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A group of the estimated 30,000 demonstrators make their way down Broadway at the San Diego Women’s March on Jan. 21.

Andrew Dyer, Opinion Editor

Women’s studies faculty join marches Kayla Jimenez News Editor Jocelyn mORAN sENIOR sTAFF WRITER _____________________________ As more than 30,000 San Diego community members marched downtown in pink pussy hats and signs that yielded “A woman’s place is in the resistance” and “Love trumps hate,” San Diego State students and faculty joined in solidarity at the Women’s March on Jan. 21.

Lisa Baker, political science senior, was one face in the crowd that in addition to women’s rights, marched to fight for

immigrants, healthcare, climate change, the LGBTQ community and civil rights.

“I’m looking for necessarily healthcare rights,” she said. “My mom is really sick right now.

I really was supportive of the affordable care act, but now that Trump has taken off and shown a lot of disdain for that it’s been really hard to keep positive so it’s exciting to be out here and march for her.”

Baker said she created a group text with 20 of her friends “who invited their friends, and invited their friends” and organized meeting stops to plan for the march Saturday morning.

“I’m really excited to be down here,” Baker said. “We’ve been planning this for a while. We made signs, got all of our friends together from all different departments. We’re all students just looking to protest and show our support for each other.

Post-secondary educational leadership graduate student Brianna Hogan said she attended the Women’s March in San Diego for the oppressed: Students, women and minorities.

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San Diego State police have suspended the investigation of a strong-arm robbery of a female student on Nov. 9, who was believed to have been targeted because of her Muslim faith, according to a statement from campus administrators on the day of the incident.

The investigation was put on hold after police exhausted all leads and the student decided not to pursue criminal charges any longer.

The statement sent out by SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, Vice President of Student Affairs Eric Rivera and Interim Chief of Police Josh Mays condemned it as a hateful act.

According to a community safety alert from campus police regarding the incident, which took place the day after the general election, the victim was walking to her vehicle in Parking 12 when she was robbed of her purse, backpack, and car keys by two male suspects who made about then President-elect Donald Trump and the Muslim community.

The victim was uninjured in the incident, but when police arrived, they found her vehicle missing, the safety alert read at the time.

A protest was planned for Nov. 14, five days after the incident was reported. Various oncampus organizations, including

the SDSU Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, encouraged students to attend. However, the protest did not take place.

“The victim has reached out to us and has told us that she would like us to not have a demonstration tomorrow,” said a Nov. 13 Facebook post from the SDSU Muslim Student Association. “We would like everyone to respect her wishes and this decision.”

SDSUPD Cpl. Mark Peterson said the report of a stolen vehicle was later determined to be unfounded.

“It was discovered that the victim forgot where they had parked the vehicle and had initially believed it to be stolen,” he said in an email.

Campus police worked the case for approximately six weeks, Peterson said, involving the FBI and District Attorney in the process, until the victim relayed to police just before the holiday break that she no longer wished to pursue the case criminally.

“Our officers looked at available surveillance video, followed up with the victim, and attempted to verify statements related to the case,” he said in an email. “The victim made the choice to no longer pursue the matter and we suspended the case as we had no further workable leads.”

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Mobile food pantry aims to alleviate hunger kAYLA jiMENEZ nEWS eDITOR _____________________________ In effort to address food insecurity at San Diego State, as determined by a study from the California State University, Associated Students is continuing to implement two resources for students this semester: a mobile food pantry and a no-waste initiative.

Three hundred and twenty- two students received food from the mobile food pantry last semester with an average of 80 students each week, said Associated Students President Jamie Miller. “(Eleven) out of 23 schools have some sort of system whether it was a food pantry or a catering initiative and we weren’t one of those (eleven),” said Chimezie Ebiriekwe,

Associated Students vice president of university affairs.

“As for San Diego State being a pioneer of a university in the CSU system, I knew that this needed to be implemented because we were behind schedule,” he said.

What are Associated Students and the university doing to combat this?

Ebriekwe said the university has a credit with the San Diego Food Bank and any food donated to it from the Aztecs Rock Hunger drive can be requested and used for the mobile food pantry.

“The food that was donated through Aztecs Rock Hunger will now be recycled and brought to actual Aztecs, actual students,” Ebiriekwe said.

The mobile food pantry is held at the campus farmer’s market and second floor of the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union every Thursday.

Interim Assistant of Government Affairs Gerardo Cabral said there are various resources provided at the A.S. table.

He said there is information about the Economic Crisis Response Team and CalWorks food stamps for students in need.

“This is not your average tabling event,” Cabral said. “When we are talking about food insecurity it’s a little bit more sensitive.

People are being a little bit more vulnerable with you coming up and saying I do need food because I’m hungry.”

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A sign in the Aztec Student Union informs students about the resources on campus.

Kayla Jimenez, News Editor

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Free tuition proposed in new report

A new report outlines a “$48 fix” for free tuition at all CA public higher education institutions Adriana Millar Assistant nEWS eDITOR ____________________________________ The Reclaim California Higher Education Coalition announced a new policy report on Tuesday that mapped out a path to tuition-free higher education in California.

The report, called “The $48 Fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan for Higher Education,” outlines how to eliminate all tuition and fees for California public higher education students.

“We can afford all qualified California students tuition-free, top-quality higher education — if the political will exists to do it,” it says.

The coalition includes stakeholders from the three Higher Education systems.

These include the California Community Colleges, California State University and University of California.

The mission is to reclaim California’s Master Plan for Higher Education, a plan from 1960 which outlined free public higher education for all Californians.

California Faculty Association President Jennifer Eagan said the “$48 Fix” proposes a concrete, fair and realistic solution.

“We need to go back to the Master Plan and figure out how we all can support public higher education for the future of

this state,” she said.

President of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations Dr. Stanton Glantz said a return to the California Master Plan would include eliminating all tuition and fees.

It also includes returning state funding to what is where it was per student in

per full-time equivalent student and eliminate tuition and mandatory fees for in-state students would be $9.43 billion.

The report proposes a “$48 fix,” an eight percent income tax surcharge.

It reads, the income tax would cost half of California’s families 48 dollars a year or less.

“ wE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE MASTER PLAN AND FIGURE OUT

HOW WE ALL CAN SUPPORT HIGHER EDUCATION.”

- Stanton Glantz, President of the Council of University of CFA

2000 and restore seats for students who have been pushed out of the system.

Since 2000, California has cut public investment in the state’s highest-aiming students by 39 percent, according to the paper.

“What’s happened since 2000 is a switch from paying for higher education for public good by taxpayers, to treating it as a service which is purchased by students and families,” Glantz said.

According to the coalition’s report, the total cost to restore the full master plan and restore state support to California higher education to the 2000-01 level

The tax surcharge would fully fund the coalition’s goal of free tuition at free public higher education.

The paper also includes other financing options to be combined with an income tax, to reduce the income tax surcharge.

Options include re-purposing Cal Grant funds, Prop 13 reform, estate tax, oil severance tax, financial transactions tax (federal), and reallocating state budget savings.

On Jan. 10, Governor Jerry Brown announced his budget proposal for 2017-2018, which included an ongoing increase for the California State

University’s overall operating budget of around two percent, or $157.2 million.

This proposal permits the CSU to cover mandatory and preset employee costs, CSU Office of the Chancellor Public Affairs Manager Elizabeth Chapin said in an email Jan. 20.

“Yet other key priorities – including student achievement, enrollment, infrastructure and open employee contracts – are not covered,” she said.

CSU trustees voted in November to ask Sacramento for a $343.7 million funding increase.

Until May when the governor will release the revised budget, the CSU will make a strong advocacy case with the legislature for that additional funding, Chapin said.

On Jan. 10 CSU Chancellor Timothy White released a statement on the governor’s budget proposal.

“The university is committed to improving student achievement with a focus on Graduation Initiative 2025, which will eliminate the achievement gap.” he said.

He said the additional funding proposed will help address some of the California State University’s priorities.

“While student completion has reached all-time highs and continues to increase, we will review all options to ensure that we are able to maintain that momentum,” White said.

Hate crime suspended by SDSUPD Muslim student who reported strong-arm robbery in November decides to not press charges POLICE, from P1 Although the case is suspended, SDSUPD Lt. Greg Noll said the agency would not release any records related to the case, the agency has the ability to re-open it at any time in the event of the victim changing her mind, or should new leads arise. He also said there is no timetable for any such release.

“A release would jeopardize the case,” Noll said in an email.

Noll said the likelihood of the case being reopened was completely

dependent upon the victim.

“We spent a month and a half on this case, including many outside agencies, and (were) unable to develop any new leads,” he said in an email.

“This case rests with the victim and her willingness to move forward.”

The incident made national headlines, and occurred as a number of similar attacks on minorities across the country in the aftermath of the Nov. 8 election.

The SDSU Muslim Student Association did not respond to a request for comment on this story.

San Diego State Police Department is not releasing any records due to likelihood of the case being reopened.

Kristian Carreon, Staff Photographer

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Report finds film diversity decrease Alex hall staff writer ____________________________________ A report released by a San Diego State professor found a decline in women’s representation in film in 2016.

Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film and Theatre, television and film professor at SDSU released the annual Celluloid Ceiling report, which showed how women’s roles in the film industry’s high positions of employment in the top 100, 250 and 500 U.S. films changed over time.

The study revealed a two percent decrease in female directors from the previous year. Female directors made up seven percent of total directors of the top 250 films in 2016.

Theatre, television and film senior Devon Kane said she was surprised the research shows a decline in women writers and directors.

“There is still a lot of work to be done for things to just stay the same let alone improve,” she said.

According to the study, in the top 100 films, women comprised of 14 percent of all directors, writers, producers, editors and cinematographers.

