San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks

Access Magazine College of Applied Sciences and Arts

4-1-2016

Access Magazine, April 2016

San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/accessmagazine

Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons

Recommended Citation San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, "Access Magazine, April 2016" (2016). Access Magazine. 16. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/accessmagazine/16

This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Access Magazine by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ccess MAGAZINE

ISSUE 2 April 2016

Uncovering the essence of San Jose Contents From orchards to Apple: From orchards to Apple: More than 200 years of San Jose history 3-5

San Jose sports trifecta timeline 6-7 More than 200 years of

The Greek system 8-9 San Jose history

Japanese Americans 10

ACCESS STAFF A classical man / Playing with words 11 Article by Kimberly Johnson In order to achieve our goals for Background photo: Courtesy of the SJPL the future, we must examine what took Spring 2016 What a tease! 12 California Room from the Historic Map and On a mission Atlas Collection place to get San Jose here. We must look Trail blazers almost two and a half centuries into an Jose, a city of 1 million people, the past. Editor-in-Chief: Raechel Price The El Camino Real is the 600- is a place where diversity is Historic Route or Auto Tour mile trail taken by the first commonplace and technology is Settlement Route currently demarcates Managing Editor: Rain Stites S Spaniard expedition through hardwired into the community. This is Before the Spaniards came up through the trail Bautista de Anza and From the editors California beginning at the Mission Sharks territory. This is the land of Apple what is now called the El Camino Real, his men in the second Spanish Creative Art Director: Ines Ben Cheikh San Diego de Alcala in San Diego Inc. This is the Silicon Valley. the Ohlone people inhabited much of the expedition took from the Arizona- A garage is a birthplace of ideas. It is the site and ending at the Mission San San Jose has defi ned itself as a city area between San Francisco and Big Sur. Mexico border to northern Sports / Commentary Coordinator: Jeffrey Velacion of many origin stories, from platinum albums to Francisco Solano in Sonoma. The of innovation and progression with a Anyone who has driven the long stretches San Francisco. One can personal computers and beyond. trail connects the 21 missions, global impact. As part of the greater of Highway 101, a major portion of the drive, ride horseback Arts & Entertainment Coordinator: Matthew Dziak Just up the road in Los Altos, Steve Jobs’ presidios and pueblos they Santa Clara County, San Jose has been El Camino Real, has seen the wide open or hike part or the vision for a company to sell computers came to life. spaces and untouched hillsides that look Lifestyle Coordinator: Marquerite Tuufuli established along the way. the home to some of the greatest minds entire 1,200- Much like Apple, the cultural identity of San Jose is Today, distinctive bells and universities in the world. It is where very similar now as they did then. mile trail. still a work in progress. Because it comprises many Design / Copy Editor: Marissa Trigos have been placed the future is the focus of collaborative Mexico won their independence from differing ideals, interests and cultures, we have yet along the trail to efforts. Here, we strive for the next Spain and took control of their settlements, to come to a conclusion about who we are as one. Copy / Social Media Editor: Kimberly Johnson commemorate best thing. including the missions, along the stretch Rain Stites Raechel Price Our origins are as diverse as our population. The their journey. More than two centuries ago, however, of land we call California. Photo by Coolcaesar / en.wikipedia.org Photo Editor: Raven Swayne contrast of new and old contributes to the rich history apples were just a fruit and sharks were It wasn't too long, however, before of this city. San Jose is a mixed culture with a mixed predators of the sea. Before highways and the U.S. forces fought for that land in the Editorial Adviser: Scott Fosdick identity. Not one thing defi nes it. While we have a contrast between technology Google Maps, California was a vast land Mexican-American War and won. After and agriculture, we all are affected by the things that make up our city; we have of uncharted terrain. San Jose was built their victory, they named the city around Design Adviser: Tim Mitchell adapted to each other’s differences. by determined and dedicated pioneers of the already established Spanish Pueblo As residents of San Jose, the Access Magazine staff has uncovered what a diff erent time who paved the way for the de San Jose Guadalupe as the fi rst capital characterizes our city and its people. future of our glorious home. of California as it became the 31st state. San Jose and the greater Bay Area is all too familiar with apples and Apple. Thus, San Jose was born. Continued on pages 4 & 5 Kimberly Johnson explores San Jose’s transformation from rich agriculture to the Photo by Ewen Denney / en.wikipedia.org infl ux of technology. Growth and change are not constructive unless we know how it originated. Jose Joaquin Minn’s Evening Normal Jeffrey Velacion steps inside the world of two Japanese American sisters placed Moraga establishes San Jose becomes School teachers college, The electric light Pueblo de San fi rst state capital of ultimately SJSU, established tower is erected in the internment camps during World War II. 1846 1851 1872 Jose Guadalupe California in San Francisco in downtown These are only a few of the stories rooted in the pages of this issue. Join the The U.S. Forces San Jose Weekly Access Magazine staff as we uncover the roots of San Jose’s past. 1777 1849 1857 The San Jose Fruit 1881 assert control after the Visitor, later renamed Packing Company is Mexican-American War the San Jose Mercury established and Alum News, is established Rock