UPD Officer Helps Catch Local Stalker
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WEATHER Morning low Marijuana Bowling teams clouds and fog should be legal knock their clear to sunny for medicinal opponents into skies with temps purposes. the gutter. in the low 70s. See page 2... See page 4... SPARTAN DAILY ohmic 10i. Number :12 Published tor Sail Jose Slate 1 nit. ersii since 1931 %Sedilesdi. I h.biber 19. 1991 Campus prepares for natural disasters By Stacey Hewitt UPD officer Spartan Daily Stan Writer This could be the scene at San Unit and the Emergency Opera- Francisco State, Cal State Sonoma, Jose State University one day if the tions Center are trained to handle Cal State Sacramento and SJSU The 10th Street garage has col- so-called "Big One" occurs. There an emergency situation, are participating in the program. lapsed, leaving students crushed is a 67 percent chance of a major The CRU, formed in 1991, was CRU members aid people affected in their cars. Tower Hall, which earthquake in California in the created to provide a team of of fi- by disasters and emergencies helps catch stood for over 100 years, has next 30 years, according to the cers trained in methods of disaster that occur at Northern California crumbled, strewing bricks and State Office of Emergency. relief, crowd control and urban campuses. leaving students injured and in SJSU officials believe the campus search and rescue, among other Abeyta said the need for a group desperate need of assistance. is prepared for an earthquake or things, said Ric Abeyta, Director of that has trained together is impor- local stalker The surrounding community has other disaster that may effect the Public Safety for SJSU. tant. He said problems in the past been devastated, complete with col- campus. Members of organiza- Officers from the Northern lapsed freeways and fallen buildings. tions such as the Critical Response California campuses, including San See Crisis, page 6 Felon caught near SJSU By Stacey Hewitt Bottoms up Spartan Daily Stall Writer University Police Officer Marianne Derbyshire doesn't stop working the minute she takes off her badge. Derbyshire was off-duty Oct. 8 when she spotted James Carol!, a man wanted on a $50,000 warrant for stalking a San Jose State University student and violat- ing a restraining order, Derbyshire said. The warrant was issued one year ago, and the UPD had no luck finding Carol!. "Everyone knew about him and we all wanted to catch him," Derbyshire said. Caroll had been stalking an SJSU student for one year, and had been sending her threatening letters, Derbyshire said. He was given a restraining order not to come near the student or the SJSU campus. When See Felon, page 6 Homecoming court nominees await decision By Cindy Trotter Spartan Daily Stall Writer The candidates for Homecoming king and queen MONIQUE St. FRIENEELI, SPARTAN DARN were announced Monday, and for the first time in San An upside down photo of two upside down swimmers. Santa Clara Center. Their noon performance Tuesday was part of the 25th-anniver- Jose State University history, it may be an all- African- Aquamaids Becky Dyroen-Lanc.- left, and Jill Sudduth tread underwa- sary celebr-!. n for the Student Union. Celebrations continue tonight American court. ter during their synchronized ,;,; rring performance at the Aquatic vrth Aerot' at the Event Cnt-ter Arena About 300 students from fra- ternities, sororities, athletics, faculty and friends came "The theme together to welcome SJSU's is kind of Santa Clara Aquamaids make big splash 1994 Homecoming court in the Union Ballroom. ironic this By Tina Casalino Student Spartan Daily Stall Wnter Becky Dyroen-Lancer, Jill ed in swimming at the tender age won the title for best duet. Two According to the Executive year, 'The Sudduth and Anna Kozlova were of six, has been a member of the months later, the entire team Director of Associated many faces of It wasn't a fish, a dolphin or a three of the members who per- Aquamaids for 16 years. Her competed in the World Aquatic Students George Gonzales, dif- whale that made a big splash on formed for a small, but atten- partner, Lancer, has been an Championships against 30 other ferent campus organizations Sparta." the San Jose State University tive crowd. Aquamaid for 13 years. The two countries. The Aquamaids won got together back in August to been performing for the best team and Lancer and plan for one of SJSU's biggest campus Tuesday. The Aquamaids, who per- of them have .lerome Martin Although they don't have fins formed for about 15 minutes, together as a duet for eight years. Sudduth won for best duet. festivities Homecoming. Homecoming ,ourl or gills, the Santa Clara were excited to perform. A solo is one swimmer per- The squad is a private organi- "We knew in August that this