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Twitter: @spartandaily INSIDE facebook.com/spartandaily P. 4 Sports: See exclusive online content Sharks advance to and multimedia at conference semifinals spartandaily.com P. 5 A&E: Summer movie guide P. 12 Opinion: Weather: Partly Cloudy SPARTAN DAILY Parting words from graduating seniors ‘The Great Gatsby’ H: 73 Serving San José State University since 1934 movie will do L: 54 Volume 140 / Issue 52 The next issue of the Spartan Daily will book justice A&E, P. 8, 9 Thursday, May 9, 2013 appear on Wednesday, August 21. Printed on recycled paper COMMUNITY Human trafficking is a problem in the Bay Area By Angela Medina Health and Human Services, said men, women The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement de- without necessarily the intent of trafficking @angela_m514 and children are affected by human trafficking fines human trafficking as “the recruitment, them, according U.S. Immigration and Customs and considers it a hidden crime. harboring, transportation, provision or obtain- Enforcement. Human trafficking is a $32 billion global in- California’s Attorney General’s 2012 report ing of a person for: sex trafficking in which a According to political organization Califor- dustry that remains prevalent in California and on the state of human trafficking estimates a to- commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or nians Against Sexual Exploitation, the average is one of the most difficult crimes to monitor. tal of 20.9 million victims worldwide at any time. coercion, of in which the person induced to per- age of children forced into exploitation is 13. While it may be a national problem, San The report states that of those 20.9 million form such act has not attained 18 years of age; or Currently, California’s anti-trafficking task Francisco is one of the major hubs for human identified, 14.2 million were subjected to labor labor or services, thought the use of force, fraud force has initiated 2,552 investigations, discov- trafficking because of its geographic location, exploitation, 4.5 million were subjected to sexual or coercion for the purpose of subjection to in- ered 1,277 victims and arrested 1,798 individu- population and commerce, according to the Fed- exploitation and 2.2 million were subjected to voluntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or als. eral Bureau of Investigation’s effort to Combat state-imposed forced labor. slavery.” Between 2010 and 2012, 72 percent of vic- Crimes Against Children report in 2009. The report also states that women and girls Human trafficking is different than smug- tims identified by the U.S.’ task force were born Maggie Wynne, director of Anti-Trafficking make up 55 percent of forced labor victims and gling because smuggling refers to the transport in Persons Divisions at the U.S. Department of 98 percent of sex trafficking victims. of foreign nationals into the U.S. unlawfully SEE ISSUE ON PAGE 14 CAMPUS IMAGE EXPUNGE Record clearance group offers clean slate By Amanda Hochmuth @amandahochmuth Most people have a few regret- table mistakes they made as teenag- ers or young adults that they would like to forget, but not everyone is so lucky. Some people are constantly reminded of their choices as the consequences follow them day- to-day, weighing them down like a ball and chain they can’t detach. “It’s like carrying around a trash bag,” said Cheryl Lozano, a former delinquent whose multiple drug- related convictions haunted her for Students participated in Let Your Colors Fly, a college tour hosted by AT&T U-verse, to kick off summer break yesterday on Quirks Meadow. Basil Sar / Spartan Daily years. “You no longer reflect that person you were before.” However, a rapidly growing pro- gram at SJSU is working to cut the A splash of color chains of decade-old convictions and allow rehabilitated felons a chance to clear their records. to start your summer SEE PROGRAM ON PAGE 10 AWARD EVENT Phi Kappa Reed Literary Magazine to launch new issue on Monday Phi honors By Tessa Terrill They set up a Facebook page WHAT: wide variety of people who always @tweetybirdtt for the event, are in the process of seem to be coming and going, travel- updating their website and talked Reed Literary Magazine ing the world in the span of a day.” exemplary Students who put together Reed about setting up an Instagram ac- launch party The staff attempted to craft a Literary Magazine are unveiling it at count, she said. WHEN: more upbeat version of the magazine a launch party on May 13. According to Minks, there are Monday, May 13, 4-7 p.m. than the previous years, she said. academics The magazine was named after submissions from the winners