SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY VOLUME 122, NUMBER 67 WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004 Voters: No fee increase A.S. ballot initiativefor $12 bikefails in referendum By John Myers In Tuesday and Wednesday's vote, A total of 268 students voted in Daily Staff Writer approximately 60 percent of the 673 favor of the increase, and 405 voted VOTING RESULTS votes were against the increase, said against it. S I 2 Fee David Erlichman, chief elections of- the increase would YES NO A 812 fee increase for the fall Had it passed, Increase semester was voted down Wednesday ficer of the A.S. Election Board. The have faced final approval from SJSU in a special referendum administered turnout represents approximately 2.4 interim President Joseph Crowley, Total 268 405 by the San Jose State University As- percent of eligible voters on campus, Votes sociated Students. Erlichman said. see RESULTS, page 3 Nicholas R. iglu Daily Staff Jason Gable and his sister Kim comfort each other during Wednes- day's memorial service for San Jose State University art major Nancy Leat, who died last Thursday after battling a heart condition. Jason and Nancy had dated for the past five-and-a-half years. Student mourned TANNIN(ealternatives by friends, family Art major Nancy Leat, 22, rememberedfor her kindness, generosity and love of4fe By Janet Pak Kiyoe Congera, a high school Daily Lifestyles Editor friend of nine years, spoke about how Nancy would share her clothes with San Jose State University student her, and brought a yellow shirt with a Nancy Leat was known for her picture of a silly frog on the front that generosity, kindness and bubbly Nancy had given her. personality, said friends, family and Congera said it reminded her of faculty members who knew her. Nancy's silliness, and how her friend Lear, 22, passed away Friday. Fu- would share old clothes. neral services were held Wednesday I.esley Leat, her older sister, said in her hometown of Sunnyvale. she wanted people to take the flowers During the hour-and -half long to plant something bright for Nancy. service with about 300 attendees, "They're like little faces sweet .1 pastor read a seven -page letter and cheerful because she was always a written by Nancy's father, mother and nice pleasant girl," Lesley said. older sister. Lesley, 26, said she will miss In the letter, details of Nancy's spending time with Nancy, which color guard activities, her friendships always required special planning. and the moments that led to Nancy's Lesley said she imagined her sister heart condition were given. would have one day married her long- The open casket funeral was term boyfriend, James Gable, and ilecorated with flags and flowers at looked forward to giving her away at the side. On the table beside her the ceremony. casket were several trays of blue, She said the other day she was in purple and yellow pansies. a restaurant and saw four old couples, Audience members sang a hymn senior citizens, sitting together and it sailed "Joyful, Joyful We Adore reminded her of Nancy. Thee," followed by a small group It's the little things such as think- of SJSU marching band members ing about growing old together and performing "Hail Spartans Hail," getting that senior citizen discount and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," with she said she will miss. Nicholas R. Wright / Daily Staff members clapping along. A special Nancy also brought good karma endition of "Somewhere Out There," wherever she went, Lesley said they Gerard Opray lies inside a tanning bed at the Four Seasons Tanning Salon in Los Gatos on Tuesday. Opray, who has frequented the salon since De- uric of Nancy's favorite songs, was went to Las Vegas for Nancy's 21st cember 1999, uses the false sunrays to treat his psoriasis. The light used at commercial tanning salons has become a popular alternative to photo- also performed. birthday and she won $300 while her therapy sessions at a dermatologist's office. After the letter was read, long- time friends and former co-workers possible risks shared stories and memories see LEAT. page 3 Ultraviolet bulbs and spray-on solutions attract salon-goers; doctor warns of By Carly Roden dangers of absorbing UV rays are not as serious as Dermatology, said the light in tanning beds is worse Daily Staff Writer once thought, one dermatologist disagrees. than natural sunlight, because it exposes the skin to "Medically speaking, there is no such thing as more of the damaging rays at a faster rate. For students striving to obtain a golden hue a healthy tan," said Dr. Elizabeth Hughes, who "The bulbs are engineered to produce more A.S. backs fee hike for would normally get before making their first poolside appearance of the works at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. "Every ultraviolet light than you summer, tanning beds are one