SJSU students and AIDS-related community organizations from the Bay Area gathered in the Student Union for the World AIDS Day Fair on Monday, but not many people at-tended the event.

“I was litt le disappointed with the turnout,” said Stephanie Bowens, the event organizer and peer health educa-tor in sexual and gender health. “A lot of students came to the Student Union as always, but didn’t really take the time to grab some of the information.”

Th e event was part of World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to bringing at-tention and raising awareness of the “global AIDS epidemic,” according to the world AIDS campaign Web site.

Th e health science department or-ganized the event in an eff ort to edu-cate students with the disease.

“December the fi rst is the World AIDS Day, so to honor the holiday, we decided to come up with a three-day event,” Bowens said.

At the main level of the Student

Union, students and organizations displayed information about HIV and other sexually transmitt ed infections and safer sexual health.

Th e Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center, the Health Trust, Silicon Valley AIDS Coalition and SJSU’s Nutrition Education Action Team were some of the participating presenters at the fair.

Jeanett e Yap, a junior health science major and one of the few visitors at the fair, said, “Being a health science ma-jor, you want to know as much as you can about it.”

But she also said AIDS is still a ta-boo topic for many people.

“Not a lot of people are open to talking about it,” she said. “So this is a good way to have (people) just kind of anonymously grab information, and if they want to know more about it, they can. Th ey don’t need to be picked out.”

James Smith from the Health Trust said it is important to educate one-self with accurate information about AIDS, since some people still have

misconceptions about the disease. Th e Health Trust is a Silicon Valley-based organization, which provides resourc-es and support for HIV and AIDS pa-tients, such as gett ing them connected to doctors and clinics.

Being HIV positive himself, Smith

said it is very important for people to be more aware of what’s available to them and to get involved by taking action.

“For myself, I’m someone living with HIV,” he said. “If I can help other

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SJSU student Gregory Johnson Jr., who was remembered by friends as com-passionate, honest, genuine, fun, enthu-siastic, driven to succeed and a good lis-tener, died on Nov. 22.

Th e 20-year-old from Clearlake, who was called “Junior” by friends, was a sophomore kinesiology major and a member of the fraternity Sigma Chi.

His death brought more than 600 people, mostly college-aged, to the Stu-dent Union Barrett Ballroom last Tues-day night for an emotional memorial

service at which nearly 30 people spoke about him.

“He was a source of comfort during the hardships of life,” one his fraternity brothers said, “and never fake about it.”

A childhood friend told a story of his fi rst encounter with Johnson. He said he was crying aft er being dropped off on his fi rst day of preschool, and a preschool-aged Johnson approached him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Several other speakers painted John-son as having a constant willingness to have deep conversations and off er his company.

“He was always so good at putt ing things into words,” a female friend said. “He never held back his emotions.”

Another fraternity brother said he and Johnson oft en talked about what family meant to them.

Numerous friends said Johnson was determined to self-improvement, had a “high personal standard” and encour-aged others.

“Th e way you got the best out of people was what made you so amazing,” said the aforementioned woman, one of

Th e SJSU Symphony Orchestra, featuring winners of the annual Con-certo-Aria Competition, performed everything from cello and xylophone concertos to marimba, an African percussion instrument, last Tuesday in the Music Concert Hall.

“Th at’s what my life is,” said con-cert conductor Janet Averett . “Th at’s why I’m here. Th at’s what gives me breath: to be able to work with stu-dents and wonderful, growing musi-cians at this level.”

Th e orchestra played before a crowd of about 200 people. Th e hour-and-a-half concert featured six winners from the annual Concerto-Aria Competi-tion, a local competition held at SJSU.

“(Tuesday’s) concert is SJSU’s an-nual concert-aria showcase in which the university displays the talents of individuals who competed in late Sep-tember before a panel of judges for the opportunity to perform with the Univer-sity Symphony Orchestra,” Averett said.

Averett , who served on the panel of judges, said some of the qualifi ca-tions they looked for were knowledge

of the piece, technical profi ciency, good rhythm, beautiful sound and confi dence.

