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Kairee Robinson holds up Camdan McWright’s jersey during a football game against the University of Nevada, Reno to honor McWright’s memory on Oct. 29 2022.

Spartans remember Camdan McWright

By Aaliyah Roman STAFF WRITER

Going into its game against Utah State University on Saturday, San José State football players might have their minds off the field and instead, on late running back Camdan McWright.

This Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of McWright’s death.

He died at 18 years old when a school bus hit him while he was riding an electric scooter, according to an Oct. 21, 2022 ESPN article.

The accident occurred at South 10th and East Reed Streets, a couple blocks away from campus, according to an Oct. 21, 2022 NBC Bay Area article.

“What we’ve been echoing with our team (is) how do we best honor Camdan by living like he did,” SJSU head coach Brent Brennan said after practice on Wednesday.

Brennan said McWright was a hardworking, diligent and motivated young man. He said he always came to practice on time, worked hard in the weight room and prioritized his academics alongside football.

Assistant head and running backs coach, Alonzo Carter, said saying “one, two, three . . . get right” when the players break, has a whole different meaning after the tragedy.

“Everything about him felt right,” Carter said. “He wasn’t perfect, but everything about him as far as the mentality and effort just felt right and that’s something that I will never forget.”

Carter said he saw McWright on the day of the accident after he was looking for him. He said the football player was late to practice, which had never happened in the past.

McWright was a two-time Camino Real League MVP and a first-team all-league member at

St. Genevieve High in Panorama City, Calif.

Carter recruited McWright into SJSU’s football program, according to the NBC Bay Area article.

“It’s just something that you don’t erase,” Carter said. “He was such a wonderful young man with a great spirit and great effort and I remind our current group . . . about how to represent him.”

Carter said his favorite memories of McWright were when he recruited him and saw him commit to SJSU. He said when McWright and his family visited the SJSU campus, they fell in love and knew it was the place for him.

“His mother’s wonderful,” Carter said. “She just loved her son and his dad, Cleve, they’re wonderful parents. Just knowing they had to let go and pretty much put him in our hands, that’s something that I remember.”

McWright’s death came just one day before SJSU’s matchup against New Mexico State, a game which was ultimately postponed.

The Spartans paid tribute to McWright in the following game against the University of Nevada, Reno by wearing shirts honoring him and forming McWright’s number six before the game according to a Nov. 2, 2022 article

by The Spear.

The Spartans upset the Wolf Pack 35-28, coming back from a 14-point deficit with junior running back Kairee Robinson scoring the game-winning touchdown with just a minute left in the game.

Now in his senior season, Robinson said he drove past the intersection McWright died on before Wednesday’s practice and took a moment to reflect.

“I just remember . . . not to take every moment for granted,”

Robinson said. “You never know when (it) could be your last time.

Just have gratitude for the day, for this game (and) for everything.”

Carter said people easily gravitated towards McWright and that he not only hung out with younger crowds, but with coach Carter himself.

“He was just a coach’s dream,” Carter said. “(It’s) those types of kids you want to coach and he’s a 4.0 student on top of it. He was special.”

Brennan said his favorite memory was simply his big smile.

“Coming out to work every day, he had great energy about him and I think everybody that got to meet him, got a chance to feel that,” Brennan said.

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SJSU holds annual homecoming pep rally

By Navin Krishnan STAFF WRITER

San José State held its annual homecoming pep rally on Wednesday at Seventh Street Plaza and current students and faculty assembled to kick off one of the campus’ main events of the year from golf carting leading up to the homecoming football game at home against the Utah State Aggies.

Homecoming festivities will include a week of fun-filled events to showcase Spartan spirit, according to the SJSU’s homecoming flier.

Jessica Perez, psychology and communication disorders senior, said homecoming is a big event for both SJSU and the city of San José.

“It’s a very big week in general, not just for the school as well,” Perez said.

“I think it’s the best time to show what are some of your expectations for football game days this Saturday.”

The event consisted of band performances, a golf cart parade and cheerleading performances.

Civil engineering freshman Amrik Atwal said she enjoyed the display of school spirit.

“Just coming out with a bunch of people (is exciting),” Atwal said.

“Today the cheerleaders performed really well.”

