1. By Devon Thomas
@dtspartan
The world language and literatures department is introduc-
ing a Spanish class geared toward health professionals for fall
2012.
Taught by Professor Francisco de la Calle, a native of Ma-
drid, Spain, who has been teaching Spanish since 2009, the class
teaches students in the health care field proper terminology
and use of medical words and phrases.
During the first class this past Monday, senior Victoria
Montgomery, 21, gave an exemplary story of how the lack of
knowledge in medical Spanish terms hindered her during an in-
ternship in Beliz. Montgomery, a nursing student, was unable
to address a person’s symptoms due the minor language barrier,
despite being fluent in the language.
Department Chair Dr. Damian Bacich said that what helped
the department to persevere over financial challenges and envi-
sion such a class was more a sense of necessity.
“I personally have been in the ER with my family and seen
how few medical people, nurses and doctors, speak Spanish flu-
ently,” Bacich said. “So I think it’s a definite need.”
Bacich added the creation of the class was a collaborative
By Kimberky Diaz
@SD_KDiaz
New bike lanes were constructed in down-
town San Jose this past July in efforts to create
safer streets and encourage bike riding in the
city.
On August 9, city officials led by Councilman
Sam Liccardo opened the lanes to the public with
Liccardo riding the new pavement.
There are 7.6 miles of buffered bike lanes in-
stalled on Third, Fourth, 10th and 11th street,
according to the San Jose Department of Trans-
portation.
The bike lanes are being funded by state gas
tax revenues used for roadway pavement main-
tenance and also by state Transportation Devel-
opment Act, Article III grant funds, according to
John Brazil, Bicyclist and Pedestrian Program
Coordinator.
Liccardo, also a local politics lecturer at SJSU,
said has been pushing for bike lanes for over four
years.
“This isn’t just about bikes,” Liccardo said.
“It’s about slowing down traffic by eliminating
lanes and making it safe for people.”
Liccardo said that some of the car lanes in
downtown San Jose have been reduced from
three to two to encourage safe and slower traffic
in neighborhoods. This is not only for cars and
bikes but also for pedestrians.
California law said that cars in downtown can
merge into the bike lane to enter parking spaces,
driveways,oratintersectionsstartingat200feet
away.
Carlos Babcock, San Jose Bike Party route co-
ordinator, said he feels positive about the new
bike lanes and said he rides them everyday. He is
also the chair of the San Jose Bicycle and Pedes-
trian Advisory Committee.
“I feel incredibly safe,” Babcock said. “They
cut down on traffic to slow it down and make it
safe for bikers. On 10th street, the speed limit
was 30 miles per hour, but cars were going at 38
miles per hour, which was too fast for me to try
andridealongwiththem.Now,withthenewbike
lanes, traffic has slowed down and I feel safer.”
Babcock said the most recent bike party had
an attendance of more than 4,500 people as they
rode down the newly renovated 10th street.
In addition to these bike lanes, San Jose will
also be introducing a new bike sharing program,
which will allow people to rent bikes from dif-
ferent parts of downtown San Jose, according to
Brazil.
Brazil said the program is being led by Bay
Area Air Quality Management District and will
allow people to connect with VTA or Caltrain,
via bike, and reach their destination through
more transit.
According to Bicyclist and Pedestrian Pro-
gram Coordinator John Brazil, there are 20 bike
stations planned to be built in downtown San
Jose and contain a total of 200 bikes.
The bike share project will undergo a pilot
program for a year beginning this fall, according
to the Valley Transportation Authority website.
Brazil said the new lanes, along with the bike
share program, go along with the city’s master
plan to get more people out on bikes.
“Our main goal is really to provide
more transportation options for people,”
Brazil said. “The city’s general plan is to have 15
percent of transit be by bicycle by the year 2040.
The city also has a plan to reach five percent
by 2020.”
Brazil said that the bike share program is be-
ingfundedbyacombinationoffederal,localand
regional grants. A majority of the grant funding
comes from the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission’s Climate Initiatives grant pro-
gram, which has contributed $4.3 million.
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Farsi class provides
cultural, political and
practical benefits
By Sage Curtis
@sagedanielle
Elementary Farsi classes will be offered starting this fall at
SJSU as part of the Iranian studies program, furthering the avail-
ability of information about Iranian culture offered at the school.
