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AABSSC Promotes Excellence Wednesday, Volume 151 9.12.2018 No. 10 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY AABSSC promotes excellence By Hugo Vera about welcoming the com- STAFF WRITER munity and making stu- dents aware of the countless San Jose State University services and connections students, alumni and facul- we offer,” founding director ty gathered at the African- Paula L. Powell said. American/Black Student According to the SJSU Success Center (AABSSC) Office of Institutional welcoming ceremony Effectiveness and Analytics, on Tuesday. African-Americans made The event ran from 3 to up 3.2 percent of the SJSU 5 p.m. in the Student Union population during the fall Ballroom. The ceremony 2017 semester. was both a commemoration “There might not be that of the center’s long-awaited big a population of African- opening in February 2018, American students [in San as well as a celebration of Jose] and while this [uni- black and pan-African cul- versity] is not an HBCU ture. (Historically Black College/ Organizations represent- University), you still see ed in the ceremony included our presence,” Powell said. the Black Male Collective, “We’re welcome to all cul- the Black Woman tures and its the universi- Collective, the Nigerian ty has really institutional- Student Association, ized that multiculturalism,” the African American he added. Faculty Staff Association The emphasis on multi- HUGO VERA | SPARTAN DAILY (AAFSA) and the Alpha Phi culturalism was evident by The African-American/Black Student Success Center welcoming ceremony highlighted resources off ered at Alpha fraternity. San Jose State University on Tuesday. African-American students made up 3.2 percent of the SJSU population “This event was mainly OPENING | Page 2 during the fall 2017 semester, according to the SJSU Offi ce of Institutional Eff ectiveness and Analytics. Movie fest competition begins today San Jose State University will participate in Campus Movie Fest’s annual fi lm competition By Huan Xun Chan the Fest’s Cannes Program. STAFF WRITER The organizers of CMF held an info session on Campus Movie Fest (CMF) Monday in the Student is hosting its 17th annual Union Meeting Room 2A to nationwide movie-making explain the rules and crite- competition with around rias for a winning film. 50 colleges participating. “Films will be judged by Starting Sept. 12, San three criterias: content, film Jose State students will quality and technical excel- have one week, ending on lence,” tour advisor and SJSU PHOTO COURTESY OF SJSU SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DANCE Sept. 18, to create and sub- radio-television-film alum- The Spartan Marching Band is under scrutiny for an annual tradition deemed as hazing by the dean mit a five-minute original nus Raghav Ravi explained. of the College of Humanities and the Arts. film. CMF will be lending He mentioned that recording equipment today all filming must be shot on Tommy Smith and John during the one week peri- Carlos lawn from noon to 5 od, music must be devoid p.m. for students who wish of copyright and all Tradition fl ushed to participate. participants of the film The top 16 films from must be SJSU students with SJSU will screen at 6 p.m. the exception of the actors with a red carpet premiere and musicians. inside of Morris Dailey Tour manager of CMF, for potential hazing Auditorium on Sept. 26. Danielle Cook said that From there, four final- she’s seen much change in ists will be awarded a one- the way students are filming By Vicente Vera year Adobe Cloud sub- their videos for the contest. STAFF WRITER scription, and given the opportunity to apply for FILM| Page 2 On Sept. 5, the Office of [The Offi ce of Student Conduct and Ethical Student Conduct and Ethical Development] were explaining to us the Development (SCED) advised the Spartan Marching Band to cease defi nition of hazing before trying to tie it into A&E an annual tradition of playing the whole ‘port-a-potty’ thing. instruments inside of port-a-pot- Haley Sherwood ‘The Conjuring’ ties to celebrate the beginning of Kinesiology senior franchise serves the fall semester. a fl op The band ran out of the YouTube in 2008 and 2009. “Porta-Potty Fight Song,” as Music Department under the The clips showed members of titled in one of the videos, has class title MUSC 156, worth two the band playing the “Spartan been the marching band’s volun- Page 3 credits. Each fall semester, the Fight Song” with two or three tary initiation practice for at least band, Color Guard and Spartan musicians in each stall. the past ten years. Spectrum Dancers play their Fellow musicians outside the Dean of the College of instruments and orchestrate the stalls pounded along to the beat Humanities and the Arts, halftime show during the football on the bathroom doors while one Shannon Miller, sought to retire team’s home games. conductor stood in front of the this