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SDSU graduate released on bail Will Fritz senior staff writer ____________________________

Sophomore starting pitcher Harrison Pyatt delivers a pitch against University of the Pacific. The Aztecs have a 3.25 team ERA of this season. kirby crow, staff photographer

The difference a year can make atop the Mesa mayer pohlod staff writer ____________________________ It’s pretty incredible what can change in just one year.

It’s not the majority of San Diego State baseball’s starting lineup, after they returned eight of their starting nine from last year, nor their coaching staff, headlined by head coach Mark Martinez and pitching coach Sam Peraza.

The only major difference to notice is their record in 2017: 21-9.

That’s a long way off from the

their tumultuous 2016 season in which they finished with 21 total wins and 38 losses. At roughly the same point last season, the Aztecs were 6-21.

So what could be the difference to propel a sub-.500 team that would have had no chance of making the NCAA Regionals if they were in this year’s format to a possible Mountain West champion for the fourth time in the last five years?

The simple answer is experience.

Last year, the team was still transitioning into the new

leadership of Peraza, who had just returned to the Mesa after pitching for the Aztecs in 2002.

One of the bigger impacts though is the change in culture, according to pitcher Brett Seeburger earlier in the season.

Another important factor could also be how much of a good start SDSU got off to this season compared to last.

Whereas before they lost 10 out of their first 11 games to open up the season, it was a bit of a different story this time

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San Diego State ISCOR graduate Gholamrez “Robin” Shahini, who was sentenced to 19 years in an Iranian prison last July, was released on bail March 19, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi said the center confirmed Shahini was released through multiple firsthand sources.

Ghaemi said Shahini is currently with his family in Iran, and is unable to leave the country.

“Technically right now he has a travel ban because he was a prisoner,” he said.

Ghaemi said the center is calling for Shahini’s immediate return to San Diego.

SDSU student Sevil Suleymani, a friend of Shahini’s, said Shahini is awaiting a decision on his conviction from an appeals court.

Suleymani said Shahini was released after about 30 days on a hunger strike.

“His situation was very bad,” she said. “They obviously don’t want an American dying on their hands. So it’s nothing to do with the appeal court. To be honest, it was because (of) his health situation.”

Suleymani said while she is relieved Shahini was let go on bail, she is still concerned for

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his safety because the Iranian government can revoke his bail at will.

“It still is not done,” she said.

“There’s no guarantee he’s going to be free forever. They can ask him to go back to jail.”

Shahini was arrested July 11, 2016, while visiting family in his hometown of Gorgan, Iran.

In October 2016, Shahini was convicted of charges relating to espionage, collaboration with a hostile government and blasphemy.

Shahini graduated from SDSU in May 2016, and was accepted into SDSU’s Homeland Security graduate program at the time of his arrest.

A U.S. Department of State official said the agency is aware of Shahini’s release on bail and has no further comment at this time.

The Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment.

SDSU students ‘Take Back the Week’

Returning university program works to raise awareness of sexual violence on college campuses julianna ress SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________ Take Back the Week is returning to San Diego State to continue raising sexual violence awareness on April 10 to 15.

Women’s Resource Center coordinator and women’s studies faculty member Jessica Nare said Take Back the Week is a collaborative effort on behalf of the Sexual Violence Taskforce, the Women’s Resource Center and student organizations and is SDSU’s extension of Take Back the Night, a nationwide college campus event.

“The idea behind Take Back the Night is to reclaim

space on college campuses for survivors of sexual violence, to be loud and outspoken about the fact that sexual violence does occur and give a place for survivors to tell their stories,” she said. “It’s an activist event to move towards making campuses and universities safer for folks who have experienced sexual violence and to prevent it from happening.”

Journalism sophomore Alexis Henry said she feels Take Back the Week helps people feel more comfortable discussing their experiences with sexual violence, a topic too often swept under the rug in everyday life.

“Sexual assault is a very real thing that happens but

because it’s so taboo it’s not talked about enough,” Henry said. “Take Back the Week gives those who were victims of sexual assault the reassurance that they aren’t alone, the feelings they have are valid and we as a community are here to help them.”

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so apart from Take Back the Night, campuses across the country are hosting programs and events centered around such issues.

Take Back the Week presents fresh, new events each year, and this year’s coordinators have booked an especially diverse lineup of workshops, speakers and activities.

Nare said one of the big ticket events is “Grab ‘Em by the What?,” a discussion on sex, consent and American values hosted by sexologist Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus on Monday, April 10. “(Dr. Jenn) does a lot of work with couples and individuals around sexuality,” Nare said. “She’s also experienced a consent violation in the pretty recent past, so she’s going to talk about that and how we can improve our communication with our partners to have more positive sexual experiences.”

Another Take Back the Week event anticipating a large draw is the screening of Aishah Simmons’s “No! The Rape

Documentary” followed by a discussion led by Simmons herself held on Wednesday, April 12.

Students should also be on the lookout for the smaller workshops held during the week, such as Berenice Dimas’s workshop on connecting with ancestral strength to heal from violence taking place on Tuesday, April 11.

Dimas is known in the San Diego and San Fernando Valley communities for her Hood Herbalism classes, also focusing on spirituality and healing.

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SJP displays mock apartheid wall

The presentation was created by the student group as a part of Palestine Awareness Month will fritz senior staff writer ____________________________________

more resources to combating what he referred to as “conflicts on campus,” including flyers posted last year by the David Horowitz Freedom Center naming some SJP members as “being allied with Palestinian terrorists.”

“We rebuilt it this year, took about a month, and we were happy to be able to put it up again,” Nabulsi said.

International Studies and Conflict Resolution senior Jessamyn Sheldon said as an ISCOR major, she is knowledgeable about international conflicts, but the display makes the conflict seem much more real to her.

“I learn a lot about international conflict that we don’t really get to see a lot in the media, but at the same time, it’s kind of like in a book, like you don’t really feel it at all,” she said. “But stuff like this, it just kind of makes you more aware of what’s actually happening.”

Sheldon said even before viewing the display, she was receptive to Palestine’s cause.

“I honestly always side with Palestine,” she said. “Like, in the general scheme of things, Israel is being controlled by our government right now.”

However, some students said the information presented on the wall was incorrect.

“This wall does have a lot of statements that are taken out of context (and) statistics that are incorrect,” said child and family

San Diego State Students for Justice in Palestine displayed a mock Israeli apartheid wall in front of Hepner Hall between March 20 and 23, presenting information regarding the IsraeliPalestinian conflict as part of the organization’s Palestine Solidarity Month.

The wall, which consisted of a series of wooden panels held together by hinges, included artistic depictions of a bombing, a map of California universities that have voted to divest from Israeli companies, as well as quotes attributed to “the founders of Israel.”

Farris Nabulsi, treasurer of SJP and computer science sophomore, said the wall was designed to be a unique way to inform students about the conflict.

“The wall is made to be like more of an artistic depiction and message to educate people,” he said. “All throughout the year, we hold informational events (and) lecture style panels. And this is a different approach to show some appreciation for some art while also showing the reality of what happens in Palestine.”

He said the wall is something SJP has done in years past, but the club put its solidarity month on the back-burner last year because of a desire to devote

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Students for Justice in Palestine displayed the wall the week of March 20 as part of Palestine Solidarity Month . jOE KENDALL, Staff PhotograPher

development sophomore Leah Buchsbaum.

Gal Winrebe, SDSU Hillel agent to Israel, said a statistic on the wall claiming a total of zero Israeli homes have been destroyed by Palestinian rocket attacks since 2000 was incorrect.

“That’s completely wrong because I alone know at least four, and one of them is my cousin’s,” he said.

SJP later said they were unable to find any instances of Israeli homes being demolished, only those of Palestinians.

“You know, people are gonna believe what they want to believe,” said civil engineering junior Ali Fakhrriddine. “As

far as I know, whatever’s on the wall is taken from independent sources, you know. They talked about the actual U.N. resolutions that Israel has violated, and it’s true.”

Nabulsi said the information on the wall comes from “various sources.”

“You know, if people want to show us that they’re out of context, we’ll be happy to correct them,” Nabulsi said.

“No one has shown us any evidence that they are. So until then, you know, we’re gonna keep it how it is.”

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Panel educates on BDS movement Allyson Myers STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a panel discussion on March 20 featuring four professors to discuss the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement.

The event was part of Palestine Solidarity Month, a series of events organized by the student group.

Mustafa Alemi, president of SJP, said the goal of solidarity month was to educate and bring awareness to campus.

“Essentially what we’re trying to do is educate SDSU and raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians, and different topics related to it,” he said.

In Alemi’s introductory remarks at the event, he described the BDS movement as one started by Palestinians in order to gain equal rights in Israel and Palestine.

He said BDS stands for boycott, divest and sanction, and it refers to the international movement to apply economic pressure on Israel to comply with international law and grant Palestinians their basic rights.

“Palestinians are asking for us to boycott, divest and sanction Israel until it does three things,” Alemi said.“The first being ending the occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; granting equal rights to all people living within Israel; and third allowing Palestinian refugees, that were ethnically cleansed from their land, to return.”

