Downtown Festivals Call for Prevention SJPD Takes Heed "We've Been Working Closely with San Jose Police," GI Forum of Leasons Learned Memi Er Al Castellano Said
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INSIDE: SPORTS Foci.* '01J111111 Home sweet Lowricler Illekoff Classic home SJSU football Takes Alumni show their *Travel abroad on Hiesman hopeful wares of design in Ron Dayne and the 'A bike show: cycles Wisconsin Badgers of inovation' Light rail update Page 3 Page 6 Page 3 SPARTAN DAILY Serving San Jose State UITniversity Si n c e 1 9 3 4 Volume 109, No. 10 September12, 1997 Sit 'n' spin Downtown festivals call for prevention SJPD takes heed "We've been working closely with San Jose Police," GI Forum of leasons learned memI er Al Castellano said. "We're willing to take their sug- in the wake of Cinco gestions to make this festival de Mayo riots wO rk. It's important to have downtown." By Scott Shuey this festival Staff Writer The San Jose Police Department will also have addi- Five months after a riot tional officers clownt.own, Knell broke out on Santa Clara Street sa'id. There will be about 300 following the Cinco De Mayo officers, 50 more than there festival, downtown San Jose is were for Cinco de Mayo. getting ready to celebrate "SJPD will also have their Mexican Independence Day. gang task force there, which is Since the May incident, sev- another 18 to 20 officers," she eral steps have been taken to said. prevent potential problems at Another factor which could the festival, said Noelle Knell of help is that this festival will San Jose's Downtown attract fewer people, Castellano Association. saiO . Only 200,000 to 300,000 Last Cinco De Mayo, 400,000 people are expected at the people attended the festivities Sunday festival. The GI Forum in downtown San Jose. Around hasii also emphasized their a riot erupted several Mexican Independence Day fes- blocks away on Santa Clara tival as family-oriented event. Street , just after the main fes- "All yungS people a different tival was ending. By 10:30 p.m. diversities- are welcome," police had arrested 31 people Castellano said. "We want to for looting and vandalism. teach them about our culture." Scott Lechner / Spar-tan Daily "After Cinco de Mayo we had The day celebrates the decla- Throwing pots Wednesday afternoon in the Industrial Arts building comes easy to Paul Roberts, who is taking ceramics as an elec- a series of meetings to improve ration of Mexican Independence tive course tor his Art Photography major. gation measures," Knell from Spain. The celebration is said. "This is definitely some- Sunday, even though Mexican thing we'll be keeping our eyes Independence Day is actually O n. Nobody wants it to happen Sept. 16. Female mariachi group celebrates independence again." In 1810, Father Miguel Since alcohoI l was also Hidalgo declared Mexican By Allison Wright munity relations coordinator of women," Gomez said. The group's name comes II Staff Writer The Mexican Heritage Las Adelitas has 13 mem- from the first female soldiers Warned as a major contributor Independence. He started by to last year's riots. This year organizing his parish ut the Corporation. bers who decided to steer away who fought alongside the men Ii bF An all -female mariachi The all-female band called from modern hip-hop music in the Mexican Revolution. anyone wishing to drink alcohol mS vement was so popular that group will celebrate Mexican Las Adelitas is one of the first because they wanted to stay Many of their songs pay tribute will be required to wear a wrist- within a few months he had an Independence Day at the of its kind to break the gender close to the music that depicts to the women who lost their band issued at the festival, army of 80,000 people. Hidalgo Mountain Winery in Saratoga gap in mariachi music. the depth of their Hispanic cul- lives fighting in the war. Knell said."The police have also was captured and then execut- on Friday. "The women from Las ture. Each woman in the group In one of their songs they been working closely with out- ed two years later, but in 1821 The traditional sounds of Adelitas have broken through said she was raised listening to sing about a female soldier who side vendors to stop the off-site after 11 years of war that dev- Hispanic culture come from the barriers in male-dominat- marachi music so, by joining is afraid she will not be remem- sale of alcohol." astated the Nlexican economy, mariachi music which has been ed mariachi music because together, they could be closer to bered if she dies in battle. The The GI Forum, which spon- Mexican was able to gain its dominated by men since mari- their music touches everyone's their culture and make history lyrics are: "I beg you that with sors both Cinco