TFM sophomore Brittany Harper said she thinks the decline is surprising because she sees so much emphasis on women in film lately. However, she said she is not surprised that the amount of

TFM senior Devon Kane gets hands-on training behind the camera.

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women in the industry is low to begin with.

“In my personal experience, my nonfilm major female friends really don’t have much interest in talking about films,” Harper said. “I think there’s definitely a trend of different interests between the two genders. Also, women are very smart and the film industry is not the smartest industry to go into.

Many film majors leave college poor and jobless, so it’s very risky.”

TFM sophomore Somer Myers said the film program at SDSU appears to be mostly men. She said in some of the projects she has done in her film classes males usually want the creative control.

“They want to be the directors and editors and they usually set the tone and organize everything,” Myers said. “You can give suggestions but a lot of the time they just stick with their plan, so you have to prove yourself and work your way up on sets.”

According to SDSU’s office of Analytic Studies and Institutional Research, 31 women and 55 men graduated from SDSU with a TFM degree during the 2015-2016 school year.

Kane said although there are a lot of men in the TFM department, it seems most women in the program don’t “let it cross their minds.” In her advanced TFM course she said three out of the

four films were directed or written by a woman.

Kane also mentioned how close the women in the department are to one another, and that everyone is extremely supportive.

“I think in the past (the department) being mostly men is just a coincidence,” Kane said.

Kane said the information from the study encourages women to take a step they normally would not.

“It’s really important for women to know how hard we have to work and it empowers you to have a voice,” she said, Kane said she personally has never felt women at SDSU were ever being quieted or discriminated against. She said it is has been a great and really supportive environment.

“At SDSU about 50 percent of my classes are female,” Harper said.

Harper said by the time her class is in the industry the amount of females will increase dramatically.

“I think our generation is the most liberal and art-appreciating in our history and this generation is determined to break the gender gap,” she said.

The report also took female television employment positions into account.

Kane said she hopes to become a television writer and was disheartened to hear women’s roles have decreased.

“But it’s also really empowering because you know that you get to be

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feels very empowering to be here. It’s been an emotional day,” she said. “It’s been an emotional campaign and emotional election, and I’m here to give a voice to the people that need it.”

Vanessa Nguyen, president of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, joined three board members and a couple members from the organization at the march.

“Since the election, it’s been really important to stay adamant and vigilant and just for awareness really,” Nguyen said. “It was just a very historic moment and very important for me to be there.”

“It makes me sad to see that Trump actually has placed the executive order on banning the US government on giving out funds to help internationally on abortion rights,” she said.

President Trump signed an executive order Monday Jan. 23 reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which bans non-profit organizations that perform or support abortion internationally from receiving funding from the U.S. “It is very scary to know that he is actually doing something, but I’m very hopeful that everyone who supports us is going to come together and not let him defund us in the state,” Nguyen said.

Women’s studies professor Huma Ahmed-Ghosh spoke to the crowd on Saturday encouraging marchers to continue to resist after the march.

“We should use this march not only to protest the new politics that may emerge in the USA but also to regroup, restrategize and renergize the feminist movement to get a better understanding about how to embed social justice as a core national value,” she said in her speech.

The Women’s Studies department sent out an email to majors and minors with

San Diego resident Makos Fimbres marches alongside over 30,000 participants. aNDREW dYER, oPINION eDITOR

information about the march a day prior to the event.

Women’s studies professor Irene Lara said most of the women’s studies faculty attended the San Diego March or marches in Washington D.C. or LA. “For me, the March was about continuing to build community across our commonalities and differences and to sustain the heart-led and mind-led lifework ahead of us,” Lara said in an email.

The department held a banner and sign creation a day prior to the march, and welcomed students to gather in front of the Civic Center to march together.

The march was held a day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

“I cried (when watching the inauguration.) I didn’t know I would be that emotional,” Hogan said. “I’m not happy with the results of the election, obviously and it just feels wrong that someone that’s representing our country is so hateful.”

Graduate student Haley Lomax said the Women’s March was a wake-up call, and that too many people have been oppressed by President Trump’s rhetoric.

“This has been a positive day to come out as a San Diego community and stand together and show that we have a lot of work and this is just day one,” she said.

“I’m glad to have done it with my grad program and as future educators, this is where we stand and we’re going to do it together.”

Post-secondary education leadership graduate student Emmeline Domingo said she decided to attend the march to be part of the resistance movement.

She said the ultimate goal is to show Donald Trump and everyone who supports him it is not okay to take away rights that have been fought for.

“I’m simultaneously angry and happy,” Domingo said. “I feel like I’m mourning, but at the same time, I feel hope because of all the people that are showing up and in this together.”

Sophomore liberal studies and member of College Democrats Ella Holton-McCoy said as a woman, she felt it was partially her responsibility to attend the march.

“Being surrounded by so many positive people, all fighting for the same thing, was really inspiring and uplifting,” Holton-McCoy said. “It was men, women, children, an extremely

diverse community. It was definitely empowering.”

The Women’s March was held on Saturday in many cities around the world, including San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles.

SDSU Department of Women’s Studies chair Doreen Mattingly attended the march in Washington D.C. She said as soon as she saw the announcement about it on her Facebook feed, she knew she had to be there.

“I just knew it was going to be historic,” Mattingly said. “I was so distraught with the election, and for me, being active is the way to turn unhappiness into change.”

She said every time she passed a street in D.C. while marching, there was another couple thousand people.

“It didn’t end. It went on and on and on,” she said. “It was so affirming.”

Mattingly said the crowd was very diverse, and she was surprised at how peaceful the march was.

“The march and the speakers were phenomenally diverse and really talking about not just women’s issues but their connection with civil rights, with LGBTQ and environmental issues,” she said.

“People were just from everywhere.”

The Women’s March ended in front of the County Administration Building where marchers chanted “Whose country? Our country!”

“There’s people of all ages, all colors, all different backgrounds so it’s really nice to just gather together,” Baker said. “It’s been such a loving environment to be a part of. It’s been so encouraging and it really makes me look forward to the future.”

The Women’s Studies Department will be hosting “Don’t Agonize--Organize!

Gender Justice in the Time of Trump,” a follow-up event to the Women’s March at 7 p.m. on Jan. 27 in the Women’s Resource Center.

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Hungry students face food insecurity HUNGER, from P1 The A.S. No Waste initiative is a pushnotification alert through Twitter that tells students when there is leftover food from campus events, such as the “Giving Thanks” dinner held on Nov. 17.

David Castillo, a management information systems junior, said he and his friend Stefan Isensee, entrepreneurship junior, were happy about the free food provided at the event.

“I would use it and I think there would be students who use it,” Castillo said of the A.S. NoWaste notification. “Food is expensive so there’s time when you don’t eat and just go study in the library to get some more hours in.”

Castillo said A.S. should hold more events like the “Giving Thanks” dinner because there is a fellowship with a lot of different students from around campus.

Miller said A.S. did not receive any feedback on the A.S. No Waste Twitter account.

“Operations staff who were present at last semester’s events shared that students were excited about the opportunities for free food and to help reach students who may be experiencing food insecurities,” she said.

A.S. hosts Aztecs Rock Hunger each year to help raise funds to feed the San Diego community, but hungry students on campus are often left out.

This year, the food and donations raised from Aztecs Rock Hunger will be donated to the Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank and returned to the

university as a credit.

The amount raised will be given back to SDSU students through the mobile food pantry each Thursday.

Alex Shapiro, A.S. vice president of financial affairs, said this year the organization raised 448,420 pounds of food through Aztecs Rock Hunger donations. The food drive ended on Nov. 7.

He said 20 percent of the monetary donations from ARH will go to the Economic Crisis Response Team to help students in need of resources like CalFresh.

California State University reports that SDSU is not meeting the needs of students.

The CSU study conducted in February 2015 reported about one in four students from its 23 schools are food insecure, meaning they lack resources to access food due to little or no financial funds.

Eleven of the university campuses have resources for food insecure students that include food pantries, CalFresh enrollment programs and meal assistance programs, according to the study.

The study at the time revealed that the only current funding option for SDSU students who faced food or housing insecurity was a short-term loan of $1,000 with varying repayment options through Student Account Services.

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Students can sign up to volunteer for A.S. food insecurity iniatives at the Thursday farmer’s market.

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In a survey conducted by The Daily Aztec of 70 SDSU students and alumni last semester, 74 percent of students said they have skipped a meal while on campus and 90 percent have chosen an unhealthy option at a campus dining or Aztec Shops location to save money.

Thirty-four percent of these students said they have been food insecure in the last year while enrolled at SDSU and seventeen percent said they are currently food insecure.

Many students surveyed did not know what the Economic Crisis Resource Team was or the services it provided.

Zero respondents said they recieved food stamps or government-assistance for food.

Thirty two students in the survey said they would use a food pantry if provided.

Twenty-four said they were unsure.

More than 90 students received food from the first mobile food pantry on Nov. 17, said Miller.

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An Economic Crisis Response Team was implemented at SDSU in fall 2015 to provide students with resources in case of financial crisis.

Since Oct. 22, 2015, 115 students have submitted requests for support to ECRT, six of whom were facing food insecurity, Vitaliano Figueroa, assistant vice president for student affairs, said in an email.

“Our Economic Crisis Response Team is a campus-wide working group created to mobilize quickly to coordinate our campus resources to support the needs of our students faced with unforeseen crisis that can impede their success at SDSU,” Figueroa said in an email.

The team is a collaboration of staff, administrators, students and faculty on campus who work to provide students experiencing food insecurity, or housing insecurity or financial crises with shortterm and long-term aid.

The ECRT also volunteers at the mobile food pantry and said they collaborated with AS on the new programs to help students.

