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Collaboration to house 100 students SJSU joins 100-day housing effort developed by Supervisor

By Vicente Vera SPECIAL HOUSING EDITOR

One hundred days to house 100 college students is a feat the Santa Clara County District 4 supervisor said is more than achievable, so she made it a challenge.

Susan Ellenberg spoke alongside about a dozen San Jose residents who have joined the 100-Day Challenge Monday during a news conference outside the Santa Clara County Government Center.

“The 100-Day Challenge focuses our community to step up and house the increasing number of homeless college students in Silicon Valley,” Sparky Harlan, CEO of the Bill Wilson Center in San Jose, said.

According to San Jose Spotlight, 189 students contacted San Jose State’s emergency housing service, SJSU Cares, in the past academic year.

Ben Falter, senior student affairs case manager for SJSU Cares, said over the phone he also jumped on board with the 100-Day Challenge team to connect students to the resources offered by the new coalition of organizations.

“We’re creating a pathway for students where we review their cases and determine whether to keep it in house or refer it out to our partners,” he said.

After identifying rooms for rent, Harlan said, the coalition of organizations will connect landlords with housing-insecure students who are eligible.

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Santa Clara County District 4 Supervisor Susan Ellenberg speaks to the press about the 100-Day Challenge.

At SJSU, addressing student housing is a critical part of meeting our students’ overall basic needs, so we are pleased to be part of this important initiative.

Mary Papazian President of SJSU

According to a recent survey commissioned in part by the Bill Wilson Center, 22% of homeless youth in San Jose between the ages of 18 and 25 are currently enrolled in college.

“We are not going to turn anybody away, that’s what we always say at Bill Wilson Center . . . that’s why we have all these other nonprofit agencies who are going to be part

of this,” Harlan said. “If we have 200 [students], we’ll house 200.

Right now though it’s creating that system.”

The center, which provides temporary housing to many SJSU students, will team up with Santa Clara County, SJSU and the West Valley-Mission Community College District to find residents that may have rooms for rent.

Falter said the process for filing a case to SJSU Cares will remain the same on the student’s end, but will use a wider-reaching plan and more money to support students.

“It will still be the same streamline process, same website, just a bigger roadway,” he said.

As different city leaders and lawmakers took the podium, formerly homeless resident and current Mission College student Elijah Deliz shared his story.

“I was one of the people that you would see sleeping in tents in the side of the road,” he said. “I slept behind City Hall a long time ago, I

slept outside of San Jose State in the creeks.”

Deliz, a West Valley-Mission Community College District student, stood beside district chancellor Brad Davis.

Davis said he joined other San Jose city leaders in spearheading the 100-Day Challenge because he wants to share his district’s resources and

establish contacts in the community.

“Our district sends about four [400]or 500 students to San Jose State as transfers every year,” Davis said. “What we’re hoping we can do is begin the cycle at West Valley and Mission and help them transition to San Jose State where they can avail themselves to resources as well.”

SJSU President Mary Papazian expressed support for the effort in a statement released Monday by Ellenberg’s office.

“100-Day Challenge checks all the right boxes,” Papazian said. “At SJSU, addressing student housing is a critical part of meeting our students’ overall basic needs, so we are pleased to be part of this important initiative.”

When asked how she would identify housing insecure students, Ellenberg said she would like to “turn that question around.”

“What I would like is to put out a call for is for folks who might be interested in offering temporary housing, who have room in their home,” Ellenberg said. “Emptynesters, people who could do that for a short-term period while Bill Wilson is working on getting them into the longer-term solutions.”

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West Valley-Mission Community College District Chancellor Brad Davis (center) stands beside formerly homeless student Elijah Deliz.

Archivist sets the record straight

By Chris Core STAFF WRITER

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Public health senior Marífer Bernal marches, holding a sign that said, “respect our humanity” in Spanish.

DACA supporters rally in front of SJ City Hall

By John Bricker & Chelsea Nguyen Fleige

The demonstrators carried signs that said “Here is home” and STAFF WRITER “Protect DACA” in support of the & NEWS EDITOR Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects Dozens of San Jose residents undocumented immigrants gathered around the Smith-Carlos who arrived in the U.S. as young Sculpture on the San Jose State children. campus to begin their march De Anza College student down Fourth Street and East Santa Madeline Hasam assisted in picket Clara Street to San Jose City Hall. sign distribution while a mariachi

band played in front of City Hall.

