Fall 2014 Issue 6

October 1, 2014 VOLUME XCIX ISSUE 6

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ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT

Two sides divided across plaza

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he General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) paid tribute to victims of the 1982 Sabra and the Shatila massacre, an act they hold Israel responsible for, as Israeli student groups stood steps away on campus Tuesday.

“We’re here to commemorate the loss of life,” said GUPS President Lubna Morrar of the spoken word, dancing and hip-hop performances at the event. “Today we honor those lost in the struggle in the path toward liberation and freedom.”

GUPS hosted their commemoration on the main stage while other groups stationed themselves around Malcolm X Plaza.

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UNITE: Members of SF State’s General Union of Palestine Students and onlookers remembering the Sabra and Shatila massacre listen to speakers during a gathering in Malcom X Plaza Tuesday Sept. 30.

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Christian club discredited by CSU system The California State University (CSU) system derecognized a campus Christian club and its statewide chapters at the start of the semester on the grounds of religious discrimination, denying them access to university funding, campus meeting space and tabling at campus events.

The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship requires group leaders to identify as Christian and sign a statement of faith, which resulted in their exclusion from state resources at all 23 CSU campuses. Regular members do not have to sign the statement, according to SF State alumna and InterVarsity staff member Carrie Detrick.

CSU Director of Public Affairs Mike Uhlenkamp recommended that the club instead select leaders with skills tests or a requirement to attend a certain number of meetings.

“We’ve given them a year to address this issue with their bylaws,” Uhlenkamp said.

“This (recognition by the CSU system) is a process that takes place every fall. Any time you discuss religion, people get fired up.”

According to the group’s website, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was recognized and funded on state college campuses for most of its 76-year existence. As of the previous spring semester, they had 949 chapters on 616 campuses nationwide that continue to focus on Bible study, community service and social events.

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FAITH: The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship pose on the roof of the Cesar Chavez Student Center Monday Sept. 22. Wearable flags indicate where the group gathers on meeting days since they are not an official club in the CSU system.

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An additional $50 million that the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees lobbied to include in the governor’s budget earlier this year for necessary repairs across campuses will not be awarded, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday.

Brown reduced a potential $200 million set aside for “critical deferred maintenance” at CSU campuses, and an equal amount for the University of California (UC) system, after state property taxes did not exceed an estimated amount in July.

“Given California’s continued economic rebound, we disagree with denying this funding simply because the money involved comes from Pot B instead of Pot A,” said Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) in a press release, referencing the property tax lull recorded in July.

Likewise, the state will not set aside $50 million for deferred maintenance, or needed repairs to campus buildings without funding, at UC campuses, as previously considered.

“Making investments to maintain the state’s aging infrastructure continues to be a major priority for my administration,” said Brown in a letter to the state assembly.

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Soda tax could emerge at campus storefronts CHLOE JOHNSON chloej@mail.sfsu.edu

If a tax measure on the November ballot passes, SF State students will soon pay an extra fee for their favorite sugary beverages.

Measure E, authored by Supervisor Scott Wiener, would put a two-cents-per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages sold in San Francisco including sodas, sports drinks and some juices.

Diet drinks, natural fruit juice and drinks blended on-site will not be affected. The extra funds would go toward school programs, parks, recreation centers and other city services, according to Wiener.

“It’s going to generate millions and millions of dollars to improve the nutrition of our lowest income communities,” Wiener said during a debate on Measure E at SF State Sept. 24. “This is a public health measure.”

The primary goal of Measure E is to reduce sugar consumption, according to Wiener, who attributed the increase in obesity and diabetes to these beverages. If Measure E passes, Wiener expects to raise around $30 million per year for schools, parks and community organizations.

According to ‘No On Measure E’ campaign director Nick Panagopoulos, the measure would be “regressive, unfair and condescending” and would ultimately hurt the lowest income San Franciscans by driving up the price of groceries in general.

“It’s not a sales tax, it’s a distribution tax,” Panagopoulos said at the debate. “The California constitution doesn’t let them tax food or beverages.”

Both Wiener and Panagopoulos said that the tax will be paid by merchants at the point of distribution, rather than directly by

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BROWSING: Hospitality and tourism major Amanda Hoang decides on a drink between classes at Healthy U in the Cesar Chavez Student Center Thursday, Sept. 25.

the consumer. It will then be up to individual store and restaurant owners whether to add the extra cost directly to the taxed product, spread it around to all items or absorb it.

“I don’t believe it’s going to pass,” said ‘No On Measure E’ spokesperson Roger Salazar. “I don’t think voters are at all open to the government regulating their food choices, especially through taxes.”

Maureen Erwin of ‘Yes On E’ said the measure is “within striking distance” of reaching the two-thirds majority needed to pass.

According to Panagopoulos,

more than 1,000 small businesses and some political clubs oppose Measure E. However, all medical organizations in the city and labor unions support it, Wiener said.

“I think we’ve got a shot,” Erwin said. “If you look at our endorsement list next to theirs, it’s not even in the same realm.”

The SF State community is divided about whether or not to support the measure.

Elsa Ramos, who manages the Lobby Shop and Healthy U in the Student Center, said she thinks that if the measure passes, the two stores will absorb the extra cost rather than pass the burden on to students. Sodas are the single

biggest selling item at the Lobby Shop in the Cesar Chavez Student Center, according to Ramos.

Ramos said she still might vote in favor of Measure E, because of the health programs it will help fund. Others have stronger feelings about the measure, especially its intent to impact personal choices.

“Whose business is it if I want to drink a Coke once a month,” said John Wilson, a cashier at Healthy U. “I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts major Oscar Maciel said he would support Measure E, because he believes

it would encourage people to consume less sugar and make healthier choices.

“I haven’t really seen any better ideas,” Maciel said. “There are a lot of things that are clearly junk, and people just buy them because they’re cheap. I would absolutely support it.”

According to Erwin, similar measures have been proposed without passing, but that does not mean the proponents of Measure E plan to give up if voters reject it in November.

“If it doesn’t happen now, it will happen again in the future,” Wiener said.

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CSU strips religious group of University funding, meeting space “All we know is when we went to go for recognition, we were told we had to follow the executive order,” Detrick said. “It feels like we’re not recognized as part of the campus community.”

