WEATHER SOCIAL MEDIA SPORTS A&E FFollow us on TTwitter Sharks prepare to ‘Nevermind’ the age, @@spartandaily bite into Red Wings Nirvana’s still got it BecomeB a fan oon Facebook High: 70° ffacebook.com/ Low: 49° PAGE 4 PAGE 6 sspartandaily Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 45 New Student Union construction proceeds with work on foundation Nic Aguon integrity of the area being Staff Writer drilled.” “Within a week or two, we will be testing the piles and As construction of the new take data of the soil on the con- Student Union continues, the struction site,” Shum said. “The next step in the process is to data will tell the contractors test the foundation. how sustainable the soil is and “To lessen the amount of if it’s ready to be constructed noise, we have to utilize a dif- upon.” ferent pile-driving system,” said He also said the soil on the Bill Shum, director of planning construction site needs to be design and construction. leveled and that the soil in the He said the construction San Jose area is “full of sedi- team will be using a pile driv- ments composed of clay and ing system on the site called solid materials.” auger cast piles. The construction team According to EXOFOR wants to make sure there is no Foundations, a company that obstruction when the drill is specializes in drilling services, brought in, Shum said. auger cast piles allow “the con- He said the construction Photo: Brian O’Malley / Spartan Daily struction of piles with minimal team is in the process of re- Fatima Acevedo, a sophomore social work major, reads about the life of a human traffi cking victim. environmental disturbance.” locating the San Jose Water “The gravity drive pile sys- Company’s utility lines, which tem is not as noisy but less are an obstruction under the effi cient,” Shum said. “We are construction site. trying to prevent vibrations or “We are in the process of Human traffi cking: any noise that may disrupt the relocating these utility lines campus.” out of the way,” Shum said. He said using an auger cast “We want to make it accessible pile system has its advantages if we need to make necessary — it is a drilled and pumped changes or repairs.” A modern-day slave trade pile, not a driven pile, which He said the test piles will eliminates the hammer-impact take at least a month to com- noise created by driving piles. plete and the foundation sys- Also, the installation of au- tem will take two to three Ryan Fernandez Center fountain along the abused,” said Tim Castag- fice on Drugs and Crime ger cast piles does not create months to complete. Accord- Managing Editor Paseo de San Carlos walk- na, one of the organizers defines human trafficking potentially damaging ground ing to SJSU’s More Campus way, the tunnel was one of the Slavery Tunnel. as “an act of recruiting, vibrations — according to the Life website, the test program Bleeding wrists bound of a weeklong series of Castagna, a senior pub- transporting, transferring, EXOFOR website, auger cast may affect noise, traffi c and in barbed wire, blood- events held to mark Hu- lic relations major, said harboring or receiving a piles can be installed next to dust levels on campus. stained shorts and a rum- man Trafficking Aware- the tunnel was created person through a use of existing structures without Cathy Busalacchi, associate pled dress, a lone teddy ness Week. by members of the SJSU force, coercion or other causing damage to them or vice president of campus life bear on an empty bed — “The bed is to give a vi- Response Coalition, an al- means, for the purpose of nearby equipment. at SJSU, said the cost of the those were images that sual of what things look liance of campus organi- exploiting them.” “The auger system elimi- construction project is roughly awaited visitors within like — to bring out the zations who have come to- Fatima Acevedo, a nates for shaft stabilization $68 million. Moreover, the to- the Slavery Tunnel on reality of what sex traf- gether to raise awareness during construction,” Shum tal cost to build the new Stu- Tuesday. ficking is like for the mil- of human trafficking. said. “It helps maintain the dent Union is $89 million. Set up near the Event lions of women and kids The United Nations Of- see SLAVERY page 3 WORLD NEWS Syria crackdown intensifi es, protests continue armed forces have bolstered hope state media reports that Salafi st or McClatchy Tribune among protesters that President puritanical Islamist groups were be- Bashar Assad’s grip is slipping, but hind the demonstrations. Syrian military offi cers recently told “People are waiting for Friday be- Government forces continued the Los Angeles Times that they cause it’s the only day they can gath- their assault on the key southern city feared