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Spike in car thefts jolts SF State RENEE ABU-ZAGHIBRA rabuzagh@mail.sfsu.edu

Marika Mizianty, a sophomore cinema major at SF State, said her nightmare began last week when she discovered that her green Honda CR-V was missing from her parking spot on Holloway Avenue.

“My car’s my baby, so it’s so rough,” Mizianty said. “I searched all Saturday, all through Parkmerced. I felt like I was losing my mind or something.”

Mizianty’s misfortune reflects the rise in San Francisco car thefts, which have increased 10 percent since 2014, according to data from the San Francisco Police Department.

More than 535 more automobiles have been reported stolen so far this year, according to the 2015 report. In response to the rise in car thefts throughout the Bay Area, the University Police Department has taken precautions to prevent them from occurring around campus, UPD Detective

Sgt. Dave Rodriguez said.

Mizianty, who lives at University Park South, said she had planned to grab some food Friday and asked her friends to meet her at her car while she ran into her room to grab her wallet.

She received a phone call from one of her friends telling her that the car was not there. Mizianty said she and her friends spent the next day looking for the car up and down the streets near SF State’s campus.

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SECURITY: SF State biology teaching associate Michael Cala inserts a pedal break in his sister’s vehicle Monday Sept. 28. His car was stolen multiple times and is being repaired from damages.

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UNITED: (COUNTER CLOCKWISE) Members of the Black Student Union May Wells, anthropology major; Hanna Wodaje, Africana studies major; Krystal Okeke, health education major; Onyeomachi Okoro, kinesiology major; Ismail Muhammad, political science major; Ghila Andemeskel and Precious Ogbonna pose for a portrait in the BSU office in the Cesar Chavez Student Center Monday, Sept. 28.

Black Student Union to examine intersection of race and gender CHANTEL CARNES ccarnes@mail.sfsu.edu

The Black Student Union will bring attention to everyday gender issues surrounding members of the black community by kicking off this year's first Black Kings and Queens meeting Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.

BSU Senior Coordinators Hannah Wodaje and Ismail Muhammad said they are working hard this year to improve the way black youth see themselves. The BSU wants to encourage the black community to hold themselves to a higher standard through the gathering and think of

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themselves as “kings” and “queens,” according to Wodaje and Muhammad.

Wodaje said she hopes the meetings become a regular event for the BSU. “Black people are placed at the bottom of the food chain, and we want to help build self-esteem and awareness about issues surrounding our black men and women by creating a safe space,” Wodaje said.

Wodaje said she joined the BSU during her freshman year in hopes of finding a community where she felt comfortable and could relate to other people. BSU helped her grow into the person she is today, she said.

“Being a part of the BSU and

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addressing issues regarding our black men and women has helped me grow academically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally, in a way that is Afrocentric,” Wodaje said.

While there are many issues facing black women in today’s society, Wodaje said the hardest is dealing with the notion of intersectionality.

Being a woman, being black and battling class status all at once is overwhelming, Wodaje said.

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Equipped with an arsenal of coding skills, a killer wardrobe and delicious fresh-baked goods, Kelsey O’Brien, an SF State apparel design and merchandising graduate, is an unapologetic fashion blogger whose popular website “Blondes and Bagels” wholly personifies her cheekiness and sass.

O’Brien describes her blog as a “happy accident,” after she made her boyfriend his own sports blog as an anniversary gift.

O’Brien has a background in multimedia.

She created her first website at age 10. O’Brien said her experience with website building made launching “Blondes & Bagels” relatively easy.

She initially posted her first article to Facebook, without attributing herself as the author.

“I expected nothing,” O’Brien said. “But it got like, 80 page views. Then I was like, ‘okay,’ and kept doing it.”

Within just two short months, her blog gained about 3,000 page views.

“I thought I was blogging to nothing, but now I’m realizing it’s not just mom reading it anymore,” O'Brien said.

“Blondes & Bagels” offers a little bit of everything for her audience: red carpet fashion, a secret Starbucks menu and what it’s like living with anxiety, O’Brien said. She said she has found people are most drawn to posts that offer her authentic, tongue-in-cheek point of view.

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SAVVY: Kelsey O’Brien, SF State alumna and

author of “Blondes and Bagels,” a lifestyle blog, browses her website at her desk in her home Thursday, Sept. 3.

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SPEECHLESS: SF State cinema major Marika Mizianty holds up the written police report of her stolen car in University Park South Tuesday, Sept. 29. She discovered her car was stolen Friday, Sept. 25.

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Afraid the car had been towed for being parked on the street all week, Mizianty started calling towing companies. They informed her that her car was not there and that she had no citations, she said. Mizianty reported the car stolen, and she hasn’t heard from police since.

Teaching associate for the biology department Michael Cala said he had his car stolen twice. His white Honda Civic was initially stolen near AT&T Park a year and a half ago. It was stolen again last week outside his home in the Sunset District and found the next day in downtown San Francisco, he said.

“You kind of have that initial heart drop where you just come out and you’re like, ‘There’s nothing there anymore,’” Cala said.

Crime and safety data collected around campus provide University police with a better idea of which areas to patrol more, according to Rodriguez, who said that marked vehicles, motorcycles and plain clothes police patrol in areas with the highest concentrations of crime.

Recovery rates range between 80 and 90 percent in San Francisco, according to SFPD Officer Albie Espazra, who said the main cause of car thefts are joy rides. Most cars are recovered throughout the city and are hardly ever sold to chop shops, Esparza said.

