SPARTANDAILY.COM Volume 142 | Issue 14 Serving San José State University since 1934 Thursday, February 27, 2014 UPDATE Information released on officer involved shooting By Philip Beadle and Jasmine the shooting, is currently on ad- ports of a man with a knife at ap- halt his advance. UPD and participate in UPD ’s Leyva ministrative leave, according to the proximately 11 a.m. Friday. On Friday, a perimeter was active shooter preparation pro- @Beadlebeat, @Leyvaleyv3 San Jose Police D epartment. When UPD officers encoun- taped off from South Ninth to gram, “Run, Hide, D efend,” on SJPD is handling the case as tered L opez Guzman, he was bran- Seventh Streets and from the SJSU Friday mornings. On Tuesday, the San Jose Police it would any other homicide case dishing a knife that investigators D ining Commons to William Cavallo pointed out that Fri- D epartment released the identity in San Jose, which is standard described as a 12-inch sawblade. Street, according to SJPD officers day’s situation was not an active of the University Police officer who procedure, according to Cap- D uring the interaction between directing traffic around the closed shooter incident and should not fatally shot a knife-wielding man tain Alan Cavallo, UPD public two UPD officers and L opez Guz- streets. have been treated as such, but that late Friday morning. information officer. man, dialogue broke down, accord- Spartan Shops D irector L isa there were some principles taught The Santa Clara County Coro- “We have an agreement with ing to Albert Morales, SJPD ’s pub- Thomas said that the incident has in the course that students put into ner’s Office identified the deceased SJPD that we will request their help lic information officer. the administration concerned for action. on Wednesday as Antonio L opez with cases like this because we do Morales said the suspect charged the safety of their employees and He suggested that students Guzman, a 38-year-old Hispanic not have the resources they do,” Ca- toward the officers, leading one of- students. maintain their distance from any male. It has yet to be confirmed vallo said. ficer to discharge his Taser. She said they do prepare for threatening subject and inform the where he resided. SJPD presented its findings to L opez Guzman did not respond situations such as this by encour- police right away. Sergeant Mike Santos, a 15-year the D istrict Attorney yesterday. and kept charging, Morales said. aging people to use the blue light UPD officer who was involved in UPD officers responded to re- Santos then used his firearm to phones, request escorts from SEE CRIME ON PAGE 3 Campus Image Basil Sar | Spartan Daily Students try to stay dry during the first heavy rainfall of the semester Wednesday morning. AVIATION SJSU Flight Team soared to new heights at Regionals By Nick Esposito The SJSU Precision Flight Team @NickSEsposito competed in region two, which con- sists of SJSU, Embry-Riddle, Mount The San Jose State Precision San Antonio College, San D iego Chris- Flight Team flew home with a sec- tian College and Cypress College. ond place victory in the National Hinton said that the true com- Intercollegiate Flight Association petition at Regionals over the last ( NIFA) Regionals at Embry-Riddle few years has been for second place, Aeronautical University in Prescott, behind Embry-Riddle who has won Ariz. the NIFA regional 28 consecutive This is the first time in more times. than four years that the team has “The goal is really to get second moved on from Regionals and is place and get as close to them as you eligible to compete in the NIFA Na- can, which we were able to do this tionals tournament which will be time,” he said. held at Ohio State University May At Regionals, schools compete in 12 through 17. ground and flying events that range “It feels really good,” said Zach from computer accuracy to short Hinton, the flight team’s captain and field approach and landing. Photo courtesy of SJSU Precision Flight team recent SJSU graduate. “This is my third Most members of the team, such SJSU Flight Team member Chloe Raymer prepares to take off for the message drop event at the National year on the team and we’ve come pret- as Zach Shaffer a sophomore avia- Intercollegiate Flight Association Regionals in Prescott, Ariz. ty close, within 10 points, over the last tion operations major, competed few years and I kept saying we’re going in events that involved flying and advanced slide rule that pilots have operations major, competed in five sor for the flight team, said this team to make it this year. I became captain ground events that test a pilot’s skills been using since the beginning of events and