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SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
CVB resident complaints accumulate, housing services releases an apology By Victoria Franco
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As she walked into the laundry facility inside of the Campus Village Building B, while cradling her sack of messy laundry, this student was disappointed, but not surprised to see a bunch of washing machines out of order. Accounting sophomore Vanessa Armendariz said, “It’s frustrating having washers being broken all the time.” The common issue among students is not only high dorm costs, but also not having adequate facilities such as working washing machines. A post on the SAMMY app gave students the platform to discuss issues regarding on campus housing. User Talia DuBois said, “For the longest time my water temp in the shower was either hot as Satan or as cold as the arctic.” Following DuBois’ reply, other students took to the app to share that they too had been victims of little-to-no-hot water in the dorm showers, despite the outstanding rates of rent.
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1) More than a dozen washing machines in the dormitory building are not functioning, some have been labeled “out of order.” 2) University Housing Services posted fl yers around the laundry room.
Approximately 14 washing machines, as of yesterday, in the Campus Village Building B laundry room have been labeled “out of order” despite various students being assigned to the particular laundry unit. Psychology junior Sam Mayes
claimed that although there are more washers available to use, various machines do not work properly. “We’re paying for the amenities and the laundry room [with our renting fees], but you still have to pay to use them,” Mayes said. The university mandates that
Public members express concerns at VTA meeting By Jozy Prabhu STAFF WRITER
Following a midnight rally protesting VTA’s finalization of the new transit plan, which includes cutting the overnight Route 22, members of the public attended the board meeting in the evening on March 7. “I know the VTA has to make certain decisions to balance their budget,” said Sachin Radhakrishnan, formal policy aide of the City of San Jose. “But there are some decisions they want to make that I think, and a lot of people think, are vital resources for the community.” According to Radhakrishnan, members of the VTA board of directors are trying to cut hours 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. This has been met with strong dissent from the citizens of San Jose and other organizations including the Green Party and housing advocates. “[Route 22 riders] are paying bus
students pay a fee to access the washing machines in the dorm units, however Mayes said he is frustrated that his money is going toward facilities that don’t work. “I’ve ruined clothing and I had to spend money to get clothing done somewhere else, when it is
something I’m already paying for with my rent,” he said. South Bay Tenants Assembly member Jugu Sandhu shared her thoughts about universities not only worrying about enough housing for
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drivers to stay out of the cold,” said Radhakrishnan. “Some of them are working. Some of them are families that their kid needs to sleep before school.” Radhakrishnan wanted the VTA to know that Route 22 is not taken for granted. “People value your service, and we’re asking you to keep it,” said Radhakrishnan. Shaun Cartwright, housing rights advocate and co-founder of South Bay Tenants Union, spoke to the board during public comment about the human costs that will ensue if Route 22 is cut. “The [Route] 22 has become the best [homeless] shelter that we have,” said Cartwright. “It shouldn’t be our best defacto shelter but it is.” Cartwright said 158 homeless people died in San Jose last year. PROTEST | Page 2
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Industrial and systems engineering junior Brian Song assembles trail mix during the measurement work design class. The packages eventually go to campus food pantries.
Rotary Club offers scholarship for best housing report By Mauricio La Plante STAFF WRITER
San Jose State students could receive a scholarship and other resources as an award for producing a comprehensive report to build affordable housing in the Silicon Valley. The Rotary Club of San Jose committed to offer a scholarship to students in the Urban and Regional
Planning program who are studying homelessness and affordable housing. However, the program may expand to include both graduates and undergraduates who are interested in competing to produce the report, according to Jeffrey Hare, an attorney and member of the San Jose Rotary Club. The scholarship fund would go to the student
or team of students that produce the most comprehensive report on the best way to house the homeless, according to Hare. The amount of funds have been undetermined. Hare announced the scholarship during a panel titled “Seeking Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis” in the Martin Luther King Jr. Library, on Tuesday. He did not lay out specific
details on how much money the rotary club has fundraised for the scholarship, but said that the club is looking for innovative approaches to take on some of the hurdles the city of San Jose faces. The city of San Jose has a goal to build 10,000 affordable housing units by 2022, according to the city’s Housing Department. At the end of 2018, it had built around 946 housing units.
