Mostly sunny African- Spartan golfer except for Americans Steve Woods scattered clouds. should put stroking for Highs in the 60s DNA to use. the pros. to low 70s. See page 2... See page 6... SPARTAN %id 1113, DAILY Numb,' 37 Published for Sall Jose State tnk ersit since 1931 October 26, 199 I Evans shamed by graduation rates Outlines changes in athletic recruitment policies from community colleges By Joanne Griffith Domingue Spartan Daily Stall Writer "I want no athlete here who gram is all about. Getting an edu- years to make their mark in colle- sports information at SJSU, con- doesn't want to graduate from cation is what it's all about." giate sports, there's enormous firms recruiting has changed. Evans J. Handel Evans, president of college," Evans said at his press Evans outlined ways SJSU is pressure on them, Evans said. So "As recently as 1990 football 'I want no athlete San Jose State University, is conference Tuesday. "When re- changing its recruiting. "We're SJSU will focus its recruiting now recruiting was still top heavy embarrassed and distressed by cruiting, we must make it very going to slow down recruiting in on high schools to find students with junior college students. For here who doesn't the school's poor record of grad- clear. If there's no interest in col- junior colleges because that's who will "stay a length of time Fall 1994, there are 14 fresh- want to graduate.' uating black athletes - especially lege and they just want to be in where the problem is." and make a commitment." -J. Handel Evans foot ball players. the NFL, that's not what this pro- When students have just two Lawrence Fan, director of See Evans, page 8 Classroom Steel drums gender bias Males receive better education than female classmates By Kevin Valine dominating the classroom and American University professors Spartan Daily Staff Writer earning the top honors, said write, "often by well-meaning Across the country, girls and Professors Myra and David teachers who are unaware that boys receive unequal educations Sadker, the authors of "Failing at they are transmitting sexist values. in the classroom, with boys Fairness, How America's Schools "Girls are taught to speak quiet- receiving the lion's share of atten- Cheat Girls: ly, to defer to boys, to avoid math tion and praise from teachers. "Girls are systematically denied and science, and to value neat- Once they reach college, gender opportunities in areas where boys bias continues with male students are encouraged to excel," the two See Gender bias, page 8 Emeritus biology professor remembered for contributions By A.J. Nomai Spartan Daily Stall Wnter "This will be a day to remember. It Carl Sharsmith, emeritus biolo- gy professor at San Jose State was my first day in the mountains, University, first visited Yosemite but it will not be my last.. .Now I National Park in 1926 at the age of can truly believe John Muir when 23. He spent the next 62 summer he says The Mountains of God. seasons at the park, studying the plant and animal life and leading Carl Sharsmith nature tours through what he s.r,t merittu Nohow, profearax called home. Sharsmith "It's the happiest place in the mountains," Sharsmith once told had earned a reputation as the smith wrote in 1919, "will help the San Francisco Chronicle. "God oldest and longest-serving park me decide the course in life I blessed this place." ranger in the history of the shall take." "Tuolumne Meadows was basi- National Park Service. He led "In his notebooks," Elizabeth cally his domain," Dr. Wayne his last tours through Yosemite O'Neill wrote in "Mountain Sage," Savage, professor of biology at this past summer. After a long a book of Sharsmith's life, "Carl SJSU and friend of Sharsmith said. bout with cancer, he died Oct. patiently wrote out long sections "Most people would say there 14 at the age of 91 in his home in by Muir and read them over until probably wasn't an inch of San Jose. they were imprinted in his memo- Yosemite National Park that he When he was 15, a fascination ry. Thus Muir went with him the JEREMN F14 aAN SPAF,' N. , wasn't familiar with." with John Muir helped shape his rest of his life, whispering in his Monica Gelormini grins while playing steel Concert Hall. The class, taught by drummer In the more than 60 years life's ambitions. ear and his heart the summons to drums during jazz performance class Royal Hartigan. performs traditional music Sharsmith spent at Yosemite he "John Muir's writings," Shar- Tuesday afternoon in the Music Building from various West-African cultures See Sharsmith, page 8 Casting director gives aspiring actors advice AIDS educator cancels Nicki Valko offers insight speech due to illness on Hollywood auditions