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After Two Years, Memory of Tragedy Lingers Students and Faculty Mark Second Anniversary of Virginia Tech Shootings ‘Cheech’ ready for playoffs P.7 Prepared, just in case P.6 Give Oakland some love P.9 Wing Jonathan Cheechoo talks about his life UPD sets out plan to make sure a shooting like the Never mind the high crime, the city deserves more and time with San Jose. one at Virginia Tech doesn’t happen at SJSU. respect from people. theSpartanDaily.com THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009 Volume 132, Issue 40 Spartan Daily 68 FRI SAT SUN MON Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 75 79 84 84 BUDGET CUTS Not all tea parties ... Music PROTEST department feels sting of cutbacks ANDREA MUNIZ Staff Writer A March 6 message re- leased by SJSU president Jon A local politi- Whitmore stated that SJSU is cian speaks expected to cut enrollment to a crowd by more than 9 percent, from of thousands approximately 32,750 stu- of anti-tax pro- dents to 29,750 students. testers at the Th e cause of the impac- Tax Day Tea tion was brought on by the Party held in California State University the Plaza de system fi scal crisis, according Cesar Chavez to the SJSU student informa- in Downtown tion for admissions Web site. San Jose on Protesters gather in San Jose Th e music department, Wednesday. which has 25 diff erent instru- and across country to object to high mental positions and four STEFAN ARMIJO / ... happen in Boston voice classifi cations to fi ll, is taxes, government spending Spartan Daily struggling to make sure that the guidelines implemented and “Less taxes = more freedom.” ter-protesting the event because for incoming Fall 2009 stu- JULIANNE SHAPIRO Th ey were surrounded by more the messages from the Tax Day dents won’t set back their Staff Writer than 100 people who disagreed demonstrators were hypocritical. program. with their message and carried “Th ese people are saying we “We’re very similar to Police in riot gear and signs other signs that read “No human is want military, we never want the sports,” said Edward Harris, with “Stop the Bailout” writt en illegal” and “Respect all workers.” troops to come home,” she said. director of the school of mu- in magic marker were some of Exchanges between the op- “Yet they don’t want to pay for it.” sic and dance. “You need all the sights at yesterday’s protest in posing forces led to heated verbal Not funding wars, she said, of the positions. Th ey’ve got Plaza de Cesar Chavez in Down- att acks, with Tax Day protesters would reduce the federal budget to go out and recruit for very town San Jose on Wednesday. shouting “Go back to Mexico,” defi cit. specifi c things. It’s the same More than 2,000 people gath- “Pay your taxes” and “Build a big- Leigh Casey, a 37-year-old thing with music. We need ered to participate in a “Tax Day ger wall” at the opposing crowd. mother who att ended the event to have an oboist, we need Tea Party,” one of many to occur Maria Hernandez, a senior so- with her two children, said she to have bassoonists … so it’s throughout the United States. ciology major, said some students traveled from Sacramento to San more complicated than other Th e event, which was termed decided to counter the protest. Jose to protest. programs, in that we have as “a revolt against yesterday’s tax She said a group marched from “I have a passion for what is certain programmatic needs deadline,” was held at the plaza. the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Th e protesters carried signs Library on campus to the park. such as “Taxed enough already” Hernandez said she was coun- See TEA PARTY, page 3 See MUSIC, page 2 VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS After two years, memory of tragedy lingers Students and faculty mark second anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings JESSICA AYALA Opponents of the Tax Day Tea Party STEFAN ARMIJO / Spartan Daily Staff Writer made their presence known at the demonstration held in Plaza de Cesar Chavez on Wednesday. Grief and memories will forev- er remain with us for the victims who lost their lives at Virginia Sports Blog: Tech University and Columbine www.spartandailysports.wordpress.com THE High School. Photo Blog: “I think these kind of things SPARTAN www.spartandailyphoto.wordpress.com are always sad and a reminder of News Blog: them brings up that sadness, re- DAILY. www.spartandailynews.wordpress.com gardless if you knew anybody or not,” said SJSU counselor Wiggsy COM NEWS Sivertsen. Video: Have a look at Today is the two-year anni- the “Tax Day Tea Party” versary of the massacre in which