Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019
Volume 153 No. 11 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY
SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
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Guest uses 3D art in structures By Nathan Doyle STAFF WRITER
The structures designed by architectural designer Jenny Sabin weave together like a web. Composed from a lightweight knitted fabric, her famed structure Lumen responds to the outside temperature and gives her audience an unforgettable experience. Sabin kicked off the Design & Robot lecture series Tuesday evening, explaining the purpose of her web-like tubular structures on display in New York. “People would tell me that Lumen was an applicable children’s playground,” Sabin said, speaking of the overall responses of the people who would see the Lumen design and seem amazed by it. For this vision she sees personalized, environmentally-friendly technology as being something that can be a part of existing structures. Room 133 in the art building was packed as Sabin spoke about her experiences working on a multitude of projects and the discoveries she made. During the hour-long lecture, Sabin spoke about the unique nature of Lumen, including the way it responds to heat as well as proposal toward hypothetical building structures in the future. Speaking of the unique history of how Lumen started, Sabin said that it started in 2012 when they collaborated with Nike. The collaboration helped them gain the means to develop structures through
The chance to see someone like that locally was where I said ‘I’m going to come by and see her.’
Joshua Curry San Jose artist JESUS TELLITUD | SPARTAN DAILY
3D printing and learn to manipulate geometry with fibers. For those in attendance, students and other San Jose residents alike shared what they personally got from the lecture. Digital media arts junior Kaicong Tang said he was inspired to go because he enjoyed everything that his professors were teaching him up to that point. “I found the design interesting,” Tang said. Joshua Curry, an artist from downtown San Jose, said he follows SJSU events on social media and was interested in attending after seeing that Sabin was speaking. “The chance to see someone like that locally was where I said ‘I’m going to come by and see her,’ ” Curry said. He said that he was amazed by the collaborative effort that was made for Lumen across several fields, something he felt would be difficult. For the type of work that Sabin does, Curry said that he once felt like work like
Latinx Spartans hold forum on grievances By Melissa Maria Martinez
Above: Computer engineering senior Kevin Gomez speaks during a town Hall organized for Latinx students. Right: Cindy Balbuena shares her viewpoint during the Town Hall discussion on Tuesday evening.
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Students representing the Chicanx/ Latinx Student Success Center held Deep Conversations, Tuesday, a town hall aimed to discuss issues preventing them from succeeding in college. Biology senior Jazmine Gomez read their community agreement before the discussion. “The whole point of the community agreements is to open up the space and let everybody know how we should interact with each other as well as communicate,” Gomez said. “[The purpose is] in creating a safe space for folks to trust each other enough to have vulnerable or hard discussions.” After introductions, biomedical engineering junior Arturo Chavez continued the discussion by asking everyone to share their experience within the institution. Forensic science junior Luana LunaBarajas said she felt her community college offered more support to students who use the Accessible Education Center than they
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SJ City Council considers data collection regulation By Diana Avila STAFF WRITER
City lawmakers delayed a vote on revising the city’s privacy policy for data collection and learned of new research on an initiative to build clean energy buildings in Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting. Criticism against revisions to a San Jose privacy policy stalled a vote by the city council to pass their latest resolution to the law. During public comment, San Jose residents demanded the city council revise their plan to track down personal data collection. Several people at the podium said that big companies use information collected without their consent. Multiple members of the
public addressed the council and suggested a strong surveillance of data collection. Council member Johnny Khamis called for the organization of several meetings and focus groups for residents of San Jose that do not speak English. Other council member Dev Davis addressed some of the residents’ concerns to city staff on how long residents’ information will be stored. The principles that have been developed in the policy have been designed around other cities’ policies, Davis said. Staff members said they looked at mistakes from other cities to make a strong policy. City council member Magdalena Carrasco said she had concerns toward
rumors circulating in the Latino community of “Big Tech” turning over data to immigration authorities, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Carrasco referred to reports of several technology companies turning over information on undocumented immigrants. Staff reassured council members that that kind of personal information is kept confidential and the majority of information stored is more general. Carrasco questioned whether the city would be obligated to turn over data they have collected if immigration authorities request it. DATA | Page 2
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