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“I just look forward to traveling,” said Pro-fessor Arthur Kao. “I’ve been teaching too long and it’s time for me to retire.”

“Miracles of Ink and Color,” on display in the second-fl oor exhibit gallery in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, is Kao’s last hurrah as a professor of art history. In his 22 years at SJSU and in his styling of ink paintings, his show blends the traditional infl uences of Eastern Asia and western Europe, borrowing from both Chinese painting and impressionism.

All the paintings on display are for sale, and all proceeds will be donated to the library.

“The landscapes have bright, vibrant colors,” said Natalie Panchenko, a freshman graphic de-sign major and one of Kao’s students. “You can feel the warmth and movement in his work.”

Kao said his work blends the same type of inks used for hundreds of years in Asia on a pa-per made from rough rice reeds designed to free the motions that oil paintings freeze and let go the colors that watercolor paper mops up.

“I layer the colors thick,” he explained. “Back home we were taught to do traditional paint-ings — very subtle.”

A native of Taiwan, he grew up in the city of Changhua. At the age of 15, Kao began at-tending a local teaching college, called a normal school, in preparation for a career in education. He explained that he found his calling after meeting a mentoring professor taught him the conservative forms of Eastern art.

“I fell in love with art there,” Kao said.With fundamentally different techniques

from those taught in Western schools, Kao said he became an expert of the inkstick, Chinese ink and the other essential tools of the medium. After graduating from the normal school he

pursued a master’s degree in art history at Na-tional Taiwan University of Arts.

The university is the oldest arts college in Taiwan and is home to many distinguished Tai-wanese and Chinese alumni, including “Crouch-ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon” Director Ang Lee.

After graduating he taught at the university for several years. A visiting professor from Kan-sas University encouraged him to apply for a Ph.D. program in the United States.

“I always wanted to go to America,” he said. “He drew up an application and then I went to Lawrence.”

The export of Kao’s Asian traditional talents synergized with the Western infl uences in the United States produced the style that is unique-ly his.

“It is very zen in its nature — to have wis-

A coalition of organizations concerned with water issues in the Bay Area recently recognized SJSU with a Silicon Valley Water Conservation Award.

The award, in the “organiza-tion” category, will be formally presented today at the Humane Society Silicon Valley in Milpi-tas.

It is a recognition of SJSU’s efforts to reduce the amount of clean water wasted and to imple-ment water recycling technol-ogy, said Peter Drekmeier, Bay Area program director for the Tuolumne River Trust, one of the organizations that presents the Silicon Valley Water Conserva-tion Awards.

“San Jose State University has done far more than any other or-ganization to promote recycled water use,” Drekmeier said. “San Jose State University is not just one of our most impressive recip-ients this year, but in the history of the Silicon Valley Water Con-servation Awards.”

Katherine Cushing, associate professor of environmental stud-ies and sustainability director for SJSU, said the award was a result of the attention SJSU has given this issue for some time.

“We’re thrilled to have the uni-versity’s efforts be recognized,” she said. “I think that for over a decade, the university has really been a leader in recycled water.”

Cushing said most of the cred-it should be given to Facilities Development and Operations, who put in most of the work in implementing these changes throughout the university.

“It’s really our facilities people who do most of the work,” she said.

In the past 10 years, SJSU has reduced its potable, or drinkable, water use by 40 percent, from 520 acre-feet per year in 2001 to 280 acre-feet per year in 2011, a dif-ference of about 2,800 football fields, according to information from SJSU facilities and opera-tions.

Energy analyst Jared Isaac-son said the reduction has come largely from the campus’ efforts to use recycled water in watering the South Campus athletic fields, for flushing the toilets in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library and controlling the temperature of the chilled water tower, a part of campus cooling system.

“There’s huge quantities used in these cooling applications,” he said. “Twenty million gallons (are used) in cooling campus athletic fields.”

Recycled water is made avail-able through the South Bay Wa-ter Recycling Program, which Isaacson said is an initiative brought about by the City of San Jose.

The program makes available the option to pipe dirty water to the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant. From there, Isaacson said the water goes through “an extensive treat-ment process” and can be piped back to the university in a sepa-rate piping system and used in applications where the water will not be drunk.

“We’re saving in the neighbor-hood of $100,000 per year in us-ing the recycled water for these two functions, as compared to using potable water,” he said. “There’s significant cost savings.”

Isaacson said the initial cost of installing a separate piping system is one of the barriers that prevent companies and organiza-tions from using this program, as it can be expensive and time con-suming.

He also said the process is heavily regulated by the Depart-ment of Public Health to make sure the potable water and re-cycled water lines do not cross at any point.

Purple signs saying “non-pota-ble water” mark places where re-cycled water is being used, such as the South Campus athletic fields sprinkler system and should not be drunk, Isaacson said.

The recent project to con-vert toilet-flushing water in the

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BENGHAZI, Libya — Two days after U.S. and coalition forces im-posed a no-fl y zone over Libya, reb-els moved Monday to retake the city of Ajdabiya, a crossroads in their fi ght to regain the territory they lost last week.

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi still held the bulk of Ajdabiya, about 50 miles south of Benghazi, but rebels said they had entered the outskirts. Rebel forces said that after Ajdabiya, they would move to the oil terminal towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf, and the village of Bin Jawad, which they lost last week to Gadhafi loyalists, and then would tackle Gadhafi ’s hometown of Sirte.

But that seemed like an ambi-tious goal on Monday, for the forces in Ajdabiya were poorly armed and scattered, some coming to battle only with knives.

The fall of Ajdabiya to Gad-hafi ’s forces Saturday triggered a wholesale exodus of Gadhafi op-ponents from Benghazi, which had become the rebel capital in eastern Libya. But when French fi ghter jets

bombed Gadhafi tanks here and the U.S. and Great Britain followed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomber attacks on Gadhafi ’s anti-aircraft defenses outside Tripoli, the rebels fl ooded back.