Then-chancellor Charles B. Reed prevented state-funded groups from using religious criteria as membership or leadership selection in 2011, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Other religious clubs at SF State have policies that open their doors to members and leaders of other religions does not affect their core values.

“We only have leaders that demonstrate commitment and passion,” said Rachel Nilson, an advisor to the Jewish club Hillel.

“We don’t have requirements other than being a student.”

Hillel has many members in

leadership positions who do not identify as Jewish, according to Nilson. It does not affect their success as a Jewish cultural club.

Russell Jeung, the advisor to several other Christian clubs at SF State, including the Asian American Christian Fellowship, LIGHT on Campus and Young Life College, said that while the InterVarsity decision worried some of the clubs’ members, they follow the

open membership policy required by the state.

“They go by selection process and are picked by vote,” Jeung said of the clubs he advises. “It’s based on who members think would best serve the organization.”

Without official recognition and University funding, InterVarsity’s regular meetings now require a search for empty classrooms, according to club member Cassie

Hodges. Since they are no longer allowed to table at campus events, members now attach banners to their backpacks to attract new recruits.

“We decided to go on with it,” Hodges said. “We could have just given up and said it’s too difficult.

It’s hard not having the support from school.”

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Student, teacher bond is integral to professor’s proposed school LULU OROZCO ohlulu@mail.sfsu.edu

“He thinks he can go to Berkeley,” his math teacher said to him in front of the entire class.

Jeff Duncan-Andrade, a Raza studies and Education professor at SF State, still remembers those words 25-years later, proof that the relationship between a student and teacher goes beyond the classroom.

After graduating from the University of California (UC) Berkeley with honors and teaching for more than two decades, Duncan-Andrade expects to provide the same level of student-teacher relationships he has provided through years of teaching with his new creation, the Roses in Concrete Community School in East Oakland.

“I’ll never forget that, what power a teacher has,” said Duncan-Andrade, adding that his teacher’s reaction was not uncommon at his high school or in the schools he has worked at throughout the past 20 years. “There is no taking that back from my consciousness.”

The project was first established in 2012 and next month’s board meeting will determine the fate of the school.

If approved, the program will begin to build the school this winter, according to the project website.

“If we do nothing different as a district in how we respond to the material condition in kids’ lives, from the city to

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ROSES: SF State Raza studies associate professor Jeff Duncan-Andrade, 43, holds roses in front of Jessica Sabogal’s mural “We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” in Oakland Thursday, Sept. 25. Duncan-Andrade plans to create a new school, Roses in Concrete Community School (K-8), in East Oakland.

the classroom,” Duncan-Andrade said at an Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) meeting last week, “that there will still be individual kids who find their way through the cracks in the concrete.”

The program name, pulled from Tupac Shakur’s poetry book “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” is a metaphor that describes urban youth as having the will and tenacity to thrive in harsh conditions.

“It starts with stabilizing a basic needs framework for our kids and our families,” Duncan-Andrade said. “And (then) moving up in that framework to creating a classroom and school environment that (is) loving and gives kids a real sense of belonging.”

Rather than students’ self-esteem and self-value being the focus of an af-

ter school program, they are an integral piece of the curriculum. “(The teachers) are not just a friend, they become a mentor in your life. It goes beyond the student-teacher relationship,” said Veralia Sanchez, one of Duncan-Andrade’s former students.

Sanchez met Duncan-Andrade when he taught at the East Oakland Step to College (STC) program, a collaborative effort between local high schools and the departments of education and ethnic studies at SF State.

STC students are high school seniors who take college preparatory courses that transfer over to college or university credit. The program is known to increase high school graduation rates among disadvantaged minority students, while helping them make a successful transition into a higher education envi-

ronment.

“Schools all too often are set up in ways that are not conducive to learning,” said Jessica Arroyo, a teacher and member of the Roses in Concrete Community School’s design team.

“There is high anxiety and traumas and everyday struggles that students often in Oakland—or in any community really— have to cope with and deal with.”

Duncan-Andrade would constantly hear that the best way to escape environmental hardships was to receive an education rather than investing in the community.

“We (Roses in Concrete) fundamentally disagree with that perspective,” Duncan-Andrade said. “We believe that the group that is most likely to change the block is the young people from the block.”

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC.

Second ASI member resigns citing personal reasons

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ssociated Students Inc. (ASI) vice president of finance resigned Sept. 17, the second resignation of a student government official since the beginning of the semester.

Ramon Gonzalez, who was elected vice president of finance in May, resigned from ASI’s board of directors due to “personal reasons,” according to President Sara Padash, who received his letter of resignation.

Gonzalez’s resignation follows that of former President

Kenneth Collins’ in August.

While officials declined to state academic standing as the cause of Gonzalez’s resignation, a source who wanted to remain unidentified told Xpress that several members of the board failed to meet the grades necessary to hold office.

Under the guidelines of California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor, the minimum grade point average for elected student officials to hold office is a 2.0.

ASI Executive Director Peter Koo said that the CSU Office of the Chancellor implements a grade check policy through its minimum qualifications for student office holders, but did not disclose whether Gonzalez failed to meet these

standards.

Koo said it is not unusual for members to resign from their positions.

He suspects attention to their academics and other responsibilities prompted their decision to step down.

“Sometimes they resign for work related issues and need more time to study in order to academically keep up,” Koo said. “It’s a balancing act.”

Prior to this semester, there has only been one confirmed resignation of a board member since December 2012, which was also the vice president of finance position, according to ASI agenda records.

Family and consumer sciences major Evangelina Calderon found the latest with-

It’s a team, and when you start you want to finish together, but things happen and some of us have to step up.

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drawal from ASI troubling.

“The school system isn’t at its best if we keep having officials resign,” Calderon said.

“If the staff isn’t stable then the school education isn’t stable and doesn’t work that well.”

Ethnic Studies Rep Luis De Paz filled Gonzalez’s seat following his resignation. De Paz also served on ASI’s Finance

Committee alongside Gonzalez, and has found the recent changes on the board difficult.

“It’s definitely challenging,” De Paz said. “It’s a team, and when you start you want to finish together, but things happen and some of us have to step up.”

