American Beheaded Panel Discusses Associated Press Writer Video As Nick Berg, a 26-Year-Old Philadelphia Zarqawi Also Is Sought in the Assassination of a a Native
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SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY VOLUME 122, NUMBER 66 WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2004 American beheaded Panel discusses Associated Press Writer video as Nick Berg, a 26-year-old Philadelphia Zarqawi also is sought in the assassination of a a native. His body was found near a highway U.S. diplomat in Jordan in 2002. BAGHDAD, Iraq A video posted overpass in Baghdad on Saturday, the same day The Bush administration said of those who experiences Tuesday on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed he was beheaded, a U.S. official said. beheaded Berg would be hunted down and the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq The video bore the title "Abu Musab al- brought to justice. a and said the execution was carried out to avenge Zarqawi shown slaughtering an American." It "Our thoughts and prayers are with his abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. was unclear whether al-Zarqawi an associate family," White House Press Secretary Scott working in Iraq In a grisly gesture, the executioners held up of Osama bin Laden believed behind the wave McClellan said. "It shows the true nature of the the man's head for the camera. of suicide bombings in Iraq was shown in The American identified himself on the the video or simply ordered the execution. Al- see BERG, page 7 Voting begins in fee referendum Nicholas R. right / Daily Staff Dr. Assad Hassoun, right, a native of Babylon and a transplant surgeon at the California Pacific Medical Center, gives his opinions about the situation in Iraq during a panel discussion in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library on Tuesday. By Mansur Mirovalev me he saw 40 children hanged by Daily Staff Writer soldiers of Saddam [Hussein]," said Dr. Williamson M. Evers, a senior War and peace, freedoms and the educational adviser for the Coalition future of Iraq were discussed and Provisional Authority in Iraq, who debated at a panel held at the Dr. worked in Iraq between July and Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library December of 2003. on Tuesday afternoon. The panel "Then I met the head of the consisted of U.S. military officers, United Nations office, who told Americans of Iraqi origin, a journal- me that Saddam was some sort of ist and a U.S; government official a feminist and wanted to make the who have been to Iraq recently. Iraqi population equal," Evers said. "A year ago an Iraqi man told "Yes, Saddam could be character- me he wanted to vote for Bush," ized as a totalitarian feminist who said Dr. Akthem al-htanaseer wanted to implement perverted from the department of civil and versions of Western ideas, that in the environmental engineering at San end caused a lot of trouble," Even lose State University. "He thought he said. could do that since he'd been granted Steven Vincent, a freelance this right." journalist, said his most poignant "At that time I saw that most of memory was ofbloodshed at a Shiites the U.S. presence," religious festival held in March. Carien Veldpape / Daily Staff Iraqis supported al-Manaseer, a native of Basra in "I saw a crowd of four million Above: Anthoy Mitchell, a management information systems senior, votes southern Iraq, said. pilgrims, some of them coming from in the SJSU student referendum on Tuesday. Poll workers J.D. Stager and "One year later I went back to Iran," he said. "Suddenly the crowd Abraham Abu-Hamid explain to Mitchell how to use the computer to vote. Iraq and saw that people lost faith in was attacked by insurgents, and I wounded The referendum asks students to support or reject a packaged fee increase Americans," he said. saw dead bodies, blood and people attacked by this ruthless of $12. Panel members began the discussion by sharing their most fascist terrorist force." memorable and poignant experiences Vincent said he went to Iraq twice Left: Printed voter information guides which explain the proposed in Iraq. Associated Students fee increase were not available at some voting "I met a photographer who told see PANEL. page 8 booths when the referendum kicked off Tuesday morning. In addition, the computerized voting system was not configured correctly. These problems were quickly solved by volunteer election workers. Cadets show off ... Volunteer poll workers solve early morning computer snags By Daniel DeBolt on whether Associated Students the Child Development Center and voters on computer screens inside Daily Staff Writer should raise student fees, campus recreation. the visibly empty, unmarked booths. If the initiative passes and Steve Cohen, a leisure and recre- The problems were corrected at 12 Election