Bomb update Sports Features More than one suspect has been identified in A visit to Japantown last April's Seventh Street Plaza pipe bomb An in-depth profile of explosion See below The cultural center celebrates its centennial with Spartan volleyball a week- long display of arts and crafts beginning coach John Corbelli Saturday. Page 6 Toxic classroom University personnel will be taught how to With only one year to show his Steel Magnolias properly handle toxic waste, after a 'lengthy stuff, Corbelli has lofty goals this The original play will be process: caused delays according to one season. The interim coach takes performed by SJSU at the SJSU official. Page 5 over for Dick Montgomery. Page 9 students University Theater, starting tonight at 8 p.m. Page 7 Published for the University and Weather: University Community by the Sunny with highs in the mid 70's to department of Journal ism and Mass low 80's Communication si rice 1934. SPARTAN DAILY --National Weather Service VOLUME 95. NUMBER 5 THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1990 Toxic New VP hired Sewer stench training stuns students delayed hotly CalaIdo Odor is from gas leak di 11 1 C By Susanna Cesar manhole, which will eliminate the University employees who !tally staff writer smell. work with or around toxic The stench got so bad last The San Jose Public Works materials on campus have not summer that Irene Tupper would Department sent a crew to check been properly trained to handle often close the windows in her out the problem Tuesday, those substances, according to small second floor office in the according to Ray Martinez. crew Steve Sloan. California State Central Classroom Building. even leader. Employees Union local chapter in record-breaking temperatures. But people in the area could president. She would turn on a small fan. still smell the retched odor In a letter sent to in hopes that the smell would go Wednesday morning. Environmental Health and Safety away. The gas contains hydrogen Officers Rick Abeyta and Ted It never did. sulfide. which can be dangerous Tolleran in March. Sloan urged Tupper. the secretary for the at level of three to four parts per that a comprehensive training nutrition and food science million. program be implemented for the department. was one of many that But SJSU is safe. Qayoumi safety of clerical workers. suffered a piercing odor that has said. The detection level here is technicians, instructional support penetrated the Seventh Street only 10 parts per billion. assistants and custodians. area. Nevertheless, the smell is not Included in the definition of -It was very bad all summer." welcome by SJSU students and -toxic materials" are commonly said Tupper. who works in the staff. used cleaning solvents, copier building directly across from the "It is not a pleasant smell." toner and correction fluids, said origin of the stench. Qayoumi said. "No one likes the Sloan. Dan Ocampo Daily stall photographer The smell is actually from smell of hydrogen sulfide." "Many departments, especially sewer gas seeping out of a sewer "We all suffered," said Elveda the smaller departments, lack the Ray Lou has been hired as the new Undergraduate Studies. He hopes to make manhole that was ruptured in July Smith. graduate coordinator for knowledge to assure that proper Associate Academic Vice President for SJSU responsive to its students' needs. while workers were upgrading the the nutrition and food science training is given. Some area. said Mo Qayoumi. Director department. whose office faces departments lack the knowledge of SJSU Facilities. Development the area. that such training is even and Operations. The construction work, which needed," wrote Sloan. Lou works for students "Naturally some sewer gas is almost complete. involved asphalt being replaced with Andy Ramos, Environmental escaped." Qayoumi said. places"." Lou. that he has called concrete. Health and Occupational Safety By Leigh Ann Clifton He also said Man WIWI' experience on who was not on the job Dairy Etched in Lou's memory is his the city to come seal the damaged Director, is a when Sloan's letter was written. As an Asian youth glossing up in a the first day of kindergarten. The memory said that steps have been taken to predominantly black Mississippi neighborhood. traumatic one for him. The local school district hut the Raymond Lou felt the sting of discrimination. had recently made changes to its segregation start a training program award "lengthy process" makes delays Alienated from his peers. Lou worked to fit policy allowing Asian students to attend white Campus inevitable. into a system that offered limited choices, all the schools for the first time. while working to keep alive aspects of his ethnic Arriving at school that morning. Lou was EH.OS is now searching for heritage. surrounded by