Alemi also noted that many students at SDSU support the BDS movement, and there is an ongoing student-run campaign for SDSU to divest from companies that may support Israel economically.

In April of 2015, there was a campuswide referendum on a resolution to divest, and 53 percent of the student body voted in favor of divesting.

However, the resolution required a two-thirds vote to pass.

Four professors, from both SDSU and UCSD, formed the panel: SDSU political science professor Jonathan Graubart, UCSD ethnic studies professor Curtis Marez, SDSU anthropology professor Ramona Perez, and SDSU communication professor Luke Winslow.

Perez, who directed a task force to research the Israel-Palestine conflict for the American Anthropological Association, said the issue of BDS is complex.

She discussed her experience researching the conflict with her task force team.

“After we had been researching this issue, we began to realize the degree to which we did not understand the issue,” Perez said. “We interviewed people who were on both sides … Then we came together and we decided we still don’t know enough.”

The panelists discussed the political effects of boycotting Israel, mostly discussing the academic boycott that some universities and academic groups take part in.

Marez served as president of the American Studies Association in 2013, when the group passed a resolution to boycott Israel.

He said the decision has generated further discourse on the issue.

“One of the things that people have criticized the academic boycott for is cutting off a dialogue, whereas in fact, post-boycott, the ASA now has much greater dialogue with scholars than we’ve had in the past — Israeli scholars, Palestinian scholars, never came to the conference, now it’s a place where people come,” Marez said.

A question-and-answer session took place after the panel discussion.

Many questions focused on avoiding

Four panelists participated in SJP’s discussion of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement on March 20 kirby crow, Staff PhotograPher

accusations of anti-Semitism when discussing BDS with critics of the movement.

Graubart said that BDS is not antiSemitic.

“I’d like to respond to the charge that BDS is anti-Semitic. This has become a common refrain,” he said. “One reason given for calling BDS anti-Semitic is that it’s not just critical of Israeli policies, but it is implicitly anti-Zionist.

Graubart said that while being antiZionist and supporting BDS do not necessarily go together, many advocates of BDS are also anti-Zionist.

He said being anti-Zionist means opposing “a nation state that gives added symbolic and substantive status to just its Jewish residents despite the fact that the land is binational in practice.”

“So if you think about this definition of Zionism, which gives advantages to one national subset of its population, it’s hard not to see anti-Zionism as a morally

defensible position that cannot be compared to the racism of anti-Semitism,” he said Marez said that the charge of antiSemitism from critics of the BDS movement comes from a “collapsing of Jewishness and Israel” which conflates a government with its citizens.

Marez said there is a difference between criticizing a state government and criticizing a people, and they are not coextensive. He used an analogy with the United States, saying that although the United States is a historically white nation, criticizing its government is not the same as being anti-white.

Students for Justice in Palestine held three other talks as part of Palestine Solidarity month, and set up a mock Israel apartheid wall that was displayed outside Hepner Hall March 20 through 23. Topics covered included Latinx solidarity with Palestine and the illegal status of Israeli settlements in Palestine.

SDSU aerospace program ranked on top Georgina Vargas Staff Writer ____________________________________ San Diego State’s aerospace engineering and education graduate programs are among the top programs in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of best graduate schools.

The aerospace engineering program ranked 37in the nation and seventh in the state of California.

“We focus on a small number of things, but we do them very well,” said aerospace engineering graduate adviser Satchi Venkataraman.

The graduate program tied with Syracuse University, University at Buffalo, University of Kansas, University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Case Western Reserve University.

Some of the programs that aerospace engineering beat have double the number of faculty compared to the nine aerospace engineering professors at SDSU, Venkataraman said.

The aerospace engineering program features two fields, aerodynamics and structural mechanics.

Aerospace engineering graduate student Vigneshkumar Sudalaimuthu said he decided to go to SDSU after finding professors in the program that were interested in the same field of research as him.

Some factors taken into account by the U.S. News & World Report are graduation

Johnson said the goal of the College of Education is to provide meaningful research for students so the community can benefit from the projects and information.

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Aerospace engineering graduate adviser Satchi Venkataraman has been the program’s adviser for 15 years.

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rates and student success.

“The amount of work that you want to do in the aerospace program is dependent on your motivation, so there is nothing here that limits you,” said aerospace engineering graduate student Daniel Silva.

Faculty work closely with students on research and have students and alumni who participate in the Aztec Mentor Program to help undergraduates and graduate students during the semester.

Venkataraman said he has been the graduate adviser for 15 years and has seen the number of students increase from eight graduate students in 2003 to 33 students this year.

The College of Education’s graduate program is 57th in the U.S. and 39th among public universities.

“I think SDSU has improved in so many ways in recent years and that is fundamentally due to working hard. It’s nice to see the work get acknowledged in a very public way,” said Dean of the College of Education Joseph Johnson said.

The education program has over 20 different master’s degrees in counseling, education, special education and rehabilitation.

The degrees also have different areas of focus such as mathematics, science and language arts.

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Women of SD share their stories ALLYSON MYERS STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Ten women shared stories of existence and persistence on March 23, a reference to Senator Mitch McConnell’s comment about Senator Elizabeth Warren, which inspired a viral hashtag in February.

“She Was Warned” was the final event of Women’s History Month at SDSU, and was organized with support from the American Federation of Teachers Guild, the San Diego Chapter of the National Organization of Women and individual donations.

The speakers included two SDSU graduate students and one alumnus.

The women who shared their stories included the reverend of St. Peter’s by the Sea in Ocean Beach, who discussed the barriers facing women in the Catholic church; a trans-woman and two genderqueer activists; a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy; a professor who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico; two refugees and an Iraqi journalist.

Soon-Ah Fadness, professor of philosophy at San Diego City College, hosted the event.

She said the idea for the event came about at an “action lunch” for NOW. “We weren’t content just talking about anything, we wanted to actually do something,” Fadness said. “And so after thinking about it, we thought what

we want to do is celebrate the women here in San Diego.”

Rosiangela Escamilla, professor of English at San Diego City College, spoke about her experience as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

“I think given the times and the antiimmigrant sentiment it was important to tell my story of immigration,” Escamilla said.

Escamilla said current antiimmigrant sentiments are a part of American history.

“Being criminalized and stigmatized for a piece of paper is a deeply rooted American experience,” she said.

“Papers enslaved Africans. Papers stole the land from native nations. Papers stole the southwest from Mexico.

Papers erect the border wall ... Papers are still being used to serve the needs and impose the mission of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy.”

Ismahan Abdullahi, a graduate student in education at SDSU and Director of Community Partnerships and Civic Engagement at the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, spoke about her experience living in the United States as a black Muslim woman.

She said she faced discriminatory comments from peers throughout her school years, particularly comments about her hijab.

“I remember sometimes in science class, people would not want to partner

The event, titled “She Was Warned,” was the final event of Women’s History Month at SDSU. Elissa Tauscher, Staff PhotograPher

up if they did not know me,” Abdullahi said. “And I had one individual actually ask, ‘Can you even think with that thing on you? Do you shower with that? Do you ever take it off?’”

Many of the speakers were involved in activism, such as Erikka Thorpe,a women’s studies graduate student.

She spoke about her experience with intersectional oppression.

“Visibly, you can tell, I was born a woman. I am African-American, if you can say that – black living in America, really – I am a woman, I am a mother,”

Thorpe said. “These are things that are visible on me, and that people, when they read them, they put me in a position of the oppressed.”

Kelly Mayhew, a professor of English at San Diego City College and SDSU alumna, spoke about the experiences that made her want to be an activist.

She said her mother warned her against activism, but “her fear and warnings actually incited me, they provoked me,” Mayhew said.

“Everything just pissed me off, so I just keep working,” she said.

AAPI panel talks representation Harshvardhan Saravanakumar contributor ____________________________________

during their careers because of their diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and upbringings, to a crowd of around 150 students.

The panel consisted of people with multidimensional perspectives to The American Asian Pacific Student address race and representations today Alliance and Aztec Music Group came and to incite a focused discussion about together to organize an event discussing the issue versus the blind spots, Shimizu the contributions of American Asian said at the event.

Pacific Islanders in music and popular She said she expects these discussions culture on March 22 at the Conrad to produce a vision of the steps needed Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre. to confront the problems facing AAPI The panel for the event included communities in media today.

Liberty Zabala, a news reporter for President of Aztec Music Group NBC 7 San Diego, who has covered the Anthony Aspili said he asked his team Central American immigration crisis to step outside the box, and to come and the 2014 May Firestorm. She is up with an event that gave exposure also a member of the Asian American to a topic not usually seen at campus Journalists Association. universities.

Also in “I was attendance always was Celine I want to teach others conscious to Shimizu, different stereotypes and ways make sure that professor to dismantle them.”

