11-09-2016

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Students react to tight election race EMELY NAVARRO NEWS EDITOR ____________________________________ More than 200 San Diego State students attended the Associated Students Rock the Vote presidential election viewing party on Tuesday night and waited for the results of the election.

Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Alaska were still undecided at 11:00 p.m on Nov. 8.

The race was tight throughout the day with the main focus placed on Florida, a swing state that was called for Donald Trump hours after the polls in the state closed.

FiveThirtyEight predicted Hillary Clinton would win Florida and North Carolina - two states with a total of 44 electoral votes. The website also predicted Clinton to beat Trump by 71.4 percent.

The New York Times forecasted approximately an 80 percent chance of a Clinton presidency, but on Tuesday Nov. 8, the votes showed different results.

By 10:50 p.m., Trump was ahead of Clinton with 264 electoral votes to Clinton’s 215 votes.

At the election viewing party in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, many students were surprised with the turnout of the race.

Aubrey Mitsch, communication sophomore, said she was nervous while

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Associated Students held a viewing party for the election results in the Union courtyard on Tuesday night.

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waiting for the results to come in.

“I have been terrified almost the entire election,” Mitsch said. “It has been going back and forth and I don’t really want either opponent, but being Republican I want the Republican to win.”

Kim Johnson, an SDSU student, said she is repulsed by the results of this election as a Clinton supporter.

“I feel very strongly against him and I’ve seen that so much of our nation voted to support his ideas,” she said.

She said the results of this election, especially a Trump presidency, can affect her immensely.

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“I’m a mess. There are things Trump wants to reverse and that’s going to affect me directly,” Johnson said. “My mom has cancer and can only afford her treatments and has only been able to stay alive because of what Obama has done. Knowing Trump wants to reverse that, I’m shaking.

Lionel Olmos, criminal justice junior, said he expected the race to be tight because of how much separation it brought.

“There’s more clashes between people instead of like everyone has the right to vote and go out to polls,” he said.

Brennan Wehrle, entrepreneurship senior, said watching the results of the election made him wish he was more involved in the campaign process.

“I’m regretting my decisions to not be more involved in volunteering and campaigning, I’m very anxious to see the official results,” Wehrle said. “A lot of things we’ve accomplished with Obama in office and had to fight for are going to be repealed. It’s going to be a big step back.”

He said if Trump wins, the country will spend the next four years heading back to zero.

“If Trump does win, I’d like to be more involved locally,” Wehrle said.

“I was taken aback with how little research I’d done on local candidates when I was voting today. I feel like even if the presidential election or the senate does not go my way, things could still change in the city.”

Clinton tweeted a picture of her hugging a girl with the caption “This team has so much to be proud of.

Whatever happens tonight, thank you for everything.”

At 11:05 p.m., Clinton’s Campaign chair John Podesta took the stage at her headquarters to announce Clinton would not speak until every vote was counted and suggested people go home.

Trump’s last tweet, a picture of him watching the election, was posted at 6:48 p.m on Tuesday.

Marijuana legal in CA JAMIE BALLARD MANAGING EDITOR ____________________________________ Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, was supported by several members of the San Diego State community. At press time, the measure was favored with 56 percent of voters approving the measure, with 47 percent of the votes counted.

Marketing senior Shaylenne Martin said she was “not at all surprised” to hear the measure had was favored.

She said she voted to legalize marijuana and that it brings in tax money on something a lot of people do anyway.

“I think it’s about time California caught up with the times. People shouldn’t be imprisoned for marijuana either. It wastes our already stretched police resources on something so inconsequential. Even if I don’t smoke it, I think everyone should have the right to choose for themselves the same way the law lets them do with cigarettes and alcohol,” she said.

Despite the passage of Prop. 64, students, staff and faculty still will not be able to smoke marijuana on campus.

Cpl. Mark Peterson with the San Diego State University Police Department wrote, “The Smoke-Free portion of the Regulations for Use of Campus Buildings and Grounds for the university prohibits all forms of smoking and indicates ‘SDSU is completely smoke-free.’”

He explained that a section of the text for Prop. 64 indicates that nothing in the code shall be construed to permit any person to smoke marijuana or marijuana products in a location where smoking tobacco is prohibited.

Given that smoking tobacco is prohibited on campus, smoking marijuana would also be considered a violation.

Peterson also affirmed that SDUSPD is

committed to enforcing California state laws and local laws. Therefore the “official stance” on any change to the law (such as the passage of Prop 64) is simply to enforce it.

Journalism senior Anna Conkey had mixed feelings on Prop. 64 before voting.

“Well at first I was all for it, since I’m against the pharmaceutical industry and its monopoly over drugs just for profit.

But after further research into the topic, I’m fairly convinced that this is just another way of drugging the masses into complacency—into not caring about the blatant corruption and mess our government has turned into,” she wrote in a message.

She also wrote that while she is not a marijuana user herself, she recognizes the potential benefits of using cannabis oil and other marijuana products for health-related reasons.

“I want it for that reason, but I don’t think that this proposition has our best interests in mind … I really think it should be legalized, just for the natural health benefits over the industrial pill-popping that is currently prescribed, but I’m not comfortable with the way Prop 64 is currently presented.”

In addition to legalizing the recreational use of marijuana for people over 21, Prop. 64 also created two new taxes: a 15 percent state excise tax on retail sales of marijuana, and a state cultivation tax.

Revenue from these taxes would be used to ensure administration and enforcement of the measure, drug research and treatment, youth programs, health and safety grants related to marijuana and environmental restoration.

Film major Airiana Prez said the taxes were one of the reasons she voted for it.

“I think there’s so many people who already use it, we may as well legalize it so we can make tax revenue on it,” she said.

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Bilingual education allowed in K-12 JOCELYN MORAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Parents and schools in California will have more say in whether to incorporate bilingual education in K-12 schools after Proposition 58 passed on Nov. 8.

Of the first three million votes counted, 73 percent of them were in favor of the proposition.

San Diego State environmental science sophomore Sabrina Huay said she voted for Prop. 58 because Chinese is her first language, but has lost it throughout the years.

“I kind of lost my language, and I wish I didn’t,” she said. “I think it’s a really good thing to have your language because it’s a part of who you are.”

Prop. 58 revises Prop. 227, passed in 1998, which decided students can only be taught in English.

Prop. 58 could also allow Englishspeaking students to reach proficiency in a second language.

Psychology sophomore Jourdan Binning said she thinks it’s really important for everyone to know more than one language.

“Every student in every other country knows at least two languages,” Binning said. “And in America, we’re struggling in our Spanish classes in college.”