jeering white faces that were not Key gets qualified hazardous material and As SJSU's new Associate Academic Vice pleased with their new classmate. He spent the Golden occupational health specialists President for Undergraduate Studies. Lou is rest of the day defending himself with his fists. who will provide training determined to keep other students from having to Once home, he told his mother he would never programs "tailored" to the job settle for a university that is neither responsive to return to the school. He did return, but the national honor description of every employee. their educational needs nor prepared to meet the situation didn't improve and after a few days he said Ramos. challenge of educating a multi -ethnic society. quit. By Marcos Azcarate SiSt. 's Lhapter was formed in i)attwall writer 1985 and this is the first time it DonIs/ who returned to "I learned that ill was going to survive. I Besides not having a training Lou replaces Leon has either had to stay in my own world or...fight the For its work with disabled has received the award. staff on hand, the hiring process teaching in the biological sciences department. The "great underrepresentation of Hispanic dominant society." Lou has been fighting ever students. SJSU's Golden Key Only I() schools out of the will put the program on hold even students, will he a major issue challenging Lou." since: fighting to teach students that they have a National Honor Society has been Society's 161 members receive longer. Before landing the job. awarded its parent organization's the award. candidates must meet said Mum/. choice and can make a difference. Thin, wiry and a self-described loner. Lou's He said he especially enjoys working with highest honor. This year. along with SJSU. requirements from personnel, "A variety of activities have California State University at affirmative action waving arms and hands add emphasis to the students 19 to 22 years old. "These students are EHOS and been implemented among Northridge and San Francisco departments. words he speaks. Sending SJSU representatives becoming independent adults." he said. -and are out into the community. high schools and very eager to explore and experiment." disabled students such as State University also receiied the Also, Ramos noted, there community colleges is one method Lou will use He encourages them to take a class that they tutoring. reading. note taking and Key Chapter Award. would he some difficulty finding to reach Hispanics and other minorities. have an interest in. to "take ballroom dancing" if administering tests." said Sue According to Jewel. only the juniors and specialists with "journeymen's Growing up in Mississippi wasn't easy for that's where their interest lies. He said he tries to Jewel. president of the SJSU top 15 percent of all point level of experience" with the Lou. In that segregated environment, he was impress upon them that "never again will they chapter. seniors, with a grade 30 salary competition from the "excluded from white society. I was neither black have this much of a chance. this wonderful "We set up a relationship with average of 3.3 and at least can be private sector. nor white: my status there was very nebulous." opportunity." disabled students. There are units completed at SJSU. university's Ramos has already trained a The blatant racism that attacked Lou left If efforts at tapping into the communities are many disabled students and we members of the handful of employees with the emotional scars. He can remember walking into successful. then Lou will focus on keeping want to give something to our chapter. non- . assistance of Nuclear Science places. only to be told "we don't serve your kind students in school and graduating them. Now community." she said. Golden Key is a national, Randy Yaffe. founded to Director Professor in here." said Lou. "I was deeply hurt and more than e% er students are under increasing Jewel. a senior administration profit organization of justice maior. is proud of the provide recognition to qualified California Occupational Safety angered." pressures. according to Lou --- financial tensions SUL cl:SS. Administration He was not tempted. however, to turn to rage. and family obligations, as well as the pressure to chapter's members. and Health In the last 13 years the non- mandate that any "Rage needs outlets. In that situation, you are conform that threaten to draw them out of the "We haw put a lot of effort. guidelines National Society has who works in the powerless." classroom. The Key Chapter Award means profit employee more than 250.000 vicinity of hazardous material be Instead he learned to cope. According to Arlene Okerlund, academic that we have dedicated." she said. inducted members. as well as informed of the dangers of such "When you're excluded from participating.