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Twitter: @spartandaily INSIDE Powerlifting team facebook.com/spartandaily muscles its way to P. 5 Sports: MMA fighter Benson Henderson the top See exclusive online content and multimedia at talks about his career and his faith Sports, P. 5 spartandaily.com P. 6 A&E: Student goes to Hollywood for Weather: Clear SPARTAN DAILY Campus MovieFest H: 60 Serving San José State University P. 7 Opinion: The first installment of ‘Just Add L: 39 since 1934 Coffee’ discusses use of drones both at home Volume 140 / Issue 15 Thursday, February 21, 2013 and abroad Printed on recycled paper ACADEMIC SENATE Teacher evaluations to move from paper to Internet After concerns of paperwasting, money The idea was constructed by SJSU’s Profes- After some angry faculty reactions, the New program will be rolled wasting and time-consuming filing, SOTEs sional Standards Policy Committee before be- Academic Senate finally took action in 1978 out by the end of the semester should be solely online by the end of this se- ing approved by the Academic Senate last fall, to conduct structured evaluations to be kept mester, according to Kenneth Peter, Profes- according to Peter. in teachers’ files, according to Norman’s sional Standards Committee member and Before there were official teacher evalu- excerpt. By Amanda Hochmuth professor of political science. ations, the student honor society, Tau Delta “The question was ‘How could we create an @amandahochmuth Based on analysis conducted in 2009 by Phi, conducted its own surveys on campus electronic system that would have a relatively SJSU’s Office of Institutional Research (OIR), beginning in the mid-1960s, according to high response rate?’” Peter said. Student Opinion of Teaching Effective- it is estimated that the school could save an excerpt of the Academic Senate’s history With the current paper evaluations, there ness surveys (SOTEs) will soon make the tran- about $50,000 annually from eliminating written in 1999 by T. M. Norton, professor is a fairly high response rate of about 70 per- sition from a piece of paper handed out in paper SOTEs, according to Sutee Sujitparapi- emeritus of political science. cent, he said. classrooms at the end of each semester to an taya, associate vice president for Institutional The results were published in what was online survey. Research. named the “Tower List.” SEE SOTES ON PAGE 8 CAMPUS IMAGE ACHIEVEMENT Students get Rec’d Forensics team argues its way to many wins By Tessa Terrill @tweetybirdtt The SJSU Forensics team won 14 awards at the Western Region- al Tournament Feb. 17-19 at the University of Nevada, Reno. According to Matt Zweier, a team member and senior communication studies major, six students from the team competed in seven events, in- cluding informative speaking, prose and communication analysis. Forensics is another term for speech and debate, according to Zweier. “We compete in a variety of dif- ferent speeches and debates,” he said. He said the competition was fiercer than he anticipated. According to Zweier, he is in his third year on the team and this is his last semester competing at SJSU. SJSU Students bounce and climb outside of the Event Center on Wednesday afternoon during Rec Day. Kevin Johnson / Spartan Daily SEE DEBATE ON PAGE 4 SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook page brings students together through anonymity By Sydney Reed by creating pages two weeks dents at SJSU, the page is @SyydNee_Daily later. Santa Clara’s page was harmless fun and a good created Jan. 28 and Stanford’s source of entertainment. Students who have ever Jan. 31, according to Face- Danielle Ball, a senior wanted to confess something, book. business major, said she but were afraid of judgement, According to the page, hasn’t spent much time can now turn to the San Jose SJSU Confessions is in no way on SJSU Confessions, but State University Confessions affiliated, endorsed, oper- thinks the page is pretty Facebook page to let it all out. ated, or sponsored by San Jose cool. “I enjoy following the State University. “The page is good for Confessions page,” said sec- Students submit their sto- entertainment,” she said. ond year undeclared major ries or confessions through “Some people post jokes or Kelly Joseph. “It gives the op- a website called Survey things that make us laugh.” portunity for students, who Monkey and it’s completely The person behind #914 are scared to be judged by anonymous. The administra- said they weren’t much of a others, to vent out anony- tor of the page won’t know a fan of Valentines Day. mously.” student’s identity, according “I plan to punch anyone According to its “About” to the page. on campus who has flowers sub-page, the page was cre- Tuesday