10-07-2015

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wednesDAY, october 7 – tuesDAY, october 13, 2015 volume 102, Issue 9

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CAMPUS SHOOTINGS: WHAT SDSU CAN DO

editorial The tragic shooting last week at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, left 10 dead and nine wounded. It also left students everywhere questioning their safety at school.

Something everyone should be able to agree on with President Obama is that mass shootings have become routine, and that can’t continue.

Mass shootings seem to be happening more often, but there are conflicting numbers because there are no fixed criteria on how many people must be killed or injured before an incident is called a mass shooting.

The Washington Post blog and the Boston Globe both reported there have been 294 mass shootings this year, which is more than one per day.

The data on school and college-specific incidents is a little harder to track.

In the last two years, there have been 94 school shootings and 45 of those took place on college campuses, according to the organization

Everytown Research.

A 2014 study conducted by the FBI found 24 percent of active shooter situations between 2000 and 2013 occurred at schools, second only to places of commerce, such as malls or other businesses.

Campuses, whether they are K-12 or institutes of higher education, are supposed to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas before students enter the working world. We’re supposed to be protected so that we can have the freedom to explore new ideas while we grow as people. In an educational environment, fear is detrimental to that very process.

What do we have to do to feel safe at school again? Do we need to close campus? Do we need metal detectors and random checks by gun-sniffing dogs?

We don’t want to report those kinds of stories, and we certainly don’t want to worry that our school could be next. But rather than add another

voice to the national yelling match over gun control, we want to prepare our university. Faculty members undergo suggested A.L.I.C.E. training (short for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate) to teach them how to handle active shooter situations.

Officially, it is mandatory for all freshmen in the residence halls to undergo A.L.I.C.E. training. But some current freshmen have told The Daily Aztec they have not taken A.L.I.C.E. training. Plus, freshmen only constitute a small percentage of the campus population.

We’re calling on the university administration to follow through with mandatory training for all members of the SDSU community, including students of all ages, so they may learn what to do in case such a tragedy ever strikes on our campus. We don’t need another protest or gun debate, but we do need to be taught what it takes to survive.

ON THE INSIDE...

Q&A with mass shootings expert Dr. stuart henry, dir. of school of public affairs P11

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#TEACHERSTRIKE

CSU faculty threatens to strike

CSU faculty has threatened to strike if a salary agreement cannot be reached through a series of negotiations.

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EMELY NAVARRO SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ California State University faculty is threatening to strike at all 23 campuses if the CSU chancellor’s office does not resolve the deadlock over salary negotiations.

The California Faculty Association announced in a phone press conference Wednesday, Sept. 30 that it would conduct a 10-day vote beginning Oct. 19. The vote

would decide if faculty would go on strike amid the gridlocked contract negotiations with the CSU chancellor’s office.

The CFA has demanded a 5-percent increase in salaries next year with an additional 2.65-percent hike for faculty to the lower end of the pay scale, but CSU management has refused.

CSU administrators have instead offered them a 2-percent across-theboard pay hike.

CSU Vice Chancellor of Public

Affairs Laurie Weidner said this 2percent increase is valued at $32.8 million, whereas the faculty union’s proposal has a value of $102 million.

Jennifer Eagan, president of the CFA and professor of public affairs administration at CSU East Bay, believes the CSU system has the money to pay their teachers more because they continue to increase the salary of campus presidents instead of using that money for teachers.

“Teaching jobs in the CSU system are being treated like jobs in the fast food industry,” Eagan said in the press conference. “Every year, administration hires teachers just before the school terms begins and are given much lower pay, causing a number of faculty to fall out of the middle class.”

As of 2014, more than half the faculty teaching at CSUs earned less than $40,000 a year.

Between 2004 and 2014 the number of tenure-track teachers decreased by 3 percent while the number of administrators increased by 20 percent.

Union leaders argue these trends do not improve learning outcomes for students.

When six CFA faculty members testified about an increase in teacher salaries at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting earlier this month, the board

of trustees listened to them, then continued with business, Eagan said.

“We can’t have anymore business as usual,” Eagan said. “Unfortunately, the innovation being implemented by the CSU management is in the area of more managers and administrators and more pay for doing that work.

Meanwhile the number of permanent teaching jobs sinks.”

“It’s time for management to wake up and realize that they can’t keep acting like corporate CEOs,” said Kevin Wehr, chairman of the CFA bargaining team and Sacramento State University sociology professor.

The CFA is currently in the mediation stage, which is supposed to settle the CSU faculty contract by bargaining. The next mediation session is scheduled for Thursday.

If both sides do not come to an agreement at this stage they will continue to the fact-finding stage, where a third-party moderator will listen to the CFA’s argument. The CSU chancellor would then have to explain his reasoning for offering faculty a 2-percent raise.

During the press conference, the union leaders said if an agreement is not made in the fact-finding stage, they will have the option to strike.

As this story develops, The Daily Aztec will continue it’s coverage in print and online at thedailyaztec.com.

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#LARBORUNIONS

Film shows farm workers’ struggle

“The Delano Manongs” was shown at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union theater Thursday.

COURTESY OF SEVERINO REYES

JASMINE BERMUDEZ CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month and Filipino American History Month, San Diego State’s Filipino American Cultural Empowerment group collaborated with the One SDSU Community diversity program to recognize forgotten contributors to the farm workers movement of the 1960s.

Spectators gathered in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union the to watch “The Delano Manongs,” a documentary

that highlights Filipino labor unionizer Larry Itliong’s extensive involvement in the American farm labor movement.

While most credit goes to Cesar Chavez as the champion of the push for farm worker rights, the documentary identifies Itliong as the founding force behind the movement.

In the middle of the 20th century, corporate recruiters and priests encouraged men to emigrate from the Philippines to the U.S., with the intention of using them for cheap labor.

These emigrants were referred to as manongs, which is a term used to show

#SDSUSTARTUP

Matt Weilbacher started his company in high school and continued it at San Diego State.

COURTESY OF CALITREND

Aztec innovators COLLEEN LARSON STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Editor’s note: The following is a preview for the first installment of our new video series “State Innovates,” which tells the stories of SDSU entrepreneurs.

Matt Weilbacher is a business management senior at San Diego State and an entrepreneur. He owns his own sunglasses company called CaliTrend.

The business has become an established company in San Diego with a strong online presence, as well. The company’s website explains the CaliTrend sunglasses as having introduced a “unique, California vibe” to the “rest of the world.”

Weilbacher started CaliTrend when he was in high school. The company began to grow quickly and he continued with it into college. He said his first semester at SDSU was the hardest for him as a business owner. He explained he was extremely busy and had to take time to adjust to college life and he could not

commit himself completely to CaliTrend as he had in the past.

After his first semester ended and he settled into college life, he was able to regain his momentum with his company and it grew from there.

CaliTrend has developed a presence in Southern California, with the sunglasses being sold in stores from Malibu to San Diego. More specifically, CaliTrend has developed a presence on the SDSU campus. Weilbacher sets up a booth every Wednesday near the East Commons food court. The booth is designed to attract potential customers with large posters, music and various sunglasses displayed on the tables.

Mark Bautista, a student at SDSU and sales associate for CaliTrend who works at the booth, said he enjoys selling the sunglasses.

“I get to play music, and socialize and get paid for it,” Bautista said. “It’s a pretty awesome job.”

The CaliTrend booth is up on campus every Wednesday, and the sunglasses are also sold online and in select stores up the coast of Southern California.

respect to elders in the Filipino culture.

Once the manongs reached the U.S., they received marginal pay and faced discrimination.

Itliong was one of the Filipino migrants subject to these conditions, and in 1965 he started to fight back.

“Larry Itliong started the ripple that turned into the wave that was the American Farm Labor Movement,” said Erin Nicole Vedar, senior psychology major at SDSU and co-founder of SDSU’s Filipino-American student organization.

Itliong asked Chavez and the National Farmworkers Association to join him and the Agricultural Worker’s Organization Committee in the fight for the treatment they deserved.

