Getting that Spartan Spirit

On March 28th, we took a stroll through the SJSU campus for lunch. Besides being a great place to relax while eating our La Vic burritos, we also wanted to see what was new on campus.

One thing that definitely wasn't there six years ago when I was a student is the statue commemorating the black civil rights protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1968 Summer Olympics. The statue is impressive and incredibly larger than I imagined. It's a long overdue acknowledgment of their civil act, as they say, better late than never. Along with that, there is the new Cesar Chavez Arch of Dignity, Equality and Justice, which is pretty much in the center of the campus, right outside the Music Building.

With these additions along with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. library and the new dorms, SJSU is looking better than ever. It's always good to go back to places and see it in a much better condition than you left it.

It's ironic that that after our little field trip down college memory lane and thinking how much better the campus seems to be, we went back to our car in the parking garage and found it much worse than we left it a couple of hours earlier...battered and bruised in the back. It was at that moment when the memory of being a student there and having my car broken into and my car stereo stolen while parked in the parking garage down the block came raging to mind. I guess not everything is better than I remembered it to be.