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SJSU presidential candidate Da-vid Steele became the dean of the College of Business in 2008, and has since overseen a program that em-bodies the diversity he believes the university represents.

“We have a tremendous diversity within the student body,” he said. “But we don’t have the sensitiv-ity to the diversity that I think we should.”

According to Steele, the College of Business’ undergraduates are made up of 75 percent non-Cauca-sians — that percentage increases to 80 percent if we consider the graduate program, which includes international students.

He said the diversity fostered at

SJSU has bred graduates who are more capable of combating global obstacles.

“When I talk to employers, the fi rst thing they always say is that your graduates hit the ground run-ning,” he said. “They communicate across cultures and have incredible work ethic.”

Born in Venezuela, his fi rst lan-guage was Spanish but later became fl uent in English, German, French and Italian. He admits having lost his fl uency with French and Italian, but said it does return from time to time during his travels.

Steele has lived in eight sepa-rate countries and said he stopped counting after he traveled to his 60th country.

Steele sees his multicultural background as an instrument to facilitate communication through-

out such a diverse campus of both students and faculty.

“I believe in listening to the fac-ulty,” he said. “It can bring incred-ible value to a process that is often a top-down process.”

Should he become SJSU presi-dent, Steele said he believes his background as a corporate leader for Chevron Latin America will complement his educational expe-rience as a dean for two other uni-versities.

After becoming the president of Chevron Latin America, Steele managed projects with capital outlays of $950 million over three years, according to the CSU web-site.

John Engell, chair of the depart-ment of English and compara-tive literature, asked Steele how his corporate experience would

translate into the educational fi eld, wanting to know if there were po-tential advantages and/or obstacles that come with such a background.

Steele said his experience has given him a broad perspective of how different the operating in-structions and resources are for a university compared to the corpo-rate world.

“There is a lack of information technology in most public institu-tions,” he said. “The accounting and management systems are arcane to what we had at Chevron.”

Steele said this was also the case for the other two private universi-ties he has worked for, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Flor-ida Institute of Technology.

Presidential hopeful brings corporate know-howLyell MarksStaff Writer

Japan survivors face long cleanup as waters recede

Allied forces launch missile strikes in Libya

Photo: McClatchy Tribune

A Libyan man fi res off a few rounds on Friday during a celebration of the U.N.-imposed no-fl y zone over Libya.

NAKANOSAWA, Japan — They covered the body with a children’s blanket, a fluffy blue-green cloak dec-orated with white lilies. Beneath the cloth was a man, maybe in his 40s, missing his right arm from the elbow — a final insult to one of the countless victims of this agricultural town’s tsunami nightmare.

On a warm late-winter morning, four recovery work-ers bent low, slowly lifting the corpse in silent deference, before splashing through the muck and ooze of the rural rice field toward the road.

On Sunday, the ritual was repeated again and again at least a dozen times as teams — many dressed in hazmat gowns — finally had an opportunity to reach the bodies of friends and neighbors that had languished in a sea of mud and wreckage for nine days since the earthquake and tsunami struck March 11.

On this day the floodwaters at last receded, giving Na-kanosawa a chance to collect its own.

“Before today, this field was an ocean,” said volunteer officer Hideaki Suzuki, gesturing with a hand sheathed in a blue surgical glove.

Nakanosawa, located 220 miles north of Tokyo in iso-lated Iwate prefecture, is one of many coastal towns in northeastern Japan that have been decimated by nature’s mayhem. A few literally have been swept out to sea — people, houses, cars and all.

Others, like this farm community of 23,000, are reeling from a one-two earthquake-tsunami punch from which many here wonder if they will ever recover. To date, the ranks of the missing in Nakanosawa number 1,800. Au-thorities have so far recovered 700 bodies, but have been handicapped by a lack of resources — including gas and electricity — as well as floodwaters that had stubbornly refused to recede.

The weather and water finally relented. Days ago, the field — located nearly three miles inland — was cov-ered with a film of snow, but on Sunday the sun shone through, bringing a hint of spring that belied a grisly task. TRIPOLI, Libya — U.S., French and

British forces blasted Libyan air defenses and armor on Sunday, drawing tracer and anti-aircraft fi re over Tripoli.

French fi ghter jets, and U.S. and British warships fi ring more than 110 cruise mis-siles from the Mediterranean Sea, struck military targets to protect rebel-held areas of Libya.

Gadhafi declared he was willing to die defending Libya and, in a statement broad-cast hours after the attacks began, con-demned what he called “fl agrant military aggression,” vowing to strike civilian and military targets in the Mediterranean.

On state television later Sunday morn-ing, Gadhafi said: “We will win the battle,”

and “oil will not be left to the U.S.A., France and Britain.”

“You are transgressors, you are aggres-sors, you are beasts, you are criminals,” he said. “Your people are against you. There are demonstrations everywhere in Europe and the U.S. against this aggression on the innocent Libyan people. The people are with us. Even your people are with us.”

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Executive: Be confi dent in the workplace

A senior vice president and general manager for accounting software-maker Intuit spoke last Wednesday at Morris Dai-ley Auditorium about the top 10 ways employees shoot them-selves in the foot in the work-place.

Nora Denzel’s lecture began with a brief introduction about how she got to where she is to-day. There were more than 150 attendees, not including the walk-ins. Members from busi-ness fraternities Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Kappa Psi were also in attendance.

Denzel opened her lecture with a few anecdotes that stirred laughs all around the

auditorium. The fi rst piece of advice she gave was to control your own public relations.

“Every time you open your mouth, it is a press release,” she said. “You are your own public relations agent.”

Her second piece of advice was to “aim high” — career as-pirations are important and should be realized early.

“Aim high, even if you have

doubts,” she said.Moving on, her next tip was

to learn how to ask questions. She said there are so many things a person can get by asking, and used the example of an attendee who inspired her to come speak at San Jose State University.

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Twenty-eight years ago, SJ-SU’s International House start-ed a tradition that dared to pro-vide breakfast with a tasty side of live music and a full serving of global fashion.

The 28th I-House pancake breakfast was held Sunday, sup-plying all who attended with an assortment of food, music and fashion displaying the di-versity and collective talents of the I-House’s residents.

“It takes a tremendous amount of coordination and outreach,” said Leann Cher-kasky Makhni, director of the International House. “The resi-dent advisers have been plan-ning this since the fi rst week of school.”

Bacon, served with the bois-terous melody of bagpipes, was complemented by a stack of pancakes serenaded by soft piano.

Vanessa Duke and Nnamdi Nwaigwe were responsible for the primary planning of the breakfast, but R.A. partners Ace Antazo and Cecil Robert contributed to the process and provided a lot of support, Cher-kasky Makhni said.

The musicians performed for nothing more than a com-plimentary breakfast, fi lling the room with a variety of se-lections from several instru-ments.

Josh Agee played the bag-pipes, demonstrating his seem-ingly endless lung capacity for onlookers.

Troy Curtis and Florencio Tenllado Vallejo performed on guitar, while Kinsey D’Aquila and Paul Tumason played banjo.

The music started as early as 9:45 a.m. with Jamie Martin on piano, but the festivities also included dance performances by Khalilah Ramirez, SJSU Sal-sa and the Pride of the Pacifi c dance group at SJSU.

