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SEPT. 7 - 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: Emely navarro • news@thedailyaztec.com

#CampusDining

Changes to SDSU’s food options

Will Fritz Senior Staff writer ____________________________________ With the new school year comes changes to some of San Diego State’s dining options.

The Cuicacalli Dining Room has been renamed The Garden and Daphne’s Greek Café left East Commons soon to

be replaced with Texas-based Dickie’s Barbecue Pit. Bruxie has also left and the tenant who will replace it is still unknown.

The Garden’s new name is part of a larger effort to make the dining hall healthier, said Dining Services Director Paul Melchior.

There will be more emphasis on produce this year at The Garden than

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Daphne’s left its East Commons location at the end of the 2016 spring semester.

It is to be replaced with Dickie’s Barbecue Pit, but Melchior said the timing at this point is unclear, as Dickie’s is still awaiting approval of construction plans from both the state fire marshal and SDSU Environmental Health and Safety.

“Once all of their plans are signed off … their construction window is approximately a month. So it will happen quickly once the plans get approved,” he said.

“I really only ate at Daphne’s when I was tired of everything else, but I would definitely eat at Dickie’s.” financial services senior, Caleb Ransom said.

Melchior said there are talks with a potential new tenant in place of Bruxie, but said he could not name the potential tenant as nothing is yet official.

In the longer term, Melchior said the new South Campus Plaza, which is at the intersection of Montezuma Road and College Ave., should be open for the Fall 2017 semester.

Trader Joe’s was announced as the first major tenant to sign a lease in August 2015.

Eureka!, a chain serving hamburgers and craft beer, is the only other major tenant to have been announced so far, having signed a lease in May.

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in years past.

“As far as a healthy option, there are proteins available, but the focus is on an amazing salad bar,” Melchior said.

He also said The Garden will use more produce grown in the College Area Community Garden.

The former Dining Room already utilized some produce from the community garden last year.

“We have 20 plots there,” Melchior said. “The items that we grow there are being featured in The Garden. We’re making a connection between those two.”

Some students were critical of the changes being made.

“I don’t think changing the name of something, especially to something like ‘The Garden’ is going to make a significant difference,” said business sophomore Matthew Webb.

“I think they are just trying to have students believe a lot has changed, and it’s going to take a lot to prove otherwise.”

“We changed much more than just the name,” Melchior said in response to this criticism.

“The location received a refresh physically to modernize the restaurant,” Melchior said. “The menu features chef-crafted cooking utilizing fewer processed ingredients than the Dining Room’s menu. The food is healthier overall, which is what our customers tell us they want via

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SEPT. 7 - 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: Emely navarro • news@thedailyaztec.com

#Constructionupdate

Construction continues this fall being reconstructed to ensure that they accommodate people with disabilities.

Centennial Mall Turf Removal Landscape Project The Centennial Mall is an effort to try to save water across campus and look for different landscape alternatives to turf, Shinn said.

Removing the turf will save 150,000 gallons of water per year, Shinn said.

Drought tolerant, low ground cover (decomposed granite) will be included in the project. Tables, chairs and trees will also be inserted in order to provide for a cooler seating option.

The project is expected to be finished in September and is projected to cost $300,000.

Construction continues throughout various parts of campus as the semester begins.

Katelyn Mulcahy, Staff Photographer

Jasmine Bermudez Senior Staff writer ____________________________________ New Recreation Field A new recreation field located behind Storm Hall West opened on Aug. 29.

The field belongs to Aztec Recreation and includes turf and LED lighting. It accommodates soccer, field hockey and football.

Associate Director of Programs Pam Mahlow said intramural programming will be added along with morning yoga class hosted at the field because of the high waitlist for flag football and soccer programs.

“We are really excited to have this turf because it is a new technology that has a cooler feel,” Mahlow said. “Having another field for students to be able to enjoy for programming and to come out and kick a ball around will be a great thing to add to the university.”

Associated Students funded the $3.5 million dollar project.

Scripps Cottage Renovation Double doors were built to make Scripps Cottage more accommodating for event needs. The doors connect the inside of the building to the outside terrace.

A new, accessible restroom was also installed and is available to guests both inside and outside of the building.

Engineering & Interdisciplinary Sciences Complex The new complex for the engineering and interdisciplinary sciences departments will be a U-shaped building with a courtyard in the center.

“This building was created around the idea that researchers from different disciplines can work together around a topic to solve problems,” said Laura Shinn, SDSU director of planning. “Labs are flexible so they can be reconfigured depending on the topic.”

The complex will include seven of the following teaching labs: mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and aeronautical engineering. It will also include a Research MRI machine that is scheduled to be moved into the building January 2017.

“The MRI is used to do brain imaging,” Shinn said. “It is so large that the complex needs to be built around it.”

A creative design studio where students have the opportunity to build will be housed in the complex.

The building is planned to be completed in January 2018 and has a total project cost of $90 million dollars, Shinn

said.

South Campus Plaza The South Campus Plaza will consist of two residential mixed-use buildings and a parking structure dedicated to retail and green space.

Student housing in the plaza will be double or triple occupancy and will accomodate 600 students. The second floor will have a variety of program space and roof terraces accessible to students.

The plaza will be the second dorm, after Zura, to have gender-neutral bathrooms accessible to residents and their guests.

“Restaurants in the plaza will include Broken Yolk and Eureka and retail will include Trader Joe’s,” said Eric J. Hansen, director of housing administration.

Construction manager Ian Lyne said it took a long time for the state marshall to approve the construction plans because the construction method is innovative.

“It has a lot smaller carbon footprint, uses less material and resources and is more sustainable,” Lyne said. “It is the way of the future.”

The two towers are scheduled to be finished on Dec. 30, 2016 and the parking structure will be finished in April 2017, Lyne said.

The plaza has a total project cost of $143 million dollars, Shinn said.

Lindo Paseo, which is currently closed off due to renovation, will re-open in April 2017.

Students will be relocated from the Tenochca Residence Hall to South Campus Plaza dorms for the Spring 2017 semester in order to begin renovations in Tenochca.

“We at SDSU believe the physical environment can have a big impact on student’s ability to learn,” Hansen said.

“We are trying to create environments that support that effort.”

Campanile Gateway New monuments are being built on Campanile Drive at the main entrance of campus. It will have a bronze seal with the official SDSU logo and clay tile roofs.

“A year and a half ago we started looking at what we could do to improve the image of campus and give our visitors a sense of where they are,” Shinn said.

The project was supposed to be completed before the fall semester began, but will now be complete on Oct. 10 and has a total project cost of $1.4 million.

“There are a lot of studies that talk about how a sense of place and ownership makes people feel safer because they know where they are,” Shinn said.

At the same location, pedestrian and traffic improvements are being made.

The sidewalks and curve ramps are

Confucius Exhibit The Confucius exhibit is an interior renovation project located in the first floor in the Professional Studies and Fine Arts building.

It will be a hall for Chinese art and culture and will include movable display cases.

“An organization known as the Confucius Institute that does programming and exhibits on Chinese art and culture has a big outreach component with events to educate people,” Shinn said. “They like to bring in rotating exhibits and didn’t have space to do it.”

The project will also consist of restrooms, a new door, windows and outdoor landscaping for the new entry restrooms.

The Confucius project will be finished May 2017 and has a total project cost of $4 million.

Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre A concession stand will be built in front of the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre and two temporary concession stands will be removed. A building specifically for accessible restrooms will also be created. The theatre is expected to be finished in March 2017 and is funded by Associated Students.

