New CSU policy affects activism
San José State University students talk concerns about Time, Place and
By Saturn Williams STAFF WRITER
California State University's Interim Free Expression and Time, Place and Manner policy went into affect for all 23 campuses on Aug. 16.
Prohibited activities outlined in the systemwide policy include setting up encampments, unauthorized occupation of buildings and concealment of identity on CSU campuses, according to the Interim Systemwide Time, Place and Manner Policy page.
As the new semester settles in, faculty and students have voiced issues with the implementation of these protocols and possible attacks on their freedom of speech.
Sang Hea Kil, a member of the Caucus of Rankand-file Education Workers within the California Faculty Association, has been vocal about her opposition to the Time, Place and Manner policy.
“I think it should be called – more appropriately – the Totalitarian Power Memo,” Kil said. “Because what it does (is) it erodes our constitutional rights, particularly the First Amendment right.”
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sophomore Zoie King said she also feels the Time, Place and Manner policy is repressive to the campus community.
“Putting these policies in place – to students – is shutting our voices down, is not listening to what we have to say (and) is not listening to the importance
(practice) free speech and protesting on campus just wasn't a good look on the school, to be honest.”
Kil was involved in pro-Palestinian protests on SJSU’s campus in the 2023-2024 academic year before being temporarily suspended as a professor in the Justice Studies
Associated Students Board of Directors released a statement on Thursday in an Instagram post signed by A.S. President Ariana Lacson stating SJSU’s student government will advocate for students and is very interested in hearing different perspectives from the student body.
concerns about the enforcement of the directive against face coverings, citing an absence of exceptions for religious reasons as it relates to Muslim students.
“I have regular meetings scheduled with President (Cynthia) Teniente-Matson, and the Vice President of Student Affairs, Mari
I think it should be called – more appropriately – the Totalitarian Power Memo, because what it does (is) it erodes our constitutional rights, particularly the First Amendment right.”
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of these movements,” King said.
King said the new policy is a clear response to proPalestinian protests that took place across multiple CSU campuses in the previous academic year.
“I think it’s really from the Free Palestine movement,” she said. “I think having students recording on campus, having students
Department on May 24, 2024, according to May 27 article by NBC Bay Area.
“I think the intent of these revised Time, Place, Manner policies is to send a chilling message to all campus community, faculty, staff, students and community members that they will be suppressed in their free speech around political activism,” Kil said.
Associated Students has not yet put forward an official stance for or against the Time, Place and Manner policy.
“We’re really just waiting to see what students have to say before we ourselves take a stance because we really are supposed to be representative of the student body,” Lacson said. Lacson brought up
(Fuentes-Martin),” Lacson said. “I'm hoping to bring this concern and kind of discuss a little bit more with them (on) what this would entail regarding the concealment of identity portion.”
Section F of the CSU policy prohibits the use of face coverings when used for “intimidating” others or evading identification
from university officials, according to the policy page.
“It really is about do we have administrators and campus cops that are trained to the level that they won't apply these policies in an ableist or Islamophobic way?” Kil asked.
Lacson said she hopes students communicate their grievances and feedback to A.S. through their public board meetings, town halls and anonymous feedback forms.
“Once we’re actually able to meet with constituents and say, ‘OK, we have 10 students who said that XYZ is an issue,’ ” Lacson said. “Then in those meetings where I do meet with administrators and our other directors meet with their liaisons, they're able to bring those issues forward.” King said the university should make a larger effort to listen to the student activist community rather than squash their voices with infringing policies.
“Listen to your students, hear the concerns that students are expressing about this policy instead of just emailing us these things – these blank, empty statements,” King said.
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Jobs on jobs on jobs at career fair
By Alejandra Gallo STAFF WRITER
The Career Center hosted its first job fair of the semester at San José State on Wednesday at the Student Union.
The job fair was the first of many fairs that the Career Center plans on hosting this year.
SJSU Career Center inspires, empowers and connects students and employers to give students access to job opportunities arising in the Bay Area.