Park opens Access issue 2 April 2016 3 Growth Scandalous Tech-tock. local history Cultivation Migration Tech-tock. arming was the seed that sprouted San Jose Something about the Valley of Heart’s Delight was very May 28, 1896: Campbell from a pueblo to a booming capital. Santa appealing to East Coasters. The refreshment of wide open resident James Dunham F Clara Valley was nicknamed the “Valley spaces and the prospect of farming the land as a way of life murdered his wife, stepfather, of Heart’s Delight” and San Jose was called The was attractive to some. For others, as Campbell resident mother-in-law, brother-in-law, Garden City. Fina Hardin said, it was the weather. maid and farm hand at the Boom! Prunes and stone fruits, especially apricots and peaches, Hardin, 62, was born in Brooklyn to Sicilian parents. McGlincy home. He fl ed the were among the most popular crops throughout the county. Her father, Anthony Sanfi lippo, was trained in mathematics scene and was never caught. The technology harnessed for packing this harvest enabled and engineering. In February of 1955, he was asked by Trans His motive is still not known. Computers the canning industry to be a source of income for many World Airlines to come to San Francisco and repair a tricky Memorial Day, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Stanford entrepreneurs and factory workers. As the orchards and airplane engine part, as that was his specialty. While he stayed 1933: Allene Lamson was Lick Observatory graduates of 1935, developed their HP200A in a fi elds disappeared, so did the factories. in San Mateo, he drove through Santa Clara County and fell bludgeoned to death in her Entrepreneur James Lick gave a Palo Alto garage in the 1940s. However, crops weren’t eliminated immediately with in love. Stanford campus home. Her philanthropic donation to science of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the the tech boom. Orchards and fi elds were still abundant until Sanfi lippo called home to check in on his wife, Franca, husband, David Lamson, was 1888. He donated $700,000 (the modern Apple 1 out of Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos. the 1960s and 1970s. Campbell resident Carol Barnett, 68, and his 2-year-old daughter. Franca hated Brooklyn’s winter arrested and put on death equivalent of approximately $22 million) Its keyboard for input and TV screen for output remembers in an email the summer days in 1962 when she blizzards and asked him how the weather was in California. row at San Quentin. After for the construction of the Lick Observatory, started a revolution in computer operation. One of and her friends cut cots to pay for school clothes. He said it was about 72 degrees. Franca was baffl ed. He told three years of controversial under which he is buried. It still serves as the last models is on display at History San Jose. “We received 35 cents per tray. The tray was about 4’ by her the weather here is like Sicily. Trans World Airlines trials and appeals he was a facility for testing technology related to Construction of the airship Hangar No. 1 at Moffett Field. 6’, not much money for a lot of work,” she said. “We were off ered him a job and he asked his wife if she wanted to released. No future arrests optical astronomy. The hangar is 1133 feet long, 308 feet wide, 198 feet high very slow.” move there. were made and her death was and covers eight acres. (Courtesy of the Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection and SJPL California Room) After the apricots were picked, the trays were put into a “My mother basically said, ‘If you don’t take the job, I am never explained. Construction of the airship Hangar No. 1 at Moffett Field. The hangar is 1133 feet long, 308 feet wide, 198 sulfur shed for a while and then were placed out in the sun taking the kid and I am moving back to Sicily because I am Nov. 9, 1933: San Jose Aviation & Moff ett Field feetRadio high and covers technology eight acres. to dry. not living though this winter anymore,’” Hardin explained. resident Brooke Hart, son of (Courtesy of the Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection In 1894, John Montgomery, a professor at Santa and SJPL California Room) Barnett said she made about $25. Sometimes the boys “She hated snow.” store owner Alexander Hart, Poulsen Wireless Telephone and Clara College, experimented with gliders. His work and girls would get in trouble for having fruit fi ghts in Santa Clara became their new home. As others was kidnapped, mutilated Telegraph Company, renamed Federal and patents precede the Wright Brothers by 20 years. the orchard. like them moved to the area, the Valley of Heart’s and murdered by Thomas Telegraph Company, opened in 1909 Hangar One, located at Moff ett Field near Sunnyvale, Delight became the melting pot of the central Harold Thurmond and Jack in Palo Alto. Their engineers, led by is one of the most identifi able landmarks of the Silicon West Coast. Holmes. On the 27th, a mob Stanford graduate Cyril Elwell, heavily Valley. After opening in 1933, it housed naval airships, After Anthony left TWA, he worked for Container of thousands stormed the jail, progressed long distance wireless including the USS Macon. communication. His company introduced This Richmond- Corporation of America in Santa Clara where he dragged the men to St. James Google signed a 60-year lease in 2014 to house Chase Company invented a machine they nicknamed The Tony Park and lynched them from the fi rst commercially successful system of San Jose their jets and activity, “related to space, aviation, rover/ packing Turner. This machine automated a tedious task, once a tree that has since been View of the Lick Observatory on a snowy of continuous wave wireless telegraphy company label Mount Hamilton in 1900. (Courtesy of San Jose robotics and other emerging technologies,” according and significant improvements to was used manned by a worker, and expedited the cardboard box cut down. Public Library) between the to a summary of the lease agreement. making process. radio reception. ccess 1920-1950 MAGAZINE