The California General Election Voter Information Guide said opponents of Prop. 58 argue immersing bilingual

Proposition 58 passed on Tuesday night allowing school districts to offer bilingual education.

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students in English-taught classes is the best way for them to learn English.

Prop. 58 requires school districts to explain the methods they will incorporate in order to ensure students become proficient in English.

“I think kids should be able to learn English and still be able to have their own language in the education system,” music education junior Hyrami Godoy said.

Business administration freshman Alexis Carey said it is convenient to

know more than one language.

“We’re a global society, and I feel like we’re very diverse,” Carey said. “Nowadays, there are so many businesses run by people who speak multiple languages.”

Computer science sophomore Jenny O’Connor said going to a school where there were programs for Englishlearners was beneficial to her.

“I was adopted, and I had to learn English in the fourth grade,” she said.

“My school had a program that helped

me. I’m a pure example of why it’s important to incorporate bilingual education.”

LaShae Collins, African studies professor, said she is excited the proposition passed.

“I do want other kids to be able to have the opportunity to of course earn other langiages,” Collins said. “It’s going to open up the doors again. Our country is changing, so now it’s time for all of us to, obviously, come together and learn even more.”

Rock the Vote concludes after Nov. 8 election TASHFINA RAHMAN STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Many people headed to the Montezuma Hall polling location at San Diego State on Tuesday Nov. 8 to vote for the general election.

As the presidential campaign came to a close, so did Associated Students Rock the Vote campaign.

A.S. achieved its goal with Rock the Vote and registered a large number of students to vote for this election.

“We registered about 1,300 new voters through our Rock the Vote campaign this year,” A.S. Vice President of External Relations Dylan Colliflower said.

Members who were in charge of the campaign agreed that Rock the Vote impacted the SDSU campus this election season.

“Every vote counts and 1,300 new voters can make a huge difference in San Diego, especially when it comes to local elections,” Colliflower said.

A.S. President Jamie Miller agreed with Colliflower and said Rock the Vote impacted SDSU’s campus.

“This year especially, we are seeing pressing issues that hit home for many students, whether that is at national, state or local level,” Miller said.

Students also agreed Rock the Vote played a role in encouraging young people to get out to the polls on Nov 8.

“We’re so busy with school that something like registering can get pushed back as a priority,” communication sophomore Tessa LaMunyon said. “Something like Rock the Vote help brings it to the forefront of our minds and pushes us to get it done.”

LaMunyon said since fewer than 20 percent of voters ages 18-24 voted in the last election as stated in the A.S.

Rock the Vote registered 1,300 new voters this election season.

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website, Rock the Vote campaigns are necessary to remind students of why it’s important for young people to vote.

“I think it’s really essential for young people to vote because the results of this election will affect us as we start to enter the workplace,” LaMunyon said.

“The decision to vote or not vote will impact us directly.”

Miller said having a program like Rock the Vote on a college campus is crucial.

“Our generation tends to be apathetic when it comes getting out to the polls to vote,” Miller said. “Sometimes as students, we need a reminder that we do have the power to create change and I believe that this campaign provides that.”

Colliflower said students need to get out to the polls because young people are vehicles of change and it has “always been the youth that pushes society forward.”

Over the course of about six weeks, A.S. held several Rock the Vote events to encourage voting registration and political involvement, including presidential debate viewing parties.

On Nov. 8 students headed SDSU’s polling site in Montezuma Hall.

For many students, this was the first time they were able to vote.

“Voting was awesome,” finance sophomore Jeremy Harris said. “I was really excited to finally be apart of it instead of just watching the action unfold. Regardless of the results, I feel as though I made a difference.”

Some students also said they did not care to vote for a presidential candidate, but still felt it was important to vote for propositions and local candidates.

“I did not support either candidate so I did not want to give them my vote,” political science sophomore Sydney Cohen said. “I had a stronger opinion on the propositions and I think they also hold a great impact on our daily lives.”

At Rock the Vote’s final event, the live results watch-party, students shared their reactions as Trump held a lead over Clinton.

Hillary supporters seemed to be generally surprised at the results.

“I have been out here watching the results all night and I’m just shocked,” computer science sophomore Jenny O’Connor said. “I was really excited to vote for Clinton and I did not expect this at all.”

Students had mixed reactions to Trump’s success.

Business marketing freshman Jordyn Denning said he thinks Trump is going to win the election and that he is a very intelligent businessman.

“His campaign did not seem serious at first but I cannot believe it is ending up being this close,” Chinese sophomore Hunter Midgett. “I still kind of have hope but not much.”

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Global students discuss the election SPENCER WHITE STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Leading up to the 2016 election, everyone was buzzing about the presidential campaign and propositions, but the opinions of San Diego State international students were overlooked.

Diego Ayagas, a Spanish senior from Spain, said he thinks the two candidates the U.S. has to choose from are a shame.

“I think it is a shame that it has gotten to a point where everyone has to choose between a lesser of two evils,” Ayagas said.

“Everyone thinks Hillary won’t change anything and the quality of life will remain the same for the poor people. People think Trump will drastically change the establishment, but he’s clearly unfit to be president. He’s impolite, too extreme in his views.”

Tilly Macpherson, an English and American literature junior, from England said she finds the election humorous but living in America has made her think that it is sad.

“I think the election is hilarious for the rest of the world because it’s completely crazy that Donald Trump stands a chance.

But once you’re here it’s scary and it’s intimidating. It’s real,” Macpherson said.

“I think it’s unfair to call Americans stupid for it though because Trump is just an amalgamation of a time and a problem the whole world is experiencing. He’s just a cartoonish figure of it.”

If MacPherson had the opportunity, she

International students shared varying opinions about the 2016 presidential election.

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made it clear who she would vote for.

“I would vote for Hillary. I know she’s an imperfect choice but she’s 100 times, better than Trump,” Macpherson said. “I know there are more options than just the two of them but they’re the only ones that really stand a chance and I wouldn’t want to waste my vote.”

Macpherson said she believes Hillary Clinton deserves more credit than she is given.

“I think it’s ridiculous that she, as a woman, has so much experience but still has to seriously take on a man who is under qualified for the role,” she said.

Cherng-Gang Lin, business administration and marketing senior, from

Taiwan, had no idea about the political process before coming to the United States.

Lin was fascinated by the way the Electoral College works, and how it differs greatly from Taiwan’s political system.

“In Taiwan we have the direct poll to the presidential election, say five million people vote for A and seven million vote for B, then B wins directly because of the amount of the votes overpass A’s,” Lin said.

