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CHELSEA BAER • A.S. presidential candidate • Journalism junior, Spanish minor • Originally from Ohio, grew up in Alpine, California
THE DAILY AZTEC: HOW ARE YOU INVOLVED ON CAMPUS? CHELSEA BAER: First and foremost, Professional Studies and Fine Arts College Council. With the council, I joined as a freshman actually … In the council I started out as a student-at-large member and then I ran for vice president of public affairs, and then I ran for executive vice president and that’s what led me to being the president (of the council). During my time there, in each position I’ve learned so much about the college and about the university as a whole. With that position, I’ve had the opportunity to serve on the Academic Affairs Board for Associated Students, and in that board I’ve gotten to meet all of the presidents from all the colleges, and it rings true that each college has it’s own
culture. It’s really great and I think that the college councils really need credit to be given for all of the hard work they do, because they are what really gives the university such enthusiasm and just such richness. Also, in PSFA I was involved with Professional Studies and Fine Arts Civil Core, and with the Civil Core that’s the college’s biggest service organization, so I’ve done a lot of community service with them. They do amazing projects and coordinate. They do a lot of reaching out in the community, but also reaching out within the college to make sure transfers and freshmen get a lot of help and guidance that they need — it’s really crucial that they stay on track. And other involvements: Kappa Delta sorority. I’m so honored and so lucky
to be part of Kappa Delta. It’s really a group of strong, intelligent, beautiful women on this campus. Last semester especially showed how strong they were (after two members died), and that gave me a look into how strong the Greek community is. All together, there was so much support during the hard times last semester and it’s continued. WHAT AREAS DOES SDSU NEED TO IMPROVE ON MOST? CB: I’d like to start off by saying I think our university has a great momentum and is growing right now on campus behind the ideas of improving communication and improving awareness on issues such as sexual assault and safety. Our three main topics that we want to focus on are—we’re reaching out to SDSU and we have it spelled out S-D-S-You,
because it’s reaching out to the individual — and the three areas would be your success, your safety and your legacy. So as far as success goes, each student needs to have better access to resources on campus because we have so many great resources. We have Career Services, we have Student Life and Leadership — which offers so many amenities and so many opportunities into the professional world — as well as Student Health Services for students’ well-being and a lot of the time it’s hard. It’s great that they’re there but it’s hard to connect the students, and that needs to be improved upon. There needs to be more communication there. Your safety: I would love to see continued educational programs like there has been this past semester. And your legacy: It’s really
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important to realize that in our time where — whether it’s two years, three years, four years, six years, whatever — that is a great and pivotal time in all of our lives and it’s a time that we can really make an impact and leave a strong legacy for other future incoming Aztecs to aspire to rise above even. So those are the three main things I would say our campus can continue to grow and learn from. IF ELECTED, WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH? CB: I hope to unite the campus more; I hope to bring everyone together. And I hope to empower people to share their voices, because there’s so many voices that maybe don’t get heard currently that could add so much to the campus conversation and the Aztec way of life.
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JEREMY ZAIDA • A.S. presidential candidate • Ecology and theatre design junior • Originally from Santa Barbara, California
THE DAILY AZTEC: HOW ARE YOU INVOLVED ON CAMPUS? JEREMY ZAIDA: I am an employee of Associated Students, since my freshman year, so I have an in-depth understanding of how the organization runs. I’m involved in the theatre department and help them do plays and shows every semester. I just helped finish some of the lights for the ALICE show that just opened this weekend. I’m also in the ecology major, so I’m helping out with a lot of the sustainability efforts around campus and research efforts around San Diego and even eventually, hopefully, Mexico. DA: IS THAT THROUGH A CLUB OR THE ECOLOGY DEPARTMENT? JZ: Through the department. DA: AND WHEN YOU SAY A.S. EMPLOYEE DO YOU MEAN—? JZ: I worked in the student union. I’m an operations lead — that’s my title. It’s setting up for events and meetings. DA: WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO RUN FOR A.S. PRESIDENT? JZ: I want to be able to make a
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difference on campus that lasts after I’m gone. I want to be able to make this school better for other people and make them be able to enjoy it just as much as I did, and hopefully leave something even better for those people to come after me. I thought president was a good position to do that because he has an ability to look over everything and have a vision of where he wants the school to go. I think that I would be able to do that position really well. DA: WHAT AREAS DOES SDSU NEED TO IMPROVE MOST ON? JZ: I think SDSU could do a lot better in becoming more of an affordable campus that is open to more groups of people. A lot of students here — we don’t really see it as much — but have issues affording tuition, housing, food even. And I think A.S. could have a very strong role in supporting those people and helping everybody get an equal education here. DA: IS THAT ONE OF THE AREAS IN YOUR PLATFORM? JZ: It will be. Lower fees and tuition — or not lower, but not any higher I guess. And making sure that
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there is financial aid and scholarship opportunities for anybody that needs it, especially in lower socio-economic classes.
around campus, we have recycling, and composting — I think we can add more to that and make this campus more of an example to everyone else.
DA: WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND SDSU STUDENTS MORE THAN OTHER CANDIDATES? JZ: I have friends from all different sections of student life, and I’m able to see different viewpoints from around campus, and I really love talking to people and seeing what they want. And I want to make A.S. a place that’s receptive to each individual student. So I want to be able to take their suggestions and actually put them to use.
DA: HOW WILL YOU GET PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF YOUR INNER CIRCLE TO SUPPORT YOU? JZ: I’m planning lots of good signs, pins and some funny videos coming your way. So hopefully I can appeal to a wider range of people. I’m going with the less serious and more, ‘I could be your friend. You should have somebody you like up in the top position.’ So I think that’s going to work out.
DA: IF ELECTED, WHAT DO YOU TO ACCOMPLISH? JZ: I also want to make this campus a greener campus — more sustainable. I think that fits in really well with who I am, as an ecology major and an outdoorsy, nature-y kind of guy. We already have a LEED Platinum Certified building for the student union and we’re building a LEED Gold Certified building, we have solar panels up
DA: WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO DO THAT? JZ: Because I think people have become less involved in A.S. Just looking at last year, there was 10 percent voter participation in the election. And my goal is really to just get every single student involved, and I know that not every student wants to get the dry ‘I will — Tuition.’ They want someone they can relate to and see and be friends with and talk to, and I feel I can be that person.
