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Mardi Gras hits Poor House Bistro see p. 5 77 years... and counting Wednesday SPARTAN DAILY February 22, 2012 Sun goes down on baseball game Volume 138, Issue 14 SpartanDaily.com see p. 6 CAMPUS IMAGE Getting festive on Fat Tuesday Professor evaluations to go green by Julie Myhre Staff Writer Members of the Instruction and Student Aff airs Committ ee (ISA) are working to convert Student Opinion of Teaching Eff ectiveness (SOTE) evaluations from paper to online evaluations. “Th is is something that has been vaguely talked about for 10 years now,” said Katrina Swanson, Associ- ated Students director of student re- sources and ISA member. “We really want to at least put the hammer down on this because it is something that at least the members of instruction and student aff airs committ ee believe it’s about time to be done.” Swanson said online SOTEs are a common trend among other Califor- nia state universities. Junior fi lm major AC Sico said he is content with the current format of the SOTEs. “I think that more people wouldn’t Chelsea Broderick, a chemistry major at SJSU and bartender at San Jose Bar on Fat Tuesday. San Jose police officers were on hand outside the bar in do it,” he said about the potential of a and Grill, located on 2nd Street in downtown San Jose, pours a drink for patrons preparation for lively customers. Photo by Jasper Rubenstein / Spartan Daily online process. Tanmay Sharma, A.S. Director of external aff airs and ISA member said the main reason to consider the Some incoming students to begin classes in summer change is to save the school’s money. “Right now it costs SJSU almost by Rebecca Duran Reisz, project coordinator for Early Start and Early to work on, according to the Early Start website. $55,000 every year, annually,” Sharma Staff Writer Assessment Program coordinator. Th e planning group for the program includes, said. “Once we go to online SOTEs, “Th ere has been a long term of wanting to im- but is not limited to, the testing offi ce, the math and it is supposed to be something under Freshmen entering the California State Univer- prove student performance from the Chancellor’s English departments, Undergraduate Studies, the $5,000. It’s a huge change economi- sity system who do not show college-level profi - offi ce toward creating a successful student body,” Early Assessment Program, Developmental Stud- cally.” ciency in math and English will be required to en- Reisz said. ies, the Institutional Research group and admis- Sharma said he thinks the change roll in the Early Start Program, according to a press More than 60 percent of fi rst-time freshmen en- sions and fi nancial aid, Reisz said. would be a good step because the release on the CSU website. rolling in the CSU system each year do not show Th e chancellor’s offi ce accepted the plans from money saved will be helpful in this Students who score less than 50 on the Entry entry-level profi ciency in math and English assess- diff erent campuses to see what similarities there economic state. Level Math exam and less than 138 on the English ments, according to the Cal State website. were and to give feedback, according to Reisz. Swanson said another benefi t of Profi ciency Test will be required to take the neces- California juniors can use the Early Assessment Every campus has its own version, and there has online SOTEs is it would save time at sary remedial classes during the summer, according Program test to see if they are ready for college-level to be ways of enrolling students across systems and the end of the semester. to the Early Start website. math and English, according to the Early Start website. tracking completion, Reisz said. “Especially towards the end of the Th e program comes from Executive Order 1048, Results are available at the beginning of stu- mandated by the board of Trustees, said Tom dents’ senior year, lett ing them see what they need SEE EARLY START PAGE 3 SEE SOTES PAGE 2 Spirit will hold an all-day prayer ser- were created out of the dust from the Ashes to be vice at the Spartan Memorial. earth. “If you come to Mass, you’ll Wharton referred to the book of be able to get ashes,” said Susie Genesis, the fi rst book of the Bible Redmond, president of the New- that tells the story of how God creat- distributed man Center. She said people of ed the world and how God blew the all faiths are welcomed to the Mass. breath of life in people from dust. Cathy Bui, president of SJ Spirit, “Th