Spartan Daily Vol. 160 No. 35

Students protest new dog park

By Carolyn Brown PRODUCTION EDITOR

Students Against Sweeps, a San Jose State student-run campaign, held a news conference Friday morning at Columbus Park to protest against the city’s plans to build a dog park at the corner of Asbury and Spring streets.

The news conference took place in front of 62 cardboard tombstones representing the 62 unhoused people who have died in Santa Clara County this year.

“As of today, 62 unhoused individuals have been recorded dead at the hands of the city, which is on target to surpass the number of deaths this time last year,” said Angela Ramirez, a sociology senior and Students Against Sweeps member. “The reason that I say that it was at the hands of the city is because people pass away because of an inability to get proper shelter and or medical care.”

Part of the issue is the city removing unhoused people from encampments.

“The unhoused people that live in this community here, right where we stand, are being forced out to build a dog park,” Ramirez said. “A dog park. Seriously?”

San Jose approved the building of a 5.5 acre dog park in February 2022 as part of a plan to remove unhoused residents from the flightpath of San Jose International Airport, according to a Feb. 8, 2022 San Jose Spotlight article.

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SJSU students call for police accountability

By Mat Bejarano STAFF WRITER

Students for Police Accountability met in front of San Jose City Hall on Thursday afternoon to call for more transparency about the Independent Police Auditor.

The group was protesting the city’s Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Support Committee’s decision to defer hearing the “Investigation of Police Misconduct in San Jose” report until June.

The discussion aimed to delve deeper into the investigative branch of the Independent Police Auditor, according to a December 13, 2022 San Jose Spotlight article.

Cole Mitchell, sociology and information science sophomore and member of Students for Police Accountability, said he wanted to discuss the committee implementing a strategy into having oversight of the police department.

“They moved that particular conversation piece off this week’s agenda and moved it to June 15th,” Mitchell said. “So we are especially here today to say that they can’t just keep detouring, [and] that it needs to be addressed now.”

San Jose City Council unanimously approved adding an investigative branch to the Independent Police Auditor to investigate police misconduct complaints last year, according to the same San Jose Spotlight article.

Mitchell said he demands vice mayor Rosemary Kamei, who sits

on the Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Support Committee, to do something with her power.

“The community is wondering why you’re not taking proactive steps to preventing police misconduct,” Mitchell said.

He said San Jose deserves a police department that is not going to hide its crimes.

“We’re proactive, we’re taking steps and if they won’t do anything, we will,” Mitchell said. “We’re not going to stop calling for reform and organizing until they do something about this.”

Sociology senior Kat Adamson, who serves as a member of Students Against Mass Incarceration, said there’s a stronger need for a better independent police auditing process.

“The things that the police do sometimes are absolutely absurd and there needs to be someone who is having that oversight,” Adamson said. “And it’s really important to have it be independent and not an internal investigation.”

She said it’s important to have transparency and the ability to speak to the Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Support committee.

“When they aren’t willing to talk about the meeting or about the agenda item it really delays the public’s knowledge of what’s going on and it makes it this really complicated process where no one knows what’s happening,” Adamson said.

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President discusses Transformation 2030

By Alina Ta STAFF WRITER

San Jose State President Cynthia TenienteMatson talked to members of the SJSU community about what plans they wanted to see in a new draft for Transformation 2030 during a campus summit on Monday afternoon.

Transformation 2030 is a framework the university developed to create a roadmap to map its future ambitions, according to the strategic plan.

“The goal is to assess and recalibrate the strategic plan Transformation 2030 in the local, regional and statewide contexts of 2023,” said Alison McKee, chair of the Academic Senate at SJSU.

Teniente-Matson said she is focused on recalibrating and aligning the new draft of Transformation 2030.

“I want us to have a fresh look at that as we go forward in my first 100 days here on campus,” she said.

SJSU Provost and senior vice president

Vincent Del Casino said he and the university’s staff want to make sure the university is still pushing itself to get to the right place.