Aerospace engineering freshman Shreya Moghe said her experience with homecoming celebrations gave her a warm-welcoming experience rather than a culture shock.

Moghe said she didn’t come to the rally to celebrate the homecoming football game on Saturday, but was instead drawn by

“There’s your academics and also extracurriculars are all like your No. 1 priority,” Moghe said.

She said learning to balance everything in a different way just isn’t the same as in India.

“It’s not the same in India because a lot of schools in India just advocate for proficiency in education and proficiency in maybe sports or athletics,” Moghe said.

She said that while she may or may ANGEL SANTIAGO | SPARTAN DAILY not be a passionate SJSU football Cheerleaders line up during the pep rally on Wednesday afternoon. fan, the festivities and community shined light on what it means to be It’s not restricted, but you can tell a Spartan. the excitement of the event.

“I hope that they win and they just “I’m loving the presentation that they follow systematically.”

Moghe, a transfer student from show up and show out,” Perez said. and the color of the parade. It’s insane because I’m an international India, said students in San José have student, I’m not used to this,” Moghe different priorities in comparison Follow the Spartan Daily said. “So I feel like it’s amazing to see to students in her home country, on X (formerly Twitter) countries, education (and) cultures. where education always comes first. @SpartanDaily

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NEWS

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SJ weighs in on city housing grant

By Vanessa Real

the grant will be mainly focused on preservation.

Rachel VanderVeen, the assistant director of the Housing Department of San José, said they are seeking funding that will help fund an acquisition rehab program.

“We want to go and support partners who are acquiring and rehabbing existing market rate housing, making it affordable to households in San José who are at or below 80% of the area median income,” VanderVeen said. “We want to secure federal funding

in order to preserve housing here in San José.”

VanderVeen said she believes the proposal aligns with what the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing and Urban Development Housing program is looking for in its recipients for the grants.

The total grant amount is $85 million, and it will be awarding around 20 grants, according to the official U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website.

State governments, country governments, city or township g p governments, metropolitan planning organizations and multi-jurisdictional

entities who are eligible to apply for grants.

Each grant’s size will be between $1 million to $10 million to the same source.

Sandy Perry, a representative for South Bay Community Land Trust, was an attendee of the meeting and said she was thankful for the housing department for putting in the application.

“The need for this (grant) is obvious and extreme,” Perry said.

“Actually, we need quite a bit more than what we’re talking about here, but this is a ggood start. We’re reallyy happy that the housing department is putting this application in and that the City Council agreed to

fund it.”

Rachel VanderVeen, the assistant director of the Housing Department of San José, concluded the meeting and said the department wants to put in the best application that it can.

“We want to bring this money to San Jose,” VanderVeen said. “The more support and thoughtfulness that we can do in this process, the better application we’ll have.”

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Zoom meeting and said what San José’s Housing Department’s plans were, if San José’s Housing they’re approved.

Department held a virtual San José’s Housing Zoom meeting discussing Department has four its application proposal for main activities it plans the Pathways to Removing on implementing to get Obstacles to Housing and approval for the grant.

Urban Development Grant “There are four activities on Wednesday. that further develop, The Pathways to evaluate and implement Removing Obstacles to housing policy plans, Housing Grant’s purpose improve housing strategies is to identify and remove and facilitate affordable barriers to affordable housing production housing production and and preser vation,” preservation, according Nguyen said. “We can to the official U.S. do activities in planning Department of Housing and policy, development, and Urban Development infrastructure and in website. eservation.” preservation.”

The goals of the Housing Nguyen said that San and Urban Development José’s sé’s application for Pathways to Removing Obstacles program is to actively take steps to remove barriers towards affordable housing, according to the same website.

This includes barriers caused by outdated zoning land, lack of neighborhood amenities, deteriorating infrastructures and gaps in available funding for development according to the same website.

San José’s Housing Department currently has until the application deadline on Oct. 30 to finalize the proposal and send it in.

Some of the other program’s goals are to also enable promising practices for identifying and removing barriers to affordable housing, according to the same source.

The program also aims to prevent displacement, according to the same website.