The boost to rebel morale from the allied bombing strikes could be seen everywhere here. Residents who didn’t fl ee Saturday emerged from their homes for the fi rst time in days.

How far the allied bombers will go in supporting the rebel advance was unclear, however, and it isn’t certain that the disorganized and un-trained rebel force would be able to retake the towns along Libya’s coast-al highway without allied attacks on Gadhafi ’s tanks and artillery.

The war could well be headed to a stalemate. On Monday, the west-ern city of Misrata sustained more attacks from pro-Gadhafi forces, which apparently were undeterred by the allies’ bombing campaign.

U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, the commander of the U.S. Africa Com-mand, which is responsible for Libya, told reporters Monday that the allies wouldn’t take sides in the confl ict.

The U.N. Security Council, which approved the imposition of the

no-fl y zone last week, scheduled a closed-door session Monday to hear concerns from Russia, India and China over how the U.S., Britain and France had carried out the resolu-tion.

Despite the allied attacks, Beng-hazi seemed far emptier Monday than a few days ago, suggesting that not everyone is convinced the fi ght-ing here is over. The few shops that were open before the attack are now closed. Residents who remained had set up checkpoints near burned-out tanks and trucks, which rebels had abandoned as they fl ed Saturday.

Residents took their children to the tanks and posed with them, sometimes planting a free Libya fl ag on the relics.

Many suggested renaming the city’s main highway for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, conced-ing that pro-Gadhafi forces would have taken the city if France hadn’t mounted its air assault here Satur-day. The road is currently named for Gamel Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian leader who supported Gadhafi ’s re-volt in 1969.

Professor fuses east and west in fi nal art exhibition

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A rebel fi ghter celebrates on a smouldering tank Monday in the village of Zwinta, Libya, two days after U.S. and coalition forces imposed a no-fl y zone over the country.

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A creative writing professor at SJSU and in-coming Santa Clara County poet laureate has made a name for herself in literary circles in a relatively short time.

Just 12 years ago, Sally Ashton was taking classes with the man she is succeeding as poet laureate — SJSU professor emeritus Nils Pe-terson.

“It’s been pretty exciting,” Ashton said. “Learning poetry, teaching poetry and work-ing together, and now taking over his good work when he comes to the end of his two-year term.”

Ashton received her Bachelor’s degree from SJSU in 2001, where she took classes with Pe-terson through his last semester in 1999, and went on to receive a master of Fine Arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont.

“I fi nally had time after doing a bunch of other things — life, marriage, kids, small busi-ness…” she said.

Since then, Ashton has published three books, helped put on the fi rst California Poet-ry Festival, began editing “Disquieting Muses Quarterly,” an online art and poetry journal, and started teaching.

She began with private writing workshops which eventually led to teaching at SJSU.

“It was really easy to connect with her as a professor,” said Marena Domingo-Young, a former student in theatre arts. “She made the material really relatable.”

Domingo-Young said Ashton’s poems aren’t always what she would expect to hear from a professor.

“She wrote one about Facebook and it was kind of like a free-form prose poem, and I read it,” Domingo-Young said. “It was weird to see a professor write about Facebook. The way she did it, it was totally on my level.”

“She’s very creative as a professor — she knows how to get peo-ple excited about po-etry,” said Persis Karim, Ashton’s colleague and former professor.

Karim said she can’t think of anyone more qualifi ed for the posi-tion.

“She has her own unique style and voice,” Karim said. “She’s an excellent candidate for the poet laureate be-cause she’s really made a commitment to poet-ry in San Jose and Santa Clara County.”

D o m i n g o - Yo u n g said that thanks to Ash-ton, she is now pursu-ing her own interest in poetry, taking a poetry course, going to open mics and downloading poetry podcasts, which she said is “kind of nerdy.”

“It’s a lot of fun for me to try to get people engaged,” Ashton said.

She said she enjoys watching people begin to make connections with poetry, and experi-ence “this kind of — not necessarily magic, but this kind of a connection to who they are in a form that maybe they thought didn’t appeal to them or apply to them at all.”

The ability to engage people with poetry is

part of Ashton’s job description as poet laure-ate.

According to the Santa Clara County web-site, the poet laureate will “act as an advocate for poetry, literature, and the arts,” perform public readings and propose and lead a com-munity project.

“It is going to be a project with an outreach to people who aren’t poets,” Ashton said, but declined to go into detail.

“Not that it’s mysterious,” she said.Ashton is the second person to hold the

position — Peterson served the inaugural two-year term from 2009-11.

Ashton said she started writing poetry in high school, but stopped pursuing it se-riously.

“It just became something I would do now and then, and it was not probably until I had some time to re-ally focus on reading a lot and studying po-etry.”

She said her poetry is infl uenced by Robert Frost and Emily Dick-inson, and she’s cur-rently reading Charles Simic, Russell Edson and Brigit Pegeen Kelly.

She said her poems are inspired by obser-vations — “It could be other text I see, it could be a particular piece of artwork, it could be an overheard snippet of conversation.”

Ashton said her poetry is composed through careful compi-lation and process.

“I compile fragments and sort through them,” she said. “For the majority of times, I’ve gotten some bit of insight that I will put down as a little thought, and when I have time to write, it’s been brewing.”

Ashton said she doesn’t often get to work from pure inspiration.

“I don’t have the lifestyle right now that al-lows me to write only by being struck,” she said.

Ashton will take the poet laureate post on April 1, the beginning of National Poetry Month.

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Matthew GerringStaff Writer

Poet laureate’s mission: Bring poetry to people

Persis KarimAssociate Professor,

English

“She has her own unique style and voice. She is an

excellent candidate for the poet laureate because she’s really

made a commitment to poetry.”

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Students enjoy fr ee food at the Associated Students House. Th e A.S. promoted its new scholarship program in which it is giving away awards totaling $81,500.

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King Library to use recycled water received aid from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which was enacted by Congress in re-sponse to the economic cri-sis in 2009.

