Women’s Basketball Bike Party Chasity Shavers’ milestone performance Students partied on wheels in the wasn’t enough for SJSU streets of San Jose See Page 6 See Page 4 Serving San José State University since 1934 Monday, February 22, 2010 www.TheSpartanDaily.com Volume 134, Issue 12 A day devoted to education New site lets CSU’s Super Sunday students reaches out to churches to bring blacks to college share notes Lidia Gonzalez SJSU student, 2 alums use Staff Writer contest winnings to launch The enthusiasm of more than 100 people at Maranatha Christian Web site business Center’s Super Sunday congregation Jasmine Duarte was contagious on Sunday, said an Staff Writer SJSU student affairs representative. It has been fi ve years, said Veril Students use different resources each se- Phillips, SJSU vice president of stu- mester to pass their classes. But an SJSU dent affairs, since California State student and two alumni have taken academic University kicked off partnerships tools to the next level by allowing students to between churches inspiring a Super download and share notes, study guides, ex- Sunday event for students and par- ams and essays from SJSU courses. ents to work toward higher educa- The College Note Share Web site is an out- tion. let where students can upload their own infor- “We want to provide our students mation from other classes and download what with what it will take to succeed,” they need for classes taken currently, said Col- Phillips said. “No. 1, college is pos- lege Note Share co-founder and chief technol- sible ... No. 2, you will never regret ogy offi cer Travis Hoover. setting the foundation.” “I’ve always wanted to promote the shar- Joe Proudman / Contributing Photographer According to the Super Sunday ing of information,” said Hoover, a junior Web site, Super Sunday is meant to Veril Phillips, SJSU vice president of Student Affairs, and Diana Gonzalez, SJSU interim director for Under- computer science major. “Tools like this don’t connect and inform black students graduate and Graduate Admissions and Outreach, participate in worship at Maranatha Christian Center exist in the education system and the system in San Jose. Super Sunday is a CSU recruiting program in which more than 100 black churches are visited See SUPER, Page 2 across the state to encourage higher education, Phillips said. See NOTES, Page 3 Engineering team Schiavo service brings back memories Anna-Maria Kostovska colleagues and former students, while remembering their friend, fam- wins award at Seismic Staff Writer spoke during the four-hour open fo- ily member and colleague. rum. Throughout the ceremony, several About 200 people gathered at the One of the speakers was Bob people made a reference to Environ- San Jose Stage Company on Saturday O’Hanneson, a childhood friend who mental Studies 101, a course Schiavo Design Competition to honor the memory of former SJSU had remained close with Schiavo taught at SJSU. lecturer and environmentalist Frank through the years. Lucy Moran, who had him as a Eric Austin amount of rentable income, accord- Schiavo, who died Jan. 26 at the age “Frank was always like a big broth- teacher in high school and then later Staff Writer ing to the offi cial 2010 Undergraduate of 70. er to me,” O’Hanneson said. “I looked at SJSU, said Schiavo had knowledge Seismic Design Competition rules. Schiavo’s sister, Janice Schiavo- up to him.” he wanted to share so others could An SJSU engineering team received “It really is, in large part, based on Schuhe, and his nephew, Glenn Schi- While reminiscing about their make a difference. accolades at the 2010 Undergraduate revenue,” Torrey said. “It is as close to avo, spoke at the beginning of the me- adolescence, O’Hanneson said Schi- “Know that this man was very spe- Seismic Design Competition held by real life as possible.” morial service shortly after 11 a.m., avo always had a plan and a goal in cial and should never be forgotten,” the Earthquake Engineering Research Each team has to build a scale mod- encouraging attendants to share their mind. Moran said. Institute (EERI) Student Leadership el of its buildings to be tested on what memories of the “green pioneer.” Inside the room, people were Mary Ann Ruiz, a former student Council. is known as a shake-table, which is de- Many people, including friends, laughing at the memories shared of Schiavo’s, said he was close to The SJSU team earned eighth place signed to simulate earthquakes