Quarterback Alum Evans Loses Battle with Cancer
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Top left, a gargoyle sits atop a doorway Beach Street, which is located at the Beach Street haunt- Above, Kim Chaput holds six The electrocution booth ed house Santa Cruz. The -year-old Lacey Chaput, who gets across the street from the Santa 1 haunted house has 21 rooms, is open scared by one of the had showed El, grimacing victim nightly, Thursday ghouls at Terror on Beach Street haunted house Cruz Beach Boardwalk. "I've through Sunday, and closes after Halloween. on Friday several times where ki s wanted lurching beck and forth as an night.The house is across the street from the boardwalk. to come out because it' scary." electric chiarge surged through his body. I guillotine, also in the courtyard. When visitors ent ed, their Donaven Staab is in charge of Watsonville, disagreed. type of A voice t om the group of spec- "Do you wanna see him die?" the audio effects the courtyard with various first indication of the at the Haunted "It sucked!" Betancourt said. creepy awaiting the was a tators sho ted to the execution- the executioner asked. House. creatures. Zombies crawl- fright ini., "We need more scary stuff" ing out of imp wh jumped er, "Fry hi !" The visitors were drenched as "We'll scare their graves and bro- gnarly-faced everybody," Staab Betancourt said he thought ken coffins out and startled al st every Continuing on the themes of the victim's decapitated head said. threatened to jump the spurted the event was more startling out at any person person who entered. ------ --------...._vengeance and execution, liquid on those closest to Jose Betancourt, a 19-year-old who might iiiirPrises kept coming at the the action. than scary. walk by. Fear turned to laughs and visiting the Haunted House from There were two graveyards in See Terror, page 6 Quarterback alum Evans 'Genius' opens mind too campus loses battle with cancer By Cindy Arora who outstandingly contribute Mesa-Bains at 2 p.m Saturday Daily senior staff writer to their field. Previous winners in Morris Dailey Auditorium. Evans recalled, he was knocked range from McCrossin Evans or coached him, the football voting-rights attor- Behar made her mark in By Ryan out in their unconscious. He came back into Dr. Ruth Behar is a ney Joaquin G. Avila Daily staff writer player will stand genius. to academia with her bo ,k, "A minds. Intelligence, perseverance the game, after sniffing some At least that's what the author/poet Sandra Cisneros. Translated Woman," (1992). Brent Evans grew up in and brotherhood defined him as a smelling salts, to throw a touch- Catherine T. MacArthur foun- Behar will discuss her book The book is a cultural look into Campbell, on a street bustling football player and as a man. down pass. Later, he was pulled dation has called her. Behar at San Jose State University, the life of Esperenza, a Mestizo of young boys. Like Like his hero, NFL quarter- out of the game, but his father just received the foundation's Oct. 22 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 Spanish and Indian with the play with "genius many boys, he had dreams of back Dan Marino, Evans wasn't said he was impressed grant." p.m. in the Spartan Memorial. woman. athlete. gifted with speed or mobility. His Evans' play calling and leadership The foundation gives grant She will also be a part of a Wrapped up in a feminism becoming a professional money So, he and his friends got out most valuable attribute was his under those circumstances. to creative individuals, panel discussion with Cisneros can and scrawled the intelligence, said Lee Evans, who "He was a tough kid; he took and independent artist Amelia See Behar, page the spray proud father 6 outlines of their dreams on the coached his son in high school. some shots," the Within those bound- "He was a student of the game. said. pavement. taking hits, he aries, they He wanted to be After years of foot- a coach and he delivered two crushing blows of played tag Tech and the ball, whiffle ball "He was a would've been his own on Lousiana an outstanding University of Pacific. and sometimes hero to all of stepped basketball, said coach," said John When Evans finally Snack snickering Ralston, who into the starting role at SJSU in Evans' father, us. The way Spartans were Lee. coached Evans his senior year, the on fought at SJSU. 1-8. Ally Abrew, SJSU's starting The lines he year, had just that block, Evans quarterback that over the last coached for suffered a season-ending knee where Evans two games. lived and played about three injury. In the final four and-a-half weeks at Evans helped rack up two victo- for 18 years, may Ralston said have vanished Gavilan college, ries for the Spartans. years." but this dream he was excited about those oppor- as he moved on composed to become a star was cut short tunities, and he was quarterback at when he found and confident on the field. Jeff Garcia out about the On Nov. 12, 1994, Evans com- Oak Grove high passes for 181 school and San Francisco 49ers cancer, the elder pleted 18 of 31 quarterback Evans said. Gavilan College, See Evans. page 6 where he broke Although it many of 49ers was clear who quarterback Jeff Garcia's records. the starter was, Garcia said The spirit that took life Evans was very skilled and Services for Brenton between those lines lasted much knowlegeable about football. Eldon James Evans (Feb. longer. It was alive the last time "He was very smart," Garcia 12, 1971 to Oct. 14, 19991 will he put on a Spartan jersey and said. "He made good decisions on be held at 7 p.m. today in threw a football, and it was active the field, and he put the ball South Valley Church on 590 through his four and-a-half year where he needed to put it." Shawnee Lane in San Jose. battle with a brain tumor that What defined Evans more than Evans, who played football took his life Oct. 14 in Hollister. his intelligence though, was his at SJSU from 1992 to 1994, He was 28. ability to persevere again simi- was a second generation foot- "He was a hero to all of us. The lar to Marino. Although Marino ball player at SJSU. His way he fought over the last four has been hobbled by knee surg- father, Lee Evans, played foot- and-a-half years," said Garcia, a eries over the course of his 16- ball at SJSU from 1966 to continues to play former teammate of Evans' at year career, he 1967. His brother, Chris, plays --- quarterback for football because he loves the game SJSU and current football at SJSU this year. Gladys Mondala / Spartan Francisco 49ers. and wants to win the Super Bowl. survived by Daily the San Brent Evans is Alec Smith, 3, points and laughs at Linchi Du, 4, who Shortly after Evans graduated Evans suffered many hits his wife, Tami, and his son. makes a funny face during snack time Wednesday in the Child Development Laboratory from SJSU in 1994, he was diag- throughout his football career, but Ryan; parents, Lee and Preschool. The youngsters had just returned from and he kept playing because he loved a class nature walk at the lawn area in front of nosed with the brain tumor Bonnie Evans; brothers, Chrit Dwight Bentel Hall, where they collected various twigs, the long suffering followed. the sport. In a Central Coast and Jeff. berries and leaves. But for some who played with Section semifinal game, Lee FORUM San Jose Slate University School spirit It's flu season need needed to boost the facts you the shots teams' morale before Clarissa 4#sosterws. sun, Wiunue are two sure There is an old cheer There I once led off that things we can count started like this: on every year, the "I've got spirit, so let's flu and taxes they just hear it." won't go away. Our campus has spirit If someone would have but you can't hear it, see it asked me last week to or feel it. Throughout the explain the causes of San Jose State University campus, a lack of spirit influenza, I would have been stalling awkwardly 's emanating its way from the Spartan Complex for time, hoping something intelligent would just Building to the Student Union Amphitheater and blurt right out.