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Community aids local photo shop Foto Express owner says ‘no more’ after local residents and university students raise thousands By Saumya Monga STAFF WRITER

Several San Jose State students and local community members have helped raise more than $35,400 in support of a downtown photo shop suffering severe water damage from a water pipe burst on Sept. 17. SJSU alumnus Henry Chang has run Foto Express, which is located at 304 E. Santa Clara St. about one block north of the university, since 1987. “The water pipe from the end of the Seventh Street [and] San Fernando [Street] broke so all the streets got flooded so it’s not just me,” Chang said, adding the burst was the second time water has damaged his store this year. Julia Nichols, a Downtown San Jose resident and frequent Foto Express customer, initiated a GoFundMe page intended to crowdsource donations for the store and help provide store upgrades, better ventilation and water damage protection. GoFundMe is a platform that allows people to crowdfund for events and other challenging circumstances, according to its website. Nichols said Chang felt bad about receiving so many donations and upon his request, she disabled new donations for the GoFundMe on Sept. 27. Chang asked for the donations to stop because he’s waiting for some “crucial steps” in the reparation process, according to the GoFundMe page. “[Chang was] like ‘please, no more donations’ but I’m sure it could have kept PHOTO BY EVAN REINHARDT | SPARTAN DAILY

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SJSU alumnus Henry Chang, who has been operating Foto Express since 1987, develops film in his water-damaged store.

Campus Voices

Spartans speak on building access policy tudents, faculty and staff are now required to utilize their tower cards as keys to enter academic buildings. The policy was initially slated to be instituted on Sept. 6 but it was pushed back to begin on Oct. 4 to accommodate the semester’s “transitional nature,” stated Traci Ferdolage, senior associate vice president of facilities development & operations, in a Sept. 10 email.

Desiree Tabizon marketing and sociology senior

When I was trying to use my tower ID [card] to get into one of the buildings, I had to put down my skateboard, open up my backpack, open up my wallet and then get my tower card. It was kind of embarrassing.

The policy was put in place for enhanced campus mpus security and safety. The requirement was also implemented to identify ntify locations where deeper sanitization protocols are needed, according to the SJSU health advisories ories website. Many students have varying opinions on the new university policy.

Marissa Mendoza chemistry senior

I know a lot of people are having issues with it, even my professor in her first year didn’t get [a tower card] for a while and she’s said, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get in’ and we just said, ‘we can let you in.’

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Paola Duran business administration junior

I think it’s just inconvenient. I don’t hate it, I don’t love it. I understand why they’re doing it but it’s kind of unnecessary.

Shane Skavdahl history and philosophy senior

Ultimately, I think it’s a good move and I think they just didn’t do as well relaying information about tower card requirements as they probably should have.

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DOWNTOWN Continued from page 1 going if I kept it up,” Nichols said. Although Chang asked for the GoFundme page to stop, he said he was grateful for the assistance. “I cannot describe my gratitude and I’m very humbled for people’s love and support,” Chang said. SJSU graphic design senior Debbie Lam said she appreciates Foto Express’s close proximity to campus as she often picks up photos and supplies in between her classes. “I’m so proud and happy to be in our photo community because pretty much right after we all heard about it, there’s immediately a GoFundMe set up and it went to like a good 30,000 [dollars] in a couple days,” said Lam, who runs SJSU Photo Guild, a student-run photography club organization. Chang said he is just taking it “day by day” as repairs are being done to the store but is overwhelmed by the support of San Jose’s photography community. To get repaired, one of the walls has to be broken down, according to the Sept. 24 ABC7 News article. Chang is concerned about what effect the wall cutting will have on his expensive equipment especially with debris, according to the same ABC7 News article.

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After a water pipe burst on Santa Clara Street in Downtown San Jose, the photo shop Foto Express’ wall and machinery were damaged.

