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P. 4 Sports: SJSU football coach Mike
MacIntyre shares thoughts on Spartan’s
victory over Colorado State and its game
against SDSU.
P. 5 Opinion: Newest ‘In My Experience’ offers
advice on how to deal with flirting when timid
P. 6 A&E: ‘Resident Evil’ review: It’s pretty rotten
Aki Matsuri festival hits
San Jose’s Japantown
A&E, p.6
Penn. State graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim talks about her experiences as a journalist and breaking the Jerry Sandusky scandal with media stu-
dents in Dwight Bentel Hall. Photo by James Tensuan / Spartan Daily
Sanduskyscandalreportersharesinsights:
Story breaker discusses Pulitzer recognition, media career skills
By Devon Thames
@dtspartan
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Sara
Ganim visited SJSU, Monday, discussed her
investigation, which exposed the Jerry San-
dusky scandal, and offered career advice to
attending students.
With the extensive experience she has
gained in so few years, her purpose has now
been solidified in her accomplishments.
During Ganim’s speech, she spoke of a time
she when responding to her father’s criticism
of her career ambitions.
“I told him it’s not about where you work,
it’s the kind of work that you do, and that re-
ally paid off [for me]”.
During her visit to the campus, Ganim
reminded students and staff of why up-and-
coming graduates should find a passion,
and why they should work tirelessly to see it
through.
Ganim, 25, is now one of the youngest
recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, after she
and a team of her fellow reporters from The
Patriot-News were awarded earlier this year
for local reporting.
Ganim, a Pennsylvania State University
alumna who graduated with a degree in jour-
nalism, rose to notoriety when she broke the
story on Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn
State football coach who was charged with 45
counts of abuse on 10 boys, according to the
Chicago Tribune.
Due to her relentless dedication to the
story, Ganim’s name has been closely associ-
ated with the trial.
Staying true to the story she started
investigating nearly a year ago, Ganim is still
reporting on the Sandusky trial and says she
will follow it to the end.
Ganim also teaches and speaks about
how her hard work conquered the adver-
sity she faced in seeing a scandal brought to
light.
The hour-long forum gave audience mem-
bers the opportunity to ask Ganim questions
regarding the decisions she made that lead to
her noted success.
Audience members inquired about
Ganim’s persistent investigation into her
alma mater’s controversial allegation that re-
sulted in major media event.
When discussing the proper foundation to
her success, Ganim advised that working for
the right people is essential.
“It really, really matters who you work
for,” she said. “Someone who you can talk to,
SARA GANIM
Boardof
Trustees
strategize
forpossible
Prop.30
failure
By Jonathan Roisman
@JonRoisman
The California State Univer-
sity Board of Trustees is discussing
numerous budget measures today
andtomorrowatitsLongBeachhead-
quarters in preparation for the out-
come of Prop. 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s
taxinitiativeontheNov.6ballot.
The board is meeting to consider
fee changes and cost reduction strat-
egies that could take place as soon as
next semester, said Liz Chapin, the
public affairs officer for the Califor-
nia State University Chancellor’s Of-
fice.
If Prop. 30 fails, $250 million
would be cut from the CSU budget
mid year, starting in January 2013,
shesaid.
“The CSU system is looking at a
number of budget solutions in re-
sponsetoProp.30,”Chapinsaid.
CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed
said in a press release yesterday that
the CSU system could not rely solely
oncutstobalanceitsbudget.
“It is clear that we cannot simply
cut our way out of another $250 mil-
lion hit to our budget,” Reed said in
thepressrelease.
The board is recommending a
five percent fee increase, or $150, in
semester tuition if Prop. 30 fails and
would take effect for the spring 2013
semester, according to the press re-
lease.
Nonresident students tuition
would be raised by seven percent, or
$810 per year, if Prop. 30 fails, the
pressreleasestated.
If Prop. 30 passes, however, CSU
students will receive a $249 refund
for the current semester, which
is 9.1% of this semester’s tuition,
Chapinsaid.
CSU
SEE TRUSTEES ON PAGE 2SEE GANIM ON PAGE 2
ByJulieMyhre,NickRivelli,
JacqueOrvisandRochelleBeckel
While walking across campus
on a sunny day, you may have no-
ticed people balancing on a wire-like
material between two trees — that’s
slacklining.
Basically slacklining is “the sport
of walking a small, flat, nylon rope
between two points,” according to
slackline.com.
Matt Chavez, who has been slack-
lining for years, and friends can
often be seen on the lawn next to
Boccardo Business Complex as they
encourage other students to try it
out
“People think it’s really fun, they
like to play on it like it’s a trampo-
line,” Chavez said. “Everybody has
their own thing they like about it.”
