Serving San Jose State University since 1934 Volume 145 • Issue 22 Wednesday, October 14, 2015 A&E OPINION SPORTS Kids get their Hailee Miguel Grad student ‘green Halloween’ remembers prepares for on at Guadalupe master of horror, 2016 Summer YouTube.com/SpartanDailyYT River Park p.3 Wes Craven p.5 Olympics p.6 CAMPUS ALERT Police detain allegedly suicidal man in possible weapon scare By Jeremy Cummings @JeremyCummings3 Police offi cers responded to loaded into an ambulance and a report of an allegedly armed taken away around 5:30 p.m. and suicidal individual on San Th roughout the whole in- Jose State University’s campus cident the subject repeatedly yesterday. Th e call came in- shouted that he was an army around 4:17 p.m. and offi cers veteran and that he was taking from both University Police medication for depression. Department and San Jose Police Offi cers searched the sus- Department responded. pect’s vehicle and removed UPD Offi cer Michael Santos various items, including a mil- said offi cers found the subject’s itary helmet, a tactical vest, a vehicle in the Seventh Street Pelican-brand protective case parking lot. Witnesses told and a piece of binder paper offi cers they saw the driver of fi lled with notes about the the vehicle walk onto campus. man’s military history. UPD sent out an alert as they SJSU’s media relations Direc- began their search. tor Pat Lopes Harris had no fur- About fi ft een minutes later ther comment on the incident. offi cers located the suspect and took him into custody without Jeremy Cummings is any injury to him or the offi cers, the Spartan Daily Katie Rike | Spartan Daily according to an email sent to executive producer. After responding to a report yesterday, police offi cers took this man into custody the campus community. He was near the Engineering Building. He has no affi liation with San Jose State University. MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD SJSU School of Journalism awards CNN correspondent By Jeremy Cumming & Rain Stites Sidner began her career working as a reporter @JeremyCumming3 for various news stations across the country. @writeas_rain In 2004, she worked as the weekend co-anchor and weekday reporter at KTVU in Oakland, With bombs dropping, rifl es clamoring and California. people dying in the streets, most people would Even though Sidner grew up in a house without have a hard time keeping their composure. television, she has always felt passionate about For Sara Sidner, however, such chaos is just a her work in broadcast journalism. Th is passion, part of the job. she said, has taken her around the world and “We were so used to hearing gunshots that earned her multiple awards in journalism. like, I could sleep through it,” Sidner said. Sidner came to San Jose State University yes- Katie Rike | Spartan Daily Th e CNN correspondent currently based in Los terday to receive the William Randolph Hearst CNN correspondent Sara Sidner visited San Jose State Univer- Angeles has covered a variety of topics during her Award. sity yesterday and met with JMC students and faculty through- many years as a reporter for the company. out the day. She was awarded the William Randolph Hearst SIDNER 2 see on page Foundation Award in the MLK Library. RIDE ALONG street and a Zumba dance class at Parque De With music blaring from six-foot-tall Th e Spartan Alumni Association in con- Los Pobladores on Market Street. speakers and the sound of people bang- junction with the Luna Park Arts Founda- “Viva Calle has six miles of open streets ing pots and pans, cyclists rode by the tion provided chalk art for people to par- ‘Long live with activities along the way which is streets of downtown that would normally ticipate in a community drawing. meant to bring communities together,” be occupied by cars and buses. Kids played “We also have the chalk art mural where said Clift on Gold, events coordinator for hockey in the street, cycled and ran around people can fi ll in diff erent squares and it will the streets‘ the San Jose State University Alumni As- the plaza and through the water fountains sociation. to stay cool. see VIVA on page 2 Viva Calle gets San Jose out and into the streets By Matthew Dziak & Dakotah Zabroski @bigmattitude @DakotahZabroski Bicycle enthusiast, joggers and artists joined together for Viva Calle San Jose at Plaza de Cesar Chavez on Sunday. Viva Calle, which means “long live the streets,” blocked off sections of downtown San Jose for people to engage in the inaugu- ral open-street event. Bicycling was the main focus and hundreds of cyclists interacted during their ride from Downtown San Jose to the East Foothills. “I think it’s a great event and I’m happy to be working it,” said San Jose Police Depart- ment Patrol Sergeant Lawrence Birch. “I’m a bicyclist enthusiast myself and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be out here and it’s great interacting with the people participat- ing in it.” Th e event provided an opportunity for peo- ple to experience downtown with bicycle-dec- Infographic from the offi cial website of Viva CalleSJ orating stations, music echoing from street to The inaugural route of Viva CalleSJ is named Downtown and Eastbound and stretches over six miles. 