Mass Graves Unearthed by Activist Byjoann Peach Children Were Under the Age of Staff Writer 4

r- 7 ENTERTAINMENT Spartan pep rally amplifies 'Living Legends' kick off spirits for Saturday's football series of hip-hop shows at matchup against Idaho downtown's Cactus Club See page 6 See page 4 I 0000811111.111111111.12111111//d MIX Volume 111, No. 8 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 September 10, 1998 Mass graves unearthed by activist ByjoAnn Peach children were under the age of Staff Writer 4. At another site, he found the bones of a mother and daughter Dan Cearley sees dead bod- buried together. Cearley also ies almost every day. uncovered skulls, with blind- Not just one or two, but folds still wrapped around dozens, all buried together in them, and removed the bullets mass graves more than a still lodged inside. decade ago. "It's just like when a doctor "I work with bones every separates himself from his day," Cearley said. "I just have work in order to deal with the to deal with it." violence and the death." Cearley, a graduate of San Cearley said. Jose State University, works for According to Cearley, a com- the Center for Legal Action on plete militarization of some Human Rights in Guatemala parts of Guatemala began in and has spent the past eight the 1980s. To illustrate this, he months uncovering the bones of showed slides of dead bodies of victims killed during the 1980s. village people and military According to Cearley, in practice scenes. By the mid- order to keep insurgence down, 1980s the violence escalated the Guatemalan military and and hundreds of thousands of its civil patrols killed more Guatemalan inhabitants, most- than 200,000 villagers over the ly Mayan Indians, were killed. He came to SJSU at the course of 23 years. Now he is r,in working on uncovering their request of the anthropology department, along with the bodies and returning their Dan Cearley, a 1995 San Jose State University graduate, stands ir front of a picture he took of an exhumed skeleton in Guatemala. relatives. SJSU's Anthropology and remains to their Cearley has spent eight months exhuming bodies as part of a forensics team investigating civil rights violations during the early 1980s. Because he has to deal with Behavioral Science Club, which the issue of violent deaths sponsored the event. Their goal forensics team attempt to con- "I was impressed on how The civil patrols still threaten has been tampered with or every day, Cearley said he-must is to educate more people on the nect a name with the remains sensitive the team is," said psy- the people after we leave." there is a case of undue longer rationalize his work to separate human rights abuses which they uncover. After uncovering chology major Brenda Through their exhumation of processes, we will be able to his personal thoughts from the happened in Guatemala. the remains, the team invites Gummeson. "I thought it was the bodies and their detailed bring this case to a higher orga- violence. "Most Americans are under- the Mayan community to go interesting that they respected record keeping, the team is also nization," Cvarley said Through reports he puts informed," said Liz Snyder, through their religious cere- them enough to have them trying to develop a genocide Anthropology major Kevin together after interviewing rel- president of the Anthropology monies in order to spiritually bring their cultural rituals on case against the two dictators Whitter wasn't surprised at the ative after relative of those and Behavioral Science Club, cleanse the site and to provide a death to the sites." who ruled during the time slides Cearley presented. killed by the Guatemalan mili- "not only about Guatemala, but proper burial for their relatives. There remains a strong mili- when the massacres took place. "I really expected this," tary, Cearley is able to see only other places in the world. This A psychologist who works with tary presence around the vil- According to Cearley, evidence Whitter said "Genocide is not a facts and not the emotions information needs to be spread. the team also prepares the fam- lage's and reports that he and his new phenomenon. People usu- behind them. This kind of thing has hap- ilies for the emotional surge -We have U.N. (United team has handed over to the ally know about the Holocaust, He also had to detach him- pened all over the world in they would feel while the Nations) presence when we Guatemalan government have but this is a contemporary self when he went into a cave countries like Argentina and remains of their relatives are dig," Cearley said. "But the been repeatedly lost. issue. This is reality This is where 23 men, women and chil- Burma." being uncovered. community is still in danger. "If we prove that evidence. today.- dren were buried. Six of the Cearley and the rest of the A.S. fills three vacant Board seats 8), Katrina Toranski "She turned in her resignation right Restive, sant she worked with the elec- Stall Wntcr away," Cook said. tion board for three. years. She was not The position was filled by Elek. Cook allowed to run for a position on the The Associated Students Board of said Elek served on the board of direc- board of directors beer 111!4e she was c, or- Directors will be seeing three new faces tors last year and worked hard. This dinating the. election, dealing with cam- this semester. Joanne Elek. Anda . ear she appointed as the director paign funds and people who would have Restivo and Rai-mon Barnes assumed stt den: services. to be her opponents. which created a positions on the board Th second position filled was the conflict of interest. After last semester's election, one o, c, r of personnel. Sam Benassi's Restivo's job requires interviewing member resigned, leaving the position sea, was declared vacant because of a students for open peesitions arid refer- of director of student services open. The conflict with football practices on ring them to Cook . The' president makes seats for director of personnel and Wednesday afternoons, which made it the recommendation to the. board director of communications became impossible for him to attend the board "My goal is reaching out to the. stu- vacant after the elected officials did not meetings. dent body," Restive, said she w up to three consecutive board Cook said that they can't afford to Restive) realized man) students she. meetings. have people not attend the meetings. came across do not know about Rosalltula Cami/ Spartan Milt According to A.S. President Heather "If you don't fulfill your responsibili- Associated Students The Associated Students Board of Directors is now complete with the addition of Cook, Natalie Reyes - who served as ties, you should be kicked off," said "A.S. is very important on campus, its newest members, Joanne Elek, director of student services, Rai-mon Barnes, director of student services resigned Meghan Horrigan, A.S. vice president. and we make' ii lot of decisions." she director of communications and Alicia Restivo, director of personnel. because. she did not have enough time Restivo, a theater arts major, took added. to deal with the position. over the director of personnel position. See Board, page 5 Mac moves Monica off the front page University 'welcomes back' alumnus By Lisa Mark F. Arelillano "The media kind of shoved it that's been standing for 37 Staff Writer down our throats, but we would years, and it's a story about a By Julia B. Wright Alumnus De La Torre. the. public sector for the. county not have known about it unless national pastime." King said. State Writer returns to SJSU with more of Monterey and then for the After months of hearing we were real baseball fans," Fuja "You can't beat than 23 years of related experi- Bay Area Rapid Transit that." Gustavo about Monica Lewinsky and said. "The media hyped it up, but King about 40 DP La Torre once ence in human resources. District, De La Torre spent said KLIV used sang President Clinton, Mark maybe it's because the country percent of its air time. broadcast- "The Star-Spangled "Gustavo also was hired eight years in the private sector McGwire's home run was a needs a good thing to hold onto." ing the al sieit 20 Banner" at a San Francisco because of his breadth of work working for Amdahl Corp. and McGwire story, Giants breath of fresh air. Fuja added McGwire's his- minutes. typical game in front of 30,000 experience in the public and Apple Computer before coming King said a people. "It's just baseball but it gives toric home run would bring back sports story than Judging by that, he's a private sectors," said Kassing. would get less man us something new to rally public interest in baseball which two minutes of coverage. who likes to connect with After working for 15 years in See De La Torre, page 5 people, a useful behind," senior Kiet Do said. "It he said was lost during the 1994- The same story went for quality for the was a little bit overdone by the 95 baseball strike. KSBW-TV. vice president of human media but it's good for the coun- "This story certainly diverted "It barely made it to the 6 resources. Another of Leader try. It takes your mind off a lot of attention from the o'clock news because it hap- De La Torre's qualities Clinton." Clinton scandal," said Bill King, pened at around 6:15, but it was insight into how to make The St.

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