Stolen vehicles are typically recovered by people who often report abandoned cars parked in the same place for days, according to SFPD Sergeant Michael Andraychak.

The Department of Parking and Traffic also is a source for recovering stolen vehicles, he said. When an officer issues a parking citation, Andraychak said, the patrol car has a system that reads licenses plates and notifies them when a car is stolen.

Safety briefings are held with crime prevention specialists, detectives and sometimes uniformed police officers at the beginning of each semester for students to learn about security measures to help prevent crimes, according to Rodriguez.

“These crimes do not take very long

to accomplish and it can be challenging to catch people in the act,” Andraychak said. “We attempt to educate the public and our victims as to how they can reduce the chances of becoming a victim.”

The crime prevention specialists also organize weekly tabling on campus to give assistance and counseling regarding safety.

“In an ongoing effort to minimize vehicle burglaries, the University Police routinely give security talks to incoming students, at the beginning of each semester and advise them of the risks of leaving property in vehicles,” Rodriguez said. “We encourage students to remove any items of value from their vehicles as well as any items that are in plain view of passersby.”

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“I don’t feel safe at all honestly. It’s a little scary.

There are a lot of people walking around which kind of makes me nervous to begin with and I just feel people would try to break into my car.”

“For me, it just depends on when I come to campus. I get here really early in the morning, so I feel safe when I leave during the day, but when I use to have night classes, I didn’t like it and it felt a little bit sketchy.”

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“I feel safer the closer it is to campus, but I have seen cars that have gotten broken into on 19th Avenue, which is usually where I park, which makes me a little bit nervous if I’m staying here after dark.”

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“Well, I hate more when it’s at night, but I don’t think anyone likes leaving their car parked late at night when it’s dark because it’s dangerous.”

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“If it’s near campus I feel pretty safe. It’s just mainly students, so I don’t really think anything of it. I like to usually park my car in the parking garage, because I know they have security.”

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Between Tuesday, Sept. 8 and Monday, Sept. 28, University Police responded to 73 incidents. Here are some of the most notable incidents.

Wednesday, Sept. 23

petty theft Officers responded to the report of a stolen purse in City Eats Dining Center around 5:00 p.m. The total reported loss was $135.

Friday, Sept. 18

possession of methamphetamine Officers responded to reports of a

person acting suspiciously near Park Plaza around 8:23 p.m. Officers determined the 38-year-old man was in possession of methamphetamine. The subject was cited and released without incident.

Thursday, Sept. 17

drunk driving

While conducting a traffic stop at 1:19 a.m. near Font Boulevard, officers determined a driver was under the influence of alcohol. The 34-yearold man was then taken into custody without incident.

Tuesday, Sept. 22

Sunday, Sept. 13

Drunk in public An officer reported seeing an intoxicated person behaving

erratically around 12:43 a.m. near 19th Avenue. The officer arrested the 23-year-old man, who was transported to jail without incident.

evading police officer A police chase ensued when a suspect fled an officer after an attempted traffic stop at 12:50 a.m. near Bryant Street. The subject escaped after the officer terminated pursuit due to high speeds.

Monday, Sept. 21

medical assistance Officers and San Francisco Fire Department medics

responded to a report of a woman falling and hitting her chin in the Pub in the Cesar Chavez Student Center. The subject was transported to UCSF Medical Center.

Saturday, Sept. 12

vehicle theft Officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle near Winston Drive between 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The total reported loss was $2,400.

Sunday, Sept. 20

Tuesday, Sept. 8

drugs Police responded to reports of a person experiencing a reaction to an un-

known drug around 2:54 a.m. near Buckingham Way. Officers responded with San Francisco Fire Department medics, who took the subject to St. Mary’s Hospital.

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grand theft Police responded to a report of a stolen laptop near the Fine Arts

Building. The theft occurred sometime between Sept. 5 at 4:30 p.m. and Sept. 8 at 9:30 a.m. The total reported loss was $2,050.

Event to celebrate bookstore reopening SF State will host a celebration for the reopening of the campus bookstore Thursday, Oct. 1 at 2:30 p.m. The bookstore reopened following interior renovations this summer.

Forum on women’s leadership ceremony to honor promoted and tenured faculty

The second-ever Women’s Emerging Leadership forum, hosted by the College of Business, will offer attendees training on business skills like negotiation and networking Oct. 8-9 at the Downtown Campus. To register, students, faculty and staff can visit the event webpage.

SF State will put on an event celebrating the faculty in line for promotion and tenure during the 2015/2016 session Thursday, Oct. 1. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Seven Hills Conference Center. All students are welcome.

Training session for allies of undocumented/ AB540 students There will be training sessions examining the complications in obtaining higher education for undocumented/ AB540 students Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 121 in the J. Paul Leonard Library.

The sessions will also cover resources for current and potential students. Contact Nancy Jodaitis at dreamers@sfsu.edu. for more information.

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BSU celebrates ‘kings’ and ‘queens’ of community kings & Queens Continued from the front Black women are excluded from positions of power, she said, which contributes to the self-hate and insecurities they experience.

“Black women are condemned for being too dark, too curvy, too loud and too angry; yet, the world loves to watch, mock and be entertained with the notion of what a black woman is,” Wodaje said.

“Black women are among the most college educated in our society today, yet we only see a certain type of black woman shown in our media today.”

The meetings will highlight gender-specific issues for black men and women. Separate rooms will be provided for men and women to facilitate the discussion of genderrelated topics to help create a comfortable, safe space, according to Muhammad.