During a city council meeting on Feb. 5, staff announced that the city was in the works to build 1,144 new affordable housing units. The city had also secured $98 million from a city investment and $94 million in Measure A funding, a bond measure for affordable housing in Santa Clara County that was passed in 2016. He explained how
displacement isn’t only caused by poverty and that cities like San Jose need to have resources for displaced residents that pour into the Bay Area looking for housing. “Try something that has never been tried before,” Hare said. A panel of five experts on homelessness discussed issues on housing the unsheltered in INITIATIVE | Page 2
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PROTEST Continued from page 1 “One of the leading causes was pneumonia,” said Cartwright. “More people are going to die of pneumonia because they’re out in the elements. We can’t do this, we can’t just kill more people.” According to a study done by the Santa Clara County analyzing homeless deaths between 201116, “Alcohol and drug abuse continues to claim a significant number of homeless deaths.” Additionally, an increasing number of homeless people who die are 65 years old and older. Cartwright said VTA’s new transit plan also includes cutting Route 54, which is another vital route for the homeless because it goes to three main shelters for unhoused people. She also pointed out a solution for the route cuts. “There’s 25 properties that VTA can sell that they can better utilize,” said Cartwright. Nassim Nouri, county council member of Santa Clara County’s Green Party, also attended the board meeting. “I’m also a volunteer at the Sunnyvale [County Winter] Shelter. I know
a lot of these folks,” said Nouri. “If there is a plan to cut any buses that are providing that refuge, the city and the county have to step up and provide an alternative.” Nouri believes solutions will come faster if the VTA board members and city council members use transit themselves. “I would love for Santa Clara County to start riding these buses,” said Nouri. “Understand the difficulty and the challenges that they themselves have put in the path of their residents.” Craig Wardrip, assistant business agent for maintenance in the 265 transit union for VTA, was among the protesters at the meeting, representing the transit union. “A lot of people don’t know about us, they see VTA and that’s all they see,” said Wardrip. “We are the heart and soul of VTA. We’re the mechanics, we’re the drivers.” According to Wardrip, the transit union is against the cuts and hikes in fares. “We’re fighting for the homeless to stay on our buses,” said Wardrip. “We want more overnight buses.”
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INITIATIVE Continued from page 1 and around San Jose, before Hare’s announcement. Although structural and financial problems are an issue, a “not in my backyard” mindset among residents who see affordable housing coming into their neighborhoods is one of the most challenging barriers to building it. “That humanity gets lost, and I’ve been to a lot of meetings. I used to
work for the city where people’s humanity is lost in this process,” said panelist Ray Bramson, the chief impact officer for Destination: Home, a public-private partnership that works with the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing. “Across our supportive housing system, which is our county-wide system that meets the needs of homeless individuals, we see 93 percent retention rate of people maintaining their housing for one year or more,” Bramson said. Howe ver, s ome
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1) Shaun Cartwright (left), a housing rights advocate and co-founder of the South Bay Tenants Union speaks about affected homeless residents to Nassim Nouri (right), of the Santa Clara County Green Party.
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2) Mountain View Councilmember John McAlister addresses public comments on the VTA’s new transit plan’s cuts. PHOTOS BY JOZY PRABHU
residents who claimed that they live near affordable housing units, said that bringing in residents in need of shelter stirred problems with crime and overdoses. But at the podium, Hare challenged students to find accurate numbers to see whether an increase in crime and drugs is linked to affordable housing. “You may see something that we didn’t,” Hare said. “Someone back here made a quip about ‘Oh well, you got the facts wrong, you got the numbers wrong.’ Well, if we did, prove it.” In a brief appearance at the beginning of the meeting, District 3 Councilmember Raul Peralez encouraged students to be involved. “I like the idea because it’s more homegrown, it’s connected to a local community,” said Jerry Wilburn, a graduate student writing a thesis for the Urban and Regional Planning program. “It’s just like a way of giving back through our academic work.” Follow Mauricio on Twitter @mslaplantenews
SPIN Continued from page 1 students, but providing appropriate environments as well. “We also have to consider that housing is a basic human right and it’s a necessity,” Sandhu said. “So it should be something that is clean and safe for the students.” Kinesiology junior Victoria Forrester said that students who are making efforts to make on-time rent payments should at least get the bare minimum housing accommodations. “We got a bug infestation in our dorm. We noticed them last semester in October and now we found them recently too,” Forrester said. “Probably because of the cold.” Students have lost hope in the university’s housing to fix any problems within the dorms because of their requests not being met. “We don’t even report it as much anymore because they never do anything
When I contacted the school about the washers being broken, they had me call the company. We have to spend our time when it’s their job. Victoria Forrester kinesiology junior
about it,” Forrester said. Anthropology junior Danielle Celona said when she did contact the school about the state of the washing machines, housing didn’t help her as much as she would have wanted. “When I contacted the school about the washers being broken, they had me call the company. We have to spend our time when it’s
Jonathan Austin and Jaileane Aguilar contributed reporting to this story.
