Check spartandaily.com for student opinions on construction A&E 4 SPORTS 8 OPINION 7 The Faint’s Athletics Point, new album, complex Counterpoint: ‘Doom Abuse’ construction Bike Ban reviewed stalls Volume 142 | Issue 37 Serving San José State University since 1934 Thursday, May 1, 2014 #SJSUBIKEBAN Backlash against bikes sparked Human powered vehicles on campus seen as nuisance by SJSU employee union By Jasmine Leyva March 20, according to a Uni- “We’ve literally said to grievance is at the second lev- human powered vehicles Sloan said. @leyvaleyv3 versity Police Department management that we’re con- el, the president’s level. need to be walked “when He said the CSUEU’s con- report. cerned someone is going to get “This doesn’t mean the there is no clear path ahead, cern goes back to 2008 . A San Jose State Universi- The Santa Clara County killed and now somebody has president has to look at it, such as when a walkway is too “This has gone back a long ty employee union has filed a Coroner’s office confirmed been killed,” he said. but his designee can, which crowded with pedestrians or time,” Sloan said. “There’s a grievance in regards to a haz- Nee died from head injuries Sloan said the initial griev- in this case is Shawn Bibb,” other obstructions.” lot of folks on campus who ardous work environment af- on Friday, March 21. ance was filed April 18 and Sloan said. With construction, safety had incidents with people on ter last month’s fatal collision The California State Uni- the escalation to level two hap- He said the university on campus has become a con- human powered vehicles.” between a female cyclist and versity Employees Union pened Friday April 25 . is required to provide a safe cern. Sloan, who said he cycles an elderly woman. (CSUEU) has filed a grievance There are three levels to the work environment, and solv- “We (CSUEU) think they to campus, said the grievance Ching-Tsun Nee, an to be heard by President Mo- grievance according to Sloan. If ing the problem of human (univsersity employers) have is not “anti-alternative trans- 8 9-year-old woman, was hammad Q ayoumi, accord- necessary the grievanc will go powered vehicles would be an ethical and moral respon- portation.” struck by a female bicyclist ing to Steve Sloan, the vice on to a fourth level if it is denied beneficial. sibility to provide this to Before Nee’s death, there while walking on Paseo De president of the CSUEU’s 3 07 at the third level, Sloan said. According to SJSU’s Trans- the campus community, but San Carlos on the morning of chapter. Sloan said as of Friday the portation Solutions website, specifically for employees,” SEE NUISANCE ON PAGE 5 Brandon Chew | Spartan Daily A woman rides by the new Student Union using one hand to steer her bike while checking her cellphone on Wednesday afternoon. A new bike master plan is being considered. #SJSUBIKEBAN Master plan to solve campus cycling issues By Nick Esposito hammad Q ayoumi makes a ruling on @NickSEsposito the recomwmendation a committee BIKE ENCLOSURES North would be selected to start planning. SSC Parking BIKE DISMOUNT ZONE Garage After a bicycle collision killed an However, a bike master plan was CONSTRUCTION ZONE 8 9-year-old woman on San Jose State brought up more than two semesters REFERENCE University’s campus last month, sup- ago in transportation solutions by Jerry SAN FERNANDO STREET NORTH port has increased for creating a bike Wilburn, a member of the transit, traf- master plan that would ensure the safe- fic and parking committee and junior UT DMH CAR CYA ty of cyclists and pedestrians.strians. sociology major. KING HGH ADM Earlier in the “I’ve looked at IRC CYB ENG IS semester the Cam- the data and we CC pus Planning Board have 12,000 bicy- CL began the discus- ...no..no bike path p and [to] clists a day on cam- ATM sion, which sparked pus,” Wilburn said. SCI impose a bike ban would be TH SU SU BK a wildfire across “We are a commut- MD detrimental to SJSU BT campus on whether er school, so to have Jerry Wilburn CCB bicycles should be Transit, traffi c and parkingarking ccommitteeommittee no bike path and WSQ DBH banned. member andd sociologysociology majormajor impose a bike ban MUS BBC ART CH The Campus would be detrimen- SPM FOB Planning Board tal to SJSU.” YUH SPXC CP EC Chair, Mark Van Wilburn said SPXE FOURTH STREET HB TENTH STREET Selst, said he is going to recommend the he has been working with transporta- DE CESAR E. CHAVEZ EL PASEO NINTH STREET PLAZA PASEO DE SAN CARLOS implementation of a bike master plan. tion solutions and the transit, traffic B “The current status is that I’ll be and parking committee to