Man Falls from Garage Allegedjumper Sustains Internal Injuries
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1 Spartan Football: Strumming Strings Scores first Win ofseason; Mandolin club from evens out record at 1-1 Tokyo plays at SJSU Page 6 Page 7 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY \\ \\ W.THESPART \ND 11.Y.CON1 VOLUME 123, NUMBER 15 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2004 Dog day afternoon ... Man falls from garage Allegedjumper sustains internal injuries By Yasuyo Nagata see the stairs where the man jumped. There are glass fences on the stairs, Daily Staff Writer and the space between the third and fourth levels Aren't very wide. The A man in his late 20s allegedly stairs are located on the left side of the jumped around 1:30 p.m. Sunday from two elevators. the downtown San Jose Fourth Street The yellow caution tape blocked city garage, located across from the Dr. oft the stairs to the fourth floor. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library. Both Anthony and Antonio said "He jumped from the third floor," they didn't know about the incident said Sgt. Joe Hernandez from the San until police officers came. Jose Police Department. "I just walked around and I saw the Dennis Anthony, an .iperations police." Antonio said. manager for the garage, said he heard "We don't know why he jumped." from the officers that the nian's nose Anthony said. was broken. Aside from SJSU students, the "He's in critical condition at the general public parked their cars to visit San Jose (Medical Center) with mis- to the King Library on Sunday. sive head trauma," Hernandez said. "We can't monitor the garage 100 The man's injuries were mostly in- percent. People are coming in all the ternal, therefore there WAS almost no time," Anthony said. blood stained on the sidewalk facing Some people sitting at the On San Fernando Street. Fourth cafe, located on the first floor Goticrre7 I Daily Staff The sidewalk was still wet after the of the library facing the garage, said man jumped. as it had rained earlier in Lucy, a one-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, tastes peanut-butter-flavored dog ice cream as Kelly Conklin and daughter Jamie watch. they SAW the nian get carried away by the day. See photo story on page 4. ambulance. The man didn't drive to the garage. "He was facedown." said a witness. and he probably got there by walk- Richard Dettiond. ing. Hernandez said. The man had his However. Deniond said he didn't identification with him. see when the nun lumped 'He's not A smdent at San Jose About an hour later. Allrfl,MV and Stare,' Hernandez said. Antonit t,utk away the yellow tape on SJSU alumna, paralyzed in April Anthons- and mother parking ga- the third and fourth floors, and busi- rage eniployee. Rotor Antonio. went to ness continued is liSual. accident, released from hospital By Ling-Mei Wong her spinal column. She has had sever- it's definitely made changes for down on her an.: they're not AI her Stqf Miter al operations to correct her hack and the rest of her life," said Lam Nlison, height. And then there's also people direct more blood to her brain. Jill's hither. who won't look At her because she's in Sitting in bed surrounded by The accident attested her move- "She Was A Very, very active per- a wheelchair." wheelchairs, Jill Mason is consid- ment. Jill has control .iver her face, s. m." he said. "(When she recovers Larry Mason anticipates some re- 4 ered lucky. arms and left hand, but not below her Mini) none traumatic brain injury . sponses, such as," 'Oh, poor girl, what The San Jose State University spinal injury. It". going to be harder tor her." can I do for her?'" graduate nearly died after being hit "I can't walk," Jill said. However, Lary Mason was op- "And (people) look at her different by a drunk driver. Her mother, Joanne MAS.M. saki timistic. saying that Jill still had her and it hurts her. But we've Arcady ex- /1/ that her daughter's right arm is stiff sense of humor. perienced that," he said. e Jill was discharged on Tuesday // from Santa Clara Valley Medical because of the head injury. In reference to her dreaded hospi- "She's soniebods else now," Lam was tal Mod, Jill poked ton at herself. say- Mason Center. Jill% left arm broken, but has said. / The 27-year-old woman gradu- since healed. ing, "I need to gain weight." For instance, Jill's short-term ated last December with a master's an 1,Vith her multiple injuries. Jill's Jill does