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A student addresses attendees during the continuation of a Democrat vs. Republican debate regarding various issues at San José State University's campus on Monday evening.
Students talk policies and politics By Vanessa Real STAFF WRITER
A political discussion at San José State between Democrats at SJSU and the College Republicans at SJSU was held on Monday in the Student Union to debate current issues. A moderator presented a prompt and any student could respond and share their ideas. Students decided whether they were neutral, for or against supporting the prompt. The Democratic and Republican students’ conversation included discussions of former
president Donald Trump’s recent indictment. Some attendees said Trump’s indictments were legitimate, while other students argued that the indictments were blown out of proportion. James Demertzis, political science junior and a member of Democrats at SJSU, said he was excited to discuss Donald Trump and his indictments. “When I look at the situation and what's happening with Trump, I see it as very objective coming from a legal standpoint,” Demertzis said. “So the fact that there's a lot of disagreement
when it comes to it heightens my emotion on the topic and I feel like I have to voice my opinion on it.” Annette Lees, kinesiology junior and the president for the College Republicans, said one of the topics she was eager to cover and discuss was also Donald Trump. “I am definitely a Republican and a conservative, but I still just don’t align with Trump,” Lees said. Lees said she felt that everyone needed to have more evidence to back up their claims because people couldn’t
cite the information they sourced for the various discussions. “In the future, if we had the exact topics at hand (before the debate), and people could research and bring sources with them, that would help a lot,” Lees said. “(Someone) didn’t know how many charges were against Trump. If we knew the details of that, then I feel like we could more effectively debate.” Chima Nwokolo, political science junior and vice president for Democrats at SJSU, said it was a productive discourse and also said it’s beneficial to be able to peacefully disagree.
“It’s nice to be able to talk to people who are (from) different political sides from your’s,” Nwokolo said. “We should be able to converse and share their viewpoints because we’re all Americans, and in this country, we all have free speech.”
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Newsom addresses rules on voting By Nikita Bankar STAFF WRITER
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 969 on Oct. 4 to limit the ability of local governments to manually count ballots, according to an Oct. 5 article from ABC 7 KRCR. The bill will prohibit any election officials from performing a manual vote 154 days in advance of an election if there are more than 1,000 registered voters eligible to participate, according to the California Legislative Information. The bill also prohibits a county’s board of supervisors from terminating an existing voting system contract without a transition plan and a replacement contract in place, according to Legiscan. Gail Pellerin, State Assembly Member in the 28th Assembly District, wrote the bill and said every state in California has gone through the process of purchasing a state-qualified federally certified voting system that adheres to voting system standards. “It’s a lot more secure, accurate, transparent, accessible and complies with the Help America Vote Act,” Pellerin said. “There’s a lot more things we vote on now compared to 50 years back, and to do a hand count of a county the size of Shasta is time-consuming, costly and inaccurate.” The Help America Vote Act, signed on October 29, 2002, by President Bush, helped in creating
a new federal agency to improve election administration and replace outdated voting systems. Pellerin also said AB 969 will keep the status quo and democracy safe, and will ensure that voters in California are using a system that has gone through testing. “We’re in the 20th century today where we have technology that we use in every aspect of our lives,” she said. “I think it’s critically important to be continuing to use it and the delivery of a voting system.” The bill comes less than a year after Shasta County's governing board left its contract with Dominion Voting Systems to tally up results by hand, according to the same ABC 7 KRCR article. Brazil and India stand at number five and seven for the largest countries in the world according to World Atlas. Brazil shifted to electronic ballot technology in 2022 and India switched in 2019 according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil announced the winner two hours and 16 minutes after the polls were closed, according to the same site. Shasta County's Board of Supervisors, which is controlled by a conservative majority, voted in January to get rid of the voting machines it used to tabulate hand-marked ballots for its nearly 111,000 registered voters, according to a Sept. 8 article from ABC News.
