WEATHER A&E SPORTS SOCIAL MEDIA FollowF us on TTwitter Gorillaz new Tennis: For the Love @spartandaily@ album dissappoints of the game BecomeB a fan ono Facebook High: 70° PAGE 3 & 4 facebook.com/f Low: 49° PAGE 6 sspartandaily Spartan Daily Serving San José State University since 1934 Tuesday, April 19, 2011 spartandaily.com Volume 136, Issue 40 New health SUSTAINABILITY WEEK center facility Native plants in planning take root at stages Tower Hall Whitney Ellard Staff Writer Ryan Fernandez ery, brought native Cali- Managing Editor fornia fl ora for the day’s activities and expressed The campus health and counseling disappointment at not be- center is in the process of having a As part of the festivities ing able to help with the new facility designed that will incor- for Sustainability Week, Environmental Resource porate both of the services in a new the students of the Envi- Center’s efforts. facility together. ronmental Resource Cen- But as quickly as plans According to Roger Elrod, direc- ter have planned an array change, they can also tor of the Student Health Center, the of events aimed at con- change back — shortly af- new facility will be located on a site necting SJSU with sustain- ter her team set themselves east of the Aquatic Center and west able living practices. up near Clark Hall, White of Campus Village Building A. Junior geography major said she was able to get the “Key priorities for the new facil- Celia White and her team go-ahead to bring Hack- ity were to make it more accessible, headed the fi rst of the ler’s plants to the Tower open, interactive, comfortable, confi- center’s activities, called Hall garden. dential and naturally lighted,” Elrod “Clark Hall Goes Native.” “We have access to these said. “There will be intentional peer The original plan for plants,” she said. “We al- educator and student drop-in spaces Monday was to remove the ready started the planting, to better accommodate student needs ivy covering the ground on so we’re continuing.” and lifestyles.” the west side of Clark Hall Hackler said landscap- Elrod said the interactivity will be and replace it with vegeta- ing that uses native fl ora an important aspect of the new facil- tion native to California, can be made to be mostly ity. replicating the work done self-sustaining — once the He also said when the current on the plant beds along the plants are established in an health center design was planned, east side of Tower Hall. area, they can fl ourish with interactivity was not really thought “We wanted to harmo- little outside input. about, unlike in the future facility. nize with the native plants “Other than some oc- “That building will allow a lot — snapdragons, lilacs, fus- casional pruning, they’re more opportunity for students to chia — to continue that self-maintaining,” he said. interact with other students about aesthetic look,” she said. Native plants can also health issues because there will be a However, things don’t provide a refuge for local lot of peer educators and it will be an always go according to animal life, which Heckler Photo: Jesse Jones / Spartan Daily interactive space,” Elrod said. plan. said can enhance the ap- Alan Hackler, a former student who runs Bay Maples: Wild California Gardens, Wiggsy Sivertsen, a professor in White said her team peal and health of a native plants a fl ower behind Tower Hall on Monday. counseling services, said she thinks had to shelve their project garden. having the health center and coun- over administrative issues, “Birds — they’re just But he pointed out jor and member of the cen- history, the ivy found seling services in the same building and instead they helped one more thing to enjoy,” that non-native plants are ter, said native plants use climbing the walls of build- will also be helpful for students. passersby plant vegetables he said. “… native Iris, pop- likely to need more water, less water and thus, less ings on campus, such as “The kind of services students re- — bell peppers, cilantro, pies, sticky monkey fl ower fertilizer and pesticide use waste. Clark Hall, were originally ceive from health services and sepa- carrots and beets among — almost all of these at- to survive in the California “It’s more practical to intended to emulate the rately from counseling services of- them — in small contain- tract pollinators and bees.” climate. have a native garden,” she appearance of Ivy League tentimes overlap,” she said. ers which they could then Heckler said people may “People haven’t thought said. schools on the east coast of Sivertsen said she sees the ben- transplant into home gar- be resistant to the idea of about what’s around White explained