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Seminar recognizes local programs and looks to the future ALEESHA H A R R I S MANAGING EDITOR

Social work is the supportive backbone of nearly every community.

Workers provide care and compassion to those in need without question or discrimination.

On Tuesday, Aug. 18, the San Diego State School of Social Work held a meeting to analyze the undertakings of local and Southern Californian social work professionals.

This year’s Annual Field Instructor Orientation Meeting and Summit, held at the on-campus Extended Studies Center, drew the largest attendance of the event’s 20year history. “(About) 200 Community Partners professional social workers were in attendance, representing more than 170 agencies and programs in San Diego and Imperial Counties, and more than 320 intern-

ship placements for our students,” SDSU School of Social Work Director and professor Thom Reilly said.

The event was aimed at recognizing the considerable efforts of all professional social workers who are SDSU SSW-approved, many of whom voluntarily commit to the professional training of the next generation of social workers.

“They provide over 75,000 hours of supervision and training for our students each year,” Reilly said.

Additional aspects of the summit included status updates about the SDSU School of Social Work and an overview and update of field internship curriculum and learning objectives for the upcoming academic year.

The meeting also provided summit field instructors a forum for input and feedback, as well as community partnerships and networking opportunities.

The 2009 seminar was more than just educational however — it was also celebratory.

Reilly, as well as the College of Health and Human Services Dean Marilyn Newhoff, presented Community Partnership

Outstanding Recognition Awards to two exceptional San Diego-area social work programs.

The award for outstanding undergraduate program was awarded to the Center for the Blind and was accepted by Program Director Mark Gould, MSW. The other honor was presented to Linda Newsum, LCSW, supervisor in the social work department at UCSD Medical Center, on behalf of UCSD’s various social work programs.

Each year, SDSU School of Social Work students provide more than 250,000 hours of community service throughout local communities, a trend that according to Reilly, is perpetuated well after graduation.

“Upon obtaining their degrees, our graduates provide professional services in a variety of agencies and specialized clinical and administrative areas,” Reilly said.

Areas of service include: community health and mental health clinics, hospitals, child welfare agencies, substance abuse facilities, schools; hospices; military and veteran centers, senior care networks, family service agencies, criminal justice and domestic violence shelters.

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WHILE YOU WERE AWAY Major changes to budget Spring semester ended with much unfinished business, and while many students spent the summer months relaxing or studying abroad, the California State University Board of Trustees and the California Faculty Association were busy making decisions to offset the nearly $600 million state budget cut to the CSU system.

In May, undergraduate student yearly fees increased by $306 and the Board of Trustees approved another $672 increase in July. Graduate student rates increased by $1,206 overall and teaching credential students will pay an additional

$1,134 per year come fall.

According to San Diego State Media Relations Manager Gina Jacobs, onethird of the additional fees will fund financial aid for students who qualify.

SDSU staff and faculty will also be affected by the decreased budget, as both will be required to take two unpaid days off every month. The furloughs represent a 10 percent salary reduction for both faculty and administrative staff.

—Compiled by Assistant City Editor Whitney Lawrence

On-campus arena gets a new name On July 1, SDSU’s arena got a new name. Formerly Cox Arena, the building’s naming rights expired and a new logo is in place — Viejas Arena.

The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians will hold the naming rights, which cost about $6 million, until 2019.

The roughly 12,000-person capacity arena will continue to host SDSU basketball games, concerts, convocation, graduation and university events throughout the year.

—Compiled by City Editor Kevin McCormack

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Changes around campus Students might also notice a new building across the street from Viejas Arena and the Aztec Recreation Center.

Construction on the new Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center is expected to finish within a month, according to

SDSU’s alumni Web site. The 30,000-square-foot facility cost $11 million and is scheduled to officially open on Oct. 17.

—Compiled by City Editor Kevin McCormack

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Students in the SDSU School of Social Work provide more than 250,000 hours of community service throughout San Diego county each year. Roughly 200 professional social workers attended this year’s Annual Field Instructor Orientation Meeting.

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Hike to help military families S A R A H K O VA S H S TA F F W R I T E R

The journey through college can be daunting.

For students who also have family serving in the military, the trek can seem even steeper.

In order to raise money for these students, the Student Veterans Organization at San Diego State hosted a hike through Balboa Park on Saturday.

The seven-mile hike through Balboa Park started at 5 a.m. Those participating in the event made the trek with packs of canned food strapped to their backs. The canned food was donated to Miramar Air Station and Camp Pendleton.

Each participant was asked to try to obtain $200 worth of sponsorships for the hike.

“I’m excited, I think it’s a good way to get the student veterans out in the community

and let people know that we’re here and there are some of us that need help still with going to school,” Jay Burris, SVO community service officer and hike participant said.

Mark Daemon, event organizer and member, said a fellow member suggested carrying canned food instead of sandbags that would need to be borrowed from a nearby base.

“If we’re going to carry weight, make the weight count,” Daemon said. “Make it worthwhile.”

The hike was limited to 100 people and included SVO members as well as students and community members.

The hike was organized in hopes of providing scholarships to students with family members currently in the military.

“We’ve noticed there are members of our student body who are dependents of activeduty military and they are working tremendously hard at keeping their family together,

keeping their service member … up and communicated with while they’re deployed, and at the same time trying to finish a degree,” Daemon said. “And that’s so exceptional because the amount of time that’s required to do all of those things well is almost a full-time job themselves.”

In addition to raising money for scholarships, the event also served as a platform to recognize SVO’s most recent recipient of their Eternal Flame award, meant to recognize individuals’ support for SVO. The recipient was Lt. Col. Thomas A. Richards, a USMC retiree.

This is the first year that SVO has done this event, but the hope is to make it an annual event to continue to raise scholarship money.

“Hopefully if this works out, we will do it yearly,” Daemon said. “We’ll be able to pump $15,000 to $20,000 into these individuals who are doing so much.”

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‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ don’t cut it anymore

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President Barack Obama’s failure to fulfill his campaign promises to the LGBT community has all but gone unnoticed. Liberal supporters are wondering if Obama will allow these tax-paying citizens the rights afforded to the rest of this country’s population.

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ight months into a new administration and President Barack Obama is finally starting to live up to his campaign promises. Before last year’s presidential election, Obama stood up and vowed to defeat the Defense of Marriage Act, which strictly defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Many members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen-

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der community supported Obama, hoping he could change the outdated and inequitable policy. Obama secured the votes of gay rights activists and proceeded to win the election.

But after his inauguration, Obama remained decidedly silent on any issue having to do with

the LGBT population. He did not comment on the passage of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that eliminated the right to marry for same-sex couples in California.

He made no statements regarding the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning LGBT people from serving openly and honestly in the military, except through his mouthpiece, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Obama seemed to be ignoring a key group of people

who fought so hard for him to become president.

But the gay community was not going to take Obama’s silence.

When the anniversary of the Stonewall riots came up, protesters demanded a statement from Obama regarding the current state of same-sex marriage laws. After hundreds of TV appearances, editorial columns, and protests, activists got their wish. In June, at a LGBT event at the White House, Obama said, “I will continue to be an ally and a president who fights with you and for you.”

More recently, on Aug. 17, the Obama administration filed court papers asking to repeal the DOMA. Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler stated, “The administration believes the Defense of Marriage Act is discriminatory and should be repealed.”

It is about time the Obama administration stood up for the gay community and they should not stop there. Obama needs to make same-sex marriage laws a priority and advocate more in the future for the millions of Americans who remain secondclass citizens.

Partisanship may be to blame for the delay of progress with same-sex marriage. Obama has been very centrist since his election, leaving many of his liberal supporters disappointed. The president seems to be playing it safe while not wanting to surround himself with controversial issues such as same-sex marriage.

But ignoring the problem does not mean it is going to go away.

Millions of tax-paying citizens are frustrated because they are unable to receive the same benefits as the rest of the population Even within the Obama administration there is a government employee not getting equal benefits. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, John

Berry, is openly gay. In a statement by Berry regarding DOMA he said, “This policy is unjust and it directly undermines the federal government’s ability to recruit and retain the nation’s best workers.”

After being disregarded for so long, the gay community deserves to be heard. Obama has taken the right step by demanding the DOMA be repealed. Should this happen, it would be an incredible step for future civil liberties. But the administration needs to continue fighting and there is still much work to be done.

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is still a negative policy that most likely led to the murder of Seaman August Provost in Camp Pendleton. There is also the need for the passage of a national hate crime law that is inclusive of the LGBT community.

Hopefully during the next three years, Obama will further push Congress to give the LGBT community the rights it deserves as Americans. It may be a challenge with the current state of affairs, but it is necessary.

People voted for Obama to unite this country, not to divide its citizens. Because Obama has the ability to implement change during his first term, he must support his fellow Americans. What are typically empty words of a campaign promise have the potential to turn into the progress and change we were promised.

—Sarah Grieco is a public relations junior.

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NEWS TO KNOW According to a report issued by the Population Reference Bureau, the world population will reach 7 billion by the year 2011, with a vast majority of the growth occurring in many of the world’s developing nations. The report’s long-term population estimates stated 97 percent of world growth in the next 40 years will take place in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Additionally, the report states that by the year 2050, India will become the world’s most populated nation with 1.7 billion people, China will become the second most populated with 1.4 billion, and the U.S. population will reach 439 million people.

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On Aug. 10, multiple truck bombings in an autonomous Kurdish village north of Mosul, Iraq and insurgent attacks on workers in western Baghdad took at least 88 lives and injured an additional 200 people. The attacks have flared up an enduring political struggle between regional Kurdish officials and Shiite Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki, pushing both sides to blame the other for the lack of security. Separately, U.S. authorities have attributed the recent increase in violence to an insurgent plan to make the U.S. military effort in the region appear as an utter defeat amid the June 30 mass troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities.

At least 1,000 survivors were located throughout three remote villages in Taiwan by military rescue after Typhoon Morakot devastated the island through the Aug. 8 weekend. The typhoon poured at least 80 inches of rain on Taiwan, brought wind speeds up to 74 mph, destroyed about 10,000 homes, left 61 people missing, and killed at least 63. Among the Philippines, Taiwan and China, Typhoon Morakot killed a total of 93, flooded more than one million acres of cropland and cost the nations an estimated $1.4 billion in direct economic losses.