The meeting will not host any professional speakers because the gathering is EMMA CHIANG / XPRESS intended to focus the voices of DIGNIFIED: Kevin Flores (left) and Precious Ogbonna (right) both members of the Black Student Union at SF State pose for a portrait in the BSU office in the the community, Wodaje said.

Cesar Chavez Student Center Monday, Sept. 28.

Freshman international relations major Mia Veal, 17, said she will be attending Senior business major Prince Muhammad said he hopes meeting and hopes problems the Black Kings and Queens Adenola, 21, said he plans to the group focuses on hyperregarding black men not attend the Black Kings and sexuality, condemnation and appreciating black women will Black women are Queens Meetings because it the killing of black men in be addressed. condemned for being will be a good opportunity to the United States. The terms “I’m hoping the meeting too dark, too curvy, too be educated about what’s going “king” and “queen” announce will discuss the issue of black loud and too angry; yet, on in the black community to the world that black men men on the internet, specifically the world loves to watch, and address problems that go and women are more than their on Twitter, who disrespect mock and be entertained unnoticed. stereotypes, he said. black women and do not give with the notion of what a “I’m hoping the meeting “The terms king and queen us the support we need,” Veal black woman is. brings up the hashtag represent the knowledge of said. “Also, it would be good #BlackLivesMatter because my history,” Muhammad said. if they could speak about how police brutality is getting out of “Historically, the black man many police brutality cases are control,” Adenola said. “There and black woman are known EMMA CHIANG / XPRESS -Hanna wodaje are so many issues surrounding as kings and queens, but it is a the black community, but I history that is seldom taught.

AUTHORITY: Ismail Muhammad, focused on black males, and think Black Lives Matter is the We use this term in BSU to political science major, (right) and Hanna Wodaje, Africana studies major how we as a community need biggest one that needs to be empower each other and bring (left) both Black Student Union senior to bring more attention to the addressed.” remembrance to times other coordinators pose for a portrait in black women who are also While many issues will than slavery.” the BSU office in the Cesar Chavez being brutalized.” be examined at the meeting, Student Center Monday, Sept. 28.

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Transgender students report highest levels of sexual assault

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ransgender and gender-nonconforming students experience higher levels of sexual assault, according to the Association of American Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct released Sept. 21.

In the report, 31 percent of transgender, genderqueer, questioning or non-conforming students said they had experienced some kind of unwanted sexual contact since enrolling in college, including anything from attempted touching to forced penetration. Female respondents experienced the second highest rates of sexual assault, at 27 percent.

Lindy Velasco, vice president of SF State’s Queer and Trans Resource Center, said Title IX initiatives on campus need to focus on more discussion of and increased resources for queer and transgender students.

“A lot of the conversation right now in college campuses about sexual violence surrounds a very particular person, and that person is usually a white female that is usually middle class and straight,” Velasco said. “And when it comes to talking about queer bodies, especially queer bodies of color, given the presence of violence and poverty within their communities, they’re going to be experiencing it at higher rates anyways.”

The survey collected responses from more than 150,000 students across 27 ivyleague universities at the end of the Spring 2015 semester.

Though SF State was not one of the schools represented in the survey, the University will release a report no later than Oct. 1 including detailed information on sexual assault, harassment and misconduct incidents that occurred on campus during 2014, according to SF State’s Title IX coordinator Luoluo Hong.

Fifth-year student, Heather Matheson, 22, said data on sexual assault like SF State’s Title IX report is important to help hold schools accountable.

“If (colleges) aren’t forced to tell people about things like sexual assault, then they can just pretend like it’s not happening,” Matheson said. “They should

have to tell (students) about these kinds of things and they should have to do something about it.”

Preliminary data from the report, provided in an email by Hong, shows 85 incidents of sexual violence were reported at SF State in 2014. Ten incidents were investigated further, while the other 75 were resolved without investigation, the report said. As of July 1, there were six sexual violence investigations still pending at SF State, according to the report.

“We have a demonstrated track record of taking every reported incident of sexual misconduct seriously,” Hong said in an email. “Further, we have a very fair and multi-partial investigative approach that honors the due process rights of both the respondent and complainant.”

Xpress reported earlier this month that SF State has implemented a new Title IX policy, introducing the term sexual misconduct. The new policy prohibits consensual relationships between students and faculty members as well as sexual discrimination based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

“I think most people would agree that Title IX and the Violence Against Women Act have been game changers for higher

(education),” Hong said. “It has put the issues of sexual violence reduction and gender equity in the forefront of people’s minds.”

In addition to the survey and SF State’s Title IX data, developments in reporting sexual assault in San Francisco include the introduction of newly proposed policies and legislation. San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim announced in a University of San Francisco press conference Sept. 22 a new initiative that will allow campuses to coordinate their sexual assault responses with authorities. Kim also announced plans to create a task force to interpret sexual assault policies and laws to recommend best practices.

Fifth year BECA student, Beau Mathews, said that although he was unaware of the new legislation, the national statistics and SF State’s Title IX report, he believes these policies are important. He said students need to have access to information regarding sexual assault.

“Just knowing about the information is valuable and it can make you see how big of a problem there actually is,” Mathews said. “I think more discussion leads to more action.”

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Alumna pairs relatable humor with fashion in style blog

mainly family to read it, but quickly saw her audience grow. Her blog’s Her most-viewed post, “What It’s success has opened doors to other Really Like to Own Louboutins,” career opportunities like working with exemplifies just that. designers and retailers and collaborating “If you Google ‘owning Louboutins,’ with other bloggers, Emig said. Her blog it’s just a bunch of girls in their fancyhas become almost like a second job, schmancy dresses, lounged across according to Emig, with a single blog fainting couches in their shoes,” post taking up to a week to publish.

