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Thursday September 8, 2011 Volume 137, Issue 6
Crowded classrooms present challenges, compromise learning SJSU’s course section availability stagnates due to rising enrollment by Christina Molina Staff Writer
Student and faculty voices are being raised in regards to crowded classrooms and overenrollment this semester at SJSU. According to the office of institutional
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The eighth annual SJSU Community Connections Fair brought 50 community- and campus-based volunteers, as well as service-oriented organizations, to Paseo de San Carlos on Wednesday. Held in conjunction with Fall Welcome Days, the fair was hosted by the SJSU Center for Community Learning and Leadership, the Chavez Community Action Center and SJSU Student Involvement. “The purpose is two part,” said professor Michael Fallon, co-director for the center. “Community organizations present their services, but at the same time, a lot of our students are interested in volunteering, service-learning, community service and community engagement.” Fallon said this year there was no administrative support available
the services and programs Sacred Heart offers. They also held a workshop that touches on what it means to be “community united,” a campaign that is a core part of Sacred Heart’s mission, and discussed why volunteering is important. Junior sociology major Thy Truong said many of her classes require community involvement. “I’m here just to learn what types of organizations are out here,” she said. “I think it’s really an easy way to get involved.” One of the vendors, CommUniversity, a partnership between SJSU, the City of San Jose and local neighborhood organizations, was giving out free bags and offering internships. “We’ve had a lot of people stop, especially from fraternities,” project coordinator Elizabeth Figueroa said. Choy said the main goal of the event was to connect students to the community. “These are the opportunities you need to get perspectives on the world or get that job later on,” she said.
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Local institutions encourage growth of new businesses by Brittany Patterson Staff Writer
You probably wouldn’t know what the building is by passing its doors. Bright green and orange signage adorns the five story historic building, which is located on the corner of Third and Santa Clara streets. This is the San Jose Entrepreneur Center — a place that houses six businesses in the business of helping businesses. The center was established in 2000 as a joint venture between the Small Business Association, Cisco and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, according to its website. “All of us provide free counseling and low-cost training, but for different markets,” said Gail Buettgenback, business service coordinator for the Small Business Development Center Silicon Valley, one of the offices housed in the Entrepreneur Center. The offices within the center include: AnewAmerica Community Corpora-
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within the CCLL for the fair — instead, three student leaders worked together to find a sponsor for the event and make improvements. “This year we’ve had a lot more outside and inside workshops,” said Yan Yin Choy, A.S. director of student rights and responsibilities and one of the student leaders who helped organize the event. The workshops’ topics included social justice and financial literacy education. The official sponsor, Technology Credit Union, donated $1,000 which helped pay for food for the partners and prizes for the raffle, including passes for The Tech museum. “They were pleased with our financial literacy event last year and agreed that students need more financial literacy and were pleased to help,” Fallon said. Some community organizations were also offering internships, Fallon said. Carol Stephenson, community involvement coordinator for Sacred Heart, a nonprofit organization that promotes shared responsibility to overcome poverty, said the fair is a great way to talk to students about
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tion, a group that helps new immigrants and refugees who want to be business owners; the Greater San Jose Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which aims to help members who are seeking global entrepreneurship opportunities; and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley, a group that focuses on local markets in the Bay Area and holds classes in both English and Spanish. The Silicon Valley Small Business
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SJSU senior forward Craig Hertler (center) vies for the ball against the Fresno Pacific’s Luke Tyler during the Aug 26 soccer match. Hertler scored a goal in the 4-1 defeat over the Sunbirds, the first of his soccer career
research’s website, this semester has had a mass increase in the total number of seats per college at SJSU and in fill rates, the percentage of classes full per college. “Every single semester, there are any more students trying to add my class, and these are students who are really in need of the units or they are going to loose their financial aid, and there is nothing I can do about it because the class is full,” philosophy professor Karin Brown said.
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One in six Americans hungry McClatchy Tribune Wire Service
More than 17.2 million households had difficulty feeding family members at some point last year, as the rate of “food insecurity” in the U.S.continued to hover at near-record levels, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Roughly one in three of these “food insecure” households had very low food security, in which consumption was reduced and
eating patterns were disrupted. Both categories of food hardship showed improvement over their record levels in 2009. The elevated levels show that unemployment and the Great Recession continue to affect how millions of Americans eat. Nearly 49 million people, about one in six, lived in food-insecure households last year, about the same number as in 2009. The problem was worse in large cities and rural areas than in suburbs, and more prevalent
among single-parent families and black and Hispanic households. The report underscores the seriousness of the problem, said Kevin Concannon, undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the USDA. “As long as hunger exists in this country of ours, we can and must do more,” Concannon said. “We are a bountiful country where, clearly, hunger is unacceptable. And we have a moral imperative, really, to take action.”
Entrepreneur: Local startups supported FROM PAGE 1 Development Center, which serves businesses who already have customers or start-ups that are ready to launch or who are seeking funding, the SBDC Technology Adoption Program, which is the technology arm of the SBDC, and TMC Development, which is a small business lender, also have offices in the Entrepreneur Center. Although the U.S. Small Business Administration does not have an office within the building, they partner with the SBDC to guarantee portions of loans to small businesses, according to Buettgenback. The center relocated in January of last year, and is now housed within the larger San Jose Innovation Center. The center is located on the first floor, the U.S. Market Access Center on floors two, three and four, and the Environmental Business Cluster is on the fifth floor. According to Buettgenback the Entrepreneur Center is currently in a 15-year long partnership with the San Jose RDA and Humbolt State University, but each organization is responsible for their own funding.
“The center is sort of an umbrella building,” she said. “We came here to downsize our space, not our purpose.” De Anza College student Felix Lamas said he began using the SBA’s services about a year ago. Lamas originally went to the SBA in Sacramento looking to meet contacts in the industry, as one of four partners in the web-based start-up Voozic. “They have a ton of resources at their fingertips,” he said. “They can help with coaching and workshops.” In January, Lamas and his partners plan to launch Voozic, a high-definition video streaming product, in India. Since moving to San Jose, Lamas, who said he hopes to transfer to SJSU in the fall, has been visiting the Entrepreneur Center and said the convenience of having all of the programs in one place is nice. “Every time I go in there everybody is super nice,” he said. “Especially students, they understand that we are the future. They try to provide services and support us.” SJSU offers many services for students with enterprising business-related dreams.
The Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Center in the College of Business sponsors the Neat Ideas Fair, a business proposal competition, every year — an event which is open to all SJSU students, according to Yuhfen Diana Wu, Martin Luther King Jr. Library business librarian. According to their website, the center promotes effective entrepreneurship through knowledge creation, knowledge dissemination, collaborative partnerships and outreach activities. Wu wrote in an email that the library offers services for business students. “As a business librarian, I go to small business fairs regularly with my colleague from San Jose Public Library,” she stated. “I also present to business classes on how to do research effectively. I also meet with students individually to help them on their research projects.” For Buettgenback, the goal is to help anyone who walks in the door — students and business owners alike. “If I can’t help them my job is to make sure they leave with some resources,” she said.
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Overcrowding: Class availability shrinking FROM PAGE 1 Although the final studentcensus is due Sept. 15, the website provides a current tally of students, which is already showing an increase of seats and sections since Spring 2011. Brown said it is a political issue with funding that causes students to struggle with obtaining all of the classes they need. “Having 100 students for a philosophy class is a very compromised form of education,” Brown said. Sara Cadena, a senior animation and illustration major, said she is having trouble enrolling in the classes necessary to satisfy requirements for her major. “I would say I had more difficulty getting classes this semester because I only got four, which is the minimum,” Cadena said. “I am never going to graduate if I only take the minimum
amount of classes a semester.” One of her required art classes is only offered once a week and is the only section of this particular course, she said. “No one can add this class until the first day of school. I was lucky because at the specific time I got there, the exact amount of people arrived. Other people had to try to add this class a couple times,” Cadena said. The university targets how many students they will admit a year in advance, which was set to 3,500 freshmen this semester, according to Dennis Jaehne, associate vice president of undergraduate studies. “We admitted just enough students based on past history that we would get the 3,500 freshman we need,” Jaehne said. “For some reason, all of these students decided to accept. All of a sudden we were flooded with more people saying yes than we’ve ever seen.” Jaehne said the intention to admit 3,500 freshmen is based
on the fact, proven in past cases, that not every student accepts admittance to SJSU. In Fall 2010, the target number of students admitted into SJSU was 2,700, Jaehne said. The number of students admitted last fall was 2,761 students. “The fact that this system has been stable enough and predictable leads people to believe that we actually just pick the number of students we want and it’s perfect every time,” he said. “There is always fewer or more, but it’s always just a margin that nobody notices. This semester is the biggest margin we’ve ever seen.” Undergraduate students have a variety of courses to complete, which the school works to satisfy through part-time faculty members willing to teach courses in high demand, according to Jaehne. Courses that are towards specific majors depend on the department chair overseeing a need of more sections, which is out of his control.
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Drink of the Week Philz Mint Mojito by Matthew Gerring Managing Editor Young college students demand sugar and overwhelming flavor with their beverages, so Philz Coffee, usually purveyors of fresh and flavorful coffee that stands well enough on its own, had to introduce their own sugary desert disguised as a coffee drink – the Philz Mint Mojito. While I can’t stand most ridiculously flavored coffee drinks, this mint Mojito is a classy flavored coffee drink. Ground-up fresh mint leaves provide a refreshing herbal backing to Philz already fabulous iced coffee, and they add a generous portion of sugar and cream with just a little bit of froth on top as a finishing touch. The flavor, although incredibly sweet, maintains all of its constituent parts and subtle complexities. I tried to sip and savor it, but I couldn’t help myself – I gulped down the 12 ounces, futilely tipping back the cup to squeeze a few more drops out of the wad of wet mint leaves left behind. There’s nothing quite like it for these hot September days when coffee would just be too stifling and you just need something a little different, but at $4 a pop, your wallet will be drained about as fast as the cup.
Ciaran Hinds (left) and Hellen Mirren (right) star as David and Rachel, ex-Israeli Mossad agents who infiltrated East Germany during the ‘60s to seek revenge on a Nazi fugitive. The film also stars Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain. Photo courtesy of allmoviephoto.com
‘The Debt’ is overdrawn on hype, lacks solid thrills by Aliza Saeed Staff Writer
Don’t you just hate it when you voluntarily go to the theaters to see a movie that you want to love but it turns out slightly unsatisfactory? “The Debt” turned out to be something like that, since it received a lot more credit than it actually deserved. It’s one of those movies that gets great remarks but is still short of something you just can’t put your finger on. The movie tells the story of three retired Israeli Mossad agents being congratulated for their heroism in the year of 1997. They reminisce back to the time their mission started in the ‘60s, arriving at East Berlin to plot revenge against a Nazi criminal named Dr. Dieter Vogel. A love triangle forms between the three a little before halfway through the movie. This becomes a centerpiece of the movie as it progresses, giving the movie a moral complexity and a break in their mission of fury vengeance towards Dr. Vogel. John Madden really did a terrific job directing this film — the only thing the movie did lack was a storyline, and that isn’t Madden’s wrongdoing. The first 30 minutes of “The Debt,” there are a lot of somber and dreary moments between the three characters
and the deeper into the movie it goes the more predictable it becomes. “The Debt” isn’t something I would call action packed even though it is a tense thriller. Half the movie consists of intense dramatic moments and has a lot of emotion between the three main characters. The movie did get repetitive and uneventful towards the middle and started to drag a bit, when you are at the edge anticipating a climax to keep your attention. There isn’t much blood and gore but there are some nail-biting moments which made the movie all the more entertaining towards the end. The movie did do well with a strong cast headed by Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds. The younger roles were played by Jessica Chastain as Rachel, Marton Csokas as
Stephan and Sam Worthington as David. They also did an outstanding job on their acting. Mirren played her reserved role really well and her personality seemed a lot stronger than the young Rachel, played by Chastain. Dr. Vogel, played by Jesper Christensen, was brilliant. His personality in the movie was quick-witted and his role in the movie held a lot of importance to the story line. Without his role, the movie would have lost even more credit. I mainly enjoyed the scenes where Dr.Vogel fiddles with each agent’s mind and flares them up with his shrewd and witty comments. The young version of Rachel was very elegant but at the same time her character seemed confused. It didn’t
seem like Chastain, that played Rachel fit her character. In summary, I wouldn’t say that the story is a total fail. It is something worth watching if you don’t demand an absolutely flawless storyline, but it could have had more depth and length.
