Tuesday, Volume 153 Sept. 10, 2019 No. 7 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY A&E Opinion Sports “IT Chapter Two” Why can’t SJSU football team returns without politicians be drops second game enough bite more honest? of season Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 ID numbers disabled for self-checkout By Jonathan Austin & fraudulent use of ID to the Spartan Daily. SJSU separates data into Kunal Mehta numbers to make The Spartan Daily was three different categories OPINION & EXECUTIVE EDITORS unauthorized purchases. able to replicate McIntyre’s for various protection Students with a meal plan If that is the case, we’ll shut it down. theory to buy Cheez-Its from levels. Student ID numbers Spartan Eats shut down can use a prepaid amount the Village Market without fall under Level 3, which self-checkout machines at of dining dollars to make Charlie Faas swiping any Tower card. is considered to be “public the Village Market and other separate purchases at Spartan vice president of fi nance and administration The new self-checkout information” with no security stores on campus following Eats’ establishments outside machines were installed controls needed, according to reports that students could of the Dining Commons over the summer and some a 2017 Information Security spend dining dollars without using their Tower ID card. appropriate authentication their permission, Monday places, like MacQuarrie Hall’s Office presentation. needing to swipe their The checkout machines method is to swipe, requiring afternoon and evening. Ginger Market, no longer Students who see Tower ID cards. were shut down after the the presence of a physical Students were cautioned have in-person cashiers. unexpected charges on their While students were Spartan Daily notified Tower ID card. to keep their student ID Students typically have dining dollars account should prompted to swipe their ID Charlie Faas, the SJSU The Spartan Daily numbers private in different not been cautioned to keep report them to Spartan Eats. cards, an option was available vice president of finance learned of the attack vector social media forums. their ID numbers private. to enter an ID number using and administration. after multiple students Industrial technology In the past, professors have an on-screen keyboard. “If that is the case, we’ll shut reported dining dollars junior George McIntyre distributed grade sheets Follow the The mechanism could it down,” Faas said over the being withdrawn from explained one theory using ID numbers to mask Spartan Daily on Twitter create a window for the phone. He said that the only their accounts without behind the potential attack students’ names. @Spartandaily Chemistry professor recognized with award By Olivia Wray he spent in Pasadena were STAFF WRITER the best years of his life because he was able to San Jose State chemistry grow within his research professor Lionel Cheruzel curiosities and even met opened his laboratory to his future wife. all majors, and now that After graduating, interdisciplinary research Cheruzel and his wife has won an award. moved to the Bay Area Cheruzel was awarded in 2009 and began his a 2019 Henry Dreyfus teaching and research Teacher-Scholar Award career at SJSU. for his commitment to Having worked with research and teaching. students in the laboratory The award “supports the for 10 years now, research and teaching Cheruzel said it has been careers of talented young an incredible experience faculty in the chemical and he is grateful for his sciences at undergraduate talented students. institutions,” according to Many of Cheruzel’s its website. students come and go, “Our laboratory focuses but some stay in touch on developing hybrid after graduating. P450 enzymes capable of Kato, Cheruzel’s the selective oxidation of current lab assistant, organic substrates upon OLIVIA WRAY | SPARTAN DAILY started working in the light activation to achieve Chemistry professor Lionel Cheruzel gathers his laboratory students to talk about projects in between class times. laboratory in 2013 when chemical transformations she finished her master’s otherwise challenging to and [biochemistry] Having moved to the travel, he left France to states in the U.S. in chemistry. She earned obtain using traditional majors,” Cheruzel’s United States in 1999, explore the U.S., where In 2006, Cheruzel her bachelor’s from SJSU methods,” Cheruzel said. lab assistant Mallory Cheruzel said he never he felt he could improve continued his education in 2009 and expanded her He also received a Kato said. “There imagined he would his studies. In 2004, with a postdoctoral research after graduating. $75,000 of unrestricted are engineering and connect with so many Cheruzel completed his fellowship at the Kato joined Cheruzel’s research grant along with psychology majors that students. Ph.D. at the University California Institute of lab because she said his the award. have