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DRONES PREVENT DISASTERS A San Diego State group is creating new software to use drones to evaluate natural disasters damages.

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but they are working to tackle them with a two-step approach.

“The first is to come up with ways of visualizing the features that are obscured by shadow,” Storey said.

“We use information about the brightness and hue to distinguish the shadows, after which those portions of the image can be brightened for visibility or calculations can be made to estimate changes.”

But there is another obstacle that accompanies this method.

“The bizarre phenomenon that we are encountering is that the different materials within the shadows have not changed, but they respond differently to the shadowing effect,” he said. “So concrete versus asphalt would have a greater difference depending on whether it’s illuminated or not. That effect is really making it difficult to determine where actual changes have occurred because it shows up mathematically as a change.”

The researchers have two years to perfect their methodology before BAE Systems, a multinational defense, security and aerospace company build the software.

In the future, they hope to apply the software to roads, bridges and dams.

“These are just the formative steps,” Storey said. “We’re just setting up the footwork for what I think will be a part of a phase of development where software is able to identify features and changes in features on earth’s surface for many different applications … so it’s not so much about an end, as it is about making a contribution to the quality of scientific methods.”

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A team of San Diego State geology professors and graduate students is developing software to assess critical infrastructure damage within minutes of a natural disaster.

Since receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation in August, the researchers have been testing software methods to extract information from photos.

The proposed software would overlap photos from a bird’s eye view taken before the disaster and after.

The co-registration of these photos will highlight where change has occurred.

“After a disaster, emergency responders need to know what’s damaged and what’s functioning,” SDSU geography professor and the project’s principal investigator Douglas Stow said.

This is where the software would attempt to save the day.

Discovering damage in buildings that are critically needed in times of disaster, such as hospitals, is currently the project’s focus. In the event of a natural disaster, the infrastructure of these buildings may crack and collapse, causing secondary damage to the area. The researchers’ goal is to inform emergency responders about these hazards so that evacuations can be made.

“Hospitals are going to be key,” Stow said. “Say (the hospital) is damaged and people are trying to get out of it. You don’t want more people being brought to that hospital.”

Emanual Storey, an SDSU graduate

student involved in the project, believes this software will be most effective in the case of earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.

“Right now the government has contracts with companies to go out (to take photos) and if a disaster happens, they can give them a call,” Pete Coulter, one of the project’s staff researchers said. “Within 48 hours, they can deliver image mosaics of the area, but that’s 48 hours into it … but with this approach, you go out and check out just the critical infrastructure and get just the information within one, two, three hours or so.”

Unmanned aerial systems, commonly referred to as drones, help make this rapid response possible.

“With unmanned aerial systems, a small amount of information can be sent out wirelessly,” Coulter said. “As the plane is flying, it is letting people know that something is going on. If you get a lot of data, you’d have to land the plane and gather the data and try to transmit a lot of data.”

Drones require minimal ground for deployment, allowing them to land and take off in settings that larger or heavier planes could not.

Through testing, the researchers discovered optimal flight elevations as well as desirable camera types and settings that minimize the margin of error.

Unfortunately, there are still obstacles that need to be hurdled before the final product can be unveiled.

The researchers are still in the dark about some of the problems they face. Shadows have become an unexpectedly tumultuous obstacle,

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As the discussion of human rights and equality takes center stage, examining one’s privilege continues to remain a key aspect to the conversation. #PRIVILEGE

Dr. Antwanisha AlameenShavers, African-American Studies Assistant Professor, sat down with The Daily Aztec to discuss racial privilege as it exists today.

Daily aztec: What is the most interesting part of being an Africana Studies professor?

The most interesting part is that we are at a “PWI,”

a Predominantly White Institution. I’m in Africana Studies, but even though I’m at a “PWI,” most of my classes are still African American and I find that to be interesting because these classes are not just for African Americans. They are also to educate the whole population about our history, because our history is also American history.

DA: Do you see a lot of diversity in the classes being offered in the department as a whole?

My classes are mostly African American students, so I would like some more white students to come, because it would sort of mix it up and bring different types of people who need to hear this message. My classes don’t reflect the campus population, but that’s not the case with all Africana Studies classes.

DA: What do you think is the most misguided assumption made about Africana Studies?

