Hello and welcome to update news. Im liz olveda. And im jessica melcher. Thanks for joining us. Black History Month is over and it ended with a bit of a controversy on campus. An opinion piece in the spartan daily questioned whether the annual event is redundant. Update News Reporter Victor Guzman is live on campus with a recap of the uproar that followed. This is the article that upset many on this campus. And yesterday a large crowd gathered at the smithcarlos statues to express their feelings. Nat sound black and im proud the black thursday rally at the statues of tommy smith and john carlos had already been planned before the offending article was published some demonstrators held the article as they silently marched through the campus. And it was at the statues where they loudly voiced their objections. Emerald green, African American student leader we all know we have a library, Martin Luther king library, right . Its been here since 2003. Its 2013 now, thats a ten yearten year t
Hello and welcome to update news. Im carla jimenez. And im ashley cunha. Thanks for joining us. At the state of the union speech this week, president obama announced all us troops will be out of afghanistan by the end of next year. And with veterans coming back, kate loewen looks more at what san jose state has to offer. You may have seen flyers around campus about a petition for a central Meeting Place in the new Student Union for veterans. I learned more about their resources in comparision to other csus. For san jose state student military veterans like jon paul, adjusting to civilian life is proving to be difficult. Jon paulw when i went into the military, i thought i knew everything about the world. Seeing combat, seeing the things that ive seen, and having my friends hurt the way they were totally changed my life outlook. Jon paul is a marine combat veteran who served in several deployments to iraq. Hes found as a student at sjsu that gaining access to resources offered, he must
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