Kyle Santos, an environmental
studies major, gives passerby Kayla
Stock her first slacklining lesson.
Slackline.com explains that, in
general, most people do it for the
exercise and meditative benefits in
an effort to reach a higher state of
mind, but others do it just for fun.
It is most commonly practiced
in people’s backyards, college cam-
puses, parks and sometimes even
thousands of feet above the ground.
Chavezrememberedatimewhen
he went slacklining across a river
with some of his friends.
He said he was with men who he
considers better slackliners, because
they can jump and do tricks, but
Chavez was the only one able to get
from side to side.
“It’s a beautiful feeling when you
lose all thought, and you end up in
this meditative state where you just
don’t think anymore,” Chavez said.
“It was an amazing experience to be
able to do that. That’s why people do
it, you can’t fall, you just don’t have
the option to do it.”
CAMPUS
SEE SLACKLINERSON PAGE 2
Kyle Santos, a co-founder of Spartan Slackers and an environmental studies major at SJSU, gives passerby Kayla Stock
her first slacklining lesson. Photo by Jacque Orvis / Spartan Daily
Spartan‘Slackers’
reachfornewheights

2. Page 2 | Spartan Daily Tuesday, September 18, 2012NEWS
“If Prop. 30 is approved
by voters the board would
have to rescind the tuition
increase,” she said. “Students
would either receive refund
checks or a tuition credit for
thefollowingsemester.”
Chapin said it was to be
determined whether stu-
dents would receive a re-
fund check, a tuition credit
or a choice between the
two.
The board of trustees
voted last year to increase se-
mester tuition by $249 start-
ingthissemester,shesaid.
Chapin said the board of
trustees currently does not
have plans for a refund for
futuresemesters.
The CSU system’s rev-
enue would be reduced by
$132millionifProp.30pass-
esandthetuitionrefundsare
given, Chapin said, but the
school system would receive
$125 million from the state
for the 2013-2014 school
year.
The CSU system would
also use about $50 million
in reserve funds this year to
help make up for the tuition
refunds,Chapinsaid.
Students who received
financial aid this semester
would have their award re-
duced, if Prop. 30 passed, to
help cover the cost of the tu-
itionrefund,Chapinsaid.
The board of trustees
will also discuss a number of
other fee changes regardless
of the Prop. 30 outcome, she
said.
Someoftheotherfeesthe
board will decide on include
a fee for “super seniors,” stu-
dents who have earned 150
semesterunits,Chapinsaid.
The fee would be $37 2
perunit,whichisthecurrent
rate for nonresident stu-
dents, on top of regular tu-
ition costs, the press release
stated.
The board of trustees is
also discussing whether to
create a $100 course repeat
fee for students who retake a
class,Chapinsaid.
Chapin said the board
would also decide whether to
create an extra unit tuition
fee, a $200 per semester unit
charge for students who take
17 or more units per semes-
ter.
SJSU currently has a
15-unit cap for nonseniors
and an 18-unit cap for s
eniors.
Jonathan Roisman is
a Spartan Daily staff writ-
er. Follow him on Twitter
@JonRoisman.
FROM PAGE 1
SanJosepolicechief toretire
Rebecca Duran
Staff Report
San Jose Police Chief Chris Moore announced today during a press conference that he is
retiring Jan. 31.
“After over 27 years here in San Jose and over 30 as a police officer here in the Bay
Area, it is an incredible honor to have been chosen as chief here,” he said during the press
conference.
Moore expressed gratitude towards the city council for his appointment to the position,
as well as the police department.
“It’sthepeoplethatyouworkwiththatmakeyourjob...Wehavesomeofthefinestandto
them I owe a debt of gratitude,” he said.
Hewentontosaythatitwashisowndecisiontoretire,touchinguponspendingtimewith
his family and the state of the city.
“When I was appointed, it was no surprise that we were facing an unprecedented budget
deficitforourcity,” hesaid.“I’mverypleasedthatwewereabletogetthroughaverydifficult
time.”
Information sourced from his Sept. 17 press conference.
CITY OF SAN JOSE
He said he just allows his
body to relax as he starts to
walk.
Chase Robinson, Chavez’s
friend and co-founder of
the slacklining club, Spar-
tan Slackers, shares a similar
view of slacklining.
“There’s lots to gain from
just knowing how your body
functions, knowing yourself
I’d say, how your body works
on the line,” Robinson said.
“It’s something simple to do
to set up and have fun with
friends. Over here people
come by all the time and stop
by, and it’s kind of a friendly
activity.”