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RA panel talks birds and bees to freshmen ALMA VILLEGAS

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Campus residents came for the dildos and stayed for the sexually explicit stories from their resident assistants (RAs) at Sexpo, a sexuality lifestyle event organized by Residential Life on Thursday night.

First-year students asked questions about pornography, virginity, fetishes, sex toys and relationships to a panel of five RAs. Organizers advertised a sex toy raffle but could not secure the donated items in time.

“Everyone is about the dildos,” said first-year student and campus resident Dominic Denning. “I just want to hear some funny stories.”

The panel of RAs included students with different sexual backgrounds and orientations who shared intimate stories, exposing students to a wide range of sexual lifestyles.

“I’m a virgin, but I like talking about sex,” said panelist Briana Bircher who stepped in to represent college students who haven’t engaged in sexual intercourse.

Bircher said she wanted to share her experience because she encounters students in their 20s who have concerns about their virginity.

“I was a little hesitant at first, but I felt that it was important for me to be there as a non-active 20 year old in college,” said Bircher, who expressed anxiety over sharing her opinions about sex.

In one of the questions, the facilitator asked the panel how often they masturbated and panelist Gerald Ong responded, “I really love masturbating. I love jerking off a lot!” to roaring laughter, finger snaps and cheers from the audience.

Carol Queen of Good Vibrations, a sex-positive shop based in San Francisco, tabled at the event and thought panelists did well at debunking sexual norms. “People think there is a normal way to have sex,” Queen said.

First-year student Natalie Nelson said she welcomed all the information at the event because people in her hometown of San Jose are not as willing to discuss taboo topics.

“Sex is interesting,” said Nelson. “San Jose is not as open as San Francisco.”

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RUBBERS: Freshman study a display of various condom styles and shapes at the Residential Life Sexpo, an event held by resident assistants to help educate incoming students on issues related to sexuality Thursday, Sept. 25.

SF State extends campus reach to Chinese university

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F State President Leslie E. Wong signed a letter of intent to build a partnership between a Chinese university and the College of Business Sept. 24, marking another presidential visit this year to create partnerships with foreign institutions.

“This is the beginning of developing a new partnership between our universities based on friendship,” Wong said at the meeting. “This document is an initial promise to work together, and in Chinese culture, friendship provides the foundation for building a relationship.”

The possible partnership between the Quancheng Institute of Jinan University and SF State will focus on hospitality, wine branding and hotel management, according to Robert Nava, vice president for university advancement.

Wong said his team’s fundamental motivation is to reconnect to areas with large alumni bases.

“If a visit enables us to visit a corporation, or government or a

university that would promote an SFSU academic and/or research program, that is taken into our planning,” Wong said in an email.

“Recruiting students is always part of my work, be it Daly City, Los

Angeles or Seoul, but this is more effectively done by our international program.”

Linda Oubre, dean of the College of Business at SF State, said Penglai is considered one of

the best tourist locations in China and is one of the fastest-growing destinations for tourism.

“They are looking to us to help build expertise in hotel management and tourism overall,”

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Oubre said in an email. “We will help develop talent, perform joint faculty research and exchange students.”

Government officials, industry and university leaders invited Wong, Nava and Oubre to Penglai, a city in the Shandong province of China, to discuss collaborations with students and faculty.

The group spent nine days on the expedition to China, as well as Korea to meet with partner institutions Chung-An University and University of Seoul in addition to city officials.

“As a first step, we are looking to send graduate students to our brand new MBA in hospitality and tourism management program, which is launching in Spring 2015,” Oubre said.

A delegation from Jinan College plans to visit Oubre at SF State in October to discuss the framework of cooperation between the colleges, according to Nava.

Wong said he attempts to reserve one week a year to intensive international outreach.

“Connecting our students to the world, and to China is critical,” Wong said. “Offering their students an experience at SF State is as well.”

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FLAGS: Members of SF State’s Israel Coalition observe a gathering hosted by the General Union of Palestine Students to remember the Sabra and Shatila massacre at Malcolm X Plaza Tuesday Sept. 30.

Palestinian and Israeli groups face off at massacre remembrance The events of September 1982, in which Lebanese Christian militants killed hundreds of people in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp, brought conflicting sides to the affair.

Israeli groups Hillel and I-Team tabled nearby to establish their presence to GUPS and bystanders, according to Jacob Mandel, a member of both groups.

“We’re showing that we won’t sit idly by while GUPS displays our name in a way that we don’t like,” Mandel said. “We are not murderous people. In fact,

we are very peaceful.”

As GUPS performances unfolded, Hillel and I-Team members walked through the crowd of onlookers and passed out packets detailing their perspective on the massacre.

Israel and its supporters deny any involvement with the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia that launched the offense on the refugee camp and neighborhood of Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites.

“Israel continues to create massive amounts of turmoil within Palestinians living in their

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Funds to aid $1.8 billion repair backlog denied

indigenous homelands,” Morrar said. “Our tax dollars go to fund these massacres.”

GUPS acknowledged the presence of the Israeli student organizations through finger-pointing and name-calling, according to Hartenstein.

“We’re just representing our side, we’re not here to rain on their parade or chant over them,” said I-Team President Ori Hartenstein. “I think it’s healthy to have this going on here because it’s a safe place where we can have this dialogue.”

Although the Israeli organiza-

tions stood near, Morrar focused the event toward addressing Palestinian oppression and murder, and said she advocates for everyone’s freedom.

“Palestinian liberation is very much tied to the liberation of all people,” Morrar said. “This campus is well known for its historic events in terms of youth led movements and academic freedom, and everything combined together for us today to express our voices.”

Despite the political issue surrounding the event, recreation, parks and tourism management

“(However,) we should not commit additional General Fund monies of this magnitude when we are facing unanticipated costs such as fighting the state’s extreme wildfires.”

The CSU system has battled a growing backlog of maintenance projects that have yet to be completed over the years, which reached $1.8 billion in March.

“I am disappointed in the Governor’s line-item veto of funds meant for California’s universities,” said Atkins in the press release. “In the budget the Legislature and Governor agreed UC and CSU deserved more funds.”

At SF State, officials reduced a $66.2 million maintenance backlog during the 1990s, only to report an increased $67.3 million by 2000.