O’Brien said. “But I’m like, ‘These “I never expected blogging to be so fuckers hurt.’” time consuming, but I wouldn’t trade O’Brien said she has found that it for anything,” Emig said. “I love connecting with and expanding her meeting people who have a passion for audience is all about interaction. Her creativity and sharing their sense of morning routine includes perusing other style with others.” blogs over coffee.

A shared love of fashion connects Emily Emig, another SF State bloggers to their audience, and inspires graduate of the ADM department, said other bloggers, said Christine Platt, a she created her blog for that very reason. senior at SF State who said her role as “I love getting a feel for other a viewer helped her launch her own people’s sense of style through their fashion blog. Platt is an art major with blogs and I wanted to convey my sense an emphasis in studio art/photography, of style to others,” Emig said. so she said she was used to being behind Emig launched “Emily Emig — the scenes. She said that following other fashion lifestyle” at the beginning of bloggers and their opinions has helped April. She said that she, too, expected her transition to the front of the camera.

“It doesn't only give me an idea on how to style an article of clothing, but it also gives me new ideas on how to improve my up-and-coming blog,” Platt said.

Platt just recently started her own fashion blog, and said she expects it to set her apart from other people in her career field.

“Photography JAMES CHAN / XPRESS alone is a competitive QUIET CORNER: Kelsey O’Brien, SF State alumna and author of “Blondes and Bagels,” a lifestyle blog, displays her website in her home field, and seeing

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BLOGOSPHERE: Kelsey O’Brien, SF State alumna and author of “Blondes and Bagels,” a lifestyle blog, poses for a portrait next to suspended bagels in her home Thursday, Sept. 3.

that I love to photograph fashion, the experience of having my own blog and writing about fashion will benefit me to work in different fields,” Platt said.

O’Brien also said she hopes “Blondes & Bagels” will open doors to other career opportunities, and one day possibly become her career. Through this experience, she said she has learned the importance of finding something she

loves to do. She said she encourages everyone in their 20s to have an “entrepreneurial stint.”

“They kinda send you away to college at 18 and expect you to know what you want to do with your life, and that’s not realistic in my opinion,” O'Brien said.

“Do something and fail at it.”

Exhibit celebrates Italian identity in cinema MOBY HOWEIDY

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Scattered across the dimly lit hall of the Museo Italo Americano in the Marina District, trophies illustrate the legacy of Italian-American cinema. Francis Ford Coppola’s old, yellowed copy of “Heart of Darkness,” lay face up, turned to page 106. Scribbled in the margin of the left-hand side is a note to himself that reads, “It was work that prevents him.”

SF State cinema professor Joseph McBride co-curated “Italian-American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas,” an exhibit on the history and contributions of ItalianAmerican actors, screenwriters and directors in the American film industry.

The exhibition, which runs Sept. 18, 2015 to March 6, 2016, highlights the impact that Italian-American directors and actors like Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro and

Al Pacino had in portraying Italian culture to an American audience, McBride said.

“San Francisco is very famous for having a very lively and long-standing ItalianAmerican community here.

It’s a very big part of our city,” McBride said. “A lot of ethnic groups have contributed to American films in a big way.

In the early days of movies, the patrons of films were often immigrants because films were not considered a very fashionable thing.”

In addition to the celebration of achievements of Italian-Americans in cinema, the exhibit examines various themes prevalent in ItalianAmerican film, such as family, community, assimilation, crime and stereotyping.

According to Museo curator Mary Steiner, ItalianAmericans have always struggled with the way they have been portrayed in film.

Historically, Italians have been depicted largely as a group of

people whose world revolves around the mob and criminal enterprise. Family is a recurring theme in most Italian-American films, however, the family is most often represented with links to crime organizations like the mob, Steiner said.

Although not all depictions of Italians have been negative, Steiner said that even the loving exaggerations of the Italian-American community and its quirks are still inaccurate and one sided.

Though movies like “The Godfather,” “Goodfellas” and “Pulp Fiction” are beloved works of cinema, the Italian characters in them often reinforce stereotypes, like Italian-Americans having hot tempers or their tendency to speak with their hands, Steiner said.

“In general, we have a long way to go in terms of portraying Italian-Americans,” Steiner said. “Italian-Americans are still portrayed with that criminal brush or caricature,

and, frankly, we’ve got a ways to go in portraying ItalianAmericans as unhyphenated Americans.”

According to SF State Italian professor Elisabetta Nelsen, many films depict

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San Francisco is very famous for having a very lively and long-standing Italian-American community here. It’s a very big part of our city.

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Italian culture through onedimensional caricatures that neglect the nuances of being Italian in the U.S. Italian-Americans in film are often framed as characters who perform service-driven careers like masonry, carpentry, baking and housekeeping, Nelsen said.

“Italian-Americans mainly represent working class achievement,” Nelsen said.

“Usually not that many ItalianAmericans are represented as intellectuals who build university careers; they are more like individuals who belong to a close family that they love very much, and their family is pretty much their identity.”

Italian-American cinema has had an integral role in shaping Americans’ views of the Italian community, according to McBride. Some of the most important films have taken the Italian experience in the U.S. and encouraged the exchange of ethnic culture, he said.

“The movies reflected and amplified those stereotypes,” McBride said. “But, as better filmmakers deal with an ethnic group, they start to have more interesting stories with more variety and complexity in the characters, and that happened with Italian-Americans.”

