Bomb update Sports Features More than one suspect has been identified in A visit to Japantown last April's Seventh Street Plaza pipe bomb An in-depth profile of explosion See below The cultural center celebrates its centennial with Spartan volleyball a week- long display of arts and crafts beginning Toxic classroom coach John Corbelli Saturday. Page 6 University personnel will be taught how to With only one year to show his Steel Magnolias properly handle toxic waste, after a 'lengthy stuff, Corbelli has lofty goals this The original play will be process: caused delays according to one season. The interim coach takes performed by SJSU at the SJSU official. Page 5 over for Dick Montgomery. Page 9 students University Theater, starting tonight at 8 p.m. Page 7
Published for the University and Weather: University Community by the Sunny with highs in the mid 70's to department of Journal ism and Mass low 80's Communication si rice 1934. SPARTAN DAILY --National Weather Service VOLUME 95. NUMBER 5 THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1990 Toxic New VP hired Sewer stench training stuns students delayed hotly CalaIdo Odor is from gas leak di 11 1 C By Susanna Cesar manhole, which will eliminate the University employees who !tally staff writer smell. work with or around toxic The stench got so bad last The San Jose Public Works materials on campus have not summer that Irene Tupper would Department sent a crew to check been properly trained to handle often close the windows in her out the problem Tuesday, those substances, according to small second floor office in the according to Ray Martinez. crew Steve Sloan. California State Central Classroom Building. even leader. Employees Union local chapter in record-breaking temperatures. But people in the area could president. She would turn on a small fan. still smell the retched odor In a letter sent to in hopes that the smell would go Wednesday morning. Environmental Health and Safety away. The gas contains hydrogen Officers Rick Abeyta and Ted It never did. sulfide. which can be dangerous Tolleran in March. Sloan urged Tupper. the secretary for the at level of three to four parts per that a comprehensive training nutrition and food science million. program be implemented for the department. was one of many that But SJSU is safe. Qayoumi safety of clerical workers. suffered a piercing odor that has said. The detection level here is technicians, instructional support penetrated the Seventh Street only 10 parts per billion. assistants and custodians. area. Nevertheless, the smell is not Included in the definition of -It was very bad all summer." welcome by SJSU students and -toxic materials" are commonly said Tupper. who works in the staff. used cleaning solvents, copier building directly across from the "It is not a pleasant smell." toner and correction fluids, said origin of the stench. Qayoumi said. "No one likes the Sloan. Dan Ocampo Daily stall photographer The smell is actually from smell of hydrogen sulfide." "Many departments, especially sewer gas seeping out of a sewer "We all suffered," said Elveda the smaller departments, lack the Ray Lou has been hired as the new Undergraduate Studies. He hopes to make manhole that was ruptured in July Smith. graduate coordinator for knowledge to assure that proper Associate Academic Vice President for SJSU responsive to its students' needs. while workers were upgrading the the nutrition and food science training is given. Some area. said Mo Qayoumi. Director department. whose office faces departments lack the knowledge of SJSU Facilities. Development the area. that such training is even and Operations. The construction work, which needed," wrote Sloan. Lou works for students "Naturally some sewer gas is almost complete. involved asphalt being replaced with Andy Ramos, Environmental escaped." Qayoumi said. places"." Lou. that he has called concrete. Health and Occupational Safety By Leigh Ann Clifton He also said Man WIWI' experience on who was not on the job Dairy Etched in Lou's memory is his the city to come seal the damaged Director, is a when Sloan's letter was written. As an Asian youth glossing up in a the first day of kindergarten. The memory said that steps have been taken to predominantly black Mississippi neighborhood. traumatic one for him. The local school district start a training program hut the Raymond Lou felt the sting of discrimination. had recently made changes to its segregation award "lengthy process" makes delays Alienated from his peers. Lou worked to fit policy allowing Asian students to attend white Campus inevitable. into a system that offered limited choices, all the schools for the first time. while working to keep alive aspects of his ethnic Arriving at school that morning. Lou was EH.OS is now searching for heritage. surrounded by jeering white faces that were not Key gets qualified hazardous material and As SJSU's new Associate Academic Vice pleased with their new classmate. He spent the Golden occupational health specialists President for Undergraduate Studies. Lou is rest of the day defending himself with his fists. who will provide training determined to keep other students from having to Once home, he told his mother he would never programs "tailored" to the job settle for a university that is neither responsive to return to the school. He did return, but the national honor description of every employee. their educational needs nor prepared to meet the situation didn't improve and after a few days he said Ramos. challenge of educating a multi -ethnic society. quit. By Marcos Azcarate SiSt. 