In Sports... Inetc.... Volleyball For some opens it's a street conference fair. play with For others, f a historic win. it's just plain bazaar. See story on page 4. See story on etc. Published for San Jose State University since 19,4 Volume tot, Number 13 Thursday. September 16. 1993 Baby's first skit Arena threatens SUREC By jellIfflulIkuta- Spartan 1 cu `mail WhIti events. The opening of the new "We will COD [Mlle to do downtown arena will result shows with Bill Graham in a loss of revenue for Presents and the (San SJSU's Event Center. Jose) symphonythat rela- As a result of the arena, tionship is pretty solid," the Event Center lost a Cads said. "Now we have to Warriors exhibition basket- delve It', areas we haven't ball game which netted focused 1 1c1 in the past. It's $10,000 to $12,000 last a challenge." year. Sesame Street Live More ot all attempt will and an event sponsored by be made to get corporate Nickelodeon were also lost and business events and to the new arena. banquets into the Event That doesii't ilecessarily Center, Cad v said. The mean they'll stay lost, Event smaller venue is better suit- Director Ted Cady said. ed to these compared to is it the end of life as the arena, he said. we know it?" Cady said. For general admission "We just confirmed Lenny concerts, the Event Center Kravitz and Tears for Fears. can hold about 7,000 peo- For the first year, we will ple. The downtown arena feel a cut in revenue. can hold about 20,000 for There is no guarantee that a concert. HUFFMAN -7.1 Als what we're losing now will The drawing power of stay lost." the new downtown arena Shannon Taylor as Daphnie Doodlie holds her "baby," who is really part of the Advanced TV Production class. They were putting togeth- Cady said the Event could prove beneficial to Carl Siewert with a doll's body under his chin, as they are filmed for er a short film in the style of "Saturday Night Live" or "Monty Pythoi. Center will need to try the SJSU Event Center in "The Adventures of the Doodlic," Wednesday. Taylor and Siewert are Flying Circus" to practice production, editing and camera angles. more aggressive and cre- ative ways to book current C-1 FVFNT page 3 Student translators compete with professionals By Bill Drobideivic vary depending on the between 15-20 cents a word. fessional translators charge for talked ab, att.. "We would have a Spartan Daily Staff Wnt,.1 great need language, said Lupe Languages spoken by fewer Bay their work, Jeff Chapman, direc- After speaking with Perlman, for such services. I thought we The marketing Morishige, director of Area residents, like Mandarin tor of marketing and media rela- Chapman felt that using SJSU could not only make a good director of a local the Century School of Chinese, cost about 15 cents a tions at Piiceon, thought of students would be the right deci- deal for ourselves but also allow high-tech company Languages in San Jose. word in a technical manual. using SJSU's foreign language sion to make students to put their major to was astounded to see She said translating Morishige said less common department to translate the "I knew that using the foreign work in the real world." how expensive it was technical munials into languages, like Farsi and Japan- company's manuals. languages department was a Piiceon, located in San Jose to get his company's Spanish, a language ese, cost more. "Everyone and "We talked about the transla- good idea after talking to other and owned by Dynatech Corp., manuals translated many area residents their brother thinks they can tion work," said Barbara Perl- translation services and seeing manufactures memory -upgrade into other languages. I I is ydo- speak, costs between 10-12 cents translate," she said, "but it's not man, SJSU's foreign language their rates and kr rowing that our configurations and moderns for tion saved his coinpait% !matey a word. that easy." department administrative assis- company is bet,,,iiing more palmtop, laptop and personal and benefited SJSU students. Languages spoken by fewer After searching the Bay Area tant. "He liked my ideas, or he global by !he da \ said Chap- Prices for translation work area people, like French, cost and finding out how much pro- liked the sound of what we had man. See LANGUAGE. page 6 Printers compete for SJSU copying needs Some profs By Erika D. Schuman Spartan Daily Staff IA'nirr Baggenstos, a 200- page spiral-bound shake