WEATHER SPORTS A&E SOCIAL MEDIA FollowF us on TTwitter Baseball team splits Foo Fighters return @spartandaily@ series with Bulldogs with rauc0us album BecomeB a fan ono Facebook High: 63° PAGE 5 facebook.com/f Low: 43° PAGE 4 sspartandaily Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Monday, April 11, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 35 Oppression: More than just racism Jazzman Gale brings down Student groups shed light on “blow in her face and she’ll follow you any- Junior psychology major Emerald Nativi- where,” while other ads urged consumers to dad said this was her fi rst time going through topics of discrimination lose weight and buy cologne, cosmetics and the Tunnel of Oppression. the I-House in clothes. “I didn’t realize that there were so many Derogatory terms — among them bum, re- different types of ways oppression is done,” Ryan Fernandez tard, homo, wetback and slut — were pasted she said. fundraiser Managing Editor onto the walls for all to see. The entry corridor led visitors to a side door From April 5 to 7, students, faculty and in the ballroom and a sign reminded visitors For three days, images of half-naked men staff had the opportunity to experience the to keep silent as they made their way through Leo Postovoit and nearly naked women smiled and pouted Tunnel of Oppression, a series of rooms con- the tunnel while arrows taped onto the fl oor Staff Writer at visitors in the entryway to the Tunnel of structed in the Barrett Ballroom depicting dif- guided their steps between walls covered in Oppression. ferent forms of oppression regarding disabili- Famed Greenwich Village free An advertisement exhorted men to blow ties, anti-Semitism, the United States’ War on jazz musician Eddie Gale and his cigarette smoke into a woman’s face, saying Drugs, ageism, capitalism and bullying. see OPPRESSION page 2 Inner Peace Orchestra played his eclectic jazz repertoire to a crowd of about 40 people as a part of an SJSU International House fundraiser. “We’re looking to raise $5 million A.S elections sizzle at barbecue over the next three years to build an endowment for the I-House,” said Leann Cherkasky Makhni, direc- tor of the I-House. “After this event Matthew Gerring we’re about $80,000 along.” Staff Writer The goal is to have the fund’s in- terest pay for various I-House needs. “Every one of these fundraisers At the Associated Students bar- helps,” said Matthias Hoefliger, a becue pits on Thursday, candidates Swiss exchange student majoring in in the upcoming A.S. elections met communications and business. with potential voters against a back- The building was built in 1964 for drop of blaring electronica and siz- the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, zling burgers. according to Cherkasky Makhni. For some students, meeting the One of its former members was candidate in person was the decid- Phyllis Simpkins. She and her family ing factor in their vote. were long-time donors for programs Both freshman biology major Pe- and facilities at SJSU, Cherkasky ter Luu and senior chemistry major Makhni said. Simpkins had seen an- Alvin Thai said they’ll be voting for other school on television that had a the fi rst time for controller candi- similar resident house “with big col- date Ciara Chua after meeting her umns out front” but for only about at the barbecue, but won’t vote for 12 students. At the same time, Simp- anyone else. kin’s old sorority house was a recov- “There’s no point for me to vote ery facility for alcohol addicts. for anyone else, because it’s gonna The I-House officially opened as be completely random,” Luu said. the International Center in 1978, Chua, the only female candidate primarily with money from the for controller, is running against Simpkins family. three other candidates for the most “SJSU’s I-House is a non-profit contested position on the ballot. organization,” Cherkasky Makhni She said she’s running in part to said. “We now have 72 students from better represent business groups 28 countries including the United at San Jose State because most stu- States.” dents on the A.S. board come from social fraternities and sororities. see JAZZ page 2 Tomasz Kolodziejak, the current A.S. president, said he thinks it’s a Photo: Jesse Jones / Spartan Daily good thing that many students at Associated Students President Tomasz Kolodziejak (left) and Mark Stockdale, director of business af- the barbecue had never voted be- fairs, speak with students at Thursday’s Meet the Candidates barbecue. Nutrition team: fore. “Humbly, I want to say that we andra Goodwin said she didn’t vote ponent, Kevin Starks. cue indicated that they either don’t have done a good job this year,” in A.S. elections