I think students may feel that it’s “anti-white,” or that we’re against white people. In Africana Studies you’re going to talk about racism in some of your classes, because the

lives of African Americans have been characterized by race and racism. Through this, students may feel that it’s a direct attack on them, but it’s not. It’s an attack on white supremacy or the idea of white supremacy and ideas about whiteness, but not the actual white individual. da: As an expert in racial studies, would you say that privilege, as it pertains to all aspects of life, still exists today?

Yes. But, there are different types of privilege. But I don’t think we understand privilege.

I think it’s difficult, particularly in Africana Studies, to talk about white privilege with white students because they shut down. Unless you come into it with an open mind, most students will shut down, because they start to feel guilty.

DA: Why is it hard for people to admit that they might have privileges?

Because, if you admit to some privilege, then you’re admitting that there is some sort of disadvantage for other people, or that there’s not an even playing field. That work that you put in, you didn’t work as hard as someone else. It’s like

all of a sudden your work is not as valuable.

DA: What is still driving privilege?

I think that what keeps privilege around, is the fact that the foundation of this country has never been uprooted.

It’s never been dismantled.

Just because we have a black president does not mean that the agenda of the original founders has changed. If the agenda has always been to keep power in the hands of white elite men, and we still see that power is in the hands of white elite men, then we know that privilege, as we see it, will remain.

Q: Other than time and progress, what could put an end to privilege, if at all possible?

Education. This is the reason why I’m here. That’s just one avenue, it isn’t the only avenue, but it’s one — trying to educate young people. My hope is that if we can get to young people, like yourself, and really be able to break this down so you understand that this is wrong and understand how it impacts us all in a negative way, then we can work together to dismantle it and change it.

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hite racism has recently become a prominent topic in the United States — from white folks claiming the Obamacare tax on tanning beds is reverse-racism, to Arizona State University unveiling its new course , “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”

The controversial class has, once again, sparked debates over whether white racism is real and the role privilege plays when it

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comes to racial issues Racial in the U.S. PRIVILEGE However, this course is not an attack on white people, regardless of its growing misconception. A course like this is meant to raise awareness about the privilege white people are often unaware of.

Although white people have on occasion faced racial prejudices, it’s hard to accept they’ve experienced racism. This is not to say white people don’t experience hardships. It simply

emphasizes how racial privilege produces perks in society.

San Diego State University sociology professor, Jung Choi, explained the functionality of the ASU as “an attempt to delineate, carefully, the history of how terms like ‘blackness’ or ‘whiteness’ have been constructed” in society.

“I think the new course at ASU brings up an issue that many people are not comfortable talking about,” Choi said. “There is a massive inequality that exists in our country, in particular, racial inequality.”

A major problem addressed by

this ASU course is the reality that most white people would not be willing to admit to their privilege.

To admit to one’s own racial privilege is to admit to realities of this nation’s shortcomings in gearing toward a post-racial society.

Judging solely from society’s unwillingness to acknowledge the role privilege plays in everyday life, this is not a postracial society. This ASU course could help people understand the causes behind this racial divide, and possibly develop a new perspective on how race affects society.

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Letter to the editor: Gender privilege G ender is a social construct. Let me say this again, gender is a social construct. People are not born a gender — they are born into a society (e.g. the United States) and assigned a gender at birth (I am a mixed-race, queer, transgender, working class college student who was born in the United States, English is my first language, and I was assigned female at birth). In the United States, society is commonly ruled by a gender binary, male or female.

The gender binary is then reinforced through interactions with society e.g. “pink for girls” and “blue for boys.” The gender binary is a social construct that primarily privileges cisgender people. Cisgender basically means that you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. In the context of discussing gender and privilege it is essential to recognize that these are not just stand-alone issues. Class, able body, gender,

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sexuality, ethnicity etc. are

intersectional. For example, if you are a disabled queer person of color, your identities cannot be separated — they are affected and processed together.

So, pink and blue, girls and boys, sounds normal right?

Well that’s because the gender binary is “normative” or common in our society. The dominant gender is male — this is implemented from patriarchy (insert side eye). Patriarchy is a system constructed by society that allows for cisgender men to hold primary power and oppresses everyone else by maintaining its hierarchical power over other gender identities. This is demonstrated through various privileges such as higher pay for employment, creating and

enforcing laws, history, and also through accepting, allowing, encouraging, and even celebrating some behaviors such as misogyny, rape, sexual assault, harassment, violence, murder etc.

