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50-540: According to the official rules, the prize for winning the contest is "a pittance". The 2008 winner received $ 250, while the 2014 winners' page said the grand prize winner received "about $ 150". The current prize, as of 2023, is "a cheap certificate and bragging rights". The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , author of

100-473: A CASE WealthEngine Award in recognition of raising over $ 100 million. SJSU was one of approximately 50 institutions nationwide honored by CASE in 2008 for overall performance in educational fundraising. In October 2010, SJSU President Don Kassing publicly launched SJSU's first-ever comprehensive capital fundraising campaign dubbed "Acceleration: the Campaign for San Jose State University." The original goal of

150-641: A diphtheria outbreak among that year's students. Because of these issues, the Normal School moved sites six times while in San Francisco, citing noise complaints, sanitary concerns, and lack of access to proper facilities and materials. In 1868, more serious talks of finding a permanent location for the Normal School began, with a general consensus that the school needed to cut ties with the San Francisco Board of Education and move out of San Francisco. On

200-770: A bill to create a "Branch State Normal School" in Los Angeles. The bill was passed by both houses, and opened in August 1882. The southern branch campus remained under administrative control of the San Jose campus until 1887. In 1919, the school became the southern branch of the University of California, and later became the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1921, the California State Normal School changed its name to

250-524: A category prize are awarded Dishonorable Mentions. The winning entries are available at the contest website. Six books collecting the best BLFC entries have been published: An audio cassette of the winning entries in the BLFC was also released: San Jose State University San José State University ( San Jose State or SJSU ) is a public university in San Jose, California . Established in 1857, SJSU

300-540: A combined total of 4,458 students. When the third phase of the Campus Village is completed, SJSU's total on-campus student housing capacity should increase from 4,458 to 4,928. The projected total cost for this project is approximately $ 334 million. In January 2023, the California State University Board of Trustees approved a public-private partnership between SJSU and local investors that will allow

350-432: A cost of $ 132 million, the new facility houses multiple gymnasiums, basketball courts, multiple weight and fitness centers, exercise rooms, rock climbing wall, indoor track, indoor soccer fields, and competition and recreation pools with support spaces. The new facility is located on the main campus at the corner of 7th Street and San Carlos on the site of the old aquatic center, which was demolished in 2017. Construction of

400-694: A cost of over $ 36 million. In August 2015, a $ 55 million renovation of the Spartan Complex was completed. The Spartan Complex houses open recreation spaces, gymnasiums, an indoor aquatics center, the kinesiology department, weight rooms, locker rooms, dance and judo studios, and other classroom space. The primary project objectives were to expand existing structures, upgrade the structures to make them compliant with current building codes, correct ADA deficiencies, remove hazardous materials and correct fire safety deficiencies. The SJSU on-campus housing community comprises seven residence halls, which can accommodate

450-467: A food court, the Spartan Bookstore, a multi-level study area, ballrooms, a bowling alley, music room and large game room. In September 2010, a $ 90 million expansion and renovation of the student union commenced. The project added approximately 100,000 square feet (9,300 m ) including construction of new ballrooms, food court, theater, meeting rooms and student program spaces. The expansion phase of

500-438: A major U.S. city. The library is eight stories high, has 475,000 square feet (44,100 m ) of floor space, and houses approximately 1.3 million volumes. San Jose's first public library occupied the same site from 1901 to 1936, and SJSU's Wahlquist Library occupied the site from 1961 to 2000. In 2007, a $ 2 million renovation of Tower Hall was completed. Tower Hall is among the oldest and most recognizable buildings on campus. It

550-473: A new interdisciplinary science building broke ground in April 2019. At a projected cost of $ 181 million, the new facility will house teaching labs, research labs, faculty offices, a dean's suite and interdisciplinary spaces totaling 164,000 square feet (15,200 m ). The project site is located on the southwest quadrant of campus just north of Duncan Hall. The new building was completed in 2023. SJSU's South Campus

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600-410: A new multilevel parking garage, a new track and field facility, and a football stadium addition and renovation. The new golf, soccer and tennis facilities opened in 2017. The new softball facility opened in 2018, and the beach volleyball courts were completed in 2019. The intramural facility and parking garage were completed in 2021 along with the first phase of a new baseball facility. In August 2023,