“All of the various infrastructure problems told me that I should have been far more prepared on day one to look at the

major Joselyn Franco said she appreciates being a part of the diverse campus community.

“Even though I don’t necessarily look into what’s going on in the Middle East,” Franco said. “I still feel exposed to it on campus through things like this.”

Hartenson said that the tension between the groups is warranted and that the Israel/Palestine conflict is a heated political debate at the moment.

“I hope that one day we can come to a peaceful discussion and dialogue,” Hartenson said.

physical plan,” said SF State President Leslie E. Wong, recalling when he began at the University. “In many ways a new guy gets to say ‘let’s look underground, let’s look at the buildings.’”

Most recently, the University recorded $203 million worth of needed repairs to campus infrastructure, according to an SF State deferred maintenance report from May 2013. Six of the campus facilities, including parts of the Science Building, Creative Arts Building and Gymnasium, were constructed in the 1950s, as well as a number of the residence halls.

“I was quite struck to how much student staff, faculty and donor support have occurred because we’re finally taking care of something that has been neglected for a long time,” said Wong of a recent renovation to the Gymnasium. “It was only by disasters and risks that we had to deal with the Science Building and the gym.”

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Renowned A string quartet opens with Morrison Artists Series

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CLASSICAL: (left to right) The Alexander String Quartet’s Zakarias Grafilo on the violin, Frederick Lifsitz on the second violin, Paul Yarbrough on the viola and Sandy Wilson on the cello perform at the Liberal & Creative Arts Opening Day Festival at SF State’s McKenna Theatre Sunday, Sept. 28.

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The Morrison Artists Series was established in 1955 with a mission to make classical music available to everyone. Next to perform in the series is the Windscape Wind Quintet Nov. 7.

w orld-renowned string quartet has been quietly living in the Creative Arts Building, teaching music to students for more than 25 years.

The Alexander String Quartet kicked off the opening day of the Morrison Artists Series’ admission-free concerts at SF State. Established in 1955, the founder of the series, Edward Hohfeld, believed that chamber music could be made accessible to everyone and that the love of music could be instilled in new generations, according to the quartet’s website.

The quartet is composed of four members: Zakarias Grafilo, Frederick Lifsitz, Paul Yarbrough and Sandy Wilson. Serving as an ensemble in-residence for San Francisco performances, they hope to teach students by expanding their music into other disciplines according to Lifsitz, the group’s second violinist.

“It’s amazing to see the response from students listening to this music live in their classroom and to discuss with them the relevance and parallels with what they are focusing on in a particular class,” Lifsitz said.

Richard Festinger, a professor at the University and composer of classical music, organized the Morrison Artists Series and introduced the quartet to a packed audience last Sunday, Sept. 28. He has been colleagues with the quartet since their inception in 1989.

With regard to what he expects students and audience members to hear when they experience the quartet, he said, “They’re going to hear first-rate concert played to the style of music at the time in a more or less authentic way.”

According to San Francisco Performances President Ruth Felt, the quartet’s residency at SF State is so strikingly innovative that Chamber Music America cites it as a model to be emulated throughout the United States.

The quartet played musical pieces ranging from Beethoven, Mozart and Dmitri Shostakovich in the Creative Arts Building’s McKenna Theatre Associate Dean of Research and Performances and costume designer Todd Roehrman wore a lively white and red pinstripe suit to the event and addressed attendants with a big smile.

“The quartet has been a point of pride in the University for a number of years,” Roehrman said.

He stated that they offer private instruction toward string students and are important to the school of music as lecturers.

He added that SF State is second to none in the Bay Area for their arts programs because the departments coincide with one another.

“Part of our mission is to reach young people in the community,” Lisfitx said. “Both young musicians and also those who haven’t been able to hear and see music live due to socio-economic difficulties. It’s a great gap to fill so we are training students to help meet that need.”

Lisftiz acts as an ambassador for the University and has traveled both nationally and internationally, accumulating over a million air miles since arriving at SF State, according to him.

“The quartet performs constantly in the world’s greatest concert halls,” Lisfitz said. “To be a presence as influence on this campus and in this city has been a great joy and honor”

Music professor performs sonatas on 200-year-old fortepiano CECILIA ABATE

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Dr. Victoria Neve was new to the sonatas she performed at a recital last Friday, but her performance did not feel novice when she began to play the keys of the exact piano for which the songs were composed.

At a recital hosted by SF State’s music department, Neve, a professor in the department for 40 years, played the compositions on the 200-year-old instrument made by the composer during a weekly recital Friday.

The Sonatas by Muzio Clementi recital was part of the course requirements of MUS 150, a concert music introductory course.

Neve’s performance included two sonatas, one composed in 1802 and the other in 1821. Although Neve has been a music professor for many years, she said the Clementi sonatas are new to her.

“I just learned them this summer,” Neve said. “It was hard. I usually practice on my Steinway at home. I’ve done some work on a forte piano before, in grad school – the twin to this (piano). They were made in the same factory in London.”

The performance in the J. Paul Leonard library was part of the de Bellis Collection, which features the Clementi fortepiano, originally built in 1807 and donated by Frank V. de Bellis, whom the collection is

named after.

The recital was set on the fourth floor of the library due to the piano’s fragility – the room is temperature-controlled to keep the wood healthy. The weekly recitals for the class are usually held in Knuth Hall, in the Creative Arts Building.

Neve said that the recitals vary to introduce the class to variety of live performance.

“We have singers, jazz, classical, world music – we want students to really get the breadth of performance,” she said. “(The performance are) free—anyone can come in.”

Neve’s biggest focus for the pieces was to try to replicate their original compositions.

“I was trying to make them sound as good as I could,” she said.

One student, Julian Shipp, said it sounded better than “good.”

“The performance was amazing,” said the jazz major and recent transfer student enrolled in MUS 150. “The tuning is different.

(The piano has) got 66 keys instead of 88.

It’s almost like a different instrument. We’re very lucky to have faculty access to it. This is really something else.”

Mali Carter, a fellow music major and MUS 150 student, had similar reverence for the fortepiano.

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RECITAL: SF State music professor Victoria Neve stands to take a bow after playing a musical sonata from the de Bellis Collection on the Clementi fortepiano in the J. Paul Leonard Library Friday, Sept. 26.