“[San Jose] is not really very well known for photography and having a lot of access to

photos taken using physical plastic strips of film that have to be chemically developed,

Just the type of person that [Henry] is really has [aﬀected] people in a very positive way and he just knows what he’s doing. He’s good at what he does. People look up to him and revere him for being in something that’s considered a dying art. Julia Nichols Downtown San Jose resident, frequent Foto Express customer

“My machine is kind of older and hard to replace so I’m kind of worried it’s damaged and . . . I try my best but [the store] may not [come] back,” Chang said. Local photographer Aljed Solis said photo shops including Foto Express are sparse in San Jose.

print shops that develop the film so it’s great to have this around,” Solis said. “And then plus the owner is always so nice and he always gets your pictures right on time.” Solis said shops including Foto Express keep the art of film photography alive. Film photography involves

according to the Masterclass website. Masterclass provides people with accessible, online classes, according to its website. About 57% of photographers have been either returning to film or trying it for the first time, according to a 2018 survey by IFord Photo, a manufacturer

that provides film and other photography products. In the survey, more than 6,800 individuals participated from more than 100 countries, according to the survey. Julia Nichols also echoed the love for photography that she said is shared by many Foto Express customers. “There’s just something about film photography that’s very warm and homey and just beautiful in its own way and a lot of people have begun to notice that again,” Nichols said. Henry Chang said he joined the business because he loves film photography and wanted to help others further their passions for it. “Because of technology change, a lot of [photo shops] closed down. We [are] still doing film and processing . . . [Film brings] back memories, those joys [you]

cannot describe,” Chang said. Nichols said Chang is always willing to give others his wisdom and help every person who walks into his store. “Just the type of person that [Henry] is really has [affected] people in a very positive way and he just knows what he’s doing,” Nichols said. “He’s good at what he does. People look up to him and revere him for being in something that’s considered a dying art.” Chang said he loves seeing people discover old photographs of people who’ve passed away. He said his favorite part of film photography is the creativity of capturing those special moments, adding people say a picture’s worth 1,000 words.

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OPINION

THURSDAY, OCT. 7, 2021

New Apple phones are wallet-draining scams Don Le STAFF WRITER

Don’t normalize thousanddollar smartphones. That is more than a month’s worth of rent in Downtown San Jose, you know this. Imagine how much of that money could go toward school, groceries or anything else a broke college student needs to survive. Instead of spending at least $699 on a smartphone from Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 13 line, save your money and stick with your current iPhone or smartphone. The newest iterations of Apple’s devices include: iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, according to a Sept. 24 Apple news release. The lower-priced, 128-gigabyte products include the $699 5.4-inch iPhone 13 Mini and the $799 6.1-inch iPhone 13 according to the same Apple news release. The “higher-end” models include the 6.1-inch iPhone 13 Pro, which ranges in price from $999 to $1499 and 6.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max, which ranges from $999 to $1599, according to the same news release. The prices correlate to the hard drive sizes that differ from 128GB to 1 terabyte, according to the news release. Apple stated in the news release that the Pro and Max were “redesigned inside and out” with the “most advanced camera system ever” and Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion, improved battery life and an

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A15 Bionic chip. The Super Retina XDR display has improved contrast, higher brightness and a cinema-standard color gamut, according to the Apple Support website. Apple’s new processor, the A15 Bionic chip, has 15 billion transistors, new graphics and artificial intelligence abilities that are higher, faster and supported by a new graphics processing unit, according to the same website. Transistors are the core circuitry elements that process and store data on chips and the iPhone 13’s count is significantly more than the 11.8 billion on the A14 chip, which powers the 2020 iPhone 12 models. Don’t be fooled by Apple’s iPhone 13-line marketing, it barely makes any technological leaps beyond its cheaper predecessors, the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 11, which were first introduced in

2020 and 2019 respectively. The reality is if you have a smartphone from the iPhone 12 or iPhone 11 lines, you should skip this update unless your current device is in bad shape from wear and tear. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 products are hardly different. They both have 5G support, which is the fastest cellular network on the market, 6.1-inch screens, speedy processors, great camera qualities and storage support, according to Apple’s Compare iPhones Models webpage. However, the iPhone 11 line lacks two main components that separate it from the iPhone 13 products: 5G support and camera quality, according to the same Apple webpage. The iPhone 11 is only two years old. It’s probably working perfectly well for most of its owners. While purchasing decisions