San Jose Lick Observatory is San Jose became the 10th established atop of HP established in Earthquakes most populated 1884 Mount Hamilton 1933 Palo Alto 1942 established 1976 Adobe in business 1991 eBay founded 1998 First iPod released 2007 city in U.S. Sarah Winchester San Jose Sharks 1888 Brooke Hart suspects 1939 F.D.R. signs Executive 1974 First Apple 1 sold 1982 1995 Google founded 2001 First iPhone released 2014 bought and began lynched in St. James Order 9066 and Marriot's begin playing construction on Park and Lamson Great America her house murder controversy opens Access issue 2 April 2016 5 Hockey Soccer San Jose sports San Jose Sharks trifecta San Jose Earthquakes A sport where teeth are optional and fi ghting is only penalized by a few Vicious, intimidating creatures have been the norm for professional minutes of penalty time, professional hockey came to the South Bay 25 sports mascots, but San Jose was willing to innovate. San Jose named years ago. Although a sport played on ice may not initially seem like an its soccer team the Earthquakes after a San Jose Mercury News contest attraction in northern California, the Sharks fi nished the 2014-2015 Article by Matthew Dziak had fans suggest the team be called the Earthquakes. In 1974 the team’s season ranking 12th in attendance out of 30 teams in the National Infographics by Kavin Mistry, Matthew Dziak and Ines Ben Cheikh SOURCES for STORY: Team's Media Guides (Sharks, Earthquakes, Giants) general manager at the time, Dick Berg, obliged. Hockey League. Baseball The epicenter of San Jose soccer history Looking back at the Sharks frenzy San Jose Giants history. The San Jose Owls called it home for the 1942 season of the

1991 America’s pastime has a rich history in San Jose. Dating back to California League. The San Jose Giants began their fi rst season at 1974 1985-1988 1998 1942 with the completion of the Municipal Stadium, 10 minor league Municipal Stadium in 1988 and are the current Class-A affi liate of the 1993-2001 1997 1993 baseball teams have called Municipal Stadium home over the 74-year San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball team. 1994 2001-2002 2002-2013 74 years of San Jose's pastime April 6,1996 May 12, 1996