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Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, a Mexican criminal-defense attorney who represented multiple drug cartel members and drug traffickers, was recently shot and killed by three gunmen Aug. 9 while shopping in Monterrey, Mexico last Sunday, according to Mexican officials. Villanueva had publicly criticized the Mexican government for permitting drug cartels to operate and she represented various members from separate criminal organizations.

She was also often accused of growing too close to her clients, most of whom were infamous Mexican crime figures. Villanueva survived four attempts on her life since 1998.

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A recent Gallup Poll revealed that more Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s han-

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dling of the health care overhaul than those who approve, with 49 percent and 44 percent respectively, supporting that the public’s opinion has not changed since the highly publicized congressionalstyle town hall meetings concerning the issue began across the nation three weeks ago. The poll also supports an extreme partisan divide on Obama’s handling of the issue, with more than three-quarters of Democrats approving, and a mere one-tenth of Republicans approving.

Obama’s overall approval rating remains at 54 percent.

Clifton Williams, a man who allegedly made a yawn-like sound in an Illinois courtroom, is now facing a six-month jail sentence for contempt of court. Williams reportedly made the yawning noise on July 23 in Judge Daniel Rozak’s courtroom of Will County while his cousin, Jason Mayfield, was being sentenced for a drug charge. In response to criticisms of Williams’ sentencing, Charles Pelkie, a spokesman for the Will County State’s Attorney office, stated this was a “loud, boisterous, deliberate attempt on the part of this individual to disrupt the proceedings and show disrespect to the court.”

Williams is facing the maximum jail-time sentence a judge can issue for contempt of court without a jury trial.

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Water conservation is essential have sat on the sidelines for far too long with a thirst for change.

For months, I have watched the citizens of San Diego County, despite being in a dramatic water emergency, waste the now-precious commodity with reckless disregard for the consequences. It’s about time something is done about the population that simply thinks it is above helping out the county by conserving water.

Article 10, Section two of the California Constitution says waters of the state are to be put to beneficial use, that waste, unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented, and that water be conserved for the public welfare.

With San Diego on a Level 2 Drought Alert as of June 1, I see no noticeable changes. Every day, before the start of summer class at Grossmont College, I would stop into the restroom where I was greeted by the soothing sounds of water running from a sink that had no one in front of it.

At my job in Clairemont, I sit and stare out the window at residents watering their dead lawns for close to an hour and washing their cars with an endless deluge of water without stopping to think about what they are doing.

With the level two alert issued in June came a list of restrictions on water usage and a clearly defined schedule of when residents could water their lawns and wash their cars, all of which are being ignored both by the residents and those who should be enforcing the guidelines.

When talks first arose about the inevitable water problem we were going to have, there was immediate uproar about what San Diego was going to do to regulate water usage. At the height of those regulations was a monetary penalty.

If residents exceeded their water ration,

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they were to receive a substantial fine.

Now, taking a look at the city around me, I wonder what happened to the backbone that was supposed to enforce this regulation. The city shouldn’t have to go as far as fining people and businesses for excessive water use. People should be able to logically think when we are short on water, we cut back on how much we use. This isn’t happening.

Some may view water conservation as requiring a large amount of effort, but even small things can save large amounts of water with little effort or inconvenience.

Easy things such as turning off the water while brushing your teeth can save 4 gallons of water per minute, according to the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association. That translates into a savings of about 200 gallons per week for a house of four. In addition, shortening your showers to less than five minutes can save 1,000 gallons of water in a month. So for those who think conservation requires more effort, it actually just requires you to use less and do less.

The problem with people conserving this currently priceless commodity is not that people aren’t informed, but because political ideologies intrude on common sense issues such as this. For example, my conservative roommate once told me he didn’t care about the wasted water that he used to hose off the incredibly dirty patio as opposed to the aqua-free method of sweeping it off.

It is common to see Conservatives care less about the environment than Liberals.

Oil drilling in Alaska was a dream of former President George W. Bush.

Profitability was favored over the negative effect it would have had on the environment. While it pains me to say that poli-

tics has intruded on water conservation, it is a reality that must be faced.

Politics has no place in a resource emergency such as this. The scarcity of water is a reality and if we don’t put our ideologies aside, our need for water will be left with nowhere to turn. Turn off a

“The scarcity of water is a reality and if we don’t put our ideologies aside, our need for water will be left with nowhere to turn.” faucet here and there. Wash your cars and water your lawns either early in the morning or later in the evening to avoid losing too much water by evaporation. If we all do our part, no harsh measures will need to be implemented.

However, if people can’t conserve water on their own, then it is the City of San Diego’s responsibility to step in and find a more severe way to deter people from wasting water needlessly — even if that means fines for exceeding quotas.

National elections in Afghanistan suffer low turnout amid threats from Taliban Number of Afghans killed because of election-related violence:

26 Number of attacks carried out

by Taliban militants on the day of the election:

73 Percent of Afghanistan’s 15 million registered voters who actually voted according to officials:

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Percent of Afghanistan’s registered voters who actually voted in the 2004 national election:

70%

—T.J. Bronson is a journalism and finance senior.

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Public health option unnecessary

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s soon as recess started, things really started to get interesting. Soon Congress will have to vote on this universal health care idea that has been in the air for years, even since the Clinton administration.

On Sunday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said that public health option is not necessary for the current health care reform bill.

The funny thing is, she’s right. A public option is not needed in this bill, and by trimming it, the bill may pass with flying colors through both houses. It is

“The public option would become competition for insurance companies, which would lower prices and improve customer service.”

important that by the end of this administration there is some kind of public option, but for the sake of moving things along, it would be best to leave it out of this bill and try to put it in a separate bill on its own.

First off, the public option is the government-run health care system. For instance, instead of buying your medical coverage or insurance from a private contractor, such as Blue Cross, you would buy it through the government. What this does is give people the option of getting more affordable health insurance,

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which presumably would not deny as many claims. The public option would become competition for insurance companies, which would lower prices and improve customer service. The health care bill without the public option still helps the poor, the sick, and puts limits on how much private insurance companies can charge.

As of right now, the public option will most likely be the demise of this health care reform bill. Even without it, President Barack Obama faces challenges from his own party as well as the Republican backlash. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said that she will not vote for any bill that does not include a public option, while in reality, she knows, just as well as Obama, that without compromise this bill will not go through. And then Democrats will have another fiasco on their hands like they did back in 1993, when current Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Clinton was spearheading the plan. A public option is important for this country, but in reality, it isn’t worth jeopardizing the well-being of millions of Americans for a small part of an already ingenious bill, which will probably go down as the single greatest piece of liberal legislation in the past 70 years.

Without the public option the bill stands to give more Medicaid to the near-poor, and ultimately fix the problems with insurance companies. It also competes with insurance companies, while a bill without the public option would only seek to overrule them.

This is a great compromise for the conservatives in Congress because it gives them an opportunity to stop com-

plaining about how universal health care is socialist, because without the public option it becomes an issue of anti-trust, fraud and malpractice.

That being said, it is important we eventually get a public option passed.

The middle class gets the short end of the stick after making the most sacrifices.

The middle class is most often left with paying for the Medicaid that the poor cannot afford, and have insurance plans far inferior to Preferred Provider Organization’s the wealthy can afford.

With the introduction of a public option later on, once the insurance companies have been dealt with, it allows the middle class to have a voice in health care and allows the majority of Americans to have proper health benefits. Now, with a public option the government would act as insurance providers, meaning that they would then see claims through. So long as the government charges less and provides more, insurance companies will have no choice but to change their policies.

The health care reform bill is good for Americans. It provides the poor and middle class with options, and keeps the rich happy becauase the only ding they receive is a heightened bill come tax season. This can happen soon, but we need to do it in a smart way that brings the Conservatives on board as well.

—Ammar Moheize is a journalism junior.

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A family of two is considered below the U.S. poverty line if they produce a total annual income of:

$13,540 A family of four is considered below the U.S. poverty line if they produce a total annual income of:

$21,203 Number of Americans who fell beneath the poverty line between 2007 and last year:

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Estimated poverty rate in the U.S. as of 2008: at least

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—Compiled by State of Mind Staff Writer Tom Hammel

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Faculty furloughs detrimental to students

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o put it in familiar terms – the Instructional Related Activities fee increase: $160. Total undergraduate registration fees: $2,451. The academic training and skills we will lose this year: Priceless.

This coming semester, students will have substantially fewer instructional hours. Yes, the idea of shorter weeks, longer vacations and much more nap time may appear idyllic, but in reality, a reduced workload threatens not only the quality of our education but the potency of our brainpower.

As probably guessed, this all comes from the CSU Board of Trustee’s decision to implement mandatory faculty furlough days as a means of saving money. This upcoming year, all professors and teaching staff are required to take off a total of nine days, amounting to a 9.23 percent salary loss.

The sentiment of students so far has been in favor of the furlough, ranging along the lines of “If we have to pay so do the teachers.” But when a teacher takes a furlough day – nine times – students will lose nine days of either instructional time or time where the professor may have been avail-

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able to meet outside of class. This hurts our quality of education.

Furloughs aren’t just bad for teachers; they’re bad for everyone.

This summer, CSU faculty and staff individually worked to create a calendar of the furlough days they intend to take off. Although furlough days are compulsory, the specific days they have to be taken on are not.

So while some professors are selfless enough to only take off the days they don’t lecture – say a Monday and Wednesday lecturer uses Tuesdays and Thursdays to go on furlough — other professors may not be so generous.

There may be some professors who will take a majority of their furloughs on scheduled class days, leaving students with an imbalanced academic loss in a single course.

Journalism and media studies professor, Dr. Tim Wulfemeyer, has chosen to take four instructional days and five non-instructional days off as a way of meeting students in the middle, while still making a statement to CSU officials.

“I think it would be too damaging to the instruction / learning aspect of my courses to take nine instructional days off during the semester,” Wulfemeyer said. “On the other hand, by not taking any instructional days off, it tends to show taxpayers and legislators that professors are willing to do the same work for 10 percent less salary. That doesn’t seem like a very strategic move to me.”

