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/WHERE'S MY LICH I ER? The time is coming, graduation and the realization everyone will go their own way. Opinion, 2 SPARTAN THE LEARNING CURVE Minor league San Jose Giants dive VoL. 118 into the 2002 season with new prospects. Sports, 4 No. 48 V ALSO IN TODAY'S ISSUE Opinion 2 Sparta Guide 2 Letters 2 Sports SERVING SAN AIL 1934 4-5 Crossword 5 Classified 5 JOSE STATL SINCE UNIVERSITY Business Discussing faith Poetry gives teams students compete chance to for honors break dance By Amber Sheldon Ily Dray Miller DAILY STAFF WRITFR DAR.Y STAFF WRITFR The break-dancers circled the perimeter of the open A group of business students traveled to San floor and sank to a crouching position, bobbing their Diego on Thursday to take on teams from other heads to the funky, jazzy hip-hop music. colleges and nations as part of the 39th Interna- The Urban Arts Club dancers kicked-off MEChNs tional Collegiate Business Strategy Competition. "Hip-Hop Diwata," the last in the Word poetry series San Jose State University will be fielding held Wednesday night in the Market Place Cafe. tetuns in both the undergraduate and post-gradu- Within moments, the first dancer sprang to his feet. ate categories of the competition, in which teams With a swift skip, strut and spin, he dominated the develop mock business franchises and products space in a whirlwind of speed. months prior to competing. He quickly sat down and another dancer continued The students involved are all part of the course the contortions as those in attendance cheered and Business 294, a post-graduate class that under- applauded. graduates can take. San Jose State University student and dancer Students in the class take on a much larger James Dang walked outside to cool off in the evening workload than that of a normal class, according to breeze as the first poet stepped up to the microphone. Abdel El-Shaieb, chair of the Department of Busi- Dang said he's been dancing for five or six years. ness Management and adviser to the groups com- "It takes a lot of training. If someone took gymnas- peting. tics or has a martial arts background, then it helps for "The amount of work required by (Business strength and ability. But, the dance part, it doesn't 294) would be at least twice as much as any other matter if you're strong or not," Dang said. class," he said. Inside the cafe, Tyson Amir-Mustafa, a comparative The game features as many as 36 teams from religion studies and African American studies double other colleges, both nationally and international- major, addressed the crowd with his spoken word poem ly, and each team is placed into a "world," of five titled "Family Tree." other teams, according to Mershad Mansouri, a "iThe poem) has a couple of levels. It's about the participant on one of SJSU's undergraduate strength of my grandmother and my grandfather, who teams. was an alcoholic. His addiction Wak; passed on to the The six teams in each world compete for top children, especially to his youngest son who took it to honors against each other before the top overall another level. He became a heroin addict and died," team is selected. Amir-Mustafa said. "I'm the third generation in that Among the many facets of the game are busi- cycle. I wanted to convey the words about addiction." ness strategies, plans. reports and policies that Social sciences major Joseph Miclette signed up on a each team presents. list circulating the room for an opportunity to read his Last year, Mansouri's group turned in an poetry. impressive performance, he said, bringing home "The content of my poetry, if I break it down, (con- first place in the business strategy competition cerns) social problems, revolutionary tactics with and second place overall. socialist content and emotional content," Miclette said. SJSU was the only team to leave with two tro- "I, especially being a minority, want to bridge the gap phies. between not only brown and black. brown and white, "The judges were really, really impressed with but brown and brown." what we wrote," he said. "This year, it's far better. Jime Salcedo-Malo, from San Francisco, stood near Hopefully, we'll come away with more (recogni- t he back and watched the show. tion)." He said it's good to build community through spoken Mansouri said his group submitted their busi- word. ness plan last month electronically, so unlike last "It's a good place for a lot of folks to read who may year, when the plan was turned in as a physical have never read before or just starting off. It's a good outline, everything is based on content. .upportive atmosphere for that," Salcedo-Malo said. The poets, singers and spoken word artists, one after "This year, we're trying to go gung-ho; we're