Twitter: @spartandaily facebook.com/spartandaily Slammin’ back to the ’90s INSIDE A&E, P.2 See exclusive online content P. 3 Sports: and multimedia at Bandwagon fans get too much spartandaily.com flack when local teams are winning P. 6 Sports: SJSU athletes win WAC Swimmer Weather: Partly cloudy and Diver of the Week H: 59 P. 7 Opinion: It’s an injustice to stigmatize SPARTAN DAILY L: 40 Serving San José State University mental illnesses since 1934 Volume 140 / Issue 6 Printed on recycled paper Wednesday, February 6, 2013 CALIFORNIA Individual donors open wallets for CSU system By Christiana Cobb the mission of university, which is to the gifts and commitments from indi- enrollment receive more grants for ages a student to do something or rec- @christianacobb educate,” Harris said. viduals increased. areas, such as research, than other ognize a student.” Harris stated in the Donor Honor Elizabeth Chapin, CSU spokes- campuses. SJSU’s Donor Honor Roll and Donations made by individu- Roll and Tower Foundation Annual woman, said the CSU has seen the Fallis said although the donations Tower Foundation Annual Report als to the California State Univer- Report that most of SJSU’s donors are greatest number of individual do- increased, generally campuses have a stated that the top department do- sity system, including to SJSU, alumni who reside in San Jose, Los Ga- nors since 1999 with 224,194 do- target to generate 10 percent of sup- nations went to the Charles W. increased in the 2011-12 school tos and Sunnyvale. nors for the 2011-12 academic port from outside sources. Davidson College of Engineering year. According to the CSU Philanthrop- year. Donations are interesting because with $32,341,455, College of Busi- Pat Lopes Harris, Director of ic annual report for 2011-12, dona- Chapin said it is hard to say why in- most are targeted to a program or de- ness with $29,232,010 and with media relations for SJSU, said Ac- tions from individuals increased from dividual donations increased, but it is a partment that the donor cares about, $28,146,646. celeration, the school’s fundrais- $7.9 million to $107 million. positive that people are donating and whether it is an academic program the The report also states that dona- ing campaign, encourages people Erik Fallis, CSU media relations showing their commitment for the donor was once part of or a communi- tions ranged from $1 to $3,038,000. involved with it, such as alumni, to manager, said donations either come CSU and students of California. ty program that the donor is attracted “One of the myths of fundraising partner with SJSU in the form of from individuals who want to donate “Donations are definitely critical to, he said. (is) that only wealthy people are able to donations. or organizations. during these hard economic times,” “Because they (donations) are spe- give, (but) anybody can give,” Fallis said. “Generally donors give because Fallis said for the year 2010-11, she said. cialized they don’t replace state dollars, “Small gifts, just like large gifts, can be they have been students here or they the W.K. Kellogg Foundation gave an According to Chapin, typically but they help us create a margin of ex- targeted to whatever the donor wants.” have children or grandchildren who organization donation of $42 million larger campuses such as San Diego cellence,” Fallis said. “They (donations) Christiana Cobb is a Spartan Daily are students here and they believe in to Cal Poly Pomona, however, this year State and Fresno State with larger can provide a scholarship that encour- staff writer. PROFILE DEPARTMENT Spartan Star League gets ready RTVF for competition in virtual arena syllabuses still not available on the website By Lauren Hailey @LaurenOLovely SJSU’s Radio, Television and Film department’s syllabus site is down due to technical difficulties. Students who try to click on the “Courses/Syllabi” tab on the website will come to a page that says “Under Construction.” Some students said they were having issues finding the correct syllabus =information for their classes on the website. “I have noticed this semester a lot of professors are requesting for us to print them, ” said junior RTVF major Chloe Uyehara. “I go to Canvas (for my class informa- tion).” Many students in the depart- ment said they have not noticed the missing syllabuses on the web- site. Freshman Hieu Tran watches an online stream of League of Legends at Star League in the Engineering building Friday. Photo by Codi Mills / Spartan Daily “I only visit the website when I need to, like when I get