2005 San Jose Missions 1979 League Champions 1958 San Jose Pirates 1999 led by Merced, Calif. native, outfi elder Dave 2001 born, affi liate of the Henderson who went on to have a 14-year-career 2003 2008-2010 1942 San Jose Owls Pittsburgh Pirates in the majors. He also played for both the Oakland 2006 Athletics and San Francisco Giants among three 1974 Current Oakland other teams 1998 Giants win fi rst league 2008 Athletics third base coach Ron April 8,2011 championship and fi rst for 2012 Washington played shortstop for 1983 San Jose San Jose since 1979 the San Jose Bees as an affi liate Bees returns as an 2015 of the Kansas City Royals 2011 San Jose Red Sox unaffi liated team 1949, 1953 League San Jose Earthquakes San Jose Earthquakes 2013 Champions 1974 begin playing in the North 2001 Earthquakes defeated Feb. 5, 2015 American Soccer League Los Angeles Galaxy 2-1 to win 1985-1988 Earthquakes join the the MLS Cup with goals scored Nov. 21, 2015 Western Soccer League by both Landon Donovan and 1977 San Jose Missions begin 1988 San Jose Giants are born. Earthquakes sold and Dwayne DeRosario 1956 -1957 San Jose Red Sox 1988 1991 San Jose Sharks begin fi nal two seasons of his career with Mark Leonard, Sunnyvale, Calif. native and become San Jose JoSox before former De Anza College baseball player, renamed the Blackhawks 2003 Earthquakes defeated 1982 San Jose playing at the Cow Palace in the Sharks, leading them to back- relocating to Las Vegas in 1958 leads the Giants with 15 home runs and Chicago Fire 4-2 to win its second Expos have one 1993 Blackhawks renamed the Daly City to-back division championships 118 runs batted in before fi ve seasons with 1962 San Jose Bees return baseball to San Jose season as Montreal the San Francisco Giants San Jose Hawks but fold after MLS Cup Landon Donovan Expos affi liate 1993-2001 San Jose Sharks April 8, 2011 Thorton becomes where outfi elder Dick Simpson leads team with scores two goals and named Man 42 home runs and 113 runs batted en route to a the season th begin playing at the San Jose the 78 player in NHL history with League Championship of the Match 1994 Ownership awarded team Arena in downtown San Jose 1,000 career points or more 1947 San Jose Red Sox return 2004 - 2015 Recently, the San Jose Giants have 2006 San Jose Earthquakes after four-year hiatus as an produced 13 players that have gone on to win the to play as the San Jose Clash 1997 Sharks draft 17-year-old 2011 Sharks win fourth straight affi liate of the Boston Red Sox World Series with the San Francisco Giants (2010, beginning in the 1996 season relocate to Houston and become center Patrick Marleau, second division title 20112, 2014) including 2014 World Series Most the Dynamos Valuable Player Madison Bumgarner San Jose Clash overall in NHL draft April 6, 1996 2013 HP Pavilion is renamed to defeat D.C. United 1-0 at 2008 Earthquakes return to 2001-2002 San Jose Arena is the SAP Center San Jose and begin playing Evolution of baseball gloves (smithsonianmag.com) the inaugural Major League games at Buck Shaw Stadium in renamed to the Compaq Center. Feb. 5, 2015 Marleau becomes Soccer game at San Jose State Santa Clara Sharks win the team’s fi rst division the youngest player to play in his This design is the most similar to what University’s Spartan Stadium championship th 1942 In this era, gloves featured a deep well is used now. These gloves feature a 1,300 NHL game (all with the 1949, 1953 San Jose Clash 2012 Earthquakes awarded MLS surrounding the palm but it did not have separate slot for each fi nger, which is May 12, 1996 2002-2013 Compaq Center is Sharks) Supporters’ Shield, fi nishing with fi nger cut outs which made it diffi cult for ideal in giving a player the ability to set attendance record for a renamed to the HP Pavilion. With the problems from the previous the best record in the league Nov. 21, 2015 Marleau The original design of baseball gloves players to grasp the ball if it didn’t hit the have fully functional control of his or sporting event in San Jose with rd had the fingers exposed from the era’s gloves, the re-design featured during the regular season. 2005 Sharks trade for center becomes the 83 player in NHL well fl ush her hand when fi elding the ball 31,728 fans watching the Clash knuckle to the tip of the fi ngers and a split separation of the middle and Joe Thornton history with 1,000 career points take on the Los Angeles Galaxy 2015 Earthquakes begin playing at only allowed for basic protection and ring fi nger to provide the ability to or more at Spartan Stadium Avaya Stadium ccess 2008-2010 Hall of Fame not necessarily any advantage fi elding 1947 grasp the ball 1956, 1957 MAGAZINE defenseman Rob Blake plays the the ball 1999 Clash changes name to Access issue 2 April 2016 7 The ladies of Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Linda Saephan and The Greek Darlene Luu, performing at the Generation to End Cancer event Ώ Ψ Ф system at SJSU in March. Staying true to traditions and breaking the stereotypes

