Wuytngic Drink of the Week: African culture Special seasonings Get some infused spice up double-fisted action at Pacific Palms Page .3 food with music Ethiopian Page .1 Page 4 SERVING SAN JOSE SWF: UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY VOLUME 123, NUMBER 19 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 Computer network shut library off in ns of the branches ot Outage interrupts online operations, him% systein. Iilegan Brill, a student , library's reterence departmeit. complicates patrons' access to Internet the system was taken offline At 1,, on Thursday and that the : . , teen it of the San 34 use Public Library sys the server may have been , , By Kenneth Sell trio, said the Internet technology depart Vednesday’s reports of 0.41A .Stat/ f Pir, ment rut 1,, uth San Jose State I Iniversity and "(Vednesday night) we - .t*, 'IT . the City of S.111 .lose were working on the problems --- especially with 1)espite the white paper signs hung oser serVer. said Brill. a senior histors A series of Ile nit, its puwet less computer on "Nis it is that one of the telling us hooks that are itithi t the ground Hoot or the lklartin Luther kes ersets is down," Himmel said. "We in different hi an, lies." Iir i; king Joint It I .11i ars..., tely ,tudetits brwed don't know At this point (what i,i.ed the Brill said the probleo- I? th tt h 11 ' past the wanting, only to be &Wiled server)." the Thursday. Recitation I . , 'staff ,is lie ut librats inhumation If immel, whir works closely with the In- "(T)iursday tiuoruuutlg it is A., I, 1,r it ',\ Papers taped on the monitors of computers in the Library ,sere sloise,1 down ternet technology teani, said that the server. touchy," Brill said. "'The libt.as I Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library inform patrons Tlititsdas k hie t11 .1 k whis Ii was manufactured lw Cisco Systems, still having problems and the Ilk II, KII.At that computers were out of service Thursday The , die, ting the library ,uperations of the were kind of iffY so (the people .1 ! 10 a m Is I illary AMU, with the systems opera - the network) took it .ill I 11111 \P library's server went down at around le Tooting their own horns ... Jews celebrate ' p T ' 440., holiest day of the year By Janet Pak , ,,- /1 , Nelson Brasil, left, a student at San Jose High Academy, plays musk with other students after performing at the inauguration of the superintendent of the San Jose Unified School District on Wednesday night at the San Jose Repertory Theatre in downtown San Jose. Brasil, playing a soprano saxophone, and his friends were waiting for their rides home. Jaywalkers risk injuries, tickets New Campus Village Web site I I o sei, il le tot king Ji 1,,Ilit I Li 01. By Yasuyo Nagata get a tiCket lot 1w-walking. 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I% verso% 1 h.p..ittueut .iii 1.11 rhes ii.. is ilk,' Pelayo said Even Ilot ,0111,1..t1 Pelaso usually gets off the shot 14 tie ut the Dr. ,,,e JAVW.11 IN I N( iii Itrrett, camp's. in fount Martin Luther 1 Students lack time to read for fun Crum htoum, hiltdues limit have Mlle to read ti By Kenneth Sell types of 1111440 ii iW that he is A college stink' Daily Stall Writer Ben Behliallt, a 11111101 computer engineei, St I itlo ,,, I tail, ',Litt and tan of science lieu, up,t 111t,I,V and hist..? s 1 Diana Iran, community relations coordinator for University Housing teXthiP0113, Jose sail that his tir,e for reading outside ot pl After poring over niany SAO State Services, looks at the progress in Building 8 on Sept 11 The 15 story tents has been cut short. lIniversity students have 11 different view of recreational building is slated to open next fall and will house apartments for upper last .t reading. "rve Inniestls not bent able 1,1 read A book the division students two eVell thou gli I \ Evan I.11111e.ssieti.e11111i0t, said setnestets, Ain in thr librart l’Ainp Heiman said "I look At it 11111Killgly 2.(111i) fed . that he is strapped tot time and ror it ha. k t .. het-Mlle mute bes a,mse I don't really have tuatkitig. I. "I used to te.111 OP ire I had time," time " oiline, sIitlelits Woillil Krt lit - tr %%lien lie had the time. freshman i'.1 the th !Aline said. Robeit Phan, a lot the Campus Village, she the read wience fiction and Ii it. said that he used to s it,I. but tor othet students it would be Oil{ toot, fantasy from writers like IRk. Tolken and Michael tee READING. page 6 art twit first served ileto I' -The termini-1g residents get first ,,, I 1101 'SI PAGE 2 SPARTAN DAILY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 OPINION EXPLETIVE DELETED Philippines a better fit for SJSU nursing student (Irowing up, American children are taught that the United feel disgusted by what has happened? Flow can I not feel an- college students in this world. I lounv the best education in the dents at SJSU. States is the greatest country in the world. gry about another American having to leave the country to get world is offered at American universities. Provost Marshall Goodman once asked me it I am proud They are told that they are the luckiest kids on Earth be- his degree? And I know that if my friend had his way, he would stay to be a Spartan if I would remember SJSU Madly enough cause they have the advantages in life that are not allotted to I feel cheated not just because a good here in San Jose for the next two years and to come back and donate to the school. children in other countries. friend of mine is leaving, and not just because graduate with his degree from SJSU. Well. I will remember SJSU fondly, and I know my friend Well, no longer. the reason is he's getting shafted by the univer- And that's the problem. He can't. will, too. There have been many, but I know one young man who will sity and nursing program. He can't just sat around semester after se- I know I will remember all the great memories I have from be boarding a plane to the Philippines in a year because San I feel cheated by all of those people that told mester taking useless classes while he waits to all my years of being a college student enjoying these years Jose State I Iniversity has let him down. me when I was growing up that this was the enter a program a program where students where people in their 20s are allowed to act like six-year-olds For three years he has taken his classes here at SJSU, stud- land of opportunity." who have transferred from other colleges have again. ied as the school told him he should and earned great grades. They lied. already been accepted. And I will also remember a young man who was forced to However, he was unlucky enough to choose nursing as a If there is no opportunity for an American SJSU has taken six semesters' worth of this go to the other side of the world to actually earn a degree. major. who has, seemingly, done everything right for man's tuition and given him nothing but a few So, to Mr. Goodman and all those in the administration That means he has had to wait fin years to try to even get 21 years, then who has an opportunity? general education units, nothing he couldn't who are looking to me to donate when I leave, I'll have to into the program, applying during multiple semesters only to All of the adults lied when they said I was have received at any junior college in America. pass. he declined. lucky to have been born in this country because He has fought for so long, taking classes he But you know. I'm sure they will take solace knowing they It's so screwed up that he has yet to have an adviser in his I had the advantages other children didn't. MARK CORNEJO didn't have to just to wait to get into the nursing have stripped away 17,000 from some college student and got major. All of those schoolteachers lied when they program, only to see transfers come in with no away with it. figured if he wanted to be a nurse, he should have some- said the United States would offer me the great- hesitation from anyone.