Aztec Music in the - Brie Hornig, Group stepped department AAPSA coordinator up to be an ally of cinema to give a voice studies for this topic, at San but also to step back to allow that voice Francisco State University. She is an to be heard in its most authentic way,” award-winning filmmaker, who has he said. worked on films including “Super Flip” AAPSA coordinator Brie Hornig said and “Birthright.” she attended because she wanted to San Diego State alumnus Phoebe discuss her and others’ experiences Chongchua was also on the panel regarding the issue. and currently works as a multimedia Having a Japanese ancestry herself, brand journalist, brand consultant and she said she wants to shed light on the a marketing strategist. She is the host problems plaguing the community. of “The Brand Journalism Advantage” “‘I want to teach others different podcast. stereotypes and ways to dismantle Rappers Jonathan “Dumbfoundead” them,” she said.

Park and Jin “MC Jin” Au-Yeung were in Zabala said young people have the also in attendance. power to create a movement because Throughout the discussion, each of all the social media tools available to member shared their experiences and them at their fingertips. the difficulties they had to endure

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The AAPI panel was organized by the American Asian Pacific Student Alliance and Aztec Music Group.

Elissa Tauscher, Staff PhotograPher

Panelists included rappers Jonathan ‘Dumbfoundead’ Park (right) and Jin ‘MC Jin’ Au-Yeung (left).

Elissa Tauscher, Staff PhotograPher

Who’sWho? Editor In Chief Jacob Sisneros Managing Editor Jamie Ballard News Editor Kayla Jimenez asst. News Editor Adriana Millar Sports Editor Anthony Reclusado asst. sports Editor Austin Gayle Asst. sports editor, club sports Sydney Olmstead ARTS & culture Editor Christine Whitman asst. ARTS & culture Editor Lilly Glenister Opinion Editor Andrew Dyer mundo azteca editor Andrea Lopez-Villafaña Asst. Mundo azteca editor José Guzmán-Quirino Photo Editor Kelly Smiley video producer Adriana Heldiz art director Emily Lewis Graphic Designer Aidan Prehatny social media EDITOR Alex Piscatelli Copy Editor Brian del Carmen senior Staff writers Will Fritz Julianna Ress Staff writers Emily Alvarenga Kayla Asencio Danny Dyer Kelly Kerrigan Cassidy McCombs Allyson Myers Alex Noble Mayer Pohlod Carla Rauseo Vladimir Salazar Harshvardhan Saravanakumar Raman Sidhu Georgina Vargas Staff Photographer Kirby Crow Joe Kendall

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Stop living for photo ops Emily Alvarenga staff columnist ____________________________________ San Diego is home to tons of unique restaurants, bars, coffee shops and murals — places that make for great Instagram pictures. Many have been labeled as “trendy” spots to Instagram in various magazines and blogs. Take a peek at almost any female San Diego State University student’s profile and there is a pattern.

The obsession with visiting these trendy locations seems to have sprung out of nowhere, but it has taken over.

Whether it’s North Park with places like Holy Matcha or Pacific Beach with Crushed, visit any of these locations and there are lines of women waiting to take the perfect picture.

“To be honest, I don’t think anyone who goes to take a picture at these places even knows if they’re good places to go,” biology sophomore Kara Brown said. “I find myself asking if the food is just that good or if they don’t even care because, regardless, it’s the cool place to go.”

Most of these spots profit off of their distinct murals when people buy their products after their photo-op, but Pigment, a store in North Park, seems to get the short end of the stick.

Pigment has not one, but three different photographable spots, yet they make very little money from the people who visit the store.

Although they carry charming merchandise, none of it is really in a college student’s budget, so photoseekers almost never end up buying anything. Window shopping is one thing, but it’s entirely different to go to a store with the sole intent of getting a picture to post.

“I’ve been to Pigment quite a few times, and I never, not once, even thought to buy something,” kinesiology freshman Haley James said. “I mean their stuff is super cute and I’d love to buy all of it, but I just can’t afford it.”

And if it’s in North Park, it’s trendy,

A collection of popular photo spots in San Diego.

Photo illustration by emily alvarenga

right? Communal Coffee is another perfect example with its popular mural. But it at least makes money in coffee and flower sales, because who takes a picture in front of a “COFFEE + FLOWERS” mural without a cup of coffee or bouquet of flowers in their hands?

Square Bar, on the other hand, isn’t located in North Park and doesn’t just have a super cool mural going for it. It’s a dessert shop in Kearny Mesa that not only has a mural, but also sells unique desserts that are Instagram-worthy all by themselves.

They have rainbow and pizza bagels, colorful cookies and ice cream covered in cereal with brightly colored cones to name a few. They’re probably one of the only places on the list whose food is more popular than the wall in their shop. And it seems like people don’t mind splurging for their high-priced desserts as long it’ll get them likes on their photos.

“The concept of this place is adorable and I love the idea of it, but the dessert is so mediocre,” criminal justice junior Nikki Davis said. “The ice cream’s really pricy for how bland it was, and it was nothing special except for how cool it looked.”

The mania has spread from just local must-visit places to people actually making their travel plans around “Instagrammable” locations. More and more articles are popping up detailing Instagram-worthy locations that would make picture perfect vacations. When did it become a thing to go somewhere just for the aesthetic and not because of the location itself?

“I have a friend who planned her entire two week trip to Europe by where she’d be able to take the most iconic pictures,” nursing senior Susanne Ricks said. “Doing stuff like that takes away from the culture of wherever you’re traveling and takes away from the experience.”

Instagram has changed the way people visit places — and especially how they see them. As the world transforms, it’s essential to remember how important exploration is, even in the places that might not make for great photos.

Emily Alvarenga is a fourth-year journalism major minoring in television, falm and media. Find her on Twitter @ emalvarenga10.

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The cost of ‘cheap eats’ in SD cassidy mccombs contributor ____________________________________ Who doesn’t want to find a local food joint that serves authentically tasty cheap food? Many online food blogs have grown in popularity by releasing lists that feature cheap spots with food — such as street tacos or tikka masala — for less than $10.

In San Diego, like most cities featured on cheap eats lists, these bargain restaurants are usually located in immigrant-dense areas. Las Cuatro Milpas in Barrio Logan, Mona Lisa in Little Italy and Phuong Trang in Clairemont are just three examples of options that match their ethnic enclave. But these hidden gems come at a high cost of exploitation.

The restaurant industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. economy and employs some of the lowest paid workers according to a 2014 report released by the Economic Policy Institute. While the industry does include high-quality jobs, most employees work grueling hours for low pay. Many live in poverty, and a large percentage are

immigrants.

Ethnic cuisine is expected to be cheap and tasty for middle-class white Americans looking for a new place to Yelp.

Diep Tran, chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette in Los Angeles, recently wrote an article featured on NPR which explained her struggle with underlying racism in the food industry. Being raised in a family restaurant, Tran experienced first-hand the long days her family worked to serve cut-rate priced food only to pay their employees similarly low-wages. Tran’s own restaurant now receives Yelp reviews that her restaurant is “too expensive for Vietnamese food” because of her prices match the cost of supporting wellpaid employees and providing quality ingredients.

Tran and her family are an example of how many immigrant entrepreneurs opened cheap restaurants to afford the high cost of living in America. However, this business model has become a trap.

There is now a cultural expectation that devalues labor in the restaurant industry in favor of inexpensive authentic meals.

The exploitation of immigrant labor

has historically been viewed as cheap.

Be it enslaved African American on plantations, Chinese immigrants on the railroads or Central and South Americans on agricultural farms, prioritizing price over labor is a path American idealism has thrived on. The restaurant industry is no different.

Cheap eats further trap immigrant businesses in their role to fulfill the historically cheap cost of labor in communities of color. It does not cost these restaurants less to produce the same quality of food as a competitor, it simply makes them cut their wages and ignore job safety. While it seems exciting to find local gems around San Diego State and the surrounding city, these specials cost significantly more than ten dollars when looking through the lens of immigrant exploitation.

Cassidy McCombs is a third-year journalism major with an emphasis in public relations. Find her on Twitter @ Cassidy_McCombs.

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Rompiendo estereotipos de Tijuana vladimir salazar escritor ____________________________________ La ciudad de Tijuana es conocida a nivel internacional por distintas razones.

En los años ‘90s por ejemplo en un episodio de la serie animada, “Los Simpsons”, la ciudad de Tijuana fue catalogada como la ciudad más feliz del mundo.

Tijuana a través de los años también ha ganado notoriedad y ha sido clasificada como una ciudad peligrosa.

La fama de la ciudad se debe a que históricamente, Tijuana fue una atracción turística para estadounidenses durante la era de prohibición.

La clasificación de ciudad peligrosa se debe a que en los últimos años los niveles de homicidio en relación al narcotráfico han aumentado.

Una organización estudiantil de San Diego State University esta intentando de mostrarles a estudiantes que mucho de lo que conocen de la cuidad son estereotipos y no es la realidad de vivir en Tijuana.

El sábado 22 de abril, la organización de estudiantes del Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos de SDSU conocida como LASSO junto con la organización, Turista Libre, hará un viaje a la ciudad de Tijuana.

La excursión ira a varios lugares reconocidos de la ciudad de Tijuana como el Mercado Hidalgo, El cubo y playas de Tijuana, para mencionar algunos. La excursión será conducida por

Derrik Chinn, de Turista Libre.