's L hapter was formed in i)attwall writer 1985 and this is the first time it DonIs/ who returned to "I learned that ill was going to survive. I Besides not having a training Lou replaces Leon has either had to stay in my own world or...fight the For its work with disabled has received the award. staff on hand, the hiring process teaching in the biological sciences department. The "great underrepresentation of Hispanic dominant society." Lou has been fighting ever students. SJSU's Golden Key Only I() schools out of the will put the program on hold even students, will he a major issue challenging Lou." since: fighting to teach students that they have a National Honor Society has been Society's 161 members receive longer. Before landing the job. awarded its parent organization's the award. candidates must meet said Mum/. choice and can make a difference. Thin, wiry and a self-described loner. Lou's He said he especially enjoys working with highest honor. This year. along with SJSU. requirements from personnel, "A variety of activities have California State University at affirmative action waving arms and hands add emphasis to the students 19 to 22 years old. "These students are EHOS and been implemented among Northridge and San Francisco departments. words he speaks. Sending SJSU representatives becoming independent adults." he said. -and are out into the community. high schools and very eager to explore and experiment." disabled students such as State University also recei ied the Also, Ramos noted, there community colleges is one method Lou will use He encourages them to take a class that they tutoring. reading. note taking and Key Chapter Award. would he some difficulty finding to reach Hispanics and other minorities. have an interest in. to "take ballroom dancing" if administering tests." said Sue According to Jewel. only the juniors and specialists with "journeymen's Growing up in Mississippi wasn't easy for that's where their interest lies. He said he tries to Jewel. president of the SJSU top 15 percent of all point level of experience" with the Lou. In that segregated environment, he was impress upon them that "never again will they chapter. seniors, with a grade 30 salary competition from the "excluded from white society. I was neither black have this much of a chance. this wonderful "We set up a relationship with average of 3.3 and at least can be private sector. nor white: my status there was very nebulous." opportunity." disabled students. There are units completed at SJSU. university's Ramos has already trained a The blatant racism that attacked Lou left If efforts at tapping into the communities are many disabled students and we members of the handful of employees with the emotional scars. He can remember walking into successful. then Lou will focus on keeping want to give something to our chapter. non- . assistance of Nuclear Science places. only to be told "we don't serve your kind students in school and graduating them. Now community." she said. Golden Key is a national, Randy Yaffe. founded to Director Professor in here." said Lou. "I was deeply hurt and more than e% er students are under increasing Jewel. a senior administration profit organization of justice maior. is proud of the provide recognition to qualified California Occupational Safety angered." pressures. according to Lou --- financial tensions SUL cl:SS. Administration He was not tempted. however, to turn to rage. and family obligations, as well as the pressure to chapter's members. and Health In the last 13 years the non- mandate that any "Rage needs outlets. In that situation, you are conform that threaten to draw them out of the "We haw put a lot of effort. guidelines National Society has who works in the powerless." classroom. The Key Chapter Award means profit employee more than 250.000 vicinity of hazardous material be Instead he learned to cope. According to Arlene Okerlund, academic that we have dedicated." she said. inducted members. as well as informed of the dangers of such "When you're excluded from participating. president. the national search to fill the pomtion According to Jewel, other student 3.000 professionals. substances and that they have after awhile you really don't put yourself in those yielded 80 to 90 applicants from which Lou was activities such as information almost educators and leaders who hold access to material safety data situations where it (discrimination) will occur. finally selected. tables and bake sales reinforced honorary membership. sheets, according to Rick Rice. You don't look 'this way' or go to those See 1.01, page ,1 the achievements of the SJSU Cal -OSHA public information chapter. officer. Case not closed: Agents still investigating fall explosion By 1 %Insley California's shield law prole, is report, Dad. '1$ e hare identified suspects. . . from handing over notes and film. they mil be subpoenaed for their materials. Federal agents have identified but no ane has been convicted suspects but have made no arrests a in After his officer seized the film. SJSU connection with the pipe bomb explosion that of the crime.' Director of Public Safety Ric Aheyta issued a