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Online multimedia exclusive: Life beyond the wheelchair SSanan PedroPedro Square’sSquare’s nnewestewest aadditionddition sstilltill needsneeds wworkork SSeeee pp.. 7 77 years... and counting Monday SPARTAN DAILY January 30, 2012 A guide to campus resources see p. 2 Volume 138, Issue 2 SpartanDaily.com spartandaily.com/?p=63272 Textbooks: Oakland PD Printed arrest more or than 400 at Pixels? Occupy riot McClatchy Tribune Wire Service OAKLAND, Calif. — Offi cials sur- veyed damage Sunday from a volatile Occupy protest that resulted in hun- dreds of arrests the day before when demonstrators broke into City Hall, smashed display cases, cut electrical wires and burned an American fl ag. Police said about 400 people were arrested during Saturday’s daylong protest — the most contentious since authorities dismantled the Occupy Oakland camp late last year. Mayor Jean Qu an condemned the local movement’s tactics as “a con- stant provocation of the police with a lot of violence toward them” and said the demonstrations were drain- ing scarce resources from an already strapped city. Damage to the City Textbooks are becoming more readily available in digital form to students at SJSU. Photo Illustration by Sierra Duren / Spartan Daily Hall plaza alone has cost $2 million since October, she said, about as much as police overtime and mutual Electronic textbooks take student population around April the pages as I go,” Duarte said. as long as it’s “for purposes such as aid. 2011 through Barnes & Noble. Despite the presence of textbook criticism, comment, news reporting, Oakland has logged fi ve homi- front-seat precedence by Spartan Bookstore manager rentals and digital textbooks, some teaching (including multiple copies cides since Friday, and Police Chief Ryland Metzinger said that roughly professors try to fi nd more cost-ef- for classroom use) … (or ) is not an Howard Jordan said the law enforce- many SJSU professors 10 percent of the textbook titles of- fective ways to teach their lessons infringement of copyright.” ment “personnel and resources dedi- fered in their inventory are avail- to cash-strapped students. Lewis Du, a junior business man- cated to Occupy reduce our ability to by Julie Tran able digitally. Karthika Sasikumar, an assistant agement information system major, focus on public safety priorities.” Staff Writer However, he said there is not a professor in political science, said said some of his professors scan Th e Occupy action was publicized high demand when it comes to stu- she doesn’t assign textbooks in her pages of textbooks for their stu- by the group as a planned takeover Th e average cost of textbooks dents purchasing the textbooks in lesson plans. dents to read online. of a vacant building that would be and supplies goes for $1,746 per this new format. “I fi nd them to be too expensive “When they scan and upload “repurposed” as a “social center, con- year for SJSU students, according to “Lots of students ask about digi- and I would like to reduce the fi nan- the pages online, it’s helpful for me vergence center and headquarters of the university’s Financial Aid and tal textbooks, but not many buy cial burden on my students,” Sasiku- since I save money,” Du said. the Occupy Oakland movement.” In Scholarship offi ce. them,” Metzinger said. mar said. Du also supported the idea of us- an open lett er to Qu an on Wednes- “I think that’s overpriced,” said According to Metzinger, the Instead, Sasikumar said she cus- ing digital textbooks since it would day, the group warned that if police Marco Frias, a freshman mechani- bookstore is more successful with tomizes her lessons through online be a cheaper alternative as opposed att empted to thwart the takeover, cal engineering major, in response textbook rentals. assigned readings since she be- to buying new textbooks every se- “indefi nite occupation” of Oakland’s to the fi gure. When a student rents textbooks lieves a physical or digital textbook mester. airport, port and City Hall could fol- With technological advances, through the Spartan Bookstore, the wouldn’t be able to keep up with the Metzinger said that in the up- low. some textbooks are going digital student saves an average of 50 per- ever-changing world of politics. coming semester, more textbook Police prevented an aft ernoon with many options for students to cent off over the price of a brand- Th e Spartan Bookstore’s website titles will be available in digital for- att empt by protesters to enter the get their required reading material. new textbook according to the SJSU states that digital textbooks (called mat. city’s vacant Henry J. Kaiser Con- Websites such as Barnes & No- textbook rental site. eTextbooks) are subjected to copy As of now, the