1==.(.mmr, TUESDAY ,1""Pg411111111 APRIL 29, 1997 INSIDE SPORTS meet with Teen-agers Cycling team hosts second mayor to open teen centers *44, iSOA race of the season Page 8 Page 6 SPARTANServing San Jose State University DAILY Since 1 9 3 4 Program CALIFORNIA FIVE YEARS AFTER THE L.A. RIOTS Cat's Liquor in South Central Los Angeles was ransacked board during the riots, causing $150,000 in damage. Doris Cho, left, who helped her par- ents rebuild the store from faces cut the ground up, was told that a chain was attached to the Cnt.L11IH metal encasement around the Students may say goodbye JR: A/14AFloiKET OR door and pulled off by a truck to free concerts, lectures gES:e to gain access by looters. /" "LA CERVESA /WAS "(The riots) still seems like By Jana Seshadr1 FRIA yesterday," Cho said. Spartan Daily Staff Writer Z)E. LA cyona,ol ING ' PHOTO BY DAVID LUCHANSKY SJSU students may have to get accustomed to A 7217 Spartan Daily campus without major entertainment such as music MONEY ORDERS concerts, free noon concerts, forums or lectures if the Five years after the 1992 cut to the A.S. board approves a $128,000 funding L.A. riots devastated the Board on Wednesday. Program intersection of Florence and The way for this reduction was paved last Wednesday when the Finance Committee recommend- Normandie, Flowers are ed that the board approve the cuts. A.S. President Jerry blooming in a newly built auto Simmons and the parts store. A corner liquor Finance Committee will store, a partially renovated present the budget to "In my gas station and a still-dam- the board of directors aged gas station occupy the during the meeting this opinion, it will other three corner lots at the Wednesday. intersection where Reginald The Associated pretty much Denny was assaulted by riot- Students Program mean the end ers. Board, the only division run by students other of entertain- PHOTO BY MAX BECHERER than the A.S. govern- Spartan Daily ment, is like a small ment and agency that receives funds from the board culture in San and is responsible for Jose State." bringing cultural and non-cultural events to campus, according to Ted Gehrke, Ted Gehrke, ASPB part- ASPB adviser time adviser. Gehrke started with the ASPB in April 1972 and has been an adviser for 25 years. "My responsibility is to advise and teach a selected City of hots group of students about how to produce events on See Program, page 8 Alum works U.S. border searchinv By James S. Gunsalus Spartan Daily Staff Writer As the sun sinks into the Pacific where Mexico becomes the United States, the rush north for a better life begins. Among those attempting to hold back the tide of illegal immigration at the border is San Jose State University alumnus, Agent John for answers Murphy of the U.S. Border Patrol. For those crossing the border Not much has changed illegally, who range from migrant workers to transient criminals, their first contact in riot-damaged Los Angeles with the U.S. is often with bor- der patrol agents like Murphy. ii ss ANGELES dieted the task of rebuilding could be iompleted "The first few seconds are corners at the intersection of Florence And within five years. llowever, on this, the Mill INSIDE: crucial," said Murphy, who TwoNormandie avenues, the epicenter of the anniversary of the riots, kw improvments have been works the border's graveyard 1992 Los Angeles riots, still stand vacant live made in South I mind IAA AllgeleS. SJSU shift from San Yisidro (just MURPHY years later. Flue (1/114.1111010. at Florence and Normandie rep- south of San Diego) to the beach. On April 29, I992, citywide riots erupted in Los resent the sombering reality of public and private alumnus "When you're in the dark wi Iia flashlight and A Angeles alter lour police officers Were :11.11011ed 01 efforts to revitalize riot damaged areas. gun, it can get pretty tense trying to establish, in a for- the heating ill black motorist Rodney King. In the Rebuild I..A. has ter is istened itself I..A. Prospers Peter eign language, whether someone 's a threat," Murphy six days that followed, 55 people died and mine than I'm sirs Ii tic backpedaled from its pledge to said. "I'm still working on my Spanish." 