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INSIDE NEWS • Speaker recounts lifelong battle with eating disorder, body image 2 • SJSU photography student shoots his way to success 3 • Workshop covers global sensitivity 3
A&E • Student by day, comedian by night makes for a bundle of laughs 4 • Documentary exposes real culprits behind the Great Recession 5
SPORTS • Senior and freshman share spotlight as SJSU men’s basketball team defeats Whitman in exhibition 6 • Sharks strike down Lightning to win 8
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Deadline for Spartans prevail next spring’s in exhibition game applications extended ALEX SPICER Staff Writer
The application deadline for the Spring 2011 semester has been pushed back to Nov. 15, according to the SJSU student information website. According to the website, the deadline was pushed back because of the recent passage of the state budget and subsequent restoration of California State University system funding. The CSU system received a total of $305 million in educational funding from the 2010 California Budget Act, said Erik Fallis, a CSU media relations specialist. “When we initially set the deadline we did not have a state budget in place,” said Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations for SJSU. “When the state budget was passed we were able to assess our resources as a system and better determine how many students we could admit for the spring.” It was determined that SJSU could admit more than it had initially expected, she said. “In fact, the legislature provided us with funds
specifically for enrollment growth,” Harris said. However, those who intend to apply for enrollment must still meet a number of criteria to be eligible, according to the website. Admission is open to all upper-division transfers, but first-time freshmen will not be admitted in the spring, Harris said. “I think it’s good because it shouldn’t be that tough to get into a state school,” said junior communications major Jonnie Mitchell. “Because it’s public education, I feel like everyone should be able to have access to that.” Transferring students must have completed at least 60 units, as well as the “Golden Four” courses (one course in oral communication, written composition, critical thinking and mathematics) by the end of the Fall 2010 semester, according to the website. According to the website, the majors of applying transfer students are categorized into three colors — green, yellow and red — and depending on which category the student’s major falls un-
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DID YOU KNOW? • SJSU ranks No. 27 among 141 universities in sexual health according to an analysis by Sperling’s Best Places.
Senior guard Adrian Oliver scored 24 points and had 10 rebounds in the Spartans’ exhibition win over the Missionaries.
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SJSU improves sexual health, report says KELSEY HILARIO
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SJSU has been a very naughty school, but not as naughty as last year, according to the 2010 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card rankings. Last year, SJSU ranked 86 out of 141 universities and earned a lessthan-impressive GPA of 2.56. This year SJSU was ranked number 27, moving up 59 spots, according to the Sexual Health Report Card. According to a Trojan pamphlet, Sperling’s Best Places analyzed data collected from student health center representatives at major colleges and universities along with secondary research from students on campus. Health Centers were graded
based on 13 categories, including students’ opinions of the health center, the availability of separate sexual awareness programs, testing, costs and locality, existence of lecture and outreach programs and website usability and functionality. Damarlynn Wright, a senior industrial studies major, said he thinks the Student Health Center is making a good effort to reach out to students through its condom co-op program. “Some students are kind of shy when it comes to going to drugstores and picking condoms up,” he said. “They don’t want people looking at them and whatnot, but that is put in place for the students, so I think that it is a good thing.” The program is daily in Room 209 of the health center building
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to the health center website. Students with a valid I.D. can choose up to four free items per day from male condoms, female condoms, dental dams and latex gloves or lubricant packets, according to the website. Undeclared freshman Richard Lopez said he found out about the program at a sexual information meeting for freshmen at Washburn Hall. “I think that it is cool that SJSU has the condom co-op where you get four free condoms,” he said. “If the tools are there for you to be sexually healthy, then why not use them if they are for free?” According to the Trojan Report Card, schools are usually ranked high because they scored uniformly
across all 13 categories. Those who did not do as well were more inconsistent within the categories. Trojan hopes that the report card will reveal the true availability of sexually healthy resources around the country, according to the Trojan condoms website. Junior psychology major Russell Davis lives in Campus Village Building B and said he had no idea about the different programs offered by the health center. Davis said if the health center put up brightly colored posters around the dorms it may help get the word around about sexual health. The Trojan pamphlet also exposed some scary truths — 15- to
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