their job,” Celona said. While rent control continues to be a major issue impacting California, students who live on campus feel they deserve proper living arrangements because of the extensive amount of money they pay. “Why are we paying all this money when [Housing Ser vices doesn’t] help us when we need it?” Forrester said. According to San Jose State Housing Services, the starting rate for a studio apartment in Campus Village Building B for the spring 2019 semester was $7,647. Meanwhile, the starting rate for the same studio space in the spring 2014 semester was $5,817. “I work at the Village Market to pay my rent because it’s not covered all the way by [financial aid],” Forrester said. CVB residents often find themselves paying an inflated amount of rent yet the facilities that are supposed to be included are not accessible for use. Follow Victoria on Twitter @ayeeevickyy
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(Left to right) Jonathan Legasca, Isaiah Ntoya and Brian Erb stand on stage after performing at the first Spartans Got Talent put on by Associated Students.
Spartans got three times the talent By Courtney Vasquez STAFF WRITER
Several Spartans shined under the Morris Dailey stage lights on Tuesday night for the first Spartans Got Talent competition. SJSU students of all ages and majors competed in the talent show to see who the best performers were, with the results decided by three judges. In the competition, there were three award categories. The three categories were for the most creative, the most musical and the audience favorite. The winner of the most musical category was fourth year Armoni LeGras, who is a radio, television and film
(RTVF) major. LeGras sang and rapped his original songs on stage. “It was just overwhelming because I’m usually just giving 100 percent of me out there,” LeGras said. “I took all of my adrenaline and just turned it into energy, and I was just appreciative [of the audience.]” According to LeGras, he will be continuing his music career after being named the winner of this category. “I’m 100 percent dropping a mixtape soon, making songs and art,” LeGras said. “All my creative endeavors are not going to stop. That’s all I’ve ever been doing my whole life.” The second winner was in the most creative category.
RTVF and communications sophomore Brian Fillmore took home the title for the night after he performed his dance routine, which combined famous dance moves from past decades. “It actually felt pretty great [to win]. I mean compared to the rest of the performances, I thought it was an equal match,” Fillmore said. “Everybody did great themselves, everybody’s a winner to me.” Fillmore explained how he has performed this specific routine in past competitions, so this was very exciting for him. “It’s been two years since I performed, so I’m basically coming back from retirement,” Fillmore said.
RTVF and communications sophomore Brian Fillmore dances on the Morris Dailey stage as the last performer of the night at Spartans Got Talent.
RTVF fourth year Armoni LeGras raps his original songs on stage at the first Spartans Got Talent competition. day.
The final winner of Spartans Got Talent was senior psychology major Isaiah Ntoya who won the audience vote. Ntoya sang one of R&B singer Miguel’s songs for his talent. The audience vote was decided by using a polling website. “I’m just glad that the audience really liked my voice, and liked what I had to portray. I was really nervous,” Ntoya said. “It was dope.” Chris Yang, director of the MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center, was one of the three judges for the competition. Yang expressed that his favorite part of judging was seeing SJSU students performing and doing what
they love on stage. ever held. “It’s incredible being able “[Planning] went really to see students do stuff that well. We had a really great they’re passionate about, team,” Cardenas said. “Last and stuff they are good at,” year, Associated Students Yang said. did Music Mayhem, and we When deciding the got a lot of feedback about winners, however, Yang said wanting it to be more of a that he had a tough time wider event.” since he had to pick his Associated Students favorite talents. teamed up with the Student “I think we all struggle Union to put on the show, ran smoothly, trying to figure out [who which wins],” Yang said. “There’s according to Cardenas. Associated Students hopes some acts that were just real top-notch, and [we] kind of to have Spartans Got Talent as an annual competition so had to struggle.” Samantha Cardenas, more talent gets recognized. “We have all these lovely Associated Students events coordinator, expressed performers, so it went pretty how she thought the talent well,” Cardenas said. show went just as planned even though it was the first Follow Courtney on Twitter @courtney_megsss Spartans Got Talent show
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OPINION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019
Harris presents half-baked narrative Cora Wilson STAFF WRITER
Students don’t care if a president listens to Snoop Dogg, we just want someone who can make a positive difference in our country. While this is something 2020 presidential candidates are recognizing, one candidate in particular could be taking it too far to win over the votes of young adults. Just last month, pres-
