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SJSU student Superchunk of talent beaten after football game SJPD investigates incident as a possible hate crime; no arrests made in the case BY DON McGEE Ken Cushman, a 24-year- Spartan Daily Staff Writer old senior majoring in man- A white SJSU student was agerial information systems, attacked and beaten by a said the group approached group of six to seven African- him and female friend, Sonja American men following Sat- Rashid, after they walked from urday night's Spartan football the game to Rashid's car, game. which was parked on Ninth The incident, which occurred and South Keyes streets. at 9:10 p.m., is being investigated According to Rashid, one of as a possible hate crime, said San the men approached Cush- Jose Police Department Public man at the car and began to Information Officer Veronica Damon. See FIGHT, Page 3 Nine CSU campuses
plan shutdown today JENNIF ER FE LIRTADO - SPARTAN DAILY
BY SEAN COOPER Spartan Daily Staff Writer In the wake of devestating budget cuts which have sent fees Punk-rockid soaring and classes and student services shrinking, students, staff and faculty of several CSU campuses are joining together in a shut-down demonstration today and Thursday. They are protesting what they perceive to be the general eco- for fun in the nomic deterioration of higher education in California. Joined by the CSU campuses in Los Angeles, Northridge, Sacramento San Diego, Chico and Humboldt, the San Francisco State Coalition of Students, Faculty and Staff has organized and Amphitheater planned the two-day event to protest the recent 8.8 percent cut in the CSU budget and 40 percent increase in student fees. Top: North Carolina's Superchunk played in the Instead of holding class, many instructors will be holding infor- Student Union Amphitheater Tuesday after- mal discussions of budget- and education-related topics. noon. From left to right, Jim Balance, Mac The Coalition solicited and consolidated the support of the McCaughan, John Worster and Laura Balance California Faculty Association (CFA) and the California State provided the tunes. Students Association (CSSA), as well as SFSU's Associated Stu- Right: Andy Swartz, a freshman from the Univer- dents, in assembling a unity of cause to raise awareness about sity of California at Santa Cruz, and his brother the state of the CSU system. Mark drove from Santa Cruz to hear the group. DAVID AIL MARSHALL - SPARTAN DAll See SHUTDOWN, Page 3 Activist Mattern to speak on peace, environment and 'New World Order'
Survey to study SJSU'sY B JON SOLOMON wide arms race, review the environmental cri- was a contributing author of the book "Build- Spartan 1Lilly Staff Writer sis and talk about the need for a new leader- ing a More Democratic United Nations" which Douglas Mattern, president of the Associa- ship to improve the nation's future. was published last year. post-budget-cut climate tion of World Citizens, will speak on the topic Mattern wrote two resolutions to stop the In the '80s, Mattern traveled to the Soviet of "What New World Order?" at 7:30 p.m. arms race. Both were signed by 51 Nobel lau- Union six times as a speaker for the Volga tomorrow at the First Methodist Church. reates and accepted by the United Nations as Peace Cruises. Following the Reagan-Gor- Board works toward better understanding Mattern has been active as a lecturer on part of the 1978 and 1982 special session on bachev Moscow Summit in 1988, Mattern met peace, the environment and other related disarmament. He has also published more Mikhail Gorbachev at a meeting held in global issues. He'll discuss the role the United than 30 articles on disarmament, the United Moscow with members of Western peace orga- BY MARIA C. ROSE Schulter, director of Disabled Stu- Nations must play in the New World Order. Nations, world community, the environment nizations. spartan Poly NIA Writer dent Services. He will also give an update on the world- and citizen diplomacy. In addition, Mattern Tomorrow's event is free. When budget cuts lead to class HRAB is only part of many shortages and unexpected layoffs, different groups on campus it's up to the Human Relations working toward a better atmos- Advisory Board to make an over- phere on campus, Schulter said. Women share experiences all assessment of how people get Budget cuts have compounded A touch of glass along on campus under the the level of stress around campus with abortion at discussion strain. for students, faculty and staff. To assess the campus climate, "It evokes immediate pain in HR AB is developing a survey for everyone," Schulter said. With BY JANE MONTES something she claimed was never students, faculty and staff, fewer services and classes, "the 'Tartan Daily Staff Writer before discussed in the media. according to chairman Michael staff wonders if 'I will have my Going for her first abortion, She said the Crisis Pregnancy Ego, associate dean of the College job tomorrow, or if I will have Wendy Hoag never saw the doc- Center assists women in deciding of Applied Sciences and Arts. someone else's job as well:" he tor. He only waved her intrauter- not to have an abortion, to follow Ego expects the categories of said. ine device over the drape block- through with the pregnancy. the assessment survey to cover a The board is composed of fac- ing her view and said, "This is the Hoag said the media kept variety of problems and issues ulty, staff and students who rep- culprit:' She explained her expe- Planned Parenthood alive facing the SJSU campus. resent SJSU's diverse population, rience during a discussion spon- through financial support. "Many problems arise from Ego said. sored by SJSU's Students for life "Planned Parenthood is not a misunderstanding as well as The board was created partial- on Monday night. good community service; it deliberate acts:' said board mem- ly in response to a student's art The topic of the discussion was makes its money from abortions:' ber Robert M lines, who is also project in fall 1990 when a "Women's Rights? Corporate Hoag said. director of the school of art and dummy, spray-painted in America, Politics and the Abor- She claimed the abortion design. maroon and wearing a George- tion Industry: What are They industry made S5 million dollars As an advisory board to SJSU's town University sweatshirt and Trying to Protect?" There were last year and that only one out of Interim President J. Handel high-top tennis shoes, was hung two guest lecturers: Hoag, a for- 33 women who seek pregnancy Evans, HR AB has been asked by by the neck in the quad as part of mer disc jockey from radio sta- counseling at Planned Parent- Evans to assess the mood of the a larger class display. tion KOME, and one other hood has a baby; the rest have campus. Its mission is to increase "You have to listen to all the woman who called herself Joan. abortions. respec t and understanding of dif- voices on this campus to hear Both women felt qualified to However, Valerie Rowe, the ferent people, Ego said. what they are saying," Schulter speak because loan had two abor- assistant manager of the San Jose In general. the issue of human said. "There is no magic answer tions and Hoag had four. Hoag Planned Parenthood Clinic, relations concei ns how race, sex or or someone would have come up claimed Planned Parenthood did denied this claim. According to any other difference may affect how with it already. These are tough not explain to her the abortion Rowe, only 4 percent of patients people get along. Milnes said. times:' procedure or the consequences of have abortions. "It would be naive to expect "We need to know what's PATTI EAGAN SPARTAN DAILY post-abortion syndrome. "Abortions are not our busi- that the HRAB will solve the going on in our own household:' Hoag also said that while ness; we help the women make interracial problem and stress said member Charles Whitcomb, Disney Stephens, a Junior majoring In art, works on a pro- Planned Parenthood could adver- good decisions:' Rowe said. problems. No one single body in chairman of the recreation and ject for her Art 130A glass class. tise in the yellow pages, the Crisis the state will solve the stress leisure department. "The real Pregnancy Centers could not See WOMEN'S RIGHTS, Page 3 problem," said member Marty challenge is ahead'
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