“(Th ey) absolutely have to have stage presence and confi dence,” she said.

Th e panel of judges chose six winners out of 20 student contes-tants. Averett said the competition was a great learning experience for the contestants.

“Th ey get a chance to perform with the orchestra,” she said. “Th ey get to try out new and interesting literature, and we get to accompany them. So we learn

a diff erent type of style of playing too, in which we have to learn to accompany.”

Th e concert also featured solos by the competition winners, start-ing with cellist Cole Tutino, soprano singer Sara Morajev, marimba player Shirley Huang, tuba player Scott Gor-man, soprano singer Margaret Gor-don and ended with xylophone player Gregory Messa.

Gordon, a vocal performance graduate student who sang “Les oi-seaux dans la charmille,” said she had

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On Aug. 29, 1970, in Los Angeles, Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez stepped up to the lectern to address 30,000 Chica-nos protesting the Vietnam War when she saw a hundred police offi cers run-ning toward her fi ring tear gas. She ran.

Martinez survived the police back-lash that day, but three other Chicanos were not so lucky.

Th is protest was just one of the many involving Chicanas that Martinez discussed at a talk about her new book, “500 Years of Chicana Women’s His-tory,” at the Cultural Heritage Center in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on Monday night.

Martinez, who has previously writ-ten books on Chicano history, said there was a gap in the coverage of the females involved.

“I felt there should be more about the women,” Martinez said, adding that she feels the role of women has been neglect-ed in reproductions of Chicano history.

Th e talk was hosted by SJSU’s branch of MEChA, the Chicano student move-ment of those of Aztec descent.

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World AIDS Day PanelPanelists discuss personal experi-ences with HIV and what the pub-lic can do to make a difference.12 to 2 p.m. in the Student Union, Umunhum Room.Contact Melinda Chu-Yang at mchuyang@email.sjsu.edu

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several people who addressed Johnson in their speeches.

Aft er friends called Johnson the “life of the party,” Stanley Butler, a kinesiology associate professor, said Johnson was also the “life of the class.”

“I watched him match and exceed his and our potential,” a fraternity brother said. “Junior believed in learning. He wanted us to go to school every day.”

Johnson was known for go-ing to the gym and dressing well, speakers said.

“He wore a tie and a slick hat for every occasion,” said a fra-ternity brother and Johnson’s former roommate.

“He would look in the mir-ror and say, ‘Damn, Junior, looking good today,’” a speaker said while reading a lett er from a former fraternity president who was unable to att end.

Robert James, an SJSU English lecturer, said that al-though some of his students had suggested he get a new wardrobe, Johnson was his only student who off ered to take him shopping.

Johnson was also a talented singer, speakers said, and he sang “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” at a vigil for Matt Garcia, an SJSU student who died on Oct. 5.

Frank Garcia, Matt ’s father, and Dan Garcia, Matt ’s twin

brother, both spoke at John-son’s memorial.

Dan Garcia, a member of the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha, said he didn’t know Johnson well, but once had a conversa-tion with him about an ideal Greek system in which “every-one loves everyone.”

“People like me who didn’t know him, knew him, because that’s the type of person he was,” Dan Garcia said.

Many anecdotes Johnson’s friends shared prompted mo-ments of laughter. His friends said he was a fan of profes-sional wrestling and owned a toy championship belt, watched the animated television shows “Family Guy” and “Dragon Ball Z,” ate at Chipotle Mexican Grill multiple times a day, sang in the shower and loved to dance.

“He brought out the kid in all of us,” a fraternity brother said.

A few of the speeches con-cluded with wishes that those who knew Johnson remember him well, reiterating a common theme throughout the event that Johnson positively aff ected the people around him.

“Don’t stop talking about Junior,” a fraternity brother said. “Let Junior live.”

*Some names were not includ-ed at the request of Sigma Chi.

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JUNIORindividuals to get connected with services or just to support them, knowing that you are not alone in this fi ght.”