Additional Construction New gender neutral restrooms are located in the Calpulli Center, Love Library, Peterson Gym, the Engineering Building and the California Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre.

Future Construction Shinn said she is scoping for future electrical infrastructure projects.

She said she will be checking on the university’s substations, transformers, and underground duct banks.

“We put in a request with the state and are waiting for confirmation of funding,” Shinn said.

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SEPT. 7 - 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREW DYER • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#LETTERS

Letter: CSU, UAW at odds Dear CSUers, The California State University system professes an honorable mission: to provide an equitable, accessible, and affordable education “to all who are prepared for and wish to participate in collegiate study.” A recent study commissioned by the Chancellor’s Office shows how far off the CSU is from fulfilling their educational mission. According to this study, an estimated 10 percent (1 in 10) of the entire half million CSU student body are homeless, and 25 percent (1 in 4) struggle with food insecurity. State funding cuts, bloated administrative salaries, the not-socovert privatization of our public university through constant increases of our tuition and fees, and California’s

rapidly rising cost of living are some of the causes for intensified student stratification and diminished student success.

While multidimensional, these problems are not intractable or inevitable facts of life. Although not unique to the CSU, these are issues that the Cal State system can start to address by supporting the reasonable demands made by UAW 4123, the union representing the over 10,000 Academic Student Employees across 23 CSU campuses. UAW 4123 is currently negotiating the next round of Academic Student Employee contracts. The union recognizes that our academic student employees are among the most overworked and underpaid in public higher education nationwide. UAW 4123 is thus advocating for improved

compensation for our academic labor, expansion of tuition waivers (which has already been successfully won at CSU Fresno), and improved workplace conditions including the expansion of gender-neutral restroom access and the establishment of thirdparty oversight for resolving cases of discrimination on campus.

One of the best ways you can help is by sharing the work the union is doing with your peers and encouraging all ISAs, GAs, and TAs to join the union.

Keep updated on the status of contract negotiations and contact the union at union@uaw4123.org and www. uaw4123.org.

Brandon Edwards-Schuth and Lydia Wood, SDSU Graduate Students

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MANICA ARCHITECTURE, SAN DIEGO CHARGERS

Chargers stadium vote coming ANDREW DYER OPINION EDITOR ____________________________________ San Diego voters will be met with an extensive ballot this November.

Trump and Clinton may grab the most headlines, but voters will also be asked to decide several ballot measures that directly impact the city and state.

This fall, The Daily Aztec will provide in-depth analysis and commentary on some of these initiatives.

On ballot measure C, voters will be asked to raise hotel occupancy taxes to help fund a new $1.8 billion football stadium and convention center expansion in East Village downtown.

Critics of the plan question whether or not the increased taxes will sufficiently fund stadium construction and maintenance costs.

Supporters, including the team, contend that the stadium will be a draw for more events than just football and that increased attendance will bolster hotel occupancy downtown, helping pay for the project.

The team and the Chamber of Commerc support measure C. The San Diego Taxpayer’s Association, San Diego Tourism Authority and HotelMotel Association are opposed.

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• COST: $1.8 BILLION (ESTIMATED) • RAISES CITY HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FROM 12.5 TO 16.5 PERCENT. • THE CHARGERS WOULD CONTRIBUTE $650 MILLION. THIS INCLUDES A $300 MILLION CONTRIBUTION FROM THE NFL. • SAN DIEGO IS ON THE HOOK FOR $1.15 BILLION, FUNDED BY BOND SALES AND PAID BACK WITH INCREASED HOTEL TAX REVENUE. • NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MEASURE D. • MEASURE D, THE “CITIZEN’S PLAN,” IS A SIMILAR HOTEL TAX INCREASE BUT IT DOES NOT FUND A STADIUM. IT WAS DESIGNED TO PUSH THE CHARGERS AND HOTELLIERS INTO NEGOTIATIONS ACCORDING TO ITS AUTHOR, LOCAL ATTORNEY CORY BRIGGS.

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SEPT. 7 - 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: ANDREW DYER • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#CONVADIUM

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Artist rendering of downtown and East Village with a new stadium and convention center..

MANICA ARCHITECTURE, SAN DIEGO CHARGERS

Pro: New stadium paid for by visitors AULANI CAPUCHIN CONTRIBUTER ____________________________________ This November, a proposition on the ballot, measure C, will determine if the new home for Chargers will be in downtown San Diego.

Critics have raised concerns over what a brand new stadium-convention center with a projected cost of $1.8 billion dollars brings with it.

The largest of these concerns is how much it would cost the people of San Diego, and the short answer is this: nothing.

None of the funding for the stadium would come from the general fund, according to the official initiative for the ballot measure. $650 million would come from the Chargers and the NFL. The rest would come from selling bonds that will be paid for by a hotel and transient occupancy tax increase from 12.5 to 16.5 percent.

The proposal also includes approximately $36 million for tourism marketing to help jump-start this revenue.

Some are concerned that this tax increase would reduce tourism, but it may behoove them to remember that other cities in California have similar rates. Los Angeles and San Francisco both have rates of 15.5 percent.

A study by the Public Resources Advisory Group, which took into account the 5 percent interest rate for public debts, said if the city reaches a 3 percent increase in revenue for transient occupancy taxes, there should be room for costs to increase 10 percent or stadium revenue to go down 10.5 percent.

These numbers increase exponentially

Con: Rich get richer in new stadium plan ANDREW DYER OPINION EDITOR ____________________________________

MANICA ARCHITECTURE,

if there is a 4 percent increase, which is less than the city’s conservative 4.5 percent assumption.

Another concern is the possibility of losing the contract the city has with San Diego Comic-Con. John Rogers, the board president of Comic-Con, has discussed the possibility of moving the massive convention because measure C does not meet their desire of a contiguous convention center expansion.

However, the proposed stadiumconvention center promises to be roughly 130 percent the size of the current convention center, and would offer conventions significantly more room, and potentially drawing in more people.

Rogers has said he is willing to review whatever is ultimately chosen.

Additionally, tourism projections go up significantly with the new stadiumconvention center and the ability to host events that would not have been hosted before.

With these projections, citizens should be more open to the possibility of not only improving East Village, but also reallocating funds previously split between two projects.

In January, Chargers president Dean Spanos came crawling back to San Diego with his tail between his legs after the NFL offered Los Angeles to the Rams — not the Chargers — and quickly got to scheming how to extort the city for a massive taxpayer handout.

Measure C will be on the ballot in San Diego this November, and would provide up to $1.2 billion in city-raised money for the project.

There is still an option for the Chargers to move, but only as a tenant in a new L.A. stadium. Spanos knows the real money in the NFL is not in playing in someone else’s stadium, but in prying massive subsidies from cashstrapped municipalities for one of his own.

San Diego taxpayers have little interest in coughing up $1 billion in corporate welfare, so a scheme was hatched to raise taxes on tourists instead, in the form of hotel room taxes. Dubbed the “convadium” by local news site Voice of San Diego, the combined football stadium and convention center is being sold to the city as a solution to two problems.

First, the “problem” of the Chargers being one of the last teams not to have a new publicly subsidized football palace. The second, and most pertinent, is the need to expand the convention center. But the Chargers’ ballot initiative is a haphazardly thrown together plot where the city, not the team, has the most to lose.

Downtown San Diego does not have the infrastructure in place to support the proposed stadium. The plan as it will be voted on in November only

funds the stadium. The city will be on the hook to figure out parking, traffic and public transportation.