BLAIRE ANN WARD • A.S. presidential candidate • Communication junior, Management minor • Originally from Scotts Valley, California
THE DAILY AZTEC: HOW ARE YOU INVOLVED ON CAMPUS? BLAIRE WARD: Freshman year I was picked by the (executive) team of Associated Students to be a FLEX member — Freshman Leadership Experience team leader. There’s five of us. I was given the opportunity to shadow the executive officers and gain in-depth, extensive knowledge of SDSU. I went through a lot of programs and workshops to make sure I could strengthen all my leadership skills, whether that be public speaking or speech writing. Then that spring, I ran for College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts representative, and I won on election. My next sophomore year, I held that position out. I also joined the sorority Pi Beta Phi and became the executive communication officer and new member educator for that class. Then in my spring semester I joined Rotaract, the community service-based organization for service above self. So I was very involved freshman and sophomore year, and stayed very closely tied to Associated Students. So I joined a ton of boards and committees. I was given the opportunity to oversee the creation of the (student) union, so that was amazing on facilities board. I worked with Aztecs Rock Hunger and Rock the Vote on External Affairs Board. Then my junior year — going into my junior year — three campus issues had come about:
divestment and then the Success Fee, and then later on — more this year — was the mascot. So with those issues I started to realize students were very passionate and wanting to make sure that their voices were being heard by staff, faculty and administration. And it seems shocking to some people at first, but I ran for student diversity commission representative for my junior term. I ran with the idea that I came from a place that isn’t diverse. It’s very Caucasian, middle class families, and I came to SDSU and I had culture shock. And being in Associated Students made me realize that there are so many people different from myself and I had so much to learn. And as a student leader and Professional Studies and Fine Arts rep, I dove into those issues and I gained a lot of support from students and organizations that felt underrepresented. From there I became diversity representative, I was elected and this year we’ve had an amazing time as a commission — planning events, doing promotion for diversity. DA: IF ELECTED, WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH? BW: So, there are so many ideas that our team has, and we have a lot of initiatives that we want to plan. We have three main, broad and bold goals. The first is to support campus-wide communication, and the second is to strengthen the Aztec experience, and the third is to serve student success.
All of our initiatives lie under there. Personally, I really want to push for the Aztec Mentor Program and make sure that every single student has a mentor because that connection will allow them to grow and it will strengthen all ties and relationships with alumni. I mean, alumni engagement is huge — that’s more funding, more support for university, more Aztec pride. And, promoting student involvement — that’s huge. So supplemental surveys for students that point them in the direction of where they might be involved. And having social media lists, so students go, ‘Okay, I should go here, I should go there.’ Bigger pictures for the university: more security cameras, more campus lighting, and starting conversations about parking, because that is just something that every student has told me is huge. You’ll definitely hear more about that during the debates, each of us speaking on our own. We have four amazing auxiliaries on this campus: Research Foundation, Campanile Foundation, Associated Students and Aztec Shops. Making sure that we strengthen relationships with them so we maximize potential and all students get everything they want and more out of the Aztec experience. What we’re looking at is the strategic plan by Associated Students next year to makes sure that all of our goals are achieved, and a lot of work will be involved. At the end of the day, things get thrown out — for example, sexual assault, Success
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Fee, divestment. And you just want to make sure that you have leaders out there who have been in leadership roles, who have dove into those issues and who know what’s going on so they can have conversations with any student to represent them correctly. Our team is ready to leave a bold and fresh legacy in that regard.
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A.S. DEBATE RECAP: 3/10 & 3/11
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Candidates for four Associated Students executive positions debated at 12 p.m. on March 10 and March 11 at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union. The Daily Aztec gave candidates 1 minute for opening statements, answers and closing statements.
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3/10: VICE PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS DEBATE CANDIDATES: ANDREA BYRD, GARETH LINTT, JUNE KIM AND JOLLY MATEO June Kim said that she would use her position to impact SDSU by forming a bond among the university. “What I would bring for my position is to make the school feel more of a united front and bring every students’ ideas into play,” Kim said. Gareth Lintt said the implementation of the Student Success Fee was a big issue that SDSU students had to face on
campus in the past year. “I’ve heard a lot of complaints from San Diego State students about not getting the classes that they want, and I think that needs to change,” he said. In response to a question regarding her stance and plans to vote on divestment, Andrea Byrd acknowledged the complexity of the issue and suggested an approach to address it.
“When things like divestment hit my desk, it’s important for myself to be educated on the issue, and also that any person who is going to be voting on this is educated as well,” she said. “There have already been pushes for open forums that will be coming up in April, and I want to promote those.” Jolly Mateo suggested promoting student involvement in A.S. by working
with the college council of different colleges. “PSFA could be meeting with (College of) Arts & Letters or the College of Business (Administration) to create innovative ways to get involved in different things,” he said. “We can involve all the different colleges together and create different ways to make sure that everyone is being included.”
3/10: VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCIAL AFFAIRS DEBATE CANDIDATES: JASON PERETZ AND DOMINIC BILOTTI Dominic Bilotti said that the purpose of his role would be advocating for A.S. money to be used for all student organizations on campus. “We have a lot that is left over at the end of the semester that just goes into reserves,”
he said. “We don’t want that to happen. We want to make sure you are getting the funding that you deserve and that it’s not being wasted.” When asked about his feelings on the Student Success Fee controversy,
Jason Peretz explained it is important students know about how much money is in the fee, where the money goes and how to obtain the money for use within student organizations. “I’m going to implement a
strategy for students to know exactly those three things by having it on the A.S. student website, so that people can go there and use it as the main platform of communication of the executive officers,” he said.