been contributing to With a passion for of Louisville and started Technology in Pasadena. “It’s not just [chemistry] the research.” research and curiosity to traveling through more He said the three years RECOGNITION | Page 2 New procedures Stairs to nowhere stall traffi c By Chris Core for some students quite yet. for CAPS services STAFF WRITER “We don’t mind using By Christian Trujano the stairs or elevator,” it takes a lot of time and it San Jose State is no microbiology junior STAFF WRITER takes a lot of emotional toll stranger to redesign Valery Sanchez said, Because of increasing on our counselors.” and construction. “It’s just weird to see the demand and understaffing Fujimoto said the new The campus has seen a construction downstairs problems, the Counseling session limits and scheduling massive amount of change but they are always working and Psychological Services changes will help avoid structurally and the Martin on something.” (CAPS) office at San Jose overworking his staff as Luther King Jr. Library is The construction in State applied new ways to they try to accommodate one of the latest buildings to the library falls under the streamline their services. more students. have an ongoing repair stall “deferred maintenance” In addressing the campus’ But through all these student movement. category of funding at SJSU. increasing need of mental changes, Fujimoto said the The project highlights Deferred maintenance health services, the office office still struggles with how SJSU’s old and refers to any reconstruction implemented an eight its budget. With a lack of wilted structures require costs that do not fall under session limit for individual financial support, he said administration to set aside the initial SJSU budget. CHRIS CORE | SPARTAN DAILY counseling per academic he worries about burning millions of dollars for Charlie Faas, SJSU Vice Construction of the fi rst fl oor escalator at the Martin year at the beginning of the out his small staff of 15 potential repairs. president of administration Luther King Jr. library will replace the existing escalator. semester. The office also personnel and two The first floor escalator and finance, said that $2 introduced new scheduling educational counselors. in the library has been out million is set aside for these have buildings from the ’50s of California website, the act procedures for students to Back in the 2010-11 of service for a few months specific problems. and we have to do the best would “let the University of make appointments. academic year, 1,338 now and is expected to The $2 million only with the money we have.” California and the California CAPS director Kell students visited the CAPS function again in October. begins to break the surface of Poor infrastructure is a State University system to Fujimoto said with limited office, according to the The escalator will the $500 million of deferred problem statewide and to improve the seismic safety of sessions, more people would Association for University be replaced, but in the maintenance that Faas said address the issue, lawmakers their buildings and expand be seen by counselors. and College Counseling meantime, the buildup the school deems necessary. proposed the Higher their physical capacity to serve “I definitely want to see Center Directors. of people waiting for a “Our campus is the Education Facilities Bond thousands more California more staff,” Fujimoto said. lift in the elevator has not oldest [California State Act of 2020. “Counseling is not easy work, SERVICES | Page 2 become an annoyance University],” Faas said. “We According to the University MAINTENANCE | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 TUESDAY, SEPT. 10, 2019 NEWS RECOGNITION research and scholar SERVICES space for mental health for accomplishments while students who do need the 2018 - 2019 Continued from page 1 at SJSU,” he said. 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Cheruzel is always “It’s great to have as research went hand-in- looking for more That number nearly much help as possible hand with what she was students to join the lab, doubled to 2,670 during the because you never really CAPS interested in. and hopes the recent 2018-19 year. know when you need it,” staff to student ratio Cheruzel said Kato teacher-scholar award “I think it’s great that Millan said. helped him double will bring awareness students are being more Director Fujimoto said he his research and to students that may aware of our services, I think stresses the importance of published work. be interested. the stigma as far as mental being more accessible. 17 Over the last six “It’s an exciting time health services are being “We all need mental staff members assigned to years, Cheruzel has been to be at SJSU, especially reduced,” Fujimoto said. “We health care and we all need invited to speak upon his with the interdisciplinary needed to identify ‘how are self care,” Fujimoto said.