Album Review: Women's Soccer: Protest in SF Head Automatica's Loses to Cal Berkeley, 'Power debut album Stanford to the Peaceful' Page 6 Page 9 Page 4 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 ARTAN DAILY WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM VOLUME 123, NUMBER 10 MONDAY, SEIYFENIBFR 13, 2004 TO THE RESCUE Parking fines on the rise 20,000 tickets issued each year By Amaya Wiegert flatly Shy) WrIter l.t. Jim Renelle, who is in charge of San Jose State University's parking services, said he has seen everything in the hook when it comes to parking citations. Some say they Mr- got their permit. Others claim that they didn't realize the permit had to be affixed in the left hand corner of the windshield. "We have (students) that are using their dead grandparent's disabled placard," said 'hint, mu Nola Ditiv 'staff Renelle. who estimated that parking services Weikang Li, a part-time computer issues between 20,000 and 21,000 citations a engineering freshman, checks the price year. "The person's born in 1910 and it's some- of the parking meter on San Fernando body (a student's age) getting out of the car." Street Sunday. "Unfortunately, people get pretty desperate to park here," Renelle said. year of breaking the 211.001) I ills minims The lieutenant said that the number of given out. parking citations given out has doubled since When asked what the moot its , +talon. last year. so much that parking services is con- given our are fin. both Renelle and Sgt. Tim- >'n I ItK %,,itcr I Dailv Staff' sidering adding more parking enforcement othy Villarica agreed that the most common Santa Clara County and San lose State University Police Department emergency crews attend to a man who police say staff. inolation was Mr pe.iple parking without per- suffered a seizure on campus Sunday. A UPD officer said the man was possibly homeless and was walking through campus "We used to issue basically between about mits. Renelle said Akita 51) per, en! ot Hatpins when he collapsed. 10 and 12 (thousand citations), and then about are go-en for nut basing a permit two years ago or A year And a Ur Ago WC hired Other titan, ins in, hide parking in nit -park more students and another full -tune person." ing areas. parking user time limit ind 'irking Renelle said. "We had just two people (moni- toring parking) before." is UPD's priority CITATIONS. Campus safety first Renelle said that last year was their Blue phones, escort services available to assist students By Kevin Yuen ing, lake graffiti or a broken fire sprinkler. ampus) 14. )441 ult.. the building." she was the e, cafe The No. 1 that that glad that Japanese franchise was students would use them said /huh Stall If 'wet Perez is to request escorts." con serVise is available for Use, but thought Several hundred students use the escort that the system is flawed. Th, I iiiiversity Police Department works service each year, which begins at 5:30 p.m.. "It's very reassuring that the blue phones every year to ensure the safety of students on Laws said. The service originated in the early are there," Perez said,Thowever I don't think replaces popular hangout cantinas. 1980s, because there was a crime problem on there are enough. hes Anse there's only a few "We don't pick A partisular topic and run Qpickli Tea Cates, I . it, 140 Paseo de canipus At the time. every so often." By Joe Amaral ...can Antonio It is open \ is- through Fri with it; said Sgt. John Laws, police informa- "I've heard about them," freshman Nat- Sam Ruiz, a treshman majoring in civil L.firdy Ste Writer day from 7:30 all, it, 9 I S.Itlird.tv and tion officer and library security unit supervi- if alie Perez said of the night escort service, engineering Anti resident Joe West I fall, t., sor. "but there's always skate safety. Irving to Sunday from 11 1.M "but I dont know where to call to get one. I said that residents teceive training on how out there. A educate students to keep po merry with them, !AU all those beverage drinkers When students walk in. iI- , i ti, e wouldn't hesitate at all (to ask for an escort), to use night escorts and blue phones seen spit near San Jose State IInt- trying to convince the residents of the resi- Lomita, hangout that Quickly is h chg.