Prior to this, Filipino and Hispanic workers were kept separate and did not interact with one another except to break each other’s strikes. When the Filipino workers held a strike, the growers would use the Hispanic laborers to work their fields and vice versa.

Itliong understood that without unification, farm workers would not receive the treatment they deserved.

He asked Chavez to join him four times before the NFA agreed. The Filipino and Chicano communities merged to form the United Farm Workers of America.

In 1970, after five years of strikes and boycotts, the growers signed a contract with Itliong.

“I want people to realize that he did

more than most men can ever do,” said Johnny Itliong, son of Larry Itliong. “He was for the working man and the poor.

He spoke for those who couldn’t speak, fought for those who couldn’t fight and stood for those who couldn’t stand.”

A discussion panel featuring professors from the school of social work and Chicano Chicana studies department was held after the screening.

The panelists discussed the work of Itliong and the Filipino activists, and invited the audience to discuss the ways the activists’ story could be applied to their own lives.

Treasurer of the Filipino-American student organization Timm Johnson said accurately understanding complex historical narratives is important.

“One SDSU Community and FACES are trying to bring diversity out of invisibility. We are trying to say this is a community that exists, this is history that happened, and we should respect it and know it for our future,” Johnson said.

The panel discussed the importance of standing up for what the individual believes is right. They said they want this story to serve as an example of what can happen when people of diverse groups unite and speak out against injustices.

“I hope that the story of Larry Itliong and the Manongs inspires passion in making change,” social work lecturer Kirin Macapugay said. “We can’t do it alone. Get involved.”

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#KOMBUCHA

Kombucha, a fermented tea sold on campus, contains trace amounts of alcohol and its health effects are debatable.

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Jury is out on kombucha JADA JOHNSON CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ On the back of every kombucha bottle, a drink sold in all San Diego State campus markets, the words “contains trace amounts of alcohol” are printed.

Aztec Market workers were reluctant to answer questions regarding the drinks.

Freshman television, film and media major Catherine David tried the “Mystic Mango” flavor of Synergybrand kombucha on a recent trip to an Aztec Market.

“It definitely tasted weird,” she said.

“I didn’t know what was in there until I read the label.”

Less than 0.5 percent of the fermented tea is alcohol, which is why the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau allows for the product to be sold as a non-alcoholic beverage.

Although selling the drink is legal, consuming it could be problematic for recovering alcoholics because it could potentially jeopardize a 100-percent alcohol-free lifestyle.

SDSU Health Promotion Director James Lange said he doesn’t know of any doctors who are advising alcoholics or pregnant women to avoid the drink.

“I do know that some in recovery feel they must avoid even trace levels, but I am not aware of any studies that say exposure to those small levels actually affects their recovery success,” Lange said.

Alex Silva, a pre-med senior majoring in athletic training, compares the tea to nicotine patches.

“Kombucha isn’t an anti drinking tool,” she said. “It’s up to the user to

decide if they want to use the drink to step down (from their addiction) or if they want to abuse it.”

Mee Young Hong, associate professor of exercise and nutritional sciences, said because the alcohol volume is so small, it will not cause functional changes to the body in most people.

“If a person is extremely sensitive to trace amounts of alcohol, the person may experience some symptom of alcoholic drinking,” she said.

For some, side effects upon consumption of the drink include nausea, vomiting, head and neck pain, according to webmd.com.

Silva said she noticed these are similar symptoms to that of a hangover.

“Your body treats alcohol as a poison,” she said.

However, she doubts one could actually become intoxicated from drinking kombucha.

“You’d probably excrete most of the alcohol before it reaches that point,” Silva said.

However, Hong said the “summedup effect” could have an impact.

This effect can occur when a person consumes several small servings of alcohol and ends up collectively drinking measureable amounts of alcohol, she said.

Research by webmd.com shows precautions are geared toward women who are pregnant because kombucha may be unsafe, not only because of the alcohol content, but also because the drink contains caffeine.

Some doctors recommend people with weak immune systems to avoid the drink because the active cultures from the fermentation process

can cause growth of bacteria and fungi that could potentially cause infections.

Kombucha is brewed, much like beer, and goes through the fermentation process like alcohol does, except it stops in the early fermentation phase, resulting in the 0.5-percent alcohol level.

However, some kombucha bottles contain more than the 0.5-percent limit, which is why Whole Foods Market pulled the product from its shelves in 2010.

Synergy Drinks, a manufacturer of kombucha, did not respond to The Daily Aztec’s request for comment.

The fact that kombucha has a combination of caffeine and alcohol is concerning for Hong.

Despite kombucha’s claim that the drink boosts the immune system, she doubts this is true.

“Sometimes the combination of alcohol and caffeine appears to impair a drinker’s judgment more than drinking alcohol, alone.”

Caffeine delays the user’s ability to feel when he or she has become intoxicated beyond their normal limit.

Silva, the athletic training senior, sees no reason to pull the drink from markets because she believes students could be using it for the health benefits.

“They shouldn’t be penalized because someone else might abuse it,” she said.

Others disagree and say the drink is problematic and should not be allowed.

“If it’s really a problem with the school, (Aztec Shops) should probably get rid of it,” freshman Catherine David said.

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#LOVELIBRARY

New workshops teach digital skills ADRIANA MILLAR STAFF WRITER ____________________________ San Diego State’s Love Library is launching a digital workshop series that will run throughout October.

The series, which started Tuesday, is designed to promote skills and tools that will enhance digital scholarship.

Workshop topics will include creating info graphics, research posters, ePortofolios and 3D models.

Others will cover Creative Commons licensing, open access publishing, digital mapping and social media professionalism.

“As students and as faculty, you’re producing scholarly work and scholarship here, so we wanted to make sure that people knew about interesting tools that were out there digitally to present you information in different ways,” health and life sciences librarian Kathryn Houk said.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics librarian Jenny Wong-Welch, who is teaching the 3D modeling and Creative Commons licensing workshops, said one of the main purposes is to digitally prepare students for their careers.

“My goal here is just to educate more students on technology,” she said. “So making you guys more aware

of ... what is this world you’re entering into with technology, and gaining more skills that you really wouldn’t gain just in your curriculum.”

While some workshops will be lecture style, most will feature hands-on opportunities to engage with technologies and create different objects, said Jordan Nielsen, entrepreneurship, marketing and business data librarian.

The series was inspired by a campus push to integrate technology with scholarship, Nielson said.

“There are several initiatives going on on campus that are ... really all about promoting technology, and how it supports scholarship, both for students and for faculty,” he said. “We really saw this as an important piece of that, kind of contributing to this growing culture of technology to support education and learning.”

All workshops are free to attend. Each workshop will present software either already available in the library or free to download, Houk said.

Librarians will tech most of the workshops, while some will feature guest speakers.

Career services will teach a workshop on social media professionalism, and a public health student will teach a workshop on digital mapping.

“As we move forward, we

In the tech workshops students will have the opportunity to learn about new ways to utilize digital technology in their studies.

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would love to have more groups participating, whether it’s students or offices on campus, and promoting technologies and how it supports learning and scholarship,” Nielsen said.

The library is also using the series as a way to gauge interest in future workshops.

Going forward, the workshops could possibly become a monthly event, Nielsen said.

Future workshops could include other skill-based

software, such as Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

“While (the software programs) are not free, most students have them, or they have access to them, so we could definitely offer workshops on those programs,” Nielson said.

However, inclusion of those software programs would require finding someone with the skills to teach the software.

“Some of them we can lead

because we have experience, and some of them are more outside of our realm,” Nielson said. “That’s the beauty of this workshop series: the collaboration.”

To participate in a digital scholar workshop, students and faculty are asked to register beforehand on the library’s website. Workshops will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in room 260 of the Love Library.

#STUDENTAPP

Students invest spare change with new app

The new app invests spare change from a user’s everyday debit and credit purchases.

COURTESY OF ACORN

KAYLA JIMENEZ CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________ A new mobile investment application called Acorns is made for college millennials who are interested in investing spare change.

