Spartan Daily, February 18, 2015
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CAMPUS VOICES: CAMPUS VIDEO: Hi: 68o StudentsS Spartans and Lo: 46o respondr to one Wildcats clash ofo President in Valentine’s Wednesday, Obama’sO Day matchup February 18, 2015 proposalsp Volume 144 • Issue 11 Serving San Jose State Universityy sisincence 1934 Campus BART extends services to South Bay bookstore DAMIEN PERCY terms of transit service,” said VTA Director passengers from the Fremont to the South- @percybanked of Engineering and Transportation Devel- Bay station. faces online opment Carolyn Gonot. “It closes a gap in Th is project will enhance commuter con- VTA’s BART Silicon Valley extension our system; we have about a 5-6-mile nections to Valley Transportation Authority’s will be coming to Downtown San Jose and gap in actually connecting the system in rivals will help students and faculty of San Jose the Bay Area.” SEE BART ON PAGE 3 State University easily connect to BART’S Currently there are zero BART stations existing 109-mile system including San connecting BY DARBY BROWN-KUHN Francisco and Oakland. @darbk5352 “Th e project purpose is to enhance re- gional connectivity particularly in With the Spring semester un- derway, San Jose State University students must undertake the pro- cess of acquiring textbooks. For some, this is a daunting task because some textbooks are expensive and can cost more than $200, and for college students with limited fi nances it’s a serious problem. Angela Castillo, a lecturer for the sociology and interdisciplin- PHASE I Open in 2017 ary social sciences department, is V sympathetic toward the fi nancial TA B burden of textbooks on students. ART Milpitas Berryessa Sil “Th ey are too expensive for Station Station icon students I think,” Castillo said. Vall ey Ex “I was a student not too long ago, tens so I know all the ways to get them PHASE II ion Open in 2035 cheap like online like http://half. com and Amazon so that’s what I always tell my students to do.” Alum Rock Downtown Diridon Santa Using online retailers to fi nd Station San Jose Station Clara more aff ordable prices has become Station Station BART Train image courtesy of Valley Transportation Authority more important for students due Illustration by Linh Nguyen to the rising costs of textbooks. In an article published in Th e Atlantic, Mark Perry of the Amer- ican Enterprise Institute compiled Students discuss body image perceptions, issues a chart that revealed the cost of BY RANDY VAZQUEZ how body image perception can contribute and depression, according to Johnson. college textbooks has risen 812 @V5randy to self-esteem issues. “It’s really important that we address percent since 1978. “A lot of the time body image is some- this because a lot of the time body image Medical services, by compari- For many San Jose State University stu- thing that contributes to somebodies can be associated with developing problems son, have risen 575 percent during dents body image can be interpreted as self-esteem and self-confi dence, and gen- such as eating disorders,” Johnson said. the same span. the physical appearance of a person, but erally it is not in the positive direction, it’s During the workshop, students dis- A reason for the rapid increase as many students learned yesterday while generally in the negative direction,” John- cussed their perceptions of body image and is the demand from professors attending Faculty Counselor Colleen John- son said. “Whether the body image is caus- where they believed many of those percep- who want up-to-date amenities son’s body image workshop, negative body ing the low self-esteem or the low self-es- tions came from. One of the factors that such as online tutorials and refer- image is a mental battle more so than a teem is causing the body image.” was discussed was the cultural infl uence ence tools. physical battle. Body image is something that aff ects on body image and the diffi culties that are New features are useful but “Th at body image isn’t just physical people on a daily basis. In a study by Brown associated. they also make textbooks more that’s what got to me,” said senior commu- University, 74.4 percent of women said they “It can be really diffi cult especially when expensive as a result. nications major Angelica Cabrera who was think about their weight all the time or of- you take into account their cultural consid- Another reason is because present at Tuesday’s workshop. “It’s what ten. Th e numbers were lower for men with erations and the diff erent ideals in the dif- textbook editions update rapidly. you think