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Proposition 30 is on November’s ballot and would raise individual taxes one percentage point, from 9.3 percent to 10.3 percent, for peo- ple who make more than $250,000 a year for the next seven years. Additionally, Prop 30 would raise sales tax, which varies by city, by ¼ cent for the next four years, according to information on the measure provided by the SJSU Pub- lic Affairs office. Using these taxes, the proposi- tion would ease budget cuts in the public school system and the state support for the CSU system will re- main the same, or if the proposition fails, would create a $250 million “trigger reduction” in the 2013- 2014 budget plan. In summary, pass or fail, SJSU will be hit by budget cuts, but those cuts will be much more severe if the proposition does not pass, accord- ing to SJSU media relations director Pat Lopes Harris. “Right now, we are preparing for [the proposition] not to pass to make sure that students get the classes they need,” Harris said. “We Junior linebacker Kevin Smith celebrates with junior cornerback Damon Ogburn Jr. during the Spartans’ home-opening victory over the UC Davis Aggies 45-13 have addressed this, so far, as a CSU- on Saturday. Photo by Jesse Jones / Contributing Photographer wide issue, but it means a tuition break at SJSU.” SPORTS, PAGE 3 While the CSU system and SJSU are pushing students to vote for the measure with TurboVote, an online STUDENT INVOLVEMENT campaign connected to the SJSU website to help students register to Greek organizations aim to grow community with recruitment vote. Harris said that the school must By Natalie Cabral prepare for the worst case scenar- @SD_ncabral io—a $250 million mid-year “trig- ger cut” in state funding for the Greek recruitment on San Jose 2013-2014 school year. State University’s campus is in full According to a presentation giv- swing this month. en by SJSU president Mohammad Since August 22, SJSU’s nearly Qayoumi in July on the status of 40 fraternal organizations have the budget, if the proposition fails, been working toward catching the SJSU would cut the most funding eye of possible incoming members from the academic affairs office, through tabling, as well as hosting which handles graduate and under- informational and social events. graduate studies as well as faculty According to Max Rubio, re- affairs, Office of Institutional Re- cruitment chair for the Delta Sigma search and Dr. Martin Luther King Phi Fraternity and member since Jr. Library. 2010, his preparations for recruit- Along with the CSU advocacy ment began in Indianapolis, Indi- program, Students for Quality Edu- ana at his fraternity’s headquarters. cation at SJSU, a student group that The weekend-long training Ru- advocates for student rights, are at- bio attended gave him the tools to tempting to raise awareness on the return to San Jose and inform his issue, according to Herlinda Agu- fellow brothers on common recruit- irre, lead organizer and president ment practices. on campus . For Rubio, the key is offering a “We’ve seen a constant trend of variety of events for possible inter- rising tuition and fee increases as ests. students and we would like them to “We try to do a little bit of ev- Members of Sigma Pi Alpha display their recruitment table at SJSU. Photo courtesy of Sigma Pi Alpha stop,” Aguirre said. “It has always erything,” Rubio said. “We have accompanied a decrease in the qual- alumni speak at our informational ity of our education and [the propo- events, we host sporting events and this year, so before school started 1896 with the establishment of the National Pan-Hellenic, Panhel- sition] could help to curb that.” even barbecues. We aim to have the we got together to get everything to Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. lenic, and the United Sorority and Along with stopping fee in- events range from something active run smoothly,” Ramirez said. Although the Kappa Kappa Fraternity Council. creases for the future, the proposi- to just hanging out.” During the first two weeks of Gamma at SJSU disbanded in 1972, Each council, according the Stu- tion would refund students the fee The Sigma Pi Alpha Sorority pre- classes, most organizations can be sororities such as Alpha Phi, which dent Involvement website, consists increases they paid for the Fall 2012 pares for recruitment with meet- found advertising themselves near