eTextbooks are vention Center. Demonstrators then ble, Chegg and Amazon are off ering Corayma Duarte, a freshman ma- and print restrictions in order to compatible with Mac or PC but not headed to the nearby Oakland Mu- electronic versions of college text- terials engineering major, said she prevent unauthorized reproductions with the iPad. seum of California, where arrests oc- books to be downloaded on various feels more comfortable using the of their work. “In these diffi cult fi nancial times, curred aft er an order to disperse was devices such as PC, Mac and tablets. physical textbooks as opposed to Th e Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Li- it’s good to have more options avail- ignored. One offi cer was cut in the SJSU’s Spartan Bookstore started the digital textbooks. brary website states that any usage able for the students,” Metzinger face when a demonstrator threw a carrying digital textbooks for the “I like to highlight and bookmark of photocopying work is authorized said. bicycle at him, another suff ered a cut hand and a third was bruised, Wat- son said. At least one demonstrator was injured. Later in the night, marchers Proposed fee in the works for new sustainability fund entered the downtown Oakland YMCA, where hundreds of arrests by Boris Slanger Th is means it must be made out of faculty advisor would receive $10,000 Students would have to provide re- took place. Th e City Hall break-in Staff Writer organic materials or a renewable en- a year. ceipts for the money they spent. occurred about the same time, offi - ergy source, according to the fee pro- Th is money would come directly Th ey would also have to show the cials said. Th e Environmental Resource Cen- posal fi nancial statement provided at out of the fund, according to the sus- committ ee what they were planning Th roughout the action, some ter at SJSU is proposing a new fee the resource center. tainability trust proposal writt en by on buying and how much it costs. demonstrators threw bott les, rocks, to build the University Sustainabil- “It is a fund made by the students Lutes and Lynne Trulio Environmen- Lutes said if there was any left ity Trust, a fund that would provide for the students,” Lutes said. tal Resource Center faculty advisor. over money it would either stay in the SEE OCCUPY PAGE 3 grants for students, according to Th e fund is still in its early stages “Sustainability is a hot topic and fund or go into the A.S. fund which is Lacey Lutes director for the resource and the vote would likely not take the idea is good and it is an exciting for students as well. Th ere would also center. place for a while until all the kinks project on the horizon,” Orr said. be a strict timeline that the students Spartan Daily Th e trust is a project controlled by are worked out of the program, ac- Some students on SJSU campus are would have to follow in order to keep Serving San José State University since 1934 Volume 138 / Issue 2 the resource center that would “Come cording to Lutes’s presentation at the behind the initiative. the grant, according to Lutes and the out of the A.S. fees and give students Jan. 25, 2011 A.S. board meeting. “Six dollars is a small investment trust proposal. a chance to request funds for sustain- “We are working directly with A.S. for American sustainability,” said “We are in the minority in not hav- ability projects,” according to an As- to perfect logistics on the program,” graduate student Anthony Burnett i. ing this fund,” Lutes said. sociated Students board meeting min- Lutes said. “We don’t want to slap Freshman engineer Juan Jimenez According to the trust proposal utes from the Nov. 30, 2011 meeting. a fee on students without their ap- thought the plan was good as long as which was writt en by Lutes and Tru- Th e proposed fee would cost a stu- proval.” it was available to all students. lio, “Such ‘green fees’ are very wide- dent six dollars a year. According to Lizzie Orr, A.S. direc- Students would have to appear be- spread on campuses across the US Th is fund would total nearly tor of student aff airs it could be up to fore the trust allocation committ ee to and are central to involving students t Twitter: @spartandaily 65˚ $160,000 a year or $80,000 a semester. two years from now before the pro- see if they qualify for the grant. Ac- directly in sustainability projects.” f facebook.com/spartandaily 42˚ To apply for the grant a student gram appears on the ballot. cording to the proposal there would Another student who is behind the can be from any department with any Th e fund would have to hire a stu- be about eight grants for $20,000 proposal is junior computer engineer View exclusive stories and multimedia at major, the only proposed stipulation dent director and a faculty advisor.