“I’m a piano nerd,” Carter said. “This is the first time I’ve seen a fortepiano in real life. It’s like sitting down at a harpsichord.”

Meredith Eliassen, the de Bellis collection’s curator, said many SF State students are not aware of the collection, which has a range of historical Italian artifacts. The collection includes a terracotta sarcophagus from the 5th century B.C.E, original manuscripts of Gregorian chants and Italian opera

vinyl records from the early 19th century.

“When the library was renovated, all of this was stored away,” Eliassen said. “So now there’s a whole generation of students that doesn’t know this is here.”

The de Bellis collection is available for viewing on the fourth floor of the library and is open to the public.

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Banned Books Week turns challenged literature into spoken word PETER SNARR psnarr@mail.sfsu.edu

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LITERATURE: Students peruse a selection of controversial books and poems during Banned Books Week in the Cesar Chavez Student Center Thursday, Sept. 25.

F State, an institution that prides itself on free speech and personal expression, is celebrating those values by hosting many events this week and applauding works of literature that have challenged the status quo.

From Sept. 21-27, readers celebrate the freedom to read and honor books that have created controversy, been banned in schools and used in book burnings during National Banned Books Week.

The University participated with an event Thursday to honor these works, one of which was written by a former SF State professor.

Gloria Anzaldua, who died in 2004, wrote the 1987 book “Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza,” a semi-autobiographical work that detailed her experiences growing up in Texas and coming to terms with her sexual identity.

Deziree Miller, a Latino studies major, and Jacqueline Gutierrez, a sociology and Latino studies major, read a passage together from “Borderlands” at the event Thursday. They expressed their admiration for Anzaldua and the influence her writing has had on them.

“For a lot of Chicanos, it’s a Bible for us,” Gutierrez said.

“It’s a text for chicana identification, feminism and queer identification.”

The book was recently banned in Arizona under the 2010 House Bill 2281, and upheld by an Arizonian court in 2013. The bill prohibits the teaching of courses that “promotes the overthrow of the United States government or pro-

It’s a stripping of our culture. It’s further erasing our history, especially for kids who won’t get to read these progressive works.

Jacqueline Gutierrez, LATINO STUDIES MAJOR

motes resentment toward a race or a class of people,” according to the official bill summary.

“It’s a stripping of our culture,” Guiterrez said of the Arizona bill. “It’s further erasing our history, especially for kids who won’t get to read these progressive works.”

As well as celebrating Anzaldua’s works, the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center celebrated authors such as Maya Angelu, Rudolfo Anaya and others at the event last week. Imani Cezanne, an Africana studies and communications major, hosted the event on the plaza level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center with high energy, pumping up the crowd every time she came up to introduce a new speaker.

Students signed up and read passages from controversial texts of their own choosing or from a selection the student center had on hand. Cezanne spoke as well, reading two original poems and discussed the importance of banned works of literature.

“It’s a simple way to bridge cultural gaps,” Cezanne said.

“I’m a different person with a different knowledge because of access to these books.”

Students from S.P.E.A.K., a student-run organization that promotes spoken word, also attended the event to read their original works of poetry. One member was Jari Bradley, a so-

ciology major who read two personal and passionate poems to the audience.

“The life I live as a woman of color, who is queer and (a member of the) working class, charges the work I do,” Bradley said following her readings.

Along with the display of literature, a screening was delivered of “Precious Knowledge,” a documentary about Arizona House Bill 2281.

The passing of the bill caused the shutdown of the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American studies program, the only program to be disassembled, and the removal of several award-winning books, including Anzaldua’s “Borderlands,” from school curriculum, according to Roque Planas of the Huffington Post.

Opponents of the bill feel that it unfairly targets people of Latino heritage, while proponents argue that because the books are still available in the school libraries, the bill does not violate free speech.

For Cezanne, the restrictions only encourage her more.

“I think it’s counter productive,” she said. “‘Here’s a list of banned books. Oh those are the ones I’m going to read first.’”

For a list of frequently challenged books from past years, visit the American Library Association’s website.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

BRADLEY FOCHT

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ARUN UNNIKRISHNAN

Using fake names online creates issues in real life

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Today, more than half of people over the age of 25 use smartphones and tablet devices to email, browse the web or connect to social media. But 30 years of Internet growing pains have left technology fans so skeptical of a safe and secure online experience that many have resorted to false identities to represent themselves in real life situations.

In the 1980s, Baby Boomers were dubbed the Me generation, stereotyped as proud and narcissistic in an era where personal achievement and self-satisfaction had cultural priority over social responsibility.

In the 1990s, Generation Xers were criticized for latching onto the swiftly emerging media presence, utilizing music, television and film as a tool to educate the masses on controversial topics like school violence and teen drug use. They embraced social diversity, finding equality in demographics like ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity.

In the 2000s, Millennials built a reputation of confidence and entitlement, detaching from institutions and increasing their network with peers and colleagues, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.

They also exhibited increased support for liberal social issues, like same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana, and displayed substantial familiarity with rapidly advancing technologies.

By 2012, personal computers had wired their way into three-fourths of all U.S. homes, and the Internet had quickly become the preferred method of communication for individuals around the globe.

But somewhere in the effort to stay connected with the world and all of its diversity, those individuals developed a fear of one another and hid behind fake profile monikers and partially obscured photos.

Countless news broadcasts generated panic across the nation as story after story of credit card and identity theft flooded the media.

Undercover reporters exposed Internet prowlers who lured young children into

sexual situations under the guise of online chatroom personas.

Gradually, much of the convenience the web had to offer was overshadowed by the threat of terror, only a keyboard stroke away.

Even online dating became less about romantic escapades and more about survival of the fittest. Dating websites adorned in hearts and roses promised the mate of your dreams, but hidden behind the generic profile questionnaire still lurked a total stranger.

So what are we to do in today’s social media driven world, where identity and individualism are so critical to making one’s mark in society?

The web is a vast entity of endless space waiting to be pumped full of information.

So what’s the big deal with creating a couple different identities to suit your needs and hopefully gain some sense of security in the process?

Media giant Facebook recently ramped up enforcement of its Real Name Policy, forbidding titles, nicknames and in some cases, professional stage names like those of actors, musicians and drag queens.

