Spartan Daily Vol. 162 No. 32

Candidates engage in debate

By Kaya Henkes-Power

Debates between candidates for the Associated Student Board of Directors happened in the Student Union meeting room 2B on Monday evening.

It is a 501(c)3 non-profit auxiliary organization with a $9 million budget that operates nine departments through its Board of Directors, according to its SJSU website.

Chief Elections Officer Leonardo Plazola, moderated the debate alongside SJSU’s student publications editors.

“We have 13 positions inside the Board of Directors,” Plazola said. “In this debate, we’re going to be having 12 debates for each respective position.”

Associated Students is a SJSU student affairs organization that advocates for students, according to the Associated Student webpage.

Safety and gun control on Tower Lawn

Kicking off the debate were three out of the five presidential candidates, they were given three questions each and each had a minute to respond. Plazola asked the candidates how they will bridge the gap between the student population and the Associated Student Board of Directors.

Electrical and electronics junior Umama Oishi said she can relate to feeling unseen on campus and wants to give every student a chance

to feel the power of their individuality.

“How I’m going to bridge the gap is creating a platform for students so they can voice what kinds of needs they have,” Oishi said.

Ariana Lacson, a bioengineering junior and currently the vice president for Associated Students, said she hopes to expand the marketing of the MyVoice SJSU Survey Program.

“It’s a way for students to directly communicate to their faculty and staff through AS,” Lacson said. Lacson said she wants to expand social media presence, host monthly town hall meetings with recognized student organization leaders, write monthly newsletters and expand on a master resource document.

Political science junior Graciela Marcial said she wants to increase the marketing of Associated Students.

“I feel like a lot of things that could be marketed are not marketed,” Marcial said, “A lot of people do not know what the AS board is.”

She said she wants to utilize media such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to market the Associated Students Board along with meeting organizations during meeting times.

wants to conduct oneon-ones when holding members accountable for conduct issues.

We have 13 positions inside the Board of Directors . . . In this debate, we’re going to be having 12 debates for each respective position.

Leonardo Plazola Chief elections officer at Associated Students

“I would try to talk to them head on to explain the issue that they came up with and try to find some way in order to get back on track,” Nwokolo said.

He said he would go through a conduct process and make sure the board of directors and the entire board knows in order to create transparency.

Kinesiology sophomore Sahib Siya Johal said she wants to facilitate communication between individuals.

“To hold everyone accountable, including myself,” Johal said. “I think listening actively (and) understanding each and every conflict or question brought up.”

accounting operations of an organization, according to a webpage on Investopedia. Similar to the vice presidential candidates, each controller candidate was given three questions with a minute to answer.

Computer engineering junior Sidhant Sadawarti said he wanted to bridge the gap between the Associated Student Board and students through proper communication.

“I would make sure that all things are promoted properly so that all the students get to know what's happening in director meets and in the committees.” Sadawarti said.

He said he could coordinate Associated Student goals to make student life and experiences for students better.

Journalism senior Karson Wells, an executive producer for Update News, helped moderate the debates.

“How will you use things like scholarships to support the student body?” Wells asked.

Sadawarti said that one of his goals is to increase the scholarship budget and make two or three different categories.

“I would also want to make two or three more different categories in which scholarships (are) provided,” Sadwarti said.

“This year’s theme is to restrict guns, not books. We are all about preventing gun violence and harm to members of our community,” Klaw said.

A series of speakers showed up at the event, such as Assistant District Attorney Rolanda Pierre-Dixon, who recently retired from Santa Clara County to talk about why gun laws need to be restricted.

Klaw said Students Demand Action stands for a right to learn different perspectives, and the right to see ourselves represented in what we read and what we learn.

Teniente-Matson attended the event among several

speakers that addressed members of the audience including students, community members from San José and others.

Following the presidential candidates, the two vice presidential candidates debated for 10 minutes, having a minute each to answer three questions.

Plazola asked the candidates how they would hold the board of directors accountable for their job performance, conduct and collaboration.

Political science junior Chima Nwokolo said he

She said that there are multiple routes you could take to find solutions, so finding common ground and exploring solutions.

After the vice presidential debate was the Associated Student's controller debate, where one of the two candidates spoke.

A controller is a position that oversees the

He was also questioned about how he would help to ensure even distributions among student organizations.

“I would want to make sure that every club gets the money,” Sadawarti said. “That it is not just restricted to the STEM majors.”