last year because she Starks said he believes that low know or aren’t interested in A.S. Eat a variety of Kolodziejak said. “We got the chance didn’t know when they were being student participation and interest in “I know (A.S.) have events, but to reach out to more students.” held, but said the outreach this year Associated Students is more than an not anything that necessarily affects foods for Direct outreach can also be an ef- was better. outreach problem. me directly,” Goodwin said. fective way of getting votes. “I got a lot more invites on Face- “I think it’s alienating to students Fourth year accounting major “All I’ve got to say is I voted for book this year,” she said. because it’s only 13 people repre- Isaac Lee came to the barbecue but healthy living the guy who invited me to this She said she will be casting votes senting 26,000 students, and I think said he won’t be voting. Wesley Dugle event,” said Navid Mazahui, a senior this year for people she knows per- besides that it’s complicated and “I’m just not into the whole Staff Writer computer engineering major refer- sonally who are running, including most people don’t know anything of ring to Kolodziejak. “I have no idea director of communications candi- it,” he said. what he’s done.” Soophomore Alyx- date Jay Singh and Kolodziejak’s op- Several students at the barbe- see BBQ page 2 From eating hamburgers in our cul- ture to eating bugs in other cultures, STATE NEWS members of the Nutrition Education Ac- tion Team spoke to students at a seminar in the SJSU Health Building about mul- Lawmakers push plan to control health care costs ticultural nutrition. “I think it was very informative,” said junior dietetics major Naomi Saya. “For McClatchy Tribune if we let them,” he said. The bill, AB 52, is “a But the proposed law is unnecessary, said me I’m used to eating varieties of differ- no-brainer for everyone but insurance compa- Patrick Johnston, CEO of the California Asso- ent types of food from different types of nies.” ciation of Health Plans, an industry group that cultures.” For the fourth time in as many years, Cali- Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Insurance Com- represents Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, The seminar, hosted by NEAT, deliv- fornia Democratic lawmakers are pushing a missioner Dave Jones are backing the bill, Health Net and Kaiser among other insurers. ered a detailed PowerPoint presentation plan to control health insurance rate increases. which is similar to measures that failed in Sac- Current state law, authored by Leno, re- on how people could improve their well- A bill jointly authored by Assemblyman Jar- ramento in 2008, 2009 and 2010 under pres- quires insurance rate hikes to be analyzed ness by simply trying foods from other rod Huffman and Assemblyman Mike Feuer, sure from insurance companies. by an independent actuary, and the health cultures. D-Los Angeles, would give state regulators the “They fought it year after year because they care overhaul approved by Congress last year “(The event’s) importance is to be authority to reject steep rate hikes, like the are making out like bandits and everybody stipulates that at last 80 percent of premiums open-minded about different cultures 16.4 percent premium increase proposed this else is hurting,” said State Sen. Mark Leno, D- must be spent on patient care, Johnston said. and different foods and try new things,” year by Anthem Blue Cross but later reduced San Francisco, whose district includes south- David Hodges, a Santa Rosa insurance bro- said senior dietetics major Tatiana Kle- and postponed. ern Sonoma County. ker, said the Huffman bill was “entirely over- banov, a member of the team who helped Between now and 2014, when game-chang- California health insurance premiums have kill.” run the seminar. ing aspects of the health care overhaul take ef- increased 134 percent since 2002, more than Kaiser Permanente, which insures 140,000 The seminar showed the small fect, more rate hikes are likely, Huffman said. fi ve times the overall infl ation rate, according Sonoma County residents, spends 92 cents of “I think there’s every reason to believe they to a California HealthCare Foundation report every premium dollar on health care, Hodges are going to gouge California policyholders in December. said. see NUTRITION page 8 2 NEWS sPARTANDailY Monday, April 11, 2011 Candidates for vice president, director of internal affairs, di- BBQ rector of programming affairs, director of student affairs, director From Page 1 of student rights and responsibilities, director of faculty affairs, and director of university advising affairs will all automatically be school politics thing,” he said.