City celebrates Filipino heritage
By Anahi Herrera Villanueva STAFF WRITER
On Friday, the Filipino community and San José community members gathered outside of City Hall to celebrate Filipino American History Month where the flag of the Philippines would be raised.
The event featured LEAD Filipino, Bayani Ng Kabataan Filipino School of San José, Filipino American National Historical Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter, and Filipino Youth Coalition and was a free and family-friendly event.
The event showcased cultural dances from Bellarmine Preparatory School as well as resources for their community members.
Filipino American History Month is celebrated in October to honor the history of Filipino Americans and their contributions, according to the University of Washington.
Although established in
1992 it was not recognized by the U.S. Congress until 2009, according to the same website.
Food trucks, music, and speakers were present at the event, according to a website from LEAD Filipino.
A Filipino food truck was parked on the cub of City Hall where those in presence could enjoy Filipino food. While the event was waiting to start DJ Chrstvn played music.
LEAD Filipino is an organization for the Filipino community that provides resources for their community as well as encourages community action, according to the same website.
Marnelli Canosa, health equity & outreach coordinator for LEAD Filipino, was tabling and sharing resources to those who visited the event.
Canosa also talked about other impacts that affect the Filipino community.
“High pressure is a prevalent issue in our community. (LEAD Filipino) is also getting community members ready for the
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As a community, we have contributed a lot to the local scene in San José and nationally. For me personally, I didn’t grow up with the Filipino culture that my parents did and it took me a while to find my community.
Marnelli Canosa Health equity & outreach coordinator for LEAD Filipino
upcoming election,” Canosa said, “As a community, we have contributed a lot to the local scene in San José and nationally. For me personally, I didn’t grow up with the Filipino culture that my parents did back home and it took me a while to find my community.”
Finding resources from Canosa’s community helped her find out who she is and what her values are. Canosa talked about finally finding her community during her time at San José.
Akbayan, an organization in San José, was also present at the flag-raising. This organization works to bring more awareness to the Pilipinx/Pilipinx-American community and aims to help members learn more about their culture, according to Akbayan’s website.
Marc Angelo Sanna, a third-year aerospace engineering student who is
part of Akbayan, said this event reflects one of Akbayan’s pillars of culture.
“Being out here in the community is fun not just at SJSU, but because we are in the heart of downtown we can go to these events where we can learn about culture and learn from the outside community as well,” Sanna said.
Canosa started the event by introducing a series of speakers as well as directing those in attendance to their seats.
The first speaker that was introduced was Ariana Lacson, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major and president of Associated Students.
“All the core values from my culture and family values have motivated me to be a passionate advocate for others,” Lacson said.
Lacson comes from a situation in which her
family immigrated from the Philippines at a young age to support themselves.
To Lacson, having a vital leadership role breaks down stereotypes not only for women but also for women of color.
During her speech, Canosa said she remembered the efforts done by what was known at the time as the National Farm Workers Association, now known as the United Farm Workers.
The National Farm Workers Association were farm workers who came together to demand higher wages and working conditions, according to a web page from the Library of Congress.
The association started one of the largest and most wellknown Chicano movements and César Chávez is known for being an important leader in one of these movements, according to the
same web page.
Filipino farm workers at first joined together to strike for higher wages but ultimately joined Hispanic workers becoming one union, according to United Farm Workers.
César Chávez is commemorated on campus at the Arch of Dignity, Equality, and Justice, but Filipino farm workers were not included in the design when the monument was built.
Arch of Dignity, Equality, and Justice on campus sits as a reminder of the hard work and dedication to fight for better conditions that were denied, according to SJSU’s Public Art web page.
“I am proud to say that the university has donated $25 thousand for the project and Associated Students has passed the resolution, and also donated for the mural project as well,” Canosa said. More speakers presented their own experiences within the community and the continued efforts being made to give back.
Commissioner of Art for District Three Analyn Bones works to preserve cultural art pieces not only in San Jose but all across California.
“Art when you do look at it gives out curiosity, and when you have curiosity you want to learn more about the Filipinos here at San Jose,” Bones said.