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Last.fm makes a lasting impression by Angelica Valera Staff Writer
Popular Internet radio station Pandora now shares the “netwaves” with Last.fm, a music recommendation service launched in the U.K. around 2002, then acquired by CBS Interactive in 2007. What sets this particular service apart from Pandora is its community of users and a downloadable client, the “Scrobbler,” which expands your music selection. The Scrobbler “scrobbles,” or sends a little note to Last.fm, letting it know what song you’re playing in order to add more like it to your library. As you play the song half way through on the computer or iPod, it will automatically add it to your library. The listeners make this music recommendation service what it is — until you type in what you want, your library won’t expand nor can you share it. While browsing the site, one huge advantage it has over Pandora is its ability to cater to other musicians — if you make music, you can upload it and get noticed. Start listening by clicking on the “radio” link from the menu. A search bar will show up, asking you to type in an artist or genre then press play. Beneath the search bar is an area where you can pick and play from your personal stations: your library radio, where you have the music you know and love, your mix radio, where your library and
new music are combined, or your recommended radio, where Last. fm provides new music for you. Another option is to go to your recent stations, which includes everything above in addition to your neighborhood radio, where you can listen to other users’ picks that share your taste. The website also features a combo station section, where you can combine music from up to three of your favorite artists or listen to the music you’ve tagged in certain categories (such as pop country, or soft rock). Tags conveniently connect you to any music with that tag or related to that tag. For instance, you can look up “break-up” and all music tagged with that word will show up. Additionally, Last.fm can connect to your social media sites and let everyone know, not just the users, what you’re currently “digging.” It’s a three-way street: press the heart, it gets shared on Facebook and broadcasted on Twitter by a another service called “Last. fm Love Tweet,” (your Twitter can even be added onto your Last.fm “About Me”) and then whenever you use your iPhone or iPod touch, listen, love and share on the go. You can even check out what upcoming concerts will happen in your area or anywhere else in the U.S., plus see which events your friends plan on attending. Do this by adding your events to Facebook, Google Calendar, iCal and Outlook, and never miss another gig by setting up your SMS alerts on Google Calendar.
Another clever feature is sharing the photos you take with Flickr Machine tags by noting the special code on an event page, then tagging your photos with it — they instantly show up on Last. fm. Further, share and organize your event calendar and get personal top charts to show off. Integration with third party clients makes this possible. Aside from the “Scrobbler” and iPhone/iPod Touch, you can scrobble the tracks you listen to on Pandora as well as Hype Machine, a website where people write about the music they love. Due to image charts, Last.fm lets you show off your top charts on your blog or MySpace, or tweet your weekly top three artists as an update. When downloading the “Scrobbler” the experience becomes much simpler as all the “fuss” from the website is eliminated to focus on the radio itself . It boasts a simple, user-friendly interface reminiscent of Spotify with three frames separating your music profile menu (consisting of the above features) from the player window and customizable controls and tools options bar. You can even “love,” “ban” and share a song with another user or friend. The client applies especially to smart phones, lending itself to such brands as the iPhone and Android, but not excluding the iPod touch. Unfortunately, I’m not too thrilled about its mobility, nor
its requirement for Internet connection to function — after all, it’s streaming. This means, rather than downloading the music, a live connection is established between the radio station (Last.fm) and your computer. But for now, that’s a setback I can overlook. Otherwise, when I tried using it after installing it on my iPod touch, I couldn’t really listen to anything unless I agreed to a trial version, meaning only part of a song will play. Soon after, it crashed. Fortunately, third party assimilation doesn’t only show off your top tracks, but gives you a way to scrobble and stream radio through other music services, like Pandora. So far, I’ve been enjoying its simple interface, as it’s extremely easy to operate and has done quite well in recommending music similar to my tastes. When I’ve typed in such artists like OneRepublic and Sara Bareilles, it knows what song to play next based on their genres. Of course, if I don’t like a recommendation, I’ll skip or ban it.