“Every aspect of this event is done by volunteers,” Cherkasky Makhni said. “I think of it as a link among all alumni that they can relate back to, just like they can relate back to their overall experience at the I-House.”

There were also two inter-national fashion shows put on by the residents, who wore their choice of traditional dress, choosing from a collec-tion of garments from around the world.

Almost all of the clothing was donated by Doris Menen-dez, who grew up in China and collected many traditional outfi ts during her travels, Cher-kasky Makhni said.

Representing 28 countries, the I-House is a coed residence for 72 U.S. and international students, established by Alan and Phyllis Simpkins in 1978.

The fi rst pancake break-fast at the I-House was held in 1983, starting a tradition that hundreds of international stu-dents have been a part of over the years.

“It originally started as just a fundraiser to pay for room and board,” Cherkasky Makhni said. “It caught on fast and has been held every single semester since.”

Tae Gyung Kang, an I-house resident from South Korea, was helping serve breakfast and said residents had to wake up around 8 a.m. to cook the food and prepare for the three and a half hour event.

Schehrbano Khan, a sopho-more molecular biology major at SJSU, is a resident at the I-House from Pakistan who took part in her second pancake breakfast.

Khan complimented this year’s musical guests but said the attendance wasn’t as high as the last pancake breakfast, likely because of the down-pour that persisted most of the morning.

“It’s a busy time of year,” she said. “Besides the weath-er, I think a lot of students are busy with midterms or work.”

Those who attended were treated to an international house of pancakes and enter-tainment that was far from the daily breakfast routine.

“It’s great to see SJSU has such a community here at I-House,” said Chance Decker, a guest of the event. “The students are welcoming and you can really see the effort behind this. The food, fash-ion show and musical perfor-mances all show how diverse cultures can come together.”

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CAIRO — A majority of Egyptian voters, 77 percent, supported con-stitutional changes leading to general elections within six months, ac-cording to results released Sunday after the fi rst voting since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.

Mohammed Ahmed Attiyah, head of the judicial committee in charge of the referendum, said 18.5 million Egyptians voted on Saturday in fa-vor of the changes, which strip away many of the broad executive pow-ers and political restrictions of the Mubarak era.

Turnout was 41 percent, more than double the turnout in the last election under the former regime.

Whether for or against the proposed amendments, Egyptians were overjoyed at what they considered their fi rst real vote, discounting the decades of rigged polls under Mubarak.

Monitors reported no widespread fraud, but noted smaller irregulari-ties and raised concern about the use of religion to persuade voters.

A power struggle is brewing between Islamists and secular Egyptians.Both sides invoked religion in their campaigns ahead of the referen-

dum, but the Islamists in particular hammered home the message that a “yes” vote was a vote for Islam.

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MIAMI — The earthquake and tsunami in Japan was felt thousands of miles away in South Florida’s water table.

About 34 minutes after the magnitude-9.0 quake shook the island on March 11, water levels from Orlando to the Florida Keys rose and fell by up to three inches, according to the South Florida Water Management District.

The reverberations were felt for two hours. “It shows that the fl ow in the aquifer is pretty fast, which is good and bad,” said Shimon Wdow-inski, University of Miami earthquake researcher. “It’s good because we can fi lter a lot of water through there. But it’s bad because in the case of pollution, it can travel very quickly.”

Florida’s porous limestone allows water to fl ow easily below the sur-face of the earth, Wdowinski said. That’s probably why the water table registered changes.

“The water can fl ow fast and respond better to the pressure changes induced by a wave,” he said.

The water management district uses deep and shallow wells to moni-tor the quality of ground water in the Floridian and Biscayne aquifers, which provide much of the drinking water for the area.

Changes in the water table were also measured after the Haiti and Chile earthquakes last year.

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Japanese earthquake stirs South Florida waters

“One of the things that bothers me about San Jose State is that we seem to be behind the curve,” he said. “Why is it that San Diego State has a graduation rate that is 20 points higher? I would argue that San Diego State is a premium university in the CSU system and that we should be learning from them. We should at least be as good as the best CSU in the state.”

According to Steele, solutions aren’t likely to come from the state.

When another member of the audience asked Steele what kind of techniques he would use to secure funding for projects such as up-grading the seismic standards of the Science building, Steele painted a bleak image of the state economy.

“If you look back over the last 10 years, the contributions of the general fund were 60 per-cent to this university,” he said. “It is now at 50 percent. I don’t see that changing.”

Part of the solution, Steele said, lies in exter-nal funding. He said it is the only other avenue aside from raising tuition, which he considers to be unsustainable.

“The college of business has an estimated 25 donors that have the capacity to give $5 million or more,” he said. “We have around 207 that can give $1 million or more and we have 275 with the capacity to donate between $500,000-$1 mil-lion.”

Steele said he has done the math, and that group of more than 500 alumni have the poten-tial to contribute half a billion dollars.

“All we need is 10 percent of that,” he said. “I think we have the opportunity to raise the money externally.”

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major Wilson Kong said Den-zel’s lecture was informative and knowledgeable.

“School will only get you so far because social skills are es-sential to success,” he said.

Denzel said people early in their careers should lighten up — personal relationships are the key to success and that ev-eryone has a role in the work-place.

“Students new to the fi eld are ambitious and want to work,” Denzel said. “Leave the game on the fi eld, don’t bring it home.”

Consequently, she said be-ing the nicest person will not always lead to success, and used the example of being a quarter-back to emphasize her point.

“If you want to be the quar-terback, you need to make sure you’re doing everything to ful-fi ll that position,” Denzel said. “Stay focused on what you want and be aware of what it takes to get there.”

She also said to kill “Miss Congeniality,” holding the title up as an example of the idea that the nicest person never

wins the contest.Similarly, she advised her au-

dience to “act as if.” An example is acting as if you were at a job interview. You would say some-thing like “I have researched your company extensively and I am interested in the opportu-nities you have to offer.”

She said learning how to act builds confi dence and learning to feel comfortable with being uncomfortable is important.

“Everything she said was completely on par with what I have experienced at Cisco as an intern so far,” Kong said. “The workers willing to take a risk are rewarded more.”

Denzel said people who seem comfortable in the work-place are good at hiding their discomfort.

Moreover, she said to be confi dent and embrace criti-cism.

“Criticism is the gift that keeps on giving,” Denzel said. “Don’t get defensive — ask clarifying questions and have the ability to take it.”

Taking in negative criticism may be diffi cult but she said people who can learn to absorb and refl ect upon criticism will get far in their careers.

Denzel said to have an atti-

tude where you make the rules. She said leaders do this, decid-ing what they think is right, even if there is a rule in place.

“Even with guidelines, peo-ple test the boundaries of those rules,” she said.

Her last piece of advice is to always remember what you are being judged on and your results. She used the example of a game of basketball and asked how someone can score a bas-ket with no teammates while facing fi ve other defenders?

She said it takes teamwork and helping colleagues to make work more effi cient.

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• (Above) University police offi cer Joyce Caldwell found a missing bicycle during a nightly patrol around UPD’s jurisdiction zone, which extends for one mile around SJSU.

• A low turnout of students voted in the Associated Students elections, with the majority of SJSU’s 24,700 students feeling that A.S. representatives would do as they wished, regardless of student input.