“We’re trying to protect that law from being abolished,” she said.

SIREN, the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, primarily organized the rally and executive director Maricela Gutiérrez and director of civic engagement Jeremy Barousse DEMONSTRATION | Page 2

Teaching to bridge the gap between learning and diversity has always been something Carli Lowe wished to achieve in her career and she now has that chance as San Jose State’s first ever full-time archivist.

The University of San Francisco graduate knew that after finishing college, teaching would be her destiny in life.

Lowe worked as an elementary school teacher in San Francisco for 11 years before realizing she was ready for a career change and began her work at Freedom Archives in San Francisco and found her stride as an archivist.

The organization specializes in community-based archives that have to do with social justice movements in San Francisco between 1960-1990 and Lowe felt like she fit in perfectly.

“Interacting with historical documents and raw material that made up the city I was from had a huge impact on me,” Lowe said.

As an archivist, Lowe holds the duty to obtain and preserve documents and records that can better help tell a

Before I worked in an archive, I used to think the only people who accessed it were really only serious scholars who had a justifiable reason for breaking out these precious documents and that’s not how it works at all.

Carli Lowe SJSU archivist

story and keep a history of a specific location.

SJSU hired Lowe in July. Lowe said she was excited and she hopes to provide students with a welcoming introduction to what the archives have to offer.

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RECORDS Continued from page 1 used to think the only people who accessed it were really only serious scholars who had a justifiable reason for breaking out these precious documents and that’s not how it works at all,” Lowe said.

Dedicating her time as a full-time archivist has made Lowe shift focus of SJSU history away from having people who make the archives tell the history and put the power back in the hands of people who have actually lived through certain experiences.

San Jose State offers walk-in access for the records Lowe is in charge of and she thinks student involvement with archives can open students’ eyes to how the city they live in works.

“When you go into an archive for yourself, you are removing a layer of interference and doing some interpreting for your own,” Lowe said.

Craig Simpson, director of special collections and archives, said that he was looking for someone who could help work towards a systematic records management program.

“We wanted someone who could be the face and the voice of the university archives and [Lowe] does all of that,” Simpson said.

Tracy Elliot, Martin Luther King Jr. Library’s dean, mirrored Simpson’s excitement for Lowe’s job and said she makes everyone more passionate in the workplace.

“We hired [Lowe] specifically because we know she had a passion for archives that we had never seen

When you go into an archive for yourself, you are removing a layer of interference and doing some interpreting for your own.

Carli Lowe SJSU archivist

before,” Elliot said.

Lowe hopes to expand her role and importance going through her first full semester as San Jose State’s archivist.

Lowe said having a first-hand experience pushed her to follow archival work when the San Francisco Folk Museum helped her spread multiculturalism to a third grade social studies class during her time as a teacher.

Lowe wants her young pupils to see different cultures from around the world and borrowed toys from the museum’s archives to show how children around the world play.

Although toys and archives are two different things, it showed Lowe that “getting out of the textbook can enhance the experience of learning.”

The drive to learn new teaching techniques prompted Lowe to push herself out of her own comfort zone in 2007 and teach in Ethiopia for two years.

“It was a great opportunity to see a place in a different way, not as a tourist, but really living there and

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SJSU’s first full-time archivist Carli Lowe began working at the MLK Library in July and is working to get students more involved in research.

making a home there,” Lowe said.

Teaching preschool for two years in a foreign country made Lowe realize how important diversity was in a classroom.

“If I had students coming to my classroom from different cultures I, at least, wanted to say that I had some empathy to have people around speaking a language I didn’t understand.” Lowe said.

This open mindedness influences Lowe’s goals for her and her position at SJSU.

As time goes on she hopes more students come to the archivist’s office to get help and expand on their own curiosities.

“My dream is that everyone finds a reason to visit the archive and when they visit they find something there that enhances their understanding of something they’re researching or themselves or even the city,” Lowe said.

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Breaking down the cycle of social issues

By Nathan Doyle STAFF WRITER

Adonia Lugo took a moment to discuss her book “Bicycle/RaceTransportation: Culture and Resistance” about the intersection of transportation and social issues.

For students and San Jose residents in attendance at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library event Monday, the afternoon was an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of how identity and culture impacts transportation habits.