took place five months ago in SJSU's Seventh Jess Guy, statement to the Daily that said he "regrets the Street Plaza. ATF agent incident. Agents of the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco "It is not and never has been the policy of & Firearms have identified "more than one" he ('PD to confiscate film, tape. notes or suspect, according to Jess Guy. the ATVs of the crime." other materials front journalists." the resident agent in charge. Fie declined to The ATF's forensic lab in Walnut Creek statement said. identify the suspects. tested fragments of the exploded bomb, In a separate occurrence April 25. an Although the blast occurred on campus, providing investigators with leads. unidentified man phoned in a threat to the federal agents are handling the case because The morning after the bomb went off, two UPD that a bomb had been placed in the possession of a pipe bomb is a federal Spartan Daily staff members, Kevin Well and engineering department. according to UPD offense. Guy said. No one was injured during Kelley Chinn, arrived on the scene to gather spokesman Richard A. Staley. the April 17 explosion. information and shoot pictures. Normally these threats are taken lightly but "The investigation is still open," Guy said. Both were threatened with arrest and jail by due to the circumstances this one had more Daily file photo UPI) officer Robert Noriega if they didn't "We have identified suspects. conducted weight. Bob Trammel, assistant dean of Investigators inspect bomb fragments after last fall's Earth search warrants and brought witnesses before turn over the film, which included photos of engineering told the Daily lust semester. The Day blast The case is still pending investigation. the grand jury hut nil one has been convicted ATI undercover agents investigating the area. threat ended up !Icing only that.
6 page 2, SPARTAN DAILY, September 6, 1990 FORUM OPINION AND LETTERS
EDITORIAL Jcxi A IMR GEORAE BOSW. Raise taxes for the CSU Thirty days late, the State Legislature and Gov. And while the Governor and his Deukmejian finally emerged allies have been selling off the state's in late July with the '90-91 budget. future, the Legislature's Democrats It took them 30 days past their have been useless to stop them. deadline to come up with a budget The Democrats have been too busy that made almost no one happy and squabbling over which interests left the already underfunded should be saved. California State University system Despite their long control of the with $71.2 million less than it had last Legislature (Democrats chair both year. Assembly and Senate Education SJSU, whose funding hasn't kept Subcommitees) they have never up with its increasing enrollment established a firm set of priorities for since the early 1980s, is once again the state. forced to delay maintenance work and let important jobs go undone because is long past time for them to set it can't hire the staff to do them or Itthose priorities and education pay for the materials to accomplish should hold a very high place them. among them. California can expect a very bleak future if it cannot produce Deukmejian and the Republicans of quality leaders and professionals. the State Legislature don't seem to It is also long past time for the state understand about the CSU's Republicans to act responsibly as expanding enrollment or about leaders. California's expanding population. Responsible political decision are While the state's growth has not always popular ones. pressed state services, including It is time for the legislature to bite education, against a wall, Deukmejian the bullet and raise taxes. and the California Republicans have The future of education in our state, stubbornly resisted any tax increase both lower and higher, demands it. for any purpose. Haul Dominguez - Sp.O.o Daily
EDITOR'S FORUM CHRISTINE DEGRAW LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The test at Student Health 'Defining' Zionism, blame in the It took the woman approximately three agonizing weeks to build up the courage to Since when is it any Middle East and bookstore bags take the test and by the time it was over, of the school's she vowed never to put herself through it Zionism their right to define themselves as a You Democrats just want to blame again. business if a student nation. the Palestinians should accept someone else for your mistake. No. this wasn't anything so easy as Editor. the original, over 100 years old. taking the WST or an exit exam, this was is on the pill or using On the airplane hack from Europe I Jewish definition of the word Brian Sparks the monumentally stressful ordeal of taking sat by a Palestinian coup)/ 0111.the.kr... Aintlistn the dreaded urine HCG. better known as a a condom? way to Study theology at college. Ben Weinberg Undeclared pregnancy test. No exceptions. After half an hour of conversation, in Senior Plastic vs. paper Being a student, "Monica" decided to Since when is it any of the school's which I took an apologetic stand (I Journalism Health Center so she could I use the Student business if a student is on the pill or using a can't help feeling guilt for things Middle East blame Editor. take the test between classes and she was condom? I can see the need if someone have seen while serving my Iwould like to respond to Robert afraid that if she went to her family doctor, isn't using