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SJSU faculty demands pay raises CSU Chancellor visits campus; unionized faculty members hope to bargain By Christina Casillas NEWS EDITOR
San Jose State faculty members gathered on campus to demand pay raises as the California State University Chancellor Joseph Castro met with stakeholders in Clark Hall Monday. About 20 California Faculty Association (CFA) members attended the call to action in front of the academic building. CFA is a collective bargaining organization for 24,000 CSU tenure-track faculty, coaches, counselors, librarians and lecturers according to the SJSU CFA website. Nikos Mourtos, aerospace engineering chair, professor and SJSU CFA chapter president, said the group is bargaining for a 4% retroactive raise for 2020 and a 4% wage increase for the year and 4% for 2022. According to a Monday CFA news release, Castro only agreed to a 2% faculty raise for the 2021-22 year. “We have lecturers who make [$50,000] or $60,000 a CHRISTINA CASILLAS | SPARTAN DAILY year working full time so a SJSU emeritus lecturer Jonathan Karpf stands in red with a sign asking for a total 12% raise for CSU faculty from 2020-22 on Monday. 2% [increase] would be an insulting pay raise which doesn’t keep up with inflation this year,” associate, full and tenured Mourtos said. “For example, professors as well as lecturers inflation is about 5.5% so if you who aren’t eligible for step give us . . . 2% it doesn’t even raises. cover this year’s inflation.” He said step increases are The annual national inflation 2.65% pay increases within the as of September 2021 is at a four respective lecturer and 13-year high at 5.4%, according professor salary ranges. to Trading Economics, a The ranges include A, B, C website that provides economic Jonathan Karpf and D lecturers and instructor, information from 196 countries. emeritus anthropology lecturer, assistant professor, associate Jonathan Karpf, an emeritus and professor, CFA statewide retirement specialist professor anthropology lecturer who’s according to the SJSU 2019-20 been a CFA member since a protest sign during the rainy for changes that will create year-to-year appointments, and salary schedule. 1990 and currently serves afternoon. a more stable workforce longer lecturer contracts. Mourtos said he’s unsure as the union’s statewide Karpf said in addition to including three-year coaching He said CFA is requesting FACULTY | Page 2 retirement specialist, came with raises, the union is asking appointments, as opposed to post-promotion increases for
If we’re underpaid, if we’re not respected, it translates down to instruction . . . Again, none of us want to strike and hopefully we won’t have to but if we do, we hope the students stand beside us.
Downtown San Jose bar managers, patrons describe nighttime safety measures By Don Le STAFF WRITER
Many who are part of Downtown San Jose’s nightlife say while security is a priority at bars and clubs, there’re many preventive factors that contribute to a safe night out. Public health senior Holly Nguyen said while she’s experienced sexual harassment on nights out before, she feels safe when she goes to her usual bars around South 2nd Street including Paper Plane, Nomikai and Splash Nightclub. “There’s some occasional catcalls here and there but otherwise I feel pretty safe,” Nguyen said at the Paper Plane cocktail bar. She said she avoids going downtown alone but even when part of a group, she always keeps safety in the back of her mind. “I don’t wear earphones when I’m walking alone and I hold my drink,” Nguyen said. “Anywhere that has people, I feel safe but if I were to walk alone and the streets are dark because the lights are broken or sometimes if I see homeless people I get a little intimidated.” Several managers and security guards at the various bars around downtown said customer safety is a top priority. Rachel Kaiser, manager of the wine, whiskey
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A line of people wait outside of Nova, a Downtown San Jose cocktail lounge, on South 2nd Street on the night of Oct. 23.