“There’s more going on our streets then just transportation, that the rules we live our lives by, we take that on the streets with us,” Lugo said.

Lugo earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from University of California Irvine and chose to write her dissertation about

transportation and its reflection on social class, which inspired her book.

She said the book, published in 2018, is the culmination of a decade of research detailing the everyday use of ordinary transportation.

“If you base your book off a dissertation thesis, it’s probably going to be around a 10-year process,” Lugo said, explaining the project was time consuming especially with everything else happening in her life.

In the book, Lugo wrote about the importance of culture and the negative effects infrastructure can have on society and what social justice looks like in that context.

“Working towards having a set of systems and governments and culture that actually support people and find out what they’re good at and do it instead of just

There’s more going on our streets then just transportation, that the rules we live our lives by, we take that on the streets with us.

Adonia Lugo urban anthropologist

having to survive,” Lugo said.

Manny Uche, an urban planning graduate student, spoke about what he thought of as the biggest takeaway.

“Not knowing that bicycles were once a privileged mode for transportation and that it shouldn’t necessarily put you in a certain category,” Uche said.

Jean-Paul Torres, a San Francisco resident and former University of Nevada, Reno student, also took a lot from what Lugo spoke of.

“There is a history

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Amidst cheers of “Viva DACA!” from the crowd, Gutiérrez declared the community came together because of the difficult times they face.

The crowd included students from Cristo Rey San Jose Jesuit High School and SJSU, as well as staff from SIREN and CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

Barousse said he was happy to see young students at the event.

“They are our generation of leaders and they are going to be carrying the torch for the immigrant rights movement,” he said.

The policy was suspended by executive order in September 2017 by the Trump administration, denying any new applications to the program after six years.

In June, the Supreme Court agreed to review several lawsuits filed against the administration over the ending of DACA. Although the status of DACA is a federal issue that will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, Barousse said he hopes the march will inspire local government to pass policy that protects immigrants.

SJSU UndocuSpartan Center program coordinator Ana Navarrete was at the twilight rally with undocumented students in support of SIREN and its allies.

SJSU recently joined an amicus brief with 164 other colleges and universities in support of DACA students across the U.S.

They are our generation of leaders and they are going to be carrying the torch for the immigrant rights movement.

Jeremy Barousse SIREN director of civic engagement

The brief will be reviewed by the Supreme Court Tuesday.

“I think it’s (the amicus brief) a great way for the university to really show its stand, in terms of what it believes in,” Navarrete said.

“To know that all our students deserve to be protected and supported.”

Barousse highlighted the importance of the path the march walked, starting at the Tommie Smith and John Carlos Sculpture, which he called “a very noticeable landmark in social justice,” and ending at San Jose’s civic landmark, City Hall.

Barousse said SIREN will host a Day of Action event in East San Jose at Hillview Park Tuesday, when the Supreme Court will review the amicus brief.

“We just want to help amplify this voice and get more people involved to come out and get people excited about it,” he said.

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that comes with bicycle advocacy that for me was very validating with my experience in Reno,” Torres said.

Urban planning professor Gordon Douglas said he helped to set up the presentation as part of his role as director for the Institute of Metropolitan Studies.

Douglas has a big role in organizing urban research and putting together working groups for department faculty and

graduate students.

“I was really pleased that people came, we had people from [San Jose] City Hall and from all across campus and from all around,” Douglas said.

“I think it was really important that we started talking about all of the stuff Dr. Lugo was saying about mobility justice and how safe streets are more than just being safe from traffic,” Douglas said.

The motivations for those who came clearly range, however it was clear they believed in the goal of being involved in changing the concept of transportation.

“It showcases the interests of getting pedestrians involved in what is a more sustainable means for transportation,” Uche said.

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Crime Blotter Bench warrant issued if no court appearance Nov. 2, 2:26 a.m. at North Garage Adult arrest

Grand Theft: money/ labor/real property over $950 - felony Nov. 2, 11:15 p.m. at Campus Village 2 Information only

Under the influence of controlled substance Nov. 2, 1:06 p.m. at Spartan Recreation and Aquatic Center Adult cited

Vandalism: destroying others property Nov. 3, 3:51 a.m. at Engineering Building Information only

Hit and run with property damage Nov. 2, 4:23 p.m. at East Humboldt Street/South 7th Street No disposition Theft: forged access card misdemeanor Nov. 2, 10:48 p.m. at Washburn Hall DA/Warrant request

Carry concealed dirk/dagger, commit felony while out on own recognizance, probation violation - misdemeanor Nov. 3, 10:06 a.m. at South 7th Street/Virginia Street Adult arrested

Correction On Tuesday, Nov. 6, the Spartan Daily published a story titled, “Final ‘Terminator’ puts franchise to bed,” in which “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” was misidentified.