“SJSU was one of the early adopters (of this program),” Isaacson said. “We’ve continued operat-ing using recycled water and we’re expanding its use here on campus.”

Cushing said SJSU plans to convert most of its main campus landscaping to recy-cled water this summer.

Drekmeier said recycled

water’s practicality extends beyond immediate and envi-ronmental benefits.

“People consider recycled water climate-proof because a lot of the water we count on now might not be avail-able in the future because of climate change,” he said. “San Jose State University is helping to protect its future water assets. It is going to be in much better shape than organizations that really aren’t thinking ahead.”

Evelyn Thorne, president of the SJSU environmental club, said she was glad SJSU is becoming sustainable.

“I’m happy to hear 40 per-cent has been reduced — I hope the number goes up,” Thorne said. “What we do affects the Earth, and the

Earth affects us.” Isaacson said he felt that

implementing the use of re-cycled water was important, but hoped the award would help spur the educational process and raise awareness of recycled water’s applica-tions.

“We want people to know what is going on — we want people to understand recy-cled water and not be afraid of it,” he said. “You look at the water and it’s not gross. You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

“We figure you don’t real-ly need to use the same wa-ter for drinking that you do for watering grass. This is a big step for San Jose State’s water conservation pro-gram.”

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SJSU lecturer Sally Ashton

Benoit Delaveau found a way to incorporate his love for photography and the en-vironment.

It was through his study of the two that he decided to base his thesis on them.

Delaveau presented his master’s thesis defense to students and faculty on Monday in the Boccardo Business Complex.

A master’s thesis defense is when a graduate student looking to obtain his or her master’s degree presents re-search in front of a panel who decides to accept or reject the student’s efforts. The student is asked ques-tions regarding his or her work on the specific area of study and to explain the reasons for conducting re-search.

After the defense the committee discusses wheth-er the student has made a viable argument to obtain a degree.

After a short meeting by the committee, Delaveau was successful in obtaining his master’s degree.

“It’s fantastic,” he said. “It is not the end, but it is a very important day.”

Prior to working on his thesis, Delaveau graduated from Ecole Louis Lumiere, one of the top photography schools in France. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in sociol-ogy and mass communica-tions, with a minor in en-ergy conservation.

Delaveau presented his thesis work titled “Environ-mental impact of the Retail Photoprocessing Industry in Santa Clara County 1996 vs. 2006,” a project he worked on for three years.

He focused on the harm that photoprocessing caused to the environment, includ-ing energy use, silver release and water consumption.

Photoprocessing refers to when photos are printed onto paper using machines that are found at photo counters in stores, which was how most photos were printed prior to digital cam-eras.

Through a series of Pow-erPoint slides Delaveau discussed the process’ en-vironmental consumption starting at the photo lab, traveling through the wa-ter treatment plant and the

remains that flowed into the San Francisco Bay. Any harmful environmental ma-terials that were not collect-ed eventually ended up in the bay, one of the most no-ticeable of which was silver.

Tiana Rae Tran, junior environmental studies ma-jor, attended the thesis de-fense and found it to be edu-cational.

“It was amazing, he was very detailed about all his work,” Tran said. “He brought up a lot of really good points that new tech-nology will only bring up new environmental issues.”

Delaveau found that the switch to digital produced a major change in the re-sults. Because someone is now more likely to look at a photo on a computer screen rather than printing it out, Delaveau found a decrease in chemicals that were found in the area, as well as a decline of the amount of

photoprocessing machines.However, the amount of

energy the photoprocess-ing machines used dropped slightly when comparing years because the machines still had to be kept active for the same amount of time.

The two lab studies showed similar results ex-cept for what Delaveau re-ferred to as Lab #2, which saw a drop in energy be-cause the man who owned the photo shop turned off the machine more often than Lab #1 did.

Although photoprocess-ing machines have declined since 1996 and the amount of silver released into the environment has dropped, Delaveau found that en-ergy consumption is still a problem for the environ-ment.

He pointed to environ-mental factors such as the amount of energy it takes to view a photo on a computer

screen and the e-waste that consumer electronics pro-duce.

After the presentation Delaveau took questions from the committee before the announcement that he had received his masters.

Gary Klee, a professor of

environmental studies who was part of the committee, knew Delaveau when he was a teacher’s assistant for him.

“When he first came in he didn’t know what he wanted to do,” Klee said. “I suppose my major contribution was encouraging him to pursue

photography, which was his specialty.”

Delaveau mentioned that working on a thesis has an array of emotions that some-one goes through.

“You have ups and downs,” he said “Hopefully you have more ups than downs.”

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Benoit Delaveau gives master thesis disertation to panel of judges in front of an environ-mental studies class Monday.

Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Benoit Delaveau presents his fi ndings to students and panel after three years of research on the effects photoprocessing to the environment.

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Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Professor Arthur Kao’s artwork is a blend of Chinese traditionalism and American postmodernism. It is on display on the second fl oor of the King Library.

Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Arthur Kao uses watercolor to convey an interpretation of man and woman’s con-nection with the Japanese Sun God.

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The scars from the fi ghting went beyond the bombed-out buildings, bullet holes and charred rebel trucks. Rebels had suddenly become dis-trustful of those around them after the discov-ery Saturday that many pro-Gadhafi forces came from Benghazi’s own population.

Young men set up neighborhood watch groups to search for Gad-hafi loyalists and fend off another surprise attack.

It remained unclear who was governing the liberated east. Many members of the National Libyan Council had fl ed to nearby eastern cities and even to neighboring Egypt. The council lead-er, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, was in nearby Baida, his hometown. The council’s Benghazi headquarters was closed.

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Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Taiwan native Arthur Kao is retiring af-ter 22 years of teaching art history.

AT&T merger tests Obama’s ties to business sector

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WASHINGTON — AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA puts the Obama administra-tion in a bind as it tries to mend fences with a business community still upset over health care and fi nancial regu-latory overhauls.

