Thursday, Volume 151 10.11.2018 No. 23 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY A&E Opinion Sports Treasure Island Fetishization of Spartan football Music Festival lesbian women looks to battle this weekend is sexist Army at Levi’s Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 Records access boosts transparency By Marci Suela on Wednesday. said. “[His lecture] EXECUTIVE PRODUCER As a part of the David motivated me to think S. Saurman’s Provocative more of taxes, regulations By exercising the Lecture Series 2018, led and budgets.” Students at SJSU need to recognize right to access public by the San Jose State By taking advantage that they too can follow the money records through the University economics of the Act, Andrzejewski California State Public department, economics said it sets up the proper and help in avoiding waste, fraud ANDREZEJEWSKI Records Act, individuals lecturer John Estill said relationship between and taxpayer abuse. have the ability to bring Andrzejewski was invited elected officials and IKEA. For the EPA more transparency to to empower students to American citizens. Adam Andrzejewski bureaucrats, it’s $700 Open the Books founder government spending. track the budgets of public “Knowledge is power. It’s pencil holders and $1,000 Open the Books founder sectors and understand important for university executive desks,” he said. Adam Andrzejewski led how their tax money students to recognize avoiding waste, fraud and obtained by accessing “So on a net-net basis, you his discussion of how are being used. the uniqueness of their taxpayer abuse.” public records. the American taxpayer federal entities spend “I came in knowing individual rights in the During his lecture, “We found that in an you are ahead of the taxpayer dollars with a literally nothing about U.S. political system,” Andrzejewski shared eight-year period, [the game. That’s the attitude group of more than 75 what he was going to Andrzejewski said. detailed information on Environmental Protection far too often from the students and faculty talk about, [as in] being “Students at SJSU government expenditures Agency] spent $92 million public sector. Nobody is during his “Knowledge transparenting with need to recognize that that Open The Books, his on high-end luxury tightening the belt.” is Power” lecture in the budgeting,” economics they too can follow nonprofit organization furniture. Let’s get that Student Union Theater freshman Flavio Lucana the money and help in dedicated to transparency, straight for all of us, it’s CLARITY| Page 2 ParkStash app is ‘Airbnb’of Parking By Melisa Yuriar “It’s essentially the ‘Airbnb’ of NEWS EDITOR parking,” Saran said. The app was launched at the San Jose State University alumnus end of last year and took off after Sameer Saran created a parking a group of computer engineering app, ParkStash, which gives the students spread word, knocking proliferating Spartan community on peoples’ doors after their another option to finding a parking classes in the evenings and telling spot before reaching campus. all of their friends. Saran, hailing from India, Through these efforts, ParkStash created the innovative app in 2017 helped over 400 people access while completing his Master’s in parking to four sold-out concerts at computer engineering. the SAP center and the app’s listings ParkStash allows people to continue to grow. INFOGRAPHIC BY WINONA RAJAMOHAN | SPARTAN DAILY rent out unused spaces such as SJSU’s total enrollment has also driveways or garage spaces to any UN panel issues one looking for a parking spot. PARKING| Page 2 dire climate news By Winona Rajamohan al temperatures this century below by 195 membering countries of STAFF WRITER 2 degrees Celsius. the United Nations Framework The report stated that region- Convention on Climate Change, The United Nations al climates would see “robust dif- an international environment trea- Intergovernmental Panel on ferences in climate characteristics ty that came into effect in 1994. Climate Change released a between present-day and global President Trump announced on report on Monday stating that warming of 1.5 C, and between 1.5 June 1, 2017 that the United States the steps taken by countries C and 2 C.” would be withdrawing from the under the Paris climate agree- These differences include an Paris climate agreement. ment to mitigate global warm- increase in the average tempera- “We should be involved in the ing are not enough to limit ture of land and ocean regions, Paris agreement because this is a global average temperatures to extreme heat in most inhabited really big deal,” junior child devel- a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase. regions, the possibility of heavy opment major Marta Audisho said. The Paris climate agreement, precipitation