Wulfemeyer’s decision is both strategic and understandable, yet students are still left with four fewer lectures – lectures we have paid for.

Every teacher is supposed to put the instructional days they chose to take off in their syllabus so students can plan ahead.

But be warned, we are going to have to plan way, way ahead.

For students who have classes in a number of departments, their schedules are going to be broken and scattered.

Student schedules will be unorganized. Many students try to have classes on the same day, but now with random furlough days interjected into our schedule, our routines will be thrown off. For students who take public transportation, furlough days pose not

only a schedule grievance, but a considerable waste of time.

“It seems as if a student who has three classes on a Monday, might find that several times during the semester, he / she will have one, two or all three classes canceled due to furloughs,” Wulfemeyer said. “It is likely to be a confusing time for all of us.”

Confusing describes a portion of this predicament, while enraging expresses the rest.

Considering our fees increased by 30 percent, it’s quite alarming to think we’re actually paying more money for less education.

The loss of classes could range anywhere from 10 to 30 percent, not to mention the immeasurable waste of knowledge.

Overall, putting university faculty on furlough is not a wise decision on the part of CSU officials. If limited to state employees only, CSU could still reap the savings benefits without causing an educational disruption. Maybe a few offices would be closed, and a few people will be forced to wait in slightly longer lines, but the damage done would only be minimal in the long run.

“I think most faculty members

will try their best to minimize the impacts of the furlough system on students,” an empathetic Wulfemeyer said, “but I don’t see how the furlough system will not do some damage to the instructional programs at SDSU. Even if faculty members do not take instructional days off, the damage done to morale, collegiality, teamwork, etc., will still be there.”

If your professors have chosen to only take little to no instructional days off, be sure to thank them. This year the quality of our education hinges directly on the incorruptible selflessness of our honorable professors. If the state is not going to value their selflessness, we students better make sure to express our gratitude.

—Ashlie Rodriguez is a political science and journalism senior.

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Confessions of a cougar and her boy cubs These experienced women will readily sink their teeth into a younger companion NICOLE C ALLA S A S S I S TA N T F E AT U R E S E D I T O R

Mrs. Robinson was the classic middle-aged seductress: sexy, experienced and seeking younger men. Commonly known as “cougars,” these older women are on the prowl for younger men and are no longer hiding those preferences. Today, there are older female celebrities, such as Demi Moore, flaunting their younger arm candy in public and new sitcoms such as “Cougar Town” flooding television programming. Even on a local level, the Del Mar Racetracks have celebrated the prevalence of cougar women by holding a Miss Cougar Del Mar contest this year. While cougars are becoming less of a taboo subject in mainstream society, many onlookers are still curious to what is behind the attraction between both parties.

“Older women are extremely attractive,” Valerie Gibson, author of “Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men,” said.

“They own their own businesses, cars, condos and have their own life.” Gibson is a self-proclaimed cougar who said she “introduced the whole trend of cougars,” and has openly discussed why she thinks younger men love to date older women.

The world of cougars is very interesting; they are confident, in control, and unafraid to say “Don‘t call me, I’ll call you.” Also, you won’t often find them asking questions such as “Where is this going?” or “Do you love me?” that younger women tend to ask. Men find this irresistible, Gibson said. And of course,

cougars are stereotyped as being a younger man’s fantasy because of their sexuality.

According to criminal justice junior Pat Gormley, who is currently dating an older woman, the appeal older women have is that they have more life experience. However, most guys he knows are attracted to them because they are more experienced sexually.

And Gibson was not opposed to the stereotype of being highly sexual. “Sexuality is something that is very strong with cougars,” Gibson said.

When asked if she had ever been under the impression that younger men had used her for sex or money she said they would never date older women for their money, but rather, for their sex.

“Of course they are using them for sex; that’s what they are there for,” Gibson said. She said that there is nothing wrong with being older and still wanting a sexual relationship.

“It’s new they (older women) are blatantly saying they like sex. To say that you shouldn’t have sexuality after 40 is absolute rubbish … sexuality does not just jump off a cliff.”

But there is also another side to cougar relationships that can move beyond physical lust. Gibson was in a 15-year relationship with a man who was 14 years younger than her, and she said her relationship was like “any other relationship,” just with a larger age gap.

“The world of cougars is very interesting. They have life experience and good conversation they can share with a younger man and mature younger men love that,” Gibson said. “The cougar does not date every bozo … they like more sophisticated younger men; not all men can date an older woman,” Gibson said.

“Why guys go after older women is

because they want to have a mature relationship with a mature woman,” Gormley said.

“Guys also like to say they are dating an older woman … they seem older if they are dating a more mature woman.” He also said that his friends have a fantasy of being with a cougar but have never followed through with actually dating one.

Gibson also said that younger men are now chasing after the older women, not the other way around.

“In the past seven years, the trend is now driven by younger men; now the younger men adore you … go to a bar with a girlfriend, and they will swarm you,” Gibson said.

There are numerous Web sites such as cougarhunter.ca, gauged toward younger males who are attracted to older women that dish cougar dating advice, “cougar hunting” tips and even sell cougar apparel. While different people may have opposing perspectives on the age gap, it’s apparent that cougars are available and wanted by some younger men. “Younger men fall madly in love with older women; it seems they are addicted and never want to go back,” Gibson said.

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Helping with ways for men to approach women D AV I D P O P E A S S I S TA N T S P O R T S E D I T O R

It’s a question that has plagued men since the beginning of time, a puzzle more complicated than the Thursday sudoku.

Men have put people on the moon and created the Internet, but there’s still no resolution to this age-old question: “What do women want?”

There may be no easy answer, but Jamie Thompson wants to help men figure it out.

Thompson is a certified life and success coach and is offering some insight into that ancient riddle.

Her Web site, www.JamieLovesYou.com, recently launched in efforts to help attract men who could use some direction in the dating world.

Thompson primarily deals with clients’ specific dating situations, but does have tips that can be universally helpful.

While she will attest that the most common problem she comes across is anxiety in first approaching a new woman, it takes more than confidence to proverbially “get the girl.”

“The bottom line is that it’s much more involved than just confidence,” Thompson said. “Someone can have a false sense of confidence, and eventually girls are going to see right through it. There’s confidence and then there’s really, actually being secure with yourself.”

And even beyond that, it’s more than just having the right attitude toward dating.

“In general, just being social (is key). If you’re confident but you never talk to anyone, that’s no good either. That’s another thing I work with people a lot on is just social skills.”

Thompson has worked with everyone from 18-year-olds who need a little advice to middle-aged men who have yet to “get into the game” at all.

With her diverse clientele, Thompson doesn’t set out to give guys the “secret” to figuring out all women, but rather to help educate guys on how to better understand a woman’s thoughts and desires.

“A lot of times, when people come to me, they’re like ‘OK, I’m ready for the answer. Show me the pot of gold.’ That’s just how men think.

They want the logical solution. But that’s not how girls work,” Thompson said.

“It’s about learning to develop the skill of being able to read signals. They’re giving you what you need to say and how you need to act.

So that’s often what I focus on: translating ‘women-speak.’”

While deciphering the language of women is key, Thompson isn’t shy about dishing out blunt advice. Her Web site features a page titled, “Jamie’s Top 10 Things to Avoid When Meeting Women” where she warns guys about “pretending to be Mr. Cool Guy” and being “an ear dildo.”

Though her personalized one-on-one training doesn’t come cheap, she does offer a free personal consultation service to all first-time clients. She is also beginning more inexpensive services that include podcasts, newsletters and periodic individual checkups provided for each subscriber.

For more information or to get in contact with Thompson, check out her Web site at www.JamieLovesYou.com, which features video clips and links to other helpful sources, or send her an e-mail at jamie@jamielovesyou.com.

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e’s so cute, charming and sexy.

You just have to have him. The problem is, you can’t.

It may be a lot easier and less stressful if we could just accept this fact, but unfortunately, for most people, not being able to have someone that they want only causes them to want them more.

There have been several different explanations for this idea of “wanting what you can’t have,” but it’s pretty difficult to explain different peoples’ psychology and reasoning in one broad generalization.

One common idea many books and articles have suggested is that people crave the challenge and the thrill of the chase.

This goes for a lot of things, not just relationships. Humans crave a challenge but what they crave more is the feeling of success and achievement when they overcome the challenge. Although there may be other factors to consider when discussing romance, such as fear of rejection or failure.

This may be a good explanation for why we keep pursuing someone even when we know it is very unlikely, if not impossible, to have a romantic relationship with him or her.

We feel challenged, even threatened — our egos are threatened rather — and we feel a need to prove that we’re good enough.

So we chase.

We find them on Facebook, text message or call them repeatedly, trying to get the inside scoop from friends and try to hone in on their interests we can find a connection to.

The problem here — I’m sure many of you have found — is that once the chase has ended and the prey is captured, there is not much left to keep you interested. There may be a period of time when you can bask in the feeling of accomplishment, but once it fades, you may find yourself feeling antsy and ready to move on to the next challenge.

Another factor to consider when wanting someone we can’t have is timing. It takes patience and maturity to accept that sometimes the timing isn’t right, and although we may want to be with someone right then, it may not be a good time for him or her.

Everyone is an individual person with individual thoughts and individual lives. We cannot expect everyone to be on our schedule.

Sometimes people are in a time in their life when they need to focus on something else — school, work, family crisis, health problems, etc. — and don’t have the time or ability to be a part of a relationship.

This may be less than ideal for us when we are in “chase mode” and would rather look past these realities. It’s important to recognize

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whether we want to be with someone for them or just for the game.

Psychology major Julia Roncoroni says this relates to the Buddhist explanation of greed.

“Greed. Buddha says that it’s the root of all suffering,” she said.

“Delusion, greed and anger,” Roncoroni explained. “The delusion is the idea that what you will get will make you happy. The greed is thinking, ‘I want it so bad,’ and the anger is the frustration we feel when we can’t have what we thought we wanted. We feel angry with whoever won’t give it to us, or we feel angry without ourselves for not being good enough.”

Jeanna Bryner of LiveScience wrote an article addressing how to deal with the craving for something we can’t have. In the April issue of the journal Psychological Science, she suggests that one key to achieving greater happiness is to continue wanting the things you have.

