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Art exhibit revealsnation’s propaganda

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ATOMIC: Helium magazine presented the Atomic Fashion Show on Thursday. See a video online at thespartandaily.com.

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An image of three children playing outside with a shad-

ow of a swastika nearly touching them reads, “Buy War Bonds: Don’t Let Th at Shadow Touch Th em.”

Another poster is dark with a man sticking his fi st high in the air, while Pearl Harbor is bombed beneath him.

It reads, “Avenge December 7.”

Th e two posters are part of the World War II Revisited exhibit lo-cated on the fi fth fl oor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in the Special Collections and Ar-chives department, and it will run until Jan. 10, according to the San Jose Library Web site.

Th e primary representation of the war is in the form of post-ers, but uniforms, books, draft cards, documents, and art work

With no freshman sched-uled to be admitted in the

Spring 2010 semester, University Housing Services is looking for al-ternative ways to fi ll the fi rst-year buildings on campus next year.

“We are hoping that we can market to current fi rst-year stu-dents who are not living on campus, and hopefully get some second year students into those buildings,” said Kevina Brown, community relations coordinator for University Housing Services.

University Housing Services has yet to announce which build-ings will be aff ected by the lack of freshman admitted to SJSU during the Spring 2010 semester, Brown said.

Brown said the fi rst-year build-ings usually include Hoover Hall, Royce Hall and Washburn Hall.

Freshman engineering major Phil Rose said he would like the opportunity to live in fi rst-year housing next semester.

“Th at was actually one of my plans if I couldn’t get an apart-ment,” Rose said. “I like living here.”

Brown said there is a plan in

place to use living on campus as an incentive to improve students’ po-sitions on waiting lists of impacted programs.

Impacted majors are those that receive insuffi cient funds to cover current and new student enroll-ment, said Veril Phillips, vice presi-dent for Student Aff airs.

Impacted programs include jus-tice studies, occupational therapy, social work, journalism and mass communications, kinesiology, nursing, business administration, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer engineer-ing, electrical engineering and civil and environmental engineering.

“For some majors that are im-pacted, we may use housing as an incentive,” Brown said. “For ex-ample, if you are applying to the pre-nursing program, which is an impacted program, and you are liv-ing on campus, that may move you up on the admission waiting list.”

Brown said she could not elab-orate on any specifi cs, and said that University Housing Services is looking into creative living options for next semester.

Sophomore humanities major Sam Dwyer said he enjoyed living

Members of Hillel of Silicon Valley build a sukkah Monday.[ Michelle Gachet / Spartan Daily ]

Justin Bentajado said he’d be re-ally disappointed if he couldn’t

use any of the services at the King Library during furlough days.

“I don’t have a laptop of my own, and I wouldn’t be able to use a computer on furlough days,” sophomore nursing major Justin Bentajado said.

According to a MySJSU mes-sage sent by university library Dean Ruth Kifer on Sept. 22, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library will remain open on furlough days because of the university’s partnership with the San Jose Public Library system, but university services will not be available.

Services that won’t be available include Special Collections and Archives, the Beethoven Center, the Steinbeck Center and Student Computer Services, according to King Library’s Web site.

Kifer said the university is lucky, because King Library is a joint operation between the university and San Jose Public Library.

“We’re in a unique situation,” Kifer said.

Librarian Rob Bruce said li-brary faculty has to take two fur-lough days a month.

A furlough day is a required day off without pay, according to the SJSU Budget/Furlough 2009-2010 Web site.

He said he arranges his fur-lough days to minimize the im-

pact they cause on students.“Fridays are a good choice,”

Bruce said.He said that faculty and staff

at King Library take their fur-lough days at diff erent times, and that the services at King Library would only be aff ected by staff furlough days.

“Our staff wouldn’t be here to provide service,” he said.

Bruce said the furloughs are a bad situation.

“I feel for students,” he said.Hardevinder Gill, an electrical

engineering master’s student, said King Library’s services should be provided, since the majority of vis-itors to King Library are students.

“Th e services should be avail-able,” he said.

Bruce said that even though

certain services wouldn’t be avail-able, not all librarians take the same furlough days.

“Th ere’s a good chance that there’ll be some librarians here,” he said.

Johanna Castro, a junior com-munication studies major, said because the King Library is a part of the San Jose Public Library system, all of its services should always be available.

King Library would not be open at all if not for the San Jose Public Library system, accord-ing to King Library’s Web site, and will be closed on four days throughout the year.