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KAYA HENKES-POWER | SPARTAN DAILY Business administration and management sophomore Samuel Brown, who is running for Director for Student Resource Affairs, responds to questions at the debate.

Admitted Spartans explore campus

By Jonathan Canas STAFF WRITER

Thousands of admitted students poured onto San José State’s campus on Saturday to take tours around the campus to see if they would want to continue their academic careers in San José on Saturday.

Admitted Spartan Day gives admitted students the chance to explore campus life. Admitted students engage in special topics workshops, academic open houses, and activities like campus tours and the resource fair according to SJSU’s website.

The event officially began in the Provident Credit Union Event Center as students heard from university leaders the itinerary for the day, according to the SJSU website.

After the checkins at 7 a.m., students were allowed to scour the Event Center for the organizations that had their tables set up throughout the room.

Orientation leader Aniket Tikariha, a software engineering graduate, was tasked with giving tours to incoming students. He said there was a lot of information to learn in order to educate guests. “We have a defined path and specific pointers for what we need to say,” Tikariha said. “For each building there are specific facts we give out.”

He said knowing when buildings were built and the budget were some of the facts the tour guides needed to know. Tikariha said the tours only guided campus guests outside around campus instead of providing tours inside of the school

Over 100 clubs and organizations were present in the Event Center. The SJSU Athletics, Pride Center, representatives of the Student Union, Financial Aid and Scholarship Office, Career Center and other academic departments at SJSU were present at the event, according to the same website. Admitted students and their families were also able to gather around the Tower Hall Lawn for tours that took place from 8 a.m. to noon.

buildings.

He also said 14,000 students registered for Admitted Spartan Day and large crowds of people still decided to join different campus tours despite the rainy weather.

“This event is important for students because it familiarizes them with the campus a bit,” Tikariha said. “They can see if it's a safe place.”

Emily Ngo, a business marketing alumni, was tabling for the college of social sciences trying to recruit students.

“The College of Social Sciences has 12 different departments, and we’re here to showcase all of our unique departaments and show what students can do with a social science degree,” Ngo said.

She said Admitted

Spartan Day is extremely important to students because admitted students have no idea what is offered to them.

“It’s really overwhelming when you’re 17-years-old and you have no idea what to do,” Ngo said. “When it comes to these types of events they get knowledge that’s not really shown on the website.”

Aside from different colleges, there were also

Borjon, a business administration senior, was tabling for his club, trying to recruit admitted students onto the mat.

Borjon said students could just come and try wrestling for the first time if they haven’t wrestled in the past.

“We offer opportunities for beginners who just want to try and we also offer opportunities for those who want to compete,” he said. “This year we competed against Fresno State and Sacramento State here on campus.”

Borjon said he is graduating this spring, but will stay on as an advisor because he sees the club growing well past his tenure. He said a lot of people showed interest throughout the day.

a handful of club sports tabling, trying to recruit students, according to the Spartan Recreation website.

SJSU’s Wrestling and Women’s Lacrosse were a couple of the club sports who were present at Admitted Spartan Day.

SJSU Wrestling President Francisco

Advertising and economics freshman Heaven Meneses was tabling for the Women's Lacrosse club team.

She said most of the girls who have signed up have never played lacrosse before.

“We’re here to teach people the sport, but also to make new friends,” Meneses said.

Meneses said this was the chance for students to develop their support system if they decide to commit to SJSU.

One of the open houses was at Hugh Gillis Hall, where the Radio-Television-Film department had its studio open for students to get a glimpse at.

Radio-Television-Film senior Kyle Tran was showing the students how they can be hands-on if they chose to attend San José. Inside the studio they had cameras and a set that students could see in action. “It’s a lot of technical work,” Tran said. “You get the most experience by looking and seeing all the things that go on behind the scenes.”

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Admitted San José State Students swarm through the club and organization fair at the Event Center to tour the various programs with their families on Saturday morning.

Sweet crepas satisfy sweet tooth

By Christine Tran

Crepas Fiu Fiu is one of the 18 eateries available at San Pedro Square Market and it’s a delectable palette cleanser to finish off your meal with or a perfect sweet treat to take home.

San Pedro Square Market is located in Downtown San José and puts the local shopping mall’s food court to shame. It is home to a variety of eateries from JORA Peruvian Food, Vietnamese fusion dishes from On A Roll, Pasta Fresca and more.

I’ve eaten with a friend at San Pedro Square once and we chose to come since we could not agree on what to eat for lunch. There were more than enough tables indoors to enjoy our different meals together, but we settled on outdoor seating.