County supervisors said there was a loss of public confidence in the machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the center of discredited conspiracy theories since the 2020 presidential election, according to the same site. Sarab Multani, public health and business junior and Associated Students president, said there might be drawbacks from certain representatives throughout the bipartisan system because of the bill being passed. “I can imagine this being of conflict to Shasta County resentatives specifically since representatives this assembly bill was made in ponse to the decisions of their response ervisor,” Multani said. supervisor, he fight over voting machines The has divided Shasta County, a ely rural area whose most largely ulated city is Redding with populated 000 people, according to the 93,000 samee article by ABC News. Multani also said Shasta unty’s new plan lacked an County’s roved vendor to accommodate approved ers with disabilities and also voters ated uncertainty on whether created the county would conduct future tions in compliance with elections tion laws. election This may be a way to reassure “This ifornia voters that the California tion process is legitimate and election sistent,” he said. consistent, stevan Guzman, political Estevan nce sophomore science and ociated Associated Students ector of Legislative Director airs, said he Affairs, nks the reason thinks
for initially canceling the voter machine contract was because of rumors during Donald Trump’s presidency. Guzman said the bill will ensure that elections progress in a timely manner without wasting resources, and said counting thousands of votes can be laborintensive and time-consuming. “We’re entering the electronic era, so this bill will speed up the voting process by simply scanning your document and uploading your vote,” he said. Guzman also said rather than waiting overnight, the election process will now be sped up, and
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will be called within a few hours rather than the day after. Since this bill will not take human labor, Guzman said the vote-tallying process will not be as time intensive and will instead ensure that elections will be as accurate as possible. “While machines do make mistakes, sometimes it is not at the level that humans make mistakes,” he said.
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NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
CAMPUS VOICES
National slap your coworker day
“I’m a manager . . . sometimes when I tell the new employees what to do they get hella annoyed and they think I’m telling them they’re doing it wrong but I’m just trying to help them, so that always annoys me because they could have a manager way worse than me.” Kendrix Nazzal
“I used to work at Panera Bread and there was this lady, and she was like on the older side and I’m usually respectful towards all my elders because they've been around a while. She had the opening (shift). Normally you’re supposed to get everything ready for when the next person comes in. She never did that. She would not restock the fridge, it would be all messy. One day, both of our shifts changed, so I had the opening shift, and then she had the evening shift. So I was like, fuck this now I'm gonna leave everything messy, that way she understands and so I that’s exactly what I did. I left everything the way she leaves it. I didn’t restock anything. I didn’t wash any of the blenders or anything.”
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“I would say a time where I wanted to slap a coworker was when this ditzy girl was asking me about a guy that she was dealing with, that I used to have a relationship with. And she was saying that there was a rumor about me . . . And I wanted to slap her because I felt like she felt like she was being messy. She doesn’t work there anymore, but everyone knows she’s just messy and has a big mouth. So I was like, ‘Girl, why are you lying?’ ”
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
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Fire on the Fountain flames out SJSU
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A fire performer from Infinite Spin Dance Studio of San José dazzles the SJSU community on Tower Lawn for the annual Fire on the Fountain event on Thursday night.
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than the modern one performed last year,” Tran said. Tran was accompanied by San José State University’s three other dancers on stage Associated Students hosted this year with a full band. its sixteenth annual Fire on Last year, he performed alone the Fountain at Tower Lawn to background music. on Thursday evening. A.S. President Sarab The goal of Associated Multani and A.S. Controller Students is to “strengthen Dhruv Varshney emceed the Spartan community,” the event, which Multani according to its website. said was a phenomenal Fire on the Fountain experience because they are is an SJSU tradition that great colleagues and friends occurs every year before outside of the office. the homecoming football “Our chemistry felt so game. This year, the Spartans natural, almost like we were played against the Utah State in a Board of Directors Aggies at CEFCU Stadium meeting,” Multani said. on Saturday. “We had a great mix of Several student passion, collaboration, lightorganizations such as heartedness and excitement.” Planned Parenthood Multani said this year’s Generation Action, Pacific Fire on the Fountain made Islander Student Association him proud of the strong and Spartan Fencing Club community present at SJSU. had booths set up on Tower “The conglomeration Lawn and gave out free swag. of culture combined with Communication studies the incredible sense of senior Valerie Chung said community I experienced she never attended the while looking down at the event in previous years and crowd from the stage, will be a memory that I will hold dearly to me for the rest of my life,” Multani said. Fire on the Fountain was complete with an exhilarating act from fire dancers and a performance led by the SJSU dance team, marching band and color guard to SJSU’s signature cheer. SJSU’s football team greeted the crowd and reminded students to show out for the homecoming game and fill the student section. SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson reinforced the football team’s message and thanked the ALINA TA | SPARTAN DAILY crowd for coming to Fire on Angelika Yabut, pre-nursing sophomore and dance the Fountain. member for PARANG, a K-Pop dance group at SJSU, This year’s Homecoming
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regretted it, so she wanted to experience her first and last Fire on the Fountain. “[I] was hoping to experience my last year [at SJSU] as much as possible to make the best memories with my closest friends,” she said. Chung said she is also a member of the Vietnamese Student Association and wanted to support her fellow members’ lion and fan dance performance that night. “It represents my Vietnamese culture [and] I also enjoyed watching other organizations perform because it let me be aware of other cultures besides my own,” Chung said. Electrical engineering sophomore Phillip Tran said this was his second time performing the lion dance for the Vietnamese Student Association and he felt confident in his dancing abilities. “I was more excited to showcase a traditional lion dance performance rather
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A performer breathes fire into the audience for his performance during the event.