Privilege is also experienced through sexuality. In the United States, heteronormative concepts in the coupling of people to male and female, meaning heterosexuality is “normative” and reinforced with certain privileges such as tax laws, marriage, and employment and not making them accessible to the folks who do not identify within that common social construct, (even though laws are set in place to protect some of these topics).

Professor Esther Rothblum asked people who identified as heterosexual in her “Lesbian Lives and Cultures” course “when did you come out as straight?” This question is tangible because unless you “come out” (which can leave

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ne could argue that I’m the “token minority.”

I’m Japanese, part African-American and gay; three minorities which, historically, haven’t exactly been known for having the “easy life” here in the United States. There are prejudices I experience from the white heterosexual majority of society, as well as prejudices I experience within these respective communities — and yet, despite this, I believe I am privileged.

The concept of privilege, a popular topic of discussion with cop violence against black youths in America, has become conflated and polarized to being exclusively associated with race.

A recent vogue term for privilege, “White privilege,” describes a system of unearned racial privilege that white people have in a society that disadvantages people of color.

However, there’s an issue to conflating privilege to simply the social constructs of race. It fosters this incorrect idea that when one has racial privilege, they become bulletproof from discrimination. This constructs a misrepresentative social dichotomy of the blessed and the damned, in relation to privilege.

There exists a more nuanced perspective on privilege: intersectionality. The term acknowledges that privilege isn’t just limited to race; privilege exists in many different forms.

These privileges exist in the form of race, citizenship, economic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, physical attractiveness and even body type. While it’s popular belief

that heterosexual white males are the SOCIAL most privileged, PRIVILEGE intersectionality calls this concept into question.

Intersectionality of privileges introduces the idea that privilege affects everyone relatively.

Someone who is a white female and is physically handicapped will probably not experience the same discriminations an able-bodied black man would. The important fact to note is that both people have certain privileges over one another and both will experience discrimination, albeit in different ways.

“White privilege” is a small cog in a large machine that perpetrates oppression based on these factors.

Checking our privileges is knowing we all have a story that can’t be represented by just race. While we know that historically, it’s been always better to be white, discrimination exists in as many different forms as the different privileges we have.

Acknowledging and being aware we all hold different privileges, perhaps can lead to the end of this unjust system.

We may not all be privileged as others are, but we mustn’t let this discourage us. We have no right to the cards we believe we should have been dealt.

Through intersectionality it becomes evident individuals have different cards; different advantages and disadvantages.

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constructs of masculine and feminine. If someone does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth they run the very high risk of being rejected by society. Only one month into 2015 and already five reported transgender women of color have been murdered in the United States. Transgender women of color have the highest risk of contracting HIV, being imprisoned, raped, becoming homeless and murdered.

This is not because there is something wrong with their gender identity. This is because there is something wrong with a societal system that punishes people because they do not fit gender norms. Our society is not constructed to be inclusive; it is constructed to be easy for the majority and hard to survive for the minority.

- AT Furuya, member of SDSU’S Trans* Action and Advocacy Student Coalition Force

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someone homeless, rejected by family, friends and society, a target for and jobless among other things) identifying as Queer, bisexual, pansexual, polyamorous, asexual, lesbian, gay etc. (the list is very long and awesome) you are automatically assumed to be straight.

Lastly (but not least by any means), is the conversation about cisgender privilege.

Society has largely refused to acknowledge and respect transgender identities because it transgresses our heteronormative societal assumptions. When someone is assigned a gender at birth that individual is expected to follow normative gender behavior (back to the girls wear pink and boys wear blue example). Our society is trained to immediately categorize people they encounter as male or female based on their understanding of male and female appearance and behavior that is stirred by social

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Trends of white-washed resumes paying the bills Emmilly Nguyen Senior Staff Writer ____________________________________

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he idea that one’s name could keep him or her from a dream job isn’t easy to wrap your head around, but it is a prevalent form of modern-day privilege. Although difficult to comprehend, there is such thing as name discrimination.

Depending on various situations, certain ethic names, both forenames and surnames, can be considered advantageous or disadvantageous.

According to a study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, resumes with white names received one callback per ten resumes, while it took African American received one callback per 15 resumes.

Although racism is not as prevalent as it has been in the past, it still exists in all aspects of life. Subconsciously or even consciously, employers may use names as deciding factors even when different levels of qualifications are involved.

Companies have a right to uphold a particular image or brand, but this shouldn’t be fixed on something prejudiced. Unfortunately, more than 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, ethnic minorities are still discriminated for who they are, forcing many to whitewash their names in resumes.

