DRINK OF THE WEEK P.6 MTV, AN OXYMORON P.5 TENNIS WINS P.3 theSpartanDaily.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2009 Spartan Daily Volume 132, Issue 7 FRI SAT SUN MON 60 57 61 57 52 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 THE WIRE ATHLETICS ENTERTAINMENT COO for movie LOCAL Spartan football adds new association UC regents to vote on changing admission rules recruits for upcoming season talks careers SAN FRANCISCO — The with students University of California’s RALPH WARNER governing board is set to Staff Writer vote on new rules that would JULIANNE SHAPIRO dramatically change the Staff Writer way the 10-campus system SJSU’s football program added determines which students community college transfer La- Th e president and chief oper- are offered undergraduate mon Muldrow, one of two four- ating offi cer of the Motion Picture admission.A committee of star recruits to sign with teams in Association of America met with the UC Board of Regents on the Western Athletic Conference, students and faculty on campus Wednesday approved a plan according to national scouting Wednesday. Th e event was a part that reduces the number of site Rivals.com. of the SJSU Alumni Legends high school seniors guaranteed Th e Spartans were one of Speaker Series. admission to the university but more than 600 schools to par- Bob Pisano, an SJSU alumnus, expands the number whose ticipate in National Lett er of In- addressed an audience of more applications would be given a tent Signing Day on Wednesday, than 40 people at the Engineering thorough review by admissions when football recruits declare Auditorium. He answered ques- offi cers. The full board is set to where they will play. tions ranging from how to enter vote on the proposal Thursday. During this year’s signing day, the mainstream fi lm industry to the Spartan football program how to fi nance independent fi lms. NATIONAL signed a total of 17 players, in- “Hollywood is a very closed cluding three who received all- society,” he said. “People get jobs Health insurance expanding state recognition. Th e recruiting because they know somebody, not to children class included 14 high school because you send a resume in.” seniors and three transfers from He said there is a one-in-a- WASHINGTON — Four million community colleges. million chance to enter the main- more children would get Muldrow, one of the more stream fi lm industry without a government health insurance well-known off ensive recruits, connection inside the business. under legislation that has is from Sierra College in Rock- “Social networking is not only cleared the House and is lin, Calif. Muldrow, nicknamed important, it’s the only way,” he expected to be signed quickly “Mojo,” had 2,915 yards and 44 said. into law by President Barack touchdowns in 20 games played Hailey Lasnera, a senior the- Obama, who is eager for a win in two years at Sierra. atre arts major, said she learned on health care. “He is a very physical down- that social networking is key hill runner,” SJSU head coach to being successful in the fi lm Texting nude images could Dick Tomey said. “He carried industry. result in criminal charges the ball over 600 times in two “What I’m going to walk away years and didn’t get hurt. He with is a reminder that I need to CHICAGO — Though youth was just a slashing, tough, physi- touch base with the people I know is fl eeting, images sent on a cal guy. Mojo just gives us an that work for certain companies cell phone or posted online like Lucasfi lm,” she said. Pisano advised fi lm students may not be, especially if Lamon Muldrow (right) catches a pass against College of San Mateo on Courtesy of Kevin Bray not to submit their work without they’re naughty. To stop See RECRUITS, page 4 Oct. 4, 2008. Muldrow signed a letter of intent to play running back for SJSU this fall. teenagers from distributing or registering with the Writers Guild receiving nude self-portraits — the offi cial union site repre- electronically, prosecutors Name Pos. Name Pos. Name Pos. senting writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new have started charging the kids Marquis Avery WR Travis Johnson DE Abasi Salimu DE with child pornography. Now a media industries — beforehand debate is arising over whether Pierce Burton DL Ryan Jones OL Jason Simpson DB or connecting with an agent. those serious criminal charges Brandon Driver DL Anthony Larceval DT Dasmen Stewart QB He added that people working are fair. Noel Grigsby WR/DB Lamon Muldrow RB Harrison Waid K inside the studios would throw Reuben Hasani C James Orth WR/S Ronnie Yell DB WORLD Chris Hill CB Amar Pal OL See MOVIE, page 2 Russia