Degrees in the communica-tion studies department

have gone through a makeover. Th e department revised its

major to allow students the abil-ity to tailor the program to their specifi c goals, according to the d e p a r t m e n t ’s Web site.

“We redevel-oped the major four years ago,” interim de-partment chair Stephanie Coop-man said. “We did some assess-ment, and it just wasn’t working as well as we wanted it to. We decided to go back to basics and look at the essential learning ob-jectives.

“Th e essential things we wanted students to get out of major — what did we want them to know when they left?”

Coopman said the key ideas the department wanted its 400 majors and 90 minors to be able to grasp are a basic understand-ing of communication theory, a

basic understanding of commu-nication research and a basic un-derstanding of how the students would apply communication theory and research in practical settings.

Th e retooled major has left some transfer students, such as San Jose City College transfer

student Me-gan Scheibli, asking ques-tions.

“I’m actu-ally still quite c o n f u s e d about it,” she said. “I’m not really sure what the changes are. It’s been ex-plained very

vaguely … so I’m not sure how everything is supposed to work out. I don’t understand the dif-ferences.”

Under the new major, which requires students to complete at least 42 units along with general education and elective require-ments in order to earn a bache-lor’s degree, many of the upper-division courses are four units,

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The California State Uni-versity system might have

a doctorate program in nursing off ered on two or three of the campuses by January 2011, its to a CSU spokesperson said.

“I think off ering a nursing doctorate program at a few CSUs would be great,” senior nursing major Diana Paulson said. “Since I am planning to continue in my education to get my master’s and possibly a doctorate, I think it would be great to go to a CSU.”

A bill off ering a nursing doc-torate in the CSU system still needs to be passed by the Cali-fornia Senate, said Erik Fallis, a CSU media relations specialist.

“Th e legislation is now a two-year bill that has passed the As-sembly,” Fallis said. “If passed by the Senate during next year’s session, it would go into eff ect January 2011.”

Th e bill was suggested to address the CSU nursing fac-

ulty shortage, which leaves many nursing programs to turn away qualifi ed students, according to the CSU Web site.

Th e undergraduate nursing program has approximately 392 students enrolled this fall semes-ter, said Sutee Sujitparapitaya, the associate vice president of the Offi ce of Institutional Research.

Th is fall semester 73 new students were accepted into the nursing program and approxi-mately 63 will be accepted in the spring, said Jayne Cohen, the di-rector of the school of nursing.

“Per the legislation, only two or three programs would be initi-ated in the fi rst year,” Fallis said. “Several CSU campuses would be strong candidates for this pro-gram.”

Fallis said it would be diffi cult to narrow down which campuses might pilot the program includ-ing SJSU.

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SJSU has been chosen among 21 schools nationwide to

participate in a competition that gives marketing students the op-portunity to gain practical expe-rience in their fi eld.

Senior marketing major Jar-ed Lewis and seven of his class-mates in Robert Vitale’s Busi-ness 137H Honors Practicum

in Marketing class must create a complete marketing campaign for the 2010 Honda Insight hy-brid vehicle.

“Th e EdVenture Partners Honda Insight National Col-legiate Marketing Competition gives students a real-world expe-rience of what they have learned in the classroom,” said Robert Vitale, lecturer for the depart-ment of marketing and decision sciences.

Th e group has been given a $2,500 budget by the Honda Corporation, and must now use it to research, implement and evaluate a marketing campaign that targets the Generation Y market.

If its campaign is chosen out of 20 others, it will have the op-portunity to present it to a panel of Honda executives and win $5,000.

“I think it is a great opportu-

nity for students to get the pace of the real world and to see what is out there,” senior marketing major Miriam Salazar said. “In school, we learn from books, but this is a real-life experience that you can touch and feel.”

Th e group’s work began on the fi rst day of school in Au-gust, and will culminate in a campus wide promotional event

By Kyle SzymanskiStaff Writer

As fast as a click of the mouse, experts from SJSU are here to

help students, said Jeff Gordon, se-nior director of program develop-ment and external partnerships.

On its Web site, the experts can link presentations, identify them-selves with icons listing their ac-cessibility to the community, and even though they move offi ces, their profi les can still be updated, Gordon said.

“We mean to build a user-friendly one stop for students, faculty and anyone in the com-munity,” Gordon said.

Users can search the database for specifi c experts pertaining to a subject using built-in fi lters, ac-cording to the Web site.

Th e fi lters allow experts to be listed as media sources, external speakers or collaborative research-ers, Gordon said.

“We have over 1,000 faculty members, and we are giving them the opportunity to voluntarily identify themselves,” Gordon said.

More information can be found on the Experts@SJSU Web site than on the faculty directory, he said.