of the WHERE: “The one that we’re doing is a lot By Lauren Hailey pioneer James F. Reed, who was part John Steinbeck and Edwin Markham Spartan Memorial happier,” Madar said. @LaurenOLovely of the first wave of rescuers to help prizes and an announcement of the The themes in this issue ranges the Donner party, said Katie Minks, new Gabriele Rico Challenge, a con- from science and technology to rela- The Phi Kappa Phi Honors Soci- the managing editor and fine arts test that gives writes an opportunity There will be light snacks at the tionships, Minks said. ety has been awarding students for and creative writing graduate stu- to win $1,333. event and music featuring Frank According to Minks, art and non- exceptional grades at SJSU every dent. Shara Tran, the promotions di- Sinatra, she said. fiction submissions to the magazine year since 1953 and has initiated According to Minks, Reed donat- rector for the launch party and a se- Kiran Madar, a student who is were low. 317 members into the society this ed the land to the state on which San nior psychology major, said Reed is also helping with event organiza- “It would be really great if we year, according to chapter presi- Jose State is now built. the oldest magazine west of the Mis- tion, said they have been posting fli- could get more people to submit,” dent Gus Lease. Minks said she was raised in sissippi River. ers around campus about the event. she said. Lease, who has been a music pro- Iowa, where literary magazines and It is student-run and features fic- She said the theme for this issue According to Tran, the launch fessor for 63 years, said he has been bookstores are popular. tion and non-fiction stories, poetry is “A literary mosaic since 1898.” party is in the Spartan Memorial the chapter president at SJSU since “Since bookstores out here (in and art, she said. According to Minks, the maga- from 4 to 7 p.m. 2003. California) aren’t as prevalent, we re- The launch party will feature zine looks different from year to “While Reed has its roots deeply Lease said Phi Kappa Phi was ally have to find other ways to make readings from award winners and year. embedded in the San Jose State founded in 1897 and it welcomes all ourselves known,” she said. an opportunity for attendants to “Each year, there is a new set of University campus, as students of disciplines to have recognition in a According to Minks, this will be mingle with speakers and members editors that choose what will be put that university we are very diverse,” national honors society. the 66th edition of the annual pub- of the magazine production staff, into the magazine and so the face of Minks said. “That diversity express- “We were the 67th chapter in the lication. Tran said. Reed will always be changing,” said es itself in the art that we choose for nation to be invited,” he said.”Now She said the staff is trying to ap- “It is a good way for students and Minks.” That only seems fitting for publication. they have about 315 chapters.” peal to students by making more of a other people to see the business side a magazine that is tied to an area like Tessa Terril is a Spartan Daily staff web presence. of publishing,” she said. Silicon Valley, which is filled with a writer. SEE EDUCATION ON PAGE 2 NEWS Page 2 | Spartan Daily Thursday, May 9, 2013 Education: Top students recognized for high achievement FROM PAGE 1 “U.S. President Jimmy and that he is a member of an Susan McClory, vice pres- work in English or math. those students,” Lease said. Lease said 317 is about Carter and U.S. President elite society in America. ident of the San Jose State “To see students at the Calderon said being a the average number of stu- William Howard Taft were Calderon received a Chapter, said it’s an honor to other end of their academic member of the honors so- dents to be initiated each Phi Kappa Phi members,” $2,000 scholarship through be part of an institution like careers who have excelled, is ciety is a benefit because he year. Calderon said. Phi Kappa Phi last year and Phi Kappa Phi. truly a wonderful experience can put it on his resume. “You can be recognized if Lease said not all uni- he said it has helped him aca- “It shows that you have for me,” she said. Lease also said Phi Kappa your grades are of superior versities are able to have demically. reached the elite level in your McClory said there are Phi is very diverse. quality,” he said. a Phi Kappa Phi chapter “Thanks to that scholar- academic career,” she said. benefits to being an active “You will see every dis- Jose Calderon, a senior be- because overall average ship, I was able to continue McClory, who has been Phi Kappa Phi member.

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