“We had not stopped and reflected on where we were in relation to our overall goals and the outcomes underneath them to make sure that we’re still heading in the direction we want to head,” he said.

Del Casino said the campus was most likely very different in comparison to what the university is like now.

Teniente-Matson said she wants to invite everyone into the conversation of what the recalibration will look like.

“I think it’s really important that we have [a] common vocabulary, common understand[ing] of our language, our common language,” she said.

Del Casino said university staff are going to collect feedback that was given at the summit, use different tools to look for themes and to do analysis.

Teniente-Matson said to collect feedback

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Cardboard tombstones placed by a San Jose State student organization sit on the corner of Asbury and Spring streets respresenting the 62 unhoused people who have died on the streets of Santa Clara County.

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President Cynthia Teniente-Matson addresses her plan for the university future on Monday.

Shake up: Carlson and Lemon ousted

CNN and Fox News fire lead commentators from networks

By Jeremy Martin SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Major developments in TV news happened on Monday morning when commentators Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon were fired by both Fox News and CNN respectively.

Fox News announced the organization parted ways with Carlson shortly after making the effort to fend off a defamation lawsuit by paying $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems, according to a Monday article by NBC news.

The announcement that CNN parted ways with Lemon came right after the announcement about Carlson, according to a Monday article by NPR.

Lemon recently came back from a hiatus, after using both sexist and ageist language on air, according to the same NPR article.

In the past, Lemon spoke about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley during an episode of “CNN This Morning,” according to the same NPR article.

Lemon said she “wasn’t in her prime,” and insinuated that she would be “considered in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

In 2022, Carlson went

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on air and spoke about the “attractiveness” of the brown M&M, after owner Mars changed the look of their M&M characters, according to a Jan. 24, 2022 YouTube video by The Young Turks.

Mars changed the green M&M from one with white heels to one with white sneakers and the brown M&M from having white stiletto heels to having smaller block heels.

“M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous, until the moment you wouldn’t want to have a drink with any one of them,” Carlson said during

member of Students for Police Accountability, said the Police Department Internal Affairs Unit is not doing enough.

“It’s important because it will ensure more that cases of misconduct aren’t being treated with any bias towards the San Jose Police Department to cover up dirt,” Namba said.

He said the investigative branch to the Independent Police Auditor could have prevented police misconduct such as in the case of former San Jose Police officer Matthew Dominguez.

Last year, Dominguez was accused of masturbating in front of a family during a service call inside their house and was additionally later charged with two counts

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Angela Smith, sociology junior and Students Against Sweeps member, said these sweeps send a negative message to the community.

“The message that this sends to us . . . is that they are at less liberty to take up space in this area than the dogs of the homeowners who might live nearby,” Smith said.

The city has been removing unhoused residents from the park in a process known as “sweeps.”

CL, no last name given, is currently an unhoused resident of Columbus Park.

He said after he lost his ID and

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one of his segments. “When you’re totally turned off, we’ve achieved equity. They’ve won.”

This isn’t the only time Carlson used controversial terminology and tactics.

In response to his termination, Lemon released a statement on his Twitter page, saying he was stunned by the news.

“After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly,” Lemon wrote in the Twitter post on Monday. “At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I loved at the network.”

of sexual battery after allegedly groping two women in 2021, according to a July 15, 2022 NBC Bay Area News article.

“The IPA [Independent Police Auditor] would have conducted a thorough investigation from the start of the issue of this officer groping two women, but instead internal affairs handled it,” Nabmba said,

Mathematics freshman Tarentz Charite, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, said it’s important to give more power to independent police auditors.

“Having that transparency I believe is important because we can’t exactly make public comments and change when we don’t have the transparency needed to actually gauge exactly what they’re doing and how they’re doing it,” Charite said.

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license during a sweep, he was set on getting housing.

“These sweeps, they don’t help us out at all and we try to get that across to [the city],” CL said.

He said the city should partner with unhoused people to figure out a solution to the problem.

