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Tower Hall and Morris Dailey Auditorium
San Jose State University
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| Motto: Powering Silicon Valley
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| Official name
| San Jose State University
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| Founded
| 1857
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| President
| Vacant
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| Location
| San Jose, California
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| Students
| Undergraduate: 21,396; Graduate: 7,536 (Fall 2003)
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| Campus size
| 154 acre
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| Athletics
| Western Athletic Conference
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| Mascot
| Spartans
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San José State University, commonly shortened to San Jose State and SJSU, is the oldest university in what became the California State University system. The urban campus has an enrollment of about 30,000 students, and claims to have more graduates working in Silicon Valley than any other college or university.
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The main 154 acre (620,000 m˛) campus of San José St. is a rectangle in downtown San Jose, California, bordered by San Fernando Street (north), Fourth Street (west), San Salvador Street (south), and Tenth Street (east).
The original Washington Square campus consisted of a rectangular, wooden building with a central grass quadrangle. The wooden buildings were destroyed by fire in 1880, and were replaced by a stone and masonry structure of roughly the same configuration in 1881. This building was declared unsafe following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was in the process of being torn down when an aftershock of the magnitude that was predicted to destroy the building occurred and no damage was observed. The demolition was stopped, and the portions of the building still standing were made into four halls: Tower Hall, Morris Dailey Auditorium, Washington Square Hall, and Dwight Bentel Hall. These four buildings are the oldest on campus.
Formerly, San Carlos Street, Seventh Street and Ninth Street crossed the campus, creating essentially six small schools separated by roads clogged with traffic. Beginning in the fall of 1994, the streets were closed and converted to pedestrian walkways and green belts within the campus. San Carlos Street was renamed Paseo San Carlos, Seventh Street became El Paseo de César Chávez, and Ninth Street is now called the Ninth Street Plaza. As of 2004, all the dorms on the main campus are scheduled to be torn down and replaced with updated student housing. Three of the six brick blockhouses have been demolished, and the phase one of the new student village is scheduled to be completed in 20052005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated: The World Year of Physics The International Year of Microcredit The International Year for Sport and Physical Education The United States Year of Foreign. Following the completion of phase one, the remaining blockhouses and Joe West Hall will be demolished and replaced with phase two of the project.
The university boasts a year-round, outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool that is the largest in Northern California. The Event Center has basketball and racquetball courts, a small weight room, and a climbing wall. It also plays host to rock concerts and other events. The student union features a bowling alley and large game room.
Spartan StadiumSpartan Stadium located in San Jose, California, is the football stadium of the San Jose State University Spartans. It is currently the home of the Spartan football team as well as the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer. Past tenants have include, the other athletic fields, additional student housing and overflow parking are located on the South Campus on Seventh Street, about 1.5 miles south of the main campus.
San Jose State maintains a facility at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International AirportThe Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport is a medium-sized airport in San Jose, California. It is located at the north end of the city, near the intersection of two major freeways, Highway 101 and Interstate 880. Its IATA Airport Code is SJC . as part of the Aviation Department, and manages the Moss Landing Marine LaboratoriesThe Moss Landing Marine Laboratories is a multi-campus research facility of the California State University, administered by San Jose State University, and located in Moss Landing, California. The facility is located at the midpoint of the coast of Monter in Moss Landing, CaliforniaMoss Landing is a census-designated place located in Monterey County, California. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 300. The town is home to Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, a multi-campus research facility of the California State, on the Monterey BayMonterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of California, south of San Francisco. At the north end is the town of Santa Cruz, and at the south end is the city of Monterey. Monterey Bay is home to many species of marine mammals, including sea, a cooperative research facility of seven CSU campuses.