tradition. Sports Orchestrating the SJSU fight enclosed band and pretended “Some members of the Spartan song inside portable bathroom to conduct. Marching Band at San José State stalls was a season commence- Audiences comprised of danc- University were participating in Men’s water polo ment tradition that had been ers and the color guard cheered an initiation practice that the team dives into passed on to the fall 2018 class on the portion of the band. university asked them to cease,” new season from previous classes. Once they finished the song and Miller stated in an email received The tradition was made pub- stepped out, they were greeted by the Spartan Daily. lic once videos of band mem- with a round of applause and pats Page 8 bers piling into stalls surfaced on on the back. MARCHING | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 2018 NEWS Design studio CEO discusses data visualization By Huan Xun Chan brought people from on with The Dalai STAFF WRITER different professions on Lama and psychologist campus for the “Tuesday Dr. Paul Ekman. Eric Rodenbeck, the Night Lecture Series.” “Data visualization CEO of Stamen Design, He said the gallery gave invites more questions than held a lecture called “Data students an opportunity it answers,” Rodenbeck said. visualization as a creative to explore their future By learning about data, practice,” at the Art career directions by Rodenbeck discovered new Building on Tuesday. having conversations patterns and meanings in Rodenbeck founded with the people who are the world. When his studio Stamen Design, a data more established in their was working on the Atlas of visualization design respective field. Foreign Born Population, studio, in 2001. According Rodenbeck came he and his team members to Stamen’s website, the to the Bay Area in found something strange. studio works on projects 1994, lured by a deep “In 1900, there was for different clients, curiosity for the budding ten thousands of Chinese including National internet-based industry. people registered in Geographic, Facebook and Rodenbeck has always San Francisco but it was the Dalai Lama. been passionate for working zero in 1910.” The data “If we want to make in data visualization. continued to show that sense of this world, we need “There was a whole new there was no data about the tools and language to set of possibilities around Chinese immigrants for the HUAN XUN CHAN | SPARTAN DAILY be able to deal with it. Data the communications following decades. Eric Rodenbeck shares his passion for data visualization with students for the visualization seems like one community that was just They thought there was “Tuesday Night Lecture Series” in the Art Building on Tuesday. of the best ways to have emerging that grabbed me,” a bug in the data until a this kind of conversation,” Rodenbeck said. historian told them the visualization with students. his students to the Cristina Acereto said she Rodenbeck said. “Eric’s passion for city’s census was conducted “It’s not like the amount lecture. Gee said it was was glad to learn about During the lecture, designs and technology has when there were no of data in the world is going important for students to a new career she didn’t Rodenbeck explained that made him both a local and Chinese people. At the to shrink,” Rodenbeck said. learn from professional know existed. data visualization is the international leader at this time, the Chinese Exclusion “Data visualization examples because most of “I don’t even know mix of graphic design and section.” Wilder said. Act restricted the number is important because it the jobs they’ll have after that much about data statistical analysis used to Rodenbeck shared his of Chinese people from connects data that describes graduation will involve a visualization. I am glad present pictures instead of projects with the audience. coming into the country, our everyday lives in ways heavy use of data. he didn’t talk about one raw data. He showed the digital which caused difficulty in that are understandable “Contributing visual skills project, he talked about a Aaron Wilder, the atlas of foreign-born getting citizenship. and also directionable,” to visualizing the data will be lot of things,” Acereto said. curator of the Natalie & populations in the Bay Area Rodenbeck said he felt Wilder added. valuable to any organization James Thompson Art and the atlas of emotion it was important to share The design program they join,” Gee said. Follow Huan Xun on Twitter Gallery, said the art gallery which he collaborated the information about data lecturer, Earl Gee brought Interior design senior @Huanxun_chan MARCHING tion] as being on the same FILM “The Top 25 CMF films sees the contest as more of level as hazing, but I can of all time stream on Prime an opportunity to practice Continued from page 1 see why the school would Continued from page 1 Video, and with movies his craft.
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