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CSU Trustees to vote on $270 tuition increase ADRIANA MILLAR ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR ____________________________

LEFT: Ahkeel Whitehead running in an Aztecs Adaptive Sports event. RIGHT: Whitehead with the Aztecs Adaptive Sports club.

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Aztec Paralympian pushes for change AUSTIN GAYLE ASST. SPORTS EDITOR ____________________________ Football sat atop Ahkeel Whitehead’s list of priorities during his years at Chula Vista Middle School, a list also loaded with other sports as complex as basketball and as simple as tag.

With aspirations to play football at the collegiate level, Whitehead committed a majority of his time to refining his craft on the gridiron and competing with his childhood best friend Raymond Holden to inch closer to becoming an elite football player. Together,

Whitehead and Holden pushed each other up the ranks to become two of the most successful, competitive players on the Chiefs, a San Diego youth football team.

Trending up as he entered the summer before his high school debut, Whitehead suffered an injury playing the sport he so dearly loved that ultimately landed him in the hospital, a misfortune that would change his life forever.

Concerned with their son’s health, Whitehead’s parents, Chris and Glady Whitehead, finally told their son after nearly 14 years that he had hemiplegia cerebral palsy.

A whirlwind of emotions swirled through Whitehead’s mind, none of which were disappointment.

“When they told me, it was a big moment, but it wasn’t big in the sense that I was disappointed to hear it,” Whitehead said.

Whitehead emphasized that the news provided more clarity than despair, for he now understood why he couldn’t hold his balance at times or why it was so hard to hold anything with his left hand.

The nature of Whitehead’s

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The CSU Board of Trustees will vote whether to raise tuition by $270 per academic year today, March 22.

In January, Governor Jerry Brown released the first draft of the 2017-2018 state budget, which included a $157.2 million increase in funding, which is $167.7 million less than CSU trustees requested.

The Trustees originally asked for additional state funding of $324.9 million to meet its graduation rate goals, offer more courses, hire more faculty and provide additional academic and student support services, according to the March 2017 CSU budget update.

To cover this shortfall, CSU trustees are voting on a tuition increase of $270 for resident undergraduates, raising the cost of tuition to $5,742.

According to the CSU budget update, similar adjustments are proposed for non-resident tuition, as well as graduate, doctoral and teacher credential programs.

The potential increase will create an additional $77.5 million of net revenue, one-

third of which would be set aside for student financial aid, according to the CSU budget update.

“This revenue would go to student success initiatives and CSU campuses would be able to hire approximately 400 new faculty members and offer an additional 3,000 of the most highly demanded courses,” the budget update states.

The proposed increase would not affect the CSU’s neediest students, according to the budget update.

Most CSU students with household incomes below $70,000 rely on financial aid to pay for tuition, according to the update.

It says in 2015-16 nearly 63 percent of all undergraduates — more than 255,000 students — had their tuition fully covered by grants or waivers, which do not need to be repaid.

If enacted, the tuition raise will be the first since the 20102011 school year.

According to the CSU budget update, the CSU will also engage in advocacy efforts leading up to the state’s final budget decisions.

CSU Public Affairs Manager Elizabeth Chapin said the

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Love Library not up to earthquake code ANDREA LOPEZ-VILLAFAÑA MUNDO AZTECA EDITOR ____________________________ Malcolm M. Love Library at San Diego State is overdue for seismic retrofitting, renovations which would make the building more resilient to seismic activity from earthquakes, but will not be renovated any time soon due to a lack of state funding.

The campus library does not sit on a fault zone, but the closest major fault near the university which could produce a magnitude seven earthquake is Rose Canyon, which has not fractured in 300 years.

The California State University Seismic Review Board is responsible for identifying facilities considered potentially hazardous in two systemwide lists: Priority 1 which identifies buildings that need “urgent attention” and Priority 2 which identifies buildings that need “special

attention.”

The CSU Seismic Retrofit Priority Listings for 2016 identify the Love Library as a Priority 1 facility that is in need of “urgent attention for seismic upgrade as soon as resources can be made available.”

The library has been on the Priority 1 list since 2010.

A recent study found that the Rose Canyon fault is actually a continuous fault zone to the Newport-Inglewood fault.

Valerie Sahakian, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological survey and the study’s lead author, said the amount of shaking depends size of an earthquake and seismic retrofitting intends to reduce the amount of damage.

Associate Vice President of Real Estate, Planning and Development at San Diego State Robert Schulz said the library will not be renovated anytime soon because projects like seismic retrofitting are no longer funded by the state.

Governor Jerry Brown

eliminated capital funding for projects separate from the general fund budget, which paid for projects such as seismic retrofitting.

According to CSU Seismic policy, the Review Board was created in 1992 as a result of a policy adoption by the CSU Board of Trustees that aimed to set a standard for existing buildings to provide “reasonable life-safety protection.”

The Review Board, made up of external engineers, increased the ground motion standards and told the university to consider renovation of the Love Library, Schulz said.

Standards set for Humboldt State University, which sits on Mendocino Triple Junction, a location where three plate boundaries meet and can produce “mind boggling” epic earthquakes, can not compare to San Diego, Schulz said.

“They would like the design to take a higher level of lateral loading when the

Students walk outside the Malcom M. Love Library on Tuesday, March 21 KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

ground shakes so it would be reinforcing the shear wall structures that underlay the basement,” he said.

California building codes are adopted every three years meaning buildings, like the Love Library that was built 46 years ago, were built to different

codes.

A building that does not meet current state building codes does not mean it is unsafe it just means the codes were different when it was built, Schulz said.

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Speakers give students legal advice

Two student organizations invited an immigration rights attorney and ACLU organizer to speak at State WILL FRITZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ About two dozen students and faculty gathered in a Storm Hall auditorium on March 16 for a forum which aimed to educate immigrants and international students about their rights in the Trump administration era.

American Civil Liberties Union organizer Gerrlyn Gacao, Council on American Islamic Relations San Diego civil and immigration rights attorney Suanne Arani and Jason Bercovitch, a field organizer for congressman Scott Peters were present at the event, title “Know your Reps, Know Your Rights.”

The event was co-hosted by the Linguistics Student Association and the Muslim Student Association.

The three speakers discussed topics such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, “sanctuary cities” and rights when speaking to law enforcement.

Gacao advised DACA recipients not to travel abroad.

“If you have DACA, you want to try to stay close to home in the U.S.,” she said.

Gacao said for now, any action against individuals with DACA status seems unlikely, and even if there were, universities are not places immigration enforcement has targeted in the past.

“It’s also really unlikely to get a whole

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picture of who exactly is undocumented on a campus, and who amongst that undocumented community has DACA,” she said.

Gacao also said that in the past, there have been no large-scale enforcement or any mass deportations on any universities or college campuses.

“Although we’ve heard a lot of threats, and have heard a lot of rumors — we still haven’t seen any concrete actions or sort of plans put in place,” Gacao said.

She said in the event President Trump does decide to end the DACA program, the design and implementation of any new policy is going to take time to plan.

“If you currently have DACA, we would just advise for you to just stay calm and out of trouble,” Gacao said.

“DACA, as we know it today, is still happening, and you’re getting the same protections you were when you applied.”

Gacao did advise DACA recipients to be careful in their interactions with police.

“I’m not saying stay away from the police, but you want to avoid any negative interactions,” she said.

“You just kind of want to lay low, but definitely stay calm about it.”

Bercovitch spent more time discussing politics and instructing attendees on how to interact with supporters of President Trump’s immigration policies.

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What is truly important, Bercovitch told attendees, is getting to know and relating personal experiences to those who may share differing political views.

“That’s going to make a difference,” he said. “Because little by little, the more people that we have conversations with, the more opinions that might be changed.”

Bercovitch reminded audience members that about half the country supported President Donald Trump’s election.

“Insulting Donald Trump will get you nothing,” he said. “By calling him a bigot, an islamophobe and a liar and a racist and a sexist, you just cut off your entire conversation to whatever group of the people there supported the president.”

Arani gave more legal advice to the

what can they do, what their rights,” she said. “A lot of students as well have been really flustered. I’ve met with DACA students as well and they just really needed to know their rights (are), what they can do, (and) how to fuel their activism in a constructive manner.”

Ashtari said while turnout was not significant, she was confident the information discussed at the event would be received by students who need it most, as she said there were a number of professors and activists present.

“This information is not going to deaf ears, you know it’s going to be taken and spread among a lot of different people,” she said.

She said many students who could have attended the event may have been afraid to come and show their faces.

... THEY REALLY JUST NEEDED “ TO KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, WHAT THEY CAN DO AND HOW TO FUEL THEIR ACTIVISM IN A CONSTRUCTIVE MANNER.”

- Roxana Ashtari, Linguistics graduate student

audience.

“Everybody still wants to help law enforcement,” she said. “However, in times like these, and as any lawyer would say, you need to fight that urge, because generally when you speak to law enforcement, you’re only making a fool of yourself.”

Arani clarified she was speaking more specifically about federal law enforcement such as the FBI and ICE. “Everyone knows that you can’t lie to law enforcement,” she said “If you do, that’s considered a crime. But some people don’t know that technically, you can’t even make a material omission.”

Because of this, she recommended undocumented individuals to remain silent.

“If you or anybody else that you know ever gets confronted with law enforcement, the best thing is to not say anything.”

Linguistics graduate student Roxana Ashtari helped plan the event.

She said she came up with the idea after receiving questions about legal rights for undocumented individuals.

“I’m Mexican-Iranian. I’ve received a lot of questions from my community about what it is that they need to do,

“You know, a lot of undocumented students or people that are affected by (the travel ban) don’t want to show up,” she said. “But they did have people in the audience that were representing them.”

International student and liaison of the Linguistic Student Association Heidi Demello also helped organize and promote the event.

She said the speakers covered a lot of relevant information that she can relay to her community and her students.

