Who says women should be skinny? St. Mary's purgatory Spartan baseball team leaves Gaels' pitching Artist Muriel Irrisou tries to scrub the cutesy-curly look in her art without a prayer in 9-2 romp Page 6 Page 6 SPARTAN DAILY Vol. 96, No. 54 Published _for Son Jose .State University since 1934 Thursday. April 25, 1991 Campus a s outraged b posters ucv st 1 rc sal% By Brooke Shelby Biggs Milnes said there is no evidence that art A small delegation, led by GALA presi- But gay-rights activists on campus aren't Daily staff writer students made or posted the posters, which dent Patti Fahey, met with Milnes Tuesday satisfied. Posters advocating violence against gays are glued firmly to the walls of at least five evening to discuss removal procedures for "I was really upset," Tamez said. "I filed and lesbians are showing up on the walls of restrooms in the building, including two the posters. the complaint as a hate crime, and I was one 'CZ the restrooms in the Art building and anger- women's rooms. "I cannot believe that in two months, no of the victims." ct p/ ing campus gay activists. Milnes said the posters have been appear- one else brought this to (Milnes') attention. Schmidt said, "We at ALPAC want to photo- The posters are 8 inch by II inch ing for about two months, but acknowledged He said he never thought to report it to the make sure this is treated (by the UPD) as a 7 Aturrici copied collages of hand-written and typeset that they were not all anti-gay. police," Fahey said. hate crime and not just vandalism." losksent-41- slogans, Bible passages calling for a penalty Two people claimed to have filed formal "You'd think, as a member of the Human Michele Anderson of the Women's Img4or of death for homosexuals and photographs of complaints with UPD, but UPD spokesman Relations Board, he'd know how to recog- Resource Center said she also spoke to men firing handguns. Richard Staley said he could not find any nize a hate crime." Fahey added. "I think his Milnes but doesn't blame him for not taking One poster reads in pan: "Any man who record of such complaints on the log. actions (reason) make his role on the board action. lies with another man (to have sex). Both Chris Schmidt, president of Alternative questionable." shall be put to death. This also applies to Lifestyles Political Action Coalition, and Since his meeting with Fahey, Milnes said. "There is no procedure on this campus to women." Randy Tamez, a member of the Gay, Lesbian "I've sent a memo to both Affirmative deal with hate crimes," she said. Members of gay and lesbian groups on and Bisexual Alliance and vice president of Action and Facilities, Development and Tamez said he is working with Beverly and dykes campus said they first discovered the posters the Disabled Students Association both say Operations addressing the issue, and saying Miles, assistant director of Affirmative invisible Danger them to the University Tuesday, and reported they filed formal complaints with UPD basically, 'How do we handle this?" Action, to determine if and how that office Don Richey Daily staff photographer Police, the Affirmative Action office and cadets who were dispatched to the site Tues- Milnes said he thinks efficient patrol of the will investigate the situation. Several homophobic posters were Robert Milnes, chairman of the art depart- day. restrooms by the cleaning staff or painting mounted inside a number of restroom ment and a member of the Human Relations "The cadet who took the complaint over the walls on a regular basis would solve "There have been flyers debating pro-con on a stalls in the Art Building. Board. seemed really sincere," Schmidt said. the problem. variety of issues," Milnes said. Professor Undercover A.S. approves lambasts ballot vote for U.S. war $15 fee increase policies By Robert W. Scoble putting an alternative proposal of a By Kevin Weil Daily staff writer $4 increase on the budget. Daily stall writer The SJSU athletic department "By putting on only $15 you are As far as Professor Douglas wants to give 5,000 free tickets to limiting our choices," Lessly Dowd is concerned, the United registered students for every foot- Wikle, a member of Students States is a nation of monsters. It's ball game next semester. Affiliated for Environmental a nation of people whose parts are There's one catch: The student Respect, told the A.S. out of proportion; minds not body must vote on May 7 and 8 to But it quickly was shot down matching the bodies containing increase Instructionally-Related because the A.S. members said them. Activity student fees by $15 for that putting two proposals on the That's the image the 72-year-old each semester. ballot would confuse the issue. economics history professor gave But that's not all. If the fee is They added that a $4 increase of the nation's history Tuesday passed, the