This may be an odd idea at first, but there have been many articles and professionals that write about the ability to want what you already have. Our thoughts and what we focus on manifest in the real world, so it’s better to focus on something positive — such as gratitude — and let that grow instead of dwelling on negative thoughts.

This doesn’t mean that you should never strive for more but perhaps take more time to truly appreciate what you have and where you are and focus on that.

One of the most important things is to recognize what it is that we really want and why.

When you are pursuing someone and they don’t seem to be returning the desire, why can’t you accept it and move on? Is there something special about this person or is it just the idea of rejection and failure that one feels the need to prove themselves?

This may not be an easy thing to admit but when we can be honest with ourselves and others, we may find that there are plenty of healthy and happy relationships just waiting for us that don’t involve push and pull, run and chase games.

—Kristina Peltin is an interdisciplinary studies junior.

—This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Daily Aztec.

MILESTONES Hall opens for female Aztecs

Monday, August 24, 2009

Aleesha Harris managing editor Residence halls are a near-timeless aspect of any college experience. In the beginning, these buildings represented a conservative, single-sex living arrangement, and the storied inception of residence hall life at San Diego State closely mirrors that buttoned-up behavior.

According to “San Diego State University: A History in Word and Image,”

by Raymond Starr, the first one was erected at SDSU in 1931 and opened in 1937. Fashioned in an art-deco style and dubbed Quetzal Hall, it was located near campus on College Avenue.

Quetzal Hall was a privately run, femaleonly residence hall monitored by a woman named Mary Southworth.

Acting as Quetzal Hall’s house mother, Southworth worked closely with SDSU’s Dean of Women to establish acceptable practices and standards for the new housing option.

Even though SDSU was, even then, a majority commuter school —- according to a 1935 study, 90 percent of students lived within 16 miles of the campus and therefore commuted —- the residence hall was a success.

Quetzal Hall boasted an occupancy rate of more than 40 “Quetzalites,” as the residents were often referred to. During

World War II, Quetzal Hall garnered recognition when it cancelled its annual dance social and opted instead, to offer the diverted funds to the operation of a first-aid station in the College Area.

The residence hall again made headlines when, in 1952, approximately 50 SDSU students carried out a raid on the “unmentionables” and other various belongings of the residents of the women’s dorm. More than $1,000 in damage was reported because of the incident, and 13 students were arrested.

The Quetzal Hall panty raid was immortalized in an issue of The Aztec with the unforgettable moniker, “pantymonium.”

Despite the incident, Quetzal Hall continued to be a sought-after option for campus housing.

After a name-change to Aztec Hall and a shift to use as a sorority house, the hall finally closed its doors as an allfemale dorm in 1960. According to The Journal of San Diego History, the building later served as the headquarters of Bell-Lloyd, and was the only building of the planned Mission Palisades development ever completed. The Quetzal Hall building was demolished in 1995.

Today, residence halls have evolved to be known as steadfast pillars of collegestudents’ debauchery and mischief: a far cry from Southworth’s Quetzal Hall of 1937.

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Quetzal Hall, the first female residence hall at SDSU was built in the art-deco style and resided on College Avenue. The building would later be used as a sorority house, then headquarters for Bell-Lloyd.

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IRA fee always a controversy Allan Acevedo state of mind editor As we begin the new year, most students are hurting from an over 34 percent increase in the cost of our education compared to last year. The 34 percent coming from the CSU Board of Trustees, and other increases comes from our local campus — such as the widely contested instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fee. This fee has grown in leaps and bounds much to the chagrin of students.

The IRA fee increased $160 from last year to the disapproval and lack of consent of many students.

It’s hard to imagine how such a fee could be imposed on students without their consent. Upon closer examination, though, it seems the IRA fee was never expected or planned to grow to be such a large amount.

The fee dates back to 1974 when former Assemblymember Ray E. Johnson introduced an

amendment to the State Education code that has lead to the misuse and porkbarreling of the IRA fee.

Assembly Bill 3116 went into effect in 1975 and explicitly defined what “instructionally related activities were: “Those activities and laboratory experiences which are at least partially sponsored by an academic discipline or department and which are, in the judgment of the president of a particular campus, with the approval of the trustees, integrally related to its formal instructional offerings.”

The bill then went on to enumerate categories that this fee could fall into, the first of which being intercollegiate athletics — I have never thought of athletics as being germane to my educational experience and most recently have only seen it as a hindrance to a quality education.

The unexpected consequences that we are now dealing with arte a direct result of the poor planning of this legislation which did not pro-

vide any sustentative implementation or operation guidelines.

When the fee was first discussed in 1978, it was discussed as a maximum annual fee of $10 per student. Emphasis on the word maximum. This maximum has been all but ignored many times over as increases have been forced on our local campus both in 2004 and now in 2009.

Of course, the Associated Students would be supportive of this measure and maintaining it because one of the stipulations the CSU Board of Trustees approved was that AS would no longer be expected to provide financial support for IRA on a regular basis.

This proved to be a relief for AS as an organization, but not for the students it supposedly represents.

The Education Code states the use of the fee to be for a “basic competitive program.” It’s obvious that the University is using the fee directly or indirectly to cover salaries and other expenses associ-

ated not with a “basic” program, but for a program necessary to compete on a NCAA Div I stage.

The major expense to point out is the head football coach’s salary, which for Chuck Long was $715,900. The bill anticipated this kind of misuse, which is why it includes the term “basic” so that this fee wasn’t used to fund an arms race in athletics.

There’s a reason why students don’t have a voice in this fee and haven’t for almost three decades, it’s time we changed that and even now, we can work to prevent future increases in the future — or if not make sure they are actually used to supplement our quality of education, which is already at risk after so many budget cuts this year alone.

—Allan Acevedo is a political science and ISCOR junior.

—This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Daily Aztec

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Alumnus cooks up taco revolution Aminata Dia features editor Who knew a Spring Break trip could lead to the creation of one of the most popular Mexican restaurants on the West Coast? Apparently, Ralph Rubio knew.

Tucked away in East Commons, Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill has long been a favorite lunch spot for students and faculty, but it may come as a surprise to many that the beloved restaurant located on campus was actually founded by an alumnus. The origin of Rubio’s restaurants dates back to co-founder and current chairman, Ralph Rubio, and his college days here at San Diego State.

Like many past and present SDSU students, Rubio took advantage of Mexico’s proximity, spending many Spring Breaks enjoying San Felipe’s surf, sand and most importantly: Food. After trying them on his trips down south, the widespread specialty of Baja’s fish tacos captured Rubio’s attention and taste, sparking an entrepreneurial idea. With no trace of the tasty find back in San Diego, Rubio was inspired to open his own restaurant and share the unique treasure with the rest of California.

The cost of tuition for the 1974-75 school year was $187. It is now $2,451 a semester.

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In 1983, only a few years after graduating from SDSU with a degree in liberal studies, he introduced San Diego to what are now known as Rubio’s World Famous Fish Tacos. Rubio’s innovative idea and harddriven work ethic proved his fish tacos, along with the rest of his Baja-inspired menu, would become more than just a novelty in San Diego.

Today, Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill has expanded to incorporate a variety of Mexican dishes as well as 180 restaurants in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado.

With fresh, quality food at an affordable price, Rubio’s has managed to stay in line with other quick and easy dining restaurants.

In 2005 the California Restaurant Association named Rubio “Restaurateur of the Year,” honoring his success in the dining business.

Rubio has also given back to the surrounding San Diego community by opening Cabo Café Fresh Mexican Grill in downtown’s Monarch School, which has created job opportunities for the students, many of whom are at-risk or homeless.

Rubio’s success with his restaurants and philanthropic spirit serve as a prime model for aspiring SDSU students to follow.

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Students rock out with The Ramones Anya Moberlytempo editor Next time you walk through Aztec Center stop for a minute and look around. No, not at Starbucks.

In a downstairs hallway of this frequented student center, there is a conference room that once hosted one of the most influential bands of our time.

The Backdoor, now utilized for mostly conferences and meetings, was once a hotspot for music shows in San Diego.

On March 12, 1978 legendary punk rock band The Ramones played at this small spot for an intimate and, might I say, lucky crowd.

Formed in 1974 in Queens, New York, The Ramones was one of the pioneering punk bands to hit the music scene.

Founding members John Cummings (Johnny Ramone), Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone), Thomas Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone) and Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone) formed The Ramones in high school during the increasingly experimental music days of the early 1970s.

After dubbing themselves with pseudonym “Ramone” names, the group began the American punk rock revolution that has influenced innumerable bands around the world.

Hits such as, “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Sheena

Is A Punk Rocker” and “Pinhead” were being played in almost every distressed teenage bedroom, making The Ramones iconic to the punk-wave movement and the experimentation of new music styles and rise of creative angst outlets.

In 2002, The Ramones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, further etching its mark into music history.

Still, to this day, The Ramones’ notoriety and fan admiration have ceased to end, despite the recent deaths of three of the original members.

Although SDSU has had other notable entertainment events take place on its soil, such as filming of the cheerleading classic “Bring It On” and filming of the short-lived “Veronica Mars” television show, none other has been quite as memorable or impressive than The Ramones performing at The Backdoor.

Being one of the most prominent bands of all time, The Ramones playing on our campus must have been a night to remember for any fan who was in the audience.

So, the next time you hear a classic Ramones song or feel as though our colossal entertainment neighbor, Los Angeles, is overshadowing us, remember that small, lucky crowd that rocked out to The Ramones in what is now Aztec Center.

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The Ramones, pictured above, played an exclusive show at SDSU with The Penetrators in 1979. The infamous and legendary punk rock band performed in the close-quartered Backdoor in Aztec Center.

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Marshall Faulk rushes in a new era for SDSU football Edward Lewis sports editor On Sept. 14, 1991, before Marshall Faulk was Marshall Faulk, an 18-year-old kid from New Orleans stepped onto the field at Jack Murphy Stadium and played a game so unbelievable, so sublime, so incredibly ridiculous, that it didn’t just change the future of Faulk, it changed San Diego State football entirely.

And get this: The Louisiana native didn’t even start.

Faulk, who entered the game late in the first quarter for injured starting running back T.C. Wright, ripped off a staggering 386 rushing yards against the University of the Pacific and scored a whopping seven touchdowns on 37 carries.