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San José State University, in conjunction for Akbayan SJSU, raises the flag of the Philippines in commemoration of October bein g Filipino heritage month.
Muslim and Jewish speakers spur dialogue
By Saturn Williams STAFF WRITER
Students gathered at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library on Tuesday to discuss the intersections and intricacies of antisemitism and Islamophobia in a polarized political climate.
The discussion was part of an event series hosted by San José State’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion concerning the escalating war in the Middle East.
Approximately 41,000 Palestinians according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and 1,200 Israelis according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been killed in the war.
The series aims to encourage students to navigate issues and educate themselves surrounding Israel and Palestine and the various discourses emerging from military violence in the area in critical and empathic ways, according to its “About This Event” page.
On Nov. 13, the InterGroup Dialogue Program plans to hold the second installment of the series, “Bridging Perspectives: Understanding the Israel-
Palestine Conflict,” according to the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page.
The discussion at the library was co-led by Marium Mohiuddin, a Muslim-
valued, to fully participate,” Mohiuddin said.
Both Mohiuddin and Ritter said they became involved in Muslim-Jewish relations after seeing how the struggles of the two communities overlapped
vandalism in the U.S. in 2023 while the Council on American-Islamic Relations recorded 8,061 anti-Muslim cases, rates surging by over 100% in the last three months of 2023 for both groups.
American journalist and communicator alongside Zack Ritter, a Jewish educator who pursued his Ph.D. at UCLA, focused on East Asian international students and racial stereotypes.
“The idea is we’re trying to create environments in which individuals and groups can feel welcome, respected, supported,
and identifying missing bridges of dialogue between them.
“Between antisemitism and Islamophobia, we found there's a lot of similarities within these communities,” Mohiuddin said.
The Anti-Defamation League reported 8,873 cases of antisemitic hate crimes, harassment and
Ritter discussed how antisemitism has evolved in current discourses in the form of conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement theory.”
“(It’s) this notion that white-presenting Jewish folks are teaming up with Black and brown folks to take over the world and replace white Christian bodies with Jewish bodies,
Black and brown bodies,” Ritter said.
Ritter also described the way the “great replacement theory” incorporates Islamophobia in its rhetoric. He cited the Tree of Life Congregation, which was raising money for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Service to assist Muslim immigrants in getting to the U.S. when it was targeted by an antisemitic shooter.
Robin McMahon, a sixth-year history student, said it’s difficult to have a nuanced and critical conversation about Islamophobia, antisemitism and the Israel-Hamas conflict in online forums because individuals are isolated in echo chambers and primed for hostility.
“The algorithms are designed to put ‘like’ with ‘like,’ ” McMahon said.
“If you like something, if you engage with it, you're going to see more of it. And that's not true in the real world.”
Alex Luu, a first-year graduate student in the counselor education program at SJSU, said the open discussion with other students and the speakers was refreshing and enlightening compared to the
reactionary environments he’s experienced online.
“One of the key things that I learned from the presentation was that it is okay to still think about your thoughts on a situation or an incident,” Luu said. “Because very often on social media, it's very quick to formulate thoughts, and also with the vast information that we have, It's also very quick to assume many things.”
Students entered the event saying they felt “tense” and “touchy” talking about issues of Islamophobia and antisemitism in the current political atmosphere. Students concluded it with a dialogue about how to resolve those conflicts and build bridges with each other.
“Another thing is also developing empathy,” Luu said. “Given the postpandemic world, we're always quick to assume, always quick to judge. Just taking that time to understand, listen, and emphasize with the speakers, I think that's going to help me a lot.”
Student entrepreneurs learn innovation
By Hunter Yates STAFF WRITER
San José State students forged their own insight into innovation and entrepreneurship on Monday night in the Student Union Theater hosted by the IDEAS club.
IDEAS club is a nonprofit organization that brings entrepreneurial-minded individuals together including professional networking, technology and creativity, according to its LinkedIn web page.
Vinita Gupta, a UCLA alumna and the first woman of Indian origin to take her company to being recognized as public in the United States spoke at the event.
A public company is when a private company decides to list its shares to a stock market and makes it available for purchase to the public, according to a July 30, 2023 Forbes article.