Luckily, Robinson just
recently confirmed the Spar-
tan Slackers has an adviser,
so it will soon become an of-
ficial club at SJSU.
He said the deadline for
finding an advisor was Sept.
7 and the group got an advi-
sor on Sept. 6.
“Given time, once we get
recognized by the school,
we’ll get permission to slack-
line over the pool on a regu-
lar basis hopefully,” Robin-
son said. “It’ll be a lot more
fun and be a lot more social.
Y ou can go swimming as well
if you like and slackline at
the same time.”
Santos, another co-
founder of Spartan Slack-
ers, also enjoys the relaxing,
meditative benefits of slack-
lining.
“Basically it’s just a fun
thing to do, people can gain
balance, it’s almost like a
meditation sense,” Santos
said. “Once you get on the
line it’s just you and the line
and you’re just so focused
on that that everything else
around you just kind of dis-
appears.”
He said slacklining is
good exercise for the ab-
dominals, back and oblique
muscles.
Santos said slacklining
was done during last F ebru-
ary’s Super Bowl halftime
show.
“At the Super Bowl, they
actually had somebody
slackline behind Madonna,”
Santos said. “That’s when it
really blew up and got kind
of mainstream. People were
like, ‘ what’s that guy doing
behind Madonna? Bouncing
up and down behind Madon-
na, what’s he doing? ’”
Considering how long
slacklining has been around,
it surprises me that I’d never
heard of it before beginning
this project.
It first developed in the
1980s and has since risen
in popularity as a unique,
quirky outdoor activity
around the globe, according
to slackline-tools.com.
Although most often
compared to tightrope walk-
ing, slacklining is actually
much more difficult to most
since it involves balancing
oneself on slack webbing,
whereas tightrope walk-
ers walk along a steel cable,
according to slackline.com.
Slacklining has under-
gone a rapid surge in popu-
larity in recent years as
an increasing number of
people have decided to try
it out in city parks, college
campuses and campgrounds
where more and more
lines for practicing can be
found.
Adam Grosowski and Jeff
Ellington, both widely re-
garded as great influences to
the sport of slacklining, were
oneoftheseearlyslackliners,
practicing balancing them-
selves along the high trees
in the valleys of Y osemite
V alley and helping get their
friends involved with the
emerging activity.
They have been consid-
ered two of the world’s great-
est slackliners for decades,
even by today’s standards,
capable of performing in-
credible tricks such as jug-
gling and doing hand stands
while on the line, according
to slackline-tools.com.
To find out more about
slacklining, check out the
Spartan Slackers, the offi-
cial SJSU slacklining club, or
find them out on the Bocca-
rdo Business Complex lawn
Thursdays around noon.
This story was written for
the Jour. 134 course.
Slackliners: Upcoming
club brings ‘quirky’ sport
FROM PAGE 1
Ganim: Pulitzerrecipient
advisestofollowyourpassion
It’s
something
simple
to do to
set up
and have
fun with
friends.
Over here
people
come by all
the time
and stop
by and it’s
kind of a
friendly
activity.
Chase Robinson
Co-founder of
Spartan Slackers
FROM PAGE 1
bounce ideas off of, [some-
one] who can help you be
creative [and] get around ob-
stacles.”
Ganim also emphasized
the importance of doing
a profession that a person
is passionate about, go-
ing on to say that with-
out such dedication, there
may be little success and
fulfillment.
“No matter what it is you
do, I hope you find some-
thing that you love”.
Audience members, con-
sisting of SJSU students and
staff from various depart-
ments, reacted to Ganim
with warmth and encourage-
ment, taking her words to
heart.
“I think it’s completely
true,” said Marissa Q uock, a
juniorbehavioralsciencema-
jor. “Y ou can’t do something
well if you can’t enjoy it.”
Senior psychology major
Cameron Cash said he ap-
preciated Ganim’s relatable
demeanor, notably her abil-
ity to stay true to her craft,
despite the major success she
has achieved.
“It was really interest-
ing how she got deep into
something so big ( at such
a young age) ,” he said,
speaking of Ganim’s early
grassroots struggles in her
profession.
Some of the SJSU staff in
attendance also felt Ganim’s
message was a realistic view
of how future graduates can
find fulfillment in there pro-
fessional careers.
“I actually 100 percent
agree with that,” said college
resource counselor Sabrina
Porter. “I also think there
are stepping stones for what
people do.”
Ganim currently works
for The Patriot-News in
Pa.,and also appears as a
correspondent for CNN
News.
Devon Thames is a
Spartan Daily staff writ-
er. Follow her on Twitter
@dtspartan. Copy editor Julie
Myhre also contributed to this
story.
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At 7:00pm in the Engineering
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