Chinn, residente de la ciudad de Tijuana, menciona que el propósito de esta excursión y de Turista Libre es de desmantelar los estereotipos y malinterpretaciones que la ciudad de Tijuana tiene.

“El propósito de Turista Libre es de llevar a gente que no es de la ciudad de Tijuana a lugares más allá de los lugares típicos de la ciudad”, dijo Chinn, “Es ofrecer una experiencia más íntima y auténtica en la frontera más transitada del mundo”.

Chinn dijo que él no ve a Turista Libre como una compañía de tourismo, si no como una incubadora de antropología urbana.

La manera que este argumento es respaldado es simplemente por la selección de lugares que son ofrecidos a través de la compañía.

El itinerario de lugares diferentes el cual Turista Libre se enfoca como, museos, conciertos, eventos deportivos, cervecerías, áreas de gastronomía gourmet y muchos otros lugares culturales que hacen resaltar a la ciudad de Tijuana defienden esa etiqueta que Chinn le da a Turista Libre.

Derrick dijo qué es lo que él quisiera que sea memorable de esta excursión para la gente que la toma, que tengan una experiencia de la ciudad de Tijuana como local.

Uno de los propósitos de Turista Libre es que la gente de San Diego mire a la ciudad de Tijuana como un área local al cual pueden acudir y sentirse cómodos.

Participantes el año pasado visitaron la ciudad de Tijuana. foto de Lasso

“El conocer la ciudad de Tijuana de cierta manera le da poder a los residentes de San Diego”, dijo Chinn, “una vez que estén mas informados y vean que la ciudad de Tijuana se puede convertir en una ciudad local para ellos, esto se convierte en una prueba internacional”.

Turista Libre junto con la organización estudiantil del Departamento de Estudios

Latinoamericanos desean demostrar que la ciudad de Tijuana es dentro de sí mismo su propia identidad, algo la cual la hace única.

Para ser parte de esta excursión, uno tiene que registrarse antes del 8 de Abril tener un pasaporte vigente y dejar un depósito de $20. Para más información del evento, contacten a lassosdsu@gmail.

Semana de educación sobre el abuso sexual Carla Rauseo Escritora ____________________________________

Abril es el mes de la conciencia del abuso sexual, por lo que en San Diego State University se estarán llevando a cabo a partir de la próxima semana una serie de eventos para crear conocimiento sobre estos hechos.

Los eventos serán presentados y organizados por el Centro de Recursos para la Mujer en SDSU, en conjunto con la asociación Andrea O’Donnell Womyn’s Outreach Association WOA es una asociación establecida en SDSU, con una misión explicita de apoyar y empoderar a la población femenina de SDSU y de la comunidad del condado de San Diego.

Las distintas actividades programadas serán realizadas desde el 10 al 15 de Abril, durante una semana que ha sido nombrada ‘Take Back The Week’ (Devuelve la semana), en honor a una incitativa creada por WOA, llamada ‘Take Back The Night’ (Devuelve la noche), que se ha llevado a cabo anualmente cada mes de Abril desde el año 1980 para informar estudiantes sobre este delicado tema.

Esta iniciativa surgió hace mucho tiempo en la universidad, ya que un grupo de estudiantes abogó para incrementar los programas realizados durante el mes de abril que tratan sobre los serios problemas de violencia sexual que ocurren en los campos de las universidades en Estados Unidos.

“Empecé a participar con WOA en

los eventos relacionados con violencia sexual en el año 2014”, dijo Queena Tran, Estudiante de Postgrado en SDSU que trabaja activamente con WOA. “En ese momento SDSU era una de las escuelas que tenía uno de los porcentajes más altos en casos de violencia sexual. Era frustrante y molesto saber que los estudiantes estaban siendo abusados y no saber cómo ayudarlos, como poder apoyarlos”.

Aproximadamente 20 programas serán ofrecidos durante la semana de ‘Take Back The Week’.

Jessica Nare, profesora del Departamento de Estudio de Mujeres y directora del Centro de Recursos para Mujeres en SDSU, dijo que esta iniciativa es parte de una gran colaboración entre estudiantes, organizaciones estudiantiles, departamentos académicos y diferentes centros establecidos en SDSU dedicados a realizar eventos que le competan al alumnado con el cual ellos trabajan.

“El objetivo de estos programas es crear conciencia sobre violencia sexual, explorar las diferentes formas en las cuales nuestra identidad puede impactar las formas en las que vivimos violencia y traumas”, dijo Nare.“Asimismo los programas buscan ofrecerle una ayuda, apoyo y recursos a las víctimas de violencia sexual”.

Una lista con las fechas, lugar y hora de los programas a realizarse durante la semana de conciencia del abuso sexual se puede encontrar el sitio web del Centro de Recursos para Mujeres.

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Asistencia de salud para estudiantes La universidad ofrece una variedad de servicios dedicados a mejorar la salud de estudiantes Carla rauseo escritora ____________________________________ San Diego State University se compromete a brindar una oportunidad para todos sus estudiantes ofreciéndoles una gran variedad de recursos.

“Es impresionante la cantidad de servicios que ofrece la universidad, siempre estoy descubriendo cosas nuevas que puedo acceder aquí”, dijo María Salazar, estudiante de cuarto año de Comunicación.

La mayoría de los estudiantes que asisten SDSU están al tanto de la existencia del Centro de Salud Calpulli.

Sin embargo, son muchos los que desconocen todos los servicios que este centro puede brindarles a los estudiantes y como pueden accederlos.

“He visto el Centro de Salud Calpulli porque alguna vez he pasado por ahí, pero no tenía idea que ofrecían todos estos servicios para los estudiantes”, dijo Lorena Miranda, estudiante de tercer año de Turismo y Hotelería. “De haber sabido lo hubiese utilizado con seguridad”.

El centro ofrece atención inmediata a todos los estudiantes con emergencias médicas y consultas especializadas con cita previa y sin costo alguno.

El centro también cuenta con una unidad oftalmológica y una unidad odontológica que ofrecen otros servicios a los estudiantes por un monto accesible.

Además, cuenta con el programa de planificación familiar PACT, por medio del cual los estudiantes pueden de forma rápida y sencilla, tener acceso a anticonceptivos, condones, pastillas del día después, controles de enfermedades de transmisión sexual, entre otros.

“Lo utilicé una vez porque de verdad me sentía muy mal, no sabía que existía, ni como funcionaba hasta que el verano pasado hice el programa Summer Bridge y nos dieron un tour por la universidad”, dijo Anamia Monge, estudiante de cuarto año de periodismo.

Uno de los servicios más importantes que ofrece el Centro de Salud Calpulli, es el centro de asesoramiento y ayuda

El Centro de Salud de Calpulli esta localizado en la avenida Campanile y Hardy.

Kristian carreon, fotografo

psicológica, en donde los estudiantes pueden ser atendidos por terapistas y psicólogos para ayudarlos a superar o manejar cualquier obstáculo que les esté impidiendo el desarrollo óptimo de su vida personal o profesional.

El centro cuenta con una gran

los programas de salud.

La inseguridad alimentaria o la falta de comida es un problema que afecta a la comunidad en la que vivimos.

El índice de personas que sufren de inseguridad alimentaria en el condado de San Diego es de 13 por ciento, casi tan alto como el índice a nivel federal, según datos difundidos por NBC News San Diego.

En un estudio en - Kaitlyn Dixon, California ECRT State University Long Beach, encontró que el numero de estudiantes quienes tienen inseguridad de alimentación es calculado a 21 por ciento.

También encontraron que 23 de las universidades estatales ofrecen programad de comida.

Por lo tanto, SDSU tiene un programa para ayudar a los estudiantes que son afectados por la falta de alimentos.

Todos los jueves de 10 de la mañana a 3 de la tarde hay una despensa de alimentos en la plaza de la universidad

“ estamos aquÍ para ayudar, cualquier estudiante que estÉ pasado por problemas de vivienda o de dinero puede acudir a nosotros”

variedad de servicios para ayudar al alumnado, los cuales incluyen asesoramiento individual, en parejas, terapias grupales, talleres de programas especializados, terapias con mascotas, entre otros.

Crisis económica e inseguridad alimentaria La universidad se ha enfocado recientemente en ayudar a estudiantes quienes están en una crisis económica o tiene inseguridad alimentaria además de

en frente de la biblioteca.

Allí los estudiantes tienen acceso de forma gratuita a muchos alimentos como enlatados y vegetales con solo mostrar su carnet estudiantil.

El coordinador adjunto de asuntos gubernamentales en SDSU, Gustavo Cabral, aseguró que esto no es solo una iniciativa para proveer alimentos, sino para ayudar e informar a los estudiantes sobre programas como CalFresh y otros beneficios que pueden atenuar la inseguridad alimentaria que padecen alguno de ellos.

CalFresh es un programa federal con la intención de ayuda a personas de bajos recursos con beneficios mensuales de comida.

“Estamos aquí para ayudar, cualquier estudiante que esté pasando por problemas de vivienda o de dinero puede acudir a nosotros”, dijo Kaitlyn Dixon, del Equipo de Repuesta a Crisis Económica (ECRT, por su sigla en inglés) de SDSU. “Casi siempre podemos solucionar estos problemas informándolos sobre los recursos que tienen en la universidad y en la comunidad”.