A New York Times article, “Whitening’ the Resume,” reported

some applicants changing their ETHNIC names or choosing PRIVILEGE to not list certain colleges or organizations associated with the African American community in order heighten their chances of employment.

Personally, as an Asian American, gaining employment in many job markets would be fairly easy. The racial stereotype of Asians is one that exudes a caricature of a hardworking, intelligent, versatile expert in all things math, science and technology. While that may not all be true, many Asian Americans are perfectly fine with this stereotype.

These positive stereotypes have also become a form of privilege for many races. But taking advantage of a racial upper hand is what drives this postCivil-Rights racism.

Many people are aware of these happenings, including both employers and job seekers, but knowing about it is not enough. For those who have the privilege of a preferred name or race, it may be hard to want to rock the boat, but wouldn’t you rather get the job based on qualifications rather than something as superficial as your name?

Either this issue is addressed and dealt with — or it will continue to perpetuate racism and job discrimination against minorities who suffer from this form of systematic oppression.

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Gunn misfires out in Torrey Pines fog Rafael Avitabile Staff Writer _____________________________________ Former San Diego State Aztec Gunn Yang missed the weekend cut at the 2015 Farmers Insurance Open on Friday. Gunn was awarded a sponsor exemption for the tournament after winning the 2014 U.S. Amateur in August. It was his first event on the PGA Tour.

Although Yang was unable to advance to weekend play, there were many positives that came from his 36 holes at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla.

Yang opened the tournament with an even-par 72 on the 7,698-yard South Course. After a bogey on the long par-4 14th brought him to 3 over on the day, Yang parred 15 and reeled off three consecutive birdies on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes to get back to even par. The first-round scoring average on the South Course was 73.526.

Farmers Insurance Open competitors alternate between the North and South Courses on Thursday and Friday and, if they make the cut, stick to the South Course through the weekend. The South Course played host to the 2008 U.S. Open and will host the second major of the year again in 2021.

Yang teed off at the 10th hole of the easier

7,052-yard North Course on Friday, but was unable to move up the leaderboard.

Yang played the back nine to par with two bogeys and two birdies, but couldn’t get in the red on the front nine. Bogeys on the par-4 4th and 8th holes brought him to 2 over for the tournament, and Yang missed the 1-under weekend cut by three strokes.

“He looked the part,” SDSU head coach Ryan Donovan said. “I was very impressed by his finish on the South with birdies on 16,17 and 18.”

Yang was solid off of the tee with an average driving distance of 296.1 yards, about 10 yards further than the field average, and found the fairway on 53.57 of drivable holes. He also found greens in regulation at a 63.89-percent rate, and averaged 1.826 putts per green in regulation.

“It’s really tough,” Yang said during the week leading up to the tournament. “I’ve never played Torrey Pines in this kind of shape and I’ve never seen the rough this thick before.”

Yang plans to compete in six more PGA Tour events. His Amateur Championship victory earned him nods in The Masters, the U.S. Open, and the British Open at St. Andrews. The three regular Tour events on Yang’s schedule are the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the RBC Heritage Classic, and the Crowne Plaza Invitational.

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Aztecs ready to hit the links in Lakeside Cameron Salce Production Designer ____________________________________ Confidence is a key attribute to have in any aspect of life. In golf, when the game is more than primarily mental, confidence can make or break your game. If you step up to the tee envisioning yourself hitting a good golf shot, you have a better chance of doing so. But if you step up to the tee thinking about that chip you messed up on the last hole you’re most likely going to screw up.

If the Aztec men’s golf team is as confident as its assistant coach Evan Emerick is, it will have the right mental outlook for its upcoming tournament.

“Expectations are always high here at San Diego State,” Emerick said last week, “We expect to compete in every tournament we play in and be in position the last day to win.”

If the Aztecs take this attitude into their tournament at Barona Creek Golf Club in Lakeside this Monday, they should be in the hunt to win.

The field coming in to play on Feb. 9-10 is wide open. Headlined by SDSU, the Aztecs will play host to Bowling Green State University, Illinois State University, University of the Pacific, California State University, Sacramento, University of San Diego, University of San Francisco, Seattle University, South Dakota State University, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Riverside, University of California, Santa Barbra and University

of Texas at Arlington.

The tournament will consist of 54 holes of play — 36 holes will be played on Monday and the final 18 holes will be played on Tuesday.