The Career Center is also running over seven events in the 24’-25’ academic year.
The fair was open to SJSU students of all majors seeking part-time and on-campus jobs.
This event attracts over 300 students, according to the Career Center Student Affairs webpage.
Bobbi Makani, executive director of the Career Center, said he has been planning this event since last year.
“We need to make sure we invite employers and make sure we have a good mix of employers,” said Makani. “The job fair takes a lot of planning because it is one of our signature events.”
Makani said SJSU’s biggest career fair, the Business, Financial
Services & Logistics job fair, is next week on Sept. 11, which attracts more than 1,000 students.
Leilani Darby, a freshman computer science and linguistic major, said she was at the event looking for a parttime job position.
“It’s hard to find work options as a first-year student, but I’ve found some good opportunities at this career center,” Darby said.
Many of the jobs, such as several child care careers offered at the fair, are entry-level requiring students to be 18 and over.
“I encourage people to bring their resumes because I’ve been handing mine out to companies and they seem to be interested,” Darby said.
She said although the event had been a good start for her first job fair, she hopes to see more organizations closer to San José and ideally on-campus.
“A lot of the companies are off-campus so the event is definitely for students who can travel outside of SJSU,” Darby said.
She said she felt that it was a harder time getting to places outside of campus and would prefer an employment opportunity on campus.
“There are a lot of different companies here but a lot of them are very similar,” Darby said. “For example, there are many caregiver and tutoring positions but not that many stem-related jobs.”
At the event were companies and organizations such as BlueSprig, Ambitions Behavioral Health, AmeriCorps, Catalyst Family Inc., girlstart, Jovie and many more.
The job positions available included parttime pediatric assistant positions, caregivers, tutors and teachers, behavioral technicians and interior design
positions.
Most of the jobs at the Career Center were for students willing to travel outside of San José such as Redwood City, Sunnyvale and other areas around the Bay Area.
Alexandra Puga, senior business marketing major, was nervous about attending the event because it was her first time.
“I am looking for a fulltime position since I’m graduating this semester,” Puga said. “I just want to put myself out there for recruiters.”
Puga said she also urges students to come prepared with their resumes and
not be nervous about the fairs.
Kevin Soriano, said she was happy to be at the event and believes that it is also a very organized fair.
Soriano said Jovie is a company that is looking to hire nannies and babysitters.
“I’ve come to SJSU about 10 times over the years,” Soriano said. “Every time I come, I notice that the school really does a great job at organizing and planning these events.”
Soriano has visited numerous schools in the Bay Area for career fairs and thinks that more students come to the SJSU
career fair than any other university he’s visited.
Bobbi Makani, executive director of the Career Center, urges students to come to the Career Center events as it opens opportunities for them for when they graduate.
“Recruitment starts in the fall, so don’t wait until the Spring semester to look for internships,” said Makani. “Look now.”
SJSU remembers adminstrator
By Jackson Lindstrom STAFF WRITER
The loss of an important figure at San José State was mourned on Wednesday.
Eva Joice, former senate administrator for the Academic Senate at SJSU, unexpectedly passed away after a brief undisclosed illness in June.
Her husband, Patrick Joice, was the first to speak at her celebration of life memorial, held at the Diaz Compean Student Union.
“She was devoted to everything in her life,” Patrick Joice said. “I just want everybody to know how devoted Eva Joice was to her home and to her family.”
Patrick Joice said Eva Joice took great care of both himself and their daughter, Samantha.
Her husband said though Eva Joice was “stubborn as a mule,” she was always an extremely kind person.
Ravisha Mathur, former Academic Senate chair from 2019 to 2021, also spoke at the memorial and had many kind words to say regarding Eva Joice.
“(Eva Joice) has been one of my biggest supporters and champions, and who
— in every sense of the word — was a friend and a mentor to me for the past 15 years,” Mathur said. “I find it very hard to put into words the depth of our loss and the magnitude of the void left behind by Eva (Joice’s) sudden passing.”
