Watch out for Whitaker Better Form of ID Spartans Tailback by Daniel Severin the U.S
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FORUM ENTERTAINMENT Headphones prove s useful tool when Tommy Lee Jones and it comes to blocking out undesirable Ashley Judd in 'Double questions of race Page 2 Jeopardy' Page 4 4 [email protected] Thursday in 11:;,ii:;, No. 17 Serving San -lose State University Since 1934 Sep/coshci Iris scan offers Watch out for Whitaker better form of ID Spartans tailback By Daniel Severin The U.S. National Biometric Daily staff writer Test Center, located on the fourth packs big punch floor of the Engineering building, By Mike Osegueda Forget fingerprints, this is the is funded by the Department of 21st century well almost. Defense. The center has received Daily staff writer Technology being researched $1.8 million in funding from the Deonce Whitaker laughs when he in a U.S. government test lab at federal government since 1995, remembers going to visit children in an San Jose State University is on the center's director Jim Wayman elementary school and the fifth graders the verge of perfecting a machine said. being taller than him. that can scan the Biometric "Kids just grow unbelievable these iris of your eye and technology is obtain a great deal "This technol- a way to posi- days," the 5-foot-6-inch tailback said. of These days kids are flocking to information tively identi- Whitaker after his unbelievably quick about you. ogy is more fy individuals The Department by comparing start this season. of He has rushed for more than 132 yards Immigration and reliable than their specific in each of the three San Jose State Naturalization characteris- University football games, accumulating Services would be fingerprints. " tics with pre- per game, rank- able to verify your viously col- an average of 168 yards status as ing him sixth in the NCAA. Whitaker also a legal lected data leads the nation is scoring and all-pur- resident in this samples. pose running. country. Law William Barrett Forms of bio- Saturday night, after rushing for 203 enforcement offi- Computer Information and metric tech- cers would be able nology yards and scoring a school-record five Systems Engineering touchdowns one of which was an 89- to positively identi- include fin- yard return of the game's opening kickoff fy suspected crimi- instructor gerprint Whitaker was greeted with a blitz of nals. The Army analysis, face youngsters with pens in hand, eager for would be able to recognition an autograph. differentiate between friends and and voice recognition, as well as The autograph seekers are nothing foes during combat. iris scanning. new to Whitaker. He said it reminds him "This technology is more reli- "This is one of the newest and of his days at Rancho Cucamonga High able than fingerprints," said most promising technologies," rushed for more than William Barrett, research collabo- said Barrett. School where he rator and computer information Barrett said the technology 2,000 yards in each of his final two sea- sons. and systems engineering assis- can also be used for security mea- "It reminds me of high school, little tant professor. "It could replace sures by companies looking to to get my auto- fingerprints as the leading way to restrict employees' access to facil- kids come up and want identify individuals positively." graph, it's kind of funny," Whitaker said. See Iris. page 3 "Most kids look at me, and I'm looking up toward them." His laugh, while talking about whom is really looking up to whom, shows Pupils deliver legislators Whitaker is happy to be just a boy playing a man's game. Actually, "a big kid" by his own admittance. a Tidal Wave II message "I love Disney movies, I watch them with my brothers and sisters," said the 20- SACRAMENTO (AP) The in 1998 to 2.7 million in 2010, an year-old who has even been known to 29 junior high students fidgeting increase of more than 700,000, or debate the cartoons with children. on the Capitol steps Wednesday 35.7 percent, the California "As a matter of fact, I used to fight wore blue T-shirts proclaiming Postsecondary Education with my teacher's little daughter over them "California college freshmen Commission predicted this week. which Disney movie to put in. She always of the 21st century." The children from middle wanted to watch the same movies. I want- Inside the Capitol, academics schools in Roseville and Elk ed to watch a new one," he said. and lawmakers discussed how the Grove were brought here as living A movie can also be traced as the roots state will handle them and the examples of that anticipated of the now fruitful tree which is millions of other students they enrollment boom, dubbed Tidal Whitaker's career with the football team. predict will flock to California col- Wave II. Head coach Dave Baldwin