ECRT es un programa que ofrece asistencia para estudiantes quienes están en una crisis económica. Para recibir ayuda estudiantes tiene que llenar una solicitud en su sitio web.

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Pumphouse is faithful to its home DANNY DYER STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego’s music scene added a refreshingly simplistic rock group to its roster in the spring of 2015.

Alternative rock outfit Pumphouse hails from the hilly beachscape of La Jolla.

With its knack for blending the primitive sounds of punk and alternative with a contemporary flair, the local band is as evocative as it is unique.

With a four person line up, Christian Clark carries the dual role of lead guitarist and vocals, San Diego State alumni Declan Halloran plays drums and sings, Ida Naughton slaps the bass and Patrick Hallahan delivers the savory wails of the saxophone with the occasional vocal and keys.

The origins of the band’s name are as faithful to its hometown as the group itself, getting its moniker from a popular local surf break.

“It’s one of those places where if you’re born and raised in La Jolla, and someone says to meet them at Pumphouse, you know exactly where it is,” Halloran said. “It’s an homage to where we were born and raised.”

The predecessor of this on-therise group was designed when Pumphouse’s members were still in high school, a project named Neveready.

Heavily favoring a prominent horn section, the group consisted of seven musicians, a number that Clark, Hallahan and Halloran all agreed was a bit too cramped for creative elbow room.

“We decided that it would be better if we just broke it down. Just stripped it down and had basic rock and roll elements. It made our lives easier

a tight-knit coherency circuiting amid the band as Clark belts the catchy refrain. Each player contributes their melodious strains individually, and when stockpiled together, a wholesome tune is born.

This sense of chemistry leaks over into other creative facets as well, specifically with penning lyrical content.

“ IT’S ONE IF THOSE PLACES WHERE IF YOU WERE BORN IN LA JOLLA AND

SOMEONE SAYS TO MEET THEM AT THE PUMPHOUSE, YOU ALREADY KNOW WHERE IT IS.”

- Declan Halloran, alumni

because we weren’t limited to certain songs,” Halloran said. “We just wanted to do something a little different, and it gave us a lot more freedom with writing.”

By resorting to this bare-bones mindset, minimalism proved to be an ally to the San Diego natives.

Pumphouse’s guitar-dense jams and sing-along lyrics transmit with an uncluttered evenness thanks to its focus on the fundamentals.

The single “Too Broke for Fun” illustrates this perfectly, showcasing

Other songs, such as the rhythmically mellow ballad “Baile Duke,” validate the band’s flexible range in both style and sound.

“It can range from anything. Sound wise it goes from, like, The Stooges, to The Clash, to Rocket from the Crypt,” Halloran said.

Having played such venues as The Salty Frog and Til Two Club, Pumphouse’s next show is scheduled for May 4 at the Pour House in Oceanside.

While it is still a project in the infant

stages of its career, the group’s current strategy is to cement a solid reputation as a juggernaut in the live performance setting. In particular, stimulating the audience with its newest jam, “Blackout,” a head-banging rock anthem that usually finds itself at the closing of its sets.

“We’re going to try and expand it in the future and get a whole calland-response thing with the crowd,” Halloran said. “That’s probably the one that people remember and gets them hooked in.”

The band also plans to release an extended play in the near future.

“We want to let an album go, with copyrights and have it be legit. Also, obviously, play a lot more events and come out with more merchandise designs,” Hallahan said. “We’re writing some new stuff that is really good and I think everybody is progressing and moving forward.”

Concerning overall popularity within the Southern California music scene, Halloran feels as though Pumphouse’s time is briskly approaching.

“I think a realistic goal would be to be a well-established band in San Diego, to a point where people will recognize our name on a venue or something like that,” he said.

With the “Too Broke for Fun” EP expected to drop sometime in the next month, such a goal is one step closer to becoming a reality for these La Jolla rockers.

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Music student has high aspirations alex noble staff writer ____________________________________ The rhythm of collegiate music scenes tends to be dictated by a population of SoundCloud rappers and coffee shop bands.

However, with three concert bands, two symphony orchestras and three choirs, the classical musicians at San Diego State are also leaving their mark on campus at in a major way.

One such student is Julia Hong, a music education junior with an emphasis in voice. Hong recently won a contest to have a piece of hers performed by the school symphony.

She said she aspires to be a high school choir director in order to repay the public school system with the same passion for music that it instilled in her.

Hong began playing piano at 3 years old and went on to learn how to play a variety of instruments.

Although she has also been singing since elementary school before coming to college, Hong was hesitant to pursue a major, let alone a career, in music.

She spent a summer in a program at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts that led her to contemplate the feasibility of her dream.

“I was so intimidated by how talented and driven everyone was there that I almost quit music altogether afterwards,” she said. “However, it was one of the most influential experiences

of my life and I quickly realized that there is nothing I am more passionate about than music and it would have been a huge waste to throw away all that I’ve learned over the years.”

Once she got to college, Hong was still unsure of how she wanted to channel this passion into a career. She changed her major three times within the first three semesters but is now

Whitacre is the artist that has most influenced her work.

“His choir pieces are absolutely inspiring and appeal to anyone and everyone,” she said. “He is able to take an image or feeling all humans have experienced and create a piece of music around it that fully embodies it.”

Hong thus chose to arrange Whitacre’s piece, “A Boy and A Girl,” for orchestra,

“ The difficult part is making sure that the music is able to convery the message ...”

thankful for going through the process of trial and error.

Now she said she has no doubt in her mind that she is on the career path that she is meant for. The testimony of Michael Gerdes, professor and director of orchestras at SDSU, reinforces Hong’s belief.

“The most important thing is that you do your homework, literally and figuratively,” Gerdes said, “Julia does both. Julia comes prepared and it’s evidenced by the beautiful music that she’s written. She always has something to offer.”

Although she acknowledges that it’s a clichéd sentiment in the choir world, Hong believes that the composer Eric

- Julia Hong, Music education junior the arrangement that won the contest.

Although she had sung it in high school, Hong notes the challenges of transforming this choral piece into an orchestral one.

“I had to really familiarize myself with the different timbres, or colors, of the instruments in an orchestra and figure out which instruments I wanted to play which parts,” Hong said. “The difficult part is making sure that the music is able to convey the message of the original poem without the usage of words.”

Hong’s hard work paid off when her piece was recently played live by the SDSU Symphony.

“It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to hear the piece

performed by our amazing orchestra,” she said. “It was honestly so cool to have the music that you have been hearing in your head for months become a real living thing. I am so grateful for the experience and to have musicians who gave up their time to learn and play the piece.”

With a considerable amount of love and care devoted to each note, the biggest misconception about the music major is that it’s “easy.”

In addition to the 11 classes she takes each semester, Hong is expected to learn how to play every instrument, teach lessons in local schools to kids ranging from grades K-12 and participate in ensembles that rehearse 4 days a week.

For Hong, her unseen challenges behind the scenes are made worthwhile by both the passion and promise associated with her future career.

“The best part about being (a music education major) and wanting to be a choir teacher is knowing that I am going to be able to share the incredible process of making music with a younger generation,” she said.

Musical or not, the arts are a vital portion of any well-rounded education.

“Not everyone thinks the same way or learns the same way,” Hong said. “Not everyone can thrive in a STEM based school system. The arts teach essential life skills (like) how to work together, be compassionate, be sensitive, be responsible and self-aware, and to embrace individuality.”

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DJ conveys feelings in the moment JULIANNA RESS SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Young musicians often spend their college years exploring different genres and styles, but recording technology and audio design sophomore Lydon Quill’s impressive music history, knowledge and creativity have led him to take that exploration a number of steps further.

Quill simultaneously considers himself to be a producer, musician and artist creating music he describes as experimental beats, ambient or vaporwave.

“Vaporwave is a style of music that is made from 90’s R&B or jazz samples, slowed down and chopped up,” he said. “It is mostly known for its aesthetic, but I just really like the music. I like how it feels, it’s really soothing.”

Quill has been creating vaporwave music since 2013, but his musical origins stem back much further.

“My parents are huge music fans,” he said. “Growing up they took my brother and me to concerts and festivals, so I’ve always been into music.”

By age 6, Quill had begun playing drums and subsequently picked up guitar and bass by ear within a year.

In addition to those instruments, he currently plays mallets and percussion, keyboard, piano, synths and drum machines. He can often be found performing DJ sets as well.

“Right now I’ve been working the dance music realm,” Quill said. “(I DJ) a lot of dance music like dub techno,

90’s house and anything I’m feeling in that moment.”

Besides DJ sets, Quill said he often plays “mixers” and “poolside sessions” in the San Diego area and will be performing on campus at the Electronic Music Marathon on April 22 in Smith Recital Hall.

He is also a member of The Fourth Kind, a collective of San Diego State music students that sets up shows and played at last year’s Silent Disco on campus.

surround it by countless synthesizer melodies or a bassline or guitar part played by him live. I love electronic music but a decent amount of it created by bedroom composers can sound very rigid. (Quill) always keeps songs sounding very fluid and organic.”