Pedro Zamora dying in Miami hospital By Shelley Spackrnan By Tina Casalino Spartan Daily Stall Writer He has testified in Congress, Spartan Daily Stall Wnter made a television spot for the Pedro Zamora, a 22-year-old Centers for Disease Control and AIDS educator who was sched- Prevention and appeared earlier Lights, camera, action! uled to speak tonight at San this year on episodes of the Nicki Valko, a Hollywood casting direc- Jose State University's Student tor, spoke to San Jose State University stu- Union, is dying front complica- MTV series "Real World," filmed dents Monday and offered them advice on tions of AIDS in a Miami hospi- in San Francisco. breaking into the world of acting. tal, according to a San Jose He also lectured before the Valko conducted a one-hour question Mercury News article. President's National Commis- and answer session and a two-hour work- According to the article. sion on AIDS, the most recent shop to a diverse group of students, not Zamora has a severe neurologi- International AIDS Conference. limited to theater arts majors. During the cal disorder, cannot walk, speak Zamora told the Wall Street workshop, students paired up and per- or eat and often cannot recog- Journal in 1992 he was gay and formed short scenes from scripts which nize family and friends. got HIV through sexual contact. Valko brought with her. The disorder is progressive "I'm sure of that because I Pamela Salazar, a member of the multifocal leukoencephalopa- never hi,d a blood transfusion, I thy, which causes dementia, a never wed intravenous drugs, Associated Students Program Board and CHRIS GONZALLS SPARTAN Dan condition of deteriorated men- and I had been sexually active." the performing arts director, believed the Hollywood casting director Nicki Valko, Valko's visit to the SJSU theater arts by a Zamora said tips Valko gave students on breaking into left, talks with Pamela Salazar during department Monday tality that is characterized the business were useful. marked decline from the indi- Since his diagnosis in 1989, "This is something you're not going to an aspiring actor auditioned for a violent sure other directors are aware of who t he vidual's former intellectual Zamora has focused his life on get in class," she said. scene and picked Valko up and threw her actors are. level, the article reported. teaching youths about the igno- Some of the advice Valko gave students against a wall. In reference to the incident She started her career when she The Cuban-American Zamora rance, pain and death associat- included showing up for auditions on Valko said, "I don't like to be handled dur- answered an advertisement in a newspa- contracted HIV, the virus that ed with AIDS. time, keeping a positive attitude, use eye ing scenes." per looking for an assistant director. causes AIDS, in 1989 when he "The pain that I feel," Zamora contact and not using many props when Valko tells students who want to Her's job responsibilities include read- was 17. Since then, he has trav- said, "The anger, the hurt I auditioning. become actors to find themselves a good ing scripts, talking to agents and having eled across the country speak- don't want anybody else to go She related one bad experience when agent who will represent them and make See Director, page 8 ing to audiences, and educating through this. Nobody deserves them about HIV and AIDS. See Zamora, page 4 a......siaarreatommetaromalaimilialtimadamilaid- 2 Wednesday, October 26, 1994 OPINION San Jose State University SPARTAN DAILY Editorial 0.J. jury deserves Beverly Wilshire If Judge Lance Ito decided to Becoming out of touch with are known to experience: sequester the jurors because of local and national affairs, expo- They want to get it over with a lengthy trial and other consid- sure to any media coverage and go home. erations in the O. J. Simpson being an absolute no-no. They have feelings of fatigue, We case, the jurors should at least Not being able to lead an irritability, impatience, frustra- interrupt be granted the amenities that active life. A sedentary and tion, failure, boredom, appre- this. cartoon the Beverly Wilshire Hotel indoor lifestyle for an extended hension, nervousness, annoy- to bring you the could provide. period of time is detrimental to ance or tedium each aware latest on the Consider the circumstances anyone's health. that they are unpredictable 0. J. Simpson under which jurors might be Adjusting to a life of isolation players in a gripping drama of trial... working for at least one month: among strangers with whom historic significance. Anxiety about a financial situ- relationships will develop or It is not unreasonable to sug- ation where, although having deteriorate.