arrived on campus in 1900, are still of various organizations. semester and give a tuition rollback ings that involve the sharing of past the fountain by the Event Center. functioning today. Lambda Sigma Gamma Soror- for the following semester, accord- experiences, according to its Re- The tradition of Greek organiza- Following the very first estab- ity, Inc.’s recruitment chair Jocelyn ing to Harris. cruitment Chair Maricela Ramirez. tions at SJSU, according to Student lished Greek organizations was the Garcia said the Greek experience in “Our national conference re- Involvement’s SJSU Fraternity and forming of the current governing SEE FEE ON PAGE 4 treat was actually held in San Jose Sorority Life Timeline, began in councils, the Interfraternity, the SEE RUSH ON PAGE 4 Page 2 | Spartan Daily NEWS Monday, September 10, 2012 WORLD NEWS Kenyan church attacks are latest signs of religious tension By McClatchy Tribune Muslim minority has been Wire Service mostly friendly. B ut that veneer of toler- MOMB ASA, Kenya — ance was ripped open recent- On the Sunday morning ly. At least five churches, in- after their church was at- cluding the Salvation Army tacked, forcing their pastor, one in the poor Muslim his injured wife and their district of Majengo, were at- daughter to flee, a handful tacked during heavy rioting, of the curious and devout local religious leaders say. shuffled through the ring Other churches have been at- of police outside, through tacked with grenades in sepa- the smoke-stained entrance rate incidents over the past and gingerly around shards year. of glass to take seats inside. B ehind the violence ap- Shock filled the hushed pears to be an extremist Is- sanctuary. lamist ideology that’s spread- The Salvation Army ing among the disaffected church had stood in Mom- Muslim communities on the basa, Kenya’s second largest coast and may be fueled by city, since before the country Kenya’s war in neighboring was declared independent in Somalia against the al-Qaida 1963. Regulars said they’d al- affiliate there, al-Shabab. ways maintained neighborly The attack on the Salva- This Christian church in the Majengo district of Mombasa, Kenya, was attacked by rioters following the assasination of cleric relations with the impov- tion Army church occurred Aboud Rogo on August 27. Photo by Alan Boswell / MCT erished Muslims who lived Aug. 27, hours after a radi- around them. Now that world cal ideologue and preacher, gear appeared at the end of ordered the churches at- nya, the Muslim Y outh Cen- said. “It is very, very serious.” of harmony was as shattered Sheikh Aboud Rogo, was the street, next to the dam- tacked. ter, has continued to operate Ngao blames a host of as the windows lying around gunned down on the streets aged Salvation Army church, Others hope that the with “relative freedom.” factors: anti-Americanism, their feet. in broad daylight. Kenyan and began to march in, men- violent response to Rogo’s According to the report, youth unemployment, “bad “It was as if there was a police say they don’t know acingly. At first, the crowd death serves as a wake-up call Rogo was closely associated theology” and opportunists war here. Stones were flying,” who the assassins were, an ex- stood its ground, defiantly, for the government to take with the Muslim Y outh Cen- profiting from trafficking recalled Herbert Kaduki, an planation that Muslims here before dispersing. seriously what they say is a ter, as well as with a similar fighters into Somalia. elder of the church. “They openly deride. “We are not fighting be- growing terrorism threat in al-Shabab-linked group in Two weeks ago, when the were specifically targeting “The police killed him, cause we don’t have guns. Kenya. Tanzania. riots began spinning out us.” of course,” said Muhsin Just imagine if we had guns,” Annual reports by a Unit- Kenyan police had ar- of control, Ngao and other What now? “We still don’t Swale, who worships at the a stocky man with graying ed Nations commission mon- rested Rogo several times, Muslim leaders reached out know,” he replied despon- Musa Mosque, where Rogo stubble said to a reporter itoring alleged support for but he’d been acquitted in to their Christian counter- dently. preached, just down the street before scurrying down an al- al-Shabab by the tiny nation the courts every time; embar- parts in an effort to halt the Kenya is no Nigeria, from the Salvation Army.