Quill’s talent has led him to audition for and attend Grammy Camp twice over the course of his musical career, and perform at NWEAMO festival in Tokyo last November.

He has released five projects, his

“ I LET THE VIEWER INTERPRET WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN THE MUSIC AND THE VISUALS.”

- Lydon Quill, audio design sophomore

Quill utilizes his production and instrumentation to depict emotion without lyrical content.

“I try to convey those feelings by writing in the moment, and using my surroundings or the things I’ve done in whatever I’m making,” he said. “I also do a lot of sound design and carefully figure out the chord progressions. I am going to start singing on this next album hopefully.”

Recording arts senior Josh Jackson feels there is a tangible human quality to Quill’s music, despite it being electronic-based.

“A lot of people label (Quill) as a producer but if you listen closely to his music, there are strong compositional motifs in it,” Jackson said. “Like if he samples a song, he will always

most recent being an album entitled “Never Felt Like Home” released earlier this year, which coincided with an experimental animated film of the same name.

“Originally I just recorded some ambient jams on some synths on my Tascam 4-track at my brother’s house a year ago, then I decided that I actually wanted to make a movie out of this piece,” he said. “I found a ton of animations from the 70s to the 2000s and chopped and layered the video clips along with the music. I let the viewer interpret what happens between the music and the visuals.”

Quill additionally has created a record label, Dreamgarden Records, to release his solo work and side projects.

He releases music under his first

name only, and his work can be found on Dreamgarden Records’ Bandcamp page, as well as Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, iTunes and Google Play.

Quill’s active and widespread online presence has led many of his tracks to thousands of plays, and Jackson said people are drawn to the catchiness and originality of Quill’s music. “(Quill) has an ear for melodies and sounds that will stick in your head for a long time,” Jackson said. “At the same time his sound is so different from most of the mainstream stuff you hear on the radio so I think that attracts people as well.”

Although Quill’s artistry has led him to discovering and excelling in niche, obscure genres, he still finds himself searching for what else music has to offer. He said he is cautious when drawing upon his many diverse influences, as he is concerned with creating a name for himself at this stage in his career and wants to avoid copying someone else’s work.

“I’ve made a lot of different types of music and I’m constantly creating, but it’s hard to find your own sound,” Quill said. “That’s why I’ve been trying to pull away from direct influences and just create whatever I want.”

He cited Flying Lotus, Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kanye West and Animal Collective along with a few fellow SDSU musicians as some of his numerous influences.

Jackson sees indubitable success in Quill’s future.

“No matter what I think (Quill) is going to blow up, there’s no denying it,” Jackson said. “His stuff sounds too professional not to.”

Freshman records music every day in dorm KELLY KERRIGAN STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ When college decisions approached, Michael Gould was unsure of what to declare as his major.

He went his entire life assuming he would become a doctor but the older he got, the more he realized his real passion was with music.

A freshman at San Diego State, Gould is now a global composition major with an emphasis in electronic music.

At 7 years old, Gould picked up his first instrument, the trumpet. The rest is history.

He now plays a plethora of instruments including the piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, trombone, tuba as well as many others.

He began producing music his sophomore year of high school and realized in his senior year the importance it played in his life.

As Gould creates music in his dorm room, his sound a mix between house music and electronic dance music, the passion for music he has is apparent.

He sat down at his desk while working on new sounds for a house track he’s making.

Gould replayed the same 3-second bit over and over again while trying to create the perfect sound and message through his beats.

Although he is restricted to a triple dorm room in the Chapultepec residence hall, he finds a way to overome the tight space and make

Global composition freshman Michael Gould showcases his DJ talents.

KELLY KERRIGAN , STAFF WRITER

music.

On top of the desk in his dorm room sits two KRK Rockit 5 speakers, a Komplete audio six audio interface, a Komplete Kontrol S49 keyboard, an Akai APC 40 and a blue yeti microphone as well as a guitar.

Although these devices may seem unknown to someone unfamiliar to music production, they are essential in creating the right sounds Gould is looking for while restricted to a shared dorm room.

“I have two other roommates so I can’t be blasting music 24/7,” he said. “I have to respect them even if I

have an idea at midnight and they’re sleeping I can’t be working with the loud speakers.”

The current trend Gould is following with his music is EDM and house music. He said his main influence in the music world is Flume, an Australian EDM musician known for songs like “Never Be Like You” and “Drop the Game.”

Gould appreciated the DJ’s ability to bring electronic music onto the radio.

He also admires Flume’s unique sound that anyone can recognize when they hear it.

“Each track I make is so different and

I don’t really have a constant theme but that is what I am trying to do as I progress with producing and find my own niche,” Gould said about his own music production process.

Gould also works on new music with his friend Andres Beltran, a jazz studies freshman, who seconds as a producer.

The connection between the two made it clear that Gould was able to find people with similar interests through SDSU. The duo bounce ideas off each other when producing new material.

“Gould’s music is just like him. It’s always super energetic and while it might be out of control for some people you can definitely tell there’s heart in it,” Beltran said.

Gould intends to get an internship this summer with a record label or nightclub while continuing to release music on his SoundCloud.

He wants to find time for music every day and be able to make it a priority in his free time.

His main goal in life is to make a living off producing music, and the passion and drive he puts into his music leads him on that path.

“Everybody likes music and so even though you’re not able to communicate with people in a lot of ways, with music there (isn’t) a barrier (because) it’s a common thing everyone enjoys,” he said. “Being able to have the message I’m trying to relay to the audience and have them be able to connect with me, that’s a really special feeling to me.”

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Women’s tennis drops MW-opener Kayla Asencio Staff Writer ____________________________________ The San Diego State women’s tennis team hosted UNLV on Friday, March 31 to begin conference play.

Going into the match, the Aztecs had suffered four-straight losses and they were about to face the top team in the Mountain West .

With a 10 a.m. start time, both teams were on the courts bright and early with the goal of starting conference play on the right foot.

After winning the MW Championship last year, the Rebels have continued their success this season. They handed SDSU its fifth straight loss in a 7-0 defeat.

In doubles, the No. 3 seed match consisted of SDSU senior Olivia Larsson and freshman Alli Valk.

They competed against UNLV senior Paola Artiga and sophomore Anna Bogoslavets and lost 6-2.

Senior Kennedy Davis and freshman Mia Smith lost to UNLV senior Carol Yang and sophomore Cristina Moroi, 6-2 in the No. 2 seed.

Juniors Jana Buth and Paola Diaz de Regules competed for the Aztecs in the No. 1 seed against UNLV sophomore Aiwen Zhu and freshman En-Pei Huang.

The neck-and-neck match was cut short and left unfinished in a 4-4 tie

after UNLV secured two of the three wins required to take the doubles point.

In singles play, UNLV won all six matches.

Bogoslavets was the first to add onto her team’s 1-0 lead, after she defeated Diaz in two straight sets, 6-0, 6-1 in the No. 3 seed.

Artiga defeated SDSU freshman Berta Acero, 6-1, 6-4 in the No. 5 seed, which extended UNLV’s lead to 3-0.

At this point, the Aztecs couldn’t take any more losses in hopes of winning the match. However, the Rebels continued their strong outing.

Zhu defeated Davis in the No. 2 seed, 6-2, 6-3, and she also snapped Davis’ five-game winning streak that began on March 5.

After winning the first set 6-3, Larsson fell in the last two sets to sophomore Jovana Kenic 6-2 and 10-8 in the tiebreaker in the No. 6 seed to keep the Aztecs scoreless.

Buth had the challenge of taking on No. 27 Yang in the No. 1-seeded match.

Like many of Buth’s matches this season it was close, and in the first set it was back and forth.

Ultimately, Yang took the first set 7-6 and won the second set 6-3 to clinch the match.

Smith was the last to finish for the Aztecs, as she took on Huang in the No. 4 seed.

The match went the distance and it couldn’t have been any closer. Smith

Junior Jana Buth prepares for a serve against Long Beach State.

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won the first set, 7-6 and Huang came back in the second set and won, 7-6.

Tied 1-1 in sets, both competitors moved to the 10-point tiebreaker where the first to 10 points would win.

The match was so close that Huang won 12-10 because both competitors were tied 10-10, and it had to be won by at least two points.

“I learned that we are certainly somebody, that if we keep making progress, can compete and that’s hopeful,” head coach Peter Mattera

said. “I thought it was a day of hope for me and for my team and I tried to share that with them. We have to keep the faith and keep making progress each day.”

The women’s tennis team (5-14) will get ready to face the University of Nevada at Reno on Sunday, April 9, at 11 a.m., for its second conference game.

“We’re just going to keep trying to move forward,” Mattera said. “Nothing totally special about going on the road or going to Reno, just forward progress.”

Lakalaka tries to replace an Aztec Austin Gayle Asst. Sports Editor ____________________________________ San Diego State football linebacker Ronley Lakalaka will step into big shoes as a junior in 2017 in wake of former Aztec Calvin Munson’s departure from the Mesa.