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“Ask First” whips up consent at kink fair

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ressed in blackand-gold-ruffled panties, thigh-high stockings and pink-sequined nipple pasties, Maxine Holloway said she was tingling with excitement at the thought of being surrounded by thousands of Bay Area fetish enthusiasts during the 2013 Folsom Street fair. As Holloway walked through the sea of BDSM performers and spectators, selling her lace, satin and silk intimates fresh off her body to the panty-sniffing enthusiasts, she said she quickly went from feeling like “best dressed pervert” to violated and unsafe.

“I think a lot of the time in these sexual environments there is this misunderstanding that everything is really a free for all, and it’s not,” Holloway said.

“Consent needs to happen, even at kinky events.”

Holloway earned her master’s in public health at SF State last spring and works as a sex worker, activist and sexual health educator. She has attended the historic Folsom RYAN MCNULTY / XPRESS Street Fair for the past nine PLEASURE: A man is publically flogged while blindfolded on a bondage post at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, Sept. 27. This is a common demonstration SF residents and visitors witness during the annual fair. years, but says the amount of non-consensual touching she received at the fair two years ago BDSM community can stop perpetuating was startling and lead her to initiate the rape culture,” Holloway said.

“Ask First” campaign.

Marisol Gutierrez, second-time “This year I’m ready to take the festival goer, said that while she has never campaign to the next level,” Holloway personally had her privacy trespassed at said. “The Folsom Street Fair events team Folsom, she can see how Holloway’s has generously donated an entire booth experience led her to launch Ask First. to asking first. Over 400,000 Bay Area “In these events, there’s almost like kinksters, pervy visitors and some cats this liberty, this unspoken permission attend Folsom every year – lets cover to just go ahead and grab and spank them with consent.” someone,” Gutierrez said, “so it makes Instead of boycotting the world’s sense to want someone to ask first, to ask largest leather event that is near and for your consent.” dear to Holloway’s heart, she launched Andre Shakti, a live-webcam model, an Indiegogo campaign to raise $2,475 burlesque performer and for Ask First. Holloway said that volunteer at this year’s the campaign’s goal is to Ask First booth, helped create awareness about Holloway pass out consent in public spaces stickers for the and to remind the campaign last kink community and year. Shakti other attendees that said she noticed consent is always the campaign’s necessary. The money impact on raised went toward increasing the purchasing supplies RYAN MCNULTY / XPRESS number of times ASK ME: San Francisco resident Maxine Holloway, founder of “Ask First,” a campaign that needed for the Ask First she was approached promotes consent, smiles while talking to an attendee at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, Sept. booth at this year’s event, for consent prior 27. including Ask First stickers, to being touched, -maxine holloway wages for performers and sometimes playing with stuff that hurts,” they’ve spoken to Holloway about their compared to previous printed content tips. The Shakti said. “But it’s actually kind of experience with consent as a person of years. campaign was $5 short of their goal by the amazing how we can disconnect between color. “(The kink community likes) to think day of the event. like, ‘I’m practicing really great consent “It’s so easy to fetishize a person of of ourselves as being more articulate “I’m ready to inform and illustrate just around consent and negotiation politics in a scene,’ and ‘I’m practicing really color in a way that doesn’t feel good for how good consent can feel and provide because we’re doing it in our private lives great consent when I’m walking down the us,” Maxxine said. “Some people are into tangible information about how the that; I’m particularly not into that. I don›t because, you know, we’re kinky and we’re street in a public space.’”

Holloway said that while she has want to be at Folsom and have you tell me received a lot of positive feedback for you couldn’t help but slap my ass because her efforts to make Folsom Street Fair I had a Beyoncé booty.” a consensual space, not everyone in the Holloway said the need for Ask First BDSM and kink community was on board is a reflection of where we are at socially, with her plans. and it isn’t necessarily specific to the kink “I’ve received private messages on community.

Facebook from people telling me that Holloway said that, with Ask First, she I’m trying to ruin the experience, that is simply encouraging people to ask for I’m trying to change the culture of the what they want and communicate what Folsom Street Fair, but I’m not,” she said. they don’t want.

“I hope this year is the most disgusting, “I’m really grateful for all the perverted festival yet. I just want it to be community’s support. We have consent consensual.” issues and I recognize that and I want to Entertainer Cinnamon Maxxine is a do something about it,” she said. “I’m self-described sex worker, slut and warrior hoping (Ask First) continues to be a diva who performed at this years Folsom part of the Folsom Street Fair and that I JOEL ANGEL JUÁREZ / XPRESS Street Fair. Maxxine said that while they hear fewer and fewer people saying they FEATHERS AND FANS: Squeak (left) and Bubble (right) walk through crowds of kinksters during the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, Sept. 27. do not directly work with Ask First, don’t feel safe at Folsom.”

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: (LEFT TO RIGHT) Reserve Gator center Al Benjamin reaches over Jeff Cunningham for a tip-in during the semi-final Far West Regional College Division 81-55 crush of UC Irvine, published Thursday, March 13, 1969. Guard Patty Harmon leads a fast break in Saturday’s overtime victory over Chico State Saturday, Jan. 24, 1981.

Alumnus Francis Aquino becomes vertical as SF State wrestler Geovanni Aguilar goes for the pin during the Alumni versus Gater meet Friday, Nov. 14, 1997 in the Small Gym. SF Gators women’s softball team stands with their 2005 West HOENIX RFEL / P ROB WE Region Champion trophies Sunday, May 15 2005.