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will be different depending on your personal needs, budget or the functionality of your current phone, you shouldn’t subject yourself to Apple’s costly “best” products out of company loyalty, product hype or social status. Cheaper doesn’t mean bad. I personally own a $399 second-generation iPhone SE that was introduced in April 2020. The iPhone SE has a 12 megapixel camera and A13 Bionic chip, which also powers the iPhone 11 product line, according to the Apple iPhone SE webpage. The SE model is a durable, high-quality phone that’s basically the iPhone 11 but about $200 cheaper. Older iPhones go down in price every year. The iPhone 11 and iPhone 12, two perfectly fine and former flagship phones in their own rights, currently start at about $499 and $699 respectively,

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according to the Apple website. You can even get one of Apple’s refurbished iPhone products, which are pre-owned products that’ve been returned to Apple by customers who ran into some kind of defect, according to a Dec. 1, 2020 buying guide by MacRumors, a website that aggregates Mac and Apple related news and reports. The pre-owned smartphones include those refurbished through Apple’s recycling program, in which Apple repairs products and replaces faulty parts before re-selling thorugh the online store, according to MacRumors’ buying guide. Just because Apple dangles a new “best ever” product line every year like juicy bait, doesn’t mean you have to bite.

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Jose Garcia Jr., kinesiology senior and club wrestling coach, helps a wrestler with techniques at practice on Sept. 27 in the Spartan Recreation and Aquatic Center Mac Gym.

Student coach & trainer flips club wrestling By Estevan Lopez

he and Garcia started coaching the wrestling team in 2018, a winning When looking to start atmosphere was slowly a fitness-lifestyle journey, being created. San Jose State students “In Fall 2019 we got may consider talking to the wrestling club to our kinesiology senior Jose first tournament in years. Garcia Jr. who’s been For a while, the club guiding many Spartans wasn’t super operational toward athletic and and we were just doing healthy lifestyles. When Garcia started as a freshman at SJSU in 2018, he said he chose to major in kinesiology because of his passion for fitness. Garcia said his major equipped him with more knowledge and connections in the fitness world that helped him on his path to become a coach and personal trainer. “I started my own coaching business, online coaching and in-person coaching and just doing stuff like [fitness instructing],” Garcia said. “Now I coach the [SJSU] wrestling [club] team.” Mechanical engineer senior Robert Terhell, who’s an SJSU club wrestler and volunteer Robert Terhell coach said Garcia is a big mechanial engineer senior, part of the wrestling team volunteer club because he brings years of wrestling coach knowledge that can help younger wrestlers. “[Garcia] br ings practices and were a intensity to practice bit unorganized and because of his [uplifting] scattered,” Terhell said. motivation,” Terhell said. “[Garcia and I] brought “[He has the] ability to some order to the club . . drive people to push . we got shoes on the mat themselves as well as and San Jose a singlet in having the know-how and the tournament.” knowledge of the body, to Garcia said wrestling some degree.’’ competitors must go Terhell said once through rigorous weight STAFF WRITER

[Garcia] brings intensity to practice because of his [uplifting] motivation. [He has the] ability to drive people to push themselves as well as having the know-how and knowledge of the body, to some degree.

training to meet a certain weight class, which initially inspired him to educate himself on his own body as he was growing up. “[I wanted to keep] learning more about my body and [learn] how I can push my limits,” Garcia said. “So I started working out [and] weight lifting when I was 15 [years old]. I liked weight training and going to the gym by myself and just learned how to do all of these things and I grew a passion for it.” Garcia also attributes jujutsu for sparking his love of being active in the sixth grade even though he said traditional sports always bored him. “I was never active at all,” Garcia said. “Even to this day I don’t watch football, basketball [or] baseball . . . I don’t like to watch any of those sports.” Garcia said by the seventh grade he was wrestling with high school students and developed knowledge and an understanding of the sport earlier than others. He also said wrestling as a kid and young adult helped mitigate his struggles with self confidence and appearance. “I used to be a little overweight and I [got bullied] so finding wrestling and learning more about my body and doing stuff [exercise] that was really a big motivation for me,” Garcia said. Polaris Teen Center, a website that helps

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