He said his main goal for coming to SJSU and educat-ing students was to reach out to people and get them tested for AIDS, regardless of one’s sexual preference.

“It doesn’t matt er who you are with,” Smith said. “It’s not a gay disease — it aff ects everyone.”

Th e other booth featured infor-mation on food safety and proper cooking techniques for HIV/AIDS patients to avoid infection from foodborne pathogens.

Dominic Fass, a senior sociol-ogy major, didn’t know that Dec. 1 was the World AIDS Day until

he came to the fair.“I had some space in my

schedule, so I decided to come by and check it out,” he said. “I’m prett y glad I did.”

He said he found most of the information very interesting.

Visiting the education booth for hepatitis, which Bowens said is a common disease resulting as a side eff ect of AIDS, Fass said he learned a lot about the diff erenc-es among hepatitis A, B and C.

“(Th e) hepatitis table was ac-tually very informative,” he said. “I didn’t really know a whole lot about (it).”

Th e science department is host-ing a World AIDS Day Panel today from noon to 2 p.m. in the Umun-hum Room in the Student Union.

Panelists from various HIV community groups will be speak-ing about their experiences in the HIV fi eld and community.

Th e department will have a HIV/AIDS fi lm series in the Mo-saic Cross Cultural Center in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Th ey will show the movies “Bloodlines” and “Honor Th y Children.”

“I really want to encourage people to come out to the event throughout the week,” Bowens said. “Th ere is really good in-formation on how you can be more active, how it really aff ects you because you should really get to know some of the statis-tics. (HIV) is rising in the young adult community.”

The facts about HIV and AIDS

The human immunodefi ciency virus (HIV) infects cells of the immune system, destroying or impairing their function.The term AIDS applies to the most advanced stages of HIV infection, defi ned by the occurrence of any of more than 20 opportunistic infec-tions or HIV-related cancers.

People living with HIV/AIDS in 2007: 30.3-36.1 million

Adults living with HIV/AIDS in 2007: 28.2-34.0 million

Children living with HIV/AIDS in 2007: 1.9-2.3 million

AIDS deaths in 2007: 1.8-2.3 million

Events scheduled for this week include panel discussion

Some performers working on pieces since last spring

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been working on the piece since last spring.

“I worked forever on this piece and I even researched into it for my research classes,” she said. “I felt prett y ready and that’s a really good feeling to have before a performance.”

Sarah Zoobi, a freshman bio-chemistry major who att ended the event, said she appreciated the diversity in the music.

“My favorite part was a tie between the xylophone con-certo and tuba concerto,” she said. “I really enjoyed the tuba concerto because it was played really well, with a lot of accu-racy. Not something I normally hear from a tuba. With the xy-lophone concerto, I really liked how they tried to portray Far East colors into an orchestra because it’s not something that

can be easily done.”Mark Haygood, a freshman

music performance major, said he was impressed with the as-sortment of music.

“Th ey had a nice range of music with a whole bunch of cultures in it and ideas and na-tionalities,” he said.

Chris Brown, a sophomore music performance major who played fl ute in the concert, said

that although he felt it was a suc-cess overall, it wasn’t fl awless.

“Some of the things were the best we’ve performed them, but as every concert, it has its mo-ments of non-perfection,” he said. “(But) we had a good audi-ence. We really feed off the au-dience. It’s this whole audience-performer mentality. If you have a good audience, you’re going to have a good concert.”

activism and it kind of went away for a while,” said Victor Guendu-lain, a member of MEChA. and co-organizer of the event. “And it was time to bring it back, but bring it back with a whole dif-ferent perspective: to actually bring in women who have been involved with the movement for a long time.”

Martinez talked through a slideshow that was a sampling of the 700-plus images that she pres-ents in her book to about 50 stu-dents in att endance.

In addition to discussing her knowledge of Chicana history, Martinez also divulged to stu-dents her lifelong affi liation with protest movements.

“She is the quintessential ac-tivist,” said Julia Curry Rodriguez, an SJSU Mexican-American stud-ies assistant professor.

