A.S. Computer Lab Accused of Fraud
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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2002 WWW.TH ESPARIANDA I I .Y.COM It FIA I II 0 IV Annual concert showcases SJSU Flute Choir A ee and special guests wit - A & E, 3 1UNRAVEL 47 TAN Minal Gandhi 'unravels' yet another unnerving cell-phone experience Electrons VoL. 118 Opinion, 3 Today lop,Vo. 38 You can vote at: V ALSO IN TODAY S ISSUE 1.Student Union Opinion 2 Focus 4 Crossword 5 2. Ninth Street MIN Sparta Guide 2 Classified .. 5 Sports 6 3. Sweeney Hall SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVFRSITY SINCF 1934 A & E 3 4. Clark Library A.S. computer lab accused of fraud By Dray Miller wake of the termination of Janto- ity to handle his assignments in a "I discovered things missing," assistants are often paid on an into his shift that day. nio Loving, a systems administra- timely manner. he said. "Laptops are missing. honor system by marking their "I'm pissed," Loving said. "My DAIL) STAFF WRII I R tor at the lab who had been "A number of duties that were Software is missing. And there is own hours instead of being moni- appeal is for an audit to be done, With student government elec- employed for little more than a being assigned weren't done," illegal copying of software." tored by management. and for (Madrigal) to be terminat- tions starting today, Associated month on a probationary basis. Madrigal said Monday. In addition to the missing An agitated Loving explained ed. I'm not (speaking out) to Students is dealing with another Loving was fired Friday by Loving told a different story, equipment and software pirating, his case to A.S. officers as well as retain a job. I'm just insulted by distraction accusations of Robert Madrigal, the information claiming he discovered violations Loving said documentation of a University Police Department the unprofessionalism and lack of fraud and software theft in the technologies manager of the lab. on the part of lab management transactions and projects from officer Friday, shortly after being ethics." A.S. computer lab. Madrigal said the reason for and was fired after asking too within the lab is seldom, and informed of his termination, The accusations came in the Loving's dismissal was his inabil- many questions. employees mainly student which he said came five hours See COMPUTER, Page 5 Former director BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS dies of cancer By Kami Nguyen DAR Y STAFF WRI ft R Ronald Crosby Barrett, former executive director of the Student Union, died Sunday at his home Freeda Yllana in Roseville because of complica- tions from pancreatic cancer, Freeda Yilana is a Dean's Scholar which he was diagnosed with at San Jose State University. The nearly a year ago. He was 67. junior is a spoken-word poet and Barrett found out about the has written about radsm, patri- disease from doctors after notic- archy and overcoming problems ing blood in his urine. "He was put through she has faced in her lifetime. chemotherapy but decided it no Yllana is also a first-degree bladc longer helped in fighting the can- bet in Tae Kwon Do as well as an t3rd cer, so he was taken off the treat- assistant instructor at West Coast si ment," daughter Rebecca Cisar Fong in San Jose. As part of her he said. "He wanted to try to beat it service-leaming class, Yllana t's ... he put up a good fight. He was tutors first and second gimlets in very gracious up to the end." Iy an after-schcol program at Horace 88 Barrett was born on July 17, 1934 in Waseca, Minn. where he Mann Elementary Scl loot in down- received a master's degree in psy- town San Jose. Yllana will be ti- chology/sociology at Hamline applyng to law school when she in University. He became the Stu. political science to graduates witti a dent Union director at the Uni- degree. n, - versity of New Hampshire. ld, In 1956, he married his first Low HANLEY th wife, Margaret Caldwell Barrett, tic who passed away from cancer in What does feminism mean to you? not be afraid of that opinion. At the same tirne she has the obstacle. I could have taken it and become just really cute 1996. "It means, in my life, that I have never liked to be told I ability t,o speak to other people who don't necessarily have and manipulated my way through life by working other His wife was pregnant with couldn't do something because I was a girl. It means having the same opinion as she does and tries to teach them. A lot female things. Otherwise, I really grew up being pretty cion- v- their third child when Barrett to reject all the things you are told you are supposed to be and of the women I train with at the studio ... are mothers and fident in myself" ra was first diagnosed with lymph invent it for yourself see what being feminine means to you black belts, who are just so amazing in their cwn ways. Like Ts cancer in 1962. and how you interact with other females. It is dynamics my friend Valerie Grover, she got her black belt with me. Do you think women have made sufficient prowess 00 "He was told he only had a between men, dynamicq between women and a commitment She's 40, and she's going to school here, she's a musician, and in achieving equality? couple of weeks to live, but he was to work on those relationships." she has bad knees. But she does Tae Kwon Do. and she "No, the power is not equal. I work in an elementary willing to try to fight it with radi- knows her strengths. Those women Imow who they are and school, so I see that girls are not necessarily treated the ation," Cisar said. "It worked, and VVho are your role models? Why? are very accepting of that and accepting of other people. same, not always equally We still have that culture. In (the family) moved t,o California "One of my role models would be my mom. She has That is very encouraging." the Philippines and in other cultures there is still a soon after." always been really powerful. She has gone through a lot in devaluation of women. We like to be told that everything Barrett came to San Jose State her life. She is very beautiful. I know how to be graceful and Have you ever had to face obstacles because of your is equal. We have this idea of equality, but in reality it University in 1968 to become the charming because of het Other role mcdels in my life are gender? really isn't there. Will I get taken seriously as an attor- Student Union director. Charla Ogaz. She is a women's studies professor here. She "I am Filipino, so I was always searnd to my brother In my ney? Do I have a chance to get into law school being not At the time, the "B Building" is the most radical teacher that I have had. (She) introduces family, it is told that girls are not worth as much as boys. The white and a girl? There is still a lot of work that needs to behind the pool, now known as you to think critically about everything, to own that and to whole culture really values men and boys. I guess that is an be done." the Aquatic Center served as a See BAR It I I . pag, MORE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROFILES PAGE 4 Poet uses experience in work Residents begin lottery for apartments RN Joseph %Nein er ( 11,11 ged at the Esplanade com- places near campus if you consid- By Moses Peraza writer and artist who is pared to the Residence Halls. er what they are furnishing." knovvn for the poem "'The 1) Si \\ loom "I hate this." said Andrew The maximum a student will DARN' SIAFF WRIII Tyget" and Allen Ginsberg, a Students had their first oppor- Solinski, a senior English major. pay in the Residence Halls next About nine students, teach- poet who was credited for tunity Monday to sign up for a "Sure, these apartments are year is $751 per month for a dou- ers, faculty members and San starting the beat generation in potential space, via lottery, in probably nicer than the dorms, ble-room with the maximum 17 Jose residents gathered at San Francisco and wrote University Housing's apartment but they are going to be too meals per week, according to noon Monday in Module A, "Kaddish." complex. expensive for many of us that housing literature. Room 117 at the Library's Le said her poetry reflects The new housing in Japan- stniggled with paying for the Another concern raised by stu- Multicultural Resource Cen- her own experiences and those town, called the Esplanade, is dorms." dents was the lost convenience of ter to hear Samantha Le read that happen to other people being offered to all junior and Housing detailed the new pric- actually living on campus. from her first published boolc, with whom she can relate. senior students who currently ing for the apartments in posters "With this you can't roll out of "Corridors: poetry and prose." "Usually I have to be able to live in the Residence Halls. placed on each Residence Hall bed, get dressed and go," said Le said she started writing relate to the emotion to write The apartments are a floor.