e ashes come from the palm on campus said people of all faiths are also wel- branches from last year’s Palm Sun- comed to Spartan Memorial to pray day,” Redmond said. “Palm Sunday by Samantha Clark and receive ashes. (commemorates) Jesus’ procession Staff Writer According to Roger Wharton, into Jerusalem and is celebrated the chaplain for SJ Spirit, the group is Sunday before Easter.” Th e Newman Center and SJ Spirit likely the oldest religious organiza- According to Nicole Bundy, a will both celebrate Ash Wednesday, tion on campus, and the group can freshman humanities major, Ash the start of the Christian Lenten sea- trace its history back 120 years. Wednesday marks the beginning of son, with a distribution of ashes. “It started as an Episcopal group, the 40-day Lenten season, which is Th e Newman Center will celebrate but 12 years ago, (the center) 46 days before Easter (Sundays are mass at the Newman Center, and SJ switched (its) mission to be open, excluded). affi rming and progressive Chris- On Ash Wednesday, Christians Spartan Daily tians (who) welcome and explore all receive an “Imposition of Ashes” — Serving San José State University since 1934 religions and spiritual traditions,” the putt ing of the ashes on the fore- Volume 138 / Issue 14 he said. head in the sign of a cross, according According to Wharton, SJ Spirit to Wharton. has off ered an Ash Wednesday ser- Redman said Lent is a Christian vice for 10 years. season of observance and refl ection Luis Sandoval, Nicole Bundy and Susie Redman sing in the Newman Catholic “Th e students, staff and faculty that culminates to the death and res- Club’s choir during the group’s Sunday mass at the Newman Center on 10th and San Carlos streets. Photo by Samantha Clark / Spartan Daily will come to the chapel,” he said. urrection of Jesus Christ. “We have several clergy people there She added that during Lent, many from diff erent denominations. Th ey people fast and give up something Amy Hutt linger, a fi fth year kine- “It might make me a bett er per- come up to the (clergy people), enter to mirror Christ’s sacrifi ce as he siology major, also said she wants to son,” he said. t Twitter: @spartandaily 73˚ a brief conversation, prayer requests walked alone in the desert and fasted challenge herself and plans to give Th e Newman Center will be hold- f facebook.com/spartandaily 48˚ are asked for and the administer will for 40 days. up Facebook. ing mass at 12:30 at the Newman pray with the person individually “For Lent, I plan on giving up Ben Luis Sandoval, a senior foren- Catholic Center on the corner of View exclusive stories and multimedia at and distribute the ashes.” and Jerry’s ice cream because I want sics major, is the secretary of the 10th and San Carlos streets. Susie Redman, president of the to challenge myself to be healthier,” Newman Center and said he plans SJ Spirit will be holding an all- spartandaily.com Newman Center, said the ashes rep- said Michael Panelli, a junior justice on giving up sugary cereal as a day prayer service from 9:30 a.m. to resent that people are all mortal and studies major. “Let’s see if I can do it.” sacrifice. 5 p.m. at the Spartan Memorial. 2 NEWS SpartanDaily.com Wednesday, February 22, 2012 US officials sorry for Quran burning NASA’s Webb telescope project under fire for escalating costs McClatchy Tribune along with an austere budget ufacturing almost every as- Wire Service outlook for NASA, is deplet- pect of the telescope, and it ing the agency’s pipeline of big was forced to stretch out the science missions. A much-dis- schedule, said Richard How- LOS ANGELES — In deep, cussed mission to return sam- ard, NASA’s head of the Webb cold space, nearly a million ples of Martian soil to Earth, program and the agency’s miles from Earth, a giant tele- for example, may be unaff ord- deputy chief technologist. Th e scope later this decade will able, according to the House agency kept investing in the scan for the fi rst light to streak Science Committ ee staff . most diffi cult technologies for across the universe more than Th e Webb telescope was the Webb, leaving other parts 13 billion years ago. conceived by the astronomy of the project out of sync. As a Th e 7-ton spacecraft , one of community in the late 1990s as result, some components will the most ambitious and costly a more modest project with a be boxed up and stored for science projects in U.S. his- smaller mirror for about $500 years while other pieces are tory, is under construction for million.