“If a student is facing a financial crisis that leads to food insecurity, the Economic Crisis Response Team has partnered with Aztec Shops and Associated Students to provide meals on campus for up to two weeks,” Figueroa said.

“Additionally, we also refer students to our community partners to receive longer term assistance.”

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The survey includes questions about financial and ethnic background, university status and knowledge about resources available for home and food insecure students at the university they attend.

Maguire said she will begin conducting a program implementation and evaluation study of promising practices within the CSU for best serving students experiencing food and housing insecurity and homelessness once the results of the survey are complete.

What is next for SDSU? Associated Students will continue to hold the mobile food pantry at the farmer’s market and second floor of the union each Thursday.

The Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank held a meeting for different colleges to come together and introduce them to its College Hunger Relief Program on Jan. 13.

Along with Southwestern College, San Diego City College and UC San Diego, San Diego State is one of the few colleges who worked with the San Diego Food Bank before the convening.

Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank President and Chief Executive Officer James Floros said the non-profit organization is launching the college hunger relief program to ensure all colleges in San Diego County have food banks similar to the one at San Diego State.

He said the goal of the organization is to have at least a food pantry on every college campus in the county.

“We really believe that education is the vehicle to break the cycle of poverty,” Floros said. “You need to have healthy students and you need to have students that are eating well.”

Miller said AS staff from SDSU attended the convening to share highlights and information from last semester’s food pantry kick-off with other colleges in the County.

“Our partnership with the San Diego Local Food Bank is working well,” Miller said.

“Our student volunteers as well as staff are working together to make sure that we are creating a strong resource for our students on this campus through the mobile food pantry.”

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Like Spencer, he did Nazi it coming

A 1962 speech by a self-proclaimed Nazi was disrupted when a Jewish student rushed the stage Andrew Dyer opinion editor ____________________________________ The internet was abuzz this weekend as video of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched in the face during an interview went viral.

Spencer was explaining the Pepe the Frog meme when a masked assailant entered the frame, struck him and ran away. Memes and remixes proliferated throughout the weekend, leading many to ask: “Is it okay to punch Nazis?”

San Diego State has its own Nazipunching history. In 1962, the Committee for Student Action invited George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, to SDSU, then called San Diego State College.

Rockwell’s visit was marked by a student demonstration. At one point during his Open Air Theater speech, as reported in the March 9, 1962 edition of The Daily Aztec, Rockwell began to accuse Jews of being part of a “Communist conspiracy.”

That’s when Ed Cherry, a physical education senior, confronted Rockwell on-stage, culminating in “a quick right hook.”

Rockwell was rushed away to the offices of The Daily Aztec through a throng of protesters, who pelted him with eggs.

Cherry’s actions, and those of the demonstrators, were thoroughly rebuked in the pages of The Daily Aztec.

The prevailing argument in 1962, and one that has been echoed in the wake of the Spencer attack — that repugnant ideas could be overcome by rational disagreement — is flawed.

Germany, in the late 1920s, was not void of rational disagreement with Nazism. It did not prevent the rise of the Third Reich.

U.S. media today is in a similar struggle today against a rising white nationalist movement — one which Spencer, deny it as he might, is a leader. However, all of the rational disagreement with this toxic and destructive ideology did not prevent its adherents from electing Donald Trump to the presidency. Spencer, who denies being a Nazi, famously led a postelection rally in which the audience engaged in Nazi salutes after he ended his speech with a cry of, “Hail victory!

Hail Trump!”

In the video, before he is punched, Spencer answers “no” when a bystander asks him if he is a neo-Nazi.

There are not many non-Nazis who are constantly being asked if they are, in fact, Nazis.

In the decades since 1962, social norms worked to suppress neo-Nazi rhetoric, like Spencer’s, in the U.S. For example, as Rockwell learned back then, one potential consequence of public alignment with Nazism was to be punched in the face.

That is not to condone violence — assault is a crime — but even Dr. E. B. O’Byrne, vice president of the college in 1962, admitted it was difficult to expect students to sit quietly and listen to Nazi ideology.

“It’s easy to say that’s the way to act,” he told the Daily Aztec, “but when a person begins to attack you and your ethnic minority group, you can’t say what you would do.”

Nazism, white supremacy and white nationalism never went away, it went underground. But the old neo-Nazis found a new avenue of recruitment, retention and propaganda with the rise of the internet.

Sites like Reddit, 4chan and 8chan have supplanted Stormfront as hubs for white nationalists. These online safe spaces provide fertile ground

Senior Ed Cherry slugs the leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, at a campus speech.

The Daily Aztec Archives, March 9, 1962

for Nazi ideology to permeate the zeitgeist so that users, who might never call themselves “neo-Nazis,” have unwittingly adopted their ideology as their own.

The anonymity of the internet has led to users becoming more comfortable with a certain type of bigotry — a type that, if said in public, could get a person punched.

It is therefore understandable how Spencer could forget the lessons

of Nazis past. Comfortable in his electronic cocoon of like-minded racists, he forgot that in the real world, words have consequences.

Rockwell learned it in 1962, and in 2017, Spencer was also on the other end of a valuable lesson.

If you walk like a Nazi, talk like a Nazi and hold rallies where people salute you like a Nazi, you might just find yourself on the wrong side of someone’s fist.

'Total Frat Move' exploits women at SDSU Andrea Lopez-VillafaÑA mundo azteca editor ___________________________________ Tagging women by the pussy seems to be the norm for Instagram account TFM Girls.

The account with at least one million followers shares daily pictures of what the organization considers, “the hottest college girls in the world.”

Women can submit pictures via email or are contacted by the account to be featured on the page.

There is nothing wrong with women taking control of their sexuality and expressing it however they choose, but it is important to understand the platform on which it is being presented.

TFM Girls is affiliated with another account, Total Frat Move. According to their website, TFM is a “news and entertainment brand” that provides college and fraternity humor.

On the more than 3,700 posts of women in their bathing suits, most have “Total Frat Move” tagged on their breasts, butts or vaginas. The account is not being used as a means for women to own their sexuality in an empowering way, but to exploit them. The account’s name alone implies

that TFM Girls, or Total Frat Move Girls, are their girls — as in their property.

Nathian Rodriguez, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, said the tags on the photographs are symbolic.

“It’s saying that’s your face (but) that’s our vagina,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said it is a masculine idea — “bro code” — that “sharing is caring,” and women who belong to “brothers” belong to everyone else, too.

Rodriguez’s research focuses on media’s effect at the societal level, focusing on identity in minority populations.

He said that this site is not aimed at women, but at young males who feel the need to adhere to masculine norms.

Out of all the women on TFM Girls, at least 20 are from San Diego State.

Communications junior Samm Jandrisch has been featured on TFM Girls three times, but she did not submit photographs.

Jandrisch said TFM contacted her to feature her on TFM Girls but she never replied. Her photos were taken from her public account and posted, anyway.

“At first I was a little bit worried that people would think I sent it in,” she said.

Jandriseh said she gained new followers on her personal Instagram account and

received messages from strangers after being on the page.

“I don’t feel disrespected at all,” she said, “I just feel that’s the type of account they have. That’s what the guys that follow (them) are looking for.”

Rodriguez said it’s the “boys will be boys” mentality that makes it socially acceptable, along with having a president that thinks its okay to “grab (women) by the pussy.”

Grabbing or tagging — where is the line?

Jandrisch was not aware that in addition to being on their Instagram, she was also featured as “TFM Babe of the Day” on the Total Frat Move website.

On the site, strangers post comments and critiques of women that range from offensive to disgusting.

An article on their website, “A mathematically perfect ranking of the 37 hottest girls on earth” lists different Instagram accounts of girls they call the “hottest on earth”.

“Send your girlfriend shopping, close the blinds, secure that belt around your neck, and enjoy,” the article says.

“That is a very masculine ethos of what college or frat boys should be,” Rodriguez said. “The photographs are presented in a way that says, ‘look, here are a bunch

of girls that we think are hot, and you should too, otherwise you’re not a man like us. And, oh yeah, you should masturbate to them.’”

The women are presented as property.

Some aren’t even given the choice of being on the account, but their Instagram accounts are public.

TFM Girls is degrading and disgusting.

To support this account, website and everything it stands for, is embarrassing.

Understand that you're being associated with people like username katalyst, who commented on one picture, "A bit of a butter face but I guess if you're only seeing the top of her head it wouldn't matter much," or username J.W. Dunddee, who said "Fat girls stumble across her Instagram page and spontaneously develop eating disorders," or username Rowdy_ Degenerate, who commented "I've never seen a more perfect butt to pee in."

TFM Girls is not an Instagram account men should be proud of following.

There are sex-positive avenues for women to express themselves. They should not put themselves up for critique and ridicule on a site designed to appeal to pigs.

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Jan. 25 - 31, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: Andrew Dyer • opinion@thedailyaztec.com

Melania mockery shameful Talia Raoufpur staff columnist ____________________________________ First lady Melania Trump has been receiving nasty criticism from the public for her background, career accomplishments, physical appearance and relationship to her husband of more than 10 years, President Donald Trump, ever since he announced his candidacy.

Women have made most of the unfavorable remarks across all social media platforms. It is not the comments themselves that are peculiar, but rather the fact that they are being made so publicly. In a time when feminism is at the forefront of political debate, women have vowed to stand together, unite and support one another. Why is this support not given to Melania Trump?

She is perhaps the most unique first lady the United States has ever had.

She grew up humbly in Slovenia, and is the first immigrant to be first lady since Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams. She attended the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia before leaving her studies to pursue a full-time modeling career. She is an intelligent, articulate woman who speaks five languages — Slovene, French, German, Serbian and English.

While the definition of feminism can take many forms, there is one aspect that is consistent.

Feminism supports a woman’s decision to marry, have children and seek an education, so long as it is her own choice. Melania Trump should not be scrutinized for her marriage, the way in which she raises her child or her success story.