In the rest of her speech, Mathur made sure to focus on the good things she remembered about Eva Joice instead of her grief.
“She was my very first contact with the senate process and procedure, and she was gentle and kind,” Mathur said. “She showed every day that people came first.”
He said Joice was one “tough cookie,” similar to the way her husband described.
Mathur said Joice was stubborn about sticking to senate procedure, which she knew the in’s-and-out’s of, as well as the history of past interpretations of those rules.
“What I learned was that toughness, that resilience was part of Eva Joice’s enthusiasm and deep passion for the senate,” Mathur said. “She went above and beyond, and she even donated her own personal money to the senate.”
Stefan Frazier, another one of Eva Joice’s former senate chair, had more to say about Eva Joice.
“Eva (Joice) saved us all the time by reminding us of things we needed to accomplish as the chair,” Frazier said. “What I
noticed most regularly at senate meetings was how diligently she sat at the front of the room taking minutes.”
Frazier said Eva Joice was the most approachable person in the room when she was there, and when he
was the new senate chair, she was the first person he talked to about the role.
He said whenever someone spoke to Eva Joice, she would always greet them with a smile.
“I really learned to appreciate (her) smile
and the goodness that went with it,” Frazier said. “We’ll miss that smile beaming from the front of the senate chamber, and we’ll miss the work that (she) put into all that (she) did.”
Alison McKee, another past Academic Senate chair from 2021 to 2023, also said her experience with Eva Joice was quite positive.
During McKee’s time as senate chair, she developed sepsis and nearly died.
“On the turn of a dime, my duties and assigned time as senate chair had to be quickly and officially parceled out,” McKee said. She said Joice had to do what three people previously had to do to act in the chair’s position when McKee needed to recover from her medical issues.
“To have to support a senate chair position split among three people . . . honestly that’s my idea of hell times three, and Eva (Joice) stepped up,” McKee said.
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Students hop from table to table seeing the job opprotunities that are featured at the annual Career Fair
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Eva Joice, San José State University administrative analyst accepts Distinguished Service Award at the 55th annual Staff Service Celebration and staff awards in 2023.
Speaker talks inclusivity in art space
By Sofia Hill STAFF WRITER
On Tuesday, Charles Eppley presented a lecture about disability, inclusion and accessibility in modern art.
The lecture was held in the Art Lecture Hall on San José State’s campus.
Eppley, who identifies with they/he pronouns, is an interdisciplinary art historian who focuses on sound art, disability studies and digital culture, according to Yale University’s website. They also teach several courses at Arizona State University, covering different topics such as diversity, and history in art and media.
The presentation mainly focused on making museums and art galleries accessible to those who are disabled.
“I don’t mean exclusively physically accessible – though that is vital,” Eppley said.
“I also mean socially and culturally accessible, where disabled people can become key stakeholders in the operation and culture of museum spaces.”
Eppley said what museums need to do in order to make their spaces accessible for all.
“To do this – to be accessible – museums firstly need to hire disabled people. They need to exhibit disabled artists, whether or not their work is about disability,” Eppley said. “Secondly, they need to cultivate a culture of access and inclusion that is formed around disability community perspectives.”
Throughout his presentation, Eppley stressed the importance of being inclusive to all audiences when both are creating and experiencing art.
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“A sound installation without a sound description, it disappears as an immaterial vapor, remaining inaccessible to the hard of hearing or deaf guests, but available to hearing patrons. In other words, some people are prioritized and privileged more than others,” Eppley said.
Eppley also said art accessibility is important in order to have every person able to experience artworks.
They said inaccessible art can feel nonexistent for those with different disabilities.
Eppley explained the terminology discussing disability accessibility and about methods of activism
throughout his presentation.
“We need a model of disability driven access,” he said. “We can call this and people do call this access artistry. Disability arts scholar and curator Amanda Cachia calls this curatorial activism access, created by artists and informed by disability culture.”
Art in preparation for teaching freshman Ellie Montes went to the event as a requirement for her Topics in Fabricated Sculptures class at SJSU.