Analysis by several independent agencies, including the San Diego Taxpayer’s Association and the city’s independent budget analyst have raised concerns that the Chargers have misrepresented the costs to the city.

For example, if hotel occupancy were to drop below a certain threshold, the city would have to dip into its general fund to make up the shortfall, potentially cutting services like fire, police and infrastructure repair.

Beyond the problems with the Chargers ballot initiative there is a larger question — why should taxpayers subsidize a highly profitable private industry in the first place?

Study after study has shown that sports stadiums do not deliver on the pie-inthe-sky promises of billionaire team owners.

If these stadiums were such financial winners, teams would be falling over themselves to build them independently. They are not.

The only way they are profitable for the team is for taxpayers to take it on the chin. San Diego is not building publically financed shopping centers for Wal-Mart, or publically financed skyscrapers for Citibank. What makes a private entity like the billionaire-owned Chargers so special?

Today, with city streets and sidewalks in shambles and an exploding homeless population, it is obscene to think the city should squander a billion dollars to further line the pockets of billionaires like Dean Spanos and the rest of the NFL ownership.

This November, stand up for common sense and fiscal responsibility. Vote no on measure C.

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SEPT. 7 - 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: JosÉ guzmÁn-quirino • mundoazteca@thedailyaztec.com

#Leyab-60

El DMV Relega a los Mixtecos en CA jOSÉ GuzmÁn-quirino Editor de Mundo AZTECA ____________________________________ La comunidad indígena mixteca en California tiene muchos retos este 2016.

Aunque se supone que las cosas serían más fáciles para tramitar licencias de conducir desde que la ley AB-60 fue aprobada, muchos mixtecos siguen reprobando su exámenes escritos y prácticos por lo que se encuentran sin ese valioso documento.

Esto sigue siendo un problema porque el Departamento de Motores y Vehículos (DMV) no está dispuesto ha hacer cambios en la forma que evalúan a los futuros conductores.

La ley AB-60 autoriza a los inmigrantes que residen en el estado de California que soliciten una licencia de manejar en dicho estado.

Según estadísticas del DMV, desde que esta ley fue implementada, más de 650-mil personas han recibido sus licencias de conducir en estos primeros 15 meses.

Y, aunque en el pasado, la ley de servicios bilingües Dymally-Alatorre requería que las agencias del estado solo tradujeran el material a idiomas utilizados por al menos un 5 por ciento de la población, hoy las cosas han cambiado.

Armando Botello, portavoz del DMV, dijo que a partir de que la ley AB-60 entró en efecto, una compañía privada provee servicios de intérpretes para rendir el examen escrito de manejo cuando son requeridos. Por ejemplo, el mixteco alto, mixteco bajo, triqui y zapoteco, así como otras lenguas nativas de México son incluidas dentro de estos servicios.

Aunque se supone que con este apoyo de intérpretes sería más fácil rendir el examen de manejo, estos servicios tienen sus limitaciones.

De acuerdo con Botello, los interpretes están disponibles cuando son requeridos. Sin embargo, el solicitante tienen que notificar que

El libro de reglas del DMv en california jOSÉ gUZMÁN-quirino, Editor de mundo

necesita un intérprete en el momento de hacer una cita con el DMV para sacar su licencia de conducir.

La opción de intérprete solo esta disponible para la prueba en escrito, y la manera que se administra este examen es la siguiente: el empleado del DMV lee el examen en ingles y el interprete se lo traduce al cliente, después el aspirante llena el formulario el mismo.

El gran problema es que estos formularios solo están en español y no en mixteco. Además, de acuerdo con Botello, no tienen empleados que manejen el mixteco trabajando en el DMV que puedan servir de intérpretes.

Por otra parte, muchos mixtecos no entienden el inglés e incluso la mayoría no domina el español.

Muchas personas dentro de la

algo que la comunidad exige es que el libro de reglas de tráfico del DMV esté disponible en mixteco.

“Ahorita no hay libro para que la gente se ponga estudiar, cuando el DMV acepte lo que la comunidad pida la gente va a quedar muy contenta”, dijo Reyes.

Botello recomendó a la comunidad mixteca que para que el DMV les ofrezca mejor servicio es importante que desde el momento en que hacen su primera cita con ellos, le informen que necesitan un intérprete, de esa manera el intérprete estará ahí a la hora de la cita.

“Nuestro intento es tratar a todas las comunidades de una manera respetuosa y equitativa”, dijo Botello.

eN EL DMV SE LES PROVEE UN TRADUCTOR POR TELÉFONO A LOS MIXTECOS. jOSÉ gUZMÁN-quirino Editor de mundo azteca

comunidad mixteca solo hablan el idioma indígena.

El obstáculo mas difícil Otro problema es que si bien pueden recibir la ayuda de un intérprete para dar el examen escrito, ese apoyo no lo

de lo que significan las palabras”, dijo Reyes. “En mis tiempos yo hubiera querido a alguien que me tradujera, e incluso hoy mucha gente mixteca (necesita) ayuda”.

Posibles soluciones

“ Es como darles la mitad de un servicio, yo pago por un pan entero

pero me das la mitad de un pan, así es el servicio del DMV”

- Valentina Torres, interprete de mixteco

tienen para dar el examen práctico.

Florencia Camasena es una mujer que vive en los Estados Unidos desde hace más de 15 años pero apenas está aprendiendo a hablar, leer y escribir el español. Personas como ella son las que luchan para obtener su licencia de conducir en su idioma. Sin embargo, solo tienen acceso a un intérprete para el examen escrito pero no para el práctico.

“Es muy difícil para mi sacar una licencia”, dijo Camasena. “No hablo bien español y no hay apoyo en mixteco”.

Botello dijo que esto se debe a una política del DMV en la que solo se permite que dentro del vehículo esté el instructor y el solicitante. Esto se hace por motivos de seguridad.

“Esta regla aplica a todos los solicitantes de una licencia para manejar y ha existido por varios años”, dijo Botello. “Para su propia seguridad, las personas que están tomando el examen de manejo deberían entender las instrucciones que les hace las persona que administra el examen, las cuales son bastantes simples”, añadió.

Francisco Reyes es un mixteco que vive en California desde hace 26 años.

Dijo que es uno de esos mixtecos que tienen su licencia pero, a pesar de todos los años que lleva viviendo en los Estados Unidos, aún hay palabras que no entiende y que tuvo que rendir el examen en escrito cuatro veces antes de pasarlo.

Reyes dijo que si el examen fuera en su idioma hubiera sido más fácil porque no todos los que hablan mixteco hablan bien el español.

“La mayoría de la gente (mixtecos) no sabe suficiente español. Muchos hablan pero no tienen conocimiento

Reyes dijo que piensa que el DMV debería tener empleados que hablen idiomas indígenas como el mixteco porque beneficiaría a la comunidad, ya que esto les daría más seguridad a los mixtecos al intentar obtener la licencia de conducir.

Florencia camasena jOSÉ gUZMÁN-quirino, Editor de mundo

Muchos no se animan a rendir el examen por falta de compresión del español y del inglés “Ellos (necesitan) que el empleado del DMV hable mixteco para que ellos como clientes entiendan lo que pide el DMV”, dijo Reyes. “Varios que conozco, como tres o cuatro, no pudieron pasar el examen porque no saben leer ni escribir, les dieron su prueba de escrito en español por medio de una grabadora y audífonos y les pusieron un video pero esto no es suficiente, incluso fue más confuso”.

Reyes dijo que si el DMV cambiara su política, entonces esto ayudaría al progreso de los mixtecos en los Estados Unidos y que ellos estarán agradecidos con el gobierno.