At the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, co-host Gigi Hadid impersonated Mrs. Trump by pursing her lips at the camera, speaking in a slow Slovenian tongue and

exaggerated her facial expressions to poke fun at the possible first lady. The audience erupted in laughter, showing their approval for the mockery. Rather than praise her on her bravery to move to America at a young age and make a name for herself, some find it amusing and completely acceptable to make fun of her accent.

Melania Trump, or any woman for that matter, is not to be made fun of, objectified or looked down upon. Like her predecessor, Michelle Obama, she did not have a say in her new occupation or the public scrutiny that accompanies it. So far, she has remained calm, dignified and graceful.

She has confidently answered most, if not all, interview questions with strength.

While parts of Mrs. Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention were seemingly plagiarized form Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, the responsibility was not hers, but her speech writers’. This controversy became an example demonstrating Melania Trump’s difficult relationship with the media and the need for her to be separated from her husband.

Like all other political figures, she has a team of writers, assistants and coaches, whose jobs are to prepare her for the media. She is as significant of a political figure as first ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama.

Recently, the popular twitter account Common White Girl, whose 9.12 million followers consist mostly of women, tweeted a photo of the first lady at her husband’s Inaugural address looking somber, accompanied by the caption, “When all you wanted was a sugar daddy & now you're the First Lady of the United States.” The tweet received more than 11,000 likes and 2,000 retweets. As a reflection of the so-called feminist ideologies for which our society advocates, this was a failure.

Why is Melania Trump less respected than fellow models such as Kim Kardashian or Emily Ratakowski? To make an assumption of Mrs. Trump such as accusing her of marrying her husband for his wallet is nefarious. A woman’s decision to marry her husband is her own, and her relationship should not be judged by anyone.

Melania Trump is poised, well spoken and makes her own decisions, including removing herself from most of the campaign to focus on her son, Barron. In addition, she has decided to postpone her move to the White House in order to care for him until he finishes school later this year.

Feminism cannot be maintained until all women and men support one another and respect the decisions they make.

Unfair criticism of Melania Trump echoes unfair criticism of Hillary Clinton. Neither of their husbands are perfect nor hold a clean record in reference to their treatment of women.

A woman is a separate entity from her husband and should be treated as such. Both women are successful in their own regards.

While Clinton achieved success as a lawyer and senator, Melania Trump became known for her high fashion career as a model and later, owner of her own jewelry and skincare line.

Sure, their triumphs could not be more different, but they are triumphs nonetheless.

In order for feminism to become a permanent part of society, every woman, regardless of career, background, or marital status should be respected and supported through all of her endeavors, no matter how surprising or unconventional they may be. Melania Trump is not her husband and therefore should be regarded as her own individual, making her own choices and abiding to her own values.

Time to erase this digital dinosaur Danny Dyer contributor ____________________________________ For students, it is the revealer of grades, an informant for missed lectures and the nerve center of all valuable information.

For professors, it is the most accessible platform for widespread communication, a virtual chalkboard with a simplistic interface and easy navigation. It is no surprise SDSU has grown reliant upon Blackboard. Despite its advantages, this learning system is spiraling into obsolescence.

First, Blackboard is pricey. Jim Farmer, former Chief Information Officer of the Cal State University system, analyzed the costs of Blackboard.

“Using industry-average data, the cost of selling a Blackboard enterprise learning system is estimated to be $259,000 per sale,” Farmer’s report said.

“This cost compares to an estimated cost of $78,000 per sale for commercially marketed open source software.”

With the maturing of the internet, the once-gaping differences between freelyoffered learning modules and paid ones are thinning. Open-source learning platforms, such as Moodle, are now viable alternatives to Blackboard, and commercially free.

Other alarms blare just as loudly.

With its vendor lock-in structure, the customer is limited solely to the products offered from Blackboard, Inc. For teachers, downloading submitted papers is done file-by-file, a daunting method that should be avoidable. Something relevant to both students and professors is the system’s sluggish updating procedure, which often renders the site inoperable for lengthy periods of time. The ugliest of its blemishes, however, is possibly the one most overlooked — Blackboard sacrifices the potential for an intriguing online learning stage for the sake of simplicity. While it may be stable, it is creatively stagnant. But, there is hope.

With SDSU’s otherwise suffocating marriage to Blackboard, there are a few instructors straying from its mundane confines. The standout frontrunner of this anti-Blackboard culture is Professor William Nericcio, director of the San Diego State University Press.

Nericcio's classes are a standing testament for what happens when an imaginative mindset collides with the digital era of education. Stretching far and wide into the online nebula, his updated posts are equipped with colorful diction hand-in-hand with some sort of enticing visual image — a feature restricted in Blackboard’s existing architecture. This is not,

however, what distinguishes Nericcio as the outlier from the Blackboard brigade. What makes him so is the fact that he does not use Blackboard at all.

Students must travel to the trendy realm of Tumblr for homework notifications, class information and all other uncanny components the English professor interweaves into his classroom’s online experience. Where the majority of his fellow instructors are chained to the insipid mercy of Blackboard’s services, Nericcio has exploited a format that is not offers creative reign, but is completely free. And with unorthodoxies being as crucial to his class as bringing the assigned reading, he needs that sort of space to play and teach.

If seriously considered by other professors, Nericcio’s approach could be the beginning of a technologically agile scholastic community. With the vast catalogue of opportunities the World Wide Web has to offer, this is just one example of how the academic world can smoothly align with a technocratic future. And thus the question arises: Stability or creativity? Recline on the minimalism of Blackboard for the sake of ease? Or surge forward with the attitude of fully exhausting the internet’s resources? As students and teachers of this computerized era, it is our choice.

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Perservando sus valores culturales adriana Heldiz editora de video ____________________________________ Con más de 11 mil inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos, no es difícil de encontrar a alguien que todavía tiene raíces en su país de origen.

Algunas de estas personas son estudiantes de San Diego State University que no nacieron en los EE.UU, y todavía tienen familia en otros países.

Muchos de estos todavía se sienten conectados a su cultura.

Un estudio del Pew Research Center encontró que 18 porciento de las personas menores de 18 años, son considerados “primera generación”.

El uso del término “primera generación” se usa para describir a los individuos quienes son los primeros en sus familias de vivir en los EE.UU, desde chicos.

Incluso, ese grupo también puede incluir gente que vive en los EE.UU, pero que no son de otro país. Ellos pudieron haber tenido la oportunidad de nacer y crecer en otros países.

Su relaciones con el país de origen es un poco diferente, pero como son primera generación en esta nación, ellos también quieren mantener las costumbres y tradiciones de su país.

Lorena Saravia, estudiante de San Diego State University, nació en Tijuana, Baja California, aunque tiene

varios años viviendo en San Diego, ella todavía se relaciona mucho con su país.

“Lo siento muy mío”, dijo Saravia .

“Cuando estoy con la personas con quien crecí, me siento muy cómoda”.

San Diego y Tijuana son ciudades fronterizas de los EE.UU y México donde muchas gente viaja diario para hacer mandados ó a visitar familiares.

Saravia dijo que por esa facilidad fue por cómo ella empezó a viajar a Tijuana.

Ella dijo que por estar estudiando no ha tenido mucho tiempo de visitar y que ha notado un cambio en su cultura.

“Se va desvaneciendo y eso es algo que me he dado cuenta”, dijo Saravia.

“La cultura de México es mas cálida entonces estar aquí por tantos años, no me iba dando cuenta que perdí muchas de las cosas que yo les enseñe a mis hijos”.

Saravia dijo que quiere seguir aprendiendo mas de su idioma para mantener la conexión con su cultura.

Eduardo Marian dijo que el esta cómodo con su cultura mexicana.

Desde su niñez, Marian vivió en Tijuana y casi cada fin de semana regresa a visitar.

“Yo hablo mas el español que el ingles y también me encanta mucho la comida”, dijo Marian.

Marian dijo que le gustaría aprender de la cultura prehispánica, los Aztecas,

Marcha de Mujeres

La gente de San Diego se uno por una causa.

ADRIANA HELDIZ, EditorA DE VIDEO

Jocelyn moran escritora ____________________________________ Más de 30,000 miembros de la comunidad de San Diego asistieron la marcha de las mujeres el pasado 21 de enero, un día después de que Donald Trump fue jurado como el presidente número 45 de los Estados Unidos.

La marcha principal tomó parte en Washington D.C., pero gente en todo el país se reunieron y caminaron por las calles en ciudades como San Francisco, Chicago, la ciudad de Nueva York, Austin y Los Ángeles donde aproximadamente 750,000 participaron.

Mujeres, hombres, niños, adolescentes, gente mayor, y gente de todas razas marcharon por las calles de San Diego peleando por no solo los derechos de las mujeres pero también de inmigrantes y la comunidad LGBTQ. Guadalupe R. Corona, directora de equidad, diversidad e inclusión en Southwestern College, dijo al grupo que San Diego State ha desarrollado activistas chicanos.

“Achistas, hoy les pido que se reafirmen a la justicia social”, dijo

Corona. “No podemos tener alguien que nos diga qué hacer con nuestros cuerpos, nuestros hijos y nuestras familias. Todos tenemos una responsabilidad”.

Corona dijo a la multitud de gente que sus compromisos son más importantes ahora que nunca y que sus hijos necesitan una educación para poder realizar sus sueños.

Los manifestantes tenían carteles que leían “escuche nuestras voces”, “derechos de mujeres son derechos humanas”, “no estaré callado” y “nosotros superaremos”. Muchos participantes de la protesta también llegaron con gorros puestos, conocidas como “pussy hats”.