that the United States. efit in not having to send students dens. using local plants because them,” he said. “It’s a shame aesthetics played a role in “We’re trying to show around campus for another service Alan Hackler, who runs they think it takes more they haven’t embraced it.” the decision to use non-na- that native plants can be that will now be offered in the same the Bay Maples: Wild Cali- work to maintain local Briana Lipka, a senior tive plants on campus. just as beautiful,” White facility. fornia Gardens plant nurs- plantlife. environmental studies ma- She said early in SJSU’s said. “I think it’s a very good idea,” she said. “You can do both things in one place.” Counselors: Get The health center has been located New documentary sheds light on in the same health building for 53 years. Although there are no con- more sleep by cerns about the physical structure relocation of North Korean refugees of the current health center, space causes some concern. controlling “The existing building design rep- Anastasia Crosson As shown in the film, LiNK In her time at SJSU, Huynh resents health delivery as it was prac- Staff Writer raises funds that are then used said she pledged with the Sigma Internet use ticed in the early 1950s, when the key to relocate North Korean ref- Omicron Pi sorority and used response was about treating illness,” ugees throughout Southeast this connection to bring the Elrod said. “Today there is much more SJSU students can end a hu- Asian countries to safehouses “Hiding” screening to campus Matt Young of an expectation that health care de- manitarian crisis and the cycle in the U.S. or South Korea. because “SJSU and MLK library Staff Writer livery will actively support wellness.” of injustice in North Korea Each refugee rescued costs is a great audience to raise According to Sivertsen, unlike the — that was the message con- $2,500 and the organization awareness.” health center, counseling services has veyed to students in a Thursday raised more than $300,000 in According to LiNK repre- From Twitter to Facebook and been relocated several times. screening of the documentary 2009 alone, according to a 2009 sentative Katie Voytasek from MySpace, social media outlets can “When I first came to San Jose “Hiding” in the Dr. Martin Lu- financial report from LiNK. Florida, 90 percent of fundrais- take center focus for many people. State the kind of psychological coun- ther King Jr. Library. LiNK members travel to ing to the organization’s 9 Lives Made readily accessible by al- seling that we do in the counseling “Hiding” was the focal point schools throughout the country donation program come from ways-on technologies such as Wi-Fi center now was mostly done in a of a campus visit from the grass- to tell the story of North Kore- people aged 25 or younger. and 3G networks, these experiences small building called building K,” she roots organization Liberty in an refugees who are in hiding Voytasek is a recent high are delivered through portable de- said. North Korea. The visit was co- in other countries, according to school graduate from Southern vices like laptops, netbooks and From there Sivertsen said services hosted by the SJSU chapter of the LiNK website. California, and she is one of the smartphones. were moved over to Ninth Street, the Sigma Omicron Pi sorority. According to LiNK, it is the three LiNK nomads on the 2011 But what’s a student to do when where Facilities Development and “Hiding” told the story of only U.S.-based humanitarian Spring West Coast Tour that balancing life online and offl ine, Operations is now located. Services five North Koreans under group focused solely on North visited SJSU. LiNK Nomads when there are “Push Notifi cations” were later moved to the Administra- 25-years-old, including one Korean human rights. volunteer about three months constantly updating people on the tion building. young woman of 19 who was “The biggest humanitar- of their time to tour a region of up-to-the-minute details of social Bayo Fagbamila Jr., a junior health sold as a bride to an abusive ian crisis that exists today is the country to inform others of networking? science major, said he thinks a new man, who were hiding in China in North Korea,” said Milyene the organization’s mission. Counseling services staff mem- health and counseling service center — a country that should pro- Huynh, an SJSU alumna who Her fellow LiNK Nomads — bers Karisman Roberts-Douglass and facility is a great idea. tect refugees as sanctioned by majored in business market- William Clayton from North Neda Kharrazi offered a one-hour “Comparing to what we have right the United Nations but instead ing.