In the past, the Barona Collegiate Cup has featured historically great golf programs, such as University of Southern California, University of Illinois, Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, and Texas Christian University. When the Aztecs hosted the tournament in 2012 all those schools competed and SDSU came out victorious. It’s a victory senior James Holley won’t soon forget.

“The last time we held this tournament was three years ago and we beat a good field including USC and TCU,” Holley said of his sophomore season.

One player that figures to play a major factor in leading the Aztecs to the peak of collegiate golf this week is senior Xander Schauffele. He has been the Aztec’s best player in fall play and played a major role becoming the leader on last year’s team.

But Emerick isn’t just relying on his upperclassmen to help carry the load this year — he’s got his sights set on some of the incoming freshman, too.

“Freshman P.J. Samiere I expect to play a big role for us this semester,” Emerick said of the Hawaii native. “He played every tournament in the fall and contributed a lot to the team.”

The Aztecs will have their work cut out for them if they seek to mirror their victorious ways from 2012. Both days are scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m.

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Aztec alumna stages Moxie return ryo miyauchi Asst. Entertainment Editor ____________________________ Things have yet to simmer down for actress Cashae Monya, a recent graduate of the San Diego State Child and Family Development program.

It’s still business as usual for the alumna as she returns on stage once again at the Moxie Theatre for the latest production, “Trouble in Mind,” playing now until Feb. 22.

Since her big break as a cast member of the high-profile, San Diego-bred production “Memphis” in 2008, Monya has acted in several shows at multiple San Diego theatres, including Cygnet Theatre and Moxie Theatre. Her recent hit shows in the past few years, such as 2013’s “The Bluest Eye” and last year’s “Crumbles from the Table of Joy,” have been at the Moxie. Both productions were directed by Moxie’s executive artistic director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, who also serves as the director of “Trouble in Mind.”

The latest Moxie show, “Trouble in Mind,” is a play about a rehearsal of a

Broadway play. Written in the 1950s, the story follows main character and AfricanAmerican actress Wiletta Mayer (Monique Gaffney), who finally has a chance to play a lead after being reserved to only stereotypical roles. But social norms and prejudices interfere with her and the rest of the members involved while they try to prepare for the show.

“It’s very interesting that this is something that was written more than 40 years ago, but these issues are still so, so relevant,” Monya said.

“Especially now with the Michael Brown situation, police brutality and Viola Davis calling Hollywood out for the lack of variety in roles of black women. I think it’s a really powerful story and something that needs to be discussed.”

Monya plays Millie Davis, one of the main actresses in the play within the story. Millie is seen compensating her low social capital as a black woman by adorning herself with expensive jewelry and luxury wear, Monya said. The character is also caught in conflict, expressing herself

very vocally about her dislike about the play, her casted role as a maid, and another white actress in the cast.

“She’s a lot of bark and very vocal,” Monya said. “At the end of the day, she needs her job in Broadway. And so she’s going to eventually play whatever role, no matter how racist or very typical to play, because she needs the money to buy the things that makes her feel she has personal worth.”

Monya relates the conflicts and struggles inside “Trouble in Mind” with a movie she recently watched, “Selma”, which covers similar themes and set in the same political era in America. But opposed to the outspoken personalities protesting and risking their lives on the front lines in “Selma,” Monya says Millie would be the one who rather stays put in order to survive.

“As a person of color, I tell myself would I be the type of person who would be on the front lines, marching and protesting, or would I be the type of person like, ‘you know what, I’m going to hold my tongue, hold my head down and try to survive?’” she said.

Cashae Monya plays a lead role in the Moxie Theatres latest ‘Troubl in Mind.’ courtesy of darren scott

“I think Millie would be more of the type that would grit her teeth in order to survive.”

What the two works hold in common, though, is an effort to start an important dialog about the societal struggles still going on today through the lens of the past.

“It’s an opportunity to discuss and think about how far we have come with racial divisions in America, California and San Diego,” Monya said. “And then think about what’s the next step.”

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Olive Oil Cafe now serves gluten-free options at its new restaurant in West Commons.

Alicia Chavez senior staff writer ___________________________________ San Diego State offers a variety of different restaurants, fit to satisfy any craving a student may desire. Among the many chain restaurants sits the one and only Olive Oil Cafe, a healthy eatery that continues to out-serve its competitors. After four years, the Olive Oil Cafe continues to prove to be successful and, recently, added a new menu for students.

