SJSU Professor Files Sexual Harassment Suit
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401: triv, Women's golf team More than 500 people brings home gather for first ever another win City Year clean-up See page 6... See page 4... DAILYuesdas. Octolwr 21. 1993 PARTANPublished for San Jose Stale 1 ilk ersity shire 193.1 SJSU professor files sexual harassment suit By Ken McNeill dinator of the Japanese language SJSU President Robert Caret is after she was hired in 1990, Lin Profes.sor Michiko Terada of the Trustees were available for com- Spartan Dolly Staff Writer program, wrote offensive letters to also named for rejecting "turned her dream of teaching foreign languages department ment. An SJSU instructor has filed a her, touched her inappropriately Mochizuki's application for associ- into a nightmare." She did not filed a similar complaint against In the suit, Mochizuki alleges lawsuit against the former coordi- and tried to kiss her when she did ate professor in June 1995, despite immediately file a complaint Lin on Sept. 23, 1994. that Lin may have sexually nator of her program, claiming not want him to. recommendations from the for- because she did not want to jeopar- In September 1994, after telling harassed female students. Lin she was sexual harassed and The suit also names the trustees eign languages department and dize her standing at SJSU, and she Lin his advances were unwelcome resigned in December 1994. of the California State criminated against over a period of University educators at other universities. has a cultural aversion to conflict. and that she was happily married, Carmen Sigler, chair of the foreign system, stating they failed to take SJSU spokeswoman Lori Stahl But on Oct. 8, nearly four years. 1994, Mochizuki Mochizuki said Lin changed her languages department, would not action to correct the alleged said university policy prohibits filed a sexual harassment Narae Mochizuki, a Japanese- com- teaching schedule to require she comment on Lin's resignation. harassment or to change the work cussing personnel matters under plaint with the university against language instructor, alleges in her teach more days and take on more "I can't give you any informa- suit that Choate Lin, former coor- environment created after she litigation. Lin. Mochizulci's complaint wasn't students than was customary. tion," she said. "les a personnel lodged a formal protest. In the suit, Mochizuki said that the only one lodged against Lin. Neither Lin nor the Board of matter." Future of education debated Sky-high makeover Thousands rally on state's plans for prison funding By' Roger R. Ramirez Community Together (PAGI said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in her 4.1,m Daily City Editor organization, a network of 250,000 opening remarks to the standing- More than 1,000 people gath- families from 300 religious congre- room-01'1y crowd. ered at the LeBaron Hotel in San gations statewide rallied to advo- Speaker after speaker told sto- Jose on Saturday to voice concerns cate education reform. ries which supported the idea that Richard Riley, the U.S. Secretary the California school system was in about California state spending in 11 favor of prison construction over of Education, and Delaine Eastin, jeopardy and needed the "School schools as two top educational the California State to Work" program to prevent chil- leaders listened. Superintendent of Public dren from choosing crime. The Pacific Institute for Instruction, were present to hear Sylvia Rodriguez, a representa- Community Organization (PICO) concerns and comment cm the tive from the city of Coachella, uation. and the People Acting in See Education, page 4 "Our children have no future," Kung fu fightin' at SJSU Ancient martial arts promote self-defense By Leslie Farmer Spartan Daily Staff Writer "If you learn one of the martial arts, it's easier to learn another. For instance, I learned aikido, then went on to tae kwon do, then tai chi and shuai-chiao," said Eric Brooks, a for- mer SJSU student who is an instnictor in SJSU's Tai Chi and Wirshii Club. If you go back far enough, Brooks said, all tai chi styles appeared to origi- nate under one branch of the Chen family. There's a village in China where "everyone practices it." Wushu is a martial art that is more commonly known under the name of kung fu. It involves punching, kicking and running jumps; weapons can be used when people rneet th competi- tions. The club, which had five men and P11010 BY Mlel \ Fl ANDRFWS . s y five women last semester, practices forms together and gives demonstra- sod), tions for the community. It brings in Daniel Mina helps David Katsumoto in begininning tai chi I1IALi See Tai chi, Back page Co-op helps students find employment