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3/11: VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS DEBATE CANDIDATES: BRIAN OH, TYLER AGUILAR, CAMERON LYONS, CHRISTOPHER CZARNECKI, OSAMA ALKHAWAJA Cameron Lyons mentioned that despite bring a transfer from a community college, his involvement on three A.S. committees, as well as being a member of the Greek community, has prepared him for the position. He also said the best way to make students aware of on-campus resources was to go directly to the students themselves. “We will be coming around to the meetings of different organizations checking in to make sure we know what is going on and we will be doing that by coming to your meetings every month,” Lyons said. “My team will be doing
a ‘State of the Union’ address so that every student on this campus can attend and know what issues are on campus.” Christopher Czarnecki, said a ‘State of the Union’ address wouldn’t be the best way for the A.S. board to stay connected with students. Instead, he said updating students on social media platforms would be a more efficient tactic. “I think it’s important to pay attention to the channel that the students are plugging into,” Czarnecki said. “All of us are really busy, all of you are really busy and I think the most important way to communicate with students is through the
channel that some of you are looking at right now: your cell phones.” For Brian Oh, his own experience of getting involved on campus allowed him to be informed. “The best way for us as students to be more aware of all the resources on campus is simply just to make more friends and make more opportunities where more people can meet each other,” Oh said. Tyler Aguilar brought up his recent experience on the external relations committee to explain why he thinks he is the best candidate for the position.
“As far as campus issues go, as vice chair of the external relations board I’ve dealt a lot with sexual assault (issues), and as a Greek man as well I’ve had some hands-on experience with educating students about what sexual assault really is,” he said, “And one of the main things I was talking about with students a couple days ago was not a lot of people know exactly what Title IX is and what its role on this campus is, and I really want to use that to educate students to foster a safer environment for not just females but males as well.” Osama Alkhawaja was not present.
3/11: EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT DEBATE CANDIDATES: KYLE MURPHY, TREVOR YARNALL, LEO CARRILLO Kyle Murphy said transparency could start with involvement in A.S. government. “Specifically, I want to focus on recruiting for A.S., I think that’s when transparency starts — the more people that are involved, the more that people care and have a voice in A.S.,” Murphy said. “My goal is to collaborate with other student organizations to make sure that people are joining
A.S. from all underrepresented (organizations).” Trevor Yarnall continued the conversation on transparency. He said his team supports an open dialogue with students discussing A.S. matters as well as student concerns during a State of the University address. “My team feels that the key to transparency is communication,” he said. “One of the things we want to
implement is a ‘State of the University’ address to take place every month right here in the student union courtyard where any student is welcome to come out and voice their concerns, ask any questions they have, raise any opinions they want and we’ll be here to educate the students on what is happening at A.S.” For candidate Leo Carrillo, an issue on campus he would
like to resolve is the lack of knowledge students have towards on-campus resources and activities. “I think it all starts with getting to know the various opportunities at SDSU,” he said. “A lot of times students don’t feel like they are very engaged in the student body and that being among 33,000 students it’s very easy to get overwhelmed.”
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SDSU leaves Vegas empty-handed ANTHONY RECLUSADO STAFF WRITER _____________________________
a dogfight. We just missed that last shot.” SDSU had the ball for the final 42 seconds after New Mexico junior guard Bryce Owens hit Despite a see-saw season two free throws to put her team where the silence of defeat up 57-56. After freshman guard resonated louder than the McKynzie Fort missed her celebration of victory, the San jumper the ball made its way Diego State women’s basketball out of bounds off a New Mexico team entered the Mountain player. West Tournament Seconds after hungry for a WOMEN’S the inbound, championship. BASKETBALL sophomore guard Head coach Ariell Bostick was Stacie Terry and VS. fouled with 14 her Aztec squad seconds left, giving were hanging their NEW MEXICO SDSU the Aztecs one last hats on the ageattempt. old expression, Out of the Lobos’ “defense wins final timeout, championships.” redshirt-junior guard Ahjalee And in both of the matches Harvey drove baseline and against the University of Nevada, found Bostick in the corner for a Reno and the University of New 3, but her shot fell right into the Mexico, respectively, SDSU hands of Amarikwa who was not flashed championship-caliber able convert. defense. Defensively, the Aztecs were However, in the end it was a playing a game of Dr. Jekyll and combination of defensive and Mr. Hyde, as they titter-tottered offensive shortcomings that sent between playing top-flight the Aztecs, like so many before defense and being outmatched them, leaving Las Vegas emptyon the offensive glass. handed. SDSU held New Mexico squad With time winding down and to 22 points in the second half the defense crashing all around on 25-percent shooting — her, redshirt-junior forward 38-percent on the night — and Erimma Amarikwa’s putback rejected seven Lobo shots. failed to find the bottom of the But the Aztecs also allowed net, and the No. 2 seed Lobos the Lobos to corral 15 offensive defeated the No. 7 Aztecs 57-56 rebounds that resulted in 12 Tuesday night. second-chance points. “We gave ourselves a chance “I think the key was really the to win at the end against a very offensive rebounding,” Terry good team,” coach Terry said. said. “(The Lobos) did a great “That’s all that we were playing job on the glass in the second for. We knew it was going to be
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half and gave themselves second and third opportunities to score, which put a lot of pressure on our defense. We would play pretty good defense for 25 seconds, they get the (offensive) board, then we have to guard again.” Individually, Harvey had a team-high 16 points on 7-12 shooting and Amarikwa notched her 10th career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. This loss followed SDSU’s opening-round rout of No. 10 seed Nevada, 70-48, behind a staunch defensive effort in the second half. The Aztecs didn’t focus on
the 6-foot-8 senior center of Nevada, Mimi Mungedi, but instead looked to pressure the rest of the Wolf Pack and force one of them to step up and share the offensive burden with Mugendi. No one else did. SDSU allowed the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year to notch 23 points on 10of-13 shooting, but it completely caged the rest of the Wolf Pack. The Aztecs limited the rest of Nevada to 8-of-24 shooting, with no one eclipsing six points, and forced Nevada to only 20 second-half points and 24
turnovers on the game. Offensively, it was a group effort for the Aztecs that had Fort, Bostick, Harvey and Amarikwa tally double-figure scoring nights, all with 10 points. Terry was proud of her team’s shared offensive wealth. “We are a blue-collar team,” Terry said. “We don’t have a stand-out star and we do it by committee and I think we take pride in that.” The Aztecs finish their season with a 12-19 overall record and for the fourth consecutive year reached the second game of the conference tournament.
