Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Tuesday, February 15, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 10 Photo: Michelle Terris / Spartan Daily Students evacuate the Boccardo Business Complex during a campuswide fi re drill Monday. Students: Fire drill an unwelcome disruption Leo Postovoit The drill, which happens once a ing. It’s not something we look for- dinator for Clark Hall. During the sandra Imazio said she was happy semester, is designed to make sure ward to.” evacuation she said everything was that she was on campus in class and Staff Writer students are aware when a real Gneyb Sanchez, a senior social going well. not asleep. emergency happens, according to work major, said she found the “It’s just a practice drill in case of “This would be the right time to Several students who were evac- Lt. Frank Belcastro of UPD. timing to be a hassle, especially as an emergency,” Poole said. have the drill because this is when uated complained the evacuation “We’re required (to do the drills) people have to go outside into rainy Darren Ng, a senior electrical the most students are on campus,” across the SJSU campus Monday by the chancellor’s offi ce and the weather. engineering major, found the drill she said. morning was a nuisance. education code,” Belcastro said. “It “I don’t think they should have bothersome but agreed it was a Kathy Chu, a sophomore anima- “It’s annoying,” said Michelle reduces panic and reduces injury, fi re drills when they interrupt class- helpful practice. tion/illustration major, said she was Azizi, a junior justice studies major. which helps keep the campus safe.” es, especially when it is freezing cold “There’s two perspectives to this,” evacuated from her dorm in Joe “Being in the middle of a deep dis- Azizi said the surprise event was outside,” Sanchez said. he said. “If I were studying I’d see it West Hall. cussion and fi nally getting into the just a bleak part of her day. Dorothy Poole, assistant vice as a waste of time but if there were a “Joe West has fi res all the time,” class and then being interrupted and “It’s not middle school anymore,” president of administration and fi - real fi re I’d be screwed.” having to leave sucks.” she said. “The fi re drill is not excit- nance, was a backup building coor- Senior photography major Ales- see DRILL page 2 Hockey team suspension lifted Leonard Lai Senior Staff Writer The SJSU hockey club’s interim suspension has been lifted after a week, according to the hockey team’s website. “The team is going to be able to participate in the upcoming March tournament,” said Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations for SJSU. “Some of the players will be sanctioned and overall the Photo Story: Leonard Lai, Photo: Jesse Jones / Spartan Daily team will probably have to go through alcohol awareness training.” The team was placed on an interim suspension Man arrested in library for trespassing after an anonymous tip was called in claiming the team allegedly breached the code of conduct. A man was arrested Monday inside the Dr. Martin Luther “He was trespassing since he wouldn’t leave and we arrested An investigation into the team was ordered by King Jr. Library. him for that,” said Sgt. John Laws of UPD. President Don Kassing shortly after. University police got the call in at 3:01 p.m., when it was re- Edmond Castro, the man arrested, has been arrested before on Coach Ron Glasow could not be reached for ported that a man was causing a disturbance and was asked to campus many times, Laws said. comment, and Andy Dickerson, president of the leave but didn’t. Castro was taken to county jail after his arrest. hockey team, declined to comment. 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Staff Writer “When you go to the store it is such an automated response to put things in plastic bags, said Thorne, a senior cre- When San Jose City Councilman Kan- ative arts major. “It will be a good thing sen Chu returned from Taiwan in 2007, to break people out of that habit.” he knew he wanted to see a change in the The ordinance will also apply to SJSU. city. “The ordinance specifi cally doesn’t in- That change was met with the pas- clude restaurants, so for most of the din- sage of a city ordinance that would ban ing units on campus it would not be ap- single-use plastic bags and start charging plicable,” said Jeff Pauley, dining services for paper bags to encourage people to use director for Spartan Dining. “Most of the reusable shopping bags. dining units on campus do not use much While in Taiwan, Chu said he was sur- in the way of plastic bags and the ones prised to go into a store and be charged that we do use are biodegradable.” for a plastic bag. Pauley said that for the shops on cam- On February 15, 1989 He later found out from friends that pus the ordinance does apply to, such as The Spartan Daily reported that ... places in Shanghai, China, and through- Village Market and Spartan Bookstore, out Europe were also charging for plastic these stores would have to make changes. bags. “There are plastic bags at the book- • Andy Coan (above) scores the fi rst run in the Spartan baseball team’s 2-1 win It was through the realization of how store and as I read the ordinance those against UC Berkeley, keeping the Spartans undefeated at 12-0. much litter plastic bags cause and the would have to go and need to be replaced thousands of years it takes for a bag to with some sort of paper bag,” he said. • A water rationing plan set to take effect in April is likely to affect the university’s degrade that Chu proposed an ordinance “The big difference with that is that I to ban plastic bags in San Jose. think that plastic bags are a little more ability to keep its landscaping watered and green. “I put the ordinance to the city coun- durable, so they would have to fi nd a re- cil meeting for discussion back in 2007,” placement bag that would work and do • SJSU Student Health Services was on the lookout for cases of Meningitis after an Chu said. “So it took a while for the the same function for heavier items such outbreak was reported in Santa Clara County. council to really decide on this and it also as books.” took a while for the staff to do a lot of There has been some backlash against background work. There were a lot of the ordinance, according to Chu. questions and concerns that we were try- An online news release from the ing to address.” American Chemistry Council states that WORLD NEWS The ordinance, passed by the coun- “None of the proceeds would go toward cil with a 10-1 vote in December 2010, helping improve environmental quality would ban the use of plastic bags starting since the retailers keep the money.” Protesters meet resistance in January 2012, according to Chu. Chu said the money would stay in the “The city ordinance that was passed store to cover the costs for the fi rst year, will ban both paper and plastic and will and the second year the amount would in Iran, Bahrain and Yemen allow people to pay for a paper bag if the be raised to 25 cents and a portion of it bag contains at least 40 percent of recy- would be used to educate people. clable material,” he said. The passing of the ordinance makes Jonathan S. Landay in the streets in Iran today," are unwilling to take to the According to the ordinance, restau- San Jose the most populated city to ban Warren P. Strobel Secretary of State Hillary streets and risk their lives rants and nonprofi t organizations would plastic bag use, following in the footsteps Clinton said. for ambiguous goals." be exempt. of San Francisco. McClatchy Tribune The turnout in Tehran In Bahrain, a Manhattan- Environmental club President Ev- “I think this is a long time coming,” was especially surprising, size emirate with a popu- elyn Thorne said she thinks the ban is a Chu said. CAIRO — Tens of thou- given the executions and lation of 738,000, security sands of protesters faced other harsh penalties meted forces attacked peaceful club-wielding security out to people arrested in protesters to prevent them forces Monday in Bahrain, protests there after disputed from massing in Manama, Yemen and Iran in what ex- June 2009 elections. according to news reports perts said may be shaping News reports put the and Internet posts. up as a pro-democracy wave crowds at tens of thousands. Twitter feeds spoke of ignited by the revolts that Press TV, the state-run police fi ring tear gas, bird drove Egypt and Tunisia's English-language television shot, rubber bullets and live rulers from power.