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Students Denounce Abuse with Shirt Project Volume 146 • Issue 17 Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY VIDEOS AT WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/C/SPARTANDAILYSJSU OPINION P5: Is reprinting Hitlerʼs autobiography a good idea? SPORTS P6: Spartans could end 20 year NCAA tournament drought FIGHT FOR FIVE INTERNATIONAL WOMENʼS DAY CSU trustees Students meet before denounce the potential abuse with CFA strike By James Kim & Kato Guzman shirt project Staff writer & Multimedia editor By Imran Najam Th e California State University Board of Trustees Staff writer met Tuesday to discuss important issues including the possible California Faculty Association (CFA) strike, In conjunction with International Women’s Day, San fi nance audits in the CSU and plan campus revisions. Jose State sociology students organized the “Clothesline Representatives from the CFA and various Project” (CLP) on campus this Tuesday, raising bargaining groups spoke about the nature of the issue awareness and condemning oppression and violence to it has with the CSU system. Th e CFA will go on strike women and the LGBTQ community. April 13 at all 23 CSU campuses if the CSU does not Students painted shirts with statements that depict meet demands for fair wages. the unjust situations women face, and hung them on Most speakers were faculty members wearing the red clotheslines that stretched between the palm trees in shirts representing CFA with words scrawled across front of the Student Union. the chest reading, “I don’t want to strike, but I will.” Th e demonstration began at 9 a.m. and three classes Many of their speeches also ended with that same line participated: Violence in the Family, Masculinity and being shouted to the board. Femininity and Sociology and Gender. Many of the speeches were passionate, and some “We’re doing this so people know what’s happening even progressed to yelling to the board to ensure their to women across the country who have experienced voices were heard. violence and abuse so that people know they’re not “You and those who came before us have exhausted alone,” Noor Hassein, behavioral science major said. our patience,” said former CFA president Lillian Taiz. Her shirt was printed with the declaration, “silence is Members from the California State University compliance, speak out against domestic violence.” Employees Union spoke in support of CFA and Th e CLP began in 1990 to address the issue of violence declared strength through unity and support. Kavin Mistry | Spartan Daily against women. It then went on to spread into a national “Th e proposals between the parties remain (Top) Students from the classes Violence in the Family, project which now takes place in other countries as unchanged and the CSU continue to be roughly Masculinity and Femininity and Sociology and Gender well. Th e group pledges to challenge “outward and $70 million apart from a potential settlement,” Vice gather to imprint statements against domestic violence. internalized homophobia, racism, sexism and other Chancellor Lori Lamb said. (Bottom) T-shirts were made to express student voices WOMEN PAGE 2 Th e board of trustees said the CFA was asking for against diff erent forms of abuse. more than what is aff ordable, and a solution would require a multi-year settlement and would be unable to SLEEPING SEMINAR be settled in the time the CFA suggests. “Th e CFA is oft en speaking about $2.2 billion that is available in compensation,” Lamb said. “Th is is simply inaccurate. What we have in that amount is Teaching proper for auxiliary organizations and (we’re) restricted from using these funds for faculty compensation.” What to reserve Th e board expressed concerns about fi nding a sleep habits satisfying conclusion to negotiations before the By Yousif Kassab your bed for strike before moving on to other matters, including Staff writer discussion of a fi nancial loss in the previous year. A seminar titled “Sleep Better Feel Better” was held at the Student Th e Audit Committee said the CSU was recognized Wellness Center for an hour on Monday. Th e event advised SLEEPING as being in a “net negative,” (in the red) for the fi rst time students to reserve their sleeping environment for “the three S’s”: in history. However, the conclusion made was that this sleeping, sex and sickness. would not be very impactful on the system. “Sleep Better Feel Better” was directed by faculty psychologist SEX Th is negative was suggested as having been the result Cynthia Medina, Ph.D. who conducted the seminar by asking of policy changes in regards to pension funds over the probing questions while using a slideshow as visual aid. past few years. Medina went around the room asking if anyone experienced SICKNESS Th e board also discussed campus to campus issues trouble sleeping or waking up feeling rested. Th e answer was including proposals introduced by San Jose State a resounding yes as hands were raised by the