“RightnowtheU.S.suffersfromalackoflinguisticallysophis-
ticated people who know a lot about Iranian culture,” said Iranian
studies department head Persis Karim. “Ultimately, if somebody
were really interested in foreign services and diplomacy, (know-
ing Farsi) makes you a very desirable candidate for employment.”
The class is the start of what the Iranian studies department
hopes is a series of language classes that enriches understanding
of the culture and contrasts it to the typically harsh reception in
the U.S., according to SJSU graduate student in U.S.-Iran relations
Sarah Aghazadeh.
“There is such a huge immigrant population here (in San Jose),
so learning the language is relevant to a lot of people,” Aghazadeh
said. “We’ve gotten all kinds of request for the course.”
Farsi is defined by the Department of Education and the State
Departmentasastrategiclanguage,oralanguagethatispertinent
to foreign policy and diplomacy, which can lead to careers in the
United Nations or NATO, according to Karim.
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Bikelanesaimtoimprovesafety,ridership
A cyclist cruises on a new bike lanes next to SJSU along Fourth street. These new lanes aim to offer more safety for both bikers and pedestrians.
Photo by Raphael Kluzniok / Contributing Photographer
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§ CITY OF SAN JOSE
§ SCIENCE
SJSUgrad
snapsup
newshark
species
SpecializedSpanish
targets healthstudents
§ EDUCATION
§ EDUCATION
By Jacqueline Orvis
@SD_jorvis
A San Jose State University
graduate student discovered
eight potentially new shark
species during a two-month re-
search expedition to the Indian
Ocean earlier this year.
“It was like Christmas morn-
ing,” Paul Clerkin said, recall-
ing his excitement when he
found the first mystery shark
in a catch one morning. “I
was really focused on it just
studying it.”
Clerkin spent two months on
a commercial trawler just south
of the island of Mauritius sift-
ing through bycatch — or fish
unintentionally caught in the
trawl — hoping to learn about
several different species of
sharks living on a semi-secluded
deep ocean seamount.
Clerkin is an SJSU shark ecol-
ogy graduate student attending
Monterey Bay’s Moss Landing
Marine Laboratories, the ma-
rine science graduate program
for multiple CSUs including
SJSU.
“It’s like a little island,” he
said, “and (the sharks) are the
biggest, baddest predators on
that island.”
According to Clerkin, the
sharks circling the seamount
are potentially very impor-
tant to the microenviron-
ment, but it’s difficult to tell at
this point.
“Their biodiversity is fasci-
nating and ranges far beyond
the typical great white,” Clerkin
said.
“But we know nothing about
these sharks. They don’t even
have names.”
David Ebert, program man-
ager for the Pacific Shark Re-
search Center, said the naming
process is viable to the recogni-
tion of the new species.
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MedicalphrasesinSpanish:
“Voy a tomar su temperatura.”
I am going to take your
temperature.
“Le falta el aire?”
Do you have shortness of
breath?
“Esta es su medicina.”
This is your medicine.
Taken from “Cultural Diversity: Translating
Spanish: A Brief Guide for Intensive Car and
Acute Care Nurses”
by Ruth M. Kleinpell, RN, PhD, CCRN; Maria
G. Vazquez, RN, BSN, CCRN; Kristy Gailani,
RN, MSN
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2. Page 2 | Spartan Daily Thursday, August 30, 2012NEWS
By McClatchy Tribune
Wire Service
WASHING TON — The
National Park Service has
dispatched a top Colorado-
based epidemic specialist and
a Washington-based public
health official to investigate
the dangerous airborne dis-
ease that recently killed two
Y osemite National Park visi-
tors and potentially endan-
gers others.
Some 1,700 Y osemite visi-
tors who stayed in the park’s
privately run Curry Village
“signature” tent cabins since
mid-June are being warned
of their potential exposure,
park officials said Tuesday.
The tent-dwellers are being
advised to watch for signs
of the often-lethal hantavi-
rus pulmonary syndrome,
caused by proximity to in-
fected rodents.
“We’re asking people that
if they exhibit any signs of
the disease to seek immediate
medical attention,” Y osemite
spokesman Scott G ediman
said Tuesday.