“It was really informative about different ways to make galleries accessible to different people with different disabilities,” Montes said.
Gallery director, collections manager and organizer of the event, Alena Sauzade, expressed her thoughts about the presentation.
“I think the topic is super important for our students (and) super interesting for (them), but we don’t currently have
Correction
On Wednesday, the Spartan Daily published an article titled “Local bands rock out at After Hours,” where Damian Mack and Fist Fight with Traffic were misidentified.
The Spartan Daily regrets these errors.
NBA 2k shoots and just misses
By Israel Archie STAFF WRITER
With a few days left until the official release of the basketball video game NBA 2K25, 2K Studios teased its fans by releasing the official overalls of each player for the new game.
NBA 2K is a basketball video game franchise that releases a new game each year in line with the start of each NBA season.
The franchise gets its name due to the first game being made in November of 1999 leading to “Y2K.”
For context, a player’s overall rating is when the developers combine each player's attributes on a scale from 25-99 based on the real life performance of each player.
All of those attributes then get added up into one single number making the player’s overall rating for the game.
This game is the 25th game in its franchise and in recent years, the developers have revealed the overall rating of each player before the release of the game.
While this is a controversial topic every year with these releases because of the opinionated nature of sports including basketball, it is something that many fans of the game look forward to.
I’m sure anyone who has watched the NBA last season can find some disagreements with the top ten players.
Yes, these players may be the current top players in the league but the ranking is a little messed up.
The number ten spot 2K has Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant, preceded by Los Angeles Lakers center Anthony
Davis and Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum.
I am going to just come out and say that Durant should not be tenth.
According to a Basketball Reference webpage he almost had another 50-40-90 season at the age of 35 which is when a player shoots 50% or higher from the field, 40% or higher from the three-point line and 90% or more from the free throw line.
If I could make this ranking, I would rate Jayson Tatum at tenth.
I genuinely believe that Tatum is getting a boost from being the cover athlete for this game and winning the championship.
Statistically speaking, he had a worse season than Durant shooting 47% from the field, 38% from three and making 83% of his free throws.
Tatum is 26 years old and still in his prime yet he is being outperformed by Durant.
All I am saying is, there is a reason why Durant got more minutes than Tatum during the Olympics basketball games.
I would put Durant over Davis too just because of the versatility Durant has as a player.
Durant is more durable, he is a more efficient scorer and he is a better spacer.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry comes in at the seventh spot with Lakers superstar forward, LeBron James, being in the sixth position.
James and Curry are fine where they are at in my opinion.
Many fans know of the rivalry these two had in the late
2010s going against each in four championships in a row.
In the top five positions, we have Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai GilgeousAlexander at the fourth spot.
In the 39 games that Embiid played last season, he averaged a double-double with 35 points and 11 rebounds while almost averaging a 50-40-90 according to Basketball-Reference.com. That is not easy for a big man
to do, so he deserves to be in the top five.
Gilgeous-Alexander is also where he needs to be on this list because he averaged 30 points on 54% shooting, according to the same Basketball Reference webpage.
He also finished second in MVP voting and made the All-NBA first team, which is basically a team of five players that are essentially the best in each position of basketball.
In front of him is the forward on the Milwaukee Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo, ranking third.
Like Gilgeous-Alexander, Antetokounmpo also made the All-NBA first team and averaged 30 points per game last season according to Basketball-Reference.com
Luka Dončić, the Dallas Mavericks guard, holds the number two spot and the best player in the league, according to 2K is Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić.
Dončić averaged 34 points last season and while he was not the most efficient shooter on this list, he led his team to the NBA Finals against Tatum and the Celtics.
Jokić won the MVP award last season which was a shocker to no one while almost averaging a triple double per game shooting nearly 60% from the field.
What makes the case stronger for these five guys being considered the best players in the league is that four out of five of them finished top five in MVP voting.
The game is scheduled to come out Sept. 6, so hopefully it does not disappoint in any other areas.
