NAMED NATIONAL FOUR-YEAR DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR FOR 2020-21 IN THE COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION’S PINNACLE AWARDS
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022
Volume 159 No. 24 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY
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Application goes Borrowers can now apply for student debt relief • The Student Loan Debt Relief application officially opened on Monday.
• Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year can apply for relief up to $20,000 if they received a Pell Grant and up to $10,000 if they didn’t.
• The application will remain open until Dec. 31, 2023. • The application is available at There are still some legal challenges awaiting studentaid.gov – it takes less than five minutes judgment and the upcoming midterm elections and there is no log in or supporting documents could uld potentially add more delays. required. • The Education Department, which directly holds $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt owed by 45 million borrowers, said it had begun “beta testing the student debt relief website” on Friday. • The agency said it hoped the test would reveal any problems before the site publicly opened. • On Monday, Biden said more than eight million people applied during the beta-test period. Those people do not need to resubmit.
INFOGRAPHIC BY BRYANNA BARTLETT; SOURCE: MONDAY WHITE HOUSE NEWS RELEASE
Tommie Smith and John Carlos: honored in 54th anniversary By Alessio Cavalca STAFF WRITER
San Jose State community members gathered Thursday in front of the Olympic Black Power Statue, which depicts track and field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, to celebrate their legacy. In the 1968 Olympic Games, Smith won the 200-meters race while Carlos finished third. During the medal ceremony on Oct. 16, Smith and Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist while the U.S. national anthem was playing, in protest of racial segregation in the U.S. at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City. BRANDON TWOMEY | SPARTAN DAILY
San Jose State officials, along with city and state leaders hold up a check for $9 million, which is funding for the construction of a new track & field facility, in front of the Olympic Black Power Statue on Thursday morning.
University receives funding for new public track & field
In this day and age, students remain in their position and have the obligation to be agents for change. Tomorrow belongs to you and it should take shape the way you want it. Ken Noel
By Brandon Twomey STAFF WRITER
San Jose State announced in a news conference Thursday that it will be building a new Track & Field facility at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, about two miles south of campus. SJSU signed an exclusive contract with Santa Clara County in April to discuss the feasibility of building the Speed City Legacy Center and Track and Field Facility on a nine-acre piece of land located in the fairgrounds. In front of the Olympic Black Power Statue, members from the university administration and athletics thanked
Olympic Project for Human Rights co-founder
those who helped gather $9 million in funds to develop the facility. The announcement comes 54 years after Tommie Smith and John Carlos made the salute to racism and injustice against Black people in the United States at the Mexico City Olympics, which is depicted in the Olympic Black Power Statue. California State assembly member Ash Kalra and Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County supervisor and mayoral candidate, helped the university get the funding it needed. SJSU Interim President Steve Perez said the track will be
The “Smith-Carlos Day,” an annual event but was not held in the last two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, featured speakers who talked about the meanings of Smith and Carlos’ historic action, illuminating the importance of social justice movements. Speakers included sociology professor Scott Myers-Lipton, Interim President Steve Perez and Diana Victa, Cesar E. Chavez Community Action Center department manager.
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