También dijo que mucha gente está dispuesta a sacar su licencia pero que

El activismo y su lucha por el cambio Valentina Torres, originaria de el estado de Oaxaca y alumna de la San Diego State University, quien trabaja como interprete de mixteco dijo que el DMV debería de contratar por lo menos a un empleado que hable mixteco por ciudad ya que si una parte de el examen esta en mixteco entonces debería de haber un interprete para los dos exámenes.

“Es como darles la mitad de un servicio, yo pago por un pan entero pero me das la mitad de un pan, así es el servicio del DMV”, dijo Torres.

“Tu pagas por ir a tomar un examen y nomas te ayudan a la mitad. Se me hace injusto, como cualquier otro idioma que a ellos si les ofrecen un interprete”.

Torres dijo que ella consideraba que esto era una falta de respeto a la gente por que el mixteco tiene su propio valor. Dijo que entendía la regla de que solo el empleado y el solicitante son permitidos en el carro, pero que ella piensa es hora de contratar empleados que puedan interpretar.

Otra traba es que hay bastantes variantes en mixteco de diferentes pueblos por lo que seria difícil traducir las preguntas en una sola variante. Por este motivo es importante tener a un traductor en persona.

“Yo me he encontrado como 7 variantes aquí en los Estados Unidos”, dijo Torres. “Si lo traduces a una variante, entonces lo entendería ciertos mixtecos y que pasa con los otros aquellos que no lo van a entender?”.

Torres dijo que anteriormente ella trabajo para una compañía llamada Access Inc. donde ella se encargaba de ofrecer talleres a la comunidad mixteca y algo que fue efectivo para que ellos obtuvieran su licencia fue que ofrecían un taller con un sheriff de San Diego quien asistia a las oficinas de Access y les daba clases a los mixtecos por 3 o 4 dias.

Ella dijo que el oficial les enseñaba acerca de todos los reglamentos de la carretera y ellos les traducían todo lo que el les decía. Ademas Torres se encargaba de proveerles libros para que tomaran apuntes y con este método no había mucho problemas.

“Después del curso muchas de estas personas tomaron su examen y lo pasaron, y ellos estaban bien felices, como si se hubieran graduado de una universidad”, dijo ella. “Ellos estaban muy motivados, y la mayoría paso el examen mientras otros no pudieron, pero no se dieron por vencidos y tuvieron que pagar otra ves para retomar el examen pero finalmente lo pasaron, estos les abre puertas y les sube su autoestima por tener licencia.”

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#Riseupaztecs

The rise of the Aztecs Anthony Reclusado sports editor ______________________

For the first time in its Division I history, the San Diego State football team enters the season with a legitimate shot at cracking the Associated Press’ Top 25. Not since the days of legendary coach Don Coryell, and his equally as legendary AirRaid offense, has there been this much hype around the team.

The boys from the Mesa are

on the cusp of turning a once down troden program into the height of success on the west coast. Check out the road head coach Rocky Long has taken to turn SDSU into a Top 25 contender on pg.

8-9. Take a look at a few shots from Saturday’s 31-0 victory over the University of New Hampshire on pg. 10. Will San Diego State represent the Group of 5 in one

of the New Year’s Six bowls? Read and pick a side on pg. 11. Look at an extensive review of the team, including senior running back Donnel Pumphrey and redshirt freshman Christian Chapman on pg.

12. Lastly, take a breather from this football roundup and check in on the No. 13 men’s soccer team and a women’s soccer team looking to rewrite their slow start on pg. 13.

2016 SDSU Football schedule Sept. 3 vs. New Hampshire (W) 31-0 Sept. 10 vs. California 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 17 at Northern Illinois 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 1 at South Alabama TBA Oct. 8 vs UNLV TBA Oct. 14 at Fresno State 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 21 vs. San Jose State 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 28 at Utah State 5:00 p.m.

Nov. 5 vs. Hawai’i 4:00 p.m.

Nov. 12 at Nevada 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 19 at Wyoming 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 26 vs. Colorado State 6:00 p.m.

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After taking the reins from Brady Hoke, who left for the head coaching position at Michigan, Rocky Long hit the Mesa running.

With Ryan Lindley at the helm and Ronnie Hillman in the backfield, San Diego State won its first three games of the season - the Aztecs’ best start in 30 years. The winning streak included a win against Washington State ending a 19-game losing streak to Pac12 schools.

However, SDSU, and Long, fell back to earth and lost the next three of four games.

“For some reason, we are more than halfway through the season and not a consistent football team yet,” Long said after the team’s third loss.

Hillman and Lindley heard the message.

The 5-foot-9 back rushed for 599 yards and seven touchdowns, while the Alpine native signal caller threw for 1,208 yards in the final five regular season games.

SDSU would win four of those final five matches. The strong finish made the Aztecs bowl eligible and they participated in backto-back bowl games for the first time in the program’s Division I history.

SDSU lost a shootout to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the New Orleans Bowl.

The loss ended an up-and-down year and allowed question marks to surface surrounding the future of the program that relied on senior talent.

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The Long, Rocky Road: Five straight In his second full year as head coach Long had his cut worked out for him, as he had to replace three offensive and two defensive linemen and his star running back and quarterback.

Despite the holes upfront, four starters would return in the defensive backfield and Adam Muema was primed to explode onto the scene - a formula that should sound familiar.

SDSU dropped its season opener to Washington 21-12 on the road but rattled off two wins straight victories at home and averaged 45.5 points.

From there the Aztecs suffered back-toback losses to in-state rivals San Jose State and Fresno State.

“We’re frustrated and the only way to make that better is to be able to win a game,” Long said after the loss to the Bulldogs.

It wouldn’t take long for SDSU’s secondyear head coach to feel better, as the Aztecs ended the season on a seven-game win streak, including a win over No. 19 Boise State on the vaunted blue turf. During that span SDSU’s average margin of victory was 15.6 points.

Without a conference championship game, Long’s squad would end in a threeway tie for the Mountain West crown with the Broncos and Bulldogs.

Despite the lost to BYU, 23-6, in the Poinsettia Bowl, a standard of winning was beginning to set in.

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football preview9 With a loss of seven defensive starters, including four defensive backs, and no clear No. 1 wide receiver, Long had a difficult year ahead of him.

Fortunately for him, sophomore running back Donnel Pumphrey was ready to carry the load. In the season opener, he ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns in a rout of Northern Arizona, 38-7.

Pumphrey would tally 100 yards and two touchdowns against the University of North Carolina, but three interceptions in the passing game allowed the Tar Heels to make a 4th-quarter comeback.

SDSU’s season continued on a roller coaster path with an offense that revolved around Pumphrey and an inexperienced defense. And just as one would expect, the one-dimensional, veteran-less team played poorly on the road.

SDSU was 6-0 at Qualcomm, as the Aztecs outscored their opponents on average by 19.5 points. On the road, however, the Aztecs were outscored by an average of 11.9 points. Not surprisingly, SDSU was 1-5 away from San Diego.

Individually, Pumphrey had a historic year, as he finished the season with 1,867 rushing yards, the school’s single season rushing record, and 20 touchdowns.

Despite the personal accomplishment, the running back had little to celebrate. His team lost on a tie-breaker to FSU to play in the MW Championship game and lost to Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl.

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2014 (7-6, 5-3 MW)

Two successful seasons and nine defensive starters returning led to high expectations for Long in his third season; SDSU was predicted to finish second in the MW West division behind FSU, but that forecast came under scrutiny quickly.