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FACULTY Continued from page 1 why Castro is hesitant to grant faculty a 12% increase over three years considering he agreed upon a 10% retroactive increase for CSU campus presidents. “The California economy is doing well and we know they
faculty who have worked very hard.” Sabrina Pinnell, political science lecturer and CFA delegate to the South Bay Labor Council, said the 2% increase was disrespectful to instructors who went from in-person to online instruction without complaint. “I am concerned that because faculty were not as visible on
I am concerned that because faculty were not as visible on this campus, they think it’s easier to ignore us now, which is why we will have to raise our voices over this coming year. Their treatment of us shows incredible disrespect and if they need to be reminded of this fact then so be it. Sabrina Pinnell political science lecturer, South Bay Labor Council CFA delegate have the money because they’re offering a 10% pay raise to all 23 campus presidents that are retroactive to 2021,” Mourtos said. “So for some reason, they do not want to commit the money to giving raises to
this campus, they think it’s easier to ignore us now, which is why we will have to raise our voices over this coming year,” Pinnell said. “Their treatment of us shows incredible disrespect and if they need to
NIGHTLIFE Continued from page 1 and cocktail bar District located at 65 N. San Pedro St., said management tries to provide customers and staff with the safest environment possible. Kaiser said bartenders try to watch customers’ drinks for any possible drugging but she believes it’s unrealistic to expect bartenders to watch every customer’s drink when the bar is busy. “We can do our best. We can keep an eye out for people,” Kaiser said. “We can ask you to put a napkin on top of your drink but I would suggest in this day and age as a customer to always keep your own eye or a trusted party has an eye on your drink.” Nguyen said she always makes sure to keep her drink safe and agrees it’s a big personal responsibility. “I would not rely on the bartender to help me. I’d probably call the security guard, the bartender’s usually busy, and [the bartender] would also tell me to tell the security guard what they can do,” Nguyen said. Some bartenders use “angel shots,” which has recently trended among TikTok social media users, to protect bar patrons. The hashtag #angelshot has 14 million views on TikTok and a July 20 TikTok post by New York bartender Benjamin Smith has 2.7 million likes. According to a Feb. 16 USA Today article, this is how the angel shot works: A “neat” angel shot will alert a bartender to escort you to your vehicle; the bartender will call an Uber or Lyft for you if an angel shot “on ice” is ordered; if things are extremely bad, a bartender will call the police if you order an angel shot “with lime.”
be reminded of this fact then so be it.” The South Bay Labor Council represents 101 unions and more than 100,000 union members in Santa Clara and San Benito counties, according to its website. Pinnell said she spoke with Castro in Clark Hall Monday during his campus visit. She said while she hopes a strike doesn’t come to fruition, faculty members are prepared to fight for fair pay. “I hope we can avoid [a strike] but as I said, if they think that because faculty have not been on this campus that we will be quiet, they are mistaken,” Pinnell said. Karpf said while he doesn’t think a strike will occur, one-day strikes for the retraction of contract takebacks at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills in 2012 prompted former CSU Chancellor Charles Reed to oblige CFA requests. Karpf said while Castro was diplomatic during his meeting with CFA members Monday, he hopes the Labor and Employee R el at i ons D e p ar t me nt negotiates with the union in good faith. The Labor and Employee Relations Department manages collective bargaining, grievance arbitration and campus labor
Arthur Cardoza, bar manager at San Pedro Square Market, said he’s heard of the term in passing but hasn’t personally encountered it. Cardoza said while reported sexual harassment has been rare at the open air plaza, San Pedro Square security staff will take action against any kind of harrassment.
FACULTY DEMANDS California Faculty Association (CFA) members are bargaining with California State University Chancellor Joseph Castro for: A 12% pay raise over three years, which would consist of a 4% raise for 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively Workforce changes including: three-year coaching appointments instead of year-to-year appointments and longer lecturer contracts Post-promotion pay increases for associate, full and tenured professors as well as lecturers who aren’t eligible for step raises; Step increases are 2.65% wage increases within the four respective lecturer and professor salary ranges. relations within the California State University system, according to its website. “Hopefully as chancellor, he directs his bargaining team if he really is interested in settling because he told us that he hopes that mediation will reach a settlement,” Karpf said. “[I] told him that . . . he has the power to tell [the department] to make counter proposals when the union bargaining team makes proposals.” He also said while the union’s demands are to serve faculty, the
well as customers coming in,” she said. “As far as staff relations, management does official sexual harassment training with our lawyers every two years so managers know what to look for, what the protocols are, if they see someone acting inappropriately report it.” Kaiser said it can be difficult to navigate situations where employees choose