“I wish all of my students had come, but two of my international students came and I was really happy about that,” she said. “And I think that they gave us some really practical bits of advice that you can take moving forward.”

Milad Sadeghi, an exchange student originally from Iran, said the event was insightful.

“It’s good to know (your) rights,” he said. “If you just get into trouble at least you have heard some of your rights.”

The legal advice given on how to interact with law enforcement and exercise his rights was something Sadeghi especially appreciated.

“Knowing the rights is not enough,” he said.

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New program impacts sophomores

A program outlined in a recent university update would require sophomore students to live on campus MAYA CARTER STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ In a Feb. 27 university update, executives of the university detail future plans for San Diego State including hiring new faculty, designing and building new facilities, and creating and implementing new student-success programs.

The success programs include assisting seniors in taking leaves of absence, increasing the number of students participating in learning communities and peer mentoring, and the recently developed SDSU Sophomore Success Program.

The program is an immersive experience designed to accommodate sophomore students who are from outside of the SDSU service area.

The update reads “students are in SDSU’s local admission area if he or she graduates from a high school in San Diego County located south of state route 56 and extending eastward, or a high school in Imperial County.”

Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Christy Samarkos said research shows students who live on campus are more engaged, more successful and graduate faster than those who do not.

“The program is a strategic step toward ensuring that all students are engaged, prepared, and well positioned to finish in four years,” she said.

The program is set to include career counseling, a requirement for sophomore students from outside San Diego to live on campus, and a focus on increasing sophomore students’ participation in high-impact practices, according to SDSU NewsCenter.

Samarkos said students will be

exposed to engagement in a variety of experiences designed to support and enhance their second year.

“These experiences will include opportunities to engage in programs that national and local data indicate are critical for success in the sophomore year such as focused academic advising, career assessments and preparation for internships, financial literacy, mentorship with faculty and community service,” she said.

While the program aims to aid sophomores in transitioning further into college and adulthood, students like social work sophomore Marlene Martinez said the program is going to hinder students from being able to properly grow.

“Honestly, the school is still treating us as freshman with this program and holding our hands by doing this,” Martinez said. “No matter if you’re transitioning from freshman to sophomore off-campus housing or sophomore to junior off-campus housing, there is always going to be a period of difficulty for transitioning from on to off-campus housing.”

Martinez said that there are better ways to ensure that sophomores are on a positive track academically.

“If they want to make sure sophomores are successful, it doesn’t start with limiting their housing choices, It starts with having transitionary classes, for instance,” she said.

Undeclared sophomore Janae Newton said the new program is good for students and will help them further develop social skills and stay goal oriented.

“Having another year to network and meet new people will be really good for

Sophomore students from outside the SDSU service area may be required to live on campus starting next fall.

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second year students,” Newton said.

“I know when I was a freshman, living in the dorms and constantly being on campus made me want to attend class more and stay focused.”

Criminal justice freshman Beraly Juarez has never lived on campus, and said that she feels that this has helped her to really experience life as an adult.

“As someone who commutes, I feel that I’m at an advantage compared to those who dorm because I feel like an adult as far as having to be on time, and keeping track of my responsibilities,” Juarez said.

Samarkos said that sophomore

housing would be located primarily in residential communities that feature apartment and suite style units.

Sophomores and freshman will be separated in housing because the living spaces that they thrive in are different, she said.

These include Granada Apartments, Villa Alvarado Apartments, Piedra del Sol Apartments, Tarastec Apartments, and South Campus Plaza.

While some freshmen who begin classes in fall 2017 will also be required to live on-campus in fall 2018, full implementation of the program would begin in fall 2019.

Sanskriti Association hosts Holi festival

The Sanskriti Association of Indian Students celebrated Holi at an annual festival on March 18.

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GEORGINA VARGAS STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The Sanskriti Association of Indian Students at San Diego State celebrated the annual Holi festival Saturday at the Language Academy Elementary School field on March 18.

Holi is a festival that celebrates love and tries to bring people together from all different backgrounds to celebrate friendship, said Byju Joy, president of Sanskriti.

Information systems graduate student Ankita Chaturvedi said people play with water and dry colors at the festival, and the goal is to put as much color as possible on people.

Sanskriti gave out dry colors to everyone that attended, served Indian food and had a DJ playing Indian music.

DJ Harshel is a former president of Sankriti at SDSU, and offered to play at the Holi celebration because he continues to stay in contact with the organization.

Shayla Patel, a public health freshman said it was her first time at a Holi festival and that it was fun.

Sanskriti officers and members sang and danced to the music while painting others with colors.

The event was open to SDSU students and the San Diego community to attend and spray one another in colors.

“It’s really cool that even people who are not Indian came,” Patel said.

Attendees sang and danced to music while painting each other with water and dry colors at the event.

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Attendees included the International Mentor Program Coordinator Alison Peppers, students from the Saudi Students Club and former president of Sanskriti, Amrutesh Vyas.

“This is the kind of thing you work for in our club and when you see others experiencing your culture and love it, it’s a really good feeling,” Chaturvedi said.

Sanskriti served samosas for lunch, which is a traditional Indian potato dish that is served with two Indian sauces.

This year, Sanskriti had a group of 16 volunteers who organized Holi due to the large volume of people who attended and in preparation of the event.

“We got an overwhelming response from international students and it keeps getting bigger and bigger every year,” Joy

said.

Chaturvedi said the process of putting an event together with Sanskriti is “awesome because it is important to not only enjoy the event, but also the preparation leading up to it.”

Joy said that students and the community are starting to learn more about each other’s cultures through events like Holi.

“In India, on the day of Holi everything is colorful and we all play in the streets with each other by throwing colors and spraying water,” Chaturvedi said, “There was even a time where I threw someone in the mud.”

The organization is also hosting an international coffee hour on April 7 at the International Student Center.

4 NEWS Love Library: Not up to code for earthquakes LIBRARY from P1 Schulz said he has no knowledge of when the CSU will set aside funds to renovate the Love Library.

He said the university has done analysis on the library’s structure and they have determined that they would need to put in a new foundation under the core of the building and add new shear walls.

SDSU geological sciences professor Isabelle SacramentoGrilo, said the distance between the fault and the building has to be taken into consideration to determine the effect an earthquake can have on it.

“Total collapse of buildings in the western world, and in California particularly, is rare because buildings are typically built with some seismic building codes in mind,” she said.

SacramentoGrilo teaches a natural disasters course and tells her students that they do not want to be in the library when an earthquake occurs.

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differently during an earthquake, SacramentoGrilo said.

“From an earthquake various waves are sent through the ground that we feel as a shock wave,” she said. “The first wave is the P wave which doesn’t do much it just goes very fast, then comes the S wave which moves things up and down and then comes the Love wave which is the surface wave which shears the things shears the rocks side to side.”

She said the Love wave would be potentially hazardous in a building like the library because if the building is shaking side to side it could compromise the lower floors and lead to a collapse.

student, faculty or staff to be concerned about in that building.”

Communications senior Dominique Cañez said he studies every day in the Love Library and spends an average of 10 hours a week on the third floor.

He said it is irresponsible that the library has not been retrofitted.

“It should be a top priority,” Cañez said. “To risk student’s lives for whatever reason is irresponsible.”

Schulz said the university has decided that a partial renovation of the building would be disruptive, and it does not make sense to renovate the library until they can renovate and address all the code problems, fire safety issues and

“ IT SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY. TO RISK STUDENTS’ LIVES FOR WHATEVER REASON IS IRRESPONSIBLE.”

- Dominique Cañez Communications senior

“So you sort of have to be proactive in this if there’s a building that needs retrofitting,” SacramentoGrilo said. “And we’re in California for god sakes; retrofit the damn building.”

Schulz said the building is safe.

“I would have no qualms to have all three of my grandchildren do a sleepover at the stacks at any day or time,” he said “There’s nothing for any

elevator maintenance.

The total cost to renovate the library, not just seismic upgrades but also other maintenance needs, would be around 140 million or more, he said.

The last buildings to receive seismic retrofitting upgrades at SDSU were Storm and Nasatir Halls.

Schulz said that was the last statefunded academic building on campus.

Tuition: Board of Trustees to vote on increase Continued from P1 CSU has an advocacy office in Sacramento.

“The staff there in coordination with campus legislative liaisons, students, alumni, campus leaders (presidents, etc.) will be meeting with state legislators during this time, urging them to advocate for increased funding to the CSU in the state budget,” she said in an email March 21.

Current Associated Students Executive Vice President of External Affairs Dylan Colliflower said he is also planning advocacy events on-campus until the budget is finalized by the governor. He is also currently working on a video for students that will explain the CSU budgeting process.

“It is important to get the word out because not enough students know about the potential tuition increase,” he said in an email on March 20. “Also, even if the tuition increase will not have a significant effect on you, it will impact plenty of other students who are seeking to better themselves through education.”

Colliflower said students can advocate for themselves by calling their legislator and telling them why they should support a fully funded CSU. “Also sharing the hashtag #ChooseCSU on social media will help spread the message of the tuition increase and

Since then, the university has focused on the construction and renovation of buildings that bring in revenue, like new student housing and the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union because students support a fee to cover the costs of them.

This is due to the lack of money spent by the state on higher education projects like renovations, Schulz said.

“We are a creation of the state legislature. The state of California tells us what our budgets are, what our priorities are and tells us what the state of California wants to fund and doesn’t want to fund,” Schulz said.

“That decision is decided way outside the parameters of San Diego State and anybody here.”

Criminal justice sophomore Ariana Uribe said it’s seems like their priorities are with the university being a business.

She said to not prioritize retrofitting is really dangerous because we are expecting a big earthquake soon.

“I don’t want to be in the building when that happens,” she said.

Schulz said it would give people the wrong impression to think something wrong is occurring because there are other maintenance needs on the campus that exceed $500,000.