Article and photos by Marquerite Tuufuli members of Greek organizations nationwide. The Greek Background image by Ines Ben Cheikh system is also practiced in other parts of the world such as

ard work, respect, compassion and loyalty — these France, Canada and Switzerland. are just a few words that have been planted in the Joseph Sandoval-Rios is a sophomore at San Jose State “Although we change over time, we still stay true to but AXiD truly opened my eyes to what it means to be a foundation of today’s fraternities and sororities. University and a current member of Delta Sigma Phi, a things that we are passionate about and have those morals be compassionate sister, reliable friend and show my sisters Rooted in integrity, the history behind the Greek fraternity that has been a part of SJSU’s community since the roots of all we begin and improve on,” Yarrington said. unconditional love and support.” system is what makes modern day Greek groups 1949. DSP was founded in New York by Meyer Boskey and “We never forget where we started and we’re so proud of how In a 2013-2014 annual report by the National Panhellenic Ha success. Fraternities and sororities help to create lifelong Charles A. Tonsor, Jr. on Dec. 10, 1899. far we have come.” Council, American Sororities raised over $5.7 million for Ώfriendships, Ψ maintain high academic Ф standards and Σ provide δ“Our fraternity was founded by two men of opposing The Greek system opened many doors for not only women philanthropies and dedicated 1 million hours of community opportunities that have impacted many philanthropies religions in a time where diversity was not accepted. Our but for people of color. Alpha Phi Alpha is known as the first service in one academic year. In addition, fraternities in around the United States. founding fathers did not want to be separated and persevered African-American intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity. the North American Interfraternity Conference raised $20.7 The origin of the Greek system began in Virginia when through great scrutiny to create a fraternity that embraces The group was founded in 1906 by seven Cornell University million for philanthropies and completed an astounding John Heath, a student from the college of William and Mary diversity,” Rios said. students who desired to build a strong brotherhood for number of 3.8 million hours of community service. in Virginia created Phi Beta Kappa — the first fraternity. On Nov. 11, 1874 Gamma Phi Beta became the first female minorities. The fraternity served as an outlet for African- For many Greek members, success is found in charity Heath dreamed of forming a serious student society where group to join the Greek system. Eunice A. Curtis , Helen M. American men during a time when they felt like outcasts. work and being able to help those in need. one can have the freedom to discuss current events and Dodge, Mary A. Bingham and Francis E. Haven attended Its foundation is rooted in scholarship, fellowship, good Every year, Alpha Xi Delta’s Autism Speaks philanthropy literature. Heath chose Greek because he didn’t want to copy Syracuse University in New York, which is the birthplace character and the uplifting of humanity. Today, there are advocates for autism patients in hopes of increasing the two Latin secret societies on campus known as the Flat of GPB. These ambitious women persevered through a time many sororities and fraternities dedicated to all types of awareness and finding treatments. The men of Delta Sigma Hat Club and Please Don’t Ask. when males were highly favored. Their sorority is rooted on cultural backgrounds including Asians and Hispanics. Phi has dedicated more than 2,000 service hours to the Since, the Greek system slowly began to expand across the belief that every girl deserves the right to an education Throughout the years, the Greek system has aquired a community and raised approximately $5,000 for charity. college campuses in the U.S. Today, there are about 9 million and should have the same opportunities as men. GPB is still bad reputation because of the attention from hazing incidents “I would encourage everyone to allow yourself to Ψ Δ Ώ Ψimpacting Ф the lives of many young women across the country. and deaths caused by binge drinking. These controversial experience things before making opinions about them,” It currently has about 195,000 active members. incidents have been under the spotlight for many years, yet Yarrington said. In the beginning all Greek organizations, male or what is ignored is the student response to defy stereotypes Although some college campuses prohibited the Greek female, were called fraternities. That changed in 1882 when and create a more inclusive environment. system because they acted as a secret society, students in a Gamma Phi Beta adviser noted that the word fraternity was Furthermore, many Greek members feel little attention this community continue to fight for their right to exist. USA inappropriate for groups of young women because it is based is given to groups that are engaged with their communities Today reported that Greek graduation rates are 20 percent on the Latin root, “frater,” meaning brother. So the word and the benefits that come from their collective efforts. higher compared to non-Greek students. As their networks “sorority” began to be used for the female groups. Each fraternity and sorority group is dedicated to a specific continue to expand, the Greek system continues to honor Brooke Yarrington is a member of Alpha Xi Delta, a philanthropy such as the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the its founding members through its academic success and sorority that has been on SJSU's campus since 2010 but has Children’s Miracle Network. charity work. ccess been in America since 1893. Yarrington said she embraces the “It is nothing like what society stereotypes it as,” MAGAZINE idea that the founding women of AXiD created a sisterhood Members of Delta Sigma Phi at San Jose State University: Joseph Yarrington said. “I had my speculations before I joined Sandoval-Rios, Nathan Zavala and Cameron Dingler. larger than themselves. A fun fact - DSP was rewarded “Fraternity of the Year” in 2011, Access issue 2 April 2016 9 Ώ2012 and 2014. Σ δ Ώ Δ Ф I heard you played at a Josh Groban Keith Arbogast concert. How was that? Japanese Americans To be honest, I didn’t know who he was but A classical man it was intense. The gig was like a solo thing. So Rebuilding trust a er World War II internment I opened then it was just me with the orchestra playing some notes in the background. The scariest part of the gig wasn’t even the gig itself: Article and photo by Raven Swayne they didn’t give me music! They sent me an email with a recording in it. I’m a classical major and eith Arbogast, San Jose State University that was jazz so I had to learn it in a week and it Article by Jeffrey Velacion In 1944, Murda, Hirose and their Victor said they were treated like all music performance sophomore, started was scary but somehow I managed to do it. Background photo: Flaherty Collection, SJSU family relocated to Texas after their camp of the other soldiers. Victor