We can do our best. We can keep an eye out for people. We can ask you to put a napkin on top of your drink but I would suggest in this day and age as a customer to always keep your own eye or a trusted party has an eye on your drink. Rachel Kaiser District manager “We would intervene. We would approach both the person who was being harassed and harassing and we typically ask the [harasser] to leave at that moment,” Cardoza said. “We’d rather they’d not be on property and we want to make sure that the people who are here have a nice, safe environment to hang out with their friends and have a good time. Kaiser said District staff and personnel are encouraged to report any sexual misconduct directed at them or customers to promote an environment with open communication. “Well obviously [in] the hospitality industry, there’s a lot of levels to women being in the industry. You obviously have your staff that you work directly with as
between kicking a customer out of an establishment when one is overly intoxicated or letting inebriated individuals socialize with other bar patrons. “We can kick someone out but we’re still hospitality, so where’s the line of being kind and accommodating but also, ‘I don’t
bargaining is also for students. “It’s important that students support their faculty because the faculty working conditions really are student learning conditions,” Karpf said. “If we’re underpaid, if we’re not respected, it translates down to instruction . . . Again, none of us want to strike and hopefully we won’t have to but if we do, we hope the students stand beside us.” Follow Christina on Twitter @christina_casi
want to put up with this’ so everyone kind of has to have their own standards of what they’re comfortable with,” Kaiser said. “Some people are comfortable flirting and being really friendly with customers and some people aren’t, so I think a lot of people have to decide for themselves what their boundary is and what their standard is.” San Jose Police Department Sgt. Christian Camarillo said while SJPD has extra officers working the bar-lined areas of Downtown San Jose, known as the ‘Entertainment Zone,’ people should leave situations in which they feel uncomfortable. The Downtown San Jose Entertainment Zone is bounded by Highway 87, Julian Street, Fourth Street and Interstate 280, according to a March 2020 City of San Jose memorandum. “If someone feels like they are being verbally harassed, they should walk away,” Camarillo said in an email. “If it escalates, they should report assault or other related incidents via 911.” Holly Nguyen said she doesn’t let the possibility of danger stop her from enjoying a night out with her friends. “My mind is not on being harassed. My mind is [on] hanging with my girls drinking, partying,” Nguyen said. Follow Don on Twitter @sjsudonle
Correction On Tuesday, Oct. 26, the Spartan Daily published a story titled, “Students unite for music night” in which Anastasia Goldin was misidentified. The Spartan Daily regrets this error.
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Strong defense leads Spartans to victory By Estevan Lopez
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The San Jose State football team defeated the University of Wyoming 27-21 in a Mountain West Conference showdown at CEFCU Stadium Saturday afternoon. Quarterback Nick Nash led the Spartans (4-4, 2-2 MWC) to victor y against the Cowboys (4-3, 0-3 MWC), finishing with 150 yards throwing, 112 yards rushing and a touchdown pass. Wyoming’s defense is ranked No.15 in the nation but Nash’s ability to throw and run proved too much to handle. Nash’s performance also put him in the Spartans’ record books with 797 career rushing yards, the most for a Spartan QB coming in with only five career starts. “It’s awesome,” Nash said. “I’m more excited about the win but I’ve had a lot of experience from previous years so feel like that definitely helps.” The game began as a defensive showcase as neither team could generate any momentum on offense in the first quarter. Nash put an end to that in the second quarter as he sparked the Spartans rushing attack. Nash scrambled out of the pocket and ran the ball 48 yards to put the Spartans in scoring position, surpassing the total first quarter offense in one play. With a fired up and rejuvenated offense, Nash rushed for a one-yard touchdown and took the 7-0 lead for the Spartans. SJSU’s defense also stepped up as linebacker Tyson Parker
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Our defense has been awesome for us all year. And for me to say we need [the defense] to close it out for us, I feel great about that.
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Men’s team wins again, on road to WAC tournament By Don Le STAFF WRITER
The San Jose State men’s soccer team continues to win after securing a hard-fought 3-2 victory against Houston Baptist University Sunday at Spartan Soccer Complex. The Spartans (9-5-3, 7-1-2 WAC) have won seven of their last nine games and maintain second place in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with only one conference game left. Head coach Simon Tobin said the team came into Sunday’s match with a defensive game plan to contain Houston’s (3-14, 1-9 WAC) offense. “[HBU doesn’t} have a good record but I thought they were a very good attacking team,” Tobin said in a post-game interview. “So I thought, yeah, they were capable of scoring goals but I thought defensively that we were capable of opening them up.” Even though the Spartans came into the game with a defensive mindset, the Huskies scored within 13 minutes. Two minutes after HBU scored, SJSU defender Kasper Poulsgaard tied the game with a flawless header into the net. However, the Huskies took the lead again 10 minutes before halftime making it 2-1. SJSU wouldn’t go away quietly as senior defender Miguel Bermudez
responded and tied the game again a few minutes after HBU’s second goal. The game was tied at two goals a piece but Tobin said the Spartans played poorly in the first half. He attributed the Spartans’ weak start to the game to player sluggishness because of a quick turnaround from Friday’s double-overtime tie against Chicago State. “I think we started poorly and then we made some changes and that didn’t really work,” Tobin said. “So the guys that did start, they went back out there to begin the second half.” S enior for ward Rudi Castro said he thought the Spartans took control of the game in the second half by being composed, on the
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Midfielder Danny Sanchez runs past Huskies’ defensive line at the Spartan Soccer Complex Sunday afternoon.