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Pandora’s box unleashes favorite tunes for audiophiles
Reach into the clouds and pull forth… music? These aren’t white, water-filled clouds floating in the sky. It’s a place of real music. Best yet, it’s your music. It’s called “the cloud” and the technical definition varies depending on whom you ask. The idea is simple: store files and software in the virtual universe, and access it over the Internet. The world of music has adopted the ways of the cloud, and two of these, Music Beta and Spotify, exclusively run on this technology. Last.fm and Pandora channel similar characteristics of what their fellow music giants wish to be, mainly knowing every aspect of their user’s musical tastes. Lovers of melodies rejoice, the lines between these four music services can easily be blurred, giving you, as the listener, more powers of musical creative genius. You don’t have to start a music revolution, but you can have fun listening to your music and plenty of new things, too. Summary by Brittany Patterson and Leo Postovoit
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The myth of Pandora tends to bring up images of monsters released into the world and hope trapped in a box. Pandora Radio runs with a lighter interpretation and is geared towards the musically curious. Whether it’s the website or mobile application, Pandora has it’s
little monsters and sweet notes. Pandora Radio is a free-to-use, adfunded program that lets users input a song, artist or composer to create stations. The site then analyzes the various musical traits of the entry and plays songs that have a similar composition. Users can “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” songs, search stations that other users have created and buy songs they like. Pandora Ra-
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Keeping your music grounded up in the new Google cloud by Brittany Patterson Staff Writer
The “cloud” phenomenon is one of the newest tech trends to hit the market. Users can access shared files and software with the use of a network, typically the Internet, without knowledge of the physical location in which is housed. It’s fitting that Silicon Valley darling Google would hop on the cloud bandwagon. The company’s Music Beta currently allows users to upload up to 20,000 songs from their personal collection and listen to it from any computer or Android phone for free. It’s an intriguing idea, albeit one that has been done before, but of course, not by Google. The idea is that all of your music — even music and playlists scattered across multiple computers — can be uploaded to one place and Google will be keep it synced across both the Internet music player and phone application. Users can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists they want to have available when they’re not connected online, and the songs they’ve recently played will automatically be available offline. To begin, one must be invited to participate in the testing of Music Beta, which is currently only available in the United States. Each participate receives eight invitations to subsequently give out. Users are then asked to download Music Manager onto their computer. Get ready to agree to Google’s terms of service documents, which makes a point to note that it is obligated to report illegally downloaded music. Furthermore, you agree to give Google the power to both alter your music and record information on how you interact with your music. The program asks where you want to have your music
drawn from — iTunes, your music folders or other folders. Whichever you select, Music Manager then automatically pulls your music from that location. You can also decide to have the program automatically update itself with new songs that you later add to your music collection, a time-saving feature. Be ready to invest a large chunk of time to the initial downloading process. For a music library of about 3,000 songs, we’re talking a few days of running Music Manager while it combs through your music and adds it to the cloud. To listen to your music, one must sign in to the Music Beta site, which means if you don’t have a Google account, you’ll need to get one, a process Google makes fairly painless by allowing you to use any existing email address. As a neat freebie, Google offers users free music divided by genre — about 130 free songs are added to your library when you initially indicate what genes you’re interested in, and about every other day Music Beta also offers up free songs. The interface of the Music Beta player feels like a throwback to iTunes, but then, why mess with a style that obviously works so well? Sort your music by title, artist, album plays and more. Indicate your love or disgust of a particular song by selecting the “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” icon respectively. As a nice touch, if you’re listening to a song and select the “thumbs down” icon, the song immediately stops playing. Pandora much? Perhaps my favorite feature of Music Beta is the Instant Mixes playlist feature. Say you’re feeling a particular song, instant mix feature will build a playlist with similar songs. Personally, I’d like to see this feature expanded to include building Instant Mixes
playlists with three songs — which would give Music Beta more information to work with. Conspicuously missing is the ability to share that perfect playlist or brag about your extensive musical tastes with friends; social networking is not integrated in Music Beta. Playback sometimes takes a few seconds to begin, and sometimes Music Beta decides to randomly shuffle your music without being told to do so. Currently the App is available for Android phones or tablets on the Android Marketplace. The interface on the app is fairly seamless, but frustratingly there isn’t a log-in option that is easily accessible. If you’re trying to access your Music Beta library from someone else’s Android phone, it is ridiculously hard for you to access your profile. If an Android phone owner has a Google account, Music Beta automatically defaults to that account and the process to circumnavigate that little glitch could make you want to chuck said phone across the room, or just merely give up. I thought about the first option, but ended up doing the latter. Using the app allows users to access their extensive music collection without using any of their phone’s memory. Playback seems almost uninterrupted even when you travel into dead zones, like tunnels, because the app downloads and stores songs in a cache. Listening to music with 3G works fairly well, but when you’re connected to 4G, the playback is nearly flawless.
However, sometimes songs and playlists seem to disappear, but opening and closing the app seemed to fix the problem. Junior music education student Nathan Villanueva said that as a Linux user Music Beta allows him to access his music with the interface experience, something that is really useful because iTunes isn’t easily accessible using the Linux operating system. He said it’s both a blessing and a curse. “The biggest issue, for me, is that you must be on an Internet web browser in order to listen to music,” Villanueva said. “Google music itself doesn’t have a PC/ Mac/Linux player that you can open up independently from your browser to play the music.” Beware, if you utilize both the app and browser listening experience, you can’t access your library simultaneously from both devices. One will shut itself down. Overall, Music Beta is a convenient solution for music lovers who have a lot of files floating around in multiple places or that use several devices for their music listening experience. The idea of housing all of your music in one central location and having access via both the Internet browser and Android app, although not simultaneously, is comforting. Play around with the Instant Mixes feature to create combinations of songs and artists you never would have on your own. And like most music players, the more you put in, the more you’ll get out of it.
HIGHLIGHTS Google Music Beta PRO - The cloud feature allows you to consolidate your music library without eating up hard drive space - Customize to your taste with Instant Mixes. - The Android App is fairly smooth
CON - Uploading to the cloud takes a long time - There is no downloadable external music player - Music Beta arbitrarily decides to not upload certain songs and artists
Last.fm PRO - Solid features: tags, sharing the love, skipping/banning the lame - Organized: your music profile, event reminders for concerts, social media integration - New musician recognition (upload your own music & get loved/ shared!)
CON - Its mobile app is terrible - Not compatible with all mobile phones - Requires Internet to stream music
Pandora Internet Radio PRO - Powers of analytics can expand your musical tastes - Skip the songs you hate - Website is very user friendly
CON - Music by foreign artists is very limited - The mobile app is glitchy - After 40 hours a month, it’s “pay to play”
Spotify PRO - Setup takes minutes, in total: quick and easy to download and start using - Cloud music is very extensive in its selection - Ability to share music with other Spotify users
CON - Free version is loaded with advertisements - Sharing is exclusive to other Spotify users only - Exclusive content only available in Spotify Premium
dio was created by a group of musicologists as part of the Music Genome Project in 2000. Analyzing more than 400 unique traits — tone, lyrics, instruments and more — to create a database of the world’s music, Pandora Radio is a huge science project in learning what people like to listen to. Like any in-progress experiment, there will be the occasional horrible result and glitch. Pandora Radio, despite its Greek name, is restricted mostly to U.S. and English songs. If you are looking for songs that aren’t in English, the selection is limited. For example, I have a station for Nena, a singer best known in the USA for the ‘80s hit, “99 Luftballons.” The station inevitably switches to pop songs about love in English. “99 Luftballons” was originally sung in German about nuclear war (watch the music video sometime). The project may perceive traits like “a subtle use of vocal harmony,” but the meaning of lyrics, and thus overall tone, can be lost. The sound can also be lost to a dead silence. When using the mobile app, don’t be surprised if the streaming stops the moment you get into an area with no signal. Being in the middle of concrete buildings can end the same way. Another limitation is the time. Each user is allotted 40 hours a month, which is plenty, unless you leave it playing in the background while you are typing out a research paper. There are two options to deal with it — pay $.99 for the rest of the month or $36 for a yearlong, ad-free subscription to Pandora One. But why take either option when the 40-hour limit resets on the first of each month?