“Acorns is really designed for anyone and everyone, but millennials seem to love it because it’s simple,” Acorn’s College Program Manager

Taylor Dance said. “We’ve taken something that used to be very hard, confusing and expensive and made it simple and affordable. It’s mobilefirst and built for the next generation of investors.”

The mobile investment application rounds up cents from daily debit or credit card purchases.

For example, if a student spends $3.74 on a chai tea,

Acorns will automatically round up to the nearest dollar and put the 26-cent difference into the student’s Acorns account. Once the account reaches $5, the money is invested into a diversified portfolio.

“With features like recurring investments and round-ups, Acorns is helping people set aside money that they wouldn’t otherwise set aside,” Dance said.

In July, Acorns announced they would make the app free for students and allow them to forgo the typical $1 monthly membership fee automatically charged to accounts under $5,000.

Accounts holding more than $5,000 are charged 0.25 percent of the account balance every year.

Users don’t get to decide which investment portfolios the extra change is deposited into.

“Investing is subject to market risk,” Dance said.

“However with modern portfolio theory, our portfolios are constructed to maximize return versus risk.”

Acorns attributes its portfolio investment feature to Nobel Prize winner and modern portfolio theory pioneer Dr. Harry Markowitz.

The app has 500,000 opened investment accounts and 70,000 active users. Seventy percent of users are younger than 35.

“For a beginning way of investing, I think it’d be a smarter way to go, rather than like trying to play your odds at the stock market,” journalism major Brandon Lim said.

The Irvine-based company was started by fatherson team Walter and Jeff Cruttenden.

“Acorns got its start when Jeff was in college,” Dance said. “He noticed that his classmates were interested in investing and wanting to start, but couldn’t because of the barriers that were put in place.”

Acorns’ competitors include Mint, BetterMent, and FinMason. The app has been featured in Forbes, Mashable and other major news publications.

“Our mission here is to help people save and invest,” Dance said.

“Other companies that are furthering that mission, we don’t really see that as competition.”

Credit or debit card numbers, personal information, such as social security number and address, classification of income, and student status are required when registering for an Acorns account.

“It sounds legitimate, but I think people just have to be wary of what they are signing up for before they actually sign up for it,” Lim said.

Sharing personal and bank information wasn’t overly concerning to business major Nicolo Calafato, either.

“A few years ago this would probably pretty weird and I’d say no, no way,” he said. “But with all the different apps and banking apps you can do with the touch of your finger and logging in with your thumb print now, it’s probably getting more normal for to people to have apps with that much access to you,” he said.

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#AZTECFB

SDSU’s game in Hawaii not a ‘field trip’ San Diego State may be without star junior running back Donnel Pumphrey Saturday in its game against University of Hawaii.

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RYAN POSNER ASST. SPORTS EDITOR ____________________________ San Diego State football already made the secondlongest trip of any Football Bowl Subdivision team this season when it traveled to Happy Valley to play Penn State in September.

Ask head coach Rocky Long, though, and the trip to the East Coast is nothing compared to going to University of Hawaii, which SDSU will do this weekend.

“It’s not a fun trip,” Long said after practice earlier this week.

Unlike when the team traveled to Penn State, the Aztecs will lose three hours on their way back from Hwaii.

“I think (the game) impacts the following week more,” Long said. “The kids don’t have as much time to rest and (coaches) don’t have as much time to prepare for the next game, so you’re always trying to catch up.”

He cited the team’s lack of time on the islands as a reason

why it’s not a “field trip” like some may think.

“We’re going to get there at 6 p.m., eat, put them to bed and then after the game we fly straight back home and we’ll get in at around 5 or 6 a.m.,” he said.

Along with that, Hawaii plays its best football at home by a long shot.

Over the last three seasons it has gone 6-9 at home, while going 1-14 on the road. Not to mention, SDSU’s players will be dealing with messed-up body clocks “The game’s not over till after midnight our time, it puts a toll on your body clock,” Long said.

What may be the biggest challenge to overcome, though, is the culture shock that comes with going to Hawaii.

“There’s a completely different attitude and feeling than there normally is, it’s a vacation place,” Long said.

“As soon as you land, (players) think they’re on vacation.

Everyone around them is in a t-shirt and shorts and walking

to the beach.”

PUMPHREY BACK AT PRACTICE IN LIMITED CAPACITY Just a few days removed from a high ankle sprain he suffered in Saturday’s win against Fresno State, junior running back Donnel Pumphrey was back on the practice field Monday, although in a limited capacity.

“He did more than I thought he would do,” Long said. “He did some rehab stuff on the side and jogged a little.”

Long said he still doesn’t know if Pumphrey will be able to give it a go on Saturday, but if he isn’t able to, senior Chase Price will get the start.

The playbook isn’t expected to change, though.

Sophomores Rashaad Penny and Marcus Stamps both received first-team reps during Monday’s practice, along with Price.

Both would see an increased workload in Pumphrey’s absence and Penny would take over Pumphrey’s role in the

passing game.

In more news on the injury front, Long said sophomore wide receiver Mikah Holder will play this week as he continues to deal with a strained hamstring that limited him Saturday.

His role in the offense, though, will depend on how much he’s able to practice this week.

“He’s not experienced enough to go out there without practice,” Long said. “He didn’t play a lot because he missed a lot of practice. If he’s not able to practice more this week he won’t have an enlarged role.”

LONG NOT A FAN OF THE LATE GAMES It’s no secret that Long is not a fan of weekday games, but he’s also not very pleased that the Aztecs play lots of latenight games.

With five of the team’s next six games starting after 7 p.m., it’s safe to say Long is not a happy camper.

And he knows what to blame.

“TV runs college sports. You

think we want to be playing at 7 p.m. every game?” Long said.

“We want to play at 1 p.m., like college football is meant to be played, but TV tells you when you have to play.”

There’s nothing he can do about it either.

“We have no say,” Long said bluntly. “The only games you have say on are the ones you’re not on TV, and you don’t want any of those games because you don’t make any money.”

He said a game’s kickoff time has an effect on the team’s preparation. He and the coaching staff are forced to stay up late into the night after games, trying to game plan for next week’s game before Monday’s practice.

Games like this week, and when the Aztecs travel to San Jose State on Oct. 17 and UNLV on Nov. 21, force the team to be a day behind in its preparation.

“Players just go with the flow,” Long said. “But this time next week, we will have an unproductive practice, because we as a coaching staff will not have the game plan fully in our minds.”

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Michelini living out dream at SDSU

Senior Riccardo Michelini has made his mark at San Diego State and on the European Tour in his collegiate career.

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CAMERON SALCE STAFF WRITER ____________________________ After moving 6,000 miles away from home in Italy, it took only one visit to Southern California for senior Riccardo Michelini to realize that San Diego State was the right choice to start his collegiate golf career in 2012.

It was a dream scenario.

“SDSU was my first visit and even though I was in contact with other schools, I didn’t really want to visit anywhere else, so I just didn’t,” Michelini said with a grin.

Michelini’s dream started

in the small town of Carpi in northern Italy, where golf is not as accessible as it is in America.

With one course within 15 miles of his home, Michelini regarded himself as “lucky” to be able to play the game he loved growing up.

“I come from a normal family,” Michelini said. “Golf … is seen as more of a sport for rich people where I’m from.

Luckily my father was very into golf and he would let me come with him to the country club he played at and that is how I learned to play.”

This practice with his father, Giuliano, prepared him to play

for the Italian national boys team when he was just 15 years old.

Michelini said he was grateful for the time he spent on the Italian national team and that it helped him prepare for competitive golf here in America.

Even though he was wellprepared coming into college, Michelini admitted to becoming a much more mature and experienced player during his time with the Aztecs.

“I’ve grown a lot from the standpoint that I don’t have a swing coach here in America,” he said. “I relied on my coach

a lot back in Italy to make adjustments. Now I either have to Skype with my coach or just figure it out myself.”

Experience from Michelini’s difficult path to SDSU helps him adjust to becoming a leader on the team entering his senior season.