650-427: A permanent home until it moved from San Francisco to San Jose in 1871. The original California State Normal School campus in San Jose consisted of several rectangular, wooden buildings with a central grass quadrangle. The wooden buildings were destroyed by fire in 1880 and were replaced by interconnected stone and masonry structures of roughly the same configuration in 1881. These buildings were declared unsafe following

700-534: A principal campus landmark and SJSU icon, was refurbished and reopened in 1966. The tower was again renovated and restored in 2007. Tower Hall is registered with the California Office of Historic Preservation. During the 1960s and early 1970s, San Jose State College witnessed a rise in political activism and civic awareness among its student body, including major student protests against the Vietnam War . One of

750-449: A rectangular, 154-acre (62.3 ha) area in downtown San Jose. The campus is bordered by San Fernando Street to the north, San Salvador Street to the south, South 4th Street to the west, and South 10th Street to the east. The south campus, which is home to many of the school's athletics facilities, is located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) south of the main campus on South 7th Street. California State Normal School did not receive

800-594: A state normal school. Minns and Swett were among several Evening School faculty appointed to the committee, which presented its report to the California State Legislator in January 1862. In May 1862, the California State Senate adopted a statue to fund an initial $ 3,000 ($ 91,560 in 2023) for a state normal school and to appoint a board of trustees for the school. The California State Normal School

850-548: Is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission . SJSU's total enrollment was 36,062 in fall 2023, including nearly 8,600 graduate and credential students. SJSU's student population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation. As of fall 2022, graduate student enrollment, Asian, and international student enrollments at SJSU were the highest of any campus in the CSU system. SJSU sports teams are known as

900-553: Is located in the Spartan Keyes neighborhood, just south of Downtown San Jose . Many of SJSU's athletics facilities, including CEFCU Stadium (formerly known as Spartan Stadium) and the Spartan Golf Complex, along with the athletics department administrative offices and multiple training, practice and competition facilities, are located on the 62-acre (25.1 ha) south campus approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) south of

950-573: Is part of the larger California State University Police Department , opened a new on-campus, multi-level facility on 7th Street. The $ 177 million Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library , which opened its doors on August 1, 2003, won the Library Journal's 2004 Library of the Year award, the publication's highest honor. The King Library represents the first collaboration of its kind between a university and

1000-609: Is tentatively slated to include installation of premium spectator seating on the stadium's east side, remains in the planning stages as of 2023. Remaining South Campus projects are either under construction or still in the planning stages, as of 2023. Andrew J. Moulder Andrew J. Moulder (March 7, 1825 – October 15, 1895) was an American educator and author who was the superintendent of schools in California and superintendent of schools in San Francisco. He supported excluding minorities from public schools in California. Moulder

1050-836: Is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) system. The university, alongside the University of California, Los Angeles has academic origins in the historic normal school known as the California State Normal School . Located in downtown San Jose , the SJSU main campus is situated on 154 acres (62 ha), or roughly 19 square blocks. As of spring 2023, SJSU offers 150 bachelor's degree programs, 95 master's degrees , 5 doctoral degrees , 11 different credential programs, and 42 certificates. SJSU

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1100-455: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and were being torn down when an aftershock of the magnitude that was predicted to destroy the buildings occurred and no damage was observed. Accordingly, demolition was stopped, and the portions of the buildings still standing were subsequently transformed into four halls: Tower Hall, Morris Dailey Auditorium, Washington Square Hall and Dwight Bentel Hall. These four structures remain standing to this day and are

1150-693: The Spartans and compete in the NCAA Division I FBS Mountain West Conference . After a private normal school closed in San Francisco after only one year, politicians John Swett and Henry B. Janes sought to establish a normal school for San Francisco's public school system , and approached George W. Minns to be the principal for the nascent institution, with Swett as an assistant principal. The normal school began operations in 1857 and became known as

1200-546: The December 15th, 1868 board of trustees meeting, State Superintendent Oscar P. Fitzgerald was authorized to begin discussions with the Regents of the University of California about the possibility of merging the University of California and the California State Normal School, though discussions ended quickly. After it became public that the Normal School was looking to move for a permanent location, several cities put in bids to home

1250-531: The Minns Evening Normal School. Classes were only held once a week, and only graduated 54 female students across its existence, however the program proved to be enough of a success for increased funding to be approved. In 1861, after the continued success of the Evening School, superintendent Andrew J. Moulder requested that a committee be formed to create a report on the merits of fully funding