basketball team will wouldn't save progarns from the night to about 30 people in a talk give away 1,000 free tickets, the pending budget cuts. that was supposed to be titled referendum says, to students for SJSU's athletic department is "War. Economics and History." each game. bracing for $460,000 worth of cuts Instead, he called the title "fool- All students would also be alone and Men's Basketball coach ish" and only to appease those admitted free to other regular-sea- Stan Morrison told A.S. members who organized the lecture and dis- son events. They would receive free that the proposal would only net cussion, which turned out to be a tickets to campus cultural events the athletics department $340,000. speech about a society ruled by sponsored by programs which "We're all in this thing together," force and fraud in its wartime receive funds from the Instruction- he said about the other programs involvements. ally-Related Activity fees. who were planning for cum. Presidents Wilson. Roosevelt, All this for the price of about "Are there any special interests Truman, Reagan and Bush all had three student tickets to a Spartan here?" Morrison asked the audi- one thing in common in the wars football game. ence. "Absolutely. San Jose State's they were involved, according to The Associated Students voted interests." Dowd. to allow the students to vote for The $15 fee increase would be For each of them, "it has been the fee increase after more than the first since 1976 and would necessary to call upon the good 100 supporters tied up its meeting raise student's total fees, including motives of people to do the rotten, for almost two hours Wednesday the proposed 20 percent increase dirty, immoral things done in war." afternoon. in the State University Fee, for the They've lied and manipulated to Specifically, the $15 of new stu- fall semester to $582. achieve their agendas, he said. dent fees will help art galleries, Tina Krah, women's basketball If Hitler was the enemy, why dance programs, forensics team, head coach, thinks that students did we wait so long to do some- intercollegiate athletics, KSJS 90.7 will vote for the increase if they thing about him, he asked. The FM radio station, marching band, realize that it will benefit the atmo- same question was asked for Sad- music programs, radio-television sphere of the campus, she said. dam Hussein. production. Spartan Daily student "We want to be able to give The audience was made up newspaper and theater programs. back to the campus. I'm obviously mostly of Dowd's colleagues and a Critics pointed out that athletics in favor of it." Krah added. handful of Campus Left members, gets a much larger share, approxi- Instructionally -Related Activi- photographer including the groups adviser, soci- George Ortiz -- Day staff mately 67 percent, and that the rest ties are defined on the referendum ology lecturer Talmadge Wright. t aught without an umbrella are Business who decided a newspaper would protect them of the programs aren't guaranteed as those cultural activities and all of whom generally agreed with majors Melody Mor, left, and Annette Garcia from the unexpected rain lliesday. an even cut of the funds. events which enrich academic pro- The A.S. also considered gams for students. See WAR, back page Overcoming restrictive stereotypes Event focuses on health Women's science association elects new leader By Pamela Schatz The organization has a 35000 of women in science on a national Weaver said she can understand hazards of tobacco use Daily staff writer membership. There were three level," said Weaver. how women feel in the science The Association for Women in By Carolyn Swaggart person is put in as preliminary candidates for president. Of the women scientists that field because with her advanced Daily stall were information in order to determine Science elected SJSU botany pro- "They called (Weaver) and hold government positions in sci- educational background she was People were huffing and puffing lessor Ellen Weaver as president. what the lung size of that person asked her if she would run," said ence, according to Science maga- unable to get a job after she fin- for their health during the free pul- is. AWIS was formed 20 years ago. Cathcryn Didion. at AWIS. zine, only five are held by women, ished school. monary testing Wednesday after- During formation the organization Females generally have smaller "AWIS chose her because of her and 66 are held by men. "In the early '70s research was noon in the Student Union. lungs than males, and taller people asked Weaver to keep track of the background and her experience," "I want the person who is going really well for me, I was As part of Tobacco Awareness membership. Twenty years ago if usually have bigger lungs than SJSU Biology Professor D.C. Hol- responsible for filling the