Though no definitive
proof yet connects the Curry
Village tents to the recent
hantavirus cases, three indi-
viduals known to have con-
tracted hantavirus this year
had stayed at the popular Y o-
semite facilities in June. Two
died. Officials say they have
also identified a probable
fourth Y osemite hantavirus
patient.
Already, this makes the
Y osemite hantavirus episode
oneoftheParkService’smost
severe public health chal-
lenges.
“Most cases of hantavi-
rus occur as isolated cases;
the cluster of cases associ-
ated with Curry Village is
unusual,” Dr. David Wong, a
commander in the U.S. Pub-
lic Health Service and chief
of the epidemiology branch
of the Park Service’s Office of
Public Health, said Tuesday.
In all of 2011, the Park
Service recorded a total of 50
public health “incidents” na-
tionwide. These ranged from
E.coliinfectionsattheG rand
Canyon and measles at Bryce
“We do not have names
for them yet, so we cannot
manage them,” he added.
“the white shark actually
receives a large amount
of protection in most na-
tions due to its high visibil-
ity whereas these sharks are
largely unknown and as such
have no protective mea-
sures.”
Clerkin said the tissue
samples from the sharks
must be compared to those
of other known shark
species to confirm their
genetic identities before
they can be properly named,
which could take up to a few
months.
“Once they have been
named then we can go about
studying them and learning
about their life history and
role in the ecosystem,” Ebert
said.
In addition to the new-
found species, Clerkin said
they found an abundance of
known shark species previ-
ously believed to be less fre-
quent.
“They don’t venture away
from the island,” he said,
commenting on the impor-
tance of exploring regions
like this so that secluded spe-
cies don’t go undiscovered.
Regardless of the contri-
bution to science, there has
Sharks:Eight potential new species
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These two new shark species were recently discovered off the coast of the island of Madagascar.
Photo courtesy of Paul Clerkin / Pacific Shark Research Center
been question as to whether
his research done with deep-
sea trawling is a threat to
the new species since most
of the sharks in the bycatch
are dead by the time they
reach the ship, according to
Clerkin.
“People ask me that a lot,”
Clerkin said. “I didn’t kill
anything. We’re not fishing
for sharks.”
Clerkin said he throws
back the sharks that make it
to the surface alive as soon as
possible to have as little nega-
tive impact as possible.
“I really wanted to see
as many sharks as I could,”
he said. “Diversity is
important.”
As far as continuing field
search and discovery of apex
predators, the Pacific Shark
Research Center might send
a team to Taiwan to collect
shark specimens, according
to Clerkin.
Furthermore, Clerkin
said some of his colleagues
are preparing for upcoming
international expeditions in-
cluding one to Madagascar to
study humpback whales.
In addition to interna-
tional expeditions, the Pa-
cific Shark Research Center
collaborates with fisheries
in Alaska and Santa Cruz to
provide a detailed biological
study of California sharks,
stingrays and skates,
accordingtothePacificShark
Research Center’s website.
“As a career path, ma-
rine biology offers the po-
tential for international
travel.”
Jacqueline Orvis is a Spar-
tan Daily staff writer. Follow
her on Twitter @SD_jorvis
Hantavirus outbreak kills Yosemite visitors
Info graphic courtesy of McClatchy Tribune.
§ HEALTH
Canyon to valley fever, a fun-
gus that enters the lungs. An
archeology student digging
in the dust at Pinnacles Na-
tional Monument in Califor-
nia came down with it.
ThoughaY osemitevisitor
survived a hantavirus bout
in 2010, no hantavirus ex-
posures occurred in any Na-
tional Park Service property
last year, according to the Of-
fice of Public Health’s annual
report. A G rand Canyon visi-
tor died from hantavirus in
2009,asdidthedeputysuper-
intendent of G lacier National
Park in 2004, Wong said,
though the victims’ routes of
exposure were not clear.
Nationwide, 24 hanta-
virus cases were reported in
2011 to the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Pre-
vention. Half of the patients
died, though the average
mortality rate since the dis-
ease was first identified in
1993 has been about 38 per-
cent. The disease is typically
caused by inhaling small par-
ticles of mouse urine or drop-
pings that have been stirred
up into the air.