Munson, one of the best linebackers to ever suit up with the Scarlet and Black, was a two-time all-Mountain West linebacker who walked away from SDSU ranked sixth in tackles (301) on the Aztecs’ all-time list. He also accumulated 18 sacks, three forced fumbles, seven interceptions and two defensive touchdowns in 44 career games with the Aztecs.

While Munson prepares to take his talents to the next level, Lakalaka prepares to follow in his highly regarded footsteps.

“I want to follow him every step of the way because look at him now; he’s going to the NFL,” Lakalaka said.

Lakalaka learned a lot from Munson in his first two years with SDSU, leading to sophomore season in which he amassed 72 combined tackles (37 solo), three tackles for loss, one sack, two interceptions and one defensive touchdown.

“He showed me the way and paved me the way,” Lakalaka said.

“He showed me how to have fun every day and take practice seriously because that’s where you work on your technique, and that’s what shows up in the game.”

Replacing Munson at outside linebacker in the Aztecs’ 3-3-5 defense, Lakalaka got off to a great start with the first team defense at SDSU’s annual

Junior Ronley Lakalaka returns an interception for a tourchdown against UC Berkeley. courtesy of Ernie Anderson

spring game. He amassed two tackles, one of which was a sack for a five-yard loss, while alternating drives with the second defense.

In addition to leaving a strong impact on the box score, Lakalaka hopes to mirror Munson’s ability as a leader on and off the field.

“I’m trying to be a more vocal leader because we have a lot of great athletes who can show by example,” Lakalaka said. “We just need a vocal leader who can get people lined up and get people to be accountable for each other.”

Lakalaka will have his first opportunity to wear Munson’s shoes and lead the Aztecs to a victory on Sep. 2 against UC Davis at Qualcomm Stadium.

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This week in Aztec sports history Anthony Reclusado Sports editor ____________________________________ The flowers are starting to blossom, the sun is hanging in the sky for a few more hours and the sound of cowhide meeting wood, or aluminum, is ringing in the air.

Baseball is officially back with MLB’s opening weekend kicking off this week and in honor of San Diego State’s greatest to walk through the clubhouse and make it to the majors, it’s time to walk down memory lane.

April 7, 1981 When the San Diego Padres were still housed in San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium today, they hosted the Aztec baseball team for a spring tune-up.

While this was a regular occurrence for the two teams in the 80s, this matchup featured a current Aztec that was a year away from taking the first steps on becoming a Padre legend: Tony Gwynn.

With a .467 batting average through 41 games (30-11), Gwynn was anchoring the then No. 6 Aztecs, however, the game was not hyped up more than an exhibition match.

There won’t be pressure to win, but there will be a little pressure because they’re in the majors,” first baseman Mark Lessel said. “If we do (win) then

Baseball: Experience changing the game Continued from P1 around.

While they did go a measly 3-4 in their first seven games, the men on the Mesa got into their winning ways in their final game of the Tony Gwynn Classic on Feb. 26 against Notre Dame, where they started a five-game winning streak.

With another five game winning streak coming later against UNLV, Long Beach State and Fresno State, the Aztecs have put themselves in a position to take over the conference standings once again. Holding the best overall record in the MW, SDSU (21-9, 9-3 MW) trails only the University of New Mexico (18-10, 11-1 MW) for first place.

The Aztecs only face the Lobos once this season from April 28-30.

In order to do that though, the Scarlet and Black will need continued contribution from the breakout leaders in the lineup and on the mound.

Thankfully, there’s no shortage of those in stock.

The Aztecs’ top slugger has been far and away junior right fielder Tyler Adkison. His average of .419 is over .060 better than second place, senior third baseman Andrew Brown, and it doesn’t stop there.

There’s his team leading seven home runs, four better than anyone else.

There’s his .544 OBP, over .100 higher

we’ll impress people, if we don’t there’ nothing to lose.”

That mindset carried over to then head coach Jim Dietz, who knew he was going to use a different pitcher each inning of the game. While in theory that would be an advantage for SDSU, the Padres came out with an 8-1 win.

Despite the loss, the Aztecs received praise from their major-league counterparts.

Padres third baseman Barry Evans, who would play for the New York Yankees the following season, said SDSU had several potential pro prospects, including Gwynn.

The Aztecs finished the season with a 51-17 record, but ultimately fell to Oral Roberts University in the NCAA Regionals.

April 9, 2009 With his playing days behind him, Gwynn returned to SDSU as only the fourth head coach since the program became a varsity sport in 1936. Under his tutelage, rose the fame of pitcher Stephen Strasburg.

The current Washington National, was in his fourth, and final, season for the Aztecs and threw another gem for Gwynn and SDSU. In the opening of a three-game series with UNLV, Strasburg, who was 6-0 entering the match, went six innings and only allowed one earned run. Despite allowing seven hits, he struck out 13 of

than anyone else. There’s his 28 RBIs, five ahead of sophomore first baseman Jordan Verdon’s 23.

And finally, arguably the most impressive stat, is a ridiculous slugging percentage of .859, a number that to find the next closest on the team, you’d have to look at Verdon’s mark of .486.

Another reason for the renewed success of the Aztecs is the return of senior shortstop Danny Sheehan, who is batting .333 with seven doubles and 19 RBIs. Aside from the bats heating up, the pitching has improved for the Aztecs.

Junior transfer pitcher Jorge Fernandez has not allowed a run in 14.1 innings while showing his ability to work under pressure and around jams.

Freshman righty Logan Boyer has allowed just 1 run in 11.1 innings while striking out 13. Senior closer CJ Saylor has recorded eight saves in 17.1 innings of work with 21 strikeouts to a tune of a 1.56 ERA. On the starting pitching side, seniors Brett Seeburger and Marcus Reyes have been a dynamic one-two punch, pitching 45 innings each while the former has done it with a 2.60 ERA, the latter coming in with a 3.60 ERA mark.

At the time of publication, SDSU is on another five-game winning streak in as many days with a series sweep of San Jose State, a win against University of San Francisco and UCLA in Lake Elsinore.

To finish out the season, the Aztecs have 25 more matches, including six more three-game series with conference opponents. Their next matchup is a weekend series against the University of Nevada, Reno at home between April 7-9.

No matter which way you look at it, this is a much improved team from last year, and their record shows it. All that’s left now is to see if they can make it last for the rest of the season.

Tony Gwynn walks across the field that was later named after him.

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the 25 batters he faced.

Strasburg tallied six strikeouts in the first three innings and retired the side via strikeout in the sixth inning.

It was the final start for the future No. 1 overall pick, who finished his final

season with a 13-1 record, 1.32 ERA and 195 strikeouts in 109 innings pitched.

His outstanding performance on the mound aided in the Aztecs returning to the NCAA Regionals for the first time in 18 years.

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Aztecs try to avoid last year’s pitfalls RAMAN SIDHU STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ For a team that failed to make an NCAA Regional appearance for the first time in 11 years, déjà vu is the last thing one wants on the mind.

However, this year’s iteration of the San Diego State softball team is following in the footsteps of last year’s squad.

This year the Aztecs hold a 20-14 record and are 4-5 in conference play.

Last year’s team sat on similar numbers.

(21-16, 3-6 Mountain West).

Now in the same position this season, the women of the Mesa look to show their resilience and Aztec pride for the game every time they put on a mitt or grab a bat.

Last year, SDSU’s main cause of suffering was injuries especially with its key player, Jenavee Peres.

With a healthy team, head coach Kathy Van Wyk wants her team to play a different kind of ballgame this season with more aggressive plays and agility.

They’re looking to redeem themselves from last year and right their wrongs.

SDSU took on San Jose State, one of the top teams in the conference in its weekend series at the SDSU softball stadium from March 31 to April 2.

SJSU 5, SDSU 3

With home field advantage, SDSU aimed to take down San Jose State (2210, 2-1 MW).

Freshman starting pitcher Marissa Moreno started off rocky allowing for five runs from the Spartans. Senior pitcher Erica Romero relieved the freshman halfway through the second inning.

With a padded lead, SJSU’s senior pitcher Katelyn Linford held the Aztecs to three hits in the first five innings.

SDSU was finally able to pick up some momentum in the sixth inning with three runs.

Junior catcher Jenavee Peres began the inning with a leadoff homerun for her ninth bomb of the season.

Freshman shortstop Shelby Thompson had hit her second home run of the season which allowed for sophomore outfielder Aris Metcalfe to score.

Junior pitcher Alex Formby closed out the game with an out recorded by Romero.

The women of the Mesa were left scoreless in the seventh despite the momentum from the sixth inning. SJSU picked up the win 5-3.

These two teams played to an identical score the following day.

SDSU 5, SJSU 3 SDSU looked to even the score against the Spartans in its second matchup.

Sophomore third baseman Molly

Junior pitcher Alex Formby winds up against UCLA. KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

Sturdivant singled up the middle which allowed for junior outfielder Zaria Meshack to score, giving SDSU its first lead 1-0 in the series in the bottom of the first inning.

The Spartans regained the lead in the fourth inning 3-1.

Halfway through the fourth inning, Romero was replaced by Formby after giving up three unearned runs on four hits.