Martinez talked about how she went to work for the United Nations aft er college, desiring to bring peace to the world. Th en she joined the Civil Rights movement when it exploded in the 1960s.

“She’s been involved with so many movements,” said Loreana Camarema, a senior sociology major, “not just as she’s a Chi-cana, Chicana movements, but the Civil Rights movement and others. So she’s kind of univer-sal. She’s more for humankind, rather than diff erences and just individual struggles.”

Martinez said that although her apartment is full of images of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, her true motivation to join protest movements comes from a larger source.

“It’s not any individual per-son,” Martinez said. “In a way, it’s the struggle of a whole people and that’s really where the inspiration comes from.”

Martinez also fi elded ques-tions from students, particularly on the role of women in commu-nity activism.

“More Chicana women are aware of what they can be and what they can do than 25 years ago, or 20 years ago,” she said. “Seeing examples of other active

women is important.”Guendulain, a senior behavioral

science and anthropology double major, concurred with this point.

“Th e role of women gets mini-mized a lot in a lot of the move-ments that we have,” he said. “So I think it’s time for women to see that there’s a voice out there. Th ere’s women that have been or-ganizing and been doing work for a long time.”

Martinez also refl ected on how the methods of protest among Chicanas have changed.

“It’s not as hot at the moment as it has been in the past,” she said. “I don’t think anybody would dis-agree with that, but we just have to kind of heat it up a litt le.”

Source: World Health Organization

Aft er 17 years, the wait is fi -nally over.

On Nov. 23, “Chinese De-mocracy,” arguably one of the most highly anticipated records of all time, was fi nally released across America.

Although it is a huge depar-ture from the Guns N’ Roses

that we once knew and loved, “Chinese Democracy” is a de-cent rock record.

If you listen with no pre-conceived notions about this record, you are more apt to enjoy it. If you are looking for a sequel to 1991’s “Use Your Illusion” I and II, you will most likely be disappointed.

Th e last full album that we

heard from Axl Rose was back in 1993, when Guns N’ Roses released “Th e Spaghett i Inci-dent,” which consisted entirely of cover songs.

Several of the band’s most popular members, including Saul “Slash” Hudson, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, left the band shortly thereaft er.

Undeterred, Rose decided to

continue the band by replacing members as they left .

Th is resulted in quite a feud between Rose and the previous band members.

Besides Rose, the members of Guns N’ Roses continue to rotate.

The members who contrib-uted to “Chinese Democracy” include guitarist Robin Finck, bass player Tommy Stinson, drummer Frank Ferrer, lead guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and guitarist Brian Pat-rick Carroll, better known as “Buckethead.”

One of the holdover past members featured on “Chinese Democracy” is keyboard player Dizzy Reed, who was fi rst intro-duced on the album, “G N’ R Lies,” back in 1988.

Th e title track, “Chinese De-mocracy,” with all of its catchy hooks, sounded to me like the obvious hit, although it doesn’t compare to “November Rain” or “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”

Rose’s voice, once a rage-fi lled screech, has given way to an almost screechy whine. Th is is most evident when it is layered on top of slow beats such as those in the song, “If the World.”

We start to see a glimmer of light on “Th ere Was a Time,” but when it comes to the guitar solos, even with more than four

guitar players, it still ends up sounding like a poor man’s ver-sion of classic Slash solos.

“Street of Dreams” sound-ed a bit like any contempo-rary rock song on the radio right now. I found mean-ing in the lyrics, “What I thought was beautiful, was only memories.”

Th is is how I feel about the Guns N’ Roses of yesterday, in comparison with what it has become.

What “Chinese Democracy” fails to capture is the essence of what Guns N’ Roses was in their heyday — their signature raw, wild and rebellious sound that made you want to light

up a smoke and crack open a bott le of whiskey is missing.

I think one of Rose’s lyr-ics from the album’s title track sums up this whole record: “More than you’ve got to fool a nation, when all I’ve got is pre-cious time.”

Th e end of the story is that Axl needs to swallow his pride and hook back up with Slash and Duff , and fi nally quench America’s thirst for the real re-turn of Guns N’ Roses.