Another annoying option of Pandora is the ability to connect your profile to your Facebook page. Do it and see how precise your ads suddenly get — it’s stalker-like and creeps the heck out of me. Before connecting my profiles, I would get generic soap ads. That was fine with me. Everyone needs soap. Now, I get 15 seconds of Degree deodorant. I have hiking, traveling and running as interests on my Facebook. To add to my desire for a restraining order, I’ve seen ads about events held in San Francisco. Not all is lost — there is still hope. There is also a nice skippingsongs-you-hate ability. For indie rock lovers, there is a huge selection. Because some mainstream artists — like Adele — limit the songs they allow Pandora to play and some indie artists — like Dr. Dog — have greenlit most, if not all, their songs, there is a diverse list of artists in that area. As a runner, I need a consistent playlist of up-beat songs that will keep me going. With most of the website’s features and a user-friendly design, Pandora’s mobile app is great for this. I just select my Katy Perry station, tie my shoes and hit my runner’s high in no time. Pandora has detailed bios on the more mainstream artists, as well as their discographies. I learned that Queen’s Freddie Mercury was originally the lead vocalist for another band called Wreckage, and Jay-Z used to go by “Jazzy” as a nickname. While there is a limit to the songs you can skip in an hour (six), there should be no need to hit that wall unless you’re really in the mood for something else. If you are looking for something simple or different, try out Pandora Radio.
Spotify: A squeaky-clean listening experience comes with a price by Nick Celario Staff Writer
Before I started this review, I was not aware of cloud music. I was stuck in the confines of my iPod. All the music I listened to was in my iTunes. I didn’t listen to radio or stream music online. But the idea of streaming unlimited music instead of having to buy and download files to keep in your computer seems like a brilliant idea. My library varies from Wiz Khalifa and Ne-Yo to Circa Survive and Bob Marley. However, having to pay a monthly fee isn’t worth it to me. When I buy music, I pay for it once and it’s mine forever. Paying a monthly fee for music seems like you’re only renting it. And even if the music selection in Spotify is extensive, how much of it do you really listen to? In some aspects, cloud music is genius. It could satisfy a lot of people and their music needs. As for me, I prefer to own what I’m paying for. Acquiring the application: To get Spotify, you go to the application’s website and sign up to get the invitation either via Facebook or email. You can also receive an invite from a current user of Spotify. Once you receive the invitation, you download the application and follow the instructions to start you Spotify account. When your account is confirmed, you log in with your username and password. Music Once you open the application, Spotify will automatically search for all of your local music files. It only took a few minutes
for all of my music to be added to my Spotify library. According to its website, Spotify offers “millions of tracks.” The music that the application streams is huge and finding what music you want isn’t difficult. At the top of the screen is a search bar. If you type in an artist or a song, and, if Spotify has it, the song will instantly appear in your search results. You can also create playlists with its cloud so you won’t have to search for them again. I tried searching for artists I thought wouldn’t be found. Surprisingly, only one artist I typed in wasn’t available on Spotify. For some of the artists I searched, I found songs I didn’t know. Social Media Once you have Spotify, you’ll be able to share your favorite music with your Facebook friends who also use Spotify. You can set up public playlists which your friends will have access to, and vice versa. If you post a song on your Facebook wall, it will post a link to other Spotify users who can open and play the song. The one downside is that sharing music on Spotify is exclusive to only Spotify users. Advertisements According to its website, Spotify uses ads to pay the artists for their music. Spotify Free, the free version of the application, shows pop-up ads constantly. While you’re streaming music, you’ll listen to ads in between songs. Its website said that the paid versions do not have ads. While it doesn’t get in the way of playing music, I did find the ads annoying, especially having to listen to
them as if I was playing the radio. Features available in paid versions If you pay for Spotify Unlimited, which is $4.99 per month, you can rid yourself of all advertisements. You can also take your music international for an extended amount of time, whereas the free version will limit you to 14 days. If you pay for Spotify Premium, which is $9.99 per month, you can also play your local files and stream Spotify music to your mobile phone. You can also stream music through either your computer or mobile phone while you’re offline. The site also says that Spotify Premium will give you access to exclusive content which include access to new music before they’re released and a chance to win tickets to live shows and competitions. The conclusion As an application for playing your local music files, Spotify is quick and easy to use. It’s cloud music did add to my experience by being able to search and listen to song that I don’t own in my library. The advertisements in Spotify Free were bothersome. The features in the Unlimited and Premium versions sound appealing, but are features that I currently have no need for. As I said before, having access to millions of songs in the cloud is great, but how much of it do you actually listen to? It’s personal preference whether you want to pay a monthly fee for millions of tracks, or buy albums that you’ll own and only have to pay for once.
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Spartan Daily
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Remembering the day before our country changed September 10, 2001 may have not been the happiest day in history, but it can be described as an eve of sublime ignorance. As the morning news began on the East Coast, with many of us here still sound asleep in California, Sept. 11 began as any normal news day. CNN reported the biggest news in New York City, as well as around the country, were primary elections set to take place that day. In the case of New York City, a mayoral race was heating up to replace outgoing Mayor Rudy Guiliani. In the sporting world, the New York Times wrote of Yankees veteran pitcher David Cone taking his final standing ovation for the 2001 season– unaware of the Commissioner-ordered week long break in the season to come. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 the Times reported that Joseph Biden, then Delaware Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a speech adamantly against the Bush Administration’s proposal of a $60 billion national missile defense system.