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’69 Men’s Basketball The men’s basketball team captured the regional title that had eluded it throughout its history in 1969, beating University of California, Irvine and University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Region 8 Championships and earning a berth at the Division II National Tournament. Head coach Paul Rundell’s squad posted a 20-9 overall record and won the Far West Conference on its way to the national tournament, where the team lost a 75-80 match against American International in the first round.

The 1981 women’s basketball team returned to the Division III national quarterfinals for the second straight season under returning Golden State Conference Coach of the Year Emily Manwaring. Unlike the year before, the 1981 squad added a GSC championship and had a 19-17 overall record. The team’s playoff run was ultimately halted in a close 71-78 contest by University of WisconsinLa Crosse, the same team that had thumped them 60-75 in the previous year’s tournament.

wrestling team. Three Gators grapplers captured individual national titles en route to clinching the collective crown, and three more added topeight finishes to bring the number of All-Americans on the roster to six. The team also went 12-5 in dual meets.

It was current wrestling coach Lars Jensen’s 14th season with the Gators, and the team has enjoyed sustained success throughout his tenure.

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A skilled roster can only guarantee a certain measure of success without leaders to channel its talent, and the acclaimed Gators squads were brimming with established fourth-year veterans that filled this role.

According to an archived SF State Athletic Department brief on the 1981 women’s basketball season, “The Gators lost only one regular off of (last season’s) squad and now field a current team that combines experienced veterans – who have been instilled with the winning tradition – with talented newcomers.” The 1969 men’s basketball team featured only two underclassmen on its 15-player roster, and all four squads had at least two players in their fourth year with the Gators competing for them during their title seasons.

VINCENT FAUSONE IV vfausone@mail.sfsu.edu

Four Key Components of a Championship Team

Long-Standing or Award-Winning Coach

With the exception of three-time GSC Coach of the Year Emily Manwaring, who led her 1981 women’s basketball team to their second-straight national quarterfinals in just her second season, all of SF State’s most prolific programs boasted a coach who had headed their program for at least five years. They averaged seven-and-a-half years at the helm between them before producing an all-time-great season.

Manwaring’s early success was rewarded when she was designated her conference’s coach of the year, a title that Lars Jensen, Paul Rundell and Kristi Lansford have also earned.

“If I had the answer (on how to build a successful program) I’d be a gazillionaire,” Lansford said. “That team just came together piece by piece.”

In addition to posting a 43-21 record, the team won five of their six Division II West Regional Tournament games to finish first in the qualifying event. The team went 2-2 at the College World Series, losing to eventual champion Lynn University and runner-up Kennesaw State University.

The best teams in Gators’ history have, unsurprisingly, also featured some of the University’s best athletes.

These SF State hall of famers and current record holders anchored their units and provided a large portion of the framework for their teams’ accomplishments. For 1969 men’s basketball, it was Joe Callaghan, who posted the second most single-season points of any Gator ever. Patty Harmon enjoyed her first of two career GSC Player of the Year awards during the 1981 women’s basketball season.

Perhaps the most dominant performance in SF State post-season history came from 2005 softball pitcher Sonja Garnett, who pitched every inning in all six of the Gators’ regional games that year.

Whether through home-grown recruiting or the addition of junior college transfers, the championship programs of years past synthesize success by adding new parts that ultimately contributed to the triumph of the team as a whole. SF State Hall of Fame softball player Vanessa Rodrigue would go on to set University records in the two seasons following her team’s championship run, and Contra Costa College transfer Carmen Yates was named to the All-GSC team in both the 1980 and 1981 seasons. According to wrestling coach Lars Jensen, his 1997 squad experienced an influx of accomplished junior college transfers before winning their national title.

“I believe the foundation to producing competitive teams on the field/court is recruiting impact student-athletes,” said second-year Athletic Director Charles Guthrie in an email.

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To see which of the championship traits this semester’s teams posses, check out the table below.

A1. Matt Barnes enters his second season as the head men's soccer coach.

A2. Sam Merritt entered his senior season having already been named to the All-California Collegiate Athletic Association team twice in his career.

A3. Sam Merritt and Jakob Velega are both entering their fourth season with the men's soccer team.

A4. Notable additions include Ashley Watson, a London native on full scholarship with the Gators, California State University, Bakersfield transfer Armando Flores and freshmen Aydan Bowers and Robert Kelly.

B1. Tracy Hamm enters her first season as the head women's soccer coach.

B2. Sophomore defender Laura Shea comes off of an All-CCAA selection in her freshman campaign.

B3. No fourth-year Gators compete for the women's soccer team this season B4. A staggering 17 members of the women's soccer team have been brought in with junior college experience.

C1. Paul Trevor enters his sixth season as the head men's basketball coach.

C2. The men's basketball team returns no All-CCAA selections.

C3. Only Andre Jones will return for his fourth year with the Gators.

C4. Notable recent additions include Australian Damien Rance, who led his high school team to a New Jersey State Championship last spring and Saint Mary's-transfer Treaven Duffy.

D1. Dennis Cox enters his second season as the head women's basketball coach.

D2. The women's basketball team returns no All-CCAA selections.

D3. No fourth-year Gators compete for the women's basketball team this season.

D4. Notable recent additions include sophomore Savannah Camp, who led the Gators in several statistical categories during her freshman year.

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E1. Tom Lyons enters his ninth season as the men's head cross country coach.

E2. Drew Feldman comes off a third-place CCAA finish to begin his sophomore year.