Similar to their matchup the day prior, the Aztecs rattled off their most productive inning in the sixth, as they scored four runs.

Senior first baseman Sydnee Cable started the scoring barrage with a leadoff homerun and Thompson immediately followed suit as the next batter.

This was Thompson’s second homerun in as many games, and her third of the season.

Sophomore second baseman Katie Byrd singled to the right field line. Peres and redshirt freshman center field Kiera Wright scored on advantage.

SDSU won the game 5-3 and looked to win the series on its home field.

SDSU 7, SJSU 6 (9 INNINGS) After identical 5-3 decisions, Sunday’s match was a nail-biting affair as it went an extra two innings for a final decision.

The Scarlet and Black walked in with heads held high and oozing of confidence.

The Spartans took the early 1-0 lead in the first inning and pushed their lead to 3-0, after the second inning.

Romero had yielded three runs and struck out only one SJSU batter. Formby replaced her during the second inning.

In the bottom of the third inning, Byrd singled to center field. Senior right fielder

Jaylene Ignacio picked up a run and put SDSU on the scoreboard.

In the fifth inning, the Aztecs showed for three runs, as Byrd homered to left field which allowed for three RBIs. Wright and Meshack scored off the homer and gave SDSU it first lead in the game 4-3.

Byrd was the fourth Aztec to go yard in the weekend series.

In the sixth inning, Cable once again a home run to lead off the inning. This was her fourth home run of the season.

SJSU scored a single run in the seventh inning and kept SDSU off the scoreboard to force extra innings.

After a ninth inning run for the Spartans, Peres scored on a Thompson walk with the bases loaded. On the next at bat, Ignacio singled up the middle and freshman outfielder Kristen Parker scored.

Formby allowed three runs on 11 hits and four walks, while striking out two batters in seven and one-third innings.

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Aware: Take Back the Week returns April 11 Continued from P1 Take Back the Night is slated for Thursday, April 13, but the week will round out with events such as TraumaInformed Yoga on Friday and Brave Project Training on Saturday.

Nare said the events are based on the needs and interests of students and what they feel is relevant.

“It’s really important to get a pulse on the needs of the students on campus,” she said. “All of these events that are taking place were either initiated by students, or students said they were topics that haven’t been talked about in relationship to sexual violence so we really need to talk about them.”

Major focuses for this year’s events were race, sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to sexual violence.

“This year we really tried to focus on thinking about how students’ individual experiences and identities impact the way that they navigate trauma and violence,” Nare said.

“We have a lot of workshops that are focused specifically on race or sexual orientation because I think those are things that are left out of these conversations a lot of time and

we really wanted to make sure we’re paying attention to them this year.”

Examples of such events are Barriers to Reporting in the LGBT+ Community Presentation and Discussion on Tuesday, April 11 and Sexual Violence, Mass Incarceration and the Black Community Presentation with Preshus Thompson from Center for Community Solutions on Wednesday, April 12.

Henry said it is important to note how someone’s race, sexual

orientation or gender identity may lead them to facing unique struggles when it comes to sexual violence.

“There’s no stereotypical face of victims or perpetrators of sexual assault,” she said. “It can happen to anyone by anyone, and limiting the conversation to just one group of people defeats the purpose of the event.”

As a result of making Take Back the

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Week as inclusive as possible, Nare said she hopes all genders feel encouraged to join the conversations.

“Although I think women tend to be more interested in these topics, if we’re really going to radically change the conversation and the experience of sexual violence, men really need to be at the table and be participating,” she said.

“It’s super important to recognize that men and gender nonbinary folk also experience sexual violence.

It’s very easy to think of it as an issue only

women experience, but anyone can be a survivor of sexual violence, that’s something we hope to call attention to this week.”

Now that President Donald J. Trump’s administration has taken office, Nare said the current political climate has made programs like Take Back the Week as important as ever.

“I think if there’s one positive thing that comes from some of the really oppressive things that are happening in our society, is that I hope to encourage

folks to stand in solidarity with one another, build community and take action around the issues they care about,” she said. “Sexual violence in our community, here on our campus and across campuses in the United States is such a huge issue. I think when it leaves the media’s attention for a moment, people kind of forget that it’s important, but it’s still really important.”

Nare emphasized that local activism creates the necessary platforms that lead to widespread change.

“I think that whether it’s sexual violence or another issue, we have to make the voices of folks who are marginalized heard,” she said. “We have to bring to the forefront the issues that we feel are important, especially when we feel like we’re not being heard or represented well in bigger institutions.

That’s something that needs to be a topic of conversation, so if we can do it at lower levels and really find allies and accomplices here in the community and work together on a local level, I think that’s super important.”

Depending on what events they attend, students will gain a variety of knowledge and tools in regards to sexual violence, but overall Nare said she hopes people walk away from Take Back the Week knowing sexual violence is a significant issue.

“There are lots of folks on campus who care about this issue and who are working to support survivors of sexual violence, and to prevent it from happening,” she said. “If folks do experience sexual violence during their time here (at SDSU) or know somebody who does, there are lots of resources to support them. I think we do a pretty good job of talking about (sexual violence) here at SDSU compared to other universities, so I think we can just continue to try to make progress on this issue.”

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Peppers come for 'One Hot Minute' lilly glenister assistant a&c editor ____________________________________

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here aren’t too many bands in Southern California that have music as ubiquitous as the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

You can turn on any alternative radio station in San Diego and you probably will have more than a 50/50 shot at hearing “Under the Bridge” or “By the Way” playing.

The Los Angeles funk rockers have an undeniable popularity that hasn’t seemed to waver over its 30-plus years in the music industry.

The Chili Peppers made its longawaited stop in San Diego, March 21, at Valley View Casino Center to a sold out crowd.

The show was originally scheduled for a couple weeks prior on March 5, but front man Anthony Kiedis had to cancel due to a case of bronchitis.

Fans at the venue didn’t seem to care much about waiting though. Maybe they thought that all good things come to those who wait? Who knows.

Regardless, everywhere you looked in the arena were people of all ages, from toddlers to 60-something bearded dudes, decked out in what seemed to be an overkill of RHCP gear.

People really, really, love the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

And I can’t lie.

I had (have) an obsession, just like everyone else probably has at some point, with Kiedis circa 1991 when Blood Sugar Sex Magik came out.

Anyone who says that isn’t a great record is just a straight up hater in my book.

The show was off to a good start when

Red Hot Chili Peppers visit Valley View Casino Center on March 21.

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the band busted out with an opening jam and flowed into “Can’t Stop.”

I was hyped.

Kiedis was looking good, Flea was slappin’ the bass as usual and I was feeling it.

Chad Smith was on drums and looked like he was having a good time, and even the band’s newest guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer, was holding it down pretty well.

Of course, (just like any other fan might point out) I still miss when John Frusciante was in the band.

RHCP seemed fired up to be back in San Diego.

Flea even thanked the crowd and gave a shout outto local music venue, the Belly Up Tavern, in Solana Beach for having the band play back in 1983 when it was first getting its start.

The energy from the crowd was pretty intense throughout the show, minus the few children I saw seated and looking

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down playing on their Nintendo DS’s while their parents threw back some beers singing along to “Californication.”

To each his own I guess.

Everything seemed to go by so quickly while Kiedis and Flea bounced around the stage.

For 50-something year olds, Kiedis was still skanking around the stage and Flea was doing handstands across the floor, keeping up with the much younger Klinghoffer.

Unfortunately, the feeling of the show moving quickly wasn’t me just trippin’.

A little over an hour into the show, the Chili Peppers were already bidding adieu.

When I looked around me, I saw a bunch of puzzled faces. The guy next to me definitely wasn’t too stoked.

“Oh. Hell. No. I know they’re not already ending,” Jeff Williams, a San Diego resident, said. “This encore better have like nine songs right now, I swear.”

I agreed. But when the band came back out, the encore only had two songs. Kiedis started out with “Goodbye Angels” from RHCP’s latest album called “The Getaway.”

Surprisingly enough, although this North American tour is aptly named after the recent release from summer 2016, the band didn’t entirely focus on its new material during its set.

The good part about the show was that interspersed throughout the set was a collection of songs from earlier albums like “By the Way,” “Californication” and “Mother’s Milk.”

My ultimate disappointment, though, came from what I believe was a huge disservice to all women in the audience.

I came to the show praying that I would hear Kiedis sing “Sir Psycho Sexy” or “Suck My Kiss” off of Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Nothing of the such happened. In fact, I had to wait until the very end of the band’s encore to hear one song (“Give it Away”) off of what could be considered one of RHCP’s best albums.

For a band with such a large musical repertoire, the Chili Peppers definitely could’ve played a little longer than an hour and a half.

The performance was still on point, but fans after the show could be heard voicing their collective disappointment about the length of the set.

Nevertheless, there’s no doubt that people of all ages will keep on loving the Red Hot Chili Peppers for years to come as the band continues to reinvent itself.

“We love you and we are lucky to have you all day long,” Kiedis said to his San Diegan fans as he ended the show.

The band will be back in town for Del Mar's annual KAABOO music festival in September.

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