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a full course on (it). Maybe someday in the future,” Sauzade said.
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Interdisciplinary art historian Charles Eppley gives a presentation about at the San José State Art Lecture Hall on Wednesday.
Can Kamala Harris get Gen
Charity Spicer STAFF WRITER
It’s summer and you’re curing boredom by scrolling on TikTok and out of nowhere, videos have a limegreen background, a blurry signature font, overproduced electronic audio and references to “coconut trees.”
This is “BRAT” by Charli xcx; the pop star's sixth studio album and most successful to date, according to Billboard charts.
After a long-winded campaign and dozens of Democratic politicians calling for him to drop out, President Joe Biden stepped out of the Democratic race for re-election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
I value the progressive ideals that the Harris-Walz campaign upholds as a low-income and mixed Latina entering my junior year at San José State University. Nonetheless, I’m reminded time and time again how much the Biden-Harris administration has failed when I am pumping gas and protesting the IsraelHamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Harris has a long history of political background from serving as the attorney general of California to being the first Black and South Asian American woman vice president.
With her infectious laugh, powerful stances on housing and Roe v. Wade, and motherly figure, Harris has won the hearts of voters across the United States of all ages.
When Harris announced her campaign for commander-in-chief, Charli xcx wrote on X that “Kamala IS brat” which took the internet by storm.
Before this phenomenon occurred, TikTok and Instagram users posted remixes of “BRAT” tracks with Kamala stating “you think you just fell out of a coconut tree” with her notorious laugh.
This snippet was taken from her May 2023 speech at a White House event that supported growing opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Harris was describing her mother’s quarrel with youth misunderstanding “the context” in which they came from, according to interpretation by NPR.
These audio clips continued in popularity and soon enough – after the Harris for President campaign launched –Generation Z voters were captivated and fixated on Kamala being ‘brat.’
This marketing strategy has worked effectively in the polls versus Biden’s
polls in the 2020 election, according to USA Today and Suffolk University.
Harris’ progressive policies such as protecting women’s rights, ending fossil fuel usage and halting plans for ultraconservative initiatives like Project 2025 are attracting young voters.
However, not all young voters think the same.
While confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic and two major international wars, President Biden and Vice President Harris provided a variety of solutions to issues that voters are facing.
Biden accomplished multiple feats such as student loan debt forgiveness, over-thecounter birth control to U.S. stores, and tackling the dangers of artificial intelligence in federal agencies – according to Politico.
Despite this progress, the president provided exponential military aid to U.S. ally Israel and played a part in the humanitarian crisis in genocide of Palestine, as reported by the NY Times in April.
Americans also saw record-breaking rates of inflation and felt it when paying for basic necessities such as food, clothes, feminine products and gas; CNBC shared charts illustrating this fluctuation.
When faced with opposition regarding Israel’s military aid from
the U.S., Harris told proPalestinian protesters, “You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking,” at her Michigan rally on August 8.
So how do we as Gen Z voters make sense of this?
SJSU lecturer, Andrea Fazel who teaches government, economics and history at high schools in San José and Sacramento, talked about what young voters truly want to see in this election.
Fazel said that “immigration comes up a significant amount, education (both in general, but certainly cost of college and accessibility to college). And, for some students – but I would say it's not necessarily a significant number –
questions around foreign policy, whether it's [war] in Ukraine or Gaza.”
She explained that in her early years of teaching during former President Barack Obama’s time in office, young students were excited about engaging in politics until 2017, when Trump was elected.
I think this would be a good time to explain what YOUR stance is and answer your own question of “Is Kamala BRAT?”
Personally, while I will certainly vote for Harris in the election this November, I doubt that Harris will be true to her word about a number of policies she’s promoting. The genocide in Palestine, the cost-ofliving being unattainable and Congress’s current state needs to change and Gen Z is getting tired of
this reality. Instead of avoiding this opposition that voters are pushing forward, Harris needs to provide answers to the problems Americans are facing on a daily basis. Wealthy white Democrats in power will not see what needs to be done as clearly as marginalized communities, unless they listen.