E3. Michael Garaventa and Logan Smith are both entering their fourth season with the men's cross country team.

E4. The men's cross country team has added seven freshman to its roster.

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F1. Kendra Reimer begins her first year as the head women's cross country coach.

F2. Sophomore Cori Harral comes off of an All-CCAA selection in her freshman campaign.

F3. No seniors compete for the women's cross country team this season.

F4. The women's cross country team has added five freshmen to its roster.

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G1. Jill Muhe enters her third season as the head women's volleyball coach.

G2. Senior Jessica Nicerio is the all-time leader at SF State in career digs.

G3. Jaclyn Clark and Jessica Nicerio are both entering their fourth season with the Gators volleyball team.

G4. Notable recent additions include Wichita State University transfer Taylor Brownlee, who has scored the second-most points for the Gators so far this season.

H1. Lars Jensen enters his 33rd season as the head wrestling coach.

H2. Jordan Gurrola returns for his junior season after amassing a 29-12 overall record, First-Team All Rocky Mountain Conference selection and national championship berth in his sophomore campaign.

H3. Only Calvin Nichols will return for his fourth year on the wrestling team this season.

H4. Notable recent additions include CSU Bakersfield transfer Alex Abono, who last year posted 14-4 record during his first season with the Gators.

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t’s incredible that millions of people in this country don’t know where their next meal is coming from. What’s even more incredible are the billions of pounds of consumable food that is casually tossed in the trash every year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled their plan earlier this month to cut food waste in half by 2030.

We waste 133 billion pounds of food every year, according to the press release.

This huge amount consumes 25 percent of American’s freshwater supply annually and accounts for 14 percent of U.S. methane emissions once it starts rotting in American landfills, according to a 2012 report by the National Resources Defense Council.

This is in addition to the millions of acres of land, energy and chemicals needlessly frittered away in our never-ending quest to fill our supermarkets to the brim.

Such an astronomical figure is especially tragic when one-sixth of

USDA AND EPA ANNOUNCE PLAN TO DO MORE IN THE FACE OF DISCARDED FOOD EPIDEMIC IN THE U.S.

Americans were “food insecure” in 2014, according to a report from the USDA. That number translates to 48.1 million Americans who lived in fear of not being able to afford food or were unable to afford food in 2014.

In San Francisco, the high cost of living means a family of four has to earn double the national poverty level annually in order to achieve food security, according to a 2013 report by the San Francisco Food Security Task Force. In District 7, where SF State is located, just over 18 percent of residents risk food insecurity, according to the report.

So, who’s to blame? We are.

The NRDC estimated that Americans throw out 25 percent of the foods and beverages they buy. The study attributed the majority of consumer waste to confusion over proper storage, label dates and a general devaluing of food in the minds of the American public.

Our food waste is getting out of hand.

Americans waste 50 percent more food than we did in the 1970s, according to the NRDC. Food is cheaper and more readily available than it was then, leading American households to purchase bulk foods in excess quantities at a whim.

What all of this adds up to is an entrenched system of excess built to marginalize the poor and increase the profits of the rich. We fill our supermarkets and refrigerators with more and more food as we value it less and less.

It is unacceptable that we continue to squander so much while so many have so little, and our country and the world march blindly toward the brink of destruction at the hands of resource depletion and climate change.

#ArtHoe wannabes hijack movement KALANI RUIDAS

kruidas@mail.sfsu.edu

Connecting like-minded people through images has produced some of the recent decade’s most interesting Internet subcultures. From the Adidas-obsessed, monochromatic health goth to the ’90s-web-nostalgic sea punk, it’s evident when someone gets their fashion cues online.

Arguably more productive than other Internet trends based on aesthetic congruence alone, art hoe is a movement whose origins are rooted in unpacking social issues. As art hoe proliferates into cyber infinity, the motive behind the movement is getting lost in sea of ephemerally trending hashtags.

The art-hoe aesthetic is characterized by selfies superimposed over classical paintings, similarly themed collages and colorful lines that highlight an individual’s features.

The movement was established by bloggers Mars and Jam in order to empower marginalized groups and challenge stereotypes about people of color.

“People of color, and specifically black women, have historically been excluded from the art world or simply used as hyper-sexualized muses, whether it be in music, paintings, photographs, etc,” Jam told Buzzfeed News.

Art hoes are a beautiful breed of boys, girls and inbetweeners with voices that aren’t inherently angry, sassy

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or otherwise submissive. It’s a platform for people of color and folks from every shade of the sexual spectrum to be seen and heard. Every self-published portrait, collage, drawing and photo is a political act. Art hoe is meant to engender creativity through accessible mediums of art. Non-Black, non-POC and non-queer folk should take the role of an ally, as art hoe is an outlet for celebrating being a person of color and an “other.”

When non-Black or nonPOC people call themselves art hoes or contribute to the tag, it detracts from the cogency of the movement. People who've never struggled with lack of

representation should not use the term.

The hashtag art hoe creates a space for artists of color to be seen through a lens they’ve pointed at themselves. It allows them to express their internalized struggles and take control of how they’re perceived as they transform themselves into art.

However, the super reliable, super accurate, number one source for cultural discourse known as tumblr, has diluted the term to describe any female, male, or non-binary person who enjoys art. By this contemporary definition, the entire concept is deflated and

reproduced as a simple image.

The appropriated art hoe is a fresh-faced teen who wears mom jeans, has an abundance of succulents or cacti on their windowsill and carries a moleskin notebook full of doodles in a Fjallraven Kanken backpack.