“How much more money are you going to spend on shuffling us around when that money can go towards something useful? Like housing us,” CL said. “Instead of shuffling us around, and pushing us here, pushing us over there and pushing us out . . . that’s not gonna solve the problem because we’re gonna be here regardless.”

San Jose spent $4.9 million on sweeping encampments in 2019,

during the meeting, the university staff placed QR codes during their presentation, allowing audience members to access surveys.

Del Casino said university staff will look into any patterns in the feedback that was given back.

He said the university has seven more years to evaluate the feedback.

“Strategic plans should be living documents anyway,” he said. “They shouldn’t be set in stone and not reassessed.”

Teniente-Matson said the university staff will send out the same surveys to the

according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Scott Largent, an advocate for the unhoused and previous resident in the Spring street encampment, said he spent years waiting for the services that would help him get out of his situation.

“All the hundreds of people that you see over here,” he said. “[Who] I would consider my roommates and friends, have been waiting and waiting, and they were not waiting for a dog park.”

The city spent $870,000 on outreach – including case management, engaging encampment residents and housing navigation services – according to

rest of the campus community for students and faculty who were unable to attend the summit.

“We’re going to do everything we can to broadcast it out to others,” she said.

“Those tools are really cool. That you can move outcomes around and comment on the goals.”

Senior nutrition student and Associated Students President, Nina Chuang, said this was her first time attending the summit.

She said the summit was one of the many small chances where the campus comes together to talk about working together and what the university’s values and missions should be.

“It was amazing to see not only administrators, faculty and students come together, but [a community] coming

Lemon went on to talk about how he thinks there was more to the story and how thankful he is that he was able to have such an amazing run at the network.

“It is clear that there are some larger issues at play. With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run,” Lemon wrote. “They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best.”

Both Fox News and CNN released statements following these moves.

Fox News released a statement in a press release stating, “FOX

News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.”

The company also reiterated the date of Carlson’s final broadcast saying, “Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st.”

CNN also released a statement in reference to Lemon.

The company said in a tweet, “Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the last 17 years.”

CNN added, “we wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.”

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the same report.

Largent said the county has put up signs preventing RVs from being parked off side streets, so everyone comes down to the airport.

“These people are not going to go anywhere over here right now,” he said. “It’s at the end of the line. There is no place for people to go right now.”

Largent said many unhoused residents are waiting for a safe place to park, which has not materialized anywhere in the city.

“The city knows how to put up a fence for a dog park. They know how to put up k-rails but they cannot create, like, a KOA-style campground where people need to go,” he said.

together,” Chuang said.

She said she thought it was empowering when she saw the audience at the summit participate to provide feedback to the university.

“I just thought that was so empowering to see that we had a voice at the table when it comes to the future of our university,” Chuang said.

She said it’s good seeing the administrators, faculty and staff attending the summit, but Chuang said she is more excited to really see the student’s voices show when it comes to the mission that the university has.

Political Science junior and Director of Legislative Affairs for Associated Students, Dominic Treseler, said he saw there were important discussions happening at the

San Jose’s City Council unanimously approved creating two temporary housing sites at two VTA locations, according to a Nov. 29, 2022 San Jose Spotlight article. Largent said the city could secure a nearby staging lot for people to park in until they can move to the VTA site.

“All I see our mayor doing right now is getting out for golden shovel day in his dress shoes with a shovel that doesn’t even look like it’s even been used,” said. “And it’s just, it’s pathetic. It’s all a show.”

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summit, but he was disappointed about the lack of students participating in those conversations.

“I was really disappointed that there wasn’t more [students],” he said.

Although lack of student involvement was a concern for Treseler, he said there were a lot of institutional and psychological barriers.

“It’s hard for them to be able to commit time to, you know, coming to these university events, engaging with our community,” he said.

Treseler said he’s still happy to see the university making an effort to progress from where it currently stands.

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Electrical engineering freshman Hayden Farriester plays a quick game of bowling before opening day.

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SJSU experts: How can we navigate AI?