Th ose days will be Oct. 12, Dec. 24, Dec. 28 and Feb. 15, according to the King Library’s Web site.

By Husain SumraStaff Writer

One of the many posters featured in the World War II Revisited exhibit, located in Special Collections and Archives on the fi fth fl oor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.

[ Photos courtesy of Special Collections and Archives department ]

Students may have noticed the building of a new structure

Monday near the Seventh Street barbecue pits across from the Event Center.

Th e new building is a suk-kah, a temporary structure built by people from Hillel of Silicon Valley to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

Eight people worked on the construction of the suk-kah, which was a framework of

metal piping covered by a sheet of plastic.

Vanina Mutchnik, assis-tant director of Hillel of Sili-con Valley, said the sukkah is a temporary place to live, and is a reminder of how the an-cient Jewish people once lived. Jews are obligated to build a sukkah once a year for a week.

She said that according to Jewish history, the Jewish peo-ple had to live in temporary facilities called “sukkot” as they wandered the desert after their

departure from Egypt.“Sukkot is plural,” she said.

“Sukkah is singular.”Mutchnik said the fragility

of the sukkah is similar to the fragility of human life, refer-ring to the ease with which a sukkah can be damaged by the elements.

“Th e sukkah is a fragile place, a temporary place,” she said. “It could collapse at any time. We need to take care of our lives as we care for the sukkah.”

Mutchnik said Hillel used to build its sukkah outside the

Hillel house, located on East William Street, but SJSU has allowed the organization to build a sukkah on campus.

Th e decision was a bless-ing, Mutchnik said, because it would allow Hillel to educate students about Jewish beliefs and ways of life.

“One of the goals of Hillel is to educate the campus commu-nity about Judaism,” she said.

Business management ma-jor Eli Lemberg said this was

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in dorm-style housing as a fresh-man and wouldn’t mind reliving the experience.

“Since there is a problem with enrollment, I think that is fi ne,” Dwyer said. “I kind of like the freshman dorm thing.”

Washburn Hall has been shut down for all but the orientation session of the Fall 2009 Semester, because there are fewer fi rst-year students on the campus this year and the university needed to save

money, Brown said.Regardless of any alternative

living options University Housing Services implements, Brown said the revenue generated by rent must outweigh the money that is cur-rently being saved by not having to provide electricity, water and main-tenance to any aff ected buildings.

SJSU had previously off ered the unused space to San Francisco State students, but little interest was gar-nered by the marketing campaign, Brown said.

She said SJSU is still trying to determine how much interest there is from current freshmen who

would still like to live on campus next semester.

“We are just trying to weigh everything right now.” Brown said. “We are not completely sure what that demand will be. We won’t know until those numbers shake out, and we see how many imme-diate students are interested in liv-ing on campus.”

Sean Sampson, a freshman me-chanical engineering major, said living on campus is a good alterna-tive to living in an apartment.

“I think they should open up the fi rst-year housing to upper-classmen,” Sampson said.

Jake Panian, a senior anima-tion/illustration student, said he felt complimented this summer when he won the $20,000 Zankel Scholarship from the New York City-based Society of Illustrators.

Panian’s work also earned him the praise of Jeff Sangalli, an art director at LucasArts and an SJSU alumnus.

He said Panian’s work had a sense of direction and storytelling that really comes across.

“It’s something employers will recognize,” he said.

Panian said he wasn’t expecting to win, and instead wanted to fo-cus on getting to know the other three fi nalists.

“It was fun to meet other stu-dents that were just as passionate,” he said. “I told myself, ‘It’s fi ne if you don’t win. You’re in New York. Have a good time.’”

Panian said the society brought him and the three other fi nalists to New York City for interviews and to examine portfolios of their art-work.

“I felt the interview went really well,” he said. “I felt my confi -dence growing as I explained my work.”

He said he credits his ability to keep his composure to his experi-ence in the animation/illustration program’s ACME Network.

Th e network that John Clapp, assistant professor of art and de-sign, said is named for a fi ctional company in Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoon series links students to industry professionals and allows students to get pro-fessional-level feedback on their work.

Th e Society of Illustrators’ Web site states that the Zankel Scholar-ship, awarded in memory of do-nor Arthur Zankel, is given to a junior-level student whom the so-ciety considers the most promising illustrator in the United States.