As an artistic undertaking meant for people of color, it’s troubling to see art hoe packaged and sold as a trend.

Trends come and go, but art hoe is a movement with a purpose.

Appropriating art hoe as a trend does a great disservice to those who use it as a channel for creativity, representation and self-validation.

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Californians need to cut water usage JESSICA NEMIRE jdn@mail.sfsu.edu

Unless you live under a rock, you’re probably aware that California is in a severe drought. For the past year or so, most restaurants have had cards on their tables explaining that water is only served upon request, and “brown is the new green” signs have popped up on more and more lawns, including those at SF State.

Unfortunately, not everyone is doing their part to help conserve water.

I found out that my friend, who we’ll call “Kevin,” takes three 12-minutelong showers a day because he said that's the only way he “feels clean.”

The average person's shower uses 9-12 gallons, according to the Orange County Water District, so that means that Kevin is using anywhere from 27 to 36 gallons of water a day on showers alone. That’s almost as many gallons as it takes to do one load of laundry with a traditional washing machine, according to wiseGEEK. When I told Kevin this, he said, “I’m

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REID CAMMACK

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One huge problem with America is our politically correct culture. Everyone is always finding random reasons to be offended. The latest attack from the PC police is criticism for the new queer movie “Stonewall.”

“Stonewall” is a movie chronicling the early gay rights movement. The film received backlash for making Danny, a fictional white, cisgendered, gay man, the main character instead of focusing on the real-life trans people of color who actually started the riots.

The film’s director, Roland Emmerich, has received massive hate for the film and is being accused of whitewashing history.

“You have to understand

just one person. It’s not like I’m making a difference.”

I’ve heard other people express that they don’t think their water consumption alone makes any difference. Although most people know about California’s water shortage, they feel that it’s not their job to try to conserve water, because they feel that they alone won’t change anything.

The problem is that a lot of people feel that way, and everyone needs to do their part to help save water during the drought. It’s everyone’s job.

I’ve been taking three-to-five-minute showers every day for the past four years. I first started because I’m not a morning person and tend to wake up with very little time before I have to be up and dressed to get somewhere.

Recently, I’ve been doing it because I want to try to do my part. Sometimes I also take army showers. I turn the water on, turn it off, use soap and shampoo, turn it back on to rinse and I’m done.

This is also how I wash dishes.

Reducing your shower by three minutes can save eight gallons of water,

according to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

That means that if you normally take a 10-minute shower, and you take a seven-minute one today, you alone can save eight whole gallons of water. That’s about as many gallons are used every time you flush a toilet, according to the Orange County Water District.

If all 30,000 students at SF State each reduced their showers by three minutes, thus saving eight gallons of water each, then SF State as a whole would save 240,000 gallons of water per day. That’s enough water to fill almost five 25-feet-by-50-feet swimming pools.

Saving water during this drought is everyone’s job, and it’s a realistic goal. No, shaving three minutes off your shower time tomorrow morning isn’t going to fix everything, but it will make a ILLUSTRATION BY REID CAMMACK difference, and right now, that’s all we can hope for.

Misguided critics throw bricks at Emmerich’s “Stonewall” movie one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people,” Emmerich told Buzzfeed. “For straight people, Danny is a very easy in.

Danny’s very straight-acting...

Straight audiences can feel for him.”

Emmerich just wanted to make a movie most audiences could relate to, so he chose a character that people would want to see. He had to whitewash history and make queer people fit into a heteronormative bubble in the process, but it was for art. Emmerich has nothing to apologize for.

I’m glad Emmerich wanted the movie to be not just a movie for the gays and include straight audiences. It’s well known that heterosexuals don’t have enough media representation. A whopping 3.9

percent of primetime television shows in 2014 featured queer characters, according to Glaad.

With this many loud and proud gays covering our television screens, how is any straight person supposed to connect with the characters?

People don’t watch queer films so they can go outside of their heteronormative comfort zones. A gay person acting and engaging in gay culture may scare off or confuse audiences.

That’s why popular shows like “Scream Queens,” “Glee” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” only have gay and trans characters that remain under the radar with no flamboyance.

Sure, they’re gay, but they’re not shoving it in our face.

Straight audiences shouldn’t be forced to connect with gay culture. Instead, the history of gay culture should be manipulated to better fit hetero

needs. White people shouldn’t be expected to connect with a black, transsexual woman starting a riot. Emmerich did us all a service by changing the story to an Abercrombielooking white boy that threw the first brick. Audiences wouldn’t have been able to understand the story if a person of color was in the forefront; they’d be too busy trying to connect with the white background actors.

It’s clear to see by just looking at modern pop culture that the only thriving franchises are those that are led by white, cisgendered casts. Television failures like “Empire,” “How to Get Away with Murder” and “Orange Is The New Black” just aren’t cutting it. There’s too much focus on people of color and queer people of color. If these flop shows took Emmerich's words to heart,

maybe they would actually be successful and even nab some trophies during award season.

The movie’s critical acclaim prove that Emmerich’s straightbaiting worked. The movie was praised with a 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and score of 31 on Metacritic. With movie reviews this amazing, it’s a wonder more movies don’t take historical figures and make them straighter and whiter.

People need to get off of Emmerich’s back. He’s just trying to make movies that everyone would want to see and he obviously did just that.

For me personally, all I want to do after a long, hetero day is come home to my hetero wife and hetero kids, sit on my big, hetero couch and turn on my hetero TV. How am I supposed to do that if every show and movie is filled to the brim with the gays?