“Of the things I worry about long term, the seismic safety of Love Library is fairly low on my list,” Schulz said.

History sophomore Madison Schwartz said she’s not surprised that the library is not up to date on seismic renovations.

“I don’t walk around thinking it’s disgusting or old, but sometimes thinking about the elevators and such it makes sense and it could probably use updating,” she said. legislators and the governor will take note of the widespread breadth of the message,” he said.

He said he thinks funding for the CSU has been a recurring problem that the state and the Board of Trustees have not been able to solve, despite years of trying to develop a sustainable funding model.

“I think that the CSU is facing mandatory cost increases and the only way to survive (them) is by raising revenues and or making cuts.” he said. “I think that the government has steadily disinvested in the CSU over the last 20 years and that students have unfairly been forced to make up that slack.”

International business junior Jose Hernandez said he was not aware of the possible tuition increase. He said as a commuter student, a tuition increase would affect his expenses throughout the semester.

“So I have to rethink what I actually purchase, (and) make sure that I just do the best to reduce the cost for textbook supplies and stuff like that,” he said. “It’s a lot of things that students need to think of before they actually try to consider how much units they’re going take per semester.”

Hernandez said the CSU should look at all viable options before increasing tuition.

“Because I know that it’s really costly for students to attend the university, even though this is one of the best schools to go for education like this,” he said.

Director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships Rose Pasenelli said her office has not had more students asking how a potential increase will affect them.

“We have not put out any publications yet because it isn’t final,” she said.

She said once a decision is made, the office will update its website and adjust financial aid accordingly.

“It makes it difficult for us because we just went out with the awards for ‘17-18 (school year) last week, so any type of fee increase would change what we send out so we have to go back and revise all the awards,” she said.

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Resolution condems anti-Semitism TALIA RAOUFPUR SENIOR STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________ A resolution has been submitted to Associated Students by the Jewish Student Union calling for the elimination of any form of anti-Semitic propaganda at San Diego State.

A certain student group has objected to the resolution, claiming it inhibits free speech. According to critics, the resolution condemns any form of criticism towards the nation of Israel.

This is untrue.

It does not discourage students from being critical of the Israeli government, but condemns students who make anti-Semitic claims in the process. It criticizes anti-Israel tactics used by certain groups on campus who support the anti-Semitic BDS movement.

The double standard applied to the state of Israel has never been more evident. Criticism of the country often results in the propagation of the antiIsraeli movement, which is founded on underlying ideas of anti-Semitism.

For example, the so-called “apartheid” walls previously displayed by the BDS campaign on campus used graphic images depicting Israelis and Zionists as murderers who terrorize Palestinian families. One wall equated

Jews with Israelis.

If the BDS movement is not antiSemitic, why would the Jewish people be included in this political and economic campaign against Israel?

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, has used his platform to promote anti-Semitism and the elimination of a nation for the Jewish people.

Barghouti has said he opposes the state of Israel. “(Only) a sellout Palestinian would accept a Jewish state in Palestine,” he said.

Barghouti has relentlessly promoted BDS’s ultimate goal — to eliminate the state of Israel and eradicate the existence of a Jewish nation.

The resolution before A.S. states that “its only purpose is to define the line between civil, academic debate and hate speech.”

There have been several anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish students at SDSU during the last few years.

A post on Yik Yak said “Israeli apartheid is far worse than Hitler’s regime. Hitler was trying to save his people from the horrible conditions laid upon them by the west. Israel blindly murders based on racist ideology.”

In October 2015, during the National

Students for the Justice in Palestine conference, a Jewish woman was harassed on the bridge connected to the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union for wearing a Star of David around her neck.

In September 2016, author Miko Peled was invited to speak at SDSU by an anti-Israel student organization despite his public references to Jews on social media as “sleazy thieves.”

The invitation was rescinded under public pressure.

At the A.S. presidential debate, candidate Ben Delbick — who is Jewish, and serves as president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity —was describing his stance on BDS and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A male can be heard shouting “bomb them!”

This resolution is to ensure that incidents like this should not occur on our campus again and that the Jewish community on campus feels safe and secure. It would help ensure the campus community understands how dangerous anti-Semitic undertones of the BDS movement are.

The issue here is not free speech.

The issue is that too often, at SDSU and on college campuses, the BDS movement demonizes and holds the Jewish state to double standards. The

movement functions as a vehicle for anti-Semitism.

The Jewish community understands the tropes that are invoked when Israelis and Zionists are categorized as blood-thirsty murderers who terrorize Palestinian families. It understands why the world’s only Jewish state is disproportionately condemned and delegitimized in the halls of college campuses and the U.N. They understand the terrifying, anti-Semitic subtext behind the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”

It is impossible to divorce the BDS movement from its anti-Semitic foundations.

After years of being ignored and unacknowledged at SDSU, antiSemitism must be combated. This campus needs a resolution and greater attention towards an increasingly popular social issue now, at a time when anti-Semitism is being espoused by the political left and right. It is an issue concerning college campuses nationwide and SDSU must take a firm stand.

Talia Raoufpur is a third-year psychology major minoring in communications. Connect with her on Facebook.

Planned Parenthood’s future is uncertain CHLOE O’ROURKE CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ One of the most heated current political debates concerns the issue of Planned Parenthood and female reproductive rights.

Planned Parenthood has been providing services to women since 1970, but after the recent election the organization is under threat. One location is set to close in December 2017.

Despite the current political rhetoric, Planned Parenthood focuses on prevention — 80 percent of its services go toward pregnancy prevention. Too often this institution is put in a bad

light, which has lead to the decision by the Trump administration to attempt to cut funding.

Private fundraisers and protests keep the fight going but the simple fact is that if federal funding is cut off, Planned Parenthood won’t stand a chance.

Planned Parenthood’s fact sheet states that most of its funding comes from Medicaid reimbursements, and that it received more than $528 million in federal funding last year — about 40 percent of its total.

If this gets cut off, there is no way for Planned Parenthood to survive and provide the same level of care.

But college campuses could seize the opportunity and fill in the gap.

A new law, passed on April 8, 2016, allows women to obtain contraceptives without a prescription. The goal of the law was to reduce unintended pregnancies, but it also created a new opportunity for California universities.

It created a new way for college students to get contraceptives and preventative care.

Universities could expand their already existing programs to provide students with services that would keep the entire campus community safer.

SDSU already offers the Family PACT program, which offers family planning services out of Calpulli Center. But this program is only for low-income individuals with no other sort of coverage for such services.

If this system could be expanded to cover all students, it would be a great alternative to the services that would be lost with the closing of Planned Parenthood.

With Planned Parenthood facing an uncertain financial future, it would be in the best interests of the entire community for universities to step up and provide those potentially lost services.

Chloe O’Rourke is a first-year journalism major with an emphasis in public relations minoring in English.

Find her on Twitter @chloeeorourke and Instagram @chloe.orourke.

New Disney film puts taboos to the test DANA TSURI-ETZIONI STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________ “Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test,” goes the famous line from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Disney took it literally this time in its just released live-action adaptation.

Usually Disney sticks to conventional storylines without testing the status quo. It has been accused of “Disneyfying” original tales in order to make them family-friendly and ensure ticket sales.

This is especially obvious with the original cartoon movies, such as “The Little Mermaid.” In this film, Disney

altered the original version of the tale

by The Brothers Grimm and took out the part in which the mermaid has her tongue cut out by the sea witch. They also completely changed the ending, giving Ariel the happily ever after she did not have in the original story. All of this was to preserve the innocence of children.

However, Beauty and the Beast surprisingly tested the status quo and Disney didn’t seem afraid of backlash.

The live-action version of Beauty and the Beast included a gay character, Gaston’s trusty sidekick, LeFou. Although the hints were subtle regarding LeFou’s sexuality, they were prevalent enough to establish him as being gay. There was another non-

heterosexual character in the movie, and although he wasn’t as prominent, it was refreshing to see the Disney broadening its sexual horizons.

Not everyone was pleased.

Conservative groups boycotted the movie, and an Alabama drivein theater even refused to show it.

Although it was probably obvious to the adult audiences what LeFou’s sexual orientation was, it wasn’t as if Disney portrayed him in any more of a promiscuous manner.

It is refreshing that Disney is putting its past of conformity behind it and is being more progressive.

What’s even more refreshing is the rating of the movie — PG. Therefore, the Motion Picture Association of

America is also saying it is okay to normalize characters of all different sexualities on the big screen, even if that movie is meant for kids. Kids are impressionable, and to show them that being gay isn’t considered mature content is important for future generations. Bigotry is fought through education, and incorporating what used to be considered a taboo into a mainstream movie might just help counter the bigotry in future generations.

Dana Tsuri-Etzioni is a first-year communications major.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREW DYER • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Arts funding threatened Trump’s ‘baby budget’ guts arts and humanities; boosts defense SYDNEY SWEENEY SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Donald Trump thinks arts and culture are trivial. At least that is what he is communicating to Americans.

Last week his administration released a partial outline of the 2018 federal budget that threatens four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Each agency serves a distinct purpose rooted in the accessibility, research and preservation of its focus.

Some of these organizations risk eradication. At the top of Trump’s hit list is the only agency that our federal government has wholly dedicated to artistic excellence — the NEA. For decades, this program has been neglected and censured by Republican politicians and intolerant conservatives, yet the significance of the NEA outweighs that of saving a few federal bucks. If realized, the elimination of the agency is a misstep that can lead to national calamity, affecting citizens who don’t identify as artists.

It is no secret that the administration’s reason for ridding of the NEA relates to Trump’s obsession with disproportionately handing money to Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. This month the New York Times reported that these three agencies are the only ones to receive a budget increase for 2018 — predictably, defense has received the largest increase in dollars, spiking to $574 billion, roughly a 10 percent increase from last year — while all other departmental budgets have not only stagnated, but shrunken.