-rent K it Kat. just as long as I knew where to call." around c amps versitY has been replaced by A franchise sate 'rue flange. mitt& new tables and dence halls that strangers can't walk in. .just Laws said that not many people are "I feel pretty site on campus," Ruiz said. Kat's kat has served drinks to students tor chaos And A new paint lob with mote livelV general crime protection service. But the couple IPI.) officers) on calm aware of the service, however the low us- "I've seen a the last two years but now has been replaced as 'UMW- colors sot I, bright .in,) kb campus is extremely safe." age of escorts may be because students feel [Ms, to pretti safe. It I was in dan- I feel by Quic kb Tea C Ate, a Taiwan -based als., ha,. A bigger menu Itk nom Alla has There are blue phones throughout cam- safer on campus or that they move in groups ger. I would definitely (consider using a blue luny lllll ot an Asian feel to it pus in each building that c an he used to and More. phony)." ir students whii were fans of Kit's KAI. do David DwAtt. managei ( hut 1.1% Tea cont.'s t the p dice if necessary laws said. "When I'm walking back to Joe press release was issued earlier in the West by A nor panic. Quickly is selling the sallie drinks Cate. sotl that the owner iot Isat's kat. Iris and needs assis- "If someone is in trouble myself, rin a little scared," said Perez, a nurs- year stressing and detailing bicycle, skate Is,,! offering niiire Varlet% And ILIViirs. Tseng. wanted hi tic ilitteient and use theni," Laws said. "It can tance, they can ing major. "rtn worried that the gates (to en- Ats..rtling h. the company %Vet, site, travel. be used bit courtesy purposes as well, like if ter the dormitory) are going to be closed and a 1,iir pirveior 4 tapioca and milk SAFETY, page Quo kb is s 44444 eone wants to report damage to a build- I'll have to walk around on San Salvador (off tea beverage, QUICKI ,.,zr Foreign-born instructors bring 'Folklorico' dance entertains, teaches By Amaya Wiegert distinct perspectives to SJSU / hrs4 II "service classes." which are require- "a letter of invitation from somebody The onind of dance slows 1. By Anna Molin lapping ments for non -math majors, such AS in Israel" and got A signature annoy against the wooden floor can be heard Daily Ste. Writer engineering and science. al from the politburo, the governing well outside San Jose's Atzlan Aciad- She said the Amerh An method of body at the time. Shuhin saitl ems. A musk and Janie g p that I,, it, ins llll thus make up 14netgli- teaching mathematics differs from Shubin said she uht,uneil A take has been tea, hing Mexican .Atnerican pirtion if the faculty at an important the method used in Russia. letter of invitation mint people a. tolkloric slance ft un 16 MM. Statellniversity, where more San Jose "The way (American) students quired fake letters -- and Was granted the acadentv on A Mei-- the strident piptilation than half of learn mathematics in high school is permission to leave the country after tin evening. four young woinen step as a second speaks English language, not very efficient," she said. "The A three-month government review. around in sirs les and chasse back and catalog. according to the SJSII ciirniciulurti is till, wide and not deep "When I learned I was allowed to totth in front of a large mirror on the Although non-li.S.-born educ A- enough. It is just an exposure, but leave, I didn't know if I was glad or will tom A range of academic partake in mathematics is about skills and you sad. It was a one-way ticket exit," she One of the older dancers leads the disciplines, it seems, on its face, as if cannot learn skills if you're only ex- said. "In the interview they said, 'We group with loud shi nits of "I In.% dos, iti A few departments. they slorninAte posed." will give you your VISA in exchange fres, quoin," pertorming the moves AlurAd Amer, A senior in the elec- Shubin, who grew up in Russia for your citizenship.' whale she counts Mr the group. A tric al engineering p, gram, said, during the totalitarian regimes of "When I was leaving, I was abso voung girl rests on the ,lancet's htp, "Most of my teat hers have been for- Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Bre - lutely sure that I would never see my helpless m the rhythm of the woman eign horn." zhnev, came to the United States in patents again," Shubm said. holding her ffffff minication skills "'rheit 19714. She left the Soviet Union at a After staying in Vienna. Italy, for In the corner of the room, A stereo are not as good, hut they are better time when few were allowed to leave nine months, Shubin and hei three blares upbeat music full .4 guitars and "They teach teachers," lie said.