“I was like, ‘Golly, stuff like this doesn’t happen to a freshman,’” Faulk told The Daily Aztec after the game in 1991. “I never even thought about having a game like this.”

Faulk broke four NCAA and three SDSU records that night, and in the process, announced his arrival to the football world.

He scored on runs of nine, five, 61, seven, 47, two and 25 yards and was responsible for 44 of the Aztecs’ 55 points.

And he was just a freshman.

“He’s just a tremendous young athlete,” then-SDSU head coach Al Luginbill said to The Daily Aztec in 1991. “That was a tremen-

dous performance for anyone, let alone a freshman.” Faulk’s first carry didn’t come until around the four-minute mark in the first quarter when he took the ball four yards up the gut on first and 10. Then, in the span of a little more than three quarters, he piled up 382 rushing yards, leading his Aztec squad to a 55-34 victory against Pacific.

“I asked (Faulk) for his autograph,” Wright told The Daily Aztec after the game in 1991.

“I don’t know if he took me serious or not, but I asked him for it, and I want it.” There were 24,408 people in attendance on that September night, all witnesses to SDSU history. Matt Jacob, a reporter for The Daily Aztec back in 1991, wrote in his column two days after Faulk’s historic night, “I thought I was watching a really long Energizer commercial — because Faulk just kept going and going and going and …”

Faulk went on to rush for 1,429 yards that season and scored 21 touchdowns.

Both marks still stand today as Aztec freshman records.

“I'm privileged,” Faulk said when he was inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame for San Diego athletes six months ago. “But in order for me to be privileged, first I got the opportunity to play at San Diego State in front of all (the fans). Marshall isn’t the second pick of the draft if San Diego State doesn't give him the opportunity to follow his dream and play running back.”

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Former SDSU running back Marshall Faulk broke seven records in one game as he rushed for 386 yards and scored seven touchdowns against the University of the Pacific.

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Win against St. Mary’s fills Cox Arena with Aztec pride David Pope assistant sports editor

Even from across the country, Sept. 11, 2001 impacts SDSU.

Even in days prior to March 24, 2009, anyone on the San Diego State campus could tell it was going to be a date to remember — all the ingredients for a momentous night were there.

There was the SDSU men’s basketball team, that just a week prior had been left out of the NCAA Tournament, but got its chance at redemption after receiving the No. 1 seed in the National Invitational Tournament.

The opponent, St. Mary’s and its star Patrick Mills, had also been excluded from March Madness and was making the trip to San Diego as the underdog, despite defeating the Aztecs in the regular season the past two years.

When the day finally came, the sellout crowd of 12,414 at Cox Arena featured long-time SDSU fans who hadn’t seen an Aztec team play a home game this notable since Marshall Faulk (who was sitting courtside, proudly) graced the field of Jack Murphy Stadium. Also in attendance was possibly the biggest student section an SDSU basketball game ever saw. “The Show,” as the students call themselves, was out in full force, with the banana, the gecko, Dog the Bounty Hunter and even the Joker (among literally thousands of others) showing their Aztec pride.

As SDSU jumped out to a strong lead before halftime, numerous players, coaches and fans remarked that “Cox had never been louder.”

Though SMC made a game out of it toward the end, redshirt freshman Tim Shelton’s layup with less than a minute to

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go, followed by Mills’ missed free throw sealed the victory for the Aztecs.

Just a few seconds later, the sea of red and black in the stands had invaded the court as the game clock hit zero.

For a school that’s been accused of having no sense of community, at that moment, everyone — from the alumni and long-time donors, to the sorority girl who was attending her first SDSU game, to the kid in the gecko costume who missed a midterm to be there — was celebrating together, as a diverse group of people, all proud to be Aztecs. While the team went on to lose in the semifinals of the NIT, everyone in attendance that Tuesday night remembers screaming their heads off, storming the court and celebrating with the team — their team.

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Washington inks Strasburg to record deal Former Aztec ace Stephen Strasburg gets four years, $15.1 million from Nats E D WA R D L E W I S SPORTS EDITOR

All the San Diego State baseball team needed was 77 more seconds.

Had negotiations gone an extra minute or so, Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg might have had no other choice than to come back and pitch for SDSU for another season.

“We did get the deal signed at 11:58 and 43 seconds,” Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo said on a conference call, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. “It was an amicable but anxious time at the finish.”

The Washington Nationals signed the Aztecs’ former ace to a reported four-year, $15.1 million deal just before the East Coast midnight deadline. The contract destroys the previous record draft pick deal of $10.5 million, given to Mark Prior of the Chicago Cubs in 2001.

“We thought we signed the player for his value,” Rizzo said, according to an The Associated Press. “(Strasburg is) the most coveted amateur player in the history of the draft.”

The Los Angeles Times reports the deal breaks down as follows: a $7.5 million signing bonus with annual salaries of $2 million in 2010, $2.5 million in 2011 and $3 million in 2012. The newspaper also reported that he will receive a “prorated share” of the Major League Baseball minimum player salary of

$400,000 this season.

“He’s chomping at the bit to get out on the mound,” Rizzo told AP. “He’s ultra, ultra competitive, and I think he was getting a little tired of sitting around the house.”

With SDSU last season, Strasburg went 13-1, racked up a nation-leading 195 strikeouts and had an earned run average of 1.32.

But don’t expect to see those kind of numbers with the Nationals this season, said Rizzo. According to Sports Illustrated, Rizzo said it’s “very unlikely” that Strasburg will be called up to the majors this year.

“We’re going to see where his development takes him, and we’re going to be very cautious with him and develop him like one of the elite prospects in the game,” Rizzo said to Sports Illustrated. “There’s no expectations of him to be in the rotation in 2010. If he earns it, and he’s ready for it, then we’ll see where his talent takes him.”

Back in May, Aztec head coach Tony Gwynn told The Daily Aztec it would be wise to be “cautious” with Strasburg once he gets drafted. The coach was concerned that after pitching more than 100 innings for SDSU this year, his arm might need to be shut down.

“I would be really cautious,” Gwynn said.

“I wouldn’t want to rush it.”

It seems as though the Nationals are heeding Gwynn’s advice.

Strasburg headed out to Washington, D.C., last week, and the Nats couldn’t be happier.

“He’s got the skill set that all front-of-therotation starting pitchers have,” Rizzo told AP. “Barring injury, this kid should have a long, illustrious career.”

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Getting to know: Anthony Miller E D WA R D L E W I S SPORTS EDITOR

Name: Anthony Miller Position: Running Back Number: 32 Height / Weight: 6-0 / 220 Class: Freshman High School: Carter High School (Dallas) Hometown: Dallas How he f its: Miller comes to the San Diego State football team from Dallas (offensive line coach Darrell Funk recruited him out of Texas) and many believe he is the best allaround player in this year’s recruiting class.

He’s 6 feet, 220 pounds, and fits the mold head coach Brady Hoke would like to see in his starting tail back. His biggest competition for playing time will be junior Brandon Sullivan, senior Atiyyah Henderson and true freshman Ronnie Hillman.

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Camp so far: After Henderson went down with a shoulder injury, Miller has taken plenty of snaps with the second unit behind Sullivan. The coaching staff has said it has

liked what it has seen so far from Miller, but admits there is still competition for playing time. Miller said he, Hillman, Sullivan, junior Davon Brown and even true freshman Walter Kazee have been in there “rotating around” at the running back spot.

Best tool: Miller is a unique back and his best tools are why so many fans are excited to see him in red and black. He claims his best asset is his power, but his 40-yard dash time of 4.46 seconds suggests speed is also his best asset. “I can put moves down, too; I can run a little bit,” Miller said. “But the power is probably my best game.”

Somet hing you don’t know: Like most college students, Miller enjoys a good video game. “I’m a game-aholic,” Miller said. “I stay on games all day and all night. I’m big on ‘Madden,’ ‘NCAA’; I be on those games.”

Quot able: “It’s been cool,” Miller said of San Diego and playing for SDSU. “We got cool guys. If I’m going to be away from home, I want to be comfortable. So I feel like I’m real comfortable here. I could see myself living here for the next four or five years.”

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Newcomer leads Aztecs in season-opening win B E AU B E A R D E N S E N I O R S TA F F W R I T E R

It certainly did not take long for Hayley Marsh to get adjusted to her new home.

The transfer from Western Kentucky has only been on the San Diego State women’s AZTECS 1 soccer team for about a but Friday afterBULLDOGS 0 month, noon at the SDSU Sports Deck, the sophomore defender scored a goal in the first half that lead to an SDSU 1-0 victory against Fresno State in the Aztecs’ season opener.

“It was huge,” Marsh said of scoring a goal in her first game as an SDSU player. “I feel on top of the world right now; just extremely excited about the season and just look forward to everything that this team has to offer.”

The Aztecs didn’t waste any time against the Bulldogs, taking 12 shots in the first half.

They also held Fresno State to just one shot in the first 45 minutes.

“Our first half was really, really good,” junior goalkeeper Aubree Southwick said. “We came out really hyped up and the intensity was definitely there.”

But while SDSU controlled the tempo in the first half, Fresno State’s one shot came close to tying the game up. Midfielder Megan Ashjian’s shot just missed the back of the net as it hit the crossbar.

This close call got Southwick’s attention, causing her to later yell, “One isn’t good enough.”

During halftime, head coach Mike Friesen told his team the same thing. He said the game wasn’t over at 1-0, and told his squad they needed to keep playing hard.

Despite the message, the Aztecs didn’t come out with the same intensity in the second half.

“I think they got lulled to sleep a little bit,” Friesen said. “Like we’re getting a lot of chances and it will happen. Instead of having a sense of urgency, like let’s put this away and then we can make some changes.”

SDSU didn’t let the Bulldogs take control of the game, though, holding them to just three shots in the final 45 minutes. The Aztecs would notch five shots in the second half and ended the game with a 17-4 advantage. SDSU also had more shots on goal (6-0) and corner kicks (9-0) than Fresno State. And with the 1-0 win, Southwick picked up her 14th shutout as an Aztec.

“From the first minute of the first meeting, this is a different team than any of the teams I’ve had in the past,” Friesen said. “The team chemistry is great; they get along well, they’re focused, they’re fired up about being good.