The Spartan Daily regrets this error.

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OPINION

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Playing video games should not be a sport Brendan Cross STAFF WRITER

In no way, shape or form should esports be considered actual sports.

As a lead-up to the 2020 Olympics, Intel will host an esports tournament in Tokyo featuring “Street Fighter V” and “Rocket League.”

The victor of each game will net a hefty $250,000 grand prize.

While this is not an Olympic sanctioned event, it’s being promoted as one.

Twelve teams will be selected to participate, with each team representing one nation.

The International Esports Federation, however, has been doing everything it can to get esports included in the Olympics.

The federation and organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics have considered including esports as a demonstration sport at the Games, according to an April 2018 BBC article.

The International Olympic Committee said that esports could be considered a sporting activity and the players involved are comparable to athletes because they “prepare and train with an intensity.”

I’m all for competitive gaming and its continued growth, but there is a clear line between a professional NBA player, for example, who puts their body on the line every game versus someone who endlessly sits behind a keyboard or controller.

That said, I’ve done my fair share of gaming in the past.

Steam, an online video game distribution platform, keeps track of the hours its users spend in game.

According to my stats, I’ve played a combined 664 hours of “Day of Defeat: Source” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer.”

In case you were wondering, 664 hours is just over 27 days.

A large majority of that play time was over the course of a two-year span. Looking back on it, I regret none of it, but I most certainly didn’t think any of it would be considered sports adjacent.

For something to be considered a sport, it has to involve an athlete that is sacrificing their blood, sweat and tears into their craft.

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Esports gamers play in a “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” at San Jose State, where the winner took home a $1000 prize.

The sport itself, as well as the training regimen of it, needs to have the athlete pushing themselves to peak physical exertion in order for it to be a sport.

The sport itself, as well as the training regimen of it, needs to have the athlete pushing themselves to peak physical exertion in order for it to be a sport.

That said, the IOC considers chess and the card game bridge a sport, so the definition of what a sport is needs a rework.

Prior to the 2018 NFL season, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson added boxing to a workout routine that already included

box jumps, front squats, kettlebell lunges, bench press work, deadlifts and speed training, according to a Men’s Journal article.

He then steps onto a field every Sunday during the season and has 300-pound behemoths running at him at full speed.

If I tried any of that, I’d probably have to pay for a hospital stay.

But, if I decided to stay up all night “training” while playing the latest “Call of Duty” game,

all I’d need is a couple of Red Bull’s and hot pockets for sustenance.

“Overwatch” players, during a tournament in Brooklyn in 2018, compared themselves to athletes in an AP News article.

“There’s actually a physical component of moving that cursor across the screen in a split-second and putting it on a pixel. That’s a physical move,” Nate Nanzer, “Overwatch” league commissioner, said when talking about a player. “And you can practice a lot, and you can get better at it, but you couldn’t get to his level at it.”

Multiple players in the article said that what they were doing wasn’t for fun and was more akin to a job than something leisurely.

I respect the time and effort it takes for professional competitive gamers to get to the level they are at, and I don’t think their mindsets need to change at all, but they are just simply not athletes.

The fact that the commissioner of the “Overwatch” league had to defend physicality in the event as moving the cursor across the screen says it all.

It’s hard to be truly great at a video game. It takes endless amounts of practice and focus, much like professional athletes.

But, the lack of anything physical happening is the breaking point and cements the fact that esports can’t be considered actual sports.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Recent trends should be a word of caution for SJSU Dear Editor, Hello, I am a San Jose State transferstudent from the San Gabriel Valley, which is located in Los Angeles County.

I wanted to write regarding your article published on October 24th called, “Awaiting the next big one.”

What I am more concerned about is that the next “Big One” is not an earthquake, but a mass shooting at San Jose State University.

According to gunviolencearchieve. org, as of Nov. 1 there have been 352 recorded mass shootings that have occurred throughout the United States.

In San Jose, there have been 3 recorded mass shootings just this year as well as 224 mass shootings recorded throughout California.