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Aztecs gear up to host the Red Raiders RYAN POSNER STAFF WRITER _____________________________ San Diego State’s baseball team is off to an unprecedented start to its season (14-3, 4-2) and it will put that hot start to the test this weekend as it welcomes Texas Tech University to Tony Gwyn Stadium. Texas Tech (11-4, 0-0 Big 12) is currently ranked No. 13 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers top 30 poll and made it to the NCAA College World Series last season. The Aztecs are ranked 28th in the same poll. “It’s going to be a great test for our program,” head coach Mark Martinez said. “It will be a good opportunity to see where we are at.” The team lost its first series of the season when it dropped two out of three to the University of New Mexico last weekend. However, the Aztecs bounced back strongly to defeat California State University, Long Beach 16-1 on Tuesday. “We swung the bats pretty well last Sunday and that kind of carried over to Tuesday,” Martinez said. “Hopefully we can continue to string together
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quality at bats. We just have to go out there and execute.” Putting together quality atbats will be important because the Red Raiders possess two front-line pitchers — sophomore left-handers Dylan Dusek and Ty Damron — who both were around for the team’s run to the College World Series last year. Both pitchers have ERAs below 2.70 and own a combined 4-1 record on the season. “(Texas Tech is) a complete
package team,” Martinez said. “On the mound they have some veteran guys with experience pitching in big-time games.” One could call the SDSU offense a “complete package,” as well. All eight SDSU hitters that have started 10 or more games are currently batting over .300. The leader of the group is senior outfielder Steven Pallares, who boasts a monstrous .438 average with two home runs and 21 RBIs out
of the leadoff spot. As for the SDSU rotation, the team will stick with sophomore right-hander Cody Thompson as the Saturday starter for the series. Thompson pitched six innings in the team’s loss last Saturday and allowed four runs while striking out six. Someone who has been providing a huge boost to the pitching staff is sophomore right-hander C.J. Saylor. Saylor’s seven saves were tied for first in NCAA Division I as of March 11.
“Anytime you can shorten a game to eight innings it makes a huge difference,” Martinez said. Saylor played catcher last season, but Martinez credits his “power arm,” which helps him run his fastball up to 93 or 94 miles per hour, and his splitfinger for such success in his first time pitching in college. A huge factor working in the Aztecs’ favor this weekend is that they will be playing at home where they hold a 9-1 record. Martinez hopes that this series with the Red Raiders will begin a long string of homeand home series with big-time programs. “We wanted to have a marquee matchup at home and hopefully it will spring more and more home-and-home series with these types of programs,” Martinez said. “It all starts with Texas Tech this weekend.” He noted that the program is in the works on beginning a series with the University of Oregon. Like Martinez said, though, it all starts with the Red Raiders this weekend. “They’re an elite program and hopefully we can match up with them,” Martinez said. “We’re excited.”
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Aztecs travels to Las Vegas this weekend as the No. 2 seed in the Mountain West Tournament. MATTHEW BAIN ASST. SPORTS EDITOR _____________________________________ The San Diego State Aztecs (24-7, 14-4 MW) begin their postseason play this Thursday at 6 p.m. PST in the Mountain West Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.
SDSU Basketball closed its regular season with a 63-47 thumping against University of Nevada, Reno (9-21, 5-13 MW) on an emotional senior night last Saturday. There are tons of storylines to look for this weekend in sin city, but here are a few of the major ones.
THE POWER OF THE NO. 1 SEED Everything looks the same between No. 25 Boise State University and SDSU. Their records are identical at 24-7 and 14-4 in Mountain West play. They both are 2014-15 MW regular season champions. They both have a bye in the first round of the MW Tournament. But the Broncos have the sought-after No. 1 seed in the tournament because they swept the season series against SDSU. And the difference between No. 1 and No. 2 for SDSU is quite significant. Boise State will either play University of New Mexico (15-15, 7-11 MW) or the Air Force Academy (13-16, 6-12 MW) in its first game, while SDSU will play either Nevada or the “home team” University of Nevada, Las Vegas (17-14, 8-10 MW). SDSU outscored the Nevada teams 245-211 in four wins this year, but it vastly outscored Boise State’s opponents 249182 in four wins. The Aztecs also went an even 2-2 against their potential second-round opponents, California State University, Fresno (15-16, 10-8 MW) and Colorado State University (26-5, 13-5 MW), but they swept the season series against the Broncos’ potential second-round opponents, University of Wyoming (22-9, 11-7 MW) or Utah State University (18-12, 11-7 MW). In other words, Bronco fans are probably breathing a little easier at this point. HOW MANY BIDS? No matter which team wins the MW Tournament, SDSU, Boise State and Colorado State are essentially locks for this year’s NCAA Tournament. SDSU is a 7-seed in most projected brackets, the Broncos range anywhere from an 8-seed to a 12-seed, and the Rams will most likely land a 10-seed. Utah State and Wyoming, the 4- and 5-seeds in Las Vegas, don’t have a chance to make the big dance unless they win the tournament this weekend and earn the conference’s automatic bid. This has been an incredibly down year for the MW, ranking 11th among all conferences in RPI after ranking first just two years ago with names like Anthony Bennett and Jamaal Franklin leading the way. The MW earned five tournament bids in that golden year. If a team other than SDSU, Boise State or CSU wins the MW Tournament, the conference will likely get four bids, just
MOUNTAIN WEST TOURNAMENT SEEDING 1. Boise State (24-7 overall, 14-4 conf.) 2. SDSU (24-7, 14-4) 3. Colorado State (26-5, 13-5) 4. Wyoming (22-9, 11-7) 5. Utah State (18-12, 11-7) 6. Fresno State (15-16, 10-8) 7. UNLV (17-14, 8-10) 8. New Mexico (15-15, 7-11) 9. Air Force (13-16, 6-12) 10. Nevada (9-21, 5-13)
one short of the five from 2012-13. TRADITIONAL POWERS NOT SO POWERFUL George W. Bush was president the last time UNM, UNLV or SDSU finished outside the conference’s top five when UNM earned the 9-seed in 2007. Now, eight years later, both the Lobos and the Rebels are outside the top five and don’t have the first-round byes they’re so accustomed to. SDSU finished second in conference and the not-so-traditional basketball power from the plains of Boise topped the established MW giants. Talk about changing of the guard. THE GAME IN THE STANDS It’s always fun to see which school’s fans bring the most decibels to the Thomas and Mack Center. In the last couple years it’s been a battle between SDSU and New Mexico fans, with UNLV fans tossing their name in the battle here and there. This year, New Mexico likely won’t make it very far in the tournament, so Lobos fans will have to find a team to cheer for the other games their alltournament tickets give them seats for. In all likelihood, they’ll flock to whichever team is playing SDSU, so the usually decent-sized representation of The Show will have a pretty significant fan base to battle with. And if the title game comes to a round three between SDSU and Boise State, you’d better believe fans from pretty much every MW team will root for the Broncos to become the first team other than SDSU, New Mexico or UNLV to win the tournament since conference realignment in 2011. The tournament starts Wednesday at noon when New Mexico plays Air Force. SDSU first plays Thursday night at 6 p.m. PST against Nevada or UNLV on CBS Sports Network.