Royalty was announced at the end of the event and each of the four candidates answered a question onstage. A QR code was displayed on screen for students to vote for their two favorite candidates. The four students running for homecoming queen were criminology junior Bryanna Lazo, child and adolescent development junior Ada Ochuru, management information systems junior Jennifer Rocha and social work senior Vanessa Rosales. Lazo said she felt nervous standing onstage at Fire on the Fountain, but she was excited because her friends were cheering her on in the crowd. “My heart was racing so fast but in the best way possible, and it’s so funny because when I got on stage all of my worries went away and I was just smiling the
whole time,” Lazo said. Lazo said she wanted to run for homecoming court because she is an on-air DJ for KSJS, SJSU’s student-run college radio station, and she is heavily involved in Greek life. “[Running] for homecoming court means just having the chance to represent the whole [school] and show how diverse our school is,” Lazo said. Aside from running for homecoming court, Rocha works for A.S. as an event coordinator. She was involved in the planning and execution of the annual SJSU tradition and said she put in relentless effort since the summer to ensure its success. “On the day of the event, there were so many emotions at once but our primary goal was to [make it] a memorable and enjoyable event for
students who work hard every day and represent San José State University,” Rocha said. Rocha said Fire on the Fountain this year surpassed her expectations because of the turnout rate from both students and staff members. “While last year’s event was extremely fun to attend, there’s no comparison to the excitement and pride of hosting and managing it this year,” Rocha said. “We saw a significant increase in attendees, including many enthusiastic alumni and community members.”
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
FOOTBALL
Canilao’ s Commentary: SJSU gets past second-half woes By Nathan Canilao SENIOR STAFF WRITER
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SJSU quarterback Chevan Cordeiro runs for a first down in the Spartans victory against Utah State University at CEFCU stadium.
Spartans beat Aggies in homecoming game By Navin Krishnan STAFF WRITER
San José State football took the field on homecoming and earned its secondconsecutive win in its 42-21 blowout against Utah State University at CEFCU Stadium on Saturday. The Spartans (3-5, 2-2 MWC) snapped a 10 game-losing streak against the Aggies (3-5, 1-3 MWC) making it their first win against them since 2008. “This was a really great win for our team,” SJSU head coach Brent Brennan said. “It was a big-time battle. I’m so proud of how our team played. It just shows our character, how hard we work. This (Utah State team) has given us fits for a decade and a half.” Utah State came in ranked as the 15th best total offense and the 16th in scoring offense (37.7 ppg) in the nation, but the Spartan’s reliable
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defensive line bottle capped Utah State’s rushing game. SJSU came into the match with the 17th best turnover margin in the country and 3rd best in the Mountain West Confrence. Sophomore linebacker Jordan Pollard was the game’s most outstanding defender for SJSU, tallying 10 total tackles and seven solo tackles and with an interception. The Spartans’ first drive ended in a rushing touchdown from junior running back Quali Conley without a single third down. Conley said SJSU’s defensive coordinators have been telling them that playmakers need to step up. “It was pretty simple what (Utah State) was doing,” said Conley. “I think we really had to just lock in and finish those plays. It was really just us missing plays in the first half. From a defensive perspective, I think we need to come out and do what we do in the second half.” Conley finished the game with 79-rushing yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns. Defensively, SJSU has been able to lean on players like Bryun Parham and Tre Jenkins. Their performance on defense, limiting Utah State’s offense that averages 477.9 yards per game to a total of 264 yards. Parham, who totaled 60 tackles and Jenkins, who amounted to 41 tackles were the anchors defensively.
