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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Volume 160 No. 39 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
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City votes on awareness months By Dylan Newman STAFF WRITER
San Jose City Council convened on Tuesday to recognize and proclaim a series of holidays and month-long awareness efforts for the month of May. These holidays and awareness efforts include National Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Awareness Day, National Pet Month, Stroke Awareness Month and Arbor Day.
National Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Awareness Day Mayor Matt Mahan called upon District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz to declare May 5 as National Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Awareness Day. Ortiz said indigenous people across the nation face the issue of being murdered and going missing, and that it’s an epidemic. He waved up Sonya Tetnowski, chief executive officer at the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley. Tetnowski thanked San Jose’s city council for changing the color of the lights outside City Hall to the color red that represents victims who are indigenous people missing, murdered or trafficked from CITY COUNCIL | Page 2
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Members of Ensamble Folclórico Colibrí perform a traditional Mexican folklore dance during a city council meeting at City Hall on Tuesday.
Students protest pro-life event By Enrique Gutierrez-Sevilla STAFF WRITER
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SJSU students marched on Seventh Street on Tuesday in protest against a Turning Point USA event.
Mock Trial and Planned Parenthood Generation Action at San Jose State held a protest against the university’s Turning Point USA chapter pro-life event, “Protecting the Unborn,” outside the Student Union Theatre on Tuesday. Turning Point USA is a nonprofit conservative student organization that educates students to promote freedom, according to its website. Turning Point USA advocates for antiabortion laws and Second Amendment rights. Mock Trial is a recognized student organization registered under the American Mock Trial Associate, where students learn, practice and exercise public speaking, critical thinking, legal reasoning, teamwork and other skills, according to its website. Jessica Vu, sociology senior, is the data manager of Planned Parenthood Generation Action at SJSU and supported the protest. Planned Parenthood Generation Action at SJSU is an organization on campus where students hope to educate and advocate for the reproductive and sexual justice movement, according to its Instagram. “I’m here today to make sure we have friendly spaces on campus,” Vu said. She said Turning Point USA at SJSU makes rude remarks to students on campus about their bodies. Environmental science junior Kaylan Wells said she was in an altercation PROTEST | Page 2