Christy Kinskty Daity Staff trying to win everything." he said, noting the pro- another, took to the microphone and let the words roll fessionalism of their presentation. Julius of Congregation Sinai in San Jose, Sister Marcia Krause of fiirward in a blaze of high-energy theatrics or with soft Right to left, Rabbi Eitan gestures and quiet voices. Where as other groups list such things as boxer the Catholic Campus Ministry, Curtis Chang of The River Church in Cupertino, and Feras Alhlou of mugs as the product of their business, The Urban Arts Club performed again halfway shorts or the Muslim American Society speak on an interfaith discussion panel on Thursday afternoon in the see CLASS. Page 6 Engineering building. sr, POETRY. Page 3 Students get screened for alcohol Rape, Department chair By Andrew Bollinger Tam, San Jose State University's dents filling out a questionnaire to prevention education coordinator. determine if they had a problem DAILY STAFF WRITFR As a part of the screening, par- with alcohol. violence talks about minorities Thursday was National Alcohol ticipants were promised anonymi- Some of the questions the By Paul Nlcrcado international law and criminal Day at San Jose State ty when they took the screening screening questionnaire asked justice, joined the university last Screening , University. test. students were: How often do you DARN SI fall to assist in reorganizing the The screening was given to stu- Tam said this was the second have a drink containing alcohol? put in Daniel Georges-Abeyie spoke African American studies at dents to help them assess their year the alcohol screening has How many drinks do you have on about African Americans and SJSU. behavior and attitudes about taken place on campus. minorities in the world and rights He has written more than 30 drinking. according Margaret The screening consisted of stu- See ALCOHOL. Page 3 in America in the Multicultural articles on terrorism. spotlight Library on Thursday. The discussions covered a wide Georges-Abeyie is the new range of topics from basic human By Lori Hanley Chair of the African American rights and minorities in America MOSAIC loses staff, program DAVI STAFF WRIT' R Studies Department at the uni- to the criminal justice system and versity. amnesty international. In honor of National Sexu- Western Region have been many Joseph Weaver He is also the "There By al Assault Awareness Month, death penalty abolition coordina- moments in America's history sim R Take Back the Night is sched- tor with Ainnesty International. p.m. uled to be held at 6 Georges-Abeyie. an expert on See Pap 6 MOSAIC Multicultural tonight in the Student Union LIBRARY, Center's last full-time staff Amphitheater. said event member is leaving and the coordinator Erika Jackson. program is going with her, Take Back the Night is a temporarily. grassroots effort to bring Author packs Corrie Kraal, MOSAIC's awareness to the problems of activities coordinator, is rape and domestic violence to leaving the program imme- college campuses as well as diately because of the nationally, Jackson said. death of her father. She said she wanted to Spartan Memorial The lose of Kraai means bring the event to the San the loss of San Jose State Jose State University campus. By Amber Sheldon the Tony Award for beat play of University's Multicultural the year in 1988. because of her personal expe- DARN' STAFF WRITtli Center for the rest of the rience with violence. He has also written numerous Spring semester, FIN stu- "I am a survivor of child- David Henry Hwang spoke at other award-winning plays dents have been finding hood sexual abuse. My mother San Jose State University on thmughout his career. out this week when they was a victim of severe child- Thursday and was the fourth in a Theater professor David Kahn have been greeted by signs hood incest. So it is really series of notable authors to interviewed Hwang. on MOSAICA doors important to me," Jackson speak. He said he prepared for the announcing the program's said. The pews in the Spartan interview by researching the /van hasinnsAv /It \tall closing. She said the isaue gained Memorial were packed, and the author's extensive resume of "We could have kept more importance for her when walls were lined with those in work for a few days prior to the Corrie Kraai, the coordinator of the MOSAIC Multicultural Center, things open by using just she found out that sexual attendance willing to atand and interview. hugs Pat Crumes at her goodbye party. The two worked together with the listen during the hour-long event. "M. Butterfly," won Vice President for student affairs Monica Rascoe. see MOSAK. Pap 3 see NIGHT, Page 3 His play, See HWANG, Pap 6 2 APRIL 12, 2002 OPINION SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Saying goodbye to SJSU isn't so hard to do the song. May, it might actually hap- teacher in the corridors who hasn't body to the rhythm of You want parking? Thispen. That I leave this school and seen you in a while and then pops up Too funny. when least expected. I will definitely miss the escapades go onto bigger and better things semester to out there in the "real world." No more adding classes the last day from the newsroom last to add and begging teachers to let you get motivated and lay out pages, the Show up earlier Throughout our lives, we wait for Associa- that final day when we can wake up in because, if not, you will not gradu- National Press Photographer nights, the mak- Iagree with that editorial, such that paving the and realize it's over. ate. tion "lets-get-drunk" Bud Winter Field does not solve the parking skipping Then, you never show up to the ing fun of the staff in budget meetings No more feeling guilty for issue of SJSU. class. class. and, of course, late-night conversations I also agree with an earlier article on the Bud No more risking your life on the Then, you look around you, and look with our production chief Winter Field situation, such that once the field is only be half an hour at all the people you might never see No more advisers to fix your life freeway to try to paved, you cannot go back. late to class. again in your life. problems while nodding his head with I understand that the parking issue is a big con- No more trying to decide which to No more getting to class and realiz- The whole "keep-in-touch," "see- a smile. cern for students, but as the saying goes, "l'he early eat: Greasy Peanuts or over-priced ing it's the day of your midterm and you-later" crap is only that crap. Then again, there is life after bird gets the worm." junk food at the Student Union? you don't have a Scantron, pencil or Don't get me wrong, it's not that I SJSU, and chances are no where else If a student has a morning class from 7:30 a.m. No more getting to school and real- knowledge about the test. want to keep in touch with everyone, will you have to face the parking t,o 11 a.m., then that student should try to get to izing you don't have your backpack No more guessing on the midterm, but there are some faces that I will nightmares unless you decide to be a school as early as possible because the parking sit- with you, meaning you can't turn in fmishing before anyone else, and wait- miss simce they have been part of my masochist and get a job here in the uation is a first-come, first-serve basis, but after your paper, meaning you will have to ing a while to turn it in so it's not so reality for the last years and months of future. noon, parking spots open up. skip class again. obvious you didn't know a damn thing. my proaastinated existence. What a joke. The school wants to pave Bud Winter Field to Darn. No more getting letters from the The other day when I went to lunch The chances of me graduating seem acconunodate parking for the new students that No more taking stay-awake pills to library telling you your diploma will with some friends, I realized that the pretty grim as of now. will be living in the new housing project, but only write the paper that was due a week be held unless you pay $100 for the combination of people sitting together I might actually have to put up with when it is completed. and a half ago. $10 paperback book you checked out eating sushi and talking about wars, all these monsters and twisted fairies Meanwhile, there is a multiple-story parking No more trying to turn in the late two semesters ago, which of coarse, is blind dates with underage girls, being for another full semester. garage in construction at the corner of San Fernan- paper and realizing you have no clue still in the trunk of your car. sick, family embarrassments, first To stay in tune with the theme of do and 4th Stniet, across from the joint library. what the class section is, not to men- No more tickets from parking in the time getting wasted stories, in depth Tuesday night's karaoke celebration, By the time the new housing project is complet- tion the teacher's first or last name, parking garages from when you didn't analysis of Israel, documentary pho- all I have to say to those graduating is ed, the parking garage will probably be constructed. eventhough it's already half way in to feel like walking the ten blocks blocks tography and, of course, internships, "You will survive, yeah yeah ..." The garage is next to the school, and so there will the semester. to school attempting to defeat the will probably never happen again. be no need to make another Park and ftide and No more slapping your face to keep odds arid park your CRT backward so Or Tuesday