• George Castro, associate dean of the College of Science, was inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame for his contributions and achievements during his 27-year career as a scientist working for IBM prior to working at SJSU.

side, Gadhafi cast the military campaign as an-other example of Western colonialism and a Christian “crusader” mentality toward the pre-dominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East.

Government spokesman Mousa Ibrahim said 48 people were killed and 150 were wound-ed near targets in Tripoli, Tajoura, the Gadhafi stronghold of Surt, rebel-held Misurata and the eastern town of Zuwara.

“If Libya goes down, the whole Mediterra-

nean shall go down, the whole of Africa, the north of Africa,” Ibrahim said. “We are arming our people, men and women. We will not al-low Libya to be lost like Palestine, like Iraq, like Somalia, like Afghanistan.”

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the executive com-mittee of the Organization of the Islamic Con-ference issued a statement welcoming the U.N. resolution authorizing the strikes and asked member states to help in its implementation.

Qatar announced it would join the alliance and provide unspecifi ed military support.

With the U.S. military engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama said U.S. forces would play a limited role in the Libya operation.

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Hideaki SuzukiEarthquake Survivor

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Rep. Sam Farr visited the Santa Cruz, Calif., harbor Saturday morning to take a tour of the areas damaged by the March 11 tsunami surge and provide an up-date on federal assistance efforts.

Though recovery efforts continued to be postponed because of heavy rain and high surf conditions, Farr got a firsthand look at Santa Cruz’s chances of receiving federal aid.

“The process of getting a declaration of emergency is essentially assessing proper-ty values and counting both public and private losses in order to get financial help,” he said. “The $44 million figure has to be hit in order to get federal funding. The state is still counting its losses, but it has not yet hit that threshold.”

Farr remained optimistic about the state’s ability to get some assistance, howev-er, saying that many harbors have not submitted their damage numbers yet and there is still time to file for federal aid.

The deadline to declare losses is 30 days after the tsunami surge.

“It’s a bottoms-up pro-cess that begins with dam-age assessment,” Farr said. “There is no free lunch in this process — you don’t just get a bunch of free money — but aid would trigger things like disaster housing, help with loans, uninsured property losses, repairs, legal assistance and Social Security benefits.”According to Port Director Lisa Ekers, 13 vessels sank and two were raised with no pollution threat.

Friday, port officials said 14 boats sank and two remain on the ocean floor. The damage estimate to Santa Cruz harbor facilities is cur-rently at $26 million.

“We raised eight vessels that were environmentally hazardous and we’ve col-lected 200 gallons of gas and oil,” said Capt. Jay Jewess

with the Sector San Fran-cisco Coast Guard. “There are still some obstructions out there, so we have to make sure the channel is clear before we let any ves-sels through.”

Coast Guard Command-er Todd Haupt said after performing a sonar scan by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-tion throughout the entire harbor, one obstruction was identified in the north harbor and another in the south harbor.

He said divers went down to investigate the south har-bor obstruction, but were unable to locate it.

“The weather is keeping us out of the harbor, so we won’t be going down today, but we will as soon as pos-sible,” Haupt said Friday, adding that there is a tech-nical issue with the sensor that needs to be fixed first.

In the meantime, the Coast Guard Auxiliary has set up camp outside of the harbormaster’s office to help escort people to their boats and answer questions.

The 46 volunteers were recognized during Farr’s press conference for their dedication to keeping the harbor safe and going from door to door to make sure all boats were accounted for.

While Farr recognized that the weather would impede the damage assess-ment process, he said he was grateful for local ef-forts.

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“These aren’t faceless victims — I know most of these people,” said Suzuki as he directed a line of traf-fic that included passing drivers who covered their mouths in shock and teen-age gawkers taking pictures on their cellphone cameras. “Just a few moments ago, they carried out a volunteer fireman. It’s hard to watch. But it’s worse when you know them.”

The day’s salvage ef-fort focused on a rice field along Route 45, a one-time thoroughfare for families en route to the nearby beach, now transformed into a grim avenue of death.

Several miles long, at places a mile wide, the field sits littered with detritus — parts of upside-down houses, trucks and cars carried here from who-knows-where. Here and there lay snapped-off tree trunks, shards of wood, blankets, car tires, dolls, an ice chest, a wooden ornamental sake buck-et, a dismembered re-frigerator door and a chil-dren’s book called “Setting Free the Bears.”

The adjacent country road, mostly cleared of wreckage, weaved between mountains of debris at some places 40 feet high, from which the tail ends of cars protruded like Christ-mas tree ornaments. There was a yellow crane, toppled on its side, that was too big to move, so the road just swerved around it.

At first light Sunday, the search teams fanned out into the field, picking their

way along paths marked by muddy footprints, crossing small inlets of standing wa-ter over bridges made from wooden doors and window sills.

Workers said little as they went about their task. A parade of men in white suits walked in formation, sweating in the sun. At one point, the first in line sighed and dropped a heavy portable generator as the others passed in silence.

Amid a sickening smell of decay, the crews found so

many bodies that they ran out of space to store them. At one point they stopped carrying their finds to the roadside, instead marking them before moving on to the next. Submerged for days, many of the corpses had simply fallen apart, forcing workers to collect what limbs they could find.

Susuki watched from the roadside, shaking his head in disbelief. The 27-year-old truck driver and his wife and 1-year-old son were safe, but he couldn’t just sit in front of the TV gawking

at the nonstop images of di-saster. He volunteered.

“Who knows where these bodies came from,” said Suzuki, dressed in hip boots, a blue kimono, white belt and helmet. “There was nothing to stop the water. Now this place is a disaster zone.”

Nearby, a dozen workers congregated on the road as their counterparts carried out two bodies at once, both covered by the same blue tarp — the men sup-porting their load solemnly,

as though part of a fu-neral procession.

“I don’t think they’ll ever replant this field,” Suzuki said. “They’ll let it sit fallow. They’ll be afraid to find more bod-ies.”

In Nakanosawa, it seems as though near-ly everyone has lost a loved one. At a nearby communications cen-ter, Mayor Futoshi Toba looked wan with shock as he consulted with workers.

After 18 years in of-fice, Toba finds the town he has come to love has been crippled and him-self with it. His wife Kumi is missing in the

floodwaters. The last time he saw her was the morning of the quake when he left home for work. When he returned, there was noth-ing left of his home but its foundation.

Now his wife’s parents have taken up the search for her remains. Toba, 46, admits he’s too busy keep-ing his community from coming apart at the seams.

“Many people here have lost family — I’m not the only one,” he said, his eyes glassy. “We all have to keep working.

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“We raised eight vessels that were environmentally hazardous and we’ve collected 200 gallons of gas and oil, for my supplies.”

Freshman psychology major Priscilla Elizalde no longer has to worry about taking out loans or paying out-of-pocket for her college tuition.

She was selected as the National Sun Life Ris-ing Star winner and awarded $50,000 toward her college tuition.

In addition to the prize, Elizalde and 21 other students were awarded $5,000 in tuition in the fi rst round — before she was selected as the na-tional winner.

She and the other fi rst-round winners were fl own to Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 28, where they had the opportunity to meet tennis star Venus Williams and Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington and wide receiv-er Davone Bess.

Elizalde said it was amazing meeting Venus Williams, someone she now looks up to.