President Barack Obama has tried to be more friendly to corporate America as he urges companies to boost their hiring to reduce the high unemployment rate. He also wants wireless Internet to be expanded to far-fl ung rural areas, something the acquisi-tion could foster.

But the Obama adminis-tration already is facing pres-sure from fellow Democrats and public interest groups to reject the deal, which would create a wireless behemoth and result in two companies — AT&T and Verizon Wire-less — controlling 70 percent of the cellular telephone mar-ket.

Consumer advocates warn that the combination would lead to higher prices for consumers, less inno-vation and even job losses through consolidation. And it could open the door to Verizon making a bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., now the fourth-largest provider, or to Sprint trying to gobble up smaller players.

For those reasons, ana-lysts said AT&T faces tough odds in securing the neces-

sary regulatory approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department during reviews that are expected to last a year.

“This is without question the biggest merger challenge the antitrust division has faced during the Obama ad-ministration,” said Robert Lit-an, a former Justice Depart-ment antitrust offi cial under President Bill Clinton.

He said AT&T has an “up-hill climb” to convince regu-lators that the transaction won’t reduce competition, though the Obama adminis-tration has yet to turn down a major corporate deal.

AT&T, one of the nation’s most politically infl uential companies, is poised for bat-tle.

AT&T spent $15.4 million lobbying Washington last year, the eighth-highest of all corporations. And it has ties to the White House — Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, is a former president of SBC Communications Inc., which purchased AT&T in 2005, cre-ating the current telecom gi-ant.

Unlike T-Mobile, AT&T is largely unionized and has support for the deal from the Communications Workers of America and the AFL-CIO, two infl uential Democratic constituencies.

And AT&T said that as part of the deal, it would expand its next generation wireless service, known as 4G, to 46.5 million more customers than planned — including T-Mo-

bile’s 34 million subscribers.The service would reach

95 percent of the U.S. popu-lation, including rural com-munities and small towns, helping achieve goals set by Obama and Federal Commu-nications Commission to con-nect “every part of America to the digital age,” AT&T said.

To counter concerns about the merger, AT&T also is pre-dicting better wireless service for its customers.

Lawmakers aren’t yet sold on the deal, given the in-creased industry consolida-tion that would take place. House and Senate commit-tees have promised hearings.

Analysts and antitrust ex-perts said any approval would have to come with tough con-ditions, such as forcing the new company to give up some of its airwaves in certain mar-kets to allow for continued competition.

The FCC also could re-quire AT&T to abide by tough rules guaranteeing open In-ternet access on its expand-ed wireless network, even though FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski last year pushed through so-called net neutral-ity rules that angered many Internet providers and con-gressional Republicans.

Such conditions usu-ally aren’t permanent, but still could demonstrate that open Internet access isn’t an onerous burden for wireless companies, said Mark Coo-per, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America.

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dom,” said engineering lecturer Jack McK-ellar. “It’s rare to execute such forms in ink: large brushes executing strokes.”

McKellar, a Zen Buddhist and fan of Kao’s works, described how the works on display represent solid art.

“There’s a lot of movement in art,” he said. “It moves from inside you, outward.”

But just like zen art, McKellar said, it’s not about the execution of basic movement.

“(The art) is a slice of life,” he said. “It’s clearer.”

After Kao fi nished his Ph.D. he taught at Kansas, then Hong Kong. He then offi cially immigrated to the United States, and spent his time as a visiting professor around what he describes as “half of the world,” traveling from art universities in Tokyo to the art pro-gram at Princeton University in New Jersey.

After the lectures and residencies abroad, his life became rooted. He married and had three children.

Kao took a professorship at SJSU and has taught art history, usually with a focus in Asian art, since 1988. He only has one lin-gering unfi lled desire.

“I never taught my brush styles any-where,” Kao said. “From what I know there is no accredited course anywhere on the style in which I paint.”

Kao said if the university ever asked him to teach a course on his blended style, he likely would, and that he encourages his in-terested students to let the SJSU art depart-ment know of their interests.

“I recently did a demo in one of my Asian art history courses,” he said. “The students were amazed. They wanted more.”

Kao’s current plan, though, is not to teach any time soon — he’s about to travel.

“I recently went to New Zealand and northern Europe,” he said. “I found amazing inspiration for my art. I look for-ward to wherever I go next. I want to take a cruise and paint pictures of my destina-tions.”

Still, Kao said what the future holds for him is yet to come — just as his style has been a fusion of East and West, old and new, his vibrancy will persist.

“I love blending the colors,” Kao said. “It puts a smile on my face.”

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The basic Internet service in Campus Village can only be accessed through mo-dems installed in each of the residences located through-out both Campus Village Buildings B and C. To con-nect to the Internet in Cam-pus Village, residents have to use an ethernet cable.

“It’s sad that we have to pay for upgraded Internet when we are paying for ev-erything else,” said CVC R.A. Caitlyn Ybarra. “It’s hard to do homework because it takes forever to upload and download assignments as well as other course mate-rial.”

Although the residential rooms have to utilize mo-dems to access the Internet, some of the common ar-eas in Campus Village have high-speed wireless Internet access. However, high-speed Internet access is installed specifically in those areas for meetings or conferences that off-campus and on-campus groups can use for a fee.

Each bedroom in Cam-pus Village comes standard with a modem that tops out at 512 kilobytes per second symmetrically, according to SJSU’s campus housing website. This means that the Internet connection speed sends and receives signals at the same speed.

CVA community assis-tant Jannie Archangel said that although wireless In-ternet is not available in student rooms, the Internet speed upgrade to five mega-bytes per second from one to three megabytes per sec-ond last year was a signifi-cant improvement.

Archangel said wireless Internet service has never been considered in Cam-pus Village residences since University Housing Services are trying to keep the costs down.

Ybarra said the Internet

connection overall in her room at CVC is unreliable and sometimes makes her frustrated. She mentioned that there are times the In-ternet just stops working when she needs it most.