They were much, much better in the beginning of the second half . . . that’s what won us the game, that first 20-to-25 minutes of the second half. We probably played our best soccer of the day. Simon Tobin head coach
ball and maintaining possession. “We try to control the game. We didn’t want to go back and forth, too many counterattacks. That’s not our type of play,” Castro said in a post-game interview.
“We live abroad on our feet. So we tried to take the air out of the game just a little bit and that was our game plan for the rest of the game.” The Spartans continued to flow as the team
fired 13 shots in the second half. At one point, the ball pinballed around the Huskies’ penalty box, forcing them to scramble on defense as the ball came inches from going into the net. “They were much, much better in the beginning of the second half . . . that’s what won us the game, that first 20-to-25 minutes of the second half,” Tobin said. “We probably played our best soccer of the day.” With the crowd roaring at SJSU’s persistent offense, Castro scored the winning goal in Minute 62 and the Spartans held off the
Huskies until the final whistle blew. Sunday’s game was also SJSU’s senior day, in which the seven seniors on the roster were honored. Castro said he was thrilled to have scored the winning goal. “I’m definitely very happy. I know my teammates worked super hard for me as well so it’s back and forth. It’s a two way street,” Castro said. “So I think they’re happier, if not, they’re as happy as me when I score.” SJSU will play its final conference game of the season on the road against Seattle
University Saturday. If the Spartans win or draw, they’ll maintain the second conference seed and automatically advance to the second round of the WAC tournament in Phoenix, Arizona. If SJSU loses against SU, they’ll fall to the third seed and will play the sixth seed team in the tournament’s first quarter finals on Nov. 10. “In the end, we needed this win to stay in second place,” Tobin said. “So, destiny is still in our hands.”
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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Music brings cultural visibility
By Saumya Monga STAFF WRITER
“Ladke” is poised to become an anthem for young, South Asian girls. Singer-songwriters Rehma and Shreea, two South Asian American artists, are proving to the world that brown girls are multifaceted, beautiful goddesses in their latest single that was released on Oct. 12. Rehma, University of California, Berkeley sociology senior who’s Pakistani American, has been releasing music since 2019. Shreea, who’s Indian American, is an account development representative in Houston and has been releasing music since 2017. The two artists met in June in hopes of collaborating after finding each other on the video-sharing app TikTok. Shreea and Rehma are distinct artists and their collaboration authenticates that there’s no single way to be a brown girl. “[Rehma’s] not as much of a fusion artist and she’s stated that she wants to stay out of that space. And if you hear her in the last hook [of Ladke], she does a lot of ad-libs that are in Hindi as well,” Shreea said in a Zoom call. “I’ve heard so much of her music and I was always curious to see whether she would find a space in fusion that she felt like she could fit and I think the song really helped accomplish that.” Rehma subtly includes her culture in her music whereas Shreea chooses to make direct references to her Desi roots. A Desi person is someone of Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi descent who currently resides outside of those countries, according to Lexico.com, a worldwide dictionary by Oxford University Press. Despite an increase in South Asian representation in TV and film, there’s a severe deficit when it comes to music. Even when there’s
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Artists Shreea (left) and Rehma met in June on TikTok and released their first single “Ladke,” which means “boys” in Hindi, on Oct. 12.
representation, it often depicts brown girls as one dimensional. They have overbearing parents, are expected to get good grades
and have to help out with the housework. In Rehma’s 2020 extended play “Mercy,” she’s wearing Pakistani jewelry that draws
attention to her culture even though her music doesn’t directly reference her background. “Shreaa is a master [of ] blending this Desi fusion with English music and that’s her forte. It was just a perfect opportunity for both of our kingdom of fans, where she’s doing fusion and I’m doing this R&B as a South Asian girl,” Rehma said. “The blend was really cool and I was really grateful to be a part of [that] because I could see how much it touched our community.” On the other hand, in Shreea Shreea’s 2020 album “Seven singer-songwriter Deadly Sins,” she fuses classic
[South Asian] girls have so much pressure from society and our families to really have it together. It’s a pretty common Desi-female thing that we’re taught to kick ass at school, like, you’re gonna get married so [you have to] know how to take care of the house. The standards for [guys] are so low, like if a guy just breathes and exists it’s like you did great.