“We have similarities,” Elizalde said. “She showed it doesn’t matter where you come from, as long as you have a desire to achieve, you can make it anywhere in life.”

Elizalde was nominated by Barrio Logan Col-lege Institute, a nonprofi t, community-based or-ganization she has been involved with since the third grade.

The program was one of others nationwide that applied for a grant from Sun Life.

Sun Life is a worldwide fi nancial services company that has been around for more than 140 years, according to the company’s website.

“The application process consists of the non-profi t organizations telling us (Sun Life) about the work they are doing in the community and

how they are making an impact,” said Kaitlin Jaquez, philanthropy senior consultant for Sun Life.

She said organizations are also required to choose a student who they feel is deserving of a $5,000 scholarship and has overcome odds in his or her community.

Elizalde, coming from a low income family, said she has defi ed the odds within her commu-nity.

“Many lack furthering their education or even education at all,” Elizalde said. “I come from a low-income Hispanic community and most of the parents do not have an education at all.”

Launched last year, Jaquez said the goal of the Sun Life Rising Star Awards program is to rec-ognize nonprofi t organizations that are work-ing with students in underserved communities and also help students achieve their educational goals while preparing them for college and ca-reers.

Elizalde said she is beyond thankful for being nominated and chosen as the winner.

“It was amazing,” she said. “I felt so lucky and so honored. I don’t even have words to describe it.”

Elizalde said she is also relieved she does not have to pay off loans after she graduates and that her family is proud of her.

“I’m the only in my family who has made it to college,” she said.

Jaquez said Sun Life is proud to have chosen Elizalde as its winner.

“She’s so inspirational and so well-spoken,” she said. “We are proud of all of her accomplish-ments and all that she plans to do with her ca-reer and the community.”

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The Student Union Ball-room was packed with students coming to see interactive and informational booths aimed at teaching them about living a healthier life Thursday.

The event was the Spar-tapalooza Wellness Festival, which tries to promote healthy living and wellness to the stu-dents on campus, according to Laurie Morgan, assistant direc-tor of campus wellness.

“The concept of this was to create an event that would allow people to test out new ways of healthier behaviors,” she said.

Morgan said this year’s theme was sustainability — in both environmental and per-sonal wellness — so the organi-zation put on an environmen-tal-themed fashion show.

At noon, students took to the stage to present themselves in clothes made out of reusable products, from old soda cans to pure hemp.

“The idea with the fashion show was to have a dual mes-sage,” Morgan said. “One was to represent ideas around making sustainable choices with cloth-ing, using different kinds of products that are less detrimen-tal to the environment, and the other message was healthy

body image because that’s a lot about what we do at my offi ce, which is love your body and feel good about your body.”

Jeanette Matthews a senior nutritional science major who came to the event with a friend, said events such as these are good for promoting wellness on campus.

“I think it brings people to-gether because of the type of event that it is, and it’s kind of exciting actually,” she said. “You encounter some new ideas that you maybe didn’t think of be-fore and you get to know what else is on campus.”

Morgan said the event is in its third year and works to fi nd creative ways to make students more aware of healthy behav-iors and techniques.

“When we invited our booth participants we asked them to fi nd out what kind of interactive, engaging booth ideas or activities you have,” she said. “They have to have some-thing that really engages with the participants and hopefully that can serve as a trigger for participants to learn about the practice or activity.”

Rebecca Mockabee, a junior nutritional science major, ran a booth that helped students identify food proportions and show them how much they are consuming in an average day.

“The proportions you are getting today are out of con-

trol,” she said. “They’re huge and you really don’t need all that, so if you get smaller por-tions you can get a larger vari-ety and a more balanced diet.”

Mockabee said she feels most students have responded well to the booths and that they came away with more knowl-edge regarding their health.

“I think they’re shocked,” she said. “People are shocked about how many calories are in their food. A lot of people are just not aware.”

Jared Tadio, an industrial technology major, said he felt more aware of healthier eat-ing after visiting Mockabee’s booth.

“I think it’s very informa-tive,” he said. “I learned a lot of things here that I didn’t know before. This is a really fun event since it’s free.”

Domingo Castellanos, a senior kinesiology major and member of the Pre-Physical Therapy Club, was running a booth that demonstrated phys-ical therapy practices.

He said the booths at Spar-tapalooza aim to give students the most accurate informa-tion possible so they can make healthier decisions.

Spartapalooza promotes healthy living through learning

Wesley DugleStaff Writer

Students may have noticed that the 30-minute parking spaces near the campus ATMs are no longer available.

Parking in the lot between the ATMs and the Facilities Devel-opment and Operations building was eliminated toward the end of last semester and some stu-dents are frustrated.

“There’s nowhere to park except for faculty spots,” said senior sociol-ogy major Nicole Luna-Pickens. “It’s just another inconvenience for stu-dents.”

Students may be pleased to fi nd out the parking situation is tem-porary because of the construction of the Stu-dent Union.

“It’s for the footprints of the trucks to come through for the student union construction,” said Lt. Jim Renelle of University Police.

However, ongoing construction means that no end date has been set for the spaces’ closure.

Renelle said the city placed alternative 30-min-ute parking spaces on San Fernando and 10th streets, alongside the parking lot.

Students should be

aware that while the elimination of the spaces is temporary, ticketing exceptions are not being made, and students will be ticketed for leaving their cars in a staff or handicapped space while making a run to an ATM or the Student Union.

Renelle also said the school is in the pro-cess of putting two fi ve-minute parking

spaces in the parking lot until the construction is fi nished.

“We are hoping to get those done within the next few days depending on the weather,” he said.

Renelle said the spac-es can help the waiting time for trucks coming through, that will only have to wait a couple of minutes for people to move their cars.

Following the comple-tion of the construction, Renelle said the plan is to have the ATMs located inside the new Student Union and make the parking lot a full square parking lot, taking over

where the older apartment building used to be.

Parking services is also looking into pro-posing the creation of a drop-off area for the Student Union.

Construction puts ATM parking spaces on temporary hiatus

Whitney EllardStaff Writer

Lt. Jim Renelle University Police

“It’s for the footprints of the trucks to come through for the Student Union construction.”

Monday, March 21, 2011 5SPORTSPARTAN ails D Y

Shirene NiksadatStaff Writer

The SJSU women’s water polo team played Harvard University on Wednesday afternoon, winning 8-5 at the SJSU Aquatics Center.

Senior utility player Adrianna Vogt posted the fi rst score of the game, putting the Spartans on a path to victory in the fi rst quarter.

The Spartans maintained that lead throughout the entire game.

The No. 9-ranked Spartans started off the first half of the game with a weaker offense than was desired.

“We had seven offensive fouls in the first half, which was nega-tive,” head coach Lou Tully said. “There is no real need for offen-sive fouls.”

Junior 2-meter player Allie Stew-art, who scored three goals for the Spartans, felt the team’s defense needed some work in the game.

“Our defense was a little fl at to start off with,” she said. “Once we slowed it down and took a deep breath, we were able to play through.”

The second quarter kicked off with a goal from freshman 2-meter player Timi Molnar, scoring a quick goal setting the game at 3-1.

She followed her goal with a turnaround shot block on Harvard’s Monica Zdrojewski.

In the third quarter the referee gave Molnar an exclusion — where the player is ejected from the game until the ball is turned over to the other team.