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A screen shot of Experts@SJSU, a Web site that links users to faculty members who have expertise in specifi c areas.

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Among his colleagues, Dennis Jaehne is known for his creativity and collabora-tive approach to problem solv-ing — qualities he can use as SJSU’s new associate vice president of undergraduate studies.

“Universities work by per-suasion and collaboration,” he said.

Jaehne, a former faculty member and chair of the com-munication studies depart-ment, offi cially began his new job on July 13, replacing the former associate vice presi-dent, psychology Professor Robert Cooper.

As associate vice president, Jaehne said his responsibility is to keep the offi ce of under-graduate studies running.

According to its Web site,

the offi ce of undergraduate studies oversees matters that relate to the academic life of undergraduate students.

Th e Web site states that these matters include over-seeing changes in the under-graduate curriculum, ensur-ing SJSU’s accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and certifying general education courses.

Because of the budget cuts, Jaehne said students have ap-proached the undergraduate studies department for help enrolling in classes, but said all his offi ce can do is recom-mend that department chairs prioritize assistance for gradu-ating seniors.

“We can try to intervene, but we don’t have direct au-thority,” he said. “Th is is not the place to go for that.”

Jaehne said the university has had to deal with budget cuts on and off for the past fi ve years, but has always tried to minimize the impact to in-struction by making cuts in nonacademic areas such as fa-cilities maintenance and sup-port staff .

He described the situation

as “hobbling along with one hand behind our back.”

Communication studies Professor Shawn Spano said Jaehne is a “consensus build-er,” and said he was able to creatively work within a bu-reaucracy.

“Th e university needs someone who can build con-sensus and think creatively, especially because of diffi cult times,” he said.

Anthropology Professor William Reckmeyer said Jaeh-ne was heavily involved in ac-tivities across campus.

“He makes an awful lot of eff ort to reach out,” he said. “He’s got fi ngers in almost everything going on on-cam-pus.”

Jaehne said he is interested in study abroad programs and cultural exchanges, and said he wants to place a priority on globalizing SJSU and pre-paring graduates to be global citizens.

“You don’t really know your own culture until you step out of it,” he said.

Communication studies lecturer Beth Von Till said she worked with Jaehne for 12 years at the Center for Fron-

tier Science at Japan’s Chiba University, bringing Japanese high school students to SJSU to practice their communica-tion skills through English im-mersion.

“He helps people to be their best selves,” she said.

Reckmeyer said Jaehne was one of the original fellows of the SJSU Salzburg Program when it began in 2006.

As part of the program, Reckmeyer said Jaehne was in-volved in student recruitment at SJSU and was an active fac-ulty member of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

According to Jaehne’s faculty Web site, he started teaching at SJSU in 1989 and became the chair of the com-munication studies depart-ment in 1996.

His Web site also stated that he is active in the SJSU study abroad program and has lead four trips to Bath, Eng-land.

Social Sciences Dean Tim-othy Hegstrom said he credits Jaehne with founding the Uni-versity Council of Chairs and Directors, of which Jaehne has been co-chair for the last nine years.

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Jaehne to focus on globalizing SJSUaccording to its Web site.

Coopman said the four-unit classes students are now required to take are an intro-duction to communication studies class, a senior seminar course and two foundation or theory classes, two inquiry or research classes, two practice or applied classes of his or her choice.

Students can take eight units that are either upper- or lower-division courses and two units of applied activity in communi-cation classes.

“Students can do an intern-ship, they can work in forensics, which is speech and debate, they can work in the communication studies lab,” Coopman said of the applied activity courses. “And that helps them decide what it is they might want to do with their degree.”

Coopman said there are a va-riety of directions a communi-cation studies major can go after graduating.

“Some students go into sales, or marketing or human resourc-es,” she said. “Some students go into broadcasting. One of our best students works for the (Golden State) Warriors in pub-lic relations, so students have a lot of fl exibility of what they can do.”

Coopman said students in transition between the old and new requirements have been talking with advisers on a case-by-case basis.

Th e graduate program has been refi ned as well, according to the department’s Web site.

Instead of 30 units, gradu-ate students must complete 38 units in order to receive a mas-ter’s degree.

“We’re not increasing the number of classes,” graduate co-ordinator Deanna Fassett said. “We’re increasing the unit total

on most of the classes, so that’s what’s accounting for the slight-ly larger program.”

According to the graduate studies Web site, the introduc-tory course is now four units, and graduate students must also take a sequence of one unit re-search methods workshops, an advanced methods workshop, a proseminar communication scholarship, an advanced writ-ing workshop, 18 units in elec-tives and have a choice of writ-ing a thesis, taking an exam or presenting a project.