According to the society’s Web site, the society was founded in 1901, and its mission is “to pro-

mote the art and appreciation of illustration.”

Alice Carter, an arts and design professor, said the society was the number one organization for il-lustrators nationwide, and said she felt the Society of Illustrators was doing something cutting edge by awarding the scholarship to Pa-nian.

“It’s daring of the society to give it to Jake,” she said. “Th e so-ciety was founded on print illus-tration, while Jake is looking for a career working with electronic media.”

Paul Nguyen, a senior anima-tion/illustration student, said one of Panian’s distinguishing charac-teristics is his apparent fearlessness in the face of critiques.

“Critiques can be pretty blunt,” he said. “You put a lot of yourself into the work, and it leaves you vulnerable, but he’s always willing to do that.”

Aidan Sugano, a senior anima-tion/illustration major, said, “He’s able to convey a lot of personal-ity in his work, both his and his subject.”

Panian said that while grow-ing up, his friends always seemed to have movies or shows or games that inspired them to excel at something, and said that he want-ed to be a part of something that would create those feelings in oth-ers.

To that end, Panian said he would like to work for animation studios such as Pixar, Dream-Works and Industrial Light & Magic and that he has been send-ing his portfolio to diff erent ani-mation studios.

“I’ve been getting some atten-tion from Blue Sky Studios,” he said, referring to the company that worked on the fi lms “Ice Age” and “Horton Hears A Who.”

Sheldon Borenstein, lecturer for the school of art and design, said Panian was on the verge of being the best the animation in-dustry could ask for.

“Th e industry has a certain standard for excellence, and he’s just about there,” he said.

Panian said he was using the scholarship money to fund his fi -nal year at SJSU.

He said he had already spent some money to upgrade his com-puter, and would use the rest to fi nance his living expenses.

By Ryan FernandezStaff Writer

Student wins $20,000 scholarship

Jake Panian

Students should avoid putting their high school accomplish-ments on their resumes, said a campus recruiting representative from Lockheed Martin.

Christopher Milliken spoke to 16 students about improving their resumes Monday in the Ca-reer Center as a way for the center to prepare students before the fall job fair, he said.

“Th is being my last semester I’m looking for work afterwards, and I don’t have a strong resume,” said David Torres, a senior global studies major.

Milliken said applicants ask

how they can get experience to put on their resumes.

“Experience is a matter of per-spective,” Milliken said.

Milliken said nontraditional work experience, such as being a soccer captain or traveling to an-other country for volunteer work, gives students skills that can help them stand out.

“When you have a sea of ap-plicants that you’re swimming through, you have to fi gure out a way to jump out of the water and stand out,” he said.

Tiff any Doria, a senior me-chanical engineering major, said the resume building workshop was a good resource.

“I’m planning on going to the

fall job fair, so I think I can use some of the techniques (taught) here,” she said.

Milliken said practicing a “one-minute commercial” or “el-evator speech” can help students network and get noticed at job fairs.

A “one-minute commercial” is a way for applicants to introduce themselves to an employer and show their personality, while an “elevator speech” is used during an elevator ride with a potential employer, he said.

Jovil Clemente, a senior creative arts major, said that he’s heard the information in the workshop before, but that it was good to hear it again.

“I think that anybody that wants to be proactive and success-ful in getting a career and going where they want to go they should attend these,” he said.

Milliken said applicants should avoid putting high school accom-plishments on their resumes.

Employers may see high school accomplishments on a resume and think, “Th at was four years ago, get over it,” Milliken said.

He said creating a grid for each experience a student has is helpful in creating a one-minute commercial.

He said a student could write down the role he or she played, the skills that were developed, talents used, challenges encoun-

tered, the results of the experience and the context in which the ex-perience occurred.

He said anything from work-ing a part-time job to being a club president could be used as expe-rience to help an applicant stand out.

Milliken said employers use the experiences of applicants to determine their potential worth as an employee.

He said employees look for communication skills, initiative, adaptability, teamwork and prob-lem solving skills.

He said students should limit their resumes to one page, but should not shortchange any experience.

Milliken said two versions of a resume may be a good idea — one short version and one long version.

He said employers use the S.T.A.R. (Situation, Task, Ac-tion, Result) system to determine worth of a potential employee.

He said employers are trained to learn the situation, task, action and results of an applicant during their experiences, and the quick-er applicants can hit those four points better.

Milliken said another good thing for applicants to do is to be honest.