I understand earthquakes can be dire, but it is imperative that the Spartan Daily relates to its readers that gun violence is an unfortunate, harsh reality.

This can be achieved by publishing content relating to gun violence, and by promoting workshops at SJSU. The Spartan Daily could take the leap forward in both broadcasting and educating its readers about the realities of gun violence related issues in America.

I understand earthquakes can be dire, and I am glad that the paper has

done its part in representing the efforts of San Jose’s officials to help protect all who inhabit it; it is a textbook definition of a sanctuary city.

However, it is imperative that the Spartan Daily takes the initiative in order to help keep its readers aware that an earthquake is not the only catastrophic shock that can happen at any moment.

By acknowledging gun-violence’s frequency or keeping a weekly update of the mass shootings in The United States, readers both native and international will be able to adequately understand the reality of gun-violence within the country, which is crucial for creating a safer environment.

Those living in The United States must be aware that gun related violence, and mass shootings are a reality that can affirmatively affect their lives.

Knowledge is both power, and the key to creating a country where attending an event such as a garlic festival in Gilroy remains as safe as it sounds.

By informing the public and giving fair representation about the frequency of gun violence in America; we can begin to create a safer country for the future.

Best, Matthew Luna Communications studies junior

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SPORTS

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Spartans learn taekwondo for defense

By John Bricker STAFF WRITER

San Jose State’s taekwondo program teaches students who have practiced martial arts for years and complete newcomers to discipline and defend themselves by teaching basic techniques in a relaxed environment.

Jennifer Schachner, fourth degree black belt and taekwondo instructor, has taught taekwondo at the university since 2000.

Schachner’s beginning taekwondo class uses no belt ranking. Instead, she teaches all her students the traditional basics of the martial art.

Social work senior Cassandra Tesik said she doesn’t mind all the students wearing white belts in the class, regardless of their experience, because they all practice basic techniques in the class.

“So everybody being a white belt in the class is correct,” Tesik said.

Chemistry junior Kim Sorn is helping to teach the beginning taekwondo class for her first semester.

She has learned self-defense through taekwondo since she was 4 years old.

Sorn said she enjoys teaching students because it gives her the motivation to practice and to improve her skills.

Teaching a two-unit course at a university gives Schachner the flexibility to teach new students effectively.

“They are not necessarily looking for an instructor who is going to yell at them and make them do pushups every five minutes if they are not on point,” Schachner said.

After earning a second-degree black belt from a private studio before attending SJSU, Tesik now practices basic techniques with other students in the class and enjoys making friends while helping other students learn.

Tesik said she chose to take the class because she hates physical education classes and thought it would be easy.

Industrial design sophomore, Nicholas Choi also learned taekwon-

do before coming to SJSU, practicing in elementary school and getting “stuck on white belt for 4 years.”

Choi called Schachner’s teaching style “Americanized” because she is much less strict than the instructors that taught him as a child and only spoke Korean in class.

“She does not yell at you constantly and if you mess up, she doesn’t hit you with a stick,” Choi said.

Choi said taekwondo is now helping him build confidence and relationships.

Political science freshman Irene Helfert said Schachner’s teaching makes it easy to memorize the techniques she practices and that she enjoys taekwondo more and more as she practices.

Although students can request to earn belts as they learn more taekwondo, Schachner said the belt system is not practical in a short class at a university.

Helfert said she enjoys learning taekwondo at SJSU much more than how she practiced for several years before when she was surrounded by black belts much more experienced than her.

“So it is more of a group experience and it feels much more accepting and less pressured,” Helfert said.

Schachner teaches her beginning taekwondo class at 7:30 a.m., pushing her students to get up early and be disciplined.

Helfert said the early start time has pushed her to set a routine so she can exercise early in the morning.

“My dad really likes it, that I actually have a routine now,” she said.

Along with respecting older people, Kim Sorn said practicing taekwondo has taught her to create meaningful relationships by respecting everyone, including herself.

“You learn that you have to care for yourself first before you can care about others,” Sorn said.

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A mix of experienced martial artists and beginners practice in instructor Jennifer Schachner’s beginning taekwondo class at Yoshihiro Uchida Hall on Oct. 29.

SJSU wins physical game against 49ers

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Forward and senior Kevin Scott keeps Long Beach State away from the net in the final minutes of the first period, maintaining a 3-0 lead before the 49ers catch up.