The whole culture of the program is changing. We’re not there yet, but we are certainly on our way.”

SDSU played Cal State Northridge on Sunday afternoon, but the results of the match didn’t make The Daily Aztec ’s Sunday deadline.

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Sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley was named to the 2009 Manning Award Watch List last week. The award, named after Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning, is given to the nation’s best QB.

It’s been a busy week on Montezuma Mesa, as several headlines have popped up in the past seven days. Take a look back at what happened at San Diego State this past week.

Lindley named to Manning Award Watch List SDSU football sophomore quarterback Ryan Lindley has been named to the watch list for the 2009 Manning Award — an award given to the nation’s best collegiate quarterback. Lindley is one of 38 quarterbacks on the list, and just one of six sophomores. Some of Lindley’s company on the list includes: Florida’s Tim Tebow, Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford and Ohio State’s Terrelle Prior.

Injuries piling up at camp Linebacker Jerry Milling, cornerback Davion Mauldin, running back Atiyyah Henderson and junior defensive back Romeo Horn all came down with injuries in training camp this past week.

Milling rolled an ankle in practice, but should be fine. Mauldin had surgery on his meniscus, and is expected to miss two weeks. Henderson broke a bone in his shoulder, and head coach Brady Hoke said he would almost certainly be out for the UCLA opener on Sept. 5.

Horn had perhaps the most severe injury, requiring a screw to be inserted into his fractured foot. He’s expected to miss six to eight weeks.

Men’s soccer picked to finish fifth The SDSU men’s soccer team was picked to finish fifth in the preseason Pac-10 Conference poll. Cal was picked to finish first, while Oregon State was picked to finish last, one vote behind the Aztecs .

Jené Morris named to Wooden Award Watch List SDSU women’s basketball senior guard Jené Morris was named to the preseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award — an honor given annually to the nation’s best collegiate women’s basketball player. Morris joins 31 other collegiate women’s basketball players on the watch list.

—Compiled by Sports Editor Edward Lewis

Iosefa named to Rimington Trophy Watch List

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Junior goalkeeper Aubree Southwick recorded her 14th shutout as a member of the San Diego State women’s soccer team in Friday’s 1-0 win. Her 14 career shutouts rank second all-time in school history.

SDSU junior center Trask Iosefa was one of 43 collegiate players to be named to the 2009 Rimington Trophy Watch List last week. The Rimington Trophy is an annual award given to the nation’s best college center. Iosefa is a two-year starter for the Aztecs, and head coach Brady Hoke said Iosefa has been his most consistent offensive linemen in this summer’s training camp.

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Black Joe Wendy Darling to play on campus Lewis’ sweetness Texas blues band to provide southern comfort for fans A N YA M O B E R LY TEMPO EDITOR

Bred from authentic down-south blues and gravy, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears will be marking its grainy spot in San Diego this weekend at the 25th annual Street Scene festival in the East Village of downtown.

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears has jammed its way into the souls of every audience it has performed for.

Whether it was at the numerous music festivals or the scores of bar bills it has played at, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears has resuscitated the lost blues and soul sound many contemporary listeners tend to forget.

Joe Lewis had not initially set out to become a talented musician. Although he already possessed the “talent” part of the equation, he had not had the opportunity to realize his hidden potential, until he scored a chance job at an Austin pawnshop. After bringing a guitar home one day, Lewis began to teach himself how to play and what came out was natural, raw and pure blues.

His musical journey took off from there and soon landed him with a group of Texan students, dubbed The Honeybears. Now with two successful albums released on Lost Highway Records, “Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears” and “Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!,” this group can say it has certainly made its mark on fans and critics alike.

The Daily Aztec had a chance to chat with front man Joe Lewis on his upcoming San Diego stop and where this rough and tumbled blues journey may end up taking him.

The Daily Aztec: You’re a fairly new band, how has the current music scene and technological craze helped or hurt your growing process as a group?

Joe Lewis: I think it has helped, because people hear us that normally wouldn’t, you know. But then it’s bad because they don’t buy the record.

But I think for us, it’s helped more than it’s hurt right now so people can hear it for the first time.

DA: So, you’ve played at Lollapalooza, South by Southwest and Austin City Limits. What’s your favorite part about playing music festivals as opposed to just being on a bill at a bar show?

JL: I prefer bars actually. Everyone is closer to you.

DA: How did you and The Honeybears come about?

JL: I met Zach (Zach Ernst / guitarist) who put me on to open a show for Little Richard at University of Texas. But I didn’t have a band after that, so it was either quit or take a break. But he offered to put some guys together from school and that’s how it started.

DA: When you guys are performing with so many members in the band, it seems like the perfect chance to break out in a jam session. While on stage do you guys ever find yourselves improvising the performance?

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Wendy Darling will return to the Aztec Center Patio to perform a free show during the day and will play again on a bill at night at Hillcrest’s Ruby Room.

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One of the best things about having a diverse and urbane campus is the music that makes its way to our Aztec Center Patio. Locals, hip-hop, rock, reggae and more make musical debuts on our very own soil for students and faculty to enjoy, usually midday to relieve those in between lectures. Next Wednesday, Sept. 2, bay area

indie-rock group Wendy Darling will be at The Patio for a noon performance as a fall semester treat.

Although currently based in San Francisco, the San Diego native group will be playing an evening performance at Ruby Room the same night along with Audible Mainframe, Ana Sia and Alfred Howard and Eric Canzona of The Heavy Guilt. It’s a farewell party for independent San Diego promoter Joel York, who is to blame for the

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Bob Weir & RatDog play by the bay Founding Grateful Dead guitarist and new band to perform at Humphrey’s P AU L H E R N A N D E Z S TA F F W R I T E R Legendary promoter Bill Graham once said of The Grateful Dead, “They’re not the best at what they do, they’re the only ones that do what they do.” As the years continue to pass, the music has never stopped for former bandmember Bob Weir.

Making magic out of music is a job that is not taken for granted, especially for each living member of the Grateful Dead. And as a band that took the boundaries of improvising to a whole other realm that it continues to influence some of the greater bands of today such as Widespread Panic, Phish, Derek Trucks Band, etc. With no exception is Weir’s band, RatDog, which will be opening the gates of sound upon deadheads and

JL: Yeah, we do a lot of that stuff. That’s what makes it fun.

DA: Even though your roots are in Austin, do you think you would ever make a move somewhere else?

JL: I don’t know, I might. I like Santa Cruz a lot; I think that is a really cool town.

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Similar to many muse-inspired rock songs, Weir follows this trend with his most well-known song “Sugar Magnolia,”which is purported to be about a former live-in partner, a woman named “Frankie.”

“After securing a place in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm guitarist Weir has assembled a crop of musicians ... who are fiercely unpredictable in a grateful way.”

DA: What do you listen to for your own pleasure?

JL: Steely Dan, Hall and Oates, Chicago, you know, that kind of stuff. The whole band, actually. It started as a joke and now it’s everyone’s favorite thing to listen to.

To get its live performance experience, check out Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears this Saturday at Street Scene.

For more information on Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, visit www.blackjoelewis.com.

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Trust me, frontwoman Cori Rush’s vocals will make you forget all about your chaotic new schedule and sprouting relationship with the library. Grab some lunch, bring your friends and enjoy Wendy Darling!

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boneheads on Sept. 4 at Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay. Already securing a place in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm guitarist Weir has assembled a crop of musicians (Jay Lane — drums, Jeff Chimenti — keys, Mark Karan — guitarist, Kenny Brooks — saxophonist, and Robin Sylvester — bass), who are fiercely unpredictable in a grateful way. Yes, there

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Another California native, Jackie Greene, will be riveting the opening sounds for the evening with his bluesy rock riffs and soaring harmonic vocals. Given that he has graced the stage with fellow Dead brother of Weirs’s, Phil Lesh, it’s probably a safe assumption that he will stick around and fill in the visions of creativity for what should be a kindred experience.

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VANS WARPED TOUR GET S PERSON AL Aleesha Harris, Managing Editor The Vans Warped Tour is one of North America's most notorious summer festival tours. For a little more than two months,

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a coalition of some of the best bands in the genres of rock, alternative, pop and more, travel the vast continent delivering hefty servings of music entertainment to hungry summer crowds.

This year, Vans Warped Tour celebrated its 15th anniversary as a traveling road show. In honor and celebration of festival founder Kevin Lyman's perpetual delivery of what is consistently one of the best, most unique tour lineups of the year, The Daily Aztec sat down with four diverse Warped Tour bands: Alexisonfire, A Day To Remember, Gallows and Saosin, to initiate a rapid-fire round of questions that will satiate the desires of almost any music maniac.

ALEXISONFIRE The Daily Aztec: So, your new album, “Old Crows/Young Cardinals” deputed on the Canadian charts at No.1.

Alexisonfire drummer Jesse Ingelevics and vocalist George Pettit: Well, No. 2 I think. Black Eyed Peas snuck in there. Also, actually Michael Jackson, he screwed us on the iTunes charts. He had eight spots, then it was us and the Black Eyed Peas.

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The band will be setting out on its first headlining tour with support from the bands Parkway Drive, In Fear And Faith and I See Stars, in September.

DA: The label “pop-mosh” has been circulating in regard to your sound, but how would you guys describe your sound?

DA: Well, I guess that’s not a bad person to lose the top spot to.

ADTR: Dope. The band, dope.

We’re like two different genres in one. We have our own genre. It’s basically a bunch of things. Ya, it’s called the ‘good shit’ genre. You can find us like the first name, A Day To Remember, starts with an ‘A’ is the first band under ‘Good Shit,’ type that into iTunes. (band laughs) I’m serious.

AOF: Ya, it is Michael Jackson. But, he couldn’t have waited a week?

Come on.

DA: So, I have a few more statistics for that album. It went No. 81 on the Billboard Top 200, is at No. 31 on the rock albums chart, No. 9 independent album, No. 23 alternative album and No. 12 hard rock album.

DA: OK, I will do that, definitely. You guys have been signed to Victory Records since 2006, how does that label fit your style, or sound?

AOF: Wow, that’s pretty neat! We’re making some headway in America, I think. It’s weird. I don’t see us ever becoming a big band in America.

