URSD A.Y LIFESTYLES - PAGE 5 OPINION - PAGE 2 SPORTS - PAGE 6 Deftones invade San Jose In his quest to become hip-hop, Spartans, Stanford men's backyard for private show 'Oz' pleas to MTV for help soccer teams battle to 1-1 tie partairi 7 aily %-s .1()Si S IA I I UNI I 12SI EV SINCE 1 934 Volume H5, No. 20 www.spartandaily.org September 28, 2000 Whitaker sidelined with neck injury By Marcus 12. Fuller ing halftime of the precautionary reasons. nerve root in a different area," said SJSU him to miss one game. Despite returning to USC DAILY SIAH 1.1)11OR game when he Whitaker flew to Los Angeles Tuesday to head athletics trainer Charlie Miller. "Dr. the team after the win again.st Stanford, claimed to experience undergo X-rays and an MRI on his neck. Fol- Watkins recommended rest to allow the Whitaker saw his performance dwindle. His Senior tailback Deonce Whitaker, the "tingling" from his lowing the tests, he saw spinal expert Dr. swelling in the area to subside. Dr. Watkins per game rushing average dropped from 157 ailing rusher for the San Jose State Uni- neck down to his toes. Robert Watkins at the USC Medical Center felt he should be able to return to full par- yards in the first four games to 32 after Wity football team, will miss the next two Whitaker was cleared for further examination. ticipation with the San Jose State football returning to action for the final five games. games of the season because of a neck injury to re-enter the game Watkins, who operated on Whitaker in team." Whitaker is currently ranked No. 6 in the suffered in last Saturday's 34-24 loss to the by team trainers, but March to release pressure from his herniat- The injury will prevent Whitaker from country in rushing with a total of 597 yards University of Southern California in Los head coach Dave ed disc, said that he had no damage to the playing his first full season for the Spartans and has five touchdowns this season. Angeles. Baldwin chose to side post-surgical areas. without being sidelined. "After seeing Dr. Watkins, I felt kind of The 5-foot-6-inch Rancho Cucamonga line him for most of "His conclusion was that the symptoms Last season, Whitaker suffered an ankle native first showed signs of the injury dur- the second half fiir were a result of Whitaker a contusion to the cervical injury against Tulsa University that forced see WHITAKER, Page 8 Banned Mural books problem let loose reaches at SJSU senate By. Erik Anderson By Emily B. Zurich DUN' SI.NIOR NN,,t DAILY STAI.I. WNW R The Academic Senate played hot Merriam-Webster's Collegiat. potato Monday, voting to return Dictionary, "Heather Has Tw.. authority concerning the Mommies" and the Harry Potte. Wahlquist Fence Mural back to the series are all books that have at Campus Planning Board. one point in history been banned Four different university agen- challenged or made inaccessible 1. cies and a pmfessor have felt the readers. potato's heat since last spring. Spartan Bookstore is featuring None have seemed anxious to a display of these and other book, keep the potato for themselves. as part of National Banned Books In a follow-up motion, the senate Week. also agreed to leave it up to the According to the American board on how to best exercise that Library Association's Web site, a authority. challenge is defined as "an "I thought the planning board attempt to remove or restrict was perfectly capable of handling materials based upon the objec- the mural issue and that a new tions of a person or group. A ban- committee (in the senate) wasn't ning is the removal of those mate- necessary," said Jonathon Roth, a rials." member of the senate as well as an Deborah Sack, Spartan Book- Jill Toyoshiba Daily Skiff assistant professor in the history store's buyer of books and media. department. said books are challenged for Nick Martinez is the 22-year-old general manager of San Martinez was an on-air disc jockey, a sportscaster and program The initial resolution, A.S. 1124, many reasons, not just for offen- Jose State University's campus radio station, KSJS (90.5 FM). director helbre being hired as the station's general manager. offered in a revised form Monday, sive language. had proposed that a mural commit- "There's nonfiction that's chal- tee be established by the senate to lenged all the time," Sack said. Don't ever expect to hear tinez look into KSJS. oversee its maintenance. For example, one of the books Britney Spears on 90.5 "I started DJ training and The large white wall surround- on