If we didn’t have to wait so long, this record might not sound like such a sad imita-tion of what once was. Or what some of us still dream could be again.

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‘Chinese Democracy’ comes to America after 17 years‘Chinese Democracy’ comes to America after 17 years

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Tour poster from the 2007 “Chinese Democracy” tour, which never occurred.

“Chinese Democracy” is Guns N’ Roses’ fi rst album with original material since 1991. The

album is currently No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

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What “Chinese Democracy” fails to capture is the essence of what Guns N’ Roses was in their heyday.

Seniors Kelly Crow and Col-leen Burke, and sophomore Bri-anna Amian of the SJSU women’s volleyball team were named to the All-Western Athletic Confer-ence volleyball teams.

Crow was named to fi rst team, and Burke and Amian were named to second team.

Th ey were recognized for their performances this season by other head coaches in the conference.

“Th at’s prett y cool to say that all of us made All-WAC, so it’s

kind of an accomplishment for the whole team and said a lot about how we developed as a whole this year,” said Crow, an

outside hitt er. Th is season, Crow led the team with 353 kills, rack-ing up double-fi gure kills in 22 of 27 matches.

“I wasn’t expecting it just be-cause I’ve been playing it for fi ve years now and never won any-thing,” she said.

Amian, a hitt er who recently switched from playing on the right side to the left , also contrib-uted 255 kills for the Spartans this season, adding 168 digs and 54 blocks.

“I was really surprised (about the award), so I didn’t know how to react,” Amian said, add-ing that they heard the news at the WAC banquet held along with the conference tournament in Hawaii.

Th is was Burke’s second all-conference award.

She received her fi rst confer-ence honor in 2007.

Th is season, Burke had a hit-ting percentage of .297 with 60 digs and 26 service aces this season.

“I was happy for all of us,” she said. “It’s just nice that other coaches take notice.”

Volleyball head coach Oscar Crespo said he was pleased with the players’ accomplishments.

“I’m extremely proud of what they did,” he said. “For three

players, it means a lot that they are recognized for all the hard work that the conference coach-es obviously thought of them as being valuable to San Jose State and also very solid assets as volleyball players to a program.”

Crespo said it was admirable of Amian to switch her position for the team, adding that he sees her as a “well-rounded” player and a promising athlete.

“She’s still young as a player,” Crespo said. “But she’s defi nitely developing very, very well. She’s already shown signs that she can control matches and be the im-portant player on the team.”

As for Burke and Crow, the two senior players, he said the team will miss both greatly as they are graduating in May of 2009.

“She did great at the WAC tournament,” he said of Burke.

Crow also had a good season, Crespo said.

“I’m proud and happy to see (Crow) have a great senior year,” he said.

Aft er graduation, Crow and Burke are both planning to pur-sue careers as teachers. But will they keep playing volleyball?

“Just coaching here and there,” Crow said. “We are retiring.”

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TUESDAYDECEMBER

RIE NAKANISHIStaff Writer

Three Spartans honored with conference selectionsThree Spartans honored with conference selections

Kelly Crow spikes the ball against Nevada on Nov. 8. Crow and two

other SJSU volleyball players were awarded All-WAC selections.

MIKE ANDERSON / Spartan Daily

It is a week away from the beginning of fi nals and I can’t think of a bett er time to stop complaining about the work I have to do. But I can’t — I am the self-proclaimed king of procrastination.

Th e trouble is some people see the things that I do as a waste of time … like sitt ing on the toilet. I read somewhere (probably on the can) that over a life-time, the average man “wastes” 394 days sitt ing on the throne. I think that most men would agree that those 56 weeks is a time to be cherished.

On the other hand, the eternity spent waiting for a lady to fi nd something in her over-sized handbag is not. While most women carry one, it confuses me beyond comprehension as to why.

Th e time spent looking for things that have fallen down below the amassed clutt er is a true waste of time.