After losing the team’s star player Xander Schaufelle to graduation last season, Michelini is now the most experienced Aztec on the roster and is expected to take on a bigger role. “(Senior) Ryann (Ree) and I will have to be the guys to step up,” Michelini said.

Ree transferred to SDSU from University of Oregon last season.

One way Michelini said he could step up his game this season is to improve his putting and attitude on the course.

“I need to show emotions on the course, but need to control it better,” he said. “Putting was the weakest part of my game by far last year and it used to be one of my strengths.”

Michelini has had a tremendous career as an Aztec already and is looking to add another solid year to his resumé, one that already

includes a Mountain West Freshman of the Year award in 2012-2013 and an All-Mountain West selection in 2013-14.

The coaching staff has been more than pleased with Michelini’s performance at SDSU thus far.

Michelini’s skill mixed with his maturity level makes him a candidate to take his game to the professional level after he graduates this season.

He already has some professional experience, making an appearance on the European Tour in 2013 with the Italian national team.

Michelini’s plan after college is to go to Canadian Q-School — a method most golfers use to qualify for the professional ranks — and try to become an official professional golfer.

“Any tour will do for me,” Michelini said. “I could envision myself climbing the ranks on the European Tour and maybe one day even playing on the PGA Tour.”

However, professional golf is not the only career option Michelini has available to him.

As a public administration major, Michelini has plenty of options after he graduates from SDSU this spring.

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OCT. 7 - 13, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: PATRICK CARR • SPORTS@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#AZTECWTENNIS

Nguyen preserves family legacy MAXIM GARSHMAN STAFF WRITER ____________________________

Tami Ngyuen holds the No. 1 singles position for San Diego State women’s tennis.

SARAH SMITH, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

San Diego State senior Tami Nguyen was destined to be a college tennis player, long before she was even born. To say the game runs in her blood barely scratches the surface of her tennis lineage.

Her mother and six of her aunts and uncles received scholarships to play collegiate tennis.

This includes her aunt, Eva Olivarez, who played at SDSU in the early 1990s, when current head coach Peter Mattera was an assistant. To top it off, her parents met on a tennis court at Cal State Los Angeles.

So there was never a doubt Nguyen was going to be a tennis player. Now she’s playing in the No. 1 singles position this season for the Aztecs.

Nguyen grew up in the U.S. but moved to Philippines when she was about 9 years old.

She was homeschooled and would play tennis for eight hours every day — all she did was school and tennis.

“Ever since I was like 10 it’s been drilled into my brain (that

I’d be here) in America and I’d be on a college scholarship,” Nguyen said.

While the goal was always present in her mind, she did not realize how much work it was going to be.

In Asia there are two groups of junior tennis: the ATF, which is 14 years old and under, and the ITF, which is between ages 15 and 18.

“So that was a big jump for me. I was dominating in the (ATF) and then when I went to the (ITF), obviously it’s a big change and I was just losing a lot,” Nguyen said.

That was when she hit her breaking point.

“I was heartbroken,” she said. “My parents spent all this money, and I’m spending all of this time practicing and playing, and I just felt like it was going nowhere.”

But a conversation with her father made her realize the opportunity she had.

Her father sat her down and gave her two options: continue or quit.

Nguyen realized she wanted to continue, but changes had to be made.

“I think it was just a change in mentality. I had a goal and

I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing wrong or what’s not going right,” she said. “I think I just became more positive.”

Nguyen then continued to put in the time and improve her mentality when she was offered a scholarship to SDSU. Her aunt Eva introduced Tami to Mattera, and after a tour of SDSU’s campus she became enamored with the school.

“It was the first school I looked at and I just kind of fell in love with everything and I didn’t look (anywhere) afterwards,” Nguyen said.

In her time at SDSU, Nguyen has had an extremely successful career. She was tied for first in wins on the team last season, boasting a 22-9 record. The success has carried over to this season, as she was undefeated in singles and doubles this past weekend at the SDSU Fall Classic I, before it was canceled on the final day due to weather.

“I’m really excited for it because it’s my last year … so I’m just like ‘Go big or go home,”’ Nguyen said.

Mattera hopes she will go big and lead SDSU to its first Mountain West title since 2003.

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#AZTECWSWIMMING

It’s 365 days of ‘Summer’ for SDSU

Sophomore Summer Harrison qualified for Olympic trials in 2012 and 2015.

COURTESY OF SDSU ATHLETICS

JOSEPH FARIA CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________ It feels like summer 365 days a year in Hawaii.

It’s home to many of the world’s top surfers, divers

and swimmers. It was also home to Summer Harrison, who found a passion for being in the water when she was 8 years old.

Now, Harrison has turned that passion into success for

the San Diego State women’s swim team.

For her, swimming is much more than a sport. It’s a lifestyle.

“I was born in Maui and raised in Oahu. My entire family consists of swimmers,” Harrison said. “My mom and my dad actually met on the swim team in college. Both (were) butterfliers.”

Harrison’s main events are the 100-meter freestyle and, to keep family tradition going, the butterfly.

“Swimming has been a huge part of my life. (At age 8) I started swimming competitively and I fell in love with it,” Harrison said.

“And living on an island, there’s ocean everywhere, so you want to know how to swim.”

Even in the little free time she has, she still swims.

“I’m in love with the beach.

And specifically, I love cave diving (in Hawaii),” she said.

Cave diving is something Harrison did almost every day when she was back in Hawaii.

“It’s like free diving, except you don’t have a tank. There’s this place called Shark’s

Cove in Oahu, and I spent my entire summer there,” Harrison said. “It’s so much fun.”

Harrison swims for one reason: She loves the water.

“If I wasn’t in love with this sport, then I wouldn’t be doing it,” Harrison said.

However, she had a backup plan in mind if swimming didn’t work out.

“I’d probably be an art major,” she said. “I love art and I love painting. My mom is very artistic, as well, as she used to do murals. I would watch her when I was younger and I, too, fell in love with art.”

Harrison has decided to study communications, though.

She’s used those communication tools to develop a strong relationship with her head coach, Mike Shrader, and continues to impress him in the pool.

“She has been great, and so has the team chemistry this year,” Shrader said. “She trained really well (this past summer) and started off this school year very well.”

Even for Shrader, who’s coached 13 All-Americans

in the past three years, there’s no denying Harrison’s success as a swimmer.

Four years ago as a 16-yearold, Harrison qualified for the 2012 Olympic trials.

Last year as a freshman, she competed in the Mountain West Championships.

This past summer, she made her cut for the Olympic trials once more. She swam the 100-meter butterfly in all three of those events.

Harrison said her experience in last year’s conference championships was the most fun she’s ever had at a swim meet.

“I went into it not knowing what to expect since it was my first year. I really enjoyed it because of how close our team got,” she said. “We stayed focused and cheered our butts off (for our teammates). I loved the competition and I look forward to doing better this year.”

This year, Harrison has her sights set on the 2016 NCAA Division 1 Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, and hopes to make another run in next year’s Olympic trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

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OCT. 7 - 13, 2015, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: AMANDA KAY RHOADES • OPINION@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#VICTORIANSTANDARDS

Sorority ban on alcohol is unsafe

THINKSTOCK

ANNA WALETZKO STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________ When the weekend comes around, people flock to the fraternity houses.

There’s a constant stream of foot traffic on frat row as kegs are rolled in, bottles purchased, punch mixed and themes created.

When it comes to parties, people leave the sorority houses and go into the fraternity houses.

But according to the New York Times, the opposite is happening at Dartmouth University.

Sigma Delta, a sorority

with no national affiliation, is holding their own parties, and it has brought up the topic of alcohol within sorority walls.

By not allowing alcohol in the sorority house a form of structural sexism occurs.

“The result of such policies is that if only fraternity houses can be gatekeepers of parties, only fraternities are able to gain cultural and social respect. It’s creating a form of structural inequality,” Matthew Hughley, a University of Connecticut sociology professor, told the Huffington Post.

Alcohol should be allowed in sorority homes for a plethora of reasons, but

perhaps one of the most important is the control of parties.