Between them, they tallied two sacks, but prior to this game, no interceptions. “All those times we lost in the second half (of games), we just pretty much changed our mindset,” SJSU quarterback Chevan Cordeiro said. “To win a football game in Division I, we need to play all four quarters.” The Aggies responded with another touchdown, this time with a 25-yard bomb from freshman quarterback McCae Hillstead to junior wide receiver Micah Davis to tie the game 14-14 with 3:38 remaining in the first half. In the second half, the Spartans, led by Cordeiro came out strong and seamlessly weaved past the Utah State defense. Cordeiro advanced for a gain of 13 yards by himself, setting up junior running back Quali Conley for an eightyard rushing touchdown. This play was massive for SJSU as it brought them back in focus offensively to put the Spartans up 21-14. The SJSU defense picked up from there, forcing Utah State to turn over on downs at the 5:19 in the third quarter. “We knew, as an offense, that we had to score in the second half,” Cordeiro said. “We just had to keep the drives going. I think we’re finding ourselves as an offense and defense.” Cordeiro threaded the needle to senior linebacker
Charles Rogers, who reportable eligible for a play, for a 10-yard touchdown to put SJSU up 28-14 with 2:06 remaining before the final quarter. This was Roger’s first career touchdown with the Spartans. “The crowd was going crazy,” Cordeiro said. “(Rogers is) a hard-worker and he deserves it. I’m glad he got the touchdown.” Kairee Robinson rushed for the final touchdown of the night for the Spartans, for a total of 18 yards on their final drive, putting the Spartans up 42-21. “He’s a baller,” Cordeiro said about Robinson. “I’ve known that ever since I’ve been here at San José State. All you need to do is keep feeding him the ball and he’s going to get positive yards. He’s my guy. He’s always there for me. Through the ups and downs, he’s helped me a lot.” Cordeiro will face his former school as SJSU is scheduled to take the field against the University of Hawai’i at Manoa at 9 p.m. PDT on Saturday at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex in Honolulu, Hawai’ i.
When Utah State quarterback McCae Hillstead threw a 25-yard touchdown dart to Micah Davis late in the second quarter to tie the game at 14, an eerily familiar feeling started to creep in. Were the Spartans going to blow another double-digit lead? After leading 14-0 in the first quarter, San José State gave up 14-unanswered points in the second quarter, going into halftime tied with the Aggies. But the past didn’t catch up to the Spartans as they outscored the Aggies 28-7 in the second half to rout the Aggies in a 42-21 homecoming win Saturday night. The last two weeks have been a shift for SJSU. During its three game losing streak, the Spartans were outscored 56-7 in the second half. Over the last two games, SJSU has outscored opponents 66-14 which have resulted in back-to-back victories. “My dad used to say there’s nothing less important than the score at halftime,” said SJSU head coach Brent Brennan after SJSU’s win over Utah State. “Whether you’re leading you’re leading or tied or behind. I just love how our team responded the last two weeks.” A big part of why the Spartans have played well in the second half has been a pivot to become a more run-heavy offense. The running back duo of Kairee Robinson and Quali Conley has rushed for 425 yards and six rushing touchdowns in the last two games. Against the Aggies, Robinson rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown while Conley ran for 74 yards and 2 touchdowns. “I feel like we’re a passing offense first,” Conley said. “But we just kept running the ball cause they couldn’t stop us.” The Spartans defense has also contributed to the improved second half performance. SJSU’s defense has forced four interceptions and three fumbles in the last three games. Linebacker Jordan Pollard has emerged as one of the team’s best players on the defense as he totaled 10 tackles and an interception against Utah State. “Our coaches told us playmakers need to make plays,” Pollard said. “I just feel like our playmakers have stepped up in the last two weeks.”
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
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WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
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San José State junior libero Alessia Buffagni gets set to hit the ball in the Spartans’ loss to the University of New Mexico at Yoshihiro Uchida Hall on Thursday.