said he leges in the next decade. "The young people behind us received a film of the then high school While they made no decisions, do represent the future of our senior, Whitaker, but the running back they stressed addressing enroll- state," John Brooks Slaughter, co- didn't originally fit into the Spartans' ment increases by means other chairman of the California recruiting plans because he was a than just building classrooms. Citizens Commission on Higher They talked instead about Education said at a news confer- Proposition 48 athlete. Chad Pilster / Spartan Daily adding A Proposition 48 athlete is one who, summer school, using community ence on the Capitol steps. because of academic deficiencies, is not Deonce Whitaker, tailback for the San Jose State University football team, runs for his third buildings for classes and expand- The children all nodded when allowed to play and practice as a member touchdown Saturday night against St. Mary's. Whitaker who scored five touchdowns for the ing classes available through tele- asked if they wanted to go to col- vision and the Internet. lege. The specifics of their future Spartans is sixth in the NCAA for rushing yards with an average of 168 yards per game. See Whitaker, page 6 The public college population plans were a bit more vague. will rise from 1.9 million students See Students, page 3 Chanting Twenty-five charged in SF housing scandal a welcome SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Tuesday, two San Francisco to ashram Twenty-five people have been housing officials were charged charged with criminal fraud or with accepting bribes, accord- By Christina Lucarotti bribery in a San Francisco ing to the U.S. Attorney's office Daily staff writer housing scandal, according to for Northern California. the U.S. Justice Department. Patricia Williams, 57, of San Five women dressed in brightly Those accused in indict- Francisco, head of the city colored saris and wearing sacred ments and complaints Housing Authority Relocation beads around their necks, chanted unsealed Tuesday were Office allegedly accepted a mantra, beat drums and played allegedly involved in a scheme $3,000 in bribes. hand-held cymbals near the to obtain federal housing subsi- A lower-ranking employee, Student Union around 2 p.m. dies for people who would not Yolanda Bradley, 39, of Wednesday. otherwise be eligible. Richmond, allegedly accepted Students stared at the women In an apparently unrelated eight different payments. as they walked through San Jose case, the City Attorney's office Bradley allegedly gave people State University's campus. has sued a company run by a bogus information for use on "It's totally cool. It kinds makes supporter of Mayor Willie housing application forms, you want to jump around and Brown for allegedly abusing then backed up the applicants dance," said Staphane Claus, a minority contracting rules. by writing &Ise memoranda to senior majoring in psychology. "It The indictments and law- the U.S. Department of makes you feel good. If you've had suit are the latest hit to Brown, Housing and Urban a bad day, it makes you feel that who is running fbr re-election Development. you can continue." in November. His challengers Both women were also The women practice the have accused City Hall of cot. charged with conspiracy and Vaishnava religion that is based Robert Bradshaw/Spartan Daily niption and cronyism. with making and using false on the Vedic Scriptures of India, Members of the Vaishnava religion (left to right) Divya Shakti Devi Dasi, Braja Mohini Devi Dasi, Deva The city's -lawsuit chime documents. said Braja Mohini, who was play- Brooke and Su Devika Devi Dasi chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra on campus that a white According the San Francisco Priya Devi Dasi, -owned ing the drum. their Saturday evening meetings. Leandro contractor, Scott Co., Chronicle, Bradley le the "They (the Vedic Scriptures) Wednesday afternoon to glorify God's name and promote is a front for Scott-Norman daughter of Brown supporter are the oldest books in the world Mechanical Inc., which has col- Charlie Walker, who is report- about the soul," Divya Shakti Devi tice Bhakti Yoga in Krishna is a place where people practice out and glorify God's name," lected more than $40 million in edly a focus of an FBI inveigh. Dasi said. Consciousness, which places god spiritual life. The words "Devi Shakti said. construction contracts desig- 'ration into the city's minority The Vaishnava religion focuses at the center of daily life. They Dasi" indicate the person is a ser- Students, such as Jason nated for minority-owned busi- contracting program. on serving god to obtain eternal were at SJSU to invite students to vant of their namesake. Their new Brown, enjoyed listening to the ness. Walter has not been happiness.