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r SITE FOR SJSU-CITY LIBRARY A partnership between San Jose State San Fernando Street between South Fourth University and the City of San Jose will and South Seventh streets A garage is also a $40 million. state -of the -art library to being built, but is not included in the $40 Library due north bring university President Caret announce the for- the city and the university campus The proposed site will run along million estimate Mayor expects mation of a Planning and Implementation In Monday's press conference, Hammer Team. said the library would be on the northwest part SAN FERNANDO STREET Mayor Hammer has set a timetable to cre- of campus. She said the location should be on smooth sailing me this team within the next 30 days, accord- the external periphery of campus, offering ing to a State of the City briefing fact sheet inviting access to the public at large." obtained from her office. "Obviously, there will be a number of hur- for $40 million This team will be responsible for determin- dles to overcome and problems to be resolved ing issues such as the exact location of the in order for this partnership to succeed," library and what will happen to existing Hammer said preceding her State of the City constructuon libraries and buildings on campus should the speech Monday night. bond issue be passed by voters. Hammer said that if voters rejected the By Dennis Knight November '98 bond issue it would Spartan Daily Staff Writer Other particulars to be ironed out by the statewide CLARK planning team include details about the not necessarily be the end of the project. 1 he proposal for SJSU's new $40 million planned accompanying parking structure "I'm hoping that the voters in their wisdom LIBRARY library on campus will move ahead in the next which is not included in the $40 million esti- will approve this, but President Caret and I are few weeks when Mayor Susan Hammer and mate and the working relationship between See Library, page 6 Slim pickings for scavengers Who gets
By Andy W. Ho Jose's District 3, which includes SJSU, see Spartan Daily Staff Writer first dibs the situation. In a Jan. 22 report by the San Jose City If you're like most people, you don't see Council Rules Committee, a recommenda- Marcelo. You don't see his shabby clothes, tion was made to address the issue of scav- rumpled look and the small bags he carries enging from recycling bins because of com- on class around to collect aluminum cans to recycle plaints filed by citizens. for money. According to Margaret Tamisica, assis- Marcelo, who wouldn't give his last tant to District 3 Councilman David name, is homeless. And most people look Pandori, research into the homeless' scav- selection? right past him. These days, people like him enging will target those who rummage are part of the urban landscape. through recycling bins in residential areas. By Dennis Knight Marcelo worked in plastics manufactur- Tamisica said how the city would Spartan Daily Staff Writer ing before he was laid off two years ago. He enforce this ordinance is still to be deter- can earn about $20 a day scavenging for mined. The San Jose City Council awaits a Sophomores and juniors get the short end of the stick cans. report from Environmental Services, before under priority registration guidelines recently implemented "We (homeless) needs the money," by the he the council can discuss and vote on tiic Academic Senate. said, talking about why he sifts through issue. The policy is effective in the Fall of 1997. garbage looking for aluminum cans. We Cadet Kristyn Magenot from the San "Fhe resolution will define, for the first time, exactly who don't want to steal." Jose State University Police Department gets to register for classes first, a major concern for students That's not how some residents of San trying to graduate in a reasonable time frame. See Scavenging, page 6 "There has not been a previous policy," said Stacey Morgan-Foster, the associate vice-president for student PHOTOS Be affairs and academic senate member. "It gives guidelines as to AFIIC CRABB what priorities are given to certain registration groups." Spartan Daily Previously, there was no rationale given as to who was awarded priority when registering. Morgan-Foster said. Above: A woman Students can register in the following order: priority stu- searches through dents, first-time freshmen, graduating students (seniors and a garbage can on graduate students), graduate students, seniors, juniors and, campus for finally, all other students. Those not considered priority stu- recycleables on dents will register on the basis of rotating alphabetical cyclesTHSTREET within each group. Monday afternoon See Registration, page 6 Right: A woman drains a beverage can S.J.: One of before putting it in her recycle bag as students look on Monday after- state's safest noon. City's overall crime drops 9 percent
By Kimberly Lemke Vli"%rsii*" Spartan Daily Staff Writer San Jose residents have reason to feel safe: overall crime decreased in the city by 5 percent in 1996. According to figures released by the San Jose Police Department on Wednesday, violent crime, which includes homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, dropped by 9 percent within the city limits. Crimes such as burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft, which are labeled as prop- erty crimes, decreased by 4 percent last year. The press release from the SJPD Crime Analysis Unit went on to say that the city of San Jose has been, and remains "one of the safest large cities in America," because of the continuing low crime rates. Sgt. Jaime Zarate of SPEY% crime prevention division said the decrease is most likely due to the high amount of cooperation between the police department and members of See Safe, page 6
SJPD finds Editorial SJSU to display soulful sounds Bringing hack Tomorrow suspect By Terri Milner and in local churches at Martin, admission ROTC is. necessary The lives of day Spartan Daily Staff Writer an early age with her recruiter at the SJSU By Kimberly Lemke for financial aid relatives in a group Admissions and Spartan Daily Staff Writer workers in San What do you get when you take called the "I lodge Records Office. Page 2 the 19114 and 1993 Gospel Academy The prime suspect in the unsolved Jose and the Family." Martin is responsi- Awards "Best Female Vocalist of the Hodge - Williams ble for booking murders of five women in Oklahoma Animal rights effects of the new Year" and combine her with an open- City was arrested outside of. San has organized a gospel Hodge -Williams, SeientiAls should zone ordinance ing act by a man who has been com- choir at Oakland High who is a family Jose's Le Baron Hotel on North First pared to Al Jarreau, Phillip Bailey and Street on Wednesday. find alternatives to School, worked as At RICAN friend. Curtis Mayfield? music department AWARNLYS "I've been lis- Danny Hooks, 38, was found by animal testing What you get is "An Evening of police after the Oakland division of assistant Al Merritt NIONDI tening to her since Page 2 Soulful Music" performed by Robin Junior College in childhood," he said. the FBI released a warrant for his Hodge-Williams and Gregory Joe arrest in the 1992 quintuple murder Oakland and volun- Opening for Entertainment Bledsoe in the San Jose Stale Can. Louis Quezada, SRI) public teered her musical experience at sever- Hodge-Williams will be Bledsoe, who Charlie Sheen University Music Concert Hall to al churches. She is the Minister of himself is no stranger to music nor to information officer , said Oklahoma commemorate African Awareness City authorities have labeled the stars in "Shadow Music, Choir Trainer and Organist at the Bay Area. Month. the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist A singer-songwriter-teacher, crime the biggest mass murder in the Award-winning headliner Hodge- city's history, excluding the 1995 Conspiracy" Church in San Francisco. Bledsoe's schedule allows him to Page 4 Williams is from Oakland where she "Robin has been active in gospel teach fifth-grade students at began performing on television, radio See Murder, page 6 music all of her life," said Jerome See Gospel, page 3