for their lives if they resisted er,” he said. of Dara on Tuesday as authorities orders to fi re on demonstrators. Friday Muslim prayers have be- tightened their grip on mobility and A witness who was able to ap- come a weekly fl ashpoint for pro- communication throughout Syria in proach the outskirts of the besieged tests since the alleged arrest and an attempt to smother the protest city reported clear signs of violence, torture of a group of teen vandals movement gripping the country. including scorched cars and defaced in Dara sparked the fi rst antigov- “The situation is very hard, mov- images of the president and his fa- ernment mobilization more than a ing from street to street means anxi- ther and predecessor, Hafez Assad. month ago. ety and ... martyrdom,” a witness The crackdown in Dara appears to Thursday, Assad approved a num- in Dara told the pan-Arab satellite have had a chilling effect on the rest ber of reforms intended to appease channel Al Jazeera. “Tens have fallen of the country, with activists report- protesters, including a decree that and we cannot even remove the bod- ing hundreds arrested and homes supposedly allows citizens to apply ies from the streets.” raided in cities and towns across the for permits to hold peaceful demon- Heavily armored troops backed by country as Internet and phone ser- strations. snipers reportedly opened fi re on ci- vice became increasingly inconsis- But just one day later, on what vilians for a second day after storm- tent. Activists reported three people has become known among activ- ing the city and cutting off electric- were killed in the city of Duma near ists as “great Friday,” security forces ity and phone networks, making Damascus by security forces Tues- opened fi re on protesters in 14 towns reports that at least 25 people had day morning, but this information and cities around the country, killing been killed since Monday impossible could not be verifi ed. more than 100 people. The follow- to verify. An activist in Damascus said the ing days saw more unrest, pushing The video featured above claims restive suburbs were under heavy the death toll to about 400 civilians to be shot on Tuesday in Dara and surveillance, with army checkpoints since the uprising began, according appears to show a small group of set up between neighborhoods and to the Syrian human rights organiza- protesters facing off against an ar- security forces arresting anyone tion Sawasiah. mored vehicle, appealing to the army deemed suspicious. People “are afraid that the same for help and chanting “The army is “Movement is not what it should thing which happened to Dara will Photo: Brian O’Malley / Spartan Daily with us” before coming under fi re. be in the country, and communica- happen to them,” said a university As the rattle of gunfi re quiets, the tions are down,” the activist said. student in the northern port city Part of the next step in the construction of the new Student chanting starts again: “We’re not The activist expressed confi dence, of Baniyas, where several thousand Union involves the installation and testing of foundation piles afraid, the army is with us.” however, that the protest movement people turned out Tuesday to de- using a pile driver. Reports of cracks within the has not been quelled, and dismissed mand more political freedom. 2 NEWS sPARTANDailY Wednesday, April 27, 2011 CAMPUS IMAGES SPARTA GUIDE Sparta Guide is provided to students and faculty, free of charge. the deadline to submit is at noon, three working days prior to desired publication date. Entry forms are available in Spartan Daily, DBH 209. Entries can be emailed to [email protected] titled “sparta guide.” Space restrictions may require editing or exclusion of submissions. Entry is not guaranteed. Entries are printed in order of which they are received. Monday-Thursday, April 26-28 Around SJSU Human Traffi cking Awareness Week, by the SJSU Awareness Coalition Contact: Tim Castagna @ 408-507-0810 Thursday, April 28 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., King Library Rooms 255/257 Financial Literacy Fair & Workshop Friday, April 29 6 p.m., Event Center 49th Annual Honors Convocation Contact: Jessica Larsen @ 408-924-2402 Tuesday, May 3 Noon - 3 p.m., A.S. Rec Lawn A.S. Spartan Squad Baseball Bash Contact: Bradyn Blower @ [email protected] Wednesday, May 4 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m., A.S. Child Development Center A.S. Child Development Center Art Faire & Silent Auction Contact: Analisa Perez @ [email protected] or 408.924.6988 Photo: Brian O’Malley / Spartan Daily Computer science faculty member Chris Tseng talks about the importance of San Jose State’s partnership with IBM at the Smarter Planet Comes to You university tour.