“While I was at UCLA I got a 4.0 GPA (and) my biggest challenge throughout was with math,” Gupta said. “I struggled with math, and my sister who is one year older than me,had aced all her math exams and I always looked up to her and even envied her for it.”
Gupta went on to explain that after graduating from UCLA she had trouble
finding work because she didn’t have a visa to stay in the U.S. longer than 18 months.
“I couldn’t find a job (so) I was hoping that maybe UCLA authorities would take note of that and be able to help me out with my visa,” said Gupta.
At the age of 35, Gupta worked as an engineering manager at Bell Northern Research, Inc. for 12 years in the telecommunications industry and decided that it was time for a change.
“I started the company with a partner,” Gupta said. “Having a partner has great value in a startup, because if you start something like a company you will face a lot of problems, and sharing those problems gives you courage and the pull to move forward.”
Gabriel Castaneda, IDEAS club event
coordinator and third-year business student went over what type of things the
club does for the university including events, workshops, and innovative speakers.
their innovations, according to its web page.
I went into it not knowing what to expect and the advice was pretty impactful for me. The biggest thing (Gupta) said that resonated with me was on how to tackle problem-solving or small steps that lead to differentiation.
Christopher Soto Fourth-year
finance student
“The IDEAS club hosts certain events like workshops and annual competitions related to entrepreneurship,” said Castaneda. “The main event we have every year is the Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge.”
The Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge is for students that would like to take their entrepreneurial business ideas to the next level, winners of the competition will be awarded cash rewards to prolong
“Last semester the biggest startup that presented to the IDEAS lab was a company called TransCrypts,”Castaneda said. “They had raised $2 million in funding which is pretty amazing.”
TransCrypts gives businesses the chance to have control of their data by going through data silos and presenting solutions to all types of different companies, according to its LinkedIn web page.
Christopher Soto, a
fourth-year finance student, felt that Gupta’s advice was helpful with midterms approaching.
“I went into it not knowing what to expect and the advice was pretty impactful for me,” said Soto, “The biggest thing (Gupta) said that resonated with me was on how to tackle problemsolving or small steps that lead to differentiation.”
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Speaker Vinita Gupta talks about her experience with innovation and entrepreneurship in the Student Union Theater.
Students embrace Mental Health Day
By Anfisa Pitchkhadze STAFF WRITER
San José State’s Student Wellness Center hosted the “World Mental Health Day” fair on 7th Street Plaza on Thursday.
World Mental Health Day is an international day that brings awareness and provides support for mental health issues, according to the World Health Organization website.
SJSU recognized the importance of the day as a way for students to relax their minds during this time in the academic year, according to the SJSU Events Calendar website.
Natalie Tobar, a thirdyear psychology student, discussed the significance of acknowledging mental health topics for students.
“Universities like SJSU play a crucial role in supporting students’ mental well-being because we face work from classes and life in general,” Tobar said.
Tobar said she has been overwhelmed lately by the amount of schoolwork she has and that she appreciated the university for providing fun activities for the day.
A U.S. News/Generation Lab report showed that 70% of students, out of the 3,649 students that were
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surveyed, have struggled with different mental health issues since entering college, according to a June 6 U.S. News article.
“Events like the World Mental Health Day fair reminded me that taking care of our mental health is also important in our academic success. It’s great to see our school prioritizing this,” Tobar said.
She said she did not participate much in the games, but she did check out the resources the other booths provided at the fair.
The fair provided games like shooting basketballs and corn hole to bring some action and fun for students as well as stress balls.
31% of the world's population are found to be physically inactive, according to the World Health Organization.
Aniya Dogra, a thirdyear engineering student, said she also had time to check out the fair and was pleased with what was offered.
“This fair was a fantastic opportunity to unwind and spend time with my friends,” Dogra said. Engaging in games and art helped me destress and gave me a much-needed break from my studies.
Provided at the event were activities including
games and art as a way for students to destress from work and classes, according to the SJSU Events Calendar website.
Tobar said she liked the
idea of the fair providing supplies to induce better health because she finds stress balls useful to help her calm down.
