February 4, 2015 ISSUE 02 VOLUME C GOLDENGATEXPRESS.ORG
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Trophies tour campus ELIZABETH CARRANZA ecarranz@mail.sfsu.edu
The San Francisco Giants will treat SF State faculty and students to a display of the three World Series trophies Wednesday at Jack Adams Hall. The event was created by SF State’s University Advancement department and the Alumni Association, who have a close relationship with the Giants organization, according to SF State Vice President for University Advancement Robert Nava. SF State is the only university to host the trophies on the Giants tour. “We have a wonderful relationship with the San Francisco Giants,” Nava said. “We have several alumni that are executives and work in the Giants organization that have a great relationship with President Leslie Wong.” One of the SF State alumni that helped make the viewing of the World Series trophies possible was Board of Directors member for the San Francisco Giants Community Fund, John Gumas. Wong and the Chief Executive Officer for the San Francisco Giants, Larry Baer, have become close friends and were also a huge part of making the trophy display occur. The Giants were more than happy
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Global event raises hijab awareness KELLY SODERLUND kls10@mail.sfsu.edu
Muslim and non-Muslim women across the globe united Feb. 1 for the third annual World Hijab Day, an international event designed as an open invitation to don the hijab in order to dispel misconceptions surrounding the headscarf. The hijab is a traditional covering for the hair and neck that is often worn by Muslim women and is sometimes worn as a symbol of modesty, privacy and morality. The hijab is widely perceived in the Western world as a symbol of male-implemented oppression and PHOTO BY DANIEL E. PORTER/ XPRESS women who wear the hijab often face discrimination. Mina Wardak, 20, is a nursing student and officer for the Muslim TEACHING: UK exchange students Katie Harris, center and Nicholl Hardwick, left, have Maham Khan, freshman, help put on a hijab. Khan shares the uses during Student Association at SF State who said she finds the stereotype an event the Muslim Student Association put on raising awareness about the especially frustrating as a hijabi (a woman who wears the hijab). culture at the Cesar Chavez Student center Monday, Feb. 2. “The hijab does not oppress women,” Wardak said. “Rather, it liberates them. Liberates them from society’s expectations of women. women to experience the hijab for one day. Oppression is when women are solely displayed as objects of beauty “I figured the only way to end discrimination is if we ask our and not valued for their self worth, their intelligence and personality.” fellow sisters to experience hijab themselves,” said Nazma Khan on Maryam Khan, a 19-year-old SF State sophomore and fashion the event website. blogger with a large social media following, agreed. A sense of inequity is familiar to Maryam Khan, who made the “I feel like I’m more me (while wearing the hijab), more connectdecision to become hijabi after returning from a three-week pilgrimed to myself and my faith,” she said. age, or umrah, to Mecca midway through her senior year in high New York resident and social activist Nazma Khan founded World school. Hijab Day in 2013 with the purpose of fostering religious tolerance “I felt a change in how fellow students approached me,” Maryam and understanding by inviting non-hijabi Muslim and non-Muslim WORLD Continued ON PAGE 5
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University reaches out to Hunters Point residents ANGELINE UBALDO aubaldo@mail.sfsu.edu
Bayview residents voiced their support for the possible SF State Hunters Point campus extension Jan. 31 at the Bayview YMCA Community Room. SF State hosted an open forum for members of the Bayview community to discuss how neighbors can benefit from the potential campus expansion at the Hunters Point Shipyard. District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen, SF State President Leslie E. Wong and leaders from neighborhood organizations, Quesada Gardens and Resilient Bayview, attended the meeting. “Before any determination is made about what our presence is or will be, it is critical that we understand their needs and aspirations so that whatever we do is motivated by their input,” Wong said in an e-mail. Wong announced plans to develop a campus extension at the Hunters Point Shipyard last fall. SF State officials are working closely with Lennar Urban, a development company that plans to build more than 10,000 new residences in the area, with at least 3,000 of them expected to be affordable housing, according to their website. At the meeting, University officials invited members of the community to write their ideas on a whiteboard that read “What would make SFSU a better place?” Tachelle Herron-Lane, a student of SF State’s Graduate College of Education and a long-time Bayview resident, contributed a list of suggestions, including free transportation, free 24-hour library access and set classes upon registration. “I was born and raised in Bayview,” Herron-Lane said. “It (a Hunters Point campus) would mean closer access to college for people who live here because transportation and commuting, it’s a little difficult now in the city.” The six-mile commute from the heart of the Bayview can take as much as 30 minutes by car and over an hour by public transportation, depending on starting location and traffic conditions, according to Google Maps. Prior to the meeting, University officials launched an COMMUNITY Continued ON PAGE 2
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