These proposed cuts would result in a 1.2 percent decrease in discretionary spending overall, but Trump’s careless thrift echoes unreasonable priorities, like scaling back on career training programs focused on assisting disadvantaged citizens — seniors, youth and the unemployed — while spending over $1.5 billion on the detention and removal of undocumented immigrants. With more than a half-trillion dollars at the disposal of the military, agencies like the NEA, with its modest $148 million budget, are hardly affecting the bigger picture. And if all those numbers are overwhelming, here’s a simpler way to say how much the federal government usually invests in cultural programs — virtually nothing.

From preschool to adulthood, Americans have been taught to believe that the U.S. is a furnace crackling with support for creative expression.

Arts educators frequent classrooms to tell children about Claude Monet’s mastery, school field trips to the ballet are ritualistic and interactive courses like band and choir are offered to everyone. Best-selling musician Kenny G credits his Seattle elementary school with fostering his early love for the saxophone. American institutions,

like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are recognized to be some of the world’s largest, most visited art museums. Many post-secondary curriculums require students to take advanced courses focusing on cultural explorations.

In isolation, this nation appears to be dedicated to artistic achievement. Yet, relative to other developed nations, the U.S. federal government’s arts-related devotion is historically elusive. NEA data from 2000 reported that the U.S. spent $6 per capita on the arts in 1995 as Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden spent seven to 15 times as much, despite smaller GDPs per capita. Nearly 10 years later, the Canada Council for the Arts — the Canadian equivalent to the NEA— highlighted the cheapskate

But this new administration is the first to legitimately propose the NEA’s elimination entirely, and it is unclear of whether the forever-turbulent, 52-year-old agency can withstand Trump’s new expenditure plans — especially if a Republican congress is on his side.

The NEA is a multifaceted lifeline that gives all Americans an opportunity to expose themselves to, and possibly pursue, the arts through both support and funding that artists, cultural organizations and schools would not otherwise have access to.

Roughly a third of the endowment’s budget is sanctioned to state and regional partnerships that enable every community to engage in the arts, while each state is required to allocate a portion of its federal grant to strengthening arts education and assisting underserved populations in every congressional district. And half of NEA arts education grantees are located where the arts are most needed — highpoverty neighborhoods.

People who advocate for the abolition of cultural organizations like the NEA should realize millions of American youth are dissimilar to Trump’s own children who grew up in conditions of metropolitan wealth and comfort.

The NEA has also directly gifted thousands to the SDSU Foundation year after year for the school’s Heartpower Performances program that underscores music’s role in positive change.

In a 2012 study, the agency found that young people of low socioeconomic status who engaged in the arts earned better grades and were more likely to enroll and stay in college compared to less arts-involved youth.

But this doesn’t mean that at-risk children and teens are the only ones benefiting from federal arts funding.

The Arts Education Partnership, a national network of organizations supported by both the NEA and the Department of Education, reported that high school students who experience arts-integrated curricula meet or significantly exceed state and district standardized test averages, regardless of student privilege.

It may be difficult for some young people to envision what the U.S. would be like without the NEA because its presence is so stealthily ubiquitous.

Consider the surrounding arts and culture community — Balboa Park’s Old Globe Theatre and Museum of Photographic Arts, which received a total of $68,000 in federal grants last year, or the kids of the San Diego Youth Symphony that was given $40,000 to support expanded access to music education for public school students.

The threat to the NEA is anything but a distanced issue. Every dollar invested in the endowment is a dollar invested in the welfare of future generations.

WITH MORE THAN A HALFTRILLION DOLLARS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE MILITARY, AGENCIES LIKE THE NEA, WITH ITS MODEST BUDGET, ARE HARDLY AFFECTING THE BIGGER PICTURE.

behavior of the U.S., which issued just 33 cents per individual in grants. Such comparisons serve to counter the belief that the American government assumes a pioneer role in cultural contexts, and these statistics — spanning over two decades — prove that no amount of research has convinced the federal government that the arts are worth more than border walls and warships.

People who dismiss the importance of federally funded arts programs might say NEA supporters should feel lucky that the agency managed to make it this far — and that’s true.

Both family groups and the regressive portion of the GOP, a sort of anticultural tag team, have previously targeted the agency.

Like Trump, Ronald Regan entered office with a plan to save money by doing away with a large chunk of the NEA. Conservative cronies Charlton Heston and Joseph Coors convinced him of the endowment’s value. And on multiple occasions, projects funded by the agency have been deemed offensive or distasteful — the best example of this criticism is the infamous “NEA Four,” a group of artists whose subjectively indecent, artistic merit-lacking performances were funded with federal grants to the dismay of some folks back in 1993. As the agency’s initialism has broken this year’s headlines under Trump’s recent proposal, right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation are digging up old lists on why the NEA should be defunded, while Fox News’ Tucker Carlson argues the organization is “welfare for rich, liberal elites.”

The endowment, meager budget and all, has been able to hold its ground.

Sydney Sweeney is a third-year journalism major minoring in creative editing and publishing. Find her on Twitter @syderature.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREA LOPEZ-VILLAFAÑA • MUNDOAZTECA@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Apoyo académico para estudiantes Estudiantes universitarios vencen obstáculos académicos gracias al programa de EOP en SDSU Durante el año académico, EOP ofrece servicios de consejería, asesoramiento, programas de retención y tutorías a sus estudiantes.

BENEFICIOS PARA LOS ESTUDIANTES

La oficina de EOP se encuentra en el segundo piso del edificio de Servicios para Estudiantes en el salón 2109.

KELLY SMILEY, EDITORA DE FOTOS

MONSERRAT TORRES ESCRITORA ____________________________________ El Programa de Oportunidades Educativas (EOP) es uno de los programas más complejos de la San Diego State University.

“En EOP proveemos acceso y programas de retención a estudiantes de bajos recursos y estudiantes de primera generación”, dijo Chia Her, consejera de EOP. “Nuestra meta es ayudar a estudiantes que no tienen oportunidades o que no están familiarizados con oportunidades de educación superior para que sean exitosos y se gradúen de la universidad”.

EOP ofrece servicios a los estudiantes desde el momento en que piensan estudiar en la universidad hasta el momento en que se gradúan, dijo Her. Mediante presentaciones y talleres, estudiantes de secundaria y preparatoria

pueden empezar a conocer más sobre el programa y ver qué requisitos deben completar para formar parte del programa una vez que entran a la universidad.

PROGRAMAS DE EOP

Sergio Mora, estudiante de matemáticas, se ha beneficiado de los servicios de EOP. “Lo que más me gusta de EOP son los servicios que ofrecen”, dijo Mora, “especialmente la tutoría gratis, esto es un apoyo para mis estudios porque sin la tutoría hubiera batallado más con mis clases, ahorita estoy usando los recursos para estudiar y mejorar mis calificaciones”.

Mora recomienda que los estudiantes que están por entrar a SDSU formen parte de EOP. “Recomiendo EOP para cualquier estudiante que está empezando la universidad y sus padres no fueron al colegio. La primera generación siempre tenemos la batalla de cómo sobrevivir en un ambiente diferente porque nuestros padres no fueron al colegio y no nos pueden orientar”.

académicamente o personalmente.

“Cada estudiante viene con diferentes problemas, a veces son problemas personales, otras veces son problemas financieros o académicos”, dijo Her. “La consejería sirve para saber qué está pasando por la vida del estudiante, cuáles son sus metas y cómo los podemos ayudar”.

Her asegura que el empeño de los estudiantes de EOP es algo que ella admira muchísimo ya que todos han pasado por algo difícil.

“A diferencia de un estudiante tradicional, estos estudiantes han venido sobrepasando muchas cosas, estos estudiantes tienen la fuerza, coraje y la resistencia de continuar con su camino, aunque sea difícil y muchas veces mucho más complicado que el de un estudiante tradicional”, dijo Her. EXPERIENCIAS POSITIVAS

Salvador Terrones, estudiante de estudios interdisciplinarios, ha tenido una muy buena experiencia desde que fue aceptado en EOP. “Puede sonar como un cliché, pero realmente se han convertido en parte de mi familia. El apoyo que EOP le da a los estudiantes es excelente”.

Terrones trabajó en la oficina de - Salvador Terrones EOP, y eso lo ha Estudios interdisiplinarios ayudado a admirar aún más lo que hacen en este SERVICIOS DE CONSEJERÍA programa.

“Mi experiencia trabajando con los Una vez que los estudiantes son empleados de EOP me ha inspirado aceptados en EOP, se les asigna un para que un día trabaje con estudiantes consejero con quien tendrán que verse de primera generación. No creo que durante el semestre. El consejero debe hubiera llegado hasta aquí, o al menos sin saber orientar al estudiante ya sea problemas, si no hubiera sido por ellos.”

“ PUEDE SONAR COMO UN CLICHÉ, PERO REALMENTE SE

Uno de los programas más competitivos de EOP es Summer Bridge. Este programa es completamente gratuito y tiene una duración de cinco semanas durante el verano.

Así algunos estudiantes de primer año tienen la oportunidad de adelantar clases e irse familiarizando con la universidad.

Además del Summer Bridge, EOP tiene un programa único llamado de Guardian Scholars Program, un programa para estudiantes que estuvieron bajo el cuidado de familias adoptivas durante su infancia.

HAN CONVERTIDO EN PARTE DE MI FAMILIA.”

Profesores responden a leyes de inmigración AMANDA RIVERA ESCRITORA ____________________________________ A principios de este año, presidente Donald Trump firmó un decreto que prohíbe temporalmente la entrada a personas de siete países musulmanes a los Estados Unidos.

Miles de personas protestaron esta decisión, y asistieron a los diferentes aeropuertos de los Estados Unidos en apoyo a las personas detenidas en inmigración.

Personas de todo el país han reaccionado de muchas maneras al accionar de Trump. Hubo personas que apoyaron la decisión de Trump pero otras no vieron con buenos ojos, esta prohibición.

