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2005 SPARTAN DAILY Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 VOLUME 124. NUMBER 65 MONDAY. MAY 9, 2(X)5 1NDLX OPINION Examining art ... Spartan Village How Swede It is United States must address gender inequality p. 2 to close Guest Column Journalism professor Bob Rucker discusses responsibility p. 2 Campus Village NF WS to fill demand Light Rail VIA unveils transportation By Traci Newell alternatives p. 3 Daily Staff Writer San Salvador Closed Street near campus to he closed Beginning next fall, the apartments of Spartan Village for a week p. 6 will not be used for campus housing anymore. Crime Blotter Diana Tram the community relations coordinator The Spartan Daily's recap of for University Housing Services. said San Jose State campus crime p. 6 University is not using the land for housing because the Hewlett-Packard newly developed Campus Village. %Ouch opens in fall, ?r Helps fund new art and design will provide sufficient campus housing. computer lab p. 8 "If you add Spartan Village and Esplanade. there are C in 500 living spaces," Iran said. "Campus Village has 1,400 her Commencement living spaces. almost triple the amount." Neal SJSU alumna Lily Wong Campus Village. which began sonstruction in 2003. ney, Fillmore to he keynote speaker is scheduled to open in the fall. The project vonsists of a I the P. 8 building to house freshmen, apartments to house upper- gen- division students and an apartment building for faculty has Ahl members, staff and guests. her Tony Valenzuela, the associate s ice president for Ave Facilities Development and Operations at SJSU. said the university is currently looking at different stakeholders to mly see what the best use of the spas,: vs ill be. h in He said that while they arc still deciding on what to do dn't with the space, the school may use the apartments as an ken overflow parking lot in the case ot large events at Spartan to Stadium. "When there are big events, we will Use it to keep cars off the grass." he said. "It vs ill decompress the use of other Concert Review fields." Maroon 5 p. 4 Valentuela said that some interested departments are Concert Review athletics and Associated Students Team Sleep p. 4 Another option the university is liking into is making Spartan Village an additional field lot athletics or possibly Concert Review making additional student parking. Better Than Ezra p. 5 Valenzuela added there isn't a large pressure to knock Concert Review .1enniferSeigal / Daily Staff down Spartan Village right away. hut he expects it to occur Cake p. 5 sometime in September. Ile said a final des ision on what to that is being sold by the Artists Jennifer Woo, a senior majoring in spatial arts, looks at some artwork do vs ith the land will he reached at the end of the summer which is Guild in front of the Student union on Tuesday. Woo considers two pieces of art to buy, one of or early in the Fall semester SPOIIIS made by her friend. He said the Facilities Development and Operations department is busy finishing up construction on Campus Village. Iran said the university is using Spartan Village to pro- vide free housing over the summer for current apartment students who will be mos ing into Campus Village in the fall. They are receiving this break because Campus Village will not be ready until the fall and they have to mme out Teachers publish writing at the end of the Spring semester, causing them to have to move twice. "We are trying to help them with [nosing expenses," Iran said. Chess Championship authors. The displayed books were Rudy Rucker. a professor of computer By Joe Shreve Iran said that once the summer tenants are moved into Chemistry Club hosts first available for purchase and the authors science, was there to showcase his sci- Daily Staff Writer Campus Village the Spartan Village land vs ill no longer be annual tournament p. 7 were on hand to answer questions. As ence-fiction hook. 