“Th e shift in our curriculum has really focused on helping people become better profes-sional writers, professional speakers, professional research-ers who can really clearly com-municate and become eff ective across many diff erent environ-ments,” Fassett said.

He said revising the graduate program has helped some stu-dents get fi nancial aid.

“In general, those students are better off , because last year, in order to get to full-time sta-tus, you would have to take three classes,” she said. “You only need eight units to qualify for fi nancial aid purposes at the graduate level. Now, two classes does that. So in that sense, it’s actually a better deal for our stu-dents who are on fi nancial aid.”

A reason the department changed the graduate problem was that some students who were working on their theses were still having trouble writing them, Fassett said.

“Th is is a master’s degree that will help students stand out more, because the requirements are more rigorous,” Coopman said. “Particularly with the writ-ing class that students can take. Th at’s not common at the grad-uate level, to have a writing class and yet it is so key. It is one of the number one complaints that you get from employers that graduates can’t write.”

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ulty,” Fallis said. “Part of that need can be addressed by educat-ing more nurses to the doctorate level, which increases the pool of individuals qualifi ed to teach in nursing programs.”

Paulson said she would defi -nitely consider using a CSU doc-torate program.

“I want to be a teacher some-day for a nursing school, and a Ph.D. would be benefi cial,” Paulson said.

Th e nursing faculty short-age contributes to the nurs-ing shortage in hospitals, Fallis said.

“According to research, lack of nursing faculty is a key con-tributing factor to the nursing shortage,” Fallis said. “Some 70 percent of nursing schools across the nation report rejecting or wait-listing prospective students precisely, because they cannot fi ll teaching positions with qualifi ed faculty.”

Senior nursing major Kather-ine Hughes said she thinks off er-ing a nursing doctorate at a CSU would be good, because it would be cheaper for students, but she’s not so sure she would use it her-self.

“I wouldn’t do it, because I’m in a stage where I want to graduate and start a family, but maybe down the road,” Hughes said.

Paulson also said she thinks a nursing doctorate program in the CSU system would be more fi -nancially accessible to students.

“I think the benefi ts would be aff ordability and a good edu-cation,” Paulson said. “I would most defi nitely consider using a CSU nursing doctorate pro-gram.”

Students and faculty can as-sist in getting this bill passed, Fallis said.

“For the next legislation ses-sion, which begins January 2010, students and other sup-porters can contact state repre-sentatives — especially those in the Senate.”

Anton Kashiri has recently been appointed associate vice president for facilities develop-ment and operations, according to a July 1 news release.

Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations at SJSU, said the university is for-tunate to have hired him.

“Mr. Kashiri comes to us highly regarded,” Harris said.

Th e depart-ment of facilities development and operations is re-sponsible for the maintenance of all the buildings and landscape, Kashiri said.

Kashiri said he would have fi ve directors, and that with the help of his directors, he will oversee what the department of facili-ties development and operations does.

Kashiri said the university will soon be in the process of constructing a new Student

Center.“Mr. Kashiri is a very vision-

ary person,” said Karen Barrett, his former assistant at Norfolk State University.

In the long term, he said he’d like a main entrance for SJSU, but didn’t know if it was already in SJSU’s master

plan.“Th ere’s not

a particular gate where you can say, ‘Th is is the main gate for cam-pus,’” Kashiri said.

Junior psy-chology major Ross Gonzales said a main entrance is a good idea.

“It kind of symbolizes pride in your school,” Gon-zales said.

Kashiri said he originally came to the United States to earn his degree.

“Orignally I, came from Zimbabwe in the ˇ 70s with the intention of just getting my de-gree and going back to Zimba-bwe,” Kashiri said.

He said he attained a degree in electrical engineering as well as a physics degree but ended up not going back to Zimbabwe.

“My entire life I’ve been in construction,” Kashiri said.

He said his father had a small construction company and that he ran one of his construction crews.

His experience includes working on the Georgia-dome, Fort Valley State Uni-versity, Southern Polytechnic State University and most recently at Norfolk State University.

He said he’s still in the pro-cess of moving from Norfolk, Va.

“I hope this is my fi nal stop,” Kashiri said. “I plan to be here until I retire.”

Kashiri said he’s currently re-viewing his department’s plans for the future.

“My goals should mesh with the goals already developed,” he said.

Kashiri said he would also be reviewing and changing existing goals.

He said his new job is a chal-lenge because of budget cuts.

“In facilities, you can reduce the number of students, but you still have to maintain those facilities as if they’re being used

at 100 percent capacity,” Kashiri said.

Kashiri said the job is chal-lenging, but that’s why he took it.

He said that competition for the job was stiff , but that he must have said the right things.

His experience, his com-munication and the way he treats the student as a client is what he said he brings to the job.