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#MENTALHEALTH
App gives a space for listening THANE HALE STAFF WRITER ____________________________ A recent survey conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles Cooperative Institutional Research Program showed that the mental health of college freshmen has reached an alltime low. Students can now download an app that may be able to help. The free mobile app and website, 7 Cups of Tea, allows college students to get 24/7 emotional support in the form of a trained listener. The conversations are held anonymously, where the volunteer listeners don’t give advice, but listen and give people an opportunity to vent. 7 Cups of Tea was created by Glen Moriarty, a licensed psychologist and a psychology professor at Regent University. While studying human behavior that had moved online (such as shopping, dating and friendships), he realized mental health treatment had not kept up. In response, he created a medium for people to go online and get mental help, in
SCREEN SHOT COURTESY OF 7 CUPS OF TEA
the form of a leisurely, friendly conversation. He realized technology meant more access for people in need. “I’m a psychologist and I care about helping people,” Moriarty said. “You can’t help that many people with the current mental health system.” The app launched in July 2013 with the help of Y Combinator, a seed accelerator
that has funded companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox and reddit. The app focuses on having the student, or a user of any demographic, talk through their problems. The app works through text as well as voice calls if the users feel comfortable. Users can request specific listeners to find a better match. According to the app’s website, volunteer listeners
have all been interviewed and completed the Active Listening training program. They often have an interest in mental health. University of Wisconsin– Oshkosh healthcare science and neuroscience senior Anna Hirsch had worked with crisis hotlines before and, upon finding the website, she decided it was a good way to help people and became a
listener. “I talk to various members about relationship issues, their anxiety or depression,” Hirsch said. “There’s a pretty wide variety to what people are dealing with. I just listen and help brainstorm ideas for dealing with them.” She explained that she liked the work and that she had a personal stake in it. “I myself have struggled with anxiety and I wanted to give back,” she said. San Diego State child development sophomore Michelle Ferguson said the app was a good idea for people with limited time, like college students. “I think it’s a great thing for college students to have access to on a temporary basis if you’re having occasional anxiety,” Ferguson said. “If I was starting to panic in the middle of the night, I think it would be useful to have someone to go to. It’s good if you have no else to talk to.” Moriarty said the app currently holds more than 90,000 conversations a week. “Just the listener connection, I think, is the most important part,” Moriarty said.
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#OFFICEHOURS
Spanish Professor is ‘Aztec for Life’ ALICIA CHAVEZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ As students, it’s not easy waking up every morning and going to class, especially when you’ve been studying all night or trying to catch up on homework due last week. However, having a professor genuinely interested in your success as a student makes those early mornings a little easier. Nancy Coto has been lecturing at San Diego State for 28 years in the Spanish department and is one of those professors who treats every student with the respect they deserve. Since she was 12 years old, Coto showed a fascination with language and listening to other people speak in different languages. Coto is a San Diego native, so when it was time she became an Aztec and double majored in French and Spanish. Just like the students she teaches, Coto studied abroad when she attended SDSU. For one year, she traveled to Spain and spent the majority of her time in Madrid. Traveling to Spain ignited Coto’s fiery love for the Spanish language. Almost 30 years later, she continues to teach the same language she learned decades ago. “I love teaching and I’ve always loved it since I was little,” Coto said. “It’s fun to teach people and it’s fun to watch them learn and watch them as the light bulb goes on for them.” Coto hopes to continue to spread the same love for the Spanish language and
culture she adores. More importantly, she wants to teach students to be more accepting of different customs that exist outside of their own traditions. “I want my students to have a passion for languages and learning another culture,” Coto said. “I want them to be more open-minded about people and different places.” Outside of the classroom, Coto enjoys spending her time on the golf course, especially in the early morning when she is able to watch the sun rise. However, she dedicates most of her free time cheering on her own students from the sidelines. Coto is no doubt a long-time supporter of the Aztec community. She is a big fan of Aztec football and basketball. Those who have taken her classes understand her small obsession. “I have an entire closet dedicated to Aztec clothes,” Coto said. “I love athletes and I love helping them with Spanish.” This semester, Coto decided to put herself in her students’ shoes and go back to school. Even as a professor, there is no end to what someone can learn. Before Spanish, Coto’s first true love was the piano. “I was a concert pianist before I became a professor,” Coto said. “I trained to be a pianist, but I never got a degree in it.” After cornering the piano instructor at SDSU and begging for an audition, Coto was able to perform in hopes to become a part of the music department and fulfill her dream as a professional pianist. She considers
Nancy Coto has been lecturing at San Diego State for 28 years. KRISTIAN CARREON, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
herself an extremely lucky person and is appreciative that someone believed in her, the same support she hopes to provide her students. “It was inspiring for somebody to take a chance on someone my own age,” Coto said. “I want to inspire my students as well and show them I am interested and I do care, because it’s really important.” One of the ways Coto shows her appreciation for her students is by providing an educational experience that goes beyond a routine lecture. She plans class activities that practice the Spanish language in alternative ways, such as transforming the classroom into a courtroom. “We decided to do a discrimination trial during class where two students
acted as Denny’s employees and were discriminated against because they spoke Spanish on the job when they weren’t supposed to,” Coto said. Each student was asked to take on a different role. In attendance were a judge, bailiff, prosecutor and jury. Coto even put on her acting cap and acted a surprise witness. “I’ve had lots of fun experiences with students, but the most fun is when somebody comes back later and decided to major in Spanish after they have taken my class,” Coto said. “It’s the biggest compliment.” Coto is currently living in the same house her parents once lived in when she was younger. After a little remodeling, it is the place she continues to call home, along with her two sons.
