Thursday, Volume 152 1.31.2019 No. 4 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY Softball team in pre-season turmoil University remains silent after assistant softball coach cleared of sexual misconduct allegations By Kunal Mehta STAFF WRITER The Division I women’s softball team at San Jose State had its practice canceled Wednesday, two days after assistant coach Chase Turner was cleared of sexual misconduct, as reported by The Spear. The team begins pre- season games next week. CHASE TURNER Turner had been coaching reported by The Spear. at SJSU since 2010, and is the The SJSU athletic son of softball head coach department declined to Peter Turner. comment, saying it does Chase Turner was not comment on personnel suspended last June after an matters and referred questions anonymous letter was sent to SJSU’s human resources in March to SJSU athletics department. The university listing concerns of sexual personnel department also misconduct, according declined to comment. to The Spear. SJSU’s SJSU media relations Title IX representatives specialist Robin McElhatton cleared him after an eight- month investigation, as COACH | Page 7 KUNAL MEHTA | SPARTAN DAILY The batting cage at SJSU south campus was empty Wednesday afternoon because softball practice was canceled. PHOTO COURTESY OF 2013 SJSU GRAPHICS MEDIA GUIDE Cyberbullying on SAMMY app raises concerns By Kunal Mehta me getting talked down to if bullied online, he would STAFF WRITER by this guy on the app,” he not bother reporting the said. “One of my close friends incident. “I’m 24 and thick- Social media was designed called me and told me not to skinned – I don’t care what to be an application for pay attention to that guy.” happens online,” he said. connecting with friends and Cyberbullying, he said, Efforts to combat online peers. But, a user who said he is a problem many people harassment have reached was being berated by another do not take seriously. While DANIELS a new level this year, with student on the SAMMY app many studies have looked at multiple states, such as described having to walk the issue among teenagers, create their own posts, California and Michigan, away from the platform there is little research for including “Buy & Sell,” “Lost considering or passing anti- because he felt he was post-adolescents. + Found” and “Ride Sharing.” cyberbullying legislation, being harassed. The student said that Daniels also pointed out with provisions for jail time. He asked that his identity though he was initially that students agree to the According to a 2017 study remain confidential and hesitant to come forward, he terms of use before posting conducted by Florida Atlantic privacy be respected. hopes his story can spread on the app. University, 34 percent of The SAMMY app is San awareness on the problem The terms includes a students in the United States Jose State’s official mobile of cyberbullying. prohibition on “restrict or have experienced some form social media app. It was “I want to be an advocate inhibit any other user from of cyberbullying. developed by tech developers for ending cyberbullying,” he using and enjoying the Site These efforts have been at Ready Education and said. “I can’t stand the idea or App” and speech that criticized by free speech maintained by the SJSU of someone having to is “threatening, abusive, advocates, including the Campus Life team. go through the type of hateful, offensive, or American Civil Liberties Last year, the user shared harassment I did.” otherwise objectionable.” Union (ACLU). The ACLU a post on the SAMMY app Sonja Daniels, SJSU Aerospace engineering has repeatedly challenged regarding his opinion on associate vice president of senior Rod Ahmadi said he laws that clamp down on the California wildfires. He Campus Life, said that her hadn’t seen any instances online speech, describing said a student questioned his team reviews content of cyberbullying on the the term cyberbullying as “a intelligence and left several posted on the app and flags SAMMY app, but knew it loaded term to be avoided insulting comments on it for removal by Ready had been a problem. by anyone interested in the post. Education if necessary. She “It’s definitely a thing, and engaging in an objective look The comments caused added that students can something should be done at online speech.” him so much distress that he also flag any content they about it, but I don’t know deleted the post and the app find inappropriate. how to regulate it,” Ahmadi all together. The app contains different said. Follow Kunal on Twitter “A few of my friends saw sections where students Ahmadi admitted that @legoktm ILLUSTRATION BY MELODY DEL RIO CAMPUS IMAGE Listening to the art California’s budget halts CSU tuition hikes By Jackie Contreras gaps, as defined on the SENIOR REPORTER CSU website. On average, San Jose State California State University I will not bring undergraduate students pay students can expect to between $5,000 to more pay the same amount in forward any than $7,000 in tuition and tuition costs if Gov. Gavin request for registration fees per year, Newsom’s outlined according to SJSU’s 2018-19 budget proposal for the Trustees to Student Budget Report. 