“Th e reason we’re here is to make sure we provide facilities that are conducive to student learning,” Kashiri said.

He said he’s been walking around campus, talking to fac-ulty and students to learn of their concerns.

“Th ey’ve been raising their issues and concerns, and I’ve been listening,” Kashiri said.

He said he wants to create a team with good communi-cation and a singular goal in mind.

Th e goal is to do everything with the student’s best interest in mind, he said.

He said he’s been living on campus to get an inside look at it.

“My intention is to live on campus for the next seven to eight months,” Kashiri said.

Facilities VP resides on campus to gain insight into students’ concerns

By Husain SumraStaff Writer

Anton KarishiAssociate Vice President

for Facilities Development and Operations

“The reason we’re here is to make sure we provide facilities that are conducive to stu-dent learning.”

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Ron Buena, a junior business management major and Akbayan Pilipino Club secretary, collects clothing donations for the club in front of the Student Union on Monday to raise awareness and aid for those affected by the typhoon that struck the Philippines on Saturday.

on Nov. 4.Th e Generation Y mar-

ket consists of the 77 million people born between 1977 and 1997, according to the text-book “Marketing Essentials.”

Th e in-class, working mar-keting agency, named Market-IN-Novation, is delegated into separate departments similar to a real marketing agency, Lewis said.

Lewis said the team is bro-ken into a research depart-ment, a public relations de-partment and an advertising

department.Lewis said this opportu-

nity gives his team a head start in the marketing fi eld that few marketing students get to experience while in college.

“Th is is a really great op-portunity for all of us, because we are all marketing majors,” Lewis said. “We are doing something some people out in the work force haven’t even had a chance to do yet.”

Th roughout the past month, the group has collaborated to conduct research about its tar-get market, Lewis said.

Th e students must now de-sign a campaign and bring it to

life, Lewis said.After the Market-IN-No-

vation campaign is done, the students must collect post-campaign research, and then conclude with a formal presen-tation to Honda Corporation that summarizes the campaign results and successes, Lewis said.

Salazar said the competi-tion will give her an advantage when she goes to look for a job after graduating.

“When you go out there and get a job, you’ll know what you are expected to do,” Sala-zar said. “It’s the chance of get-ting to know what is really out there.”

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Gordon said he recognized that instructors needed more than their SJSU faculty Web pages to build bridges with the community.

Gordon said back when the Web site used older technology, it wasn’t updated properly.

“We didn’t have a keyword search function — we were a basic Web site connected to the univer-sity directory,” Gordon said. “Now though, there are enough functions to appeal to instructors. We wanted to give faculty members control of their profi le.

“Th ey can add a picture, list

their offi ce hours and link directly to their class Web site if they so choose among other functions.”

Th e Experts@SJSU Web site is not meant to replace faculty Web sites, but to be complementary to it, Gordon said.

Future faculty could tie this with social networking, Gordon said.

“By no means do we have an end state, but I think we have a good be-ginning,” Gordon said. “Th e main issue is to let the community know that the Experts database exists.”

Kim Uhlik, a hospitality, recre-ation and tour management assistant professor, said he hopes for the Ex-perts@SJSU Web site to catch on.

“We do a lot of work that ben-efi ts the public — if anybody knew

about it,” Uhlik said. “We’d like people to know that we’re here to be consulted. We’re here waiting for your call.”

Kathryn Sucher, a nutrition, food science and packaging profes-sor, said she believes it can benefi t the outside community.

“It would be useful for when dif-ferent colleges collaborated with us, since they may not be familiar with our faculty,” Sucher said.

Hundreds of instructors have added themselves to the Experts@SJSU Web site since its initial launch three years ago, Gordon said.

“We have been doing lots of in-reach, and we need more outreach,” Gordon said. “I encourage feedback from everyone.”

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If the 160 gigabyte iPod was sold in the 1980s it would have cost $400 million. Currently, the iPod retails at $250, said an Ap-plied Materials representative.

On Th ursday, Omkaram Nala-masu, deputy corporate chief tech-nology offi cer and vice president of advanced technology at Applied Materials, gave the symposium “Nanomanufacturing Technology: A Platform for the 21st Century,” which was held in the Engineering building Room 189.

Douglas Nguyen, a freshman civil engineering major, said Nala-masu’s explanation of creating energy-effi cient products by using nanotechnology was fascinating.

“Th e future is all about tech-nology,” Nguyen said. “I really liked how Nalamasu related the progress to an iPod. Such a short time ago it would have been so expensive. Now it’s attainable for many people.”

Many other products, such as laptops and televisions, were used during Nalamasu’s lecture as evi-dence that nanotechnology is be-coming more reasonably priced and used more often by compa-nies.

