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Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Volume 145 • Issue 21 Tuesday, October 13, 2015 CAMPUS OPINION A&E MINUTE Kavin Mistry Music festival Preview this calls for dimming takes over week’s stories Levi’s giant downtown YouTube.com/SpartanDailyYT night light p.5 Santa Cruz p.3 GETTING HANDS DIRTY PEACE BE WITH YOU Nursing program unveils Peace Pole By Vasuki Rao & Rain Stites @VasukiRao94 @writeas_rain Th e Valley Foundation School of Nursing and the Associated Students unveiled a representation of peace and diversity at San Jose State University yesterday aft ernoon by planting the second Peace Pole at the Bell Rose Garden. “May peace prevail on Earth” is inscribed with 12 diff erent languages on all sides of the commemora- tive monument. SJSU’s other Peace Pole is located at the International House on 11th Street. Randy Vazquez | Spartan Daily Senior nursing student Navpreet Kaur pushed for the approval of the project. During her semester at San Jose State University alumna Allison Hom mixes clay for other students yesterday night in the Industrial Studies building. LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE SeriousFun for a serious cause Campus organization supports children in need By Andrew Cypert He started the club on campus af- new world of possibilities, according to @audaciousgreen ter volunteering with the SeriousFun the organization’s mission statement. Children’s Network at “Th e Painted Th ere are 30 SeriousFun camps Children with serious illnesses can Turtle” summer camp in Lake Hughes, worldwide, including 11 in North have a happy life or a rough life. A California in 2013. America. Children are able to spend a club on campus is doing all they can to “It was a life-changing experience. week at the camps thanks to donations make the former as realistic as possible. I could see how simple things could made to the nonprofi t organization. Students get together every Th ursday change people’s lives,” Vu said. “You Vu said SJSU’s club will try to send at 6 p.m. in Dudley Moorhead Hall to really give these kids memories that all of its members to various Serious- help youth camps by supporting them they’ll hold onto for a lifetime.” Fun camps to volunteer. with money and volunteering. Late actor Paul Newman founded He said he is interested in sending Th e San Jose State University Serious- the SeriousFun Children’s Network his members to a camp in Barret- Fun Club was founded last semester by in 1988. Th e fi rst camp was in locat- stown, Ireland in the future. Th e camp Vasuki Rao | Spartan Daily psychology junior Tue Vu, who is the ed Ashford, Connecticut and named is located in a medieval-themed castle. club’s president. It is an extension of the “Th e Hole in the Wall Gang Camp” as “It looks really good on your resume Nursing senior Navpreet Kaur stands SeriousFun Children’s Network. a tribute to Newman’s movie “Butch if you’re looking to work with chil- beside the Peace Pole, a monument that “With this club we plan on raising Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” dren, be in nursing or OT (occupa- symbolizes peace and diversity and says money as well as raising awareness be- Newman started the camps to help tional therapy) because there are a lot “May Peace Prevail On Earth” in twelve cause I’m sure not a lot of people have children with serious illnesses and their of nursing opportunities,” Vu said. different languages. heard of this organization,” Vu said. families discover joy, confi dence and a see CHILDREN on page 2 see MONUMENT on page 2 HEALTHY AND WISE MOTIVATION FOR EDUCATION Wellness Center CommUniverCity seeks to hosts 8th annual inspire college aspirations By Jordan Alexis San Jose High School students Th e International Baccalaure- @jaa951 also heard from former Vice ate Program doubles as a college- Spartapalooza Mayor Madison Nguyen, who prep curriculum which empha- In an attempt to encourage high graduated from UC Santa Cruz sizes intercultural understanding By Hailee Miguel 50 in previous years with 1,200 school students to pursue higher and got her master’s at the Uni- and enrichment. @Hailee_Miguel to 1,400 attendees. education, CommUniverCity of versity of Chicago. Nearly 300 According to the school’s Inter- “We wanted it to be not only San Jose teamed up with multiple kids fi lled the multipurpose room national Baccalaureate Program Last Th ursday marked San informative, but transforma- elementary, junior high and high at the high school to hear Nguyen college of attendance page, San Jose State University’s eighth tive,” Morgan said. schools in Santa Clara County talk about her experiences during Jose High has sent its graduating annual