By John Bricker STAFF WRITER

Scoring three goals within its first five minutes, the San Jose State ice hockey team won a hard-fought game against Cal State Long Beach 5-4 after overtime and a shootout Friday.

For rankings purposes, the game will SPARTANS count as a tie for both teams.

T h e crowd of mostly Spartans 49ERS fans heckled Long Beach State and the referees more and more as the game progressed.

After the 49ers earned

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several penalties for interference and charging during the first period, a member of the audience shouted at 49er defender Ryan Schlerf, “This guy’s an asshole, get him off the ice.”

The crowd yelled at and booed the referees when they called interference on Spartan junior forward Anthony Carter in the first period, with someone in the audience shouting, “You gotta call it both ways.”

Left wing and junior Evan Pace said at least a few of the calls from the referees unjustly kept the Spartans from taking advantage of power play and allowed the 49ers to tie the game in the third period.

Junior defender Ryan Ellis said the referees’ unfair calls frustrated him and referees have not treated the Spartans fairly ever since

he started playing hockey at SJSU. The Spartans often have a hometown disadvantage because of the officials, Ellis said.

“Especially when they should have favored us tonight, because the other team was playing a lot dirtier than we were,” he said.

Pace said he tries to focus on the game and not worry about the referees.

“We can’t control what they do,” he said.

Coach Vaughn Reuter said he wished the referees would have controlled the game more to keep players safe.

“I think at times the officials could have done more to protect the safety of all the players out there,” he said.

SJSU played some of the game’s strongest defense in

the final minutes of the first period when Spartan junior goalie William Chan blocked three shots on goal from the 49ers.

As the clock reached zero at the end of the first period, some Spartans got into a scuffle on the ice with 49er forward Brad Schlerf.

Pace scored two of the Spartans’ three opening goals in the first period, setting the tone for the Spartans’ aggressive offense during the rest of the game.

Pace said the whole team played well during the first period and that it felt great to score a few of the Spartans’ opening goals.

“I don’t think I have scored two goals that quickly before, so that felt really good,” Pace said.

Long Beach State shifted the momentum of the game during the first minutes of the second period, with forward Ryan Osterkamp scoring.

In the last two minutes of the second period, Long Beach State scored two more goals, bringing the score to 4-3.

Allowing the 49ers to score in the first and last minutes of the second period gave them a crucial advantage, Ellis said.

“That’s something that we really felt bad about, but we came out in the third period with a fresh slate,” he said.

The fights and scuffles on the ice got much more bitter and frequent during the second period, with referees ejecting Carter from the game for stepping into

I think at times the officials could have done more to protect the safety of all the players out there.

Vaughn Reuter ice hockey coach

a fight against the boards between the Spartans and 49ers.

Carter said he stepped in to protect a teammate after officials did nothing to stop a 49er from hitting him in the back of the head.

“I pulled a guy off of him and I guess they kicked me out for that,” Carter said.

The crowd reacted by booing the referees as Carter walked off of the ice and cheering when he walked past the stands after changing out of his hockey pads in the locker room.

Carter said he would not have done anything differently.

“I would do the same thing, because I am going to protect my teammates 100%,” Carter said.

Pace said Long Beach State’s high hits were the hardest part of playing them.

“They would just jump into a hit, which is supposed to be a penalty,” he said.

The 49ers used a similar hard-hitting strategy against the Spartans last year, defender Ryan Ellis said, and that their larger roster allows it to get players ejected without losing their advantage.

After another goal from Pace and a fight almost halfway through the second period, referees ejected 49er forward Schlerf and Spartan junior forward DJ Howell for head contact.

The crowd cheered as Schlerf walked off the ice.

Coach Reuter said the Spartans lost their composure at some points during the game, citing the ejection of Carter and Howell as examples.

“We can’t have that kind of behavior,” Reuter said.

Later in the second period as the crowd booed after a collision, Schlerf shouted at the audience from the sidelines, “You guys are fucking classless,” only for the crowd to shout at him to go back to the locker room.

After the game, Pace said Long Beach State established their strategy of taking the Spartans off their game and getting them penalized in the second period and that SJSU needed to stay out of their head to win the next day.