Vanessa Karmo is the owner and

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head operator of the establishment, but she doesn’t do it all alone. She has an entire team behind her, all of whom are her family. Karmo works with her sister, father, cousin and brother, as well as a few others and together, they cater to every order.

When Karmo was little, she showed an admiration of food and love for cooking. One day, she kicked her mom out of the kitchen and took over. She started cooking and experimenting with different foods at a very young age. Karmo may not have graduated high school, but she always knew what

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she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

“I ended up leaving high school, which I do not recommend for anybody, and jumped right into college, took a few lame courses, then moved to Europe,” Karmo said.

Karmo jumped all over Europe studying different flavors and foods.

She learned that Europe has a Middle Eastern influence and vice versa, and is using that practice in her kitchen today. She considers her style of cooking as fusion food, and students aren’t complaining about it.

food, which is challenging for most chefs. However, Quintanilla and Karmo believe the hard work is worth the satisfaction of the customer. Within the first few weeks of operation, the glutenfree menu has proven to be a success.

The Olive Oil Cafe extended its menu and added sandwiches and desserts for their gluten-free guests. The need for a gluten-free menu developed from the students themselves asking for healthier food options on campus. The Olive Oil Cafe saw the opportunity to expand and ran with it.

Finding its niche In 2004, while Karmo was still in high school, her father was working for the Department of Defense. He ended up leaving to the Middle East, but before he left, he bought Karmo and her sister a healthy food store in Imperial Beach.

Karmo and her sister soon realized maintaining a store was a job easier said than done. In 2006, they decided to downsize and purchased a smaller unit in order to continue their business.

The Olive Oil Café was born inside as a restaurant within the store.

Not only were they selling organic food, but Karmo and her sister started cooking healthy food options using the same ingredients they sold in the store.

They ended up establishing a clientele of cancer and AIDS patients by catering to their rigid food restrictions.

“We started creating specialty desserts and food we learned growing up in the Middle East,” Karmo said.

“We grew up eating a Mediterranean diet, one of the best in the world.”

The Olive Oil Café was an overnight success for Karmo and eventually led her to the SDSU Farmers Market five years ago. She dedicated her Thursday afternoons to serving students and, with the help from just two other people, they caught SDSU’s attention.

“SDSU approached me about opening something on campus,” Karmo said. “When I first said yes, they wanted to be strictly vegetarian and I did it. We killed it. It wasn’t until recently that we added the meat and now we have the gluten- free menu.”

When guests become family For Karmo, she treats her business the same way she would treat a relationship. She believes that guests deserve the respect and attention she would normally give a partner or family member, which is exactly why the foundation of her restaurant was built on family values.

“It’s those little things that matter,” Karmo said. “It’s the little things that you do for people that make them want to come back.”

Since the Olive Oil Café introduced the gluten-free menu at the end of last semester, the café has now put two restaurants out of business: Taco Bell and Sushi Do. “At the end of the day, we’re not fast food, we’re real food and that matters,” Karmo said. “Places like Sushi Do and Taco Bell, it’s a job for them. For me, it’s my life.”

Karmo plans to continue treating her guests as she would her own family, not only with her service but also with her food. In addition, she also guaranteed an evolving menu.

“I had great exposure to this fabulous produce and as you grow and learn, you start to listen to what the food tells you,” Karmo said. “I know it sounds cheesy but it’s true.”

With popular food items such as the Atomic Grilled Cheese sandwich, Karmo hopes to continue surprising her guests with unique dishes and changing menu. However, regular guests know the secret menu is where Karmo shines. She enjoys making food for her guests to enjoy that is not an obvious choice.

Karmo has repeatedly expressed her love for every guest that comes to her restaurant, both new and returning.

She wants to continue going that extra mile for her guests.

“If we’re closed, I will turn everything back on for that one last student,” Karmo said. “I’m not going to ever send anyone away. If you don’t have any money that day, keep the sandwich and pay me later. No one else is going to do that.”

From healthy to healthier The gluten-free side of the restaurant is run and operated by Karmo’s sister, Frances Quintanilla, a self-taught pastry chef. She learned to cook delicious pastries, and learned do it gluten-free as well.

The difficulty of cooking gluten-free food is creating dishes from scratch and with no gluten, sugar, dairy or soy.

The real issue is cross-contamination.