night when one of them destroy the field. awake during lectures and hoping the evil university police wouldn't give got on stage and sang Madonna's "Like Karla Cachet is the Spartan Daily everything gets in your brain through you a ticket. a Virgin" to a deserted Japanese Photo Editor "Where's My Lighterr Peter Nguyen osmosis. No more avoiding that certain karaoke bar as he stiffly shook his appears Fridays freshman computer science Solution to parking jif you partake Things are beginning problem is light rail of thoge fruitg, to get a little hairy here you... is a response to the editorial about paving it'Ll cogt Hairy women don't really Thisover Bud Winter Field for more student park- bother me. Women with ing. hairy armpits and hairy I do not understand why many of our students legs are fine by my standards. insist on driving their cars t,o school in the first I'm not saying I don't like place. We would not even need to consider paving shaved armpits and legs; it's over Bud Winter Field if more students took advan- just that I'm not put off by hair. tage of the valley transportation available. Most guys are so funny about If everybody is so stuck on driving, they can drive that. their cars to a nearby Park and Ride Light Rail Sta- Some guys go so far as to tion. shave themselves. I doubt the cars care where they are parked, a I've had friends that have But in European countries, parking garage or a Park and Ride station. The Park waxed their chests and they it's completely accepted. and Ride Stations are placed so that they aren't too look so silly to me. Other women said when it far out of the way for many of the surrounding ' They look like one of those gets hot outside, armpits can get urban areas. ridiculous male models that are sweaty and itch. For a student who lives in South San Jose, the prevalent on those Gillette com- I can understand that, light rail is less inconvenient than driving all the mercials. although mine don't itch. way downtown and fighting for parking. I'm not bitter because I have I have to buy the hardcore If more students took the light rail, then there a hairy chest. deodorant, Mitchum. would be less traffic in the parking garages. It's not that hairy, though. At $4 a pop, it's a no-messing- This would ease the parking tension for those I guess you could call it around deodorant. students who find it more economical to drive to medio-hair. Covering up body odor is school. I think that our students are lazy, so lazy I just thank Satan that I funny, as well. that they would rather drive to school hours early to I*4-+4:111 don't have a hairy back or ass. During the time of fight for parking (a huge inconvenience) than use I don't have the hair loop. Napoleon's reign, if he were the convenient light rail provided by the city and ATLANTIC FEATURE SYND r 2002 MARK PARISI www.offthemark.com MarkParisigaol.com For those of you that don't out on the battlefield, he our tuition. Imow what I'm alluding to, the would notify his wife, hair loop is hair that goes up Josephine, a few days in Adrian Loftin your chest, between your crack, advance when he was coming freshman oRiGit IAL_ slt4 -rto( up your back to your head, cre- home. business administration ating a loop. His specific instructions were Shaving my face is such a that Josephine not bathe for a Coalition for Social Justice, 90.5 KSJS Ground Zero Radio pain in the ass that I wouldn't few days, so Napoleon could Solidarity and Unity Tuneful Tuesdays: Live music every do it if I didn't like hair on my revel in the aroma, which was Weekly meeting at 6 p.m. in the Pacheco week. This week: hip-hop with Ostrich face. considered erotic. room to collectively organize eventa this semes- Head and The Basica from noon to 1 I can't imagine taking a blade I searched for hairy women Spart ter. All student organizations are welcome. p.m. in the Student Union Amphitheater. to my legs and armpits. on the Internet and found an For more information, contact Shaun It makes me wonder why array of sites. uide SJSU Faculty/Staff Walking Club Morris at 924-8764. women shave in the first place. Most were pornographic. Beginning/intermediate levels: take I asked some of my female I guess there's a fetish with hairy women. Friday half of your lunch and walk around campus. MOSAIC: SJSU's multicultural center companions (yes, believe it or Sunday Meets every Monday from 11:30 a.m. out- MUS/C, improvisation. meditation and cul- not, I do have some) the age-old Some were serious, calling for A.S. Campus Recreation Chicano Commencement Committee side of the Career Center. For more infor- tural exchange with Eddie Gale from 7 p.m. question of, why shave? women to put the razor down Yosemite your way enmllment deadline is Weekly 'nesting