Opponents of this policy argue that identifying a name as “real” or not introduces a whole world of complication. Some fear an increased risk of bullying if they are forced to use birth names.

But the social media company contends that “having people use their real names on Facebook makes them more accountable, and also helps us root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation and hate speech.”

Other social media apps, like Secret, are the antithesis to this philosophy. Based entirely on anonymous messaging in a public forum, Secret encourages users to post and engage in raw and honest conversations, yet hide behind the guise of anonymity.

This cowardly nature of throwing slurs without accepting the responsibility of repercussion creates a whole shitstorm of

problems, as enemies share once treasured secrets about former friends, regardless of whether they are true or riddled with hateful lies.

There is something to be said about the nature of this style of communication, where an app encourages people to have public forum to pad their own opinions without having to face the consequences of mature and civil debate because they are doing it anonymously.

Secret’s CEO David Byttow recently assured critics that the app is working diligently to eliminate abusive cyber-bullying via a community flagging system and a team of real-life post moderators, but not everything gets deleted before the harmful damage is done.

We must stop treating each other with such hatred.

It is alarming how vicious human beings can be toward one another. We are living in a time where our coexistence and support of each other have never been more crucial to our civil rights as equal persons.

At some point, we felt the pressing need to hide our true identities behind the mask of a digital screen, but in the process we started to lose our integrity.

Words are powerful weapons that can cut deeper than a blade. Stand proudly behind them, if anything to give meaning and purpose to your intentions, but more importantly to establish credibility among your peers.

Most of us have at one time or another wanted to better ourselves as we grow and adapt to our surroundings. As a community, it is our responsibility to nurture and praise the unique differences in one another, not mock individuals for paving their own roads.

This is not to condone all of the negative effects felt by various communities as a result of Facebook’s Real Name Policy.

It is to say that maybe removing the mask of anonymity and providing our real names online would make us less inclined to bully.

Think about what you say, but more importantly: Be yourself.

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How do you feel about Facebook’s Real Name Policy?

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I don’t get why it would matter if you had your real name on your Facebook or not. I don’t get why it’s Facebook’s business.

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COURTNEY FEDORCHECK, 22 COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS

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I think that it’s probably a good policy because, if you’ve seen shows like Catfish and that kind of stuff, people make a lot of fake accounts and it can lead to bad things happening.

CAMPBELL MCLEOD, 17

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I don’t use my real last name. I just use my nickname that my homies call me. If that policy is for real, I might not use it anymore.

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AMCHA is too agressive about anti-Semitism

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CHLOE JOHNSON chloej@mail.sfsu.edu

ast spring, a controversial Santa Cruz-based group called the AMCHA Initiative alerted SF State officials about some threatening Tumblr posts by a then-current student.

The posts were genuinely disturbing.

In them, the student posed with a knife and ranted about wanting to kill Israelis.

Needless to say, he no longer attends SF State.

Unfortunately, most of the students and professors AMCHA and similar groups speak out against are not even threatening violence.

Instead, they are targeted because of their memberships in groups like Students For Justice in Palestine, or simply because they have criticized the Israeli government’s policies.

This is extremely problematic because it stifles legitimate criticisms of war, occupation and the right to land use. In light of the events of this past summer, we need to

start talking seriously about the situation in the Middle East.

A small number of groups including AMCHA, Committee For Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and Stand With Us are behind the vast majority of attacks on students and professors who criticize Israel or sympathize with Palestinians.

For saying anything that these groups interpret as anti-Israel—even if the person is Jewish—the group will label a person anti-Semitic.

“If you criticize Israel you’re anti-Semitic, even if you’re Jewish,” said Nora Barrows-Friedman, a Bay Area based freelance journalist who has been harassed

by AMCHA for writing about Israel and Palestine. “In my view, that’s a pretty anti-Semitic thing to do.”

According to Barrows-Friedman, who is Jewish, AMCHA and similar groups have never won a case, despite filing several against professors and students.

Barrows-Friedman believes the group’s

real strategy is to prevent activism or scholarship on the complex Middle East situation.

Since no one wants to be accused of this particularly infamous form of bigotry, lots of college students and professors simply choose not to talk about the problems in Israel and Palestine. Meanwhile, anything else is fair game for criticism, from ISIS in Syria to the vote for Scottish independence in Britain.

Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voice For Peace said that AMCHA’s strategies include making lists of professors’ names— and often, their contact information—and emailing them to school administrators and journalists.

While the accusations usually lead to nothing, professors can be disciplined or even fired for engaging in academic freedom.

Last semester’s knife incident proves that occasionally, Jewish and Israeli students face violent threats. In this case, calling out this student and alerting the

authorities was most likely the right thing to do.

Unfortunately, it’s easy to brush off accusations of “anti-Semitism” when it’s brought up by groups like AMCHA every time a student or professor sympathizes with Palestine.

Oliver Benn, director of SF State’s chapter of the Jewish campus organization Hillel said that although they do not work with groups like AMCHA, they are glad when incidents like last semester’s are brought to their attention.

“Jewish groups on and off campus are concerned about the safety of students,” Benn said. “The knife incident illustrates why.”

Students and professors are more likely to utter pro-Palestinian phrases rather than anti-Israel, or anti-Jewish, speech.

Even if they were expressing actual anti-Semitism, constant accusations and intimidation techniques would only stifle their freedom of speech, not change their opinions.

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Facebook infiltrates users’ private lives for profit REUBEN DEVERAS

After seven years of sharing random aspects of my life to friends and acquaintances, I decided to delete my Facebook account permanently last May. I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to commit social suicide. I deleted my account after Facebook updated their application, allowing them to record and identify music through your phone’s microphone. I immediately asked myself, why do they need to know that I listen to R. Kelly?

With your consent, Facebook will be able to listen to songs playing in the background and identify them for you as you update your status. The catch is, if you refuse to post the song, they’ll keep a record of your music history for themselves.

Has technology made our lives infinitely easier by eliminating simple steps such as manually identifying our music? I don’t think so. It’s an invasion of privacy

and companies like Facebook have adopted new schemes to mold our culture by creating effective methods of information gathering.

I’m aware that Facebook is a public company that provides a free service, but their price of admission is your willingness to give away your privacy. I realized their advertising techniques catered specifically toward my tastes when I saw an ad for concert tickets for a Slayer show.