Which is fine, we actually do quite well in Canada, Europe and Australia. Once in a while we put out a record and it gets a little bit bigger every time, so yeah, it’s nice.

DA: After the recent release of your fourth full-length album, rumors began to circulate that this would be your last? Is that true?

AOF: No, we perpetuated that rumor. We were taking a pretty long hiatus, we took about a year off. We toured on “Crisis” for 15 months, just non-stop. Everybody just wanted to get away from the road and go home for a while. And in doing that, there was a lot of dead time and people were starting to talk about ‘maybe this is it for Alexisonfire.’

Also, Dallas (Green’s) solo project was getting really big in Canada. So when it came time to do press again, we kind of perpetuated the rumors, just because it was funny. Because we were, at the same time those rumors were starting, we were in the jam space writing our fourth record.

We were like practicing and learning new songs and we said ‘Oh ya, we’ll let them keep thinking we’re going

ADTR: It fits us well, since nobody else wanted us, at all. So it fits us real well. It doesn’t matter how it fit us. It was what we had at the time so we forced ourselves into it.

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After a brief, yet much-talked about hiatus, the Canadian screamo band put an end to rumors of it breaking up by signing on for the full 2009 Vans Warped Tour.

to break up and three months from now we were like here’s the new record, f**kers!” So we’re still here.

DA: The last two albums became significantly more serious as far as lyrical tone. Why did that change?

AOF: Probably touring the world has a lot to do with it. That kind of opens your eyes a little bit. I think that, and maybe our influences at the time. Not coming from a fun or a funny place. I think on the first two records, lyric writing was a very satirical thing for me and, especially on the first record, I was listening to a lot of jazz and I really love the Dead Kennedys and just having a really sarcastic tone in the way that you write lyrics. So that comes through on the first two albums, like on “Watch Out” you write a song about Linda Blaire and then you

write a song about a particular brand of go-carting that I used to do.

For “Crisis” we were in the thick of the Bush Administration and I just didn’t feel like it was right to tell kids that everything was just fine. And at the time there was a lot of pop music too, a lot of pop music was coming up. A lot of the bands that you would recognize as punk bands were doing pop stuff. Bands like Blink-182 got really popular and were just telling kids ‘Oh, we’re all in love, we’re having a great time,’ and we were just like, that’s not it. The music I was listening to when I was young was angry music that made you want to blow up the government. So that’s it, I felt like that was more important for kids to hear.

DA: As a band, your biggest goal is …

AOF: I’d like to go play in South Africa. We’ve done pretty well in South Africa. We are No. 1 on one of the really big radio stations there.

But then I saw the movie “District 9” and now I don’t want to go because there are aliens there. There is a serious alien issue there, but we can go there and bring light to the plight of the aliens. Release the prawns.

DA: Put together an ideal tour lineup for me.

AOF: Well, you’ve got the Beatles, the Stones, us. (laughs) Queen, ZZ Top, Hot Water Music, Vortex Moneymaker, Elton John, Dead Kennedys … this is like the best tour ever.

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Alexisonfire recently released its fourth album “Old Crows/Young Cardinals.”

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DA: But it seems to be working?

ADTR: Yes! (band said in unison.)

DA: Well maybe I will enlighten you on a few statistics for your album.

‘Homesick’ was the No. 7 rock album, No. 15 digital album, No. 1 independent album, No. 5 alternative album and No. 2 hard rock album.

ADTR: Wait, who was No.1? Don’t you say it was Nickelback.

DA: I’m going to say it was Nickelback.

ADTR: (Entire band groans.) It probably was. Chad Kroeger. (One member of the band attempts to sing like Kroeger.)

DA: I can tell you guys are Nickelback fans.

ADTR: We don’t write 40-year-old sex songs. We will.

DA: When you guys started out as a local band in Florida in 2003, did you ever think you would get this big?

DA: With whom, living or dead, would you want to do a dream collaboration?

ADTR: Selena. But she got killed.

Ya, her fan club took her out.

DA: As a band, your biggest goal?

ADTR: Well, our first thing was taking over the world. That happened.

DA: Put together an ideal tour lineup for me.

ADTR: Selena. Selena as the headliner, of course. And maybe a cool co-headliner would be Blink-182.

DA: The only problem with that is that she is dead, so …

ADTR: Oh, I thought this was still living or dead. It’s all living? This is real? Ok, so this is all living people.

DA: Ya, I guess that makes it a lot more difficult.

ADTR: Blink-182, K-Ci and JoJo, Bone Thugs N Harmony.

DA: What about a Selena cover band then?

ADTR: (band in unison) No. They might play in the parking lot.

DA: Fine. So I know you guys are playing at Soma with Parkway Drive in October. I heard that was kind of a last-minute addition. Why did you guys decide to play in San Diego?

ADTR: Because Soma is bad ass.

San Diego is so cool. Even this place right here. Look at that palm tree. It’s so nice. This is the perfect venue. We came from Fresno, that’s in California and that place sucks. No, it doesn’t suck, it’s hot, that’s what we don’t like about it.

San Diego has great weather.

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ADTR: No. We were stoked to even, like there was a program I remember in the beginning of our band where you could take the CD that you made yourself to the local FYE and they would sell it for you.

That didn’t happen for us. We wanted to do it so bad we were like, ‘Dude, if we could just get this CD sold in this store, so many people are going to hear about us!’ But they wouldn’t do it, they wouldn’t take our CD.

DA: Don’t they take everybody?

ADTR: Not local bands. Not if you’re not signed. We were just trying to get our CD out. They’d take it now though, we can throw it back in their face.

Courtesy of Aleesha Harris

In the last few years, the band has seen a heavy increase of interest in its music.

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Notorious for raucous, rowdy live performances, the U.K.’s Gallows took its San Diego set directly into the crowded pit.

DA: How would you describe Gallows’ sound?

awareness than we could ever get ourselves.

Gallows guitarist Laurent Barnard: A lot of people always ask me this question, and I always say it’s like a punch in the face, but you like it. Do you know what I mean? It’s a pretty vicious sound, but you get into it.

DA: So on a scale of one to 10, rate the response from the fans here in the States versus fans in other places such as Europe.

DA: I just reviewed your recent album “Grey Britain.” How has your sound changed with this album?

BL: Well, we spent a lot more time working on it and writing it. Our first record was quite a rush to complete. We weren’t really a band at the time, we just kind of threw it together and it only cost us 1,000 pounds. So, this album we spent a lot of time. From start to finish it was like a dramatic, moving, really, really emotional record. Not emotional like emo, but more passionate in our music.

We deliver it.

DA: I heard you just signed to Warner Bros. Records. How is that, if in any way, going to change you guys?

BL: They released our new record, so basically it just means that we can do things that we’ve always wanted to do, like do the band full time and our music is going to reach audiences that we thought we’d never reach through all of this. Warner Bros. were able to get us in magazines and raise more

BL: It’s still pretty small out here but it’s like we’re growing. But the kids who do come out, some of the shows I’d say are definitely the same. A lot of kids just scream their hearts out and if we could have maybe a few more fans just like that, it would be amazing.

DA: Yeah, but you guys were on Guitar Hero, so that’s something.

BL: Yeah, that helps. One of Snoop Dogg’s kids was playing it on the TV show and stuff, so that’s cool … it’s like one of those fun things, from like when you were growing up. But you know, we play a lot of punk and hardcore music but we’re still young at heart. We still want to do the things like fulfill the dreams you had when you were a kid.

DA: What has been the response to your sets on Warped Tour? Is this your first time?

BL: It’s our second time. It’s mixed, it depends what city you’re in and how many kids come out to the show and who you’re playing up against. Some shows are crazy, like Chicago is one of the craziest shows we’ve ever played.

And then you can be playing at

11:15 a.m. and there’s no one there watching you. It depends on where you are, what time you’re playing — different factors.

DA: Finish the sentence. If I weren’t in Gallows, I would be …

BL: I’d probably just be in another band.

DA: Has your life changed at all since Gallows has been getting bigger?

BL: I’ve been able to see the whole world. If it weren’t for Gallows, I’d never have gotten to see Japan, Australia, and I’ve been to a heap of different European cities. Like, getting to spend my summers in the States. I think that is one of the best things about being in a band, you get to see the world, you get to make friends with people in other bands that you listen to at home.

I’ve met NOFX, who I used to listen to when I was a kid. Like, whenever you see them walk by, you say ‘hello,’ it’s like we’re buddies now. It’s totally weird, but awesome at the same time.

DA: So, put together an ideal tour lineup for me.

BL: Well, in October we’re coming back (to the states) with AFI. So, that’s going to be a pretty sweet lineup. And we also do Canada with Flogging Molly. So with those two, it’s pretty ideal if you want to see a good show.

Courtesy of Aleesha Harris

The hardcore punk rock band was forced to cancel a show at the House of Blues at Downtown Disney in January of last year, after Disney executives deemed the band’s lyrics too controversial.

SAOSIN DA: So, Saosin is a local-ish band, right?

Saosin bassist Chris Sorenson: Well, local-ish. Well, one member

is from the area, from Vista. The rest of us are from Orange County — close enough.

CS: Well, none of us live on the SDSU campus because none of us are students.

DA: So, I guess not really too close then.

DA: So when you play in San Diego,

what, if anything, makes it different from other places?

CS: To continue making music and touring the world.

CS: Umm, taco shops. A great amount of taco shops down here.

And, it’s another great market that I don’t think a lot of bands who tour think of as a main market. I think a lot of bands go to L.A. — always.

And, we have a really good time down here, at Soma. We’ve played the Sports Arena, we played here at (Cricket Wireless Ampitheater) a couple of times, and we played SDSU one time. So yeah, it’s awesome.

DA: Finish the sentence … If I weren’t in Saosin, where would I be?

DA: So, as a band, what’s your biggest goal?

CS: If I weren’t in Saosin, I would be on my mom’s couch. (Saosin singer Cove Reber walks by and says “delivering pizzas.”) .

DA: Put together an ideal tour lineup for me.

CS: Saosin, Innerpartysystem, P.O.S and Eye Alaska on the PackTour 2009, November.

