FORUM SPORTS The debate over condoms Men's basketball team closes should men or women be exhibition season with 84-70 win responsible? Page 2 Page 5 .-f One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0149 SPARTAN [email protected] Wednesday Vnlitilic I I:I, .\n. Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 Stipend increases A.S. board to vote Nov. 24 By Donna Carmichael Daily senior staff writer The Associated Students' Board of Directors will try, once again, to raise their stipends at the next meeting of student government on Nov. 24. Stipend increase legislation passed unanimously on Sept. 22 but was vetoed by A.S. President Leo Davila at the following board meeting Oct. 13. If the stipend increase legislation fails, A.S. directors will be forced to pay back the stipend increases they already collected before the veto went into effect, said Shawn Chan, manager of the AS. business office. "They will have to take a pay cut or just not get paid at all sometime in the future, to make up for the over-pay- ment," Chan said. Davila reversed his earlier decision, saying he backed the board's desire for more money, but felt he had to veto the legislation to give students an opportu- nity to register their views on the mat- ter. "They (the students) saw the move as sneaky. It wasn't so much the amount of the stipend increase but the way we did it that was an issue," Davila said. Currently, the board's 13 directors make $106 per month the lowest A.S. stipend for regular board members at the three California State University campuses in the area. Stipends for the three executive Photos by Clayton Smaller / Special to the Spartan Dail members of the AS. board,- range from $350 per month for the vice president Above, Stanford and controller, to $750 per month for medical president. student, Directors William Hauser and Akbar Maria Gomez Shetty said the second shot at a stipend examines Yuhui increase could raise the pay even high- Wang, a junior er than the first attempt. They said a majoring in busi- Playing stipend increase would be retroactive to doctor ness, for possible September for regular directors, but retroactive to June for executive direc- signs of ear infec- tors of the AS. board. tion during her Stanford med student learns ropes at SJSU Directors' pay is on a nine-month two-week clinical ' academic calendar but the three execu- rotation at the San at least an hour lunch. tive positions are on a 12-month calen- By Christina Lucarotti Jose State Daily staff writer The easy hours gave Gomez dar, meaning they receive pay over the a chance to lift weights to summer, Davila said. University Health Center. Editor's note: We're college Denise Austin's video tape in If the stipend goes up and Davila the morning and jog with her said he will not veto the pay raise legis- students. Many of us sleep less than we should, drink too much roommates in the evening. lation a second time regular direc- Rotations are a standard tors will make at least $250 per month. Right, Gomez and eat anything and every- thing bad for us. The live-day part of medical school, said the Executive directors will make at least checks a stu- 5-foot-9-inch New Mexico $700 to $1,000 per month. dents blood Health Series will examine dif- ferent aspects of this neglected native. Six different rotations A.S. directors introduced the pressure during plans to graduate are required to graduate but stipend-increase legislation at a meet- issue. JO. student with an examination. in June 2000. most students do more. ing of the finance committee where it Gomez said the SJSU rota- passed unanimously. Maria Gomez, 27, blends in She spent two weeks at the The legislation with the students at San Jose Student Health Center on a tion was different than most then entered the agenda of a meeting of State University. She carries a because rotations are usually the board of clinical rotation, which com- directors (AS. government red backpack and even eats pared to getting up at 3:30 a.m. done in a hospital setting. The session) on Sept. 22 where it appeared potato chips for breakfast on for two months during her sur- Student Health Center is not a in a controller's report as an unlined occasion. hospital but a clinic, meaning item. gical rotation was a cinch. However, the differences Instead of 16-hour days, the Health Center does not Some directors were not amused by between Gomez and an average have overnight beds. Davila's veto, saying it was a Gomez kept the same schedule political SJSU student are significant. as Dr. Robert Baer working move. Gomez is a Stanford Medical p.m. with See Medicine, page 