Despite the slow connec-tion, students can upgrade to faster connection speeds for a fee. All students have to do is contact SJSU’s Uni-versity Technology Servic-es.

For $24.99 per month, students can purchase the five megabyte-per-second Internet speed increase. The speed increase targets hard-core Internet users and is for downloading and online

gaming, according to the UTS website.

“Even at $25 a month, it’s just not fast enough,” said Weston Furia, a freshman mechanical engineering ma-jor. “They should offer a 10 megabyte-per-second up-grade instead of 5 mbps.”

Furia said the only major problem with the Internet service in Campus Village is that there are too many people using the same con-nection.

“It’s an inconvenience to rearrange my furniture just to be able to go on the In-ternet,” he said. “So one of my roommates installed a wireless router and shares his connection with the rest of us.”

Furia said residents should not pay for upgraded Internet and that it should come standard since SJSU is in the Silicon Valley.

Undeclared freshman Mason Williams said the Internet connection is de-cent and functional until his roommates start playing video games online. Online gaming requires the use of Internet bandwidth and with several residents play-ing, it adds up.

According to UTS, its goal is to provide cutting-edge technologies to their clients at reasonable prices. UTS currently provides service to more than 3,000 students and residences on campus.

Overall, students feel the Internet connection in Campus Village needs to be upgraded or refined to bet-ter suit its users.

Campus Village WiFi shows poor performance

Three dimensions of mediocrity

Tuesesday, March 22, 2011 5TECHPARTAN ails D Y

Nic AguonStaff Writer

TECH COMMENTARY

I recently went to see a movie at my local movie the-ater, a noble endeavor to be sure.

When I arrived I noticed that the movie I was go-ing to see was playing in two different theaters, one shown in the regular, 2-D way, and one shown in the 3-D format. I also noticed the significant price hike between the two. The ex-perience left me with one thought — 3-D is killing the film industry.

The way 3-D imagery works is deviously simple.

The human brain takes in images through its two eyes, which each send dif-ferent packets of informa-tion back to the brain. The brain then compares the information and develops a three-dimensional image.

3-D movies work by tak-ing advantage of this func-tion of the brain. The two-dimensional movie is played slightly out of focus, then the movie-goer’s specialized glasses refine the blurry im-age so the brain can inter-pret it as a 3-D image pop-ping out of the screen.

3-D is a clever piece of engineering, but not one the movie industry needs.

The 3-D gag was fi rst used way back in the 1980s to draw a crowd to the b-movie that producers knew wasn’t going to sell very well, be-cause if you can’t give the audience a good movie, then you can at least distract them from the fact that they are watching a bad movie.

This is the exact same tactic that they are using today. Would anybody have gone to see “The Last Air-bender” or “Alice in Won-derland” had they not been presented in 3-D? Probably, but they certainly wouldn’t have made as much money as they did.

When I went to go see “Alice in Wonderland” I felt rather cheated after paying the extra few dollars to be able to see Johnny Depp in weird makeup pop out of the screen at me. I even saw the film a second time, this time in boring old 2-D and felt the film was much im-proved without the distrac-tion of 3-D enhancement.

Hollywood isn’t content just to leave this phenom-enon where it is.

My heart broke a little when Lucas Arts Inc., a company which has already hurt me three time before, announced that they will be re-releasing all six of the Star Wars films in 3-D start-ing next year.

This makes me worried about what other classics I will see cannibalized by this format in the future.

Should we all be looking forward to Charles Foster Kane hurling newspapers at audience members’ faces, or the Chief putting that pil-low over our heads in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?”

And it’s not just the the-aters we should be worried about.

This technology is start-ing to seep into the home enwvironment as well, with the advent of 3-D televi-sions and gaming systems, such as Nintendo’s upcom-ing handheld console the 3DS.

Video games are a spe-cial case in the issue of 3-D device, because un-like movies and television, the introduction of 3-D to games can change the actu-al experience you get from it, but the problem comes from the video game indus-try’s ability to use the tool correctly.

If game developers can actually introduce an as-pect to a game that not only integrates 3-D visuals into its gameplay, but also makes the feature a positive point for the game then I am all for it.

If I’m going to be paying an extra $20 a game just to see pixelated images look like they’re in front of me, then I have a problem.

The fact of the matter is that if three-dimensional technology doesn’t bring anything to the table for these media, there is no way that it will make the experi-ence any better.

People have to start see-ing 3-D technology for what it is — a gimmick.

Photo illustration: Brian O’Malley

Wireless routers such as this one found in Campus Village Building B are the primary access points for residents using wireless Internet in their dorms.

Nate MorottiStaff Writer

“People need to start seeing

3-D technology for what it is —

a gimmick.”

“It’s an inconvenience

to rearrange my furniture just to be able to go on the Internet.”

Weston FuriaMechanical engineering

Tuesday, March 22, 20116 A&E PARTAN ails D Y

With an extraterrestrial twist on the road trip genre, “Paul” tugs at the heartstrings while tickling the funny-bone.

A script fi lled with com-edy and purpose and a multi-tude of guest appearances made for a heartwarming, though not groundbreaking, fl ick.

The fi lm, written by “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” stars Si-mon Pegg and Nick Frost, does a decent job of weaving together the story of two British geeks who happen upon a little green alien and help him try to fi nd his way home.

After enjoying a weekend at the famous Comic-Con in San Di-ego, science fi ction writer Clive (played by Frost) and his friend Graeme (played by Pegg) embark on an RV tour of UFO hotspots such as Area 51 and Roswell.

Soon after visiting the Black Mailbox, a landmark on the out-skirts of Area 51, the two friends witness a highway car crash.

When they search the wreckage they are welcomed by a small crea-ture lighting a cigarette — yes, hi-lariously, the alien smokes.

Clive immediately faints before the alien can introduce himself as Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen).

Rogen’s laid-back baritone voice lends an unexpected but unmistakably lovable aspect to the title character — with the anima-tors adding some Rogen-esque fa-cial movement for fl avor.