If I suspect that a friend of mine keeps her cell phone in a purse, I will just write an e-mail. I fear that 40 minutes of a Bon Jovi ringtone while she rummages around for her phone would end up with a few pissed-off people or a smol-dering cowskin clutch — talk about a “Blaze of Glory.”

I can’t fi gure out why ladies need more than one purse and why most have

20. I was once told that it had something to do with the seasons, so I guess that means there are 16 more that I don’t know about.

It is also said that a pocketbook can make or break an outfi t. I happen to think that no piece of tanned cowhide will help the worst of fashion faux pas. But what do I know? I am just a man.

I am not familiar with the contents of these cumbersome carryalls, so over the weekend, while my sister wasn’t looking, I took a peek inside her bag.

Floating on top of the ocean of hodge-podge was the mighty iPhone and some members of the makeup family. But as I dove under the epipelagic zone, I en-countered a pair of large sunglasses and a school of used chewing gum wrappers. I was tempted to explore deeper into the abyss but retreated, fearful of losing a limb or being sprayed by an estranged pepper spray canister.

Had I ventured deeper, I may have come across currency from a country that doesn’t exist anymore or a prescrip-tion for a medical ailment that cleared up years ago.

I know things tend to get lost in bags of females, so I keep waiting to read interesting headlines in junk-news tabloids.

“Paris Hilton fi nds bones of past pet Chihuahua in Prada purse.” Or “Secret al-Qaida hideout found in Laura Bush’s handbag.”

I can hear the ladies screaming right now, “We just want to be prepared!”

Well, that is all fi ne and good, but do you need cough medicine for kids you haven’t had yet, or eyeglasses for astig-matism you haven’t been diagnosed with? Just ask a man.

I don’t leave my house without my phone, wallet or key ring, all of which can fi t inside the pockets of my jeans. Th e great part is that I still have an open pocket to hold a rolled up copy of a newspaper. Th at comes in handy when I am spending quality time on the commode.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY“She’s an American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confi dence, who knows many of the world’s leaders, who will command respect in every capital, and who will clearly have the ability to advance our interests around the world.”BARACK OBAMASaid regarding Hillary Clinton’s nomination to serve as Secretary of State.

You can’t eat meat, and you can’t die. Haven’t you heard? Th ose are bad for the environment.

According to a Time magazine ar-ticle this year, farming produces more greenhouse gases than all the vehicles in the world.

Animal waste and fl atulence are partly responsible.

Cows, due to their diet, release 200 liters of methane gas into the air every day — free of charge.

If Americans butchered their meat intake by 20 percent, the change would be as eff ective as if they drove hybrid cars, according to the same article.

Livestock also ruins the lands just by walking on them, so unless we come up with fl ying cows, bid those cheese-burgers goodbye.

Speaking of goodbyes, the cremated leave 300 kilograms of carbon dioxide as a parting gift to the air.

According to a 2007 Time magazine article, even if you’re buried in a coffi n,

you may have illegal logging to thank for your fi nal resting place.

Don’t fret, Earth lovers. While we would like to have you around forever, you can go ahead and die. A Tokyo-based company has invented a green coffi n, which is made from sustainable trees and natural glue. Th e environmen-tally friendly coffi n can supporwt 200-pound bodies while slashing carbon emissions from 300 to 100 kilograms.

More and more inventors are see-ing green. A toilet that saves water has graced us with its presence. Th ere’s even a version where the sink is on top of the toilet in order to recycle the water.

SJSU has also gott en on board — or jumped the shark, your call. Th ey’ve made the blue books recyclable and lit-erally green. Blue books that are green — the irony isn’t lost on me.

And by now you must have heard the never-ending debate on whether plastic bott les and pitchers are bad for people’s health. I personally detest what this environmental tip has done to my grandmother.

My aunt and sister were constantly telling her that for liquids, glass con-tainers are bett er. Eventually, my grand-mother went ahead and replaced all her plastic pitchers with glass ones, which are heavier, thus making the once-sim-ple process of pouring beverages more diffi cult for her.

Let’s not forget the huggers who spend their days in a tree so it wouldn’t be cut down.