an email By Anthony Nguyen According to Kieri, he is also working with (Jungle), Andrew Miller (support) and Ken- about updates,” said junior RTVF @Antnguyen87 the people who run the Student Union and neth Tang (captain/ADC), according to major Cedrick Cabrera. “I’ve never said he has talked with people to make a gam- Kieri. gone to check the actual green- The SJSU gaming club Star League will ing room in the expanding arcade and have a “I am a bit nervous because there is a lot sheets.” be participating in a competition for a PC LAN center. at stake and nerves will be a problem,” said It wasn’t anyone’s fault, stated game, League of Legends, in Los Angeles on “I think we got pretty lucky getting an easy sophomore business major Jake Wheelehan. Kimb Massey, professor of televi- Feb. 18. bracket,” said Max Li, freshman electrical “This is because we have to play on stage in sion, radio, film and theatre, in an According to Kenneth Tang, League of engineering major. “If we win, it’s just some front of hundreds of fans, in addition to the email. Legends is categorized as a multiplayer on- nice cash for doing something we enjoy. If we thousands of people that will watch the game “It wasn’t that the site was line battle arena game. win or not, I don’t really care. This is probably on stream.” down more than it was the course “Players use their unique avatars to de- the first time I’ve had a really good team and Kieri said the club will have the match was assigned to the wrong facul- feat each other in five-on-five match-ups participating in an actual tournament, so I’m viewing over an online stream before they ty,” Massey stated. with certain unique abilities and skills,” said just happy being able to play.” practice with each other. According to Massey, the Sergio Kieri, senior chemical engineering He said he also plays Starcraft II and it got “Practice also takes many forms, for some- difficult budget situation has and political science double major and presi- him thinking about making a team. one competing at the top watching videos of led to shuffling in terms of sec- dent of the Star League. “The goal seems easy “After last year’s improvements in SC2, I professional play is very informative so we tions being canceled and fac- enough but it employs a lot of strategy and felt it was important to build on the success watch a lot of Pro LoL and SC2,” Kieri said. ulty being moved to other skill before you arrive at a victory or a defeat of e-Sports upcoming games and moved into You can watch the team Feb. 18 at www. sections. screen.” LoL,” he said. “Our league by chance added in twitch.tv/cstarleague. The Star League mainly focuses on PC a LoL component this year with a huge purse Anthony Nguyen is a Spartan Daily staff SEE WEBSITE ON PAGE 5 gaming for the time being, such as Starcraft of $180,000. That money could help me build writer. II and League of Legends, he said. an e-Sports program at SJSU so I decided im- The club meets in the Engineering building mediately that we were joining.” from noon to 8 p.m., where they meet to prac- Li said this will help the school if we win tice the game and hang out. According to Kieri, the money then when we put the prize money they also have LAN (local area network) parties into scholarship, and there are no details yet See breaking news, multimedia to play PC game and console games. if they will win. “At first I just wanted to join the SJSU SC2 Kieri said he started an idea to make a and the Sparta Guide calendar (real-time strategy) team seeing as I was an team for League of Legends and he has seen avid player in my transfer year,” Kieri said. the potential when he had the team try “I thought it would be a good idea to create a out. at www.spartandaily.com club to get some school funds in order to grow The team and their positions are David my club.” Pham (mid), Max Li (top), Jake Wheelehan A E Page 2 | Spartan Daily & Wednesday, February 6, 2013 COMMENTARY ‘Phat’ ’90s make a comeback By Tessa Terrill jor. “He’s bringing the retro late ’90s, will be collaborating @ tweetybirdtt music back, which is cool. He for “The Package.” was an icon back in the day. A big announcement on For those who remem- He’s bringing sexy back.” 98degrees.com lists 29 cities, ber the ’90s in flashes of boy which includes San Jose. bands and TGIF, it’s time to Destiny’s Child became “It’s funny to see that get excited because many of a household name in 1999 because I thought they to- the decade’s stars are making when they debuted their first tally disappeared,” said junior comebacks.