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Monday, March 21, 2011
Volume 136, Issue 28
Presidential hopeful brings corporate know-how Lyell Marks Staff Writer
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Presidential candidate David Steele, College of Business dean
SJSU presidential candidate David Steele became the dean of the College of Business in 2008, and has since overseen a program that embodies the diversity he believes the university represents. “We have a tremendous diversity within the student body,” he said. “But we don’t have the sensitivity to the diversity that I think we should.” According to Steele, the College of Business’ undergraduates are made up of 75 percent non-Caucasians — that percentage increases to 80 percent if we consider the graduate program, which includes international students. He said the diversity fostered at
DISASTER IN JAPAN
Japan survivors face long cleanup as waters recede
SJSU has bred graduates who are more capable of combating global obstacles. “When I talk to employers, the first thing they always say is that your graduates hit the ground running,” he said. “They communicate across cultures and have incredible work ethic.” Born in Venezuela, his first language was Spanish but later became fluent in English, German, French and Italian. He admits having lost his fluency with French and Italian, but said it does return from time to time during his travels. Steele has lived in eight separate countries and said he stopped counting after he traveled to his 60th country. Steele sees his multicultural background as an instrument to facilitate communication through-
out such a diverse campus of both students and faculty. “I believe in listening to the faculty,” he said. “It can bring incredible value to a process that is often a top-down process.” Should he become SJSU president, Steele said he believes his background as a corporate leader for Chevron Latin America will complement his educational experience as a dean for two other universities. After becoming the president of Chevron Latin America, Steele managed projects with capital outlays of $950 million over three years, according to the CSU website. John Engell, chair of the department of English and comparative literature, asked Steele how his corporate experience would
translate into the educational field, wanting to know if there were potential advantages and/or obstacles that come with such a background. Steele said his experience has given him a broad perspective of how different the operating instructions and resources are for a university compared to the corporate world. “There is a lack of information technology in most public institutions,” he said. “The accounting and management systems are arcane to what we had at Chevron.” Steele said this was also the case for the other two private universities he has worked for, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Florida Institute of Technology.
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ESCALATION IN LIBYA
Allied forces launch missile strikes in Libya
John Glionna McClatchy Tribune NAKANOSAWA, Japan — They covered the body with a children’s blanket, a fluffy blue-green cloak decorated with white lilies. Beneath the cloth was a man, maybe in his 40s, missing his right arm from the elbow — a final insult to one of the countless victims of this agricultural town’s tsunami nightmare. On a warm late-winter morning, four recovery workers bent low, slowly lifting the corpse in silent deference, before splashing through the muck and ooze of the rural rice field toward the road. On Sunday, the ritual was repeated again and again at least a dozen times as teams — many dressed in hazmat gowns — finally had an opportunity to reach the bodies of friends and neighbors that had languished in a sea of mud and wreckage for nine days since the earthquake and tsunami struck March 11. On this day the floodwaters at last receded, giving Nakanosawa a chance to collect its own. “Before today, this field was an ocean,” said volunteer officer Hideaki Suzuki, gesturing with a hand sheathed in a blue surgical glove. Nakanosawa, located 220 miles north of Tokyo in isolated Iwate prefecture, is one of many coastal towns in northeastern Japan that have been decimated by nature’s mayhem. A few literally have been swept out to sea — people, houses, cars and all. Others, like this farm community of 23,000, are reeling from a one-two earthquake-tsunami punch from which many here wonder if they will ever recover. To date, the ranks of the missing in Nakanosawa number 1,800. Authorities have so far recovered 700 bodies, but have been handicapped by a lack of resources — including gas and electricity — as well as floodwaters that had stubbornly refused to recede. The weather and water finally relented. Days ago, the field — located nearly three miles inland — was covered with a film of snow, but on Sunday the sun shone through, bringing a hint of spring that belied a grisly task.
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Executive: Be confident in the workplace
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A Libyan man fires off a few rounds on Friday during a celebration of the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone over Libya.
Gadhafi vows retribution against targets in Mediterranean region McClatchy Tribune TRIPOLI, Libya — U.S., French and British forces blasted Libyan air defenses and armor on Sunday, drawing tracer and anti-aircraft fire over Tripoli.
Nic Aguon Staff Writer
A senior vice president and general manager for accounting software-maker Intuit spoke last Wednesday at Morris Dailey Auditorium about the top 10 ways employees shoot themselves in the foot in the workplace.
French fighter jets, and U.S. and British warships firing more than 110 cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea, struck military targets to protect rebel-held areas of Libya. Gadhafi declared he was willing to die defending Libya and, in a statement broadcast hours after the attacks began, condemned what he called “flagrant military aggression,” vowing to strike civilian and military targets in the Mediterranean. On state television later Sunday morning, Gadhafi said: “We will win the battle,”
Nora Denzel’s lecture began with a brief introduction about how she got to where she is today. There were more than 150 attendees, not including the walk-ins. Members from business fraternities Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Kappa Psi were also in attendance. Denzel opened her lecture with a few anecdotes that stirred laughs all around the
and “oil will not be left to the U.S.A., France and Britain.” “You are transgressors, you are aggressors, you are beasts, you are criminals,” he said. “Your people are against you. There are demonstrations everywhere in Europe and the U.S. against this aggression on the innocent Libyan people. The people are with us. Even your people are with us.” Seeking to rally regional opinion to his
auditorium. The first piece of advice she gave was to control your own public relations. “Every time you open your mouth, it is a press release,” she said. “You are your own public relations agent.” Her second piece of advice was to “aim high” — career aspirations are important and should be realized early. “Aim high, even if you have
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doubts,” she said. Moving on, her next tip was to learn how to ask questions. She said there are so many things a person can get by asking, and used the example of an attendee who inspired her to come speak at San Jose State University. Senior business management
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