Courtesy of Aleesha Harris Courtesy of Aleesha Harris

“Saosin” comes from the Chinese word xiao xin (pronounced shiao sheen), which means “small heart” as well as “be careful.”

The new album from the band titled “In Search of Solid Ground” will be released

by Virgin records on Sept. 8. The release will be Saosin’s second full-length album.

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Beautiful weather, unbeatable tacos and the Chargers are only a few highlights that San Diego is known for.

Yet a commonly overlooked feature of our quaint Southern California city is the fantastically vast culture of art. The Art of Photography Show is one such example of a celebration of photographic talent produced

by San Diego, as well as the rest of the world.

Now in its fifth installation, The Art of Photography Show 2009 will launch an exhibit from Aug. 29 to Nov. 1, underscoring various forms of photographic art at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in the Gaslamp district of downtown San Diego. According to The Art of Photography Show Web site, the content of this year’s exhibit will feature “images shot on film, shot digitally, unaltered shots, alternative process, mixed media, digital manipulations, montages, photograms, etc.” The opening reception gala is this Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will mark the onset of this two-month show.

The Daily Aztec recently spoke with The Art of Photography Show producer Steven Churchill on this approaching San Diego tradition.

The Daily Aztec: How are artist entries selected for the show?

Steven Churchill: This year our judge is Charlotte Cotton, who is the curator and director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. We received 16,000 photographs from 57 countries. Ms. Cotton narrowed it down to 111 stunning images, the best of the best. A key element about The Art of Photography Show is that our judges are all highly acclaimed museum directors and curators. Here is a list of our judges to date: Charlotte Cotton, curator and director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts; Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tim Wride, director (at that time) of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hugh Davies, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Arthur Ollman, director (at that time) of the Museum of Photographic Arts.

DA: What are the specifics you look for?

SC: During the judging process, Ms. Cotton was definitely looking for originality, photographs that are somehow different than images she’d seen before. She seemed to

appreciate the subtleties and look for the conceptual nuances in an image. Some of the images they tend to choose convey an idea or tell a story, perhaps contain some commentary about our world today.

DA: Where do you think the direction of photography and print art in general are going?

SC: I’m happy you asked, as it’s a perfect question to ask Charlotte Cotton! She will be giving a special talk in the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in Horton Plaza on Sunday, Aug. 30, from noon until 2 p.m. I believe that photography is the 21st century’s dominant art form.

It’s that time again. The East Village of downtown San Diego will play host to the annual music festival, Street Scene.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary as a tradition of San Diego, Street Scene has cultivated quite the lineup, ripe for all ages and fans alike. Even with some unexpected road bumps along the way, i.e. Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch’s medical condition, removing the band from the list; the lineup has maintained a steady appeal with a collection of sure-to-be unforgettable acts.

Friday’s lineup will include Black Eyed Peas and Modest Mouse, along with pop sensation Girl Talk, and locals Anya Marina, Wavves and Dirty Sweet.

Saturday will include headliners M.I.A. and Thievery Corporation, who will surely satisfy the bass-hungry appetites of audience members by the end of the night’s set. Additional acts performing are dance-friendly groups Crocodiles, Of Montreal and The Faint.

Also to hit the scene is Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather. Paired with frontwoman from The Kills, Alison Mosshart, White has taken a backseat in this new project: quite literally. Unlike his lead vocal spot on The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, White plays drums in The Dead Weather

while Mosshart makes her raw, rock voice the vanguard of this new group.

Blues acts such as Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Sharon Jones and The DapKings will fulfill any soul-seeker’s need for the weekend.

Blues, check. Pop, check. Rock, check.

Electro, check. Hip-hop, check. Just as tradition goes, this year’s Street Scene will have a mélange of genres to appeal to the thousands of guests in attendance.

First time going to Street Scene? Here are some helpful tips to help you make it through this weekend’s block party: -Wear comfortable shoes and bring a jacket: Yeah, yeah, it’s San Diego, but the walking and cool evening weather will take a toll on you, so come prepared.

-Take the trolley or a cab: Don’t even think about trying to drive to the East Village.

-All food, beverages and memorabilia are sold for cash: Unless you want the weighty finance charge, bring some green.

-Moshing and pit-surfing are not allowed: It’s an all-ages event, so try to set an example.

-Most of all, enjoy yourself! This once-ayear music festival is unique in its acts and to San Diego, so take advantage of this weekend before the fall semester begins.

For ticket information and more event tips, check out the official 25th annual Street Scene at www.street-scene.com.

DA: You have quite the history with this exhibit. How has your support as producer helped shape your personal artistic style?

SC: One of my favorite parts of the process of producing this show is spending several days with our judges, luminaries in the contemporary art world, looking at and talking about the photographs, which have been submitted. This has definitely been influential to me, with my own photography.

Currently I’m shooting a series called “San Diego At Night,” being candid shots of people in various places and venues here at night. I’ve been very inspired by our judges to shoot “message driven” images, images with a story, shots with conceptual content.

DA: Where do you see this exhibit going in a year? Five years?

SC: We plan to tour the Art of Photography Show, taking the exhibit to other cities around the world.

It only seems natural that with the rise of technology, photographic art increases in popular avenues of expression in today’s art world. San Diego is fortunate to have the talent to initiate such a rich exhibit and even more fortunate that the rest of the world has taken notice to participate with their contribution of beautiful photographic images.

This showcase is also an opportunity to be honored with a monetary award in quite a reasonable sum. The first place award is $2,000; the second place award is $1,600; the third place award is $1,200; the fourth place award is $800 and 11 honorary mentions are presented with $400.

The prize money aside, this is a wonderful opportunity for passionate photographers to share their art with San Diego.

For more information on The Art of Photography Show, visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.

“Tete-a-Tete Project: Sleepover” Courtesy of Martine Fougeron

Courtesy of Street Scene®

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So this one time ... in Vegas ...

I

know what you all are thinking right now after reading the title: “Here she goes again with another one of her damn Vegas stories like she thinks she’s cool or something.” Calm down, people; my summer has consisted of other things aside from going to Vegas and stalking people on Facebook all day. When I figure out what those things are, though, I’ll let you all know.

“Calm down, people; my summer has consisted of other things aside from going to Vegas and stalking people on Facebook all day.”

Well in fact, I can name one thing I did, and that was venturing to Laughlin, Nev. (aka the socially awkward kid sister of Vegas no one in the family likes to talk about). The reason for my journey was not because I can no longer afford rooms at the Tropicana or because I was on the prowl for a hottie with a toupee and a few missing teeth.

No, this trip was based around another one of my favorite trashy things in life: the river.

Thursday night My friend Bre “the soy sauce dish stealer” and I spent the never-ending car ride listening to the sounds of little MJ and the Jackson Five alongside my friends Erik, Josh and Tara.

Now, road trips are great until you can’t feel your legs and then witness the driver drive up and

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down the street for 15 minutes while pointing the garage door opener at every single house because he can’t remember which one is his.

Fortunately, we finally found the house. But then I opened the handle of Seagram’s Sweet Tea Vodka and alcohol raided my brain of its memories that night.

Friday afternoon-ish I woke up that morning underneath two pictures of what looked like Pocahontas and Sacagawea.

Did I stumble into an Indian reservation the night before?

About two hours later I was filled with my second round of In-N-Out in 24 hours, surrounded by fire ants and screaming children and wondering if Erik and Josh had given up on Sam’s Club and headed back home without us. Luckily, they showed up with the Sea-Doos, enough food to feed three Cambodian families and two handles of something alcoholic just before my hangover was able to set in.

Monday, August 24, 2009

this is where the s*** hit the fan. Inebriated Erik started throwing his chips in a fit of excitement each time he won, his cousin Luis was asked to leave the table for falling asleep in between hands, Tara went drunk-eyed on a half-hour journey by herself, Josh somehow managed to lose $200 in one hand, Bre was yelling at Erik for spilling his beer on her every five seconds and then there was me, repeatedly asking anyone who would listen if I should hit or stay. Classy bunch.

Finally, Bre and I decided to cash out after Josh lost $700, and the three of us headed over to the so-called nightclub Tarzan’s — aka Rainforest Café with a dance floor, no joke.

Somewhere between getting in a cab at 4:30 a.m. and remembering that we didn’t have a key to get back in the house, Bre the Klepto turned into “Frank the Tank,” and decided to go streaking down the street and then hit Josh in the face after he attempted to help her up after she fell on the asphalt. About an hour after this incident, I wound up with some invisible allergic reaction and started crying that my skin was on fire because fire ants had attacked my entire body. Sexy, kind of.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (08/24/09) Use some of your earnings to take a class this year.

You'll learn quickly and retain what you learn - the most important part.You could even finish your degree ... or whatever.

ARIES (March 21 - April 19) - Today is a 6 You get the answer you've been seeking, but in a roundabout way.You can get that domestic item you want cheaply.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) - Today is an 8 - The sun is going into Virgo, in your solar fifth house of love, so things will be easier for the next four weeks.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 21) - Today is a 6 You'll have to go back to work soon, so line up good help. Let family know how much you appreciate their support.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) - Today is an 8 - Somebody who's pestering you is in fine form.This person seems intent on nagging you to death. Stand up to them.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is a 6 Finish tidying up so you can focus on making money.There are bugs to be worked out before the cash starts rolling in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is an 8 - Due to a last-minute burst of energy, you successfully complete your mission. It's never too late to never give up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) - Today is a 6 - The pressure is on, so stop procrastinating. For maximum efficiency, delegate.Your partner is glad to help.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is a 6 - Help a loved one achieve a goal. What goes around comes around.This is a favor that will be repaid many times over.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) - Today is a 7 You want something for your home and also want to take a trip. Look for fabulous deals, and maybe you can have both. © 2009,TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES INC.

Saturday night I’ve decided to just skip to our Saturday night adventures because this was quite possibly the longest and most random night of my entire life. It all began when our cab driver, Red — she said she doesn’t like giving out her real name — crammed us all in her about-tofall-apart minivan and drove us to the Golden Nugget casino.

After a few “free” drinks from bartender Ben, we all decided to sit down at a blackjack table and

Sunday Needless to say we made it home. Unfortunately, my untraceable skin disease still hurts though. I think I’ll just stick with Vegas.

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