Sen. Harris. “Listen, I think that it gives a lot of people joy and we need more joy in the world.” Other fellow Democratic presidential candidates did not share her sense of humor. During a campaign rally in Iowa on Monday, New Jersey junior senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker took time to address Harris’
It is contradictory for Harris to speak positively about recreational smoking of marijuana, only for her to have been against the legalization for years. idential candidate Senator Kamala Harris spoke about marijuana in a radio interview with The Breakfast Club, and sparked some controversy in the media. When asked if Harris had smoked marijuana before, she talked about it in a jokingly and laidback way. “I did inhale, it was a long time ago,” said
pro-marijuana remarks from the radio interview. “We have presidential candidates who now talk about their marijuana use almost as if it’s funny,” Booker said to Vox. “But meanwhile in 2017, we had more arrests for marijuana possession in this country than all the violent crime arrests combined.” While I think Harris admitting to smoking
weed in college makes her seem more relatable to some college students, it’s not quite her character in question. Rather, it’s her credibility. According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2010 Harris was actually opposed to the legalization of marijuana in California. At this time, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris’ campaign manager at the time even told Capitol Weekly that Harris believed “that drug selling harms communities.” The New York Times’ Lara Bazelon reported that as a prosecutor, Sen. Harris supported the incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders. In 2015 she opposed a California bill requiring officers to wear body cams. “When she goes out of her way to try to work an angle and to appeal to a certain population of young adults, it shows that what she cares about is getting the vote,” said pre-nursing freshman Shaked Kalmanovich. After admitting that she smoked weed in college, Harris laughed as she talked about how she listened to Snoop Dogg and Tupac while smoking. While saying this had the potential to make her seem more relatable to young voters, she fell flat to impress listeners and instead received accusa-
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tions of lying. Snoop Dogg and Tupac did not even produce music until years after Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986. “When someone is running for president, I think the number one thing that I would value in a candidate is their honesty,” said Kalmanovich. It is contradicting for Harris to speak positively about recreational smoking of marijuana, only for her to have been against the legalization for years. Over the past decade, she has changed her stance on legalization. In 2015, she called to “end the federal ban on med-
ical marijuana” during the Democratic State Convention, according to CNN. “Her being against marijuana and now talking about how she smoked it is hippocratical,” said pre-nursing freshman Shivani Patel. “A president should not be going around saying stuff just to appeal to our population.” Even if Harris does appeal to some young voters after saying she has smoked weed in college, that isn’t something that young voters are extremely concerned about. It would almost be demeaning if Harris believed young voters care more about weed
than serious issues and domestic policies. In a study conducted by the Harvard Public Opinion Project poll, there is evidence on what young voters really care about in a president. What voters value most, per the Harvard study, is integrity and levelheadedness in their presidential candidates. “Teens are not going to think smoking weed and listening to Snoop Dogg is what they want to connect with their president on,” said Patel. “What’s more important is who can run our country.” Follow Cora on Twitter @coraawilson
Don’t fear ‘A.I.’ just yet Alyson Chuyang STAFF WRITER
When you hear the words “Artificial Intelligence,” do robots that resemble humans come to mind? Movies such as “The Terminator” and “Ex Machina” perpetuate humans’ unease surrounding A.I. However, the rate at which it is evolving is steady and actually doing more help than harm. A viral video hit the internet last year claiming that four artificial intelligence robots killed 29 scientists at a lab in Japan. The video was revealed to be a hoax, but it caused a number of people to fear the impending doom of mankind at the hands of sentient killing machines. However, as far as we’d like to think we’ve come with artificial intelligence, we are nowhere near creating humanexterminating robots. According to Future of Life Institute, narrow artificial intelligence is what is available to us now. Our current artificial intelligence is capable of performing limited tasks such as prompting new Google search bar recommendations and using facial recognition passcodes. These advances in artificial intelligence can be seen as intrusive at most, but nothing close to homicidal or dangerous.
