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Volume 159 No. 25 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934
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SJSU sparks sustainable solutions Community members: how to combat climate change By Alessio Cavalca STAFF WRITER
San Jose State community members gathered Tuesday on Seventh Street Plaza for the “Cool Solutions for a Warming Planet,” an event aimed to address climate change issues. California State Senator Dave Cortese gave a speech during the event
focusing on what measures California is currently taking to combat climate change as well as how happy he felt to see students at the event. “It’s always great to see so many young leaders here today and there will continue to be opportunities, lots of opportunities, for youth and to be [part of] this climate movement,” Cortese said. He said he thinks climate literacy is the next big step to take. “California currently has over 3,200 fellows in their cause for network,” Cortese said. “We’re all working to better their community and, of course, fight the good fight.” He said he was proud of bringing the California Climate Action Board, the statewide coalition environmental stewards and next generation leaders at SJSU. The California Climate Action Board is a multi-agency team that coordinates
ALESSIO CAVALCA | SPARTAN DAILY
California State Senator Dave Cortese talks about the state’s efforts to combat climate change issues at a podium in front of several San Jose State community members Tuesday on Seventh Street.
Few climate service project participants, including many college students in that program, can directly impact climate action for the greater good, as well as engage in climate education. Dave Cortese
California State Senator
the state’s climate efforts, according to its website. “Few climate service project participants, including many college students in that program, can directly impact climate action for the greater good, as well as engage in climate education,” Cortese said. Besides the event speakers, “Cool Solutions for a Warming Planet,” spotlighted vendors who, through their businesses, looked to spotlight climate change issues. CLIMATE | Page 5
SJSU students win grand prize during Intel’s ‘hackathon’ By Brandon Twomey STAFF WRITER
Two San Jose State students won grand prizes during Intel’s AI For Social Good Hackathon event at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in Downtown San Jose on Sept. 26. The hackathon featured students who showcased their machine learning skills, were taught how to build full end-to-end products and had the opportunity to study MLOps pipelines using data ingestion to model their deployments. MLOps is a machine learning engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying ML (machine learning) system development and system operation. Attendees would also automatically qualify to attend “Intel Innovation,” which is an event where Intel displays their latest advancements in AI technology. The reward given to the winning team was an Intel NUC 12 Pro X Kit, which consists of a small-form-factor computer. This $1,400 kit comes with a 4.90 GHz processor chip which can be used towards the 64 GB memory card inside the computer. Ankur Singh, who is pursuing his masters degree in computer software engineering at SJSU, and Tirupati Venkata Sri Sai Rama Raju Penmatsa, who is also pursuing his masters degree in computer software engineering at SJSU, were the grand prize winning team of the Hackathon event. Singh said it was so important to him that he had won the entire competition, and winning had revealed his talents to himself. “Winning this competition has boosted my confidence a lot,” Singh said. “It’s kind of a validation TECH | Page 2
PHOTO COLLAGE BY BRYANNA BARTLETT; SOURCE: U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT OCT. 5 RULING
Appeals court rules against DACA; program continues By Adrian Pereda
had no legal authority to create the program, according to an Oct. 12 NBC News article. On Oct. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Many undocumented students are at potential risk of issued a decision on the DACA policy in which it partially deportation as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals affirmed the district court’s July 2021 decision declaring the (DACA), the only policy that allows them to continue to gain policy unlawful, according to the U.S. Citizenship and an education safely in the U.S., may have its days numbered. Immigration Services DACA webpage. Introduced during former President Barack Obama’s term However, the court of appeals preserved the partial stay in 2012, the policy has been in place for a little over a decade. issued by the district court in July 2021 and remanded the However, DACA recipients are worried as the Fifth Circuit of Appeals has announced that the Obama administration DACA | Page 2
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