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APRIL 12, 2002 WWW.TH ESPARTA N DA I I .Y.CONI /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 into the 2002 season with new VoL. 118 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 UNIVERSITY SINCE 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.