10,000 businesses were damaged or destroyed. rebuild within live years but vows to continue its Ueberroth Murphy is one of approximately 2,500 agents sta- Even in this dark hour in the city's history, hope work. I lowever, its assessment of its impact upon tioned in the San Diego area, the Infest concentration sprang eternal 5JS1./ alumnus Peter Deberroth, lot riot damaged Areas IS 1110deSt. struggled of agents in the U.S. At the country s borders, agents riser head of Rebuild I.A. a -profit organiza "Wit, were saved; mime ii rip, were created. It with RLA are cross-designated in their duties and are authorized tion established in the afiermath of the riots, pre See Rebuild L.A., page 5 to apprehend drug offenders. According to Murphy, Page 5 STORY BY DEVIN FEHELY III SPARTAN DAILY STAFF WRITER See Border, page 8 Groups use Web to reform education Editorial battling the Tomorrow By Andrew Hussey being driven into decades of debt decrease student debt. Rage, Race & "We want to Spartan Daily Staff Writer because of the failure of state and fed- Frisliberg said student debt has disasimus 1..A. riots eral governments to adequately sup- been steadily increasing 15 percent WOn't happen again Rebellion: Jessica In an attempt to reach college stu- insure that these port access to a higher education." per year and lie Sees a 'i rushing debt Page Jones' mother was dents throughout the nation, several 2 loans Ivan Frishberg, higher education on the horizon for many si intents." shot before giving student student and consumer organizations advocate of PI K( said the nmvernent We want to insure that these stu- Border Patrol are using the Internet to gain support birth the day after don't create has three specific reforms that would dent loans don't create unmanage- simrahmum, for financial aid reform. "promote Access 10 higher Mutation." able loads of debt fin SItIlleflIS," he With the help of the the L.A. riots started unmanageable Public 'Me first change would involve A said. helps decrease illegal Interest Research ( ;mop, the U.S. substahli.d increase in Pell and other The third refOrm woukl provide immigration loads of debt for Student Association and Rock The need-baced grants. PcI1 ( ;rants are the significant lax relief for low aid mid- Page 3 students." Vote developed A Web site allowing bask form of financial aid and help dle income students. 'Ibis relief would students to sign A petition, urging students make up the difference reward students list the investment members of Congress to eliminate between what they earn ;Hid the COSI they are making in their education. Goodbye, Rick financial barriers to A college educa- (van Frishberg, 01 .111 edit( Alt011. "The United StilleS .1.tts COLIC War riot ’ t ow h RI, A tion. "1 hese grants have been under- rewards investment but little to noth- PIRG advocate According to the Web site, located funded for years," Frishberg said. ing has been done to the lax code fin Adelman let go after at http://suunapirgerghtudentlaid/nerr- The second reform calls on students who are investing in an edu- losing season tion, "the doors to A college education Congress to reduce the interest on cation," Frishberg said. Page 6 are being closed and students are student loans, which would help See Reform, page 8 - OPINION Tusday, April 29, 1997 San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY We need to learn from the L.A. rebellion fear is that 25 years from The myth of racial and social equality retrospective of those six days in 1992. residents. average Mynow, we will be back to where was proven false, and the civil unrest that Editorial The hope is that we arc able to start a dia- This is the Silicon Valley. Our CC we were 25 years ago if we followed the acquittal of four Los Angeles logue on the San Jose State University cam- household income is the highest in the coun- police officers for the videotaped beating of pus that will prevent anything resembling try. don't do something in the inner city," said healing process from 1992 may never be Lewis, assistant Los Angeles police motorist Rodney King illustrated how disen- what happened in Los Angeles from happen- We are rich with jobs, resources and Bayan completed. all chief. franchised many residents of America's inner ing here. potential. Let's learn to share them so that We hope the process has at least begun, a stake in the Five years ago today, the state of cities felt. If the people of Los Angeles aren't able to of our residents feel they have but after our visit to Los Angeles in the California was hit with one of the worst civil- The burning, looting and physical vio- settle their problems with race and econom- community. lence reverberated throughout the state and reporting of the stories which will be pre- ic inequality, we at SJSU and in the Silicon In 25 years, we may be able to tell if we ian disturbances in this country's history. sented to you in the next four days, we have The riots, uprising, rebellion or whatever the nation, leaving emotional, psychological Valley should attempt to solve ours so that have done enough.