at 2 p.m. in the Chicano mation, oontact Teresa Backer at 924-6055. to 9 p.m. in the MOSAIC, multicultural cen- From my brave interviews, it and not to adhere to the idea today at the University House For more infor- For more information, contact ter in the Student Union. For more informa- seems to be a cultural learned that women have to shave. Resource Library. It could mation, contact Matt McNamara at 9'24-6217. chicano mmmencement@yahoogrouptcom. Tuesday tion, contact 924-6255. experience. have something to do Women said they learned it with magazines such as Cos- International Howie mopolitan, which tell women Women's Resource Center and Feminist Asian American Journalist Association Counseling Services from their mothers, which was Pancake brealtfamt finm 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 there's something wrong with blajority Pizza night from 6:30 p.m. Ui 6:30 p.m. in the General procesa group from 2:30 p.m. to passed down from their mothers p.m. at 360 S. llth St. For more information, and so on. them if they don't dress a cer- Take back the night: A pniterit rally against Almaden mom of the Student Union. For more 4:30 p.m. in the Administration building, vtdence at 6 p.m. an the Stu- contact 924-6570. One said her aunt made fun tain way or "drive him wild in rape and domestic information, contact Van Nguyen at n3-51198. Room 201. For more information, contact Kell bed." dent 1.7nion Amphitheater. For more informa- of her because she didn't shave Catholic Campus Ministry Fujimoto and Jen, Landau at 924-5910. Not every woman I asked tion, contact Erika Jackson at 507-8535. her legs. told Sunday maro at 11 a.m.. folkiwed by brunch Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano She even said in the last rela- me why she shaved. and at 5 p.m., follmvod by dinner at the Catholic de Aztlan Counsel i ng Services tionship she had, her former Some became offended, and School of Art & Design Campus Ministry 300S 10th St. For more infor- Weekly officers meeting at 6 p.m. in Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered sup- boyfriend became sickened at told me it was none of my busi- 10 a.m. Student gallery exhibitions from motion, (nutria Sister Marcia Krim. at 938-1610. the Chicano Library Resource Center, Mod- port gmup from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the the smallest stubble of hair on ness. to 4 p.m through Friday in the Art and ule A. For more information, contact Adri- Adrninistration building, Room 201. For more her legs. I respect that. Industrial Studies buildings. For more infor- Monday ana Garcia at 250-9245. information, contact Sheening Lin at 924- But it also made her feel So, I say, women of America, mation, contact John or Nicole at 924-4330. 5899 or Terri Thames at 924-5923. fresh after shaving. refute the notion of living under Black Graduation Health Science Undergraduate Interesting. the blade. Catholic Campus Ministry Black graduation committee meetings Student Association Guys can have stubble on In the words of Eric Clapton, Sparta Guide is provided free of charge Daily Maw at 12.10 p.m. at 300 S. 10th everyone welcome at 7 p.m. in the Africana Rice krispies fest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in their face, they can have goa- "Let it grow, let it grow." to students, faculty and staff members. The St. For more information, contact Stater Mar- Center in the modul. next to the ATMs. For front of the Student Union. For more infor- tees and mustaches, but any deadline for entries is noon, three working cia Krause a 938.1610. more information, contact Traci at 265-2408. mation, Lauren Droira at 942-0367. hair on a woman is forbid- days before the desired publication date. den . Beau Dowling is the Spartan Counseling Services sjapirit.org OW,T,W) Center Entry forms are available in the Spartan It's amusing how hair is Daily Managing Editor. Relationahip recovery support group from Meditation and meditation inetruction Human and public service career forum Daily Office. Space restrictions may require frowned upon in this coun- "Professional Crastinator" 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Administration build- from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Tipi Chapel from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Seventh Street editing of submissions. Phone or email sub. try. appears Fridays. in ing, Room 201. For more information. contact next to Robert's Bookators. For more infor- Plaza and the Student Union. For more missions not accepted. Entries are printed Jennifer Sharpies at 924-5910. mation. contact Roger at 806-1687. information, contact 9'24-60.31. thr order in which they are retvived
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