The Spartans won again against the 49ers the next day too, 5-3.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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‘Feet of Clay’: Short, simple and sweet

By Christian Trujano STAFF WRITER

American rapper Earl Sweatshirt’s new project “Feet of Clay” is a short but deeply introspective look into the artist’s personal struggles to cope with death and grief.

Thebe Kgositsile, better known as Earl Sweatshirt, released the project Friday without much warning other than a few social media posts.

Clocking in at 15 minutes, “Feet of Clay” is the second EP Sweatshirt released after 2015’s “Solace.”

It’s also the first time he released music since his 2018 album “Some Rap Songs,” which touched on the topic of making amends with his father, but dropped just after his father’s death that year.

“Feet of Clay,” an expression describing a weakness or character flaw in people of prominence, is the perfect title for the EP as it reflects Sweatshirt’s greatest flaw: his projects are way too short.

But in a way, even though the EP is only 15 minutes long and leaves you confused and wanting more, it oddly fits the tone of the project.

The music transports you into Sweatshirt’s mind and makes you feel that same confused feeling he must have felt after losing his dad.

Leaving no time to waste, the project starts off with the disjointed, lo-fi piano sample beat

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of “74,” where Sweatshirt immediately jumps into his off-beat and stylistic flow. His cadence makes it seem like you’re in a living room just talking about random topics.

This track is definitely the most lyrically fun song as there’s a lot of namedropping and references to artists including Amar’e Stoudemire and the WuTang Clan as well as some really fun word schemes.

“Protect your neck and don’t forget the heart / We upper echelon with it, that’s what they’re checkin’ for,” Sweatshirt raps.

As the following track, “EAST” comes in with a single accordion loop and a simple but uplifting bassline, the lyrics take a more serious tone as Sweatshirt laments on losing his girlfriend

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and the deaths of his grandmother and father.

The way he presents it almost seems like he’s just trying to have a conversation with the listener.

The production on the project really shined and even complimented his flows and lyrics perfectly.

With full creative control after leaving Columbia Records, his vision and style of mixing these weirdly disconnected

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beats and samples to match how he feels works so well.

Tracks such as “OD” with its heavily chopped horn and vocal samples and “TISK TISK/COOKIES” with its lo-fi drums and samples from an episode from the animated sitcom “The Boondocks,” really show Sweatshirt’s beat making skills.

With “The Boondocks” voice actor John Witherspoon’s recent death, the latter of the

Mavi is a direct descendentturned-collaborator of Sweatshirt.

The previously mentioned “MTOMB” also has a feature with the beat coming from legendary California producer The Alchemist.

His boom bap influences reflect in this heavenly but dark beat made up of some simple high hats, bass drum and droning gospel vocals as Sweatshirt continues talking about his depression and dealing with his father’s death.

The album ends with the longest song off the project, the rest lasting no longer than 2 minutes, with almost 5 minutes of instrumentals and verses from Sweatshirt and Haitian American rapper Mach-Hommy.

The song opens up with a faint piano melody over a looped guitar and high hat beat as Mach-Hommy faintly introduces the track with his chorus before going into a dark toned verse about gun violence.

Sweatshirt follows the verse and continues the theme of guns and violence with some interesting rhythms in his rapping and some new topics other than his own depression.

If you are a die-hard Sweatshirt fan, this EP won’t disappoint in lyrical or musical content.

However, just be prepared to finish the EP quickly with the feeling of wanting more.

songs really hit home as Sweatshirt raps, “The silliness in you, I mourn / The moments that’s tender and soft / I’m in ’em, the memories got strong / But some of ’em long gone.”

The features on the album are definitely another aspect of the project worth mentioning as most of them have a similar tone to Sweatshirt, making the whole project much more cohesive.

On “EL TORO COMBO MEAL” Charlotte-native rapper Mavi spits the first verse over another lo-fi drum sample which actually has more of a classic boom bap beat similar to “MTOMB”.

Mavi’s flows and runs through this conversational style of rapping is so similar to Sweatshirt’s style, which Follow Christian on Twitter doesn’t surprise, given that @ChristianTruja2

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Photography passion leads to profession

By John Bricker STAFF WRITER

San Jose State communications junior Sean Muniz has spent the past few years working as a photographer and filming music videos, growing his portfolio and honing his craft.

Muniz’s favorite shoot so far was filming the music video for rapper RJmrLA’s song “Time,” featuring hiphop superstar Young Thug, in Los Angeles.