#SRS
Student researchers fuel original setups LILIANA CERVANTES CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ Aerospace engineering seniors Josue Quinonez and Jastine Ortiz are the first students to successfully stimulate a hydraulic jump through their original experimental setups. A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon that occurs when a body of water with high velocity runs into a body of water with low velocity, thus causing the water to rise at the surface. A hydraulic jump can typically be seen occurring in a river or spillway. Quinonez said it’s very difficult and challenging to try and create a valid set up that stimulates hydraulic jumps. Quinonez and Ortiz started off their study by building and designing their own visual stimulator, called a “shallow water table,” which measures the scientific phenomenon through particle tracking. Quinonez said this particular study is meant to validate their computational fluid analysis for particle lattice flows with shocks. They hope they can apply their research to the use of improving scramjet engines on military aircrafts by diminishing the loss of fuel. “With the scramjet engine, you have a high-speed flow coming into the engine with shocks occurring, fuels being injected and mixing with the air and then being ignited by the combustion chamber,” Quinonez said. “While this is all occurring 60 percent of the fuel is
Student researchers stimulated a hydraulic jump. COURTESY OF JOSUE QUINONEZ
being dumped because of how fast the velocity is traveling through the engine.” Through their experiments, they were able to track the particles of the fuel and air mixing to increase the efficiency of the engine. Their research project “Control of Lagrangian Mixing in Fuel Injector Flows into Supersonic Cross Stream,” was
showcased at SDSU’s Student Research Symposium this month on March 6. SDSU’s SRS is a public forum that allows graduate and undergraduate students to present their research and creativity. There were a total of 472 research projects presented at this year’s two-day event. This symposium is planned by the Student Research Committee and is overseen by the division of research affairs. Current SRC chair Keven Jeffery said he was very proud of the outcome of this year’s symposium. “The amount of work our students do is just wonderful, truly inspiring,” Jeffrey said. “We got positive feedback from everyone — volunteers, judges and students.” Quinonez said he and Ortiz initially became intrigued by the subject of fluid dynamics after taking a high-speed aerodynamics class with aerospace engineering professor and director of the SDSU Center of Industrial Training and Engineering Research Gustaaf Jacobs. “We really fell in love with shocks and high-speed flow and I guess the study behind it,” he said. “I would always be there in the front of the class listening to him.” Professor Jacobs became their faculty adviser for the research project. Quinonez said Jacobs saw the promise in their research two years ago after their first attempt at building the shallow water table. For that he is grateful to him and Sean Davis, a Ph.D. student and adviser, for their continuous support and
help. The research project achieved additional support from the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Community College Transfer Scholar’s Program and California Space Grant Consortium from the Nation Space Grant Foundation. They have been successful in measuring fluid velocity and hydraulic jumps, and they hope they can continue to expand on their research. The next step in their research will be to obtain a more advanced high-speed camera that will capture the hydraulic jump phenomenon more efficiently to do a more valid computational fluid analysis. Jeffrey looks forward to next year’s symposium and is appreciative of all the student participation and volunteer work behind this event. “It was really nice to see the entire community come out and support the event,” he said. Science majors to arts majors, all SDSU students are welcomed and encouraged to participate. Students who participate have the opportunity to receive a presidential award, grants and a chance to represent SDSU at the CSU research competition in May. Quinonez describes his experience doing research at SDSU as highly rewarding. “I’d recommend that you do research if you’re in college. The best thing you can do is research no matter what field you’re in,” he said.
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#ENTERSHIKARI
Soma welcomes UK band’s return KC STANFIELD STAFF WRITER ____________________________ Fans of life music generally look forward to a band’s tour following a recent album release. So with the release of “The Mindsweep” by Enter Shikari, fans are already looking forward to the band’s return to San Diego on April 24 at Soma. For those unfamiliar, Enter Shikari is a band that’s hard to categorize. During the course of four full albums, their sound has gone in different directions every release. In general, they fuse rock, punk, hardcore and metal genres with elements of dub-step, trance, electronic and hip-hop. “We’ve always been a band to ignore genres and do our own thing,” drummer Rob Rolfe said. “We gather inspiration from all over the place. I don’t think any of our fans know what to expect from us.” A setlist for a London show reveals that Enter Shikari played some of its softer songs such as “Stalemate” and “Dear Future Historians … ” all the way to the heavier , chaotic songs such as “Slipshod” and
“Gandi Mate, Gandi.” According to Rolfe, the setlist will resemble the tour in the U.K. So there may be some variation, but fans can likely expect around 16 songs (encore included). For Rolfe, the most fun song to play off “The Mindsweep” is “Torn Apart.” Its jungle-type beats and ghost beats took a while to learn and it’s rewarding to pull off live. A good portion of the setlist was from “The Mindsweep” and “Rat Race EP.” This is common for new releases, especially since how long it’s been since they last performed at San Diego. It’s been almost three years since Enter Shikari last played in San Diego, but Rolfe still remembers Soma and the crowd. “The audience always goes so crazy,” Rolfe said. “There’s an atmosphere in that venue that you don’t get in many others.” Enter Shikari has won awards for the live talent. It won Best Live Band during the 2007 Kerrang Awards, and The Association of Independent Music awarded them the Best Live Act Award of 2013. “I think we have a connectivity with the audience
IN CONCERT... ENTER SHIKARI WHERE SOMA WHEN FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 6:30 P.M. OPENERS STRAY FROM THE PATH, A LOT LIKE BIRDS, I THE MIGHTY HOW MUCH $16 PER TICKET Attendees can expect an exciting show from Enter Shikari. COURTESY OF TOM MARTIN
that a lot of bands seem to miss,” Rolfe said. “A lot of bands think they’re two separate things. It sounds cheesy, buy the audience is like the fifth member of the band … If were not enjoying it, the audience notices. They feed off each other.” It’s always a sight to see the light shows and Rou Reynolds (lead vocalist) flawlessly switching from singing to keyboards From previous shows, I’ve even witnessed Rory Clewlow (guitarist) climb onto Chris Batten’s (bassist)
shoulders mid song. While that sounds crazy, it pales in comparison to some moments Rolfe has seen. Rolfe said the group was playing at a pier in England and there were some amusement park rides nearby. Batten left the stage, got strapped in the equivalent of the Drop of Doom, bass in hand and continued playing the song as he rode it. Regardless of all the fun that’s had onstage, most of Enter Shikari’s songs have various social, economic and
political messages, which is good for nourishing the mind of a college student slamming out a 10-page essay in one night. Enter Shikari will be headlining the concert at Soma’s sidestage. Stray From The Path, A Lot Like Birds and I The Mighty will also be playing before them. Tickets cost $16 and it begins at 6:30 p.m. “We’re certainly looking forward to it,” Rolfe said. “We’ve made a lot of friends all over (the U.S.), it’s a very welcoming place.”