María Nieto, profesora del Departamento de Consejo y Psicología en San Diego State University, también se dirigió al grupo y dijo que pelearía por los estudiantes de la Consideración de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA), los estudiantes musulmán, los estudiantes LGBTQ y los estudiantes que tienen inseguridad alimentaria.

“Amo a mi amigos indocumentados quien no son traficantes de drogas, no son asesinos, no son violadores”, dijo Nieto. “Son personas maravillosas”.

Madeline Doze, estudiante de primer año y miembro de College Democrats, dijo que ella y sus amigos decidieron asistir porque están molestas por lo que Trump ha dicho no solo de mujeres, pero también minorías. Dijo que estaba sorprendida por la cantidad de gente que asistió y la cantidad de hombres que había.

“Pienso que mandó el mensaje que no estaremos callados y no vamos a permitir que Trump y el Congreso haga lo que quieran”, dijo Doze. “Vamos a decir algo cuando algo no está bien”.

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los Mayas y otros grupos indígenas.

Para el, todavía hay mas sobre su cultura que quiere explorar.

Otros que viven en los EE.UU, no tienen la ventaja como Saravia y Marian de viajar a su país cada semana.

Naomi Maíz nació en Perú, pero se mudó a San Francisco a los cinco años.

Ella dijo que toma mucho orgullo en su cultura.

“Siempre soy feliz de decir que soy de Perú”, dijo Maíz. “A veces hay gente que ni sabe dónde está el país y me molesta un poco, pero me da la oportunidad de explicarles más”.

Antes de mudarse a SDSU, Maíz pensaba que perdería ciertas costumbres de sus cultura.

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“Me da risa porque antes cuando vivía con mis padres, todo se comía con arroz y yo pensaba que ya casi no lo comería cuando me fuera al colegio”, dijo Maíz. “Pero todavía tengo esa costumbre, todavía como arroz todos los días”.

Los EE.UU, como muchos países en el mundo, tiene una diversidad muy grande con gente de todas partes y diferentes culturas.

Muchos de ellos como Saravia y Maíz, tratan de preservar sus cultura para conectarse más al país y para que la siguiente generación reconozcan sus raíces.

Aunque en muchos casos no puedan estar allí físicamente, ellos siempre tendrán a su país en la piel.

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Tijuana la ciudad que debes visitar

Arte que se encuentra en el Pasaje Rodríguez. foto de geoffrey angelo cabrera

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Cabrera ha viajado a Tijuana por diversión pero también porque tomó una clase ofrecida por el Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos llamada Cultura y Sociedad de Tijuana.

Su lugar favorito para comer es Mamut Brewery en Avenida Revolución.

Cabrera dijo que hacen pizza hecha en un horno de ladrillo que tiene un sabor deliciosa y cuentan con una grande selección de cerveza, vino y tequila.

“El ambiente me recordó a muchas de las cantinas que tenemos en North Park aquí en San Diego”, dijo Cabrera.

El dijo que aprendió que antes de los escándalos de los carteles, Tijuana era una destino muy importante para turistas.

“Me encantaría ver que la ciudad vuelva a ese punto y se que los dueños de negocios de ahí están trabajando duro para llegar a eso”, dijo Cabrera.

Kiera Jackson, estudiante de diseño interiores, ha visitado la ciudad dos veces pero ella siempre come en un lugar que no es como un restaurante común.

Es un carro.

El señor que maneja el carro se estaciona enfrente de Coko Bongo un club que le gusta a ella, dijo Jackson.

“El hombre del carrito corta la carne del espetón con un machete y la pone en tortillas hechas a mano”, dijo Jackson. “Se ve tan delicioso y auténtico”.

Ella dijo que le gusta que los tacos son baratos y sus favoritos son los de adobada.

Jackson dijo que le gusta mucho la ciudad de Tijuana porque la gente que vive allí son muy amigables y siempre hay un taxi cercano lo cual hace viajar en esa ciudad bastante fácil.

“Yo creo que la autenticidad en la experiencia de ver la carne cortada del espetón es algo que definitivamente no ves todos los días en un restaurante de tacos en California”, dijo Jackson. “Yo creo que cosas así son lo que atrae la gente a la ciudad”.

Marissa Aguirre, estudiante de música en SDSU, ha viajado a Tijuana porque quería conocer la vida de la ciudad fronteriza. Ella se sentía cómoda porque iba acompañada con amigo que hablaban español ya que ella solamente habla inglés.

La primera vez que ella fue a Tijuana

ella dijo que estaba emocionada pero nerviosa porque era nunca había cruzando la frontera.

“La gente estaba bailando y cantando en español”, dijo Aguirre.

“Era algo muy auténtico y me encanto ser parte de la cultura”.

Aguirre dijo que después llegaron a un cuchitril donde compraron tacos.

“Nunca había visto algo como eso”, dijo Aguirre. “Estaba tan pequeño pero tenía algo único que me encanto y los tacos estaban deliciosos”.

La estudiante Melissa Moreno-García va a Tijuana para visitar a su familia y por interés propio.

“Me encanta Tijuana”, dijo MorenoGarcía. “Es un lujo poder ir a visitar la ciudad tan cercas de casa”.

Arte encontrada en Tijuana. foto de geoffrey angelo cabrera

JAN. 25 - 31, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

SPORTS 9

Football sees development pay off

Former Aztec cornerback Damontae Kazee continues his back pedal against a San Jose State wide receiver.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

AUSTIN GAYLE ASST. SPORTS EDITOR ____________________________________ San Diego State football’s senior running back Donnel Pumphrey may have played his last down for the Aztecs, but he is set to wear his scarlet and black helmet one last time in the 2017 Reese’s Senior Bowl.

No. 19 capped off an astounding

career at SDSU with a historic senior year, rushing for 2,133 yards and 17 touchdowns to surpass former Wisconsin back Ron Dayne as the NCAA’s all-time career rushing yards leader.

Pumphrey, however, still falls short of the mark when compared to top running back prospects entering the 2017 NFL draft.

Listed at 5-foot-9, 180 pounds,

Another one for SDSU

An Aztec swimmer participates in a butterfly race against University of San Diego.

KRISTIAN CARREON, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

JOSEPH FARIA STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ In the final dual meet of the 2016-17 season, San Diego State swimming and diving claimed victory over rivals University of San Diego on Friday with a score of 215-82.

Despite the stormy weather, SDSU found a way to improve to 8-0 on the season’s campaign. The Aztecs won 12 of the 14 swimming events and swept both diving competitions.

Freshman McKenna Meyer led the way with three individual race wins.

She captured the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:24.54), 100-yard freestyle (53.23) and 200-yard individual medley (2:10.26).

Fellow freshmen Caitlin Delany and junior Frida Berggren each won two races. Delany was victorious in the 100yard breaststroke (1:06.03) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:22.83), while Berggren took the 200-yard freestyle (1:53.70) and 500-yard freestyle (5:07.42).

Additional racers who were successful included freshman Alma Thormalm and seniors Kate Santilena and McKenna Garfein.

SDSU’s relay winning teams came in the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle.

The quartet of Thormalm, freshman Morganne McKennan and juniors Alexa Clayfield and Summer Harrison took the medley with a time of 1:48.42.

Thormalm, Harrison, Berggren and freshman Peyton Wilson turned in a mark of 3:35.42 in the freestyle relay. As for diving, junior Alexandra Caplan finished first in the 1-meter board with a score of 296.62 and the 3-meter board with a score of 318.60. Her scores went toward the NCAA Zone qualifiers.

SDSU diving will be back in action this upcoming weekend in the Air Force Invitational on Jan. 27 and 28 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Swimming will practice and prepare for the Mountain West Championships scheduled for Feb. 15-18 in College Station, Texas.

Pumphrey lacks the size necessary to be an every-down-back at the next level. With that, his ceiling is limited to that of a third-down back used within a committee.

Currently projected as a high-end Day 3 selection, Pumphrey will have opportunities to raise his current draft stock in the presence of NFL scouts both during the Senior Bowl and in the week of practice prior to the big game.

SDSU’s senior guard Nico Siragusa and cornerback Damontae Kazee will have similar opportunities, as both Aztecs will join Pumphrey on the South team in the Senior Bowl.

Siragusa, a two-time All-Mountain West selection, is expected to be the first Aztec off the board in the 2017 NFL draft, as he is highly regarded for his ability to dominate in the trenches both when run blocking and in pass protection.

Both CBS Sports and Bleacher Report’s NFL Draft Lead Writer Matt Miller rank Siragusa among the top-10 guard prospects in the country.

Kazee, on other hand, hasn’t received the same respect from draft analysts around the league, but he too could join an NFL team before Pumphrey.

At face value, Kazee’s production and accolades earned during his time at SDSU should draw in a surplus of interest from NFL scouts.

Kazee led the Aztecs with 15 interceptions and 15 passes defensed en route to earning MW Defensive

Player of the Year honors in each of his last two seasons with SDSU. Like Pumphrey, Kazee (5’11”, 190 pounds) lacks ideal NFL size to warrant a high Day 2 selection, but he mirrors the ball-hawking ability and instincts of some of the best prospects at the cornerback position.

Look for the trio to make efforts toward climbing up teams’ draft boards with strong performances in the Senior Bowl on Jan. 28.

EAST-WEST SHRINE BOWL Former SDSU linebacker Calvin Munson participated in the East-West Shrine Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. Munson finished the game with two solo tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery in the waning minutes of the game to secure the West’s victory, 10-3.

CBS Sports has the 6-foot-1, 245 pound, linebacker listed as No. 20 among outside linebackers.

NFLPA COLLEGIATE BOWL While his teammates participate in their respective bowl games, former tight end Daniel Brunskill was sidelined due to an illness for the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.

The game took place in the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., which will house the Los Angeles Chargers for the upcoming season.