Harvard, who was issued a few exclusions of its own, was more in-trusive throughout the game.

“We expect that, it’s part of the game,” Stewart said. “Some teams are just grabbier than others, so we just have to play through it.”

After four wins this past week-end, Vogt was named Mountain Pacifi c Sports Federation player of the week.

Vogt said she felt the Spartans played an overall good defensive game.

Thanks in large part to junior

goalkeeper Meagan Minson, Har-vard scored only two goals in the fi rst half of the game.

“You have to have the patience and faith in what you’re doing on the offensive end and know that it will come eventually,” Vogt said. “But you always have to play a good defensive game. If you can hold them to a certain amount of goals, the offense will come.”

This proved to be true in the case of Wednesday’s game.

The Spartans offense came through in the fourth quarter with four goals to fi nish off the match.

The Spartans hit the road for the next game against No. 7 Arizo-na State in Tempe, Ariz., on March 26, and return home for a confer-ence match up against UCLA on April 2.

SJSU and New Mexico split double-header

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No. 9 Spartans stave off Harvard in victory

SJSU women’s softball split its double-header against New Mexico on Wednesday.

In the fi rst game, the Spartans put runs on the board fi rst, scored by sophomore infi elder Cheryl Freitas in the fi rst inning.

“Our hitting was intact and we did really good staying on top of it,” Freitas said.

SJSU held the Lobos to only one run, com-ing in the third inning.

“They picked me up well,” senior pitcher Jennifer Ames said. “Defi nitely made good plays and stepped up.”

Freitas was the only Spartan to score runs and topped it off with a home run to center fi eld in the fourth inning, leading the Spar-tans to a 3-1 victory.

“I felt really aggressive at the plate today,” Freitas said.

Coach Peter Turner acknowledged Freita’s fi rst game performance.

“She did a great job,” Turner said. “She picked up the big hits when we really need-ed them.”

The second game did not go as well for the Spartans.

New Mexico held the Spartans to one hit the entire game while SJSU allowed 12. The fi nal score was 10-0 in six innings.

Pitcher changes were made in the second inning when Alex Molina came in for Elyssa Fox. After a couple of innings, pitcher Janessa Gutirrez came in for Molina in the fi fth in-ning to fi nish game.

“I think when we face slower and junk ball pitches we can’t stay back on the ball,” said Ames.

Turner discussed his team’s struggles in the second game.

“We did not pitch well, hit well and did not fi eld well,” Turner said. “When you put the three components of the game together like that you’re not going to have good results.”

The Spartans lost Saturday to Arizona 6-14 in six innings and to Illinois 2-14. SJSU ended their weekend with another loss to Pacifi c 5-11 in fi ve innings fi nishing the Judi Garman Tournament.

The Spartans record is now 12-17.The team will host a double-header against

Idaho on Tuesday.

Whitney EllardStaff Writer

Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan DailyJunior utility player Dani Curran attempts to block a shot during the Spartan’s 8-5 win Wednesday.

GYMNASTICS

Photo: Stan Olszewski / Spartan DailyKatie Merritt performs on the bars during the WAC Gymnastics Championship at the SJSU Event Center on Saturday.

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Lily Swann performs on the beam during the WAC Gymnastics Championship on Saturday.

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Senior all-around Shanice Howard and freshman all-around Cassandra Harrison took home awards from Saturday’s meet.

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Despite elimination, SJSU ends tourney on high note

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Senior wing Mickey Rhodes celebrates after scoring the game-tying goal for SJSU against Florida Gulf Coast on Thursday. The Spartans lost 3-2 in overtime.

After being eliminated from championship contention with a 6-1 loss to Michigan State on Wednesday, the SJSU hockey club team posted the only shutout of American Colle-giate Hockey Association Division-II Nation-al Tournament in a 3-0 victory over Montclair State on Thursday at Sharks Ice.

“This last game was really emotional for me, because tomorrow — that’s it,” senior wing Mickey Rhodes said after the win.

Rhodes, along with grad student center Andy Dickerson and senior defensemen Jeff Sawhill and Adam Steadman, played their fi -nal game as Spartans (18-12).

“This was a culmination of a couple years on all of our parts to get this tournament here (at Sharks Ice) and try and show well,” Dick-erson said Thursday night. “Unfortunately we didn’t advance on like we wanted to, but we came out and put up a shutout, and it was the only shutout of the tournament.”

Senior goalie Alessandro Mullane made 15 saves.

“We came out and we performed — we brought 60 minutes of hard hockey,” Mullane said Thursday. “I wouldn’t have done it with-out stellar D and stellar back-check by our team today.”

In the tournament, Michigan State (18-13-1) went on to beat Michigan (15-17-1) 9-3 in the semifi nals before losing 6-1 to Grand Val-ley State (24-10) in the fi nals.

Season AdriftSeveral Spartans attributed the team’s

struggles in the tournament to the two-week break they had in February when the uni-versity suspended the team for an allegation of alcohol abuse. After an investigation, the team was exonerated and the suspension lift-ed on Feb. 11.

“I really believe the lay-off really killed us,” Head coach Ron Glasow said Wednesday. “We haven’t had a game in two months. That’s, I think, really a shame. We hate to blame things, but (the suspension) defi nitely had a big deal to do with how we played.”

Dickerson pointed to a lot of what-ifs about the season.

“That couple weeks we had off, it pulled us together as a team,” Sawhill said Thursday. “But just being off the ice and not being able to practice took away from the momentum that we could (have been) building towards this tournament.”

Senior wing Steven Stichler said Wednes-day that the second semester has been a “lumpy, botched up, partition of a season.”

“A key word for Ron (Glasow) is adversity, and this year was the defi nition of it,” he said Saturday.

Throughout the suspension the team was scrambling to put together the national tour-nament, Stichler said.

“Are we even going to be able to play in our own tournament that we’re putting down $50,000 down for?” said Stichler, the club’s trea-surer. “I’m signing checks every week, and I don’t know if I’m going to be able to participate in that or not. It was a huge gamble for us the last few months — but all in all I think it went well.”

SJSU lost its open-ing game of the tourna-ment 3-2 in overtime to Florida Gulf Coast (38-3) Tuesday, on what Rhodes called “a fluky goal.”

“That overtime goal just killed our spirits a little bit, killed the con-fi dence,” Stichler said.

Next-Day HangoverSJSU quickly found itself in a hole

against Michigan State on Wednesday, al-lowing a goal without three minutes gone in the first period.

Michigan State tallied two more by the end of the second period, and then struck in an-other 24 seconds into the third period.

Down 4-0, Glasow said he told his team to try for a goal every fi ve minutes of play. Stichler accomplished that in the fi rst seg-ment of the third period on a pass from senior wing Richie Norris.

“I shot (the puck) and just kind of turned around, because I knew where I was placing it on the goalie, I just didn’t know if (the goalie) would nail it or not,“ Stichler said after the game. “As I turned, I saw … one go up on the board and everyone erupt.”

Stichler said the team was telegraphing the location of its shots. Rhodes pointed to SJSUs power play, as Michigan State killed all fi ve of its penalties.

Glasow said it was more than just special teams.

“The tank was empty,” he said Wednesday. “Everybody just ran out of gas after last night — they gave everything they had last night.”

Glasow said Mullane, who saved 33 shots, had a great game.