“So, the one who gets more votes than the other can still lose is kind of weird for me.”

Lin said he liked that there were so many opportunities to get involved with other issues through voting for propositions.

“So many different issues like education, firearms and the death penalty being shown is a really good chance for people to debate, to care and effect the issues,” Lin said. “Back in Taiwan, we rarely have the chance to do it, or even when we got the chance we usually just say “yes” or “no” for a specific issue.”

Ayagas said he felt passionate about Prop 64 which would legalize recreational marijuana if passed.

Ayagas said the success in other states has been too good for California not to consider legalizing marijuana.

Lin said he liked how the U.S. puts a lot of emphasis on the election, and how a lot of different people get involved.

“I really like the way Americans treat the political election as a public issue that should be spoken out loudly,” Lin said.

“I found out celebrities can have a clear political stance in the U.S.” Lin said this is very different than what happens in Taiwan.

“Instead, the singers or stars in Taiwan will usually avoid showing their political stance in fear of losing audience or touching something sensitive with the others and get into trouble with them,” he said.

Lin said he wishes that Taiwan would adopt this system.

“People in Taiwan should debate and have something more with the issues more than just do the poll and wait for the result,” he said.

This article was written before the election results were announced.

Parole for non-violent criminals approved GEORGINA VARGAS STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ Proposition 57 is an effort for California to decrease the overpopulation in prisons by allowing judges and prison officials to have more authority than prosecutors over court cases for adults and juveniles.

This proposition was favored 64 percent with 48 percent of the votes counted at press time.

Prop. 57 is a way to save the state money and release nonviolent offenders early from prisons and instead use the finances on community-based programs.

There are two sides to Prop. 57: the effect on juveniles and effect on adults.

Megan Welsh, criminal justice professor at San Diego State, said this measure will allow judges to make the decision for youths to be tried as an adult. This will lead to more reasonable outcomes because judges are more impartial in decision making and prosecutors are tougher, Welsh said.

Until now, the previous law currently allowed prosecutors to decide if a child would be tried as an adult.

“If you give a child adult punishment, you won’t get the same rehabilitation support,” Welsh said.

Prop. 57 minimizes the number of children that will be tried as adults for crimes they commit and allow them to go through intervention programs.

“It is more important to invest in rehabilitation programs than keeping them locked up in prison,” criminal justice senior Brian Tew said.

Research shows rehabilitation programs help people get back on track which makes this proposition a promising step in the state, Welsh said.

In adults, the passage of Prop. 57 will make it easier for nonviolent criminals in jail to be eligible for parole and go to

Prop. 57 will affect minors who are convincted on non-violent crimes.

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rehabilitation programs.

This does not mean that minor offenders will be getting out of jail immediately now that Prop. 57 is passed.

“The issue is that you’re being unclear about what is a non-serious crime,” Welsh said.

Tew said now that the proposition has passed, people will have to go through a board of experts and a judge to be approved to be on probation, which will ensure serious offenders do not get released.

Governor of California Jerry Brown was in support of this proposition. He said there are a large range of estimates on the amount of people that may potentially be released from jail.

“Historically, we’ve seen that as we’ve implemented and shifted gears away from prisons and toward rehabilitation,

it hasn’t had the effect on crime that some opponents of these laws thought it would,” Welsh said.

One argument against Prop. 57 is that people who are on probation may return to crime.

“There hasn’t been enough time since Prop. 47 was passed in 2014 to be able to get significant results about jail population and crimes,” Chad Tillman, public administration graduate student, said.

Prop. 47 was passed as a law that changed drug possession felonies to misdemeanors to decrease the number of people being sent to jail.

Tillman said there are other ways to look at crime, such as paying attention to contributing factors to crime rates. A growing economy and employment have also been linked to crimes occurring in

California.

The nonviolent offenders have not been clearly defined and the solutions for the crimes have not been addressed in the proposition.

“First, the behavior that Prop. 57 is looking at is saying that it’s no longer bad behavior and if it’s not bad behavior, why are you punishing it?” Tillman said.

It might save money, but also cause more problems in the future.

The measure will not change the severity of felonies to avoid putting fewer people in prison. Changing the status of minor felonies would decrease the number of people going to jail and downsize the numbers in prisons.

One type of nonviolent criminal who would be eligible to apply for parole is someone who committed sexual assault while under the influence.

Tillman said this might make the law seem like it is undermining the violation of someone’s body.

Connor Peterson, marketing junior, said Prop. 57 would not guarantee anyone getting parole and that judges are capable of knowing the difference between the severity of each crime, which would work out in decisionmaking.

Sarah Rebymetcalme, theatre and film sophomore said he thinks there is overcrowding in prisons, but that they don’t need to let people out of them.

“We have the death penalty, but we don’t really ever use it so people are in death row forever and then that is also why there is so much overcrowding,” he said. “I also think that non-violent crimes should be taken out. Those definitely they should be let out because stuff for drugs and other stuff is part of the reason why there is overcrowding.”

Emely Navarro contributed to this article.

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CORRECTION: _ In a Nov. 2 editorial, The Daily Aztec said the jury in Beth Burns’ lawsuit found SDSU had violated Title IX. This is untrue. While the jury found Burns’ complaints about gender inequities were valid, Title IX was not part of the complaint.

Campaigns ignored policy ANDREW DYER OPINION EDITOR ____________________________________ The confetti has been swept, the speeches given and stories written. On TV pundits will continue to opine on the national and local ramifications of this race or that, but for all intents and purposes our long national nightmare is finally over.

This presidential campaign has been the most vile, heated and vacuous in recent memory. Baseless accusations and adolescent name-calling were the norm. Regardless of who won, the loser was determined long ago: the public at large.

Voters have been denied any consideration of the issues and policies that affect Americans and the world.

Neither candidate was asked about climate change in the presidential debates. An outside observer could be forgiven for confusing email servers as the most pressing issue facing humanity today instead climate change and the almost irreversible threat of global sea level rise.

Any conversation about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, or any government endeavor to collect massive

amounts of data from unsuspecting Americans also was absent from the national political debate.

The fourth amendment protects Americans from “unwarranted search and seizure” yet programs exposed by whistleblower Eric Snowden continue, unexamined by candidates or the voting public alike.

As of Election Day, the U.S. military is involved in combat operations in seven countries — all majority Muslim. The U.S. is participating in ongoing bombing campaigns in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia and Libya. The method of attack for many bombings are drones, a controversial tactic that leaves people on the ground living in fear of the low-flying craft, never knowing if the mission is surveillance or bombing.