Las universidades de todo el país y entre ellas el sistema de la Universidad Estatal de California han mostrado profunda preocupación, ya que esta acción es contraria a los valores institucionales de diversidad e inclusión.

Los profesores de San Diego State University se mostraron firmes con respecto a la protección de los estudiantes, en la medida en que puedan hacerlo legalmente y están comprometidos a apoyar a

los estudiantes para que no tengan obstáculos para seguir con su educación.

“Está mal y causará más daño que bien”, dijo Valerie Barker, profesora de la Escuela de Periodismo y Estudios Mediáticos de SDSU. “No hay evidencia de necesidad para ello. Está afectando a familias y personas que merecen venir a este país”.

Inmediatamente después de la difusión del decreto de Trump, el presidente de SDSU, Elliot Hirshman, envió una declaración a los estudiantes, profesores y personal de la universidad con respecto al decreto presidencial. “ San Diego State University se enorgullece de ser una de las universidades más diversas del país”, decía su mensaje. “Nuestros estudiantes y profesores internacionales son una parte valiosa de nuestra comunidad.

Es fundamental que las personas de todos orígenes y nacionalidades tengan la oportunidad de perseguir sus metas educativas y personales, y trabajar juntos en un ambiente seguro y respetuoso”.

Por su parte, Paul Minifee, profesor asociado de Retórica y Escritura en SDSU, dijo que la presidencia de Trump hasta ahora ha deshonrado la dignidad de la oficina presidencial, ha deshonrado los valores fundamentales de nuestro

La profesora Barker lleva un alfiler de gancho grande en su bolso como un símbolo de seguridad y protección.

AMANDA RIVERA, ESCRITORA

país y se ha burlado de nuestro sistema gubernamental.

“Nunca he estado tan avergonzado de ser un ciudadano estadounidense”, dijo Minifee. “Las acciones de Trump exponen el miedo y el odio profundamente arraigados que, desgraciadamente, muchos estadounidenses sienten hacia

las minorías étnicas, raciales y culturales”.

Para estudiantes inmigrantes e indocumentados en SDSU Minifee dijo que mantengan su dignidad y “la confianza de que sus aliados seguirán luchando por sus derechos, y saber que SDSU y el sistema de la Universidad Estatal están a su lado.”

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREA LOPEZ-VILLAFAÑA • MUNDOAZTECA@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Obstáculos de obtener estatus legal VLADIMIR SALAZAR ESCRITOR ____________________________________ El tema de inmigración estuvo presente durante la campaña de Presidente Donald Trump quien prometió construir un muro y detener el cruce “ilegal” de inmigrantes a los Estados Unidos.

Una opción que los indocumentados pueden tomar es hacerse ciudadanos estadounidenses.

El problema es que este proceso es complicado y tardado.

Según el sitio oficial de inmigración y ciudadanía de EE.UU, para nacionalizarse uno tiene que vivir por lo menos cinco años dentro del país con una visa de residente permanente.

Después de vivir por lo menos cinco años dentro de EE.UU, tienen que completar la forma N-400 para ver si son autorizados la ciudadanía estadounidense.

Si son elegibles para poder nacionalizarse, tienen que tomar un examen en donde se comprueba que el solicitante sabe de la historia de EE.UU, y hablar inglés.

Estadísticas presentadas por CNN reportaron que más de un millón de personas recibieron la visa de residencia permanente en 2015.

El centro de inmigración americana reportó que aproximadamente seis millones de personas aplican para obtener la visa de residente permanente.

De acuerdo a las estadísticas de CNN,

Cruces en el muro entre México y los EE.UU., tienen los nombres de personsas quienes han fallecido cruzando la frontera.

VLADIMIR SALAZAR, ESCRITOR

menciona que en promedio una persona con residencia legal en EE.UU, dura seis años en nacionalizarse.

Victor Clark Alfaro, profesor de estudios latinoamericanos en San Diego State dijo que la razón por la cual la gente no se está nacionalizado es porque no cuentan con los requisitos que son requeridos “Para hacerse ciudadano hay que primero ser residente, la gran mayoría de indocumentados mexicanos no llenan ese requisito”, dijo Alfaro.

En EE.UU, existen por el momento 11 millones de personas que están en el país como indocumentados.

Trump hasta el momento ha prometido continuar con las deportaciones masivas y construir un muro para reducir el flujo de inmigrantes.

residencia en 1992 y se logró convertir en ciudadana en el 2009. Pero antes de que obtuviera su residencia, ella vivía en EE.UU, como indocumentada.

Rosales dijo que cruzó a los EE.UU, a los 14 años por medio de un coyote en 1972.

Rosales volvió a cruzar 2 veces más sin documentos ya que ella se regresaba a su pueblo de origen, Tuxcacuesco, Jalisco.

Rosales dijo que mientras vivía en EE.UU., como indocumentada vivía con miedo.

“Es muy feo vivir en este país pensando que puedes ser deportada”, dice Rosales, “Yo cuando viví aquí como indocumentada no estudie porque tenía miedo”.

“ PARA HACERSE CIUDADANO HAY QUE PRIMERO SER

RESIDENTE, LA GRAN MAYORIA DE INDOCUMENTADOS MEXICAOS NO LLENAN ESE REQUISITO” - Victor Clark Alfaro Profesor de estudios latinoamericanos

Alfaro menciona que de los 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados de México que residen en EE.UU. la mayoría de ellos entran por maneras legales.

“El 66% de mexicanos que cruzan y que después se convierten en indocumentados cruzan con visa de turista”, dijo Alfaro, “cruzan legalmente a Estados Unidos y después permanecen ahí, se les vence la visa de turista y ya están en condición de indocumentado”.

Rosario Rosales, residente de Montclair California es una ciudadana de EE.UU, paso por el proceso de obtener residencia legal y la ciudadanía.

La manera que ella llegó a obtener su visa de residente fue por medio de matrimonio con un ciudadano de EE.UU. Rosales relata que obtuvo su

Rosales dijo que ella cruzó sin documentos a EE.UU., porque en su ciudad de origen no había muchas oportunidades.

Tambien dijo que para ella obtener un pasaporte o una visa, no era una opción en ese momento debido a que su familia era de bajo ingreso.

“A mí no me hubieran dado visa o residencia legal si la hubiera solicitado”, dijo Rosales, “Para que te dieran esas cosas tenías que ser una persona de ingresos y mi familia era muy humilde”.

Funcionarios de gobierno mencionan que quieren ver el ingreso de inmigrantes pero solo si es de una manera legal.

Sin embargo se habla más de cómo limitar el cruce de indocumentados, que cómo ayudar a los inmigrantes que ya habitan el país.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Water polo on both sides of history KYLE SAUNDERS CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ It was an underwater rollercoaster for the Scarlet and Black, filled with smooth seas and rogue waves.

The No. 12 San Diego State split its matches in the pool at the Roadrunner Invitational in Bakersfield, California.

The first opponent of the weekend was Cal State East Bay (9-7), which the Aztecs (11-9) dismantled 15-4.

Senior utility Caroline Israels led the charge once again with four goals throughout the contest, but she was not the only Aztec to find the back of the net. Nine other players were able to get on the board against the Pioneers, including freshman driver Maddy Parenteau with her first goal of the season.

Although the final score seemed overwhelming, the contest was only a 3-2 game in the Aztecs’ favor after the first.

It was in the second period that SDSU took control of the game, adding to the lead with four consecutive goals and taking a staggering 7-2 lead at halftime.

The Pioneers could not match the scoring barrage that only became worse in the second half, with three goals in the third and five in the final period from the Aztecs, compared to only two in the second half from East Bay. The 15 goals are the second most

recorded in a game this season, with the first being 17 posted against Chapman University.

Counting the 14 goals against Fresno Pacific, the Aztecs tallied 29 goals in two matches, which is the most in a twogame stretch since the 2013-14 season.

After a dominating win, Israels and her squad looked to ride the momentum against the undefeated and 11th-ranked Princeton (12-0).

It was looking great for the Scarlet and Black, as they held a 1-0 lead at the end of the first and a 4-1 lead at halftime against their unbeaten opponent.

The goals came via Israels, Parenteau, senior defender Ioli Benekou and sophomore driver Hannah Carrillo.

However, the Tigers shut down the Aztecs in the second half.

Princeton used a three-goal second period to notch the score at 4-4 heading into the final quarter.

It was only in the final period that the Tigers were able to separate themselves from SDSU when junior Hayley Wan put Princeton out front with a 5-4 lead with three minutes to go.

Once again this season it came down to the final possession in the pool.

Benekou had the ball in her hands and sent a shot flying towards the net, but Princeton senior goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson tallied her ninth save and effectively ended the match.

The loss marks the fourth straight year

A water polo player looks to pass the ball foward.

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SDSU fell to the Ivy League program.

The women of the Mesa are now 6-9 against ranked opponents.

After a split at the Invitational,

the Aztecs’ next two matches are against California Baptist and Loyola Marymount University on March 24 and 25, respectively.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Seven nations, nine Aztecs, one title

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KAYLA ASENCIO STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ “Who are we? Aztecs! Whose house?

Our house! S-D-S-U Aztecs fight!”

Senior Kennedy Davis, from San Jose, California, leads her team in this cheer before every match.

Under head coach Peter Mattera, the Aztec Tennis Center has become home for the nine players on this year’s women’s tennis team.

For many of them, however, the tennis courts at San Diego State are a long way from home.

Out of the nine players, seven are from countries outside of the United States.

Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the U.S. are all represented every time the SDSU women’s tennis team steps onto the court.

The furthest away from home are freshmen Berta Acero and Marina Colvee from Spain. Nearly 6,000 miles separate them from their families.

“At the beginning it was really hard because I missed home and my family and everything,” Colvee said.

“Also, my dad was my coach so it was very different for me coming here and training with four girls in a court because I was used to training with my dad alone.”