The Aztecs began the season 0-3, including a loss to Eastern Illinois, a Football Championship Subdivision school.

The rest of the season was not for the faint of heart, as SDSU played four overtime games and seven matches were decided by a touchdown or less.

But the most notable storyline of the season were the kicking woes of the Aztecs. SDSU kickers combined to go 8 of 16 on field goal attempts, including four blocked kicks.

The most heartbreaking coming on a 37yard field-goal attempt blocked at the end of regulation against an undefeated FSU squad to win the game. The Bulldogs won the game in overtime.

The loss would propel the boys from the Mesa to rattle off four-straight cardiatic wins by an average of 4.75 points per game, including two overtime victories.

“A lot of these guys came a long time ago when this program ... wasn’t very good,” Long said after a win against BSU. “They came with the faith that they could help make it better.

Obviously they’ve done that.”

The seniors graduated as the most winningest class in Divison I program history with 34. The final “W” a 49-24 shellacking of Buffalo in the Potato Bowl.

To say the 2015 season was a surprise, would be a lie. MW media predicted Long’s team to be the West division representative, but what could not have been predicted was the horrible start and historic finish of SDSU. The Aztecs tumbled to a 1-3 start, including two losses to the University of California and Penn State. Long was called out by local media, as a coach that had plateaued and the program had to move on.

“I think going into the season (the team and I) had some expectations that we would be much better than we are right now, that we’d be playing better than we are right now, but that’s in the past,” Long said after the team’s third consecutive loss.

And in the past it would stay, as the Aztecs exploited their strengths: hard-nosed football.

Over the final eight games of the regular season SDSU averaged 283.4 rushing yards and outscored opponents by 24.9 points per game. By the end of the regular season, Long’s patented 3-3-5 defense ranked first in turnovers forced (31), fourth in rushing defense (95), fifth total defense (283.6) and ninth in scoring defense (16.6).

But the ground-and-pound offense and the smash-mouth defense were tested against Air Force in the MW Championship game.

SDSU overcame a high-octane triple option offense and three deficits to pull out the 27-24 victory. The Aztecs were passed over for any meaningful bowl game and the result was a 42-7 trouncing of Cincinnati in the Hawaii Bowl.

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#Newyearssix

New Year’s Six bowl not attainable BrendAn Price staff columnist ____________________________________ Pasadena is an easier commute than to New Orleans around the holidays, right?

The San Diego State football team thrashed the University of New Hampshire 31-0 last Saturday.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman completed 64 percent of his passes for 283 yards and senior running back Donnel Pumphrey ran for 98 yards and a touchdown.

Bottom line, the Aztecs did everything they could to establish themselves for a New Year’s Six bowl as the Group of 5 representative.

The downside: It doesn’t matter and it isn’t going to happen.

First, the University of Houston. About the only silver lining to the Cougars monumental win over No. 3 University of Oklahoma is ... well, if it exists, let me know, so I can add it to the column.

With such a huge national statement, the Cougars from the American Athletic Conference have vaulted themselves into runaway front runners for the Group of 5 spot by hitting the jackpot with a neutral site win over a Power 5 conference powerhouse and national championship hopeful.

UH put themselves in such an advantageous position that they can afford a couple close calls in conference or even a loss, a luxury the boys from the Mesa don’t have.

Second, the Mountain West is bad. As in not showering after a four hour workout

level of bad. Rather undiplomatic and blunt, but true.

The best team SDSU faces in conference on paper is Utah State, a team with a Football Power Index good enough for 72nd out of 128 teams. The University of Hawai’i is 122nd. Colorado State is 109th and Fresno State is right above them at 108th. The University of Nevada, University of Wyoming and UNLV pull in at 97th-99th.

The conference already hasn’t shown well, being outscored 201-51 over four games against Power 5 schools. Out of charity, San Jose State’s 45-10 loss to Tulsa University, another Group of 5 program.

Third, the lack of primetime televison.

The Aztecs are featured on national television only twice this season: at home versus UNLV and SJSU. The UNLV game has yet to be determined as to which network they will be shown on and the SJSU game kickoff is slated for 7:30 p.m.

PT, making it 10:30 p.m. ET. The rest of their games will be on CBS Sports Network, which is a must have for sport junkies, but isn’t provided on basic cable. It didn’t help that their home opener went untelevised, even at a local level.

By contrast, UH is on national television four times. Northern Illinois is on national television three times. If a football team wins and nobody sees it, did they win at all?

Fourth, the out of conference schedule the Aztecs have lined up has zero upside. A satisfying but expected win over a Football Championship Subdivision school in their home opener. The tilt against the UC

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman walking off the field after a three-and-out. kelly smiley, photo editor

Berkeley is a must-win, if only to ensure that the red and black brigade hang onto the national relevance it has taken nearly three seasons to build.

A game at Northern Illinois, which opened the season by losing in triple overtime at Wyoming, moves from an interesting Group of 5 match to trap game.

A rematch against the University of South Alabama awaits, with the Aztecs having to travel to Mobile, Alabama to complete a home & home agreement, whom the Aztecs lost to at home last season.

Finally, there are just too many breaks the Aztecs need, both by the doing of head coach Rocky Long’s team and the action of others.

SDSU has to first go undefeated and win the MW. Boise State has to be the opponent they face and beat in the championship to gain any conference credibility.

Secondly, within that 12-0 season, the Aztecs have to thoroughly destroy everyone they face and make sure they avoid any close call.

After those two scores are settled, the Cougars have to either make the College Football Playoff or lose at least two games and it seems quite unlikely either one of those occur.

The University of South Florida and NIU have to trip themselves up at least once, hanging them with one loss in a race where that is all it can take to be knocked out of contention.

As if those aren’t enough bounces, it wouldn’t hurt for California to surprise everyone and finish strong in the Pac-12 to add some weight to the probable signature win that the Aztecs will have.

A bowl game is in the cards for coach Long and the team, just not the glitzy, glamourous ones.

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Aztecs ready to celebrate New Year’s in style

Redshsirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman running in the open field. kelly smiley, photo editor

Austin Gayle staff columnist ____________________________________ San Diego State’s football team entered the 2016 season with high expectations, and if you haven’t already bought into the hype, the Aztecs have already managed to exceed them in their season opener against the University of New Hampshire.

The boys from the Mesa rolled over the visiting Wildcats in an impressive fashion, pushing them one step closer to earning a birth into one of the New Year’s Six bowls (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, and Peach).

Because the Peach and Fiesta Bowls will feature the top four teams in the country, SDSU has to go undefeated and hope that the other top teams from the Power 5 conferences struggle significantly.

To keep our goals realistic, we will rule out the Peach and Fiesta Bowl.

We can also rule out the Orange (ACC vs. Big Ten/SEC or Notre Dame), Rose (Big Ten vs. Pac-12), and Sugar (Big 12 vs. SEC) Bowls because all three games will feature teams outside of the Mountain West.

With that being said, the Aztecs’ chances are, obviously, slim. You could already want to side with the column on top, but let’s not give up, yet.

Despite having just two starts under his belt prior to SDSU’s matchup against UNH, redshirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman thrived under the pressure. After starting the game with three consecutive three-and-outs, Chapman sparked SDSU’s offense with an 86-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Mikah Holder for the Aztecs’ first touchdown of the season.

And they didn’t stop there.

Chapman went 16-for-25 for a careerhigh 283 yards and two touchdowns.

Holder finished the game with four receptions for a career-high 160 yards.