This way those who chose to drink know the layout of the house and what they’re pouring into their drinks, and the college social scene wouldn’t revolve only around frat house parties.

Lifting the ban on alcohol in sorority homes would also give non-Greek life members a chance to attend parties controlled by women.

Sororities have strict rules on drinking in order to keep their living space — and reputation — clean.

“The standard is as old as sororities are. It was born in a more Victorian era, but moved from tradition to policy over the years,” said Julie Johnson, National PanHellenic Committee Chairwoman, in an interview with the Huffington Post.

But perhaps it’s time to change this old and outdated policy.

“The women of sororities were often looked upon as fragile people who should only engage in high brow activities,” Hughley said in an interview with the Huffington Post.

The purpose of allowing alcohol inside sorority houses

is not to encourage drinking, but rather to promote a safe drinking environment and equality within the Greek life.

What happens if a sorority member wants to watch Netflix and have a glass of wine in their home?

“The no-alcohol rule can be hard, especially if you’re over 21 and living in the house, because you’re like, ‘Okay I’m legally allowed to have that … But I can’t,’” Delta Gamma member Emily Marsden said.

Since sororities don’t allow their girls to drink within the home, they have no choice but to go frat parties and consume alcohol there.

With no alcohol in the sorority homes, fraternities have become the dominant social scene — and it’s often a dangerous one.

Of course, allowing sororities to throw house parties with alcohol involved would in no way eliminate sexual assaults, but it could possibly be a step in the right direction.

A 2007 study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice found fraternity men were more likely to perpetrate sexual assault or sexual aggression than non-fraternity men.

The same study also found

that women who attended fraternity parties were more likely to be sexually assaulted.

“It would be interesting to see how the date-rape culture would change. … They can go upstairs and lock the door and not have to wonder how to get out,” Cornell University senior Fielding Williams told the New York Times.

However, due to a recent increase in awareness about sexual assaults on college campuses, fraternities are beginning to change their rules.

At the University of Virginia, allegations last fall involving a gang rape and administration cover-up led to massive rule changes. As reported by USA Today: “Beer can still be served as long as it is unopened in its original can. Wine can also be served as long as it poured visibly at the bar by a sober brother. When there are more guests than brothers at a party, liquor can only be served by a third-party, licensed bartender. At smaller parties, liquor can be brought by individuals and placed at a central bar, which is overseen by a sober brother.”

With fraternities changing their rules, isn’t it time sororities do the same?

#FLAGCONTROVERSY

The First Amendment was not the issue

ANNAN GAGGI, STAFF CARTOONIST

TORI HAHN STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________ The headline “SDSU Students Facing Expulsion Over Flags” reached national news this week after two students protested the university’s reaction to flags hanging from their on-campus housing balcony.

The two San Diego State University students complained about a letter they received from the school

instructing them to remove the flags, one of them a U.S. flag, from the balcony of their university-owned Piedra del Sol apartment.

According to Campus Reform, the formal warning to Connor Fenwick and Cameron Box stated if they failed to comply, the two might face penalties including probation, suspension or expulsion.

Offended by the letter, the two students who are also U.S. Military members defended the right to express their

patriotism.

What they do not understand is the letter did not exclusively target these two students, nor did it specifically target the American flag. The university was right to enforce the rules for its on-campus housing even though the students, the media and the quick-tojudge American audience exaggerated the situation’s severity.

The Piedra del Sol living agreement states, "No

items, except patio furniture designed for outdoor use, may be placed on balconies and patios. Hangings, partitions, or curtains of any type may not be used on balconies or patios."

The rule couldn’t be more specific as to what the university doesn’t allow.

Because the four flags draped over the side of the gated balcony, the university most likely qualified them as “hangings.”

The guidelines also don’t specify what type of hangings.

They could be tapestries, blankets, a giant picture of the Aztec Warrior — anything — and the school would have responded the same way. In fact, one of the flags asked to be removed was a “We Are Aztecs” flag.

It’s a shame one of the items in question is an American flag, because it turns the matter into a First Amendment issue when it shouldn’t be.

SDSU Media Relations Manager Beth Chee weighed in on the situation on behalf of the university.

“Any item, regardless of content, hanging from a balcony is considered a safety and security issue because of its potential to block visibility,” Chee told Campus Reform.

“Students are free to express

themselves any way they like inside their apartments, but nothing can be hung up outside. The safety and security of our students is our number one concern.”

The problem isn’t that the school is against flying the American flag — you can see them all over campus. The problem is these students chose to victimize themselves.

Rather than accepting the university’s rules and simply relocating the flags inside the apartment, the two students chose to fight back.

The SDSU regulation that requires all freshmen to live in on-campus housing does not apply to Fenwick, a sophomore, or Box, a junior.

Thus, the students willingly agreed to live in the oncampus accommodation and abide by SDSU rules upon signing their lease.

Rather than fighting the school about decorations, the two could have lived somewhere separate from the university to fly their flags freely. Houses considered oncampus sit just a few blocks over, where the students could have happily expressed their First Amendment rights.

Instead, Fenwick and Box chose to turn the situation into an unnecessary American rights issue and public relations disaster for SDSU.

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#COLLEGESHOOTINGS

School shootings: Q&A with expert Dr. Stuart Henry, director of the School of Public Affairs and co-author of “Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect,” spoke with The Daily Aztec about mass shootings and shootings on college campuses.

The Daily Aztec: Are there truly more mass shootings? Or is the media reporting it more?

The numbers I’ve seen are around 27 a year, 20-30 a year.

So part of the problem is if you get one incident and it’s got multiple homicides, that increases the death rate. … Now if we talk broadly about school violence — we see a lot more incidents on schools than we see in colleges — but it’s still really low and it’s peaked in around the late ‘90s, and it’s been going down and down since then, even though we get these incidents that seem to occur on a regular basis.

They’re not frequent. They only account for a half a percent of the juveniles who are killed by guns in the United States.

It’s because it’s symbolically so disturbing that here you are in a setting of a school or a college that when you get someone coming in … shooting, or appears to be, that makes major headlines. Of course it does.

DA: Why do shooters pick college campuses to act on?

That is one of the key issues, and it’s to do with a vulnerable, gathered population that’s symbolically significant to the community and society.

Unlike a sporting event or a rock concert … where there’s a restricted venue and you have to go through a security check, you can walk on a college campus just about from anywhere.

And most of the time because it’s so large you don’t know who the people are that are in the class with you. … So if you put together highly vulnerable

population with a motivated offender, in this case a shooter, with the lack of guardians — that is, people who could intervene or know how to control a problem because it’s so large and so dispersed — it’s not like a small neighborhood community where you’ve got everyone watching everyone.

So you put those three together and you’ve got … the potential for a violent incident to occur without any way to restrict it.

DA: Is there any feasible way to reduce that potential? Is a radical measure like a constant police presence on campus necessary?

The problem is, especially in school settings, where you’ve even introduced these (radical measures), what they do is to impact negatively the whole education experience for students who go to that school for the fear that something is going to happen some day … you may be able to reduce the number of deaths if you’ve got a rapid force that could move in quickly and do something about an active shooter.

One of the best things that happens — and it’s not necessarily true on all campuses, but they have it at San Diego State — is they have A.L.I.C.E. training, which is a police training activity where they show what happens in the event of an active shooter on campus and who gets targeted and how you’re supposed to respond and so on.

It tries to counter the idea that you should be passive in the classroom and just sit there and do what the shooter says, whereas the opposite should be

true and you should be doing all kinds of movement and leaving the building. … To prevent it is a wider question.

And here’s the problem, as we see it, anyway, that is what you’re doing in these kinds of societies … is a multi-causal problem.

It’s not just one thing that causes this.

But what is a recurring feature is empowering … people to have the ability to dominate others.

You can do it in multiple ways.

You can do it through guns, allowing people to have guns.

You’re doing it through corporations, giving them the power.

In most of the cases where you give people the power over others, they’re not going to use it negatively. … But just like corporations, some of them will abuse the power you’ve given them.