in several regions as As the United Nations called on which has been effective since well as the probable occurrences of global leaders to increase action in November 2016, aims to bring droughts and precipitation deficits handling the climate crisis in wake countries together in a collective in certain regions as well. response to the threat of climate As of September 2018, the Paris CLIMATE | change by keeping the rise in glob- climate agreement was signed Page 2 INFOGRAPHIC COURTESY OF PARKSTASH sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 2018 NEWS CLARITY to a “private sector appli- of government waste, which tify that there is enough cation where you could were quite telling. What he money in federal entities Continued from page 1 shop online for shoes and wanted to specifically do and to inspire others to virtually get your foot [By knowing the expenditures] we would is that he wanted to know take action. He also described a situa- into their shoes.” be in a better position to evaluate what each of the payments “I hope I can make a tion in which a Republican “This congressman was were to everybody. The U.S. change like [Andrzejewski] congressman wrote a elected by we the people the government. people and the citizens of did and inspire people to cease-and-desist order and he didn’t even know Mark Brady California have a right to learn more about transpar- when he made an public that [the grant] was a mil- economics professor know,” he said. “[By know- ency and have them say records request for a grant lion dollars. When these ing the expenditures], we ‘Stop taxing us so much that flowed to a recipient grants flow into a congres- and taxpayer abuse. It’s time individuals should become would be in a better posi- when we clearly have the in his district to create a sional district, we put the to name names.” more involved with their tion to evaluate the govern- money,’” he said. virtual shoe-fitting piece member’s name on [those Economics lecturer Mark right to access records and ment. I think people should of software.” grants],” Andrzejewski said. Brady wasn’t surprised by track the expenditures of be more interested in what Follow Marci on Twitter He said $1 million of “There are pages and pages some of Andrzejewski’s public sectors. the government does.” @marcesway U.S. taxpayer money went of waste, fraud, corruption findings. He agreed that “He gave some examples Lucana plans to iden- CLIMATE order to keep temperatures “The best time to start much energy,” Mulvaney from rising beyond limiting greenhouse gases said. “The challenge is Continued from page 1 the 1.5 C threshold, such as was 20 years ago, the enormous because it’s not The best time to start limiting the implementation of new second best time is now,” just technological change, of the report’s release, the measures and technologies Mulvaney said. it’s behavioral and cultural greenhouse gases was 20 years ago, the president has remained to remove the greenhouse The Intergovernmental paradigms that have to second best time is now. silent in addressing gases from the air. Panel on Climate Change change as well.” its concerns. Global leaders would utilized the report to It also indicates that Dustin Mulvaney “The Paris agreement was need to ensure efforts outline steps that could without additional environmental studies associate professor not strong enough to keep in working toward a be taken if temperatures measures being taken, this below 1.5, so on one hand, cooperative goal of do rise beyond 1.5 C or increase is now expected to SJSU has exceeded this continued at the rate of leaving that was not leaving reducing emissions by even 2 C, which focused take a toll on the earth sooner goal by 6 percent, according its emission in 2015, the our strongest climate 40 to 50 percent by on the reversing the effects than the 2040 mark. to Wonder. global average temperature policy,” environmental 2030 in order to keep of global warming by San Jose State has “We were not aware of would see a 1.5 C increase studies associate professor temperatures in check, removing carbon dioxide recognized the necessity this just a few years ago,” by 2040. Dustin Mulvaney said. according to NPR. from the atmosphere. to improve sustainability Bill Hare, an author of the “I wish all of this wasn’t “On the other hand, Furthermore, the climate The report suggested efforts addressing the previous Intergovernmental so swept under the rug global coordination would need to be free of growing more forests the reduction of waste Panel on Climate Change because it involves the air and cooperation that net additional greenhouse and burning biomass and more efficient report, The New York we breathe, it’s what we is necessary to deal gases in the atmosphere to produce electricity, usage of energy.