1300-854: The State Teachers College at San Jose. In 1922, the State Teachers College at San Jose adopted the Spartans as the school's official mascot and nickname. Mascots and nicknames prior to 1922 included the Daniels, the Teachers, the Pedagogues, the Normals and the Normalites. In 1930, the Justice Studies Department was founded as a two-year police science degree program. It holds the distinction of offering

1350-600: The board of trustees and the Coordinating Council for Higher Education, SJSC was granted university status, and the name was changed to California State University, San Jose. However, in 1974, the California legislature voted to change the school's name to San José State University. In 1982, the English department began sponsoring the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest . In 1985, the CADRE Laboratory for New Media

1400-542: The first phase of the football stadium project was completed at an approximate cost of $ 70 million. Known as the Spartan Athletics Center, the 55,000 square-foot, multi-story facility houses a new football operations center, locker rooms, offices, meeting and training rooms and a sports medicine center. The facility also includes soccer team offices and locker rooms, as well as dining and hospitality facilities, event spaces and premium viewing areas. Phase II, which

1450-596: The first policing degree in the United States. A stone monument and plaque are displayed close to the site of the original police school near Tower Hall . In 1935, the State Teachers Colleges became the California State Colleges, and the school's name was changed again, this time to San Jose State College. In 1942, the old gym (now named Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, after SJSU judo coach Yosh Uchida )

1500-490: The former Alfred E. Alquist state office building site to be transformed into new housing for SJSU faculty, staff, and graduate students. Located one block west of the SJSU main campus, the 1.6-acre (0.65 ha) parcel will be the site of approximately 1,000 new housing rental units. Up to half of those units will be reserved for graduate students. The new housing development will comprise one or more high-rise structures up to 300 feet (91.4 m) tall. The estimated total cost of

1550-457: The lamps that struggled against the darkness. The first year of the competition attracted just three entries, but it went public the next year, received media attention, and attracted 10,000 entries. There are now several subcategories, such as detective fiction , romance novels , Western novels , and purple prose . Sentences that are notable but not quite bad enough to merit the Grand Prize or

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1600-403: The largest campus protests took place in 1967 when Dow Chemical Company — a major manufacturer of napalm used in the war — came to campus to conduct job recruiting. An estimated 3,000 students and bystanders surrounded the 7th Street administration building, and more than 200 students and teachers lay down on the ground in front of the recruiters. In 1972, upon meeting criteria established by

1650-563: The main campus near 7th Street. The south campus also is home to student overflow parking. Shuttle buses run between the main campus and south campus every 10 to 15 minutes Monday through Thursday. In April 2014, a new $ 76 million master plan to renovate the entire South Campus was unveiled. The estimated cost was later increased to $ 150 million. The plan called for construction of a golf training facility, new baseball and softball stadiums, new outdoor recreation and intramural facility, new soccer and tennis facilities, three beach volleyball courts,

1700-463: The much-quoted first line " It was a dark and stormy night ". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford , reads in full: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of

1750-539: The multi-year campaign was to raise $ 150 million but was later increased to $ 200 million because of the rapid success of the campaign. The campaign would eventually exceed its goal one year earlier than anticipated, raising more than $ 208 million by 2013. In 2012, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, awarded SJSU $ 73.3 million to participate in the development of systems for improving

1800-463: The oldest buildings on campus. Beginning in the fall of 1994, the on-campus segments of San Carlos Street, 7th Street and 9th Street were closed to automobile traffic and converted to pedestrian walkways and green belts within the campus. San Carlos Street was renamed Paseo de San Carlos , 7th Street became Paseo de César Chávez , and 9th Street is now called the Ninth Street Plaza. The project

1850-737: The project is $ 750 million. The project's design phase is projected to be completed by early 2024. Construction is projected to begin in late 2024 and be completed in 2027. SJSU is home to the 10,000-square-foot (930 m ), three-story Nuclear Science Facility. It is the only nuclear science facility of its kind in the California State University system. Located on the main campus, the Provident Credit Union Event Center seats approximately 5,000 people for athletic events and over 6,500 for concerts. A new student recreation and aquatic center opened in April 2019. At

1900-570: The project was completed in June 2014. The renovation phase of the project was completed in August 2015. Construction of a new, three-story, 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m ) on-campus health center at 7th Street and Paseo de San Carlos was completed in March 2015. The building houses the Student Health Center, Student Affairs office, Counseling Services and Wellness Center. The project was completed at