Nanotechnology is defi ned as a branch of technology that deals with dimensions less than 100 nanometers.

A nanometer is defi ned as a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.

“Recently this week, News-week has come out with their green rankings top 500 companies in America for 2009, and Applied Materials is number nine,” Nala-masu said. “We are one of the larg-est solar equipment providers in the world today.”

According to Newsweek’s green rankings, Applied Mate-rials designs its products to use less water, energy and greenhouse gases.

Leyzer Coker, a sophomore computer engineering major,

said he thought the presentation showed the importance of nano-technology going forward.

“Nanotechnology will con-tinue to reduce in cost, and it will continue to provide more space as technology is able to make it even smaller than it already is,” he said.

Th e liquid-crystal display in-dustry in the 1990s was about $1 billion to $2 billion, now it is more than a $100 billion dollar industry, Nalamasu said.

“Th ere were three waves. Th e fi rst wave was the LCD panel screens used for laptops,” Nala-masu said. “Th e production costs for the screens in the 1990s were $60 per square inch. By 2010, the cost will be $1 per square inch.”

In the next 50 years, with sig-nifi cant investments from sup-porters of technology, it will grow by half that it is today, he said.

“Th e main technologies that will grow are energy effi ciency products and technology, because that is where companies are en-

couraging investments,” Nala-masu said.

Conservation is important in the development of new technol-ogy, as well. For example, ineffi -cient household windows create a six percent energy loss, he said.

“Applied Materials is continu-ing to invest and create solar panel cells to make them more attainable to all,” Nalamasu said. “Th e price of solar panels will decrease as time goes on, just as the iPod did.”

Applied Materials creates and commercializes nanomanufac-turing technology that produces semiconductor chips, also known as a miniaturized electronic circuit, and fl at panel displays, according the Applied Materials Web site.

“It is crucial to invest in sus-tainable energy technologies,” Nalamasu said. “Over the last 10 years only three percent of indus-trialized countries have invested in energy-effi cient products, whereas other countries have a healthier way of seeing how technology will progress.”

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Employer Information Session: Research in Motion Corporation 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Ohlone room in the Student Union. Recruiters will provide informa-tion about the internship op-portunities in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering and telecommunications. Juniors and seniors are invited to attend, and the event is open to current SJSU students. For more informa-tion, contact Sherri Bowman at sherri.bowman@sjsu.edu. Free.

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Gerald Johnson runs away from a fellow teammate during a practice.

By winning two games last year, the SJSU rugby club had its best season in a decade, club presi-dent Nolan Verga said.

“We won two games in a row, and we lost three games by less than six points total,” said Verga, a senior history major. “We had a lot of really close matches last year. We beat our rivals Santa Clara and they weren’t happy about that ...

“Just a bunch of teams that thought they were going to run all over us like they used to. But we just brought the pain. We came back and made it real close matches.”

Coach Dean White said the 20-17 win over Santa Clara was a boost in confi dence for the club.

“SJSU hasn’t beaten Santa Clara in 15 years,” he said. “It was one heck of a way to end the sea-son and we’re planning to carry that forward to the 2009-2010 (season).”

Forward D.J. Avilucea said the team has a chance to win the Division-II title.

“From what I’m looking at, and from the way our team has progressed, and the look of the new guys, I think we can defi nite-ly go over .500 and be a playoff team,” senior English major Avi-lucea said.

Traditionally, the team has re-lied on strength, Avilucea said.

“Over the last couple of years, we’ve been able to pick up quick-ness in our game, where we don’t have to rely on pounding the ball in like we used to — although we still love to do that,” he said. “We’ve come to a point where we have the ability, more like the lux-ury, to be able to spin the ball out to the back and get our speed guys going down.”

White said the team improves every year, and this year is no ex-ception.

“We’re making students out of rugby — to learn the game just makes them that much better,” he said. “I’m expecting great things from the team this year.”

White said Rashad Colver is one of the keys to the team’s suc-cess.

“Rashad Colver was selected for the Pacifi c Coast All-Star Team, (but) due to some physi-cal issues, he was unable to attend those tryouts,” he said. “He’s a defi nite stand out in this club.”

Colver leads by example by be-ing disciplined in his training and staying focused during practice, White said.

Avilucea said the one thing the team needs to improve is its understanding of the rules of the game.

“We take a lot of penalties where we don’t really have to take (them),” he said.

He said if the team can work on understanding the rules, it will make great strides.

Rugby is a contact sport and requires 15 players on each team,

White said.“It’s a very physical game,

much like football, but it allows players to demonstrate their indi-viduality in the aspect that every-one can run the ball, everyone can score a ball, and they all can make this game their own,” he said.

Nolan Verga said the best thing about the team is how physical it is.