night the page in their hands today,” stated ated Jan. 15 and has since reached its one thousandth submission #914 reached more than 4,000 confession, “I don’t like La Some fans of the page likes. Vics,” stated submission commented, “LOL” while #1000 and as of Wednesday the Administrator left a note Original posts from the SJSU Confessions page. Photo illustration by Carolyn Seng post have reached well over saying, “Please don’t” under Some people a thousand confessions, ac- the post. relate to and I’m able to sym- other. ness major Jonathan Anon- post jokes or cording to the page. Alexa Ann Paelmo, a third pathize with what people are Joseph said she feels the uevo, the posts are screened Jesus Trejo, a sophomore year advertising major, said going through, even if they’re same, and the “page allows before they are put on the things that kinesiology major, said SJSU she found out about SJSU anonymous,” she said. the students of SJSU to be- page, but it still provides an il- Confessions is hilarious, but Confessions through Twitter According to Paelmo, she come more united.” lustration of the SJSU student make us that some of the comments when a fellow student from really likes that the site forms Paelmo said the Facebook community. can be pretty negative. SJSU posted about it. a sense of community among page reminds her of websites Anonuevo said the posts laugh. “Some of the stuff is pret- Paelmo said reading other those on campus. such as My Life is Average, are ridiculous but some of ty bad, but looking at it from people’s secrets showed her “What I really like about Texts from Last Night and them give him insight to oth- an entertainment point of that she can relate to and the SJSU Confession page is PostSecret. er students’ lives. Danielle Ball view it’s awesome,” he said. sympathize with other peo- that a lot of people show love Each of these sites are “At the end of the day, Senior business major “The only problem I really ple. and support, especially to the ways for individuals to post SJSU Confessions is merely have with it is some of the “A lot of times it’s easy to posts that aren’t so positive,” their thoughts and conversa- for entertainment and just comments on the more con- feel disconnected to other she said. tions without having their another public forum,” he Santa Clara University troversial topics are pretty people on campus but reading According to Paelmo, this identities revealed, according said. and Stanford University negative.” other peoples secrets shows gives her hope that people to their websites. Sydney Reed is a Spartan jumped on the bandwagon According to other stu- me that there are things I can on campus care about each According to senior busi- Daily staff writer. A E Page 2 | Spartan Daily & Thursday, February 21, 2013 COMMENTARY Beyoncé grants fans access to personal life By Angela Medina The documentary’s compi- father, who had a son out of @angela_m514 lation of home videos record- wedlock back in 2010. ed with Knowles’s laptop, live Although the singer al- Beyoncé fans, rejoice! performances and behind-the- ludes to gaining greater con- Queen Bey has delivered the scene footage, coupled with trol over her career as the rea- ultimate up close experience the singer’s uplifting words on son for her decision, Knowles into the singer’s world that is life and purpose, reveal a vul- expressed sorrow over it. sure to excite any fan. nerable side to the singer that “It was a stressful, sad, dif- The songstress made her has not been seen before. ficult time, but I had to let go,” documentary directorial de- But, her agenda is obvious. Knowles said. but on HBO Feb. 16. “Life is Queen Bey’s role as star and The story slowly transi- but a Dream” delves into the director of the documentary tions to her hectic preparation Beyoncé backstage at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, personal life of the superstar gave her creative control to for her performance at the Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. Photo by Allen J. Schaben / MCT Beyonce Knowles as she opens manage how recent events in 2011 Billboard Music Awards. up about performing, her her life can be perceived, es- And by looking at her re- the loss of her first pregnancy, about the topic at times. “We have to step up as decision to fire her long- pecially with the revelation vealing costume, no one would which she considered the “best “It really pisses me off women and take the lead and time manager father, her of her miscarriage and her suspect she was pregnant at all. form of therapy.” that women don’t get the reach as high as humanly pos- heartbreaking miscarriage, decision to fire her manager Knowles’ excitement for Aside from sharing how same opportunities as men sible.