By Enrique Gutierrez-Sevilla STAFF WRITER

San Jose State tech experts dove deep on how to engage with artificial intelligence and ChatGPT in a productive way during the webinar “AI Tools, Tips, & Traps” in the Martin Luther King Jr., Library Thursday.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot created by OpenAI programmed to use AI to answer questions based on a prompt, according to the OpenAI website.

“[AI is] really about considering the pros and the cons, the risks, the rewards and everything in between and as academic focus as we can, so we’ll all come away better prepared for this future,” said Jon Oakes, the technology coordinator for the MLK Library and webinar moderator.

MLK Library Dean Michael Meth said AI has the potential to be the most technological significant development since the internet in the mid ’90s or the iPhone in the 2000s.

“When I think about artificial intelligence, I, like so many folks, can on the one hand, see the tremendous potential and good these technologies can do, but also at the same time I can be incredibly scared about it,” Meth said.

Meth said he has experience using AI for text and image generation and there is something magical about ChatGPT.

“Everything has been completed in mere seconds, perfectly formatted, no spelling mistakes, no missing punctuation or grammatical errors and usually handled with a really high degree of patience and politeness,” Meth said regarding ChatGPT.

Meth said AI tech is notably growing at a rapid speed.

“Most of us probably did not hear or know about this [AI] before November or December of last year, and now we’re hosting symposia to figure out how our world will be changed and we barely understand how the technology works given the time we haven’t had time to really experiment and explore,” Meth said. “And yet, we’re seeing it already in so many different facets of our lives.”

Keynote speaker Kent Bye, a journalist and podcaster who engages in discussion of virtual and augmented reality as a philosopher, said most people already have a very direct relationship with AI, including on social media platforms that use AI algorithms to drive content.

He said machine learning is a big driver of large language models in generative AI.

Machine learning is a branch of AI that focuses on the use of data and algorithms used to mimic human actions to improve computer performance, according to

the International Business Machines Corporation website.

“The first wave of social media had all these dimensions of AI, and it was saying, ‘OK we’re just going to give everyone a voice to connect with your friends and join communities,’ ” Bye said. “At the end of the day, you have all these different dimensions of addiction, disinformation, mental health and censorship.”

He said AI is on the back end of unintended consequences of social media.

Bye said the idea behind responsible

innovation should involve public engagement and not be strictly driven by companies.

He said the U.S. is 10 to 30 years behind what the European Union is doing regarding regulation.

“There’s certain applications of AI that the European Union are going to completely prohibit, especially when it comes to police use of artificial intelligence,” Bye said. “There’s something to have high risk where you have some obligations of disclosure of data and reporting to the European Union.”

SJSU education professor Roxana Marachi said her early research was on evaluation of social and emotional learning programs in schools.

“I saw a lot of programs turn digital and extra, very sensitive, social, emotional, behavioral data from students,” Marachi said. “I became very concerned about where these data are going and how they are being used.”

She said people aren’t paying enough attention to the harmful effects of predictive analytics and how AI affects children behaviorally.

Jill Strykowski, MLK Library cataloging and metadata analyst, works in electronic resources and metadata for libraries.

“There are professionals within libraries that curate metadata, create metadata, but we only have control over so much, and when it comes to ChatGPT it’s apparent that we have control over almost not a bit,” Strykowski said.

Despite its risks, some SJSU tech experts expressed that the AI can be used as a tool.

Kohar Scott, associate professor in the department of design, said she started to introduce AI as a tool for inspiration in her first and second year classes.

“I’m super excited because I think it is for us and appealing for an avenue of reintroducing critical thought,” Scott said. “It’s not removing because you still need to have some understanding of what you’re looking for and I think that collaborative aspect is what’s really super valuable for us as educators and students using the tool.”

James Morgan, department of art and art history lecturer, teaches a course on AI tools for artists.

Morgan said in his introduction to digital media arts class, students write a 1,500 word paper on what new media and digital media are, asking them to find compelling artists with whom to connect.