With how much they knew about me and my many likes, they may as well put in bold letters on their terms of agreement page, “Everything you say or do will be logged forever in our database. Mark Zuckerberg will personally send you a birthday gift of an item you drunkenly liked three years ago.”

By clicking that like button, sharing pictures of advertisements, instagramming soda bottles and participating in viral

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movements such as the Ice Bucket Challenge, it has become socially acceptable to let advertisers peep into our everyday lives.

I’m guilty of giving money to Dos Equis beer for their “Most Interesting Man in the World” advertising antic. How could I resist? The photos are shared hastily on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit. Even better, users embraced the meme and have generated their own clever quotes over the original picture to share online. I inadvertently advertised for Dos Equis without any financial gain.

With all that said, I still believe that the services Facebook provides are crucial in keeping up with how our world is changing. I do miss having the option to catch up with an old friend by stalking their profile and messaging them at 2 a.m. to relive old memories. I am also restrained from participating in wonder-

ful activities such as Tinder because I’m required a Facebook login to create an account.

Perhaps this is the future and there is no way around it. My efforts to keep my private life will probably be worthless. I wouldn’t be surprised if I woke up one day to find my thermos advertising me a new brand of tomato soup because it logs my lunch history.

If this is the case, as consumers we can define what companies advertise to us by being more careful about what we reveal online. You don’t need to put on a tinfoil hat and move to a deserted island to keep your information private. Think twice before you hit that like, share, or tweet button because who knows where that information will end up.

In the end, are you really following up with friends on Facebook, or is Facebook following you?

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CHAMPION: Russ Stanley, vice president of ticket sales and services for the San Francisco Giants, shows off his 2012 World Series ring in the Giant’s dugout Tuesday, Sept. 23.

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Alumnus’ degree: a ticket to World Series rings THOMAS DE ALBA

tdealba@mail.sfsu.edu

San Francisco Giants fans remember it all too well. It was game five of the World Series, the score stayed frozen at 3-1 and Brian Wilson faced Nelson Cruz for the most important out in Giants history.

Strike three, game over and the Giants were world champs for the first time in its San Francisco-based history.

While fans celebrated in the bars and streets, SF State alumnus and San Francisco Giants Vice President of Ticket Sales and Services, Russ Stanley, was on the Rangers Ballpark field with his family, relishing in one of his greatest achievements.

“It all kind of overwhelms you when you (finally) win,” Stanley said of winning his first World Series. “My kids were with me, so it was really special.”

Stanley, now the proud owner of two World Series rings, graduated from SF State in 1988 with a degree in business administration, and has the responsibility of maintaining the longest streak of sellout seats in the MLB. Stanley grew up in Pacifica, Calif., a small surfer town about 13 miles outside San Francisco, where his family moved when he was 2 years old and where his parents still live.

Baseball and hard work were big

themes throughout Stanley’s childhood.

His father John Stanley, a former editor for the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, used to take Russ on assignment with him in the city. Stanley said his parents played a big part in shaping his work ethic as a kid.

“My mom is German, so growing up I had a job since I was probably 13,” Stanley said. “We’d play baseball all day, and afterward I’d go do something a couple days a week to generate some money.”

The young baseball kid from Pacifica always had ambitions of winning a World Series with the Giants, he just never expected to do so as a vice president.

“I grew up wanting to play second base for the Giants, but found out in high school that I couldn’t hit a curveball,” Stanley said. “So I gave up on that dream.”

After graduating from Terra Nova High School, Stanley moved on to SF State where he began as a broadcasting major, which he said could get him close to sports again. He also wanted to take after his father, who hosted KTVU Channel 2 News’ Creature Features in the 1980’s.

“At SF State, I took my first (broadcasting) class and thought I was going to throw up,” he said. “I had to give a speech in front of all these people, and I thought I was gonna die. I knew right there that broadcasting was not for me.”

Once again, Stanley had to switch

gears on his career, finally settling on business administration. He worked multiple jobs while attending school to help achieve his degree.

Stanley used the business knowledge he learned at SF State early on as a part-time owner of a video store in Foster City, Calif. and as a waterslide manager at Marine World, where he worked for eight years. “(At Marine World) I had a lot of responsibility where I had 50 people that were under me, and a couple million dollar budget,” Stanley said. “There’s not a lot of 18, 19 year olds who can say they have that kind of experience.”

Although his studies helped him in his work throughout college, Stanley said he never got to connect very well to SF State and experience the college lifestyle.

“For that part of my college career, I was disappointed,” he said. “I never got to experience the fraternity life. I have no idea what it’s like to live in a dorm or even eat dorm food. I felt I never really got that.”

Though his days as a Gator are over, you’ll find Stanley scrambling around his AT&T Park offices, filling the seats to one of the most popular stadiums in the MLB. Some of Stanley’s employees described the work environment to be fast paced and intense at times, but said Stanley’s leadership abilities and well-rounded experience make him fun to work for.

“I remember when I came in for my last interview for the job, I was thinking ‘I’m so prepared for this interview with him’,” said Emily Bliss, a desk receptionist for the Giants ticket sales office.

“He sat me down and said ‘Hey, what do you like to do for fun?’, and we literally sat there for 30 minutes talking about my hobbies and he gave me the job.”

Carolyn Uroz, an SF State alumna, worked her way up from selling tickets in the box office to working as Stanley’s executive assistant.

She has known Stanley for over 22 years when they started working for the Giants, and said he maintains the same personality in and outside of work.

“He is 120 percent baseball,” Uroz joked. “His style is the same no matter what. It’s one of his great qualities, because he is the same type of boss as he is with his family.”

Since the Giants clinched a playoff berth, Stanley’s job got a little bit harder.

It’s difficult for him to anticipate what the next steps are with all the unknown in the Giants schedule, but Stanley said he still reflects on his SF State classes to help him through it.

“A lot of the stuff I learned at SF State about balancing budgets, is stuff I use today,” Stanley said. “It’s like Econ 101 all over again.”

