SEE FULL STORY PAGE 3 #spartanpolls Is living close to campus @spartandaily worth the high cost of rent? SEE THIS VIDEO AND MORE AT 37% Yes SPARTAN DAILY ON YOUTUBE 63% No MEMORIES UNBOXED 347 votes - results as of 10:49 pm IS MIGOS THE NEW BEATLES? Volume 148. Issue 4www.sjsunews.com/spartandaily Thursday, February 2, 2017 FATALITY Man falls to death at MLK Library BY VICENTE SERNA-ESTRADA towards where the balcony is,” De La Torre EXECUTIVE EDITOR said. “One of the people that works in the library walked over there too and said, An unidentifi ed individual is believed ‘Not again.’” to have committed suicide by falling from De La Torre looked over the balcony an upper level of the Martin Luther King and saw the individual on the fl oor of the Jr. Library on Wednesday morning. The atrium with his legs mangled and a pool of MLK Library was immediately evacuated blood around his head. and shut down for the remainder of the day. “I thought someone dropped a load of University President Mary Papazian books or something,” said studio art junior addressed the incident in an email to the Stephanie Sanchez. “I heard a girl scream campus community on Wednesday afternoon. ‘Oh my god’ repeatedly. And then fi ve “All available evidence suggests that minutes later there was an announcement this was a suicide. The medical examiner saying that we had to evacuate.” will release additional details once its Civil engineering senior Rowell Sta investigation is completed and next of kin Ana, along with other witnesses, believes are notifi ed,” Papazian wrote. the individual fell from the sixth fl oor. The alleged suicide was fi rst reported However, the fl oor in which the individual shortly before 11 a.m. While the individual fell from has not been confi rmed. has not been identifi ed, San Jose State Images of the deceased individual University Police Department confi rmed it circulated on Twitter causing a stir of TAYLOR JONES | SPARTAN DAILY was not a student nor an employee of SJSU. emotions from multiple users. Many were Residents of San Jose talk about the incident that occurred inside the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The Witnesses inside the library said a asking for the photos to be removed out of library is expected to reopen at 8 a.m. loud thud was heard followed by screams respect for the unidentifi ed individual and coming from the lower fl oors. his family. fatality in the library in just over a year. Psychological Services is available for any Business fi nance junior, Mariana De In January of 2016 an individual — also Ballroom B and C inside of the Diaz students or staff affected by the incident. La Torre was studying on the fourth fl oor not associated with SJSU — fell from Compean Student Union were open for when the incident occurred. “I was in the the sixth fl oor of the MLK Library in an students to use for studying. Follow Vicente on Twitter library and then I saw people looking apparent suicide, making this the second Free counseling at Counseling and @vinceserna_ INSIDE AQUATIC CENTER SPORTS Ongoing construction on campus draws complaints from students BY JENNIFER BALLARDO minimize disturbances caused STAFF WRITER by the noise. “We have asked the contractor to prohibit starting Continuing construction on excessively loud work until 8 campus is affecting the way a.m. or later,” Busalacchi says. some students go about their “At the end of fall semester large | SPARTAN DAILY daily activities. equipment work stopped for the In November of 2016 duration of fi nals.” KAVIN MISTRY | THE SPEAR Royce and Hoover halls were Students living on campus demolished to make way for are not the only ones who have a new recreation and aquatic been affected by this project. Football signs center. The buildings, referred San Jose State’s swimming to as “the bricks,” housed and diving teams have been 23 recruits students up until October when displaced since the on-campus the newest dorm building, CV2, pool closed in May 2016. BY SANDEEP CHANDOK was completed. Students who According to Sage Hopkins, SPORTS EDITOR were waiting for CV2 to be head coach of SJSU’s women’s Yesterday was National Signing cleared for residency were then swimming and diving teams, day for college football and San Jose moved out of “the bricks.” both groups have been State made a big splash in a small CV2 is located right next to practicing at fi ve different amount of time. the construction lot. This means facilities throughout the South Head coach Brent Brennan, along students living in CV2 are Bay. Hopkins says the facilities with his staff, was able to recruit 23- exposed to the noise pollution they are training in now are man prospective student-athletes in just that comes with the construction. more similar to what the new two and a half weeks time. Hannah Hylton, a Radio, aquatic center will be like. Brennan had nothing but positive Television and Film freshman Hopkins is optimistic about things to say about his