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FRIDAY 4 Spartan Weather 'Annoyed' by campus Spartans fry Rice at 4*- - Cloudy beautification projects the Event Center, 57-53 High: 61" F CO ,11C!''''''' Low: 43" F Opinion, page 2 Sports, page 6 410. Okv - - , RS li San Jose State University SServing Since 1934 Februttry 16, 2001 www.spartandaily.org Volume 116, No. 16 Tai chi $1 SJSU Breaking out of the mold club left books hit out in the shelves darkness this week By Vesenia Santana By D.S. Perez DAIIN S1AFF WRITER DAIL SENIOR STAFF WRFIER From the most popular book in the world, the Bible, to a dictionary of art Steam emits from Terrence Wong's terms to a manual about how to write mouth as he completes a sequence of advertising that sells, San Jose State moves with a plastic sword, stabbing University's historical book sale will into the cold night air. offer a variety of items for $1. Three other students practice moving - On Friday and Saturday, the univer- their arms in a rolling motion, throwing sity is scheduled to open its Senter punches into pads that another student Road storage facility to the public and holds or swinging a wooden staff in sell about 18,000 volumes of duplicate mock attacks with an occasional cry to ex-library books, according to library enhance the power behind the move. officials. Night students walking under the Most were published before 1979 overhang between Uchida Hall and the and cover all subject areas. Spartan Complex may notice Wong and The sale is scheduled from 10 a.m. to three to five other individuals practicing 4 p.m. at 1875 Senter Road, Building B. martial arts, giving the group a curious The facility is located roughly three glance or an amount of distance. miles south of SJSU's main campus. After all, it isn't a common sight to Lucy Yonemura, head of the acquisi- see someone practicing kicks and attack tions department at Clark Library, swings. called it a "one-time occurrence." But for She said it was the first time "that a members of sale of this magnitude has been con- the Tai Chi- ducted by the library." "The reason I Wu Shu Thousands of books are housed in club, people , the Senter Road storage facility, come out passing by according to the library reference is I are more of a I I department. here nuisance "Hopefully, people will come and buy want to be than the boxes and boxes, " Yonemura said. cold weath- I Revenue collected from the sale will healthy. It's a er. be used to buy more current library Pedestri- books, she said. good, safe, an traffic Eight to 10 employees are scheduled may risk to provide customer service and two healthy way getting in cashier stands will be operating during the way of a the sale, Yonemura said. to work out." move, or She said, there will be people at the may get on Quan Phan. entrance to direct the public. the nerves of There are heavy concentrations of SISU alumnus the martial books in the social sciences, literature, artists in business and sociology but all subject other ways. areas are covered, Yonemura said. "People tend to leave us alone," said Most are going to be sold for $1, but Daniel Mina, a San Jose State Universi- a selected number will go for more. ty alumnus and member of the club The most expensive book will sell for since 1996. "But we know some of them about $30. make fun of us in the distance." "There are some wonderful books in The club, which has been in existence music," Yonemura said. for several years, practices the moves of For those interested in the subject, tai chi, which could be best described as expect to find books like "A Report on a mix of martial arts with yoga exercise, Musical Life in England," published in along with Wu Shu, a form of Chinese 1949, or "Music: An Art and a Lan- boxing. guage," by Walter Raymond Spalding. The club meets every Monday and The reason the library is selling Wednesday evening, around 8 p.m. in these books. according to Yonemura, is the sheltered area, Mina said. because in the past, library officials The club has practiced in Uchida tended to buy multiple copies of texts Hall in past years, but this year it does- that the faculty used in their class- n't have an adviser to the club, which rooms. prevents it from going into the building to practice. See BOOKS, Page 4 Finding a replacement faculty mem- ber has been a priority this year, said MarA A.111 Ina Daily Staff fellow SJSU alumnus Quan Phan. SJSU HISTORICAL BOOK SALE One person the club looked to for help Stan Welsh, instructor of Art 135: Moldmaking, 12 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the was Dave Williams, the assistant coach WHEN: 10 A.M. ro 4 P.M. FRIDAY AND works on his latest creation: a huge head with a hand and Industrial Studies building, Room 221. SATURDAY for the SJSU judo team. Williams said telephone on top. Welsh touches up the sculpture from he was unable to make room in his tight WHERE: 1875 SEATER ROAD, BUILDING B. COST: EACH ROOK IS SI See TAI CHI, Page 4 RTVF major wins college film award Bv Vivian Bejarin lege 'frlevision Awards Festival where an excerpt of the student productions in each category will be DMI) SIMI ANION shown to an audience of television professionals and Greg Jain, a senior radio, television and film major, colleagues. won second place and $1,000 for "Egress," his entry in Babak Sarrafan, an associate professor for the the- the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Founda- atre arts department said he was a two-time winner tion College Television Awards competition. of the ATAS Awards when he was a San Jose State According to the ATAS Web site, "The College Tele- University student. vision Awards is a major TV academy foundation com- Sarrafan said that as many as 1,000 nominees petition which recognizes in college student film/video enter the national competition coming from numerous production." well-known colleges and universities. "One aim is to give these outstanding student "It's a prestigious award to win.' Sarrafan said. works exposure to TV and film industry and to other Sarrafan didn't know what the outcome of the com- students and faculty nationwide." petition was, but he said he knew Jain's production First place entries won $2,000, second place entries were awarded $1,000 and third place entries received See JAIN, Page 4 $500. As a winner, Jain is slated to fly to Los Angeles on Greg Jain, a film major, won second place in an all-expenses-paid trip by the ATAS Foundation on the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foun- March 4, where he will attend the gala awards cere- dation College Television Awards for his work on mony held at the ballroom of the St. Regis Hotel. According to a letter sent to Jain by ATAS, he will "Egress," a music program. Jain is slated to fly to have the opportunity to meet prominent industry pro- Los Angeles for an award ceremony in early March. fessionals. On March 5, he is also scheduled to attend the Col- David Baton Daily Staff C) F' ION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2001 SPARTAN DAILY SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Our once-beautiful campus changes its look Letters When I was accepted to San Near Dwight Bentel Hall there sunny day, and be shaded by the Jose State University in used to be a patch of grass that had trees that loomed overhead. Chancellor explains 1998, I received a package been walked on so much that it But not these days. of brochures and fliers that dis- resembled the concrete that was Now I can't even walk to and played green grass, smiling people, two feet away from of it. from Dwight Bentel Hall to Dudley tree-lined walkways and Tower Instead they have decided to rope Moorhead Hall without being dis- CSU standards and Hall. off the area with caution tape and turbed by the bald trees that create I was under the impression that I fill in the path with new soil. little shade, if any, and see the signs was going to a school that was phys- What makes them think any- that read, "Tree Work." stresses remediation ically beautiful. thing is going to change when it is These two projects have really year, when the But I guess I was wrong. green? made me think about the future of Every California State University here wasn't too You see, every releases statistics on incoming students who My first semester time I come to Students will continue to walk on our campus. need remedial education, these numbers get a bad. But I used to walk by the campus all I see is caution tape. the grass in the future because, in a What's going to happen when the lot of attention in the media and elsewhere. Scheller House and think, "Wow, No, I'm not talking about the hole sense, that makes their trips faster. current projects are done? This year was no different. that building is old. That's kind of in the ground on the corner of Here's an idea: 'Why don't they Will the older buildings on cam- The fall 2000 cool that it remains untouched." Fourth and San Fernando streets.

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