“Illustrate what you are, who you are and what your (experi-ences) are,” he said.

By Husain SumraStaff Writer

Local recruiter helps students add experience to their resumes

his fi rst time celebrating Suk-kot, and said building the suk-kah at SJSU “really enhances the Jewish community here on campus.”

Freshman kinesiology major Leonard Druker said the suk-kah is a chance for a lot of Jew-ish teens to come together from SJSU and the nearby colleges to meet each other.

“It represents our religion and our culture more,” Druker said. “People know who we are.”

Building on campus also had the advantage of allowing the University Police Department to watch over the sukkah, she said, referring to the 2007 burning of the sukkah outside the Hillel house.

Mutchnik said all people are welcome to come to the sukkah.

During the day, Hillel staff and students from the Jewish Student Union will be in the sukkah to meet anyone who came, she said.

Joanthan Ben-David, a graduate student in computer science, holds the top of the SJSU sukkah Monday.

[ Michelle Gachet / Spartan Daily ]

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Atomic Fashion Show blows up SJSU with fashion and glamour

Student-run fashion magazine Helium presented SJSU with its fi rst fashion show for an audience of more than 300 people Wednes-day night inside the Student Union.

Th e Atomic Fashion Show was created to promote the release of the magazine’s fi rst publication, He2 Zine.

Outside was a frenzy of fash-ion’s “A-listers” such as designer Amy Romaine of the clothing line Never Get Old.

Designers and VIP guests had their pictures taken on a red car-pet, and ushers scurried around seating guests.

Inside, onlookers who dressed in their Sunday best, surrounded the 32-foot runway inside of the transformed Barrett Ballroom.

Th e backstage area was full of models — some of them half-naked — gett ing their hair teased and eyelashes applied, while others prepared to sashay down

the runway.“I’m more excited than ner-

vous,” said AJ Hasan, a model and senior business marketing student. “I have an urge to go out there and see the crowd.”

Ten local designers were fea-tured — Swati Kapoor, Kate Seavey, Sultana Lodin, Ryan Man-te, Christian Lilleland, Amy Ro-maine, Barbella Boutique, Noah Landis, Christina Robinson and Hector Manuel.

Each clothing line was diff er-ent, adding its own fl avor to the show such as Sultana Lodin’s Af-ghan-inspired SuLo.

Th e fi rst line to hit the run-way was Swati Kapoor’s SWATI, whose Bollywood infl uence paired rich gold and red fabrics.

“Th e line is meant for women who adore their inner goddess and embrace inner beauty,” ac-cording to the Atomic Fash-ion Show Zine, which lined the seats.

Th e fashion show featured per-formances by local dance group Yuppie Joints.

Th e show ended with emerg-ing designer Hector Manuel’s dark and risque line, Acta Non Verba.

“I always do a female take on a masculine character,” Manuel said. “So this season’s inspiration was James Bond.

“It was just natural to take one of those characteristics of James Bond and give it a feminine twist — make him more interesting and a lot more sensual than James Bond would normally do.”

Th e crowd screamed as mod-els strutt ed down the runway — stopping at the end and allowing fashionistas to examine their outfi ts.

“I had a wonderful time,” said Darlene Tran, a junior human resources major. “I thought they put on a fantastic show.”

Helium’s fashion director Jas-mine Duarte glowed as she ap-peared through the masses rush-ing the door to the ballroom.

“I’m so happy,” Duarte said. “It went amazing — all we’ve been hearing from people is that it looked amazing. I’m happy it’s done, but I have not had enough. We are going to do it again, and it’s going to be bigger and bett er.”

Kent Denim designer Noah Landis said he was impressed with the event and its successful turnout.

“I was very taken on how pro-fessional they were, how smooth everything worked,” Landis said. “I knew they were capable of put-ting on a spot-on, great-looking show. I cannot be happier with the result.”

Helium’s team worked on the fashion show for more than three months, and 21 models participated.

“I went to a casting call ear-lier in the summer,” model Lind-say Gardner said. “Th ey called me back for a photo shoot. Th at went well, and now I’m in a fashion show.”

By Alicia JohnsonStaff Writer

sjDANCEco exhilarates

Heavy red velvet curtains rose to reveal dancers swaying rhythmically back and forth as classical music fl owed from the speakers.

Th e pastel-colored outfi ts fl utt ered in the air as the music carried the dancers note by note.