placed fourth in the mes- has done a lot of hard work and shown and I told the guys this year we’re going and calculations. aviation. I also competed in ground sage drop event. responsibility and independence. to Nationals for sure.” “At Regionals I competed in trainer, which is a simulator plane “That’s when you’re dropping an “D edication, responsibility and in- The NIFA Regionals consist three flight events and several where you have no visual references object, a piece of balsa wood, onto a dependence is what attracts the people of schools across the country that ground events,” Shaffer said. “I just instruments and you’re follow- target 200 feet above the ground and in aviation,” she said. “Nobody who is a are split into 11 different regions competed in an event called com- ing a pattern that they give you and then they average your two scores,” slacker can make it as a pilot.” that compete in flying and ground puter accuracy which you use this I medaled in that.” Raymer said. events. thing called an E6B, which is a super Chloe Raymer, a junior aviation Kelly Harrison, the faculty advi- SEE FLY ON PAGE 2 INSIDE TODAY'S FORECAST Morning Showers P. 3 News: The lasting effects of abuse P. 4 Sports: Spartans fall to Aztecs 65°F P. 5 Opinion: Too much violence off the field? 48°F P. 6 A&E: Miley Cyrus brings ‘Bangerz’ to SAP Center Printed on recycled paper 2 | Spartan Daily NEWS Thursday, February 27, 2014 Fly: Students receive first-hand flying experience in Arizona FROM PAGE 1 to us and hopefully not only the department but the whole The flight team’s success school will see that there is an has not come without difficul- aviation program. ties. The team has raised funds Even with the set backs, the for themselves in order to com- team chooses to focus on how pete and fly. well they did and are ready to “The other schools are actu- prove themselves at nationals. ally given airplanes and they “San Jose State used to pay either a small percentage have one of the most power- or it’s free,” Raymer said. “They ful competitive teams,” Shaf- get free flight time, while for us fer said. “They won Nation- it’s an average of $81 an hour. als three years in a row back Just traveling to Regionals and in the ‘70s and it’s great to back was 11 hours.” see our program is back and While the team received winning.” some funding from Associated Nick Esposito is a Spartan Students to compete at Region- Daily staff writer. als, each member still has to pay out of pocket to rent their Scan here for more on own Cessna 152 airplane and this story! with three practices a week, one of which is flying practice, the cost can be pricey at $81 an hour. “With the flight events and everything it is just kind of hard,” Hinton said. “It’s pretty much out of the pockets of each Photo courtesy of SJSU Precision Flight Team pilot but I think this is going Spectators await the start of an event at the National Intercollegiate Flight Association Regionals at Embry-Riddle http://bit.ly/1kbe9X0 to really bring some awareness Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. Feb. 8. The SJSU team placed second in the competition. TECH COLUMN SpartaGuide What’s up with WhatsApp? Listening Hour: ‘The Art of Beating on Things’ By Austin Belisle Thursday, Feb. 27 @AustinBelizzle 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Facebook’s $19 billion pur- chase of WhatsApp on Thursday, Music Concert Hall Feb. 20 marked the social media giant’s largest acquisition and stands as one of the most expen- Listening Hour: Karen Thielen, Harp sive deals in Internet history. In giving WhatsApp $4 bil- Tuesday, March 4 lion in cash, $12 billion in its own 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. company’s shares and $3 billion in future stocks, Facebook is tak- Music Concert Hall ing a major risk betting on the success of mobile-to-mobile mes- saging. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly users and that number is grow- ing by one million members per month. WhatsApp, a free download for Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows and Nokia phones, allows users to communicate at no charge with other WhatsApp members through an internet connection rather than paying text messaging fees. Free membership lasts one year, then users must pay 99 cents annually to continue using the app. According to the company’s website, the service is a cross- platform mobile messaging app Infographic by Austin Belisle that also gives users the ability to create groups and send unlimited images, Androids and iPhones may charge SMS video and audio media messages among fees, but give customers the freedom to text WhatsApp users.