2008 Woodie Awards
Elizabeth Grobsmith, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Northern Arizona University and a SJSU presidential candidate, will be on campus today from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Engineering Auditorium, located at Engineering Building, Room 189. (0) comments
Even with a start time of 8 a.m., the third annual race of Pat's Run attracted more than 3,000 participants on Saturday to San Jose's Leland High School.
The run is named for Pat Tillman, who is remembered for leaving behind a $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, where he was tragically killed by friendly fire. (3) comments
The streets of Downtown San Jose have been livened this weekend with the honking of car horns, the blaring of mariachi music from car radios and the display of Mexican flags from cars, houses and pedestrians.
Cinco de Mayo is the celebration, not of Mexico's independence from Spain, but of the Mexican army's victory over France and traitor armies in Puebla, Mexico on the morning of May 5, 1862, according to the Viva! Cinco de Mayo Web site. (0) comments
At the first annual Collegiate 100 Black Men Silicon Valley program/dinner on Sunday, about 40 honorees and families sat between a long table full of food, courtesy of Spartan Catering, and vice president of the SJSU branch DeMarcus Hewitt.
He said the concept of the national organization began in New York in 1963 as an attempt to improve the quality of life for blacks and other minorities. (0) comments
Veronica Luna said she will speak about her uncle on death row, the flaws in the system and the injustices of the death penalty at a national anti-death penalty speaking tour tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.
The senior SJSU social work and sociology double major, who has been a part of The Campaign to End the Death Penalty since 2006, will speak in the Student Union's Ohlone Room along with other guests affected by the death penalty. (1) comment
"How many of you know what social justice means?" asked Maribel Martinez, program coordinator for the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center.
Fifteen students from Ocala Middle School, who took part in the first social justice tour hosted by the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center as part of their Cinco de Mayo filed trip, couldn't think of an answer at the beginning of the tour. (0) comments
It's Tuesday at 7 a.m., and the alarm clock by the bed has an hour left before it rings, when, through the SJSU residence hall window, a woman yelling into a bullhorn and the theme from "Carmen" abolishes all possibility of sleep.
Below the penetrable walls of Campus Village and Joe West Hall, 10 pairs of defined legs burst out of the water, toes pointed. (1) comment