Gluten-free food cannot be made or stored in the same place as regular

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FEB. 9 - 11, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ELPIN KESHISHZADEH • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

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Letter: How Greek Life saved me In response to a series of columns The Daily Aztec published last month regarding Greek Life, one student wrote a Letter to the Editor explaining her personal experiences with sexual assault. Because of the sensitive nature of the piece, we have withheld the name of the author at her request.

I was raped the summer before I moved to San Diego my freshman year. He was a year older than me and had just finished his first year of college, where he had rushed a fraternity. It happened in a car right outside of my house with my entire family inside. And when it was all over, I tried to convince myself that I wanted it, even though the whole time I had been saying “no” and had been begging him to stop. To this day, I still get uneasy in the backseats of cars.

The few people I told didn’t believe me, calling me a “whore” and a “liar.” The closest I came to reporting it was when he forced me to go Planned Parenthood to make sure I wasn’t pregnant, because he had raped me without a condom. And as they questioned me about who had hurt me, I just broke down, because I couldn't tell them that he was sitting in the next

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room.

For a long time, I generalized my blame to his fraternity with the rationale, “if they can recruit someone like him, then they all must be bad.” And I think that this is the same thought that many people at San Diego State and around the nation are thinking, as sexual assault has become a growing issue.

A member of a fraternity raped me; but SDSU’s Greek life saved me. I never expected to find my place in a sorority, but looking back on it now, it was the best decision I could have made.

It gave me a safe place to be myself and reminded me that my rapist didn’t define me. If I hadn’t joined Greek life, I wouldn’t be the woman I am today, which is why after five years of silence, I’ve chosen to share my story in hopes of defending it.

Taking away the Greek system would not eliminate sexual assault, because

IT GAVE ME A SAFE PLACE TO BE MYSELF AND REMINDED ME THAT MY RAPIST DIDN’T DEFINE ME. IF I HADN’T JOINED GREEK LIFE, I WOULDN’T BE THE WOMAN I AM TODAY.”

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the people perpetrating these crimes would still be here, only without letters. Fraternities don’t breed rapists, but sometimes, bad people get bids.

Recruitment isn’t perfect. It’s next to impossible to really get to know someone in a week, and it’s impossible to tell a person’s propensity for sexual assault just at a glance or from a couple conversations. There are also allegations of sexual assault against athletes across the nation, but getting rid of collegiate sports is never a serious consideration.

Even despite my past as a sexual assault victim, I am very comfortable being at fraternities. A fellow rape survivor and I had a conversation recently where we both agreed that we generally feel safer at fraternities than we do walking around campus at night or at house parties. For me, there’s one fraternity in particular where I know that if I ever needed anything, any one

of them would be there for me; so I am thankful that I didn’t let my rapist take the opportunity to get to know them away from me.

Greek life isn’t perfect and I’m not defending the actions of the people involved in the “Take Back the Night” incident or in the sexual assaults. But Greeks should be empowered to identify the individuals who are responsible for these occurrences without worry that by doing so, we may be endangering our entire community. People are entitled to their opinions about the Greek system, but in times like these, people are looking for someone to blame. I understand this mentality, because it used to be mine —but blaming an entire group for the actions of a few is the type groupthink that is truly detrimental, not Greek life.

- Anonymous, SDSU student

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Trivia Crack, meet reality christine whitman staff writer ____________________________________

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very month I feel like there’s a new hit iPhone or Android app that everyone refuses to quit talking about. An example of this month’s app is none other than Trivia Crack. If you haven’t heard of Trivia Crack, or have yet to download it, I am seriously wondering if you even attend San Diego State. But did you guys know there’s a real life Trivia Crack at 9 p.m. on Tuesday nights?

Woodstock’s Pizza on El Cajon Boulevard holds a trivia night every Tuesday for those who want to prove their knowledge to the real world. Each week, Woodstock’s trivia features four rounds, as well as a lightening round where players must text the answer to the announcer the fastest to win. Teams are first come, first served groups and each team must consist of less than six people. The first category of each game is picked by the winning team from the week before, giving them a serious advantage if they come back the week following their win. Every week the categories are different which keeps players constantly guessing.

Trivia nights at Woodstock’s are seriously no joke — there’s a lot of

yelling involved between college students about either the contents of the question, or the answer. When I attended last week, there were about eight teams all competing for first, second, or third place as the top three teams get some sort of prize. Prizes can consist of anything from discounts on food or beverages to small pint glasses.

