium, vilians was the most emotional “I liked the picture with the sents joy and hope as the father he was particularly impressed and and began with a color guard sa- photograph to him. former South Vietnamese fl ag had survived his injuries from — Associated Press lute and a moment of silence to He said it is important to re- the most,” she said. “Th ere are the war and is now enjoying his honor war veterans. Th e photo- member the history of the Viet- holes in the fl ag but it stands out time with his young child. See VIETNAM, page 8 THE NEWS PHOTO BLOG PHOTO BLOG Japanese club holds fi rst event Spartan Daily Photo Editor Photo Blog: See an audio since disbanding last semester SPARTAN Carlos A. Moreno refl ects slideshow of the animation on the triumphs and department’s D-Day celebration Former addicts discuss drugs and hardships of working on by staff photographer Young- DAILY. redemption with students a college newspaper, and Sung Kwon. introduces new Photo Editor Vietnamese Culture Show shows COM Joe Proudman in the fi nal highs and lows of Vietnamese installment of ‘From the NEWS BLOG experience Photo Desk.’ f Common sense is always Sports Blog: A.S. rewards 40 students for Photo Editor Carlos A. Moreno the fi rst casualty in a global www.spartandailysports.wordpress.com dedication to SJSU at 18th annual and staff photographer Stefan pandemic A.S. 55 Awards ceremony Photo Blog: Armijo document the May www.spartandailyphoto.wordpress.com Day protest march with an Science students present their interactive photo feature. News Blog: fi ndings at College of Science www.spartandailynews.wordpress.com Student Research Day CHAD ZIEMENDORF / Spartan Daily 2PAGE NEWS MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009 SPARTA GUIDE MARCH Juarez: ‘We all know they deserve a humane pathway to citizenship’ 04 Today a humane pathway to citizenship.” “I just think that it’s time for LGBTQQI Continued from page 1 Grissel Marquez, an SJSU so- this nation to go back to its origi- Discussion Group cial work graduate student, said nal values,” she added. “We were Co-sponsored by LGBT Resource the issues surrounding immigrant founded by immigrants yet we Center and Counseling Services. “Obama said that in May, im- workers’ rights directly aff ect keep marginalizing our current Noon to 1:30 p.m. at the LGBT migration reform would be talked many of the people she knows, immigrants, so things need to Resource Center. about,” he said. “What bett er way and the protest should not end at defi nitely change.” For more information, call to continue putt ing pressure on the march. Veronica Flores, a social work 924-6158 or 924-5910. Obama and Congress than march- “Th is is defi nitely a start,” she graduate student, said she came ing today.” said. “It’s not a solution but it raises to the march because she is a fi rst- Pregnancy Juarez said there is enthusiasm awareness in the community about generation immigrant and she Counseling and urgency for reform and that what’s going on to immigrants, not understands the struggles of im- Pregnant? Confused? Need Sup- it is important to march because just of Latino descent, but of Asian migrant workers.