So will individuals. … So you’re trusting by giving them power over everyone else, which a gun is or a weapon or bombmaking equipment is — by giving them that power you are trusting that they’re not going to use it negatively.

That’s a hell of a trust. … But what there are are a number of factors that come to, and one of the factors is often a mental health issue, it’s gun availability, it’s a lack of monitoring of the person by family that allows someone to build guns, bombs in their room or garage … so there’s a lack of supervision.

There’s a codependent facilitator, often but not always the mother, who protect their child and their reputation from exposing they have a problem in the family. … It’s not (just) one of these things.

It’s a combination. It’s a lack of intervention, monitoring,

supervision.

In a society like ours, it’s giving the individual the freedom to be outside the community inside the community.

They can be left alone and private so they’re not sharing, people don’t know what their issues are and they’re bottled up in themselves with a facilitator — parent, confidant — who allows that to continue.

violence incident since they introduced he legislation.

But it’s reduced the number of suicides, other homicides, just by taking the guns out.

It’s not the only answer and it’s not saying we’re banning guns.

It’s saying if you’re going to have this power over others, we’re going to regulate the ways in which you exercise it and who gets it.

DA: What’s a step that can be taken to help break that pattern toward violence?

DA: What can SDSU and its students to do be prepared for a shooting on campus?

Some of these are macro-level things.

How do you change a society’s culture that allows individual freedom? Because the freedom is that which we enjoy to do all the other things.

But some of the things you can do, like Australia is pretty famous for doing this, they’ve introduced strict regulations on monitoring who’s allowed to buy guns, what kind of training they have.

It’s not only the U.S., by the way, that allows everyone to have guns.

Switzerland allows everyone to have guns, but that’s how their army is put together — they train everyone how to use them. So in Australia they introduced this system of not only restricting guns, but they had a mandatory buyback of guns.

They took guns out of circulation and they basically train. You have to go through a training program and get a certificate in gun use.

Now it doesn’t eliminate everything, but … it’s made a huge difference, not just in the number of incidents — they claim they haven’t had a school

(Shooters) do sometimes share with friends what they’re about to do and what they’re thinking. Now, unfortunately, everyone’s got bravado and everyone’s claiming this, that and the other.

And in some school settings the other student will egg them on and say, “Oh, are you really going to do that?” But they don’t really believe they’re going to do it.

Or if they do it, it’s like, “This is absolutely crazy. Can you believe that?” … But one of the things that the school research has shown is that if you encourage fellow students to report stuff that looks problematic — it sounds like snitching, but in fact what you’re doing is being protective of potential incidents like (shootings) occurring.

They’ve found that people say what they’re going to do to their close friends. They will have blogs.

And sort of going backwards after the fact and finding this isn’t helpful.

You need to find it as it builds to this pattern that we described before.

#NATGEOSALE

Science: The real loser in Nat Geo’s sale MADDY PERELLO STAFF WRITER ____________________________ In a $725 million deal announced Sept. 9, National Geographic Society and 21st Century Fox joined forces to create a new for-profit media company, National Geographic Partners. The partners will control National Geographic magazine, television networks, maps, digital and social media platforms, books, and other media. The main shareholder in 21st Century Fox is media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

The National Geographic sale has been met with great concern. Murdoch is a climate change skeptic, as he said in a 2014 interview aired on his own channel, Sky News. Rolling Stone listed Murdoch as the No. 1 politician or executive

blocking progress on global warming, and wrote, “No one does more to spread dangerous disinformation about global warming than Murdoch.”

Murdoch’s new reign over a magazine that previously devoted itself to unbiased fact and scientific discovery is an epic blow to the credibility of future National Geographic publications.

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree anthropogenic climate change is happening, and “most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position,” according to NASA. Through all of this, Murdoch maintains his stance that humans are not involved in the problem.

“We should approach climate change with great skepticism.

… We can't stop it, we've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores. The world has been changing for thousands and thousands of years, it's just a lot more complicated today because we are more advanced,” Murdoch told Sky News in 2014.

It seems unlikely that National Geographic’s scientific potential will continue to be reached if the owner of its media disagrees with most scientists.

Though Murdoch told The Washington Post that he doesn’t plan to change National Geographic, his history of meddling in media suggests otherwise. Fox News under Murdoch’s control is known to discredit climate science. The Wall Street Journal, purchased

by Murdoch in 2007, has even gone so far as to refer to climate

science a religion. In Australia, Murdoch’s media interference was enough to convince the Australian senate to retract its greenhouse gas emission tax. At all of Murdoch’s media publications, “manufacturing doubt about climate change remains official policy,” according to Rolling Stone.

Murdoch’s apparent distaste for science virtually dooms National Geographic’s credibility as the pioneer in scientific exploration it has been for 127 years. National Geographic has always been a go-to source for reliable science.

“Our programs in fieldbased research, conservation, exploration, and education continue to provide the world with scientific breakthroughs and discoveries that inspire people everywhere to care

about our planet,” according to National Geographic’s website.

Murdoch’s deal will give the National Geographic Society, the part of the company that will remain non-profit, an endowment of nearly $1 billion, which the website claims will be used to “expand its work in science, exploration, and education.”

It’s hard to believe Murdoch’s personal views won’t get in the way of that claim. Will research proposals related to climate change receive funding? If Murdoch’s recent track record is under consideration, probably not. National Geographic has dedicated itself to science since 1888.

It will be a shame to watch Murdoch push his anticlimate change agenda into a historically progressive and innovative publication.

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OCT. 7 - 13, 2015 • THE DAILY AZTEC EDITOR: OLIVIA LITSEY • FEATURES@THEDAILYAZTEC.COM

#EXCEPTIONALAZTECS

Shooting for stars ALEJANDRO ALONSO CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________ While many would say working for NASA is a dream job, that dream became a reality for aerospace engineering senior Eve Christman.

Her interest in engineering stemmed from three engineering classes she took at her high school through Project Lead the Way. The nonprofit organization has implemented over 8,000 science, technology, engineering and math programs worldwide at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

This past summer, Christman landed an internship with NASA Jet Propulsions Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

As a dynamics environments intern, she set up electronic sensors, gathered test data and performed shock and vibration analysis from test results.

She was also a part of the shock and vibrations analyst group, which performed analyses that ranged from small microcontrollers to entire satellite systems.

Christman has an impressive

list of internships and leadership positions. She’s also involved on campus, from being a San Diego State ambassador since her freshman year to becoming the president of SDSU’s Society of Women Engineers.

The university and its faculty have played an important role in Christman’s success.

College of Engineering Assistant Dean Larry Hinkle, Ph.D., encouraged Christman to become an SDSU ambassador because he knew it would help her professional growth.

Hinkle said out of all the students he’s met during more than two decades working at various universities, Christman is one of the most outstanding students he has encountered.

“She epitomizes all the qualities of not only truly outstanding academic success and a phenomenal leader, but also accepting the challenges of pursuing her passions and dreams,” Hinkle said.

Her involvement on campus as an ambassador helped land her first internship with Northrop Grumman Corporation, a large aerospace and defense technology

company.

“My first summer of being an ambassador, I met a hiring manager for Northrop Grumman,” Christman said.

“He gave me the opportunity to come in for an interview and that really stemmed it all.”

Christman worked as a special programs intern for Northrop Grumman in Rancho Bernardo, California.

She has also held an internship at the U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command, which aids the Navy through material support for its aircraft and weapon systems.

Working at top aerospace companies has allowed Christman to strengthen her leadership skills. Her presidency of SDSU’s Society of Women Engineers has given her the chance to implement these skills.

“Having been president of SWE enabled me to understand how to manage and work with a big group of people,” Christman said. “I learned to be the person that held everyone together.”

Christman currently helps with internships and advising questions as one of four student advisors of the College of

Eve Christman interned for NASA this past summer.

COURESY OF EVE CHRISTMAN

Engineering.

She credits her transformation into the person she is today to her hard work, perserverence and support from all of her loved ones.

“If I could instill something

in any young girl or future engineer, (it would be) that if you think you can do it and you believe in yourself and you surround yourself with people that also believe in you, then you can do anything,” she said.