Mindy Nguyen, a development officer of the San José Housing Department, hosted the STAFF WRITER

Newsom addresses mental health and support

By Nikita Bankar STAFF WRITER

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 43 on Oct. 10 to provide basic needs for individuals who are unable to support themselves because of untreated mental illness or substance use, according to MSN. Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior or a combination of these, according to a website from the American Psychiatric Association.

The bill was also partially aimed in part at working with the state’s houselessness crisis, according to the same site. California is home to more than 171,000 houseless people, making up 30% of the nation’s houseless population.

The state has spent more than $20 billion in the last few years to house them, with mixed results.

In a letter to the city of San José, Mayor Matt Mahan stated Senate Bill 43 will be a significant tool in preventing neighbors from endlessly cycling through the city’s streets, jails and hospitals.

“We still have much to do to address the challenges of mental health, substance abuse and homelessness, but seeing action like this at the state level makes

me hopeful for a future in which we have a system that works for everyone in need,” Mahan said.

Susan Eggman, Senate health committee chair senator, introduced the bill and said it expands the criteria for making a “gravely disabled” determination so that the most severely ill can get the help they need, according to the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom.

A conservatorship is a last resort to help le connect people re with severe behavioral health care n e e d s with the resources and support to protect them and others, according to the samee website.

Erin L. Woodhead, psychology professor and chair of clinical ealth mental health asters counseling masters id a program, said hip is conservatorship pursued when an individual ous mental with a serious illness or a substance-use n no longer diagnosis can wn decisions make their own and there is a need to eone else to appoint someone make decisionss for them.

“This can be a family

member if one is available,” Woodhead said. “If a family member isn’t available, the court will appoint a suitable individual.”

Woodhead also said for any type of conservatorship, the individual first needs to be declared incompetent to make their own decisions, which is typically based on a comprehensive evaluation from a psychologist or physician.

“It (the bill) could help with getting treatment to

more individuals who need it and who could be vulnerable if treatment is refused,” Woodhead said.

Critics of this bill, who include human rights and disability rights advocates, argue SB 43 could undermine the civil liberties of Black, Indigenous and other communities of color, given the demographics of the state’s houseless population, according to a Sept. 15 Los Angeles Times article.

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In San José, 6,266 people were reported to be homeless, with 30% sheltered and 70% unsheltered, according to the City of San José’s Homeless Census and Survey of 2023.

Out of this group, 50% were Hispanic or Latine, while 50% were nonHispanic and non-Latine, according to the same site.

Other critics, like the Disability Rights California group, said it will “erode the civil rights of people with mental health disabilities in a misguided attempt to address h om e l e s s n e s s ,” ac according to a F Friday article from NBC L Angeles.

Los Molec Molecular biology junior Topanga Schuberg said when co it comes to this situa situation, not ever everyone wants to be helped, and the there’s only so much a si single person can do.

“It will be beneficial someo if someone suitable is found to take care person but at the of the person, same time, p people could abuse the sys system, taking advantage of it,” Schuberg said. “What if they claim that tthey are in suppo when they need of support

don’t really need it?”

Br i ana Far i as, criminology freshman, said from a holistic approach, she thinks SB 43 will be beneficial towards those who are severely mentally ill.

“To my understanding, they will be receiving additional support and have the chance to depend on someone,” Farias said. “This is especially important because not everyone battling a mental illness has the support system they need.”

Farias also said she could see potential issues arising about providing treatment against one’s will, since part of their rights have been assigned away in court.”

“I question how well someone labeled ‘mentally ill’ can fully understand the benefits of this situation,” Farias said. “While this bill can be used to get people back on the right track in life, I do think it can unintentionally cause problems relating to one's free will and bodily rights.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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1. The SJSU Police Department strolls through the parade with a Spartan Safety golf cart.

2. San José State's Cheerleading and Color Guard teams performed on Seventh Street for the parade.

3. The SJSU Accessible Education Center drove a golf cart adorned with posters and streamers on Wednesday afternoon.

Poets take on activism and horticulture

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Performer Mighty Mike McGee presents poetry at the Poetry and Protesting with Plants event at the Associated Students Community Garden on Wednesday afternoon.