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MARCH 12 - 15, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: NICK KNOTT • ENTERTAINMENT@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM
#NETFLIX
New Netflix content marches into catalog NICK KNOTT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR ______________________________ March is upon us. Soon enough Aztecs will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and the official start of the spring season. However, like every other month, Netflix updates its catalog with new streamable shows and flicks to keep its users happily distracted from any issues or problems they may be trying to sort out. It’s tough to update the catalog with quality material all month long, and March is no different. Sprinkled within the nearly 40 updates this month are some real winners ranging from drama to animated film to comedy to kung fu. The people over at Netflix headquarters spread these wonderful gifts across the whole month. So, if Aztecs have finished “House of Cards,” which is recommended they absolutely do first, then there are a few other cool things to watch on Netflix this month.
ARCHER (SEASON 5) RELEASE DATE: MARCH 7
3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN RELEASE DATE: MARCH 15
This comedic take on 007-style espionage is one the best shows on television. Although not all A-list actors, the cast has shot this show to stardom as they take on the most hodgepodge group of employees in the office of a private spy company. However, in season five things take a turn for the more criminal. After being shutdown by the federal government, Sterling Archer and company turn to what any good spy would do when they no longer have work — go rogue and start selling drugs. Hilarity ensues as the agents attempt to take their talents as spies and try to make ends meet by selling mass quantities of cocaine. The episodes run about 20 minutes, so it’s highly recommended to start from season one if you aren’t familiar with the show.
This television series hit family room TVs in 1996. The premise is a group of aliens come to Earth disguised as humans and spend their time here to learn what life is like on the third rock from the sun. John Lithgow leads the comedic cast through five years and six seasons of struggling space people trying to fit in to society. This is also one of the earliest times heartthrob actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is seen on any screen. Kristen Johnston and French Stewart round out the family of aliens as what can be assumed as mother and older brother. “3rd Rock from the Sun” is old-school ‘90s TV comedy. The sets are a tad cheesy and obvious, the plot can be a bit obscure but nonetheless there are definitely laughs in store.
THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS RELEASE DATE: MARCH 31 For avid rap listeners, the WuTang Clan has always drawn inspiration from ancient asian cultures and their forms of self defense. So it comes as no surprise that legendary producer and rapper RZA took a stab at directing “The Man With the Iron Fists.” The plot is simple; band of warriors and assassins want a treasure, treasure lies in secluded village and a single man takes it upon himself to defend his village from the attackers. Of course there will be plenty of ridiculous high-wire stunts, fights, blood and gore; but that’s how contemporary kung-fu movies are these days. Besides RZA, the cast also features Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, Jamie Chung and Rick Yune. “The Man With the Iron Fists” is definitely a great flick to help Aztecs let out their inner ninja.
MAD MEN (SEASON 7) RELEASE DATE: MARCH 22 Now when Netflix says season seven is being released, it really only means the first half. The last season of this drama circling the old advertising world was split into two small segments, the first of which was a mere seven episodes. Nonetheless, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is back in action with his don’t-care attitude and prolific persuasion tactics. As the show has progressed, viewers have learned small tidbits of information surrounding the might Mr. Draper. He’s a complex person whose self-destructive habits will potentially be his downfall. Albeit a slow progressing show, the dynamics of “Mad Men” mixed with the perfectly executed style of the ‘50s and ‘60s makes this a must watch.
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#ALICE
Wonderland waltzes into campus theater NANCY KIRK STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The whimsical nonsense world of Wonderland came to life this weekend in the School of Theatre, Television and Film’s production of “ALICE: Curiouser and Curiouser!” Based on Lewis Caroll’s novels “Alice and Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass,” Professor Margaret Larlham adapted the books into this original play using her favorite scenes to develop a unique take on a story where logic and dream mix together. “I hope audiences will be enchanted and will be taken out of their preconceptions,” Larlham said. “And will have a renewed delight in this amazing story.” The play was very visually driven, with captivating costumes and a set based on the premise of a distorted chessboard that has doors and secret entrances. It also had strong musical and dance elements, which is often common in children’s theater. When Alice grew or shrank, another version Alice would come on stage. Giant Alice was on a tall mobile platform that allowed her to stand at least a few feet above other characters, and tiny Alice was portrayed by a cast member holding a small puppet. “There is a kind of humor in all the
ON STAGE... ALICE: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER! WHERE DON POWELL THEATER WHEN MARCH 12-13, 7:30 P.M. AND MARCH 14-15, 2 P.M. DIRECTED BY PROFESSOR MARGARET LARLHAM STARRING BELLE ADAMS HOW MUCH $14 (STUDENTS), $16 (GENERAL) OUR RATING
«««« wackiness of the characters,” Larlham said. “But it’s so much fun to have a little bit of madness.” Sophomore Belle Adams played the regular-sized Alice, who was present throughout the entirety of the play. Adams said she loved working on a production for children’s theater because it allowed her to feel
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ACROSS 1 Atkins no-no 5 “__ bad idea” 9 Brothers Grimm creature 14 Old apple spray 15 Pinnacle 16 Painful turning point? 17 Elizabeth of “Lone Star” 18 Nothing 19 Experimental blast 20 Russian composer and piano virtuoso 23 Related compounds 24 Gap 28 Italian roads 29 Café breakfast order 31 Birdbrain 33 Arrived just in time for
34 Reservoir creator 37 TV fantasy about three magical sisters 40 Delivery person? 41 Some Persians 43 Absolute ruler 45 Den piece 48 Arrival announcement 52 Deduce 53 Manned the helm 54 Annual sports event that begins with Selection Sunday on 3/15 ... or, cryptically, a hint to the scrambled word found at the starts of 20-, 29-, 37- and 45-Across 57 Provide a spread for
“ALICE: Curiouser and Curiouser!” comes to campus March 12 to 15. COURTESY OF KEN JAQUES
uninhibited. “When you’re given the freedom to embrace being completely out-of-thebox and an over exaggerated version of a person, it opens up so many doors as an actor to loosen up and be free,” Adams said. “You kind of have to become a kid yourself.” Adams also enjoyed developing her own interpretation of a character that is so universally known. “Throughout the process I started to discover more of a spark in her,” Adams said. “She’s a little fiercer than the sweet blonde Disney version.” The characters that Alice encounters on her adventure could be interpreted as moral reflections of Alice herself, Larlham said. The characters included
a hippie-esque caterpillar who recited “Imagine” by John Lennon, child audience members who were called onstage to play the part of oysters, and of course, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, who donned sparkly red swigs and black pants that had a hula-hoopsized waist. ALICE: Curiouser and Curiouser had a poetic and fluid way about it, arresting and magical scenery, and animated characters that allowed audiences to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Caroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” It will run at 7:30 p.m. on March 12 and 13 and at 2 p.m. on March 14 and 15. Tickets are $14 for students and seniors and $16 for general admission.