says it wants to help U.S. in Afghanistan LITERATURE MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet Author talks history of discrimination against Chinese-Americans allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on room twice. Anling Wu, a librar- crimination against Chinese- MERRIL GUZMAN ian at the Dr. Martin Luther King Americans on the West Coast in stabilizing Afghanistan but Staff Writer he appeared to link any help Jr. Library and one of the event the second half of the 19th cen- to changes in Western policy. organizers, said she was happy tury. Pfaelzer focuses on how Saying Moscow and its allies Jean Pfaelzer, author of “Driven with the turnout and the positive Chinese-Americans were bru- “are ready for full-fl edged, Out: Th e Forgott en War Against response from the community. tally forced out of many com- comprehensive cooperation,” Chinese-Americans,” spoke to an “We don’t really know the munities, including Bay Area the Russian leader seemed to audience of more than 100 peo- turnout until the day of the communities. imply that Moscow’s help on ple at the Dr. Martin Luther King program, because we send out Pfaelzer said she began the re- Afghanistan was contingent Jr. Library on Tuesday night. our invitations and publicity search for her book in the 1970s on a broader list of changes Th e event was co-sponsored by throughout the city and county,” as a graduate student and teacher it wants from the new U.S. Friends of the Dr. Martin Luther Wu said. at Humboldt State University. administration. King Jr. Library, the Chinese His- “(Pfaelzer) is really a scholar, She realized there were no Asian torical and Cultural Project and the and I also heard that she has a dif- students in her classes, and be- — Associated Press Cultural Heritage Center of SJSU. ferent perspective just because she Th e room was so full that extra herself is not Chinese,” she added. chairs had to be brought into the “Driven Out” details the dis- See AUTHOR, page 2 Author Jean Pfaelzer (left). CHAD ZIEMENDORF / Spartan Daily THE PHOTO BLOG SPARTAN DAILY LIVE See a full day at SJSU in 68 Follow the Spartan Daily’s live blog of a talk SPARTAN seconds during a time-lapse hosted by an Israeli consulate today at 5. video created by Spartan Daily photographer, Stefan Armijo. He Watch President Jon Whitmore’s monthly DAILY. uses still photography and video news conference where he speaks about to create an illusion of a fast- the California state budget and its impact COM paced campus. on SJSU. 2PAGE NEWS THURSDAY,,, FEBRUARY 05, 2009 AUTHOR Work began as a student CAMPUSIMAGES which forbid the immigration of nese American to serve on San Chinese women, the majority Jose’s City Council, according Continued from page 1 of the women who came to the to the City of San Jose Web site, West Coast were kidnapped to att ended the event and ex- gan to research and talk with col- work as prostitutes or slaves. pressed his gratitude for Pfael- leagues about it at the university. “I was interested in these in- zer’s book during the question She fi rst researched stories about credibly courageous girls who and answer session. discrimination in Humboldt ran away to litt le towns,” Pfaelzer Many people in att endance County and then expanded her added. had personal ties to Pfaelzer’s research to include all of the Many of the women and book. Don Gagliari, a local at- West Coast. young girls chronicled in Pfa- torney, att ended the event. He “I fi nd it hopeful because it is elzer’s book, who were fi nally lives near San Jose’s Japantown, full of stories about Chinese resis- able to escape slavery and head an area that in the late 1800s was tance,” Pfaelzer told the audience. to small towns, oft en found Chinatown, and called Heinlen- At the event, Pfaelzer said themselves (and other Chinese) ville, Pfaelzer said. “Driven Out” there were separate stories for driven out of those small towns chronicles the culture and daily the Chinese-American men and and back in the large cities from life of Heinlenville residents in women. According to “Driven which they had escaped. Once the late 1800s. Out,” the men who immigrated back in the large cities, many of “I’m basically familiar with the to the West coast were free la- the women were forced back into history here in San Jose, but not at borers who came primarily for prostitution. a broader level in California and gold. Aft er the Page Act in 1875, Kansen Chu, the fi rst Chi- the whole West,” Gagliari said. MOVIE Pisano shifted career to movie business after 17 years of working as a lawyer independent fi lms has become in- sano graduated from SJSU with creasingly diffi cult.