OPINION PHOTO Hear tales from SJSU Take a glimpse students abroad of SJSU SEE PAGES 6 & 7 SEE PAGE 8 INSIDE Serving San José State University since 1934 Wednesday, October 27, 2010 spartandaily.com Volume 135, Issue 32 NEWS • Student inspired to educate children 3 Center prepares future educators SPORTS JEN NOWELL Staff Writer • Spartan cross country runner bolts past his competition 4 Th e laboratory preschool on campus lo- • Giants need luck, big bats cated in the Central Classroom building al- against Texas in World lows SJSU students to receive real-life expe- Series 4 rience in a classroom sett ing. "It's considered the practicum, ChAD A&E PHOTO: 160," said Joy Foster, instructor for the child development lab preschool. "It's a lecture • Dirty Brushes draw free and a lab that puts all the theories and every- portraits for student thing they have been learning in their other 5 GRODIN CLIFFORD passer-bys courses into practice." • New Klaxon album is out of this world 5 Julianne Johnson, a senior child and ado- lescent development major, said the class helps to bring the real world into the class- OPINION rooms. "It is a great class because we fi nally get to • The intricacies of Aussie put all the theories and things we have been football 6 learning in the last two and a half years into • Brazilian election DAILY | SPARTAN turns into three-ring practice," she said. circus 7 Foster, who is in her fourth year of teach- • Freedom of speech ing the class, said the preschool class she is a double-edged teaches is for 3- to 5-year-olds. sword 7 She has 24 children in her morning sec- tion and 23 children in the aft ernoon sec- tion. "Th is is the fi rst time it has ever been this ONLINE Children at the Child Development Center play under a parachute during an activity on Tuesday. See ChAD Page 2 VIDEO • SJSU cross country runner blazes the trail US Congresswoman speaks SOCIAL MEDIA at student news conference Follow our tweets on CALLI PEREZ he said. been troubled ever since. ture,” she said. “And if not, then we Twitter Staff Writer After the conference, senior jour- “We have been fighting our way have had it.” @spartandaily nalism major Kelly Lehane said Lof- out of the ditch Bush drove us into,” Before the Q-and-A portion of the Become a fan U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lof- gren is one of the best speakers the she said. conference, Lofgren said she wanted on Facebook gren spoke at a news conference journalism department has had this Lofgren then offered the room ex- to touch on two issues important to facebook.com/ Tuesday in Dwight Bentel Hall to year. amples of steps that have been taken the area. spartandaily answer questions from SJSU jour- “She answered everything in a re- by the Obama administration since The first issue was what Congress nalism students about a range of is- ally clear way,” Lehane said. “I think then, including steps to make college has done for veterans, she said. sues. that is a problem we have had with a more affordable for students. “I voted against the Iraq war About 30 students filled Dwight lot of our speakers. I didn’t get to ask “We also tried to provide fund- and invasion,” Lofgren said. “But I OUTSIDE Bentel Hall’s room 226 to get infor- a question, but I almost didn’t need ing for institutions themselves,” she strongly believe that all of the men mation from the congresswoman. to because she answered everything said. “For example, San Jose State and women in uniform deserve the “It is nice to have an actual elect- so thoroughly.” received enough money to avoid support of the nation.” ed official speak,” said junior jour- Lofgren kicked off the press con- massive layoffs here at the state uni- She said that veterans volun- nalism major Tim Vantress. “It is a ference with an opening statement. versity.” teered, they served, and the nation chance to pick her brain.” “We are at a very interesting time Lofgren said she knows that the owes it to them to provide for their Journalism Professor Robert in our country here,” she said. “As future of the country are students, health care, their treatment if they Rucker said he asked Lofgren to you know, about two years ago the directing her comments toward the are injured and their education plan speak at the student news confer- economy of the United States, really students in the room. upon their return. ence Tuesday. the world about, went into a melt- High: 71° “If you are educated, if you have Lofgren said the second issue “I have always wanted to intro- down.” the tools to create and innovate, Low: 51° duce a speaker from Washington,” Lofgren said the economy has then we have an economic fu- See LOFGREN Page 2 Rally urges faculty support Companies unveil for fundraising campaign new social network KELSEY HILARIO In an Oct. 22 interview Kass- a $10 million gift to name the to SJSU students Staff Writer ing said this campaign is the first college of education the Con- of its kind in SJSU’s 153-year his- nie L. Lurie college of educa- KENNY MARTIN formation including education, Music, balloons, refreshments tory. tion, the Lurie family used to Staff Writer fields of interest, and current and and Sammy the Spartan helped “The way capital campaigns be the former owner of the San past experiences in that field, rally faculty and staff to get be- work is that you usually spend a Francisco Giants,” Richardson Companies PricewaterhouseC- as well as request recommenda- hind the Acceleration campaign period of time going through a said. oopers and LinkedIn collaborated tions, add connections and post a Tuesday afternoon at Duncan silent phase and the intent is to The Acceleration website to launch a program called Ca- resume. Hall. reach out to your donors,” Kass- breaks down the distribution reer Explorer, a social network- Some of the features of Career The goal of the campaign is to ing said, “There were some major of the $200 million into four ing program for college students, Explorer include charting a career raise $200 million for faculty, staff gifts given. When you get to 60- groups. two weeks ago, said the U.S. re- path, which outlines a step-by-step and students, said Anne Johnson 65 percent of your goal then you Teaching, learning and schol- cruiting leader at Pricewaterhouse schedule for students to follow in the Vice President of develop- go public and reach out to all of arship will receive $75 million, Coopers. order to get a job that fits with their ment and the campaign director. your constituents.” $65 million will go to the invest- Once a student creates an ac- goals, Paul said. The campaign began four years Paul Richardson, the executive ment of students, projects dedi- count on LinkedIn, he or she can Students can also find com- ago and has raised $129 million director of the SJSU Alumni As- cated to Silicon Valley will get access Career Explorer, which is panies in their fields of inter- thus far, Johnson said. sociation, said the campaign has $24 million and $34 million will designed to provide job or career est, view salaries and see demo- The campaign was silent in the received donations for several de- support existing programs. opportunities for college students, graphics for specific cities, she previous four years, said Interim partments. Johnson said that thousands Holly Paul said. said. President Kassing and it became “So far we have received sev- Once on LinkedIn, she said a public on Oct. 21. eral major gifts, one of them was See KASSING Page 3 person can create a profile of in- See LINKEDIN Page 3 2 NEWS Wednesday, October 27, 2010 children are acting." get good observations with ChAD Philosophy Professor Car- the children." los Sanchez has been bringing Th e children come four From Page 1 his 4-year-old son Julian to days a week — Monday the aft ernoon preschool ses- through Th ursday — and the full," Foster said. sion for two semesters. fi rst priority for the student She said there is a ratio of "I love it," he said. "I think teachers is just being there one student teacher for every it is doing a great job with with the children and keeping two to three children, with 10 the kids and my son loves it. a level of safety, she said. student teachers in her morn- Th ey teach him a lot of really "It's a lot of work, but it ing class and eight in the aft er- important things that he will should be a lot of fun," Foster noon for this semester. be able to take onto kinder- said. "Usually it is one teacher garten." She said the cost for par- for every six to seven children, Sanchez said he heard ents to bring their children so it's a wonderful ratio," Fos- about the preschool through in is $265 per month for 2.5 ter said. "But it's a lot of stu- other faculty members at hours a day. dents, probably too many." SJSU. Th e average price for child She said it can get boring "I am a faculty member care — full-time day care — if there are too many student here and it was the best op- is $800 to $1,000 a month, teachers, but it is great for tion for me," he said.