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Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Tuesday, February 8, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 6 CSU’s Reed favors tax increase extension McClatchy Tribune SACRAMENTO – The leaders of two of California’s three college systems on Monday urged passage of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to ex- tend taxes, saying they’re needed to avoid even more devastating im- pacts than they already envision from $1.4 billion in higher education Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily cuts Brown is proposing. James McKay invites students who pass his table for the Disabled Students Association to stop and talk Before a hearing at the Capitol, California State University Chan- about his club on Monday. cellor Charles Reed said Brown told him and University of California President Mark Yudof that “if this doesn’t pass, we’ll come back and cut more.” Ambition drives student “So, sure, we need to support an increase in revenue,” Reed said. “You have to pay for what you get. Everybody wants more and more government but they don’t want to pay for it. But they have to pay for it.” in the face of disability Yudof said that “intellectually, it makes a great deal of sense” and that he’s “sympathetic” to it. But he needs to see the particulars of a ballot measure that has yet to be worked out among legislators who changing repertoire of motor and phonic tics that are considering Brown’s budget. Matthew Gerring typically begin in childhood and exhibit a fl uctuat- It would be “tragic” if a tax extension does not get on the ballot, Staff Writer ing course. said Jack Scott, the chancellor for California Community Colleges. “People look at me and I get mixed and confused “For us to take another James McKay has a passion for sticking up for stares on campus,” McKay said. “People don’t know $400 million in cuts would other people, a passion so strong that it used to get and I say ‘Hey, I have Tourettes, it’s OK.’” devastate community colleg- Students him in trouble. McKay said he wants to help disabled students es,” Scott said. “It would mean “It was an issue,” said McKay’s brother Robert. navigate the challenges of an already diffi cult college more and more Californians “It’s grade school, kids get picked on a lot. Even if education compounded by dealing with a disability. are denied higher education.” express he wasn’t good friends with these kids, he would “They have to do academia, they have to achieve Legislators are considering sit there and jump in. He got knocked around a bit everything a normal student has to achieve, but on a budget that includes $12.5 when he was a kid.” top of having a disability,” he said. billion in cuts – including $500 dismay at McKay said he still likes to stick up for his fellow Oliver Deeley, treasurer of the Disabled Students million each from the UC and students, but in a different way. Association, said he signed up for the position at the CSU systems and $400 mil- He was a senator and vice president in student Disability Resource Center orientation at the begin- lion from community colleges possible cuts government at West Valley College, and he’s starting ning of this semester after he heard McKay give a – and $12 billion in revenues. a club called the Disabled Students Association. speech about the new club. Brown needs a two-thirds vote “I really want to help disabled students any way I “I thought he was almost like a professional be- from both legislative houses to can, and I want to advocate for them and represent cause he knew what to say. He knew how to ap- put the revenues up to a vote. Staff Report them,” he said. “I want disabled students to feel proud proach the audience,” Deeley said. “He was on the He has said the cuts would of themselves for what they achieve, and know that ball.” double if Republicans block if they need help it’s there.” The club has had one offi cial meeting, where about an extension of taxes on pur- The CSU system will reduce McKay said he also has a disability: Tourette’s Syn- three other students came, but Deeley said he’s con- chases, autos and income from enrollment to its 23 colleges next drome. fi dent that McKay can grow and improve the club. making it to the ballot. fall, Chancellor Charles Reed “I hit myself on campus and I make noises that I “I’m pretty confi dent in his abilities,” Deeley said. Reed and Yudof both said Monday night. can’t help,” he said. “He has blown me away. His skills exceeded anything pledged to avoid tuition in- Reed’s announcement came According to a paper published in 1993 in the Ar- creases for students this year, after a joint appearance in Sac- chives of Psychiatric Nursing, Tourette’s Syndrome but said all bets are off if the ramento in which UC President is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a see STUDENT page 2 tax extension fails. Mark Yudof and Reed said that “I’m not planning on push- neither intended to raise student ing that button again,” said Yu- fees at their institutions in the dof, referring to 40 percent fee face of severe budget cuts. WORLD NEWS hikes UC have imposed over Both decisions were reactions the past two years. “It just has to cope with the California state too much impact on students budget defi cit, according to an Pledge for reform in Egypt met with distrust despite the substantial amount article from McClatchy Tribune of student aid available.” Information Services. Kim Murphy Suleiman to clamp down on cor- Opposition leader Ayman Nour, Reed said he doesn’t intend Stephanie Martin, a senior Jeffrey Fleishman ruption, widen press freedoms, lift who was jailed for four years after to raise tuition beyond last business marketing major, said emergency law when conditions running against Mubarak for presi- November’s 10 percent hike she thinks the cuts to enrollment McClatchy Tribune warrant and form a committee to dent in 2005, said the government is – “except if in June the rev- aren’t fair for students. amend the constitution. deceiving Egyptians. enue enhancements fail and “They already said that they CAIRO — Hopes for a road map Leaders of the Muslim Brother- He said government offi cials’ the whole bottom falls out of would have open enrollment and on how to bring political reform hood opposition group announced talks were an attempt to placate everything, we’ll have to come now they are going back on their to Egypt faded Monday, with anti- they will not continue any dialogue demonstrators without inviting sig- back and reset that.” word,” she said. government activists casting doubt unless the demands lodged by Tah- nifi cant members of the opposition, The governing boards at Geng Li, a senior animation/ on the legitimacy of talks and thou- rir Square protesters for an end to including Nobel Peace laureate Mo- UC and CSU have imposed illustration major, said it will sands of protesters entering their Egypt’s repressive regime are met. hammed Elbaradei, or taking genu- double-digit increases in stu- become more and more diffi cult third week as a noisy occupation “We support the demands of the ine steps at constitutional reform or dent fees in each of the last for students to graduate from force in the heart of the nation’s people. At the top of these demands removing Mubarak from power. two years. At UC, the com- college. capital. is the stepping down of President The Muslim Brotherhood was bined effect has been to raise “A cut in enrollment means Many activists showed little Mubarak ... before the end of this not allowed to enter the talks until undergraduate fees for in- people will graduate later and confi dence the government would week, not September,” said Issam its leaders agreed the group would state students from $6,202 in be introduced to the work force follow through with a pledge an- al-Aryan, a member of the brother- not run in the presidential elections, the 2008-09 academic year to nounced by Vice President Omar hood’s executive bureau. he said. $10,092 this fall. see CUTS page 2 WEATHER SPORTS, PAGE 3 OPINION, PAGE 5 A&E, PAGE 6 SOCIAL MEDIA Follow us on Spartans fall on beam, lose to Prison creates more Drink of the Week: Twitter No. 2 Stanford murderers Affogato @spartandaily Gymnastics team hampered by U.S. corrections system needs Italian drink is a delectable Become a fan peformance on beam. rehabilitation itself. concoction. on Facebook High: 64° facebook.com/ Low: 38° spartandaily 2 NEWS sPARTANDailY Tuesday, February 8, 2011 STUDENT cause I was able to,” he said. politics and intends to join “A lot of other disabled the SJSU student govern- From Page 1 students like myself don’t ment once his new club have the time or aren’t in can run itself, but said he I would have ever imag- the condition to represent doesn’t want to pursue pol- ined.” or do student government.” itics later in life. McKay doesn’t talk Hugh Leonard, West “I only do politics be- about his disability in terms Valley College Inter Club cause that’s something of how different it makes Council president, said that’s necessary in this him from other students, McKay was very effec- world,” he said. “There are but in terms of his duty tive during the time they more politics in special to help other disabled stu- worked together in student education than in regular dents because of what he is government.