something (which the nurse mandatory 3 yrs. in the Israeli army). Editor. Scobles. who urged the Spartan her mother would eventually realize that asked Monica before the test), then refer Batrus said something about the This is just a little letter to address Bookstore to replace their plastic she was sexually active, something many them to the doctor. But, if someone came Zionist imperialistic plan to get rid of to people like Andrew Finkelma shopping bags with paper bags mothers would rather not know. in because they thought there was a leak in all the Palestinians and expand Israel (Letters to the editor, Aug. 291. (Letters to the Editor. Aug. 31 ). Stricken with a case of the jitters on the their baggie, why put the patient, or the as much as possible. Yes, we are protecting our interests I agree with Scoble that we cannot big day, Monica asked me to go with her. doctor, through the added trouble? Well, a Zionist is somebody who but we are also joining up with the continue adding plastics to local After following the nurse's directions to When her appointment time came, she believes that the Jewish people United Nations saying that the landfills. Yet, at a time when the letter, she was directed to the front desk was relieved to be told that the results were should have a country and that it invasion of Kuwait was intolerable. deforestation is one of our most to make an appointment for the result. negative. She was upset. however, by her should be located on the traditional We also happen to have our citizens pressing environmental concerns. An appointment? doctor's attitude, she was made to feel like biblical land. Zionism does not in Iraq and one has just died. switching to paper products is no I worked as a receptionist for a an idiot who wouldn't know a condom specify the borders of that country, Another fact here is our sanctions solution. Millions of trees are cut prominent medical group for over two from a Glad-bag. the type of government it should that we have imposed on Iraq. By down every year for paper pulp. years and I was able to give out the results Student Health Services needs a good. have, or the attitude it should have doing this we are not just hurting increasing global warming and over the phone to patients. Why would it hard kick in the bootie to get them to towards the local Arab population. Iraq. but we are also hurting other disrupting wildlife. be a problem here, where an appointment remember that they are there to serve us. Since some might argue that I. who countries including us. You see, we The bookstore is making an effort. time is such a precious commodity? the students at SJSU. Nobody should be left Israel. am not a true Zionist. My are willing to make sacrifices for the Posted in the store are signs reading After a tedious discussion with one of made to feel that their fears about health are father, is a wholehearted Zionist who fallen Kuwait. "Request hags only when necessary." the receptionists. who are hired based on a trivial or be put through the wringer in an can feel at home only in Israel. and is We are not alone down there. All Most students carry some sort of speed deficiency test and showing a special attempt to lay these fears to rest. a great believer in Zionism. The same the countries are basically backing us book bag in which ihey could tote aptitude for attitude to be hired, we got past Christine DeGraw is the Entertainment father also believes that the up. their purchases. Often, single the "it's our policy" comment to find out Editor of the Spartan Doily. Palestinian people should have a Yeah, we're doing it all because of purchases can he easily carried out by. that it is to discuss birth control. country, that Israel has no business in oil. Give me a break and learn about hand. At the beginning of a semester. the West Bank and Gaza strip, and as the situation. sturdy bags are a necessity to carry. far as he is concerned peace is worth And about that good or remark new textbooks. But it would he easy giving up East Jerusalem. about Neil Bush (Editorial cartoon. enough to save a few plastic ones ti Corrections and Amplifications What Batrus was talking about are Aug. 29), let me remark in saying reuse each semester. Due to a production error, a Spartan accuracy in reporting, but realizes that fascistic imperialistic tendencies of that he was just a pan of the problem If you really don't need a hag. Daily Article ("Professor dies at 66." Aug. during the daily collection and reporting of Israel's right wingers. What I am in the Colorado S&L. But there were don't take one. You'll be saving trees 31) neglected to mention that a memorial the facts. errors may occur. talking about is different definitions four other S&L's involved that did and reducing wastes at the same time. service for H. Thomas Harvey will be held In the event of an error, please contact to one word that will always be in the much more damage. But the owners Sept. 16 at I p.m. at the San Francisco Bay Adam Steinhauer. Managing way of good communications unless are Democrats and you don't want to Elizabeth Trask National Wildlife Refuge in Newark. Editor/Editorial. or Robert Neill, Executive resolved. condemn them You just want to Senior The Spartan Daily is committed to Editor. at (408) 924-32X0. Just like the Palestinians insist on blame the whole crisis on Neil Bush. French