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#VETERANSCENTER

Veterans center undergoes revamp STEVEN BURIEK CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ San Diego State’s Joan and Art Barron Veterans Center has been revamped and moved to better tend to the need of 3,200 student veterans, as well as those on active duty, reservists and dependents on campus.

The center has grown to nearly 4,000 square feet, about three times the size of its previous space. The relocation has allowed the center to bring every facet of the military and veterans program into one all-encompassing location.

The additional space provides room for the center’s bunker, a lounge for all military affiliates to study, congregate or relax in between classes.

The Ambassador Hostler Conference Room also grew bigger to accompany more military students with more meeting space for school-related projects.

“In comparison to the last veterans center I was associated with, this one has stepped up it’s game,” philosophy junior and U.S. Marines veteran Ana Phillips

said. “It’s a single hub instead of separate locations. Recreation and paperwork is all done in the same place.”

Todd Kennedy, veterans coordinator and retired first sergeant in the U.S. Marines, said military students differ from traditional students because of their

Kennedy also said the program’s growth is the most important goal for the center.

It offers a wide range of help from certifiers for Veterans Affairs benefits, trooped engineer coordinators and veteran employment specialists.

It also brings on-deck military liaison officers to the center’s new and improved space.

- Ana Phillips, Additionally, philosophy junior and U.S. Marines veteran the center has a partnership with the unique backgrounds.

College of Extended Studies, which has “There (are) different experiences its own veterans program. that we bring to the table, so it’s a little Years ago, the Veterans Center started bit more challenging to make that as a walk-up window in the registrar’s assimilation into a college campus,” office with one person handling all he said. “Whether you’re 18 years certifications for Veterans Affairs old or 40 years old, military-affiliated educational benefits. students have a different of background Since its humble beginning, the center experiences that you’re dealing with. has relocated various times to handle the What we do is we find an easier transition surge of military students returning to go for that student.” to school after serving in the war in Iraq

“ IN COMPARISON TO THE LAST VETERANS CENTER ... THIS ONE HAS STEPPED UP ITS GAME”

and Afghanistan.

In the summer of 2014, Sandra Cook, associated vice president for current enrollment management, offered a larger, more adept location for the center.

Currently, the center’s headquarters are located in Student Services West suite, a move finalized on May 18 of this year.

SDSU has led the way on a number of military and veteran support initiatives, and the Veterans Center is the first veterans support location in the California State University system.

It is also the first campus in the nation to establish a space away from a resource center for military students to congregate.

Called the Student Veterans House, the space is an extension of the bunker on campus, located on the corner of 55th Street and Hardy Avenue. It resembles a giant living room, not to be mistaken as a barracks or a dormitory.

Military students go through an adaptive period moving from one culture to another, and in addition to the other services offered through the Veterans Center, the veteran’s house eases their assimilation onto campus.

#MECHATRONICSCLUB

Engineering club earns international win SARAH TANORI SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ The San Diego State Mechatronics Club returned to campus this semester with hometown glory after its first international win.

For the second consecutive summer, the Mechatronics Club entered the prestigious International RoboSub Competition, which is supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International.

The club placed first against top-tier schools, including Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore.

The group prepared for the RoboSub competition for a year and half, designing the sub, building it and testing its functions.

The competition involves an obstacle course for the underwater vehicles. Months of work comes down to 15 minutes as the autonomous machines move in water all on their own.

In the 14 years the competition has been hosted at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Point Loma, the SDSU club is the first local team to make it to the finals and come out on top.

The win didn’t come easily, though.

Since the club began in 2011, the group of undergraduate students has found its own ways of funding and has struggled for faculty support.

The university provides the students funding through the Student Success Fee and the Presidents Leadership Fund. Companies such as Northrop Grumman, ThinkTank, Mathworks and General Atomics Aeonautical also support the group.

Mechanical engineering senior Austin Owens, the club’s founder and president, led the group to its victory

with his infectious zeal for all things science.

He established the organization as a freshman with a total of three members.

“I went around my first year and didn’t see anything like that,” Owens said. “I thought the school needed it.”

Owens even picked up a computer science minor in order to compute the software for his team.

As time went on, the group was able to create the Robosub Graphic User Interface, a club-exclusive program for its machines used in competition.

“Since I founded the club, you have to understand what each department is doing to lead the team,” Owens said. “That’s why I made sure I knew a sufficient amount in each discipline to be able to carry on the team to the competition.”

Four years later, the Mechatronics club has gone from placing eighth to winning a competition.

The club has become a competitive group to join on campus.

Becoming a member now involves a 30-minute interview and a 30-minute assessment test with the team captains and leaders in order to maintain a passionate and hardworking team.

“I’d love to encourage any students out there that are interested in learning these (skills),” club electrical team leader and electrical engineering senior Drew Smith said.

“Over a year ago, I didn’t know any of these skills. I’ve already propelled myself into a leadership position and learned everything through mentorship in this program. I think that’s amazing.”

The leaders plan to expand the team from 30 people to as many as 80 members this year.

With the new members, the club plans to take on new endeavors, such as entering RoboAir, a competition with aerial drones, and Roboland, an air, land and water competition.

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Student puts global outlook to use

Pallavi Shreedhar interned for Gap, Inc. last year.

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ALISSA KASAWDISH CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________ Pallavi Shreedhar has only gained more business experience since earning her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at the Jagadguru Sri

Shivarathreeshwara Academy Of Technical Education in India.

The engineering graduate student moved to California in 2013. She is now pursuing a Master of Business Administration at San Diego State.

Shreedhar always had a zest for supply chain management, and she exemplified her eagerness toward the field during a 10-week internship at Gap, Inc. last year in San Francisco.

There she worked in a group setting across different functions within the company.

“Our project was to build brand promotion strategies online for Gap, Inc. and to predict what kind of sales we can expect given a particular season or date,” she said.

She also worked in product management with hopes of gaining hands-on experience in that area, as well.

Shreedhar got to be a part of a special event within the Executive Leadership Series where she received insight from top-tier business people, including the brand presidents of Old Navy and Gap, Inc. One of the things she learned from Gap, Inc. managers is that team building is not only based on skill.

“A big part of what I see in a lot of companies today is they are looking for people who come to work with a good attitude,” she said. “You should also have that spirit, intellectual curiosity and that drive and passion for what you do.”

Gap, Inc. offered her a full-time job, which she is considering as a future career. She is also considering a career with Tesla because of her experience working for Volvo for five years in India.

She has been able to learn new perspectives during her career by working with many cross-functional and cross-cultural teams in Europe, Sweden, France, Thailand and more.

Shreedhar is also taking advantage of the supportive professors and programs at SDSU. She joined the Aztec Mentor Program last year to receive professional guidance about working in the U.S., and she discovered how important networking is as she made new friends and connections.

One professor that Shreedhar has worked closely with at SDSU is assistant professor of management John Francis.

He supports Shreedhar in her business endeavors.

“I think one of the reasons she did so well at Gap, Inc. is not only the use of

her intellect, but how she has leveraged the involvement she has had with the consulting program into a unique differentiator,” Francis said.

Additionally, Shreedhar works on campus at The Aztec Consulting Center where she provides consulting services for small business owners in San Diego.

Francis hired her in fall 2014 as a graduate assistant.

She has successfully worked with six different teams and clients since working for the campus program, such as La Costa Gourmet, Lithyem Industries, Inc., and Reliant Parking.

Shreedhar thinks of this position as a way to take baby steps toward reaching her career goal of building and managing teams. She values what she is learning during her time at SDSU. “There is a lot you can bring to the table, but it is a different thing when you get to learn from other people,” Shreedhar said.

Shreedhar also uses her cultural diversity as another learning experience.

“At the end of the day, we are all the same,” she said. “It doesn’t matter where we come from. We all have a different background and culture, but we all have similar goals and dreams and I think that really helps to connect people.”

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Six weeks in Brazil CHRISTINE WHITMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________

Olga Vargas spent six weeks interning on a hospital ship on the Amazon and Tapajos Rivers.