The illness starts between
one and six weeks after expo-
sure, marked by fever, chills
and muscle aches. Fluid even-
tually fills the lungs, with one
survivor telling the CDC that
the feeling was like “a tight
band around my chest and a
pillow over my face.”
TooverseethenewY osem-
ite investigation, veterinary
epidemiologist Dr. Danielle
Buttke arrived on Sunday
from Fort Collins, Colo., and
public health specialist Adam
Kramer, a lieutenant com-
mander in the U.S. Public
Health Service, arrived from
Park Service headquarters.
Buttke had already been to
Y osemite about a week and a
half ago, following the initial
hantavirus discoveries. Cali-
fornia Department of Public
Healthstaffershavealsobeen
on scene.
In addition to being a
veterinarian, Buttke holds
a doctorate from Cornell
University and a master’s
in public health from Johns
Hopkins University. She has
served as an “epidemic intel-
ligence service officer” with t
he CDC.
“Staff from various of-
fices at Y osemite are put-
ting a great deal of time on
this issue as well,” U.S. Public
Health Service Capt. Charles
Higgins, director of the Park
Service’s Office of Public
Health, said Tuesday.
Among other tasks,
Buttke and her team have
been trapping and testing
the deer mice prevalent in
Y osemite Valley. Between
15 percent and 20 percent of
the deer mice population test
positive for hantavirus, G edi-
man said, though he noted
that the likelihood of human
exposure also depends on fac-
tors such as the rodent’s pop-
ulation density and the ani-
mal’s ability to get into tent
cabins. Additional rodent-
proofing and trapping mea-
sures have been instituted
since the hantavirus patients
were identified.
The concession company
Delaware North, which oper-
ates the Curry Village tents,
sent emails to most of the
Curry Village signature tent
visitors by Monday night,
and plans to send follow-
up letters by Wednesday to
those without email contact
information. Park rangers
are also handing out bro-
chures to visitors.
Bikes:Pedestrians,
bikersaidedbylanes
SJSU students are re-
acting differently to
the new bike lanes after
the first couple of days
of school.
Senior English ma-
jor Katrina Swanson said
she is an avid bike rider
and enjoys the new lanes
as well.
“Before it was really
costly to ride your bike,
especially on Fourth street,
because all the cars are
driving as you go onto the
freeway,” Swanson said.
“They’re going really fast
and traffic can be really
dangerous. I think the best
part about the bike lanes
is the buffered areas, be-
tween the bike lane and the
cars, you just feel a little
safer.”
Despite the positive
feedback from a student,
several student drivers
also have concerns about
the lanes.
Junior anthropology
major Carlos Bean said
he feels the lanes along
Fourth street near SJSU,
which has the parking clos-
er to traffic, could cause a
danger to drivers.
“Those lanes are just
accidents waiting to hap-
pen,” Bean said. “When
they put the new bike lane
in, they could of fixed
this problem giving all the
lanes the room they need-
ed. But, also as a cyclist, I
love the bike lanes.”
Junior philosophy ma-
jor Armando Mateos, is
also concerned with the
new bike lanes in regards
to traffic.
“There’s more traffic
now, which means there’s
a possibility for more car
accidents,” Mateos said.
“They gave too much room
to the bikers I feel. Also,
they were a bit confusing.
On the first day of school,
there was a lot of traffic
and it was several blocks
down.”
Liccardo said he isn’t
sure why some are still un-
sure about the bike lanes,
but believes these lanes
will eliminate any prob-
lems soon.
“A little bit of paranoia
is healthy,” Liccardo said.
“The biggest obstacle for
us is getting rid of the fear
and the idea that it isn’t
safe on a road. We’re doing
a combo of that by slowing
of traffic.”
Liccardo said that more
bike lanes are coming
soon. Buffered bike lanes
along Hedding Street, be-
tween 15th street and on
the G uadalupe River Trail
have been approved by the
city council unanimously
on August 22.
Brazil said this will add
1.5 miles to the current
bike lanes.
Construction is slated
to begin this fall, accord-
ing to San Jose’s city web-
site.
Kimberly Diaz is a
Spartan Daily staff writ-
er. Follow her on twitter
@SD_KDiaz
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