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BOBA BLOOM EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW AND MORE ABOUT BOBA. IN STANDS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Wednesday, Volume 153 Oct. 16, 2019 No. 23 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY Spartans rev up for homecoming CHRISTIAN TRUJANO | SPARTAN DAILY Left: Business sophomore Yesenia Guzman (left) and justice studies sophomore Alma De La Cruz (right) work on the Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center golf cart. This is the third annual homecoming golf cart parade and will feature 20 diff erent organizations. Right: Tamela Sullivan, coordinator for training and events, and her team decorate the University Personnel golf cart for the third annual homecoming golf cart parade. The parade will begin today at 12:30-1 p.m. on the Associated Students Recreation Lawn and drive through campus, ending at the Seventh Street Plaza. The parade will be followed by an after party with live music and food outside the Student Union. State considers faculty housing SJSU talks with CA to reappropriate land for retail and employee housing By John Bricker STAFF WRITER The Alfred E. Alquist building Bureaucracies are could soon become housing for complex and it is going San Jose State faculty and staff and retail space, if California gives the to take some time for all OLIVIA WRAY | SPARTAN DAILY site to San Jose State to develop. of that to unwind. Sustainability program manager Katie Excoffi er and Raymond Luu, SJSU associate director Charlie Faas, vice president of of commercial services, discuss ways to practice sustainability in business and education. administration and finance, said Sam Liccardo he met with State Sen. Jim Beall San Jose mayor and state assemblymember Ash Alumni talk about job paths Kalra and worked together to identify the Alquist site as likely Developing the Alquist building surplus space. Currently, the state would complement Governor of California owns the land. Gavin Newsom’s recent review of through green sustainability Faas said the new campus state assets, Faas said. building plans include five floors Newsom signed an executive By Olivia Wray of classrooms and retail space, with order in January to develop STAFF WRITER one to three towers of employee affordable housing on excess state housing on top, depending on the lands, according to the California Students eagerly listened I work with contracts at SJSU, like Spartan available space. state government’s website. to the advice of five Shops and whether its revenue, supplies – SJSU surveyed faculty and staff On April 11, California’s environmental sustainability roughly eight or nine months ago, Department of General professionals at the San Jose anything – I want to educate myself on ways Faas said, asking what kind of Services released a report State Green Career Panel. to incorporate sustainability. housing would interest them if the identifying vacant parcels Hosted by the SJSU Office university built a new structure. owned by the state, including a of Sustainability and the Raymond Luu The city of San Jose supports county-by-county map. Career Center on Tuesday, Commercial services SJSU’s effort to provide affordable Although SJSU plans to build associate director the panel featured speakers housing for its staff and faculty, more student housing on campus, from the Bay Area who shared but is not in a position to help Faas said housing on the Alquist their experiences of how they said she chose the speakers with and sustainability program the school gain access to the site will be used for faculty and started their careers. intent to inspire and encourage managers Eric Ahnmark and Alquist site. staff only. Eric Ahnmark, a sustainability students from environmental, Katie Excoffier. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo It would be difficult to recruit program manager at Recology, sustainability and science Ahnmark and the other said he enthusiastically supports new faculty and staff without an said, “I strongly believe that, really, majors to participate. speakers emphasized there is SJSU’s potential development of affordable housing option for every single company needs to The panel featured always a need for sustainability the Alquist building, although newcomers to the Bay Area, Faas have some sort of sustainability transportation specialist job positions, especially he has not been involved in the said. focus or sustainability role and Nick Danty, environmental in the face of accelerated process because the state controls “If we do not have faculty and to a degree it’s out there for the compliance and zero waste climate change. the land. staff, we can’t teach students,” he taking.” specialist Johanne Yee, Raymond Luu, SJSU “Bureaucracies are complex and said. Campus sustainability environmental justice it is going to take some time for all coordinator Kristen Wonder program manager Delfi Reyes CAREERS | Page 2 of that to unwind,” Liccardo