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Volume 159 No. 21 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY
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San Jose rallies for abortion rights Community members emphasize voting in midterm elections
By Vanessa Tran & Adrian Pereda STAFF WRITERS
Thousands of people across the U.S. rallied for reproductive rights Saturday afternoon including San Jose community members who took to the streets in Downtown San Jose, one month before midterm elections. That was part of the “Women’s Wave” day of action to emphasize that this year’s midterm elections
is a crucial time to cast ballots for candidates who support abortion rights. San Jose’s rally, which began at city hall and ended at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, featured speakers which included local Planned Parenthood representatives; mayoral candidate Cindy Chavez; state senator candidate Aisha Wahab; Jean Cohen, South Bay Labor Council executive officer; Omar Torres, San Jose District 3 councilmember candidate and other local leaders.
“One of the things that we have to know is that it’s not just abortion rights,” Chavez said. “It’s contraception that’s on the table, it’s gay marriage, it’s people’s individual civil rights.” Jonathan Karpf, San Jose State emeritus anthropology lecturer, organized the rally and said that protest was an important way for women in San Jose to voice their outrage. ABORTION | Page 2
Protesters demonstrate on the sidewalks in front of San Jose City Hall, located a block north of San Jose State, on Saturday afternoon. The rally was part of a nationwide action, in which protesters in cities across the U.S. marched for reproductive rights before the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Child Development Center: 50 years later SJSU affiliates reflect on center’s effects By Jeremy Martin
just looking for an easy class.” Foster said in creating the center and selecting a location, he and his Carl Foster expressed feelings of team needed to ensure it was held up nostalgia as he returned to San Jose to a high standard and was kid friendly, State campus on Sept. 18, fifty years which included having enough space after he created the university’s Child and short water fountains. Development Center. “As a matter of fact, the center started Foster created the center under the in St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Center for the Study of Contemporary South 10th Street and that was the first Issues, which was a series of site for the center, it was a brand-new lecture-format classes offered between church,” Foster said. Fall 1970 and Spring 1972 that was He said the first operational day for the administered by students and taught by center was on Sept. 18, 1972. SJSU faculty members. The Child Development Center “We were the third effort to start a remains a part of SJSU and is now childcare center,” Foster said. located on South Eighth Street, just Foster said the center developed across the street from campus. through one of those courses: the Child Jane Zamora, Child Development Care Center Research Action Group. Center director, said today, the center “I hand picked [15 students to work works to serve the campus community on the development of the center] by providing high-quality and affordable because I was determined to succeed,” CHILDREN | Page 2 he said. “I wanted people who weren’t STAFF WRITER
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Seven-month-old Tilden DeVries plays with a toy after his nap time at the Child Development Center, which is located on South Eighth Street, across from San Jose State, on Oct. 5.