“I just like hitting people,” he said. “I wrestled for 11 years, and I came to SJSU, and I didn’t want to wrestle for the team here, and I realized I could play rugby, and I could do the same physical con-tact.”

Verga said there are some dif-ferences between rugby and foot-ball.

“You don’t wear pads, and the ball doesn’t end once it touches the ground,” he said. “Th e game is continuously live, and the ball

is also the line of scrimmage, so there’s no hitting from behind and there’s a little bit from the side, but mostly it’s direct-on combat.”

Th e game doesn’t involve big plays like in football, Verga said.

“It’s a game of slow, methodical possessions, and hits, and slowly moving the ball forward, and creating opportunities for those people in the back to makes gaps and score tries,” he said.

Th e rugby club is going into its 40th year, and its goal is to intro-duce people to rugby, White said.

“We’re looking at a good num-ber starting this season — around 50,” he said. “We encourage ev-erybody to come out and give the sport a try. If you’re an athlete, there’s a position for you on the rugby fi eld.”

Th e rugby club’s season begins next semester, but its non-league matches start in October.

Rugby club strives for success

Soccer team settles for draw with Broncos

SJSU midfi elder Ricky Dorrego, No. 21, jumps for a header against a Santa Clara player in a 0-0 tie at Spartan Stadium on Sunday night. The Spartans best scoring chance came in the second overtime, when midfi elder Nick Cukar’s shot clanged off the left post. SJSU had six shots on goal while Santa Clara had two. SJSU goalkeeper Jonathan Lester posted his second shutout of the season. The Spartans record is now 2-6-1. Their next home game is their Mountain Pacifi c Sports Federation conference opener against Cal State Sacramento on Oct. 8. By Ben Cadena, Staff Writer

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A few months ago, I had to go to the emergency room.

I was having chest pains. Th ey weren’t sharp pains, but they weren’t going away. As pain in the chest is on the short list of things one really doesn’t want to mess around about, I went.

Th e emergency room doctor ordered a bevy of tests.

Th ey took an electrocardio-graph of my heart. Normal.

Th ey checked my blood. No worries.

Th ey took a chest X-ray. Noth-ing out of the ordinary. Th e doc-tor told me I was fi ne and asked if I was under any stress.

I don’t think she understood why I laughed when I answered that I was a journalism student.

She told me that stress can often mimic the symptoms of far worse disorders. She said I should try to relax.

Th ree weeks later, I got a bill.My delightful emergency-

room adventure cost $3,000, and my insurance wasn’t covering it, because I had already exceeded my limit on doctor’s visits for the year.

Needless to say, I started hav-ing chest pains again.

It could be argued that I should have known better than to go when my insurance wouldn’t cover it, but I’d never come close to approaching the limit on my insurance before.

And besides, what sort of a system is this where a man who thinks he is dying should have to

stop and consider whether he can aff ord the treatment that could save his life?

Th ere’s something wrong with this scenario.

Isn’t this approaching exactly the denial of care that the death panel folks seem to fear so much?

Th is is what I think is being left out in the current debate on health care.

Th ere seems to be a perception that health care reform will result in decisions on personal care be-ing made by some shadowy group in a smoke-fi lled room far from the light of accountability and oversight.

Th is perception seems to ne-glect the fact that this already happens.

Th ere’s nothing to stop an in-surance company from setting an arbitrary limit on coverage.

Th ere’s nothing to stop an in-surance company from denying a person coverage based on a pre-existing condition.

Th ere’s nothing, in other words, to keep them from decid-

ing what sort of care Americans receive.

Say what you will about gov-ernment bureaucracies, they are at least, in theory, overseen by the lawfully elected representa-tives of the people — please hold your laughter until the end of this editorial.

Insurance agencies, by and large, aren’t overseen by anybody. Under the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945, insurance companies are largely exempt from federal regulation under the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Th is means, among other things, that they aren’t subject to federal antitrust laws.

Of course, the McCarran-Fer-guson Act exempted insurance from federal regulation in favor of state oversight. But that could only have the eff ect of making regulation less consistent and more piecemeal.

All of which would be at least bearable if the public could in-fl uence the insurance companies in other ways. Given a choice between companies, people will take their business to the one that off ers the greatest service for the least amount of money.

People vote with their money. Th at’s how things are supposed to work under a capitalistic system.

But most Americans — 159 million, or 52 percent according to a 2009 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation — get their health insurance through their employers.

Th e market for the insurance companies is, therefore, the em-ployers, not private consumers.

Th at said, Americans can ei-ther accept what their employer gives them, or pay more for the same level of service from a per-sonal insurance company.