Th e sjDANCEco preformed a series of seven diff erent dance segments, including the fi nale dance, called “Th e Winged” on Saturday night at the California Th eatre.

A segment titled “Angelitos Negros,” a solo performance by music and dance lecturer Maria Basile, stole the show.

As the music started, Basile sauntered on stage dressed in a billowing white dress.

Th e bright red fl ower in her hair matched the intensity of the rose-colored stage lights. Basile’s body and facial move-ments were eloquent, and she was in control of every delicate moment.

Each step she took looked as though she walked on air with her twists and turns that moved with every variation in the song.

One performance was

“Witness of the Dawn,” which began with a big yel-low and orange screen that provided a backdrop for the dancers.

Th e performance featured about 30 dancers in a synchro-nized fashion.

Th e stage lights went off , and the audience watched the danc-ers’ fi gures against the brightly colored background. Each movement was exaggerated as the shadowy fi gures created a tension that related to the subtle music.

Th e music fl oated out of the speakers in an eff ervescent tone of slow accents and moans of instruments.

Th e fi nal piece titled “Th e Winged” concluded the show with grace and elegance.

Dancers emerged in brown suede leotards with burnt-red leather crowns. Th e piece was the longest of the night — 45 minutes — truly an amazing piece.

Some dancers coupled to-gether as others leapt on and off stage throughout the piece. Th e synchronized steps took my breath away as each movement was fl awless.

Th e dancers fl utt ered as their

feet rapidly pounded the wood-en stage. Th eir arms were raised in the air as they parted and fl apped like winged fi gures.

Th e female dancers seemed light as they were held up in the air by lean muscular male danc-ers. Every dancer had a com-posed and poised look through-out the performance.

Th e composure of the danc-ers refl ected each classical piece chosen. Each dancer was insync making the dancers lookedsewn together.

Th e powerful performances combined the high pitched and lulled tones the music with dra-matic chereography. It aston-ished me as I sat in admiration of the show.

By Angela MarinoStaff Writer

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Top: A make-up artist preps a model.Bottom: An audience member watches as models walked down the runway.

[ Photos by Kirsten Aguilar / Spartan Daily ]

A model walks the runaway Wednesday in Barrett Ballroom.

The sjDANCEco performed Saturday at the California Theatre in San Jose.[ Photos by Michelle Gachet / Spartan Daily ]

Music and dance lecturer Maria Basile.

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are also represented, said Danelle Moon, the Special Collections and Archives director.

“It’s very relevant to our un-derstanding of how war impacts society today, given what we’re certainly facing internationally,” Moon said.

Arjun Pandya, a senior materi-al science engineering major, said, “I got to learn some history about what kind of dress was used, and there were also a couple of books based on World War II.”

Th ere are local connections to World War II that are represented in the exhibit, such as a display with pictures and documents from a family in Los Gatos who sent their two sons to war, Moon said.

Th e sons perished in the war, and there is a letter from the mother refl ecting on how much she loved her sons, and what the sacrifi ce meant to her, she said.

Another local connection was displayed in the form of a news article.

It was an article from the San Jose Mercury News about the SJSU football team going to Ho-

nolulu to play a game. While the team was there the Pearl Harbor attack happened.

Th e article talks about how the team volunteered to help with the Honolulu Police Department.

Moon said there are many rea-sons students might be interested in the exhibit, and one of those is that it’s really important for stu-dents to have an understanding of their past.

Given the current world situa-tion with the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan, the exhibit gives people a better sense of how war impacts society and how gov-ernments use propaganda to sell

war, Moon said.“Th e war posters are a great ex-

ample of that, because they were really used as propaganda to re-mind American citizens of what their obligations were and why they needed to support the war ef-fort,” she said.

Another poster in the exhibit shows a man with a broken arm in a cast, and in red lettering at the top it said, “Take Care! Idle hands work for Hitler.”

One student said he was sur-prised by the propaganda used in the posters.

“I never realized how much the war was blatantly thrown into

peoples faces until I saw the exhib-it,” said Ernest Magpayo, a junior health science major.

Some of the material came from the Burdick Military Collec-tion, which is located in Dudley Moorhead, Hall where there is a collection of military history ma-terials, Moon said.

“Th e war poster collection was a gift donation from Charles Burdick, who was a professor at San Jose State many years ago,” Moon said. “And his area of ex-pertise was on World War II, in particular German history, but he was a collector of military history.”