“It was pretty devastating for all of us,” Mullane said Thursday. “We were pretty pissed off because we all wanted to make it (to semifi nals).”

Broken RecordThe fi nal game of the week for SJSU, the

victory win over Montclair State (20-9-1), fea-tured milestones for Dickerson and Rhodes — for assists and penalty minutes, respectively.

Midway through the second period with the score knotted at zero, Dickerson passed the puck to Rhodes, who then sent it on to Cimino.

“I was uncovered and (Rhodes) found me right in the wheelhouse so I was able to get a quick shot off,” Cimino said Thursday. “It went low and under the goalie’s leg.”

The assist tied Dickerson with Mason Nave, who played for the Spartans from 2002 to 2007, for all-time leader in the category with 174.

SJSU extended its lead later in the period when a shot by Rhodes rebounded off the back wall and Dutra slapped it toward the middle of the net. Junior wing Robbie Vaughan stuck the puck in for a goal.

Another rebounded shot, this time by Stichler, smacked off the wall and right to Norris near the right goalpost. Glasow then slipped the puck into the goal — or so he thought.

“It was underneath the goalie’s arm (and) the goal-ie’s arm was in the net,” said Stichler. “He didn’t know he had it. As he was readjusting himself, he pulled his arm out of the net, and that’s when the ref saw the puck.”

Montclair State assis-tant coach Ryan Bourke said the Red Hawk bench

wasn’t sure what happened.“When I asked (goalie) Kevin (Fox), he said he

just rolled around real quick, fl ipped his glove over and when he looked he couldn’t actually believe the puck was in his glove,” Bourke said.

The save was one of 32 for Fox, who saw 17 more shots-on-goal than Mullane.

“Your goaltender stood on his head,” said Montclair State assistant coach Christian Val-vano. “We just couldn’t put it past your boy.”

In the third period Dickerson connect-ed with Cimino again, while the Spartans were shorthanded.

“Sawhill broke up the play behind the net and he kicked it out to me, and Sam was breaking,” Dickerson said. “The guy batted (my pass) out of midair, but he batted it right down to Sam.”

Cimino said he was bout to slow his breakaway when he saw the puck bounce off the defender.

“I just turned with it, made a little move, tried to fake the goalie out backhand and brought it back forehand and was able to put it in,” Cimino said.

With the assist, Dickerson pulled into the all-time No. 1 spot.

“I hope someone comes along and breaks

that record, because that means the team is winning,” Dickerson said after the game. “For the time being, I’m happy to have it.”

Sawhill, Dickerson’s roommate, said for the three weeks leading up to the National Tour-nament, their house has been a mess.

“This kid puts in every single ounce of energy he has into this team,” Sawhill said of Dickerson.

Rhodes said without Dickerson, there would not be SJSU hockey.

Fitting FinishA game which began without many penal-

ties changed as the game went along. The sec-ond period included seven penalties, and the third had 13.

“Frustration kicked in with them, and they got a little chippy,” Glasow said after the game. “It’s the last game of the season, and they re-ally have nothing to lose at that point.”

This is where Rhodes’ record came in.Glasow said when Rhodes started playing

for SJSU as a freshman, he heard the winger was a fi ghter.

“The team changed him,” Glasow said. “He became disciplined, and he became so much stronger — he would take physical punish-ment and not retaliate.”

With less than 90 seconds to go in the game, Rhodes was put in a headlock by Montclair State’s Erik Perdon in the back left corner of Red Hawk ice.

In this case Rhodes, already the No. 1 all-time leader in penalty minutes in club history, was ready to retaliate — and thus reach 450 career minutes in the box.

“As soon as he started going at it with the guy, I looked to the guy at my right and I said ‘He just wanted to hit 450,’” Dicker-son said. “I swung by the bench and said the same thing, and the entire bench started busting up.”

Rhodes landed a jab on Perdon, who was still wearing his mask, and came out with a bloodied hand. Both players were ejected from the game by the refs.

“(Rhodes) was the fi rst San Jose State guy that ended his career being thrown out, and it’s fi tting,” said Glasow, who has coached the team throughout its 20-year history.

Stichler said the game was a perfect end for both Rhodes and Dickerson.

“Mickey took himself off the ice, but Ron kept (the seniors) out on the ice to fi nish our last game,” Dickerson said. “Keeping the three of us out there, I’m very happy about that.”

Rhodes called senior Adam Steadman “a hell of a defenseman.”

Sawhill leaves the team as the all-time fourth-highest scoring defenseman.

“Sawhill has been one of our strengths on defense, a big physical presence who can also score,” Glasow said.

Dickerson and Rhodes said Sawhill’s char-acter was a strength for the team, even when it was losing — which wasn’t the case Thursday.

“We came out here today with the one goal: win one for the (seniors), that they want to re-member forever,” Mullane said Thursday. “A 3-0 win is a good memory.”

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Monday, March 21, 2011 7A&EPARTAN ails D Y

With spring break ap-proaching, some students have big plans.

However, there are those who have yet to decide what to do.

If you are one of those few, there are still things that are close by and cost efficient.

Whatever your reason may be, everyone should enjoy their spring break.

The weather may keep some bottled up inside their homes.

But despite bad weather, you can enjoy your break inside by inviting some friends over for game or movie night.

Drawing ex-pressively in a sketch book or cooking a sa-vory meal are also fun things you can do at home.

Personally, I like to sketch and enjoy drawing cre-atively on my down time.

From architectural con-cepts to modified versions of the Chevrolet Silverado Super Sport truck, I like to express what’s on my mind through drawing.

If you are up to spend a little bit of money, then make a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium or the San Francisco Zoo.

Both venues have the potential for an adventure and an enjoyable time out.

You never know, animals do some ridiculous things — clumsy or intentional.

Recently, I went to the SF Zoo and witnessed a go-rilla lick his lips like he was trying to seduce the people looking at him.

In addition, there was

an ostrich trying to tell a giraffe who’s boss by waving its wings back and forth at the giraffe.

However, the giraffe did not really care and tra-versed its way across the habitat, oblivious to the os-trich’s antics.

Another idea is to go with some friends to a Golden State Warriors basketball game.

The Warriors are matched up against the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder, Memphis Griz-zlies and the Dallas Maver-icks during spring break so the choice is yours.

Some of the Warriors games I have attended in the past were exciting, keeping me on the edge of my seat the entire game.

The Warriors are young and talented and are sure to put on a show for any fan of basketball.

Tickets are not expen-sive and you can travel to the game on BART.

The Warriors play an ag-gressively paced game of basketball that is not short of thrills.

This is a time to get your mind off things and enjoy yourself.

Take a drive with that significant other or some friends.

Driving down Highway 1 with the windows down, you can take a breath and relax.

Highway 1 is a beauti-ful and scenic drive that should not be overlooked.

If you have a convert-

ible, let the top down and soak up the sun.

Speaking of Highway 1, you’ve got to head to the beach.

Twin Lakes State Beach or Santa Cruz Beach Board-walk can amount to a fun and thrilling outing.

A nice walk along the beach, a barbecue or a bon-fire are some things you can do.

When I go to the beach with my friends, we play football, volleyball and Frisbee.

However, don’t forget about pranks such as bury-ing your friends in the sand or squirting an entire bottle of sunblock on their backs as they sleep on the beach.