create a bike ASH A CVC writing a letter to the president encour- master plan that would help put in place HOV ASP MQH AQX BB aging him to pursue a bike master plan,” an actual infrastructure for planned SH West Campus RYC Van Selst said. “(I will) suggest that the bike paths, permanent bike storage so- Parking Village bike master plan itself (be) outside of lutions for students living on campus Garage DH South Parking Garage JWH (Campus Planning Board) purview but and help impede bike theft. WSH DC CVB UPD CVA there is no current ‘ natural’ home for He said he started a petition getting developing such a plan.” signatures from students to put an ini- SEVENTH ST Van Selst said he is currently un- tiative through the Associated Students SAN SALVADOR STREET aware if a bike master plan has been Information compiled from SJSU Transportation Solutions started and that once President Mo- SEE MASTER PLAN ON PAGE 2 Infographic by Jonathan Marinaro | Spartan Daily facebook.com/spartandaily @spartandaily @spartandaily @spartandaily Thursday, May 1, 2014 2 NEWS #SJSUSNAPSHOTS Spartan gladiators duel for fun Relieving stress through conflict management Basil Sar | Spartan Daily Connor Carroll, freshman music educa- tion major and Jesse Guerrero, sophomore communication studies major, duel in a jousting match during the A.S. Superior Spartan event on campus Wednesday afternoon. The event was held to encour- age students to challenge themselves and relieve stress before finals. TAPSHIELD Security app gains foothold on college campus By Richard Burnett people these days.” Shield while he was president of the UF student awarded the company a $70,000 contract to in- McClatchy Tribune Among all the mobile apps dotting the body in 2009, when the school had a rash of stall the software as part of its dispatch system. digital landscape , from gaming to couponing , attacks and robberies by suspected gang mem- Based on UF’s experience, Valencia College Sarah Spann heard the steps behind her and Orlando startup TapShield LLC has focused on bers. He focused on mobile communications as in Orlando is considering TapShield, said Paul quickened her pace. The man pursuing her on one designed to save lives on college campuses. a potential solution that would go beyond the Rooney, assistant vice president for security the University of Florida’s campus sped up too. TapShield’s system is the newest entry in an blue-light emergency phones on campus that and a former Orlando police chief. She ducked into an apartment-complex park- increasingly competitive field of campus-se- are linked directly to campus police. “We’re definitely interested, and it is ing lot, but he lurked across the street. curity apps. The free app draws on cloud-based Nobody was too impressed with his idea something I’m reviewing even as we speak,” Spann quickly tapped an emergency icon computing, GPS and social media to give users then, he said. Johnson recalled a meeting he said. “Like any technology, of course, we on her smartphone, which signaled her loca- a high-speed link to campus security, company he attended with police and other campus- want to find out as much as we can and weigh tion to campus police. Minutes later, officers officials say. safety officials. all our options.” arrived and caught the suspect as he fled. It “TapShield is definitely a state-of-the-art “At that time, I showed them a BlackBerry The University of Central Florida, however, was the first time the UF junior had used way to deal with all the security issues we see and told them that one day, everybody would was more reserved about using a mobile-app TapShield, a mobile security application built on college campuses these days,” said Orlando have these. It would be like a mobile blue-light system like TapShield. Traditional 911 systems by a Florida company. lawyer Fred Leonhardt, an early investor who phone people could use to alert security wher- are “the most reliable” emergency system for a “Ever since that happened, believe me, a is chairman of TapShield’s board. “I did some ever they were,” he said. “Everybody kind of college campus, the college said. lot of my friends have now downloaded it,” checking around, and there’s nothing out there laughed. They thought I was crazy.” “We are interested in how systems have she said. “It’s a great safety net for us, and as impressive as this app.” Four years later, UF police have embraced been working at other universities,” spokes- you can’t imagine how much that means to Jordan Johnson said he got the idea for Tap- TapShield. After a competitive bid, the school man Chad Binette said in an email.