Moon said an exhibit this size can be time-consuming to or-ganize, and said she had a staff of about seven graduate stu-dents who helped organize the exhibit.

“What the students do is they do the research, they make the se-lections, and then we’ll talk about it,” Moon said. “Th en we use a lot of diff erent props to make it look interesting by changing out fabrics and propping things up so it looks more artistic.”

Th e posters represented in the exhibit are just a small fraction of the total 300 posters in the whole collection, Moon said.

Annastasia EscarenoJunior, Criminal Justice

CampusVoices How do you feel about the presence of rats on campus?Feature and Photos by Leonard Lai

Nicholas LeeSophomore, Computer Science

Raymond RaelSophomore, Mechanical Engineering

Ryan CalderonJunior, Aviation

Th at’s gross. I’ve never seen a rat, but that’s disgusting. I don’t really eat on campus. I come here, go to class and then just go home or go to work. So for me it’s just not that big of a deal.

One night, I was walking past the Industrial Studies building. I see a rat come out of the building and climb up the tree next to the building. Th at was a little funny.

Th ats a little messed up. I mean we have a bunch of rats here, cause I thought we were relatively clean.

I’ve had people last semester that I know had problems with it, and I think it’s pretty gross.

I don’t think really anybody is going to mind. I don’t mind the rats.

Sunil Chandar Jr.Junior, Computer Engineering

Paiman VahdatiniaSenior, Finance

Th ere’s nothing new about se-cession.

Th e most infamous example in this country resulted in a civil war some time back around 1860, but that doesn’t stop rising secession movements scattered around the country, in states such as Vermont, New Hamp-shire, Alaska and Hawaii.

I’m more sympathetic to the Alaska and Hawaii crowd. Th ey’re diff erent countries in their own right anyway, and insisting that these distant bodies of land be-long to the U.S. is like claiming my neighbor’s doghouse as a part of my estate.

I’d have to say I have the least sympathy for the most recent wave of secessionists from Texas, though.

I realize that, by and large, the threat is pretty minimal, and thus far, the movement has proven lit-tle more than fodder for jeering the Lone Star State. Besides that, threatening to secede generally has the political clout of threat-ening to hold your breath until your big brother returns your toy dump truck.

We must also keep in mind that not all of Texas is for se-cession. But for that seemingly growing minority who does be-

lieve it is the best option, I have to say that they’ve got a lot of nerve.

Naturally, the most recent stimulus for seceding has to do with Obama and, among other policies, his allegedly Hitler-esque attempts to reform health care.

But hell, man, we Californians sat through eight years under the rule of their village idiot and nev-er once threat-ened to secede. Sure, some of us threatened to follow Bar-bra Streisand to Canada, but none of us re-ally did.

I think I’m going to have to blame politi-cians, here. Gov. Rick Perry, as we all know, made the mistake of bringing the idea of secession to the forefront of the collective Texan conciousness, causing, im-mediately, shouts of “secede” and eventually, fanning the fl ame for bunches of secessionists.

Mentioning secession in an off hand way is a bad method of political posturing, and Perry shouldn’t have been surprised when a group called the Texas

Nationalist Movement started banging down the door in Au-gust, demanding that he make good on his statement.

Th is spawned an editorial in the San Francisco Clark County Examiner by Ruben Sarmiento, suggesting that an attempt by Texas to secede would make it an “instant Th ird World coun-try,” struggling to meet the cost of “their own defense, social pro-grams, etc ... I believe the cost was estimated at $1 trillion dol-lars.”

Th e editorial spawned com-ments from secessionsists, in-cluding one named Joe Texan — probably his real name.

He stated that an inde-pendent Texas would become a haven for conservatives, the only rea-sonable, con-tributing mem-bers of society

in the states. Mr. Texan went on to suggest that “the liberals could all leave and run crying back to their mothers or shrinks, and more than enough true freedom-loving citizens from the United States would fl ow into Texas to make up for its losses. (I fi gure one true freedom-loving conser-vative is equal to 20 or 30 liber-als.)”

Th anks, Perry.Flapping fl ags around and

shouting “secede” is all good and

fun until someone loses an eye or a civil war breaks out. Perry shot his mouth off back in April, and people still haven’t forgotten about it — four months later, the Nationalists were ringing his doorbell and saying, “Well?” — and as recently as last week, the Mercury News ran a piece about it.

According to Florida’s News-press Web site, “Modern-day secessionists stress they advocate a peacful departure” from the union.