General artificial intelligence is the type that researchers and scientists are looking toward for the future. This type of AI is the ability for machines to mimic and perform the tasks that a human can. While it might sound daunting, there are many organizations put in place to ensure safe research surrounding artificial intelligence. The Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society is an organization that promotes “the fair and ethical development of artificial intelligence technologies.” This organization has partnered with big industry names such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is noticeably missing from that list. He previously debated with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the effectiveness of artificial intelligence a couple years ago, according to USA Today. Musk believed it is detrimental to humans and a great risk, but Zuckerberg believed that such discourse and resistance to upgrading artificial intelligence is an immature view of a beneficial system. According to Campus Technology, the Stanford Institute for Human-Cen-
tered Artificial Intelligence is working on projects that benefit the general public, not just for superficial reasons like Siri. These projects are “devoted to a better humanity,” and will work in the realms of health care, infrastructure and financial services. The matter of artificial intelligence can bring on an industrial revolution, with its capabilities already showing promise within the world of technology. Artificial intelligence has infiltrated people’s daily lives, and some may not recognize its true benefits. Digital assistants such as Siri and Alexa respond to commands, and adapt to voices in order to serve the user efficiently. Smart thermostats can adjust to comfortable temperatures of a home, and augmented reality applications allow users to try on clothes or see how a certain makeup brand looks on them before purchasing it. Artificial intelligence has even gone as far as driving us. Tesla has self-driving cars which can self-park and match the speed of surrounding vehicles. These machines have a very slim chance of producing error, much less than humans do. Looking toward general artificial intelligence, machines may be able to help in surgical procedures and diagnosing diseases. We shouldn’t be fearing artificial intelligence, but rather welcoming it. Follow Alyson on Twitter @alysonchuyang
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019
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Chartwells dishes out work-study woes Jonathan Austin STAFF WRITER
It’s a bummer seeing older folks working at the San Jose State Dining Commons. In the face of one of the worst student-homelessness crises in SJSU history, this cannot be allowed to continue to happen. “They’re definitely swaying away from hiring students. If you look on their webpage they’re trying to find full-time employees for instance,” Billy Tran, graphic design sophomore and current Dining Commons employee said in regards to the hiring practices. It’s time for Chartwells, the company that runs the eateries on campus, to stop hiring non-students to do jobs that students can do. Especially if those positions are minimum wage jobs with low qualifications, such as positions in the Dining Commons. I realize this may come off as rude, but we must face the facts. Students in the Bay Area – especially in San Jose – need gainful employment opportunities and the Dining Commons is starting to stray away from that. “The success of SJSU Spartan Eats is built
around our talented student team members and that is a belief we will continue to take pride in at San Jose State University,” said Stephanie Fabian, Spartan Eats marketing director. So why has there been a noticeable decrease in available positions for students, and why has there been little pushback from the university? The university’s decision to sell Spartan Shops to the for-profit company Chartwells is what prevents it from giving first pick of Dining Commons jobs to students. Because Chartwells is a privately owned corporation, it doesn’t answer to the full jurisdiction of the California State University system and thus, students are not priority candidates for hires. Well, let me tell you, Chartwells is running the Dining Commons, Spartan Shops and the overall on-campus dining experience into the ground. The worst effects can be seen in the studentemployment category. Over the last few months an increasing number of full-time positions have been opening up in place
of part-time work. This means SJSU students essentially have no chance of working at the Dining Commons given their academic course load. “A lot of their hiring is through, like a third-party temp workers company,” said a Dining Commons worker who has been employed since fall of 2017, before the Chartwells takeover. The source asked to remain anonymous. The source, a sopho-
to its hiring service, Compass Group. With most students taking anywhere between 12 and 16 units per semester, many can only spare 15-20 hours a week to work and not the 30-40 plus hours required for a full-time position. While 15-20 hours is not much, it’s still necessary for cashstrapped students needing to pay their tuition, rent and food costs. To add another strike on Chartwells, the offi-
This is merely a call to action for the univeristy, in conjuction with Chartwells, to stray from hiring non-students who realistically have the means to work elsewhere. more business administration student, also said she has noticed the drop in student employment. “Before, they hired majority students, but now there’s [so] much more older people,” she said. That creates a major problem, and as a result, there are very few, if any, students who have the time availability to work a full-time job for a Chartwells-owned campus eatery. Chartwells is currently hiring 15 full-time positions, according
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cial Spartan Eats website doesn’t display any parttime positions available. Every link sends users to a either a full-time position or an internship with “flexible hours.” For a campus with student-governing bodies as active as ours, the administration should make sure that jobs at SJSU eateries are geared toward actual students and not some middle-aged “average Joe” off the street. On a positive note, this issue has not yet hit the Student Union.