According to a 2004 report by Kaiser Family Foundation, the average employer pays 85 percent of premium costs for individual insurance and 72 percent for family coverage.

Employers could theoretically bargain with insurers to get their people better coverage. But any-one who expects the interests of businesses and the people they employ to always be perfectly aligned ignores 175 years of labor reform in the U.S.

Clearly, we need to change the way we insure America.

But it needs to be a better change than the shibboleth of tort reform off ered by opponents of the president’s health care plan.

Incidentally, malpractice amounts to less than two percent of all medical spending, accord-ing to a 2003 estimate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Of the cases that go to court, 90 percent involved a legitimate, serious injury, and of those, 63 percent were because of physi-cian error, according to a 2006 study by the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

In other words, not only do medical malpractice cases not drive up costs signifi cantly, they serve a valuable role in redressing errors by doctors.

Th e answer to our health care woes is more regulation, not less. We need to recognize that, in this case, the problem is not govern-ment, but unchecked private in-dustry.

We need to hold insurance companies responsible for the level of care that they provide.

When the news hit that Kanye West blurted out something in-volving Beyonce during Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Award acceptance speech, I said to my-self that I didn’t give two ____s.

Th ere’s a reason for this — I don’t give two ____s about Kanye West, which is, coincidentally, the exact number of ____s I give about Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and MTV in general, let alone the Video Music Awards.

As awards go, even the Gram-mys are a joke. Th e fact that El-ton John is up to his neon-green Liberace sunglasses in Grammys is proof enough of that.

Th e public uproar was a result of one overpaid pop star inter-rupting another overpaid pop star, while accepting the only music award that’s more of a joke than a grammy, to say that yet an-other overpaid pop star is better.

Th e mathematically savvy will determine that it is a grand total of 10 ____s I don’t give about the whole mess.

No matter how many ____s I didn’t give, though, I kept hear-ing about it and hearing about it,

and fi nally decided that I had to see this much ballyhooed spec-tacle.

After wholeheartedly blaming the media’s obsession with this trite crap, thereby absolving my-self for having this morbid curi-osity in the fi rst place, I called up YouTube and asked about it.

Imagine my surprise when I had to sift through about three dozen YouTube user responses to the incident just to fi nally see the jackass yank the mic from some country starlet.

Video after video featured ex-treme close ups of adolescents’ faces, talking to the camera about the earth-shattering incident. “What’s up, YouTube?” typically starts the video.

Th is is what we do with 4.5 megabit Internet.

Back in the dial-up days, it took an hour and a half to post your shoddy opinion about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair onto your shoddy home page. Now, we stream videos instantly, and we use this information to talk about pop stars.

It isn’t that there’s no other

side to this video craze. Similar responses are to be found in-volving vaguely more important issues — such as the future of health care in America.

Th e number of opinion videos about health care doesn’t hold a candle to the fl ood of responses to the West/Swift incident, though, and I didn’t see one kid from the West/Swift response team com-menting on health care.

It goes to show you what our values really are.

For years, we’ve complained that the news is giving us fl uff y crap in place of information.

Typically, this complaint will be centered around a key gripe that Britney Spears grabs the headlines while tallies of our troops killed in our holy war are relegated to the back page.

Th ese complaints ring hollow when it becomes apparent that Internet user media is obsessed with the same things that have been forced down our throats.

It’s easy to blame “the media” for providing useless information, just as it’s easy to blame Wikipe-dia for the results of your crappy research habits.

Finally, we are free of the big, bad media. We can publish any article we want about any topic. We have power and a voice now.

Right? If we make our own news, we don’t have to hear about

that Britney Spears wench and her shaved head any more.

But is it any surprise that the public seems, by and large, to have used most of these tools to refl ect that the media has, indeed, been giving us what we want in-stead of what we need?

Just look at Sarah Palin. Preying on a terrifi cally under-informed public, she managed to taint the perception of health care reform by introducing the buzzword, “Death panels,” on her Facebook page.

Th is made headlines, and you can even hear some idiots repeat-ing the crap posted there.

It has led to the tired old argu-ment about grandma being mur-dered, which is such a standard bullshit appeal to emotion when trying to manipulate ideals.

You don’t believe in the death penalty? What if someone mur-dered your grandma?

Th at’s neither here nor there, I suppose.

But, when the broad, new frontier, full of possibility, begins to exactly refl ect the shlock we’re handed, and have been com-plaining about, there may be a problem.

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Between a rock and Afghanistan

Yes, I Have A Point

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Murphy’s Law

Adam Murphy

Iraq and Afghanistan drove the presidential debate until the economy crashed.

All serious debate about both wars petered out as our fi nancial systems entered meltdown mode.

Th e winding down war in Iraq now pales in comparison to the one in Afghanistan.