Graeme asks if the alien will conduct an anal probe on the two friends, a common occurrence

in alien movies, and Paul cracks “Why does everyone ask that? What am I, harvesting farts?”

Paul conveys to Graeme that he merely needs assistance in avoiding “the big guy,” otherwise known as the U.S. government, in an attempt to return to his home planet.

Graeme agrees to bring Paul aboard the RV.

Agent Zoil (played by Ja-son Bateman) is in hot pursuit of Paul, who escaped from captivity in Area 51 with the help of an inside man, because his boss intends to kill the alien to experi-ment on his body.

Bateman is a smooth operator, portraying a secret-keeping, hell-bent agent with perfection.

The roles of brainless side-kick agents were fi lled by Bill Hader, who you can’t help but love, and Joe Lo Gruglio, whose idi-ocy induces laughs.

Once Clive awakens, Paul tells him and Graeme that he looks so much like aliens in pop culture because his face has been used as the image for aliens since he landed in Wyoming 60 years prior.

In that time it seems Paul has picked up on that culture, as he makes several funny impressions of famous aliens throughout the fi lm.

These references kept the lev-ity of the movie alive, allowing it to acknowledge that it was one of many fi lms in the alien genrewhile separating itself with a self-referential approach.

Paul also reveals his two extraterrestrial powers — invis-ibility while holding his breath and healing via molecular manipula-tion.

These, combined with the alien’s inclination to smoke marijuana make him the coolest extraterres-

trial since Stitch.Eventually, Zoil’s boss shows up

— ironically played by Sigourney Weaver, star of “Alien” — and chaos ensues.

This guest appearance highlights Pegg and Frost’s use of fellow celebrities for comedic purposes.

Others in the fi lm include Jef-frey Tambor, Jane Lynch and “X-Files” star Blythe Danner.

Pegg and Kristen Wiig (who played Ruth) had an adorable chemistry, encapsulating a geek’s greatest dream of getting the girl without changing personality.

Director Greg Mottola, known

for “Superbad,” pieces the duo’s script together well.

Mottola does not take the fi lm too seriously or sell its inspiration-al motives short.

Paul advises Clive to use the extraterrestrial experience to encourage his writing and tells Graeme to be himself.

Mottola keeps it simple, avoid-ing overdone camera wizardry and instead brings a crisp vision to the screen.

The movie also boasts a great soundtrack, using everything from Marvin Gaye to Electric Light Orchestra, the B-52s to a cowboy

swing version of the cantina song from “Star Wars.”

The rendition was an amazing touch, perhaps a little out of place for a random Wyoming tavern but completely in line with the fi lm’s nerdy attitude.

Frost and Pegg combined to form a fantastic duo, a bromance without much romancing neces-sary.

While “Paul” will not go down as a comedic classic, it does break the mold of road trip movies, com-bining the genre with more nerdy fare to create a sassy and sweet cinematic endeavor.

Daniel HerberholzSenior Staff Writer

Humorous ‘Paul’ puts a spin on alien fi lm genre

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“What are your plans for after college?”

For me, this is the single worst question I can be asked.

Every time I attend a fam-ily function or see an old friend this subject somehow surfaces, bringing with it the uncertainties surrounding the impending doom known as graduation.

While graduating from college is an honor that I will be extremely proud of, I can’t help but feel a crushing weight that I have to decide what I am going to do with the rest of my life.

The amount of people around me taking the next big step in their life only in-tensifi es this pressure.

Take my family, for exam-ple. I have 19 cousins and I am the fourth youngest.

All of the eldest children are currently living the Amer-ican Dream.

In the last year, three of my cousins have gotten engaged, two had babies and now my sister is pregnant.

A few of my cousins are on their fourth child and I haven’t even graduated from college.

My family members aren’t the only ones moving on with their lives.

In my tiny hometown the harsh reality is if you don’t es-cape to college you end up do-ing one of two things: working seasonal tourism jobs or getting married and hav-ing children.

The major-ity of the people settling down are at least two years younger than me.

These people were still in high school long after I became in-dependent and are now a step or two ahead of me.

In our modern society, the younger generations are constantly being encouraged, pushed even, to take the next step in their lives.

The voices of our elders are echoing in our ears urging us forward — go to college, get a job, get married, have chil-dren, be successful.

It’s all just a little stressful.I have enough of a chal-

lenge completing my classes while working and maintain-ing a social life without hav-ing to worry about what I am going to do with the rest of my life.

Mentors and teachers are constantly asking me what

I’m going to do next.In high school, the ques-

tions were formed around what college I was going to attend.

In college, they were more targeted toward what I was going to major in, where I was going to intern, whether I’m going to graduate school or where I want to have my fi rst job.

Why is it that I have to make a decision on how I want to spend the next 50 years?

What is wrong with just living in the now?

I completely understand it is smart to plan ahead, to view my future and follow a path.

I am currently doing that but I can only plan for so much and most of the time, the plans I make for my life end up getting changed.

As a fresh-man, I started out as a nursing major and some-where along the road I turned into a journal-ist.

It’s a com-plete mystery where that switch came from, but the point is that I never planned to be where I am

now and I am sure that will be true in the years to come.

I have no idea what I am doing after college.

I don’t know when I want to get married or when I want children.

I don’t know where I will be living this summer, let alone a year from now, and I don’t know where I will end up working.

What I do know is I am determined to enjoy each day and will confront those life-altering decisions when the time comes.

“Ya Know What I Mean?” is a weekly column appearing on Tuesdays. Jaimie Collins is a Spartan Daily A&E Editor.

A natural state for humans is the fear of the unknown. We are threatened by things we don’t understand.

Several examples come to mind, such as AIDS being spread by simple human touch and the end of the world through Y2K.

In these situations, we were simply over-reacting and so is the case with Americans rushing to buy potassium iodide pills in fear of radiation exposure from Japan’s damaged nuclear reactors.