way to remedy winter time you tan especially if you burn actually outside," Hughes said. more library hours whiteness. damages the skin." While some tanning salon owners say the Hughes, a member of the American Academy of see TANNING. pages By Michelle Ochoa pi ciciit tii just adjust fees as Daily Staff Writer needed after talking to organiza- tions, said A.S. executive director A pilot run of wended library Alfonso De Alba. The increase Tugging sixth-graders toward college goals hours will be in effect for finals would take effect in the fall. president Monica Rascoe, vice president week said Alice Lee, vice By Rebecca Villa neda of Associated Students in Tuesday's of student affairs, said the $14 Daily Associate Production Editor meeting. Also addressed in the increase was for enrichment of the meeting was a student fee increase library and that it "attempted to Sixth-graders from Edenvale of $14 to help pay for more library address a number of critical issues Elementary visited San Jose State Uni- and the possible erection in the library." resources versity Wednesday to learn that college of a monument to Cesar Chavez. The fee increase would support can be in their future. According to the Dr. Martin the extended library hours, special SJSU Champs/Life Skills coordina- Luther King Jr. Joint Library's collections and more technology tor, Kirsten Foster, organized the event site, the entire library will resources, Lee said. Web with Edenvale's Adopt a College open until midnight from Some AS. members didn't see be Program, arranging for the 11 -and 12- Wednesday, May 19 through the need for such a high increase year-olds to get a tour of the university May 25. Students will in fees for services not all students Tuesday, and meet several SJSU athletes. have their valid Tower would utilize need to Through the program, Edenvale in order to remain in the John Lombardo, director of Card promises its students a scholarship once the usual closing times student resource affairs, was con- library after they have been accepted to a college. those days. cerned that the increase wouldn't on "We want to encourage them that If all goes well during finals go to a student vote. college is a reality for them," said Laura week, Lee said the library will be "The $14 are not needed, Rich, one of the three teachers from for an extra two hours a day because they're going to resources open Edenvale, which is located in south the fall semester. that are not required by the stu- during San Jose. A.S. passed the Instructional dents," Lombardo said. He felt She said Edenvale hosts events on its Related Activities Fee Alternative that generally, students have not campus to raise money for the scholar- Consultant Statement by a major- requested more services beyond ships. The annual pancake breakfast was vote. extended hours. ity already held, and a magic show, which is By passing the statement, the Huy Tran, director of govern- open to the public, is scheduled for May A.S. agreed to advise interim ing affairs, was in favor of the 20 at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria. President Joseph Crowley to talk statement. He said that students Foster, an SJSU alumnus, said this campus organizations about a may need more than just books out to annual event at SJSU allows the children student tee increase to sup- of the library. $14 to get a picture of what a college athlete Riii. Ii I ).1\ port more library services, rather The $14 increase would not looks like. She said it shows them that than sending the fee increase to a be set to increase with inflation, Sophomore gymnast Amberly Klein, left, plays tug-of-war with sixth -grader Kamila Johnson, middle, and athletes come in all shapes and sixes. referendum and student vote. sophomore soccer player Johnny Gonzalez. Johnson was at San Jose State University with other sixth grad- This means that A.S. asks the see MEETING. page 3 ers from Edenvale Elementary school as part of the Adopt -A -College program. Klein and Gonzalez were SJSU see ATHLETES, page 6 athletes volunteering to run the games the students played on Tower Lawn Wednesday afternoon PAGE 2 THE SPARTAN DAILY THURSDAY MAY 13, 2004 GUEST COLUMN New ballparks fans, not championships attract If you build it, they will corhe but do championships Today the Giants play at SBC Park to a crowd of my way to my seat. Ruth built Yankee Stadium, erected in the 1920s. follow? 41,000, and the die-hards have been replaced with The Giants owner, Peter Magowan, is always crying The Florida Marlins managed to win two champion- Since the opening of Oriole Park at Camden Yards in corporate yuppies? about how they are so in debt because they're financing ships in 1997 and 2003 in a stadium used for football and 1992, 15 major league franchiaes have built new ballparks When I attended an Oakland Athletics and Giants their own ballpark.