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK PHOTOS BY WAYNE SALVATORE / SPECIAL TO XPRESS

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

Alison Land

Kevin Johnson

Daniel Boyer

Jaclyn Clark

Goalkeeper, 9 saves in two games

Midfielder/Defender, 5 shots on goal in week. Game-winner in OT vs. Cal State East Bay

Goalkeeper, 17 saves in week

Outside Hitter, 33 kills and 30 digs in two games

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Gator forward suffers gruesome injury in loss

PHOTOS BY DANIEL PORTER / XPRESS

SKATE: (LEFT) Gator JJ Mass, center, takes control of the puck from Will Hawker of the SJ Spartans as he makes his way down the ice during the Gator’s season opening game at the Sharks Ice in Fremont, Calif. Saturday, Sept. 27. (RIGHT) SF State Gator Matt Gault elevates teammate Paul Klein’s leg to help control the bleeding after Klein was cut during the game at the Sharks Ice in Fremont, Calif. Saturday, Sept. 27.

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Penalties, breakdowns and injuries left a mark on the SF State Gators’ 14-3 season-opening loss to the SJSU Spartans at Sharks Ice in Fremont Saturday night.

“It was a bad beat,” Coach Kevin Barlow said following the game. “We’re a new team. We’ve only had four solid practices, so there’s only so much you can work on.”

Barlow pointed to several early trips to the penalty box as a big reason why they fell behind early and never crawled back into the game. By the 7:30 mark of the first period, the Spartans had already enjoyed two power plays thanks to roughing and high sticking penalties by the Gators.

SJSU capitalized on both of those early advantages, getting goals from forwards Zach Mckeithan and Charles Tacchi, along with three more from the pair before the period was up. Mckeithan had a natural hat

trick by the close of the first, and finished with five goals and an assist on the night.

Tacchi finished with four goals after scoring two more in the second.

“A lot of the goals they scored on us were on the (penalty kill),” Coach Ryan Papazian said. Both Papazian and Barlow said that the early penalties, along with two injuries to Matt Gold and Ben Karpovich, jumbled SF State’s line settings and put the team on its heels.

“Our matchups were pretty bad,” Barlow said. “They took advantage of our bench management to be honest.”

Barlow and Papazian called a timeout following the Spartans’ ninth unanswered goal at the 9:31 mark of the second period.

The team met at the away bench for a discussion followed by a spirited chant, and the Gators began to fight back.

SF State’s Jacob Graham notched the team’s first goal of the season following a Spartans two-minute minor for having too

many men on the ice, and Ryan Murnane followed it up with a point shot off of the faceoff just four minutes later.

The Gators returned from the dressing room for the third period repeating the mantra of “win the period,” but another setback changed the tone of the game. SF State forward Paul Klein emerged from what was a rather routine collision in a very physical game unable to put pressure on his left leg. Teammates groaned and shouted for someone to call paramedics as he pulled his kneepad down to expose a deep, open gash just above his kneecap.

“It’s not the first time I’ve seen something like that, but it’s always a little scary,” Murnane said. “It’s still hard to see a friend like that.”

The game held up as teammates and coaches helped Klein out to the lobby.

Sharks Ice faculty assisted Klein while he waited for paramedics.

All the while, Klein remained alert,

joking about the fact that he holds the title of Safety Officer for the Gators.

“What was ironic about that was, it was seconds after he said ‘no injuries, boys!,’” Barlow said. “He took it like a champ.”

The game continued after a brief injury timeout, and the Gators scored their third and final goal as the paramedics were arriving. All the while, Klein remained in good spirits. He asked the paramedics if any of them had ever played hockey before, and when they shook their heads no, followed up by asking, “Does this make you want to?”

Before strapping Klein to a gurney and trucking him to Washington Hospital in Fremont, one of the paramedics asked, “Does anything else hurt?”

Klein responded, “Just my pride.”

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Gator volleyball breaks even after four-game homestand

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JOHN MONTOYA

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or the second week in a row, SF State’s women’s volleyball team was unable to string together consecutive wins at home in a double header.

SF State ended its latest homestand with a 3-1 set loss to No. 19th ranked UC San Diego, bringing the Gator’s record over the last four games to 2-2.

SF State showed signs of fatigue from the previous night, coming out sluggish in the first set. The Gators fell behind 10-15 early, and couldn’t gain momentum.

“San Diego was able to steal that game from us and they carried a tone of momentum into game four and we just weren’t able to overcome that,” head coach Jill Muhe said.

After a heartbreaking loss in the third set, the Gators ran out of steam and lost the fourth set with almost no opposition. They lost the fourth set 25-18.

Jaclyn Clark and Bria Morgan had 18 and 16 kills respectively. Senior Jacquie Brice continues to play well with 55 assists.

Friday saw a different tone, where the

Gators clawed its way to a tough victory after falling behind 2-1 to the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos.

Both teams exchanged blows throughout the first set, with each team staying within striking distance of each other until the Gators gained a bit of momentum, resulting in a 26-24 win.

“In the first set it was back and forth, and I think both teams were a little bit nervous and trying to find their groove,” said Muhe. “We managed to find a little bit of rhythm towards the end of the game and we were able to come out with a win in game one.”

The Broncos answered back in sets two and three, winning each match respectively, 25-21 and 25-17.

For the second Friday in a row, the Gators found themselves in a hole and played from behind to try and complete the comeback.

“She wanted us to come together as a team and relax, and go back to basics,” said Morgan, who had a career high in kills with 18.

Muhe’s speech worked, and propelled the team to win sets four and five in an

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DIVE: Jessica Nicerio of the SF State Gators digs the ball back into play during a match against the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos Friday, Sept. 26.

exciting fashion. The team played together and did not allow the Broncos to regain any momentum.

“The difference between the first three sets is we kind of let them get on runs, and we always had to fight back,” senior Jazmine William’s said. “We only gave them one point or two points, and that really helped us.”

The disappointing finish to the Gators (5-6) homestand leaves the team under .500, and staring at a 3 game road trip.

“It’ll be different being on the road, but were just trying to learn from everything

in this homestand and take it and try and get some wins on the road which is really tough in the CCAA,” Muhe said. “We’re going to try to work hard to make that happen.”

In a tight race for the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) title, SF State stands at seventh place, but remains only three games back of the first place California State San Bernardino Coyotes (8-2). The Gators will need to pull out a strong road performance in order to stay in the playoff hunt.