Student stabbed on Hardy
TUESDAY October 4, 2011 Volume 97, Issue 22 W W W.T H E D A I LYA Z T E C . C O M
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Kevin Smead staff writer Early yesterday morning, police officers responded to what they would later discover to be a stabbing, which is one of several uncommon reports during the past weekend. Another crime reported last weekend was one of sexual assault. At 12:30 a.m. yesterday, police responded to a call regarding a fight that took place on the 5500 block of Hardy Ave. When officers arrived on
the scene, they were able to break up the fight which involved several students. However, one of the students was reportedly stabbed. The victim was immediately taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital for treatment of a one-centimeter cut to his abdomen. The students were reportedly seen leaving a large party when the altercation occurred, which then led to the 18-year-old student’s wound. At this time, there are no suspects for this case. At about 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, a female was sexually assaulted. The victim was reportedly walking on El
Cajon Boulevard when an unknown male drove next to her and offered her a ride home. The female accepted, but the driver instead took her to an alley near College Avenue and Lindo Paseo, where he sexually assaulted her. The suspect was reported to be a Hispanic male in his mid-20s wearing dark clothing. He was seen driving a fourdoor silver sedan. Also, following up on the Chemical Sciences Laboratory burglary reported last week, police responded to a suspicious persons report Sunday evening at the same laboratory. The person in question
was a 25-year-old male seen wearing a black sweatshirt and jeans. He was seen standing outside the building on the third floor requesting entry. The suspect was believed to be a transient and the reporting caller believed he may have intended to steal something from the building. Officers arrived on scene and advised the man to leave the area. If you have any information regarding these incidents, contact the San Diego Police Department at (619) 531-2000, or the San Diego State Police Department at (619) 594-1991 and at police@mail.sdsu.edu.
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Visiting SDSU inspires students Bill Crotty news editor Last week, the Paloma Valley High School girls soccer team took a tour of San Diego State and found a campus even greater than they expected. A few of them even plan to add SDSU to their college of choice because of the trip. “My group of young ladies is very hardworking and passionate about life,” PVHS Soccer Coach Marie Dillon said. “We took the trip to SDSU so that it could inspire and show them the opportunities they have both in life and college.” During the visit, the girls received the customary campus tour, but were also able to start the day off with a team-building activity and
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rock wall-climbing program at the Aztec Recreation Center. Dillon attended SDSU from 1995 to 1998 and played for the women’s soccer team. “As a former Aztec, it was really exciting to show my players around the campus where I once roamed myself,” Dillon said. “A few of them told me, ‘That is the college I want to go to.’” To end the day, the team cheered on the SDSU women’s soccer team as it took on New Mexico. Afterward, the team had a chance to talk with the coaching staff and tour the sports facilities. “A few of them said it was an inspiration to talk to the coaches,” Dillon said. “Even with the game, they took the time to talk to the girls and show them around.”
The Fall 2011 Recruitment Week hosted by San Diego State’s Interfraternity Council organizations was radically different from previous years because of a recent restructuring of its recruitment process and a new level of involvement by IFC members. The IFC is the governing body of the nationally recognized fraternities at SDSU. The changes in rush week were organized and implemented by IFC Recruitment Director Barzeen Barzanji and IFC President Matt Cecil, who explained they were created to formalize the process and make it more professional. In previous years, the process of getting a bid was far more haphazard; houses handed out paper bids that were often given to ineligible students or those with no intentions of joining a fraternity. Students would become “lost” in the process of handing out bids; they were misplaced or lost, and many students
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would never receive bids because of a lack of organization within different chapters. The new process requires students to register online at the SDSU website, an idea adopted from other university Greek systems. The registration releases the students’ grades and judicial standings to each fraternity, so the fraternities can get a better idea of the students trying to join their houses. At the end of rush, each fraternity submits a list of highlighted names of students whom the fraternity is interested in, and those students then choose from the houses that extended them a bid. This new process makes it easier for chapters to keep track of potential new members and monitor who receives bids. Another difference in this semester’s recruitment was IFC’s involvement and enforcement of pre-rush and inter-rush
rules. Freshmen and non-Greek members not allowed in the fraternity houses before rush, and the events were monitored to ensure compliance with IFC rules. A strict 9 p.m. curfew was enforced during rush week to prevent unauthorized social events from swaying students’ decisions. Cecil felt this would ensure students joined fraternities for the brotherhood and ethical values rather than the social scene. There were some setbacks with the new system though: Some students did not understand how the registration worked, while others were not used to the new rules. However, the IFC hopes the end result will be larger and stronger new classes. This semester’s rush had an increase in attendance from last year’s event with 475 students, up from 250 in 2010. —Compiled by contributor Sean Guardian
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