By Julia Chie STAFF WRITER

The As s o c i ate d Students Community Garden held “Poetry and Protesting With Plants” on Wednesday. The event was dedicated to sharing poetry, student voices and guerilla gardening tips, according to an Instagram post from the organization.

Pizza, cucumber lemon water and seed bombs were available for free.

Matthew Mangoni, environmental studies graduate and Campus

Community Garden coordinator, oversees the garden and its operation.

Mangoni said the event was all about meeting in one place together, sharing different perspectives on the environment, hunger, or protesting, and building community with each other.

“When things are really good in life, sometimes people forget about poetry, but when it comes to times of hardship, and people are reaching for things or looking for something to hold onto, poetry is really important,” Mangoni said. “That’s where you can express a lot of your

feelings, be raw, and have something to connect with other people with.”

Mighty Mike McGee is the Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, “which is kind of like being the mayor of poetry town. It’s a relatively arbitrary title for an arbitrary thing . . . but these professors would bring me on campus to do poetry stuff.”

At the garden, McGee performed “My Resounding Failure”, “Uprooted”, “Sorrow is Not My Name” by Ross Gay and “A Village Plays Futbol on the Street.”

Damian Huffman Orpustan, animation

junior and assistant at the Associated Students Community Garden, said the event went well.

“There was a big turnout, but I also really enjoyed these smaller events,” Orpustan said.

“I feel like they’re more interpersonal. The poetry was very nice, and it’s always very connected.”

He performed a poem called “Feeding the Worms” by Danusha Laméris, and described what it must be like being a worm receiving compost. “ ‘Feasting about in this dark writing ecstasy’ as (the author) puts it,”

Orpustan said.

Ryan Stell, junior graduate student, was at the event to represent Reed Magazine, the oldest literary journal west of the Mississippi.

“As opposed to a (typical) magazine, where people within the magazine are writing the material, people send in material to us from all over,” Stell said. “I guess you could say our team is kind of like literary and art critics.”

At the event, copies of their magazines were sold and some of its staff members got some mic time.

English junior Abigail Christy, who also works at Reed Magazine, read one of the poems from the 156th issue.

“The poem is called ‘Ghost Eulogy’, and it’s about the speaker’s dad who passed away,” Christy said. “It connects it to nature and also their childhood, which really resonated with me because, you know, I’ve been through that.”

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023

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San Francisco’s Chase Center will be home to two basketball teams in 2025 with the recent announcement of a Women’s National Basketball Association expansion team.

SJSU reacts to new WNBA team

By Lamar Moody STAFF WRITER

With the recent success of the Golden State Warriors, basketball fans will soon have a new professional team to root for in the Bay Area.

On Oct. 5, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) awarded San Francisco an expansion

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team, this will be the 13th team in the league and first new franchise since the Atlanta Dream in 2008.

April Phillips, San José State women's basketball head coach, said the new team will give a lot of women something to look up to.

“To be able to see women’s basketball at the professional level in person, as opposed to TV, I think is monumental for women in sport,” Phillips said. “I understand the Warriors are supportive of the new team and any time the NBA is supportive of women’s basketball it’s awesome.”

The team will tipoff in 2025 and will play its home games at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

The team will also take over the Warriors’ old front office and practice facilities in Oakland according to an NBA Oct. 11 press release.

“The new franchise will likely be known as ‘Golden State’ to represent the entire Bay Area but the team name is still to be determined,” Golden State chairman Joe Lacob said, according to an Oct. 5

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SJSU sophmore guard Sabrina Ma, a San Francisco native, said it’s great to have that representation from the NBA and to know the WNBA is expanding makes her happy to see, especially in her hometown.

sophomore guard and San José native said a WNBA team could encourage more locals to come out and support women’s hoops.

She said a WNBA team in the Bay Area could bring the community closer through sports and said she hopes

be Sabrina Ionescu.”

Sabrina Ionescu is currently a guard for the New York Liberty and was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft out of the University of Oregon.

Biomedical sophomore Luke Avery said he would like to see current Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner headline the new team.

“She’s a little older now but I think she would dominate for us and provide toughness and veteran experience,” Avery said.

He said that it makes perfect sense for the Bay Area to be chosen for a WNBA team because of the locations’ huge Alyssa Malla market for sports.