A survey from March
Universities like SJSU play a crucial role in supporting students’ mental well-being because we face work from classes and life in general.
Tobar
2023 by Gallup poll showed that 66% of college students experienced stress, according to an August 2023 article from the U.S. News.
Susana Hernandez Ortiz, a fourth-year criminology student, enjoyed the games offered at the event.
“I had a gap between my classes and it seemed interesting to see what was going on in the plaza,” Ortiz said. “I decided to let loose and try out the fun activities.”
“San José State sets a reminder that us students should not be afraid to turn to resources,” Ortiz said. “The Wellness Center is always open to help students in the best way possible.”
Dogra said she finds that students should open up and talk with university staff, but she also found it difficult to open up about her struggles.
Charli xcx upgrades ‘Brat’ remix
By Charity Spicer STAFF WRITER
Ever since June, Charli xcx’s sixth studio album “BRAT” has reinvented pop music and the entire music industry as a whole – even going as far as to influence political campaigns.
With the fluorescent lime green cover artwork, electronic bass lines and heavy production accompanied with Charli’s signature auto tuned vocals, nearly every young college student was “bumping that” in their “brat summer” whether it be online through TikTok dances or at the club.
Charli xcx has been in the music industry for over a decade, performing in nightclubs and securing radio hits like the 2014 track “Boom Clap.”
As detailed in her popular remix, “Girl, so confusing featuring lorde,” Charli xcx has remained mainly an underdog in the industry.
“BRAT” has revitalized her brand notably leading to a 90% sold out The Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan, according to a report from Billboard.
On Oct. 4, Charli xcx posted on her Instagram a billboard collection of dozens of features for a new release, the caption foreshadowing the album title with
“Brat and it’s completely different but it’s still also brat”
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“Brat and it’s completely different but it’s still also brat” was officially released on Oct. 11 and is packed with unique renditions of some of the most popular songs from this past summer.
The tracklist is the same as the original “BRAT” album but with remixes from a variety of different features and one single from the deluxe version, “Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not.”
The shift starts with “Club classics featuring bb trickz” enveloping the listener with a sound familiar to something that would be commonly played at the club with a twist.
“Club classics featuring bb trickz” has an entirely different rhythm compared to the original and speeds up the chorus and features the artist bb trickz rapping in Spanish.
One of the most highly anticipated features on the album “Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande,” added more of a standard pop sound from the original track and Grande’s verse felt forced and underwhelming.
Grande croons in the second verse: “It’s a knife when you know they’re counting on your mistakes / It’s a knife when you're so pretty, they think it must be fake / It’s a knife when they dissect your body on the front page / It’s a knife when they won’t believe you, why should you explain?”
Over the past year, Grande has been under extreme scrutiny over her relationship with Ethan Slater and people even criticized her past relationships and marriage.
She has also been called out for her cultural appropriation of Black and Asian people in addition to accusations of plagiarism, according to the US Weekly.
These lines allude to the allegations Grande has been involved in and she only further victimizes herself.
“I might say something stupid featuring the 1975 and jon hopkins” was sonically refreshing and provided tranquil moments for the listener to experience and reflect on the vulnerable lyrics.
Matty Healy also reflects on his experiences as a celebrity involved in quite recent scandals.
Like Grande, Healy has been subject to criticism from the media
from controversial statements made in 2023, according to an Oct. 3 2023, Los Angeles Times article.
The main single promoting the Sweat Tour and this new release, “Talk talk featuring troye sivan” touches on romantic communication and is a fun dance track that reconnects both singers that have formally collaborated on previous songs, “1999” and “2099.”
“Von dutch a.g. cook remix featuring addison rae” is handsdown the best remix that Charli xcx has released from her vault.
Addison Rae and Charli xcx have already collaborated on the 2023 track “2 die 4” and this remix has paved the way for Rae to find her own voice in the industry.
The production is extremely different from the original song, but the vocals are extraordinarily new and refreshing.
Rae’s famous autotuned scream towards the end of the track concluding with the phrase “I’m just living that life” took the internet by storm this summer.
“Rewind featuring bladee” is almost identical to the original if you forget Bladee’s off-key vocals in the second verse.