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8 Nerve cell transmitter 9 Story you might find on MuggleNet. com, briefly 10 Myrmecologist’s subject 11 ‘50s political nickname 12 Jekyll creator’s monogram 13 However 21 Doc 22 Resistance unit 25 Lions, Tigers or Bears 26 Fancy coif 27 Come off as 29 Personnel employee 30 Dough dispensers, for short 32 Dry riverbed 34 Pull with effort 35 Special something 36 Co. runners 38 Dorothy Parker’s “Excuse my dust” and others 39 Like the Taj Mahal 42 Bagel topping 44 Precisely, after “on” 46 Town crier’s cry 47 JFK info 49 Prior to today, poetically 50 Save 51 Fords that never got going 53 Usually stained work garb 55 French Open surface 56 Bat mitzvah dance 57 “The Big Bang Theory” network 58 Author Rand 59 Seesaw need
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#COFFEECLUB
The life of a coffee addict LAINIE FRASER STAFF WRITER ____________________________________
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’m not sure I can pinpoint the moment it started. I still remember the days, back in middle school, when I would get in line behind my friends and order whatever the person in front of me ordered. Somehow I went from not knowing what I was ordering, let alone drinking, to being a regular known my name and order. This is my coffee addiction. All my life I have lived across the street from a Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins. Somewhere along the line, I went from ordering donuts or milk shakes to ordering black coffee. Over time I made friends with the people who worked there and the other people ordering. There’s a culture behind coffee. Maybe that’s when it started. I stopped playing sports, I lost that team atmosphere, and so I developed another sort of team, my coffee team. My high school was in the financial district of New York City. Every street corner back home plays host to a super friendly man inside a coffee cart selling a mean cup of Joe. My high school also happened to be across the street from a Starbucks. In 2011 I earned my Gold Card. Physical evidence of my addiction. The rules of a Starbucks Gold Card are as follows. Every swipe of the card earns you a star and 30 stars a year allow you to keep gold status for another year, and every 12 stars you receive a free drink or food item. Sometimes when I explain the 30 stars a year part to people they are shocked, they think that is a lot of coffee but to me thats a normal month. Back at the Starbucks by my high school, I knew the names of all of the baristas, I knew their shifts and they knew me. They knew my schedule, my drink and my friends. My senses had become so
accustomed to being in the store that less than two minutes after arriving I could tell which roast was being brewed. Everyday for lunch we were in that store. We had a routine and even a table. Everyday after school you would find a mass of at least 10 teenagers sitting on the heaters of the store. It was a strange group that varied over the four years of high school, but a group of caffeineaddicted friends. It got to a point that students and teachers alike never had to ask where I was, it was common knowledge that I was in Starbucks. Sort of sick now that I think about it. This specific Starbucks was the setting for all of the drama of senior year, from college acceptances and rejections, to budding and dissolving relationships. Now let’s switch our thoughts to
It reminds me of home, and yes, I have made friends with the people there too. The mental aspect of the addiction is a whole other thing. If I go more than 36 hours without purchasing a coffee from a store of any kind, I begin to feel weak. Yes, my Keurig is wonderful and does its job perfectly, but there is something about going out for a cup of coffee. It is an experience and I have even made friends with the employees of the drivethru Starbucks near my apartment. Something in my brain believes that the coffee I brew at home is inadequate and that I must purchase a coffee for it to satisfy my addiction. The mental part of my addiction has recently started causing physical pain. In the past few days I have switched from going for my daily run in the afternoon to going first thing in the
IF I GO MORE THAN 36 HOURS WITHOUT PURCHASING A COFFEE FROM A STORE OF ANY KIND, I BEGIN TO FEEL WEAK. prom. When you get asked to prom it’s special right? Maybe it’s romantic or funny or done in a way that means something to the two people involved. My prom date, bless his heart, got to Starbucks before me and told the barista to write “Prom?” on my cup when I came in and ordered my drink. As if we needed more evidence that coffee is a large part of who I am, I was asked to prom on a coffee cup. In college I needed to be sure to find a way to get my coffee fix everyday. I’m not going to lie, when I looked at colleges, I always asked how many coffee shops there were on campus or near by. Luckily, San Diego State has an array of options and San Diego is a city full of delicious coffee houses. I have even gone out of my way to find the one Dunkin’ Donuts in San Diego.
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morning, before I do anything, even before I have my first cup of coffee. About a mile in to my run I start to get a headache and 10 minutes later I feel exhausted and need to turn back. Part of me thinks that at the one mile mark my brain gets bored and wanders to the thought of a deliciously brewed cup of steaming hot coffee and then creates pain to make me turn back and A) give up running and B) give in to my desire. Whatever the real reason, I end up turning my Keurig on as soon as I get home. While I’m sure my addiction to coffee is not healthy, I am not looking for help in quitting. My relationship with coffee is demanding and can be expensive, it is dramatic and picky but I love it and wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
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BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
News writer J.D. Hodges captured the Bridge to Nowhere during his 10 mile hike along the San Gabriel River.
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