As the season has progressed, Colvee says that she still doesn’t like how different the food is here, but overall she likes playing at SDSU. Despite the distance, Acero said she loves being in San Diego.

“I love the university and the way of studying because it’s all so different,” Acero said. “I love playing tennis with my team. I just love it.”

Freshman Mia Smith is from London, England and said it took her awhile to adapt to everything because it was so different.

“I’m used to the city and very hustle and bustle, but here it’s just like surf and chill and laidback,” Smith said. “It’s kind of a shock to the system, but I love it now and I’m so used to it.

“I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

Freshman Alli Valk made her way to SDSU from Vancouver, Canada.

the desire to want to win,” Diaz said.

“You know they really want to be in your spot, and you want to be in that spot too, so it’s for sure more competitive and it makes practice so much more fun.”

Coming from Mexico City, Diaz said that her experience at SDSU has been great in every possible way.

“It’s been a great experience in tennis, in education, in my personal life,” Diaz said. “Just everything has been a great experience.”

With a season that officially began on January 21, each player has come a long way and many credit this improvement to their head coach.

“ WHEN THINGS ARE GOING BAD, WE’RE ABLE TO STICK TOGETHER BECAUSE WE GENUINELY ENOJY EACH OTHER’S COMPANY.”

- Alli Valk, Freshman tennis player

After spending her entire life in a cold environment, she was ready for a warmer climate.

When asked what contributed to her decision in coming to SDSU, her answer was simple, “the sun.”

Each of the four freshmen have their own unique playing styles, and junior Paola Diaz de Regules, from Mexico City, says that they have also brought something else to the team.

“They’ve brought the intensity and

“Peter is so good at supporting you with everything and trying to understand you, and why you’re going about things a certain way,” Smith said.

“That’s really nice because so many coaches don’t really care.

“They just care about how you are on the court and don’t realize that how you are off court very much contributes to how you are on it, and he does.”

With four new freshmen on the team, it also took a little getting used to each

other before things started clicking.

“It’s not like we’ve had the same people on the team for a couple of years,” junior Jana Buth from Germany said. “It’s a lot of new stuff and I think we managed it pretty well.

“We get along with each other really well and we’re having fun.”

“In this team, we don’t have any bitter or angry people,” senior Olivia Larsson from Sweden said. “There’s lots of energy and humor at practice and on the court. I think that could be one of the reasons it could go well in the conference too.”

In a season that has been plagued with a lot of close losses, their spirits are still high because of the bonds that they’ve created with each other.

“When things are going bad, we’re able to stick together because we genuinely enjoy each other’s company,” Valk said.

Despite missing their own families and getting homesick every now and then, they have their own family within the team.

“All of our personalities are different, but when we come together I feel like it’s a good fit,” senior Taylor Lederman from Sarasota, Florida said. “It’s interesting being from all over the world, but it works.

“It’s a good dynamic.”

The goal of the team, nevertheless, has remained the same, which is to win the Mountain West Championship.

With conference play coming up on March 31, SDSU will get a chance to achieve that goal by facing UNLV in the first round of conference play at the Aztec Tennis Center at 10 a.m.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Aztecs hole-in-one atop the Mesa TONY ZARATE STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The road from a small town to the bustling city is a straight shot for some, including San Diego State’s women’s golfer senior Sirene Blair.

From South Jordan, Utah, Blair was set to break out of the frigid temperatures of northern Utah, especially in a sport that is played exclusively outdoors.

Her father introduced her to the game when she was 10 years old, and as her game progressed, she began playing in tournaments every summer in the Utah Junior Golf Association and the Utah Golf Association until she was 17 years old.

In high school, Blair chased those dreams and put herself in the spotlight of NCAA schools. Throughout her four years attending Bingham High School, Blair won four state 5A women’s golf titles and brought home four consecutive individual state awards as well.

Living in the cold weather in Utah, Blair dreamed of the chance to possibly play collegiate level golf in California.

She cashed in on her years of hard work as a junior in high school when she got the call from SDSU women’s golf head coach Leslie Spalding, who offered Blair the chance to come to the Mesa.

“State is also a Division 1 university,

and I could see myself progressing as a golfer with all of the resources that would be available to me,” Blair said.

That progression was immediate for Blair as she walked on to campus.

During her first year, Blair was the fourth Aztec to claim the Mountain West Freshman of the Year honors along with being named first-team allMW. She also was able to win her first collegiate tournament that year at the Las Vegas Showdown. In the final round Blair dominated the course shooting a final round 5-under par 67 to boost the Aztecs to a win.

In her time on campus, Blair has earned the respect of Spalding. And after four years she is only getting better, Spalding said.

“Sirene learns daily about herself and her golf,” Spalding said. “She works on her weaknesses and spends countless hours working alone on her game. She is single-minded regarding her goals and just watching her daily is a life lesson for anyone on the team.”

Since her freshman year as an Aztec, her work ethic and dedication to the game has seemed to pay off as her track record continued to grow. In Blair’s sophomore season, she led the Aztecs to their first ever MW Championship as she shot a final round 1-under 71 in the final round of play.

Her junior year saw no faults either. In her third year wearing the Scarlet and

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Black, Blair took home all-conference second-team and she earned a spot on the WGCA All-Scholar team as well as landing a spot on the conference’s all-academic team for the third year in a row.

The hard work that Blair puts in on and off the course are traits that don’t go unnoticed by her fellow teammates.

The way that she sets her mind to what she wants to achieve reverberates throughout the team.

“She plays with a calm and cool

exterior but carries herself well and holds herself to a high standard,” sophomore Daniela Anastasi said. “In that respect, she is a great role model.”

Her traits demonstrate character and high spirits, yet it always comes back to her passion for the game.

Blair has a bright future ahead of her and it seems like the sky’s the limit for the senior graduating this spring. Blair’s attitude and demeanor will leave a template for future Aztecs to emulate as they arrive to the Mesa.

Caplan caps off her season with a splash JOSEPH FARIA STAFF WRITER ____________________________________

Junior Alexandra Caplan was the lone representative for San Diego State swimming and diving at the 2017 NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana. She competed in the 3-meter springboard on Monday, March 20, advancing out of the preliminary round and placing seventh in the consolation finals.

She qualified for the four-day championship meet after her sixth-place finish on the 3-meter board at the Zone E Diving Championships.

“I enjoyed being in the moment and felt like I had a real sense of confidence going in,” Caplan said. “I learned from my experiences in the previous two years in these competitions.”

In Indianapolis, her preliminary round score of 316.55 placed her 12th out of 50 divers in the event.

The preliminary winner was Olivia Rosendahl of Northwestern University, who captured a score of 375.25. Only the top eight scorers advanced to the finals while the proceeding eight (9-16) advanced to the consolation finals.

Caplan recorded a mark of 302.10 in her seventh-place finish out of eight competitors in consolations. The University of Missouri’s Lauren Reedy took the consolation final with a score of 52.15.

Caplan said she felt like “she really belonged this year” in the tournament in comparison to her freshmen and sophomore years with a “swagger” about herself.

A lot of that confidence and energy stemmed from head coach Roland

McDonald since none of her teammates traveled with her. She said it was “difficult to keep herself going” and that she felt “more anxious” in the beginning.

However, once she practiced and settled down, she regained focus. And although she wasn’t having as much fun as she would have with the company of her teammates, she knew she had their full support back home.

“It was a complete one-on-one meet with my coach,” Caplan said. “Seeing his face every time I dove was all I needed because I knew this event meant everything to him.

“He told me that I was the first junior in Aztec history to move past prelims, and I wanted to prove to him that I could handle the pressure.”

Her dad also made the trip to Indianapolis. Caplan said he texted her during the Zone E Dive that he was buying his ticket the moment she qualified, saying he “wasn’t going to miss it.”

Because of her outstanding performance throughout the season, Caplan earned all-American honorable mentions.

The Mission Viejo native is also the first diver to represent SDSU at the NCAA Championships since Kristen Meier and Anna Steiner qualified in 2012.

During the 2016-17 season, the junior made remarkable achievements.

She set a school record for the 3-meter board with a score of 359.65 during the Mountain West Championships in addition to being named Conference Diver of the Week twice.

The swimming and diving season has officially come to a close. The teams will start practicing in August and compete in the first meets in September.

MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANTHONY RECLUSADO • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

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Aztecs strike out at San Diego Invite DEAGAN LOEWE-POLLOCK STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State (5-10) men’s tennis lost all three of its matchups in the San Diego Spring Break Tournament.

First up for SDSU, at the Aztec Tennis Center, was No. 25 University of Oregon (12-2). This marked its third straight match against a top-30 opponent.

In the doubles sets, Oregon took a quick advantage by earning the doubles point. On court No. 3 two juniors, Simon Stevens and Akihiro Tanaka, made quick work of the freshman team for SDSU, Rafael Gonzalez Almazan and Joel Popov, 6-2.

SDSU made it interesting when the senior co-captains, Milen Ianakiev and Marko Goles-Babic upset the No. 42 ranked doubles team of senior Jayson Amos and sophomore Armando Soemarno, 6-4.

The Ducks clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 decision by sophomore Thomas Laurent and junior Cormac Clissold against SDSU’s junior Santiago Cevallos and sophomore Sander GjoelsAndersen.

It then took Oregon only three more matches to oust the Aztecs.

With the Ducks clinching victory, all other matches resulted in a Did Not Finish.

The only match that was close for SDSU was Gjoels-Andersen’s matchup against Tanaka. Gjoels-Andersen won the first set 6-3 and was down 4-3 when Oregon clinched the fourth point.

Oregon eventually went on to defeat Iowa, 4-0, and then No. 30 ranked Tulane,

Change: Whitehead demands equality Continued from P1 impairment causes the muscles on the left side of his body to spasmodically contract, which lead to fatigue at an intense rate.