Biden reportedly said, “We will have diverted all that monBy ey to address the least likely Jeffrey threat while the real threats Cianci come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane.� As we are now well aware, our generation’s history was on the verge of changing. That change arrived at 8:51 Tuesday morning, with Matt Lauer stopping his guest mid-sentence to alert NBC Today Show viewers that breaking news was coming out of South Manhattan. I don’t need to give you anymore minute by minute reporting at this point – as I’m sure each of us have the memories and images of that day permanently burned into our consciences. However, what about the memories and events of life before 9/11 ? As students, many of us were only in middle school or younger, it is appropriate to say we have grown up knowing mostly a post-9/11 world. On Sept. 10, boarding an airplane was as easy as quickly passing through security, walking
through a simple metal detector — the biggest news story in Washington was the possibility of NBA great Michael Jordan returning to play for the Washington Wizards — and the idea of terrorists crashing a plane into a building was reserved for only Hollywood scriptwriters.
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of living in a post 9/11 world. While traditionally partisan, a post 9/11 Washington D.C. fed on politics of fear and unreasonable paranoid legislation – dividing its members into those that were “patriots� and those who wished to let the terrorists win.
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As we near the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it is important to reflect on how our generation, how our world, has changed. Following Sept. 11, our country began two wars in two years – the budgets of which shattered the $60 billion cost of a missile defense which had Sen. Biden so worried. Traveling has become an ordeal after 9/11 – frisking of passengers, racial profiling of middleeasterners and limitations on privacy are all part
As we remember those we lost in the attacks that day and the wars that have followed, we must also remember that essentially 19 terrorists with box cutters have changed life as we knew it. It is my hope that in the next 10 years we can move past much of the negative affects of 9/11 and learn to live a balanced life of security and common sense. It is perhaps the best tribute we can give to those who saw Sept. 10 as their last day on earth.
Students should take advantage of study abroad opportunities The Study Abroad Fair this Tuesday brought back memories of my exchange program in Hong Kong. The program included nine months of hiking up to my dorm, cramming into an MTR (Hong Kong’s railway system) car and causing minor diplomatic incidents. Most of those months, though, were spent connecting with new friends, overcoming barriers (language and cultural) and enjoying afternoon tea. The good heavily outweighed the bad, so I don’t understand why less than one percent of all U.S. college students go abroad annually, according to the Institute of International Education. Some reasons I have heard are as follows: they don’t have enough money, time or a major that needs study abroad experience. These barriers lacked bite. I didn’t qualify for financial aid and failed to get a scholarship, so I paid for
(karaoke, Christmas and college life) like a local would. Plus, it gave me time to get comfortable with the area and transportation system. By the end, I had a favorite cafe (Fuel Espresso, fantastic mochas), knew the best restaurant for clay pot rice and car-
By Cynthia Ly
tuition, meals and housing (I live at home and can cook to survive when attending SJSU). It hurt. But if you receive financial aid, the international program and services department can advise you in ways to fund a program. There is also a list of study abroad scholarships and grants available on the study abroad website. The time commitment is also a serious factor in deciding whether to go abroad. I settled for an academic year because I wanted to experience events
abroad — times when all I wanted was Mexican food and to hear American English. When the cravings got too much, I hunted down my fellow US exchange students and bonded while eating overpriced burritos. We still joke about those days.
There were bad weeks when I was abroad — times when all I wanted was Mexican food and to hear American English.
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ried exact change for the minibus back to campus. If an academic year is too long, there are semester and short programs. It was a trade-off. There were bad weeks when I was
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I could have stayed local for my studies, but the experience showed a different angle on media and journalism that I may have never gotten here. Media sources in Hong Kong were restricted by China’s censorship laws
and focused on other parts of the world. Whereas American media focuses on China and Europe, Hong Kong had regular reports on Japan and Taiwan. It makes sense, but knowing and understanding the implications are two different things. The same can happen in other fields. After all, countries differ on polices about business, law and other defining, influential areas. Having even an inkling of these differences can open markets and opportunities for students. Exploring a new place and testing my limits (I never thought I would speak to a crowd of more than 200 international students) were two perks on a very long list. Despite the costs, food cravings and other stressful situations that will never be spoken of out loud, I would go abroad again. There is nothing stopping me.
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Late financial aid pay outs make life difficult There was a place and time that financial aid was reliable enough that you wouldn’t have to worry about your award amount or when it would be posted. That day has come and gone, for now. When it takes 11 weeks to receive an award, 12 for it to be disbursed and the cash is barely enough to cover your expenses, the system is screwed up. In particular, the California State University’s financial aid network is almost beyond repair. Maybe it is my fault. Maybe I did wait too long because after all, you are told that you need to turn in your FASFA by March 2 to receive maximum funding. So, in that case, it’s my bad. But then again, I turned in 2010’s application in June, and still got maximum funding both semesters. I’ll also admit that I did put my SJSU financial aid papers in on June 10. I had to set apart time to fill out my forms and drive them 80 miles from my hometown back to SJSU, and there were a good amount of students that were turning their forms in that day as well. Regardless, to be held in limbo for almost three months this year to discover what amount of money I’d be awarded and when, even if the forms were turned in to SJSU right on deadline, was not fun. Of course, there’s the notion that I had a “fee deferral” holding my classes in place, so what’s the big deal then? Tuition fee deferrals can only go so far in the “real” world. You can’t defer your monthly rent forever, or you’ll be getting an eviction notice. Gas companies will not take IOUs to fill your gas tank to get to and from school. You can’t go to the Dining Commons and tell the cashier, “I’ll
OPINION
Spartan Daily
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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I still haven’t found what I’m looking for “What are you going to do after college?” Wherever I go and whoever I talk to, it’s a question that never fails to be asked. It comes up in each encounter with a well-meaning relative, every small-talk session with a stranger and, without exception, in catch-up conversations with old friends. It’s an innocent inquiry, one I’m sure is asked in a spirit of true curiosity and interest, if not simple politeness, but every time someone asks me, I’m at a loss for a truthful reply. How can I answer a question that seems so simple, but is anything but? I used to brush off such queries, telling everyone who asked that I wasn’t sure yet, and still had time to find an answer, which was true — and then time started running out. The stock responses rolled off my tongue: move out, get a job, hike the Mojave, fight hunger in a Third World country, go crabbing somewhere in the Aleutians — snide remarks made with all the earnestness I can muster, little lies coupled with a measure of uncertainty to give them a small glimmer of truth. It got to the point where my instinctive reaction was to lie about doing something and then inject the possibility of failure, muttering something derogatory about the faceless boogeyman everyone calls “the economy.” Friendly chats turned into elaborate waltzes as I sidestepped the truth, even among my friends — people who would know best of all (and likely shared) my existential terror — while they mapped out their journeys after walking off the graduation stage.