Packing bags and head-ing off to camp at Big Basin has the potential to be more than memo-rable.

Big Basin is lo-cated off Highway 1, 15 minutes north of Santa Cruz.

Campfire sto-ries, roasting marshmallows or taking a hike at night are a few possibilities.

Catching up with old colleagues from work or high school friends is an option as well.

Sitting down for some drinks, reminiscing about the past with old friends can bring back memories.

I understand that some people will be working extensively during spring break.

However, time can be made if you make the op-portunity plausible.

Whatever your preroga-tive, utilize the time off from school to enjoy doing things you usually don’t have time for.

The break is going to pass quickly, so enjoy it.

Drink of the week

The 34-ounce super-sized draft brew from The Old Wagon Saloon and Grill can save time and money during a night out.

Are you tired of the blockade of brew suitors impeding your path to refreshment?

Do you fi nd yourself leaving your seat too often to refi ll your average 12-ounce adult beverage?

Rather than dodging the horde of bar hoppers littering the dance floors and crowding the bartender, you can order the 34-ounce draft brew from The Old Wagon Saloon and Grill and comfortably observe the clutter.

It’s a super-sized mug that fits three beers in one and saves you the hassle of making two additional ventures through the mess of less-efficient beer drinkers who fill San Pedro Square.

Since one 12-ounce curl probably isn’t why you decided to get a lift to the bar tonight anyway, it’s a brilliant idea that also saves you the trouble of tipping on three separate occasions.

During happy hour, the 34-ounce mug costs only $7.75 and is still reasonably priced at $9 the rest of the night.

Considering that it’s just two ounces short of purchasing three normal brews, you would be hard-pressed to stay under $10 going the multi-glass route anywhere else.

If you’re the type that is going to need to make more than one trip after your first 34 liquid ounces, you will still be pleasantly surprised if you do the math compared to the 12-ounce alternative.

Your $18 contribution saves the server four trips and you four tips. Since you’re using four fewer mugs, you’re even saving the dishwasher extra work.

Expect your wallet to thank you and ask your stomach if it would like some nachos or cheesy fries as a symbol of financial gratitude.

Partake in a staycation

Last-minute spring break ideas:

Stay home, enjoy the weather and make a weekend out of it•

Soak up the sun at the beach•

Journey to the Monterey Bay Aquarium or the San Francisco Zoo•

Attend a Golden State Warriors basketball game•

Go camping with some friends at Big Basin•

Drive Highway 1 with some friends (can be scenic and relaxing •

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As is the fashion in government capi-tals the world over these days, Jerry Brown is making a move to cut liberal-sounding things from the budget.

A move which is meant to satisfy, I as-sume, some specter of an austere, conserva-tive attitude that I am not convinced actu-ally exists in California.

Lots of ink has been spilled over the is-sue of education cuts, but there’s something even stupider on the chopping block — the state parks.

To some idiot in Thousand Oaks or Palo Alto or someplace similar, a move like this sounds great, like total common sense.

It couldn’t possibly be the billionaires in the upper echelons of American aristocracy that live on our coast and pay good money to avoid paying their fair share of taxes to the state, could it?

Every time somebody points out the fact that the ultra-rich hire tax avoidance attorneys to pull all kinds of tricks to avoid paying what they owe, somebody inevitably chimes in with that old right-wing chestnut, “But higher taxes will ruin the business climate. It’s good to have the rich around. They create jobs just by being here!”

The truth is that millionaires and billionaires will always

come to live in California no matter what the tax structure is, because it’s one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Which brings us back to the state parks.As you’re reading this, some trust-funded

idiot who’s never worked a day in his life is sipping a glass of champagne on the balcony of some palatial seaside estate somewhere in California, chortling about the fate of those beneath him in society.

Politicians of every stripe bend over back-ward to maintain rich people’s lifestyles.

They make sure they don’t pay taxes on their inheritances, that they are taxed lower on the interest they didn’t have to work for than working people are taxed on their pay-checks, that they don’t have to give so much

to social security, and that the property tax in his district remains low.

Meanwhile, near Half Moon Bay, the livelihoods of peo-ple who depend on tourism to the state parks are threatened because the idiots who run our state are going to lock the gates on the roads to the beaches to scrape up a few mil-lion dollars that our trust-fund babies probably have lying around somewhere.

In the interest of allowing our theoretical playboy to

maintain low maintenance fees on his beachfront property, we’re going to lock mere mortals out of some of our beaches entirely.

What’s worse is that the state has no idea what to do with the closed parks. They plan to let them sit, idle and unused, until someone comes up with enough money to hire a rang-er or two.

Or, more likely, until we have a Republican governor who sells them so they can have more palatial estates built on them.

Let me tell you one thing they’re not going to do with the land: There’s no way they’re going to let the dispossessed occupy it.

I have friends right now who are living in a van because they can’t find work, parking somewhere new every night to avoid the police.

A semi-permanent camping spot on a closed beach would be great for them, absolutely luxurious compared to pres-ent conditions, but I guarantee you that the cops will still be arresting homeless people once the parks close, probably some of them for “trespassing” in the closed parks.

These are supposed to be public lands for everyone to enjoy.

They’re going to take them away from us to protect the excessive wealth of others, and I’m sick of it.

It’s time to cut from the top.

Search the news for the word “meltdown” these days and you’ll probably get one of three main hits: the situation in Japan, the economy and Charlie Sheen.

Celebrity gossip is a pow-erful palliative for troubled times, and most of us know about as much behind the sci-ence of nuclear reactions as we do about the inner workings of the economy. Sheen? We know him all too well.

The Japanese disaster weaves together a number of common threads that could serve to jolt people out of their complacency if the knowledge was widely disseminated — but unless a cloud of radioac-tive death arrives in America, that seems unlikely to occur.

We live in such an egocen-tric culture that commenta-tors like CNBC’s Larry Kud-low can blithely utter callous statements about Japan and still remain on the air: “The hu-man toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that.”

Watching news clips of the natural disasters in Japan makes us realize yet again the enormous power of nature and the limits of our capacity to control such power.

Large buildings, roadways and bridges buckled before the shockwaves of the earthquake. Cars and trucks, even houses, seemed like small toys being tossed around willy-nilly as they were swept away by the tsunami hitting the Japanese coastline.

In Japan, electricity has been knocked out for millions of people.

But the dangers are far greater than those associated with a temporary loss of elec-tricity.

Some of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors lost primary and back-up power, which in turn led to core cooling problems, partial meltdowns and radiation re-leases within the reactor con-trol rooms and into the atmo-sphere, with possibly far worse radiation releases still ahead.

Three of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors have reportedly expe-

rienced explosions. More than 200,000 people have reportedly been evacuated from around the damaged nuclear power plants.

So far, there has not been much reporting on problems with spent fuel storage pools, but these pools that hold used fuel rods could prove to be the most dangerous of all facets of the disaster.

They contain vast amounts of radiation, several times the amount found in a reactor core. If these spent fuel pools lose their cooling source, they

could spew radiation into the atmosphere, creating a tragedy of even greater proportions than the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

The major lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Ja-pan is that nature’s power is far beyond our ability to control it.

Nuclear power is uniquely unforgiving, as Swedish No-bel Prize-winning physicist Hannes Alfvén said, “No acts of God can be permitted.”

