SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8 SEE THESE VIDEOS AND MORE ON SPARTANDAILY ON YOUTUBE NO LOVE FOR SJSU IN IOWA FIRST HIP HOP RUN CITYDANCE SAN JOSE SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY Volume 147. Issue 121 www.sjsunews.com/spartandaily Tuesday,Wednesday, September August 24,27, 2016 LIVE ON THE LAWN MEDAL OF ARTS San Jose State alum honored BY SHELLISE WEST in many ways, our national soul. STAFF WRITER They’re central to who are are as President Barack Obama Americans.” said Obama. presented playwright, director Valdez, who attended SJSU and San Jose State University in 1960 began his career after alum Luis Valdez with the 2015 winning a playwright competition National Medal of Arts Thursday for his one-act play The Theft for his contribution to Chicano according to his biography. theatre and arts. Known for his work in Zoot The ceremony included notable Suit, he returned to the theatre journalists, authors, and directors department to put on a production lasted briefl y with an address from with students in the spring of 2015. President Barack Obama before The production that focused on RAYMOND BALTAZAR | SPARTAN DAILY honoring each awardee. Latino racial injustice in Los SEE FULL PHOTO ESSAY ON PAGE 4 “The arts and humanities are See VALDEZ page 3 TIME TO VOTE SWASTIKAS INSIDE Propositions occupy Off enders: Student Union Th eater ‘It was just a joke’ BY JASON DUNHAM Proposition 63 would also affect the large- STAFF WRITER capacity magazine ban from 2000. By extending the ban’s effect to purchases that BY ITZEL CASTRO California gun legislation and the death STAFF WRITER penalty were the focus of discussion at the were made before the original 2000 ban. A pair of San Jose State California Ballot Initiative Forum In the Currently magazines purchased before the University students reportedly SJSU Student Union Theater on Friday which ban are legally allowed to be owned. confessed to placing Nazi provided students with both pros and cons on The proposition would have California swastikas and hateful language in propositions 63, 62 and 66. courts attempt to ensure that prohibited two residence halls. The forum was organized by political individuals do not own fi rearms by requiring The individuals, identifi ed as two science students and the Midpeninsula probation offi cers to report on what these male students, allegedly created Community Media Center. prohibited individuals did with their fi rearms. anti-semitic imagery and language The fi rst segment of the forum was a back- Sixty-three would also move up the start date for amusement. and-forth discussion on proposition 63, “The of a legislation against out of state ammo by a The students that were involved Safety for All Act of 2016.” Proposition 63 year from July 2019 to July 2018. in these incidents will not face looks to add additional restrictions on various Finally the proposition would require the reporting of a gun theft within a brief window criminal charges due to the KAVIN MISTRY | SPARTAN DAILY aspects of owning guns in California. fact that the Nazi swastikas Proposition 63 would require individuals of time 48 hours for retailers and fi ve days for SPORTS and hate speech didn’t target a who want to purchase ammunition to obtain individuals. It would also make all gun thefts specifi c person, but the school is a four-year permit from the Department of a felony regardless of the value of the gun. No margin for error considering disciplinary measures Justice and retailers would be required to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff After a rough beginning to the based on the student code of pay the justice department a fee to check Rosen spoke in favor of prop. 63 at the forum. season, the Spartans will need to play conduct. these permits. “It’s too easy to buy ammunition, every lights out in conference play for a shot “I don’t want to go too much The retailers would also be required to fi ve minutes in this country someone is shot” at the postseason. into motivation ... I think it was obtain a license from the justice department Rosen said. “Think about that, during the P. 7 characterized by both as a joke in to sell ammunition and would receive time I’ve been speaking someone in the some essence,” said University Police penalties for failing to do so. See BALLOT page 3 OPINION Chief Peter Decena. One of the swastikas was discovered Monday in Washburn PropositionProposition 62 “The 62 “TheJustice Justice That That Works Works Act of 2016 Act of 2016” Hall, a fi rst-year residential building, it was put together by Undecided Undecided nametags and it was accompanied 15% 10% Yes by hateful speech that read “Admit Yes Undecided No