The faster-paced tracks like the
remixed versions of “So I featuring a.g. cook,” “B2b featuring tinashe” and “365 featuring shygirl” kept the momentum going and touched on emotional topics like Charli xcx’s relationship with the late electronic producer SOPHIE.
“Apple featuring the japanese house” doesn’t go unnoticed as a comfortable easy-listening pop song and sounds as if The Japanese House was always meant to be on the track.
Charli xcx concludes the album with the Billie Eilish featured remix on “Guess featuring billie eilish” continuing the carefree and “brat” attitude that she has always embodied.
Probably the most iconic and shocking lyric from the album is when Eilish sings, “Charli likes boys but she knows I’d hit it / Charli, call me if you’re with it.”
While there were many moments that didn’t feel as energetic as I hoped, “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat” is a reminder that “brat summer” is not just a season, it’s a lifestyle.
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I would rather rent a room in hell
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Growing up as part of the South Asian community in America, I have a sixth sense about money. The way I was raised led me to never gamble, never give in to fake promo deals and never throw money away.
So when I came across an apartment complex called The Grad: San José, there was no doubt in my mind I should have read the fine print, because I should have exposed the biggest scam in Silicon Valley.
As a naive undergraduate student, I was swayed into this scheme because I was immediately impressed by the building’s exterior and advertisements.
My first impression of The Grad was decorated with mixed feelings. I was so excited about moving away from my hometown, Fremont, that I got distracted by the fact that plenty of students were housing there since it is adjacent to San José State.
At the start, it looked like a good deal, but I soon realized I was sucked into a labyrinth of horror. To me, rooming at the Grad was the worst decision I had ever made.
Everywhere I went in the building, I felt like I was discovering a new species of mold. Quite literally, I felt sick a week after moving into The Grad. I missed two and a half weeks of school because of an upper respiratory infection.
Equally, the apartment was aesthetically heinous and made me sick to my stomach. It almost felt like I was in the epicenter of a forest fire.
When I reached out to the maintenance team, they came into my apartment, sprayed Febreze and charged me money for the service.
My experience isn’t just an isolated incident either, because other students have had similar experiences.
Natnaiel Yishak, a
fourth year engineering student, quickly learned his new apartment involved a few regrets when he was a resident.
“The cleanliness was pretty tough. The maintenance was cleaning the trash chutes one time, and there was a fruit fly infestation,” Yishak said. “It took them two months (to deal with it and) they don’t throw out the trash properly.”
Besides being a hot spot for vermin and infestation, the residents were left to deal with any technical shortcomings alone.
Sometimes, the water would shut down in the whole building and there were even times when the air conditioning didn’t work.
“There was one time when the parking garage wasn’t working (and) when we tried to leave, the garage door was blocked,” Yishak said. “We couldn’t get out for the entire day (and maintenance) messaged us in the middle of the day that the garage door wasn’t working.”
Yishak said he wouldn’t recommend The Grad to anyone searching for offcampus housing. Being exposed to a plethora of problems made him leave within the same year he joined.
Most UC and CSU campuses don’t ensure housing for academia and students are often left competing in big time rental markets such as Santa Cruz, Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a Sept. 30, 2022 article from Ed Source.
I try not to take it as a negative, but doing so is difficult when I looked around my apartment and had nothing positive to look at or to say.
Students shouldn’t have to save up their hard-earned money to be treated like, feel like or live in shit.
As my time progressed at The Grad, I realized it wasn’t just the building that was the problem, but also my roommate who was assigned to me without any warning.
On multiple occasions, my roommate tried to
To put it candidly, the only aspect my apartment was missing was several species of flora to make it a legitimate habitat for sasquatches.
Everywhere I went in the building, I felt like I was discovering a new species of mold. Quite literally, I felt sick a week after moving into The Grad. I missed two and a half weeks of school because of an upper respiratory infection.
trick me into duplicating my key at a nearby hardware store, only because he wanted to give his friends access to our apartment without the front desk workers knowing.
It didn’t take me long to realize my roommate primarily lived in San Francisco and used the apartment he shared with me to hoard garbage.