'trek and the Elixir" used for Campus housing. wine re- Rucker. a two-time winner of the Phillip further enticement. and other "The demands for apartment lis ing vs ill he met through served. K. Dick Award, gave a brief synopsis of San Jose State University fac- freshments were Campus Village." she said. his hook. Set in the year 3003, the earth Sparta Guide p.2 ulty members gathered in the Spartan "This is an annual event in which we has become completely controlled by Wednesday to mingle try to recognite all the faculty authors Bookstore on biological technology with nature com- Crossword p.7 about the books that their col- who have written a book in the last year and talk pletely conquered and reduced to a few in 2004. or so, from 2004 to the most recent we leagues had published dozen species by a huge mega corpora- Classifieds p. 7 About 30 people attended the event, know about," said Tony Sanjume, asso- Professor's humor which lasted two hours and featured ciate director of the Spartan Bookstore, WWW.THESPARTASIDAII.I.COM who organited the event. see BOOKS, page 3 the works of more than 20 faculty remembered Bay Area fails annual air test By Ashley Johnson Daily Stuff Writer By Shannon Barry The report states that particle pollu- Peter C Unsinger. tsp, protessot of justice studies. father surrounded by his family. Daily Staff Writer tion is a much deadlier form of air pollu- and grandfather died Tuesday tion that comes from wood burning and Mr. Unsinger lived what he taught. and taught what exhaust fumes from diesel trucks and he loved. He came to San Jose State Unisersity in 1971 buses, along ssith dust. and taught courses on organized crime. tertortsm, intelli- Bay Area is ranked in the top 23 The Since 2000. the American Lung gence. white collar crime and police management. particle -polluted areas in the of the most Assos iation has published this annual re - "He was an instructor students remembered." said Inger and more than United States 132 million is/ at. vs Inch anal ,es and grades pollution Sagatun-Eclwards. chair of the aistice studies department. percent of the U S Americans. or 32 les els I >espite the widespread impact of Mr. Unsinger was a larger-than -life figure who would population, live in counties that received air pollution. the Bush administration has till up a room with his iokes and his persona. she said. an "F" for either ozone or particle ivol- proposed legislation to weaken and delay His specialty was piracy on the high seas, especially in lution, according to the American Lung the enforcement of the Clean Air Act. the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Sagatun-Edwards Association State of the Air's 2005 re- "Air pollution can cause heart attacks, said. port. which was released April 224. trigger asthma and has also been linked Mr. Unsmger was also an expert in terrorism, police Particle pollution is measured in two to lung cancer." said Das id Lowe, a pub- management. intelligence and organited crime, and Was different ways. Short-term particle pollu- liv agent at the American Lung highly sought after by police agencies. in 11411111 r tion measures 24-hour spikes toxic air Association of Santa Clara-Sun Benito He was a consultant for the Australian Federal Police pollution, opposed to chronic. pervasive counties. "As one of the top 23 most par- and law enforcement agencies in Singapore. Thailand. the Graph/e hij fain/hob V(ingert / Daily Stqff pollution, which is measured by averag- ticle -polluted areas in the United States. Philippines and Tam vs an Average amount of hydrocarbons In the air of San Jose by month ing the 24-hour measurements over an Source: Say Area Air Quality Management District entire year. see AIR, pep 3 see UNSINGER, page 3 PAGE 2 SPARTAN DAILY OPINION MONDAY MAY 9. 2005 HOW SWEDE IT IS Female representation needed in the U.S. In one single election, the people of Iraq elected With only 15 percent of women in both the House perialistic expansion, in general, men tend to support That's only 1.3 percent of the proposed U.S. military twice the number of women for its National Assembly of Representatives and the Senate. the United States military spending more than women. Women, on the budget for 2005 ($420.7 billion). than there are women currently serving in the U.S. lags far behind other developed nations in terms of other hand, tend to focus on issues such as education. Unfortunately, under Bush's leadership. religious Congress. And, after filling 89 of the 275 seats in the female-to-male political representation. poverty, racial equality, abortion rights, environmen- conservatives have stifled progressive voices in Iraq National Assembly, Iraqi women want more rep- Inequality doesn't only exist in the tal protection and quality child-care. Congress as well as in local governments. The world resentation and power. public sphere. but in the private as well. This is not to say that women are always needs more women leaders in U.S. government today As Leila Abdul LW, the new minister of labour American women who work full time better candidates for public office, but as White House aspirations for an American empire and social affairs, put it in an interview with Agency earn on average 80 percent less than rather that they have different priorities. seem to have spun out of control and crippled the U.S.