Th e green movement has also spawned several books, movies and TV shows. Th e latest book is called “Th e Green Bible,” which links Bible verses

to environmentalism. Meanwhile, the fi lms range from “An Inconvenient Truth” to the “Th e Day Aft er Tomor-row,” and the shows include MTV’s “Trippin” and Discovery Channel’s“Batt leground Earth.”

Every year, multiple magazines pub-lish green issues, compiling tips on how to lend Mother Nature a hand. Th ey say to go organic.

Don’t just stop with food. Th ere’s or-ganic clothing and makeup, too. None-theless, you may have to sell an organ to pay for those items. But, hey, anything for the environment, right?

Wrong. I don’t think people should reprimand others for not being plan-eteers in each and every aspect of their lives. If people drive Hummers but car-pool, they deserve an A for eff ort.

Global warming may not be an ur-ban myth, but environmentalism has gott en out of hand.

I do think it’s important to go green and I try to do my share by recycling and such. But similar to divisive issues such as gay marriages and patriotism, there are many who cross over into the extreme.

Nonetheless, perhaps we should be grateful for the extremist individual. Th e government isn’t taking enough action on this hot topic. It’s up to indi-viduals to save the planet.

I just don’t think people need to hug trees, avoid death or convert to veg-etarianism in order to be eff ective. Less is more.“The Most You Ever Knew” appears

every Tuesday. Kimberly Tsao is a

Spartan Daily student culture editor.

If I suspect that a friend of mine keeps her cell phone in a purse, I will just write an e-mail. I fear that 40 minutes of a Bon Jovi ringtone while she rummages around for her phone would end up with a few pissed-off people.

Going green has me seeing redKIMBERLYTSAO

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Don’t fret, Earth lovers. While we would like to have you around forever, you can go ahead and die.

CHRISBAUSINGER

PLAYING THE ODDS

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every Tuesday. Chris Bausinger

is a Spartan Daily copy editor.

Journey to the center of a woman’s purse

Some things in life we take for

granted.Language, history, culture and cus-

toms make up a short list. We even take life itself for granted, assuming it is a tangible right, as if it was bullet-proof and secure.

Residents of a country under oc-cupation are stripped of that security hindering their right to life, among other rights.

Imagine that tomorrow you watch your family members get slaughtered by the government.

Your family members’ corpses cov-er the lawns you were decorating for your sister’s wedding.

But you get one last chance to live, so you are sent off to a poor village in India.

You have survived. Alone. Fragile.Th e government prohibits speak-

ing English in India. You are an In-

dian citizen today and you shall only speak Hindi.

India and the past USA had suf-fered a brutal and confl icted history, causing Indians to believe Christians are universally terrorists, plott ing against peace-loving people.

Th e national holidays you antici-pated every year in the United States,

Christmas and Th anksgiving for example, do not exist here. People laugh at you when you utt er the word “Christmas.”

Th ey say it sounds too comical. Th ey don’t comprehend mythical, un-realistic beliefs.

Hindi grows on you and words start to smoothly slip out of your

mouth now, liberating your thoughts while English sits idle in the back of your mind — you haven’t spoken or even heard it in years.

You are told nothing about the occupation that occurred in your country.

Your desperation to survive com-mands you to forget the past and strive for assimilation into Indian culture.

You take a glance around and start realizing the diff erences between you as a refugee immigrant and the residents.

Indian literature interests you to some point but Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech rings in your mind nonstop.

Indians’ approach to life is dry — no passion, no freedom, no individu-ality, no civil rights movement.

You spend 20 years living in India, until by chance you come across a group of French tourists in your poor village — people of Ameri-can descent.

You hear English spoken for the fi rst time since your deportation and it sweeps you with a sensation of uncon-trollable vertigo.

DINA BASLAN

FROM THE CAUCASUS TO THE WORLD

Remembering your homeland in an occupied countryRemembering your homeland in an occupied country

You are haunted by the past and con-fronted with the reality of the present.