of yourself or what you think 46 percent. ferent cultures and the ideals in the dom- Some textbooks release new edi- other people think of you.” Th e risk of having body image issues can inant culture and how do you really walk tions every three years, so Body image was the main topic of dis- lead to more severe issues which can nega- cussion during Tuesday’s workshop and tively aff ect a person’s life such as anxiety SEE SELF ON PAGE 2 SEE BOOKS ON PAGE 2 Soft ball powers its way to early season success, holds second place in division BY JONATHAN WOLD @jonathanwold Spartan Soft ball is off to a hot start this season, sitting at an 8–3 record through two week- ends of play. During their fi rst weekend of Photo courtesy of Ryan Dibiase play, they won four of six in Tem- Psychedelic colors fl ash during Borgore’s light show at pe, Arizona. the Event Center Friday night. But the Spartans weren’t con- tent and are still aiming higher. “Although we were 4–2 (aft er LED presents Borgore the fi rst weekend), we all felt we should have been 6–0,” senior BY RAYMOND IBALE pitcher Allison Lang said. @RaymondIbale Th e Spartans followed up that Jonathan Wold | Spartan Daily weekend with a 4–1 trip in Tus- Pitcher Emily Rogers fi res a pitch during the softball LED San Jose kicked off President’s Day weekend with a bang. con, Arizona, with their only team’s batting practice Wednesday. The Spartans will head Life Every Day, better known as LED, had the entrance line reach loss coming to the host Arizona to Santa Clara for an invitational from Feb. 20 - 22. the Student Union as many were antsy to get inside to experience San Wildcats. Jose State’s fi rst rave of 2015. Last season, the Spartans fi n- team, and with another year un- “We took that very personal,” Borgore, the 41st-ranked disc jockey in the world, took the stage ished 30–24, and 13–11 in Moun- der their belts, the team is opti- Lang said. “We expect nothing Friday in front of fans and delivered a pulse-pounding, heavy bass set. tain West play. mistic this season. but winning our conference, we He was accompanied by Canadian DJ duo, Zeds Dead, Lon- “Last year was more of a re- In the preseason coaches’ expect to go to regionals.” don-based Jack Beats, California-based Ookay, Bay Area native Th e M tooling year,” Head Coach Peter poll however, San Jose State was Machine and Los Angeles-born DJ Valentino Khan. Turner said. picked to fi nish fi ft h in the Moun- SEE BORGORE ON PAGE 4 Th ere was a lot of youth on the tain West out of nine teams. SEE SOFTBALL ON PAGE 8 2 NEWS Wednesday, February 18, 2015 SJ Ambassador of Jazz aims FROM FRONT PAGE to engage young people BOOKS: Online textbook format gains popularity an addition can become obsolete within zation CK-12 has made news by off ering 10 years. free digital course materials. Jesse Nelson, store manager at the cam- A school district that relies on these pus bookstore, explained the books he or- materials is Riverside Unifi ed, which in- ders have to be the ones specifi ed by the corporates them in its curriculum. professors, and he isn’t able to negotiate Th e concept of online lessons hasn’t ful- prices with publishers. ly taken hold, but such organizations are “I don’t have the ability like a grocery starting to gain recognition and are on its store or a department store to go out and way to being serious competitors against negotiate prices on textbooks because the the textbook industry. professor picks the book and the publisher Natalie Lopez, a sophomore biology sets the price and that’s what I got to get,” major, isn’t sold on electronic formats and Nelson said. “I can’t tell that professor ‘I’m sees the advantages of standard books. going to go pick a diff erent math book for “I like the way the book feels. I feel like you from a diff erent publisher’ because I pay attention,” Lopez said. “When I’m on that professor has determined that’s the the computer, I can get off topic so fast, like best one for him to teach his class and going on Youtube, change my Facebook.” Rain Stites | Spartan Daily that’s the one that they need to have.” Local printing presses are also hurt by Eddie Gale, the San Jose Ambassador of Jazz, discusses community Rod Fatoohi, associative professor of the presence of online texts. engagement with attendees following the screening of his documentary computer engineering, has not made it a Tina Muller, the owner of Maple Press, “Four Decades of Eddie Gale, San Jose’s Ambassador of Jazz since 1974.” requirement for his students to have the sells bound lecture notes from various most recent edition for the SJSU professors.