varied group of University. psychology, nursing and biology majors in attendance. CFA PAGE 2 SLEEP PAGE 2 Infographic by Kavin Mistry ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT WWll veterans speak on airmen documentary By Casey Geier & Rebecca Pirayou throughout 2014 and traveled of stories depicting survival and group got nothing but “mosquito Staff writers across the country to interview each anguish. It was split into two bites and dysentery.” A special screening of “Eleven,” at the Student Union Th eater was of the 11 men featured in the fi lm in parts, Planes in Parel Part One Gunner William E. Corely told a WWII documentary, was held a 45-minute highlight, which left their own homes. and Part Two. a story about one of the men that in the Student Union Th eater on time at the end for a Q&A with Th e documentary, inspired by In Part One, the Navy veterans always slept naked, and one night March at 5 p.m. Retelas, WWII pilot Robert W.J. Retelas’ late grandfather who was discussed life on the island and told when a bomb went off , the man ran “Eleven,” created by SJSU alumnus Cocks and WWII plane captain part of Air Group 11, featured light-hearted stories about fellow out of his tent naked and straight George Retelas, depicts the lives of Kermit “Tim” Enander. WWII footage and photos gathered Navy men. into a bushel. those in Air Group 11 of the USS With $13,000 Retelas raised from the National Archives to Th e Navy group was stationed “He put his clothes on and he Hornet during the war. through a Kickstarter campaign, supplement the veterans’ stories. in Guadalcanal, an island close Th e version of the fi lm screened he conducted the interviews Th e documentary tells a plethora to New Guinea. Cocks said the WWII PAGE 4 For more details, please visit the SJSU Financial Aid and Scholarship Office online at www.sjsu.edu/faso or call (408)283-7500 ext. 6. A.S. Environmental Champion Award A.S. First Generation Student Scholar Award A.S. Social Action Advocacy Award A.S. Global Scholar Award A.S. Legacy Award St. Saffold Leadership Scholarships 242NEWS Thursday, September 3, 2015 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Wednesday,Thursday,NEWS MarchMarch 3,9, 20162016 22 WOMEN from page 1 oppressions,” according to their mission Different colored shirts represent statement. different forms of abuse, from white Their task is to support victims of symbolizing violence resulting in death, “the war against women,” help with blue and green for sexual abuse to black the healing process for survivors and for attacks due to political reasons. those who have lost loved ones, inform Students also traced their hands and others about these issues and develop signed the outlines on paper titled “end a network for others to also host their all violence.” own CLP. The paper was a statement made by The difference between the word those who traced their hands on the “survivor” and “victim” in this context page saying they stand with those who is explained in the Clothesline Project have been affected by domestic violence. website. “Survivor” is defined as a “I’m out here because it’s something woman who has survived intimate that I believe in … one of my friends was personal violence such as rape, murdered who identified as transgender battering, incest or child sexual abuse, last year so I think it’s important to while a “victim” is defined as a woman raise awareness,” said Hollis Kinner, who has died at the hands of her abuser. senior behavioral science major. “It started as violence against women, Students involved in the cause said and it expanded to violence against this allowed them to express their transgender women, violence against true feelings about women’s rights and transgender men [and] queer people,” the importance of spreading further Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social awareness of domestic violence Sciences Professor Soma de Bourbon said. “So it expanded for violence that Kavin Mistry Spartan Daily different communities face.” According to the Men’s Prevention Students were able to trace their hands on a poster titled “End All Violence” Project, the CLP was made in response With contributions from Ryan Vermont to show their support for all women aff ected by any forms of abuse. to 51,000 women who were killed during Follow Imran & Ryan on Twitter the Vietnam War. @ImranSNajam & @Your_Pal_Ryan CHECK US CFA from page 1 SJSU Interim President Sue Martin was Th e construction of the garage, dependent OUT ON present to speak about a proposed renaming on approval by the board, remains of the Student Union. unapproved. Th e board voted in favor of renaming Th e board also approved a measure FACEBOOK the building to the Ramiro Compean and that delegates its authority to the CSU Lupe Diaz Compean Student Union in Chancellor to approve projects that are FOR MORE honor of their recent $15 million donation $5 million or less, up from $3 million, to SJSU.
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