Morgan said he spoke with librarians to discuss how students should cite ChatGPT because he doesn’t want students to worry about plagiarism.

“We came up with the thing we decided we’re gonna use in class is to list the version of ChatGPT and the prompt,” Morgan said. “When I saw those in the references for the paper, it gave me a much deeper understanding of what the students were asking.

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SpartUp showcase highlights student innovation

By Dominique Huber STAFF WRITER

Current and prospective San Jose State students explored the school’s innovation and research efforts at the SpartUp Innovation Showcase on Monday at 7th Street Plaza.

The SpartUp Innovation Showcase is the first event to start SJSU’s Research Week, a five day showcase of student and faculty research.

The event aimed to showcase innovation at SJSU and educate students on the research opportunities available to them with booths by NASA’s Ames Research Center, student-run startups and SJSU’s Office of Innovation among others.

“What we’re hoping, really, is for students who might be here in a H&A major or athletics or something and have no idea that things like this are being created by their fellow students, by their professors and to get them engaged and interested in research,” said Lisa Laymon, the innovation programs facilitator for SJSU’s Office of Innovation.

Laymon said there are people at SJSU who may not realize that the school’s research opportunities apply to them.

“San Jose State is a very unusual university in terms of the number of opportunities for undergraduate research,” she said. “We have a lot of undergrad opportunities and that, in turn, puts people on a path to grad school.”

Sandeep Mukkamala, intellectual property specialist

for the Office of Innovation, said SJSU leaning toward research and innovation has been created intentionally.

The Office of Innovation’s mission is to encourage the creation of quality startup companies, build relationships with industry leaders and create a bigger audience for the innovations happening at SJSU, according to its website.

Mukkamala said California State Universities have been historically more geared toward education, while University of California Schools have been more research-oriented. This has resulted in SJSU creating tools such as the SpartUp Incubator Program to try to change that.

“The constraints for students are resources and time,” Mukkamala said. “Usually what happens is you have an idea and you start with it but then nothing happens. The purpose of the incubator is to try to move from that position to the next position.”

The SpartUp Incubator Program is meant to provide entrepreneurs at SJSU with resources to help them succeed in the business and research worlds, according to its website.

General engineering senior Gautham Narayanan said he has taken advantage of the program for his own startup, Forward, which he co-founded and now oversees as the chief operating officer.

Forward is a personal AI assistant designed to help students have a smooth and efficient job seeking experience.

“I’m an engineering student – I don’t have much of a business mindset. SpartUp Incubator has been helping me a lot,” Narayanan said. Through SpartUp Incubator, Narayanan said he and his collaborators received mentorship and advising on their business model and product. They also received opportunities to practice pitching, connections to events and competitions to get their product in front of an audience.

“I’m glad that SJSU’s getting into the startup game like other universities,” Narayanan said. “I wanted to use this opportunity to spread my message and motivate other students to pursue the startup route.”

The Silicon Valley Small Business Development Center, another resource for SJSU entrepreneurs, had its own booth at the event.

Director of the center Edgar Ceron said the booth’s purpose was to spread awareness of the Silicon Valley Small Business Development Center’s services and encourage students to take advantage of it.

“There’s a lot of talent here and we’re a free resource,” Ceron said. “There’s a lot of innovative ideas that are already happening that if they had the support of business mentors and advisors, they could develop that idea into a business.” Computer science assistant

professor Wendy Lee said events such as the SpartUp Innovation Showcase are very beneficial to student researchers.

“It gives them the opportunity to practice public speaking and talking to people in a way that everybody can understand because not everybody is a computer scientist or biochemist,” Lee said. “These are really important skills, especially when they go to work in the industry.”

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Mechanical engineering seniors Nathanael Lacuata (left) and Anthony John (right) present their research project on a lightweight exoskeleton at the SpartUp Innovation Showcase on Monday at 7th Street Plaza.

SJSU lose friendly to Stanford

By Brandon Nicolas STAFF WRITER

The San Jose State men’s soccer team lost 1-0 against Stanford during a friendly game on Thursday at the Spartan Soccer Complex.