Numerous reports have confirmed that some of Japan’s 55 reactors have experienced explosions, in some cases releasing large amounts of radiation.

More than 200,000 people living in Japan have been evacuated in fear of overexposure to the nuclear waste.

People living in close proximity to the blown-up reactors should evacuate immediately.

But the chance that large amounts of radiation will travel thousands of miles and pollute U.S. shores is similar to a large asteroid destroying San Jose State today.

According to an article from the New York Times, health experts said the plume’s radiation had been diluted enor-mously in its journey of thousands of miles and that — at least for now, with concentrations so low — its presence will have no health consequences in the United States.

There’s always a miniscule chance that the hundreds of scientific reports on the spread of radiation are wrong and the radiation will cause long-lasting health problems for the entire world.

After all, science is always evolving and new experiments can prove old theories to be wrong. But for now, I’ll take the

advice of the hundreds of scientific reports that say a nuclear waste epidemic won’t take over the world.

Still, Americans seem to believe the large radiation concentrations will take over our homeland like the Black Plague and have in-sisted on buying potassium iodide pills.

According to a Vancouver Sun article, in-dividual pills are being sold for as much as $15 on eBay, and the demand for them con-tinues to skyrocket.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration, the pills can help prevent ra-diation-induced cancer, but if used in high doses they could have side effects, including a diseased thyroid gland.

It’s possible that Americans taking the pills is a gamble that might help save them from exposure to lethal radiation. But there is also a strong possibility that the pills will be useless and instead make people sick in the process.

This isn’t to say that America should ignore what has happened in Japan completely.

The entire world needs to learn from what happened in Japan and begin preparing for its own potential nuclear di-sasters.

After all, California in particular could have a major earthquake in the coming years, and if one of our nuclear reactors is damaged, we would be facing the same problems as Japan.

Until our homeland is exposed to lethal radiation levels, don’t rush to buy the overpriced potassium iodide pills.

“Akeley’s Alley” is a weekly column appearing on Tuesdays. Joey Akeley is a Spartan Daily Copy Editor.

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As we pass through our daily lives, we seem to shut out the world around us, potentially to the decay of the world around us.

We live as individuals in the collective and in-dividualistic group that is society. On a daily basis we look to conform to oth-ers’ behaviors so we can achieve the status of being part of the “in-group” that is society.

What’s intriguing, though, is the search for defi nition of the rules and parameters by individuals to try to set rules for their own behavior.

We call it the search for consensus, and without it we are like a bunch of loose ends that seek gathering.

Since we’re looking to someone else’s ideas, we’re tuning out our own opin-ions on the matter. Not participating or not speaking means some seriously bad things can happen.

This dependence on others to solve the problem is sometimes called the by-stander effect, where individuals do not offer help or intervention in an emer-gency situation.

Here are some examples where the bystander effect comes into full effect. Crossing the intersection of Ninth and Santa Clara streets is a daily habit for many — one of SJSU’s parking struc-tures is just north of the crosswalk.

As groups amass they depend upon someone else to press the button to sig-nal the traffi c controller to allow the pedestrian crossings. Everyone believes

someone else has al-ready pressed the but-ton. I’ve observed a group waiting as long as 10 minutes before they cross. The crowd will build to hun-dreds, even on days like today in rainy weather.

This bunch and expectation to “just keep moving” is also another example of consensus logic — herd behavior. This is where the individuals

in a group move and act together with-out any planned direction.

This example borrows from last week’s Spartapalooza event: how the role of the individual student in the school culture functions in the larger picture without any objection to clearly detrimental events.

Spartapalooza highlighted how peo-ple should be moderate in their alcohol consumption and how men and women should not try to focus their defi ning identity on body image.

Unreal and illogical expectations can have damaging emotional, physical and social effects: though they persist in the microcosm that is the university, the students fail to see that actions have consequences. The event encouraged personal restraint by only moderately consuming alcohol and to fi nd defi ni-tion of self in terms other than body image.

I saw several heavily intoxicated stu-dents at a party the same day wearing

the very same free T-shirts that were given out with these messages. This sit-uational irony is just another instance where people knowingly ignore their ability to think for themselves.

The fi nal and most severe example of consensus behavior is groupthink, a term coined by Yale psychologist Irving Janis. This occurs when the group, of-ten consciously, makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a dete-rioration of “mental effi ciency, reality testing and moral judgment.”

In the news lately we have an ex-ample where the United States just chose not to act. The U.S. serves as a de facto world police by employing the single largest and most powerful stand-ing army in the world and housing the United Nations on its own soil.

Not acting — or not acting soon enough — can have implications. At-tacks by Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi has bodies lining the street.

The now-declared war against Libya, if declared a few weeks ago, could have prevented thousands of people from dy-ing.

If the United States chose to play a more active role sooner, innocent Lib-yan citizens would have never had to face bombings from their own dicta-tor. Though it may feel like rocking the boat, it is our duty.

The political blockades for acting or not acting and when to do something can be frustrating, but it is a key duty as free-thinkers to think for ourselves.

We are granted the liberty of indi-vidual thought in our society, and we are given the opportunity to take hold or forgo this freedom.

Important: The ability to think for oneself

Joey AkeleyAkeley’s Alley

Stop forcing me to grow up

too quickly

“The voices of our elders are echoing in our ears urging us forward — go to college, get

a job, get married, have children, be successful.”

Comment on any of these opinions at [email protected]

Jaimie CollinsYa Know What I Mean?

Leo PostovoitMultimedia Editor

Tuesday, March 22, 20118 SPORTS PARTAN ails D YGYMNASTICS

Freshman Julia Greer was recog-nized as Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year on Saturday night after the completion of the WAC Championships.

Greer, who was rejected a scholar-ship in gymnastics by a number of dif-ferent schools, was given an opportu-nity to compete on the balance beam for SJSU.

