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Volume 160 No. 31 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
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Herrlin resigns from A.S. Board By Enrique Gutierrez-Sevilla STAFF WRITER
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The Associated Students board of directors held a meeting to approve the resignation of A.S. director of internal affairs Magnus Herrlin and discussed funding for three recognized student organizations on Wednesday at the Student Union. Herrlin was not present at the meeting. According to Ikaika Rapanot, A.S. vice president, Herrlin’s resignation has been effective since March 30. Rapanot quoted a statement from Herrlin during the meeting saying, “I’m grateful for the privilege and opportunity to have represented the student body of San Jose State University. I enjoyed working with my fellow board members. I intend to continue uplifting the voices of the student body in other ways.” There were no points of discussion regarding the resignation, and the board eventually approved it. During a March 30 A.S. meeting, the board discussed Herrlin’s misconduct of not attending meetings without communicating his
Associated Students Board controller Antonio Maldonado speaks while sitting next to the empty chair of resigned Director of Internal Affairs Magnus Herrlin during the A.S. Board meeting in the Student Union on Wednesday afternoon.
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Health science lecturer honored with SJSU award way because some students at San Jose State can be somewhat shocked and horrified to hear somebody talk openly and San Jose State honored health expressively.” science and recreation lecturer Anji Buckner, assistant Kevin Roe with the 2022-23 professor for the Department of Outstanding Lecturer award. Public Health and Recreation, Roe has taught at SJSU since said she’s known Roe since they 2011 and has spent 25 years were earning their master’s in working and volunteering for public health at SJSU. public health organizations Buckner said Roe’s life including ones advocating for experience forced him into gay men’s sexual and community public health as he has actively health, HIV prevention and advocated for his own life and against anti-gay violence. fellow members of the LGBTQ+
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Damon Tighe explains the effects of the algal bloom at Lake Merritt during a webinar on Wednesday.
Flowers and algae: experts talk Bay Area biodiversity community ecology, a research topic that examines the interactions between different NEWS EDITOR species and ecosystems. “When we think about biodiversity it’s not, of course, just a list of species that are found Sunrise Silicon Valley, a Bay Area based in an ecosystem – it’s also about relationships nonprofit organization, hosted a webinar with [between] those species and that’s what we local experts in the biodiversity field on study,” Fukami said. Wednesday. He said a lot of his field work is conducted Aditi Anand, webinar host and hub at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, a field coordinator at Sunrise Silicon Valley, station that is a part of Stanford’s campus. Fukami researches microbial communities said the organization’s goal is to mobilize youth in Silicon Valley to demand climate in the nectar of sticky monkey-flowers, a change action from the local to national plant that is native to California. His research found that there is a relationship between the legislative level. The webinar featured three keynote microbes that live in the nectar of these flowers speakers who presented their research on and how pollinators, mainly hummingbirds, different topics based on biodiversity in the interact with them. Bay Area. “What we found is that when you have bacteria in nectar, then hummingbirds don’t Sticky monkey-flowers like going to nectar – maybe because it’s just the nectar is too sour,” Fukami said. “Then The first keynote speaker, Tadashi Fukami, plants are also in trouble because they need is a professor of biology and earth system BIODIVERSITY | Page 2 science at Stanford University. He studies By Rainier de Fort-Menares
I never hold back on anything that I’ve experienced either as a professional or as a community member. Kevin Roe health science and recreation lecturer
Roe said his life’s experience as a member of the LGBTQ+ community has helped him be a better lecturer. He said by sharing his personal experiences, he was able to aid students from the LGBTQ+ community, even if it didn’t always work in his favor. “I never hold back on anything that I’ve experienced either as a professional or as a community member,” Roe said. “I think sometimes it might get in the
community as a man with HIV. “His experiences and perspectives related to disparities, equity, healthcare discrimination and policy are essential to understanding our history and our potential,” she said. “I appreciate that Kevin is always ready for meaningful confrontation that will invite change.” Buckner said they both share LECTURER | Page 2