1950-454: The project would be too expensive. Despite opposition, the $ 177 million project proceeded, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library opened on time and on budget in 2003. The library has won several national awards since its initial opening. During its 2006–07 fiscal year, SJSU received a record $ 50+ million in private gifts and $ 84 million in capital campaign contributions. In 2008, SJSU received

2000-422: The safety and efficiency of air and space travel. NASA scientists, SJSU faculty and graduate students worked collaboratively on this effort. The grant was the largest federal award in SJSU history. Thirty-two people have led San Jose State since its founding including 8 principals, 15 presidents, 5 acting presidents, and 4 interim presidents. The SJSU main campus comprises approximately 55 buildings situated on

2050-491: The school to Los Angeles , but was ultimately kept in San Jose after objections by the California State Assembly . The legislature ultimately settled to give partial emergency funds to the school for the construction of a new building, which finished construction in 1881. As a part of the construction of the new building, a large bell was forged to commemorate the school. The bell cost $ 1,200 ($ 37,887 in 2023), and

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2100-541: The school, including San Jose , Santa Clara , Vallejo , Stockton , Martinez , and Oakland . However after the San Jose Railroad Company paid to have the entire student and faculty body tour the city and potential locations for the school, San Jose became the preferred site. The school moved to San Jose in 1871 and was given Washington Square Park at S. 4th and San Carlos Streets, where the campus remains to this day. The first building on Washington Square

2150-773: Was born on March 7, 1825, in Washington, D.C. , and he attended Columbia College . He was elected state superintendent of schools in California in 1856 and re-elected in 1859. He advocated for establishment of a public university in California and for establishment of the Pacific Stock Exchange . True to his name, he was a Jacksonian Democrat . He advocated for laws separating Asian Americans from white students. He said "The great mass of our citizens will not associate in terms of equality with these inferior races, nor will they consent that their children do so". Silas Selleck photographed him. This California -related article

2200-585: Was completed in 1996. Completed in 1999, the Business Classroom Project was a $ 16 million renovation of the James F. Boccardo Business Education Center. Completed in 1999, the $ 1.5 million Heritage Gateway project was unveiled. The privately funded project featured construction of eight oversized gateways around the main campus perimeter. In the fall of 2000, the SJSU Police Department, which

2250-479: Was established. It is believed to be the second oldest media lab of its kind in the United States. In 1999, San Jose State and the City of San Jose agreed to combine their main libraries to form a joint city-university library located on campus, the first known collaboration of this type in the United States. The combined library faced opposition, with critics stating the two libraries have very different objectives and that

2300-414: Was inscribed with the words "California State Normal School, A.D. 1881," and would sound on special occasions until 1946 when the college obtained new chimes. The original bell appears on the SJSU campus to this day and is still associated with various student traditions and rituals. Immediately after the failed attempt to move State Normal School to Los Angeles, California State Senator J.P. West sponsored

2350-560: Was opened in 1871 and fully completed in 1876, as a three story wooden building in a classical style , however in 1880 the building was destroyed in a fire. After its destruction, Principal Charles H. Allen journeyed to Sacramento to request the California State Legislator for emergency funds for a new building. This caused significant debate in the senate about the effectiveness of the school and if it would be better served elsewhere. The California State Senate voted to move

2400-410: Was registered as an official California Historical Landmark in 1949. The building was rededicated in 1910 after numerous campus structures were either destroyed or heavily damaged in the 1906 earthquake. Tower Hall, Morris Dailey Auditorium, Washington Square Hall and Dwight Bentel Hall are the four oldest buildings on campus. The SJSU student union is a four-story, stand-alone facility that features

2450-552: Was then opened on July 21, 1862. Despite continued success, with increasing enrollment and funding, the California State Normal School quickly began to hold contention with the San Francisco Board of Education , which poached students and withheld sufficient school facilities. In 1864, Principal Ahira Holmes went as far as to suggest that the cold, damp, and unventilated rooms of the Old Assembly Hall were responsible for

2500-462: Was used to register and collect Japanese Americans before sending them to internment camps . Uchida's own family members were interred at some of these camps. In 1963, in an effort to save Tower Hall from demolition, SJSU students and alumni organized testimonials before the State College Board of Trustees, sent telegrams and provided signed petitions. As a result of those efforts, the tower,

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