SJSU drops fifth straight match By Angel Santiago
Todd Kress said he was happy his team came out strong, but then struggled after the Lobos The San José State women’s went on an 11-point run. volleyball team dropped its “We came out of the gate fifth consecutive match after really strong, which we’ve losing to the University of New Mexico 3-1 at Yoshihiro LOB0S Uchida Hall on Thursday. The Lobos (15-6, 7-3 MWC) dominated the match in four sets against the Spartans (11-11, 2-7 MWC) outscoring them 100-93. The Spartans started strong SPARTANS in the first set with a 5-0 service run, but couldn’t hold on as the Lobos took the first set 25-23. SJSU volleyball head coach
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been struggling to do so very proud of the way we came out of the gate,” Kress said. “But then we couldn't finish I mean, I think we were up 15 to 6 at one point they go on an 11-point run, they went by two points.” Senior middle blocker Jiana Lawson said she did not like the performance and said there is still room to improve. “I think it’s honestly disheartening ... I think we just have to hold on and cling to the hope that we've been working towards this end even though we didn't get the result that we wanted that if we keep pushing from
where we’re at, we’re gonna get there,” Lawson said. After dropping the first set, the Spartans were able to regroup themselves to win the second set 26-24. Senior outside and right side hitter Letizia Cammillucci said having different lineups gives the team more opportunities to score points. “I think today we played with a different lineup that we had like all the different options. We were able to explore in different ways,” Cammillucci said. In the second set, the Spartans drew up a new
game plan with a different lineup running the offense, ultimately getting the upper hand against the Lobos 26-24. This was the Spartans’ first set win in over two weeks with their last being in 3-1 win against Fresno State on Sept. 30. Freshman outside hitter Nayeli Ti’a led the Spartans with 18 kills. The Spartans looked to take the third set as they pushed to a 22-20 lead, but couldn’t hold the Lobos back, losing the set 26-24. Kress said the team is now in a position where losing is no longer an option.
“We’re in a position right now that's a must-win. We got to go up there and figure out a way to get a win whatever it’s going to take,” Kress said. The Spartans dropped their sixth-consecutive match to Air Force, being swept 3-0 by the Falcons at Cadet Field House in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday. SJSU looks to avoid its seventh-straight loss as it faces Fresno State at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Save Mart Center. Follow the Spartan Daily on X (formerly Twitter) @SpartanDaily
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Spartans lose to Colorado College By Lamar Moody STAFF WRITER
The San José State women’s soccer team’s hopes of snapping its three-game losing streak crumbled with a 2-1 loss to Colorado College on Thursday. The Spartans (3-8-6, 1-5-3 MWC) scored first and continued to play a physical match, but the Tigers (3-12-1, 3-6 MWC) didn’t let up, scoring two goals in the last 17 minutes of play. Midfielder Sabrina Weinman scored a goal on a free kick in the 63rd minute to put the Spartans up 1-0 after a scoreless first half from both teams. “I practice set pieces pretty
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much every day after practice,” Weinman said. “The ball was pretty much in the same spot that I practiced taking them, so when this opportunity came, I knew I had a clean shot.” The goal was Weinman’s fourth of the season and 12th of her career. Senior midfielder Cynthia Flores was the most aggressive offensively, leading the Spartans with five total shots, three of them on goal. Tigers’ senior forward Shalom Prince scored a goal in the 73rd minute to tie the game at one a piece. In the 84th minute, Prince scored her second goal of the match, giving Colorado College its third win of the season and snapping its three-game LAMAR MOODY | SPARTAN DAILY losing streak. Spartan’s head coach SJSU women’ s soccer team stands during the national anthem in their loss to Colorado College Thursday. Tina Estrada said her team is dealing with a lot of injuries this The Spartans were able to Sabrina Weinman’s leadership. contention with a 2-1 loss season, a possible contribution outshoot Colorado College “The best takeaway from against Air Force on Sunday. to the teams’ struggles against 20-14 with a season-high tonight's game is seeing the Their last regular season game the Tigers. 13 corner kicks. fight from our captains, is scheduled for Thursday “We had a ton of calls that “Once we went up 1-0 in the Sabrina Weinman and Tatiana against Fresno State at Bulldog we should have executed on it, second half, I feel like we lost Cunningham,” Cello said. Soccer Stadium in Fresno. and if you don't put them away, the form and focus of what we “Under the circumstances, the you keep a team in the game,” needed to do to secure the win,” best part of tonight's match was Follow the Spartan Daily Estrada said. “Unfortunately, Estrada said. us fighting until the end.” on X (formerly Twitter) we gave up two really bad goals Junior midfielder Tiana Cello The Spartans would be @SpartanDaily there at the end.” said it was super inspiring seeing eliminated from playoff
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