'rm.+ THURSDAY Cirque du Soleil where SPARTAN 11 DAILY wild imagination meets quiet sophistication 99, No. 8 Published for San Jose State University since 1934 SellitIllber 10, 1992 NKr 4 Workshop addresses Bay Area racial issues, sparks protests from students BY DON MoGEE various members of the San Jose each other on a system of equali- ty:' Hernandez said. Spartan DaJly Slat! Wnter community. The event was held at ty:' said Hernandez, who current- The workshop, which was the the First Unitarian Church of San ly is a member of the Citizens' first in a series of six open forums "Racism permeates every- Jose. Commission on Civil Rights. "We focusing on racial issues in the thing.. .and it will be around us Hernandez, after dealing with have a chance to change and make Bay Area, brought out a wide vari- until we begin to talk (about it):' car trouble and a group of five the world a different ety of responses on the topic of Those were the sentiments Latino students who met her at world.. (that) is not so strongly racism. expressed by Aileen Hernandez, the door of the church to protest hooked on labels of inequality." SJSU Interim President J. Han- the keynote speaker at Thesday's her speaking at the event, "All of us have something to del Evans opened up the event by "Racism in the Bay Area: Its Scope addressed an audience of over a contribute to reach a society of saying that there is a need to arm and Nature" workshop sponsored 100 people on the issues of racism. equity for the first time. We need ourselves through education JENNIFER FEURTADO -- SPARTAN DAILY by SJSU, the City of San Jose and "We need to learn to talk to to do all we can to develop diversi- See RACISM, Page 6 John Morales interrupts the "Getting Along" seminar to voice hii objections about the money being spent on it. See story on page 6. Brain -wave bio jam Muscle impulses played into a computer can create the next generation ofmusic BY SEAN COOPER SPartanDagrstemiter A musician stands poised on stage, motion- less against a scattered backdrop of flickering computer terminals and assorted hardware. And while he holds no instrument, as the lights dim, he begins to play. Breaking into some kind of weird post- modern tai chi, he slowly sways his arms back and forth as waves of ambient tones wash over the audience, getting louder and softer as his muscles tighten and relax. He wafts his right hand forward, and wind chimes add to the confusion of this one-man "virtual orchestra." No, this isn't Spielberg's latest flick, and no it isn't Milli Vanilli taken to its newest and most cynical extreme. It's Biomuse, state of the art in man-machine interface and the brainchild of SJSU assistant professor Benjamin Knapp. "It's something I had been thinking about since I was knee-high to a grasshopper," said KAREN HAW IT ',PART AN flAil See FUTURE MUSIC Page 3 SJSU Professor Benjamin Knapp sits proudly behind his innovative music-making machine, Biomuse, which turns muscular impulses into harmonies Bond money helps change face of SJSU nary and working drawings of tilt' Campus crime rate ranks fifth Pedestrian mall, humanities building planned building will be paid for with BY BRIAN WACHTER budget." Inclusion in the budget $901,000 in Prop. 153 funds. Con Tartan laity mad Wnler was contingent upon the passage of struction will be financed by a among reporting CSU schools the bond measure. future bond issue. Though the SJSU administra- "The city provided valuable land The CSU attempts to get a bond BY KERRY PETERS all other CSU campuses, Lt. Lowe says 20 is not tion is struggling to fund the class- valuable at market value to act passed every two years. as this is sisulan I5,ilv matt WilIer even an accurate number. es it now offers, it will spend more the university; for 20 years the the only way it can fund its con- "One in three, maybe even one in two than $9.3 million for construction promises were not kept" struction budget, Freeman said. Campus crime is just another part of the women will be raped at sometime; many of and improvement of buildings. The city will decide later this If the 1994 bond act does not college experience. But for SJSU students, the them going unreported:' Lowe said. The money will come through year whether to permanently close pass, "we'll have some nice draw- reality of crime hits home in a larger perspec- Lowe said the increase in awareness of sensi- Proposition 153, the Higher Educa- San Carlos Street, and Freeman ings on our hands:' according to tive than on most other CSU campuses. tive issues such as rape led to more crimes tion Facilities Bond Act, which nar- thinks this helped