protest at Plaza de Cesar 32 students and faculty members Chavez in Downtown lost their lives at Virginia Tech San Jose on Wednesday. University. “I think it’s an opportunity, SPORTS on the anniversary, to refl ect on A girl lays a signed hat on a stone memorial for one of the shooting AP Photo/Roanoke Times, CHRISTINA OʼCONNER Check out an audio slideshow of the San Jose Sharks what steps we can take as a so- victims, on the Drill Field during a visit to the Virginia Tech campus Sunday, April 22, 2007, in Blacksburg, Va. preparing for their playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks. ciety and especially in our edu- cational system to reach out to PHOTO BLOG NEWS BLOG people who have mental illness “I think it’s an oppor- “I remember them “It sounds like they or are really in a stressful period See an audio slideshow One would not expect a of time and make sure that they tunity, on the anniver- being reluctant ... could have prevented by photographer Michelle doughnut to be named have alternative ways to cope Terris of SJSU lecturer Craig “Brain Hemorrhage” or with the issues that they’re fac- sary, … to reach out just because they it, but they didn’t, Lore, who is training for the “Split Personality” except ing,” said SJSU student Heather to people who have were petrifi ed by which makes it even Boston Marathon. at a place called Psycho Kilby, a senior nursing major. Donuts. Melanie Farley, a senior mar- mental illness.” what they heard.” more tragic.” View a slideshow of the “Tax Day Tea Party” in HEATHER KILBY ARMANDO MORENO JACOB ORTH Downtown San Jose. See VA TECH, page 2 senior nursing major junior marketing major junior business administration major 2PAGE NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009 GUIDESPARTA MUSIC Department objects to regional restrictions on admissions have looked much at me,” he school students, who applied Th e new emphasis on accept- there aren’t enough that apply said. “I probably wouldn’t have by Nov. 30 and met California ing mainly local students into from Santa Clara County to fi ll Continued from page 1 gott en in.” State University system eligibil- SJSU is what Professor Gwen their needs,” he said in a news 16 Today SJSU did not off er admission ity requirements, will be accept- Mok, keyboard studies area di- conference with student me- that other areas don’t have.” to any freshmen who att ended ed into SJSU for Fall 2009. rector, said the music depart- dia. “So we’re going to have to Akbayan of SJSU Alex Upegui, a senior music a high school outside of Santa Th e top 13 percent, about ment is upset about. look at that department and say, General meeting. major, said that the impaction Clara County and applied aft er 225 students, of upper-division “Out of all of my 22 students, ‘How has this harmed you and 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Almaden is going to make it more diffi - Nov. 20, according to the SJSU transfer students who reside only two of them really fi t into what can we do in the future?’” Room of the Student Union. cult for new music students to student information admissions outside of Santa Clara County that category,” Mok said. “I re- Whitmore said that there are Contact Justin Lacap at be admitt ed. He is from Cathe- Web site. will be accepted based on their alized then that it would have future plans to tailor the policy [email protected] dral City, which is near Palm All Santa Clara County resi- academic performance, accord- a catastrophic aff ect on my de- so that students from outside of Springs. dents, including upper-division ing to the SJSU student infor- partment alone.” Santa Clara County will be ad- Meditation Group “Th ey probably wouldn’t transfer students and high mation Web site. Mok said music students mitt ed into the programs, but it 5 p.m. in Dr. Martin Luther King come from all over the country will take about a year to roll out. Jr. Library. Contact Harrison at to work with some of the faculty “Th ere was not time to do [email protected] members in the department, that kind of a sophisticated de- and talented individuals will velopment of an impaction plan Do You Have Free have to be turned away because for this fall given the short no- Will When It Comes they don’t meet the guidelines tice that we had,” he said. “So to Money? for acceptance into the school. that’s why I think in the long Kay Yut Chen, principle scientist “We only have 25 percent of run, balance will be there and at Hewlett-Packard, provides a our total students from Santa everything, but for one year it’s unique opportunity to see how Clara County,” she said.
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