By 1,01111:4 MCCany niarketplace, with a six- athantage ot a co-op. Spartan Dady Staff %triter 'Dirndl jump on the leitming A co-op is structured, off-cam- IthebOOt. pus wot lc, in which students alter- After the hassles and headaches They are students whit. in some Mite periods of classroom study of exams and graduation, nuist insulters, delayed their graduation with periods of paid. supervised graduates still face the hardest test for six months in order to gain and progressively responsible of all: looking for that first job. experience in the workplace and training in business, industry. and While some are competing with gam a head start on their futures. government. the crowds, there are those who These are students who took will have already found their way See Co-op, page 4 PHOTO BY RONDA BRADFORD -- SPECIAL TO THE DAII Y Painters Dan Moore, left, and Tim Rogers purge the south side of Duncan Hall of pigeon droppings before washing the building and applying a fresh coat of paint. They wear Peer educators teach CPR to youngsters protective clothing to avoid possible exposure to tuberculous, which is sometimes carried in By Elaina Medina her place at attempting to resii., camp', leain CPR trom the pigeon feces, and low levels of lead found in the old paint. The project began in late Spartan Daily Staff Writer tate the mannemini health . ation department's group tit 50 youngsters peer educators. September and should be finished by Nov. 16 according to Randy Lovan, general manager of The 12-year-old hovered over This from sixth to 12th-grade "We ate concerned about the Astro Painting, the Southern California company that was contracted for the job. The the lifeless lxxly that rested on the ranging membeis of the l'niversity of kids' health and the awareness of paint job is less than $130, 000. floor of room 505 in Duncan Hall estimated cost of the California's MESA (Mathemati. s, cardiopulmonary resuscitation," on Saturday morning. A group of Engineering and Scirii, said Marc Madden. student CPR her peers clustered around her, Achievement) program Writ. ($11 eager for an opportunity to take See Pear, page 4 Vote questioned Labor camp funds Beautification Act 49ers fined Former California Rep. Norman World Bank money is directly It's been thirty years suice the The Super Bowl champions Mineta had a job waiting with aiding Clunese forced labor Highway Beautification Act was were fined $60,000 for illegally the company that will run the camps in far -western China's signed into law but funneling $7,500 ui campaign state's first modern toll roads desolate prison system, human environmentalists say there's ontnbutions to Art Agno's while he was still in office. rights activist Harry Wu claims little to celebrate i nsucivhful re-eecuon campaign Page 3 Page 3 Page 3 Page 7 LI --a -A- .a _a _ .A .a . A.aba a--a Aa...0 - -a A. -A-AL 2 Tuesday, October 24, 1995 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY Newsroom Voices IT1 r The culinary adventure continues n army, a famous general remarked, travels on its stomach. I do my best to travel on my palate. The only way I could describe A. I think it started with my father, a dentist who, you might think, would have had enough of the what happened is to say that alimentary tract by the time he got home each day. My mother thought she had the monopoly on cul- ture in the family, because she was female and it was the morsel hit bottom the '50s. But my father read widely and, when not traveling, brought other cultures to our plates with his it came up culinary experiments. We had artichokes and octo- and bounced: pus, okra and chitlins. I remember as particularly deli- cious the crisp tails of small fishes, which he offered immediately and totally, me to eat like potato chips. Sooner or later, I WAS making it a point of honor to try to eat anything that didn't bite first. quite unscathed. One of the few things I tried and couldn't conquer the worse it looks, the better it is likely to taste. was a Korean specialty. Chonghi Ahn, a Korean grad- Something that looks as if one more degree of uate student who rented our guest room when I was ripeness will make it lurch off the plate and join the in high school, WAS preparing it in the kitchen raw unicellular organisms makes me salivate slightly in liver. She asked if I'd like to try it. and with some mis- anticipation and beg for a scrap to take home and givings, I scooped up a piece and swallowed. cherish. I didn't throw it up nothing so strenuous. The Durian is an Asian fruit that long appealed to my only way I could describe what happened is to say that curiosity, since it has been described as tasting like the morsel hit bottom and bounced: it came up heaven and smelling like hell.