said. HOUSING | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 2019 NEWS CAREERS Sustainability wasn’t the first career pathway for Excoffier. After twenty Continued from page 1 years in software engineering, Excoffier became interested in sustainability when associate director of commercial services, Al Gore released the 2006 documentary said he attended the panel in the hope “An Inconvenient Truth” about global of learning more about sustainability warming. opportunities and practices that could Without any sustainability experience benefit him in his own career. on her resume, Excoffier found it difficult “I work with contracts at SJSU, to get a job in the field. She found an like Spartan Shops and whether its internship at Genentech and after two revenue, supplies – anything - I want to years, started working full-time. educate myself on ways to incorporate “This is my second career – sustainability,” Luu said. sustainability. The word didn’t even exist, The panel also encouraged students who I don’t think, when I was [in college],” attended to help spread awareness of the Excoffier said. growing need for careers in sustainability. Even though Excoffier didn’t start out OLIVIA WRAY | SPARTAN DAILY Career counselor panel co-host Kristen in the sustainability field immediately Students were excited to ask environmental sustainability professionals for internship Keller said for undergraduate students, after graduating, she advised students not and career path advice at the SJSU Green Career Panel Tuesday in the MLK Library. “This is a crucial time to start thinking to worry about their futures. about their careers and we want to provide “Just stay flexible and continue to be Danty had an internship at the Sonoma you’d like to talk to – that did help me the resources.” curious and learn about more and more County Transportation Authority, where and I wish I’d done it more,” Danty said, Keller and Wonder wanted students to things,” Excoffier said. “Don’t assume that his supervisors recognized his hard work “And don’t be afraid to explore things that, hear from professionals who had unique there is a straight career path.” and persuaded him to apply to graduate maybe, you didn’t learn in school.” career journeys because they believe it is Transportation specialist Nick Danty school. Following the advice and stories of each easy to get discouraged about what comes said that students should never get Studying at SJSU for his master’s degree speaker, the students had the opportunity after graduation. discouraged if they don’t find their dream in transportation and land-use, Danty to talk with them individually and start For some of the speakers, such as job right away. discovered more internship opportunities building connections for their own career Excoffier, the path toward a long-lasting He encouraged students to go in many and made connections who helped him pathways. career took many turns. different directions within education, get the career he has now. After college, Excoffier started her life always learn more and to even take “Network with your fellow students, as a biologist and then discovered more unpaid internships because he said it was faculty members – maybe even reach out Follow Olivia on Twitter opportunities, like software engineering. a valuable part of his journey. to people in the field, personally, that @bmo_liv HOUSING Continued from page 1 I mean, faculty Although students needs a place to have said they want more housing for them as live too. well, several supported Mandish Sandhu using the Alquist communication junior site for building faculty and staff housing. Communication junior Jose Moreno said he “It is just really hard to hopes new housing can find a good cheap place,” help faculty commute he said. shorter distances. Mayor Liccardo said his “For one of my office is looking for ways professors, it is like to effectively use city funds an hour to get here,” JOHN BRICKER | SPARTAN DAILY to help SJSU students find Moreno said. The Alfred E. Alquist Building, which California could give to SJSU to use as faculty and staff housing in the near future, housing. Communication junior stands on Paseo de San Antonio, between South Second Street and South Third Street, just a block away from campus. Faas said the university Mandish Sandhu said the will build new Campus land’s proposed use is not food that won’t break on people walking and Along with supporting SJSU is planning on Villages soon but that it concerning to him. your bank.” biking and that requires the idea of a new grocery adding 800–1,500 beds has set no timeframe for “I mean, faculty needs a Mayor Liccardo said an enormous amount of store, Faas said he would on campus by building those plans. place to live too,” he said. downtown San Jose needs density,” Liccardo said. like to see some of the space Campus Village 3 and 4 “This is not 5–10 years Along with supporting more options other than In 2016, the American used for movie theaters according to Faas.