The Spartans were pressured out of the gate as the Cardinal had an offensive burst that continued through the first half.

Though Stanford’s offense was tight, there were multiple fast breaks from SJSU midfielders that developed into missed goals.

SJSU freshman forward Riccardo Scarafia said it was challenging to play at the pace the Spartans wanted.

“They were pressuring really high, so we needed to get some balls behind to the wingers,” Scarafia said. “Maybe be more patient when we get to the goal and try to finalize.”

At Minute 15, freshman midfielder Angel Iniguez intercepted the ball and displayed a swift ground pass toward Scarafia on the left wing, which allowed the Spartans to gain some ground offensively.

As SJSU began to find its footing, junior defender Joel Garcia and junior midfielder Isaac Lomeli pinned Stanford midfielder Mark Fisher near the boundary line, resulting in an out of bounds from Stanford.

During the first half, freshman defender Josh Lucas stopped the Cardinal offense multiple times, preventing a goal.

At the beginning of the second half, Stanford made several advances toward SJSU’s box.

SJSU senior goalkeeper David Sweeney had three saves in the second half and played patiently after Stanford’s goal attempts.

“I try to keep a level head most of the game because my job is to keep us in the game,” he said. “Our defensive came with some big blocks as well, so shout-out them.”

A standout moment from the Spartans on the defensive side of the ball was Garcia blocking a Cardinal striker’s shot with his back just outside the Spartan’s box.

“I prepared like any normal game obviously – it’s Stanford,” Sweeney said. “It’s always an exciting game with them and I know I’m going to get a lot of action.”

The Cardinal brought action five minutes into the second half with haste passes that led to a goal attempt saved by the keeper. This

caused the Spartans to repeat and maintain a defensive position.

Sweeney had five saves in the second half, featuring two dives that made the home crowd erupt.

It was when Lucas stole possession of the ball at Minute 50 that SJSU’s midfield strengthened, leaving less gaps for Stanford to punish and producing more plays offensively.

Despite Stanford’s pressure and ruling ball control, SJSU was able to lead the game in blocks, saves and interceptions.

At Minute 70, Cardinal midfielder Fletcher Bank scored from a cross, resulting in the Spartans being down by one.

Less than a minute later, SJSU had an opportunity for the equalizer.

Scarafia ran toward Stanford’s box before delivering a quick pass to SJSU sophomore midfielder Beau Leroux who kicked the ball with his left foot, with the ball grazing the left goal post.

Later in the half, SJSU freshman forward Anthony Guzman delivered a shot after receiving a midfield pass, missing the goal.

Spartan midfielder Gaku Nishimura had a free kick at Minute 75, which exhibited a cluster of Spartan strikers attempting to ensure a goal, but was saved by the Stanford goalkeeper.

In the final minutes of the half, Garcia received a pass from the left, missing the last shot on goal.

“It’s always exciting playing against Stanford,” Scarafia said. “It’s spring and we are getting ready for the fall, so it’s good everytime we can play the field.”

The Spartans are set to play one more game this semester in preparation for Fall 2024.

SJSU is scheduled to play Cal Poly at 7 p.m. on May 13 at Alex G. Spanos Stadium in San Luis Obispo.

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San Jose State men soccer team plays against Stanford on Thursday afternoon at the Spartan Soccer Complex. Stanford won the game 1-0 with a Fletcher Bank goal at Minute 70.

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SJSU junior forward Ryota Nakashima dribbles against a Stanford defender during the second half of the game on Thursday at home

Spartans celebrate Earth Day

By Brandon Nicolas STAFF WRITER

Students gathered on Tower Lawn on Thursday to celebrate San Jose State’s 53rd annual Earth Day Resource Fair to learn about the environmental and social justice legacy.

This year’s theme was “Invest In Our Planet: Save Blue. Live Green,” featuring organizations Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition, Vision Zero San Jose, Associate Students and more.