The first category that week, which was picked by the team who won trivia night the previous week; was World of Warcraft. My team sat there in agony as the announcer listed off questions relating to that topic, none of which myself, nor my team knew anything about. The table next of us, consisting of four guys sharing a pitcher of beer, was super excited about the category — or their beer — as they seemed to know every answer. Somehow we ended up getting two of the questions right, and we were thoroughly amazed because none of us knew any information on the subject.

The next category — Winter Olympic ­ yielded slightly better sports — results but nothing to be too excited about. We ended answering about half of the questions correctly as one of my teammates was an ice-skater in her youth and knew what all the figure-skating jumps were called. Our team got the answer right during the

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lightening round, but another team was able to text that announcer faster so they received the points.

When the third category was named, I had never been so excited in my life about watching so much television as a child. The category was Spongebob Squarepants, and at that moment, I knew that I was destined to be at Woodstock’s that night. I am not ashamed to say that I got every answer right —except for the last one. For future reference, if you’re every in a lifeor-death trivia situation, the creator of Spongebob is Stephen Hillenburg.

I thought that nothing could bring my team off cloud nine after basically sweeping the last category, until the final trivia category was announced.

The final category was geography, which just happened to be everyone’s lowest score on Trivia Crack. Our team got half of the answers correct and received neither first, second, nor third place. But there is a silver lining to this story as the Woodstock trivia announcer let everyone who participated in the game that night grab a handful of candy from a box. We may have lost the game of trivia, but we did not leave empty-handed.

If you believe you have mastered Trivia Crack, then try the big leagues just down the street.

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HOROSCOPE happy Birthday (2/9/15) Partnership generates fortune this year.

Cement old bonds as new ones form.

Many hands make light work, especially with seemingly impossible, huge or entrenched goals. Miracles arise in collaboration. Income surges after 3/20.

Step into a new direction with research after 4/4. A shared financial opportunity arises after 10/13. Come together for community thriving. Share your heart.

HOW IT WORKS: 10 is good, 1 is bad.

Aries (March 21 - April 19) - Today is a 9 - Spend time with your crew today, close to home. Play with friends and family.

Take care of something you said you'd do. Check to be sure your message gets through. Keep it simple and to the point.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) - Today is a 9 - Do simple work now. Productivity reaps extra reward today. Focus on providing excellence. Short-term priorities hold your focus. Take one step at a time, with attention to detail.

Winning is fun, and possible. Do the homework.

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) - Today is an 8 - Studying and practicing something you love goes well today. Changes are apt to work out in your favor. Results are positive. Your discipline is impressive, too. Avoid a controversial topic. Play for a good cause.

Cancer (June 22 - July 22) - Today is a 7 - Take care of urgent matters first. Conditions seem unsettled. Don't overlook an important task. Let family help you streamline your routine.

Allow extra time for unexpected circumstances. Choose an astute partner.

Learn from a child.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) - Today is an 8 - You've got the gift of words today.

Use them with someone close to you.

Deepen friendships. Create better sales talk. Talk to your team, and listen.

Consult with a respected mentor.

Choose the message.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - Today is a 9 - Focus on immediate objectives, and rake in the dough. The situation could seem delicately balanced. Be careful not to stumble. Hold your head up. Never let them see you sweat. Put in the effort and profit.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is a 9 - You can get whatever you need. Be very careful now. Don't get cocky, or you could miss an opportunity. Go ahead and play the hero... someone appreciates the help. Enjoy a little friendly competition.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is a 7 - Recharge your batteries while you review the plan. Finesse the details.

Think things through to their logical consequences. Maintain some mystery.

Broaden your horizons and push boundaries. Prepare but don't go yet.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Today is an 8 - Talk to your friends for greatest impact today. Make and receive promises. Work together to handle a job that's coming due. Get social, either in person or online. Connect with your circles.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) - Today is an 8 - Take charge, but be nice about it. Assume authority, and schedule commitments rigorously. Delegate what you can. Use what you've got. Lively music sets the tone. Focus on one action at a time, and profit.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is an 8 - Explore a lesser-known part of your own backyard or neighborhood.

Discover new flavors and sensations.

Try on new ideas. It doesn't need to be expensive in time or money. Savor a short excursion. Learn new tricks.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) - Today is an 8 - Handle insurance or financial paperwork. Make repairs to valuable equipment. Save spare parts. Put on some good music and get into organizational productivity mode. Invite your partner to join in. Your relationship grows stronger with time.