OPINION V O T E Spartan Daily staff weighs in on midterm election issues V O T E SEE PAGES 4 AND 5 INSIDE Serving San José State University since 1934 NEWS Tuesday, November 2, 2010 spartandaily.com Volume 135, Issue 35 • Staff struggles to keep up with campus vandals 2 • Duncan Hall: A relic of past necessity 2 Lincecum delivers Giants • CAMPUS VOICES: What do you think of voter encouragement on campus? 2 to World Series title SPORTS • Giants to return to Bay as champions 3 OPINION • A Democratic loss, possibly an Obama win 4 • Candidates should have pulled ads 4 PHOTO: • Proposition 19: Enough with the pot 5 shots JOSE CARLOS • Want a ‘Green Revolution’ 5 • A vote for fair elections 5 A&E (MCT) TIMES COSTA | CONTRA • Makeup tips: Beauty doesn’t come cheap 6 • DRINK OF THE WEEK: Thai Iced Tea: A creamy and soothing nectar 6 ONLINE VIDEO The San Francisco Giants rejoice after winning the World Series over the Texas Rangers, 3-1, at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on Monday. • CAMPUS VOICES: What do you think of voter encouragement on campus? ERIK BOLAND three-run homer in the top Marlins. spartandaily.com Newsday (MCT) of the seventh that silenced Th at he hit two hom- the crowd of 52,045. ers this Series was nothing ARLINGTON, Texas — Nelson Cruz’s homer off short of remarkable — SOCIAL PHOTO: Freak out, San Francisco. Lincecum with one out in coming into the Series, he MEDIA Th e drought is over. the bott om of the seventh had one home run in 61 Become a fan Behind Tim Lincecum, drew the Rangers to 3-1. postseason games, span- on Facebook FARNHAM DONOVAN an expected World Series But that would be it ning 225 at-bats. facebook.com/ hero, and a long forgott en against the 26-year-old Neither ace was very spartandaily one, the Giants delivered righthander, who allowed good in Game 1, an 11-7 FollowF our the City by the Bay its fi rst three hits in eight innings, Giants victory, though tweetsttw on World Series title with a 3-1 walking two and strik- Lincecum was far bett er TTwitter victory over the Rangers ing out 10. Brian Wilson than Lee. Th at night, Lince- @spartandaily@ Monday night in Game 5 at pitched a 1-2-3 ninth, strik- cum allowed four runs in 5 Rangers Ballpark. ing out Cruz swinging for 2/3 innings and Lee, never Th e win gave the Giants the fi nal out and sett ing off before beaten in eight pre- OUTSIDE DAILY | SPARTAN a 4-1 Series victory and the a celebration at the mound. vious postseason starts, al- franchise its fi rst title since Renteria, who was 7-for- lowed six earned runs in 4 1954, when it played at the 17 with two homers and 2/3 innings. Polo Grounds in New York. six RBIs this Series, was Monday night, both were Th e 56-year drought is named its MVP, It also was brilliant, Lincecum for just baseball’s third longest. the second time he came a litt le longer and without Lincecum, aka Th e up with a Series-winning the big mistake. Lee ended Alexander Scott (center), a freshman theater arts Freak, and soon-to-be- hit. In Game 7 of the 1997 up allowing three runs and major, celebrates the Giants’ win against the Texas Yankees-target Cliff Lee Series, his 11th-inning RBI six hits in seven innings, engaged in a memorable single up the middle off the walking none and striking Rangers in Game Five of the 2010 World Series at High: 79° pitchers’ duel for six innings Indians’ Charles Nagy won Low: 56° SmokeEaters in San Jose. before Edgar Renteria hit a the championship for the See GIANTS Page 3 Chancellor recommends tuition increase MICHIKO FULLER lustration major, said she thinks the increase would go into eff ect next fall. the impaction storm,” said Pat Lopes Harris, Staff Writer is unfair. SJSU’s tuition has already increased $316 director of media relations for SJSU. “Th is “Th ey don’t take the students into ac- from the 2009-2010 school year and if ap- fee goes directly into the classroom.” Th e California State University Board of count,” she said. “We should have a student proved, spring tuition would restore $27 She said students shouldn’t expect to see Trustees will vote on a midyear tuition in- vote or at least a conference.” million to the CSU budget, according to the anything new or diff erent on campus, but can crease in an upcoming meeting this month, Th e fi rst part of the plan is a 5 percent in- committ ee agenda. expect restored stability and accessibility. according to the CSU Committ ee on Fi- crease to spring tuition, which was originally Valentin Rocha, a junior business admin- Harris also said that she had not heard nance’s agenda. 