Everyone around showers you with sarcasm over the “American Dream” of which you once shared stories.

But the United States of Ameri-ca does not exist on contemporary maps anymore and you have never come across a person who would recog-nize that country.

If tomorrow ever comes, will you fathom the possibility of forgett ing your homeland? Will you stop practic-ing your religion? Will you watch your language die? Will you celebrate the

awarding of your past neighborhood as an Olympiad host? Will you live as an Indian or will you live the nostalgia of your lost identity?

A life of diaspora grants you an ap-preciation of forgott en rights.

For those rights and for the lives of ancestors, one must not take for granted a fi ght for the homeland.

Residents of a country under occupation are stripped of that security hindering their right of life among other rights.

“From the Caucasus to the World”

appears every Tuesday. Dina Baslan

is the Spartan Daily features editor.

02 2008

TUESDAYDECEMBER

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6 02 2008

TUESDAYDECEMBER

Knees bent, racket held at the ready, business graduate student Tony Pham prepares to return a serve.

Th e serve, when it comes, is slow and arched, tracing a lazy parabola over the net.

Pham’s eyes track the shutt le-cock. His muscles tense.

Th en, he explodes, body surging upward, hand following arm following shoulder, bring-ing the racket forward with a whip-crack of force that sends the shutt lecock sailing back over the net.

Were it not for a three-inch scar running the length of his right heel, one would never know that six months ago, doc-tors told him he might never play badminton again.

“It was a prett y standard re-turn,” Pham said of his accident.

He said he leapt up to hit the shutt lecock, and when he landed, he felt something in his heel rip.

“I didn’t realize anything was wrong until I landed, and I felt it snap,” Pham said.

Pham had torn his Achilles tendon, a potentially crippling injury.

He said his doctors told him that the chances of re-injury were high, especially in badmin-ton, which puts a lot of stress on the legs.

But they also told him that, because he was younger than

most people who normally tear it, there was a chance he could return to sports, if he was willing to risk it.

He was willing to risk it. Th ree months later, following

reconstructive surgery and inten-sive physical therapy, he joined the SJSU badminton club.

Now, when the club has meets, Pham and his partner are the No. 2 team, said Alex Chan, a senior marketing major and club marketing offi cer.

Last month, when they played UC Davis, Pham’s team won the doubles divisions.

“It was just three months (of rehabilitation); I can deal with that,” Pham said. “But never play-ing again — that I can’t handle.”

Everyone in the club is prett y dedicated to the sport, Chan said.

“Th ey obviously care about the sport; we have some pret-ty good players and everyone is really trying to get bett er,”

he said. Club president Mi-chael Cabebe, a senior biology major, said that SJSU is an im-portant part of the badminton community.

“San Jose is the center for this area, and San Jose State is a part of that,” Cabebe said.

“Our biggest thing is we’re trying to get more people to join the club,” Chan said. “In the past, I think we’ve had problems fur-ther into the semester with less and less people showing up … so I think that’s one of our goals — to keep interest throughout the semester.”

But the team also competes, usually having at least three meets per semester.

And recently, Chan said, they’ve really come together as a team.

“Th is year, the biggest thing is there’s a lot more team spirit, where everyone knows each other,” he said. “Before, it felt like some people would know each other in their litt le groups, and kind of stick to their own thing. But now it feels more like a club than just people playing badminton.”

In that way, it’s not that much diff erent than any other sport, Pham said.

“People don’t realize about club sports that they’re just like any school sport,” Pham said. “It’s about going out and competing, about representing your school.”

JON XAVIERStaff Writer

“People don’t realize about club sports that they’re just like any school sport.”

TONY PHAMSJSU graduate student

Badminton attracts Badminton attracts dedicated membersdedicated membersOne student battles injury to play

SJSU badminton club member Rosanna Kwan lunges for a shuttlecock

as SJSU graduate student Tony Pham (right) looks on during a tri-meet at Spartan Complex.

The 43-member club meets every Friday afternoon in the Spartan Complex. The club usually

hosts three meets every semester.

Courtesy of Mary Cheung