at any many people. overall out of 22 and won the award given magnitude, he said. “He made everyone feel special for structural innovation for making “We had to construct a scale model and valuable,” she said. the best use of technology and struc- that is about six feet tall,” Torrey said. It was not only students who were tural design to resist the effects of an “The challenge is to construct this positively affected by Schiavo. earthquake, SJSU team co-captain thing and have it perform at competi- “Frank was an inspiration to me,” Dan Torrey said. tion.” said Bill Shireman, a friend and col- “We wanted to take a risk and in- The SJSU team used new technolo- league of Schiavo, during his speech. novate,” Torrey said. “We wanted to gies and techniques to build its scale “Frank left a piece of him in all of think of something new.” model, Torrey said. This included us,” said Ted Smith, founder of Sili- This was the fi rst time SJSU has the construction of a device that uses con Valley Toxics Coalition. won an award at this competition, steam to shape the wooden building “(He) made me feel like I did Torrey said. materials with high precision. something valuable,” Smith said. “He “I am really proud of the SJSU EERI Nik Marin, a senior civil engineer- made everybody feel that way.” Seismic Design Team,” said Thalia ing major, said he believes winning an Glenn Schiavo said that because Anagnos, professor of civil engineer- award brings recognition to the uni- of such statements he knows what ing. “The competition was tough.” versity. a great impact his uncle had on the The competition, which took place “We are really excited that we won people around him. from Feb. 3 to Feb. 6, involved design- this award because the engineering “He inspired everyone that he ing a structure between 15 to 29 sto- department gets recognized for what Kibiwot Limo / Spartan Daily met,” he said. ries tall that can withstand a strong Sigmond Beck speaks to the audience about how close he was to Frank earthquake and generate a specifi ed See AWARD, Page 2 Schiavo and considered him a “life friend.” See SCHIAVO, Page 3 Weather THESPARTANDAILY.COM TWITTER Online: BASEBALL Audio Slideshow: SJSU baseball player Alex Sofranac expresses Follow us at @spartandaily team’s hunger for this season’s WAC title. 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A group of 15 students saults, 60 percent of sexu- “The whole premise of the participated in an Alcohol ally transmitted infections are competition is to give under- 101 workshop in the Health passed while people are under grad students the opportunity building on Thursday where the infl uence of alcohol, Gacu- to do structural earthquake they learned facts and myths tan-Galang said. engineering, which is typically associated with drinking Sophomore kinesiology ma- something that you don’t do alcohol. jor Angel Diaz works security until graduate school,” he said. The purpose of the work- at Stanford University parties In an effort to increase expo- shop is to educate students on and said that he has seen peo- sure to earthquake engineering the subject of how to be more ple passed out from drinking at SJSU, the fi rst Earthquake responsible with their alcohol alcohol and witnessed an inci- Engineering Research Institute consumption, said Jennifer dent where the ambulance had student chapter was founded at Courtesy of SJSU EERI Gacutan-Galang, the wellness to be called. the university last year, Torrey Dan Torrey, Minh Nguyen, Joshua Chan, Sasha Kiselstien, Diana Lin, Nik Marin, Jarret and health coordinator. “From seeing the way that said. Aboud, Kahan Huynh and Fransico Galan, all members of the Earthquake Engineering “I’m not here to tell you not they (students at Stanford) act The research institute stu- Research Institute, stand beside their entry in the 2010 Undergraduate Seismic Design to drink, that’s not my role,” when they’ve had too much dent chapter is primarily fo- Competition. Gacutan-Galang said. to drink, I don’t want to look cused on earthquake engineer- “I’m here to give you tips on like them, stupid.” Diaz said. ing, awareness and community how to do it (consume alcohol) “That’s why I keep it (drinking outreach, he said. Undergraduate Seismic De- Not only does the award ally shows what EERI can do,” safely, if you choose to drink,” alcohol) to a minimum.” “There is a lot to be done in sign Competition provides ex- provide exposure, but it has led Marin said.