As camera operator on set, Muniz said he used a camera worth roughly $50,000 and that Young Thug is the most prominent artist he has worked with so far.

Muniz said he and his producer Cassius King could not stop laughing during the drive to Los Angeles, trying to relieve nervousness.

“I was like, ‘Damn, this is an experience that I will not forget,’ ” Muniz said.

On Aug. 5, the day before Muniz’s birthday, he filmed the video for “Time.”

“I thought about that video shoot as a birthday present from the gods,” Muniz said, comparing the experience to his birthday the previous year, when his car burned down on Aug. 3.

On Oct. 13, Muniz worked as camera operator again, when he shot a music video for the band Z-Tran with director Mike Monti and King at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley.

Muniz paced closer to his subjects then backed away in one elaborate shot while the band performed their roughly five minute ballad, filming with a RED Epic W, a more than $20,000-value 8K camera.

King’s company, Improvized Productions, produced the video, and has worked with Muniz on many of his shoots.

King, who mainly produces but also edits and directs videos, said Improvized Productions is a digital media production rental house that aims to train directors to prepare them for large scale productions by contracting them exclusively for music videos.

“We don’t want to waste time teaching someone that might not be passionate or might not want to be on a team,” King said.

Muniz’s collaborators said he is a great team player and photographer.

Damien Cooper, behind-the-scenes photographer at the Berkeley shoot, said Muniz is easy to work with, which is essential in an industry where he works long hours with few breaks.

“You have to like the people that you’re working with,” Cooper said.

When King started working with Muniz, King noticed how Muniz puts in extra effort on set and avoids standing around and doing nothing.

“He always was asking, ‘Is there anything I can do?’ ” King said.

Although his work as a photographer and his studies at SJSU coexist, Muniz clearly prioritizes his career over college.

Often waiting until due dates to quickly finish homework assignments, Muniz said he does not consider himself a student.

“Outside of Tuesday and Thursday, I work,” Muniz said. “I am a director.”

Although school is not his top priority, Muniz said he is thankful for the chance to attend SJSU. “Just being super grateful for the opportunities we have around us and taking full use of it as much as we can, I think is key,” Muniz said.

Instead of gaining skills through traditional education, Muniz learned photography through online courses and YouTube videos, then applied for random jobs on Craigslist and learned on the job.

“Taking a photo class, to me, is just slowing your progress down,” Muniz said, adding that he wishes classes would teach photographers how to submit their work to magazines and pitch themselves professionally.

On his first photo shoot with a model, Muniz felt nervous.

“I had no idea what I was going to do, honestly,” Muniz said. “I wanted to throw up before I even drove out to the shoot.”

Although the shoot paid $50, barely enough to cover the gas Muniz used to get to the location and back, he said the model’s feedback taught him to avoid over-editing his photos.

“If you are not earning anything, you should be learning something,” Muniz said.

When Cassius King and Muniz met on the set of a music video for rapper Cali Ca$h, King noticed how helpful Muniz was on set and saw potential for artistic growth.

Although his friends often criticized his videos when he first started filming with a GoPro, Muniz said they took his work more seriously as he improved.

“Now you are curious,” Muniz said. “Now I’m getting paid.”

Muniz does not only take photos while on the job.

“If I am just hanging out with my friends and the light looks really good on my homie, I am for sure going to take a photo of him, because he looks hella cool right there,” Muniz said.

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Camera operator and communications junior Sean Muniz (right) and producer Cassius King (left) discuss plans for future takes on set in Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley on Oct. 13.

Along with aesthetic value, Muniz appreciates photography as a way to capture moments to look back on later.

“It is literally like moments of time you have to capture,” he said.

Despite his passion for filming music videos, Muniz said he would like to progress his career by working for clothing companies and fashion lines like The North Face, Calvin Klein, and Nautica.

“Overall, I want to work with brands that I am passionate about because I like what they are doing in the world of whatever they are making,” he said.

Muniz also said he wants to start making longform films to have more consistent work and produce a more ambitious final product.

“Imagine working on one project for four months and that’s four months out of the year you have consistent work, rather than every month you are looking to hit 15 videos or five videos at least,” Muniz said.

Muniz could easily work on large scale productions in the near future, Damien Cooper said.

“Definitely,” Cooper said. “Someone like that is someone you want on a team.”

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Muniz (left) films guitarist and singer Jeff Zittrain (right) performing with the band Z-Tran.