display at the Spartan Book- KSJS, San Jo.se State Uni- became one in two-and-a-half ing the construction site of the Dr. store is Iris Chang's "The Rape of versity's student-run radio sta- THE months," Martinez said. "Some- Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Nanking." tion. times that kind of training can take Library had loomed large in the The book describes the World Nick Martinez, KSJS's general a person up to two-and-a-half years. minds of campus officials. War II-era Japanese killing of the manager, said he is looking for YOUNG I was on four times a week, working "It's such an attractive space," citizens of Nanking, China. diversity fun and making stu- from midnight to 6 a.m." said Robert Milnes, director of the It includes graphic pictures of dents aware of the radio station. Martinez chose to pursue the school of art and design. Chinese citizens. Martinez, who was born in San management position because he Last spring, after the fence's con- y Wong, a freshman major- Francisco and grew up in San liked the idea of leading people and struction, San Jose State Universi- ing in political science, said she Mato), is an only child. GENERAL bettering the radio station. ty's Facilities, Development and read the book and understands "I think that's why I strive for Former general manager Sharon Operations, which is responsible why the Japanese government attention," Martinez joked. At the age of 22, Nick Martinez holds Jennings worked at KSJS from for maintaining the campus build- denied the story. Office manager Brian Cruz, a 1994 until 1999. ings and grounds, had become con- "It's political pride," Wong said. senior majoring in business, has the reins of KSJS as its general manager "I doubted I could fill her shoes," cerned that the fence would "This book shows pictures. There's worked with Martinez for the past Martinez said. "At that time, there become a magnet for graffiti. one of a girl getting raped." two years. BY BEAU DOWLING / DAILY STAFF WRITER were protests about equal air time, At that time, Facilities, Develop- Another nonfiction book that "He's hard working, but not and she worked it all out." ment and Operations asked the was challenged is the Merriam- hard to work with," Cruz said. In the play, Fontaine also acts as "I remember when SJStrs basket- After Jennings decided to leave Campus Planning Board to devise Webster Dictionary. "He's toned down a lot since he the narrator, speaking to the audi- ball team went to the NCAA," Mar- KSJS, she began training Martinez a policy for the wall. According to placards in the dis- first started working here. In this ence between acts. tinez said. 'They were the underdogs as an intern. Agreeing with facilities that a play, it was removed from class- day and age, there am too many 'That's when I found out how and, I was pretty impre&sed. I decid- "I had to apply to Human pro-active approach might be the rooms in Carlsbad, N.M. in 1982 babies that can't take a little heat." much I loved public speaking and ed to look at the campus and wanted Rescurces for the job and had an most effective, the board consid- because it defined "obscene The 22-year-old Martinez said speaking in front of crowds," Mar- tu go here. I think San Jose is the interview with a panel of about five ered offering students and faculty words." he first heard the call of the radio tinez said. best city in the Bay Area. San Fran- people," Martinez said. "I couldn't the opportunity to paint murals on anything better. The The Harry Potter series, written in eighth grade, when he was cast Martinez decided to attend SJSU ciaco is just bx) dirty." have asked for the fence. by J.K. &Ming, was at the top of in the school play, "Grease" as Vin- after he graduated from Morean During his first year at SJSU, a The board limn went to Milnes nie Fontaine, the disc jockey 'atholic High School high school friend suggested Mar- See MARTINEZ, Page 8 See BOOKS. Page 8 see SENATE Page 3 Mostafa El Learning art like an Egyptian Razzaz, an a rtist and Ity hale hosilvli Egypt. In order to authentically preserve professor The series ran trom 8 (i.ni to 9 the piece, he used hand methods that from Helwan I) \II1 SIMI %%RHIN p.m. and included a lecture from El were available to the original artists Art professor Pamela Sharp El Razzaz, whe translated as Mabruk A lecture later in the day focused University in Shayeb finally got to make her nine- described the slides of the extensive on the major works of modern art.