The U.S. drone assassination program is rife with problems. As found by The Intercept in 2015 after a whistleblower leaked details of the program, the targets of drone strikes are identified chiefly via electronic intelligence gathering.

Civilians and even U.S. citizens have been killed inadvertently. Each assassination, or “targeted killing” as government officials euphemistically call them, is made possible by the congressional Authorization for use of

Military Force (AUMF). The AUMF was enacted by congress in 2001 to give the president the authority to use military force against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Any debate on the drone war, targeted killing or ongoing bombing justified under the 15-year-old AUMF was also absent from the 2016 presidential campaign despite both candidates’ claims that fighting terrorism was a top foreign policy concern.

As of Nov. 9, the real loser of this election was the American people.

Voters have been fed a reality-show, a prolonged episode of the Real Housewives instead of an election.

They have been asked to consider the vulgarity of a populist madman against a career politician with a long history of cooked-up controversies.

Voters have not been asked to think critically about the real problems faced by their nation or the planet at large.

No candidate has been asked to justify domestic surveillance or the continued extrajudicial killing of civilians and alleged terrorists overseas. It is safe to assume these problem policies will continue under the new administration with little to no public scrutiny.

But hey, it sure made for great TV.

Unvaccinated put others at risk AULANI CAPUCHIN STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________

There is currently an outbreak of mumps on campus. In 2014, there was also a flare up of meningococcal meningitis. Outbreaks like these are partially due to a lack of immunization among students.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two doses of mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) immunization averages at approximately 88 percent effectiveness, and one dose averages at approximately 75 percent. If someone is vaccinated, it does not guarantee that person is completely protected from a given illness – it just makes the possibility of catching one much slimmer. If fewer people are immunized, it is more likely those people will catch an illness. That puts everyone around them, even immunized people, at risk.

So why are people not getting vaccinated? A Pew research study found that 3 in 10 people do not think childhood vaccination is necessary.

Some believe vaccinations put people at risk for a variety of syndromes and disorders, such as autism.

In 1998, a doctor named Andrew Wakefield published a study that said children had shown symptoms of autism within days of getting the MMR vaccine.

He said in other studies that vaccinations led to hindered brain development.

But other scientists could never replicate his results. Wakefield had his medical license revoked and the journal that published his research, the Lancet, retracted his work.

“It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false,” the journal said in a statement.

A study by the Institute of Medicine found that while vaccines can be

correlated to things such as temporary joint pain and, for those who were allergic, anaphylactic shock, that there was no correlation between vaccines and autism, diabetes, Bell’s palsy or asthma.

Being a college student brings its own risk factors. College students have unique challenges to their immune systems: they are exposed to large groups of people, have poor sleep schedules, and deal with high levels of stress. Though students can boost immune systembs with healthy eating, exercise and sleep schedules, their immune systems can still be vulnerable.

Choosing to remain unvaccinated in a college environment despite the amount of evidence that shows vaccines do not cause debilitating illness is not just a decision affecting oneself.

It is a decision that compromises the health of other people, too, and a selfish one at that.

Letter: No shame in voting Trump Sydney Sweeney’s article “Why do Millennials back Trump?” is saturated in her emotions, rather than any facts.

One of these claims which Sweeney states is that anyone who agrees with conservative values is preserving “a systematically discriminatory government.” Yet ironically, all the racial tensions we see bubbling out on the street are happening under a “POC” Democratic leader.

Sweeney also claims that college Trump supporters are “cis-gender, straight, white…and raised in comfortable homes.” Yet here I am, a

POC woman who has lived below the poverty line for the entirety of my life, fully backing Trump.

Why is it that we have to rationalize our support for our Republican candidate?

Why is it that many Clinton supports seem to not mention the fact that she has taken millions of dollars from countries which murder members of the L.G.B.T community?

These “email habits,” as Sweeney naively calls them, were the reason that Americans died in Benghazi. Her being under three concurrent F.B.I

investigations should be enough to raise some eyebrows, and make you reconsider your vote.

I am a proud 2nd generation American. I know that if I went anywhere else, I would not have the same opportunities that I have here.

Why has it become such a taboo to say that we love our country? Our country has given us the right to be able to have varying opinions, yet many people want to silence those that do not prescribe to their own way of thinking.

-Breeana Leyva, English Junior

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Pacifistas de África: Rumbo a la paz

ANDREA LOPEZ-VILLAFAÑA ASSISTENTE DE MUNDO AZTECA ____________________________________ En África las mujeres siguen luchando por representación inclusiva en el proceso de encontrar soluciones a los conflictos que perjudican a algunos países.

Tres invitadas del continente Africano visitaron San Diego State University el miércoles 2 de noviembre, para hablar sobre sus labores en sus respectivos países.

Hamsatu Allamin de Nigeria, Jane Anyango de Kenya y Fatma Mehdi Hassam de Sahara Occidental son las tres mujeres del programa mujeres pacificadoras que hablaron en el evento.

En colaboración con la Universidad de San Diego, el evento fue copatrocinado por el Departamento de Ciencias Políticas, Seguridad Internacional y Resolución de Conflicto (ISCOR), Estudios de Mujeres, Estudios Africanos y Estudios Islámicos de SDSU. Cada invitada presentó sobre la historia de su país, los conflictos y las organizaciones a las que pertenecen.

LUCHANDO EN LOS CAMPOS DE REFUGIADOS Hassam ha vivido en asilo político por casi 40 años en el país de Algeria por el conflicto que sigue en su país de Sahara Occidental.

Ella dijo que muchos no conocen de su país y que la falta de información ha

permitido que violaciones de derechos humanos especialmente en contra las mujeres vayan sin reconocimiento.

A pesar de las violaciones, las mujeres de los campamentos son muy importantes en la vida diaria de los refugiados dijo Hassam.

“En los campos de refugiados las mujeres son muy poderosas”, dijo Hassam. “Muchas son doctoras y también hay mujeres entrenadas en fuerzas armadas”.

La mayoría de las personas en asilo político son mujeres, y por esa razón es que las mujeres están entrenadas para proteger los campamentos.

Hassam es la presidenta de la Unión Nacional de Mujeres Saharawi y de otras organizaciones. Ella ha trabajado por más de 30 años en abogar por los intereses de las mujeres en el proceso de paz.

“Durante tiempos de guerra las mujeres pueden tener trabajos importantes”, dijo Hassam. “Pero cuando los países obtienen la independencia las mujeres se acostumbran a regresar a sus trabajos tradicionales”.

