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t Twitter: @spartandaily INSIDE F facebook.com/spartandaily See exclusive online content P. 3 A&E: Celebrities take on New York Fashion and multimedia at Week spartandaily.com P. 4 Sports: SJSU men’s golf team participates Weather: Partly Cloudy in three-day competition SPARTAN DAILY P. 7 Opinion: Julie Myhre writes about the H: 73 Serving San José State University L: 52 since 1934 troubles of credit card debt Volume 139 / Issue 12 Opinion, p.6 Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Printed on recycled paper TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS LIFE New CSU-Adobe deal saves students 98% By Jonathan Roisman cense to any student who wants @JonRoisman the software by next semester. The license is good for three A deal between San Jose’s years, she said. Adobe Systems and SJSU will al- “Students need to be patient low students to purchase Adobe because we don’t know how Creative Suites software for many students want copies,” more than 98 percent off the re- Cheal said. “We’ll try to get cop- tail price, or as much as $2,541. ies available for (them) as soon as Students currently enrolled we can.” in classes that require Adobe The deal also allows school software can purchase Adobe faculty to get two free copies of Creative Suite 6 Design Pre- the Adobe Creative Suite soft- mium for $47.25 and Adobe ware, one for their computer at Creative Suite 6 Master Collec- school and the other for their tion for $57.25, said Catheryn home computer. Cheal, associate vice-president “It’s a really good deal for our and senior academic technology students,” Junn said. officer. She said, however, that the Adobe Creative Suite con- deal could hurt sales for the tains a number of programs such Spartan Bookstore, because as Dreamweaver, Illustrator and they will be selling the student Photoshop. edition of the software, which Retail cost is $1,899 for De- starts at $449. sign Premium and $2,599 for the “The deal is ultimately to Master Collection and is $799 help our students have access to and $449, respectively, for col- affordable software,” Junn said. A member of the King Library Rockers, a break dancing club at SJSU, practices in front of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lege students, Cheal said. Trevor Bailey, director of Library last week. Photo by Ron Gleeson / Contributing Photographer “Students are paying drasti- education for Adobe, stated in cally reduced prices,” she said. an email that SJSU and other NEWS, PAGE 2 Ellen Junn, provost and vice- schools that have an enterprise president of academic affairs, license agreement with Adobe said the school had been working can offer their students and fac- with Adobe for four months to ulty discounted software. TUITION arrange a deal for the discounted “Colleges and universities software for students. worldwide are using the licens- She said SJSU and eight other ing program to strategically Prop 30 fail may spell tuition increase CSUs worked with Adobe to pur- integrate Adobe software into chase tens of thousands of li- their technology landscapes and Staff Report Non-resident students may be forced to pay an addi- censes for students. curriculums,” Bailey said. tional $810 on their tuition supplements of $11,160 if the Lewis Geist, a senior politi- Adobe declined to state the The California State University Board of Trustees ap- initiative fails to pass, according to an agenda released by the cal science major, said the deal cost of the licensing program, proved a plan to raise student tuition if California voters do Board of Trustees. would be great for students. but Bailey said the cost was not vote for Proposition 30 in the November 6 general elec- “We should not be having this conversation now,” said “It’s a fantastic opportunity based on the number of full- tion. Lillian Taiz, president of the California Faculty Association. for students to get the software time equivalent units taken by “We (may) increase our revenue by a modest 5 percent “We should be focused on helping the public understand at an amazing price,” he said. students at the school. tuition increase, which amounts to $150 per semester and the consequences (if Proposition 30 fails to pass) and the Geist said he believed stu- Cheal said SJSU’s longtime that would be one of the lowest tuition increases that we stakes in the fall election.” dents could develop their artis- relationship and close proximity have had in the last seven years,” said California State Uni- Regardless of whether the initiative passes, Chancellor tic ability with the software and to the school helped the two or- versity Chancellor Charles Reed in speech