2019-20 is passed by the consider a tuition The CSU tuition has not California Legislature. changed since it increased “I will not bring forward increase. from $4,440 to $5,472 in any request for the Trustees 2011, according to the official Timothy P. White to consider a tuition increase,” CSU Chancellor CSU website. said CSU Chancellor Political science and Timothy P. White at a Board Chicano/a studies junior of Trustees meeting on enrollment growth and Erica Diaz-Rodriguez Jan. 22 after learning about the Graduation Initiative believes that while efforts the proposal. “You heard me 2025, according to the were made in the past to right – tuition is off the table.” Budget Summary. support CSU funding, tuition ADAM YOSHIKAWA | SPARTAN DAILY Newsom’s proposed The Graduation Initiative is still too high. Studio art sophomore Elena Everett listens and watches a digital art piece named budget would grant the 2025 is the CSU’s plan “Gov. Brown did give “Green Room” made by local Bay Area artist Ilana Crispi. The exhibit “Planned CSU system $300 million to increase graduation us more than what we had Obsolescence” is held in Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at the San Jose in funding geared toward rates while eliminating State Art Building from Jan. 29 through Feb. 22. operational costs, a 2 percent opportunity and achievement FUNDS | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 2019 NEWS Professor preaches black power wisdom generation college graduate with a degree in engineering, said, “Every one of us My biggest learn and communicate motivation to through stories.” The stories McClain travel was my referred to was from his parents, as they trip with Cheers. Marketing sophomore showed me not to Betty Lee described take short-cuts and the event as “humbling and inspiring.” learn why things Jamie Morgan, a business were why they sophomore, expressed her disappointment with the were. small audience. Duane Michael Cheers Photojournalism professor “It’s a shame that not many people came out,” Morgan said. preserve memory, ask new Cheers shared many historical questions and stories from his trips to probe Black consciousness, Cuba, Washington D.C. thought and identity,” and Paris, just to name Cheers wrote. a few. Approximately eleven He had been visiting people attended the event Paris for the last 40 in the room on the second years because of the rich floor of the library. history of African descent Tiffany King, a in the city. The Harlem CALEB RAMOS | SPARTAN DAILY sophomore and graphic Hellfighters, an all-black Professor Duane Michael Cheers illustrates his life and cultural experiences through the art of photojournalism. design major, said Cheers military personnel, was brought self-awareness influential to jazz music in By Javier Velez career snapping photos. being released from was a best-selling book”, to her attention. She Paris, according to Cheers. and Caleb Ramos Before taking the the hospital because of said Cheers. “It is 27-years- acknowledged professor Students have STAFF WRITERS podium, the chair of the illness, discussed the old and to this day people Cheers’ sufficient self- accompanied the professor African American studies importance of African- still want me to autograph awareness and aspires to on class trip to Cuba With Black History department, Theodorea American history in the the book.” be more in touch in 2016, Harlem and month around the Berry gave the audience United States. Afterwards, he showed with herself. New York in 2017 and corner, San Jose State’s background information He believed that a powerpoint presentation “[Cheers] is definitely Montgomery, Alabama African-American studies on how she met the history is not that delved deeper into his someone to look up to,” in 2018. department prepared the photographer. broadcasted as widely life experiences. said King. “My biggest motivation to celebrate its 50-year She explained that through photojournalism. “My life’s journey has After his presentation, to travel was my parents, as anniversary with a her love for magazines The presentation been a series of non- Cheers invited one of his they showed me not to take guest speaker. prompted her to come began when he showed stop creative experiences former students, Danny shortcuts and learn why Photojournalism across Cheers’ work in the audience a CBS that illustrate how visual McClain, to share his things were why they were,” professor Duane Michael Jet Magazine and Ebony Evening News segment storytelling can effectively experiences on a trip to said Cheers.