Yes 35% one Jew.” 60% 42% No 37% 48% The second swastika was found Tuesday written on a white board 30% No in Campus Village C, a mixed 23% residential hall. Voting for third parties According to Decena, both of the PropositionProposition 63 “The63 “The Safety Safety for All Act for of All 2016” Act PropositionProposition 66 “The“The Death Death Penalty Penalty Reform Reform and and incidents were found in the same helps Donald Trump Savings Act of 2016” P. 6 of 2016” Savings Act of 2016” INFOGRAPHIC BY JASON DUNHAM See DORMS page 2 Tuesday, September 27, 2016 DORMS Diversity University shown Continued from page 1 week, but have no to display cultural variety connection. San Jose State University President Mary Papazian BY DIANA SAN JUAN and Stevenson and Aaron well as current professors. After watching the fi lm is concerned by how the STAFF WRITER Griego, the editor of the fi lm, Luis Valdez, playwright premier at CreaTv, Elliott community is reacting to the The Dr. Martin Luther were meeting people as they and theatre director who just wanted to show the fi lm at recent discoveries. King Jr. Library hosted a came through the door. received the 2015 National the library and with event “Any time you have hateful ITZEL CASTRO | SPARTAN DAILY screening of ‘San Jose State: Griego is an aspiring Medal of Arts from the director Candice McGee, symbols it impacts, somebody SJSU President Mary Papazian Diversity University,’ a fi lm SJSU fi lmmaking student White House, was also was able to do so. very personally,” Papazian speaks on the discovery of directed by SJSU alum who transferred from De featured in the fi lm as he “I love the history. He had said, in a press conference swastikas in freshman dorms. Cotton Stevenson yesterday Anza College and was explained how it felt to bring me when he was talking Thursday. with students to open up a at 5:30 p.m. excited to work on the fi lm his play ‘Zoot Suit’ to SJSU. about the old school,” Various students have dialogue on the recent racist Stevenson created this following Stevenson’s plans After the fi lm, there was a McGee said. “It’s nice to voiced their concerned to imagery that was found on fi lm for his masters project and guidelines. 45 minute discussion with know that with all the stuff call attention to the use of the campus. where he showcased how While talking about how Stevenson and Griego, Dean that’s going on we’re not Nazi swastika symbol, which Miguel Saragoza freshman SJSU became such a special it was for him to be a of the University Library as bad as some places are, is internationally known for forensic science major who diverse campus. The fi lm part of the fi lm and be there Tracy Elliott, Chief Diversity we have our own problems, representing racism, white lives in Washburn Hall is composed of interviews to showcase the history of Offi cer Kathleen Wong(Lau) but yet we’re working to supremacy and violence. understands the severity of the with alumni, professors diversity on campus, Griego and fi lm participants. fi x them.” Senior linguistics major swastika. and directors as well as mentioned the hateful The participants of the Stevenson hopes the Gabriel Alexander, who “They don’t realize the racist others all talking about their content discovered last fi lm all expressed their fi lm can be shown to all is part of the student connotation it brings so it’s experience at SJSU and week in the dorms. gratitude towards Stevenson students during class time organization Spartans for something you shouldn’t put what led the campus to be “I was thinking about it for creating the fi lm and and by scholar recruiters Israel condemned the anti- on walls, especially in 2016,” so diverse. a lot actually, after those letting them be a part of it around the nation to show semitic messages that were Saragoza said. “There’s a need to tell a hateful crimes,” Griego as he was easy to work with. how SJSU treats diversity found on campus. On the contrary, some San story about diversity at this said. “That just kind of “I’m happy I was able to and equality. “The Nazi swastika is a Jose State University students school,” Stevenson said. re enforces that kind of be a part of the fi lm when “I was blown away by it,” symbol that shouldn’t be believe that the swastika isn’t “Latinos, Asians, African message that we want to it was being done because Elliott said. “I knew some taken lightly it is not a joke it’s a red flag. Americans, white people, have, that is something it came at a time when the of the history of SJSU but I something that people take “I think it’s a little blown Europeans, Easterners, why that is very important to university was at the end of didn’t know they had these seriously,” Alexander said.