LA CRISIS DE BOKO HARAM El estado de Borno en Nigeria se conoce mas por ser hogar del grupo Boko Haram quienes fueron responsables del secuestro de 300 estudiantes en Chibok.

El grupo extremista ha causado ataques contra los derechos humanos especialmente contra mujeres.

Allamin dijo que por la falta de

educación, corrupción y violencia es porque su país está en conflicto.

Ella se ha dedicado a ser una negociadora y pacifista entre militantes y los del estado.

Ella compartió con los estudiantes presentes en el evento, fotos de los muchos niños y niñas que están desamparados. También enseñó imágenes de niños malnutridos.

Mucho de su trabajo está enfocado en la juventud porque ella dijo que este grupo es el mas vulnerable a los grupos extremistas como Boko Haram.

Allamin dijo que para poder tener progreso en las vidas de las mujeres y gente de su país es estar bien educados.

Ella sabe que en una sociedad patriarcal es difícil tener la ayuda de los hombres en su movimientos pero dijo que es optimista y cree en un mejor futuro.

UNA COMUNIDAD UNIDA Anyango de Kenya es la fundadora de Mujeres Kibera por Paz y Igualdad y una mujer pacifista.

Durante las elecciones del país en el 2007-2008 había mucha violencia y Anyango organizó mas de 800 mujeres para convencer a los hombres en sus vidas, a que no buscarán violencia durante las elecciones.

“Al fin del día ello son nuestros esposos, hermanos y son nuestros hijos”, dijo Anyango.

Anyango dijo que su comunidad es reconocida como la zona de oposición

Allamin enfoca sus trabajo en la juventud.

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por esa razón es que han tenido tanta violencia.

“Los Kenianos comunes como yo no tienen a nadie más a quien culpar, porque nosotros mismos nos traicionamos”, dijo Anyango.

Para las elecciones del 2017 Anyango está organizando un juego de voleibol para incluir a la gente.

A través de sus labores ella promociona unidad en las comunidades con la organización de juegos, actividades y canto.

El evento terminó con Anyango cantando su himno nacional en Swahili y canciones tradicionales de Kenya.

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Aztecs lose MW title game on PK’s

Senior midfielder Victoria Barba walks off the field after her missed penalty kick in SDSU’s loss to UNLV. KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

MAYER PHOLOD STAFF WRITER _____________________________________ Saturday’s loss to UNLV paralleled last season in all the wrong ways.

Just like last year, San Diego State women’s soccer lost in penalty kicks in the Mountain West Tournament championship game Saturday night, this time to UNLV. After the match ended tied at three—a score which only happened thanks to a goal from the Aztecs in the 89th minute—it moved to a scoreless overtime, which gave way to the heartbreaking ending.

After the Rebels missed their second shot, SDSU was tied 2-2 with their best kicker, senior midfielder Victoria Barba, in the box.

To the surprise of those in attendance atop the SDSU Sports Deck, she missed.

After freshman forward Darcy Weiser did the same, it ended with a 4-3 loss and a UNLV championship.

Before the heartbreaking outcome, the women of the Mesa played an exciting match.

After going down 2-0 in the 48th minute, they answered back just 18 seconds later on a free kick by Barba.

A little more than 10 minutes after

that, Barba answered the call again, scoring on another free kick from 30 yards out to tie the championship match up, 2-2.

After the Rebels put themselves ahead in the 85th minute, the Aztecs were tasked with coming back once again.

A minute and 40 seconds before what would be the final whistle, SDSU’s

they’ve learned over the last 17 games that they’ve played is phenomenal.”

After last year ended with penalty kicks in the MW tourney final against San Jose State, this year started out with four losses in a row.

Despite the brutal start to the season, the team remained optimistic.

The Aztecs bounced back to finish

“ IT’S HEARTBREAKING TO LOSE THE WAY WE DID AND TO NOT LET OUR SENIORS GO OUT ON A HIGH NOTE.”

- Gabby English, Freshman goalkeeper

resiliency showed after it drew a foul in the penalty box. Barba took yet another penalty kick and brought her team back once again.

It’s a resilience head coach Mike Friesen said he is proud of his squad for, not just tonight but the entire season.

“I’m really proud of how we played and responded and dug,” Friesen said.

“You look back on this season … the grit and determination and the things that

with a 6-2-3 record in conference play, before taking down Boise State and San Jose State to reach the finals of the MW Tournament.

In the end, Barba led the team with 11 goals, 10 of which came in the last seven games.

Junior forward Angela Mitchell came in second with four and junior forward Aliyah Utush was third with three.

Utush also led in assists with seven,

while Barba followed her with three.

Barba, along with the other seniors, have made an impact on this team that is known and will be felt for a while, redshirt freshman goalkeeper Gabby English said.

“They’re incredible. They’ve been there as bigger sisters, when we’ve all been upset or going through rough patches they’re there to pick us up, during our high moments they’re there to lift us up even higher,” English said.

“I’m going to be missing some of my greatest friends on the team.”

English knows that despite losing Barba, along with forwards Hedda Regefalk and Morgan Simpson, midfielder Gemma Craine, and defenders Zsursia Phare and Jen Rupey, not all is lost going forward.

“It’s heartbreaking to lose the way we did and to not let our seniors go out on a high note, but we are all keeping our heads high because we know we have a great foundation to build up from,” English said.

Friesen echoed her words.

“There’s a lot of stuff those seniors brought to the team that these younger players can aspire to,” Friesen said. “I’m really proud of where we’re at right now and build on it for next year.”

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Baldwin too good for one position

Sophomore safety Parker Baldwin looks out on the field against the University of Hawaii.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

AUSTIN GAYLE STAFF COLUMNIST _____________________________________ A year removed from earning Freshman of the Year honors for San Diego State football, sophomore safety Parker Baldwin, a former two-star recruit out of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, has outshined his pair of stars with the defending Mountain West champions.

“It was kind of an amazing feeling for me,” Baldwin said on being selected as

Freshman of the Year in 2015. “You have all these different freshmen coming from all over the place, and they’re great players in their own specific positions. I just happened to have a great year and got an opportunity to win the award, so it was a great feeling.”

Coming from a small town like Siloam Springs, Baldwin lacked experience in an extensive, urban city like San Diego.

Unwilling to let the size of his new home affect his play on the field, he hit the ground running and has not looked

back.

Baldwin’s play in 2015 earned high praise thanks to his ability to make an impact on special teams.