With an emerging duo forming at the quarterback and wide receiver position, SDSU’s offense could become something unimaginable to the average fan. Their offense could become, dare I say it, twodimensional.

Since the departure of former Aztec quarterback Ryan Lindley in 2011, SDSU has struggled to find a difference maker at the quarterback position. With Chapman’s ability to make plays both with his arm and feet, the Carlsbad native could be just that.

Chapman’s success should also have a positive impact on SDSU’s already prestigious rushing attack, as senior running back Donnel Pumphrey and junior Rashad Penny took advantage of seven and eight-man boxes after the start of the Chapman Air Show (an obvious precursor to the KGB Sky Show).

Pumphrey and Penny combined for 131 yards on 30 carries, despite an underwhelming performance from the Aztecs’ men up front.

With two new faces, junior guard Antonio Rosales and senior tackle Daniel Brunskill, along the right side of the offensive line, SDSU will improve as the unit continues to gain experience together, but the penalties will have to subside.

The Aztecs committed four holding penalties in Saturday’s game, which, of course, nullified the gain on the play, but more importantly, the penalties negatively

affected their momentum and forced Chapman to convert longer third downs.

SDSU converted just five of 15 third down attempts.

Defensively, senior linebacker Calvin Munson and senior defensive end Alex Barrett led the team with 11 and five tackles, respectively. The Aztecs put together their first shutout since their 2010 matchup against Nicholls State (47-0).

Unfortunately, we can’t expect Munson and company to always put keep a goose egg on the board, especially against the Aztecs’ toughest matchup of the season, the UC Berkeley.

Despite having travelled all the way to Sydney, Australia for kickoff, the Golden Bears earned a convincing win (51-31) over the University of Hawaii, as former Texas Tech transfer Davis Webb feasted on the Rainbow Warriors passing defense like it was shrimp on the barbie.

Webb completed 38 of 54 passes for 441 yards and four touchdowns, completing 14 of his passes to junior wide receiver Chris Hansen for 160 yards and two touchdowns.

Cal allowed 482 total offensive yards and 31 points against Hawaii, including 248 yards on the ground on just 38 carries (6.5 average yards per carry). Also, Hawaii was able to convert eight of 14 third downs.

SDSU will have to go undefeated to earn a spot the infamous Cotton Bowl regardless of what happens against the Golden Bears, but because the rest of their games will likely have them listed as clear favorites, the Aztecs’ Week 2 matchup against Cal will either sharpen, or break their spear.

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SDSU Football 2016 season preview Senior safety Malik Smith (12) leads the 2016 SDSU football team onto the field before its season opener. kelly smiley, photo editor

zach engberg asst. sports editor ____________________________________ In its entire 48-year Division I history, San Diego State football has won only four bowl games, been ranked in the AP Top 25 poll in only six seasons and has one 10-win season since 1977.

It was understable to see excitement quickly brewing after the Aztecs reeled off a 10-game winning streak to close out the 2015 season, along the way taking home the Mountain West championship and a 42-7 win in the Hawaii Bowl.

Ranked as high as the No. 19 team in Football Bowl Subdivision in preseason polls, and expected by some to even go undefeated, word has spread from the Mesa across the nation about head coach Rocky Long’s 2016 team.

The last SDSU team to go undefeated was the Don Coryell - coached 1969 squad, which went 11-0 in the program’s first season as a Division I competitor.

Nearly 50 years later, the 2016 Aztecs are hoping to bring back perfection to a city that to many represents the essence of the word.

Coryell was known for airing the ball out, procuring monumental passing numbers and high scoring games.

Long’s teams have taken a quite different approach, but have the same opportunity to achieve unprecedented greatness.

OFFENSIVE OUTLOOK With senior running back Donnel Pumphrey and a monstrous offensive line

captained by Nico Siragusa, SDSU has taken the battle to the line of scrimmage - and has won that battle.

The proof is in the pudding Pumphrey is 220 yards away from breaking Marshall Faulk’s all-time SDSU rushing record.

Pumphrey has been the motor of the SDSU offense, often carrying the team for games at a time.

And with SDSU launching his Heisman campaign with a banner on the side of University Towers, Pumphrey should be primed to have another dominant campaign.

But the emergence of redshirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman has seen Pumphrey go three consecutive games under 100 games rushing.

Chapman threw for a career-high 286 yards and two touchdowns, including an 86-yard bomb to junior wide receiver Mikah Holder, in the opening game win over University of New Hampshire.

One staple in the passing game for the past few years has been the play-action, using the threat of Pumphrey as a decoy to create more deep opportunities.

But with the newly minted threat in Chapman, more running lanes will open for Pumphrey.

The offense has the potential to become a two-headed monster, but its full potential remains to be seen.

DEFENSIVE STALWARTS Even more imposing that the arm of Chapman and the legs of Pumphrey may be the motor and aggression of the SDSU defense.

Coming off of a year where it allowed only 17.2 points per game and forced 34 turnovers, the unit is stacked with veteran performers.

Heading the unit are seniors cornerback Damontae Kazee, linebacker Calvin Munson and defensive end Alex Barrett.

The defense once again showed well against UNH, holding the Football College Subdivision opponent scoreless with only 141 yards of total offense looking equally as strong as the 2015 unit that terrorized offenses.

Munson tallied a team-high 11 tackles in the win, and Barrett led the team with two sacks and two tackles for loss.

Joining the two on the front lines are senior linebacker Randy Ricks, who notched five tackles, one for a loss, and sophomore linebacker Ronie Lakalaka, who recorded five tackles as well, among others.

The defense is strong from front to back, and poses a unique challenge, as SDSU is one of the few schools to run a 3-3-5 defense.

That means there are three defensive linemen, three linebackers and five defensive backs on the field.

Even with the lack of defenders near the line of scrimmage, the unit was know last year for its stingy rushing defense.

But the defensive backs are nothing to be ashamed of either.

Kazee, who was awarded the MW defensive player of the year honor in 2015, was second in the FBS with eight interceptions, and added two forced fumbles.

“Damontae is a crazy corner,” junior cornerback Kalan Montgomery said. “I’ve never seen anyone like him.”

Montgomery is one of nine upperclassmen in the defensive backfield, and one of 21 on the defense.

Others include senior safety Malik Smith, who logged five interceptions and 77 tackles in 2015, and senior safety Na’im Mcgee, who was named the MW Championship defensive player of the game after recording 10 tackles in the 27-24 victory.

A flock of cornerbacks will be fighting to replace six-year Aztec J.J. Whittaker, who left after the 2015 season.

Juniors Derek Babiash, Kalan Montgomery and Billy Vaughn Jr. are still in competition to decide the second and third starting cornerback spots.

Smith summed up his defense as a whole.

“We’re all super aggressive,” Smith said.

“We talk the talk, but we walk the walk.”

MOUNTAIN WEST challenges Along that walk, the Aztecs will have to go through the MW conference schedule.

As is well-documented, SDSU blew

through the MW in 2015, going 8-0 in the regular season, holding each opponent to under 20 points and scoring at least 40 points on three different occasions.

The Air Force Academy gave the Aztecs easily their best challenge in the MW, in a 27-24 loss in the Mountain West Championship game.

Air Force is back with a fleet of running backs, which it put on full display with 401 yards on the ground in its 37-21 win over Abilene Christian University.

Air Force is a multi-headed force, as eight different players recorded a rushing yard on Saturday afternoon.

Air Force is not the only team with a dominant rushing attack - University of New Mexico and Utah State University each gained 428 rushing yards in week 1, tied for tops in FBS. Utah State represents the biggest regular season conference matchup for SDSU, as the two teams face off in Utah on Oct. 28.