Th e Afghanistan war, the so-called — by the Obama administration — “good” war of the two — as if there can ever be a good war, has been a disaster.

Nothing of real conse-quence has been accom-plished, and only now after seven years of war is there a wholesale re-evaluation of the war in Afghanistan.

Obama is in the fi rst stages of making good on his cam-paign promise of winning the war in Afghanistan. He ordered a re-appraisal of the Afghanistan war, and the re-port that came back was grim at best.

Th e general who is lead-ing the off ensive in Iraq has called for more troops imme-diately.

With the war in Iraq wind-ing down, all the attention is being paid to Afghanistan. Afghanistan, once thought of as the “forgotten war,” is now front and center.

Support for the “good” war is waning among Obama’s own party members, and the people who voted him in are growing war weary.

Obama is at a dangerous crossroads that could have monumental political reper-cussions for both him and the Democratic Party.

Th e real-world implica-tions of staying in Afghani-stan are a lot more casualties and a lot of money spent on a war that may take more than four years to yield any results.

If Obama fulfi lls his cam-paign promise and contin-ues to pour more troops and more money into the war, it

could mean political suicide for the Democratic Party in the 2012 presidential elec-tion.

Th e Grand Old Party would jump at the chance to proclaim the Democratic Party incapable of leading this country during war.

If Obama decides to renege on his campaign promises and pull out of Afghanistan, he will be opening himself to criticism from the right.

Obama is stuck in damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation.

Th e Afghanistan war is an albatross for the Democratic party that may see all their gains in the 2008 election vanish.

If al-Qaida is allowed to fl ourish in Afghanistan, it may extend its sphere of in-fl uence into Pakistan.

Al-Qaida is already ac-tive in Pakistan, but with its home base under control, it could focus all their energy and resources on slowly tak-ing over Pakistan.

With Pakistan comes a nuclear weapon. What is more important?

Potential political suicide from a war that can’t be won any time soon? Or potential nuclear annihilation?

An already tense situation between India and Pakistan could boil over into all-out war if Pakistan falls into al- Qaida’s control.

Th e U.S. might not be at-tacked if it pulls out of Af-ghanistan, but it certainly won’t help the stability of south Asia.

Th e British tried unsuc-cessfully to control Afghani-stan. Th e Russians, during the Cold War, had about as much luck as the British.

I hope Obama tries, and I hope he has more luck.

Adam Murphy is a Spartan Daily sports editor. “Murphy’s Law” appears every Tuesday.

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My delightful emergency-room

adventure cost $3,000, and my insurance wasn’t covering it,

because I had already exceeded my limit on doctor’s visits for the

year.

Spartan Daily6[ ]A&E Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A Tibetan sand mandala was created at the San Jose Museum of Art Friday, Saturday and Sunday in order to raise funds for Tibetan Children’s Educa-

tion Fund, which, according to its Web site, is “a nonprofi t corporation dedi-cated to the preservation of Tibetan culture by supporting Tibetan schools and school children-in-exile from their homeland.” ■ Ngawang Chojor and Lama Paljor are the Tibetan monks constructing the sand mandala. ■ “Th is is a very old Tibetan tradition,” fund founder Karma Tensum said. “Th e senior Lama was telling me it probably dates back to the ninth century A.D. ■ “Generally in Tibet, sand mandalas were created as a healing art.” ■ Both monks have traveled with the group in an attempt to raise money for the school and to bring aware-ness to the Obama Administration about the dying culture of the Tibetan peo-ple, according to the group’s Web site. ■ Th roughout the weekend, more than $25,000 was raised at the museum and during a benefi t dinner Saturday night event organizer Jennifer Prugh said. ■ Th e construction of the mandala took three days, beginning with a chant requesting the permission of mother earth to create the piece and ending with its deconstruction. Th e sand from the mandala was later distributed to visitors as part of the deconstruction ceremony. ■

By Anne RigorContributing Photographer

Tibetan healing

(Left) Senior Lama Ngawang Chojor, right, and Lama Paljor construct the sand mandala while onlookers quietly watch. (Lower left) The Tibetan monks patiently works to create their mandala. (Lower right) Frank Bill-ner and his son Frankie, 5, examine the details produced by the Lamas.

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(Right) Senior Lama Ngawang Chojor creates the outer ring of the mandala, which represents the idea that there is always evil around that is good in life.

(Lower left) Magan Ma-honey of Cambell (left) and Linda Janowitz of Cupterti-no (right) lift Donald Linden of Cuppertino (center) to watch Lama Paljor work.

(Lower right) Senior Lama Chojor completes the mandala ceremony with the deconstruction of the man-dala signifying the imper-manence of life. [ Anne Rigor / Contributing Photographer ]

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