However, he set the bar higher, as he aimed to impose a similar impact on the defensive side of the ball, a goal now within his grasp after the season-ending injury to senior safety Na’im McGee. McGee suffered a Lisfranc fracture to his foot in the Aztecs’ 26-7 win over the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that will keep him off the field for the duration for the season, thrusting Baldwin into a starting role.

Baldwin hasn’t overlooked McGee’s ability as a leader and mentor, as he highlighted the importance of the senior’s commitment to being a leader and mentor despite the injury.

“Na’im is a great team leader,” Baldwin said. “He’s really helped me learn the system and learn everything. He’s been with me every step of the way.”

In McGee’s absence, Baldwin has started three consecutive games, accumulating 12 combined tackles and one fumble recovery.

Despite his recent success, Baldwin isn’t willing to take his foot off the gas.

“I’m just trying to become a bigger playmaker and more of a force out there on the field,” Baldwin said. “I get the job done, but I’m really trying to make a name for myself.”

With aspirations to take his talents to the next level, Baldwin simply isn’t satisfied with mediocrity, as he will do

whatever it takes to add big plays to his stat line, including making a position change.

As the NFL continues to value versatility in defensive prospects, Baldwin understands the benefits of having success closer to the line of scrimmage. And due in large part to his size at 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds, he believes he is capable of maintaining a high level of play inside the box.

Because McGee could return to the Aztecs next season due to his injury, Baldwin’s starting role at safety could be in jeopardy in 2017, opening the door for him to move down into the box to preserve his starting spot on defense.

Baldwin wants to start every game next year and into his senior season regardless of whether or not McGee returns, emphasizing that he would do whatever it takes to get on the field.

Baldwin believes he possesses the necessary talents to improve his game at safety, and even learn to excel at a linebacker position.

“I’m a pretty smart player,” Baldwin said. “I know my assignments well.

Playing anywhere, you’re going to have to learn the scheme or you’re not going to play anywhere. I think I am a very quick learner, and that’s one of my biggest strengths.”

With three remaining regular season games, the conference championship and an assured bowl game, Baldwin will have to dial his focus into adding big plays to his resumé at safety.

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The Show should be for everyone

Senior midfleider Victoria Barba walks off the field after her missed penalty kick in SDSU’s loss to UNLV. KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

The first three tickets given out at the Viejas Arena box office.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

BRENDAN PRICE STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________ With basketball season around the corner, so too is the one of the more prized fringe benefits of being an San Diego State University student: a basketball ticket to be in The Show.

Distributions occur starting at 10:00 a.m. at the Viejas Arena box office, and students cannot line up before 9:00 a.m.

You must have a valid Red ID in order to receive your tickets, and unlike football, you cannot purchase guest passes.

Those are the official rules regarding student tickets, but this column is more focused on the unofficial rules.

Firstly, and most importantly, these student tickets are hard to get. So, if you aren’t going to use it or aren’t going to give it to someone who will, don’t get it.

It’s frustrating for students who cannot get tickets because of their class or work schedule and want to use them, but can’t get them when they are gone after the first day of distribution.

This is important because the past two seasons, there have been multiple games where there have been no student tickets left to distribute. But come opening tip, The Show isn’t full, meaning those tickets go unused.

There are more than 28,000 students enrolled at SDSU, and only 40,000 total tickets available throughout the season for 14 home games and two exhibitions.

Regardless of your interest in athletics, being part of the student section is an experience every student should get while on the Mesa.

However, students continually post their tickets on StubHub for resale if they don’t use them. Not only does that violate the spirit of student tickets, it’s an opportunistic way to take advantage of your fellow students who couldn’t get tickets.

In an increasingly monetized world of college athletics, we as a student body should be thankful we aren’t charged by our own university to buy student season ticket packages like students at the University of Arizona or Michigan State University.

If you aren’t going to use the ticket,

give it to a friend, hold a gimmicky contest or donate it to a student organization.

Really, do anything but sell it.

Finally, the seat-saving that occurs within The Show. Doors open 90 minutes before tipoff and good seats are quickly filled. However, there really is an unofficial limit on the amount of seats one or two fans can hold.

Essentially, you shouldn’t be holding more than double than the people who are present it your group. If there is one of you, you can save two seats. If there are two, you can save four.

It’s equally comical and infuriating to see a group of two or a group of three try to reserve an entire row of seats, or an entire bulk of ten seats for their friends that are all coming later.

It really comes down to common courtesy.

If you are having to drape everything you own over seats and having to patrol your row to mark your territory, it is rude and inconsiderate.

The perception people project is “no one likes us, and we don’t care”, but could we at least think about our own fellow students and not just ourselves?

The Show is a blast and the cheers, routines and excitement are a highlight of the Aztec experience.

However, don’t use your experience to potentially ruin or prohibit someone else’s from even happening.

Best of luck and I will see some of you in the Show!

Barba earned the MW tournament MVP award

Senior midfielder Victoria Barba walks off the pitch after a failed PK in MW championship game.

KELLY SMILEY, PHOTO EDITOR

BRENDAN PRICE STAFF COLUMNIST ____________________________________ The San Diego State women’s soccer team suffered a heartbreaking loss in the Mountain West championship game against UNLV this past weekend, as the Aztecs tied the Rebels 3-3, fought to penalty kicks and lost.

On an individual level, SDSU senior midfielder Victoria Barba scored a hat trick in the championship match, including an 89th minute goal to force extra time, on the way to setting a MW conference record with six goals in the tournament.

Her opposing number, senior Rebel midfielder Dakota Blazak logged 187 of 200 minutes in the tournament, registered a shot on goal in the final and

scored a goal in the semi-final against Utah State.

Blazak won the MW Tournament Most Valuable Player award, leading the

That’s all the award means anymore.

The Aztecs made the championship game as a non-top two seed, which in seventeen years, only nine other teams have done.

The team scored seven goals in the tournament, Barba scored six of them.

Her team didn’t win the championship, after playing its third game in six days.

Barba’s offensive output was unprecedented for the tournament. Hell, she set a record and couldn’t win the award, how much more valuable could she have been? Seven goals instead of six?

That’s what an MVP does, nowhere does it say your team has to be the ultimate champion as well.

The definition for Most Valuable Player, per Merriam-Webster is, “the player who contributes the most to his or her team’s success.”

That contribution to the team should be something so above and beyond the pejorative norm that it demands recognition. The contribution should be something that alters a team’s path to success so abruptly and so significantly, it forces people to look at a team

WE NEED TO CHANGE THE “MVP” ACRONYM TO “MVPOTWT”, MOST VALUABLE PLAYER ON THE WINNING TEAM. Rebels to their first NCAA tournament since 2006.

