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Tinkering in tandem Softball Hawaiian style Four mechanical engineering students take He's not as bad as Batman but Michael The women's softball team split a doubleheader second-place in Human Powered Vehicles Keaton is 'One Good Cop' with the Hawaii Rainbow Wahines Wednesday Page 4 Page 4 Page 5 SPARTAN DAILY Vol. 96, No. 60 Published for San Jose State University since 1934 Friday, May 3, 1991 Voice mail system to be replaced before next fall By Carolyn Swaggart In addition to the vanishing messages Daly staff writer 'It was becoming not uncommon that it would take one to three hours between the time and greetings, it was found that message The SJSU voice mail system will be someone delivery was taking more time. replaced by fall 1991 at no cost to the uni- left you a message and when it was actually delivered to your mailbox.' Karen McCarty, "It was becoming not uncommon that it versity. would take one to three hours between the Intercom, the SJSU director of telecommunications telephone manufacturer time someone left you a message and for SJSU, has agreed to honor its warranty when it was actually delivered to your for the Voice Mail Exchange (VMX) sys- message on their system had been erased problem. They could not find a specific voice-data disk drives to crash, said mailbox," McCarty noted. tem in response to regular breakdowns mysteriously overnight, or messages cause for the breakdown. McCarty. The system would have a service life of and problems in the system for the first would simply disappear. Karen McCarty, SJSU director of Intercom technicians were able to bring 15 years without major breakdowns, two years. For the past year, Intercom technicians telecommunications, said that the problem the system back up again, but the problem according to terms in the original purchase Users began to report that they would have replaced almost every major compo- stems from the software that controls the would reappear in a mauer of weeks. contract. have a message waiting for them, but they nent in the system at least twice. voice mail systems. The problem would "Obviously, this is not an acceptable "We were at the point this past year that would be unable to access their messages. VMX would run the components cause disk damage which would spread level of service for voice mail," coriamtmt- every single month we weie having a They would also find that the greeting through several tests, trying to isolate the throughout the system and cause the ed McCarty. See VOICE, back page Cast a spell on you SJSU satellite campus talks of secession March 10, 1984. Her body was Moss Landing never recovered. 'The other tree was for Ray Can- non, assistant engineer wants financial on the research vessel "Point Sur." He was crushed by one of the ship's independence frames while helping to change a Editor's note: This article is piston on Jan. 20, 1987. part one in a two-part series about The A.S. and their Special Allo- 41; satellite campuses' attempts to cations committee turned the ye. gain more control over their finan- request down, saying the money cial destinies. could be See related better spent By Leigh Ann Clifton editorial, Pagel elsewhere. Special to the Daly And so a Last November, student repre- rebellion, one that had been gestat- sentatives from Moss Landing ing for years, was born 65 miles Marine Laboratories, a consortium south of San Jose. facility with students from six Cal- Recently the talk throughout the ifornia State Universities, came to 15-single room portables that form SJSU to make what they thought Moss Landing's campus concems was a simple, fair request. secession. And though students They asked SJSU's Associated across the parking lot at the Mon- Students Board of Directors for terey County Campus haven't $1,900 to transplant two memorial expressed a desire for a formal trees from the group's former separation, they too feel unfairly Moss Landing lab to its present, confined by the main campus. temporary location in the rural At a time when the A.S. board Salinas valley. Their Moss Land- of directors is considering a $15 ing site had been destroyed in the hike in A.S. fees and Instructional- October 1989 earthquake. ly-Related Activities fees may rise The trees meant a lot to the peo- by another $15, groups at both ple at Moss Landing and they facilities want to see a larger por- didn't want to leave them behind. tion of the $71 student fees they Hillary Schalit Daily staff photographer One of the trees was for graduate pay each semester returned to their student Kimberly Pcppard, who Sophomore art student Christian Simon walks by the art quad's head, who