“Julia’s is just a story that’s un-believable,” said head coach Wayne Wright. “She was our last recruit. She was turned down by a lot of schools, as far as a scholarship.”

Wright said he needed a beam spe-cialist and thought Greer was really good.

“Julia was just phenomenal,” he said. “I said, ‘let’s give her a scholarship.’ She did beam and as the season went on, I said, ‘Julia, you’ll be Freshman of the Year.’”

Greer said she thought she was go-ing to be walking-on to the Sacramen-to State team, and was not promised a spot on the beam lineup.

She said Wright gave her a chance that no one else would.

“I thought I was going to go to Sac State, but obviously with a scholarship I was much more convinced,” Greer said. “He believed in me so I wanted to go here.”

Wright said Greer turned out to be an asset to the team on more than just the balance beam.

“We didn’t expect her to compete floor,” he said. “She ended up doing floor for us and being very consistent

and just doing a great job for us.”Greer said Wright had joked about

the award with her, but she hadn’t giv-en it much thought.

“Wayne kept teasing me and telling me how I would be,” she said. “I wasn’t sure but I was really excited about it. I worked really hard all year and I’m re-ally proud of this.”

Wright said he believes that win-ning this award will help Greer grow as a gymnast.

“She’s very talented,” he said. “I think anytime you win Freshman of the Year, it puts you in a position that you can get better and I think that Ju-lia will continue to get better.”

Greer said she is grateful for her spot on the team and proud of her award.

“It’s been a good experience and I just love doing beam and floor,” she said. “It’s so much fun here.”

Wright said he is pleased with her success and how well she has competed on the two events this season.

“We’re really proud of her tonight,” he said. “She’s just doing an outstand-ing job at representing San Jose State, especially as a freshman.”

Melissa SabileSports Editor

Spartan football team looking to redeem itself in 2011 seasonCOMMENTARY

Photo: Vernon McKnight / Spartan Daily

Freshman Julia Greer performs on the balance beam during the WAC Championships on Saturday.

The SJSU football team is looking to pick itself back up for the 2011 season after a 1-12 record in the program’s fi rst year under head coach Mike MacIntyre.

The Western Athletic Conference football sched-ules have been posted and though the Spartans are not facing the Bowl Champion-ship Series champions this

year, the team’s schedule may be just at tough as last year's.

The team will fi rst play No. 4 Stanford University for the 65th time in history in hopes for a better out-come than the school’s last two meetings at Stanford Stadium.

In 2009, the Spartans suf-fered a 42-17 loss to the Car-dinal sparked by two Toby Gerhart touchdown runs. The Spartans had a mere 228 passing yards, compared to Stanford’s 382.

The second game in line for SJSU is another Pac-12 matchup, as the team will head to Pasadena, Calif., to face UCLA.

Though UCLA fi nished with a record of 4-8, the team was still able to manage at least 24 points per game — SJSU was only able to earn more than 24 points in three games last season.

SJSU will host its home opener against Nevada and the Spartans have more to prove than ever against the Wolf Pack.

In 2009, the Spartans were stomped by the Wolf Pack at Spartan Stadium, losing 62-7. Last year, the Wolf Pack ran over the team again, but not without a fi ght as the fi nal score in Reno was 35-13.

Without the deadly arm and long stride of quarter-back Colin Kaepernick, who graduated, Nevada will have to fi nd strength within other facets of its team.

The Spartans will look for a win against the New Mexi-co State Aggies the week fol-lowing Nevada, and after last season’s last-minute, heart-breaking 29-27 loss, SJSU will be looking for revenge.

Next, SJSU will hit the road again for two consecu-tive away games against non-conference opponents Colo-rado State and BYU.

Following the roadtrip, the Spartans return for the Homecoming game against Hawaii. In their last matchup, the Spartans were unable to score more than one touch-down against the Warriors.

SJSU will have time to rest after the Homecoming game and will have a bye week be-fore three more conference matchups, starting with Lou-isiana Tech at the Bulldogs' home stadium.

The Idaho Vandals will

make their way to Spartan Stadium the fi rst week of November to take on SJSU. As the Spartans last game in the 2010 season, the 26-23 loss in overtime was perhaps the most gut-wrenching loss of the season.

Utah State is the next con-ference game and SJSU will travel to Logan, Utah, with aspirations to beat yet anoth-er team that edged the Spar-tans last season, this time by four points.

The team’s second-to-last game will be its last noncon-ference opponent as the Spar-tans will go up against the Naval Academy on Nov. 19.

The Spartans fi nal game of the season will be a much an-ticipated game as SJSU will travel to face its rival, Fresno State. The Bulldogs were able to beat the Spartans in their own home last season with a 33-18 fi nal score.

With Boise State no lon-ger in the WAC, the team back in action with 85 schol-arships, a 1 p.m. kickoff time for home games, a full year of recruitment under Ma-cIntyre and a new hopeful true freshman quarterback, the Spartans are aiming for a winning record this season and a way to reinvent them-selves and Spartan football.

“She’s just doing an outstanding job at

representing San Jose State, especially as a

freshman.”

Wayne WrightHead Coach

Melissa SabileSports Editor

*Conference games

Date Opponent Location TimeSept. 3 Stanford Stanford, Calif. TBA

Sept. 10 UCLA Pasadena, Calif. TBA

Sept. 17 Nevada* Spartan Stadium 1 p.m.

Sept. 24 New Mexico State* Spartan Stadium 1 p.m.

Oct. 1 Colorado State Fort Collins, Colo. TBA

Oct. 8 Brigham Young Provo, Utah TBA

Oct. 15 Hawaii* Spartan Stadium 1 p.m.

Oct. 22 BYE

Oct. 29 Louisiana Tech* Ruston, La. TBA

Nov. 5 Idaho* Spartan Stadium 1 p.m.

Nov. 12 Utah State* Logan, Utah TBA

Nov. 19 Navy Spartan Stadium 1 p.m.

Nov. 26 Fresno State* Fresno, Calif. TBA

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