The nuclear industry, in Japan and elsewhere, has arro-gantly pushed ahead with their dangerous technology, assur-ing the public there is no rea-son for concern.

The reassurances of self-interested nuclear “experts” are not to be trusted and the nuclear power plant failures in Japan are a fi nal wake-up call to replace nuclear power with safe, sustainable and renewable forms of energy.

There are 440 commercial nuclear power plants in the world, according to the Inter-national Atomic Energy Agen-

cy. Of these, the U.S. has 104, nearly twice as many as Japan.

Many of the U.S. plants are of the same design as those that are failing in Japan. President Obama’s 2012 budget calls for $36 billion in loan guarantees to subsidize new nuclear pow-er plants.

California, known for its propensity for earthquakes, has two nuclear power plants, one at Avila Beach, north of Santa Barbara, and one at San Onofre, between Los Angeles and San Diego. Both plants are located near major fault lines.

We know that we humans cannot control earthquakes, nor can we control tsunamis or other natural disasters.

What we can control are our own technologies and do away with technologies that are catastrophically dangerous.

Mother Nature has given us a deadly warning that it is past time to end our reliance on nu-clear power and invest instead in solar power. There is a rea-son why the only safe nuclear reactor that exists is 93 million miles from Earth.

The question is, will the di-saster in Japan open our eyes to the need for change, or will we be content to continue to tempt fate and simply hope that we do not become the next place on the planet where nuclear power fails catastroph-ically?

What the events reveal is the thinness of the margin on which modernity lives.

There’s not a country in the world more modern and civi-lized than Japan — its building codes and engineering prow-ess kept its great buildings from collapsing when a much milder quake in Haiti last year fl attened the city of Port-Au-Prince. But clearly it’s not enough.

That thin edge on which we live, and which at most mo-ments we barely notice, pro-vided nowhere near enough buffer against the power of the natural world.

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Japan: A nuclear warning in the making

During my senior year of high school, my family and I fi nally made our “sacred pilgrim-age” to see Japan.

For those who can’t tell from my picture I’m actually half-Japanese, half-American.

Hence why I have the “Can’t drive for s**t” eyes” but have a Scottish last name.

Going to Japan, though, remains one of the coolest and most interesting experiences of my life.

Up until my trip, I had always felt that I was pretty well versed in Japanese culture and in my understanding of it.

I spoke a little Japanese, I knew a lot about its ancient history, and even took kendo, which is samurai swordsmanship.

Oh yeah, and I ate lots of rice as well.But understanding a culture and actually

seeing it fi rsthand are two different things — it’s like saying one truly understands South Af-

rica because they saw Morgan Freeman play Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.”

Going there with my family was the only way for us to truly see and understand the culture, and going there helped me see my Japanese side on a more per-sonal level.

The fi rst thing that stood out to me was how incredibly clean the country is, how despite there not being any trash cans on the streets, there was not a single piece of garbage on the ground.

People actually don’t litter in Japan and wait until they get home to throw away their garbage. What a concept!

I joked to myself at the time I probably could eat sushi right off the streets of Tokyo, they were so clean.

The next thing I truly loved was how futur-istic and modern the country looked. From the tall, all white buildings with large video screens a la “Blade Runner,” to the more silly things like every single toilet I found being electronic, it was astonishing to see such a great metropoli-tan city like Tokyo.

Probably the biggest thing I enjoyed about the country were the peo-ple I met.

Despite not being able to say more than a few broken words of Japanese to them, every one of the citi-zens I had a chance to speak to or converse with were courteous and showed a strong degree of respect to-ward me and my fam-ily, despite us travel-

ing around like a bunch of tourists.Even in my short time in Japan I saw a more

personal side of my culture that I’ll never for-get and I was never more proud of my heritage than when I was in that country.

So when a week and a half ago I heard the news about the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, I started to reminisce about my time in the country and the people I met there.

I, thankfully, have no direct Japanese rela-tives who live there but I still found myself worrying about how the citizens of that coun-try are doing.

The devastation is still shocking to me — not only because of the damage caused by the

tsunami but also the possibility of a nuclear crisis with the damaged reac-tors.

It truly is scary thinking about what it would be like to be in the area of Sendai right now, where thousands of Japa-nese have perished and in Tokyo and other parts of the

country where power outages are still occur-ring and the threat of meltdowns remain.

I hope to one day return to Japan with my own family on our “sacred pilgrimage” to show my children the country and the people that they are from.

So I pray for the people of Japan and I hope that they can recover from this crisis as soon as soon as possible.

I hope the people I met there, and their families are safe and stay strong during these diffi cult times.

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Praying for Japan

“I hope the people I met there, and their

families are safe and stay strong

during these diffi cult times.”

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Students who traveled abroad debunked some of the concerns of potential study abroad students during a panel presentation on Thurs-day.

In Clark Hall, three seniors — Amanda Grunwald, Camille Woods and Denise Degelos — answered questions about studying abroad and discussed their experiences living outside the U.S.

In front of a group of about 10 students, the panelists answered questions to educate poten-tial students interested in participating in the study abroad programs.

Study abroad adviser Veronica Malki moder-ated the discussion and asked questions about the experiences the three students had and what they did to prepare for their programs.

Undeclared freshman Pedro Martinez said he hopes to study in Australia and attended the panel to fi nd out information on studying abroad.

“I was looking for something that would be life changing,” he said. “I want to get new experi-ences and see what is out there.”

Grunwald, a political science major, shared her reasons for going to study in France.

“I grew up thinking that I would study abroad because my parents actually met when they were studying abroad,” she said. “I grew up hearing stories about my parents’ experiences studying abroad in Austria.”

Grunwald told the panel she was also ready for a change.

“I was really excited to see something new,” she said. “I felt that my whole life had been spent in the South Bay and I really wanted to get out and see something different.”

Panel members also discussed the fi nancial

costs of traveling abroad.Woods, a global studies major who went to

Canada, told the group that her fi nancial experi-ence worked out fi ne.

“One of the benefi ts of going to Canada is that the Canadian dollar is always weaker than the American dollar,” she said. “So by me study-ing abroad I saved over $1,000 by leaving my home university.”

All the panelists agreed that it was easier to enroll at foreign universities because the univer-sities were not feeling the setbacks from budget cuts.

The summer before leaving for her trip was the most stressful, Grunwald said.

She advised the audience to save money be-fore going on the trip, look into fi nancial aid and research whether a department has any scholar-ships it gives to students studying abroad.

Degelos, a Spanish major, spent a year in Spain and said her experience allowed her to grow as an individual.

“I would not have been able to speak in front of a class, and now I feel like my public speaking skills have improved immensely,” Degelos said.

All three panelists went abroad for a year and agreed the experience gave them time to immerse themselves in a culture, making it feel more like home than a short vacation.

Woods added that traveling abroad has changed the way she looks at the world.

Just being able to meet people from all over the world was one of the best experiences, she said.

After hearing the panel, senior photography major Justin Zetterlund said he is even more motivated than before to study abroad.

“It has encouraged me more to do it,” he said. “I have traveled to Europe before, but now un-derstanding how they have stayed there for a pe-riod of time, I would probably now just want to go and experience it.”

Do research, save money to study abroad, says panel

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