was injured playing trumpet in middle school. He is Special Collections & Archives K What is the hardest part about performing? one of the few 19-year-olds that can say he’s played was converted into a camp for German during battle and was awarded the Purple Performing isn’t the bad part, it’s the alongside a professional singer. Arbogast is from a n February 1942, President Franklin Prisoners of War. They would remain in Heart, a decoration given to soldiers who before performing, the pre-game. You have to family of engineers who were hesitant about him D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order Texas until Executive Order 9066 ended. are wounded or killed in battle. be constantly in the zone because if I’m not in earning his degree in music. While he perfects 9066 that forced Japanese Americans After they were released, the family Victor Maestas taught Japanese the zone and I try to go out there and perform, his craft at SJSU, his dreams of “making it” are I it’s a train wreck. But if I get in the zone I’m on the West Coast from their homes stayed with a Chinese American family in American students history during WWII starting to come true. totally cool, calm and collective. It’s the make or and into internment camps around the San Francisco until they found a place of for 15 years. Do you prefer playing solo or in a group? break part. United States. their own in Menlo Park. Their father was “Imagine that you had to fight and I guess I like large setting play more than I What happens after college? Japanese Americans were required able to get a job as an administrator for die for a country that is imprisoning your like solo play. Marching band was cool because it I always wanted to teach. I really want to push to register at check-in centers for the Stanford in 1948 until he retired in 1973. family and taking away everything you got me kind of good at my instrument but I didn’t Arbogast plays one of his favorite myself and see if I can get to a performance level. pieces, the introduction of Gustav do it for the love of music. I did it because it was internment camps. San Jose State had,” Maestas said. “Is that fair?” Because where I come from there weren’t many Mahler's 5th Symphony, in a private like, “ooh hard core ... marching ... BAM ... high University hosted a check-in center We were American Executive Order 9066 ended in 1946. musicians. So, now I wonder if I can make it. But practice room in the Music Building “ notes ... BAM.” I love playing solo, but I would at San Jose State University. for Japanese Americans living in San Japanese Americans had to rebuild their if I don’t make it I would love to teach. citizens, and there were no rather play in a big ensemble. Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. lives after losing their businesses and Sisters Joan Murda and Lorraine charges, and yet because of property due to their inability to receive Hirose, were uprooted from their home our appearance, because of and pay the bills to keep their equity. in Redwood City by the Executive Order. our race, we were considered According to Japanese American Local identity plays a role in language usage of the phrase has grown in popularity “We were forced out of our homes and Museum in San Jose, San Jose’s Japanese choice, which refl ects those competing needs over the last two decades. a threat to national Bay Area since my parents were unable to receive American collectively lost about $3 to be unique and just like everyone else. In Some phrases keep their Bay Area other words, slang satisfi es the need to be cool. attributions, while the origins of others fade and pay our bills, lost our homes and most security.” billion. They had to sell their businesses, slang Listicles espousing Bay slang’s virtues are from popular memory. “Fasho” is an example of our stuff,” Murda said. “We had stuff homes and property for a cheap price for — Japanese American actor George Takei, a dime a dozen online. Writer Matt Powers’ of slang whose origins seem to have been that would be around $70,000 today.” in a December 2015 interview with The little or nothing in return. Playing with words: how the Philadelphia Inquirer round-up of Bay Area terms for Thought forgotten. A shortcut for the affi rmative “for The family was sent to Arkansas. Their Things began to look up for those who Bay Area became a linguistic Catalog is a sample of the most useful of some sure,” this phrase has gained near ubiquity in father was separated from the family and lost so much. Service for freedom powerhouse 100 words and phrases that have their origins the U.S. was sent to North Dakota. To avoid being interned in a camp, Norman Mineta became the mayor of somewhere in the Bay. “Tryna” takes abbreviation to the extreme, “We had to build our own shelter and Japanese Americans joined the United San Jose in 1971. He was the first Japanese “The reality is the Bay Area has some of the separating completely from the source phrase. furniture out of crates and construction American mayor elected to a major States’ 442nd Regimental Combat Article by Raechel Price most unique vernacular in the United States,” “Tryna” is a mashup of the verb “trying (to),” wood. Other than beds, nothing else was Team or 100th Infantry Battalion U.S. city. Powers writes. “And when used properly, it’ll but instead of indicating actual eff ort, it is a given to us,” Hirose said. to fight in the European Theatre President Gerald Ford signed he Bay Area’s reputation of being a make your life easier and more fun.” substitute for desire. “Tryna” replaces phrases The camps were unbearable in hot of WWII. Proclamation 4417, “The American factory of cool is maintained in part The fi rst on any list is “hella,” a shortened such as “I want to” or “would you like to,” and form of the phrase “a hell of (a lot).” By is arguably one of the newest slang terms from weather. Propaganda filled schools. Victor Hirose, Lorraine’s husband, Promise,” that rescinded the Executive T by the formation and use of slang. According to “Slang: the people’s poetry” shortening to two syllables, hella is given new the Bay. Japanese American students were not joined the Regiment while the rest of his Order 9066 and apologized to the Japanese by Michael Adams, slang is “a linguistic linguistic power, serving as both an adverb Whether it’s about wordplay, standing taught certain subjects out of fear family relocated to a camp in Wyoming. Americans. The efforts to make amends by practice rooted in social needs and behaviors, (I’m hella tired) and an adjective (They bought out or just tryna communicate, slang can be that they would give information to Many Japanese American men were later presidents continue today. ccess MAGAZINE mostly the complementary needs to fi t in and hella food). Its inception into our collective an entry point into a location’s community for Japan. They were forbidden to learn the drafted into service. If they refused, they to stand out.” social consciousness is unknown, but the locals and transplants alike. Japanese language. went to prison. Access issue 2 April 2016 11 What a tease! How important is the history of your major ?