6 "You did this to make yourself look between 8 a.m. and 4 See Raises, page 7 Muslims could've predated Columbus Fish out of water By Liz Cloutman archaeology. in electrical engineering, said he Daily staff writer "When it comes to archaeology. enjoyed learning about Latin American you're going to have all kinds of ideas," history. The symbols and mathematics used Layton said. "The Spanish were heavily "I think it's enlightening," Khayyat in the Aztec calendar indicate there influenced (by the Moors' occupation of said. "I never knew about the history of were Muslims in the Americas before Spain for 800 years), but no respectable South America. He also talked about the arrival of Columbus, said Daniel archaeologist would argue there was the presence of Islam." Denton Islam, a teacher at Martin pre-Columbian influence by the Carlos Aguirre, a senior majoring in Luther King Jr. economics and a Elementary School in Latino, said he found Stockton, who became a "I do not think this (Daniel Daniel Islam's speech Muslim four years ago. interesting. Islam spoke to an audi- Islam's) idea holds merit. Most "I had to agree with most of things he said," ence of 35 in the Costanoan room of the Student Union mainstream Islamic scholars Aguirre said. "The at San Jose State would argue the same thing." Islamic influences in University Tuesday. He was Spain and Latin the last in a series of five America are the same. speakers in observance of - Thomas Layton There are many politi- Islamic Awareness Week. professor of anthropology at SJSU cal parallels between "The sandstone I the Latin America and the Aztec calendar I has three Middle East." aspects," Daniel Islam said. Daniel Islam said "It is a calendar, a history book and a Muslims in Latin America." the Aztec calendar predicts the four civ- prophecy of sorts. This is the most per- "I do not think this (Daniel Islam's) ilizations which have inhabited what Chris Pre01.010$ / Spartan Dailv fect calendar there is. It took 30,000 idea holds merit." Layton said. "Most he called Mesoamerica. He was intro- years to make all the astronomical mainstream Islamic scholars would duced to this idea by the book, "They Pablo Morales, the San Jose State University swimming coach and three- observations (that went into it)." argue the same thing." Came Before Columbus" by Ivan van time Olympic gold medalist, shields himself from the rain as team members swim Thomas Layton, a professor of The audience, which was predomi- Sertima, he said. laps Tuesday at the Aquatics Center. anthropology at SJSU, said Daniel nantly Muslim, reacted positively to The calendar depicts a jaguar, Islam's ideas, as described to him, were Daniel Islam's speech. out of the mainstream in the field of Osama Khayyat, a senior majoring See Islam, page 7 FORUM San Jose State University People are still having unprotected sex, despite the dangers. Who should be responsible for birth control, men or women? Men need to protect Women should use themselves by using contraceptives for and carrying condoms their own protection Sharpshooters are responsi- dispute over who ble for ensuring their guns Theshould be responsible for are properly holstered. the use of birth control Swordsmen need to make sure continues to plague both men their cutlasses are in their and women. sheaths. Women, however, need to Similarly, men who think they take the responsibility of birth are going to "get down" with a control use upon themselves. "lucky" woman need to provide As it stands now, there are far the condoms. more contraceptive choices The argument lies in the simple mechanics of doing available to women than to men. Women's contraceptive the "horizontal mambo." devices are also more effective in preventing pregnancy Of the two involved in the act, the female is the mem- than men's. ber who agrees to let a foreign object enter the confines According to the Planned Parenthood Federation of of her body. The male is the owner of that foreign object. percent effective; Depo cover America, Norplant is 99.96 It is his tool to sheath or holster or, in this case, Provera is 99.7 percent effective; IUD's are 97.4 to 99.2 with a condom. percent effective; the pill is 97 to 99.9 percent effective; Contracting sexually transmitted diseases is an inher- percent effective; cervical caps unprotected sex. Anyone over the age diaphragms are 82 to 94 ent risk involved in are 64 to 91 percent effective; contraceptive foam, of 5 knows this. to 97 percent sexual relationship involves creams, jelly, film or suppositories are 72 The Wary of having a effective; and the pouch is 79 to 95 percent effective.