starred in the television show 'Bewitched' as Esmerel- own campuses, instead of SJSU. became tangled in a weighted dive latest art work. The piece by Steven Brown is of Agnes Moore- da, the mother of Elirabeth Montgomery's Like teenagers who've just character Samatha. line 1,000 feet below the surface of Monterey Bay and drowned on See CAMPUS, back page Additional custodian Fraternity members allegedly attacked joins Allen Hall staff stitches. UPI) Spokesman Richard Staley Sigma house, located next to Peanuts restau Three FLIIs injured in said. rant at 279 E. San Fernando St., according to Both suspects arc described as 20-year-old the UPD report. to keep restrooms clean scuffle near campus black men, Staley said. One weighs 200 FIJI members Scott Smith, 20, Sean Calla- By Robert Drueckhammer Raul lbalio, a junior who also lives By Chris Lillie pounds and wears dreadlocks and a goatee han, 20, and John Yarborough, 26, were Special to the Daily in the hall. Daily stall writer while the other reportedly weighs 250 walking past the house on their way to the Residents of Allen Hall should But Schneider said that some of University Police arc still searching for two pounds. he said. FIJI fraternity on Ninth Street when Callahan be happier now that a second cus- those problems will be curbed suspects who allegedly assaulted three mem- They were last seen driving a white mid- approached some people sitting on the steps todian is going to help keep the when the new custodian starts bers of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in front of 1970s Oldsmobile with a dark top, Staley outside, Staley said. restrooms and showers in their res- working on Monday. the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity house last week. added. Callahan thought he knew at least one ot idence hall clean, at least according "The custodian will be full time, The assault led to the three Flits (Phi Whether they are Phi Beta Sigma members the individuals, according to both the UPD to Jim Schneider, facility manager but will not be there on a pernia- Gamma Delta members) being taken to San is unknown, he said. report and FIJI president Robert Large. for the residence halls. nent basis. We will be rotating Jose Emergency Center, where one was treat- The alleged assault and battery occurred at Students complaining about custodians in and out of the hall, ed for a broken nose and another received 2:20 a.m. last Friday in front of the Phi Beta See FIGHT, back page filthy conditions in the showers but just having a second person in and toilet areas were upset that the the hall will help," Schneider said. hall had only one permanent custo- Schneider added, however, that dian working in the area. some problems may have occurred Former SJSU minister dies of a stroke at the age of 99 Schneider, who held a meeting in the hall due to students. Tuesday evening in the formal "Some students (at the meeting) The "most peaceful man in San about anyone," said Rev. D. the San Jose Peace Center, he of troops. He was sent to the front lounge at Allen Hall with more were very upset about the attitudes Jose" died Sunday. Andrew Kille, who was his boss could be found at peace vigils and the day World War I ended. than 50 students, said that a lot of of other students regarding their The Rev. George L. Collins, an during most of the '80s. marches, speaking before the city Collins picked up his pacifist "good ideas were brought forward actions in the restrooms, and I told imposing 6-foot -5 inch campus Collins was a tireless worker for council and county supervisors. beliefs after hearing a sermon by to help solve the hall's problems." them that they have to work those minister and peacemaker known as world peace. For more than 70 visiting jails, counseling students Normon Thomas, a noted pacifist Kevin Rattegon, a freshman liv- things out by themselves ... Our "Shorty" to his many friends and years, "Shorty" advocated peace as well as tending to business on opponent of the war and six-time ing in the hall, said that the condi- custodians can't be everywhere at associates, died of a stroke at the between nations, races, religious the SJSU campus. presidential candidate, according tions of the restrooms were "really once, so the students need to make Pilgrim Haven Baptist Home in communities and individuals, Commissioned as a Second to Kille. bad" EIS of last week and that "they sure that other students aren't cre- Los Altos. He was 99-years-old. according to Kille. Lieutenant with the 144th Machine Together with a rabbi and a don't even do anything about the ating 'messes' in the restrooms.

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