have her sad moments memory has been affected by her !HASS communications. medical tile is AS thick .is a phone head injury. While she and her boyfriend were book. "This is hard on her, too. She's go- Jill said she Call remember events training for a triathlon on April II. Joanne Mason said, it's been very, ing to have depression," Larry Ma - before her accident and in the last I II/a I iiiivrrci I )ails titatt !Limey David I lerefisrd hit them. very difficult (and) scary. Jill has) s. said. month and A half, but she does not I, Pedro Magana has been developing his reading skills with the Partners Jill's boyfriend, Alan I.iu, was almost died a few times." in a wheelchair tor floN, for member her accident. in Reading program through the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint library killed instantly, while Jill was critical- Jill had several itile, lions that life,' he said. "That might send a Despite her short-term memory for the past two years. He began at a fourth grade reading level and is ly injured and put in a coma. were life -threatening during the last message that she's different, because page 3 now "sounding out more (and) guessing less," he said Jill injured her head and severed five months. site's in a wheelchair and people look see MASON. City literacy program Theater opens doors for first time since 1973 gives gift of reading Public impressed by renovation of Califtrnia Theatre test. but had tin read the Calif, in rita By Ruth C. Wamuyu of Motor for the public. The theater, originally who attended the open house, said he Some people's memories of the Department Vehicles book By Sara Spivey Daiii Slat? If, ate, repeatedly fo, familiarize built in 1927, had been closed to the felt A connection to the theater. theater dated back even further than herself just in Daily Staff Writer public since 1973, according to a re- and I the 1950s. ’,Ise she had to retake the test. "This is where my husband The learners at the City if San Jo - agency memo. "My uncle Mike played in the "I felt embarrassed." she said. development courted," she said. Partners in Reading program at A crowd of people waited Fri- The dark-stained wood -and -glass Lepiane said they dressed up and band for the vaudeville show in Then she was called for jury duty, afternoon at 345 S. First St. in The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint but this time she was lucky she said. day doors were opened exactly on time attended the theater every Saturdav 1927." said C.R. Santoro, a docent at to be among the I ibrats seem to have several things in "I was in the reading downtown San Jose and the people ambled into the the- night from 1947 to 1948 before they Friday's open house. program, so of the renovated , onitnotv embarrassment, lack of self- a literacy specialist wrote letters first to get a glimpse ater lobby. were married. Santoro said he came to the the- to the California Theatre at its official pub- esteem yid trels determination to judge," she said. "So I could be excused Some stopped to point at the red - Many of the people in attendance ater every weekend throughout the lic open house at 4 p.m. Iii lit kuci liow to read and write. because I ant still processing how to and -gold mica reproductions of the remembered dating at the theater. 1940s, and the price of a ticket was The crowd, ranging from young 25 cents. I hrst canie to the program. read and write." original 1920s chandeliers and fix- Lorine Brown, a San Jose resi- to old, filled the California Theatre's "I saw The Mummy' here in I , aiii In read at all." said a 40-year - old Although she is too embarrassed tures on the wall, or the gold leaf ap- dent, said she and her "sweetheart" us, entranceway and spilled out onto 1969," Lee Westfall Said "All the man who asked not to be identi- to talk openly about being illiterate, plied to the columns and I oat iif arms used to frequent the theater's upper cannot she the sidewalk and down South First girls were scared, Count." fied. "I speak English, I cannot hopes that one day she will be designs. Others bent down to exam- balconies with the other sweethearts of Street toward Original Joe's restau- movie write. I s.1111141t tell you how I feel." the voice of those who, like her, are ine the tiles on the floor or the repro- in the 1950s. lie said the price of his rant as opening time grew closer. ticket in 1969 WAS 75 cents. She said she was 17 years old when too embarrassed to admit they cannot duction carpet.