“From my experience here, there hasn’t been an issue. We just did a round of hiring this semester and they were students,” said advertising freshman and Student Union worker Anton Lauron. Hopefully, that will remain the same. SJSU needs to throw its weight around and help the student body keep its needed source of revenue which fits with most students’ study schedules. The ease of an on-campus position is of course a luxury, but for many students going to SJSU, who live outside the Bay Area and dorm on campus, it is a necessity. Out-of-county students who live on or near campus typically require on-campus work to support themselves financially. This is not to discredit the hard work done every day by the current non-student Chartwells employees working in the SJSU food service. This is merely a call to action for the university, in conjunction with Chartwells, to stray from hiring non-students who realistically have the means to work elsewhere. It is also preferable for those governing bodies to prioritize said positions for lower-income students from outside the Bay Area. “Spartan Eats currently employs almost 600 student-team members on campus,” Fabian said.
SUDOKU PUZZLE Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
That is a high number, and it is one it should strive to keep. But its current hiring practices lead to a different fate. As evidenced by selling the Spartan Stadium naming rights to CEFCU Bank and by selling the Spartan Shops rights to Chartwells, SJSU has once again placed capital profit above the needs of its students. Although Chartwells ultimately runs the ship, it doesn’t take a visit to the Oracle to have one foresee the outcome of placing corporate greed over the needs of the proletariat. The administration needs to get its head out of its ass and its loyalty out of Chartwells’ money clip. Earnestly, even though Chartwells has provided much better food service quality than its predecessor Spartan Shops, this does not excuse unilateral loss of student jobs. I suppose this comes as no surprise. The SJSU administration has already shown that it won’t fight for its most needy students. Why would they when they can simply maximize revenue by partnering with third-party corporations that don’t answer to the CSU? Fuck third-party corporate interests, give the jobs to the students. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @AustinFound1
JOKIN’ AROUND Why do they call coffee mud?
Because it was ground a couple of minutes ago.
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SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019
SJSU softball seals 10th straight win By Jozy Prabhu and Lindsey Boyd STAFF WRITER & SPORTS EDITOR
San Jose State softball is on a 10-game win streak after sweeping Manhattan College in its d o u b l e - h e a d e r Tuesday afternoon. Game 1: 9-2 win Sophomore Caroline Bowman pitched a complete game allowing 9 hits and 2 run. The Spartans (209) started down 2-1 until coming alive in the sixth inning by knocking in 8 runs to take the game, 9-2. “I think it just [continues our] streak that we’ve been on,” said center fielder Kaelin Amrein. “We showed today that we can come back.” Manhattan College got off to a quick start and scored the first run in the first inning. In the second inning, senior pitcher Madison Aurin hit a double and was later brought home by freshman Jenessa Ullegue to tie the game at 1. Manhattan added another run in the fourth inning and continued to lead 2-1 until the sixth inning. Right off the bat, junior Makayla Englestad hit a triple and got the momentum going. She was brought home by a single to tie the game 2-2. But the Spartans were just getting started. SJSU loaded the bases after junior Cassidy Clark
was walked and Aurin was hit by a pitch. Two more walks, a single, a double, a wild pitch and a fielding error allowed the Spartans to rack up 6 more runs to end the sixth inning, 9-2. Bowman didn’t allow any runs in the seventh and got her eighth win of the season (8-3). Game 2: 8-6 Bowman continued as starting pitcher in Game 2 against Manhattan College, but loaded the bases and gave up 2 runs in the first inning. A pair of triples in the second and fifth inning by Amrein helped power the Spartans ahead. They pulled out their 10th straight win this season, 8-6. C l o s i ng pitche r Madison Aurin said the game turned out to be more difficult than SJSU expected, MELODY DEL RIO | SPARTAN DAILY but was happy with her team’s performance. Alyssa Graham hugs Kaelin Amrein whose 4-run triple helped win Game 2 against Manhattan College on Tuesday. “Good teams find ways to win, and we found ways good,” said head coach could go for it anyways,” but I didn’t expect it to be to win when we weren’t at Peter Turner. said Amrein about scoring as difficult as we made it,” our best,” said Aurin. “We Manhattan tied the the triple. “Once I got to said Turner. “If we don’t had a couple big innings game in the fourth