convince CSU Freeman. Of the 19 reporting CSU campuses, SJSU on being reported. "As Harriet Pila (SJSU director rowly passed in June. Chancellor Barry Munitz to allo- Construction will take two years average ranks fifth highest in Part 1 offenses for the Prevention Education Program) and the The act authorizes the sale of cate funds for the street. and is tentatively scheduled to which include rape, robbery, aggravated Rape Awareness program become more suc- bonds to pay for facilities. "We told them if we want to have begin in September 1994. assault, burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft. cessful, people become aware of the crime and Because the money is part of the any chance to get it closed, we have The building, which will replace Other campuses that rate higher are Los Ange- are more willing to report." construction budget, not the oper- to act on our commitment," Free- the trailers on Ninth Street, will les, Northridge, San Diego and San Francisco, lie suggested that although SJSU may have ating budget, it must be spent on man said. unify the five humanities depart- according to a recent report. more rapes reported than other CSU campus, facilities, not classes. The improvements will consist ments and provide state-of-the-art Each year, crime statistics are compiled by the number of rapes reported is nowhere close More than $3.7 million will go to of a pedestrian mall with trees, audio-visual facilities. the UPD, and are then sent to the FBI, which in to the number of rapes that actually occur on the Seventh, Ninth and San Carlos benches and landscaping, to be The project was conceived turn compiles the CSU Annual Report of this or any other college campus. The majority Landscape Project for schematic designed by Wallace, Roberts and before the current fiscal crisis Crime Statistics to be included in its annual of rapes that are reported prove to be acquain- design, preliminary and working Todd of San Francisco. brought into question the likeli- publication "Crime in the United States." tance rapes and can be linked to drug and alco- drawings and construction. hood of classes to fill the new Although these crime statistics include only hol use another reason why this crime may San Carlos Street, closed for a Work scheduled for 1993 building. those crimes handled by UPD officers, not San go unreported, the annual report stated. trial period earlier this year, has The one-year construction is "The university is supposed to Jose Police, they still accurately represent the SJSU's crime rates are also higher because of been a target for permanent closure tentatively scheduled to begin grow to 25,000 full-time equivalent crimes that occur on SISU's campus and its the number of non-students lured to SJSU's by the university for years. August 1993. But only drawings students by the mid-1990s. surrounding area. downtown location, Lowe said. Last year, for Where the money to pay for will be done before the city decides But with all the budget upheaval According to UPI) It. Bruce Lowe, while example, UPI) reported 11 instances of improvements to the street would the closure issue. that is going on, the question is will IS1.1's crime rates seem much higher than weapons possessions, and this year the num- come from has always been a stick- "We've discussed doing the work the university keep its promise to most other campuses, it may not be entirely bers will most likely increase due to the riots ing point in convincing the City of in pieces so as to provide space for itself:' said Jack Crane, dean of the true for several reasons. One is that some following the Rodney King trial. But according San Jose to turn it over to SJSU. the process to take place architect Humanities Department. police departments on other campuses won't to Lt. Lowe, most of these cases involved people Steve Wheeler said. This semester's full-time-equiv- respond to calls from places beyond campus who do not attend SISU. Unfulfilled promises If San Carlos is closed, Seventh alent enrollment is estimated to be boundaries. SJSU's campus police, on the other Despite the many reasons why crime statis- The university did succeed in Street between San Salvador and between 19,465 and 20,230, accord- hand, answers calls not only on campus, but in tics may seem higher at SISU compared to winning Seventh and Ninth streets San Carlos will revert to being the ing to Jack Williams, SJSU's direc- the surrounding areas as well, in turn boosting other CSU schools, the fact is that crime at away from the city during the 1960s turnabout it was during the trial tor of institutional research.