Former American politician and SJSU alumnus Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day in the spring of 1970 and continued to evoke waves of environmental awareness and activism across the nation, according to The Wilderness Society website.

Packaging freshman Oscar Torres said he was happy to see everyone gathering and roaming around at the event.

“Everyone seems to be enjoying it and they’re having a great time,” he said.

Environmental studies senior Kalanna Eldridge was a co-director of the resource fair and represents the Environmental Resource Center.

“We had a lot more than what’s actually here today,” she said. “We have 45 vendors between outside organizations, student organizations and campus community in general.”

Students were able to sift through second-hand clothing racks, taste test-treated waste water and create their own ecofriendly slime to promote leisure and recreation opportunities at home.

“College goes by so fast,” Eldridge said. “And doing

Representative Lakeisha Bryant said the resource committee reached out to her team to have a booth at the event.

“Talking to fellow spartans, talking to officials in Santa Clara County – there are city of San Jose people here that are offering jobs,” Eldridge said.

Water’s purification center, which is distributed from the South Bay Water Recycling Program administered and operated by the city.

“This facility uses the treated wasted water and three additional treatment steps: microfiltration, reverse

greenhouse gas emissions and working on community action projects,” Cushing said.

Environmental studies master’s student Raji Rajesh works with CommUniverCity, a nonprofit collaborator with SJSU and the city of San José.

The CommUniverCity booth featured dozens of small cups filled with soil and microgreens.

“We got microgreens from a local farm and are here to talk about healthy eating,” Rajesh said. “Microgreens can be easily grown at home and are highly nutritious too.”

stuff like this and getting people to interact and build your community really goes to promote and show overall what we can do when we come together to provide and give information and education to people.”

With the help of the organizations behind each booth, Eldridge said students can walk away with opportunities to share sustainable alternatives with others and network with professionals.

“We work as a team to basically reach out to outside vendors,” she said. “We send out a form and we ask them if they would like to table.”

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“This is a great opportunity to come job hunting and really put a face to your name.”

Valley Water Assistant Officer for Water Supply Division Kirsten Struve spoke on stage during the resource fair covering topics including water purification and conservation.

She said her job has a lot of interns that are from SJSU and employees are SJSU graduates.

“Purified water is a safe drinking water source, and that is something we are developing in the future,” Struve said. “We are working on public acceptance, and it seems San Jose State students are very accepting.”

Struve said SJSU’s water supply goes through Valley

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osmosis, and UV disinfection to create water that meets drinking water quality,” she said.

In addition to Valley Water sponsoring the resource fair, she said the organization is undergoing a new project with the city of Palo Alto to establish a purification center that would treat water waste and replenish groundwater in the event of a drought.

Environmental studies professor Katherine Cushing said we should be prepared in case of emergencies.

“We have to be ready to do the kinds of things you see these organizations, faculty and students doing right here: protecting watersheds, helping residents conserve water, reduce

A blue tent that reads “Go Spartans!” was tabling a selection of free food for students to grab a plate and eat their share of protein and vegetables.

Sean O’Connell, Earth Day director and environmental studies senior, said SJSU has been hosting this event for over 50 years.

“It’s pretty incredible that this tradition has lived on in the university’s history and it’s special to be a part of it,” he said.

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Dancers from the Movimiento Cultural Anahuac dance group perform a spiritual dance at the main stage during the resource fair a t Tower Lawn on Thursday.

It’s pretty incredible that this tradition has lived on in the university’s history and it’s special to be a part of it.

Festival honors Japanese culture

1: Braden Wong (left) and Katy Itani (right), two members from drumming group San Jose Taiko, perform in Nikkei Matsuri festival Sunday morning in Japantown.

2: A Japanese rock trio performs for an audience on Jackson Street in a San Jose Jazz Boom Truck.

3: A volunteer gives one of the marathon winners a medal after completing the race.

4: A saxophone player and his band members from SJ Chidori Band perform music near the corner of Roy’s Station Coffee and Tea on Jackson Street and N 5th Street.