inning three and saw the throw play better than we played in each game and that and added another run coming in, I automatically now, it’ll be difficult for us made the difference.” in the fifth inning to take was looking for something to win any competitions.” The Spartans got ahead back the lead, 4-3. to kick away, so initially if Amrein defended the in the second inning with The Spartans tied the ball was getting away I team’s performance and a triple from Amrein and it back up in the fifth would already have in my said, “As a team we’re pretan over-the-fence hit by inning with a double mind that would go home.” ty tired after six games freshman infielder Alyssa from Clark and a single In the seventh inning, this weekend.” Madison Aurin Manhattan College talGraham. The hit marked by Ullegue. Pitcher lied 2 more runs, but the her second over-the-fence SJSU then loaded the hit of the season, and got bases in time for Amrein, Spartans prevailed 8-6. Follow Jozy & Lindsey on the Spartans ahead, 3-2. who hit her second triple knew I was going three. Turner said he was Twitter “I thought we hit the of the game to bring in all I saw an outfielder wob- disappointed about the @PrabhuJoanna ball well, with power and three runners and herself. ble the ball, so I thought non-conference games. @lindsboyd3 gap to gap, so that was “As soon as I hit it, I there was a chance that I “I expected us to win,
Good teams find ways to win, and we found ways to win when we weren’t at our best.
SJSU’s top basketball scorers are transferring By Caleb Ramos STAFF WRITER
Games aren’t the only thing the San Jose State men’s basketball team is losing. On Monday, SJSU’s most consistent 3-point scorer Noah Baumann announced he is transferring out of SJSU and said he has a lot of offers. Baumann’s announcement to transfer comes one week after 6-foot-10 junior Michael Steadman announced his intent to transfer elsewhere. With the departures of both Baumann and Steadman, SJSU lost its top two scorers. “Definitely the thought came after Mike [Steadman] left and some other outside stuff happening that I was thinking of transferring,” said Baumann. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, the 6-foot-5-inch sophomore had a breakout season. He was the Spartan’s second-leading scorer, averaging 10.8 points per game on 41 percent shooting from the field. Baumann spoke on his decision to transfer and reflected on his time at SJSU. “I learned a lot being here and did a lot of maturing and going through all those downs. I really found who I really am,” he said. The Spartans struggled this season, finishing with a overall record of 4-27, and a conference record of 1-17. Yet, Baumann found a way to set his own records. This season Baumann made 81 three-pointers, breaking Robert Owens’
(2009-2010) Spartan record for most 3-pointers made in a season. Baumann played in all 31 games of the 2018-19 season. According to The Spear, he was ranked first in the NCAA for a time in 3-point shooting percentage, ultimately finishing this season at an outstanding mark of 45 percent. A true marksman from behind the arc, Baumann led SJSU in 3-point percentage in his two years as a Spartan. Baumann expressed his gratitude for the fans and media of SJSU. “I thank the loyal fans that still showed up to those home games and kept track of us through all the games. I’ll miss this place a lot and wish nothing but the best,” said Baumann. Baumann continued, “Thank you! and thank you for covering [Men’s basketball] even though to be honest it was a shit show at times, [media] stayed and still reported [Men’s basketball] and whatnot.” The Spartans have a recent history of its top scorers transferring out of the program. Canadian forward Brandon Clarke transferred to Gonzaga after averaging 17.3 points per game during the 2016-17 season. He is now on the No. 1 team in the country, has garnered national attention for his defense and has his eyes set on playing in the NBA. Indiana native Ryan Welage played three years at SJSU. He transferred to
BAUMANN Xavier University after leading the Spartans with 18.1 points per game during the 2017-18 season. Forward Keith Fisher III, SJSU’s second leading scorer during the 2017-18 season, transferred to Illinois State. Head coach Jean Prioleau is no stranger to replacing players. SJSU has now lost five double-digit scorers since 2017. Replacing Baumann and Steadman will be no easy task, as the Spartans will have to look to make up for the lost average of 24 points per game combined from the two players. Where Baumann will play collegiate basketball next season is still unknown. “I have some schools but still a lot coming in so it’s sort of a lot to take in,” said Baumann. While Baumann searches for a new squad, SJSU will be looking to find replacements. “I really wish I would have won here for the last two years, but unfortunately it didn’t go that way,” said Baumann. Follow Caleb on Twitter @a1caleb