Although “brat summer” may have sown seeds of success, the (hopefully) positive results in November and the progress afterwards will truly reap those benefits. The future is in the hands of young voters and a bright future is possible if we give them a say.
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Chiles’ distress goes beyond sports
By Anfisa Pitchkhadze STAFF WRITER
The 2024 Paris Olympics allowed us to watch our favorite Olympians give it their all and witness amazing performances from a handful of athletes, however controversial did stories unfold.
U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles found herself in the center of a medal controversy in the women’s floor exercise final taking place on Aug. 5 at the Accor Arena in Paris.
Chiles’ floor exercise performance led to the stripping of her bronze medal and remains one of the most heartbreaking stories of the Olympics.
The 23-year-old gymnast earned a bronze medal after a judging error was made in her floor exercise performance.
Chiles did her job in giving her best performance only for the judges to mess it up by not doing their jobs correctly.
Chiles’ coach, Cécile Canqueteau-Landi submitted an inquiry in boosting her score in the floor exercise from 13.666 to 13.766 to earn a bronze medal, according to an Aug. 2024 article by CNN.
However, days later a decision made by the International Olympic Committee ordered Chiles to give back her medal after, according to the same article.
The bronze medal Chiles initially earned speaks volumes to questions of fairness, accuracy, and the emotional toll of the Olympic
games and also the pressure on the judges scoring correctly.
The sudden removal of her bronze medal not only invalidates her incredible performance but also the mental health that comes with high-stakes competition.
After hearing the news of her medal stripped away, Chiles posted to her Instagram story that she will take a break from social media to focus on her mental health, according to CBS News.
According to CNN, The International Olympic Committee and the U.S. have been going back and forth in the situation as the United States gymnastics team has shown support for Chiles.
Chiles eventually broke her silence on Instagram, expressing her thoughts.
“I have no words,” Chiles wrote on Instagram. “This decision feels unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey.”
In her statement, Chiles feels justice needs to be brought in a mishandled situation. The gymnast added to her statement that she appreciates all that the United States of America Gymnastics (USAG) did to earn her correct score.
“I had confidence in the appeal brought by USAG, who gave conclusive evidence that my score followed all the rules,” Chiles added.
The weight of an Olympic medal represents years of hard work, personal sacrifice,
and unyielding commitment.
It’s crucial to acknowledge how this situation has likely influenced her mental health, creating an environment of uncertainty.
The situation also highlights the broader issue of accountability within sports judging, that mistakes in scoring can have farreaching consequences.
The part of competitive sports relies on the performances of the athletes and the public in the fairness of the judging process. It was not only heartbreak for U.S. gymnastics, but also Romania as well.
Romanian gymnasts
Ana Bărbosu and Sabrina
were originally placed third and fourth with both earning a score of 13.700 that put Chiles in fifth, according to USA Today.
Bărbosu had originally taken the bronze and minutes later she was seen bursting in tears when finding out there had been a change in Chiles’ score, according to USA Today.
Meanwhile, ManecaVoinea’s score still remains a mystery as she deducted 0.1 of her score and video evidence showed she did not step out of bounds of her floor routine.
The emotional toll on athletes, coaches, and fans
is undeniable, creating a shared sense of anguish that transcends national boundaries.
The collective heartbreak illustrates the universal nature of the human experience in sports - the joy of victory and the pain of perceived injustice.
Jordan Chiles deserves to be recognized not just for her athletic prowess but for her resilience in adversity.
The stripping of her bronze medal is not merely a matter of lost accolades but a profound injustice that affects her mental health and questions the integrity of the judging process.
When it comes to big
sporting events such as the Olympics, it is important to value fairness, accuracy, and the well-being of its athletes. Jordan Chiles' story is a reminder of the need for compassion and accountability in the world of sports.
The U.S. gymnast should have gotten the score she rightfully deserved the first time when the judges were scoring. She is a true champion and will forever be remembered for standing on the podium.
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