I was pleased to return to San Pedro Square Market again to taste some crepes from Crepas Fiu Fiu. “Fiu Fiu” is a Spanish onomatopoeia, which is a word that resembles the sound it makes, for the catcalling whistle.

My order came in two plastic boxes with stickers of a cartoon wolf whistling and it plays well with the restaurant’s name. Crepas Fiu Fiu had its grand opening this summer and is located right at the El Dorado building entrance at 87 North San Pedro Street.

ice cream would have balanced the caramel sauce but unfortunately, it was not in my order. The same lady who took my order was the only person working behind the counter so it’s okay that she forgot.

The only flavor I could taste was the cajeta sauce and its texture got old too quickly for me giving it a 2.5 out of 5.

Even though both of my orders came at the same time, I saved the Nutella Fantasy for last because this is usually the kind of crepe I order anyway.

I really liked how filling the crepe was because of how the Nutella Fantasy was securely layered between the three crepes. The Nutella filling was the perfect amount combined with the powdered sugar and was more than satisfactory for my sweet

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I didn’t like how mushy the bananas were and because it was paired with seemingly fresh strawberries, there was a clear difference to me while eating bites of the crepe with both fruits. The Nutella Fantasy was pretty satisfactory besides the fact that I wish the bananas could’ve been more firm. Overall I would rate it 4 Crepas Fiu Fiu met my expectations for a typical delicious crepe with its Nutella Fantasy and I would recommend it to my friends who may be looking for a dessert nearby as it’s only a seven minute drive away from SJSU.

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WOMEN’S

Tennis beats USU on senior night

By Jonathan Canas STAFF WRITER

San José State women’s tennis (13-6, 4-4 MW) won 4-0 in its last match of the season at the Spartan Tennis Complex against the Utah State Aggies (4-16, 1-8 MW).

Irena Muradyan, Rozalina Youseva, Jovana Babic and Carolina Millan all celebrated their senior day as well as contributed to the win.

“Two of the seniors are going to be staying here,” SJSU head coach Chad Skorupka said. “One as an assistant and one as a graduate assistant.”

In their doubles match, seniors Millan and Babic were the first to put points on the board for the Spartans with their 7-5 win.

“We tightened up the doubles and everybody got off to a good start and we didn’t want anyone to get close to us in any of the sets,” Skorupka said.

The duo of freshman Cheuk Ying Shek and junior Muradyan gave up a 4-1 lead in their doubles match up. They lost 7-5, leaving both teams with a win in doubles and waiting for the final doubles match to end.

“We were playing pretty confidently but somehow we lost the momentum,” Muradyan said. “But our teammates put in the effort and we got the W.”

The Spartans retaliated back against the Aggies thanks to Millan and

Babic. They came back from being down 5-2 and flipped the score on the Aggies.

in singles matches as they did not lose a single game even though there were some close calls in

After winning 6-2 in her first set, she came back and won 6-2 in her second set, finishing first

bed early in her singles match. She won her first set 6-1 and then faced a little more struggle in the second set.

set, play stopped in the middle of the second set when the Spartans won.

Two of the seniors are going to be staying here. One as an assistant and one as a graduate assistant.

“Happy coming back from the doubles since we were down 5-2 in match three,” Skorpka said. “Got the momentum and all six players showed up.”

The momentum continued for the Spartans

the singles portion with Millan and Babic. Muradyan may have had the loss in the doubles part of the game, but she got the win in her singles match in dominant fashion.

and joining her family to cheer on her teammates. Spartan freshman Duru Durgun finished her match second. She won her sets 6-2 and 6-3 to put SJSU up 3-0. Babic put the game to

After being down early, Babic came back and won her second set 6-4 to seal the game at 4-0, stopping all the other matches.

Millan was in the middle of an intense match before they stopped the game. She lost her first set 6-3 and then swept her opponent in the second set 6-0. She had her match stopped in the middle of the third round after a hard fought battle.

Youseva’s match was also stopped after the Spartans declared victory. After winning her first

With this game, the Spartans put an end to their two game losing streak before their season’s last game against the Fresno State Bulldogs this Thursday preparing them for the Mountain West Championships April 24.

The Spartans secured a crucial win at home. Muradyan said she was feeling all the emotions in her final game in San José.

“I was trying to enjoy every second and I really didn’t want this fairy tale to end,” Muradyan said.

Chad Skorupka

San José State women's tennis coach