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Investors propose to buy the “Q”

The renderings of the joint-use stadium FS Investors proposed on Jan. 23 to be built on the current Qualcomm Stadium site.

Courtesy of FS Investors

Anthony Reclusado Sports Editor ____________________________________ Less than two weeks after the Chargers bolted for Los Angeles and left its cotenant in a state of uncertainty, a private investor group released plans on Jan. 23 for a joint-use stadium for San Diego State football and an MLS franchise.

FS Investors, which has offices in La Jolla and San Mateo, proposed a $1 billion redevelopment of the 166-acre Qualcomm Stadium site. The 10-figure price tag includes a 20,000 to 30,000 seat stadium which would house the Aztecs.

The cost of the new stadium has

been estimated at $200 million, with FS Investors and SDSU splitting the construction cost. SDSU’s contribution will derive from the revenue from the stadium. The investor group would eventually donate their half to the university.

Currently, SDSU’s lease with Qualcomm Stadium ends in 2018.

SDSU and FS Investors have been in discussions for a few months, SDSU spokeswoman Gina Jacobs said. The two sides have conferenced for various stadium drafts, however, the school received the most recent proposal when it was publicly released on Monday.

“We’re doing our due diligence for San

Diego State University in the long term,” Jacobs said on reviewing the stadium proposal.

Included in the redevelopment project are proposed student housing and offices for SDSU, but whether the university would pay for any construction costs has yet to be determined.

FS Investors, led by Michael Stone, plan to apply for an MLS expansion franchise by the Jan. 31 deadline. The investing group, which includes Padres lead investor Peter Seidler and former Qualcomm president Steve Altman, has exclusive negotiating rights with the MLS. The stadium, and the general $1 billion proposal, will also not require taxpayer

money, as Measure C and D on last November’s ballot did require.

“This is an exciting concept that could welcome Major League Soccer to San Diego without public subsidy, provide a home for Aztecs football and create a long-awaited river park,” San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said. “I look forward to seeing the final plan.”

The proposal also allocates 15 acres for an NFL stadium to be built if Dean Spanos, or another city’s team, decides to relocate to San Diego.

The site would also encompass an entertainment district, including restaurants, shopping center and music venues.

Jan. 25 - 31, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: anthony reclusado • sports@thedailyaztec.com

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Long agrees to SDSU through 2021

Head coach Rocky Long watches as his offense takes the field against UC Berkeley.

Kelly Smiley, Photo Editor

Brendan Price Staff columnist ____________________________________ The ink has dried, and San Diego State has a head football coach into the next decade.

Football’s head coach Rocky Long received a five-year extension running through the 2021 season, as announced by SDSU Athletics Director John David Wicker on Thursday Jan. 19.

With SDSU’s football program seeking market dominance in wake of the San Diego Chargers’ departure, Long’s extension is nothing short of a fantastic move for the Aztecs.

The timing of the announcement suggests the Aztecs are well aware of a newfound market deficiency that works in their favor: SDSU now boasts the only football team in town.

Purely from a football lens, it’s hard to argue with the rationale, as the Aztecs are a winning program with an upward trajectory.

SDSU finished the 2016 season ranked in the Associated Press’ final Top 25 poll for the first time in 39 years.

Additionally, the Aztecs have now capped off back-to-back double-digit winning seasons with Mountain West Championships and bowl victories.

Because of their recent efforts, the Aztecs have the best MW conference record in the last five year, 32-8.

Long, of course, has served as the common denominator beneath the Aztecs’ success.

Under Long’s tutelage, SDSU has developed a brand of football to market to recruits and talented players with national recognition that can expand their recruiting pool. In doing so, the Aztecs’ schedule gets better each year, with games against Stanford University, UCLA and Arizona State University on the books. It’s a dual signal to the community: football still exists and this program is determined to be successful.

Timing is everything. This contract extension in this atmosphere is masterful. Exactly a week after the town pariah took his football team north, the Aztecs counter the move by announcing their commitment to winning in San Diego.

The Aztecs are the only football team the San Diego market has left. SDSU has already reached out to Charger fans and the potential fan base growth could be a game-changer.

The team averaged more than 37,000 per game in attendance last year, the highest in 20 years. Add on the thousands of people that were committing their money to the now departed Chargers, and it’s a tantalizing prospect.

Arguably, they are a better product.

They win, they’re fun to watch, and

they have players that are recognized as the best in their conference and others in the country.

Economically, a family of four could afford Aztec season tickets, instead of spending that same amount on one Chargers game.

However, at its core, the extension has a deeper significance: addressing the murky future of the Qualcomm Stadium site.

An initiative to redevelop the area was rejected last November, and SDSU can no longer pursue a joint venture with the now Los Angeles Chargers.

The rejections weren’t a declaration of antipathy for a new stadium, but rather a declaration of anger at Spanos’ handling of Measure C. With the Chargers gone, the Aztecs will now be the recipient of the advertising and premium seat licensing (PSL) revenue that the Chargers held a vice grip on as the primary tenant.

Already, speculation runs rampant about the university trying to fundraise an excess of $100 million to contribute towards a new, smaller venue at the Mission Valley site.

There are also rumors of a potential combination project between SDSU and trying to bring a long-debated MLS franchise to the city. These coupled with the ongoing emergence of the contentious, one-sided attempt

by SDSU to jointly upgrade Qualcomm Stadium paint a picture of a school wanting to find a home for their football team.

Regardless of what does happen, the Long extension underlines the athletic department and university’s commitment to winning and lend traction to the argument for a stadium redevelopment when the time comes.

Theoretically, it’s much easier for voters to placate city tax dollars for a sports stadium when the team/ project comes with a winning history, tangible new revenue and a willingness to match or exceed any taxpayer involvement.

Already, Wicker has stated that a new stadium is the priority for the Aztecs. It remains to be seen what the timetable will be, but the school’s lease doesn’t expire until 2019.

The athletic department has roughly 18 months before they have to hard commit to a new or upgraded stadium at the Qualcomm site. It’s 18 months to win over fans, iron out proposals and solicit funds from university donors and community members.

The end game begins with small overtures: Reaching out to Chargers fans, publicly grilling the team’s commitment to a proposed joint upgrade at the Q, and for now, reminding San Diegans they kept the winning football team.

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Jan. 25 - 31, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: anthony reclusado • sports@thedailyaztec.com

Aztecs in middle of wild, wild West

Junior guard Trey Kell throws down a break away dunk against Arizona State University.

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Anthony Reclusado Sports editor ____________________________________ San Diego State men’s basketball’s resume took another shot Tuesday night as they fell to Air Force Academy, 60-57, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

After an 8-7 start to the season, including a three-game losing streak to start Mountain West play, the Aztecs roller coaster season appeared to plateau. SDSU rattled off three-straight victories with a 13-point victory against UNLV on the road, its first of the year.

However, with the loss to the

Falcons, SDSU has resumed its turbulent season with a 3-4 in conference play. In the loss, junior forward Malik Pope hurt his neck after diving for a loose ball in the second half. He required medical assistance and was taken to the locker room in a neck brace.

Pope later returned to the bench, but didn’t reenter the game. The 6-foot10 forward has already missed nine games on the season, including a sixgame stretch which ended on Jan. 14 against Utah State.

His neck injury only comes a day after Steve Fisher credited Pope’s abilities.

“He’s got an innate feel for how to play. He’s a very good passer and a very willing passer,” Fisher said. “He has the ability to be at the right place at the right time defensively without having to micromanage every move that he makes. So, it’s immensely important that we have him and keep him.”

With the potential loss of Pope for a couple of games, SDSU returns to the parity of the MW. The Falcons victory snapped and Aztec three-game winning streak. The Aztecs now are only one game ahead of last place San Jose State and Utah State, but only two games behind the University of Nevada, Reno and Boise State for first place.

Every team, aside from Fresno State,

has dropped a home conference game.

The Bulldogs, while without a home loss, have dropped two decisions against the Falcons and the Spartans.

The Wolf Pack, which only has conference losses to FSU, has four MW victories by an average of four points, but that doesn’t include a 25-point win against SJSU. The synopsis: it’s the wild, wild west.

While Pope’s injury played a factor in the loss to Air Force, the Aztecs’ deficiencies continued to plague them.

The Aztecs finished the game 8 of 29 from the 3-point line, but went 1 of 15 to finished the match. SDSU has taken at least 18 3-pointers in its seven MW matches at a 32.9 percent clip.

Sophomore guard Jeremy Hemsley, which was shooting 28.2 percent from the floor and 23.5 percent from deep in the previous four matches, went 3 of 12 and 1 of 7, respectively, against the Falcons.

While his running mate has recently struggled, junior guard Trey Kell continued to be consistent with 14 points on 42 percent shooting against the Falcons. He averaged 16 points on 53.3 percent shooting over the threegame winning streak.

Well the parity in the conference has hindered the Aztecs, among numerous injuries, it can also benefit Fisher’s squad who will have a two-game home stand against Colorado State and Wyoming.

Jan. 25 - 31, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: christine whitman • features@thedailyaztec.com

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Adding a little bit of ‘BLIIS’ to everyday life Kelly kerrigan Staff writer ____________________________________

Bliss by definition means to reach a state of perfect happiness, typically leading to oblivion of everything else that is unimportant.

The word bliss stuck with business administration and management freshman Harrison Barkman, leading him to create his own street wear clothing line.

BLIIS is a clothing company featuring minimalistic, trendy clothes that are individually embroidered with two roses on them.

Currently, the clothing line is run offline and his products consist of t-shirts and hats, but he said he is looking to expand in the future. “(BLIIS) encompasses our attitudes toward living to be solely focused on simple happiness,” Barkman said.

Barkman was born and raised in London until he was two-years-old, when he moved to Singapore, where he spent most of his life.