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Bollywood songs with English lyrics. “I sample certain lyrics or melodies from known Bollywood songs then, yeah, I’m just trying to play on that nostalgia factor but with ‘Envy,’ I think I was introducing a new style to the market with the fusion,” Shreea said. “Envy,” one of the tracks on her album, featured Hindi lyrics. Similarly, the chorus of Ladke is entirely in Hindi. Shreea said she wanted to reflect on the double standards many South Asian women face as they are growing up. It is a common feeling for many SAUMYA | Page 5
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT SAUMYA Continued from page 4 Desi girls including myself. It was expected that I would be helping my mom in the kitchen and serving our guests. “[South Asian] girls have so much pressure from society and our families to really have it together. It’s a pretty common Desi-female thing that we’re taught to kick ass at school, like, you’re gonna get married so [you have to] know how to take care of the house,” Shreea said. “The standards for [guys] are so low like if a guy just breathes and exists it’s like you did great.” The main chorus of Ladke, which means boys in Hindi, translates to “boys, why are they after me? They are all crazy mama’s boys. They are all sons of owls.” “Sons of an owl” is a common Hindi insult. Shreea said she got the inspiration from a previous relationship that she had where she was the only one making money. “The guy was just bumming off of me and he lacked a lot of drive and ambition,” Shreea said. “As far as the hook in Hindi, I just think it was inspired by my parents’ marriage [and] a lot of marriages [in] South Asian culture. A lot of men in Desi culture are very, very, very much mama’s boys so their mom takes care of everything [and] they’re really not sure how to navigate the world on their own.” Both Shreea and Rehma said
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they know that feeling so they wanted to give other girls a song to express that discontent. For brown girls, singing those lyrics at the top of their lungs feels like a release, announcing to the world that they deserve better. Rehma also recalls the expectations that were placed on her as a brown girl and how music gave her an outlet.
dopamine from a bag of weed” which addresses unsatisfying relationships but they connect all the lyrics back to South Asian culture. They sing “had me sneaking over to you even on the weekday,” which is relatable for brown girls who always had an earlier curfew than their white peers. Rehma and Shreea know
don’t think I ever did it with the intention of relating to people but I knew that it would relate to people because it is a universal experience. This was really important for me to do so that other people, especially Desi women can realize that our narrative is finally being shared.” Although the duo has different approaches to how
I’m still very much a rebellious brown girl. I mean, there’s no such thing as a traditional sense of a brown girl. There’s not even any sort of monolith that a brown girl has to follow. But there is an expectation of how brown women are expected to act. So it’s just cool to talk about my love life very boldly and talk about smoking weed. Rehma UC Berkeley sociology senior, singer-songwriter
“I’m still very much a rebellious brown girl,” Rehma said. “I mean, there’s no such thing as a traditional sense of a brown girl. There’s not even any sort of monolith that a brown girl has to follow. But there is an expectation of how brown women are expected to act. So it’s just cool to talk about my love life very boldly and talk about smoking weed.” The English lyrics of Ladke are also pretty gutsy for South Asian girls, especially in a culture where even the slightest bit of intimacy is seen as explicit. They sing “happily, get more
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what it feels like to hide part of your identity away from your community and with Ladke, they wanted to give girls an opportunity to celebrate who they are. “I don’t think that [the South Asian] narrative is really out there, right, so I don’t think anyone gives us credit. We don’t have anyone that’s talking about the Desi experience of being a put-together woman and having to deal with bottom-of-the-barrel dudes that society just never really set any standards for,” Shreea said. “I think it was important to put this out there, and I
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they want to intersect their culture in their music, both of them have taken up an R&B style of singing and production. Ladke features a funky bassline as they sing with breathy vocals. The chorus fades into the verses and the beat becomes stronger as the song approaches the chorus once again. When the Hindi part comes in, listeners are ready to scream the lyrics after awaiting its arrival. Both Rehma and Shreea emphasize that there is no one way to be a South Asian artist
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in the music industry. Whether you want to do fusion or take a more pop or R&B route, your experience is valid. “There are so many different faces [and] styles and people in our community. I just hope that everyone gets a taste [of ] that,” Rehma said. Shreea and Rehma said they are expecting to release the music video of Ladke soon, which features a variety of South Asian people from all different cultures and backgrounds. Their goal is to make sure no Desi girl ever feels alone in her experiences. “I’m most excited for people to see the guys that we had in the video. There’s such a diverse array of South Asian men like you have your fuckboys, you have your awkward boys, you have your all Desi boys,” Shreea said. “I was really excited to showcase men even though I talked a lot of shit about them in the song. So I wanted to find some type of way to make up for it. The other thing that I’m most excited about is that we kind of take a spin on very traditional Desi concepts and kind of twist them into something that fits the narrative of the song.” Brown girls will be sneaking out of their houses to dance to Ladke, carefree and inspired to show the world how multifaceted they really are.
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