De Nlayo and independence from Spain. achi music began in the late hearts and makes it more live- as one of the first all-female Mexican Independence Day, has kind alike the Fourth of 1800s, said Monica Gomez com- ly because they are young mariachi groups, Gomez said. See Mariachi, page 6 also been taking precautions. See Indepenence, page 4 County symposium reviews latest Alumna takes over HIV information; deaths on decline publishing duties By Shayda Fathipour cases and deaths of AIDS has dropped. Staff Writer This year in Santa Clara County there was a reported number of 71 nevi' cases of people living at Sun Coinciding with Santa Clara County reporting Reporter with AIDS and two who had died as a result of a decline in AIDS cases, the ninth annual the deadly virus. By Lois Jenkins centration in pho- Management of HIV Disease Symposium is being In 1992, the number of deaths from AIDS in Staff Writer tojournalism held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose. Santa Clara County was 256, the highest since allowed her to According to the County of Santa Clara Public Hard work and dedication 1983 when the disease was first reported. take the pictures Health Department, the number of reported paid off for former SJSU grad- "The medications may be helping," Dr. Cyndie for the stories she uate Amelia Ashley-Ward, wrote. Wilks, health officer for County of who purchased the Sun - Santa Clara Public Health "I've always AIDS in Santa Clara Reporter in February, San been good at Department, said. "That may be the Francisco's 5:3-year-old black The number of reported AIDS C.ISCN III Santa Clara tout'o is on the reason why they don't go expressing myself to AIDS." weekly. AS editor and publish- decrease There haw been 7 I 1, a Se reported so far this year One hundred- on paper," she Suzy Gordon-Jones, staff coordina- er, Ashley mnety six new cases were reported last war Officials attribute the decline -Ward oversees a said. "When that tor for Santa Clara Medical staff of 15 to the elk% lowness of medications gown to HIV patients full-time and eight got a little boring, Association, said the symposium is part-time workers. The Sun- basically a global overview of HIV I added photogra- Reporter has a circulation of phy." and is designed to update medical 11,000. 161 professionals on the latest informa- That combina- A4 Well ar4 the Sun - tion concerning the virus. tion of skills Reporter, Ashley-Ward also 101 At the symposium, Dr. Martin launched Ashley- bought its associated weeklies Fenstershieb will be discussing the Ward into her first -The California Voice and Amelia Ashley-Ward 111 reported HIV cases. job with the Sun- the Metro Reporters Group Reporter, "Now I have more freedom Of the reports he'll be speaking and she's been from Dr. Garry Goodlett, the to do what I want to do, to do /00 from climbing to the top ever since. regarding Santa Clara County, son of long-time owner what I need to do," Ashley- homosexuals and bisexuals are the She's held a variety of p Carlton B. Goodlett, who died Ward said. iS0 number one tions at the paper, including at-risk group in all eth- in January The combined She said that along with nicities. In addition, heterosexual con- women's editor and managing culation of all three piityrs is that freedom comes great 100 tact editor. was ranked fourth among whites 160,000. responsibility. Latinos and second and third Ashley-Ward said she's anI. Ashley -Ward, 40, lives in "The good side of freedom is 10 among Asians and been handling almost every- African Americans, Pacifica with her husband and the independence respectively. thing since Goodlett left in to do what I 5-year-old son. She graduated 1994 want," Ashley-Ward said. "But The conference will begin with reg- due to illness, but being .011 TINS .111 ,101 from SJSU in 1979 with a the bad side is I can't blame .11 istration and cofTee at 7:45 a.m. and the owner has given her new degree in journalism. A con- mistakes on anybody else." will run until 5 p.m. Nine speakers options. %um* County ol Santa Clam Pubin SeSh Nicartrnwi See Ashley-Ward, page 6 ANN. AIL OPINION 12. 1997 Page 2 SPARTAN DAILY Friday. September Terminating Division of Technology is a mistake a of this valley. Robert Caret depend on the Division of and the campus our program, said Phasing out the division is president Granted, the enrollment fig- ;ind Linda Bain's deci- Technology's survival. community. Seth Bates, chair of' big mistake because it is sure to this division are low, sion to annihilate the While students currently in SJSU is not the the Division of lessen SJSU's competitiveness ures for other measures should be entire Division of Technology is the industrial technology pro- only institution that Technology.