In high school, he decided to take a large risk by moving to Florida.

Having to live on his own and take care of himself is what made him start to care about the way he dressed.

Barkman dedicated most of his time to playing rugby and golf, which lead him to continue playing rugby here at San Diego State.

He said that moving to San Diego is one of the best choices he has made

and he loves the lifestyle he now lives in California compared to Florida.

Barkman and a few of his friends started the brand in August 2016.

Within six months their dreams were quickly becoming true.

“San Diego State has endless facilities and people that BLIIS can connect with,” Barkman said. “The school is also such a hub for street wear, it is all around campus so I am hoping BLIIS can evolve and expand here in this area.”

Barkman said he intends to offer clothing that is casual yet unique to wearers.

Since Barkman started his own company, he said he never has to worry about online shopping again.

“I’ve always been annoyed when I look for clothes and either sizes have run out or they don’t have exactly what I want or hoped for or the fit wasn’t quite right,” he said.

Pieces from the line include dark blue “dad hats,” black and white striped BLIIS logo shirts and a variety of other shirts, all with the two embroidered roses.

“The goal of the line is to create a positive feeling or vibe someone experiences when wearing one of our items,” he said.

The clothing line is just one way Barkman said he expresses himself.

The line helps encompass his creativity and positive outlook on life that he wants his shoppers to promote as well.

Business administration and management freshman Harrison Barkman (right) poses with his younger brother. courtesy of harrison barkman

“Most people get so involved with ‘doing life right’ that they forget the most important thing, which is ‘happiness,” he said. “At the end of the day, people should have some BLIIS in their lives. It is a meaning and name we hold close to our hearts as it encompasses our attitudes towards life, work and play. Happiness is BLIIS.” The young entrepreneur said he wants to live his life in a way that he is always happy, not sitting down all day working a nine-to-five desk job, but being able to use his creativity to

influence the world.

The clothing line is currently aimed at male shoppers, with hopes of future expansion.

“BLIIS has created clothing that brings the highest of fashion while keeping a subtle attitude to it, so you can stay stylish with minimal effort,” business freshman Colin Kruger said.

In the future, Barkman said he hopes to create a women’s line, although the clothing could already be seen as unisex.

The line will be open to the public in less than two weeks.

‘Nasty women’ uniting through art exhibits Julianna Ress senior staff writer ____________________________________ On Saturday, Jan. 21 the Nasty Women Art Exhibition opened in Helmuth Projects, San Diego in solidarity with the Nasty Women Exhibition in New York City that took place from Jan. 12-15.

The Nasty Women Art Exhibition is a feminist event, with its mission statement supporting the rights of all women, including abortion rights and the rights of women of color.

Sister events like the San Diego exhibition are taking place not only nationwide, but around the world.

Those involved with the exhibition asked anyone who identifies as a “nasty woman,” referring to President Donald Trump’s name-calling of Hillary Clinton in the third presidential debate back in October, to submit their artwork to be sold to benefit an organization of their choice.

Volunteer Kara West said the words and actions of President Trump inspired the creation of the exhibition. “(Our goal is to) stand in solidarity and do a show of so-called ‘nasty women’ and reappropriate that negative image of a bossy person into a positive, empowering thing,” she said. “Ultimately what we wanted to do with the show was to get proceeds that we could use to help support organizations whose work is maybe threatened by the new administration.”

The exhibition itself features various mediums, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and jewelry, as well as an interactive section encouraging children to create art.

Artists could choose for their work’s proceeds to go to either Planned Parenthood, the San Diego LGBT

Community Center or the La Maestra Community Health Center, with the vast majority selecting Planned Parenthood. “(Planned Parenthood) just got defunded, and I think everybody involved has grown up being helped by them,” Josh Pavlick, director of the exhibition, said.

Pavlick said the exhibition team originally gave artists the option to keep a percentage of their works’ profits, but none of the participants opted to do so.

Computer science freshman Samantha Kaczmarczyk supports the Nasty Women Art Exhibition and is empowered by the mission behind it.

“I love that women aren’t backing down just because we have a president that’s openly against Planned Parenthood and abortions,” she said. “I personally believe the government shouldn’t have a say over a woman’s body and the fact that women all over America aren’t letting this go and are taking this very seriously makes it so inspiring and impactful.”

The exhibition team received 190 submissions, and sold 160 pieces on opening night, raising $14,000 on the first day alone.

West said the opening night profits came from a bake sale, selling buttons, posters and tote bags as well as art pieces.

As a result, she found that those who were not necessarily artists could help the cause utilizing any skills they have.

“After the election a lot of us wondered what we can do besides just being Facebook activists,” West said. “We realized that whether we were artists or curators or any of the different people that made up our team, we had a skill set that we could bring to the table and we could do something with it. It’s a stressful time and it’s really easy to feel hopeless, but think about what you’re good at and think how you can use those skills in order to

Helmuth Projects in San Diego hosted a Nasty Women Art Exhibition in solidarity with New York City. julianna ress, senior staff writer

keep change going.”

West believes that although Trump’s election is troubling and frightening to many people, it has also motivated those people to get involved politically in whatever way possible, and she hopes the enthusiasm continues.

“There’s definitely a sense of urgency, that we need to do something right now,” she said. “We’re really trying to find a way to figure out how to take the support and activism that we saw in creating this show and really sustain it.”

Pavlick said the art exhibition is a convenient way for artists to also be activists.

“People can show off their work here and it builds community,” he said. “It’s doing something we do anyway but for a cause.”

West said that women’s rights activists have already reclaimed the term “nasty woman” and hopes their definition becomes widespread.

“I think (‘nasty woman’) already means somebody that is willing to speak her mind and stand up for what she believes in,” she said. “I think we’ve already taken over that and reappropriated what was meant to be a very negative thing and made it a very positive thing.”

Pavlick sees more events like the Nasty Women Art Exhibition in the future.

“Between the (women’s march) and stuff like this (exhibition), we don’t want this to be just this really empowering one-day thing,” he said. “I think this (exhibition) is the kind of thing we could do again.”

The exhibition’s closing reception will take place on Saturday, Jan. 28, and will include a DJ and a postcard writing exercise, as well as more art pieces and merchandise to purchase.

More information on the Nasty Women Art Exhibition can be found on its website as well as its Facebook and Instagram pages.

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Clinic supports student learning The Adaptive Fitness Clinic began in 1983, pairing students with the community members cami buckman senior staff writer ____________________________________ Peterson Gym is a place to watch volleyball games, attend large lecture classes or stare at while waiting in line for a BCB coffee.

However for many students involved in the Exercise and Nutritional Sciences department, Peterson Gym is home to perhaps one of their most interactive and unique classes.

Tucked in the corner of this large building lies the San Diego State Adaptive Fitness Clinic.

The fitness clinic is a communitybased non-profit program that serves individuals with minor to severe physical, developmental and neuromuscular disabilities.

Individuals range from two to 97 years old.

It is a learning environment for students to get actual hands-on experience working directly with clients who have long-term physical disabilities.

Essentially, the fitness clinic is a fully functioning rehabilitation center.

The clinic was founded more than 33 years ago.

According to its mission statement, the Adaptive Fitness Clinic prides itself on providing “safe and affordable access to fitness for people with disabilities, while demonstrating excellence in educational programs and community service.”

The program was developed with the goal of offering fitness assistance to individuals with physical and neuromuscular disabilities and training students majoring in prephysical therapy and fitness specialist emphasis.

Even though decades have passed, the clinic continues to follow the same morals set during its founding days.

Matthew Soto is the current program director of the fitness clinic.

He is a board registered kinesiotherapist and SDSU alumnus.

Soto is among the trained individuals who help to supervise and guide the students during the rehabilitation process.

He has clinical experience in therapeutic exercise, pain management, and rehabilitation of individuals living with physical disabilities.

“Our clients don’t come here for 12

weeks and then we say ‘see ya later,’” Soto said. “We have clients who have been here for over a decade, so they’re here for good and this is their gym where they can get stronger.”

Unlike other rehabilitation programs, the fitness clinic is designed exclusively for clients with long-term physical limitations.

Many of the clients have suffered from strokes or brain injuries, or are living with conditions like multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.

Unlike acute physical injuries, such as a broken bone or sprained ankle, clients with permanent disabilities need lifelong care.

clinic through one of their exercise and nutritional sciences classes.

However, Soto said that the clinic looks for any individuals with an interest in working with this underserved population.

The fitness clinic has taken in premed, dental and even high school students from throughout San Diego to work as interns and volunteers.

In most cases, one or two students are paired with a client and work directly with that individual. While they work on building the client’s physical strength, emotional relationships build between students and clients as well.

Courtesy of Adaptive fitness clinic

“It’s important that students can see just how underserved this population is and take that knowledge with them into their careers and lives after leaving this program,” Soto said.

The only other university with an adaptive fitness clinic program is Cal State Northridge.

Similar programs throughout the country are also limited.

Many SDSU kinesiology students are required to participate in the fitness

“It’s a cool thing, we’re pretty lucky to have it and our clients are lucky to have it too,” kinesiology senior Ashley Moylan said.

Moylan volunteered at the fitness clinic during her freshman year and took the class as a senior during the fall 2016 semester.

As an aspiring physical therapist, she said that having actual handson experience with clients as an undergrad is something that rarely occurs in other kinesiology programs.

Trained individuals supervise the clinic and are ready to assist the students and clients if needed.

The program provides a learning environment geared toward teaching students and rehabilitating clients.

“Obviously we are overseeing the students and educating them, but day-to-day I like to say the students are doing the heavy lifting because they are the ones actually working with the clients,” Soto said.

Students in the clinic are able to see how a particular client has progressed through the notes taken during previous sessions.

In Moylan’s case, her client had been with the fitness clinic for six years.