10 percent before the state Assembly bought istration major, said he was tired of the in- any plan for furloughs returning to the class- Th e tuition increase is part of a two-step out half of it, Fallis said. creases. room. process recommended by CSU Chancellor “Th e 5 percent tuition increase is pro- “It’s probably not a good idea to raise tu- “Looking into the future, there may still be Charles Reed to support 30,000 more stu- posed to make up the diff erence in order to ition,” he said. “It’s already prett y high.” uncertainty and we’re admitt ing new students dents next semester and support students get to the level we were at in the governor’s All 23 campuses could off er more course based on total funds,” Fallis said. “Th is is during a time of budget uncertainty, said proposed budget,” he said. sections and decrease class size, according to includes $106 million in federal stimulus CSU media relations specialist Erik Fallis. Th e second part is a 10 percent increase the agenda. Athena Lorente, a senior animation and il- to the year-by-year tuition, which Fallis said “Our campus was hit by the full brunt of See TUITION Page 2 2 NEWS Tuesday, November 2, 2010 CAMPUS VOICES Staff struggles to keep BY: JEN NOWELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF up with campus vandals VOTER ENCOURAGEMENT SONIA AYALA not be taken care of by either the custo- SJSU where taggers choose to showcase Staff Writer dial staff or the grounds cleaning staff is their artwork, but there have been cases removed by SJSU’s paint shop, which uses where taggers have overstepped their ON CAMPUS? Tagging is one of the most common solvents to remove the graffi ti. boundaries and defaced the campus by ALDO crimes the staff and faculty at SJSU deal Th e vandalism that has been commit- tagging on objects that are located inside CHAZARO with daily, stated an employee of Facili- ted on campus have not gone unnoticed buildings such as the Dr. Martin Luther As of right now ties Development and Operations in an by students, said Jeff Andaya, a senior King Jr. Library. e-mail. business fi nance major. “Th e most common areas to see tags I don’t feel “Cleaning up graffi ti is a daily event for “I remember seeing some in Sweeney are in the parking lots closer to the outside inspired almost several of the facilities staff ,” stated Bett y Hall on the back of the wooden lecture borders of the school,” he said. “Tags have at all to vote. I Luna, director of facilities operations. “We chairs etched all over it, or I’ve seen stuff happened before in the library on chairs, don’t really fi nd try to have a 24-hour turnaround to get drawn on the bathroom walls,” he said. tables and shelves. Th ey usually like to do Jerry Brown or the graffi ti off at the point it is reported or “But I’ve never seen anything on the out- them in a blind spot that cameras can’t see, Meg Whitman seen by our staff . Sometimes due to staff - side of the buildings before.” but we have caught people before using ing numbers and the extent of the dam- Laws said taggers are using the campus video surveillance.” for that matter, I age, it sometimes takes longer.” as an art gallery where they can expose Laws said the reason the individuals mean, I can’t Luna stated a newer form of graffi ti that others to their tagging skills in San Jose. responsible for all the tagging on campus relate to them. taggers have recently used to vandalize dif- “Taggers like to see their work stay up choose to graffi ti in small groups instead ferent areas around campus is etching or for as long as possible,” he said. “We nor- of stealing from a car is because tagging is Senior burning, which has been very expensive mally take photos of the tags, and once the easiest crime they can commit and still Health Science to remove. we do that we let FD&O take over and let avoid being caught doing. “I currently have a cost estimate from a them clean it, so cleaning graffi ti is a top “Tags are usually done by a small group glass scratch remover company to have 16 priority to prevent them from returning to of four to fi ve people rather than a single CAMILLE areas repaired and one that cannot be re- campus.” person,” he said.