Peacful departure? How in hell would that be possible? “Th anks, U.S. It’s been real, but you just elected a Democrat for about the third time EVER, so we’re out.”

What happened to “United we stand?” Wasn’t that the op-erating conservative slogan for a few minutes? What happened to the nationalistic pride in one’s country this sort of conservative used to thrive on?

If you ask me, or even if you don’t ask me, but do simply stop and think logically about the whole mess, this is about the most un-American thing that’s come down the pike since the last time it came down the pike.

And anyone remotely familiar with the modern country music that serves as a soundtrack for the extreme right knows that un-American is wrong.

Size doesn’t matter. Bigger isn’t always better.Get your head out of the gutter.I’m talking about family size.I have a small family, and I enjoy it most

of the time.My family consists of my dad, mom,

younger sister and myself.When I was younger, all I wanted was to

have a big family — mostly during the holi-days, when all I saw on TV was big families gathering around the dinner table or the Christmas tree, enjoying the company of one other.

I was envious of my friends who had multiple brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, etc.

I was fascinated by TV families such as the Partridge Family, the Brady Bunch and even the Addams Family.

To me, having a big family meant more love and more fun.

During the past four years, I’ve gotten a taste of what a big family is like.

My boyfriend has a large family that consists of 11 people — that’s three times bigger than my fam-ily — and everytime I’m on an outing with them, it’s both lively and chaotic.

For example, last week I went out with my boyfriend’s family for his parents’ 25th anniversary.

Th e 12 of us went to P.F. Chang’s Chi-na Bistro at Westfi eld Oakridge Shopping Center.

We occupied fi ve me-dium tables, and three waiters served us. It took us more than 30 minutes to order and two hours to eat.

Of course, when the bill came, I was curious to see how much it was — $300.

Oh, how grateful I was that it only costs my family $40 to eat out.

At fi rst, I enjoyed the energy and busy-ness of a large family, but it started getting old.

I started missing the quaint coziness of my small, but robust, family.

Th e average family size is 3.14, according

to the U.S. Census Bureau.Th is is probably because it is way too ex-

pensive to have a large family now.Th ere are many advantages to having a

small family. A small family is easier to sup-port fi nancially and emotionally.

When I’m down and out, I always have my sister to go to talk to. I have a close rela-tionship with my parents, and that’s because there’s only two of us they have to support.

Even though our holidays are a bit quiet and not as lively as those of my boyfriend’s family, I enjoy the fact that I only have to buy presents for three people instead of 11.

If someone has grown up in a small fam-ily, at one point or another he or she has wanted to live in a bigger household — or vice versa.

But we should just ap-preciate our own families more.

I have a little sister who constantly borrows my clothes and doesn’t put them back the way they were.

But I would rather have one sister who did that than multiple siblings raiding my closet every morning.

Th ere are pros and cons for each family, but at the end of the day, your family is all you have — and I wouldn’t trade mine for anything.

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Brazil lofted itself onto the world map by winning the bid for hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics, taking place in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil basically announced to the world that it considers itself a country on the rise.

Th e International Olympic Committee apparently agrees with Brazil’s self assessment.

By winning the bid, Rio de Janeiro will enjoy the eco-nomic benefi ts of hosting the event.

Maybe even more impor-tant is what the winning bid symbolizes.

Other countries now have to stand up and take more notice. Little Brazil is fi nally growing up. Th e most popu-lous Latin America country will get a little respect.

But is this respect de-served?

Brazil’s gross domestic product per capita has grown almost every year for the last 20 years. Th e economic center of Latin America is Brazil.

All is not sunshine in Bra-zil.

Violent crime rates have risen right alongside economic gains.

Between 1980 and 2002, the homicide rate in Brazil more than doubled, according to the Center for Disease Con-trol Web site.

Giant slums known as fave-las litter the Brazilian country-side. Crime and drug use are rampant in favelas, which are usually controlled by a drug lord and his gang.

Th e local police and federal police pretty much stay out of them. Th e local gangs are the power in the favelas.

Brazil seems to become more violent the richer it gets.

Th e Olympics will pump a lot of money into the Brazilian economy — money that may fi nd its way into the hands of drug dealers. More money in

drug dealers’ hands is never a good thing.

An already uncontrollable problem, drug gangs will just be exasperated by more cash fl ow. Violence between gangs might escalate, leading to an arms race and even more vio-lent crime.