Possibly the greatest challenge to SDSU, however, will be Boise State University, the perennial player in the MW. Boise was ranked just ahead of the Aztecs in the latest AP Top 25 poll, receiving 50 votes compared to the Aztecs’ 37.

The Broncos are returning sophomore quarterback Brett Rypien, who was voted as a first-team all-MW player before the season began.

Joining him on the first team is senior wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck.

The duo connected six times in the Broncos’ opening game win for 130 yards and one touchdown.

Because SDSU will not be facing Boise in conference play, the only time the two MW powers would match up is in the Championship game.

And having not faced off since the Broncos won a 39-29 contest in 2014, a game that will be two years in the making.

THREE DATES TO CIRCLE The two most intriguing games of the 2016 season come during the remainder of the nonconference schedule, against UC Berkeley and University of South Alabama.

Both teams defeated the Aztecs in 2015, but in vastly different manners.

The Golden Bears, commanded by future No. 1 overall NFL draft pick Jared Goff, picked apart SDSU in a 35-7 win.

Senior transfer quarterback Davis Webb now commands the bear-raid attack that will face off against the Aztecs Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at Qualcomm Stadium.

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The search for title number five

Forwards Leah Pruitt and Hedda Regtfalk celebrate after a win during the 2015 season. file photo

mayer pohlod staff writer ____________________________________ San Diego State Women’s Soccer is no stranger to success.

A program like SDSU’s garners high expectations—its warranted after repeating as Mountain West regular season champions four years in a row.

In 2016, they’ll look to make it a quintuplet.

That goal is something attainable; the Aztecs welcome back eight starters and 12 of the 13 players who registered a point in 2015.

It’s two more than what they had coming back last year when they recorded a 10-1 record in the MW.

Many of those returners are some of the most talented in the conference, as well.

Two MW first-teamers—sophomore midfielder Milan Moses and junior defender Stacie Moran—headline the returning Aztecs. Senior midfielder Victoria Barba and junior forward Angela Mitchell, who were both voted as second-team all-MW, come back as well.

Honorable mentions senior defender Jen Rupey and junior forward Aliyah Utush round out the rest of the notable players returning to the pitch for the scarlet and black.

One of the more missed pieces, however, is forward Leah Pruitt, the breakout freshman star for the Aztecs last season. Despite leading the team in goals, assists and overall points, the 2015

MW Freshman of the Year transferred to USC in the offseason.

They have seen the impact of her absence already, going scoreless in each of their first three contests, being outscored by a total of 10-0.

Despite opening up the season with the three consecutive losses against UCLA, Long Beach State and the University of San Diego, head coach Mike Friesen doesn’t take it as anything to be overly worried about.

“I’m confident we’re going to win a lot of games throughout the season, so I’m not concerned there,” Friesen said.

Improving will be especially key for the many new players on the roster.

The number of returning players is contrasted with the bevy of new faces - 11 to be exact.

Last Friday against USD, the Aztecs had six freshmen on the field at one point, five of which were true freshmen.

One of those fresh faces is the starting goalie for the women of the Mesa, redshirt freshman Gabby English.

“We have some older players that have a lot of experience and we have a lot of new players that are playing their first college games right now,” Friesen said.

“They’re under a ton of adversity because we’re playing some very good teams.

“They have a lot to learn, we definitely see some moments where young players struggle with the decision making but that’s why we’re doing this. They’ll get there.”

Barba is equally as optimistic as her coach.

“Getting into (the game against USD), we were really looking forward to it,” she said. “ ... We started connecting as a team, started clicking getting more chemistry … I think we’ve started to relax as well.”

Friesen himself is another point of interest.

He enters this season with a 112-57-23 record and a winning percentage of .643, good for number one all time at SDSU. He’s also closing in on becoming the winningest coach in program history, as he approaches Chuck Clegg’s mark of 122.

He’ll have a good chance to eclipse that mark this season, as the Aztecs play 15 more games during the regular season.

That total doesn’t include the MW tournament or the possibility of an NCAA tournament berth.

Conference play doesn’t start for around half a month for SDSU. They open up their quest for a MW championship against Air Force Friday, Sept. 23.

Before then, the Aztecs take their tough opening slate to the East Coast where they’ll face off against defending national champion, No. 13 Penn State University Friday and then Cornell University on Sunday.

After that, it’s a long-awaited return to the SDSU Sports Deck to take on No. 15 Texas Tech University the week after.

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Soccer experiencing unprecedented success

An SDSU player attacks the ball in the open field. katelyn mulcahy, Staff PhotograPher

Ashley Washburn staff writer ____________________________________ After finishing the 2015 season with an 8-8-3 record, the San Diego State men’s soccer teams looks to break away from mediocrity and has the potential to be one of the best team’s in program history.

After a successful final weekend in Gonzaga, Washington, the Aztecs were ranked No. 23 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll.

This was the first time that the Aztecs had been ranked since Sept. 2014, where they barely cracked the Top 25.

The highest the Aztecs have ever been ranked was in Oct. 2011 when they were No. 20.

That record was broken this past Tuesday as the Aztecs made school history after jumping 10 spots to No. 13. This sudden leap was due to their upset victory against top-ranked Akron University, which fell to No. 10.

But even a win against the top team in the country does equate to continuous success for the season.

Playing in the Pac-12, SDSU continually faces a gauntlet every year having to play teams such as UCLA and Stanford, which are usually ranked.

As of right now, three of the six teams in the Pac-12 are nationally ranked - No. 8 UCLA, No. 13 SDSU and No. 24 Stanford.

Head coach Lev Kirshner is heading into his 17th season with the Aztecs and has nine of his 11 starters returning with him this year.

Redshirt junior goalkeeper Adam Allmaras is one key player who is returning this year for the Aztecs.

Allmaras appeared in 16 of the 19 games played last season, tallying a total of 52 saves and six shutouts.

He received an all-Pac-12 honorable mention last year, and named the Pac12 Conference Men’s Soccer Player of the Week after shutting out Akron last Friday.

Coach Kirshner also added 11 new players to his roster this season, who all boast talent from different parts of the world.

This 2016 class includes two transfers, three NSCAA All-Americans

and five student-athletes who have had national team experience.

True freshman midfielder AJ Vergara is one of those new roster add-ons who has made an immediate impact.

In the Aztecs’ season opener against University of Illinois Chicago, Vergara scored the tying goal to bring the match into overtime. Vergara was named Man of the Match for his phenomenal collegiate debut.

The Aztecs have opened their 2016 season so far with an undefeated record of 2-0-1 and look to continue their success as they head into the Courtyard Marriot San Diego Central Tournament and Pac-12 conference

play.

“Every game is important this year,” Kirshner said. “We just need to focus on the process. This is only the start of our season.”

San Diego State plays seven of their next 8 matches at home, before a four-gam stretch where they will play Stanford and the University of California twice each.

The Aztcs will continue play this Friday atop the SDSU Sports Deck against University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at 7:00 p.m.

To close out the tournament, SDSU will play Memphis University on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

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Sept. 7 - Sept. 13, 2016 • THE DAILY AZTEC editor: christine Whitman • features@thedailyaztec.com

#Withabandon

SDSU exhibit showcases art alumni Damir Cato Staff writer ___________________________________ The San Diego State Downtown Gallery will host a new exhibit from Sept. 15 to Nov. 6 that may prove once and for all that one man’s trash really is another man’s treasure.