SJSU sophmore guard “We have the best fans in the Bay. So fortunate for this new team, they’re going to this future team can help inherit a huge fan base quickly,” the community build social Avery said. connections with each other.

“Although we have an NBA team in the Bay Area, a women’s team would mean so much for young girls, especially those who have aspirations to play in the WNBA in the future,” Malla said. “One player I would Follow the Spartan Daily like to see play for the new on X (formerly Twitter) Bay Area WNBA team would @SpartanDaily

Although we have an NBA team in the Bay Area, a women’s team would mean so much for young girls, especially those who have aspirations to play in the WNBA in the future.

“To see people have more respect for the women’s game, specifically college and the professional level, is really cool to see, especially in an area that I grew up in,” Ma said. “When I heard the news, I was excited to hear about a new team being implemented into the league and I just think it's great the league is expanding.”

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OPINION

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023

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Halloween is a waste of time and money Navin Krishnan STAFF WRITER

waiting in line for hours at Walmart.

The sentimentality of this holiday has been sold as a commercial holiday and the repetitiveness of social burnout coupled with the revolting “tradition” of pumpkin pie are what Halloween has deteriorated into.

I feel like staying at home watching TikTok videos and waiting for the real holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas to come along is the only solace I get from a Halloween-dominated October.

I also hate the ugly decorations that make me feel like I’m in some sort of mortuary.

I refuse to carve open a pumpkin as a festivity.

I think I’d have more fun performing open-heart surgery.

The last thing I want to do is burn up my time and go around shopping for candy I’d never eat or decorate my house for a shitshow.

According to Dave Infante, writer for the Thrillist, Halloween is for juveniles.

“But the thing about children is that they are loud and disruptive,” Infante wrote in his article.

“Even when they're not inside a bar with me, I tend to hate them. And

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on Halloween, they're everywhere – shrieking little monsters out for blood, or at least my sanity.”

Infante said if you want candy, buy some, grow up or do both.

When I was a kid, I honestly thought dressing up as a grim reaper would actually scare adults.

Now I realize what they really feared – the mounds of cash they were blowing to distribute unhealthy crap to children.

Corn mazes had their 15 minutes of fame when “Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows” was released.

I think the idea of Halloween should be

celebrated by the collegeaged crowd, of course. We celebrate the adult way – with booze and skimpy clothing.

The conventional trickor-treat Halloween is for suckers who look forward to a cultureless, washedout excuse for a holiday.

Some economists argue that Halloween spending diverts resources that would be better spent on longer-term, more productive economic activity, according to the Retire Pilots website.

Americans should resent the $10.14 billion albatross they waste on Halloween in 2021, according to an Investopedia article.

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Some experts say Halloween is a barometer to how children differentiate fantasy from reality, according to the NPR website.

Quite literally, it’s time to end this fantasy before it becomes a nightmare.

Let’s ghost Halloween.

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In 2021, the average spending for Halloween totaled $3.6 billion on costumes, $3.1 billion on candy and $3.4 billion on decorations, according to the National Credit Foundation website.

The same source said this can lead to fewer savings overall and reduced receipts for companies that employ workers “full-time yearround.”

Call me a Halloween Grinch, but someone has to stand up against this objectionable, detestable and overrated day.

But for now, I’m not buying candy, I’m not dressing up and I’ll

She grew out of her B-Shells.

As October comes around, shouts of laughter and armies of children storm the streets in anticipation of burning holes in people’s pockets and draining the festive energy from the souls of adults.

People tell me I should go with the flow.

That I should embrace Halloween. I feel like this is a crock of garbage.

But for me, the invention of Halloween by the Irish more than 2000 years ago makes me want to throw up before I binge on decayed candy or contract the flu.

Being someone who is nauseated by outdated candy and dreads walking in heavy costumes drenched in sweat, I hate Halloween.

I tell some of my friends who love Halloween that I’m on the fence, but the truth is I’ve been on the fence so long my ass has gone numb.

Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween according to the Cleveland Clinic website.

If you have samhainophobia, and decide to sit it out, lucky you. You aren’t missing much.

I’m tired of putting masks on and walking around the city in a costume I bought after

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