nominee Aquamaids performed a dazzling "SJSU has been very support- forming and a duet is two swim- zation of swimmers who train six week was going to happen," display of underwater routines at ive of us. It's nice that we're able mers performing together. days a week, for five to seven Pep Center organizer Harriet SJSU's Aquatic Center in celebra- to give something back to hem," In July, after competing in the hours per day. Pila said. tion of the 25th anniversary of said Sudduth. Goodwill Games against eight "One of the hardest things "We got together with other groups on campus to the Student Union. Sudduth, who became interest- countries, Lancer and Sudduth See Aquamaids, page 6 save money on advertisements and to interact with one See Homecoming. page 6 Gay, lesbian week Free breast exams promotes awareness offered to women By Nancie Gruber By Shelley Spackmai Spartan Daily Stall Writer room of the Student Union, said Spartan Daily Stall Wnter Martha O'Connell, co-coordina- This week marks the ninth tor of the week's events. One in nine females reading this annual Gay & Lesbian Aware- "Common Threads" is a 79- article will develop breast cancer in ness Week at San Jose State minute film narrated by Dustin her lifetime, according to the University. Hoffman that recounts the story American Cancer Society. Activities scheduled include a of the first decade of AIDS in It is the most common cancer one-woman show by stand-up America. It will be shown from among women and is predicted to comedian Lisa Geduldig and a noon to 2 p.m. Thursday in the strike approximately 20,000 California showing of the 1989 documen- Student Union's Guadalupe women in 1994, the American Cancer tary, "Common Threads: Stories room. An audience discussion Society reported. from the Quilt." will take place afterward, said October is Breast Cancer Aware- Geduldig, who performed at Kevin Johnson, graphics lab ness Month and the American Cancer the 1993 Gay, Lesbian and supervisor and co-coordinator Society and SJSU's Student Health Bisexual March in Washington, of the week's activities. Services are offering a variety of pro- D.C., will appear at 7:30 p.m. grams to educate women about early Wednesday in the Almaden See Awareness, page 6 detection, prevention and treatment i SpARTAN DARN' of breast cancer. The Women's The Spartan Daily will be conducting a political Holding a silicone gel breast. Dr Oscar Battle Jr., a lealth, educator at Student Health Health Clinic In SJSU's opinion poll on campus during the remainder of the Services, gives interior design major Laura Evetts a few pointers on how to perform a self- See Breast cancer, page 3 week. Students' cooperation is appreciated. breast exam. The model is made with simulated cancer nodules. "0.111.110.- 2 Tuesday, October 18, 1994 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY Editorial Society suffers under 'weed' myth With a merciless stroke of a But Wilson refuses to help Juana. He said the use of this pen, Gov. Pete Wilson recently relieve the pain of those suffer- "evil weed" led to killings, sex vetoed a bill that would have ing. Wilson's heartless act crimes and insanity. He also legalized the medicinal use of stems from a negative crusade emphasized the use of marijua- marijuana. against marijuana that started na as a "stepping stone" to the Embodied in Wilson's actions in the early 1900s. use of other drugs. are society's negative attitudes After the Mexican revolution But in 1944 the New York toward marijuana attitudes of 1910, Mexicans began pour- Academy of Medicine released a based on 80 years of racism and ing into the United States. They report concluding marijuana political misinformation that were greeted with racial intoler- did not cause violent behavior, have no place in the 1990s. ance and their practice of smok- provoke insanity, lead to addic- Society has been brain- ing marijuana was stigmatized. tion, or promote opiate use. washed into believing that mar- Texas police officers said Anslinger called the authors ijuana has no redeeming value, marijuana inspired a lust for of the report "strange" and while the drug's medicinal blood" and gave its users "dangerous." properties offer much hope in "superhuman strength." It was To help his war on drugs, relieving the pain of millions of also widely rumored that Ronald Reagan created a new people. Mexicans were giving this post to his administration in According to Lester "killer weed" to schoolchildren. 1982 the White House Drug Grinspoon, associate professor In the years of the Great Abuse Policy Office headed by Heart to Heart of psychiatry at Harvard Depression, a campaign to get Carlton Turner. Medical School, smoking mari- the federal government to out- Turner believed marijuana juana can relieve the nausea law marijuana began.