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call 924-6030 CHRISTIAN STUDENTS FELLOWSHIP: SpartaGuide SJSU ART DEPARTMENT: An gallery Bible study fellowship meeting noon-1 30 Lou: Starting new job shows 9 a m -4 p m caM 924-4330 pm SU Pacheco Room call 268-1411 SpartaGuide is a daily calendar AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE PHI CHI THETA (Coed Bushing Frater- / pag, / on -going review ol those which are part of the well as all available to SJSU student, faculty AND AERONAUTICS IAIAAI: First general nity): Welcome meeting for prospective each of the majors offered by the general education curriculum. Once the search to fill and staff organizations at no charge meeting 12 30 p m Engineering Building members 7pm Su Almaden Room the university. The educational Daily position was on. Lou To meet these changes, Lou Forms are available in the Room 276, call (415) 794-1165 was newsroom. Wahlquist Library North approached by equity area of his responsibilities said the university will need to SJSU THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (the GAY. LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL ALLI- several colleagues Room 104. and at the Information who is -the key to the position" for grow physically as well as pm University Theatre Fifth and ANCE: Meeting, 4 30-630 pm SU Alma- asked him to apply. Before Center of the Student Union (Letters Play). 8 him. den Room call 236-2002 that time he hadn't considered it; intellectually. to the editor can also be submitted at San Fernando streets call 924-4551 he was very happy as a professor. Eventually he would like the "There is a large discrepancy the Information Center BETA ALPHA PSI: Orientation meeting. 3 SJSU PRE-LAW ASSOCIATION: First tail His decision to apply was system to improve to a level between the class background of The deadline for entries is 10 a m pm SJ Costanoan Room see Business semester meeting. 530 pm SU Asso- based on a chance meeting in the where the distinction between faculty and staff and our The Daily s staff members will at- Classrooms Room 208 ciated Students chambers call 277-0979 an tempt to enter each item at least two Los Angeles airport. Lou was Educational Equity and constituency. We must become o oor waiting for a friend who had curriculum won't be necessary. better teachers." days before the date of the event in day of the event. Lim- apparently forgotten to pick him Unsure of when this will take addition to the He would like to offer ited space may force reducing the up, when he noticed a man place, Lou continues to work looking at him. workshops and seminars to number of insertions WANT TO LEARN A towards the goal of a functionally items will be ac- After making faculty and staff to improve their No phone-in eye contact pluralistic university. cepted. several times, the man cultural understandings. He FOREIGN LANGUAGE approached him and said "aren't Student feedback is also believes realistically that while TODAY you Raymond Lou?" important to Lou. He would like some would be "totally active" in CAREER PUNNING AND PLACEMENT but can't attend class regularly? students raising," Acknowledging that he was, to solicit response from this "consciousness CENTER: On-campus interview orientation Try our self-paced learning programs in French, the man identified himself as a as to the content, teaching and others would be "totally II am and 3 p in S U Costanoan Room former student of Lou's. lie had benefits of courses, especially oblivious." Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and been in the first class Lou taught kSpanish. No formal classes, Take 1-5 units/semester. as a graduate student at Work in lab or by arangement with instructor in University of California at Irvine. RAISE A It was a class for students who GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT lab/car/home. Text tapes, software and video. were judged deficient in certain THOUSAND learning areas and were BASIC SPANISH considered to have 'marginal' And Help IN A WEEK 4A, 4B, (3 units each) VIDEO-AUDIO begin potential. High School Students Earn Theirs! The fundraiser that's working or review. Practical conversation. No formal The student had gone on to become the statewide coordinator on 1800 college campuses! class. Study in lab/home. for an educational council, a Earn 1-3 units of Your campus group can earn up to Call 924-4602 position that Lou holds in high credit as a tutor* $1000 in lust one week No investment respect. or come to Foreign Languages at See Project Upward Bound needed Be first on your campus A FREE The student praised Lou. gift lust for calling Call New Sweeney Hall #219 telling him how much he the WIC #225 class had meant to him and other 924-2567 / 924-2570 1-800-765-8472 Ext.90 students. He said the class had *Tutor college -bound students been a turning point in his life. "I had tried to impress upon once weekly! On campus! my students their responsibility COMING SOON to society. Having benefited from public education, they should repay that in some way," said Lou. The chance meeting for Lou was very important. Contributing r6 to the betterment of society 0(( through the improvement of the SC 9,9 educational system has always S3Z 52:Pti been a goal for Lou. He realized 9)\’ that if he applied for the new es:Ns position he would have a chance 46s2NN't\riee* to further this goal. OZ120$.
