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See the latest issue inside Thursday SPARTAN DAILY Giants 2012 season preview see p. 8 April 5, 2012 Volume 138, Issue 33 SpartanDaily.com As part of the provost’s 2017 aca- are off ered job security aft er demon- Junn said the tenure-track fac- SJSU has approximately 590 ten- demic plan, there will be an eff ort to strating their value to the school. ulty search is currently her biggest ured and tenure-track faculty and Junn aiming hire more tenure-track faculty over It also states the goal of hiring responsibility. 1,100 part-time faculty, Junn said. the next fi ve years. groups, or “clusters,” of faculty in According to a news release, the “Part-timers do a wonderful job, Th e plan, which was put together diverse areas, including ones who California State University system but this is still an issue,” Junn said. to articulate Provost Ellen Junn’s will be self-supporting during their has decreased faculty and staff by When SJSU goes through the to increase plan in academic improvement, time teaching. more than 3,000 (6.6 percent) over Western Association of Schools and focuses on faculty and students. Provost Ellen Junn answered the past four years. Colleges’ new process for accredi- Th e faculty recruitment increase, questions about the academic plan Along with the cuts, class sizes tation next year, it will be hard to tenured under the “Supporting Faculty Ex- during a town hall meeting yester- have increased, faculty have been argue it is a high-quality institu- cellence” section, states that one of day, in which faculty voiced their asked to teach more and adminis- tion if there is not enough full-time its missions is to raise the percent- concerns on funding issues and the trative functions have been consoli- faculty, she said. age of full-time, tenure-track fac- eff ectiveness of hiring more faculty dated, according to a news release She said that faculty can talk faculty ulty members from 53 percent to 62 members. on the CSU website. to department chairs when other percent of all faculty on campus. “How do we replace retirees for She said she looked at data and members leave if they feel it is im- Tenure-track faculty are mem- core classes?” asked Lucy McProud, found that SJSU is ranked 20 out of portant to hire a replacement. by Rebecca Duran bers who are monitored during their chair of the nutrition, food science, 23 in the CSUs for number of full- Staff Writer fi rst few years of teaching and then and packaging department. time faculty on staff . SEE PROVOST PAGE 4 CAMPUS IMAGE San Jose Solidarity in songs poet brings work to life by Boris Slager Staff Writer With the American fl ag standing in the middle of the room, a band brought soul through bongos, fl utes, a guitar and other instruments, as well as with the voice of poet Juan Felipe Herrera. “He makes everyone feel that poetry is theirs,” said Alan Soldofsky, director of creative writing and professor of English and comparative literature. Herrera, who has writt en 24 volumes of poetry and was re- cently appointed a poet laureate of California by Gov. Jerry Brown, spoke at the West Coast writers event host- ed last night by the Center for Liter- ary Arts. He is the fi rst Hispanic writer to be appointed to the position, according to an event press release. Th e poet laureate position started in 2001 when Gray Davis was gover- nor, according to the California Arts Council’s website. A poet laureate is someone ap- pointed by the governor to advocate for poetry in school and to inspire Jeffrey Benson, SJSU Director of Choral Activities, directs the concert students enrolled in band, choir and orchestra from five Campbell high new poets, according to the website. choir during Campbell Union High School District’s 40th annual district schools performed with a variety of local and guest conductors, including Th e room in the MLK Library music festival yesterday at the SJSU Event Center. More than 600 Benson. Photo by Jasper Rubenstein / Spartan Daily SEE CLA PAGE 4 Emergency experts shake up ideas of university’s earthquake preparedness by Julie Myhre Sgt. John Laws of UPD said the BUILDING EMERGENCY TEAMS Staff Writer department will not be focused on Yvett e Phillips, emergency pre- rescue and evacuation immediately paredness coordinator, said each When the next earthquake hits, after the event and instead be con- building has a team that is respon- students will be fi ling out of build- ducting a shield survey. sible for the building. ings, safety monitors will be sweeping “From (experience during the “Th ey all have radios to com- buildings and UPD will be circling ev- Northridge earthquake) what municate back to us if there is any ery building looking for damage. they’ve designed for us is called a damage to the facility, or if there are windshield survey where we circle any injuries,” she said. “Th eir radios Spartan Daily the buildings as quickly as we can are the direct link of communication Serving San José State University since 1934 evaluate the status of every build- to the dispatch here.” Volume 138 / Issue 33 ing on campus,” Laws said. Phillips said the university does After the survey is complet- annual drills, action plans for an- ed, UPD would begin assisting in nual drills, aft er action reports and building evacuation or rescue, he improvement plans in respects said. to how well the teams during the “The university has a building evacuation. emergency team and the campus “We provide quarterly training emergency response team pro- like earthquake training, fi rst aid grams for immediate rescue and training, CPR training, active shoot- t Twitter: @spartandaily 57˚ evacuation assistance right after er training to kind of keep their f facebook.com/spartandaily 39˚ the event,” Laws said. skills up,” she said. Sophomore business major Har- Th e UPD also provides training View exclusive stories and multimedia at ry Helfant said he doesn’t think he upon request to faculty, students and is prepared for the next earthquake. staff members, according to Phillips. spartandaily.com “I didn’t do anything special for that sort of thing,” he said. SEE EARTHQUAKES PAGE 5 2 A&E SpartanDaily.com Thursday, April 5, 2012 REVIEW ‘Titans’ sequel gives solid action and CGI by Wesley Dugle However, the fi lm holds up a Opinion Editor lot bett er than the original. Despite its clunkiness, the story at least has a stronger nar- For the most part, Holly- rative to fl ow around, so that at wood has largely failed to cap- least doesn’t put you to sleep ture the mystique of Greek my- like the fi rst fi lm. thology in the world of movies. Th e hammness of the act- Despite the vast amount of ing is also toned down a bit and myths, literature, themes and cheese level is no where near as The Greek god Zeus, and father of protagonist Perseus, is played by Liam Neeson in “Wrath of the Titans,” which was released nationwide large creature batt les, fi lm di- bad as the fi rst. on March 30. Photo courtesy of allmoviephoto.com rectors haven’t been able to No more is Liam Neeson adapt the mythos of Zeus, Her- dressed in overly shiny silver gone in this movie as, from the cules and other Greek gods armor yelling a cheesy one-lin- opening action scene of the fi lm and heroes properly to the big er like “Release the Kraken,” and to the fi nal climatic batt le, it’s screen. Ralph Fiennes’ Hades seems to all very well done and actually Director John Liebesman’s no longer have a cold anymore, had me excited and even had “Wrath of the Titans” does as he does not speak with an me on the edge of my seat at nothing to change this senti- overly raspy voice like he did times — gasp! ment, but with that said, it’s not the fi rst fi lm. Th e monster designs are an entirely bad fi lm. Newcomer Edgar Ramirez, done very well throughout the A sequel to 2010’s horren- as Ares, is not too bad of a vil- fi lm, featuring some impressive dously bad “Clash of the Ti- lain either and has a couple of beasts to add to the fun of the tans,” the new movie contin- good fi ght scenes in the movie. action sequences. ues the story of Perseus (Sam Sam Worthington is still Th e best one by far was that Worthington), the half-human very much a wooden actor in of the Titan Kronos, who is CGI son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), as this series, showing that his at its best here, and at least stays Sam Worthington plays Perseus in “Wrath of the Titans,” sequel to “Clash of the Titans,” which follows he tries to stop Hades (Ralph character Perseus hasn’t devel- on the screen longer than the Perseus’ battle against the gods Hades and Ares. Photo courtesy of allmoviephoto.com Fiennes) and Ares (Edgar oped much between fi lms. Kraken did in the fi rst movie. Ramirez) from unleashing the Th at said though, he is much Th e biggest improvement even though I hate the 3-D con- fi lm at the very least. worth paying $13 to go see in Titan known as Kronos onto more watchable in this fi lm and upon the original, however, is cept as a whole, the movie oc- As long as you go into this theaters, so I advise waiting un- Earth.