Benefits have been reaped everywhere as the years have passed on. Johnson said students don't have to dodge cars moving at upwards of 40 miles per hour since the campus became void of such obstacles on San Carlos Street. And, because of the technological advances the 1990s have brought, Burton doesn't need to carry around a portable typewriter anymore. He, like most of the SJSU staff, has his own computer in his office. However, it is not the lesser load that Burton is thankful for, it's the transformations he has seen from the university since he arrived at SJSU more than 40 years ago.
Beautification is one of the best things done in a long time.
This looks like what a university should look like. It's a city within a city. So old, in fact, we can tell the story of the 1900s through it. Students walking down the San Carlos Street pedestrian mall may not realize the area was once open to traffic. Up until then, relations with the surrounding neighborhoods had not been at the forefront of SJSU's to-do list, according to Terry Christensen, political Science department chair.