position doing fine professionally, but I Week, a pulmonary function in such an organi- shorter people, Ekberg said. one participated ley said. to fill it with a woman," said didn't have a job," she said. screening machine was brought to zation one was thought of being an When a person takes the test, he According to Didion, the AWIS Weaver. Weaver attended Flora Stone SJSU by the Foothill College Res- or she first takes a deep breath. activist, she said. membership put forth her name for She plans to put together a reg- Mather College of Western piratory Therapy Program. "Now I can feel proud They then "breathe out as hard as to say I nomination, and the national mem- istry of women scientist candi- Reserve University and obtained "Basically, what it tests is your am elected president." said they can, and as fast as they can bership voted for Weaver. dates, so when there is a need for a her bachelors in chemistry. She forced vital capacity, which is all and as long as they can. And then Weaver. Weaver, who will take over as person with particular qualifica- then received her masters at Stan- the air that you are able to breathe in AWIS was we measure that effort," Ekberg Participating president next January for a two tions those names will be available ford University and furthered her out," said Jennifer Ekberg, a stu- important to Weaver because it explained. year term, plans to use the position for hire. education at the University of Cali- dent in the accelerated one-year gave her a chance to meet other The results determine how to help women break through the "I want to make sure women get fornia at Berkeley. program. Ekberg and another stu- much air a person can exhale. A women who she could relate to stereotypes that keep them out of recognized, there arc plenty of Weaver was a consultant to dent, Maria Bustamante, did the who loved science and who poor reading may indicate a chron- and scientific fields. qualified women out there," Capt. Jacques -Yves Cousteau on screening. wanted to be scientism. "I want to increase the visability Weaver said. See WOMAN, back page The age, sex and height of the See TOBACCO, hack page Page 2, Thursday, April 25, 1991 Forum Opinions Spartan Daily
EDITORIAL IRA fee increase justified
spending the majority music, theatre, art, KSJS radio After of the semester station, the marching band, denouncing the proposed forensics and dance. 20 percent state university fee However, our interest lies also increase, the last thing one would with the campus in general. Our expect this paper to do would be campus already suffers from to propose a further increase in being a commuter campus student fees. situated in the heart of a city That's exactly what we are which has no identity. Without proposing. We support the A.S. more funds entertainment and CAMERAS referendum to raise media departments, which are NOT ALLOWDE Instructionally-Related Activities likely seen by the administration 1-UNTIL AFTER. funds from their current level of as more expendable than hardcore ELECTIONS $5 to $20 a semester. academic programs, will fall prey 191 Our problem with the 20 percent to next year's budget guillotine. N. increase was that it circumvented - the legal limit of 10 percent athletic department increases per year, not the Thecannot afford to be raped increase as a whole. Students need any further. If we lose one 3Vre to contribute more to the more sport the entire department - preservation of the CSU system. will be dropped from Division-I IRA funds serve the SJSU competition, which would add to :17 campus exclusively, whereas our underlying inferiority tuition increases get lost in the complex. CSU general fund and show no Part of the referendum outlines physical rewards to SJSU the proposal to offer free tickets students. to events on campus. Admittedly the Spartan Daily These freebees will motivate Forum page policies has a vested interest in the A.S. students to attend campus events The Spartan Daily provides a daily page must be turned into the Letters to San Jose State University, San Jose, referendum. Out of the $15, $10 and inject some spirit into SJSU. Forum page. Contributions to the page the Editor box in the Spartan Daily CA., 95192. Articles and letters must would go directly to the athletic If you want to enjoy attending are encouraged from students, staff, newsroom, WLN 104, during office contain the author's name, phone department and the remaining five SJSU for more than in -class faculty, others who are interested in the hours. Submissions may also be mailed number, address, and major (if a dollars would be spread over activities, vote May 7 or 8 to raise university at large. to Forum Editor, The Spartan Daily, student). programs such as this paper, IRA fees to $20. Any letter or column for the Forum department of mass communications.