Graduates of the SDSU School of Art + Design from the last five years will be featured in the gallery.

The exhibit, “With Abandon: Works

by SDSU Alumni 2011-2016,” explores themes of decay and rediscovery by showcasing pieces created with everyday objects.

An old mattress, repurposed and twisted into a surreal knot, was given a new life in the hands of artist Kaiya Rainbolt, who graduated from SDSU with a master’s degree in jewelry and metalsmithing in spring 2016.

Rainbolt uses her work to examine complex social issues like sexual abuse.

“By bringing the emotions of this particular human struggle into the realm of the tangible, I hope to create an occasion for dialogue and empathy,” Rainbolt said.

The exhibit is free and will bring together a variety of artists and styles, from the metallic leanings of Rainbolt to woodworkers like Adam Manley.

Manley graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s in furniture and woodworking. After working at the

Maine College of Art for a year, he has returned to San Diego to further his career.

Manley’s featured piece, a sculpture called “Itinerant Landmarks,” is a series of arrow-shaped weathervanes mounted atop tripods that, because of wind movement, always point in opposite directions.

“It’s kind of about intentional vagueness, kind of just drifting around and being aimless,” Manley said.

Manley thinks a feeling of aimlessness is common for students who are making the transition from college to the working world. He wants art students attending the show to know that being a working artist is not beyond the realm of possibility.

Manley, who has also curated his own art shows, and has lectured on art, points to “With Abandon” as proof of the viability of art for students interested in the major.

“I know it seems like an impossibility to go out there and continue to make art, but it’s not impossible,” Manley said.

“With Abandon” will be guest-curated

by Ginger Porcella, executive director of the San Diego Art Institute.

“Much of the work is highly conceptual and technically skilled,” Porcella said.

“A lot of these pieces take common materials and use them in an unexpected way, and these themes emerged when organizing the exhibition.”

The exhibit’s opening reception will

San Diego State Downtown gallery hosts a new exhibit starting Setp. 15.

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be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

15. Light refreshments will be served to guests, and many of the artists featured will be available to discuss their work.

A second event, part of the SDSU Downtown Gallery’s “Downtown at Sundown” will also take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20. The ongoing collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art will feature live

music in addition to all of the artwork displayed, with specific musicians still to be announced.

Porcella said she thought that visitors to the gallery will enjoy the works as much as she enjoyed putting the show together.

“I think that visitors will be very inspired,” Porcella said. “It’s some of the best work that I’ve seen in San Diego and I work with a lot of artists here.”

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#77minutes

Director talks about upcoming film

Filmmaker Charlie Minn speaks to San Diego State students about his upcoming documentary, 77 Minutes.

Kelly Smiley, Photo Editor

Julianna Ress Senior Staff writer ____________________________________ On Aug. 31 filmmaker Charlie Minn spoke in San Diego State’s Arts & Letters building about his upcoming documentary “77 Minutes.”

The film depicts the events of the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre and includes interviews with survivors, of the shooting, relatives and friends of the victims and police officers.

The title of the film refers to the time it took for the killer to be shot down.

At the time, the massacre was the

deadliest mass shooting in American history, resulting in 21 deaths. It is now ranked the fifth deadliest.

“We’re now seeing these mass shootings with stunning consistency,” Minn said.

The perpetrator shot 40 people, killing 21 of them.

“He shot babies, children, pregnant women – this is as bad as you get,” Minn said.

“77 Minutes” will premiere on Friday, Sept. 23 at UltraStar Cinemas in Mission Valley.

According to Minn, the shooter targeted the San Ysidro McDonald’s due to San Ysidro’s high Mexican population. Minn’s relationship with Mexican people and culture is what inspired him to make this film.

“This (massacre) should anger any Mexican person,” he said. “I took this (massacre) personally because I’ve made so many films in Mexico that I’ve grown so interested in the Mexican culture.”

Minn deliberately left the name of the shooter out of the film, hoping media outlets will follow his lead.

“Every time there’s a mass shooting, I feel like the killer is always the focus,” he said. “It’s absolutely sickening. What do we gain as a society knowing about (the killer) who ruined many, many lives? I feel if the killer’s name is left out of the media from now on there would be less murders in our country because potential killers would know going into it that their name will not be released.”

As a result, “77 Minutes” is focused on the stories of the victims and their families.

“The victims are the heroes,” Minn said.

Minn’s use of graphic crime scene footage is meant to show audiences the reality of horrific massacres.

“I’ve showed the actual crime scene videos so the world can see how bad this truly was,” he said. “(I want to) start a lengthy and comprehensive discussion on what we have to do to stop these mass shootings.”

Students who attended Minn’s presentation felt he would be able to accomplish his goals of starting social movements with “77 Minutes.”

Sociology sophomore Tiana Willis believes the film will at least raise violence awareness among audiences.

“I think (’77 Minutes’) can get conversations going,” she said. “That’s the first step to changing anything, just getting people to talk more about (violence).”

Minn attempts to leave his own opinions about gun control and violence out of the film, hoping the footage and interviews will speak for themselves.

“If I start getting into a gun control debate it would take away from the sympathy for the victims,” he said.

Those interested in seeing “77 Minutes” should expect emotional and thought provoking subject matter.

“This is deep,” Minn said. “You can’t get deeper than this.”

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#Relationships

Dealing with long-distance romance emely navarro news editor ____________________________________

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eing in a long-distance relationship is definitely no walk in the park, but it’s worth it.

I met my boyfriend Miguel Santamaria in high school at a football game. I hit on him, got his number and we became really good friends. Over time we admitted that there was more to our relationship than a friendship, but unfortunately, timing hasn’t always been on our side.

Miguel didn’t become my boyfriend until the end of my first semester at San Diego State.

Going into the relationship we knew it would be long distance because he lived in Los Angeles and I went to school in San Diego, but we were determined to make it work.

I realize that there is only a two-anda-half-hour distance between us, and that a lot of other couples in longdistance relationships have it harder than us, but regardless, these types of relationships are difficult.

Not seeing the person you care about every day is extremely difficult and discouraging at times, especially when you feel you need them the most.

Seeing couples walking on campus is difficult, because you wish that could be you with him.

But the most important thing to remember if you're in a long-distance relationship or considering being in one, is to not feel like the odds are against you.

At the beginning, it can seem like the long-distance relationship has more struggles than an average one and that

it has a higher chance of failing. But it doesn’t, as long as you think positively.

It’s easier to be negative when it comes to not seeing someone you love, but negativity or fear of the unknown should not be one of the reasons you don’t give it a try.

If you constantly think about all the negatives like how you won’t see the person for two weeks, or how you wish you could be with them all of the time, you’re going to get depressed and start losing hope. You should never lose hope.

#DASNAPSHOTS

Instead of thinking of the bad, think of the good. Two weeks is better than two months, or two years. Other couples have survived longer distances, and so can you, if you're both invested.

If you really care about someone, you will try your hardest to make it work.

Instead of walking around depressed you aren’t seeing them for another two weeks, use the next time you're going to see them as motivation to make the days go by faster.

There is nothing better than seeing Miguel after being apart from him. That

day or weekend that I’m with him after not seeing him for a while is 10 times better than anything else because I’m so happy.

As corny as it sounds, it’s like everything in the world is good again because I’m with my best friend.

And although long-distance relationships can suck, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

If there's one thing I've learned from dating him, it's this: if you care about the person enough, you should never let distance get in the way of that.

News editor Emely Navarro and boyfriend Miquel Santamaria overcome the challanges of a long distance relationship.

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