given to the Board Reed plans on having each campus practice cost-cutting that he would probably buy it. ganizations broker a deal. of Trustees. measures such as the reduction in faculty members through “It’s an extremely reasonable “Adobe is just down the If the initiative passes, the Board of Trustees may refund layoffs and discontinued renewal of contracts, according to price and I can see myself using street, and they want to work $249 to each student, which was originally obtained from the agenda. Photoshop,” he said. with us and we want to work a 9.1 percent tuition fee increase approved in November Cost-cutting measures already practiced by the CSU SJSU has 6,000 licenses for with them,” she said. 2011. system include limiting student unit loads and reducing li- students to purchase the dis- Jonathan Roisman is a Spartan “ We want to recognize that good things will happen if brary resources because of a $750 million reduction in the counted software, and Cheal said Daily staff writer. Follow him on Proposition 30 passes,” Reed said. last academic year, according to the agenda. the school is hoping to offer a li- Twitter at @JonRoisman. CRIME San Jose Police chief presents strategies to battle increased crime By Melanie Martinez “(I want to see) what they’re go- @meltinez ing to do about gangs,” she said. Reported violent crimes in San Jose by year San Jose needs more sworn of- “And what their viewpoint is on it 5,000 ficers on the streets to control the because the gang violence (is con- What spikes in homicide, violence and cerning).” constitutes as 4,000 gang crime, said Chief of Police Despite the police resources that Chris Moore. have been cut within the past year, violent crime? 3,000 Moore presented plans to maxi- Moore said the police department § Criminal homicide 4,135 in 2002 mize the sworn officers in San Jose will utilize overtime to keep officers 2,000 yesterday to the City Council in an on the streets to prevent this year’s § Forcible rape information-only meeting, just a 33 homicides from increasing. § Robbery 6DQ-RVH\HDUWRGDWHIRU day after he publicly announced However, Moore said the main 1,000 his plans for resignation as chief of issue remains with a lack of sworn § Aggravated assault police. and experienced officers to patrol “Until sworn staffing levels are San Jose, and providing overtime is 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 increased, however, the Depart- just a temporary patch to the hike in Source: San Jose Police Dept. Leo Postovoit and Nick Celario / Spartan Daily ment may utilize overtime sup- crime. pression cars to proactively address There are 871 authorized posi- dispatchers and communication involvement because of the staffing After the council majority voted quality of life issues,” said Moore tions for sworn officers in San Jose, specialists may be responsible for cuts. for the fiscal reform plan last year, during his presentation. yet there are 46 vacancies, he said. the nine people who left the depart- “They just don’t have the people which would cut costs and save The meeting was held to address Moore said the staffing short- ment since January for outside em- like they used to,” he said. “We had $100 million per year, Reed said the the police efforts to control crime age has led to an increase of over- ployment, Hober said. our national night out in parks in savings would lead to an increase in after this year’s 33 homicides, 13 time for existing officers, who “The pay in many other dispatch August and an officer came, threw police officers. of which were gang related, Moore have clocked in an average of 14.2 areas is more than in San Jose,” he some stuff out and left.” “These reforms mean that we said. overtime hours per pay period from said. He said last year the police offi- can begin planning to restore criti- While he said 19 of the 33 ho- June to August. Tom Morse, co-president of the cer stayed at the national night out cal service, starting with our police micides this year have been solved, “(Overtime) will not be sustain- TJ Martin Neighborhood Park As- the whole time. department,” Reed said. there is still a large need to halt gang able, and this is not a long-term so- sociation in Almaden, said he’s seen Teddy Morse, secretary of the Reed also said the previous cuts violence. lution to these issues,” Moore said. the affects of the police budget cuts. same neighborhood program and to the police force have caused a de- “The incidents with gangs are Deputy Chief Officer, Dave “We just had a burglary on Sun- wife of Tom Morse, said the police crease in response rate and inability now much more violent,” he said. Hober, of the Bureau of Technol- day,” he said.