incoming living in CV2, is not a fan of the how this has affected his recruits at the press conference construction. “The construction teams. “Some good things yesterday afternoon. going on right outside my dorm have come out of it,” Hopkins “We feel like we have added a great makes it hard for me to nap after says. “The divers are training group of young men that’s gonna help my classes,” Hylton says. “I also in a better scenario than they us take a step in the direction we want had to fi nd new routes to walk to traditionally have.” to go in as a program,” Brennan said. my classes.” As for the swim team, The 23-man class is highlighted by According to Cathy Busalacchi, Hopkins says being off campus JENNIFER BALLARDO | SPARTAN DAILY executive director of the student Construction vehicles ran along 7th Street by Sweeney Hall as groundwork See ATHLETES page 8 union, steps have been taken to See NOISE page 2 continues to be laid toward the fi nalization of the aquatic center. Thursday, February 2, 2017 IMMIGRATION COMMUNITY Executive order San Jose State hosts fi rst targets Muslim UndocuSpartans event countries BY CAROLINA IBARRA among those caught up in the STAFF WRITER travel ban and knows many others who are currently reliant Just 10 days into President on student visas. Donald Trump’s administration, Because the temporary yet another executive order has regulation particularly targets come into effect. It has enacted predominantly Muslim countries, an immigration ban that could the controversial ban has been affect travel under student visas. called a threat to civil rights and The order in question entails an act of religious persecution by a temporary travel ban on seven other democratic nations such as Muslim-majority nations – Canada and the UK. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, President Trump’s order has Yemen and Somalia. Globally, triggered a diplomatic storm the move is largely regarded that continues to intensify as as a discriminatory attack on international relations with human rights. Locally, the the seven countries grow executive action is perceived fragile and international as an affront to many Bay Area pressures to repeal the ban Americans’ diverse way of life continue to mount. ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ | SPARTAN DAILY and an attack on the perceived According to The Celinda Miranda, a clinical social worker, spoke to students at the UndocuStudents event on Wednesday in the Diaz Compean Student protections of a democracy. Independent, a UK petition in Union. “We are all personally circulation is demanding that BY ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ provide legal services, programs, workshops affected even if it is not our Queen Elizabeth II refrain from STAFF WRITER and a safe space for undocumented students. country that is listed,” said meeting with President Trump Student Advocates for Higher Education (SAHE), Doaa Abdelrahman, a creative due to his recent political a student organization founded in 2004, also writing major and president of actions. If successful, this San Jose State University hosted its first attended the event. Its members shared resources the Muslim Student Association would mark the second country UndocuSpartans event Wednesday evening about their organization and how they help advocate at San Jose State University. within one week to decline in the Student Union where it informed for undocumented students. “It just doesn’t feel like home international dialogue with undocumented students and allies about Shortly after the election, SAHE organized a anymore. I feel really attacked.” the United States. Mexico’s resources available to them. press conference in front of the Martin Luther The new order has brought President Enrique Peña Nieto Vice President for Academic Affairs Andrew King Jr. Library in order to raise awareness about a sense of vulnerability formally refused to meet with Feinstein, Vice President of Student Affairs and stand in solidarity with the undocumented for Muslim students like Trump last week. Reginald Blaylock, Chief Diversity Officer community. SAHE will hold their first open Abdelrahman. She prepares Iranian-American relations are Kathleen Wong(Lau) and Associated Students “ for the worst by attending local also particularly vulnerable to the Director of Intercultural Affairs Ariadna information sessions hosted impact of Trump’s controversial Manzo were some of the speakers that attended by organizations such as the political decisions. Iran is one of the event. We want to make sure Council on American Islamic the countries on the travel ban Feinstein addressed the uneasy political you have the Relations (CAIR). These list who only recently began to climate with regard to President Trump and his support you need along sessions keep her aware of the resolve political disagreements administration’s stance on immigration since SJSU legal safeguards to which she with the U.S.