REPORTER'S FORUM and sales. I work in a restaurant, for Valley, which means a multitude of with each table, managers to appease and instance, that belongs to a nation-wide computer corporate leaders are out there cat and mouse games to play with guests SUSAN BROWN chain. Learning the company's policies itching to spend their money in area in order to be rewarded with a good tip. and procedures has given me tremedous restaurants. When running into one, a Another similarity is the excitement insight into the promotional standards of a little self promotion never hurts, found in both environments. In the multi-million dollar corporation. especially if you compliment it with good newsroom there's always something Waiting tables the Psychology and sociology majors can service. You just never know who might going on. We're in the news business, so also benefit from a rich environment be interviewing you for their company when news breaks we're right in the tailor-made for observing social dynamics some day. middle of it. perfect college job and psychological theories. Every day text This is true for any field. Look at it this Working for a restaurant is exciting as book cases of power plays, dysfunctional way, it's your job to make contact with well. Every shift I work can be turned into If you're like me, you're probably discover textbooks have miraculously families and behavioral modifiers walk in people you ordinarily wouldn't have the a story because something happened that struggling with the economic burden of appreciated in value. and out the front door. If Freud was still opportunity to meet. Sometimes you have day that set it apart from every other. financing your college career. Well, I think I may have a silver lining to around, he and his id would be waiting to make your own opportunities. Whether someone got fired, the kitchen There is a formula for people like us: If some of those dark economic clouds. An tables. My chosen profession is no exception. flooded or Gumby the waiter tried to beat there is a financial resource out there, we untapped financial resource sits out there up a bus boy, the fun never ends. will find it. ripe for the picking: waiting tables. Granted, what really counts in today's We all have our different sources of Just think about it. The hours are great. Every shift I work can be turned into a story . . . Whether career-oriented world is beefing up your income. Some of us dabble in financial you don't have to work every day and, someone got fired, the kitchen flooded or Gumby the waiter resume before you graduate from college. aid, student loans, scholarships and/or depending where you do choose to work, Job experience of being a waiter/waitress part-time jobs. Some of us may get help the money ranges from OK to fantastic. tried to beat up a bus boy, the fun never ends. is probably not what's going to get you from mom and dad or grandparents. Besides, no job you will ever have that IBM corporate job, but you never And of course there are those select few during your college career can better There are politics involved in any Waiting tables falls nothing short of a know. who have attained independent wealth prepare you for your chosen field. restaurant. The secret is to learn how to journalistic dream. You run into the most It depends on how you look al it. courtesy of the Tom Voo real estate It is an education in itself and can be a work the system. Political science buffs interesting people and learn incredible bits Waitressing is probably not going to lead seminar. microcosm of just about any career. It just can view first hand the workings of an of information just from serving them me directly to a Pulitzer Prize, but I am In reality, however, most of us work. depends how you look at it. active political machine. Strategies dinner. having a hell of a time doing it. Besides, We take on some heavy baggage when we Take management. Working in any learned to counteract (or work with) the The two jobs parallel each other in many the next time the executive editor from the decide to work our way through school. restaurant exposes you to the different machine can be used for future reference ways. The stress level in both areas rise Mercury News is at one of my tables, I We must deal with SJSU's budget crisis, hierarchies of management. You learn when campaigning or working for a and fall accordingly. In the newsroom might just ask him to read this clip. 20 percent fee hikes and the annual what works and what doesn't. politician. there are deadlines to meet, editors to It just depends on how you look at it. textbook conspiracy that phenomenon Exposure to the restaurant industry reaps Computer science people shouldn't feel appease and cat and mouse games to play that occurs every summer when we go experience in areas of big business, they have nothing to gain from waiting with unwilling sources. Whereas in the Susan Brown s.s a Spartan Daily staff away and come back in the fall to advertising, marketing, public relations tables. We live in the heart of Silicon dining room there's a pace to maintain writer. PERSPECTIVE Do you think the names of rape victims should or should not he revealed?
It's kind of complicated. I think that I could only think about it on a I think that should be confidential. if she wants her name published it Mike personal level. If I Jennifer had been a victim it's nobody's business. That's should be, if she doesn't want it of a crime I wouldn't want my name Jenkins personal. But I do think that the published then it shouldn't. It's a I gave I Ramirez published unless permission. suspects' names should be put in the personal offense and because it's so think under no circumstances should newspaper because I want Industrial to personal it shouldn't be given out if anyone have their name published Business know who it is. she doesn't want it to. Technology against their will. Senior Senior 26 Adrienne 22 Markus Aisha Anderson Personally I think it would depend Affolter I think it really depends on how the Crawford more on the age whether the person rape victim feels. If she's willing to really objects to having their name share her experiences and publicize, Occupational Industrial then that's her right. If she is not Behavioral Therapy published. There are some people in some cases who want their name Technology comfortable with it, then I think it Science Sophomore published... just so others know that Senior should not happen. I think that it's Sophomore 21 stuff is happening. 29 her right to privacy. 19 SPARTAN DAILY