off Students, faculty and staff course reader costs a have many things in com- student $10.20, plus mon. They park in the same tax. garages. They eat in the same The self-serve quake rules cafeteria. And they go to the copiers are 6 cents a copy. By Ed Stacy same places for copies and spanAn Dm1. Star wa,,, course readers. Compare that to Professors ;aid students the AS. Print Shop In an rift al to be safety-, sc ic ns. eye! v who need course readers, which is located on SJSI t,u-ulty member op% of photo copies, computers or campus between the the c )iito pus Emerge ic Mutes facsimiles can go to Kinko's, Pub and the Spartan critic c. ill 11V \ wr Vice Maple Press or the AS. Print Bookstore. Store man- PresIdelit Maynard Rohnisi). atid were Shop. ager Paul Lee said it asked It, read it to each class. Whichever service is need- costs a student $9.70 'Though the memo suggested the tear h- ed will dictate where the cus- plus tax for the same ers read it to the second and third meeting tomer will go, unless, of course reader. The of each class, the memo did make it clear course, the product can be self-serve copiers are 4 that it was to be read in order to infot or purchased at more than one cents per copy. sr) idelits of appropriate actions in case of place. George (;hadiri, .111 emergency. For example, course read- owner of Maple Press, The memo, passed out on Aug. '25, deli ers can be obtained at Maple charges $8.55 for the with fires, earthquakes and other disasters Press, the A.S. Print Shop and same 200-page spiral- and discussed medical emergencies and Kinko's. bound course reader, building evacuation. Kinko's, located on the plus tax. He does not If this is fit small(' news to von, volt are corner of San Carlos and offer self-serve not alone. F. a many students on camp)! Third streets, will stop selling copiers. they were read if procedures oils course readers on Dec. 31 The A.S. Print once, if at all. because of difficulty with Shop uses recycled Junior Jerry M1 lii lyn. was not read some of its publishers. paper, which costs these procedm es (int e this semester. "1 It was sued for copyright more. A case of new remember a I tropic ot semesters ag, , infringement and lost in paper costs $17 per teacher mentioned it.- 31(1111%1c N.% )NA kAitk *F----...PART AN March 1991. case, compared to a Seemed to be a Ina issue Oleo, bur Since Kinko's primary ser- case of recycled George Ghadiri, owner of Maple Press, serves Stephanie Schaeffer, left, and Anna Machado who had come haven't heard anvi hing since'." vice is copying, which pro- paper, which costs to the shop for the first time. Ghadiri has been serving up course readers and copies for students for 10 years. (Jut' of the far nir . members who does vides adequate business, it $23 a case. read it is Ptolemy)! Fr ances Kovarik in the decided to forgo course read- "Next year we may have to course readers published. Press. Senior Mary Novielli has health t I IS) Department. Accord- er eublishing. switch back to virgin paper "It takes four to six weeks "I would rather go to the used all three establishments. ing to sell iot Stir. are Utsey, who has Pro- For all of the other ser- due to cost," said Ire. to obtain copyright permis- Maple Press because the line "Kinko's is conven re in fessor Koval ik1, a I IS 194, said she read it vices we provide, it's not Other costs come from fol- sion," Ire said. 'Some teach- goes faster: one person rings because of it's location on one of the fit st days, but none of her worth the trouble of dealing lowing strict copyright laws. ers don't want to wait that up at the cash register while hours:1 have pulled a couple ()thei nistt lit tilts had read it. with all of the copyright laws, "Copyright laws are tough long and they take their busi- someone else finds your of all-niters at the computers." Resider ice halls suit however, make all said Laura Baggenstos, and we follow them to a tee," ness elsewhere, and some- course reader," Arnold said. she said. "I like using the extra effor t to make mute stiidents ate Kinko's store manager. Lee said. times we refer them to Maple "Yon also don't have to photo copy machines the! cc par on all safety promlitt es. "We're just so busy with Copyright laws play a sig- Press," he said. dodge any copiers. Kinko's is too." toaster Hall's Resident Duet to!, Ed everything else." nificant role when teachers Junior Michele Arnold has OK.