officials addressed con- is not vetoed by the university ation graduate student and writer of p.m., according to David Erlicfunan, cerns Tuesday about how information president, students will have to pay the "con" statement used in the voter chief elections officer and a senior was presented to students entering an additional $12 every semester, pamphlet, pointed out problems with voting booths to voice their opinion The increase w,m1,1 be ,pItt between how information was presented to REFEREN Dt INL page R Two of SJSU's first female art professors reminisce about 40 years of teaching then," Carlson said about some of the challenges Cohen said. By Janet Pak female faculty members faced. "When she hired me Culture was noticeably ah,ci a and buildings Daily 14festyles Editor I couldn't be hired in a typical male position, and a were desolate and empty looking. Cohen said. lot of people told her I wouldn't be able to do it." Students have also changed, she said. While Kathleen Cohen and Jacqueline Thurston Carlson said Cohen is a role model for her. students continue to support themselves they also walked into San Jose State University in the 19613s Thurston said the art world was a very male come from many places throughout the world. dominated field. "It gives the school a much richer environment," AS two of the first female faculty members in the art department at the time. "My conservative personal style, for example, she said. "There was a tremendous bias against women not drinking or smoking, often created distance Watching the school and the city change was at the time. I approached being the first woman between myself and my male colleagues. The one thing, but seeing Silicon Valley's growth in the fine arts area by being positive, optimistic formerly male-dominated workforce has shifted amazed her. and radiating creative energy," said Thurston, a and by now half the faculty are women. "It has been very exciting to see it grow and professor in the School of Art and Design. "It's still something of a surprise to see women change, but I can't help missing the trees (orchards) She said there were preferences given to her faculty members at meetings, even though it's been as all the buildings put in their places," Cohen said. male peers because they had families to support and true for some time," Thurston said. "Silicon Valley became the center a the world presumably a woman wasn't in the same position. Cohen said she remembers her first faculty during the '80s and '903s and it was exciting to be Some male faculty felt women would work for meeting with the president of the university, and a part of it." a period of time but would eventually leave to raise he offered two tips to help faculty members be Cohen said she received offers to work at other their families. successful at SJSU let students out on time and institutions but declined because she wanted to stay What made a huge difference for her were learn all the students' names. with her husband, an attorney. younger male colleagues who valued what she did "Things have changed a lot since then," Cohen For eight years, she served as chair of the Stacey Ruesch/ Daily Staff and supported her work. said. "Faculty have to do a lot more now. We have art department. She served another eight as an "I had a community within a community," she to teach the students something." associate dean in the school of humanities and Cadets Ron Guinto, left, and Oman i Downey discuss the said. SJSU WAS essentially a teacher training school arts. During the 1980s, institutions were looking procedures for the Pass and Review parade practice on Tower Peggy Carlson, an administrative analyst in the then. for female administrators. Few women faculty Lawn Thursday afternoon The cadets are members of the Air School of Art and Design, said Cohen, a professor The school of art and design changed from a members were available, she said, and while she Force ROTC Detachment 45, which include cadets from Santa in the school of art and design, hired her about 30 teacher education to training professional artists received many offers, she felt she couldn't ask her Clara University, Stanford and San Jose State University. The years ago against the recommendation of some the and designers, and preparing art historians for husband to potentially move because he had his Pass and Review parade shows off the cadets' skills they male faculty members. advanced work. learned over the semester, according to Cadet Adamis "We laugh about it now hut it was difficult back San Jose was also a different city at the time, see PROFESSORS, page 7 PAGE 2 THE SPARTAN DAILY -4-opiNio* WEDNESDAY MAY 12, 2004 Opposing Should the Secretary of Defense lose his job Views' over the treatment ofiraqi prisoners? Donald Rumsfeld must take the fall for YES NO Donald Rums.fild should not be held the disgusting actions of the military.