Not deterred by any means, Whitehead remained steadfast in his pursuit of a successful career in football at the high school level, wearing the same cleats as his teammates and strapping up the same helmet.

Because of his disability, he struggled to build muscle mass at a similar rate to his teammates, so his high school coach directed him to Chula Vista High School’s track and field program to help perfect his speed. If he couldn’t get stronger, Whitehead knew he needed to get faster.

Whitehead, however, soon realized that he had a better opportunity to reach the top of his game in track and field than football which, paired with another football-related injury in 2011, ultimately pushed him away from the gridiron and shifted his focus to track and field.

Having been introduced to the Paralympics earlier that year, Whitehead was determined to perfect his technique in the 100-meter dash and long jump to compete in the 2012 Paralympics in London.

After just over a year of intense

4-2, to win the San Diego Spring Break Invitational.

SDSU then moved on to play Harvard (9-7).

After dropping the last three matches, SDSU looked to get back on track in the second match of the SD Invite.

The Aztecs, however, were unable to return to their winning ways and fell to the Crimson, 4-1.

Starting off strong, Goles-Babic and Ianakiev surprised the No. 40 ranked doubles team, senior Brian Yeung, and junior Kenny Tao, 6-0.

The next two matches didn’t go the Aztecs’ way.

Sophomore Michael Peters and junior Jean Thirouin defeated Cevallos and Gjoels-Andersen, 6-1.

Then, the Crimson grabbed the doubles point when sophomore Christopher Morrow and freshman Logan Weber beat out Gonzalez Almazan and Popov, 6-4.

In the singles matches, it looked like SDSU would climb within reach of an upset win. Gonzalez Almazan won his match against Morrow, 6-0, 6-2.

However, that was the lone victory for the Aztecs. The Crimson won the next three matches.

This marked the first match in the last four that the Aztecs were able to get on the scoreboard. They hoped to end their four-game losing streak against Arizona (9-9) in the final match of the Invite.

The result: a nail-biting 4-3 loss.

SDSU pulled out the doubles point.

Goles-Babic and Ianakiev dropped sophomore Will Adkisson and junior Shoti Meparidze, 6-2.

Cevallos and freshman Nicholas Mitchell then won by the same score as

their SDSU teammates, against junior Trent Botha and senior Oliver Plaskett, 6-2.

The third doubles match resulted in a DNF once SDSU had claimed the doubles point.

Things began to look up for SDSU when Gonzalez Almazan gave the Aztecs a 2-0 lead with his second straight singles match victory, 6-0, 6-3.

Arizona then got on the board with a Gjoels-Andersen loss, 6-1, 6-4.

Goles-Babic then gave SDSU something it hadn’t experienced for a long time: a 3-1 lead.

Arizona pulled closer when junior Shoki Kasahara won a long, three-set match against the lefty Cevallos, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The Wildcats then tied it at three-apiece when senior Will Kneale won his

own three-set match against the cocaptain Ianakiev, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

It seemed like a freight train that couldn’t be stopped. The only Aztec standing in the way was the freshman Popov. He lost a heartbreaker to freshman Alejandro Reguant, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5).

It was the exclamation point tagged to a disappointing weekend for the men from the Mesa.

SDSU has dropped five in a row. The silver lining in their loss to Arizona would be the fact that they were able to contend against their opponent. They had scored one point or less in the last four.

They travel to Logan, Utah on March 25 to try and end a five-game skid. The No. 49 Utah State Aggies are on a three-game winning streak and hope to keep SDSU’s losing streak alive.

training, Whitehead participated in the long jump event at the 2012 Paralympic tryouts. And on just his second jump, he set an American record.

Convinced he would be taking the trip to London, Whitehead was ecstatic with his performance. However, he soon found out that the United States’ Paralympic team is only allotted 40 spots, regardless of event and disability, to attend the Paralympics, meaning his single performance in the long jump wasn’t enough for him to earn a bid to London.

Rather than sulking in result of the setback, Whitehead quickly turned his attention to his next goal, the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Balancing track and courses at San Diego State, Whitehead improved his long jump and 100-meter dash to rank among the best in the world over the course of four years, entering the 2016 Paralympic tryouts as the fastest athlete with cerebral palsy in American history.

Again, Whitehead was convinced he would be taking his talents to the Paralympics, and again he was denied of his dreams.

Sitting just below the 40 names set to go to Rio de Janeiro, Whitehead’s name rested beside a number he would not forget: No. 41.

“It was one of the most devastating things I’ve ever heard,” Whitehead said.

“It was one of the most devastating things I’ve ever felt.”

Without a proper adjective in his arsenal, Whitehead provided a detailed explanation of how the news affected his confidence.

“For some reason, I kept seeing myself in a room where all the walls were the things I was built off of,” Whitehead said, “but they were all burning. They were slowly burning. I

was getting drained.

“I felt like a loser, to a sense. I worked so hard.”

Pitted with disappointment, Whitehead shielded himself from the world of track and field for nearly three weeks before returning to the track in light of great news: a spot was opening on the U.S. Paralympic team.

The 2016 Russian Paralympic team was later banned from participating in the Paralympics after falling victim to a doping scandal shortly after Whitehead was caught in a fire fueled by his achievements, opening up a window of opportunity to fill a newly open spot on the U.S. Paralympic team.

“That changed everything,” Whitehead said. “(We went) from the crazy, emotional low to we’re going to Rio, we made it. Through the backdoor, but we made it.”

Whitehead went on to exceed expectations in his Paralympic debut, earning 12th in long jump and 11th in the 100-meter sprint.

“I don’t think I had a really bad moment (in Rio),” Whitehead said. “I was just thankful to be there.”

Now, a year removed from his Paralympic efforts, Whitehead is determined to return to the Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

However, his ambitions now fall far outside of the Paralympics.

Whitehead is the president of Aztec Adaptive Sports, a registered student organization at SDSU geared to help other athletes with disabilities extend their careers beyond the high school level.

“Our goal is to spread awareness about disability athletics, adaptive athletics,” Whitehead said. “We just want to make sure athletes with disabilities can continue to play and get their education.”

To date, only a handful of universities in the country support adaptive athletics with luxuries such as scholarships, workout facilities and tuition assistance. Whitehead said he aims to add SDSU to the mix with Aztec Adaptive Sports.

If backed by the school, Whitehead’s Aztec Adaptive Sports organization could serve as a home to all athletes with disabilities who hope to take their athletic careers to the next level. Without a program such as Aztec Adaptive Sports, athletes with disabilities are forced to decide between sports and their education.

“We need to bridge this gap,” Whitehead said. “We need to help these kids out.”

Freshman Rafael Gonzalez Almazan returns a serve with a forehand.

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

Tony Hawk gives advice to students DANNY DYER STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Skateboarding has evolved into a global captivation ever since its rocky birth as an action sport.

There was the fabled Z-Boys skate team of Dogtown, a gang of surf rebels who carved emptied swimming pools with four-wheeled planks of wood.

There was the street-skating craze of the ‘90s, ultimately creating such skateboard celebrities as Ryan Sheckler and Rob Dyrdek. But above all, there was Tony Hawk.

A pioneer of the widely-adored action sport for many different reasons, Hawk came to San Diego State Tuesday, March 14, to speak about his entrepreneurial endeavors, life as a professional skater and, of course, to share a couple of wild stories.

“This guy has been a role model to me since I knew what a skateboard was,” said Cole Hildebrand, an undeclared sophomore who attended the event.

The Arts and Letters building was full of students and faculty alike, all fans of the skateboard mogul and all eager to hear his story.

“I was 17 years old, I was a senior in high school and I bought a house,” Hawk said.

At this point in his adolescent career he was already hiking to the peak of competitive skateboarding. Possessing a near-robotic precision when riding half

pipes, it was both his technical mindset paired with his ingenious skate approach that pinned him as the next big thing.

Hawk’s innovative approach even had some people questioning him.

“People would call me a cheater because I would “ollie” into my “airs” on halfpipes,” Hawk said.

In spite of such accusations, this method set Hawk up for a successful career in a sport that was otherwise regarded as an ostracized hobby at the time. Hawk also spoke about a victory in 1983 where he decided he would focus on becoming the best he could be.

After winning the overall vert championship, that’s exactly what he did. Racking up competition trophies, starting his own skate company titled Birdhouse, and launching a video game series, Hawk proved to be a multi-faceted juggler of roles, leaping back and forth from businessman to extreme sports icon frequently.

“I wanted to challenge myself, and I managed to do that through more things than just skateboarding,” Hawk said.

But his biggest challenge was one that had a direct link to the world of skateboarding: landing the infamous 900, a trick where a skater would rotate two and a half revolutions whilst airborne after soaring off a ramp.

With the arrival of the 1999 X Games, Hawk set out to chisel this foreboding trick into the history books of skating, and was successful.

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of USA Today and it transcended sports highlights,” he said. “Suddenly I was tasked to be the ambassador of skateboarding.”

And although Hawk professed his initial foot-dragging to carry such a weighty responsibility, his laundry list of philanthropic expenditures since then says differently, appearing as endless as his arsenal of skate tricks.

One of his proudest humanitarian triumphs is the amount of community skate parks he has built over the last fifteen years, tallying a staggering total of 550 parks.

“It’s more about a place to hang out, share ideas and a place to be safe,” he said. “If you see a kid struggling at a skate park, go help them. I mean it starts there.

It starts at the base level like that. I try to promote skateboarding in the global

community.”

Aside from his charity endeavors, Hawk was ecstatic to at long last announce that skateboarding will be acknowledged as a sporting event at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

“I love the international skate scene.

I’ve seen at first hand skateboarding in Cambodia,” he said. “And doing it in this DIY way, they’re creating their own brands and own stuff. That’s what’s most exciting for me.”

His parting words were advice to all college students in attendance that afternoon.

“I never got into skating to be rich or famous,” Hawk said. “You can’t get into whatever you’re interested in because you believe it is your ticket to fame and fortune. You have to love what you’re doing.”

