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Feb. 20, 2013
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013
VOLUME 99, ISSUE 74
Anything is fair game for the Wu Tang Clan, whether it’s a Voltron reference, dialogue from kung-fu flicks or the pure existence of ODB.
SDSU professor uses music to connect, inspire spotlight Christian Benavides Staff Writer
It’s a common college misconception that faculty members are one-dimensional and hired to make students suffer through all-nighters. But that’s a false assumption, for there are many who have chosen to dedicate their time to aid the building of the future that each and every one of us have dreamt of reaching. One such person is lecturer Coral MacFarland-Thuet from the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
A different environment plus a language barrier could have been a recipe for disaster, but says she wasn’t phased by it.
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The Aztec Warrior cheers along with the student section during Tuesday’s game against the University of Wyoming.
basketball Ryan Schuler Sports Editor
Wednesday’s conference game against the University of Wyoming was about more than halting a twogame losing streak and trying to keep pace in the Mountain West Conference standings for the San
Diego State basketball team. The Aztecs wanted redemption. It was about showing the SDSU fans and critics that their nine-point first half against the Cowboys in Wyoming was a fluke; something that would never happen again. It took the Aztecs 7:11 minutes to surpass their first-half total from the last meeting between the two teams.
But surpassing the nine-point mark that has haunted the Aztecs since Jan. 19 was not enough; they wanted the win. And that’s exactly what they did, erasing any memory of the nine-point first half in the process. Down 7-6 early in the game, SDSU outscored Wyoming 31-6 in the rest of the first half to take the 37-13 lead going into halftime.
With the game in hand and the Aztecs in cruise control, the second half began as a back-and-forth battle, with both teams trading baskets. The Cowboys were able to lessen the gap to within 21 points to start the second half, but the lead quickly ballooned to 26 with 16:34 left in the game. BASKETBALL continued on page 4
SDSU is among top volunteering schools campus Stephanie Saccente Staff Writer
San Diego State is ranked No. 35 as a top volunteer producing school among universities with more than 15,000 undergraduates in the U.S., according to Peace Corps data. There are currently 36 SDSU graduates serving in the Peace Corps worldwide and a total
number of 1,114 Aztecs that have served. Peace Corps is a 27-month program that allows volunteers to live and work in a community overseas. Participants have the opportunity to work in many sector areas including education, youth and community development, health, business information and communication technology, agriculture and environment. SDSU graduates are presently volunteering in 28 countries internationally.
“Combined with the experience and education students are getting here, serving in the Peace Corps provides students with a global experience and job preparation for the 21st century. They get a broader perspective and come back more informed about the way the world works and are able to work more resourcefully; they are more culturally competent,” SDSU Peace Corps recruiter Amber Lung said. Having served in the Peace Corps
herself, Lung believes students that have served had a better advantage than students who haven’t had the experience abroad. Foods and nutrition junior Marissa Thiry believes students need to become familiar with different cultures and realize what’s going on in other parts of the world. Thiry is interested in possibly becoming involved with the Peace Corps in the future. VOLUNTEERS continued on page 2
MacFarland-Thuet was born in sunny San Diego but was raised in Tijuana, Mexico, until she was 11 years old. Regardless of the stereotypes, MacFarland-Thuet loves Tijuana for all it has and remembers being happy there, even through the ups and downs. “You really had to be in the moment and be present because life threw you curves right and left,” MacFarlandThuet said. “Sometimes there wasn’t any water and sometimes there wasn’t electricity. I mean, I lived in a nice neighborhood but there was a lot of spontaneity ... That’s what was difficult when I came to the U.S., that everything was so orderly and in its place. There were sidewalks. Not where I lived, I lived on a dirt hill.” Previously in Tijuana, MacFarland-Thuet attended a Catholic school separated by sex. A different environment plus a language barrier could have been a recipe for disaster, but she says she wasn’t phased by it. PROFESSOR continued on page 6