Spartapalooza in the Each booth had its own theme, last week for its fi ft h annual Col- college and how it aff ected her. seniors to 38 diff erent colleges Student Union Ballroom. including sexual myths, health lege Day. “College opened my mind to across the United States. Th e festival housed nearly 50 tips on stress, body image, food Th e event provides guest speak- so many diff erent opportunities” San Jose State was among one interactive booths that focused choices, alcohol safety and how ers that take time to come visit Nguyen said. “All these great op- of the colleges that students have on bringing health and wellness check your blood pressure. schools in hopes to encourage portunities came just from sim- been choosing to attend. awareness to attendees. “We have a variety of diff erent kids not only to apply for college, ply being on a college campus.” SJSU also collaborated with the Spartapalooza is usually held topics,” said lead peer-health but to fi nish as well. As of 2014, the San Jose Uni- CommUniverCity earlier this year in March, but due to a move in educator for body image Me- “Whether it is events, speakers, fi ed School District graduated to provide free tickets to families buildings this summer, the fes- lissa Mabe. “Each table has a any exposure (kids) get to college 2,016 seniors and 46 percent of for the Spartans opening football tival had to be postponed to this specialty to help students make is a benefi t for them,” said Her- them were eligible for a UC/CSU game versus New Hampshire. October. healthier choices for a better bert Espiritu the assistant princi- academic career according to the Several SJSU alumni, current Associate Director for Campus lifestyle.” pal of guidance at San Jose High district’s website. students and faculty serve as Wellness Laurie Morgan said this Morgan said the goal of Spar- School. San Jose High School off ers CommUniverCity staff members. year’s festival was a bit smaller tapalooza is to be interactive for Th e guest speakers students multiple academic programs to SJSU graduate Elizabeth and the amount of booth spaces students. heard from included San Jose help prepare kids for college in- Figueroa is the education pro- had to be cut back to make the Prizes off ered at each booth Mayor Sam Liccardo who spoke cluding the International Bacca- grams manager and one of the or- event more manageable. drew crowds of attendees. at Sylvandale Middle School and laureate Diploma Program. Th e ganizers of the College Day event. Th is year’s event hosted Booth participants created City Council candidate Raul program’s name is displayed right “Personally, I feel College Day is around 40 booths, but Morgan HEALTH 2 Peralez who spoke at Burnett underneath the school’s name on INSPIRE 2 said there have been more than see on page Middle School. the front wall of the campus. see on page 2NEWS Tuesday, October 13, 2015 MONUMENT Last year, aft er Kaur emailed them again, she received a reply from Aditya Mairal, from page 1 former Director of Intercultural Aff airs at A.S. and mechanical engineering senior. San Jose City College, Kaur saw a Peace Mairal said he liked the idea and helped Pole and said she thought it would add to Kaur get the ball rolling on its execution SJSU’s diverse community. by inviting her to a board meeting. “Here was a monument in front of me “I gave her that push and told her that that had languages that were so diff erent ‘yes, you can do this’,” Mairal said. from one another,” Kaur said in her speech In her speech before the unveiling cer- at the unveiling ceremony. “Each language emony, Amante said the placement of had its own unique pattern yet each and this monument comes at a perfect time every one of them meant the same thing.” because October is recognized as Legacy Kaur chose the 12 languages based off Month, a celebration of SJSU’s history. the top languages spoken in Santa Clara “As we celebrate Legacy Week and County as recorded in a U.S. Census. Month, this pole will serve as a legacy left “Th ey all looked diff erent but they meant by Associated Students, Th e Valley Foun- the same thing,” Kaur said. dation School of Nursing and most of all, Th e Peace Pole Project was founded in Navpreet Kaur,” Amante said. Japan by Masahisa Goi in 1955. Amante said getting the approval from Th e World Peace Prayer Society, a non- campus planning, placing the order for profi t organization that started the proj- | Spartan Daily the pole and coordinating the unveiling Andrew Cypert ect, created a universal prayer of peace ceremony was a lengthy project, but she Freshmen Veena Velury (left) and Sandy Chou (right) decorate a banner aiming to unite people worldwide.

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