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Portugal. The Man ignites audience DANNY DYER STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ A line of impatient music fans slithered down the sidewalk of the North Park Observatory Thursday, March 16.

And impatience was understandable, as Portugal. The Man stopped by on its North American headline tour for a night of psychedelic riffs and audience singalongs.

A liveliness slowly built in the venue as opener HDBEENDOPE introduced the night, spewing an onslaught of gritty rap tracks over a turntable and live drums.

Strutting back and forth across the stage with undying energy throughout his set, the Brooklyn MC proved through sweat and rhymes to be a promising up-andcoming rap prospect.

He exited the stage after articulating his gratitude toward Portugal. The Man for bringing him on tour.

By now the spacious venue was filled with people.

The overhanging balcony was lined with camera phones and widening grins.

Clamor in the form of whistles and shouts stirred from the ground-level audience pit.

After 30 minutes of collective anticipation, psychedelic collages splashed upon the backdrop as four outlined figures tiptoed onto the stage.

Kyle O’Quin assumed his position at the keyboard as Jason Sechrist took a seat behind the drums.

Zachary Carothers slung his bass guitar over his shoulder while lead singer John Gourley crept toward a microphone on the opposite side of the stage.

The crowd explodes. Wasting no

time on igniting its set, the indie-rock eccentrics opened with “Church Mouth,” a drum-powered rock narrative dating back to their second studio album of the same name.

From there, momentum only snowballed as the highly-played single, “Creep in a T-Shirt” filled the room.

This oozed into the 2006 track, “Chicago,” where Gourley’s high-pitched vocals collided with the crowd’s as he crooned, “I can’t hear with these clouds in my ears.”

After just three songs the Portlandbased rock outfit was already making one message quite clear to all in attendance: they were going to hop scotch all over their colorful discography, not favoring one particular piece of work over another.

After performing “Once Was One” and “Waves,” the venue dimmed as the visual backdrop projected a moon hovering above a silhouetted pyramid. With the chorus-catchy hit “All Your Light” erupting, the group perfected its rhythm, now fully stamping its powerhouse live presence.

What began as the normal version of the song quickly swerved off into a 12-minute improvised jam, even wiggling a cover of Ghostface Killah’s, “A Kilo,” into the mix.

From slow, creamy guitar riffs to hyperactive spurts of strumming, Portugal. The Man enjoyed altering the song tempo at a moment’s notice, keeping the audience involved and awake.

“They kept me guessing the entire set,” geology junior Mason Einbund said. “One second I would be head banging and the next I would be totally calm. Such as great time.”

As the finale of the drawn-out melody

CROSSWORDS

ACROSS 1 “That’s enough out of you” 6 Addams family nickname 10 Festoons with Charmin, for short 13 Chicago airport 14 Barak of Israel 15 __ butter 16 Monkey cage discard 18 Phone using a tower 19 Govt. agency that supports startups 20 Kettle output 21 Ride in the desert 22 Reason for totaling, as an insured car 24 Social ranking 27 Many mobile downloads

28 Coral component 29 Cause of some tan lines 34 “All Things Considered” cohost Shapiro 35 Day of song 36 Fleece source 37 Ornate 18thcentury genre 40 Thyme piece 42 Pre-hurricane emergency op 43 Runs after 44 Fluffy sun blocker 49 “No one can beat me” 50 Poker game concern 51 Unit of resistance 54 Poker at the table?

55 Baseball rarity,

Bassist Zachary Carothers of Portugal. The Man feels the rhythm at North Park Observatory.

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melted into a cover of the Beatles, “I Want You,” the smooth ad-libbed riffs only improved.

Carother’s humming bass plucks were tastefully complemented by O’Quin’s piano notes, high keys peppered in the background. Amidst the musical chaos, Gourley and O’Quin actually decided to trade instruments, the lead singer fingering the keys as O’Quin delivered a spastic flurry of guitar screeches.

When the amplifiers were hijacked by the band’s freshest single, “Feel it Still,” dance circles emerged throughout the crowd, a healthy dosage of brass horn flooding the venue.

While the band’s musical ability was palpable, other moments revealed the members’ good-humored personalities.

As Carothers encouraged the audience to clap in rhythm, a thundering crowdchorus joined the band as they played a rendition of the song “Day Man” from the TV series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

Closing strong, the last five tunes included such indie classics as “So American,” “Modern Jesus,” and of course, “Purple Yellow Red and Blue.” The crowd’s reception was predictably deafening.

As trippy tie-dyed butterflies fluttered on the telescreen, the band bowed goodbye. Returning to the stage one last time after an uproar of encores, “Atomic Man” was screamed at full volume.

“Every time we come back it’s always bigger,” Carothers said before leaving the stage. “Always better. We thank you.”

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and a hint to the vowels in the first words of 16-, 22-, 29-, 37- and 44-Across 57 Where buds may go 58 Right hand 59 Meditation teachers 60 “The Affair” network, briefly 61 Flow with force 62 Place on a pedestal DOWN 1 Corny leftovers 2 Starbuck’s boss 3 Child tender 4 Tax-deferred plan, briefly 5 Stiffen in fear 6 Prairie home 7 The Supremes’ “__ a Symphony”

8 “See if I care!”

9 Cholesterol letters 10 Annual Augusta National event 11 “Pequod” coowner 12 Room in a maison 15 Shrimp dish 17 Off-roaders, for short 21 2-Down’s title, informally 22 Dirty digs 23 Place of honor 24 Prep for a bout 25 Big name in riding mowers 26 Canadian short story writer awarded a Nobel Prize in 2013 29 Lavish wrap 30 Discount rack abbr.

31 First-aid gear 32 Boo-boo 33 Cribbage markers 35 Prefix with drama 38 Small eggs 39 NASCAR’s Yarborough 40 Z’s 41 Elbow protector 43 Mine extraction 44 Names as a reference 45 Hater of David, in Dickens 46 Rx 47 Reprimand 48 Aggressive cat lover of cartoons 51 Gymnast Korbut 52 Flag down 53 Classic PC adventure game 55 Some univ. proctors 56 Curse

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MARCH 22 - APRIL 4, 2017 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: CHRISTINE WHITMAN • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

'Every Which Way' explores culture KAYLEIGH VENNE STAFF WRITER ____________________________________

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tudents and faculty from the School of Art + Design collaborated to submit various works for the newest Downtown Gallery exhibit, Every Which Way. Every Which Way is part of San Diego State’s annual celebration of the “Common Experience,” a campuswide movement that aims to connect students, faculty and staff through the exploration of relevant and current contemporary themes.

Every Which Way is the third exhibit in the annual series and is based on the Common Experience’s current cycle, “Experience Movement.”

The exhibit is featured in the Downtown Gallery through April 9.

Every Which Way is sponsored by the Common Experience, the School of Art + Design, the College for Professional Studies and Fine Arts, Arts Alive and the University's Art Council.

Admission is free and open to the public. The exhibition also features a series of pop-up programs at the Downtown Gallery that allow the public to interact with the art pieces.

The exhibit focuses on current political and social issues that are prevalent in our society today. These issues range from climate change to self-realization to sexuality and even to our culture’s ever-changing social landscape.

Each artist’s technique is unique and thought provoking. There are no two pieces alike throughout the entire exhibit.

Upon entering the exhibit, one passes through motion-sensor beaded

School of Art + Design student Alison Zuniga uses oil on canvas to paint "Waves Inside."

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curtains as uplifting music plays.These beads are actually an art installation and serve as a piece in the exhibit as well.

Graphic design professor Arzu Ozkal designed another one of the interactive pieces in the exhibit.

Her piece titled “Design is Poetry/ Chaos/Movement,” is made out of sheet metal and magnets. The open-ended piece invites visitors to rearrange the magnets whichever way they choose.

The magnets include cut-outs of buildings, abstract shapes and words such as, “movement,” “chaos” and “political.”

According to the artist, the purpose of the piece is to focus on the process of creation, as opposed to the main focus being on the final product.

Another piece, entitled “Plexus,”

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by School of Art + Design graduate student Cathy Nguyen, explores the concept of disorder within design. The three-dimensional piece is made out of triangular archival digital prints with polymer plate letterpress.

Nguyen describes the piece as a triangular accordion book.

Each triangular shape consists of quotes from the famous authors Jorge Luis Borges and Lewis Carroll. The piece “gives the statements new and unexpected meaning, allowing the viewer to follow their own visual path.”

The quotes found within the piece include “I can’t explain myself because I’m not myself” and “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.”

“It’s so fun being able to go to a gallery filled with your peers’ artwork,” La Mesa resident Kat Stange said. “It

gives insight to how they view the same world and the city you live in, even though you don’t know them.”

Twelve students collaborated to create a work to showcase various “Issue Badges,” that deal with current issues in our society.

These issue badges include, “The Effects of Advertising,” “The Dakota Access Pipeline,” “Homelessness,” “Driving Under the Influence” and many more.Each badge is made from a combination of copper, brass and nickel silver.

For example, “Issue Badge: Water Rights” by Isabelle Maynard is demonstrated by a copper and brass badge of our Earth.

“Reverting Back,” an oil on canvas painting by School of Art + Design student Evelyn Jarrous, explores her “sense of urgency” that the planet must default back to nature before we dispose of it completely. Her colorful piece reflects on society’s need to respect and protect our planet.

School of Art + Design student Gustavo Mendoza’s piece, “Common Goal,” made out of graphite and charcoal on paper demonstrates the idea of people’s “chaotic physical struggle.”

The figures depicted in “Common Goal” are faceless and without identities in order to showcase “everyone and no one in particular.”

The piece depicts an individual's internal struggle, while connecting them to mutual chaos.

“I enjoyed how the artists spoke about the injustices of today’s society,” Palm Desert resident Madison Delgado said. “The artists took the ugly parts of society and made them into beautiful pieces.”

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