2NEWS Wednesday, October 14, 2015 VIVA from page 1 ItIt demonstratesdem that make a big mosaic at the end,” Gold said. we can use our city in Th e program is designed to help com- new ways ... it really munity involvement through art as well shows a diff erent as for children to experience the creation of art according to Gold, who is also the character of the city. President of Luna Park Art. Th ere was also a barrage of volunteers Anthony Cardott helping to promote the event. San Jose State alumnusluumnuss “Community is really important be- cause it helps push our culture along,” said child and adolescent development “It demonstrates that we ccanan useuse ourour junior Trevor Gutierrez, who is a Chil- city in new ways, or in ways we haven’t dren’s Discovery Museum volunteer. used before and it really shows a diff er- Along with a group of volunteers, Guti- ent character of the city,” said SJSU alum- errez helped customize people’s bicycles nus Anthony Cardott. “Th ere really are a and had bubbles for the children. lot of people here who want to share the Th e volunteers decorated bicycles with space, and who really want to get together streamers and clipped cards to their tire to party and be neighbors.” spokes to create a little noise maker. “We are hoping to do this year aft er year and without the support of the com- Matthew Dziak and Dakotah Zabroski munity, we can’t have events like these,” are Spartan Daily staff writers. Gutierrez said. Viva Calle aimed to make citizens of the See video coverage at city realize that San Jose is more than a YouTube.com/SpartanDailyYT fast-paced technological hub with giant concrete buildings. In 2014, Sidner returned to the U.S. aft er SIDNER spending seven years abroad. She discussed from page 1 the shock of re-adjusting to the journalistic cultural diff erences between the U.S. and Randy Vazquez | Spartan Daily Th e awards ceremony took place at 4:30 p.m. the various countries where she had lived. in Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and Sidner “I was in Jerusalem and then Abu Dhabi. Journalism junior Ashley Broom asks Sara Sidner a question in the Mack spent the day leading up to the ceremony My transition from there to LA—I’m still Lundstrom Newsroom. speaking with students in SJSU’s School of getting over it,” Sidner said. I mean I’m Journalism and Mass Communications. still trying to fi gure it out because the sto- just loves being a journalist. experiences was insightful. Sidner said she enjoys speaking to stu- ries are very diff erent, our companies are “I’ve never had a boring day at work. “She seems like a very powerful woman dents about her work and journalism in very diff erent.” It’s just endlessly interesting and there’s and very driven and knows exactly what general, either at SJSU or her alma mater, Sidner was straightforward about the less no limit,” Sidner said. “For as many hu- she wants,” Moreno said. University of Florida. pleasant realities of being a professional man beings are on Earth, that’s how many Later in the day Sidner tweeted that the “I love being around you guys,” Sidner journalist. stories and then multiply that by, I don’t “fabulousness of #millennials” was on full said to JMC students in the Mack Lund- “I’m not happy all the time. I’m not even know, zillions because everyone has thou- display at the SJSU School of Journalism strom Newsroom. “You remind me of why happy most of the time. I spend a lot of time sands of diff erent things that they get up and Mass Communications. I got into doing what I do.” being introspective and worrying and be- to; that’s kind of what keeps me going.” Sidner engaged in a conversational panel ing stressed out,” Sidner said. “We put out a Sidner discussed her astonishment by Jeremy Cummings is the with SJSU students from various majors. lot of negativity, right? I mean what do you some interviewees’ willingness to tell their Spartan Daily executive producer. “I liked her passion,” said public relations see on the news? Is it happy stories about stories.