When I was hunting for student housing, I was looking for three things; personal space, price and quality. At the time, The Grad seemed to be a decent place with a private bedroom and a decent price.
Unfortunately, the price was deceiving.
The personal space was fabricated with amenities that didn’t work and the price was the biggest rip-off since crappy hotel porn.
Yishak reflects on not only having unreliable staff at The Grad, but roommates that took
advantage of his space in the wrong way.
“I had a roommate who had spoiled food (in his apartment), so you could smell it from his refrigerator,” Yishak said. “They were just unsanitary roommates, they were unbearable to live with, they had spoiled foods (and) it’d just be left in the refrigerator for months.”
My roommate apparently didn’t even have time to shut off the air conditioning or turn off his noisy 3D printer when he left for San Francisco, which drove the bill up like a trolley up Bradford Street in the city.
The way my roommate took care of his apartment, the funk of urine and feces was unavoidable to the point where it felt like my roommate’s ass was pressing up against my face.
To put it candidly, the only aspect my apartment was missing was several
species of flora to make it a legitimate habitat for sasquatches. Construction for The Grad was completed in 2020, according to an AMCAL web page. It didn’t take long for the community to take advantage of the crappy security and horrible location.
A student was shot and killed near The Grad, which at the time was known as a “luxury off-campus housing for students,” according to an April 25, 2021 KTVU article.
At times I thought I was dead and had been banished to hell, but unfortunately, I was just at The Grad.
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SJSU volleyball crumbles against SDSU
By Jackson Lindstrom STAFF WRITER
The San José State women’s volleyball team took a tough loss on Thursday night against their Mountain West rivals, San Diego State.
This is their second loss in a row, taking a third loss on Saturday against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Head Coach Todd Kress talked about the problems of what went wrong for his team during the game.
“They were playing not to lose instead of playing to win and when you do that nine times out of 10, you’re going to lose,” Kress said. “We were super tight, highstrung from the beginning, and we were never able to work ourselves out of that.”
This bumps the Spartans to third in the Mountain West Conference with an overall record of (9-3, 4-3 MWC).
San Diego State ranks fifth in the Mountain West conference with an overall record of (11-5, 3-3 MWC)
“We struggled in the serving scene, so we were really unable to run a balanced attack,” Kress said. “They were able to run their middles pretty much at will for a good two-thirds of that match and that was a big difference.”
The Spartans lost the first set 25-21 and the Aztecs continued their dominance in the second set, beating the Spartans 25-18 and closing out the Blue and Gold 25-19 in the third set.
Kress said that although the Spartans lost, there were still positive takeaways from the game.
Senior outside hitter
Blaire Fleming led the game in kills, scoring 11 points for the entire match in kills alone and recording a double-double for the third time this season.
Senior setter Brooke Slusser had 15 assists, two digs and hit .583 for the match.
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“There have been many times this year that we as a group, (we) could have packed it in, and this group refuses to do that no matter what’s been thrown at them,” Kress said. “What I love about this team is they have their own heartbeat ... They’re already talking about what things need to change more in practice.”
Kress said the Spartans made several service errors during the game, which was the biggest problem of the team.
The head coach also mentioned that the team’s service reception was one of their biggest challenges during the game.
“We’ve got to be able to win the server pass game, I didn’t think we did that tonight. They definitely did a really nice job of serving, having us out of the system,” Kress said. “We didn’t have them out of the system enough in regards to our serving game.”
The Spartans gave away 10 points through service errors alone throughout the game.
Kress said certain outside forces may have been affecting his team’s play. One of the reasons he mentioned was that the crowd was larger than most game nights. “I said, ‘Hey, you’ve got a huge crowd in here tonight, and that's a tribute to who you are as student-athletes and as people, and the fact that they’re here because you put a great product on the court every single night that you’ve gone out and taken the court,’ ” Kress said. “So take advantage of that, you know, get the
crowd involved. Go out and make some plays. All it takes is a play or two, and you get the momentum swinging in our side.”
The San José State Spartans are scheduled to play against the University of New Mexico on Thursday at Johnson Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico at 5:30 p.m.
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San José State University womens volleyball player Blaire Fleming blazes the San Diego State Aztecs with a spike on home court.