Here’s the deal: Barba got snubbed, bamboozled and gypped. There isn’t any room for discussion or debate on that.

Secondly, we need to change the “MVP” acronym to “MVPOTWT”, most valuable player on the winning team.

differently, because of one player.

The award is designed to go to players that have such a key, integral impact on their team’s success that without them, the dropoff would be monumental. It’s a validation that the voting body recognizes that without that performance it completely alters the

team’s results.

The popular, snarky counterpoint is always the same thing: A player can’t be all that valuable if their team loses.

Even if a player on a losing team sets records, they have no chance of being the most valuable, based on their team losing. Sorry, but it isn’t a team award.

It’s an accolade given to the player who is the best individual performer, or the one who has the biggest impact on their team. Commonly, that happens for the best team, but the law of averages says that can’t occur every time.

The hypocrisy in sports where we expect and preach that if you don’t win, your accomplishments are subpar, and then promptly defile and decry the great player that leaves in order to join the best, winningest team because it’s “cowardly” or the “easy way out,” of a no-win scenario, for the performer or the team.

The sports world and the fans all talk about how it tarnishes and somehow invalidates the following performance, because they didn’t try to stick out on a losing team because that’s the “right way” to get it done.

There is zero incentive for a great player to stay or hope for individual recognition on a non-winning team, because even if they have an earthshattering season to will their team closer to victory than it otherwise would be, they earn zero recognition.

In sports in the 21st century, we seem to have a major issue grappling and accepting the idea that a player or performer on any team that doesn’t win the most, can then simultaneously have a transcendent performance that merits special recognition.

That struggle extends beyond sports into having “so much winning that we’ll get tired of winning” rather than actually recognizing greatness, and it’s gotten old.

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Campanile Music Festival returns NICOLE BADGLEY STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ For music students, the opportunity to work with professional artists is one that does not come around too often.

The Campanile Music Festival at San Diego State is a week-long festival that gives music students exactly that.

The festival, which started last spring, culminated on Nov. 4 in the Smith Recital Hall, where faculty members and the visiting artists collaborated and performed music together at a formal concert.

From Nov. 1 to Nov. 4, the national and international guest artists worked directly with music students.

Students worked with the artists oneon-one and in informal group settings.

They held workshops and Q&As in classrooms.

The faculty members and guest artists also held open rehearsals, so students were able to watch the process that goes into music collaboration on a professional level.

SDSU violin professor Pei-Chun Tsai, who holds a doctorate from the City University of New York, is the artistic director.

“It’s really for (students) to open their eyes and meet the artists that they sometimes get to see perform but never get to talk to or work with,” Tsai said.

“You’re always learning. It opens up their minds and thoughts to know there’s so much more out there. It’s had a huge

impact on the students in many ways from how to practice to what to do after you graduate, what your career will be like as a professional musician.”

Visiting artists included Ariana Kim, violin professor from Cornell University, Che-Yen Chen, viola adjunct associate professor from USC Thornton School of Music and Andra Lunde Padrichelli, principal cellist of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kim, who holds a doctorate from Juilliard, performed alongside Tsai at the

supports programs.

The grant is only offered in the spring, so this semester Tsai relied on private donations to make the program possible again. She said she hopes that she can continue to fund the program every semester.

Because the music department does not have a budget, normally visiting artists have to fund their own travel to SDSU and are offered a small amount of money to perform. Visiting artists also stay for only a short period of time.

“YOU’RE ALWAYS LEARNING.”

- Pei-Chun Tsai, violin professor

final concert.

“The festival was incredibly fulfilling on many levels because it combined my two passions of my career which are teaching and performing,” Kim said. “I was really moved by how engaged (the students) were about learning things and the different approaches to study, to practice, to perform.”

Kim said it is always nice to have a fresh perspective, even though out-oftown musicians reinforce what has been taught previously by SDSU professors. so having other musicians come into town to reinforce It took Tsai six months of preparation to make this program possible. Last spring, she was awarded the Student Success Fee, a grant offered by the university that

“I’ve been at SDSU for five years, and every semester I wanted to bring people in to do master’s classes with the students,” Tsai said. “We don’t have a budget, so I’ll have an artist from Penn State who has to come and pay his own way and I’m only able to offer him a very small amount of money, then he’ll come and teach for an hour and leave and I feel like that’s not enough.”

Tsai said she wants to have more substantial interactions between out-oftown musicians and student musicians, that way students can get more out of each visit. Normally, similar music programs are held during summer, when artists and students spend two weeks practicing with and playing for each other.

Tsai said she found that many music

students didn’t go to these types of festivals because they are expensive and difficult to get into. She wanted to bring this type of summer festival experience to music students on campus free of charge so they all would have the opportunity to participate and interact with national and international artists.

Tsai said she also wanted this program to be a tool for community service through youth and community outreach.

On Nov. 5, Tsai and the three guest artists visited the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra, a Mozart-centered organization.

They spent the morning answering questions and performing for the young musicians. Because of this festival, the SDSU music department is able to put on high quality and high profile performances.

Tsai said it increases the profile of SDSU and puts the school on the radar of many different artists as well as future prospective students.

Last spring, the festival had performances from solely string instruments. This semester, piano was added to the festival, which was played by SDSU piano professor Toni James.

In the future, Tsai wants to incorporate woodwind instruments into the festival.

She said she hopes that as more instruments are included, more music students are able to participate and interact with the guest artists and get a fresh perspective into the world of a musical career.

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Graduate student shoots for the stars CARLY YRIBARREN SENIOR STAFF WRITER ____________________________________ San Diego State astronomy graduate David Jaimes said he hopes to be the first graduate student to use the new 50-inch Phillips Claud Telescope.

The Mount Laguna Observatory is 6,100 feet above sea level in the Laguna Mountains of eastern San Diego county.

The observatory is in the process of completing the installation of the new 50-inch Phillips Claud Telescope due to a donation from the late Phillips L. Claud Jr., who funded half of the telescope’s cost in Fall 2014.

The automated telescope is 50 percent more powerful than the previous installed model.

The Phillips Claud Telescope will allow professors, undergraduate and graduate students to look further into the galaxy with the more powerful, detailed lens.

“It would help a lot of students, especially graduate students,” he said.

“When this sort of thing comes up we are very fortunate to be using it and to have modern state of the art technology to work with our theses,” he said.

Jaimes received his undergraduate degree in astronomy at SDSU and is now continuing his education in the master’s program as a graduate teaching assistant.

He is currently in his third semester of teaching students.

Before continuing his education in the master’s program, Jaimes spent two years at Columbia University as a

full-time research assistant.