By Peter Fournier
pay you back when I get my aid money.” However, the biggest issue of all lies with state grant money. There isn’t anything screaming on SJSU Financial Aid office website about turning in your SJSU papers for priority money before any date. Apparently, if you did it on or before the June 10 deline, you lost out on the State University Grant money. But I could not find that date posted anywhere. At least that’s what I was told by a staffer in the financial aid office — that because I filed on deadline, I missed out on the funds from that grant because the money was “long gone.” That’s not the financial aid office’s fault, or the staffer who told me that. They can’t be blamed for California slashing $650 billion from the CSU budget, then having the school’s Board of Trustees boost tuition and approve a nearly $700 semester tuition hike in July. I got the State University Grant last spring, after coming into SJSU as a transfer student. I didn’t get it this year at the start of the Fall semester, and instead got my fees raised. It’s sad to say I’m just one of the many students at CSUs that’s stuck in this tug of war of not having enough help from the state and needing to pony up more to attend its college. If there was ever a game of tug of war that involved regular people being the rope, it’s being played now.
Maybe we were all lying to ourselves. It’s not that I don’t have any plans — I have had many plans over the years. When I was a little boy, I was going to be an astronomer, an archaeologist, a teacher, a spy, a starship captain, a Power Ranger, a Jedi and so much more — all at once, if possible. I didn’t really care what I did, as long as I was good at it and it made me happy. Even my parents told me to study something that would make me happy — though they wouldn’t mind if I had a career that enabled me to buy them a new house. I started college with no preconceptions of what I should, could or would do, starting my first day of classes with only
By Ryan Fernandez
that whatever I did, I could love and hate it with equal measure. As my skills grew, I fell into a trap of my own making — one I suspect others have found themselves in — feeling that I had to accomplish my goals and accomplish them soon, making my mark before it was too late (I’ve always wondered, “Too late for what?”) and was forced to leave my dreams behind and settle for something less, if anything at all. I had no plans, muddy prospects, a smattering of writing tricks that I passed off as talent and I was starting to (unwillingly) appreciate the fact that denial wasn’t just a river in Egypt. Despair and angst are never fun, especially when they’re about your future. It turns out that hindsight truly is 20/20 and that one of the greatest advantages of a college education is the ability to talk to your professors whenever about more
I used to brush off such queries, telling everyone who asked that I wasn’t sure yet, and still had time to find an answer, which was true — and then time started running out.
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a promise to myself that I would learn as much as possible and keep open as many of my options as I could. I grew older and refined my talents, finding out the things at which I was great, things at which I was merely middling and things at which I was hopelessly incompetent. I also found passion and discovered
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than just due dates. Just listening to them talk about their work and their lives put my mind at ease, especially when it comes to taking advantage of opportunites that fate (or bosses) drop into your lap — voices of experiences are great to have for people who have no experience at all.
Collecting recyclables should not be a crime It used to be that picking up a can or two for recycling meant five cents for the person who recycled it. Growing up I remember my parents crushing all the soda cans that the family consumed, tossing them into aluminum garbage bins. I recieved a great rush of pride from stomping on those cans. Every two months they would be taken to the city recycle center for some extra grocery money. My tiny heart was filled with pride for chipping in to save the environment. Everyone was satisfied. Unfortunately, it appears that these days picking up a can or two earns you a petty theft citation instead of a nickel or dime. At least that’s what I observed when San Jose resident Mariano Hernandez was detained by University police officers on Tuesday, Aug. 30 outside Clark Hall.
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A part of the joy I felt as a little kid when my family hit the recycling center withered away after hearing the reason Hernandez was arrested for. UPD officers detained, cited and released Hernandez, 75, after a San Jose Conservation Corps employee reported allegedly removing bottles and cans from recycle bins. SJSU outsources all its recycling to the conservation corps, which oversees all the bins on campus. According to the corps employee, any recyclables in the bins belong to the Conservation Corps after they are tossed away. The employee’s explanation reflects the fact that SJSU has a regulation that allows scavengers to be charged with a
misdemeanor and even petty theft. Similar ordinances and laws are spread throughout several Bay Area cities, aimed at deterring large-scale scavenging activities. Yet I find that the conservation corps’ use of the regulation against Hernandez was misguided. Recycling has become an aggressive and political industry, and one increasingly hypocritical as well. People are told that recycling is good for the environment, yet are condemned if they collect or stash their recyclables to turn in for some extra cash instead of making use of municipal recycling services. To me it appears that the recycling firms see people like Hernandez, who collect or partake in small scale scavenging to earn some extra money, as competition that might severely impact their profit margins.