She was able to see how her client was in the past and use that knowledge to track the progress of the work she performed.

“As students, we are able to build on things ourselves and help is given when you need it,” Moylan said.

When compared to other

rehabilitation centers, the fitness clinic is incredibly affordable.

In a semester that is about 12 weeks long, the fitness clinic has approximately 26 sessions.

Each session is one hour and 15 minutes long.

If each session is broken down by cost, clients are paying anywhere from $8 to $16 a session.

“It can be challenging,” Soto said.

“Because of the nature and the model of this program, we want to charge a low fee that is accessible, long-term and doesn’t break the bank.”

The Adaptive Fitness Clinic is only partially supported by the university, making donations from the community crucial to keep the clinic running and fully operational.

Soto said that each client has a full session with the complete care and attention from the students.

There is never any passing around of clients and trainers from week to week, and the same faces are always seen.

Compared to other rehabilitation centers targeting this population of clients, genuine and affordable care is rare to find.

“Our outcomes are going to be just as good as anywhere else because us trained professionals are supervising the clinic and more importantly, the client is getting one-on-one treatment,” Soto said.

Soto said that the SDSU Fitness Clinic could charge three times what they charge and still have a conservative cost compared to what’s out there.

However, many clients come to the fitness clinic because they have exhausted their insurance options.

“It’s nice that we have something to provide them at a relatively low cost in comparison to paying for out-of-pocket physical therapy for the rest of their lives,” Moylan said.

Moylan explained that insurance coverage with long-term disabilities is a huge issue in health care.

Long-term disabled individuals often struggle with financial hardships because their physical therapy treatments are needed for far longer than their insurance provides.

“We want to be here and exist low cost, but we also want to be here for the long term because if we were to vanish, a lot of these clients would be worse off and have no where else to go,” Soto said.

The clinic currently serves 135 clients.

However because this type of therapy at a low cost is in high demand, the SDSU Adaptive Fitness Clinic has a wait list of 58 people who cannot get into the program because of space limitations.The population of individuals with long-term physical disabilities has grown, but instead of over-filling class sessions, the clinic continues to keep classes small so the one-on-one relationships will stay consistent.

“This type of program is in demand because people need it and because it’s an affordable program too,” Soto said. “People have to look at their wallets which is unfortunate, but it is a reality.”

While the number of clients has grown throughout the clinic’s existence, the amount of space has not.

Soto said that the clinic hopes to acquire more square footage in fall 2017 to accommodate the wait-listed individuals.

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La Vecindad serves tasty tacos daily Alex Noble Staff writer ____________________________________ La Vecindad, which translates to “The Neighborhood” in English serves excellent Mexico City-inspired cuisine with a friendly community vibe in the heart of Hillcrest.

Located on 5th Ave., the restaurant features many phrases on the wall, one of my favorite mantras “Tacos before Vatos,” always catches my eye.

Now that I’ve actually dined at La Vecindad, I can testify that these tacos are definitely better than any “vato” I know.

Anyone who dines at this restaurant will feel immediately at home. The staff is both warm and attentive, especially the owners, three brothers who are passionate about great food.

Despite its casual “order then sit” format, La Vecindad is a full restaurant with ample seating, including a bar as well as a small outdoor patio despite its deceiving exterior.

The colorful décor complete with hanging flags, orange high-chairs, tables signed by patrons, fun wall art consisting of movie posters and even games creates a lighthearted atmosphere perfect for both family and groups of friends.

The menu has many more options than the average taco shop.

Appetizers, which are priced between $6 and $14, include ceviche, longapapas, Mexican poke and more.

While there are also dishes such as quesadillas and chicken or steak bowls

made with rice, black beans, corn, bell peppers, seasoned onions, lettuce, crema fresca, queso fresco, tomato relish and guacamole, it’s all about the tacos here.

There are twelve different variations of tacos, including al pastor, chile relleno and campechano, each priced at $3.75.

Each taco is served with a homemade corn tortilla. La Vecindad also hosts daily specials, including flautas on Mondays, pambazos on Wednesdays, blackened fish tacos on Thursdays, sopes on Fridays and of course, Taco Tuesdays.

Daily specials range from $5 to $9. La Vecindad also serves sweet treats like flan, churros and ice cream, gelatina con yogurt and jicaleta for $5.

There is also an extensive beverage menu boasting a full bar with a multitude of beers and fun margaritas, if you are 21 or older.

Undeclared freshman Marissa Veis said she enjoyed the papa taco with a quesadilla during her visit to La Vecindad.

The papa taco is a crispy potato taco made with onions, lettuce, crema fresca and jack and cheddar cheese.

“I was surprised how much the taco tasted like French fries but I really liked it,” she said. “It also had a crispier shell, which I usually don’t like but this one tasted great and the quesadilla was good too.”

While I’ve rarely met a chips and guacamole combo that I didn’t like, La Vecindad’s is especially delicious.

The chips are warm and salty and

La Vecindad serves up tasty tacos and delicious deals in Hillcrest. alex noble, staff writer

the guacamole is simple yet fresh and there is nothing better than freshly made chips. Of course, no taco shop is complete without a full salsa bar.

I also loved the pollo asado tacos I ordered, which consist of tasty marinated chicken, tomato relish and a generous dollop of that superb guacamole.

Other popular options include the California Taco, which is made with seasoned steak, French fries, pico de gallo and jack and cheddar cheese and the Costa Azul, which is made with bacon-wrapped shrimp, sliced avocado,

chipotle aioli, red cabbage and queso fresco.

The prices are a little high for a taco shop, but the servings are generous and filling, so it seems that customers get their money’s worth.

Tacos are two for $5 on Taco Tuesdays, so I recommend taking advantage of those as well as the other daily specials.

La Vecindad is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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A peek into the campus archives Ahmad Dixon Staff wRiter ____________________________________

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s a history major, I have a decent amount of access to the San Diego State archives.

During my time in the archives, I have found several interesting documents and I have decided to reprint a few letters I’ve found.

I hope you find them as fascinating as I do.

Editor’s Note: The following may or may not be actual letters found in the on-campus archives reprinted for your amusement.

Dear Mrs. Stewart, I, with a heavy heart, must inform you that your husband will not be home in time for Christmas.

In fact he won’t be home for any holiday.

If you haven’t already deduced through context clues, your husband is dead.

Germans shot him. I take full responsibility for this tragedy, even though your husband was the one who insisted on wearing the red, white and blue uniform you made him instead of the standard issue green that the rest of us wear.

I find it odd that you would send him such a thing considering we are a Canadian regiment, but I digress.

I just want you to know that Mark will be dearly missed.

Not by me, but I assume by someone … probably you.

Maybe your children.

In the near future you will be receiving a letter Martin wrote before his untimely demise.

I have read the letter, because I read all the men’s mail and he declares his undying love for you and your children.

I had a good laugh reading it, as did our German prisoners of war.

Mort was apparently a lovely man.

I’ll truly miss having someone around to make my breakfast and shine my shoes.

I’ve read that war is a horrible tragedy, although I’m having a blast and I hope you can make it through this difficult time.

Remember there is always a bright side.

I mean … you’re single again.

Sincerely, Captain M. Hawkman P.S. We lost Moore’s body. You may come search for it yourself if you want.

I’m sure this whole war debacle will blow over any day now.

P.P.S Please send cigarettes and alcohol, any liquor will do but brandy is preferred.

Editor’s Note: End of letter one.

Dear Maryann, Things are going well in New Mexico, but I will admit I miss you and the kids.

Dr. Hollingsworth and the generals have made it extremely clear that the other physicists and I can’t discuss what we’re working on, but I’m certain you’ll get news of it soon enough.

DASNAPSHOTS

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Soon enough, there will be a vast amount of rumors about what we do here in the desert of New Mexico, on a closed military base.

I have not been making a lot of friends down here.

Everyone’s been avoiding me since one of my experiments allegedly gave half the assistants radiation poisoning.

I’m not sure what all the fuss is about, graduate students come a dime a dozen and if they didn’t want me to play with the uranium they shouldn’t have left it unattended.

It’s not like I was looking for the stuff either, someone had just left a clump of it on a table in the mess hall.

Poisoning is such a strong word too.

It's not like I did it on purpose.

All that happened was that a few people’s hair fell out and a few red spots appeared on their skin.

People are so concerned about their physical appearance these days.

Oh, the vanity.

My hairline has been receding since college but you don’t see me moaning or demanding medication.

Iodine is expensive! Our funding is precarious as is.

Anyway, I’ll try to be home by March but no promises.

I’ll also try to get a present for the kids but all that’s down here is classified material and irradiated sand.

Love You, Herman P.S. If the KGB calls, just hang up.

Editor’s Note: End of letter two.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, As you may have noticed, your son William, has not been home for the past several days.

Do not fret.

Your son is safe in the hands of the United States government.

You see we have reason to suspect that William, or Billy as you call him, is what we in the intelligence community call a “Communist.”

As you might know we must always be vigilant of those who seek to undermine our democracy and our American values.

That is why we have detained Billy and will only release him when we see fit.

You may be wondering how the red menace infiltrated your home and seduced your seemingly innocent son.

Well the problem lies in your son’s affinity for “rock n’ roll” albums and association with unsavory types at “local teenage hangout.”

This so called “rock n’ roll” music is a scourge which is indoctrinating many youths across the nation and is well received by Fidel Castro himself who holds many concerts in the middle of Havana at all hours of the night.

If your son is shown not to be an agent of the dreaded Soviet Union then expect him to be returned before the following school year.

If he is to shown to be a traitor … well … federal prison isn’t so bad, Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan.

Sincerely, Agent Mark Freedman

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School of Art + Design Director Kotaro Nakamura snapped this photo of the newest painting students contribute to during the semester.