Th e homicide rate has de-clined in the past few years, but that is by no means an in-dication of stability.

Is the decreased violence a blip on the radar, or is violent crime really on the downside?

If crime continues to fall and can come under control by the time the 2016 Olym-pics roll around, then the re-sults can only be positive.If crime stays at its current level or increases, then Brazil might start to teeter on the brink of collapse, like Mexico.

Brazil’s future depends on how it will quell the violence.

I can’t be too optimistic that Brazil will be able to con-trol the gangs in the country.

Law enforcement in Brazil is self-defeating.

According to an article in Th e New Yorker, local police work sporadically and are paid low wages. Because of this, the police offi cers join gangs as hired guns when they aren’t working.

Seventy percent of police offi cers are killed off the job, presumably working in the drug gangs.

Th is is a telling statistic that shows that police offi cers aren’t in all-out war with the drug gangs — they are part of the drug gangs.

Will Brazil be ready for the limelight by 2016?

I certainly hope so, but I have a hard time realistically believing the country can turn its crime rate around by then.

A dark prediction emerges about Rio and 2016 Olympics

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Adam Murphy

Murphy’s Law

I was fascinated by TV families such as

the Partridge Family, the Brady Bunch

and even the Addams Family.

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Naturally, the most recent stimulus for seceding has to do with Obama and,

among other policies, his allegedly Hitler-esque

attempts to reform health care.

SJSU pool shark pockets competition

[ Chad Ziemendorf / Spartan Daily ]

6[ ] Spartan Daily Tuesday, October 6, 2009SPORTS

By Leonard LaiStaff Writer

With the cue ball directly lined up with the 8-ball, he thrusted the cue stick forward into the cue ball, sinking the 8-ball into the pocket.

Ronald Adan just won the SJSU Spring 2007 8-Ball Tourna-ment.

“I beat people at pool by letting my stick do the talking,” Adan said. “As a player, there is nothing more satisfying than winning with honor.”

Adan, a senior double major in graphic design and photography, said he has been playing pool for the last 18 years.

He said he fi rst started playing when he was little, growing up in the Philippines on a military base, where he met someone who trained him.

“He started giving me tips and pointers, and it was an enlighten-ing experience,” Adan said. “He would make me do practice drills over and over again until I could get it right.

Adan said the fi rst thing to learn when play-

ing pool is strong fundamentals,

which included stance, grip of the stick and alignment of the shot.

He added that the pre-shot routine,

where a player does a practice stroke, is an important

fundamental.Robby Deaver, a junior mechanical

engineering ma-jor, said he has

been playing with Adan for the last three years at SJSU.

“It’s diffi cult playing with him, because he is so good, but it’s fun, and I learn a lot,” Deaver said. “He’s showed me how to shoot the shots, and how to hold the cue stick, and how to shoot trick shots. Now, whenever I play with other people, I see a lot of things other people miss easily.”

Adan said etiquette is impor-tant, and being aware of your surroundings and letting other people on other tables fi nish their shots is also vital.

“Good etiquette will strength-en your game, because it will make you more focused,” he said. “I desensitize myself to the envi-ronment.”

Eaton Hsu, a graduate in elec-trical engineering, said he respects Adan as a pool player.

“I won the SJSU Spring 2009 tournament, and that’s where I met Ron,” Hsu said. “I didn’t consider myself good at pool — but after, I do now, because Ron brings that competitive edge.

“From Ron, I’ve learned how to take care of my equipment bet-ter, and how to engage people bet-ter and get to know people.”

Adan said he reads a lot of books on how to play the physi-

cal game and the mental game of billiards.

“Sometimes you’ll meet shady sharks to distract you, so you got to keep it out of your mind,” Adan said.

Adan said he has played at the Billiard Lounge in Santa Monica, the Clubhouse in Buellton, the Whistle Stop in Lompoc and other places in California.

“I played around four tourna-ments a week, and that’s only local ones,” Adan said. “Sometimes I would drive out hours to play in farther tournaments.”

Adan said he has never gone to a “big” tournament, because they are too far away.

“I like playing pool here at SJSU,” Adan said. “It’s like a second home to me.”

University student makes name for himself in billiards

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Ronald Adan, a double major in graphic design and photography, has been playing pool for 18 years.

“I beat people at pool by letting my stick do

the talking. As a player, there is nothing more

satisfying than winning with honor.”

- Ronald Adan

pool player