COURTESY OF OLGA VARGAS

Olga Vargas, an international business senior with an emphasis on Portguese in Latin America, spent six weeks of her summer break abroad in Santarem, Brazil.

During that time, she was an intern for Amizade Global ServiceLearning, a nonprofit, fair trade learning organization headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Vargas chose to work as an administrative assistant on the hospital ship, called Abaré, in the basin surrouding the Amazon and Tapajos Rivers.

During the six weeks abroad, she completed over 250 hours of service.

This included checking in patients, keeping an organized inventory of the ship’s supplies and translating between groups of people who spoke English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Vargas said she wanted an internship that would give her a close-up view of Brazilian culture and the country’s people.

“The internship with Amizade gave me the opportunity to be exposed to the nation and new experiences,” she said.

Brazil site director Micah Gregory said Vargas’ interests aligned with what they were looking for.

“Her ability (to work) in intercultural environments is an extremely important characteristic,” he said. “She has background in administration and logistics, making her both academically and professionally a really great fit, but her Portuguese language background was really critical for this position.”

Originally from Columbia, Vargas already knew bits and pieces of the languages she used this summer before studying at San Diego State.

But after taking several language courses at SDSU, she was able to increase her knowledge and felt more

confident in her conversational skills with the Brazilian natives.

She found that the Brazilian people were constantly welcoming, with hugs used as an introduction rather than a more formal handshake.

After this eye-opening experience abroad, Vargas said she considers herself to be less insecure than she was before.

“I’ve come to the realization that I can do anything,” she said. “If I can do something so big in a country I’ve never been to, I can do anything anywhere.”

Although the internship with Amizade, meaning “friendship” in Portuguese, was classified as a business internship, Vargas also had to opportunity to participate in several cultural events outside the ship in Santarem.

One such event was hiking over 60 miles through the Amazon with other students traveling abroad.

Vargas also spent time with other groups and organizations in the region as a way to experience a broader scope of the culture in Brazil.

One such organization, Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional Children, works with children with both mental and physical disabilities.

The organization held a festival in June during which everyone had to dance.

At the festival, she witnessed a professor pick up several students, including some who were in wheelchairs, just so they could dance and participate in the festival.

Vargas said it was a touching experience.

“Having the passion for something in that way, and showing children that they can do something that seemed so far out of reach, reminded me that I can do so much more because I already have everything,” she said.

Vargas dreams of working at a professional social action and community service company in Latin America after graduation.

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Midterms: Season of evil ELLEN REX Contributor ____________________________________ Midterms.

The dreaded time when professors finally get to sit in their offices, rub their hands together gleefully, let out an evil laugh or two and imagine the tears running down their students’ faces.

As Elsa would say, “Conceal, don’t feel. Don’t let them know.”

But, unfortunately, the intimidating reality of the situation is that when the Blackboard announcement says “only the powerpoints will be on the test,” it might as well read as a Gandalf-esque “You. Shall. Not. Pass.”

Midterms are when your favorite professor becomes the bane of your existence, and the cancellation of a study date becomes the second Cold War. When your precious Saturday is rudely ripped from your grasp and replaced with a three-hour-long midterm on the most common sense subject imaginable. Yes, I am looking at you, Comm 103.

When you join the morning exodus to the market or bookstore to buy a scantron — or let's be real, about five scantrons for you and your study buddies.

And when you suddenly want to cry, study, eat, sleep and punch a wall all at the same time.

Although the stress and tears are arguably the worst part of midterms, let’s not forget the horrendous parking situation, the excruciatingly long lines to get food, and the complete and lack of study space even in the library.

I mean, honestly, traffic is going to be insane and if you’ve been avoiding

class this long, should you really even bother trying to study on campus now?

I don’t think studying on campus as opposed to at home will make all of the information you’ve been dodging magically seep into your brain.

Even with all of the slackers crawling out from their cold, dark caves during midterm season, now that Parking Services is limiting the number of parking passes available, you’d think there would actually be enough parking spaces to, oh I don’t know, park every car.

For some reason we can get through Chem 100 but cannot figure out how to form an orderly line.

A line — literally the easiest shape ever.

While having to wait 20 minutes to get our daily Chipotle fix turns most of us into the equivalent of grumpy old men, the lack of Starbucks locations on campus poses a real danger.

How are we supposed to curb the Pumpkin Spice Latte fever if there is no Starbs in East Commons, West Commons or the library?

Was it really a good idea to replace the allpowerful java factory with a salad bar?

We’re not rabbits, we need protein-rich PSLs and ungodly amounts of caffeine.

While the library does have one lonely Peabody’s coffee cart, it is sorely lacking study space.

Only a quarter of each floor of the Love Library is used as study space, while dusty books that haven’t been touched in decades sit there taking up the rest of it.

By the time the sun's fully out and 10 a.m. comes around, the library is hot and smelly and full of exhausted, caffeine-deprived and slightly braindead humans.

If San Diego State can manage to scrounge up money for useless projects that take years to finish, I’m sure it could manage to figure out a way to fix the overcrowding problem so students can focus on the actual education portion of the college experience.

Unfortunately, for now, we will have to suck it up, take the trolley, bring a homemade lunch and crawl into a dusty corner in between bookshelves to cry — I mean study.

Good luck, Aztecs.

“ When you suddenly want to cry, study, eat, sleep and punch a wall at the same time.w” Unfortunately, that would make too much sense.

Now we’re stuck with an increasingly high number of obnoxious drivers speeding through the parking garage, running people over, then asking “Are you leaving? Can I take your spot?

Want me to drive you to your car? Or I can just follow right on your heels like a stalker?”

Chill out man, I’m just cutting through to West Commons.

In terms of the crazily long lines to get food, let’s just say that any time it takes over half an hour to get through the Panda Express “express line,” there is a problem.

I just want my completely American, unhealthy and in-no-way-close-to Chinese food within 30 seconds of entering East Commons. Is that really too much to ask?

Not to mention the huge blob that is supposed to be the Rubio’s and Subway lines.

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Aries (March 21 - April 19) - Today is a 7 - Communications provide key with navigating financial matters. Begin by writing it down. It's a good time to discuss priorities. Secrets are revealed.

Listen carefully, and pick up the subtle innuendoes. Confirmation arrives from far away.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) - Today is a 9 - You've got the power to create. Ask friends for advice. Generate financial stability. Start by counting your stash.

Someone is saying nice things about you. You can do whatever you put your mind to.

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) - Today is a 6 - You're especially sensitive. Find the perfect words easily. Friends help you understand. Family discussions reveal new avenues. Listen carefully. Your ideas flower now. Let another person win an argument. Compromise. Conclude agreements in private.

Cancer (June 22 - July 22) - Today is a 7 - Your community is abuzz with news. All of a sudden, it all makes sense ... at least, for one brilliant moment. Ask for more than you think likely to get.

Resolve a possible misunderstanding.

Push your agenda now.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) - Today is a 7 - Confer with family regarding recent professional opportunities. File papers where they go. Consult friends in the business. Connect with industry groups, in person or in print. Outside perspectives can also be illuminating.

You can solve this puzzle.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - Today is an 8 - Use brains, not brawn. Calm somebody's irrational fears. Good news comes from far away, or someone travels a great distance. Listen to a wider range of diverse viewpoints. Craft a compelling case to persuade others to action.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) - Today is a 7 - Update your accounts. File, sort and organize financial papers. Do the homework. Stay in communication on money matters. Count and measure what's coming in and going out.

Discover an error.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) - Today is an 8 - It's easier to talk things over with your partner. Reassess priorities and shared finances. Listen more than speaking. See things from another's view. Study the situation. Breaking news impacts your decision. Keep the tone respectful.

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Include your own enthusiasms in the game plan. Talk about what you love.

Practice skills by playing together.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - Today is a 6 - Do the work and make the money. Record progress to date. Orders come from on high. Begin a new verbal campaign. Find another way to work smarter. Discuss your plans with one you love.

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Complete written documents or papers.