“I think advertising is How well do you know constantly changing the way we advertise to people and the way that we communicate San Jose? with people so it’s good to know for when things are changing, but it’s not really entirely relevant to today.”

Mia Guevarra Advertising senior

“It’s important for me to know the historical context of my major because in music, we keep growing and building on what’s been done in the past so if we don’t know what happens before us, we don’t know where to go next and how we can change that.” Alexa Jessop Music composition junior Across Down 1. This San Jose park has a 2. What artist sings “Do you life-size Monopoly board game know the way to San Jose? “You need to know the inside of it. 4. This city was the fi rst state symptoms, the treatments 3.This actor from the TV show capital of California from Nov. and the case studies “Lost” was born in San Jose. 13, 1849 to May 1, 1851. that they do so I think 5. San Jose had the fi rst 6. He was the only U.S. that’s really important Japanese American mayor in president born in California. for psychology.” the U.S. What was his name? 7. This campus is home to 7. "Hey, now, you're an all star." the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Band? Library, which is the largest Kristen Stencel 8. This movie starring Robin public library the west of Psychology sophomore Williams was fi lmed on the San Mississippi. Jose State Campus in 1997. Compiled by Raechel Price & Rain Stites 9. What is San Jose’s Photos by Raechel Price nickname? Solutions to puzzles will be published in Find us on Facebook & Instagram facebook.com/AccessMagSJSU Issue 3, May 2016 instagram: accessmagsjsu