At the same time, municipal and city governments have made efforts to clean up areas of scavengers. I fear that small-time recyclers looking to make ends meet are swept up in the wake of this crusade. It’s understandable that recycling companies want to prosper. It’s even laudable that cities enact recycling theft ordinances to deter large-scale scavengers from disrupting a neighborhood. But company and city officials should be setting their crosshairs on the big fish instead of small time recyclers like Hernandez. After 12 years of him engaging in recyclingactivities around SJSU, no one has apparently complained. A few cans here and there shouldn’t make a difference. I’ll even chip in a nickel to ease the conservation corps’ financial pain and file it as a tax write-off.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
SJSU baseball player chases youth dream, changes sport by Peter Fournier Staff Writer
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Craig Hertler’s transition from baseball to soccer shouldn’t be difficult, because he was running on a soccer pitch before sprinting around bases. The former SJSU baseball athlete has decided to use his fifth year of eligibility to play men’s soccer for the Spartans, looking to hone skills he first learned as a toddler. “I started out when I was four years old, playing soccer in (youth) leagues,” he said. Hertler said he started playing tee ball one year later and switched off playing both sports until he reached high school, where training for the football team in the fall meant not playing club soccer in the summer. He continued playing baseball throughout high school, and received a scholarship to SJSU his senior year. “Looking back at it now, if I didn’t play football I would have been able to play club, but it’s all right, no regrets. Football was fun,” Hertler said. Four years later, Hertler gets his chance to play Division I soccer. It’s the first crossover athlete that Spartans’ soccer head coach Gary St. Clair – in 22 years at SJSU – has ever had. “I think he’s an amazing story,” St. Clair said. “This is the first time in my years that we’ve had anybody that has crossed over from another sport to our sport. It’s amazing that he’s had such early success.” Hertler scored a goal and notched an assist against Fresno Pacific on Aug. 26 in his first official game. St. Clair called the goal “top-class.” “He’s in a position right now, not playing soccer for four years, that he takes two steps forward and one back,” he said. “But as long as he keeps that I’ll be very, very happy.”
Senior forward Craig Hertler practices in preperation for this weekend’s San Jose/ Santa Clara Invitational. Hertler played four seasons for the SJSU baseball team. Photo by Dillon Engstrom / Contributing Photographer
SJSU baseball coach Sam Piraro said Hertler was instrumental with helping the team clinch the 2009 Western Athletic Conference title. “First of all, Craig is a great athlete,” Piraro said. “If we were playing a pickup game, he’d be one of the first people selected.” Hertler earned 2011 All-Western Athletic Conference honors, leading all Spartans with 17 stolen bases and four triples. “We’re proud of Craig and his accomplishments and we wish him well with soccer,” Piraro said. Hertler said he did have his share of challenges in the transition. “The speed of the game was different since the last time I played,” he said. “The feel for the
game is kind of different.” He added that adjusting to running for 90 minutes rather than 90 feet at a time was also rough. “I’ve been training for a while,” Hertler said. “I’ve been doing some work on my own to get my fitness level up so I can last out there. That was the biggest challenge. The game just comes to me.” St. Clair said Hertler will be a natural goalscorer. “He’s athletic, he’s got good face and probably the most important attribute he has is he’s got a real sense of scoring,” he said. “Some people are really born that way.”
Spartan football aims to improve for UCLA by Ron Gleeson Sports Editor
SJSU will meet UCLA for the first time on a football field Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., with one thing in mind: earning their first victory of the season. Head coach Mike MacIntyre said he expects the team to bring its objective on the road with them as they travel to Southern Calif. “We are trying to stick to our same routine,” he said. “We played well last season on the road and we hope to carry that same momentum.” UCLA (0-1) is coming off a loss against Houston University to begin its season, who defeated the Bruins 38-34, despite being out-gained in yardage. The Bruins recorded 232 total yards rushing, 128 of those yards coming from junior running back Johnathan Franklin. MacIntyre said he is confident the run defense will fair well against the UCLA running attack, especially with the physicality of his linebackers. “Our linebackers are big, strong, physical guys and they played very well against Stanford,” he said. “They were tackling their running backs and they were knocking them back. I hadn’t seen that happen much to Stanford in the games I watched on film.” MacIntyre highlighted the play of sophomore linebacker Keith Smith, who led the Spartans (0-1) in tackles last season as a freshman. “(Smith) is the same player, he just has more experience
Head coach Mike MacIntyre roots the team on from the sideline during the Sept. 3 game against Stanford. Photo by Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily
and has become more settled on the field,” he said. “He’s a very good instinctive player, and you can’t coach instincts.” MacIntyre also addressed the mistakes the team made during the game against Stanford and said it has been working hard all week to correct their wrongs made last Saturday. He specifically pointed out the third play of the game for the Spartans, which resulted in a sack from a missed block around the edge of the offensive line. “If we had just held the block a second longer, we have a 65-yard touchdown pass, no doubt about it,” MacIntyre said after viewing footage from his film. “Chandler Jones is wide open, our route worked perfect. He would have caught it, and no one was going to catch him.”
Other mistakes — more specifically fumbles — are expected to be tidied up, especially those by senior starting quarterback Matt Faulkner, MacIntyre said. “Turnovers are key, and the ones we made led to scores,” he said. “(Faulkner) will keep getting better. He made some great plays and hopefully will continue improving.” Improvement is just what MacIntyre said he is looking for from his running game, which recorded a total of 27 yards against a Stanford football squad that finished sixth in the nation a year ago in rushing defense. “Our backs were hitting the holes alright, they just whipped us,” he said. “Our kids did not challenge them enough in the running game. We plan on running the ball well, and
plan on running it better on Saturday.” MacIntyre made clear that Faulkner was not affected mentally by the lack of a running game, and has the poise to run the offense. “Matt doesn’t show any stress, he’s a true leader on the team,” he said. “If they plan on stacking up on the line against us, we have good receivers and we’re going to dink it out there and let those guys make some plays.” MacIntyre said the score of the game against Stanford was not indicative of the way his team played, and said it was tough going into halftime down 27-3 when 24 of the points were “given” to the Cardinal via turnovers. “If we played smarter and better, it really should have been 14-10 with us ahead at half, but it wasn’t,” he said. “We made some correctable errors. Our defense played toe-to-toe with those guys physically. They had the short field and we played well on the goal line — they didn’t just walk on us at the goal line.” Although he did not play at all in the second half of last Saturday’s game against Stanford, MacIntyre said he fully expects senior safety Duke Ihenacho to play this weekend. “We need him to be healthy for to be really good,” MacIntyre said. “He’s going back home to play at the Rose Bowl, right where he’s from. I imagine he will be jacked up and I will be surprised if he doesn’t have a phenomenal game.” The Spartans will lace up their cleats and hit the field against the Bruins this Saturday in the Rose Bowl Stadium with kick off set for 7:00 p.m.