5: Mayor Matt Mahan awards a certificate of accommodation to Japanese drumming group San Jose Taiko.

6: A singer performs a Japanese song with SJ Chidori Band.

Chris Lorenzo shakes the Guildhouse

By Christine Tran STAFF WRITER

Up & Up Festival at San Jose State hosted a sold-out show headlined by DJ Chris Lorenzo at the Guildhouse, where electronic music filled the air on Thursday.

Since 2016, Up & Up Festival puts on a 48 hour pre-sale competition every semester for college campuses to win a music concert based on the amount of tickets sold, according to its website.

Lorenzo is a tech-house DJ, hailing from the United Kingdom, who rose to fame after his remix on “California Dreamin,’ ” originally by The Mamas & The Papas, according to an Insomniac article.

Back in February, SJSU competed xwith over 50 colleges across the country to be in the top six for the most pre-sale tickets sold for a Lorenzo concert.

SJSU came out in fifth place among UC Santa Barbara, Clemson University, Arizona State University, UC Santa Cruz and Indiana University - five colleges who also won the competition.

Up & Up Festival at SJSU is led by psychology and film senior Victor “Maneki” Lopez, who is the president of the club. He was the direct support set for Lorenzo.

Marketing senior Logan “Logi” Lapier, business human resource junior Michael Bringas and business administration senior Steven “Dozage” Do all opened the show before Lorenzo took the stage.

Outside of Up & Up, Lopez is the Vice President of Bad Apple Records, a record label he created with friends during his freshman year at SJSU.

Lopez said Lorenzo is both an artist and producer he looks up to.

“I didn’t expect him to be so open minded but it’s really reassuring

that no matter how high up there you are in the EDM world, there [are] really nice people out there like Chris Lorenzo,” Lopez said.

Business marketing senior Brenden Kane, the vice president of Up & Up Festival, is responsible for the club’s recruitment efforts and leading team meetings with Lopez.

Kane said all of the sets were equally as great and every single DJ worked hard to put on a performance, and that it was fun from the first opener to Lorenzo finishing off the night.

“I would describe the crowd’s energy as nothing less than electric,” he said. “Everyone was jumping and having a great time, something I can’t wait to see every year if we keep winning.”

Mechanical engineering freshman Karmello Alipio attended the show on Thursday with his friends. He said he doesn’t listen to Lorenzo often, but enjoys his style of music to a certain extent.

He said Lorenzo’s 2022 song, “MAMI” featuring COBRAH, is his favorite song played at the show.

Alipio said he would go to another show hosted by Up & Up if he knew more of the artist’s discography.

“The atmosphere was nice, just very crowded. The whole night was a good time,” Alipio said.

Toward the end of his set, Lorenzo brought out the openers and direct support onto the 360 stage for a B2B DJ set.

A B2B is when multiple DJs play the same setup and switch back and forth, according to a DJ Tech Reviews article.

Lapier recently started his DJ career in July and was the first opener for Lorenzo.

He said Lorenzo encouraged the openers and direct support to have fun in front of almost 1,000 people.

“Sharing the stage with Chris was fantastic and was by far the highlight of my DJ career,” Lapier said. “I almost started crying. I was so happy because I was surrounded by all my friends, all the DJ’s in Up & Up that inspired me and an artist I idolize.”

Kane said the show’s production, including sound quality, lights and equipment, were pretty similar to other concerts and

festivals he’s attended in the past.

“I think the main difference was that this felt like a show for the students with the students,” he said. “Basically, I [felt] like it was a tight group and everyone knew someone in the crowd or even on the [Up & Up] team so it felt like we could all just dance and have a great time together. [At] other concerts, you just go with a friend group and see thousands of people.”

Kane said he’s thankful for everyone who bought a ticket for the show and attended it.

“I want to thank the entire team for working so hard in the presale to make us 7x champs for Up &

United Kingdom DJ Chris Lorenzo plays a sold-out show on Thursday at the Guildhouse on 420 S First St., less than half a mile from campus.