"I seriously doubt that if I c3-53.cO ( 49 hadn't run in to him. I would ,e.s1 _ nev, S TOWER90 HALL LAWN have applied (for his kko ov position)," he said. SEPTEMBER 10-13 Much of Lou's time will he S arni Stats While-You -Wait 9 AM-4 PM spent evaluating the general education program's content as Student Discount 177-1 You told us keep it simple Attention and make it easy. San Jose State students! We listened.
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AL DEFECTIVE page 4, SPARTAN DAILY, September 6, 1990 FEATURES Japantown celebrates 100 years of heritage Guided tours, traditional crafts highlight birthday celebration
By Amanda Helen space is filled because of downtown busi- Daily staff writer nessmen coming there for lunch. Walking along Jackson Street. saying 'Japantown is Japantown has always been a "sepe- hello to every passerby, 8I -year-old Tokio still "geographically rate unit by itself," said Ishikawa. When Ishikawa stopped at the bakery, where the he was younger, he would go downtown building he was born used to stand. the same," expanding San Jose for a movie. a milkshake at the "Well, this is supposed to be a cen- creamery or to buy a suit. retired SJSU Health only a few blocks over tennial." said the "Everybody had to have at least one practitioner. "I really don't Center general for funerals." Ishikawa said. know how they picked the number. I think the years' suit, it's because it's a nice round number, 90." Tokio Ishikawa, Japantown is still "geographically "If we wait another 10 years, say it Japantown historian the same," expanding not more than a few was 1900, then people like me would be blocks over the years, said Ishikawa. Sev- all dead and won't have anyone to get the eral of the original buildings are still stand- history from," Ishikawa said of the Japan- ing member Toni Yagami. has toured Bos- ing, he said, including the Issei Memorial town Centennial, which begins Saturday. ton, Dallas, Cinncinati, St. Louis and in Building. which used to he the old Japa- Ishikawa will be leading historical 1987 went to Japan. nese hospital. and a former office of Ishi- walking tours Saturday and Sunday around Claiming to he the "oldest living per- kawa's. Japantown. which surrounds Jackson son born and raised in Japantown who still Visiting the celebration this week. Street from Third to Sixth streets. Japan- lives in San Jose," Ishikawa remembers Ishikawa said one can find good service. town, he said, actually arose adjacent to several boarding houses, restaurants, dry food and products. the now-extinct San Jose Chinatown. The good stores and a bike shop along Jackson city's Corporation Yard now stands in its Street. place, he said. Ishikawa said that Japanese immi- The week-long centennial celebration grants found it easier to settle near the includes activities such as ice carving, a "bustling" Chinatown, where gambling yakisoba cookoff (pan fried noodles with houses lit up the streets. There was even a vegetables), karate and kendo demonstra- baseball team that played against other city tions, bonsai displays and an origami dem- teams from 1919 "until about the time of onstration. the war.' ' said Ishikawa. Throughout the week, there are workshops in kitemaking and demonstra- "In those days there were a lot of pre- tions of temari, a good luck charm. djudices against Orientals owning or rent- Wendy Ng. an associate professor in ing homes in the neighborhoods." Ishi- the SJSU social science department, will kawa said. During the Tong wars in 1923, take part in a panel discussion Monday similar to modern gang wars. Ishikawa re- which will attempt to answer the dilemma. members two machine guns propped on Is It Possible to Sustain a Japanese top of a building aimed at the intersection American Community for the Next 100 of Sixth and Jackson streets. lie recalled Years?" waking up one morning to find the front Also taking part in the celebration window of his parent's dry goods store isthe Sun Jose Taiko Group, which will shattered from bullet holes. perform at the Center for Performing Arts Japantown today is much quieter and Ann Nelson Daily staff photographer Sunday and hold a workshop at its studio the restaurants. especially Gombers. Ishi- on Wednesday. Taiko. described as kawa s favorite, are doing "booming husi- I apantown will soon erupt with activities during the centennial. -,irtinimitw ;Ind M. isl:nient hs perfolm Ilt,, 11i1011. 111: p.t!I Ii
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