Jaimes’ research at Columbia mostly consisted of finding the spectra of stars and observing the rotational patterns that these stars make.

“My research is looking at the spectra of transient objects, things that suddenly become really, really bright, such as supernova explosions,” Jaimes said.

Jaimes said the 50-inch telescope would allow him to continue his research by the gathering of data in specific areas.

“If we had two telescopes, one could be doing photometry, measuring the brightness of objects, and if we had a different telescope observing at the same time, we could add in the spectrograph in order to take the spectra of stars,” Jaimes said.

Jaimes continues to use the 40-inch telescope currently at the observatory, but the advantages of the soon to be completed 50-inch telescope are unlimited.

He said the approximate seveninch difference in diameter of the two telescope’s mirrors would correspond with a 37 percent greater light gathering power.

This would allow for a better and more detailed look at fainter objects.

What primarily sets the 50-inch telescope apart from other telescopes is the ultimate goal of being fully automated.

Mount Laguna Observatory director Robert Quimby has also noted the important impact that the 50-inch telescope could have on graduate students.

“It could open up a different style of

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A view of the setting sun using the 21-inch telescope at the Mount Laguna Observatory.

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research projects,” Quimby said. “Right now we have telescopes that require the students to operate during nights, and it’s difficult for them to carry out these observing programs and to be a full-time student.”

Astronomers are required to put forth a significant amount of time and effort in order to track down data and with the improved automation, enhanced research opportunities can arise.

“This would open up a program where you could potentially have observations taken on many nights,

where as now there are only a few times of the month that they can do this,” Quimby said.

The 50-inch telescope’s installation has taken a great time commitment, but the results and opportunities that will arise for SDSU’s astronomy department are never-ending.

Jaimes said he hopes to eventually expand his knowledge and research within his selected areas of concentration, while he also hopes to educate more students.

The completion date of the Phillips Claud Telescope is unannounced.

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Continuing as a faux 'intellectual' AHMAD DIXON CONTRIBUTOR ____________________________________

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f you’re anything like me then you are a total fraud. Your talents of successfully winging assignments and pretending to be an authority on various subjects have allowed you to gain the love and admiration of your peers.

While substance is hard to come by and takes years of meditation, appearance is something that can be achieved in a few easy steps.

Here are tips that will you continue your status as a fake intellectual, you shallow deadbeat.

QUOTE PEOPLE SMARTER THAN YOU. It was American novelist Jack Kerouac who said, “You can’t fall off a mountain.”

Does anyone know why? No. Does anyone know what it means? No. Does it really matter? No. That sound byte is an example of a saying that sounds profound, but taken out of context from a book you’ve probably never read, lacks all depth.

But fear not, you don’t cite quotes to add to the conversation or to inspire the person sitting across from you.

You quote and name drop to show how well read and educated you are, even though you spent all of last night playing Super Smash Bros. in the dark.

Quoting also removes the hardship that comes with mining into your soul for original thoughts and emotions and trust me, no matter how deep you dig, odds are you’re not going to find any.

For added success, Photoshop an interesting picture of a dead celebrity

next to a seemingly insightful, yet ultimately vapid sentence.

Did I write the sentence? No. Did I create the image? No. I searched for it on Google. Actually, I used Bing.

BE DISMISSIVE AND CYNICAL. Whenever you meet someone who feels legitimate joy because of something roll your eyes and scoff.

“Oh you listen to (Insert popular thing here) you know that isn’t real music. What you should be listening to is (Insert obscure thing here.)"

It doesn’t really matter if that popular thing has any artistic merit, or if it brings happiness to people, what matters is that it has reached mainstream consciousness. Therefore you must hate it, or pretend to.

This also means you must seek out media that appears to make you seem worldlier, not the media that you actually enjoy.

So while everyone is out seeing “Star Wars Episode VII,” you’ll stay in and watch “2001: a Space Odyssey” on VHS, the superior home entertainment format.

Whether or not you actually get anything out of the film is irrelevant.

What matters is that many of your classmates would be bored watching it and Roger Ebert gave it four stars.

You don't even have to watch the majority of the film. Just glance over your shoulder every twenty minutes to make sure you don't miss any plot points.

CONTRADICT PEOPLE WHENEVER. Convenient. Petty, meaningless

#DASNAPSHOTS

arguments are the bread and butter of the fake intellectual.

It’s how you show lesser minds that you’re better than them.

Some key phrases you may want to use are, “It’s just a plant, man!” or “It works in Sweden!”

These empty remarks require no knowledge of theology, chemistry, or basic economics, but they will get your relatives riled up at barbeques.

Try not to use these phrases in front of people who actually watch the news instead of The Simpsons, they may actually want to argue and you don’t want that.

They are going to try and counter your statements with silly facts instead of emotionally yelling the same two sentences into someone’s ear over and over again.

DRESS TO IMPRESS. A simple, yet important rule. You can wear the standard t-shirt, jeans and hoodie.

The t-shirt must have a pop culture reference that only a select number of your peers will understand.

What this does is announce to the world how cultured you are and that you belong to a special club, a group of people who follow the first rule of this list.

You have to display your favorite inside jokes because the best thing about inside jokes is that they are universally enjoyed and make everyone happy.

Your other option is to dress up in thrift store blazers and wear ties.

You do this to show that you have much more class than the other people walking down the street, but they have to be secondhand and tattered to also

show that you don’t care.

Not caring is an aesthetic you should always strive to give off.

Unlike the rest of mankind, you are not bothered by anything. You are cool under pressure. You don’t play by society’s rules.

But in reality you do care, if you didn’t, you wouldn’t have spent all that time looking for that jacket.

BE NERVOUS ALL OF THE TIME. You will always be aware that people might pick apart your fabricated persona to reveal the void underneath.

You will constantly be aware of the fact that your head is filled with air and your thoughts are not your own, but those of authors long dead.

Your cynical brain tells you that you should always be doing something else, but you have no clue what that something is.

You don’t want to hang out with that guy in one class because he’s a Luddite who doesn’t know who Allen Ginsberg is, but you feel insecure around the girl in another class that can actually write poetry.

Even if it’s awful, like most poetry, it’s more than you’ve accomplished all year.

Laziness and negativity has left you bored, empty and unfulfilled.

I hope this guide will help you to appear smarter than those around you.

I have no clue how to end this, so here’s another insightful quote, this time by Kurt Vonnegut.

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

I don’t know if that’s at all insightful.

I just picked Vonnegut because I have a picture of him on my binder that I downloaded off the internet.

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